You have no right to "be heard" and such a "right" means destroying other people's freedoms. The right to refuse to support something is just as much of a right as it is to support something. For example, if you disagree with the Ku Klux Klan's message, you don't have to support them, you don't have to give to them financially, etc. On the other hand, if there was a right "to be heard" it would mean that everyone would have to pay money to support the KKK's message, otherwise it would infringe on their rights. What we (should) have now is a better balance, the KKK is free to say what they want, people are free to support them if they wish, but you don't have to listen to them if you don't want to and you certainly don't have to financially support them.
Such things will happen so long as we don't elect our police officers and they are only responsible to their superiors which are also... police officers.
So in other words they are making sure that students can't quote (real) literature? Just about any decent book not intended for Kindergarteners has some swearing in it. Not only that but often schools have students read books with "Nigger" as a main part of the dialogue (Huckleberry Finn, To Kill A Mockingbird, etc.) making it nearly impossible to write an essay on that topic. Or what about quoting Shakespeare, this passage from A Midsummer's Night Dream comes to mind:
Made senseless things begin to do them wrong;
For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;
Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all
things catch.
I led them on in this distracted fear,
And left sweet Pyramus translated there:
When in that moment, so it came to pass,
Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.
Heck, half the comedy in the play revolves around the double meaning of the word ass.
The Kindle, along with the Nook and every other e-reader out there is distinctly different from a tablet, because they have one goal, make it easy to read on a screen. With e-ink, it looks just like paper and doesn't give you the eyestrain that an LCD or CRT does after reading for a few hours on it.
Um... How are they forcing people to view it? Last time I knew I didn't just open up Firefox and ZOMG Pr0n EVERYWHERE!!!! Except for some malware that puts up porn popups along with screwing up your system, you don't randomly go on the internet and see porn. Porn spam e-mails is like every other spam e-mail, have a decent enough filter and it won't go through. Such things are like saying lets ban Viagra because it happens to be the subject of many a spam e-mail.
Sure, but how much of it was slowing down your phone? How much of it was running in the background?
With an old clamshell, chances are those applications really aren't doing much to slow down your phone. With smartphones though, they are because they all run in the background even if you don't use them.
The thing is though, most professors really don't care about teaching, they care about research, and it makes sense. For example, if you have a passion for improving algorithms and really love researching them and have made great strides in the field and graduated near the top of your class for undergraduate work and got a PHd with no problem, you are going to get hired for a teaching job. Now, I don't know about you, but if I was that newly hired teacher I really wouldn't care all that much about the introductory programming class they put you with, teaching System.out.print to business majors who, aside from that one class, won't write a line of code in their lives.
Universities need to start hiring teachers based on their teaching abilities, a good teacher isn't always the best in their field and someone who is the best in their field isn't always the best teacher, especially since most of the time they don't even get to teach the class they have a passion for.
Right. Because so much of this would really protect informants. Like the no-fly list? Unless they randomly included a name in the middle that would show that it was a certain person's copy of the no-fly list how would that harm any informant? And if there was a random name surely multiple copies of the list could be found and you can combine the two and leave out whatever names aren't found on both of the copies.
Luigi's Mansion wasn't bad, I mean, it wasn't Super Mario World amazing but it was a fun little game. But at least with the GC they tried to give us something original. With the 3DS the only game on launch day worth noticing was Pilotwings Resort or Street Fighter IV: 3D and Pilotwings was far too short, and Street Fighter was a port. Of course, later on came Ocarina of Time 3D but when compared to the amount of content added for Super Mario 64 DS which was a launch title for the first DS, Ocarina of Time is disappointing. It is still a great game, it is just rather annoying that the developers decided not to add anything but a boss challenge mode.
But why not just go to YouTube and stream it from there? Surely there has to be a decent YouTube viewer that lets you run the app and the audio in the background.
That isn't Apple's model. That is the normal way of buying music that Apple only adopted after facing pressure from the community and competition from Amazon and others.
