"Now, I doubt that death threats against pro-gun actors and celebrities are so numerous (if there were a way to measure it). Did Selvester, Tom Selleck, Ah-nold, Kurt Russel, Ted Nugent, Heston, ever get so much hate mail? Probably not--but most of them are much more passive in their beliefs than the two above counter examples."
Yup... That's Ted Nugent... A really passive, quiet sort of fellow.
"Maybe, but then how do you account for the differences in places with the gun laws - for instance, France has over 400% the number of murders as Saudi Arabia, yet just under 50% less than the US? That tells me there is more to those numbers than meets the eye.
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics..."
Obviously the real issue behind all the violence was women's suffrage!
"In the real world, it seems your opinions do not correlate with reality - for example New York City has strict laws against gun use, and has a very low crime per capita rate compared to other US cities like LA where carrying guns is more. There is no positive correlation between low crime and carrying guns, and there may even be a negative correlation. See table of cities half way down this page."
Seriously? Did you just claim that carrying a gun in LA is easier than New York? LA, New York, and Chicago are all in states with extremely restrictive gun laws and those are the top three cities on that list on Wikipedia....
Of course the 4th highest is Houston, Texas so maybe the issue isn't gun laws at all... hmmm?
Wow, if the allegations in the article are even partially accurate,
Google deserves to take a massive PR hit on this at the least and probably owes these guys some serious money.
Regarding the Urim and Thummin being used to translate the golden plates by Joseph Smith.
If this was a supernaturally assisted event, why does the leadership of the LDS work so hard to suppress distribution of the original printings of Joseph Smith's works?
Have you ever compared the original book of Mormon with the current one? It's really quite interesting.
Perhaps it's because there is Bovine Growth Hormone in ALL milk, whether or not the cow has been given rBST. In fact, it's there at the exact same levels whether or not rBST was used. Maybe that's why the disclaimer is required?
I bought an HD-A3 in one of the waves of discounts and free HD-DVD's that happened in 2007. My $35 Radio Shack special DVD player had finally poppped its defective capacitors and I needed a new DVD player.
An upconverting DVD player with 10 free movies that also happened to play HD-DVDs was a pretty good deal for $179 and if Blu-Ray ends up winning out, I'll care about the time that studios completely abandon the DVD format...
I don't understand all the angst about this. If HD-DVD dies then, worse case, you have a nice upconverting DVD player that will work nicely with your HD TV and you can worry about Blu ray when the price gets reasonable 5 years from now.:P
"A "Strong Backer" of HD-DVD would have included a player in consoles by now, even as an optional model - not a side unit you have to buy."
Yeah, and I'm sure Microsoft would be thrilled to pump the price of their 360's up to the cost level of the PS3's original pricing. It worked so well for Sony it must be a good idea!
Wait, let me get this straight. Microsoft, whose only provided HD drive is HD-DVD, is supporting HD-DVD because a convoluted plan to cause both formats to fail and have their download service reign triumphant?
Maybe there's a simpler plan in place at Microsoft. Support HD-DVD exclusives because that's the format we already are selling hardware for and we have a ridiculous amount of cash to throw around and anything that hurts our biggest potential competitor (Sony) is probably good for Msoft?
Nah, they couldn't possibly be supporting the only format they are shipping hardware for BECAUSE it's the only format they are currently shipping hardware for, that actual makes sense. It's much better to listen to Michael Bey, I mean, he's the guy who made Pearl Harbor, how could he possibly miss the mark?
"Kindle will do more to kill print media than help it. $5 for new releases I would consider. $2 once it's in paperback I would do. But only if you scrap the DRM, and don't charge me for web sites or loading my own content. If they did that then the only thing that would still keep me from buying it is the absolutely horrible industrial design. Hello platinum colored speak and spell...no thanks."
Sigh... you can load all your non DRM-ed content all you want... for free on the Kindle. Amazon's done a horrible job of marketing that fact (for obvious reasons) but it's true.
Heck, in Cincinnati they have this thing called a "website" for the local library. You can go to this "website" and request books through interlibrary loan to be delivered to whichever branch is closest to your house.
Considering that Cincinnati is assumed to be 10years behind the rest of the U.S. in every area. What futuristic technologies are you all using to reading material? Does it involve tubes in some way?
