Because too many state and municipal governments depend of speeding tickets for revenue. In my state, Pennsylvania, the state police had some quarrel with the governor and in retaliation they refused to ticket motorists for minor speeding infractions.
What happened? In less than a week the govornor caved in because the state stood to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue.
If this were to be proposed in the US, everyone from the mayors of podunk towns to the govornors, senators, and representatives of every state would be outspoken opponents because the only way to make up for the lost money would be to raise taxes. Voters don't like that.
It's not an engineer's job to determine if it's something that people want. Is it possible? Does this violate my own code of ethics? Those are the only concerns.
I owned an 8 bit master system, when Sega shipped the Genesis they said that they were going to continue Master System development. They kept that promise for allof about 2 months. Then the Sega CD and 32X were treated the same way when the Saturn shipped. Finally Saturn users were anally violated by Sega when they shipped the DC. Now all of those people who were loyal to Sega will take it in the butt again.
After the Genesis, I swore to never buy another Sega console system again, I'm as happy as ever about that decision.
Sega gets no more chances to stick a red hot poker in my eye.
Now that I've sworn off all console systems, I couldn't care less who is making or discontinuing what and what is or isn't vaporous.
I'm a PC gamer now, at least until something better comes along.
I personally don't care about the adoption of Linux by "enterprise". I couldn't care less, in fact I think that the more Big Money Computing gets into it the more likely OS forks are.
Let's say that IBM forks the code to get a special function out of one of their high end boxes, and Compaq thinks that it was a good idea, because of the GPL they will have access to that code and make the changes that they see fit. BANG another fork, then HP changes Compaq's code. BANG another fork. Then Cray changes HP's changes, BANG el forko.
Is this about lining executive's pockets with more money or with making the best free software possible?
Whenever the suits get a hold of some new technology they have obligations to their shareholders to make a profit and they bastardize that technology to do that.
Corporate interest in GUIs lead to Windows 3.x. Corporate interest in the internet lead to demands that the internet be regulated to protect their profit margins and to "protect" the children.
Linux and free software are enigmas to them, they're something that they can't control no matter how much money they spend. How can the principles of free software be upheld if the most visible success thereof is handed over to the controlling interests on the big money tech sector? They can't be. If the suits got frustrated with Linux and turned their backs on it, would that really be such a bad thing?
Is this about getting the best free software available, or is it about making money and putting boxen on desks?
Actually I do support censorship, but only of extremist opinions that have no basis in a civilized society.
Then who decides what is "extreme", what shouldn't be discussed in a civilized society?
What happens when something that YOU care about is on the hit list? All people must be allowed to speak, however we remain free to laugh at them when they make fools of themselves.
Cauliflowered ears, burst eyes - it's a regular thing.
And this is something to be proud of? It's just as inane and idiotic when the europeans sacrifice the use of their bodies for a game as when americans do it.
This is like watching two morons debate who is the stupider of the two.
I have read all these comments and replies and what is YOUR PROBLEM LK?
My problem is my annoyance with the football zombies who care about nothing but watching "the game".
Are you one of those wounded black people who think that because they are a prosperous geek now, that they can knock everything that appears to go against being a geek?
My race is no more of an issue with this than the fact that I'm right handed.
Something for black people everywhere to look down upon.
I'm a republican too. I am looked down upon by dimwits of every color.
It's people like you that perpetuate the poor human condition of our world.
Yeah, football is the answer to all of the world's problems huh?
Oh, I get it. You long ago stopped using your brain for anything other than propping up your wounded ego and mental masturbation. No great tragedy, I suppose.
On sunday when you're inthralled in football, I'll be reading. To do any one thing to the exclusion of all others is idiocy. Why don't football zombies see this?
Gee, Sparky, I watch football. I guess that means I'm some kind of fat-assed moron.
If (and that's IF) you are one of those Al Bundy types whose eyes glaze over when that first football game starts on any given sunday and you don't move until the last one is over, yes.
