"In the meantime, just for the record, if you go out and buy a 30GB Video iPod plus a Nintendo DS, your grand total will be $420."
If you are suggesting that the video on an iPod comes anywhere near the video on a PSP, I would like to meet you under the bleachers after homeroom. I'll grant that gaming is subjective and the DS vs. PSP debate is legit and ongoing - but nothing handheld, be it game machine, PDA, iPod or whatever, comes close to the video on a PSP.
Recently the head of the local police force's "cybercrime" task force spoke to parents at my son's high school. He shared with us some transcripts of older guys hitting on young girls, and it was very illuminating. The first thing to be aware of is that these "perverts" out there are very good at seduction - not necessarily sexual - and are very convincing at sounding like teenage boys. In addition, he went through a demonstration of how, armed with nothing but the girl's first name and a hobby, he was able to get her full name (google name and cheerleading squad), her address, her father's profession, a picture of her house, and a picture of her. So, a girl chatting with a guy, who can say he's in her hometown, knows her father's dentist office and goes to the same football games, decides to meet this boy down the street at the strip mall. Scary stuff.
Chatting is a way of life for kids these days. That may not be good, personally we restrict our son's activities in this regard, but many parents just see it as an alternative to hanging out at the mall. Surely a kid is safer at home, right?
Blaming parents, especially when you aren't one, for not being aware of all this, is an easy out, but not a productive one. The providers of chat rooms DO share a responsibility for safety. Yes, age restrictions can be bypassed, but it will help. Not all kids are liars. And, for good or ill, Spitzer is very good at increasing awareness of wrongdoing, in many areas. That increased awareness will also help.
It's sad to see those who profess to be freedom loving libertarians here get upset over chat room restrictions, and in the same paragraph advocate sterilization or "parent ability tests".
it's time to put this fallacy to rest. corporations are granted benefits in return for them acting in a way that is conducive to good the good of society as a whole. if they don't act in such a fashion they should have those benefits revoked.
being on the cusp of the Baby Boom and Gen X I, when younger, often wished I had been born earlier (I could have been a hippie) or later (I could have been a slacker). At some point that goes away, probably when you realize that being in such a position allows you to make fun of the younger AND older generations.
"the FU rootkit, which I wrote, is intended to demonstrate. It is not malicious but more proof of a premise."
"I do know that FU is one of the most widely deployed rootkits in the world. [It] seems to be the rootkit of choice for spyware and bot networks right now"
He wrote and distributed a rootkit for windows; for educational purposes only (!). It becomes one of the most widely used tools to propagate spyware and trojans. Does he bear any moral responsibilty for this?
I would answer positively. If I leave a loaded gun lying on the sidewalk and someone picks it up and shoots someone else, I think I may get some bad karma.
Correct. In fact, it isn't an economic system at all. You can have democratic socialism and democratic capitalism, producing two very different societies.
The idea that we are all supposed to work within "the system" to get as much as we can is ridiculous. If we were playing Monopoly or Risk that would be a sensible approach, but life is not a game.
America is run by lawyers, for lawyers. Stories like this confirm it. The rest of us are just in the way.
we have an 800 number for our clients to call us on. it only works from the US and Canada. we only have clients in the US and Canada. is this somehow abusive to Chinese citizens?
"A good worker knows that it's easier to repair something that has common parts. You don't switch between screws with different heads, just because one works slighlty better in a given situation."
oh, how I wish that were true. as it is my toolbox has torx, flathead and phillips head screwdrivers, and I often use all three working on one entity, such as my Jeep, or my PC.
Thin clients have been well received by our corporate IT due to the ease with which applications can be updated, users can be given remote access, and local support people can be terminated.
Users hate them because there are weird sync issues, files change or disappear at random intervals, they can't listen to music via their "pc".
There is no one "server" that can go down to screw everyone up. A farm of three or more machines is standard practice here. Thin clients are NOT cheaper than PCs, until you factor in the headcount that gets cut.
"Most people investing in Google don't know what a P/E ratio is. They just asked their nephew to get on The Interweb and buy them some of that google they hear so much about these days."
