1: An army composed of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers.
2: A military force that is not part of a regular army and is subject to call for service in an emergency.
3: The whole body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service.
Therefore, if the right to keep and bear arms is because a well regulated militia is necessary, then the gov't can maintain (or raise) an army of citizens.
Ah, good old Captain Power. Mind blowing stuff, for a 12 year old, at the time; a personal favourite was the episode where Masters (flying guy) gives shelter to a kid who was built to be a plague carrier.
The season (and, unfortunately, series) finale involving the self-sacrificing death of a major character and utter fuxxoring of the goodguys was also something rarely seen on TV, let alone on Saturday-morning fare.
CP was an awesome concept, and could really stand another go.
But that lunch from McDonalds, for a coupon, ain't free. The food didn't magically appear, fully cooked, from some sort of alternate universe.
But more to the point of your post, just because you didn't pay cash doesn't mean that you got it 'for free.' The price you paid was, perhaps, time in the restaurant exposed to their advertising. Or the upsell because the lunch didn't include a drink. Or even the fact that the person who gave you the coupon got advertising dollars from McDs.
That having been said, like any oft-repeated stock phrase, it's a terrible oversimplification with overtones of dread.
ISTR that Stan Lee sued for something similar; according to the studio (Columbia Tri-Star?) Spider-Man lost money. Never made a profit, according to the accounting books. So poor Stan's cut of the profit amounted to nothing.
A few months ago, I woke up in the middle of the night with terrible stomach pains. Thought it was gas, walked it off after a few hours.
Couple nights later, same thing, only ten times worse. I let my wife talk me into going to hospital.
Got there at 4 AM, was in a bed and had an IV going by 4:10, was Xrayed at 6 AM, Ultrasounded at 8 AM, and diagnosed with terrible gall stones by 10 AM. Surgery was scheduled for about 11 days later, with a tip of not to eat fat in the meantime, and come back to emergency if I had another attack.
11 days later, I show at the hospital for my laproscopic gall bladder removal at 8:30, I'm on a gurney at 10:30, and I'm in recovery at 11:30. I'm being picked up by my wife at 3:30 that afternoon, and I'm home by four.
Total cost, out of pocket, to me? Four bucks parking, times two. 50 or 60 bucks for a perscription of Tylenol-3.
I remember thinking something like 'Wow. If I was American, this would potentially actually be a decision for me to make; get the surgery, go in debt? Or try to live with a blocked gall bladder, and hope it doesn't get worse?'
This is relatively small-town Canada; the town is around 10,000 people, and the hospital also covers some smaller towns and municipalities around the area.
Revolutionaries at Sony indicates that the Playstation 1 was sold at a loss initially, as well. I'd consider it to be a source that should know about such things.
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2 minutes later the thread would get deleted. and guys, if you leased a porsche, even added a few extras to it , go to bed, wake up and suddenly see a mini-cooper in front of your house for the same price, wouldn't you be upset? wouldn't you go to the guy you leased the porsche from to tell him where he could shove it and end the contract? now imagine people who paid a year in advance because they so liked their porsche (old SWG) and are stuck with the mini-cooper (NGE SWG). and when voicing their opinion they get thrown out. wouldn't you go to the police dept or your lawyer?
Well, I guess that would depend on weather or not the lease agreement stipulated that the leasor could exchange the car without needing my consent, now wouldn't it?
They're innovative in that they're being packaged, in a standard and almost ridiculously easy-to-use and user-friendly way, in a piece of equipment that will wind up in people's living rooms.
Sure, computers have had online play, in various forms, for decades. But even so, any given game has it's own online setup, it's own capabilities, it's own servers, it's own game browsers, and so on.
What's innovative about Live is that it's so damn integrated. Live 2.0/360/whatever even more so. It's innovative that you can be sitting there playing a 360 game, and start voice chatting with somebody else via Live. Then pop out your disc, pop in whatever they've just invited you to play, and off you go. That's all you need to do.
Exactly; they want in on what's going to be a big market. And this way, the cable/DSS companies buy Cisco routers to talk to Cisco cable access multiplexors or DSLAMS to talk to Cisco cable modems/DSL modems, (plugged into Cisco home gateway appliances, thanks to Linksys) and Cisco set-top boxes, hooked up to your Cisco VoIP phone. And so on.
However, in addition to how little [built in media center] will be used by Joe Somebody, there are already PCs that do this as well.
But Joe Somebody's PC isn't hooked up to their home entertainment centers, looking like another piece of stereo equipment.
The unifedness of [the new live system] is innovative, and the fact that the Xbox360 ships with this in place is important. However, this is largely disregarded because it is the same system that the Xbox came to enjoy.