It is all just how people market music. It used to be that bands recorded albums and you generally bought albums. There really weren't many distinct "tracks" you put it on your record player and listened to it all the way through (and then played it backwards and listened to satanic messages). Things have slowly changed to track-oriented albums and now to the single. When it first came out, of course paying 99 cents for a song was a deal because music was usually offered only as a full CD, but there were only 1 or 2 songs worth listening to on that CD. Today, everything is a single online.
This is exactly what I need! More DRM'd music stores which most likely won't even have many of the bands I listen to! And not only are these DRM'd in the fact I have to listen to them in a cross-platform player but instead I have to stick to the same brand of phone! Sounds like one great deal to me!
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A game console's specs really don't matter. What really matters are the games. Perhaps I'm in the minority but I really don't care if a game doesn't have pure HD graphics and ray-tracing and other eye candy as long as the game is fun. Heck, I'd rather have worse graphics and get rid of loading screens on any game than have better graphics with loading screens. I'd rather have a fun FPS like Team Fortress 2 that doesn't have fancy graphics than a game with broken gameplay but has excellent graphics. Once you get past a certain point where the game isn't really limited (I'd say about the 16 bit era for 2D games and the PS2/GameCube/Xbox era for 3D games) improving the graphics doesn't significantly improve gameplay.
iPhone "gaming" annoys the heck out of me. Most of the "games" must be programmed for people with the attention span of a gnat. There really is no game to speak of. I don't need a 70+ hour RPG every time, but I expect a game to have at least a good 10 hours of gameplay in single player mode to complete the story or main objective in a modern 2011 game if I'm going to be paying any money at all for it.
The 3DS was launched -way- too soon. First, its battery life is pathetic, especially when compared to the DS Lite which can hold a charge for a long time. Secondly, what games were worth playing to buy a 3DS for on launch day? The launch was the worst launch I think I've seen on a console in recent memory. Third, its already nearly September and there are -still- no decent games out for the 3DS that aren't ports. Yes, I love Ocarina of Time, but do I really need it on a million different consoles with nothing added? After all, I can get it on the N64, on the GameCube (with the added Master Quest for free for pre-ordering Wind Waker), on the Wii (via Virtual Console for $10) and now on the 3DS? I mean, if there was some added content, a re-worked sountrack or something it would be a must have, but assuming you've already played it, what's the point? And yes, Street Fighter IV: 3D edition is good, but again, it is a port.
I think that there is a huge market for real handheld games, it is just both Sony and Nintendo aren't putting out any games worth buying at the moment.
But will it be fun? Hardware specs mean nothing if there aren't any good games for it. Hopefully Sony learns from Nintendo's mistake and actually has a decent library of games. Still waiting on a non-remake or original DS game to play on my 3DS I got as a gift back in June...
The censorship of anything is alarming. Especially government censorship. Censorship of anything, no matter how much you disagree with the content should be tolerated in any society. Now, of course there should be laws to prevent the leaking of information, and any government employee who leaks information should be fired on the spot and perhaps subjected to a fine or imprisonment based on the contract they signed, but the actual websites that post the leaked information should be 100% protected.
No, because statistics often don't include a lot of variables. For example, is the high schooler working a part time job included in there? What about the empty-nester mom who works because she likes the job, not because she needs the money. Also, standards of living change wildly depending on where you are and what sort of lifestyle you live. For example, how much does it cost them for basic needs? The person living in a $600 a month apartment (and yes, outside of big cities, $500-700 a month apartments are quite easily found) and lives in a place with cheaper groceries is going to have a better standard of living on the same amount of money than someone who is paying $1300 a month for an apartment in a place with expensive groceries.
There is no such thing as "normal people" because prices and living standards depend on what you want to do and where you live, and lumping everyone together is inaccurate and draws false conclusions.
Lulwut? Austrian economics is against patents which is what are keeping the drug market alive. Austrian economics disagrees with all of the red tape and mandatory insurance policies which is what keeps insurance companies anti-competitive, and Austrian economics also disagrees with handing out taxpayer money to private corporations which is exactly what has been done with telecoms to "modernize" the US.
