The only market Apple dominates is the portable music player, although they're a significant player in the phone and pc market. Just with that, they've managed to demonstrate far more of a desire to lock in and control users than Microsoft. I'm warning people away from Apple products; I've never actively done that with Microsoft (except their web browser...)
...this, in a nutshell, is the type of play that has brought us grind, where the journey is simple and boring and the destination is something to be raced to. Nethack and many other roguelikes do feature experience gain, but it doesn't feel like grind.
Sounds like an attempt to prove "the game I like is OBJECTIVELY BETTER than the game you like." The other RPGs must be doing SOMETHING right, since they are far more popular with a much wider audience. Nethack is great, but it is not the sole pinnacle of RPG design.
That's not exactly how it works. They'll try to pass the costs along. We consumers will be charged more. We'll cut try to make do with less. They'll make less money even with the increased prices.
If they could simply 'pass the cost along' by raising prices, they'd raise them right now, and make more money. Instead, the increased costs cause both them AND us end up worse off.
Although, I would prefer a revert to the sensible behavior of pre-3.0... a drop-down box that contains entries that have been typed into the text-box previously. That's a consistent and uniform interface that works with all textboxes.
The SAVING GRACE of the program is that shares are so low. This is simply an artificially placed surcharge on an economy. I hope that cap and trade in the US is similarly ineffective.
If the price is small, companies will continue unchanged, passing the additional expense along, slowing down the economy. If the price is large enough that other (more expensive) alternatives are cheaper, companies will switch... passing the large additional expense along, slowing down the economy even more.
I believe it can be, so in that sense it's far better than the 'awesome' bar. It seems that the default option is to pester you with requests until you turn it off, though.
I'm in the process of editing a 150 page book with lots of tables and lists. About halfway through the process of writing it, I moved to OO because Word was creaking under the strain; it would glitch, it would repaginate differently from load to load, it was just unpleasant.
Open Office has seemed much more robust in that sense. It didn't open the document without problems; I had to do extensive reformatting. If this was something I would be exchange outside my company, I would have stuck with Word. But if you're using Open Office Writer from start to end, I think it is a respectable competitor to Word. (Calc, however, isn't quite there.)
It wouldn't hurt my feelings to punish companies that sell products that are specifically designed to oppress nations, but we also need to punish American companies that do that. Including censoring information, and disclosing information to help those regimes violate rights.
I have a question about how TOR works. If I installed it, and configured it so I WAS an exit node, would it appear that all the requests coming from TOR (terrorist manuals, bestiality, child pornography, and so forth), were actually coming directly from me? Then, when arrested, my defense would be that it was really coming from the TOR node I was running?
Is there a way to clearly PROVE that it was a request coming from the TOR node, and I'm not a violent revolutionary furry pedophile?
Why would anybody sane want ICANN to create more top level domains? Other than a new country forming and requiring a TLD, the only point of new TLDs is to make some illegitimate businesses profit due to consumer confusion, and line the pockets of registrars..Info?.Museum?.Biz? They're all useless.
Like Congress, the best we can hope for is that ICANN stagnates while doing nothing but pointless arguments. It's better than anything they would actually DO.
Authority DOES naturally have that power, as we see in every structure where authority EXISTS, human or otherwise. There are many reasons for that. For one thing, children would quickly die if they did not possess a healthy fear of authority in the form of their parents. The presence of authority in a social construct is not unhealthy. There hasn't been a human community that didn't require it for survival, no matter how enlightened.
That doesn't mean we mindlessly obey; but there are useful roles in society for authorities. Teachers need to be able to tell their kids what to do; a classroom would break down in chaos if each child individually judged the merit of the teacher's instructions, and refused if it didn't make sense to them.
Obviously there are lines, and it is good to talk to your kids and say "respect authority to THIS point, but no further." Also, because this authority is both necessary and VERY prone to corruption, abuse of authority should be very severely punished by society.
Anyway... no, to get to your point. The concept of authority is not unnatural. It is certainly natural, probably unavoidable, and not even necessarily bad. Groups need leaders. Organizations need people that direct others around. And when they tell your daughter to strip, they're in the wrong, and should be strung up by their balls.
Usefully? What about truthfully? I don't think any reasonable definition of 'pedophile' includes all viewing of a naked child under all circumstances. I've given my naked child a bath, after all...
Accusing people of something that is groundless, simply because the charge may be effective, is very wrong.