Wheee! Yet another "Teh Kindle is teh antichrist!" article by someone who handily ignores the fact that it's easy to put your own non-DRMed content on the Kindle and read it. Shrug. Nothing to see here.
The best part about this news story is when you reach the end of the article and the researchers reveal that their results are basically meaningless because you
can get the same results by testing children versus adults.
The real question is how to human children compare with the young chimpanzees.
Just a random observation. I bought an HD-DVD player by Toshiba this weekend. (Along with a lot of other people who jumped on the $99 player deal that was out there)
Guess what operating system it's running? Here's a clue, they have the GPL printed in the back of the manual.
So now I have a player that came with 10 free HD-DVD's and is running Linux, and which upconverts my DVD's so they look amazingly better and which cost me only $99.
Look more closely and you'll probably find more things are running Linux then you'd think.
"Most people if they are going to do serious work aren't looking to be sitting in a park," said Eric Rabe, a spokesman for DSL provider Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) "They want to be at a desk where they have their papers or business records."
Gotta love that quote. If that's true then why is VZW pushing their much more expensive alternative so hard. If nobody wants it then why is Verizon so worried about competition? (grin)
I love how the Star Wars Galaxies guy tries to excuse their massive screwups by saying SWG was one of the first MMOs and that "their wasn't a manual then for how to do them"
Hmmm... didn't SW:G come out after Dark Age of Camelot which was a nice MMO that was based around the concept of "Do Everquest but make it fun"?
Maybe the SW:G team could have spent some time with the Everquest team to help them avoid making the exact same missteps?
Doesn't anyone bother to read the original article anymore? The way this works is pretty simple. If someone is convicted in a civil court of being a sex offender, (ie, the statute of limitations has run out, like with many catholic priests) Then they will be tracked for 6 years after which they can appeal to have their name removed.
Oh dear, a bunch of pedophiles cant get away with not being tracked because they managed to ooze around the statue of limitations.
No, the whole point of this ruling is that if a state passes a law that says you have to identify yourself during the course of an ongoing investigation that law is not unconstitutional.
At this point Nevada is the only state that has passed a law like this, yes? If you dont want this kind of thing in your state then harass your congresscritters.
An example; If you had stopped playing DAOC five months after release, logging in today you would find yourself completely outclassed. No "epic" armor, no "Realm Abilities," no "spellcrafted" gear, you would have your original gimp spec that has almost certainly been changed dramatically, etc. A player that hasn't logged in since April or May 2002 is so far behind that any attempt to play as-is would be hopeless
Are you serious? My wife and I didn't play DAOC for several months and we logged back in recently and started up again with no problems. Maybe in EQ if you dont play constantly you get wiped out but in DAOC you can actually step away from the computer occasionally and still be able to enjoy the experience when you come back.
I've been using Taxcut from kiplinger/HRblock the last few years and every year I just burn a copy of the directory I installed it in to CD just in case.
This let me reprint the forms that got waterlogged so I'd have them available for talking with mortgage people.
This is just the last nail in the TurboTax coffin for me.
It's amazing what a hack job they did on David Brin's ideas on privacy. They basically described him as being someone who wants lots more security cameras so we will magically end up with an open society.
Brin's argument is that more cameras will not be a problem as long as the cameras are watching EVERYONE. Including all of the government types... etc...
A year ago, if you had invested 1000$ in beer you would have more money returning the bottles today than if you bought Enron Stocks then and sold them today.
Of course, if you'd bought $1000 worth of Budweiser's stock you'd be doing even better...
Lol... I can still get an AMD XP with an ALpha PAL8045 heatsink. (can cool with no fan) for less
than the cost of a P4... and get actually performance improvements in games beside Quake 3...
As for the naming scheme... It's an attempt to compare the new palimino Athlons with the thunderbirds... Since the new chips do more instructions per MHZ than the old chips they are trying to reflect it in the naming scheme.
It's NOT supposed to allow comparison with P4's, if it was then the numbers would have to be higher to reflect the P4's emphasis on MHZ above all else... What's really hilarious is comparing
P3's and P4's at the same clock speed...
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"Now, I doubt that death threats against pro-gun actors and celebrities are so numerous (if there were a way to measure it). Did Selvester, Tom Selleck, Ah-nold, Kurt Russel, Ted Nugent, Heston, ever get so much hate mail? Probably not--but most of them are much more passive in their beliefs than the two above counter examples."