News agencies are too busy trying to figure out how to cram more useless gerbage into their already fatuous programs of rapidly declining relevance.
Like the scrolling displays of football scores at the bottom on the screen?
It should be fairly obvious why sport organizations have large amount of money: many people watch sports, and the sports organizations sell their eyeballs for large sums of cash.
Because these Al Bundy's won't get their fat asses off of the sofa, or change the channel.
It makes no sense to me that a love for play and for learning should be supressed when a person gets old.
I have a couple of little cousins that would love to play candyland with you.
Did it occur to you that maybe this is only a debut, and will LIKELY spread to many other endeavors both sporting and otherwise?
Yes, and the fact that it took a football game to roll it out is sad.
2) You shouldn't make a big deal out of how idiotic you think football is. as your links tell me, you happen to be obsessed by playing computer games over a LAN.
Enjoy? Yes. Obsessed with? No. On every sunday afternoon I don't have my hindquarters glued to a chair while I game. Many (not all, but many) football heads don't move except to get another beer, and to um, recycle their previous beer.
I didn't like bozo jocks in high school either, but I like football. sorry you think I'm a moron.
Whether or not you're one of the morons that I was ranting about depends on whether football is a passtime or an obsession.
I played football in highschool, but it was just a game. It's not an amalgamation of real life events and values. It's a GAME. I was also on my school's chess team. I was also on the track team.
Martial arts is not a "sport" in the traditional sense of the term.
I never got beaten up by a football player. So you can hang your pseudo psychoanalysis up, you'll never make a living at it.
The strategy of the game? Offense. Move the ball that way. Defense. Keep them from moving the ball this way. It's simple. That's why so many simpletons are enthralled by it.
Then again, you are just a troll. That's why you're anonymous.
Assassinations are rarely random. People worth assassinating are in public for short periods of time, usually in a small designated area.
It wouldn't be terribly difficult to set up as preparation for a press conference.
While we're at is, why not boxing? Why not hockey? Why not soccer? Why not tennis? Why not gymnastics? Each of those sports could use this technology just as much as, if not more than the NFL. But the mindless drones who are ass locked to the couch on sunday will make it financially possible to pull off.
I'm 6'1" and weigh about #220. I'm not fat by any stretch of the imagination. I've been a student of Go Ju Do, Kenpo, Shotokan, Jui Jitsu and Aikido. You couldn't kick my ass if I were asleep.
Get out of your dream world, moron and realize that there are somethings that are better to get excited about than whacking off at your computer while viewing newsgroup porn, because I know you don't get no chicks with an attitude like that.
So, you get excited by watching all of those big burly men in tight shiny pants huh? I do alright in the "chicks" department. I'm no Cassanova, but I get my fair share of action.
At least football promotes all of the basic fundamentals of humanity. Violence, intelligence, strategy, teamwork, and winner takes all.
Intelligence? Dream on! Just listen to the average football player give an interview. Because they were good at running while holding a ball, or at stopping people who run while holding a ball, they got an easy time in school. They never had to learn anything because the were good at playing a game. For grown men to do irreparable damage to their bodies for a GAME is not intelligent.
I bet you got your ass beat every day you went to school because you were a whiny bitchy little wimp that couldn't hack it.
I gave more ass kickings that I got. Sometimes to dimwitted jocks.
Are you one of those Al Bundy types, who sits on the sofa all day, with one hand down his pants and the other rubbing on his fat belly, while you watch the game, talking about how you "used to play a little high school ball."?
People like you make me embarrassed to be an American.
-rant
It makes me sad to be an American when something like this develops. Joe Sixpack doesn't care about this technology when it could be used to cover newsworthy events. Hey, let's take another look at that assassination attempt to see WHO was actually firing. NO WAY, Let's make sure that the reciever made his two steps in bounds before he went out!
It is depressing when I watch someone's eyes glaze over when a football game is on. People spend entire holidays sitting on their fat asses feeding their faces and watching the same moronic game over and over again all day.