That's much like saying that the Internet is largely disregarded because it's the same system that BBS users came to enjoy.
In fact, almost all of your other points are 'it's been done on the PC before.' But this isn't a PC. There were MP3 players before the iPod; why did the iPod become THE unit? Because it did things right. Well, sure, there was online play, downloadable games via micropayment, and high-res games before the Xbox. But the Xbox 360 makes (or has the potential to) this stuff universal, and usable by Joe Somebody, and *mainstream* in the way the iPod did for MP3 players.
The PS3, on the other hand, just means we're waiting for an even prettier version of Final Fantasy.
If anything, I've always thought that the ESRB errs on the side of caution. But at least they have detailed lists of what reasons the game is rated as it is.
But one would think that a voluntary ratings board, designed to avoid having the gov't take over that duty, would tend to be good about keeping itself honest.
Besides, what would be the point of lowballing ratings? Most video game buyers are adults buying for themselves, and there's no concept of 'nc-17 is the same as 'XXX' in people's minds, and theatres will simply not run them' for video games; in many cases, a harder rating is a selling point, rather than a barrier-to-consumer-entry.
Don't forget, Windows NT 4 for Alpha had FX!32, which would quite happily run x86 binaries on said DEC Alpha, and the more you ran a particular program, the faster it would get, as the translator had more data to work with.
Seeing as how so many tout the stat that only around 10 percent of Xbox owners are on Live, I'd say that downloadable content didn't really wind up being all that much of a thing. A bit before it's time, perhaps.
As I've said many times on slashdot and other places, is that the difference is with film, each frame is everything that happens in a 1/24th second. With a game, you're getting sixty snapshots/second, or however many. Like a strobe light.
Which is why 3dfx tried to introduce their T-buffer. And why I was delighted to see, in screenshots for DOA4, engine-added motion blur.
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Not to say anything bad, but this comaprison can't really be made. The last time I checked, movie tickets didn't cost $50 each.
But on the other hand, a movie is 1.5 hours of entertainment; a video game (especially one with such a large MP component) is potentially hundreds of hours.
Or, put another way, if a movie ticket is 10 bucks for 1.5 hours, or about $6.6/hour, then playing Halo 2 for just under eight hours, which is about how long it takes for a good player to get through the single player, means you've made the same entertainment-to-dollars ratio.
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But by that definition, the draft is legal.
A militia is defined as:
Therefore, if the right to keep and bear arms is because a well regulated militia is necessary, then the gov't can maintain (or raise) an army of citizens.
I'd say that a big part of stability/security is making it easier/more convenient for people to patch/upgrade, myself.
Sweet! Can you remind me how to compile a new kernel and thunk over to it without a reboot? Thanks!
Ah, good old Captain Power. Mind blowing stuff, for a 12 year old, at the time; a personal favourite was the episode where Masters (flying guy) gives shelter to a kid who was built to be a plague carrier.
The season (and, unfortunately, series) finale involving the self-sacrificing death of a major character and utter fuxxoring of the goodguys was also something rarely seen on TV, let alone on Saturday-morning fare.
CP was an awesome concept, and could really stand another go.
Of course, this is the same Sun that puts out patch revisions; sometimes, you have to upgrade (or patch) your patches....
Stands to reason that, in a role-playing game, a gamer, you know, try playing a different role.
This would by why they provide a small number of one-time-use 'emergency' codes.
That having been said, personal responsibility; if you want to be able to use your car, pay for the damn thing.
But that lunch from McDonalds, for a coupon, ain't free. The food didn't magically appear, fully cooked, from some sort of alternate universe.
But more to the point of your post, just because you didn't pay cash doesn't mean that you got it 'for free.' The price you paid was, perhaps, time in the restaurant exposed to their advertising. Or the upsell because the lunch didn't include a drink. Or even the fact that the person who gave you the coupon got advertising dollars from McDs.
That having been said, like any oft-repeated stock phrase, it's a terrible oversimplification with overtones of dread.
ISTR that Stan Lee sued for something similar; according to the studio (Columbia Tri-Star?) Spider-Man lost money. Never made a profit, according to the accounting books. So poor Stan's cut of the profit amounted to nothing.
A few months ago, I woke up in the middle of the night with terrible stomach pains. Thought it was gas, walked it off after a few hours.
Couple nights later, same thing, only ten times worse. I let my wife talk me into going to hospital.
Got there at 4 AM, was in a bed and had an IV going by 4:10, was Xrayed at 6 AM, Ultrasounded at 8 AM, and diagnosed with terrible gall stones by 10 AM. Surgery was scheduled for about 11 days later, with a tip of not to eat fat in the meantime, and come back to emergency if I had another attack.
