Can anyone give me a valid reason why games like this should even be produced?
well my question is to you, who determines what can and can not be produced? this game for being to violent or a game that the powers that be don't like? do you think it is a good idea to entrust the people who believe that videogames are the sole cause of such violenceto be deciding what does and doesn't get produced?
Sure I understand games are not the cause, but with the great majority of people suffering more and more mental illnesses for whatever reason, do you want someone already on the edge to have this material?
first of all, it isn't that there are more people with mental illnesses, we are just getting better at knowing who has these disorders. second, it isn't the games themselves that I want away from them, I want to know who it is that is likely to cause the crimes and consequently be more aware. censoring games is a lazy excuse to try and look like you're solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort. why not instead of censoring things, try actually treeating mental illnesses so people don't go off killing each other for real?
distasteful maybe, responsible for murders no. The people that do such crimes are crazy psychos t begin with yet instead of blaming the damn psycho for what they do they blame the game they may or may not have played.
The article describes a new particle with a mass a bit over 5 GeV. This is interesting, but is very different from the supposed resonance at ~180 GeV appearing in the rumors from the Tevatron. It seems pretty unlikely these are related.
I would imagine that there is some sort of resonance phenomenon going on here. [any particle physicists know if this is even remotely accurate?]
something else that is interesting about it is that we are just now finding a particle with a mass of about 6 GEV and we have particle accelerators capable of creating something over a hundred times that massive; so why now? why is it that the particle formation cross-section is so low? does the standard model have anything to say about this?
with a mass of 5.774±0.019 GeV/c2, approximately six times the proton mass. The newly discovered electrically charged b baryon, also known as the "cascade b," is made of a down, a strange and a bottom quark. It is the first observed baryon formed of quarks from all three families of matter.
judging by its componants, it should have a (-1/3*3=-1) charge of -1.
strange quark: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_quark
Bottom quark: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_quark
Down quark: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_quark
While some have theorised that meat-eating dinosaurs got smaller as they evolved to be more bird-like, this beast weighed about 1,400kg (3,080lbs).
That is about 35 times heavier than other similar feathered dinosaurs.
Nature journal reports that the beaked animal was 8m (26ft) long and twice as tall as a man at the shoulder; yet it was only a young adult when it died.
this thing wasn't even done growing either- it was 11 years old when it died and apparently had a lot more growing up to do before it died.
The ruling class will not be striving for a scientifically-competent populace because it would reduce the need for the ruling class to "take care of them."
what the fuck? that is the stupidest thing i've heard today by far- science works by building off of and testing ideas, ideas that over time will be tested and even overthrown for better ones.
because it has exactly nothing to do with the will of the people. It is antithetical to democracy.
that is a good thing, the universe doesnt care if you vote somethign exists or not- it just does. I mean imagine if people decided they would vote on whether gravity existed- stupid huh? it doesnt care if you believe it exists or not, it still works.
Oh, and who are you to disagree? You are not qualified to argue with me unless you have a doctorate from (insert dogmatic establishment university here).
ah the appeal to authority logical fallacy- nice. I dont need a doctorate degree to argue with you nor do I need one to prove your argument is flawed. The universe doesnt care about democracy, things are the way they are regardless if you agree with them or not. deal with it.
"A bill introduced this week would force cable operators to offer à la carte cable and so-called family-tiers of service.
à la carte cable, good now those garbage channels will finally die. restrictions on profanity etc. no, half the good scifi/action etc. shows have this in them. I like the idea of being able to cut out garbage channels and get a nice refund back for it but I dont like the idea of anyone telling me what I can and can not watch at the times they specify. Let me choose what I want to watch and keep your slimy tentacles off my remote.
And before any of you accuse me of being a flat earther, be advised that the theory that our ancestors ever really believed in a flat earth has been discredited.
some of the ancients deduced that the Earth was indeed a sphere such as when ship's masts disappear first, the round shadow the Earth casts on the moon during partial eclipse etc. but as is today scientific knowledge can and has been ignored in politics. There were idiots then too you know.
Scientific Consensus is not a threat to democracy, selfishness and stupidity are. You can not ignore a problem [global warming] and vote that it "doesnt exist" and expect that it somehow has an effect on whether or not it exists. you can be democratic on the issue and claim we are not the cause but it is still going to do the damage regardless of your ideology.
