This sort of thing really is a problem. I dated a girl whose mother believed she should say whatever popped into her head because she wanted to be honest. Any omission was a sin. The result was that she had alienated almost everyone who had ever loved her through meanness and insensitivity. (Little statements like, "Well, if all those children would just pray to God they wouldn't need children's hospitals.")
We're social animals. Context is important. It's necessary to have a standard to deal with people whose beliefs and attitudes differ from one's own in a civil manner.
This sort of thing was business as usual in a corporation for which I used to work. Something terrible would happen. Boss would ask the useless IT guys to implement a solution. Useless IT guys would pass it along to the programmers. Programmers implement the solution, write up procedures and policies in idiot-friendly language. Solution gets ignored. Repeat.
The corporation is now as good as dead, looking for new investors, and can't afford to pay me for my last week of work.
That second link isn't exactly heavy on details. Cities and suburbs already have the infrastructure. And many semi-rural areas have cable or DSL. The rest could be covered by wimax. But what about the truly rural areas? Satellite as it is now shouldn't be considered broadband with the high lag and ridiculous bandwidth caps. (When I was on satellite it was 250 MB in a 24 hour period before dial-up like speeds were enforced for 24 hours.) Some sort of terrestrial wireless may be the only option for them too.
Where did all that spectrum they freed up from analog TV go anyway?
Living in a rural area myself, I'm quite aware of this. Still, every little bit helps when you're trying to hold off a blaze or trying to get a loved one to the hospital.
Yes, but analog TV is nowhere near as important as the phone system. It's the difference between not being able to watch a TV show and not being able to call the fire department when your rural house catches fire.
If AT&T wants the FCC to set a date to cut landlines, the FCC should force AT&T (and other corporations) to get the country's infrastructure up to snuff first. We can talk about dates after that.
I've always liked the way Dragon Quest handles religion. You take a cross, bend it into a trident, make god into a goddess, and leave everything else vaguely Catholic. That way you have a nicely fleshed-out religion and no one gets uppity or pissed.
Whenever an elected official does something silly like this, remember that we elected these people. We've no one but ourselves (and/or our idiot neighbors) to blame.
I wouldn't block ads if they weren't everywhere and flash-heavy enough to slow down my browser.
It would also help if ads were a bit more honest. I believe Bill Watterson referred to them as "insidious manipulation of human desires for commercial purposes."
The failed missile launch is just a cover story. I mean, if we're going to believe extraterrestrials are behind it, why should we let silly things like facts spoil the fun?
But at least it's a more entertaining story than "It was a weather balloon."
...generally involve the opinions of scientists. Scientists see some evidence, form an opinion about it (hypothesis), wait for more numbers, and then reform their opinion. Or the more corrupt ones tweak the numbers. Physics also works this way. The hard sciences are a sequence of increasingly accurate opinions.
Math is entirely different. When mathematicians form an opinion, they back it up with pure, unfiltered logic. They prove it with the axioms of that field or consequences of those axioms. The only place the opinion still matters are for things that are unproven.
Either which way, lay people shouldn't automatically believe or disbelieve anything. I should hope they weigh and ponder science and math the same way they (hopefully) weigh and ponder politics and religion.
It's amazing how many people miss the point. When the Kindle and other e-readers come up in conversation, I explain time and time again exactly what e-ink is and what it means for battery life. And every single time the first thing that people ask is, "Oh, wait, so it's just in black and white?"
This is just a larger group of people missing the point of e-ink. Then again, since there are so many like-minded people, maybe they have a point of their own. Perhaps there is a market for flashy e-readers. I mean, netbooks are doing well enough.
It costs more money to actually do any double-checking than it does to send a DMCA notice to anyone who might possibly perhaps maybe be violating a copyright.
Yeah, but you don't have to use KWin to use the rest of KDE. Once upon a time I used Windowmaker as a WM and KDE as a DE and it was pretty nice. I lost very little KDE goodness.
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This sort of thing really is a problem. I dated a girl whose mother believed she should say whatever popped into her head because she wanted to be honest. Any omission was a sin. The result was that she had alienated almost everyone who had ever loved her through meanness and insensitivity. (Little statements like, "Well, if all those children would just pray to God they wouldn't need children's hospitals.")
We're social animals. Context is important. It's necessary to have a standard to deal with people whose beliefs and attitudes differ from one's own in a civil manner.
