What kind of question is this? If people will purchase it and the developer can make money on it I don't think an entertainment company has any moral obligation to do delay a product in any way.
In good taste? Maybe not, but that wasn't the question.
That is also assuming evolution was somehow a directed thing that always provided a useful mutation.
If I started poisoning everyone in my neighborhood with arsenic, I doubt we would see babies being born with an immunity, even if we waited a few hundred years.
The only problem I have is that what do you do with a device that will be 10x13, cannot bend, and costs $300? I love my Kindle 2, but if you make it any bigger it just isn't portable anymore.
I think flexible e-ink displays that can roll up/fold might be the salvation of newspapers, but the current style just won't cut it for the mainstream.
I'm all for bringing up issues that can hurt a new system, but what is with the total hostility to new things lately? Has the economy really made people so depressed that things like increased science funding and electronic medical systems (that Slashdot has been pining over for years!) finally start to happen everyone just craps on them?
That is the whole problem people, everyone gets negative, no-one wants to spend anything, nothing gets spent and the whole thing keeps going down in flames.
Because I doubt even half of console owners have the broadband pipe to use an online service like that. And many that do have caps. I'm not going to pay $1 per GB for a game on top of what my rental charges. It would probably work in Japan.
I am pretty sure people are working on cures...but in the meantime why not save lives while we can?
I think the hypothetical question you raise, while valid, does not stand up against the weight of human lives.
I know everyone wants to moan and complain about this, but you might try contacting the white house and your congress critters and let them know this is a concern...this is an ongoing matter from a previous administration so don't expect a big 180 degree turn unless you let the new administration know it is a concern.
Without being a conspiracy theorist or knee jerker.
I think so many at Slashdot hate Gates because they have some bohemian ideal about the way a company should be run.
Bill Gates ran Microsoft like 95% of CEO's run their companies. Slashdot is just more familiar with the details of Microsoft and Bill Gates, so he gets a lot of attention.
The above parents points are all about how a for-profit company is trying to generate revenue by locking out the competition...shocking!!!
If MS did not do this kind of thing their stockholders would revolt, and be justified in doing so. Welcome to the real world guys.
Man, I just don't get this. ME really sucked. Vista is stable, has some nice eye candy, and seems to avoid infection better than XP. The only thing against it is a performance hit and driver issues that even a die hard Linux guy will say is not the fault of MS. One of our engineers rants about how much he hates Vista, but it is all silly things like the changed start menu and control panel. We heard the same stuff when XP came out.
I can accept someone saying Vista is not a large improvement over XP (and agree) but I really don't get the hate. We run Vista on about 50 PC's, and another 70 have XP, and the Vista machines do not give us any headaches. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?
Or is it all UAC? The UAC you can just turn off?
The net there did tend to be slow, and a decent amount of sites were blocked. Porn is hard to get (not that I looked, haha) and some news sites were blocked. CNN would not work, but Fox, MSN and the BBC would. Google worked, but Google image search would not. Very hit and miss. And a couple times sites would work for a couple days, then disappear.
The thing that surprised me is that it is very hard to get English versions of popular webpages. Site you are used to seeing are suddenly totally different when you log on from a Chinese IP. Not really censorship, just audience targeting.
I would recommend a trip to China though. My main take-away is that the people are just about like all the others. Most are decent, some suck, some are great. Very homogenized though, in nine days in Dalian (6 million people) I saw about 10 westerners and they were all from Europe. I saw one group of black people in Beijing. I have never had so many people stare at me in my life, it was like one of those dreams when you suddenly discover everyone in staring because you are naked.
Why is that unreasonable though? The music is basically the raw material they need to buy. 10.5% overhead for raw material is not bad. Actually this seems like the most reasonable thing I have heard from the RIAA in a long time.
But of course, anything that is not free is too expensive on Slashdot.
I would, I've been having tons of fun, RvR is a blast. The nice thing is you don't have to grind to have fun like WoW, you get to have fun right off the bat.
This is sort of a silly question, because it can be very different depending on what the company does, what the atmosphere is like, and how much money.
We have two IT people. Our company has one main office and two remote sites, with a total of about 150 people. We probably only have 110 computers though. But we have SQL servers, accounting software, SharePoint, remote access, and all the various other projects that come up. The awkward part of being in a company that size is there is no room for specialists, the two of us need to be competent in every aspect of our IT infrastructure, unless we want to spend a bundle on outside help.
That is what makes it interesting though:)
What about having a few images in a row, say dog, cat, horse, cow, building, and then having words below them and asking people to match the words to the pictures? You take out spelling errors and such, it is easy to use, but the possible combination are still very high. Maybe throw in a junk word to make it harder.
Or has this already been done?
I have noticed a big surge in spam on MSN messenger. I get three or four messages from people not on my contact list a day for Viagra or "sexy singles", all from names like, "kghemvi837276fgk" Last year I was getting maybe one a week.
I think the news here is that you would not have to bring native soil to Mars if you wanted to farm. Yea, you would have to farm under a dome but at least you don't have to transport a few tons of topsoil!
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What kind of question is this? If people will purchase it and the developer can make money on it I don't think an entertainment company has any moral obligation to do delay a product in any way. In good taste? Maybe not, but that wasn't the question.
