I ride a motorcycle, so I have come to the opinion that 90% of the drivers out there in their 'shiny metal boxes' are idiots.
I've come to the decision that all cars should be equipped with a flashing light on the dashboard or the steering wheel - RIGHT in front of the drivers face - that triggers whenever an emergency vehicle with lights/sirens is within a certain distance. In most urban areas now, emergency vehicles are equipped with signal devices that trigger traffic lights for them. Why not apply the same reaction to inside warning lights for the cars? Shoot - turn off their sound systems at the same time.
In the USA, we over-regulate vehicle safety standards already, to the point of goofiness, why not go ahead and add one more? One that actually has the potential to save lives?
I am surrounded by farms between a city and a small town. I end up being covered by the local sheriffs dept, rather than either municipal police.
Budget cuts in my county have scaled us back to about a dozen deputies for a LARGE county. The last time I had to call the sheriff, it was 45 minutes before we got a response.
Now - if someone showed up shooting, they have the option to call the other police depts to ask them to come have a look. Note I said OPTION - they actually chose not to do that just a couple months ago for someone in the county because they 'felt it wasn't dangerous'.
So... I have two large dogs. I have several weapons. The dogs have been more than enough deterrent for anyone thinking about approaching the house (btw, dogs work even BETTER when you have a window they can growl and bark and be seen, imo). If someone breaks in, I would have no problem beating them with a baseball bat until they left. I couldn't see myself intentionally ever killing someone over just 'property'. However, someone comes in and decides to hurt anyone, including my dogs, and all bets are off.
I played GAME for years - Then I realized that GAME was just a massive waste and only losers/basement-dwellers/twits/sexless-wonders play GAME anymore.
Thank goodness I quit GAME! I can't believe anyone still plays GAME anymore! Everyone should quit!
Besides, NEXT-GAME is the best thing ever! I don't even know why GAME makes news anymore!
Actually - the come-back seems to be (as an owner and somewhat a fanboy of the PSP) because:
1- Exceptionally successful games and marketing in Asia. 2 - Redesign in the USA causes new splash. 3 - Actually, I think a couple of the latest new games have helped alot, see God of War.
Note that #3 actually is contrary to my argument, but factor in that there may have been more piracy of that game than there were sales (which may have helped drive up system sales, as a thought) AND that the developer that designed this incredible game immediately shut down PSP development, even shipping off all their dev kits.
I just see this as Nintendo seeing what happened to the PSP and homebrew and getting it under control before it's too late.
It's sad - both systems should have some level of a 'code pack' that lets people write apps and such for their portable toys, but the level of flat piracy that the homebrew community has created for the PSP is really affecting it's viability as a game platform for developers.
Of course, that implies that you actually care what critics think.
Actually, from what I remember from years prior to the 'intraweb' was that you went to a movie because you liked the idea, not because a critic gave it his/her blessing.
As for bad movies and losses - I don't know if they've ever worried much about producing the occassional stinker. I happen to prefer the idea of an occassional crap-bag of a flick being done in the HOPE of making money, because it sure seems to me that the studios are more willing to take a chance on artsy, serious, and dangerous movies.
At least they try. Shoot, can you imagine if studios ONLY allowed movies to be produced if a critic approved it? Where would Star Wars and other 'chance' movies end up? Where would we find our really stupid laughs?
Ed Mitchell was conducting para-normal experiments on his own on the way to the moon.
He has been an avid supporter of the supernatural and other concepts forever.
Now - that doesn't mean I think he's some complete nutbag or something - I just say that I can't accept his statements without bias, just like I couldn't accept a Priest discussing heaven and hell without bias. It doesn't matter what I believe, or what he does - it's just a matter of perspective.
I played clarinet for a dozen years - it's not very fair in some ways, simply because the clarinet is one of the most basic instruments in an orchestra, where a musician has the least influence on the actual sound/tonal quality beyond a certain level. Even some percussion instruments give you more ability to influence the sound of a note.
I've been using Ubuntu since January 1st of this year as my desktop.
Sadly, I'm still stuck with some old Windows development in Visual Basic, and I still have to support tons of Windows customers, so I have a VMWare copy of Windows available to me and open most of the time.
As an avowed Linux fanboy, I'm still not 100% sure it's ready for my customers - woops - I'm not sure my customers are ready for it.
I have customers walk in to my office, look at the dual (stacked) monitors laid out with four rotating (Compiz) desktops and ten different applications running without a crash or even slowdown, and they are fascinated... but scared of trying to learn something new.
I think that's the real key to getting Linux adopted in the normal world - showing the advantages to people, giving them a reason to use it, and teaching them how to use it.
It will be a long, painful process, but it can happen.
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I ride a motorcycle, so I have come to the opinion that 90% of the drivers out there in their 'shiny metal boxes' are idiots.
I've come to the decision that all cars should be equipped with a flashing light on the dashboard or the steering wheel - RIGHT in front of the drivers face - that triggers whenever an emergency vehicle with lights/sirens is within a certain distance. In most urban areas now, emergency vehicles are equipped with signal devices that trigger traffic lights for them. Why not apply the same reaction to inside warning lights for the cars? Shoot - turn off their sound systems at the same time.
In the USA, we over-regulate vehicle safety standards already, to the point of goofiness, why not go ahead and add one more? One that actually has the potential to save lives?
I despise Microsoft, and I doubt the conclusions from the article will change, but lets let them get it past BETA before we burn them as witches.
