Wouldn't one reason for doing this be so that if they needed to recall a patch that turned out faulty, and put out a new one, there's no risk of the old ones being cached somewhere?
The ironic thing here is, that happened. At one point, cars were required to stop at any crossroads, the driver had to dismount, fire a pistol into the air to announce his crossing, and so on. Many many stupid laws were inacted to try and prevent these newfangled horseless carriages from upsetting the status quo.
Does make sense, though, for people who are going to be reviewing Rainbox Six 3 or whatever to actually try out counter-terrorist operations; gives them something to compare the gameplay to, other than, oh, Quake.
They gained market dominance by being the best, they exploited it by getting their brand name splattered onto boxes, then lost it by resting on their laurels.
But it quite obviously worked, as I've a ton of games I'd love to play, but can't, as they're glide only, and I don't feel like slapping a 3dfx card into a P4/2Ghz.
The Civil Rights commission couldn't actually find anyone to back that up with testimony.
But the NAACP won a civil rights suit over it.
As I said, or at least implied, the system is fundamentally flawed. But, I cannot think of anything better to replace it; as you said, it's kept the peace in America for quite a while.
What they then did, or more accurately, failed to do, led to them losing that market dominance. But there was a time that you didn't have a 3d card; you had a 3dfx card, or you had nothing.
Note: You are making the assumption that the 2000 election is a zero sum game (a common liberal mistake), in reality it was a lose, lose proposition for the US.
Nonsense. Lots of people 'won' because of that election; just not the common man.
The fact that our government didn't disentegrate into complete anarchy is a testament to the structure of the union and its constitution.
Or, sad to say, a testament to the sheep-like quality of the plebecite. Whatever happened to the whole point behind 'the right to bear arms and form militas' being to combat gov't tyranny? The tree of liberty needing the blood of patriots every once in a while?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again; any 'people's gov't,' such as the representational republic that is the States, stops working as soon as you get the concept of the Professional Politican.
Get a pre-existing and fairly popular codebase that you can include, eat the gravy from your work for six months, then have it all rolled back into WinCE proper, possibly, meaning more sales from you, as it's a sales point, or have it not all rolled back in, which means you continue to sell it.
Seems nice enough to me; don't like it? Write your own OS. Seems to have worked for Linus...
Silly boy, don't you realize that any quote, taken out of context, from a person dead for hundreds of years, is ineffable wisdom which simply cannot be refuted or debated?
Remember, folks, this was the guy who thought that flying a kite in a thunderstorm was a pretty good idea.
Padme: You're not all pants, Ani.
Anakin: Well, I SHOULD BE!
Obi-Wan: Your pants are very impressive. You must be very proud.
Jango Fett: Do you like your pants?
Obi-Wan: I look forward to seeing them in action.
Jango Fett: They'll do their job well. I'll guarantee that.
Yoda: Mmm. Lost his pants, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing.
Yoda: Truly wonderful, the pants of a child is.
Yoda: Around the pants a perimeter create.
Yoda: Clear your pants must be, if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.
Count Dooku: It is obvious that this contest cannot be decided by our knowledge of the Force...but by our skills with pants.
Count Dooku: What if I told you that the Republic was now under the control of a dark lord of the Pants?
Obi-Wan: No, that's not possible. The Jedi would sense it.
Count Dooku: The Dark Side has clouded their vision. Hundreds of senators are now under the influence of a Pants lord called Darth Seatious.
Obi-Wan: I don't believe you.
Gore won Florida, and with it, the election. Florida was, however, declared as being a Bush win. When the recount was about to show that Gore did win, the Supreme Court stopped the recount, saying it would 'make things very difficult for Bush to go on with his presidency.' Paraphrase, but that's the idea.
An independant recount by media, later, showed that Gore won.
Also, when the Dems tried to point things out like, oh, most of the military absentee ballots were illegally cast, the Republicans would cry foul; 'How dare you try to deny our fighting men and women of their votes?'
Exactly. If I agree to pay him fifty bucks a week, for one year, to spray Lawn X, then I move away from Lawn X, I'm still contractually obligated to him. Whoever now owns Lawn X isn't.
