Well exactly, the problem is that this is within the President's constitutional authority, yet Congress wants to second guess him. When the President crosses the line of course someone should step in, but in this case it's the Congress overstepping its bounds. We should make all incoming Reps and Senators take a basic government course.
Nothing like another dead horse to flog.
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In general geeks like to beat up on some large incorporeal entity that a segment of the community will defend to the death. Microsoft just isn't all that fun to kick around anymore, since the only people who still care about Windows are CTO's and those of us unfortunate enough to work in the dark section of IT known as Help Desk. Apple has become a juggernaut of shiny devices that sell to a large segment of the population that would have never even considered buying a Mac. An even smaller percentage of that give a crap about "lock-in" or other political stances. OS X geeks are a small and defensive breed, and they feel that these devices, ostensibly still computers, are an extension of their ecosystem. They're not, and they are a gateway drug for some. They were for me, but the large chunk of the iPhone and iPod populace doesn't care, and whenever the new must have gadget comes around, they'll move on. Previous generations re-bought their entire collections in several different mediums, this one will be no different. Lock in sucks, and hopefully video vendors come around on DRM, but I think streaming on demand will leapfrog them anyway. So the Apple fans will defend Steve Jobs unique vision as if it was their own, and the geeks will beat this topic to death until there something else that people love to bitch about on the Internet. It isn't principled, it's pointless. En mass much of the ecosystem has turned from Redmond Bad Cupertino Good to Curpertino Bad, Mountain View Good. That will last until some new hip kid on the block becomes the Geek chic and we will then decry Google's constant assault on our privacy. Here's to waiting until Cannonical is the bad guy.
This is what happens when Congress tries to become an executive power. The blurring of lines in terms of what roles are laid out of for Congress and the President is getting to be just ridiculous. Incidents like this go to prove that Congress is misinterpreting its oversight powers as a reason to run every executive decision up the flagpole to review. This doesn't do anything but allow congress to play politics, this happened under Bush, and its happening again under Obama. On the same token, the Presidency has become the leader in terms of legislation and has pushed war powers further than in the past.
I'm just not sure I see the need for another browser on the platform. Isn't Chrome on the Mac going to break down to a less pretty Safari? When I need Security and Ad-Free browsing, I'm going to use Firefox. When I'm checking my E-Mail and Facebook, I just use Safari. Chrome for Mac is missing everything that made me start using Chrome on Windows, it only retains the branding.
MS has always been a me-too company, and well Sony is just Sony. There isn't much to say about both of them trying to edge in on Nintendo's territory. I don't think casual gamers are going to buy more than one console. It's just not going to happen, and Nintendo is the casual brand now, I think that was inevitable considering their place in pop culture.
Trust me the 360 is a success because of its audience, and if MS alienates the audience they worked so hard so hard to cultivate, it will not end well.
True enough, not to mention that the anonymity is by far the largest part of what makes the Internet such a useful tool in promoting freedom all around the world. It has allowed users in the Western World to truly see information from the perspective of the rest of the world, as well as asking what is being done in the name of their safety.
If that were possible I am pretty sure that Ms. Hilton wouldn't have had to buy a ticket on VG, she would simply have been sent to Alpha Centauri by now.
Yeah but these bundles are what leads to these shortages. You have been able to get a bundle from Wal Mart since launch. However the console, not so much.
A newer Linux convert here I use it now for all my creative outputs except music, does anybody know a good all around music generator/virtual synth a'la Reason or Fruityloops.
This offically is the longest thread I bothered to read in/. history. One thing I can see is that Sony is not doing great with it's target market. Let's face Sony has been nothing without geeks since the price of a CD was in the $80 range when all the competitors were lowering into teopid $50 range. If Sony is garnering this much ill will around the only demogrpahic of people i know that would be willing to drop and extra $100 for gizmo factors.
Yeah I forgot about that one, and it has a similar feel to what I'm talking about. While there are some more overt character appearances, it still has it's own personality.
I agree on that point, that why I thought that last year's Tactical Assault was a good step for the Trek games. Focused on a new crew, in a traditional setting, it made for an engaging experience, that didn't depend on having the Encyclopedia nearby. Now back to the Trekkies. They're not along, every internet troll who feels it neccesary to harass and harangue writers and producers of every sci-fi movie, book, video game, and comic book has made people tire of the drama. Do you really want every science fiction motif to be the Star Wars prequels, devoid of excitement, but excellent attention to detail?
