The Xbox and Xbox 360 could generate DD5.1 streams; the PS3 could play DD5.1 streams.
On the other hand, I specifically bought a Sony receiver that accepted 5.1 and 7.1 LPCM and very little else, and use a PS3 with the Harmony remote receiver as my HT bluray player; whatever sound format happens to be used, the PS3 happily decodes it and spits it out LPCM, and the receiver happily plays it.
Don't the people who the software has been distributed to get to require the source code? Sure, they can then turn around and hand it out to the public world, but my understanding of the GPL isn't 'you use it, you must release the code,' it's 'anybody who gets your software can request a copy of the code.'
Except that it's entirely possible to own and use guns for a lifetime with no health damage to any living thing. It's impossible to smoke without incurring health damage.
Here's an experiment: What would happen if the government decreed that, henceforth, smoking anywhere was perfectly legal, but that no smoking product could have any amount of nicotine?
Agreed completely; just pointing out that if somebody makes a go at honestly making a 'homeopathic' solution, and fucks up the dilution process, well, you get poison instead of distilled water.
There's social justice as in 'don't discriminate based on the color of one's skin,' then there's social justice as in 'tumblr thinks mayonnaise is a gender.'
Nah, when he was put in place, it was a backwater little desk posting, exactly like it should have been. He was literally in charge of cleaning up the physical mess left behind by the Cardassians.
Then they discover the wormhole, and Star Fleet wants to put somebody appropriate in charge, but they have to appease the locals, who now view The Sisko as the Emissary.
The Xbox used virtually bog-standard Celeron CPU and NVidia GPU; the only real special thing was a unifed memory architecture. The 360 was, IIRC, three PowerPC chips and a fairly standard AMD CPU.
The PS2, on the other hand, was custom silicon; the Emotion Engine and what not, while the PS3 was Cell architecture.
The PS1 and Dreamcast were both also fairly standard components, while the N64 was SGI custom.
Consoles are absolutely migrating towards being PCs with purpose-built cases, and backwards compatibility is becoming an expectation rather than a bonus, especially in this digital era, when you can get old titles from digital marketplaces.
There are a ton of cultural differences. I remember reading a fascinating book called 'The Culture Code' by a Frenchman who moved to the US at a relatively young age.
He points out, for example, in the US, the kitchen is a central gathering place in the home, and nice, stainless steel appliances are a status symbol. In France, on the other hand, guests would never ever see the kitchen, so the appliances are chosen strictly for utility.
You know, the western world already has a whole body of law on 'how to know what you wanted' after you die. It's incredibly complex, but very simple: write a damn will. You should have one anyway, and update it every few years.
Check your state/provincial laws, but you can probably write one yourself, pretty easy. In Ontario, a 'holographic,' or completely hand-written, will is perfectly legal and valid. You can also find 'write a will' kits and templates easily enough, and they'll include health care directives, living wills, and all that stuff. If your estate is too complex for a mad-lib style will, you should already have a lawyer on retainer to do that sort of thing.
I agree. While I too think it's somewhat silly to be concerned about ownership of body parts after death, this effectively causes ownership of the corpse (or at least parts of it) to pass to the state, unless you opt out. So while your property, finances, etc. pass to your family members by default, your own body comes under control of the state by default (who cedes it to medical professionals, it seems).
So?
Death rituals are important to many people, especially loved ones who have to go through mourning. As the summary notes, many families DO object when it comes to this, even if they may be in favor of organ donations in the abstract. Does the state's interest in keeping other people alive outweigh the family's interest in their mourning ritual, particularly when it involves the actual physical parts of that loved one?
No, the state's interest doesn't, which is why the person has the first, last, and final say. The family's wishes, of course, should have no bearing whatsoever; if Johnny's family is all against organ donation, but Johnny is for it, then Johnny's organ's get donated.
I'm all in favor of increasing organ donations -- making it trivial to sign up at any opportunity, etc. But what this law is effectively doing is removing ownership of the deceased person from the family and passing it to the state. I'm generally skeptical of any "opt-in" policies, and this one seems a bit worrying in terms of what it's saying legally about what the state can do.
No, what it's doing is setting up a default action when no other instructions are specified. Just like everything else that happens when you die; if you haven't specifically declared what happens to your property, chattels, dependents, and so on, there are default rules that kick in and attempt to dispose of everything. Just, up till relatively recently, those default rules were 'buried in accordance with local majority religious views.'
Just to throw out some "slippery slope" possibilities -- could the government also decide that you are "opt-in" to a DNR order by default? If it would save on healthcare costs, perhaps speed up organ donation (and thus save lives), could that also be justified? If that seems extreme, how about if you're on life support in a coma? How about a persistent vegetative state? At what point can the state's interest in your organs outweigh the slim possibility you might ever wake up? Why let those organs deteriorate in that body for weeks, months, or years? What about those who don't have family members around to argue legally that organs should NOT be harvested yet?
They could, sure. Hell, the government could, in theory, simply designate you for organ donation for the high Party officials, enslave your children, and induct your beloved cat Mittens into their harems.