Absolutely. However, that doesn't mean the case should be prosecuted as a child pornography charge. It could be a civil suit, it might be criminal, it perhaps might make sense to prosecute him under obscenity laws. However, there wasn't any actual child pornography involved, and so that just doesn't make sense as a charge.
You're right, people will quickly learn all the obvious techniques for getting around the filters. My guess is that the government will create hugely disproportionate fines for doing so... it will be like downloading a movie. Everybody does it, 99.99% of them never get caught, and 0.01% get huge, life-ruining fees when they happen to get caught. It's exactly the opposite of justice, but it seems to be the way things are trending.
Slow Down, Cowboy! It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment -- Did they raise the limit? Four minutes seems insanely long.
There's no reason to assume anybody involved was a pedophile. That accusation shouldn't be groundlessly thrown around by EITHER side. There's no reason to think this wasn't just an incredibly stupid, arrogant, and misguided attempt to catch somebody violating their drug policy.
She was 13 years old. Her principle, her nurse, were all telling her to do something. She was nervous, accused of a wrongdoing she didn't commit. Just because she went along doesn't mean she was a SHEEP, it means she is HUMAN.
The fact that the authorities naturally have that sort of psychological power over children is one of the reasons abusing that authority is so wrong, and should be punished severely.
The bit about open source/GPL software being used isn't the important part of this story. The major point that should be learned is that sub-sub-contracting out to development companies in (sorry, Russia) practically lawless countries can expose the parent company to SEVERE repercussions. Atari wasn't really to blame, other than being too trusting, but they're bearing the costs. The major development houses NEED to be actively involved, at least in an auditing sense, with whoever is actually writing the code.
Wow, I wasn't expecting any real insight to come from my tossed out, slightly bitchy post, but you pulled out some real gold. That HAS to be how that company is referred to from now on. Please, Slashdot, take note of this young man and his comment full of genius. This company must be called Unctuous from now on.
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The only market Apple dominates is the portable music player, although they're a significant player in the phone and pc market. Just with that, they've managed to demonstrate far more of a desire to lock in and control users than Microsoft. I'm warning people away from Apple products; I've never actively done that with Microsoft (except their web browser...)
...this, in a nutshell, is the type of play that has brought us grind, where the journey is simple and boring and the destination is something to be raced to. Nethack and many other roguelikes do feature experience gain, but it doesn't feel like grind.
Sounds like an attempt to prove "the game I like is OBJECTIVELY BETTER than the game you like." The other RPGs must be doing SOMETHING right, since they are far more popular with a much wider audience. Nethack is great, but it is not the sole pinnacle of RPG design.
That's not exactly how it works. They'll try to pass the costs along. We consumers will be charged more. We'll cut try to make do with less. They'll make less money even with the increased prices.
If they could simply 'pass the cost along' by raising prices, they'd raise them right now, and make more money. Instead, the increased costs cause both them AND us end up worse off.
It's a tax on FUEL AND ENERGY. You couldn't think of a tax that would spread out more efficiently to harm all sectors of the economy.
Is that new with 3.5? Thank you, developers!
Although, I would prefer a revert to the sensible behavior of pre-3.0... a drop-down box that contains entries that have been typed into the text-box previously. That's a consistent and uniform interface that works with all textboxes.
The SAVING GRACE of the program is that shares are so low. This is simply an artificially placed surcharge on an economy. I hope that cap and trade in the US is similarly ineffective.
If the price is small, companies will continue unchanged, passing the additional expense along, slowing down the economy. If the price is large enough that other (more expensive) alternatives are cheaper, companies will switch... passing the large additional expense along, slowing down the economy even more.
I believe it can be, so in that sense it's far better than the 'awesome' bar. It seems that the default option is to pester you with requests until you turn it off, though.
Conversely, I wonder how much XP's continued prominence is going to delay any of those incompatible technologies from taking hold?
I'm in the process of editing a 150 page book with lots of tables and lists. About halfway through the process of writing it, I moved to OO because Word was creaking under the strain; it would glitch, it would repaginate differently from load to load, it was just unpleasant.
Open Office has seemed much more robust in that sense. It didn't open the document without problems; I had to do extensive reformatting. If this was something I would be exchange outside my company, I would have stuck with Word. But if you're using Open Office Writer from start to end, I think it is a respectable competitor to Word. (Calc, however, isn't quite there.)
I know it's a real long shot, but I don't suppose they added an option to turn off the awesomebar?
It wouldn't hurt my feelings to punish companies that sell products that are specifically designed to oppress nations, but we also need to punish American companies that do that. Including censoring information, and disclosing information to help those regimes violate rights.
