I would not mind seeing an option on reporting the actual location, for adults at least. Otherwise I don't see any privacy concerns. Speed limits are there for your safety and that of those around you. How fast you were going is never a matter of privacy.
That's it. Everything else meets or bests Plasma in other categories. Only the truly high end plasma screens top dlp or lcd as far as contrast and brightness. I've never understood why people spend the extra cash on something inherently more fallible with 0 or next to 0 gain in quality.
I'm about to take a trip in to do some photography. The camera gear I'm taking for the even totals about $4k. At first I thought of cancelling because I'm pretty much assured if the equipment is checked it will be "lost" or damaged. Now that you can carry on small things again I've gotten a smaller case that will fit everything, but I've also taken out an additional insurance policy just in case!
Highbrow movies seldom do well at the box office, and it's why they're the minority of films, generally made independantly, and relegated only to a cult status 9/10.
It's the same with games, except the major audience is younger so in most cases less sophisticated. There's even less of a market. That's not to say there aren't some excellent, intelligent, and mature games. Some examples have already been posted, Shenmue I think is most in line with the author's perspective.
I see no indication that people will switch to vista, other than new hardware vendors preloading it. It really seems that no one is excited, or even INTERESTED in the features. Most corps I deal with will delay as long as possible for several reasons. I see Vista as the #1 opportunity for alternative operating systems to gain ground. Really, I see this as the begining of the end of MS reign, but that may be a tad premature.
I have one of these media pcs. It's self built of course. First I tried linux and mythtv, found it good for recording shows, apalling for mp3 libraries, or existing media libraries of any size. Reformatted. Tried windows MCE, found it unstable on my hardware. I installed windows XP, winamp, all the video and audio codecs I wanted, and have a front end from the group that made xbox media center. It works rather well for watching our vast library of fansubbed anime, tv, mp3, mp3+g karaoke, and I can fire up firefox and watch the latest viral youtube videos too.
Not to mention World of Warcraft looks pretty good on a 50" HDTV.
The long and short of it, I explain the issues to some of the non savvy, and outline that it's ridiculous, and the real problem is the super wealthy and powerful shoving government around... or rather that the government listens more to the money than to the issues.
As someone's already pointed out, I didn't intend to imply that technical specialists were engineers. I just kind of assumed engineers already knew they had to wear several hats!
just FYI, I went to engineering school, and took many classes in industrial, mechanical, electrical and even chemical engineering. I didn't minor in any of those, it was just out of interest. Don't assume someone's belittling your profession, it'll cause stress.
I have been one of these hat-wearers since 1997. The reason being, I tend to stick to smaller businesses. The agile ones instead of the corporate behemoths. I do contract to the larger corps occasionally but it's not a working environment I enjoy. My salary has increased every year I have been employed through three companies and various contracts. Moving up is about expanding your experience as well as your spectrum of abilities.
But it's not about being able to do everyone's job! It's about being able to understand what other departments are doing, knowing enough of their job so you can work with them efficiently. Not only is it important in a communication perspective, but it's priceless in the troubleshooting and design phases of product development.
Bottom line is, every employee of value--anywhere--needs to be able to step back and see the bigger picture of the corporation/foundation/office/whatever. Technical specialists that can't see beyond their single language, single router, server, whatever are a dime a dozen. It's great to have someone with extreme expertise, but they are also easily replaceable.
I view it in practical terms, I don't think the revenge aspect is in any way valuable. You accomplish a few things, though.
1) That person will never hurt anyone else ever again. 2) It will serve to deter others from the same act, though this is obviously not 100%, just an added bonus. 3) If we did not have such a horribly broken legal system it would be economically efficient. We would not be wasting our time and resources on the person.
Perhaps in the future there will be a better alternative. As it stands now, I don't think there's any sort of rehabilitation possible for most criminals, at least not an effective one, and definitely not an economical one. What other alternatives do we have here for justice/righting the wrong? Exile doesn't work in this day and age, and obviously the man could never pay back the damage he caused.
I'd say we're doing rather well on the racism front if all we have to complain about are billboards advertising a new colour option on a portable gaming console that's a niche market.
Honestly? I'd say the people crying racism are being FAR more racist than the billboard could ever be interpreted as. Why has white become a dirty word? If they were advertising a black PS2 or a brown one, they wouldn't be attacked for being racist. We've come full circle.
I think you're confusing respect with civility or politeness. I don't respect someone I meet on the street, but I am civil to them and polite until I have enough info to base a judgement on. I am open to the possibility of respecting them.
Either way, your example doesn't fit the context of this conversation.
But hey, it makes me like using it all the more. I regularly used encrypted IM clients, or SSH tunnels to use instant messaging, now I'm extra stealthy and I didn't even know!