Yup... That's Ted Nugent... A really passive, quiet sort of fellow.
"Maybe, but then how do you account for the differences in places with the gun laws - for instance, France has over 400% the number of murders as Saudi Arabia, yet just under 50% less than the US? That tells me there is more to those numbers than meets the eye.
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics..."
Obviously the real issue behind all the violence was women's suffrage!
"In the real world, it seems your opinions do not correlate with reality - for example New York City has strict laws against gun use, and has a very low crime per capita rate compared to other US cities like LA where carrying guns is more. There is no positive correlation between low crime and carrying guns, and there may even be a negative correlation. See table of cities half way down this page."
Seriously? Did you just claim that carrying a gun in LA is easier than New York? LA, New York, and Chicago are all in states with extremely restrictive gun laws and those are the top three cities on that list on Wikipedia....
Of course the 4th highest is Houston, Texas so maybe the issue isn't gun laws at all... hmmm?
Wow, if the allegations in the article are even partially accurate,
Google deserves to take a massive PR hit on this at the least
and probably owes these guys some serious money.
I... I wanted to be! A lumberjack!
Leaping from tree to tree, as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia!
Regarding the Urim and Thummin being used to translate the golden plates by Joseph Smith.
If this was a supernaturally assisted event, why does the leadership of the LDS work so hard to suppress distribution of the original printings of Joseph Smith's works?
Have you ever compared the original book of Mormon with the current one? It's really quite interesting.
Perhaps it's because there is Bovine Growth Hormone in ALL milk, whether or not the cow has been given rBST. In fact, it's there at the exact same levels whether or not rBST was used. Maybe that's why the disclaimer is required?
I bought an HD-A3 in one of the waves of discounts and free HD-DVD's that happened in 2007. My $35 Radio Shack special DVD player had finally poppped its defective capacitors and I needed a new DVD player.
:P
An upconverting DVD player with 10 free movies that also happened to play HD-DVDs was a pretty good deal for $179 and if Blu-Ray ends up winning out, I'll care about the time that studios completely abandon the DVD format...
I don't understand all the angst about this. If HD-DVD dies then, worse case, you have a nice upconverting DVD player that will work nicely with your HD TV and you can worry about Blu ray when the price gets reasonable 5 years from now.
"A "Strong Backer" of HD-DVD would have included a player in consoles by now, even as an optional model - not a side unit you have to buy."
Yeah, and I'm sure Microsoft would be thrilled to pump the price of their 360's up to the cost level of the PS3's original pricing. It worked so well for Sony it must be a good idea!
Wait, let me get this straight. Microsoft, whose only provided HD drive is HD-DVD, is supporting HD-DVD because a convoluted plan to cause both formats to fail and have their download service reign triumphant?
Maybe there's a simpler plan in place at Microsoft. Support HD-DVD exclusives because that's the format we already are selling hardware for and we have a ridiculous amount of cash to throw around and anything that hurts our biggest potential competitor (Sony) is probably good for Msoft?
Nah, they couldn't possibly be supporting the only format they are shipping hardware for BECAUSE it's the only format they are currently shipping hardware for, that actual makes sense. It's much better to listen to Michael Bey, I mean, he's the guy who made Pearl Harbor, how could he possibly miss the mark?
"Kindle will do more to kill print media than help it. $5 for new releases I would consider. $2 once it's in paperback I would do. But only if you scrap the DRM, and don't charge me for web sites or loading my own content. If they did that then the only thing that would still keep me from buying it is the absolutely horrible industrial design. Hello platinum colored speak and spell...no thanks."
Sigh... you can load all your non DRM-ed content all you want... for free on the Kindle. Amazon's done a horrible job of marketing that fact (for obvious reasons) but it's true.
Heck, in Cincinnati they have this thing called a "website" for the local library.
You can go to this "website" and request books through interlibrary loan to be delivered
to whichever branch is closest to your house.
Considering that Cincinnati is assumed to be 10years behind the rest of the U.S. in every area.
What futuristic technologies are you all using to reading material? Does it involve tubes in some way?
