None of this newfangled tech. John Logie Baird invented a way of storing videos on 78s not long after inventing television. He never built a machine for playing them back, however, only for recording them.
Well, it gives good support to those that argued that Blizzard's stated reasons for requiring it for Starcraft 2 are bunk. It's obviously not for performance or features, it's a "corporate strategy to incentivize customers into the battlenet channel to monetize that leverage."
I doubt they'll charge for BNET, but they're sure as hell going to start trying to nickle/dime money out of customers. The accountants and marketers are running Blizzard now, it's pretty obvious. They're pulling a SONY.
This is an article about a person getting screwed over by unemployment, and you're evaluating her worthiness for a date? Can you turn that shit off for just a minute please? Because we're left with only one conclusion: that you evaluate all women this way, all the time, regardless of the context. Stop and think about how that makes women feel, and then maybe you'll understand why comments like this drive us away.
Of course he is. It's normal, healthy, and expected (assuming he's not married). Evaluating all women a single man encounters for possible romance is one of the most basic biological and psychological functions of a man, just as the opposite is normally true of a woman. That recognition of the fact that genders EXIST and HAVE A PURPOSE isn't an ethical problem, although it's often claimed to be.
Now, inappropriate actions can certainly be an ethical problem; but so long as the slashdot poster isn't her supervisor or therapist, evaluating her potential as a date isn't inappropriate.
So you say. I disagree. Racism and sexism have been purged from our laws; every corporation has policies against them; and they are unanimously condemned as wrong. Racism and sexism are solely the province of the lunatic fringe... which can NEVER be eliminated.
Give proof that racism is widespread in the US today.
Apparently you either agree that there's rampant sexism in the FOSS community or you're "displaying similar levels of denial, abuse, and ignorance".
Yes, it's a trap. "My claims are true, as proven by acceptance OR denial on your part" is a fundamentally flawed argument, one that skips over the actual question of whether the claim is true or not. Sadly, the people that believe that will read through hundreds of posts pointing that out, and consider themselves vindicated: "See! They are so sexist that they're denying there's a problem!"
The only proper response is to reject the entire flawed accusation at its core, rephrasing it in more sensible terms. Is there sexism? Is it getting better or worse? Is it widespread or isolated? More or less than the culture as a whole? There may be sexism in FOSS... but stating (as the author does) "...anti feminists and average men who would like to deny the importance of feminist issues in FOSS" indicates the author has a massive amount of pre-existing bias. That won't help reduce the amount of sexism; that sort of ridiculous hyperbole inflames it.
It just seems that now adays everything is completely overblown. I think that a huge majority of men in this country aren't sexist or racist, I think they just want to get to the end of the work day.
I think that the near-complete elimination of sexism and racism (which has been accomplished) is prompting many people to become even louder in their accusations of sexism and racism. If fighting discrimination is your raison d'etre, you may not WANT it to end; even if only on a subconscious level, you will seek out ever more and more slight examples of it, and make ever more and more shrill noise about it.
Ashland, Oregon, is a small town full of nutjobs near where I live. It's a college town, and I recently read that nearly 30% of the town has taken the religious exemption from vaccinating their kids. (Trust me, it's not because they're fundamentalist christians. It's because they're crystal-licking new age whacks. Probably a very high average level of education, just not sanity.)
30%. That's crazy, and kids will end up dying from whooping cough because of it. I have a libertarian worldview, and don't like the idea of the government mandating vaccinations. But on the other hand, when people are skipping frigging POLIO shots because of their DEMONSTRABLY WRONG beliefs, they are putting entire communities at risk. I'm torn. Now, about the H1N1 vaccine, I'm not; it should be voluntary, and I'm voluntarily not getting it, nor are my kids. The risk is overblown, and getting the disease would only be a mild inconvenience, same as any flu.
I'm not boycotting quicktime... but tend to shy away from it. Since RealVideo has died, Quicktime has inherited the mantle of most obnoxious video format. Still, though... you can do everything in a better format until the very end, when you convert it and send it in.
Don't different black holes emit energy at different peak wavelengths, depending on their mass? If so, wouldn't that maintain temperature differentials, hence reduce entropy?
You're simply rejecting the obvious and straightforward interpretation, for the more convoluted interpretation which agrees with your preconceptions. They aren't practicing marketing; you're practicing self-deception.
The FTC rules only apply to people in the US. Once again this is an example of how one country's laws are meaningless on the Internet. They will simply pay non-Americans to astroturf.
Solution: Ignore opinions from any known non-American. Hell, most of us do that anyway.
Since there are rarely "secret" ways to save money in business, the only way to offer cheaper products is to let quality slide.
And that's often a good thing, since in that case that is what your customer wants. I would often be happier with lower quality for cheaper price.
You're overlooking efficiencies, of course. The reason we're so much better off than a few centuries ago is not because our stuff is lower quality; rather, we've found ways to make better stuff with less effort. Saying the market won't allow "making it better" is ludicrous when the market is ISP service, which didn't even EXIST twenty years ago. I'd say it's being made better.
The problem isn't the scientific validity of the test; the problem is the idea that an emigrant's nationality should factor into whether they should be allowed residency.
