i don't know what country you live in but it's been a long time since anyone has invaded the US.
Thank those 'paid murderers'; we've got great ones, and without them we'd have long since been (successfully) invaded. You really don't see the cause and effect?
Whether there's competition or not in a specific field or for a specific product has nothing at all to do with free trade; only the lack of legal barriers forbidding competition. In a free market, if a business drives its competitors out of business, it did so by providing for the consumer's desires more effectively.
There's nothing wrong with that. If they keep up a level of service that makes competitors unable to appear, it's perfectly fine. If they backslide, competitors WILL appear. Competition isn't required for a free market; only the lack of barriers against competition.
1) Stephen Conroy is spot on when he says the internet shouldn't be treated any different to any other forms of media. It isn't a magical beast, it's just another form of media (albeit more accessible and chaotic). So there's nothing fundamentally wrong with filtering it. I mean hell, it's already illegal to *host* this sort of content in Australia.
The point to walk away from this with is not that internet filtering is alright in principle, but rather that state filtering is wrong in principle in ALL forms of media.
Is there a fork of OO.org that has all java stripped out of it? I know you can turn it off, and I always do, but I still suspect it is adding to the bloat and slowness (which is OO's greatest problem).
I use Writer in place of Word, because of OO's greater reliability and accuracy, especially in long documents; but I'm still a bit torn.
It seems to me the places where you are staying on Other People's Money (places that cater to business travelers who expense the trip) are gouging on WiFi, the places where you are staying on your own dime all recognize WiFi as a competitive point.
Would it be offtopic to mention the nationalized healthcare debate at this point? I think it's very related.
They only play the good ones that long; the ones that they would probably continue playing the rest of their life.
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Hear, hear. Just because the guy is a nerd doesn't mean we have to rally 'round him.
Right. I saw it happening a lot here after Hans Reiser killed his wife. It was pretty damn obvious he did it, but he sure had a lot of otherwise intelligent slashdotters refusing to face facts.
It's a valuble lesson; intelligent people are no more immune to self-deception. They might even be better at it.
Best and most insightful summation of the situation I've seen on slashdot. Childs seemingly put petty ego over the choice of finding a reasonable solution. It doesn't surprise me that many slashdotters agree with him; but I would never hire anybody that did.
The idea that "MPEG was hardly dominant" is the thought of someone who either didn't do his homework at the time or a revisionist. VCD (created 1993) was massively popular in the second half of the nineties, or doesn't that count ?
Doesn't count... in America. I've never seen a VCD for sale, except in obscure import shops. It was big in Asia.
I definitely view that as a resource worth preserving.
Sure; but the human population in the region is MORE worth preserving. If a choice must be made, bye-bye bacteria. Hopefully, a solution can be found that accommodates both.
I've read at least a dozen slashdots threads, and several articles. I've never found any decent justification for Child's behavior. Punishing him seems appropriate; I certainly would pursue charges if he had been my employee.
It's not always the people who disagree with you who are wrong. You shouldn't assume that other people must be ignorant and inane, because they happen to come to a different conclusion. That's sloppy thinking.
And your point is that eg. Uncharted was optimised to the breaking point, and there was no way Uncharted 2 would look better, with better textures, models, physics and collisions?
It obviously could have been optimized more. With months of effort and a huge increase in their development costs, they probably could have squeezed out another 5-10% in performance.
It's a case of diminishing returns. You'll never get anything completely optimized; but you get to where it is more and more work for less and less returns. 3d basically requires a 100% increase in performance in order to not degrade the framerate. Very rarely will they be able to take an otherwise nearly finished game, and double its performance.
In order for Nintendo to remain relevant in the mobile gaming market
The Nintendo DS is an even more successful product than the very successful iPhone/iTouch. Apple has just as much to worry about from Nintendo, as the other way around.
It seems like you're contradicting herself. You're saying she's doing it to protect her superiors, then saying that her goal is to protect herself by ratting out her superiors.
The latter is quite possibly true. The former? I can't imagine a mid-level school admin risking prison time to defend her boss.
I think an innocent person could take the 5th to avoid the appearance of guilt. I.E., they might not want to admit being in a particular place at a particular time, even though they've done nothing wrong by any standard, because such an admission would incorrectly give weight to the prosecution's argument.
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i don't know what country you live in but it's been a long time since anyone has invaded the US.
Thank those 'paid murderers'; we've got great ones, and without them we'd have long since been (successfully) invaded. You really don't see the cause and effect?
No, he was heavily involved in the technical aspects of designing and implementing the cameras. He's a tech guy, he knows his optics and physics.
So somehow, paradoxically, Avatar turns out to be an exact copy of at least three different movies?
Then some whiteknight went and changed the password so that nobody could access the account.
Damn, I hate this attitude. No, it wasn't a whiteknight. It was simply a better person than you.
Grow up.
What? Why the response? Is Obama sacrosanct?
