Sorry but I "don't get it". To me, why should I have one application, even if it is doing eight different things, open eight windows. It should be contained in one window. Look at Office. Open 3 word docs and they all stay in one window. And it has a separate "close this doc" type widget. How hard would this be to implement in the browser? Not very. Tabs, to me at least, should be present in almost any application: Chat, web browsers, even mail programs could do it with accounts. I shouldn't have 24 windows open all over my desktop if I'm only using three applications.
Directable lamps are definitely the only way to go.
Not when your fiancee/gf/wife are trying to sleep they aren't. But you're right, the worm light still gives a glare but what can you when you're playing in bed at 2 AM? Go to sleep?:-)
Because the GBC and GBA have, IMHO, damn dark screens. I play mine using the worm light unless I'm either outside (at which point the screen is great) or directly beneath a light in my house. I don't mean ceiling lights either, I mean directable lamps. Also, I think the reference to notorious screen is mainly aimed at only the GBA. When it came out everyone, and I mean everyone, was like "This is sooooo awesome. Except the screen is too dark". It was the one real flaw with the system (well that and that they stayed with only two front buttons).
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Seriously. I bought MK Deadly Alliances (way better than the last couple MKs) at Target last week and they asked for my ID since it was rated M. I personally am glad they did. I am over 18 and I can make such decisions about what I should play. If I was a parent, I wouldn't want Target making them for me by letting my kid buy it. I'd buy it for them if I thought they could handle it (I'd love to pre-screen video games for my kids), but it should be my decision. Games are entertainment and should be labeled as such, just like movies. An 11 year old kid should not be allowed into an R-rated movie without their parent's consent. And a parent should play an active part in determining what their kids see/play. It shouldn't be "Here kid, here's $50. Go buy whatever game you want. Now run along." Not putting labels on games or movies adds one level of filtering that parents don't currently have to deal with. Imagine if I saw MK and Conker's Bad Fur Day in the store and neither were rated. I would probably assume the one with the cute squirrel on it was kid friendly. WRONG. Since they both have M ratings, I'd know that neither is appropriate. Removing ratings is bad idea(tm), pure and simple.
Possibly not. As mentioned, dentists, radiologists and such. My fiancee used to work in a biotech lab working with PCR and doing tests on DNA and stuff where normal lab attire is jeans and a t-shirt covered by a lab coat. Often she would have to use radioactive tracers in the DNA. Nothing skin rotting at exposure, but still a good dose of radiation. The tracer was in liquid form and if there was a spill that someone didn't clean up entirely, which on occasion happened, it could easily be absorbed into clothes. The watch could serve as a substitute for the special badges they wear to alert of over exposure since a lot of people already wear a watch.
Hey, dipshit, if you read the thread and paid attention, you'd see my point was that it wasn't Jackson not meeting the quota of women, it was Tolkien. And my response was to point that out because a critic somewhere said that, to paraphrase, "Women were relegated in the movie to mere flight attendant roles". My argument was "don't blame the movie, blame the books". I personally don't care one way or the other if there are female leads or not. I was pointing out that if anything, the movies are elevating the female presence and that to comment otherwise means the critic hadn't read the books.
Frodo Sam Pippin Merriadoc Gandalf G imli Legolas Aragorn Theoden
and she didn't do anything event-wise until the third book? Yes, she made a significant contribution as far as what she did, but you can't hope to say she played as important focal point of the story as the male characters.
but that's the books for ya. Women in the trilogy really play second fiddle to all the men. I'm not saying it's "right", but that's how Tolkien wrote it. I'd say Jackson completely pushed for more of a female presence and if someone compared the movie to the books, they'd see that the women in the books barely make baggage tosser.
I've been running OpenBSD for almost three years and never had a system crash. I've had Gnome crash, and Navigator crash, but never the system. Granted I've never had my SuSE system crash either, but both systems are comparable as far as stability.
The lack of holes don't come from a stripped down total system, they come from A) a stripped down default install which uses B) carefully audited code in that install. Even with the most basic SuSE install I had packages I didn't want that had holes (the wu-ftp bug a while ago comes to mind). But that's just my experience. Expecting anything but YMMV is naive.
"it would be like if Half-life and Heidi Klum had a kid. That's how wonderful that game is".