Hence, contracts of this sort tend to include both who and where.
And tend to have provisions for things like somebody moving away.
They're saying 'You pay us money for three years, and we'll support YOU.'
Then, you say 'Hey, I'm paying, but I sold my machine!'
They say 'That's too bad, as we're supporting YOU, not the machine.'
If I pay Pedro's Lawn Care 50 bucks a week to spray *this* lawn, it doesn't matter if I move away. If I pay Pedro's Lawn Care 50 bucks to spray *my* lawn, then the defintion of *my* lawn comes into effect.
The original purpose of prisons, in English common law at least, was to hold people being sent off to the Penal Colonies, such as Austrailia, whilst they waited for a ship. It all went down hill from there.
In ye olden days, if you were judged unfit for society, you were executed. Otherwise, you took your lashes, or your public humiliation in the stocks, or whatever, and went on with your life.
Actually, the idea of 'incarceration as punishment' was mainly, I believe, saved for the nobility; they couldn't be executed, generally, for a variety of reasons, so 'house arrest' or being sent somewhere like the Tower of London was the answer.
Of course, as Elizabeth Bathory will attest, they often didn't do half measures there, either; I believe she lasted 9 years bricked into a closet, with but a small slot for passing her food and drink.
Aye, they recover in a few weeks, with proper medical support. But what if the entire hospital is down with it? What if there *is* nobody to give you proper medical support?
It's the easy of contagion that's the problem with SARS; you've got to go pretty far out of your way to get AIDS, or even the flu, but SARS, well, be in the same room as somebody, you've got a problem.
*shrug* As I said in a previous post, I can only speak from my personal experiences.
And those experiences, including a five year old, in senior kindergarten, who routinely tests at grade 2 level, if not above, and who has been reading for several years, and who has a better vocabulary and diction than most of the adults I know, wasn't baby-talked to.
That having been said, no, I've not studied the lingustic side of things all that much, although I do seem to recall that speaking multiple languages is better for the kid than much else; makes those deep structures more versatile.
Now, of course, I could just be lucky, and have an uber kid, but I'll have to look into this further. Thanks for a new idea to satiate my curiosity-appetite-imperative for a while.
Oh, and thanks for mentioning my site; I should get around to updating it, if it's still there. Last I'd heard, that machine had died horribly in a freak co-location transfer.... But either way, it's a few years out of date, now.
Speaking of Movies, such as Gattaca, try Minority Report. Raises a whole host of em.
Hell, Spider-Man and Daredevil raise some interesting, yet classical, ethical dilemmas which are adapted to technology.
Hell, forget ethics as relates to tech and solve some current ones. Such as euthanasia. It still amazes and frightens me that, as a society, North Americans are more humane to their dogs then they are to their blood relatives.
Chapter 5: Revisionist History: Should Greedo have shot first? Did the FBI agents have guns, or radios? History, the truth, digital editing, and you. Who were we at war with last week? I forget.
Altering unborn children for parental-desired traits? "We want little Marissa to be an artist, so tweak her genes towards music, and away from atheletecisim."
Hell, genetic testing for anything; criminal tendencies, for example. Or medical; "I'm sorry, you've a thirty percent chance of developing, oh, some incurable disease, so no life insurance for you, sucker."
The rights of clones (is my clone my brother? My son? A completly separate being? My slave? My spare parts bank?
The rights of sentient infomorphs. Wintermute, for example.
Legal aspects of cyberware/body mods/whatever.
Go pick up some good near future roleplaying games; they've thought of a lot of this stuff. GURPS Bio-Tech and Transhuman Space are good places to start.
I speak only from personal experience; a month after a miscarriage, including a D&C, my wife was pregnant with our second daugher (second surviving, at least.)
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Wouldn't one reason for doing this be so that if they needed to recall a patch that turned out faulty, and put out a new one, there's no risk of the old ones being cached somewhere?
What's the easiest way to determine your Xbox's hardware rev?