I have a question about how TOR works. If I installed it, and configured it so I WAS an exit node, would it appear that all the requests coming from TOR (terrorist manuals, bestiality, child pornography, and so forth), were actually coming directly from me? Then, when arrested, my defense would be that it was really coming from the TOR node I was running?
Is there a way to clearly PROVE that it was a request coming from the TOR node, and I'm not a violent revolutionary furry pedophile?
I wonder if people are modding you 'funny' because they don't realize that you're being informative?
Your point is right on, also. If by '19th century' they meant 'second half of the 20th century', they would be closer to the truth.
I think that in your intent to exaggerate, you actually hit very close to the truth.
And those that do, deserve whatever AT&T charges them.
Why would anybody sane want ICANN to create more top level domains? Other than a new country forming and requiring a TLD, the only point of new TLDs is to make some illegitimate businesses profit due to consumer confusion, and line the pockets of registrars. .Info? .Museum? .Biz? They're all useless.
Like Congress, the best we can hope for is that ICANN stagnates while doing nothing but pointless arguments. It's better than anything they would actually DO.
Authority DOES naturally have that power, as we see in every structure where authority EXISTS, human or otherwise. There are many reasons for that. For one thing, children would quickly die if they did not possess a healthy fear of authority in the form of their parents. The presence of authority in a social construct is not unhealthy. There hasn't been a human community that didn't require it for survival, no matter how enlightened.
That doesn't mean we mindlessly obey; but there are useful roles in society for authorities. Teachers need to be able to tell their kids what to do; a classroom would break down in chaos if each child individually judged the merit of the teacher's instructions, and refused if it didn't make sense to them.
Obviously there are lines, and it is good to talk to your kids and say "respect authority to THIS point, but no further." Also, because this authority is both necessary and VERY prone to corruption, abuse of authority should be very severely punished by society.
Anyway... no, to get to your point. The concept of authority is not unnatural. It is certainly natural, probably unavoidable, and not even necessarily bad. Groups need leaders. Organizations need people that direct others around. And when they tell your daughter to strip, they're in the wrong, and should be strung up by their balls.
Usefully? What about truthfully? I don't think any reasonable definition of 'pedophile' includes all viewing of a naked child under all circumstances. I've given my naked child a bath, after all...
Accusing people of something that is groundless, simply because the charge may be effective, is very wrong.
Absolutely. However, that doesn't mean the case should be prosecuted as a child pornography charge. It could be a civil suit, it might be criminal, it perhaps might make sense to prosecute him under obscenity laws. However, there wasn't any actual child pornography involved, and so that just doesn't make sense as a charge.
You're right, people will quickly learn all the obvious techniques for getting around the filters. My guess is that the government will create hugely disproportionate fines for doing so... it will be like downloading a movie. Everybody does it, 99.99% of them never get caught, and 0.01% get huge, life-ruining fees when they happen to get caught. It's exactly the opposite of justice, but it seems to be the way things are trending.
Slow Down, Cowboy! It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment -- Did they raise the limit? Four minutes seems insanely long.
There's no reason to assume anybody involved was a pedophile. That accusation shouldn't be groundlessly thrown around by EITHER side. There's no reason to think this wasn't just an incredibly stupid, arrogant, and misguided attempt to catch somebody violating their drug policy.
She was 13 years old. Her principle, her nurse, were all telling her to do something. She was nervous, accused of a wrongdoing she didn't commit. Just because she went along doesn't mean she was a SHEEP, it means she is HUMAN.
The fact that the authorities naturally have that sort of psychological power over children is one of the reasons abusing that authority is so wrong, and should be punished severely.
The bit about open source/GPL software being used isn't the important part of this story. The major point that should be learned is that sub-sub-contracting out to development companies in (sorry, Russia) practically lawless countries can expose the parent company to SEVERE repercussions. Atari wasn't really to blame, other than being too trusting, but they're bearing the costs. The major development houses NEED to be actively involved, at least in an auditing sense, with whoever is actually writing the code.
Wow, I wasn't expecting any real insight to come from my tossed out, slightly bitchy post, but you pulled out some real gold. That HAS to be how that company is referred to from now on. Please, Slashdot, take note of this young man and his comment full of genius. This company must be called Unctuous from now on.
I know nothing about the company, but I hate it passionately, if only because of its name.
UnXis. How the hell are you supposed to pronounce that? Unzis? Unks-is? Un-Eks-is? Damn them to hell.