Is anybody else alarmed about the news that we just killed an old whale?
I am more alarmed that we are even killing whales at all, regardless of age. But if that wasn't the base issue I would say that it is far more devastating to the population if young whales capable of reproducing are killed. This is because if you wipe out the base of the population growth you kill the species as a whole. what does an old whale look like anyways?
I understand that but how many customers would go to the trouble of checking the disk for their new hologram image that is less than a millimeter across? so they can say "well it isnt our fault you bought a pirated copy, we did put a watermark on the legal copies after all." especially when 20% of their windows genuine advantage tests result in a legal copy being branded as a pirated copy, why not fix that too?
... if I worked on the 'Vista' team I sure wouldn't want my picture printed on the DVD. What if someone recognized me on the street? Or in prison?? Or on/.???
how can we recognize you unless you uploaded your own photo? for all we know you look like this: 8>)
The images are less than 1mm in size and are not visible to the naked eye, so must be viewed using optical magnification. Their presence does not affect the contents of the DVD any more than would applying a label to the front of an audio CD you may have created at home. These security measures were never intended to be impossible to find, but rather difficult to reproduce. While it's extremely difficult to replicate a holographic design in general, the inclusion of original images makes it that much more so.
Incorporating optical security into our physical media is just one of many efforts to ensure that Microsoft customers get what they paid for.
since when do software pirates care about watermarks if they can still copy the data just fine? For that matter, how many pirated copies of Vista actually exist? [such negative reaction to it why pirate it?]
The collaborative study focused on 44 targets, which together cover about 1 percent of the human genome sequence. or about 30 million DNA base pairs. The targets were strategically selected to provide a representative cross section of the entire human genome.
The ENCODE consortium's major findings include the discovery that the majority of DNA in the human genome is transcribed into functional molecules, called RNA, and that these transcripts extensively overlap one another.
actually if I remember correctly, there are 30,000 known genes which produce about 100,000 proteins [a little more than 3 per gene] which span a much larger amount of DNA that actually codes for proteins. genes have been known to code for multiple proteins since the Human genome project was completed. It has also been known that certain non-coding regions of DNA are not useless but in fact code for things like ribozymes etc. The article also talks about non-coding regions acting as a source for new structures. that is to say that the non-coding regions mutate and are selected for or against over time to form new proteins/enzymes etc.
1 million in botnets/[100 million?] in at least the US so that works out to about 1% by crude estimation so does anyone else think these numbers are a bit low? especially since
Google's Ghost in the Browser study looked at over 4.5 million Web pages, and found that 10% of them were capable of activating malicious codes and 16% were suspected to contain codes that might be a threat to computers.
how many computer users dont patch/update their computers or use a very old version? how many of those wouldnt know if they were infected or have an infected computer as it is?
Proprietary software at educational pricing is, in most cases, dirt cheap.
Almost every single software company I know provides software to schools at a significant discount.
from TFA:
Training teachers and students to use a piece of software makes that software more valuable. Vendors know this. Business sense, not altruism, is what drives deep discounts on software for education. I once spoke to a vendor of an online grade book who, upon learning that I train teachers, was very interested in my using it in my classes.
"What does it cost?" I asked.
"It will cost you nothing. You can use it for free for as long as you like."
"And once I addict my students to your software," I asked pointedly, afraid that I was being rude, "what will it cost them?"
The vendor became excited. "That's exactly what we were talking about in our last sales Free White Paper - What Retailers Should Know about M-Commerce meeting!"
In Short
Because it is the norm in most schools, businesses and homes, many of the costs of proprietary software are difficult to see. There are now alternatives to the most commonly used applications in schools. When these open source alternatives are nearly equal to -- or better than -- their proprietary competitors, the significant advantages of F/OSS make them the better choice.
the scools can get FOSS for free and MS software for cheap but later when students want to/need to use the software their school uses they end up paying for MS. at least with FOSS they wont need to spend their already limited student cash on MS software. Lastly, this isnt just limited to K-12, in college, office software is very important to have, for homework, projects, research etc. so any cost savings is greatly appreciated.
yes I know, most of those results are of various other permutations but the point is the same, sendmail has had security flaws just like anything else, it is just a matter of the magnitude.