Miyamoto's touch is golden. Has the man ever made a bad game? He seems like he would be an IBM "Fellow" to me: "Hey Miyamoto, go do whatever you want. We'll pay you for it because it's bound to be good." If he's steering the company to make great games, though maybe fewer of them, let him. I mean would two crappy versions of Lord Of The Rings movies bring in as much as one really good one? I personally don't think so not being a LOTR fan but being completely sucked into the Two Towers release. My $.02
This is also know as the tipping point. There is X point in a relationship where going just beyond that point causes a dramatic shift in that relationship. Example: Say crime in CityX is 5%. 6% is the tipping point such that if crime stays at 5% it will remain 5% indefinitely. By inching that percentage up 1% to 6% for some reason the reality is that crime will jump to say 12% the year after it hit 6%. It's just a weird phenomenom that has to do with people's perception of a reality becoming a self fulfilling prophecy. More info can be found here
Well if worse comes to worse, they could always fork OpenBSD like Daren Reed did to include ipf. Of course then you lose the trustyworthyness of OpenBSD because it is no longer A) official or B) going under the microscope like OpenBSD does by the OpenBSD team.
I can see where you're coming from with your points, but I have to agree and disagree with your last point:
Finally, UML encourages far too complex and general object-oriented designs, rather than focussing on solving a specific problem with a specific piece of code.
Though this may be bad in a lot of cases, in my case, that of a Web Developer for an Internet Solutions Provider where we are developing very similar applications for different clients or similar applications for the same client. UML allows us to generate reusable designs and for us, not for everyone, that's a Good Thing (tm)
The simple, self-powered mechanism transfers heat to the side edge of the computer, where air fins or a tiny fan can dissipate the unwanted energy into air.
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Sorry, forgot to tie it back to the original context: The DMCA itself is not all that bad. The problem is that it is broad enough that a lawyer can bring someone into court over it even if the person really did fall within their legal rights. Most people cannot or will not afford the legal fees necessary for defending themselves and thus the DMCA is used as a weapon to inspire fear. Realistically all the the encryption research speakers that are afraid to come to the US shouldn't be because good faith encryption research is clearly protected by the DMCA. It's the kid and his friends that decode DVDs that is the grey area because the kids aren't established cryptologists. Both however could still be brought into court and regardless if they would eventually win or not, most people can't afford to take it that far.
The problem with the DMCA lies in how it is being used by corporations with extremely deep pockets and it boils down to a battle of checkbooks. Joe Sixpack can't compete.
I disagree. The bludgeon itself is not evil or nasty, merely the person that wields it. It may have been created with nasty or evil intentions, but the bludgeon itself is neutral. It's cliche, but it's like "Guns don't kill people, people kill people". Guns themselves are not evil, but their users can be.
Well I think credibility is earned. C# and VS are useful products. I personally have decried the evils that are MS products, but Visual Studio is a kick ass IDE that allows me to be productive when I have to write MS based code. As for Sun, they have had opportunities to advance the Java language and have balked at it because, regardless of what you may think, they still want to control it. Yes, the Java Community Process is good, and is a step in the right direction, but Sun still owns Java and ultimately controls Java's direction. Sun is little different from MS in the respect that if they could own the world, they would. Sun is "better" because their OS is Unix based and they are more "open" but make no mistake, they would have Solaris and Java on every desktop if they could.
One thing you didn't mention though is Web Applications which, though you may argue are no big deal, I would argue at least a 10-15% of the development going on centers around. A super set of that is B2B applications which probably account for 25-33% of the development going on. C # and Java are way better suited for web development and B2B development and have established frameworks to springboard from.
I understand about your frustrations with the fickleness of the/. crowd, but the excitement here is the choice to _not_ extend the monopoly. By creating a C# compiler, libraries, etc Portable.NET and Mono are allowing developers to not use Microsoft tools or Microsoft OS's to generate useful code. Yes MS created C#, but you don't have to use anything MS owned or controlled to use it. If it doesn't exist already, I wouldn't be surprised if there is an apache mod_aspx/C# in the works. People assume that because MS created it, it has to be bad and unusable by the OSS crowd. It's really not the case...
now to quote a reply I've seen to a comment like yours before:
Why do I need C, I can use assembly. Why do I need assembly, I can just type in 1's and 0's. etc:-)
What 2600 was accused of and what ISPs are often threatened with is the dissemination of how to circumvent copyright schemes for "bad faith" purposes. The DMCA says you can violate it for encryption research (it does) if it is in good faith such as advancing knowlegde and, here's the kicker, you are an established voice/authority in the field. In other words, Bruce Schneier could probably circumvent the copyright protection and not be found guilty of violating the DMCA, but Joe Schmoe/2600/The kid in Norway can't. This doesn't mean that Bruce couldn't be accused and brought into court costing him thousands of dollars though. He'd win, but he'd be bankrupt unless he counter sued.
