That's the whole point. You don't have to buy any hardware or software for that matter, they say they will never charge anyone for the software either.
I used to have this same problem at work. We had a handful of dekstops and depending on which one's we were using I would charge my phone on the free one, jsut to stay out of the way. Yeah, it really sucked trying to remember which ones had drivers and which did not.
Then I discovered that Macs don't have any problem charging phones. You don't need drivers or any special configuration. not sure this is really viable solution for your situation but I figured I would contribute my information on the topic...
If I have to pay for an imcremental upgrade that doesn't even fully change the name i'll be pissed but they can all it "leopard monkey" or whatever if it's a free upgrade that increases stability and gets me my 16 TB of ram
"Why do we need closed vehicles? We do," Ladies (who am I kidding?) and gentlemen this is a perfect example of begging the question.
No, not because it raises several questions about this man's mental state but because he justifies the need for closed vehicles with the fact that we need closed vehicles.
Have you seen how Burma (I refuse to recognize the name Myanmar) handled their protests last year? They dragged people into the jungle and executed them.
I'll take gitmo over that any day. I'll also take the 42 days over gitmo.
But what is most important is that NONE OF THESE ARE JUSTIFIED! Just because another country has worse violations of human rights doesn't mean that a country with fewer is ok. these are all violations of peope's rights and it doesn't matter what country they are in or what their neighbors are doing. they are wrong and should be spoken out against.
If someone comes out and supports gitmo but denounces this then please go ahead with the rants but just because someone is from America doesn't mean they support gitmo. Just because their government does heinous acts doesn't mean they support them.
I'm not saying that computers should be sold with all of the add-ons for the wii nor am I saying that consoles should be sold with keyboards.
I am saying that as long as people already have keyboards for their computers they will tend to play more games that are best played with keyboards on their computers.
What I meant about the wii controllers and the pcs is that if the pc already had all of those controllers standard I would just play the pc instead of investing more money in add-ons that i already have elsewhere which is the same argument i'm making with the keyboards.
I think most people would avoid buying a keyboard for their consoles when they can use their computer for the same thing. Sure, a revolutionary game that changes the whole market would drive people to go out and buy the keyboard if there was no way they could play it on a pc but I just don't see anyone making too much progress in the MMORPG market for the console.
I've also been thinking about some of the arguments that console gamers make against pcs. A lot of console gmaers just prefer to use a gamepad over a keyboard and mouse so it seems natural they would stick with games that are better suited to their UI of choice.
Some of the Dems are pushing to impeach Bush, the OOXML has been put on hold, Macs are getting some love in the game department and to top it all off a more or less mainstream news source is defending open and honest dialog on marijuana. I have to hand it to you/., you really got me good this time! I mean everyone sees it coming at the beginning of April but to have it in the middle of June. Best April Fool's day ever!
Hats off to you sir!
That doesn't really matter. computers ALL have keyboards, it's a given. As long as you have to buy the keyboard extra for the console the PC will always have that advantage to it. you can't design a MMO around keyboard usage on the console and expect it to do anything but flounder and as long as you only have a controller then it will continue to be inadequate.
What seems like a better way to do this is have the customer pay their 5 dollars but do it like the milk jugs, beer bottles in some places. If the user returns them to the store, they get a refund of 10-50 cents. Not enough to make throwing them away completely inconcievable but enough to make you think twice before throwing them away.
if you don't give people an incentive to recycle these puppies most people won't do it.
afforded the luxury of having that decision subsidized I believe they are paying for it through their taxes. Stop me if I am wrong here.
ok, so let's look at your third scenario. The rich don't have to pay for their education twice. That does mean less money for the public school systems which I assume (others on/. claim that money isn't the issue) we can agree is a bad thing. Ok, I agree with you on this.
What I think the part you miss is there must be a fair amount of people who would be able to send their children to the school of their choice (whether for religious reasons, specialization in the arts, whatever) who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford this without a voucher. These are the people that the voucher is meant for, not the people like yourself and I whose parents can already afford it. This group also includes those who don't need special consideration that private schools can't accomodate as you pointed out that public schools offer.
Finally you claim that the poor continue to attend the same schools as they did before, so wouldn't this leave them the same as before? You can say that a massive lack of funding will cause the schools to deteriorate even further but if these difficulties in private schools that you say are insurmountable by vouchers are seriously a problem then the majority of people wouldn't leave keeping the funding at about the same level. I think the idea is that the schools would ideally loose the same amount of money they would put into them if they had the student to teach so the net of vouchers is even.
finally, thanks for the personal jab at the end.
How many internet groups will get into this just to fuck it up for everyone else? I'm sure anonymous, SA, [insert other internet group] will fill the ranks just so they can make the game and hence the tv show an abomination to play/watch. I mean come on why would you give the hordes of gamers, who act a fool just to show off to 3 friends the chance to do the same on cable tv? the temptation is just too strong.