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You have no right to "be heard" and such a "right" means destroying other people's freedoms. The right to refuse to support something is just as much of a right as it is to support something. For example, if you disagree with the Ku Klux Klan's message, you don't have to support them, you don't have to give to them financially, etc. On the other hand, if there was a right "to be heard" it would mean that everyone would have to pay money to support the KKK's message, otherwise it would infringe on their rights. What we (should) have now is a better balance, the KKK is free to say what they want, people are free to support them if they wish, but you don't have to listen to them if you don't want to and you certainly don't have to financially support them.
Such things will happen so long as we don't elect our police officers and they are only responsible to their superiors which are also... police officers.
Made senseless things begin to do them wrong; For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch; Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all things catch. I led them on in this distracted fear, And left sweet Pyramus translated there: When in that moment, so it came to pass, Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.
Heck, half the comedy in the play revolves around the double meaning of the word ass.
The Kindle, along with the Nook and every other e-reader out there is distinctly different from a tablet, because they have one goal, make it easy to read on a screen. With e-ink, it looks just like paper and doesn't give you the eyestrain that an LCD or CRT does after reading for a few hours on it.
Um... How are they forcing people to view it? Last time I knew I didn't just open up Firefox and ZOMG Pr0n EVERYWHERE!!!! Except for some malware that puts up porn popups along with screwing up your system, you don't randomly go on the internet and see porn. Porn spam e-mails is like every other spam e-mail, have a decent enough filter and it won't go through. Such things are like saying lets ban Viagra because it happens to be the subject of many a spam e-mail.
Sure, but if your hardware goes out, that makes it a bit trickier, especially if it is an important bit like the USB port or the screen.
No, they are impossible to get rid of unless you root your phone which voids your warranty in most cases.
Sure, but how much of it was slowing down your phone? How much of it was running in the background?
With an old clamshell, chances are those applications really aren't doing much to slow down your phone. With smartphones though, they are because they all run in the background even if you don't use them.
The thing is though, most professors really don't care about teaching, they care about research, and it makes sense. For example, if you have a passion for improving algorithms and really love researching them and have made great strides in the field and graduated near the top of your class for undergraduate work and got a PHd with no problem, you are going to get hired for a teaching job. Now, I don't know about you, but if I was that newly hired teacher I really wouldn't care all that much about the introductory programming class they put you with, teaching System.out.print to business majors who, aside from that one class, won't write a line of code in their lives.
Universities need to start hiring teachers based on their teaching abilities, a good teacher isn't always the best in their field and someone who is the best in their field isn't always the best teacher, especially since most of the time they don't even get to teach the class they have a passion for.
Right. Because so much of this would really protect informants. Like the no-fly list? Unless they randomly included a name in the middle that would show that it was a certain person's copy of the no-fly list how would that harm any informant? And if there was a random name surely multiple copies of the list could be found and you can combine the two and leave out whatever names aren't found on both of the copies.
So rather than denying employment and the like we instead seek to remove their constitutional rights!
By bringing it to the attention of the public we can expose the "security" scam and show that they are destroying our rights for no good reason.
Luigi's Mansion wasn't bad, I mean, it wasn't Super Mario World amazing but it was a fun little game. But at least with the GC they tried to give us something original. With the 3DS the only game on launch day worth noticing was Pilotwings Resort or Street Fighter IV: 3D and Pilotwings was far too short, and Street Fighter was a port. Of course, later on came Ocarina of Time 3D but when compared to the amount of content added for Super Mario 64 DS which was a launch title for the first DS, Ocarina of Time is disappointing. It is still a great game, it is just rather annoying that the developers decided not to add anything but a boss challenge mode.
...Because young people who aren't afraid to break the law in major ways are really terrified of infringing copyright by torrenting a few songs?
But why not just go to YouTube and stream it from there? Surely there has to be a decent YouTube viewer that lets you run the app and the audio in the background.
That isn't Apple's model. That is the normal way of buying music that Apple only adopted after facing pressure from the community and competition from Amazon and others.
It is all just how people market music. It used to be that bands recorded albums and you generally bought albums. There really weren't many distinct "tracks" you put it on your record player and listened to it all the way through (and then played it backwards and listened to satanic messages). Things have slowly changed to track-oriented albums and now to the single. When it first came out, of course paying 99 cents for a song was a deal because music was usually offered only as a full CD, but there were only 1 or 2 songs worth listening to on that CD. Today, everything is a single online.
