I'm a grad student and I have a hard enough time turning my student's grades in on time. I doubt I'm going to get around to report anything to the FBI. I'm making less than $13000 a year. That isn't enough for me to spy on my students. Give me a few thousand and I might think about it.
This has been the case since the NES so it isn't as if this is anything new. I doubt that it would be an anti-trust issue. I would imagine that the DCMA makes it illegal to circumvent the copy protection in the games. I know that back in the NES days Atari set up a seperate company, Tengen, that ended up making unlicensed games for the NES system they were sued for copyright and patent infringement.
If all you are doing is black and white stuff there's no contest -- buy a laser printer. I don't know anything about color laser printers since I don't have one but But I went from taking forever for papers to print out, clogged ink heads, and empty ink cartridges to a laser printer that was fast, never given me a bit of trouble and had a toner cartridge that lasted 3 years.
The reason toy guns are bright orange or green instead of looking real is that there were kids getting shot by cops because the cops thought that the gun was real. So it has nothing to do with our society being wimpy and everything to do with whether or not a cop can tell if someone is pulling a gun or a toy on them.
Hey, to be fair we also kidnap US citizens and put them in military brigs for years without being charged (such as Jose Padilla), so it just isn't non-US citizens that we deny rights to!
Ask anyone with a teaching license and they will tell you that there is a lot of debate over what multiple choice tests actual test, knowledge of the material or ability to take tests. There are a lot of educator who argue that essays or portfolios are a more accurate measure of how much someone knows than multiple choice or true or false tests.
Let's say that the G8 countries develop new technologies and reduce emissions and make substantially less pollution. Then let's say that global warming is a complete myth. Let's say that humanity isn't doing anything to the temperature of the Earth. So what? What's the downside? If we stop polluting, and it doesn't do anything to help the temperature of the Earth, so what? Except for taking a chunk out of the oil company's profit what would be the bad side of developed countries polluting less?
So according to this place everything was vegetarian before sin. So are they advocating vegetarianism? That would be rather interesting since many people stereotype vegetarians as left-wing pinko commies. On the other hand, if they don't advocate vegetarianism, why not? Since meat eating only came about once sin was created, it would seem that eating meat would be associated with sin in some way (if not sinful in an dof itself since that is the kind of logic they seem to use).
Actually Mozilla did kill the Mozilla Suite. They announced that they weren't going to develope it any more in favore of Firefox and Thunderbird. A new group, called the Seamonkey Council is developing it. The Mozilla foundation said that they would provide the infrastructure for them but that seems to be all they are doing.
Frankly I'm sick and tired of shooting Germans or aliens but I'm not tired of playing FPS games. I really hope that there are more games that are more adventurous and take on more imaginative themes. For example instead of having yet another game about a group of white soldiers in WWII, why not take one step outside and make it about one of the groups of African-American soldiers? Why not make it that you are a French citizen (maybe even a woman!) in occupied France? How about making the movie Glory into a game (or maybe not the movie since it was inspired by some real events) or how about a game like Thief that relies on hiding and stealth and if you try to attack someone you get killed or attract the attention of a bunch of people. Now imagine that the main character is an escaping slave. I'd much rather play those kinds of games than yet another WWII shooter featuring white soldiers killing Germans.
I don't think that Tolkien should be the ultimate arbiter of what his books mean. To take another situation that is radically different look at Michael Richards' racist tirade. I saw his apology on Letterman and I believe that he was truly sorry and that he really doesn't think he was racist. However, he has yet to convince me that he isn't a racist. Tolkien may not think that there is allegory in Lord of the Rings but he has yet to convince me that there isn't.
Yes Torchwood stinks. However, The Sarah Jane Adventures is in production. For soem reason they just aired the hour long episode at Christmas and won't start showing the regular series until later this year.
Exactly. It doesn't make sense that they would just let the show of which they have created something like 5 spin-offs (torchwood, sarah jane, totally dr. who, and confidential) just go away. If RTD left then they would just find someone else.
I think this would be good for college students. A small, light device for taking notes that was cheap and had internet and word processing would be useful. I got a Dell Axim with a bluetooth keyboard but having the two deices instead of one isn't real handy. If this new device had a vga out so I could hook it up to a projector for when I show video clips or powerpoints to my students I might get one. However, at $500 there's no way. Shop around and you can find an occasional clearance model laptop with a core 2 processor for that price.