Why wasn't this developed for use by a news agency? Was it a question of funding? If so, why then does the sports dept. get that amount of funding?
American football is a children's game being played all to often by overgrown babies.
Getting media that will be playable on j. random commercial DVD player isn't possible for the average consumer,
Well, according to Apple, their new DVD authoring software will enable anyone with a new G4 to create content that will be playable on any commercial DVD player.
You are correct, I should have said that nuclear is the cleanest VIABLE energy source. Hydroelectric, wave, and geothermal can't be deployed everywhere. Solar and wind can't produce enough electricity to meet the demands, and natural gas produces CO2, and since natural gas is a fossil fuel there is only a limited supply. See the current natural gas price averages?
You raise several interesting points. There has been some speculation that some military higher ups may have known that the attack on Pearl Harbor was coming, that's why so much of the fleet was out at sea. But that's neither here nor there.
If the guns on the Maginot line has been about to turn 360 degrees and (very important) the Germans didn't know that they could, it would have changed much about the invasion of France. The germans would have most likely taken the country anyway, but they would have incurred much heavier losses in the process.
The eco-whackos in California have opposed the construction of new power plants in CA despite the fact that it's long been known that the current power generation capacity wouldn't be enough.
Coal power plants do cause quite a great deal of air pollution, and the cleanest power that we have, nuclear, has become such a political hot potato in the land of fruits and nuts that nobody with half a brain is going to be involved with the creation of one.
A BIG case of short sightness on the part of the french was that the guns on the Maginot line couldn't be turned around. After all, they never thought that they'd get attacked FROM french soil. The germans flanked them.
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No, someone is impersonating me.
Because too many state and municipal governments depend of speeding tickets for revenue. In my state, Pennsylvania, the state police had some quarrel with the governor and in retaliation they refused to ticket motorists for minor speeding infractions.
What happened? In less than a week the govornor caved in because the state stood to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue.
If this were to be proposed in the US, everyone from the mayors of podunk towns to the govornors, senators, and representatives of every state would be outspoken opponents because the only way to make up for the lost money would be to raise taxes. Voters don't like that.
LK
It's not an engineer's job to determine if it's something that people want. Is it possible? Does this violate my own code of ethics? Those are the only concerns.
LK
Your sig, is that from Red Rocket's Glare?
LK
There was the MasterGear converter that allowed Master System games to be played on the Game Gear, but I'm unaware of a convertor to go the opposite.
Sega also promised a convertor to play Master System games on the genesis, but I never saw one in a store in my area.
LK
I owned an 8 bit master system, when Sega shipped the Genesis they said that they were going to continue Master System development. They kept that promise for allof about 2 months. Then the Sega CD and 32X were treated the same way when the Saturn shipped. Finally Saturn users were anally violated by Sega when they shipped the DC. Now all of those people who were loyal to Sega will take it in the butt again.
After the Genesis, I swore to never buy another Sega console system again, I'm as happy as ever about that decision.
Sega gets no more chances to stick a red hot poker in my eye.
Now that I've sworn off all console systems, I couldn't care less who is making or discontinuing what and what is or isn't vaporous.
I'm a PC gamer now, at least until something better comes along.
LK
I personally don't care about the adoption of Linux by "enterprise". I couldn't care less, in fact I think that the more Big Money Computing gets into it the more likely OS forks are.
Let's say that IBM forks the code to get a special function out of one of their high end boxes, and Compaq thinks that it was a good idea, because of the GPL they will have access to that code and make the changes that they see fit. BANG another fork, then HP changes Compaq's code. BANG another fork. Then Cray changes HP's changes, BANG el forko.
Is this about lining executive's pockets with more money or with making the best free software possible?
LK
hahahahahahahahahahaha
That was funny, are you going to call me a buster next?
Put down your "gangsta" rap tape and pick up a book.
LK
Wait, you voted for Bush? And you don't like corporations sticking their fingers into everything you hold dear?
I vote primarily on the issues of gun control and abortion. Given the choices, Bush was the only alternative that I had.
