It is a shame that K-Meleon doesn't get more love. It was around before Firefox when the Mozilla suite was all there was. It does run really well on old computers. In our office we have 266mhz computers that they somehow thought it would be a good idea to put XP on. Both IE and Firefox take forever to load but K-Meleon is quite fast.
That being said, it is almost too stripped down and I've switched to using Opera on the office computer (actually Ive switched to not using the office computer whenever possible since it is so slow...).
if you get caught with a machine to help count cards you wouldn't be charged with a crime because it isn't illegal. You would, however, be forced to leave and blacklisted from ever returning to that casino. (and probably any others nearby or owned by the same company).
I've never been to Ceasars Indiana but I did work for another Indiana casino for about 2 and a half years. As I was leaving we were in the process of switching machines from coins to bar coded pieces of paper that you would get when you "cashed out" of one machine and could put in another machine.
If Caesars has these then it is possible someone put in some of the bar codes and didn't notice how much money was on them.
It is also common for people to put a ten or twenty (or even hundred) dollar bill in the machine. If that was the case, some machines will display cents so perhaps the person mistook 10 for 1.00 or something.
Working at the casino I've seen some incredibly dumb people. I would not be surprised if half of them knew exactly what they were doing and the other half never even noticed.
As a former employee of a casino in Indiana (but not the one in question and not in the slot department) I can say that everything in the casino is written down and kept track of. I have seen casino tech work on machines and they routinely test them. I can only assume that what happen is that the slot tech screwed something up and they didn't test it before they let people play on the machine again.
That being said, $500,000 is less than half of what the casino I worked in made in profit per day. There's no doubt that at least some of the people who got that money just put it back in the machines anyway so I doubt they are missing much.
The state is going to step in asking why this was allowed to happen and whose fault it was. Someone will probably get transfered to a different department where they won't be allowed to screw up the machines again.
First of all, there haven't been any financially successful Spiderman films. There have been financially successful Spider-Man films. Secondly, you are talking about trademarks. The stories are copyrighted but the characters are trademarked. If the copyright on the original stories had lapsed but the trademarks were still valid, they would still have to license the likenesses of the characters. Regardless, I quite agree, if only the trademarks on Snow White and Cinderella and Sherlock Holmes weren't expired and the characters weren't all in the public domain there would be lots of films featuring those characters.
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The results of the class action lawsuit against Sony was that you could either get $7.50 and download an album or download 3 albums. Like every class action lawsuit I've ever been a part of from Sony all the way back to when Kodak brought out their own version of a Polaroid-style camera, the only people that ever benefit are the lawyers. The rest of us just get coupons for more crap from the company that caused the problem in the first place.
If there is any justice then Sony will just get a coupon for more rootkits from the company and not any actual money.
I've never liked sony. I always found it to be overpriced and not any better than other products that cost less. So yes, I've been boycotting Sony. I've been doing it for years.
According to one of the comments on the gamepolitics thread the earlier psychological test that Thompson took was for a possible obsession with sex. I've not heard that before and the commenter doesn't provide any source so who knows how true it is.
However, if he is given a fuller test this time I wouldn't be surprised if he gets diagnosed with some anger management issues as well as some things like paranoia, a persecution complex as well as delusions of grandeur.
Yes. The "jack e thompson" listed on that page is not eligible to practice law in Florida because he is dead.
The Jack Thompson that hates videogames is not only quite alive but is legally named John Bruce Thompson. John Bruce Thompson is still eligible to practice law in Florida.
Isn't it a wonderful country where people who are convicted of a crime don't have to serve the time but American citizens can be held in military brigs for years before they are even charged with a crime? God bless America...
The only rule about product placement in the USA is the more the better. Any time on any US show you see a brand name the chances are great that they were paid to put it in.
No one is forcing these people to go into medicine. I don't know but maybe it is just me but it would seem that if you go into an industry that is about helping people and saving lives maybe you shouldn't be making money. It may be just me but it seems wrong to expect to make a profit off of sick people.
Actually there is a lot of debate if all play is about learning. In his book The Ambiguity of Play, Brian Sutton-Smith talks about some of the different purposes that people have tried to make "play" serve. I won't get into it here because it really isn't the point but if anyone really cares it might be worth reading his book.