Whether there's competition or not in a specific field or for a specific product has nothing at all to do with free trade; only the lack of legal barriers forbidding competition. In a free market, if a business drives its competitors out of business, it did so by providing for the consumer's desires more effectively.
There's nothing wrong with that. If they keep up a level of service that makes competitors unable to appear, it's perfectly fine. If they backslide, competitors WILL appear. Competition isn't required for a free market; only the lack of barriers against competition.
1) Stephen Conroy is spot on when he says the internet shouldn't be treated any different to any other forms of media. It isn't a magical beast, it's just another form of media (albeit more accessible and chaotic). So there's nothing fundamentally wrong with filtering it. I mean hell, it's already illegal to *host* this sort of content in Australia.
The point to walk away from this with is not that internet filtering is alright in principle, but rather that state filtering is wrong in principle in ALL forms of media.
Is there a fork of OO.org that has all java stripped out of it? I know you can turn it off, and I always do, but I still suspect it is adding to the bloat and slowness (which is OO's greatest problem).
I use Writer in place of Word, because of OO's greater reliability and accuracy, especially in long documents; but I'm still a bit torn.
It seems to me the places where you are staying on Other People's Money (places that cater to business travelers who expense the trip) are gouging on WiFi, the places where you are staying on your own dime all recognize WiFi as a competitive point.
Would it be offtopic to mention the nationalized healthcare debate at this point? I think it's very related.
They only play the good ones that long; the ones that they would probably continue playing the rest of their life.
Hear, hear. Just because the guy is a nerd doesn't mean we have to rally 'round him.
Right. I saw it happening a lot here after Hans Reiser killed his wife. It was pretty damn obvious he did it, but he sure had a lot of otherwise intelligent slashdotters refusing to face facts.
It's a valuble lesson; intelligent people are no more immune to self-deception. They might even be better at it.
Best and most insightful summation of the situation I've seen on slashdot. Childs seemingly put petty ego over the choice of finding a reasonable solution. It doesn't surprise me that many slashdotters agree with him; but I would never hire anybody that did.
The idea that "MPEG was hardly dominant" is the thought of someone who either didn't do his homework at the time or a revisionist. VCD (created 1993) was massively popular in the second half of the nineties, or doesn't that count ?
Doesn't count... in America. I've never seen a VCD for sale, except in obscure import shops. It was big in Asia.
You're a bit harsh, but I agree with your point. He was an employee. If he had been my employee, I would have taken legal steps against him.
I definitely view that as a resource worth preserving.
Sure; but the human population in the region is MORE worth preserving. If a choice must be made, bye-bye bacteria. Hopefully, a solution can be found that accommodates both.
Fucking teabaggers.
Right, the GP was no doubt a racist ignorant teabagger, right? Not as enlightened and tolerant as YOU, correct?
After all, any dissent should be stomped out FAST and HARD, in order to keep freedom and democracy alive. Truth through obedience, brother!
You're really that amazed that somebody might have only (*gasp*) half or three-quarters your bandwidth?
I've read at least a dozen slashdots threads, and several articles. I've never found any decent justification for Child's behavior. Punishing him seems appropriate; I certainly would pursue charges if he had been my employee.
It's not always the people who disagree with you who are wrong. You shouldn't assume that other people must be ignorant and inane, because they happen to come to a different conclusion. That's sloppy thinking.
And your point is that eg. Uncharted was optimised to the breaking point, and there was no way Uncharted 2 would look better, with better textures, models, physics and collisions?
It obviously could have been optimized more. With months of effort and a huge increase in their development costs, they probably could have squeezed out another 5-10% in performance.
It's a case of diminishing returns. You'll never get anything completely optimized; but you get to where it is more and more work for less and less returns. 3d basically requires a 100% increase in performance in order to not degrade the framerate. Very rarely will they be able to take an otherwise nearly finished game, and double its performance.
Get Nick Cage on the case; those two books no doubt contain directions to the Illuminati's treasure stored in the hidden fortress of the Masons.
In order for Nintendo to remain relevant in the mobile gaming market
The Nintendo DS is an even more successful product than the very successful iPhone/iTouch. Apple has just as much to worry about from Nintendo, as the other way around.
Seems obvious to me that neither of your sons is at risk. It's nice to see parents who actually think about parenting.
Well, this is more like the "Numbers Effect".
Or is that the act of using chaos theory to prove the criminal would be taking the westbound freeway exit just about... NOW!
It seems like you're contradicting herself. You're saying she's doing it to protect her superiors, then saying that her goal is to protect herself by ratting out her superiors.
The latter is quite possibly true. The former? I can't imagine a mid-level school admin risking prison time to defend her boss.
I think an innocent person could take the 5th to avoid the appearance of guilt. I.E., they might not want to admit being in a particular place at a particular time, even though they've done nothing wrong by any standard, because such an admission would incorrectly give weight to the prosecution's argument.