This is exactly what I need! More DRM'd music stores which most likely won't even have many of the bands I listen to! And not only are these DRM'd in the fact I have to listen to them in a cross-platform player but instead I have to stick to the same brand of phone! Sounds like one great deal to me!
A game console's specs really don't matter. What really matters are the games. Perhaps I'm in the minority but I really don't care if a game doesn't have pure HD graphics and ray-tracing and other eye candy as long as the game is fun. Heck, I'd rather have worse graphics and get rid of loading screens on any game than have better graphics with loading screens. I'd rather have a fun FPS like Team Fortress 2 that doesn't have fancy graphics than a game with broken gameplay but has excellent graphics. Once you get past a certain point where the game isn't really limited (I'd say about the 16 bit era for 2D games and the PS2/GameCube/Xbox era for 3D games) improving the graphics doesn't significantly improve gameplay.
iPhone "gaming" annoys the heck out of me. Most of the "games" must be programmed for people with the attention span of a gnat. There really is no game to speak of. I don't need a 70+ hour RPG every time, but I expect a game to have at least a good 10 hours of gameplay in single player mode to complete the story or main objective in a modern 2011 game if I'm going to be paying any money at all for it.
The 3DS was launched -way- too soon. First, its battery life is pathetic, especially when compared to the DS Lite which can hold a charge for a long time. Secondly, what games were worth playing to buy a 3DS for on launch day? The launch was the worst launch I think I've seen on a console in recent memory. Third, its already nearly September and there are -still- no decent games out for the 3DS that aren't ports. Yes, I love Ocarina of Time, but do I really need it on a million different consoles with nothing added? After all, I can get it on the N64, on the GameCube (with the added Master Quest for free for pre-ordering Wind Waker), on the Wii (via Virtual Console for $10) and now on the 3DS? I mean, if there was some added content, a re-worked sountrack or something it would be a must have, but assuming you've already played it, what's the point? And yes, Street Fighter IV: 3D edition is good, but again, it is a port.
I think that there is a huge market for real handheld games, it is just both Sony and Nintendo aren't putting out any games worth buying at the moment.
But will it be fun? Hardware specs mean nothing if there aren't any good games for it. Hopefully Sony learns from Nintendo's mistake and actually has a decent library of games. Still waiting on a non-remake or original DS game to play on my 3DS I got as a gift back in June...
The censorship of anything is alarming. Especially government censorship. Censorship of anything, no matter how much you disagree with the content should be tolerated in any society. Now, of course there should be laws to prevent the leaking of information, and any government employee who leaks information should be fired on the spot and perhaps subjected to a fine or imprisonment based on the contract they signed, but the actual websites that post the leaked information should be 100% protected.
No, because statistics often don't include a lot of variables. For example, is the high schooler working a part time job included in there? What about the empty-nester mom who works because she likes the job, not because she needs the money. Also, standards of living change wildly depending on where you are and what sort of lifestyle you live. For example, how much does it cost them for basic needs? The person living in a $600 a month apartment (and yes, outside of big cities, $500-700 a month apartments are quite easily found) and lives in a place with cheaper groceries is going to have a better standard of living on the same amount of money than someone who is paying $1300 a month for an apartment in a place with expensive groceries.
There is no such thing as "normal people" because prices and living standards depend on what you want to do and where you live, and lumping everyone together is inaccurate and draws false conclusions.
But in effect a million blogs were censored in Argentina. The headline is correct.
*Keeping the anti-competitive drug market alive
Killing patents wouldn't kill the drug market, only the extortion racket.
Lulwut? Austrian economics is against patents which is what are keeping the drug market alive. Austrian economics disagrees with all of the red tape and mandatory insurance policies which is what keeps insurance companies anti-competitive, and Austrian economics also disagrees with handing out taxpayer money to private corporations which is exactly what has been done with telecoms to "modernize" the US.
...Because the previous administrations gave them $$$$ if they would "improve" the communications of America.