Google's search results are based on how popular a link is under the assumption that if a link is popular, it contains useful content. If a link is popular because people want to insult the subject rather than because the link provides useful information, then they have broken the assumption behind Google's search results. That's gaming the search engine--that's what it means to game a search engine.
No, because while politicians do have campaign managers to hider the improprieties, which is more protection than normal people do, they also have political opponents and millions of shlubs in the opposing party searching for improprieties, and normal people don't have those either. It balances out--more protection but more exposure too.
Of course the 417 CD games required an add-on. That's my whole point--the CD was an example of a successful add-on of the type that many people (including the original article writer) seem to think is impossible. Games had to be specially written for the add-on and would not work without it, and the add-on was more expensive than the base system--and still it succeeded.
As for the US, the whole system failed here. If the base system failed, the fact that the add-on also failed doesn't prove anything about the viability of add-ons.
And your figures for Genesis are misleading because they count the same game released in two separate regions as two games. The Super Famicom was eventually more successful than the PC Engine, but it's hard to say the PC Engine failed.
Suppose all those problems were resolved, and after resolving them we concluded "yes, next gen consoles should be upgradeable".
It wouldn't make any difference. Consoles are proprietary platforms--controlled by one company. The fact that making the console upgradeable would benefit *you* isn't going to result in an upgradeable console. It wouldn't benefit the company, and that's what matters. I mean, I'm sure that PS3 Linux benefitted people.
(Incidentally, for an example of a successful add-on, look at the PC Engine CD. We just don't remember it much because the system barely got a foothold in the US.)
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Pardons to those soldiers were granted because they didn't actually commit the crime; they weren't cowards or deserters. It's the trial itself (or lack thereof) that was unfair, not the law.
Yes, it takes grass clippings. Also "zinc oxide nanowires interspersed with titanium dioxide sponges".
Claiming that this is a solar cell made from grass clippings is like the Rubik's cube solver built from Lego (one component of which was a computer; the computer's not built from Lego). If you want a car analogy, it's like claiming your car is made from glass (since it has glass in the windows).
Unfortunately, that USA ruling about warrantless tracking was based on the reasoning that the older laws that considered it a search to do a physical trespass were still in effect. The tracking was illegal without a warrant because it involved physically putting the GPS on the car.
That's a very limited ruling that wouldn't make it illegal to track someone by taking thousands of photos, since you don't need to touch the car to do that.
He's something else other than just a lawyer. He's a politician.
Large companies with money are interested in hiring H1-Bs and fresh graduates in order to pay them less. Large companies with money are also interested in getting cozy with politicians. Obama finds this guy's problems an embarrassment because it makes it obvious what the companies with money are doing, so he pretends to be concerned for him so it doesn't sound so bad.
Honestly, I have a hard time giving any credence to analysis like this. There are two possibilities:
1) Someone who supports Romney and just isn't willing to think Romney opponents have any reason to hate him for his ideas--instead they hate him because he seems robotic. "Explaining" that your opponents disagree with you for some reason other than your ideas has a long and sordid political history.
2) Someone who opposes Romney and is willing to sling mud by saying that he seems like a robot. Attacking irrelevant features of your political opponents also has a long and sordid political history.
I'm sure they told the interrogators that "destroy" didn't mean "destroy". I'm also pretty sure that if they had been actual terrorists, they would have said pretty much the same thing.
When CDs first came out, people noticed that they were overpriced compared to records and it was obviously because the manufacturers were charging a premium. That's the only reason CDs cost the same today--they were overpriced at the start and the price gradually went down via inflation reducing the value of the currency you use to buy them, while the actual number on the price sticker stayed the same.
DVDs are similar, though not as many years of inflation.
There is *no* difference between "it's bonus content for the person who buys it new" and "it's taken away from all used game buyers". In either case the first owner gets it and subsequent owners don't; all that's changed is the marketing.
If America doesn't have a magazine on some subject, you then have to look for it for other sources, and you may find a European magazine.
But if America does have the magazine and Europe doesn't, the magazine is already available. If it's available, you have no need to go looking for alternative sources, and since you're not looking, you'd never notice that Europe doesn't have it.
So you notice situations where Europe is better, but not where Europe is worse. Overall it gives an inflated impression of Europe.
If you can't code, you are forced to rely on those that can to ensure that you can benefit from the greatest tool at your disposal.
This reasoning could be used to justify having everyone learn so many things that they can't possibly have time for them. I'm forced to rely on other people to make sure my television set doesn't explode; must I also start learning modern electronics design? I rely on other people for anything from making sure my food doesn't poison me, to making sure the car I drive doesn't crash for no reason.
It's called division of labor. We have it for a reason.
Summary: Five members of the court rule that it is a search and requires a search warrant, but on the narrow grounds that the trespass to plant the device makes it a search.
Four members of the court actually believe that it's a search because it violates an expectation of privacy.