As someone who holds a teacher's license, is working on a phd related to studying videogame players, and who considers myself a gamer, I have to say that I've little to no interest in educational games. I don't remember learning anything from things like Sesame Street and I don't remember learning anything from Oregon Trail except an interest in computers and games. I've talked to a couple of fellow academics who are into "serious games" and using games to teach and while they are nice people and I wish them the best I just don't see the need for it.
While people learn things differently I can't help but feel that this is similar to trying to put a square peg in a round hole. Can a game be made that is fun and educational? Sure but I'm just not sure that making it would be an effective use of time.
Ummm, even if you are an original equipment manufacturer wouldn't you need to sign a contract with Microsoft to sell Windows??? While there may be restrictions on what MS can do because the government has declared them a monopoly but it would seem pretty odd if MS couldn't chose not to sell Windows to someone if they wanted to.
I can't tell you how many games I've bought that I've put in at least 3 different computers with different brands of dvd drives and none of them could read the disks because of securom copy protection. In every case I've gone p2p and found hacked versions. It is a sign of how good their "copy protection" is when someone who has bought the games can't install them but the pirates have no problem ripping them.
That's nice but what does the Big Bang theory have to do with evolution? The Big Bang is about how the universe started and evolution is about how life in earth started about 10 billion years later.
"And why should a college library offer full services 24-7 other than making life easier for students?"
Isn't that one of the purposes of a library?
Most people that work at a college library are college kids who are getting paid minimum wage. Our library has turned the first floor into a huge computer lab that is open 24-7. While it can be fairly empty at the start of the semester, during the last month of school it is packed 24-7. Holding LAN parties does seem a little silly unless you are just trying to get people to come to the library (I've seen fliers that one of the campus church groups was holding a Halo party, obviously trying to get people to come and join their group) but being open 24-7 would be great. It doesn't have to be full staff, but a couple people at the desk and some at the tech support desk (they already do that. They aren't library employees anyway but work for the campus computing services) would be a good thing in my opinion.
The article doesn't say anything about the Dewey Decimal System or the Library of Congress system. There is more to research than the system of cataloging the books. Nor does the article talk about people who aren't motivated to learn. It talks about how to talk to people so that they don't get irritated and how to better serve the public which is what libraries are supposed to do.
I've little doubt that this is a paper that was written for a class and not for publication. It is quite shallow and is at the level that I would see my undergraduate students turn in.
However, I have to disagree with your use of the term "class." I can't speak for the author but typically when academics use the term class they mean social class and not economic class. The two are generally not synonymous. Economic class has to do with how much money someone earns. This seems to be the definition of class that you are assuming. However, social class does not directly equate to how much money someone has. Therefore, "freaks and geeks" are typically seen as lower social class than "jocks" regardless of how much money they or their parents make. Therefore, in this case your criticisms that there is no evidences that, "Facebook has provided a higher earning and networking potential for uses to validate the claim that they are from a higher social class" is not what I think the author is trying to say. I think, and I may be wrong as I only skimmed the article, the paper is trying to say that is nothing about earning potential and not that facebook provides anything but that those who already have higher social class are more likely to use facebook than myspace.
But, again, I'm not really defending the quality of the paper as it doesn't do much more than point out something. If I were writing it this might be the introduction or even the abstract of a larger article that would go on to include more of a "so what?" and more direct evidence for the assertions.
Part of the problem is that "class" as a term can refer to numerous things. Social class and economic class are not the same thing. Your examples illustrate that quite well. Economic class has to do with how much money someone possesses (although some may argue with that simplistic definition) and social class is more performative. Social class relates to what the article says about "anti-capitalist college friends who work in cafes and read Engels."
However, all of these are broad generalizations. There is no way to put everything a person does into one category. However, categories are not the same as the way that the author of the paper and other scholars tend to use "class." Race and sex would not be what I or most other people I know would call "classes."
Isn't something either unique or not? I seem to remember being told that since unique means one of a kind that there are no degrees of uniqueness. Irregardless, it is highly ironical that there submission too slashdot is inaccurate to.