The science is horrible, but the root of the problem is primarily political and perhaps moral.
It needs publicizing software. A big screen on the ceiling that shows rotates through pictures of what everybody is looking at, just blurred enough to make text unreadable. Make sure the employee's name is big and bold, though. Embarrassment is a better deterrent than censorship.
If your telling someone that information is untrue, then you had best be ready with the stats showing it to be false, as apposed to telling them to provide more information.
That's exactly wrong. I'd be committing the same error they're making if I tried to assert clear knowledge of what the failure rate is. There are some circumstances where admission that we don't know a fact is more factual than asserting a particular fact. Dispelling rumors and memes is one of those. It might be 33%, it might be 50%... I just don't want people to think we actually KNOW either of those is true, when to my understanding, there are no reliable figures published.
There's no right to a microphone, a publisher, or a radio show, though. You have the right to exercise your free speech on the internet; you don't have the right to make somebody give you an internet connection.
I'd be interested if EITHER of you could support EITHER of those figures. Note: A gaming magazine survey isn't sufficient support, nor is counting up your friends.
The draw of the Wii was that it was cheaper than the Big 2
That wasn't the draw of the Wii, though. For the last year, you could buy a 360 for less than the Wii, and it still didn't sell half as well. (Granted, the insane price of the PS3 hurt it.)
I think the Wii was simply more appealing to more people than the PS3 and 360 were. It would still have outsold the other consoles even if it had been the same price from the beginning. Adding interesting controls was a masterstroke; keeping focus on SDTV instead of HDTV was a masterstroke; focusing on all segments of the population instead of boys aged 13-25 was a masterstroke.
You know, you could actually look up the software sales, instead of speculating. The Wii generally has more titles dominating the charts than the 360 or PS3... or looking at it another way, Wii+DS software usually outsells 360+PS3+PSP software.
3rd party software sales are similar to the 360's quantities, and exceeding the PS3's by quite a bit. That's with quite a bit more consoles sold, however, so the attach rate is closer to the PS3's. The 360 wins there.
See, I think Nintendo saved gaming from the living-room-media-hub-centric-controlling desires of Sony and Microsoft. Video game fans would be in a world of hurt if either of those companies had managed to dominate the industry.
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None of this newfangled tech. John Logie Baird invented a way of storing videos on 78s not long after inventing television. He never built a machine for playing them back, however, only for recording them.
How did he know it worked?
Well, it gives good support to those that argued that Blizzard's stated reasons for requiring it for Starcraft 2 are bunk. It's obviously not for performance or features, it's a "corporate strategy to incentivize customers into the battlenet channel to monetize that leverage."
I doubt they'll charge for BNET, but they're sure as hell going to start trying to nickle/dime money out of customers. The accountants and marketers are running Blizzard now, it's pretty obvious. They're pulling a SONY.
Kind of a super strong Anthropic principle. "The universe exists because someday, something in the future will require it to."
This is an article about a person getting screwed over by unemployment, and you're evaluating her worthiness for a date? Can you turn that shit off for just a minute please? Because we're left with only one conclusion: that you evaluate all women this way, all the time, regardless of the context. Stop and think about how that makes women feel, and then maybe you'll understand why comments like this drive us away.
Of course he is. It's normal, healthy, and expected (assuming he's not married). Evaluating all women a single man encounters for possible romance is one of the most basic biological and psychological functions of a man, just as the opposite is normally true of a woman. That recognition of the fact that genders EXIST and HAVE A PURPOSE isn't an ethical problem, although it's often claimed to be.
Now, inappropriate actions can certainly be an ethical problem; but so long as the slashdot poster isn't her supervisor or therapist, evaluating her potential as a date isn't inappropriate.
So you say. I disagree. Racism and sexism have been purged from our laws; every corporation has policies against them; and they are unanimously condemned as wrong. Racism and sexism are solely the province of the lunatic fringe... which can NEVER be eliminated.
Give proof that racism is widespread in the US today.
Apparently you either agree that there's rampant sexism in the FOSS community or you're "displaying similar levels of denial, abuse, and ignorance".
Yes, it's a trap. "My claims are true, as proven by acceptance OR denial on your part" is a fundamentally flawed argument, one that skips over the actual question of whether the claim is true or not. Sadly, the people that believe that will read through hundreds of posts pointing that out, and consider themselves vindicated: "See! They are so sexist that they're denying there's a problem!"
The only proper response is to reject the entire flawed accusation at its core, rephrasing it in more sensible terms. Is there sexism? Is it getting better or worse? Is it widespread or isolated? More or less than the culture as a whole? There may be sexism in FOSS... but stating (as the author does) "...anti feminists and average men who would like to deny the importance of feminist issues in FOSS" indicates the author has a massive amount of pre-existing bias. That won't help reduce the amount of sexism; that sort of ridiculous hyperbole inflames it.
It just seems that now adays everything is completely overblown. I think that a huge majority of men in this country aren't sexist or racist, I think they just want to get to the end of the work day.