11 days later, I show at the hospital for my laproscopic gall bladder removal at 8:30, I'm on a gurney at 10:30, and I'm in recovery at 11:30. I'm being picked up by my wife at 3:30 that afternoon, and I'm home by four.
Total cost, out of pocket, to me? Four bucks parking, times two. 50 or 60 bucks for a perscription of Tylenol-3.
I remember thinking something like 'Wow. If I was American, this would potentially actually be a decision for me to make; get the surgery, go in debt? Or try to live with a blocked gall bladder, and hope it doesn't get worse?'
This is relatively small-town Canada; the town is around 10,000 people, and the hospital also covers some smaller towns and municipalities around the area.
Tell both machines to leave copies, and delete after two days. That way, both get everything, but the mailbox doesn't clog up.
At the 'Honor' screen, put in: ABACABB.
Revolutionaries at Sony indicates that the Playstation 1 was sold at a loss initially, as well. I'd consider it to be a source that should know about such things.
blockquote> 2 minutes later the thread would get deleted. and guys, if you leased a porsche, even added a few extras to it , go to bed, wake up and suddenly see a mini-cooper in front of your house for the same price, wouldn't you be upset? wouldn't you go to the guy you leased the porsche from to tell him where he could shove it and end the contract? now imagine people who paid a year in advance because they so liked their porsche (old SWG) and are stuck with the mini-cooper (NGE SWG). and when voicing their opinion they get thrown out. wouldn't you go to the police dept or your lawyer?
Well, I guess that would depend on weather or not the lease agreement stipulated that the leasor could exchange the car without needing my consent, now wouldn't it?
They're innovative in that they're being packaged, in a standard and almost ridiculously easy-to-use and user-friendly way, in a piece of equipment that will wind up in people's living rooms.
Sure, computers have had online play, in various forms, for decades. But even so, any given game has it's own online setup, it's own capabilities, it's own servers, it's own game browsers, and so on.
What's innovative about Live is that it's so damn integrated. Live 2.0/360/whatever even more so. It's innovative that you can be sitting there playing a 360 game, and start voice chatting with somebody else via Live. Then pop out your disc, pop in whatever they've just invited you to play, and off you go. That's all you need to do.
Let alone things like the Live Marketplace.
Exactly; they want in on what's going to be a big market. And this way, the cable/DSS companies buy Cisco routers to talk to Cisco cable access multiplexors or DSLAMS to talk to Cisco cable modems/DSL modems, (plugged into Cisco home gateway appliances, thanks to Linksys) and Cisco set-top boxes, hooked up to your Cisco VoIP phone. And so on.
I'll see your MP reference, and raise you a Terry Prachett:
If anything, I've always thought that the ESRB errs on the side of caution. But at least they have detailed lists of what reasons the game is rated as it is.
But one would think that a voluntary ratings board, designed to avoid having the gov't take over that duty, would tend to be good about keeping itself honest.
Besides, what would be the point of lowballing ratings? Most video game buyers are adults buying for themselves, and there's no concept of 'nc-17 is the same as 'XXX' in people's minds, and theatres will simply not run them' for video games; in many cases, a harder rating is a selling point, rather than a barrier-to-consumer-entry.
Babylon 5: Into The Fire did just that; used the lightwave models from the show in the game. That project was cancelled, oh, 2001ish.
Don't forget, Windows NT 4 for Alpha had FX!32, which would quite happily run x86 binaries on said DEC Alpha, and the more you ran a particular program, the faster it would get, as the translator had more data to work with.
This isn't particularly new.
Seeing as how so many tout the stat that only around 10 percent of Xbox owners are on Live, I'd say that downloadable content didn't really wind up being all that much of a thing. A bit before it's time, perhaps.
As I've said many times on slashdot and other places, is that the difference is with film, each frame is everything that happens in a 1/24th second. With a game, you're getting sixty snapshots/second, or however many. Like a strobe light.
Which is why 3dfx tried to introduce their T-buffer. And why I was delighted to see, in screenshots for DOA4, engine-added motion blur.
But on the other hand, a movie is 1.5 hours of entertainment; a video game (especially one with such a large MP component) is potentially hundreds of hours.
Or, put another way, if a movie ticket is 10 bucks for 1.5 hours, or about $6.6/hour, then playing Halo 2 for just under eight hours, which is about how long it takes for a good player to get through the single player, means you've made the same entertainment-to-dollars ratio.
Sorry, but what are the ethical concerns of using a weapon in self defense?
Also, if the device can damage hearing at *one meter*, what will it do to a ship full of people at 100 meters?