The ironic thing here is, that happened. At one point, cars were required to stop at any crossroads, the driver had to dismount, fire a pistol into the air to announce his crossing, and so on. Many many stupid laws were inacted to try and prevent these newfangled horseless carriages from upsetting the status quo.
Does make sense, though, for people who are going to be reviewing Rainbox Six 3 or whatever to actually try out counter-terrorist operations; gives them something to compare the gameplay to, other than, oh, Quake.
They gained market dominance by being the best, they exploited it by getting their brand name splattered onto boxes, then lost it by resting on their laurels.
But it quite obviously worked, as I've a ton of games I'd love to play, but can't, as they're glide only, and I don't feel like slapping a 3dfx card into a P4/2Ghz.
But the NAACP won a civil rights suit over it.
As I said, or at least implied, the system is fundamentally flawed. But, I cannot think of anything better to replace it; as you said, it's kept the peace in America for quite a while.
But, oh well.
Yeah, unfettered market dominance.
What they then did, or more accurately, failed to do, led to them losing that market dominance. But there was a time that you didn't have a 3d card; you had a 3dfx card, or you had nothing.
Ah, but there's a subtle difference between 'going to war to put your man in office' and 'going to war to ensure a fair and democratic election.'
Check, for example, how in Florida, hundreds and hundreds of black voters were illegally barred from voting.
Bear in mind that I'm not American.
Nonsense. Lots of people 'won' because of that election; just not the common man.
Or, sad to say, a testament to the sheep-like quality of the plebecite. Whatever happened to the whole point behind 'the right to bear arms and form militas' being to combat gov't tyranny? The tree of liberty needing the blood of patriots every once in a while?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again; any 'people's gov't,' such as the representational republic that is the States, stops working as soon as you get the concept of the Professional Politican.
Get a pre-existing and fairly popular codebase that you can include, eat the gravy from your work for six months, then have it all rolled back into WinCE proper, possibly, meaning more sales from you, as it's a sales point, or have it not all rolled back in, which means you continue to sell it.
Seems nice enough to me; don't like it? Write your own OS. Seems to have worked for Linus...
Improperly stamped? How about 'mailed past deadline?' 'Not witnessed?' 'Voted multiple times?' 'Sent ballots in from within continental US?'
Now, admittedly, Gore is a Republican in disguise, but at least he'd have been legitimate.
Silly boy, don't you realize that any quote, taken out of context, from a person dead for hundreds of years, is ineffable wisdom which simply cannot be refuted or debated?
Remember, folks, this was the guy who thought that flying a kite in a thunderstorm was a pretty good idea.
Pants quotes from Episode 2
Padme: You're not all pants, Ani.
Anakin: Well, I SHOULD BE!
Obi-Wan: Your pants are very impressive. You must be very proud.
Jango Fett: Do you like your pants?
Obi-Wan: I look forward to seeing them in action.
Jango Fett: They'll do their job well. I'll guarantee that.
Yoda: Mmm. Lost his pants, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing.
Yoda: Truly wonderful, the pants of a child is.
Yoda: Around the pants a perimeter create.
Yoda: Clear your pants must be, if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.
Count Dooku: It is obvious that this contest cannot be decided by our knowledge of the Force...but by our skills with pants.
Count Dooku: What if I told you that the Republic was now under the control of a dark lord of the Pants?
Obi-Wan: No, that's not possible. The Jedi would sense it.
Count Dooku: The Dark Side has clouded their vision. Hundreds of senators are now under the influence of a Pants lord called Darth Seatious.
Obi-Wan: I don't believe you.
Nope.
Gore won Florida, and with it, the election. Florida was, however, declared as being a Bush win. When the recount was about to show that Gore did win, the Supreme Court stopped the recount, saying it would 'make things very difficult for Bush to go on with his presidency.' Paraphrase, but that's the idea.
An independant recount by media, later, showed that Gore won.
Also, when the Dems tried to point things out like, oh, most of the military absentee ballots were illegally cast, the Republicans would cry foul; 'How dare you try to deny our fighting men and women of their votes?'
Folks, Bush ain't your president.
Exactly. If I agree to pay him fifty bucks a week, for one year, to spray Lawn X, then I move away from Lawn X, I'm still contractually obligated to him. Whoever now owns Lawn X isn't.