In the USA no other medium has its ratings enforced by law. Movie ratings are enforced by the movie industry just like videogame ratings. TO single out videogames there would have to be a mountain of evidence that exposure to them is bad for children. No such mountain exists. Therefore this is nothing more than fear mongering and doing things so politicians can say, "See? I care about families!"
Actually it isn't that hard. Just go into the searchplugins folder (in Windows it is the one in the program files folder, not your user folder) open the amazon film in a text processor and where it says mozilla-20 put in a different referral id and then save. That's it.
If you buy a lot of stuff from Amazon it is worth opening your own Amazon associate account and putting your own id in there. I'm sure it is against Amazon's terms of service but I've done it for over a year and Amazon has given me the referral fee for all my purchases so far.
From the search box in firefox do a search on Amazon. Look at the url. See that, "mozilla-20" in the url? That's mozilla's Amazon Associate link. So if you, like me, tend to buy stuff from Amazon after searchinf for it with the firefox search box, then Mozilla is getting a percentage of whatever you buy. I don't mind that, but I've just never seen it mentioned anywhere. It would be nice if they were a bit more upfront about that kind of income as well
It depends on how you define videogame. In 1958 Willie Higgenbotham created a demo called "tennis for two" on an occiliscope as something to entertain people taking a tour of Brookhaven National Laboratory. It was a side view of tennis and not a top down view as in Pong. however, no one outside of Brookhaven knoew anything about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_Two
Even Ralph Bayer's Odyssey system might not meet some qualifications for videogame since it was an analogue system and not digital.
However, the article says "In May of 1967, the world's first videogames -- as we know them today -- made their quiet, humble entrance into the world.
There's that and there also the case of the college instructor fired for discussing the Va Tech shootings even though the school asked professors and isntructors to do so. While I suspect there is more to that story than we are being told, no matter what he did it was in front of college students and not elementary school students. I doubt that whatever he did to get fired was worse than what these teachers did.
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I'm a grad student and I have a hard enough time turning my student's grades in on time. I doubt I'm going to get around to report anything to the FBI. I'm making less than $13000 a year. That isn't enough for me to spy on my students. Give me a few thousand and I might think about it.
This has been the case since the NES so it isn't as if this is anything new. I doubt that it would be an anti-trust issue. I would imagine that the DCMA makes it illegal to circumvent the copy protection in the games. I know that back in the NES days Atari set up a seperate company, Tengen, that ended up making unlicensed games for the NES system they were sued for copyright and patent infringement.
On the other hand, their dad is the President. What could you give him that he didn't already have access to?
If all you are doing is black and white stuff there's no contest -- buy a laser printer. I don't know anything about color laser printers since I don't have one but But I went from taking forever for papers to print out, clogged ink heads, and empty ink cartridges to a laser printer that was fast, never given me a bit of trouble and had a toner cartridge that lasted 3 years.
The reason toy guns are bright orange or green instead of looking real is that there were kids getting shot by cops because the cops thought that the gun was real. So it has nothing to do with our society being wimpy and everything to do with whether or not a cop can tell if someone is pulling a gun or a toy on them.
And what is wrong with going to a psychiatrist?
It got banned in the UK. What was the other country it got banned in? It will still be fore sale in the USA.
If you are in the USA there's no reason to be getting telemarketing calls. donotcall.gov will take care of that.
Hey, to be fair we also kidnap US citizens and put them in military brigs for years without being charged (such as Jose Padilla), so it just isn't non-US citizens that we deny rights to!
Ask anyone with a teaching license and they will tell you that there is a lot of debate over what multiple choice tests actual test, knowledge of the material or ability to take tests. There are a lot of educator who argue that essays or portfolios are a more accurate measure of how much someone knows than multiple choice or true or false tests.
Let's say that the G8 countries develop new technologies and reduce emissions and make substantially less pollution. Then let's say that global warming is a complete myth. Let's say that humanity isn't doing anything to the temperature of the Earth. So what? What's the downside? If we stop polluting, and it doesn't do anything to help the temperature of the Earth, so what? Except for taking a chunk out of the oil company's profit what would be the bad side of developed countries polluting less?
And Silverlight is supported in both Safari and Firefox browsers on the Mac. http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/archive/2007/05/23/s ilverlight-excitement.aspx
I didn't even have to reinstall Flash for it to work on my system. I don't know about the ram usage or non-Latin fonts though.