I'm just waiting for the inevitable penguin/Linux jokes.
This sort of thing was business as usual in a corporation for which I used to work. Something terrible would happen. Boss would ask the useless IT guys to implement a solution. Useless IT guys would pass it along to the programmers. Programmers implement the solution, write up procedures and policies in idiot-friendly language. Solution gets ignored. Repeat.
The corporation is now as good as dead, looking for new investors, and can't afford to pay me for my last week of work.
Not a lot of variety. Howsabout "Asteroids to Zelda?"
Standards are good... but we're still in a format war over HMTL5 that makes it nearly impossible to implement it right now.
I think that, given Youtube's weight, any codec Google chose would probably win the format war.
"Screw you guys, I'm going home."
That second link isn't exactly heavy on details. Cities and suburbs already have the infrastructure. And many semi-rural areas have cable or DSL. The rest could be covered by wimax. But what about the truly rural areas? Satellite as it is now shouldn't be considered broadband with the high lag and ridiculous bandwidth caps. (When I was on satellite it was 250 MB in a 24 hour period before dial-up like speeds were enforced for 24 hours.) Some sort of terrestrial wireless may be the only option for them too.
Where did all that spectrum they freed up from analog TV go anyway?
I find it odd that no one has mentioned MorphOS.
That ranks up there with "People kept alive by breathing."
Reminds me of when Sqeenix decided to shut down that Chrono Trigger fan game.
Living in a rural area myself, I'm quite aware of this. Still, every little bit helps when you're trying to hold off a blaze or trying to get a loved one to the hospital.
Yes, but analog TV is nowhere near as important as the phone system. It's the difference between not being able to watch a TV show and not being able to call the fire department when your rural house catches fire.
If AT&T wants the FCC to set a date to cut landlines, the FCC should force AT&T (and other corporations) to get the country's infrastructure up to snuff first. We can talk about dates after that.
I've always liked the way Dragon Quest handles religion. You take a cross, bend it into a trident, make god into a goddess, and leave everything else vaguely Catholic. That way you have a nicely fleshed-out religion and no one gets uppity or pissed.
Whenever an elected official does something silly like this, remember that we elected these people. We've no one but ourselves (and/or our idiot neighbors) to blame.
I wouldn't block ads if they weren't everywhere and flash-heavy enough to slow down my browser.
It would also help if ads were a bit more honest. I believe Bill Watterson referred to them as "insidious manipulation of human desires for commercial purposes."
I don't know about the other games on the list, but you can turn off the gore and language in Brutal Legend. Brings it down from Mature to Teen IMO.
The failed missile launch is just a cover story. I mean, if we're going to believe extraterrestrials are behind it, why should we let silly things like facts spoil the fun?
But at least it's a more entertaining story than "It was a weather balloon."
I know growisofs has been ported to Mac OS X. You might want to look into that.
...generally involve the opinions of scientists. Scientists see some evidence, form an opinion about it (hypothesis), wait for more numbers, and then reform their opinion. Or the more corrupt ones tweak the numbers. Physics also works this way. The hard sciences are a sequence of increasingly accurate opinions.
Math is entirely different. When mathematicians form an opinion, they back it up with pure, unfiltered logic. They prove it with the axioms of that field or consequences of those axioms. The only place the opinion still matters are for things that are unproven.
Either which way, lay people shouldn't automatically believe or disbelieve anything. I should hope they weigh and ponder science and math the same way they (hopefully) weigh and ponder politics and religion.
It's amazing how many people miss the point. When the Kindle and other e-readers come up in conversation, I explain time and time again exactly what e-ink is and what it means for battery life. And every single time the first thing that people ask is, "Oh, wait, so it's just in black and white?"
This is just a larger group of people missing the point of e-ink. Then again, since there are so many like-minded people, maybe they have a point of their own. Perhaps there is a market for flashy e-readers. I mean, netbooks are doing well enough.
It costs more money to actually do any double-checking than it does to send a DMCA notice to anyone who might possibly perhaps maybe be violating a copyright.
There's going to be a large, violent revolution soon.
I could have sworn that a sequel was announced or at least discussed a while back. Well, given the game's popularity it was inevitable anyway.
Yeah, but you don't have to use KWin to use the rest of KDE. Once upon a time I used Windowmaker as a WM and KDE as a DE and it was pretty nice. I lost very little KDE goodness.