I think that the near-complete elimination of sexism and racism (which has been accomplished) is prompting many people to become even louder in their accusations of sexism and racism. If fighting discrimination is your raison d'etre, you may not WANT it to end; even if only on a subconscious level, you will seek out ever more and more slight examples of it, and make ever more and more shrill noise about it.
Ashland, Oregon, is a small town full of nutjobs near where I live. It's a college town, and I recently read that nearly 30% of the town has taken the religious exemption from vaccinating their kids. (Trust me, it's not because they're fundamentalist christians. It's because they're crystal-licking new age whacks. Probably a very high average level of education, just not sanity.)
30%. That's crazy, and kids will end up dying from whooping cough because of it. I have a libertarian worldview, and don't like the idea of the government mandating vaccinations. But on the other hand, when people are skipping frigging POLIO shots because of their DEMONSTRABLY WRONG beliefs, they are putting entire communities at risk. I'm torn. Now, about the H1N1 vaccine, I'm not; it should be voluntary, and I'm voluntarily not getting it, nor are my kids. The risk is overblown, and getting the disease would only be a mild inconvenience, same as any flu.
If you didn't question medical advice, you would be a drugged out wreck of a human.
I'm not boycotting quicktime... but tend to shy away from it. Since RealVideo has died, Quicktime has inherited the mantle of most obnoxious video format. Still, though... you can do everything in a better format until the very end, when you convert it and send it in.
Don't different black holes emit energy at different peak wavelengths, depending on their mass? If so, wouldn't that maintain temperature differentials, hence reduce entropy?
280 million guns, only about 60 million people legally allowed to use them.
I didn't realize that 80% of our population were felons. "Legally allowed to use guns" is the default state of an American citizen.
You're simply rejecting the obvious and straightforward interpretation, for the more convoluted interpretation which agrees with your preconceptions. They aren't practicing marketing; you're practicing self-deception.
The FTC rules only apply to people in the US. Once again this is an example of how one country's laws are meaningless on the Internet. They will simply pay non-Americans to astroturf.
Solution: Ignore opinions from any known non-American. Hell, most of us do that anyway.
I'm sick of this excuse. Voting with your dollar works when your dollar is the only dollar.
Bit iffy on the whole concept of "voting", aren't you? If your dollar is that only one leaving, the company's probably doing a pretty good job.
Since there are rarely "secret" ways to save money in business, the only way to offer cheaper products is to let quality slide.
And that's often a good thing, since in that case that is what your customer wants. I would often be happier with lower quality for cheaper price.
You're overlooking efficiencies, of course. The reason we're so much better off than a few centuries ago is not because our stuff is lower quality; rather, we've found ways to make better stuff with less effort. Saying the market won't allow "making it better" is ludicrous when the market is ISP service, which didn't even EXIST twenty years ago. I'd say it's being made better.
The problem isn't the scientific validity of the test; the problem is the idea that an emigrant's nationality should factor into whether they should be allowed residency.
The science is horrible, but the root of the problem is primarily political and perhaps moral.
It doesn't need blocking software, like Websense.
It needs publicizing software. A big screen on the ceiling that shows rotates through pictures of what everybody is looking at, just blurred enough to make text unreadable. Make sure the employee's name is big and bold, though. Embarrassment is a better deterrent than censorship.
I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying you shouldn't be that confident that you're right.
If your telling someone that information is untrue, then you had best be ready with the stats showing it to be false, as apposed to telling them to provide more information.
That's exactly wrong. I'd be committing the same error they're making if I tried to assert clear knowledge of what the failure rate is. There are some circumstances where admission that we don't know a fact is more factual than asserting a particular fact. Dispelling rumors and memes is one of those. It might be 33%, it might be 50%... I just don't want people to think we actually KNOW either of those is true, when to my understanding, there are no reliable figures published.
There's no right to a microphone, a publisher, or a radio show, though. You have the right to exercise your free speech on the internet; you don't have the right to make somebody give you an internet connection.
I'd be interested if EITHER of you could support EITHER of those figures. Note: A gaming magazine survey isn't sufficient support, nor is counting up your friends.
The draw of the Wii was that it was cheaper than the Big 2
That wasn't the draw of the Wii, though. For the last year, you could buy a 360 for less than the Wii, and it still didn't sell half as well. (Granted, the insane price of the PS3 hurt it.)
I think the Wii was simply more appealing to more people than the PS3 and 360 were. It would still have outsold the other consoles even if it had been the same price from the beginning. Adding interesting controls was a masterstroke; keeping focus on SDTV instead of HDTV was a masterstroke; focusing on all segments of the population instead of boys aged 13-25 was a masterstroke.
You know, you could actually look up the software sales, instead of speculating. The Wii generally has more titles dominating the charts than the 360 or PS3... or looking at it another way, Wii+DS software usually outsells 360+PS3+PSP software. 3rd party software sales are similar to the 360's quantities, and exceeding the PS3's by quite a bit. That's with quite a bit more consoles sold, however, so the attach rate is closer to the PS3's. The 360 wins there.
See, I think Nintendo saved gaming from the living-room-media-hub-centric-controlling desires of Sony and Microsoft. Video game fans would be in a world of hurt if either of those companies had managed to dominate the industry.