Hell I'll probably do it too if I can sign up fast enough to get the name "Leroy Jenkins"
"Begging the question" is a form of logical fallacy in which a statement or claim is assumed to be true without evidence other than the statement or claim itself. When one begs the question, the initial assumption of a statement is treated as already proven without any logic to show why the statement is true in the first place.
It does NOT mean to raise the question like you have used it.
If your children grow up to be philosophers they will thank me one day...
Great points. People are drawn to the latest and greatest of technology but I think Blu-ray is just a bit too expensive to take advantage of this. The leap is just too far to justify it in the minds of most people. I think an increase in quality for a slight increase in price might be able to hit a sweet spot that more consumers would be willing to go for that otherwise would just stick with standard dvds.
I was thinking more along the lines of put it out there and do damage control before stories like this hit the 6 o clock news and mothers stop buying bananas to "save the children", that sort of stuff
I know it's against the rules but if you RTFA the interesting part isn't about the blight spreading through the bananas. As others have posted this is not something that sprang up over night, it's been coming for quite a while now. The truly interesting part is that the banana companies in S. America still don't see this as a problem. TFA says that in their anual summaries they don't even mention this disease much less list it as a threat. I think the issue is much more about these companies' failure to act before it's too late than that nature is running its course.
I went to a private school. Trust me, private schools are not the solution.
Come on mods, why is this user's opinion "informative" with the only information being that they attended private school? this person listed almost no justification for their opinion and is in no way informative! I would love to be able to discuss this with you but you didn't say anything other than your opinion!
I also went to private school but I think that they are a good thing for the education system, i doubt they are a silver bullet that will solve all problems if we only had vouchers but that doesn't mean they are useless.
I enjoyed my school because of a more intimate environment, the majority (not all) of the students were more academically minded and while my school was far from the best by any means it was still leaps and bounds upon the public school which was in an intense competition with the neighboring county over which was the worst public highschool in the state.
If for no other reason I think the slashdot community can see the advantage in private schools so that those who shun science and demand to be taught creation can go to a private institution and leave the public schools to teach evolution in peace.
It's as if McGruff the Crime Dog snuck into our basement, enlisted an army of cellar rats to eat up all of our cheese, and then burned the house down when we finally locked him out - instead of just knocking on the front door to tell us the window was open. best.. analogy.....ever!
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they say osx support and linux support are in the works to follow pretty soon right there on the website
"one of these" isn't anything but a webcam.
That's the whole point. You don't have to buy any hardware or software for that matter, they say they will never charge anyone for the software either.
I used to have this same problem at work. We had a handful of dekstops and depending on which one's we were using I would charge my phone on the free one, jsut to stay out of the way. Yeah, it really sucked trying to remember which ones had drivers and which did not.
Then I discovered that Macs don't have any problem charging phones. You don't need drivers or any special configuration. not sure this is really viable solution for your situation but I figured I would contribute my information on the topic...
If I have to pay for an imcremental upgrade that doesn't even fully change the name i'll be pissed but they can all it "leopard monkey" or whatever if it's a free upgrade that increases stability and gets me my 16 TB of ram
No, not because it raises several questions about this man's mental state but because he justifies the need for closed vehicles with the fact that we need closed vehicles.
I submit that HE needs the education!
Have you seen how Burma (I refuse to recognize the name Myanmar) handled their protests last year? They dragged people into the jungle and executed them.
I'll take gitmo over that any day. I'll also take the 42 days over gitmo.
But what is most important is that NONE OF THESE ARE JUSTIFIED! Just because another country has worse violations of human rights doesn't mean that a country with fewer is ok. these are all violations of peope's rights and it doesn't matter what country they are in or what their neighbors are doing. they are wrong and should be spoken out against.
If someone comes out and supports gitmo but denounces this then please go ahead with the rants but just because someone is from America doesn't mean they support gitmo. Just because their government does heinous acts doesn't mean they support them.
I'm not saying that computers should be sold with all of the add-ons for the wii nor am I saying that consoles should be sold with keyboards.
I am saying that as long as people already have keyboards for their computers they will tend to play more games that are best played with keyboards on their computers.
What I meant about the wii controllers and the pcs is that if the pc already had all of those controllers standard I would just play the pc instead of investing more money in add-ons that i already have elsewhere which is the same argument i'm making with the keyboards.
I think most people would avoid buying a keyboard for their consoles when they can use their computer for the same thing. Sure, a revolutionary game that changes the whole market would drive people to go out and buy the keyboard if there was no way they could play it on a pc but I just don't see anyone making too much progress in the MMORPG market for the console.