Wrong - 82% of the float is held by institutions and mutual funds. If money managers think that a stock price will go up, they buy it. Screw the ratios.
No, but around here we DO see people trying to squeeze another 2 fps from their video card, because THEY can see the difference between 68 and 70 fps with their "golden eyes".
The four judges who voted AGAINST the local government's land grab were Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas and O'Commor. It's the liberals who want to give away private property - the conservatives want to give away PUBLIC property.
The PSP is absolutely a good handheld gaming device. The screen is gorgeous, the games (I have Wipeout, Lumines and Mercury) are eminently playable and enjoyable. I chose those games because I wanted something I could pick up, play for a short time, and put down again. RPGs and the like demand a longer time investment than I have available to me.
It came with Spiderman2, I watched the opening few minutes and it looked great, but I didn't like the movie enough to watch the whole thing again. Apparently you can convert ripped DVDs to lower resolution to put on 512MB memory cards to watch, but I haven't tried.
No, it doesn't replace reading. But it's a nice diversion, and I think it well worth the prioce.
I have a Pentium PC with 64MB that functions as a print server so effectively that I never see it.
Lots of RAM does not make up for a small penis.
Nor, apparently, does it make up for mediocre video processing. But, there is a market for this, just as there is a market for spoilers that mount on Chevy Cavaliers or Honda Preludes.
Beside it won't be long before someone sues. It's pretty much ingrained in civil law. You have no right to privacy while in public.
I don't believe anyone has the right to a perfectly exposed picture of me, either. This is the 21st century equivalent of Groucho glasses or a paper bag (or maybe Sonny Corleone).
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"In the meantime, just for the record, if you go out and buy a 30GB Video iPod plus a Nintendo DS, your grand total will be $420."
If you are suggesting that the video on an iPod comes anywhere near the video on a PSP, I would like to meet you under the bleachers after homeroom. I'll grant that gaming is subjective and the DS vs. PSP debate is legit and ongoing - but nothing handheld, be it game machine, PDA, iPod or whatever, comes close to the video on a PSP.
Recently the head of the local police force's "cybercrime" task force spoke to parents at my son's high school. He shared with us some transcripts of older guys hitting on young girls, and it was very illuminating. The first thing to be aware of is that these "perverts" out there are very good at seduction - not necessarily sexual - and are very convincing at sounding like teenage boys. In addition, he went through a demonstration of how, armed with nothing but the girl's first name and a hobby, he was able to get her full name (google name and cheerleading squad), her address, her father's profession, a picture of her house, and a picture of her. So, a girl chatting with a guy, who can say he's in her hometown, knows her father's dentist office and goes to the same football games, decides to meet this boy down the street at the strip mall. Scary stuff.
Chatting is a way of life for kids these days. That may not be good, personally we restrict our son's activities in this regard, but many parents just see it as an alternative to hanging out at the mall. Surely a kid is safer at home, right?
Blaming parents, especially when you aren't one, for not being aware of all this, is an easy out, but not a productive one. The providers of chat rooms DO share a responsibility for safety. Yes, age restrictions can be bypassed, but it will help. Not all kids are liars. And, for good or ill, Spitzer is very good at increasing awareness of wrongdoing, in many areas. That increased awareness will also help.
It's sad to see those who profess to be freedom loving libertarians here get upset over chat room restrictions, and in the same paragraph advocate sterilization or "parent ability tests".
it's time to put this fallacy to rest. corporations are granted benefits in return for them acting in a way that is conducive to good the good of society as a whole. if they don't act in such a fashion they should have those benefits revoked.
being on the cusp of the Baby Boom and Gen X I, when younger, often wished I had been born earlier (I could have been a hippie) or later (I could have been a slacker). At some point that goes away, probably when you realize that being in such a position allows you to make fun of the younger AND older generations.
"They are really riding on the backs of the 'old folks' like us that built the goodies they enjoy."
If we built it right, then the next generation doesn't have to concern themselves with the details. I guess we did good.
"the FU rootkit, which I wrote, is intended to demonstrate. It is not malicious but more proof of a premise."