Some of these scenarios may seem more extreme than others, but it seems like this seemingly minor "change in default" could have other legal consequences in the future in terms of how many decisions family members have control of in determining what happens to a loved one who is potentially near death. How far can the state's interest go here in superseding the wishes of the family?
Well, this is why we've seen developments in things like living wills and treatment directives. You assume that 'family members' should have a large amount of say in what happens to a loved one. I question that assertion; have ever since that episode of The Practice when Rebecca was badly injured, needed a blood transfusion, and her Jehovah's Witness parents refused it on religious grounds, on her behalf, while her friends and coworkers all swore up and down that Rebecca was not an adherent, and would want the transfusion.
We in the west also have a lot of State control based on old religious strictures; I, for one, do believe that a person (not their family, or the State) should be allo
If by 'blind hope,' you mean 'tracking down all possible leads, then sure.
And really, what does this cost the police? They send a request to Amazon saying 'please send any recordings that happen to exist for this account for this timeframe,' and Amazon sends back either a) any recordings that happen to exist, or b) a note saying that there aren't any.
Depends on what they are asking for. If they know that the person said "Alexia, where should I hide the body." Then yes. If not then they are stupid.
How do they know, without checking?
All of the arguments I've seen here are boiling down to 'it's stupid.' I don't think so. I've had Siri trigger while listening to audiobooks or podcasts that haven't said anything I'd interpret as 'hey Siri.' It's not out of the realms of possibility that something might have gotten triggered, and an incredibly small chance is better than not checking.
And in a few years, who knows? Maybe when being murdered, people sill start shouting 'Hey Siri, I'm being murdered! Hey Alexa, I'm being murdered! OK Google, I'm being murdered!'
I saw the headline on the main page, and the first thing that popped into my head is 'Oooh, must be Christmas. I wonder when they'll get around to DDOSing XBL and PSN.'
Unlike the US, a lot of countries have consumer protection laws. If you buy something that's substantially different than was advertised, or it's not fit for purpose, or doesn't do what a reasonable person would expect it to do, you can get your money back.
For example, in Canada, what the US calls 'Kraft Mac and Cheese' is called 'Kraft Dinner.' It can't be advertised as 'cheese' because, well, it contains no cheese.
No, the thing here is that 10 bux US is simply too much for what you're getting. It's a single-button rhythm game that requires rote memorization of level layouts for optimal routing.
Buying DOOM, back in the day, however, got you a single-player experience, multiplayer, custom level creation, in an amazing new genre and experience.
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The Xbox and Xbox 360 could generate DD5.1 streams; the PS3 could play DD5.1 streams.
On the other hand, I specifically bought a Sony receiver that accepted 5.1 and 7.1 LPCM and very little else, and use a PS3 with the Harmony remote receiver as my HT bluray player; whatever sound format happens to be used, the PS3 happily decodes it and spits it out LPCM, and the receiver happily plays it.
Buddy, in 1997, 3d graphics were all the rage in the PC space, with the 3dfx Voodoo, and offerings from ATI, NVidia, Matrox, PowerVR, and so on.
GLQuake was released in 1997, as was Wing Commander: Prophecy, Heavy Gear, lots of other games.
PC was doing 3d games like Wing Commander 3 and 4, and MechWarrior 2 years prior to that. Let alone games like Alone in the Dark even earlier.
In 1999, a scant two years later, Bleem! brought PlayStation emulation to the PC.
Don't the people who the software has been distributed to get to require the source code? Sure, they can then turn around and hand it out to the public world, but my understanding of the GPL isn't 'you use it, you must release the code,' it's 'anybody who gets your software can request a copy of the code.'
Except that it's entirely possible to own and use guns for a lifetime with no health damage to any living thing. It's impossible to smoke without incurring health damage.
Here's an experiment: What would happen if the government decreed that, henceforth, smoking anywhere was perfectly legal, but that no smoking product could have any amount of nicotine?
Agreed completely; just pointing out that if somebody makes a go at honestly making a 'homeopathic' solution, and fucks up the dilution process, well, you get poison instead of distilled water.
From the FUCKING SUMMARY:
There is the third possibility in this case: it is homeopathy, intended to be diluted, with a manufacturing defect.
Cool, now we're one step closer to making Hellbores.
There's social justice as in 'don't discriminate based on the color of one's skin,' then there's social justice as in 'tumblr thinks mayonnaise is a gender.'
Nah, when he was put in place, it was a backwater little desk posting, exactly like it should have been. He was literally in charge of cleaning up the physical mess left behind by the Cardassians.
Then they discover the wormhole, and Star Fleet wants to put somebody appropriate in charge, but they have to appease the locals, who now view The Sisko as the Emissary.
At least, that's how I remember it.
The Xbox used virtually bog-standard Celeron CPU and NVidia GPU; the only real special thing was a unifed memory architecture. The 360 was, IIRC, three PowerPC chips and a fairly standard AMD CPU.
The PS2, on the other hand, was custom silicon; the Emotion Engine and what not, while the PS3 was Cell architecture.
The PS1 and Dreamcast were both also fairly standard components, while the N64 was SGI custom.
