Re:Free Punch Card
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Why We Fight
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Do the customer service reps get bricks too? I can think of a few customers that I was forced to be courteous to who could really use a brick through something they value.
How is it evil? Just because you don't believe in a validity of a certain way of governing (attempting to strictly control information) doesn't mean that it's evil. That whole ethnocentric thing is tricky, eh?
Just because they don't agree with a country's laws, doesn't mean that they can break those laws!
Telecommute? Go in at an odd hour? Or, you know, actually communicate with your office coworkers and let them know that you'd like such and such a time or day free? It's not like they are chained to an 8-5 schedule.
"Due to a supply chain error, thousands of XBox 360s had heaters installed instead of fans. If the plastic on your XBox melts, turn it off immediately!"
You would sue out of annoyance? You would be understanding if someone sued out of annoyance?
It would take severe bodily harm resulting from normal, advertised use of the product to get me to sue.
Like, if, the XBox 360 randomly rockets forward out of the entertainment center at my head. Or if the controllers spiked your hands, or emitted powerful electric shocks. Something, you know, that's actually serious.
I'd worry more about the upcoming requirement of a digitally "secure" connection (HMDI or secure DVI) to access full HDTV quality content. HDTV content sent over an "unsecure" connection (e.g. component video cables) will be downscaled.
You are missing the point of what wikipedia is. It is not a replacement for traditional research as you describe (of course, no researcher worth any amount of salt would start with ana encyclopedia), rather it is a storehouse for people to share what they know.
A researcher could write up an article on his latest topic of study, a scientist could write up an article about her little known subject. Of course it isn't vetted, but it isn't supposed to be.
Includes an interview with the guy by a local radio station.
Re:There are many Christians like us.
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The ESRB Gets An 'F'
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· Score: 2, Interesting
(Then there's the 99.3% chance that consciousness is just an illusion and there is nothing after we die and the 1.0-1e-37% chance that even if there is a supreme being, he is nothing like anything described in any particular religious canon.)
Our brains control our perception of time (which is another way of saying that, ultimately, we control our perception of time). How do you know that the "afterlife" isn't the creation of the consciousness that is aware that its support system is shutting down? Would our minds simply stop recording time and infinitly time-stretch a perfectly real dream?
Just because the market is flooded with games, doesn't mean that there are any less good (i.e. innovative) games. They are just lost to those without eyes to see.
Think back, back, back to the Nintendo or even the Atari days. Back when all games were apparently original and fun. Well of course they were all original, they were all NEW; but all fun? Really.
Did you ever encounter or (heaven forbid) play:
Journey Escape? - play the band, avoid the evil managers and photographers (seriously) Hot Dog Maze? - play pac-man...again! Smurf Rescue? Tiger Heli? Wall Street Kid? Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves? Yo! Noid? The Incredible Crashtest Dummies?
Take off the rose colored glasses. There have always been crap games. There have always been fun and innovative games. The only thing that's changed is that you've gotten more nostalgic for your childhood pastime.
1) I doubt this thing will be fast enough to transcode a TV show in a timeframe deemed acceptable to Apple's high QA standards.
Apple has a QA standard to tv transcoding? The closest thing I can think of is an iDVD encoding which can take hours on my dual 1.8Ghz. I'm sure that a mac mini can transcode a tv show to low res in less than hours. Hell, even with the hardware that's in the little boxes now shows could almost be transcoded on the fly. How is that not good enough?
2) Revenue sources (why would anyone buy what they can set their shiny new Apple PVR to record?)
The same reason people with tivos still buy DVDs, extra content. If you refer to the music store, then I submit that their ultimate goal is to be the content distribution medium for videos and shows that *aren't* on network television. Think of Star Trek: Beyond; now replace Star Trek with New, Brilliantly Written, Made by the Viewer tv show. Such a beast could never hope to reach a market via television unless they were very lucky; but now anyone can make a show and get it on iTunes.
3) Fear of getting sued.
Silly. It would be no more than a portable tivo.
Re:Let's just have one Linux desktop
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KDE 3.5 Released
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· Score: 5, Insightful
You speak as though Linux developers want to make it easy. Some do. Some don't. Some don't care. You can't really talk as though Linux is a cohesive business, for it is neither.
Depends on the screen. If your HDTV anything but CRT you are unfortunately SOL for zapper guns.
And:
Of COURSE most titles are reworks and sequels. They sell, they've always sold. There are gems out there, but not every title on the shelf is a new work of art.
Think of it like this:
early days of gaming -> everything is NEW modern days of gaming -> same number of NEW titles, but lots more sequel titles that drown them out for those without eyes to see
Woo! Rock on with the stable and happy marriage! My wife and I also have a great relationship. I like to play video games, she likes to watch (some) video games. Burnout 4 = not so spectator friendly. Resident Evil 4 = more fun than a cheesy movie. Indigo Prophecy was an awesome find for both of us.
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I guess saboteur has a cooler ring to it than "team killer".
This is supposed to be a new artform.
It is what it is. (in you perception)
I.e. What do you think it is? Then it is so.
Do the customer service reps get bricks too? I can think of a few customers that I was forced to be courteous to who could really use a brick through something they value.
How is it evil? Just because you don't believe in a validity of a certain way of governing (attempting to strictly control information) doesn't mean that it's evil. That whole ethnocentric thing is tricky, eh?