I would agree with you that life is an intrinsic value, that it is precious.
I however, completely disagree that anyone or anything deserves respect simply because it is alive. I would also completely disagree with you that anyone who has commmitted crimes of this magnatude deserves to keep their lives. But hey, I respect your opinion.
What value would respect have if it was given freely and equally regardless of what a person is or does? What would be the point. This man was a criminal, and through his direct actions and deceipt harmed thousands of lives. Why should anyone respect that?
Perhaps people should respect his family, but this man dug his grave years ago.
Ubuntu is one of the more cohesive and polished linux desktop distributions, but it's no where near the league of OS X, or even windows XP. People switch to linux because it serves a specific task they need, or for the novelty. It's still lightyears behind on useability. I've been using Linux since 1994, and it's come a long way, but it hasn't really closed the gap any since the mid to late 90's, it's just been keeping pace since then with still a huge gap between.
I want a small device that has great signal strength and audio quality. Currently I haven't found anything like this. I have many computers for email, web browsing. I can't think of any reason to do this on the go. I have a digital SLR camera for photography, I can't imagine needing a webcam quality snapshot taker in my pocket. I don't need games on a phone, ever.
I usually end up buying the lowest model nokia's as they come close to fullfilling these needs and seem to have the best reception of any phone available in the US, but they're still typically packed with featues I don't want.
Adding features increases complexity, which requires a more complicated or in depth UI. It can potentially eat into your battery time, and with some models the actual phone features and processing abilities are sacrificed so that they can pack more novelty crap on.
That'll shut them up fast. You're being abused because you're setting a precedent of giving things away for free. You will be more valued and less annoyed if you put a value on your time.
I confess I don't really understand the situation, you didn't provide the person a system, why is it at all your responsibility to help them?
Clarifying: The characters were mostly cutouts, and while there was development, there was no fullfillment to it, except perhaps in the end of eva movie which came quite a bit later. I'd agree that that was much better.
And many series had good character development prior, even shonen series. Macross was darn near a soap opera, and eva has contemporaries such as rouroni kenshin with much better characters and emotional developments.
Eva is overrated. It's not horrible, but it's not great. It's sensational, nothing else.
It's easy to say "if you don't like it's just because you don't understand it." But that's a cop out. I enjoyed all the creative use of various religious dogmas and mythology. I was impressed they managed to push some of them together to fit with the story, but as I said in a previous post, this was mostly accidental.
It is poorly written, and poorly executed. You ask for examples of things that are better. I'd say most things. Do you want something specificly dealing with the same existentialist vs nihlistic themes? Or do you need something heavily laced with judeo christian mysticisms?
Just because it's japanese, has psudeo religious overtones, doesn't make it good.
The anime got critical acclaim/notice for being so weird, timing, and all it's judeo christian references. The manga isn't finished yet, and does not follow the anime strictly. Really the anime was pretty poorly written, the creators are definitely clever and creative, but it was clear they didn't have much plan for the series and just got lucky (in america at least.)
Anime came first, was written and directed by otaku-loved crazyboy hideki anno. The manga is written and illustrated by the character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto. The relation between the two is pretty loose. The manga is actually being written well, if slowly.
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I would not mind seeing an option on reporting the actual location, for adults at least. Otherwise I don't see any privacy concerns. Speed limits are there for your safety and that of those around you. How fast you were going is never a matter of privacy.
Thin screen.
That's it. Everything else meets or bests Plasma in other categories. Only the truly high end plasma screens top dlp or lcd as far as contrast and brightness. I've never understood why people spend the extra cash on something inherently more fallible with 0 or next to 0 gain in quality.
I'm about to take a trip in to do some photography. The camera gear I'm taking for the even totals about $4k. At first I thought of cancelling because I'm pretty much assured if the equipment is checked it will be "lost" or damaged. Now that you can carry on small things again I've gotten a smaller case that will fit everything, but I've also taken out an additional insurance policy just in case!
General populace is not high brow.
Highbrow movies seldom do well at the box office, and it's why they're the minority of films, generally made independantly, and relegated only to a cult status 9/10.
It's the same with games, except the major audience is younger so in most cases less sophisticated. There's even less of a market. That's not to say there aren't some excellent, intelligent, and mature games. Some examples have already been posted, Shenmue I think is most in line with the author's perspective.
I see no indication that people will switch to vista, other than new hardware vendors preloading it. It really seems that no one is excited, or even INTERESTED in the features. Most corps I deal with will delay as long as possible for several reasons. I see Vista as the #1 opportunity for alternative operating systems to gain ground. Really, I see this as the begining of the end of MS reign, but that may be a tad premature.