Wheee! Yet another "Teh Kindle is teh antichrist!" article by someone who handily ignores the fact that it's easy to put your own non-DRMed content on the Kindle and read it. Shrug. Nothing to see here.
The best part about this news story is when you reach the
end of the article and the researchers reveal that
their results are basically meaningless because you
can get the same results by testing children versus adults.
The real question is how to human children compare with the young chimpanzees.
Just a random observation. I bought an HD-DVD player by Toshiba this weekend. (Along with a lot of other people who jumped on the $99 player deal that was out there)
Guess what operating system it's running? Here's a clue, they have the GPL printed in the back of the manual.
So now I have a player that came with 10 free HD-DVD's and is running Linux, and which upconverts my DVD's so they look amazingly better and which cost me only $99.
Look more closely and you'll probably find more things are running Linux then you'd think.
Actually, the original HD-A1 was apparently running Red Hat. ( http://geekswithblogs.net/lorint/archive/2006/04/21/75795.aspx )
"Most people if they are going to do serious work aren't looking to be sitting in a park," said Eric Rabe, a spokesman for DSL provider Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) "They want to be at a desk where they have their papers or business records."
Gotta love that quote. If that's true then why is VZW pushing their much more expensive alternative so hard. If nobody wants it then why is Verizon so worried about competition? (grin)
I love how the Star Wars Galaxies guy tries to excuse their massive screwups by saying SWG was one of the first MMOs and that "their wasn't a manual then for how to do them"
Hmmm... didn't SW:G come out after Dark Age of Camelot which was a nice MMO that was based around the concept of "Do Everquest but make it fun"?
Maybe the SW:G team could have spent some time with the Everquest team to help them avoid making the exact same missteps?
Doesn't anyone bother to read the original article anymore? The way this works is pretty simple. If someone is convicted in a civil court of being a sex offender, (ie, the statute of limitations has run out, like with many catholic priests) Then they will be tracked for 6 years after which they can appeal to have their name removed.
Oh dear, a bunch of pedophiles cant get away with not being tracked because they managed to ooze around the statue of limitations.
No, the whole point of this ruling is that if a state passes a law that says you have to identify yourself during the course of an ongoing investigation that law is not unconstitutional.
At this point Nevada is the only state that has passed a law like this, yes? If you dont want this kind of thing in your state then harass your congresscritters.
"The page you've requested is only available to current money magazine subscribers."
An example; If you had stopped playing DAOC five months after release, logging in today you would find yourself completely outclassed. No "epic" armor, no "Realm Abilities," no "spellcrafted" gear, you would have your original gimp spec that has almost certainly been changed dramatically, etc. A player that hasn't logged in since April or May 2002 is so far behind that any attempt to play as-is would be hopeless
Are you serious? My wife and I didn't play DAOC for several months and we logged back in recently and started up again with no problems. Maybe in EQ if you dont play constantly you get wiped out but in DAOC you can actually step away from the computer occasionally and still be able to enjoy the experience when you come back.
The problem is real.
I've been using Taxcut from kiplinger/HRblock the last few years and every year I just burn a copy of the directory I installed it in to CD just in case.
This let me reprint the forms that got waterlogged so I'd have them available for talking with mortgage people.
This is just the last nail in the TurboTax coffin for me.
It's amazing what a hack job they did on David Brin's ideas on privacy. They basically described him as being someone who wants lots more security cameras so we will magically end up with an open society.
... etc...
Brin's argument is that more cameras will not be a problem as long as the cameras are watching EVERYONE. Including all of the government types
Grr...
A year ago, if you had invested 1000$ in beer you would have more money returning the bottles today than if you bought Enron Stocks then and sold them today.
Of course, if you'd bought $1000 worth of Budweiser's stock you'd be doing even better...
Lol... I can still get an AMD XP with an ALpha PAL8045 heatsink. (can cool with no fan) for less
than the cost of a P4... and get actually performance improvements in games beside Quake 3...
As for the naming scheme... It's an attempt to compare the new palimino Athlons with the thunderbirds... Since the new chips do more instructions per MHZ than the old chips they are trying to reflect it in the naming scheme.
It's NOT supposed to allow comparison with P4's, if it was then the numbers would have to be higher to reflect the P4's emphasis on MHZ above all else... What's really hilarious is comparing
P3's and P4's at the same clock speed...