Wow, this kid is still milking his one video game made. For someone who tried so hard to avoid attention he sure attracts a lot of it. His spotlight leanings aside, what the hell is wrong with everyone? We make games about car thieves, and murders as the hero, and we condemn Jack Thompson for speaking out against it, but when it's about Columbine it's somehow exempt from the protections. Listen this kid is a shock rocker with out a guitar, if nobody cares he'll slink back to film school in shame. If you don't believe me, his only student film is based off one of the Unibomber's stories. So guess what, he wants controversy, and he gets it, not only from the piss ant festival organizers, but from the press, and the hours of discussion on/. Free speech ocassionally mean that you have to deal with unpleasant ideas, but you don't have to call attention to them, you can ignore this failed little art student like you do the rest of them. Just becuase he uses a stupid video game doesn't make him any different than the fat girl who takes B&w pictures of her cats and wonders why she can't get a gallery deal.
Clever. Anyway Pyongyang may be a propaghanda machine, but like Mother Russia, and Cuba ecenomic collapse has rendered them into a paper tiger. Kim Jung Il hit the negotiating table because the nuclear weapon failed, he has no recourse. Well that and while our army may be stretched thin it would only take a few hours to turn all his lovely palaces into smoking ruins.
I've gotten a lot of one word emails and whatnot, still caught by spam filters. It is an intiguing idea though. Howver what is more likely is that spyign will take tactics from Al-Qaeda, encrypting messages inside images, and media files. In fact it would make sense if the entirety of U.S. intelligence operates through encoded message within Fox News broadcasts.
As an avid Shortwave fan, there are less and less clear stations broadcasting to NA, as more and more world service broadcasts move to the Internet. (YEAH I'm talking about you BBC) I wonder how long until the only people who own shortwave radios are spies? Although propaganda stations are well worth the price of the radio. Listen to Cuba's hour loop of things we blame on the US today, and keep a straight face, I dare you.
Well games could be built around a single engine, that is streamlined and installed as a baseline, or an equivelent to a "Core" rulebook in D&D. Games could be built around this allowing for streamlined performace.
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Well exactly, the problem is that this is within the President's constitutional authority, yet Congress wants to second guess him. When the President crosses the line of course someone should step in, but in this case it's the Congress overstepping its bounds. We should make all incoming Reps and Senators take a basic government course.
In general geeks like to beat up on some large incorporeal entity that a segment of the community will defend to the death. Microsoft just isn't all that fun to kick around anymore, since the only people who still care about Windows are CTO's and those of us unfortunate enough to work in the dark section of IT known as Help Desk. Apple has become a juggernaut of shiny devices that sell to a large segment of the population that would have never even considered buying a Mac. An even smaller percentage of that give a crap about "lock-in" or other political stances. OS X geeks are a small and defensive breed, and they feel that these devices, ostensibly still computers, are an extension of their ecosystem. They're not, and they are a gateway drug for some. They were for me, but the large chunk of the iPhone and iPod populace doesn't care, and whenever the new must have gadget comes around, they'll move on. Previous generations re-bought their entire collections in several different mediums, this one will be no different. Lock in sucks, and hopefully video vendors come around on DRM, but I think streaming on demand will leapfrog them anyway. So the Apple fans will defend Steve Jobs unique vision as if it was their own, and the geeks will beat this topic to death until there something else that people love to bitch about on the Internet. It isn't principled, it's pointless. En mass much of the ecosystem has turned from Redmond Bad Cupertino Good to Curpertino Bad, Mountain View Good. That will last until some new hip kid on the block becomes the Geek chic and we will then decry Google's constant assault on our privacy. Here's to waiting until Cannonical is the bad guy.
This is what happens when Congress tries to become an executive power. The blurring of lines in terms of what roles are laid out of for Congress and the President is getting to be just ridiculous. Incidents like this go to prove that Congress is misinterpreting its oversight powers as a reason to run every executive decision up the flagpole to review. This doesn't do anything but allow congress to play politics, this happened under Bush, and its happening again under Obama. On the same token, the Presidency has become the leader in terms of legislation and has pushed war powers further than in the past.
I'm just not sure I see the need for another browser on the platform. Isn't Chrome on the Mac going to break down to a less pretty Safari? When I need Security and Ad-Free browsing, I'm going to use Firefox. When I'm checking my E-Mail and Facebook, I just use Safari. Chrome for Mac is missing everything that made me start using Chrome on Windows, it only retains the branding.