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It is a shame that K-Meleon doesn't get more love. It was around before Firefox when the Mozilla suite was all there was. It does run really well on old computers. In our office we have 266mhz computers that they somehow thought it would be a good idea to put XP on. Both IE and Firefox take forever to load but K-Meleon is quite fast.
That being said, it is almost too stripped down and I've switched to using Opera on the office computer (actually Ive switched to not using the office computer whenever possible since it is so slow...).
If you can find an authoritative source for that I'll be glad to look at it.
if you get caught with a machine to help count cards you wouldn't be charged with a crime because it isn't illegal. You would, however, be forced to leave and blacklisted from ever returning to that casino. (and probably any others nearby or owned by the same company).
I've never been to Ceasars Indiana but I did work for another Indiana casino for about 2 and a half years. As I was leaving we were in the process of switching machines from coins to bar coded pieces of paper that you would get when you "cashed out" of one machine and could put in another machine.
If Caesars has these then it is possible someone put in some of the bar codes and didn't notice how much money was on them.
It is also common for people to put a ten or twenty (or even hundred) dollar bill in the machine. If that was the case, some machines will display cents so perhaps the person mistook 10 for 1.00 or something.
Working at the casino I've seen some incredibly dumb people. I would not be surprised if half of them knew exactly what they were doing and the other half never even noticed.
As a former employee of a casino in Indiana (but not the one in question and not in the slot department) I can say that everything in the casino is written down and kept track of. I have seen casino tech work on machines and they routinely test them. I can only assume that what happen is that the slot tech screwed something up and they didn't test it before they let people play on the machine again.
That being said, $500,000 is less than half of what the casino I worked in made in profit per day. There's no doubt that at least some of the people who got that money just put it back in the machines anyway so I doubt they are missing much.
The state is going to step in asking why this was allowed to happen and whose fault it was. Someone will probably get transfered to a different department where they won't be allowed to screw up the machines again.
Bases on Deimos and Phobos? Surely such an effort would be Doomed.
First of all, there haven't been any financially successful Spiderman films. There have been financially successful Spider-Man films.
Secondly, you are talking about trademarks. The stories are copyrighted but the characters are trademarked. If the copyright on the original stories had lapsed but the trademarks were still valid, they would still have to license the likenesses of the characters.
Regardless, I quite agree, if only the trademarks on Snow White and Cinderella and Sherlock Holmes weren't expired and the characters weren't all in the public domain there would be lots of films featuring those characters.
The results of the class action lawsuit against Sony was that you could either get $7.50 and download an album or download 3 albums. Like every class action lawsuit I've ever been a part of from Sony all the way back to when Kodak brought out their own version of a Polaroid-style camera, the only people that ever benefit are the lawyers. The rest of us just get coupons for more crap from the company that caused the problem in the first place.
If there is any justice then Sony will just get a coupon for more rootkits from the company and not any actual money.
I've never liked sony. I always found it to be overpriced and not any better than other products that cost less. So yes, I've been boycotting Sony. I've been doing it for years.
According to one of the comments on the gamepolitics thread the earlier psychological test that Thompson took was for a possible obsession with sex. I've not heard that before and the commenter doesn't provide any source so who knows how true it is.
However, if he is given a fuller test this time I wouldn't be surprised if he gets diagnosed with some anger management issues as well as some things like paranoia, a persecution complex as well as delusions of grandeur.
Yes. The "jack e thompson" listed on that page is not eligible to practice law in Florida because he is dead. The Jack Thompson that hates videogames is not only quite alive but is legally named John Bruce Thompson. John Bruce Thompson is still eligible to practice law in Florida.
Isn't it a wonderful country where people who are convicted of a crime don't have to serve the time but American citizens can be held in military brigs for years before they are even charged with a crime?
God bless America...
The only rule about product placement in the USA is the more the better. Any time on any US show you see a brand name the chances are great that they were paid to put it in.
No one is forcing these people to go into medicine. I don't know but maybe it is just me but it would seem that if you go into an industry that is about helping people and saving lives maybe you shouldn't be making money. It may be just me but it seems wrong to expect to make a profit off of sick people.
Actually there is a lot of debate if all play is about learning. In his book The Ambiguity of Play, Brian Sutton-Smith talks about some of the different purposes that people have tried to make "play" serve. I won't get into it here because it really isn't the point but if anyone really cares it might be worth reading his book.