Oh I see.. so if they screw over every smart customer they have and make them leave their bandidth requirements would decrease drastically thus allowing them to overbook their service like they wanted to in the first place. BRILLIANT!
The packet shaping they talk about doesnt seem to have any concrete cut offs for when it is used, just a vague reference to "excessive bandwidth usage." [what exactly do they think is excessive?] what is going to end up happening is the broadband users that know enough about it will either leave or try to go around the packet shaping. in the latter case, if they got caught they would likely have their account trashed which would quickly lead to a lot of people knowing about it. seems like an awful efficient way for Time Warner to shoot themselves in the foot. Ready. Aim. Fire
Google Orkut... it is a social networking site, a lot like Myspace or Livejournal. Here is the orkut homepage link: www.orkut.com
Here is the link to the Wikipedia article about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut
Notice how well Opera did with their for-sale browser?
yes their browser did absolutely nothing that netscape, firefox or IE couldnt do, in fact the browser lacks certain features the free ones had.
XP and other flavors of windows having the administrator account as default as well as other HORRIBLE, UNSPEAKABLE security policies means it is a quality product?
1: XP doesn't "default" you to "Root." It "defaults" you as a member of "Administrators", which is something subtly different.
2: Running as root on a local machine is hardly a major security sin. It's the rough equivalent of a sign-in sheet at a bank: nice to have, but the rest of your defenses should expect it to fail..
I never said it defaulted to root, but having an OS as a higher user account all the time when you have another option IS a major security sin, as you said your defenses should expect it to fail...
"Worth paying money for."
I cant think of a single thing microsoft has ever produced that is as you put it "worth paying for." their operating systems use shoddy security practices, the software that they produce is bloated and overpriced, the software doesnt "belong to you" you are effectively renting it and lastly without fiddling with its innards/installing extra software you are quite limited in actually doing anything. office? no you have to pay for that- firewall? a good one you need to either download or buy. annoying nag screens? check. UAC included by default [with no authentication mind you] and unlike linux you cant upgrade all your software with a click, you need to hunt down the damned updates one by one. so essentually what you are stuck with is basic internet access on a POS browser which doesnt display pages correctly, basic email and maybe a free trial of MS's wonderful office software, that is after you put in the key for it. ya windows "just works." in reality all it has going for it is "it is just there" people mostly use it to check their email, visit myspace and the occasional web search and game. they dont feel the need to realize anything better exists, as you say they dont care about security, they just dont care about ANYTHING. That is a sad state to be in, when a company doesn't actually have to do any actual work to get paid, they just make sure it works "good enough" [AKA just barely] that people dont return their computers. they dont have any reason to improve because people dont really care if there is competing software or even worse dont know.
that foam is a few inches thick, the tank its self is several feet thick, this isnt much fuel and to correct for this you would need to expand the tank a very small amount [6 inches?] to have the same fuel/weight ratio. as for the thermal expansion, the foam on the outside probably already has a similar problem but if it is really a bother, make the foam in an interlocking pattern with a tiny gap or something inbetween each brick, the interlocking layers can still freely expand and yet keep the fuel insulated. lastly, at these temperatures [-200 celcius or so] I dont think there is much in the way of chemical reactions goiing on here- I mean even the reaction of Potassium metal and ice wont happen at these temperatures- so if it did react I would be amazed.
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first of all, it isn't that there are more people with mental illnesses, we are just getting better at knowing who has these disorders. second, it isn't the games themselves that I want away from them, I want to know who it is that is likely to cause the crimes and consequently be more aware. censoring games is a lazy excuse to try and look like you're solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort. why not instead of censoring things, try actually treeating mental illnesses so people don't go off killing each other for real?
distasteful maybe, responsible for murders no. The people that do such crimes are crazy psychos t begin with yet instead of blaming the damn psycho for what they do they blame the game they may or may not have played.