I have read the DMCA (which is probably better than most people) several times and there is no way this is covered. The DMCA is written to protect copyrights by preventing circumvention of a copy protection scheme, either through hacking it, publishing ways to circumvent it not in good faith, making copies without protection or if it pertains to Boat hulls (honestly, read the DMCA. Boat hull designs are in there). Even if sales prices were copyrighted (huh?) what method of copy protection has WalMart et al applied to prevent unauthorized use? Lawyers don't need to be educated about technology, the particular lawyers in this case need to be educated about the law.
great idea, but how does grandma send you email? It would have to be seamlessly integrated into, let's be realistic, MS Outlook/Outlook Express or AOL. It could happen, but probably not for a while, especially not if you don't trust AOL or MS to manage your keys. Plus try explaining why people have to put their signature on every piece of mail they send and they may balk at it. Putting a signature, automated or not, on something connotates formal, public acceptance of that document. Most people probably won't understand that it is simply a way to prove that you are you. The idea should be explored, but will probably take a few years to gain base acceptance and a few more for universal use, which is what the idea of public crypto as a spam filter needs to be effective.
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Not when your fiancee/gf/wife are trying to sleep they aren't. But you're right, the worm light still gives a glare but what can you when you're playing in bed at 2 AM? Go to sleep? :-)
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and she didn't do anything event-wise until the third book? Yes, she made a significant contribution as far as what she did, but you can't hope to say she played as important focal point of the story as the male characters.
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The lack of holes don't come from a stripped down total system, they come from A) a stripped down default install which uses B) carefully audited code in that install. Even with the most basic SuSE install I had packages I didn't want that had holes (the wu-ftp bug a while ago comes to mind). But that's just my experience. Expecting anything but YMMV is naive.
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Miyamoto's touch is golden. Has the man ever made a bad game? He seems like he would be an IBM "Fellow" to me: "Hey Miyamoto, go do whatever you want. We'll pay you for it because it's bound to be good." If he's steering the company to make great games, though maybe fewer of them, let him. I mean would two crappy versions of Lord Of The Rings movies bring in as much as one really good one? I personally don't think so not being a LOTR fan but being completely sucked into the Two Towers release. My $.02
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Finally, UML encourages far too complex and general object-oriented designs, rather than focussing on solving a specific problem with a specific piece of code.
Though this may be bad in a lot of cases, in my case, that of a Web Developer for an Internet Solutions Provider where we are developing very similar applications for different clients or similar applications for the same client. UML allows us to generate reusable designs and for us, not for everyone, that's a Good Thing (tm)
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Exacerbating the heat-death of the universe. Whee!
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The problem with the DMCA lies in how it is being used by corporations with extremely deep pockets and it boils down to a battle of checkbooks. Joe Sixpack can't compete.
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One thing you didn't mention though is Web Applications which, though you may argue are no big deal, I would argue at least a 10-15% of the development going on centers around. A super set of that is B2B applications which probably account for 25-33% of the development going on. C # and Java are way better suited for web development and B2B development and have established frameworks to springboard from.
I understand about your frustrations with the fickleness of the /. crowd, but the excitement here is the choice to _not_ extend the monopoly. By creating a C# compiler, libraries, etc Portable.NET and Mono are allowing developers to not use Microsoft tools or Microsoft OS's to generate useful code. Yes MS created C#, but you don't have to use anything MS owned or controlled to use it. If it doesn't exist already, I wouldn't be surprised if there is an apache mod_aspx/C# in the works. People assume that because MS created it, it has to be bad and unusable by the OSS crowd. It's really not the case...
now to quote a reply I've seen to a comment like yours before:
Why do I need C, I can use assembly. :-)
Why do I need assembly, I can just type in 1's and 0's.
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What 2600 was accused of and what ISPs are often threatened with is the dissemination of how to circumvent copyright schemes for "bad faith" purposes. The DMCA says you can violate it for encryption research (it does) if it is in good faith such as advancing knowlegde and, here's the kicker, you are an established voice/authority in the field. In other words, Bruce Schneier could probably circumvent the copyright protection and not be found guilty of violating the DMCA, but Joe Schmoe/2600/The kid in Norway can't. This doesn't mean that Bruce couldn't be accused and brought into court costing him thousands of dollars though. He'd win, but he'd be bankrupt unless he counter sued.
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