Because in space, no one can hear you fart.
I am surrounded by farms between a city and a small town. I end up being covered by the local sheriffs dept, rather than either municipal police.
Budget cuts in my county have scaled us back to about a dozen deputies for a LARGE county. The last time I had to call the sheriff, it was 45 minutes before we got a response.
Now - if someone showed up shooting, they have the option to call the other police depts to ask them to come have a look. Note I said OPTION - they actually chose not to do that just a couple months ago for someone in the county because they 'felt it wasn't dangerous'.
So... I have two large dogs. I have several weapons. The dogs have been more than enough deterrent for anyone thinking about approaching the house (btw, dogs work even BETTER when you have a window they can growl and bark and be seen, imo). If someone breaks in, I would have no problem beating them with a baseball bat until they left. I couldn't see myself intentionally ever killing someone over just 'property'. However, someone comes in and decides to hurt anyone, including my dogs, and all bets are off.
Is that he is willing to keep bankrolling it for now. I give him credit, whether Ubuntu makes it or not, for that.
This is just a desperate attempt by Lord British to 8x8 his way to full Magic Resist.
Hey - hitting your kids is fine. Heck, I didn't turn out to bad!
Shoot - gotta go - the prison guard says my weekly computer time is up.
Strange...
Ubuntu is just an African world (and learning center).
Duke Nukem is as far along in release as now!
Seems to me a great opportunity to pack it up and move it to the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle.
I played GAME for years - Then I realized that GAME was just a massive waste and only losers/basement-dwellers/twits/sexless-wonders play GAME anymore.
Thank goodness I quit GAME! I can't believe anyone still plays GAME anymore! Everyone should quit!
Besides, NEXT-GAME is the best thing ever! I don't even know why GAME makes news anymore!
Actually - the come-back seems to be (as an owner and somewhat a fanboy of the PSP) because:
1- Exceptionally successful games and marketing in Asia.
2 - Redesign in the USA causes new splash.
3 - Actually, I think a couple of the latest new games have helped alot, see God of War.
Note that #3 actually is contrary to my argument, but factor in that there may have been more piracy of that game than there were sales (which may have helped drive up system sales, as a thought) AND that the developer that designed this incredible game immediately shut down PSP development, even shipping off all their dev kits.
I just see this as Nintendo seeing what happened to the PSP and homebrew and getting it under control before it's too late.
It's sad - both systems should have some level of a 'code pack' that lets people write apps and such for their portable toys, but the level of flat piracy that the homebrew community has created for the PSP is really affecting it's viability as a game platform for developers.
http://www.pspfanboy.com/2008/03/09/ridiculous-psp-piracy-numbers/
Of course, that implies that you actually care what critics think.
Actually, from what I remember from years prior to the 'intraweb' was that you went to a movie because you liked the idea, not because a critic gave it his/her blessing.
As for bad movies and losses - I don't know if they've ever worried much about producing the occassional stinker. I happen to prefer the idea of an occassional crap-bag of a flick being done in the HOPE of making money, because it sure seems to me that the studios are more willing to take a chance on artsy, serious, and dangerous movies.
At least they try. Shoot, can you imagine if studios ONLY allowed movies to be produced if a critic approved it? Where would Star Wars and other 'chance' movies end up? Where would we find our really stupid laughs?
Ed Mitchell was conducting para-normal experiments on his own on the way to the moon.
He has been an avid supporter of the supernatural and other concepts forever.
Now - that doesn't mean I think he's some complete nutbag or something - I just say that I can't accept his statements without bias, just like I couldn't accept a Priest discussing heaven and hell without bias. It doesn't matter what I believe, or what he does - it's just a matter of perspective.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Mitchell
I enjoyed the movie quite alot. The thing that really blew my mind was the detail and variety that Del Toro threw out there.
After all, you could just drop back to DOS to do useful and fun things!
That's all the robots need...
As long as when the planet orbiting a star I name launches an invasion, so that it is forever known in history as the "INVASION FROM PLANET POOHEAD-6"
It depends - if it's NASA calculating, some are using metric, some imperial, and a few using 'teeny-weeny'
I hope none of these snails have any implanted medical devices - the death rate could be terrible!
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/24/2152212
We just found out about this because it's taken him all this time to finish saying it through his speech box.
Really? Now THAT I find interesting.
Thanks, I appreciate learning that.
I played clarinet for a dozen years - it's not very fair in some ways, simply because the clarinet is one of the most basic instruments in an orchestra, where a musician has the least influence on the actual sound/tonal quality beyond a certain level. Even some percussion instruments give you more ability to influence the sound of a note.
Either the MMORPG marketing machines are thundering through at top speed, or it must be a dang slow day in the world.
What is this, number 4 or 5 today?
I've been using Ubuntu since January 1st of this year as my desktop.
Sadly, I'm still stuck with some old Windows development in Visual Basic, and I still have to support tons of Windows customers, so I have a VMWare copy of Windows available to me and open most of the time.
As an avowed Linux fanboy, I'm still not 100% sure it's ready for my customers - woops - I'm not sure my customers are ready for it.
I have customers walk in to my office, look at the dual (stacked) monitors laid out with four rotating (Compiz) desktops and ten different applications running without a crash or even slowdown, and they are fascinated... but scared of trying to learn something new.
I think that's the real key to getting Linux adopted in the normal world - showing the advantages to people, giving them a reason to use it, and teaching them how to use it.
It will be a long, painful process, but it can happen.