LK
Whenever the suits get a hold of some new technology they have obligations to their shareholders to make a profit and they bastardize that technology to do that.
Corporate interest in GUIs lead to Windows 3.x. Corporate interest in the internet lead to demands that the internet be regulated to protect their profit margins and to "protect" the children.
Linux and free software are enigmas to them, they're something that they can't control no matter how much money they spend. How can the principles of free software be upheld if the most visible success thereof is handed over to the controlling interests on the big money tech sector? They can't be. If the suits got frustrated with Linux and turned their backs on it, would that really be such a bad thing?
Is this about getting the best free software available, or is it about making money and putting boxen on desks?
LK
Actually I do support censorship, but only of extremist opinions that have no basis in a civilized society.
Then who decides what is "extreme", what shouldn't be discussed in a civilized society?
What happens when something that YOU care about is on the hit list? All people must be allowed to speak, however we remain free to laugh at them when they make fools of themselves.
LK
Cauliflowered ears, burst eyes - it's a regular thing.
And this is something to be proud of? It's just as inane and idiotic when the europeans sacrifice the use of their bodies for a game as when americans do it.
This is like watching two morons debate who is the stupider of the two.
LK
I have read all these comments and replies and what is YOUR PROBLEM LK?
My problem is my annoyance with the football zombies who care about nothing but watching "the game".
Are you one of those wounded black people who think that because they are a prosperous geek now, that they can knock everything that appears to go against being a geek?
My race is no more of an issue with this than the fact that I'm right handed.
Something for black people everywhere to look down upon.
I'm a republican too. I am looked down upon by dimwits of every color.
It's people like you that perpetuate the poor human condition of our world.
Yeah, football is the answer to all of the world's problems huh?
LK
Oh, I get it. You long ago stopped using your brain for anything other than propping up your wounded ego and mental masturbation. No great tragedy, I suppose.
On sunday when you're inthralled in football, I'll be reading. To do any one thing to the exclusion of all others is idiocy. Why don't football zombies see this?
LK
Gee, Sparky, I watch football. I guess that means I'm some kind of fat-assed moron.
If (and that's IF) you are one of those Al Bundy types whose eyes glaze over when that first football game starts on any given sunday and you don't move until the last one is over, yes.
News agencies are too busy trying to figure out how to cram more useless gerbage into their already fatuous programs of rapidly declining relevance.
Like the scrolling displays of football scores at the bottom on the screen?
It should be fairly obvious why sport organizations have large amount of money: many people watch sports, and the sports organizations sell their eyeballs for large sums of cash.
Because these Al Bundy's won't get their fat asses off of the sofa, or change the channel.
It makes no sense to me that a love for play and for learning should be supressed when a person gets old.
I have a couple of little cousins that would love to play candyland with you.
LK
Did it occur to you that maybe this is only a debut, and will LIKELY spread to many other endeavors both sporting and otherwise?
Yes, and the fact that it took a football game to roll it out is sad.
2) You shouldn't make a big deal out of how idiotic you think football is. as your links tell me, you happen to be obsessed by playing computer games over a LAN.
Enjoy? Yes. Obsessed with? No. On every sunday afternoon I don't have my hindquarters glued to a chair while I game. Many (not all, but many) football heads don't move except to get another beer, and to um, recycle their previous beer.
I didn't like bozo jocks in high school either, but I like football. sorry you think I'm a moron.
Whether or not you're one of the morons that I was ranting about depends on whether football is a passtime or an obsession.
LK
I played football in highschool, but it was just a game. It's not an amalgamation of real life events and values. It's a GAME. I was also on my school's chess team. I was also on the track team.
Martial arts is not a "sport" in the traditional sense of the term.
I never got beaten up by a football player. So you can hang your pseudo psychoanalysis up, you'll never make a living at it.
The strategy of the game? Offense. Move the ball that way. Defense. Keep them from moving the ball this way. It's simple. That's why so many simpletons are enthralled by it.