The difference matters when you consider that the majority's ruling doesn't apply to anything which doesn't involve a trespass, such as cell phone tracking, tracking by remotely programming the car's GPS, etc. So while the ruling is good, it falls far short of what we might really want.
And before someone makes the argument that they can make a website poof, if you actually read the legislation, that is a last measure when there has been no cooperation with the people involved in the matter. The decisions can be challenged in court just fine,
This is not true, because of what the EFF calls the "vigilante provision". They just tell your service provider to cut you off. The service provider gets absolute immunity for doing so whether a trial would find you innocent or not.
Most homebrew apps for any system look like they were written by a 6th grade computer literacy student.
The only really useful homebrew aps are the media player and emulators. I use the Wii as a media player all the time (but then I watch a lot of anime fansubs).
"Don't buy their games" doesn't work, because if you actually avoid their games enough that the sales go down, they'll blame the loss in sales on piracy anyway and use that as an excuse for more draconian DRM.
There are plenty of things that powerful "right-wing" politicians like which most other right-wingers don't. Bank bailouts are the most obvious example. The left may say that the right is all about big business, but it's not, really.
SOPA Is very much a right-wing bill.
It's a left-wing bill. It's about government control of the media and economy. Government control of that sort of thing is otherwise known as "socialism".
Strikes don't work well against government requirements--since their budget comes from taxes, going on strike isn't going to cause them any hardship whatsoever, like it would if you tried to boycott a store.
Whom would volunteer for a suicide mission if they were not desperate?
Who? 1) People who have been heavily propagandized with religious fanaticism. To them, things like the Mohammed cartoons really are killing offenses. They have a concept of tribal honor that is alien to us; don't make the mistake of thinking "I would never blow myself up for that, so they must not really be blowing themselves up for that either". We have met the enemy and they are not us. 2) People who have no choice but to obey the local terrorists in charge and get told "if you don't become a suicide bomber, your family is toast. This is also related to honor; that's how they recruit female suicide bombers--you were raped and this dishonors your family, but if you suicide bomb some Americans that will restore your family's honor.
Doing that gives an advantage to savages. If it was Taliban folks pissing on American corpses, do you think for a moment that other members of the Taliban would say they're being inhumane and demand shutting down the war? No, they'd cheer. The more these things become public, the more of an advantage they have, because the fact that they don't have scruples lets them use scruples as weapons against us.
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Google's search results are based on how popular a link is under the assumption that if a link is popular, it contains useful content. If a link is popular because people want to insult the subject rather than because the link provides useful information, then they have broken the assumption behind Google's search results. That's gaming the search engine--that's what it means to game a search engine.
No, because while politicians do have campaign managers to hider the improprieties, which is more protection than normal people do, they also have political opponents and millions of shlubs in the opposing party searching for improprieties, and normal people don't have those either. It balances out--more protection but more exposure too.
Of course the 417 CD games required an add-on. That's my whole point--the CD was an example of a successful add-on of the type that many people (including the original article writer) seem to think is impossible. Games had to be specially written for the add-on and would not work without it, and the add-on was more expensive than the base system--and still it succeeded.
As for the US, the whole system failed here. If the base system failed, the fact that the add-on also failed doesn't prove anything about the viability of add-ons.
And your figures for Genesis are misleading because they count the same game released in two separate regions as two games. The Super Famicom was eventually more successful than the PC Engine, but it's hard to say the PC Engine failed.
One database lists 417 CD games for the PC Engine and 301 cartridge games. I'm sure those are at least close to the correct values.
By any standards the PC Engine CD was a success. It wasn't a cheap upgrade compared to the price of the base system, either.
Suppose all those problems were resolved, and after resolving them we concluded "yes, next gen consoles should be upgradeable".
It wouldn't make any difference. Consoles are proprietary platforms--controlled by one company. The fact that making the console upgradeable would benefit *you* isn't going to result in an upgradeable console. It wouldn't benefit the company, and that's what matters. I mean, I'm sure that PS3 Linux benefitted people.
(Incidentally, for an example of a successful add-on, look at the PC Engine CD. We just don't remember it much because the system barely got a foothold in the US.)
Pardons to those soldiers were granted because they didn't actually commit the crime; they weren't cowards or deserters. It's the trial itself (or lack thereof) that was unfair, not the law.
Yes, it takes grass clippings. Also "zinc oxide nanowires interspersed with titanium dioxide sponges".
Claiming that this is a solar cell made from grass clippings is like the Rubik's cube solver built from Lego (one component of which was a computer; the computer's not built from Lego). If you want a car analogy, it's like claiming your car is made from glass (since it has glass in the windows).
Unfortunately, that USA ruling about warrantless tracking was based on the reasoning that the older laws that considered it a search to do a physical trespass were still in effect. The tracking was illegal without a warrant because it involved physically putting the GPS on the car.