As someone who holds a teacher's license, is working on a phd related to studying videogame players, and who considers myself a gamer, I have to say that I've little to no interest in educational games. I don't remember learning anything from things like Sesame Street and I don't remember learning anything from Oregon Trail except an interest in computers and games. I've talked to a couple of fellow academics who are into "serious games" and using games to teach and while they are nice people and I wish them the best I just don't see the need for it.
While people learn things differently I can't help but feel that this is similar to trying to put a square peg in a round hole. Can a game be made that is fun and educational? Sure but I'm just not sure that making it would be an effective use of time.
Ummm, even if you are an original equipment manufacturer wouldn't you need to sign a contract with Microsoft to sell Windows??? While there may be restrictions on what MS can do because the government has declared them a monopoly but it would seem pretty odd if MS couldn't chose not to sell Windows to someone if they wanted to.
I can't tell you how many games I've bought that I've put in at least 3 different computers with different brands of dvd drives and none of them could read the disks because of securom copy protection. In every case I've gone p2p and found hacked versions. It is a sign of how good their "copy protection" is when someone who has bought the games can't install them but the pirates have no problem ripping them.
I hope they weren't at all subtle!
That's nice but what does the Big Bang theory have to do with evolution?
The Big Bang is about how the universe started and evolution is about how life in earth started about 10 billion years later.
"And why should a college library offer full services 24-7 other than making life easier for students?"
Isn't that one of the purposes of a library?
Most people that work at a college library are college kids who are getting paid minimum wage. Our library has turned the first floor into a huge computer lab that is open 24-7. While it can be fairly empty at the start of the semester, during the last month of school it is packed 24-7. Holding LAN parties does seem a little silly unless you are just trying to get people to come to the library (I've seen fliers that one of the campus church groups was holding a Halo party, obviously trying to get people to come and join their group) but being open 24-7 would be great. It doesn't have to be full staff, but a couple people at the desk and some at the tech support desk (they already do that. They aren't library employees anyway but work for the campus computing services) would be a good thing in my opinion.
The article doesn't say anything about the Dewey Decimal System or the Library of Congress system. There is more to research than the system of cataloging the books. Nor does the article talk about people who aren't motivated to learn. It talks about how to talk to people so that they don't get irritated and how to better serve the public which is what libraries are supposed to do.
I've little doubt that this is a paper that was written for a class and not for publication. It is quite shallow and is at the level that I would see my undergraduate students turn in.
However, I have to disagree with your use of the term "class." I can't speak for the author but typically when academics use the term class they mean social class and not economic class. The two are generally not synonymous. Economic class has to do with how much money someone earns. This seems to be the definition of class that you are assuming. However, social class does not directly equate to how much money someone has. Therefore, "freaks and geeks" are typically seen as lower social class than "jocks" regardless of how much money they or their parents make. Therefore, in this case your criticisms that there is no evidences that, "Facebook has provided a higher earning and networking potential for uses to validate the claim that they are from a higher social class" is not what I think the author is trying to say. I think, and I may be wrong as I only skimmed the article, the paper is trying to say that is nothing about earning potential and not that facebook provides anything but that those who already have higher social class are more likely to use facebook than myspace.
But, again, I'm not really defending the quality of the paper as it doesn't do much more than point out something. If I were writing it this might be the introduction or even the abstract of a larger article that would go on to include more of a "so what?" and more direct evidence for the assertions.
Part of the problem is that "class" as a term can refer to numerous things. Social class and economic class are not the same thing. Your examples illustrate that quite well. Economic class has to do with how much money someone possesses (although some may argue with that simplistic definition) and social class is more performative. Social class relates to what the article says about "anti-capitalist college friends who work in cafes and read Engels."
However, all of these are broad generalizations. There is no way to put everything a person does into one category. However, categories are not the same as the way that the author of the paper and other scholars tend to use "class." Race and sex would not be what I or most other people I know would call "classes."
Isn't something either unique or not? I seem to remember being told that since unique means one of a kind that there are no degrees of uniqueness. Irregardless, it is highly ironical that there submission too slashdot is inaccurate to.