So according to this place everything was vegetarian before sin. So are they advocating vegetarianism? That would be rather interesting since many people stereotype vegetarians as left-wing pinko commies. On the other hand, if they don't advocate vegetarianism, why not? Since meat eating only came about once sin was created, it would seem that eating meat would be associated with sin in some way (if not sinful in an dof itself since that is the kind of logic they seem to use).
Actually Mozilla did kill the Mozilla Suite. They announced that they weren't going to develope it any more in favore of Firefox and Thunderbird. A new group, called the Seamonkey Council is developing it. The Mozilla foundation said that they would provide the infrastructure for them but that seems to be all they are doing.
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http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/news.ht
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey
ummmm yes... absolutely...
[either that or there are so many Medal of Honor games I never even heard of that one. I might have to hunt it down]
Frankly I'm sick and tired of shooting Germans or aliens but I'm not tired of playing FPS games. I really hope that there are more games that are more adventurous and take on more imaginative themes. For example instead of having yet another game about a group of white soldiers in WWII, why not take one step outside and make it about one of the groups of African-American soldiers? Why not make it that you are a French citizen (maybe even a woman!) in occupied France? How about making the movie Glory into a game (or maybe not the movie since it was inspired by some real events) or how about a game like Thief that relies on hiding and stealth and if you try to attack someone you get killed or attract the attention of a bunch of people. Now imagine that the main character is an escaping slave. I'd much rather play those kinds of games than yet another WWII shooter featuring white soldiers killing Germans.
I don't think that Tolkien should be the ultimate arbiter of what his books mean. To take another situation that is radically different look at Michael Richards' racist tirade. I saw his apology on Letterman and I believe that he was truly sorry and that he really doesn't think he was racist. However, he has yet to convince me that he isn't a racist.
Tolkien may not think that there is allegory in Lord of the Rings but he has yet to convince me that there isn't.
Yes Torchwood stinks. However, The Sarah Jane Adventures is in production. For soem reason they just aired the hour long episode at Christmas and won't start showing the regular series until later this year.
Exactly. It doesn't make sense that they would just let the show of which they have created something like 5 spin-offs (torchwood, sarah jane, totally dr. who, and confidential) just go away. If RTD left then they would just find someone else.
I think this would be good for college students. A small, light device for taking notes that was cheap and had internet and word processing would be useful. I got a Dell Axim with a bluetooth keyboard but having the two deices instead of one isn't real handy. If this new device had a vga out so I could hook it up to a projector for when I show video clips or powerpoints to my students I might get one. However, at $500 there's no way. Shop around and you can find an occasional clearance model laptop with a core 2 processor for that price.
In the USA no other medium has its ratings enforced by law. Movie ratings are enforced by the movie industry just like videogame ratings. TO single out videogames there would have to be a mountain of evidence that exposure to them is bad for children. No such mountain exists. Therefore this is nothing more than fear mongering and doing things so politicians can say, "See? I care about families!"
Actually it isn't that hard. Just go into the searchplugins folder (in Windows it is the one in the program files folder, not your user folder) open the amazon film in a text processor and where it says mozilla-20 put in a different referral id and then save. That's it.
If you buy a lot of stuff from Amazon it is worth opening your own Amazon associate account and putting your own id in there. I'm sure it is against Amazon's terms of service but I've done it for over a year and Amazon has given me the referral fee for all my purchases so far.
From the search box in firefox do a search on Amazon. Look at the url. See that, "mozilla-20" in the url? That's mozilla's Amazon Associate link. So if you, like me, tend to buy stuff from Amazon after searchinf for it with the firefox search box, then Mozilla is getting a percentage of whatever you buy. I don't mind that, but I've just never seen it mentioned anywhere. It would be nice if they were a bit more upfront about that kind of income as well
It depends on how you define videogame. In 1958 Willie Higgenbotham created a demo called "tennis for two" on an occiliscope as something to entertain people taking a tour of Brookhaven National Laboratory. It was a side view of tennis and not a top down view as in Pong. however, no one outside of Brookhaven knoew anything about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_Two
Even Ralph Bayer's Odyssey system might not meet some qualifications for videogame since it was an analogue system and not digital.
However, the article says "In May of 1967, the world's first videogames -- as we know them today -- made their quiet, humble entrance into the world.
There's that and there also the case of the college instructor fired for discussing the Va Tech shootings even though the school asked professors and isntructors to do so. While I suspect there is more to that story than we are being told, no matter what he did it was in front of college students and not elementary school students. I doubt that whatever he did to get fired was worse than what these teachers did.