I've also been thinking about some of the arguments that console gamers make against pcs. A lot of console gmaers just prefer to use a gamepad over a keyboard and mouse so it seems natural they would stick with games that are better suited to their UI of choice.
Here's my simple and sweet answer. If my computer already had a wiimote, wiiwheel and a wiifit i wouldn't buy a wii.
Some of the Dems are pushing to impeach Bush, the OOXML has been put on hold, Macs are getting some love in the game department and to top it all off a more or less mainstream news source is defending open and honest dialog on marijuana. /., you really got me good this time! I mean everyone sees it coming at the beginning of April but to have it in the middle of June. Best April Fool's day ever!
I have to hand it to you
Hats off to you sir!
That doesn't really matter. computers ALL have keyboards, it's a given. As long as you have to buy the keyboard extra for the console the PC will always have that advantage to it. you can't design a MMO around keyboard usage on the console and expect it to do anything but flounder and as long as you only have a controller then it will continue to be inadequate.
It's half man, half dog. They're their own best friends!
What seems like a better way to do this is have the customer pay their 5 dollars but do it like the milk jugs, beer bottles in some places. If the user returns them to the store, they get a refund of 10-50 cents. Not enough to make throwing them away completely inconcievable but enough to make you think twice before throwing them away.
if you don't give people an incentive to recycle these puppies most people won't do it.
ok, so let's look at your third scenario. The rich don't have to pay for their education twice. That does mean less money for the public school systems which I assume (others on
What I think the part you miss is there must be a fair amount of people who would be able to send their children to the school of their choice (whether for religious reasons, specialization in the arts, whatever) who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford this without a voucher. These are the people that the voucher is meant for, not the people like yourself and I whose parents can already afford it. This group also includes those who don't need special consideration that private schools can't accomodate as you pointed out that public schools offer.
Finally you claim that the poor continue to attend the same schools as they did before, so wouldn't this leave them the same as before? You can say that a massive lack of funding will cause the schools to deteriorate even further but if these difficulties in private schools that you say are insurmountable by vouchers are seriously a problem then the majority of people wouldn't leave keeping the funding at about the same level. I think the idea is that the schools would ideally loose the same amount of money they would put into them if they had the student to teach so the net of vouchers is even.
finally, thanks for the personal jab at the end.
How many internet groups will get into this just to fuck it up for everyone else? I'm sure anonymous, SA, [insert other internet group] will fill the ranks just so they can make the game and hence the tv show an abomination to play/watch.
I mean come on why would you give the hordes of gamers, who act a fool just to show off to 3 friends the chance to do the same on cable tv? the temptation is just too strong.
Hell I'll probably do it too if I can sign up fast enough to get the name "Leroy Jenkins"
doh, I meant to put this: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=570991&cid=23626699 , in response to you.... oops
http://begthequestion.info/
"Begging the question" is a form of logical fallacy in which a statement or claim is assumed to be true without evidence other than the statement or claim itself. When one begs the question, the initial assumption of a statement is treated as already proven without any logic to show why the statement is true in the first place.
It does NOT mean to raise the question like you have used it.
If your children grow up to be philosophers they will thank me one day...
Great points. People are drawn to the latest and greatest of technology but I think Blu-ray is just a bit too expensive to take advantage of this. The leap is just too far to justify it in the minds of most people. I think an increase in quality for a slight increase in price might be able to hit a sweet spot that more consumers would be willing to go for that otherwise would just stick with standard dvds.
I was thinking more along the lines of put it out there and do damage control before stories like this hit the 6 o clock news and mothers stop buying bananas to "save the children", that sort of stuff
I know it's against the rules but if you RTFA the interesting part isn't about the blight spreading through the bananas. As others have posted this is not something that sprang up over night, it's been coming for quite a while now.
The truly interesting part is that the banana companies in S. America still don't see this as a problem. TFA says that in their anual summaries they don't even mention this disease much less list it as a threat. I think the issue is much more about these companies' failure to act before it's too late than that nature is running its course.
Come on mods, why is this user's opinion "informative" with the only information being that they attended private school? this person listed almost no justification for their opinion and is in no way informative! I would love to be able to discuss this with you but you didn't say anything other than your opinion!
I also went to private school but I think that they are a good thing for the education system, i doubt they are a silver bullet that will solve all problems if we only had vouchers but that doesn't mean they are useless.
I enjoyed my school because of a more intimate environment, the majority (not all) of the students were more academically minded and while my school was far from the best by any means it was still leaps and bounds upon the public school which was in an intense competition with the neighboring county over which was the worst public highschool in the state.
If for no other reason I think the slashdot community can see the advantage in private schools so that those who shun science and demand to be taught creation can go to a private institution and leave the public schools to teach evolution in peace.
ah, the only episode I have only watched once. All of the rest must be in the dozens by now...
It's in case the item that goes missing is the first hammer. Always be prepared!