Then again, you are just a troll. That's why you're anonymous.
LK
Assassinations are rarely random. People worth assassinating are in public for short periods of time, usually in a small designated area.
It wouldn't be terribly difficult to set up as preparation for a press conference.
While we're at is, why not boxing? Why not hockey? Why not soccer? Why not tennis? Why not gymnastics? Each of those sports could use this technology just as much as, if not more than the NFL. But the mindless drones who are ass locked to the couch on sunday will make it financially possible to pull off.
LK
I'm 6'1" and weigh about #220. I'm not fat by any stretch of the imagination. I've been a student of Go Ju Do, Kenpo, Shotokan, Jui Jitsu and Aikido. You couldn't kick my ass if I were asleep.
Get out of your dream world, moron and realize that there are somethings that are better to get excited about than whacking off at your computer while viewing newsgroup porn, because I know you don't get no chicks with an attitude like that.
So, you get excited by watching all of those big burly men in tight shiny pants huh? I do alright in the "chicks" department. I'm no Cassanova, but I get my fair share of action.
At least football promotes all of the basic fundamentals of humanity. Violence, intelligence, strategy, teamwork, and winner takes all.
Intelligence? Dream on! Just listen to the average football player give an interview. Because they were good at running while holding a ball, or at stopping people who run while holding a ball, they got an easy time in school. They never had to learn anything because the were good at playing a game. For grown men to do irreparable damage to their bodies for a GAME is not intelligent.
I bet you got your ass beat every day you went to school because you were a whiny bitchy little wimp that couldn't hack it.
I gave more ass kickings that I got. Sometimes to dimwitted jocks.
Are you one of those Al Bundy types, who sits on the sofa all day, with one hand down his pants and the other rubbing on his fat belly, while you watch the game, talking about how you "used to play a little high school ball."?
People like you make me embarrassed to be an American.
LK
-rant
It makes me sad to be an American when something like this develops. Joe Sixpack doesn't care about this technology when it could be used to cover newsworthy events. Hey, let's take another look at that assassination attempt to see WHO was actually firing. NO WAY, Let's make sure that the reciever made his two steps in bounds before he went out!
It is depressing when I watch someone's eyes glaze over when a football game is on. People spend entire holidays sitting on their fat asses feeding their faces and watching the same moronic game over and over again all day.
Why wasn't this developed for use by a news agency? Was it a question of funding? If so, why then does the sports dept. get that amount of funding?
American football is a children's game being played all to often by overgrown babies.
-/rant
LK
Getting media that will be playable on j. random commercial DVD player isn't possible for the average consumer,
Well, according to Apple, their new DVD authoring software will enable anyone with a new G4 to create content that will be playable on any commercial DVD player.
LK
You are correct, I should have said that nuclear is the cleanest VIABLE energy source. Hydroelectric, wave, and geothermal can't be deployed everywhere. Solar and wind can't produce enough electricity to meet the demands, and natural gas produces CO2, and since natural gas is a fossil fuel there is only a limited supply. See the current natural gas price averages?
LK
You raise several interesting points. There has been some speculation that some military higher ups may have known that the attack on Pearl Harbor was coming, that's why so much of the fleet was out at sea. But that's neither here nor there.
If the guns on the Maginot line has been about to turn 360 degrees and (very important) the Germans didn't know that they could, it would have changed much about the invasion of France. The germans would have most likely taken the country anyway, but they would have incurred much heavier losses in the process.
LK
The eco-whackos in California have opposed the construction of new power plants in CA despite the fact that it's long been known that the current power generation capacity wouldn't be enough.
Coal power plants do cause quite a great deal of air pollution, and the cleanest power that we have, nuclear, has become such a political hot potato in the land of fruits and nuts that nobody with half a brain is going to be involved with the creation of one.
LK
A BIG case of short sightness on the part of the french was that the guns on the Maginot line couldn't be turned around. After all, they never thought that they'd get attacked FROM french soil. The germans flanked them.
LK