Just because they don't agree with a country's laws, doesn't mean that they can break those laws!
Telecommute? Go in at an odd hour? Or, you know, actually communicate with your office coworkers and let them know that you'd like such and such a time or day free? It's not like they are chained to an 8-5 schedule.
They don't track the tires at speed, but at border crossings and the like.
That's some kinda overheat!
"Due to a supply chain error, thousands of XBox 360s had heaters installed instead of fans. If the plastic on your XBox melts, turn it off immediately!"
You would sue out of annoyance? You would be understanding if someone sued out of annoyance?
It would take severe bodily harm resulting from normal, advertised use of the product to get me to sue.
Like, if, the XBox 360 randomly rockets forward out of the entertainment center at my head. Or if the controllers spiked your hands, or emitted powerful electric shocks. Something, you know, that's actually serious.
Gui loft?
http://user.bahnhof.se/~johanl/perl/Loft/
Ruby, Perl, Python?
Sure basic was easy, but it was very...basic.
I'd worry more about the upcoming requirement of a digitally "secure" connection (HMDI or secure DVI) to access full HDTV quality content. HDTV content sent over an "unsecure" connection (e.g. component video cables) will be downscaled.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds22406.html
Why so?
Did you also complain when the Lord of the Rings trailers didn't mention the books?
Or when commercials home versions of arcade games don't mention that arcades had it first?
The mundane tasks are never done, you get constant sources of satisfaction and a small (but fake) feeling of accomplishment.
If you feel it, it isn't fake.
Unless there is no "boss".
So just rename the extension to .foo or whatever. Works for me.
You are missing the point of what wikipedia is. It is not a replacement for traditional research as you describe (of course, no researcher worth any amount of salt would start with ana encyclopedia), rather it is a storehouse for people to share what they know.
A researcher could write up an article on his latest topic of study, a scientist could write up an article about her little known subject. Of course it isn't vetted, but it isn't supposed to be.
Yeah, until you get to the end (after ever so much annoyance and frustration) and get the prize: the game restarts! Woo!
It was fun for ten minutes. Even better, I passed up Contra to get that crap.
More info on the famous Christmas lights video.
Includes an interview with the guy by a local radio station.
(Then there's the 99.3% chance that consciousness is just an illusion and there is nothing after we die and the 1.0-1e-37% chance that even if there is a supreme being, he is nothing like anything described in any particular religious canon.)
Our brains control our perception of time (which is another way of saying that, ultimately, we control our perception of time). How do you know that the "afterlife" isn't the creation of the consciousness that is aware that its support system is shutting down? Would our minds simply stop recording time and infinitly time-stretch a perfectly real dream?
The Adept series has quite a bit more sex, especially more explicit sex, than at least the first sixteen books in the Xanth series.
Just because the market is flooded with games, doesn't mean that there are any less good (i.e. innovative) games. They are just lost to those without eyes to see.
Think back, back, back to the Nintendo or even the Atari days. Back when all games were apparently original and fun. Well of course they were all original, they were all NEW; but all fun? Really.
Did you ever encounter or (heaven forbid) play:
Journey Escape? - play the band, avoid the evil managers and photographers (seriously)
Hot Dog Maze? - play pac-man...again!
Smurf Rescue?
Tiger Heli?
Wall Street Kid?
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves?
Yo! Noid?
The Incredible Crashtest Dummies?
Take off the rose colored glasses. There have always been crap games. There have always been fun and innovative games. The only thing that's changed is that you've gotten more nostalgic for your childhood pastime.
1) I doubt this thing will be fast enough to transcode a TV show in a timeframe deemed acceptable to Apple's high QA standards.
Apple has a QA standard to tv transcoding? The closest thing I can think of is an iDVD encoding which can take hours on my dual 1.8Ghz. I'm sure that a mac mini can transcode a tv show to low res in less than hours. Hell, even with the hardware that's in the little boxes now shows could almost be transcoded on the fly. How is that not good enough?
2) Revenue sources (why would anyone buy what they can set their shiny new Apple PVR to record?)
The same reason people with tivos still buy DVDs, extra content. If you refer to the music store, then I submit that their ultimate goal is to be the content distribution medium for videos and shows that *aren't* on network television. Think of Star Trek: Beyond; now replace Star Trek with New, Brilliantly Written, Made by the Viewer tv show. Such a beast could never hope to reach a market via television unless they were very lucky; but now anyone can make a show and get it on iTunes.
3) Fear of getting sued.
Silly. It would be no more than a portable tivo.
You speak as though Linux developers want to make it easy. Some do. Some don't. Some don't care. You can't really talk as though Linux is a cohesive business, for it is neither.
Depends on the screen. If your HDTV anything but CRT you are unfortunately SOL for zapper guns.
And:
Of COURSE most titles are reworks and sequels. They sell, they've always sold. There are gems out there, but not every title on the shelf is a new work of art.
Think of it like this:
early days of gaming -> everything is NEW
modern days of gaming -> same number of NEW titles, but lots more sequel titles that drown them out for those without eyes to see
Woo! Rock on with the stable and happy marriage! My wife and I also have a great relationship. I like to play video games, she likes to watch (some) video games. Burnout 4 = not so spectator friendly. Resident Evil 4 = more fun than a cheesy movie. Indigo Prophecy was an awesome find for both of us.
Yeah, it's all fun!