with a mass of 5.774±0.019 GeV/c2, approximately six times the proton mass. The newly discovered electrically charged b baryon, also known as the "cascade b," is made of a down, a strange and a bottom quark. It is the first observed baryon formed of quarks from all three families of matter. judging by its componants, it should have a (-1/3*3=-1) charge of -1. strange quark: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_quark Bottom quark: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_quark Down quark: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_quark
here is the source: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/125#comme nt-112738
It is good to know Mark doesn't fold under bogus patent threats like novell/xandros/linspire did. keep up the good work Ubuntu :)
this thing wasn't even done growing either- it was 11 years old when it died and apparently had a lot more growing up to do before it died.
some of the ancients deduced that the Earth was indeed a sphere such as when ship's masts disappear first, the round shadow the Earth casts on the moon during partial eclipse etc. but as is today scientific knowledge can and has been ignored in politics. There were idiots then too you know.
Scientific Consensus is not a threat to democracy, selfishness and stupidity are. You can not ignore a problem [global warming] and vote that it "doesnt exist" and expect that it somehow has an effect on whether or not it exists. you can be democratic on the issue and claim we are not the cause but it is still going to do the damage regardless of your ideology.
I am more alarmed that we are even killing whales at all, regardless of age. But if that wasn't the base issue I would say that it is far more devastating to the population if young whales capable of reproducing are killed. This is because if you wipe out the base of the population growth you kill the species as a whole. what does an old whale look like anyways?
Ebay vs MercExchange http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_Inc._v._MercExch ange%2C_L.L.C.
the patent they are apparently fighting over [US Patent 5845265]
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PT O1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fs rchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5845265.PN.&OS=PN/58452 65&RS=PN/5845265
I understand that but how many customers would go to the trouble of checking the disk for their new hologram image that is less than a millimeter across? so they can say "well it isnt our fault you bought a pirated copy, we did put a watermark on the legal copies after all." especially when 20% of their windows genuine advantage tests result in a legal copy being branded as a pirated copy, why not fix that too?
since when do software pirates care about watermarks if they can still copy the data just fine? For that matter, how many pirated copies of Vista actually exist? [such negative reaction to it why pirate it?]
how many computer users dont patch/update their computers or use a very old version? how many of those wouldnt know if they were infected or have an infected computer as it is?
the scools can get FOSS for free and MS software for cheap but later when students want to/need to use the software their school uses they end up paying for MS. at least with FOSS they wont need to spend their already limited student cash on MS software. Lastly, this isnt just limited to K-12, in college, office software is very important to have, for homework, projects, research etc. so any cost savings is greatly appreciated.
yes I know, most of those results are of various other permutations but the point is the same, sendmail has had security flaws just like anything else, it is just a matter of the magnitude.
Results 1 - 10 of about 137,000 for sendmail critical security flaws. (0.11 seconds) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sendmail+crit ical+security+flaws&btnG=Search
Oh I see.. so if they screw over every smart customer they have and make them leave their bandidth requirements would decrease drastically thus allowing them to overbook their service like they wanted to in the first place. BRILLIANT!
The packet shaping they talk about doesnt seem to have any concrete cut offs for when it is used, just a vague reference to "excessive bandwidth usage." [what exactly do they think is excessive?] what is going to end up happening is the broadband users that know enough about it will either leave or try to go around the packet shaping. in the latter case, if they got caught they would likely have their account trashed which would quickly lead to a lot of people knowing about it. seems like an awful efficient way for Time Warner to shoot themselves in the foot. Ready. Aim. Fire
Google Orkut... it is a social networking site, a lot like Myspace or Livejournal. Here is the orkut homepage link: www.orkut.com Here is the link to the Wikipedia article about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut
that foam is a few inches thick, the tank its self is several feet thick, this isnt much fuel and to correct for this you would need to expand the tank a very small amount [6 inches?] to have the same fuel/weight ratio. as for the thermal expansion, the foam on the outside probably already has a similar problem but if it is really a bother, make the foam in an interlocking pattern with a tiny gap or something inbetween each brick, the interlocking layers can still freely expand and yet keep the fuel insulated. lastly, at these temperatures [-200 celcius or so] I dont think there is much in the way of chemical reactions goiing on here- I mean even the reaction of Potassium metal and ice wont happen at these temperatures- so if it did react I would be amazed.