Hence, contracts of this sort tend to include both who and where.
And tend to have provisions for things like somebody moving away.
They're saying 'You pay us money for three years, and we'll support YOU.'
Then, you say 'Hey, I'm paying, but I sold my machine!'
They say 'That's too bad, as we're supporting YOU, not the machine.'
If I pay Pedro's Lawn Care 50 bucks a week to spray *this* lawn, it doesn't matter if I move away. If I pay Pedro's Lawn Care 50 bucks to spray *my* lawn, then the defintion of *my* lawn comes into effect.
The original purpose of prisons, in English common law at least, was to hold people being sent off to the Penal Colonies, such as Austrailia, whilst they waited for a ship. It all went down hill from there.
In ye olden days, if you were judged unfit for society, you were executed. Otherwise, you took your lashes, or your public humiliation in the stocks, or whatever, and went on with your life.
Actually, the idea of 'incarceration as punishment' was mainly, I believe, saved for the nobility; they couldn't be executed, generally, for a variety of reasons, so 'house arrest' or being sent somewhere like the Tower of London was the answer.
Of course, as Elizabeth Bathory will attest, they often didn't do half measures there, either; I believe she lasted 9 years bricked into a closet, with but a small slot for passing her food and drink.
Maybe they just both happen to enjoy the flexibility and autonomy.
Aye, they recover in a few weeks, with proper medical support. But what if the entire hospital is down with it? What if there *is* nobody to give you proper medical support?
It's the easy of contagion that's the problem with SARS; you've got to go pretty far out of your way to get AIDS, or even the flu, but SARS, well, be in the same room as somebody, you've got a problem.
The windows 95 era key was, literally, 'three random numbers, a dash, then seven random numbers which, when added together, result in a factor of 7.
In other words, xxx-1111111, xxx-1234567, xxx-7777777, and so on.
*shrug* As I said in a previous post, I can only speak from my personal experiences.
And those experiences, including a five year old, in senior kindergarten, who routinely tests at grade 2 level, if not above, and who has been reading for several years, and who has a better vocabulary and diction than most of the adults I know, wasn't baby-talked to.
That having been said, no, I've not studied the lingustic side of things all that much, although I do seem to recall that speaking multiple languages is better for the kid than much else; makes those deep structures more versatile.
Now, of course, I could just be lucky, and have an uber kid, but I'll have to look into this further. Thanks for a new idea to satiate my curiosity-appetite-imperative for a while.
Oh, and thanks for mentioning my site; I should get around to updating it, if it's still there. Last I'd heard, that machine had died horribly in a freak co-location transfer.... But either way, it's a few years out of date, now.
True, dat.
Speaking of Movies, such as Gattaca, try Minority Report. Raises a whole host of em.
Hell, Spider-Man and Daredevil raise some interesting, yet classical, ethical dilemmas which are adapted to technology.
Hell, forget ethics as relates to tech and solve some current ones. Such as euthanasia. It still amazes and frightens me that, as a society, North Americans are more humane to their dogs then they are to their blood relatives.
Chapter 5: Revisionist History: Should Greedo have shot first? Did the FBI agents have guns, or radios? History, the truth, digital editing, and you. Who were we at war with last week? I forget.
Altering unborn children for parental-desired traits? "We want little Marissa to be an artist, so tweak her genes towards music, and away from atheletecisim."
Hell, genetic testing for anything; criminal tendencies, for example. Or medical; "I'm sorry, you've a thirty percent chance of developing, oh, some incurable disease, so no life insurance for you, sucker."
The rights of clones (is my clone my brother? My son? A completly separate being? My slave? My spare parts bank?
The rights of sentient infomorphs. Wintermute, for example.
Legal aspects of cyberware/body mods/whatever.
Go pick up some good near future roleplaying games; they've thought of a lot of this stuff. GURPS Bio-Tech and Transhuman Space are good places to start.
I speak only from personal experience; a month after a miscarriage, including a D&C, my wife was pregnant with our second daugher (second surviving, at least.)