Which is why Sweden has such a huge problem with poverty?
That is also assuming evolution was somehow a directed thing that always provided a useful mutation. If I started poisoning everyone in my neighborhood with arsenic, I doubt we would see babies being born with an immunity, even if we waited a few hundred years.
The only problem I have is that what do you do with a device that will be 10x13, cannot bend, and costs $300? I love my Kindle 2, but if you make it any bigger it just isn't portable anymore. I think flexible e-ink displays that can roll up/fold might be the salvation of newspapers, but the current style just won't cut it for the mainstream.
I'm all for bringing up issues that can hurt a new system, but what is with the total hostility to new things lately? Has the economy really made people so depressed that things like increased science funding and electronic medical systems (that Slashdot has been pining over for years!) finally start to happen everyone just craps on them? That is the whole problem people, everyone gets negative, no-one wants to spend anything, nothing gets spent and the whole thing keeps going down in flames.
Because I doubt even half of console owners have the broadband pipe to use an online service like that. And many that do have caps. I'm not going to pay $1 per GB for a game on top of what my rental charges. It would probably work in Japan.
Isn't the chemistry of our brain just analogous to software then?
I am pretty sure people are working on cures...but in the meantime why not save lives while we can? I think the hypothetical question you raise, while valid, does not stand up against the weight of human lives.
I know everyone wants to moan and complain about this, but you might try contacting the white house and your congress critters and let them know this is a concern...this is an ongoing matter from a previous administration so don't expect a big 180 degree turn unless you let the new administration know it is a concern. Without being a conspiracy theorist or knee jerker.
I think so many at Slashdot hate Gates because they have some bohemian ideal about the way a company should be run. Bill Gates ran Microsoft like 95% of CEO's run their companies. Slashdot is just more familiar with the details of Microsoft and Bill Gates, so he gets a lot of attention. The above parents points are all about how a for-profit company is trying to generate revenue by locking out the competition...shocking!!! If MS did not do this kind of thing their stockholders would revolt, and be justified in doing so. Welcome to the real world guys.
Man, I just don't get this. ME really sucked. Vista is stable, has some nice eye candy, and seems to avoid infection better than XP. The only thing against it is a performance hit and driver issues that even a die hard Linux guy will say is not the fault of MS. One of our engineers rants about how much he hates Vista, but it is all silly things like the changed start menu and control panel. We heard the same stuff when XP came out. I can accept someone saying Vista is not a large improvement over XP (and agree) but I really don't get the hate. We run Vista on about 50 PC's, and another 70 have XP, and the Vista machines do not give us any headaches. Maybe I'm doing it wrong? Or is it all UAC? The UAC you can just turn off?
I am 24, and make about 50k a year with good benefits doing administration with another guy for a company with about 150 employees.
How do you protect this from gaming though? Imagine what Wikipedia, or Google Search even, would turn in to when billion dollar laws were at stake.
The net there did tend to be slow, and a decent amount of sites were blocked. Porn is hard to get (not that I looked, haha) and some news sites were blocked. CNN would not work, but Fox, MSN and the BBC would. Google worked, but Google image search would not. Very hit and miss. And a couple times sites would work for a couple days, then disappear. The thing that surprised me is that it is very hard to get English versions of popular webpages. Site you are used to seeing are suddenly totally different when you log on from a Chinese IP. Not really censorship, just audience targeting. I would recommend a trip to China though. My main take-away is that the people are just about like all the others. Most are decent, some suck, some are great. Very homogenized though, in nine days in Dalian (6 million people) I saw about 10 westerners and they were all from Europe. I saw one group of black people in Beijing. I have never had so many people stare at me in my life, it was like one of those dreams when you suddenly discover everyone in staring because you are naked.
Why is that unreasonable though? The music is basically the raw material they need to buy. 10.5% overhead for raw material is not bad. Actually this seems like the most reasonable thing I have heard from the RIAA in a long time. But of course, anything that is not free is too expensive on Slashdot.
I would, I've been having tons of fun, RvR is a blast. The nice thing is you don't have to grind to have fun like WoW, you get to have fun right off the bat.
This is sort of a silly question, because it can be very different depending on what the company does, what the atmosphere is like, and how much money. We have two IT people. Our company has one main office and two remote sites, with a total of about 150 people. We probably only have 110 computers though. But we have SQL servers, accounting software, SharePoint, remote access, and all the various other projects that come up. The awkward part of being in a company that size is there is no room for specialists, the two of us need to be competent in every aspect of our IT infrastructure, unless we want to spend a bundle on outside help. That is what makes it interesting though :)
What about having a few images in a row, say dog, cat, horse, cow, building, and then having words below them and asking people to match the words to the pictures? You take out spelling errors and such, it is easy to use, but the possible combination are still very high. Maybe throw in a junk word to make it harder. Or has this already been done?
I have noticed a big surge in spam on MSN messenger. I get three or four messages from people not on my contact list a day for Viagra or "sexy singles", all from names like, "kghemvi837276fgk" Last year I was getting maybe one a week.
I think the news here is that you would not have to bring native soil to Mars if you wanted to farm. Yea, you would have to farm under a dome but at least you don't have to transport a few tons of topsoil!