Consoles are absolutely migrating towards being PCs with purpose-built cases, and backwards compatibility is becoming an expectation rather than a bonus, especially in this digital era, when you can get old titles from digital marketplaces.
So?
Oh no, a system makes an improvement, but not a perfect, 100 percent improvement, so what, lets throw out the improvement it *does* make?
I love my 'Monopoly Dot Com' edition, circa 2000; it brings back so many memories.
Yahoo! Geocities? Ask Jeeves? Excite@Home? MCI WorldCom? No Google? Good times.
Hell, this was back in the day when NASA's 'computers' were black women working in the basement.
There are a ton of cultural differences. I remember reading a fascinating book called 'The Culture Code' by a Frenchman who moved to the US at a relatively young age.
He points out, for example, in the US, the kitchen is a central gathering place in the home, and nice, stainless steel appliances are a status symbol. In France, on the other hand, guests would never ever see the kitchen, so the appliances are chosen strictly for utility.
Which female character are you talking about?
You know, the western world already has a whole body of law on 'how to know what you wanted' after you die. It's incredibly complex, but very simple: write a damn will. You should have one anyway, and update it every few years.
Check your state/provincial laws, but you can probably write one yourself, pretty easy. In Ontario, a 'holographic,' or completely hand-written, will is perfectly legal and valid. You can also find 'write a will' kits and templates easily enough, and they'll include health care directives, living wills, and all that stuff. If your estate is too complex for a mad-lib style will, you should already have a lawyer on retainer to do that sort of thing.
So?
No, the state's interest doesn't, which is why the person has the first, last, and final say. The family's wishes, of course, should have no bearing whatsoever; if Johnny's family is all against organ donation, but Johnny is for it, then Johnny's organ's get donated.
I'm all in favor of increasing organ donations -- making it trivial to sign up at any opportunity, etc. But what this law is effectively doing is removing ownership of the deceased person from the family and passing it to the state. I'm generally skeptical of any "opt-in" policies, and this one seems a bit worrying in terms of what it's saying legally about what the state can do.
No, what it's doing is setting up a default action when no other instructions are specified. Just like everything else that happens when you die; if you haven't specifically declared what happens to your property, chattels, dependents, and so on, there are default rules that kick in and attempt to dispose of everything. Just, up till relatively recently, those default rules were 'buried in accordance with local majority religious views.'
They could, sure. Hell, the government could, in theory, simply designate you for organ donation for the high Party officials, enslave your children, and induct your beloved cat Mittens into their harems.
Well, this is why we've seen developments in things like living wills and treatment directives. You assume that 'family members' should have a large amount of say in what happens to a loved one. I question that assertion; have ever since that episode of The Practice when Rebecca was badly injured, needed a blood transfusion, and her Jehovah's Witness parents refused it on religious grounds, on her behalf, while her friends and coworkers all swore up and down that Rebecca was not an adherent, and would want the transfusion.
We in the west also have a lot of State control based on old religious strictures; I, for one, do believe that a person (not their family, or the State) should be allo
Are transgendered persons persecuted? Sure.
Are they the most persecuted people on the planet? Hell no. There are full-on ethnic cleansings going on this very day.
If by 'blind hope,' you mean 'tracking down all possible leads, then sure.
And really, what does this cost the police? They send a request to Amazon saying 'please send any recordings that happen to exist for this account for this timeframe,' and Amazon sends back either a) any recordings that happen to exist, or b) a note saying that there aren't any.
I really fail to see the problem here.
How do they know, without checking?
All of the arguments I've seen here are boiling down to 'it's stupid.' I don't think so. I've had Siri trigger while listening to audiobooks or podcasts that haven't said anything I'd interpret as 'hey Siri.' It's not out of the realms of possibility that something might have gotten triggered, and an incredibly small chance is better than not checking.
And in a few years, who knows? Maybe when being murdered, people sill start shouting 'Hey Siri, I'm being murdered! Hey Alexa, I'm being murdered! OK Google, I'm being murdered!'
"Supplies are limited, act now!"
Or are you saying that anybody selling anything needs to have literally infinite stock?
I saw the headline on the main page, and the first thing that popped into my head is 'Oooh, must be Christmas. I wonder when they'll get around to DDOSing XBL and PSN.'
I may well stand corrected. I cannot, for the life of me, find the reference I'm fairly sure I'd found that explained all this.
Everything I'm reading now talks more about branding and KD being some sort of Canadian cultural icon.
Unlike the US, a lot of countries have consumer protection laws. If you buy something that's substantially different than was advertised, or it's not fit for purpose, or doesn't do what a reasonable person would expect it to do, you can get your money back.
For example, in Canada, what the US calls 'Kraft Mac and Cheese' is called 'Kraft Dinner.' It can't be advertised as 'cheese' because, well, it contains no cheese.
No, the thing here is that 10 bux US is simply too much for what you're getting. It's a single-button rhythm game that requires rote memorization of level layouts for optimal routing.
Buying DOOM, back in the day, however, got you a single-player experience, multiplayer, custom level creation, in an amazing new genre and experience.