MS has always been a me-too company, and well Sony is just Sony. There isn't much to say about both of them trying to edge in on Nintendo's territory. I don't think casual gamers are going to buy more than one console. It's just not going to happen, and Nintendo is the casual brand now, I think that was inevitable considering their place in pop culture. Trust me the 360 is a success because of its audience, and if MS alienates the audience they worked so hard so hard to cultivate, it will not end well.
Sadly due to Nintendo's shennangins in the 80's they may have the legal precedence to do this.
True enough, not to mention that the anonymity is by far the largest part of what makes the Internet such a useful tool in promoting freedom all around the world. It has allowed users in the Western World to truly see information from the perspective of the rest of the world, as well as asking what is being done in the name of their safety.
If that were possible I am pretty sure that Ms. Hilton wouldn't have had to buy a ticket on VG, she would simply have been sent to Alpha Centauri by now.
Yeah but these bundles are what leads to these shortages. You have been able to get a bundle from Wal Mart since launch. However the console, not so much.
A newer Linux convert here I use it now for all my creative outputs except music, does anybody know a good all around music generator/virtual synth a'la Reason or Fruityloops.
This offically is the longest thread I bothered to read in /. history. One thing I can see is that Sony is not doing great with it's target market. Let's face Sony has been nothing without geeks since the price of a CD was in the $80 range when all the competitors were lowering into teopid $50 range. If Sony is garnering this much ill will around the only demogrpahic of people i know that would be willing to drop and extra $100 for gizmo factors.
Yeah I forgot about that one, and it has a similar feel to what I'm talking about. While there are some more overt character appearances, it still has it's own personality.
I agree on that point, that why I thought that last year's Tactical Assault was a good step for the Trek games. Focused on a new crew, in a traditional setting, it made for an engaging experience, that didn't depend on having the Encyclopedia nearby. Now back to the Trekkies. They're not along, every internet troll who feels it neccesary to harass and harangue writers and producers of every sci-fi movie, book, video game, and comic book has made people tire of the drama. Do you really want every science fiction motif to be the Star Wars prequels, devoid of excitement, but excellent attention to detail?
Wow, this kid is still milking his one video game made. For someone who tried so hard to avoid attention he sure attracts a lot of it. His spotlight leanings aside, what the hell is wrong with everyone? We make games about car thieves, and murders as the hero, and we condemn Jack Thompson for speaking out against it, but when it's about Columbine it's somehow exempt from the protections. Listen this kid is a shock rocker with out a guitar, if nobody cares he'll slink back to film school in shame. If you don't believe me, his only student film is based off one of the Unibomber's stories. So guess what, he wants controversy, and he gets it, not only from the piss ant festival organizers, but from the press, and the hours of discussion on /. Free speech ocassionally mean that you have to deal with unpleasant ideas, but you don't have to call attention to them, you can ignore this failed little art student like you do the rest of them. Just becuase he uses a stupid video game doesn't make him any different than the fat girl who takes B&w pictures of her cats and wonders why she can't get a gallery deal.
Clever. Anyway Pyongyang may be a propaghanda machine, but like Mother Russia, and Cuba ecenomic collapse has rendered them into a paper tiger. Kim Jung Il hit the negotiating table because the nuclear weapon failed, he has no recourse. Well that and while our army may be stretched thin it would only take a few hours to turn all his lovely palaces into smoking ruins.
I've gotten a lot of one word emails and whatnot, still caught by spam filters. It is an intiguing idea though. Howver what is more likely is that spyign will take tactics from Al-Qaeda, encrypting messages inside images, and media files. In fact it would make sense if the entirety of U.S. intelligence operates through encoded message within Fox News broadcasts.
Test Audiences. Comprised entirley of math fetishists, whichever numbers turn them on the most, are on the CD.
As an avid Shortwave fan, there are less and less clear stations broadcasting to NA, as more and more world service broadcasts move to the Internet. (YEAH I'm talking about you BBC) I wonder how long until the only people who own shortwave radios are spies? Although propaganda stations are well worth the price of the radio. Listen to Cuba's hour loop of things we blame on the US today, and keep a straight face, I dare you.
Well games could be built around a single engine, that is streamlined and installed as a baseline, or an equivelent to a "Core" rulebook in D&D. Games could be built around this allowing for streamlined performace.
Yeah Spring seems likely as that is when the Wii is supposed to be in steady supply.
Wait you mean a hammer isn't the only tool. Well that would explain why my computer makes such awfuk noises.
Worse yet I can imagine one of these in every coffee house in america with the clerk's poetry books coming in at 200 GB of space.