"I do know that FU is one of the most widely deployed rootkits in the world. [It] seems to be the rootkit of choice for spyware and bot networks right now"
He wrote and distributed a rootkit for windows; for educational purposes only (!). It becomes one of the most widely used tools to propagate spyware and trojans. Does he bear any moral responsibilty for this?
I would answer positively. If I leave a loaded gun lying on the sidewalk and someone picks it up and shoots someone else, I think I may get some bad karma.
Correct. In fact, it isn't an economic system at all. You can have democratic socialism and democratic capitalism, producing two very different societies.
The idea that we are all supposed to work within "the system" to get as much as we can is ridiculous. If we were playing Monopoly or Risk that would be a sensible approach, but life is not a game.
America is run by lawyers, for lawyers. Stories like this confirm it. The rest of us are just in the way.
But why did they disappear?
They knew what was coming.
we have an 800 number for our clients to call us on. it only works from the US and Canada. we only have clients in the US and Canada. is this somehow abusive to Chinese citizens?
"A controller with more than one button."
A joystick with more than one button just confuses grandma, and it encourages developers to put game controls in places they don't belong.
an 11 button mouse is not a mouse, it's a keyboard.
"A good worker knows that it's easier to repair something that has common parts. You don't switch between screws with different heads, just because one works slighlty better in a given situation."
oh, how I wish that were true. as it is my toolbox has torx, flathead and phillips head screwdrivers, and I often use all three working on one entity, such as my Jeep, or my PC.
Thin clients have been well received by our corporate IT due to the ease with which applications can be updated, users can be given remote access, and local support people can be terminated.
Users hate them because there are weird sync issues, files change or disappear at random intervals, they can't listen to music via their "pc".
There is no one "server" that can go down to screw everyone up. A farm of three or more machines is standard practice here. Thin clients are NOT cheaper than PCs, until you factor in the headcount that gets cut.
"Most people investing in Google don't know what a P/E ratio is. They just asked their nephew to get on The Interweb and buy them some of that google they hear so much about these days."
Wrong - 82% of the float is held by institutions and mutual funds. If money managers think that a stock price will go up, they buy it. Screw the ratios.
No, but around here we DO see people trying to squeeze another 2 fps from their video card, because THEY can see the difference between 68 and 70 fps with their "golden eyes".
The four judges who voted AGAINST the local government's land grab were Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas and O'Commor. It's the liberals who want to give away private property - the conservatives want to give away PUBLIC property.
One of the Mysts came pretty close to this: learning a new alphabet and number system, at least.
No, not a pun.... it's a palindrome.
I run Software Update once a week and there's usually something getting updated.
Software Update can be set to check for updates on your schedule: it's a preference pane (think Control Panel).
You can also manually kick it off, or just go to apple.com and check for downloads there.
Most patches are small. This one is larger than most.
The PSP is absolutely a good handheld gaming device. The screen is gorgeous, the games (I have Wipeout, Lumines and Mercury) are eminently playable and enjoyable. I chose those games because I wanted something I could pick up, play for a short time, and put down again. RPGs and the like demand a longer time investment than I have available to me.
It came with Spiderman2, I watched the opening few minutes and it looked great, but I didn't like the movie enough to watch the whole thing again. Apparently you can convert ripped DVDs to lower resolution to put on 512MB memory cards to watch, but I haven't tried.
No, it doesn't replace reading. But it's a nice diversion, and I think it well worth the prioce.
Why?
I have a Pentium PC with 64MB that functions as a print server so effectively that I never see it.
Lots of RAM does not make up for a small penis.
Nor, apparently, does it make up for mediocre video processing. But, there is a market for this, just as there is a market for spoilers that mount on Chevy Cavaliers or Honda Preludes.
spoiler? I thought that information wants to be free... so how can free information be considered as anything other than good?
Huh? What Open Source project got killed here?
the people at EnterpriseFans.com are still trying to raise money for a fan campaign to save the show.
no. raise money to feed the hungry. raise money to house the homeless. do not raise money to save a tv show.
Beside it won't be long before someone sues. It's pretty much ingrained in civil law. You have no right to privacy while in public.
I don't believe anyone has the right to a perfectly exposed picture of me, either. This is the 21st century equivalent of Groucho glasses or a paper bag (or maybe Sonny Corleone).