That's a very limited ruling that wouldn't make it illegal to track someone by taking thousands of photos, since you don't need to touch the car to do that.
He's something else other than just a lawyer. He's a politician.
Large companies with money are interested in hiring H1-Bs and fresh graduates in order to pay them less. Large companies with money are also interested in getting cozy with politicians. Obama finds this guy's problems an embarrassment because it makes it obvious what the companies with money are doing, so he pretends to be concerned for him so it doesn't sound so bad.
Honestly, I have a hard time giving any credence to analysis like this. There are two possibilities:
1) Someone who supports Romney and just isn't willing to think Romney opponents have any reason to hate him for his ideas--instead they hate him because he seems robotic. "Explaining" that your opponents disagree with you for some reason other than your ideas has a long and sordid political history.
2) Someone who opposes Romney and is willing to sling mud by saying that he seems like a robot. Attacking irrelevant features of your political opponents also has a long and sordid political history.
I'm sure they told the interrogators that "destroy" didn't mean "destroy". I'm also pretty sure that if they had been actual terrorists, they would have said pretty much the same thing.
I can just imagine the news articles if they were terrorists. "DHS had tweets showing couple were terrorists and their incompetence let them through!"
When CDs first came out, people noticed that they were overpriced compared to records and it was obviously because the manufacturers were charging a premium. That's the only reason CDs cost the same today--they were overpriced at the start and the price gradually went down via inflation reducing the value of the currency you use to buy them, while the actual number on the price sticker stayed the same.
DVDs are similar, though not as many years of inflation.
There is *no* difference between "it's bonus content for the person who buys it new" and "it's taken away from all used game buyers". In either case the first owner gets it and subsequent owners don't; all that's changed is the marketing.
Because of how you probably look for magazines.
If America doesn't have a magazine on some subject, you then have to look for it for other sources, and you may find a European magazine.
But if America does have the magazine and Europe doesn't, the magazine is already available. If it's available, you have no need to go looking for alternative sources, and since you're not looking, you'd never notice that Europe doesn't have it.
So you notice situations where Europe is better, but not where Europe is worse. Overall it gives an inflated impression of Europe.
Remember, they changed the EULA so that you are not allowed a class action lawsuit.
This reasoning could be used to justify having everyone learn so many things that they can't possibly have time for them. I'm forced to rely on other people to make sure my television set doesn't explode; must I also start learning modern electronics design? I rely on other people for anything from making sure my food doesn't poison me, to making sure the car I drive doesn't crash for no reason.
It's called division of labor. We have it for a reason.
Summary:
Five members of the court rule that it is a search and requires a search warrant, but on the narrow grounds that the trespass to plant the device makes it a search.
Four members of the court actually believe that it's a search because it violates an expectation of privacy.
The difference matters when you consider that the majority's ruling doesn't apply to anything which doesn't involve a trespass, such as cell phone tracking, tracking by remotely programming the car's GPS, etc. So while the ruling is good, it falls far short of what we might really want.
This is not true, because of what the EFF calls the "vigilante provision". They just tell your service provider to cut you off. The service provider gets absolute immunity for doing so whether a trial would find you innocent or not.
Most homebrew apps for any system look like they were written by a 6th grade computer literacy student.
The only really useful homebrew aps are the media player and emulators. I use the Wii as a media player all the time (but then I watch a lot of anime fansubs).
"Don't buy their games" doesn't work, because if you actually avoid their games enough that the sales go down, they'll blame the loss in sales on piracy anyway and use that as an excuse for more draconian DRM.
There are plenty of things that powerful "right-wing" politicians like which most other right-wingers don't. Bank bailouts are the most obvious example. The left may say that the right is all about big business, but it's not, really.
It's a left-wing bill. It's about government control of the media and economy. Government control of that sort of thing is otherwise known as "socialism".
Strikes don't work well against government requirements--since their budget comes from taxes, going on strike isn't going to cause them any hardship whatsoever, like it would if you tried to boycott a store.
Who?
1) People who have been heavily propagandized with religious fanaticism. To them, things like the Mohammed cartoons really are killing offenses. They have a concept of tribal honor that is alien to us; don't make the mistake of thinking "I would never blow myself up for that, so they must not really be blowing themselves up for that either". We have met the enemy and they are not us.
2) People who have no choice but to obey the local terrorists in charge and get told "if you don't become a suicide bomber, your family is toast. This is also related to honor; that's how they recruit female suicide bombers--you were raped and this dishonors your family, but if you suicide bomb some Americans that will restore your family's honor.
Doing that gives an advantage to savages. If it was Taliban folks pissing on American corpses, do you think for a moment that other members of the Taliban would say they're being inhumane and demand shutting down the war? No, they'd cheer. The more these things become public, the more of an advantage they have, because the fact that they don't have scruples lets them use scruples as weapons against us.