I have one of these media pcs. It's self built of course. First I tried linux and mythtv, found it good for recording shows, apalling for mp3 libraries, or existing media libraries of any size. Reformatted. Tried windows MCE, found it unstable on my hardware. I installed windows XP, winamp, all the video and audio codecs I wanted, and have a front end from the group that made xbox media center. It works rather well for watching our vast library of fansubbed anime, tv, mp3, mp3+g karaoke, and I can fire up firefox and watch the latest viral youtube videos too.
Not to mention World of Warcraft looks pretty good on a 50" HDTV.
Kirk is not a captain in the timeframe of this movie. That should be the first indicator that it's just a rumor and has no official backing.
I posted about it in my blog here: http://www.makesitgood.net/2006/08/01/net-neutrali ty-vs-government-monopolies/
The long and short of it, I explain the issues to some of the non savvy, and outline that it's ridiculous, and the real problem is the super wealthy and powerful shoving government around... or rather that the government listens more to the money than to the issues.
As someone's already pointed out, I didn't intend to imply that technical specialists were engineers. I just kind of assumed engineers already knew they had to wear several hats!
just FYI, I went to engineering school, and took many classes in industrial, mechanical, electrical and even chemical engineering. I didn't minor in any of those, it was just out of interest. Don't assume someone's belittling your profession, it'll cause stress.
I have been one of these hat-wearers since 1997. The reason being, I tend to stick to smaller businesses. The agile ones instead of the corporate behemoths. I do contract to the larger corps occasionally but it's not a working environment I enjoy. My salary has increased every year I have been employed through three companies and various contracts. Moving up is about expanding your experience as well as your spectrum of abilities.
But it's not about being able to do everyone's job! It's about being able to understand what other departments are doing, knowing enough of their job so you can work with them efficiently. Not only is it important in a communication perspective, but it's priceless in the troubleshooting and design phases of product development.
Bottom line is, every employee of value--anywhere--needs to be able to step back and see the bigger picture of the corporation/foundation/office/whatever. Technical specialists that can't see beyond their single language, single router, server, whatever are a dime a dozen. It's great to have someone with extreme expertise, but they are also easily replaceable.
I view it in practical terms, I don't think the revenge aspect is in any way valuable. You accomplish a few things, though.
1) That person will never hurt anyone else ever again.
2) It will serve to deter others from the same act, though this is obviously not 100%, just an added bonus.
3) If we did not have such a horribly broken legal system it would be economically efficient. We would not be wasting our time and resources on the person.
Perhaps in the future there will be a better alternative. As it stands now, I don't think there's any sort of rehabilitation possible for most criminals, at least not an effective one, and definitely not an economical one. What other alternatives do we have here for justice/righting the wrong? Exile doesn't work in this day and age, and obviously the man could never pay back the damage he caused.
I'd say we're doing rather well on the racism front if all we have to complain about are billboards advertising a new colour option on a portable gaming console that's a niche market.
Honestly? I'd say the people crying racism are being FAR more racist than the billboard could ever be interpreted as. Why has white become a dirty word? If they were advertising a black PS2 or a brown one, they wouldn't be attacked for being racist. We've come full circle.
It's obviously a joke, I mean Dictionary isn't even pronounced 'dikshunery'. 'Dikshonary' perhaps.
I do at times wish English were more consistent in spelling and pronunciation, but I don't think there's a fix for it.
I think you're confusing respect with civility or politeness. I don't respect someone I meet on the street, but I am civil to them and polite until I have enough info to base a judgement on. I am open to the possibility of respecting them.
Either way, your example doesn't fit the context of this conversation.
But hey, it makes me like using it all the more. I regularly used encrypted IM clients, or SSH tunnels to use instant messaging, now I'm extra stealthy and I didn't even know!
I would agree with you that life is an intrinsic value, that it is precious.
I however, completely disagree that anyone or anything deserves respect simply because it is alive. I would also completely disagree with you that anyone who has commmitted crimes of this magnatude deserves to keep their lives. But hey, I respect your opinion.
Hi. Respect is EARNED.
What value would respect have if it was given freely and equally regardless of what a person is or does? What would be the point. This man was a criminal, and through his direct actions and deceipt harmed thousands of lives. Why should anyone respect that?
Perhaps people should respect his family, but this man dug his grave years ago.
Ubuntu is one of the more cohesive and polished linux desktop distributions, but it's no where near the league of OS X, or even windows XP. People switch to linux because it serves a specific task they need, or for the novelty. It's still lightyears behind on useability. I've been using Linux since 1994, and it's come a long way, but it hasn't really closed the gap any since the mid to late 90's, it's just been keeping pace since then with still a huge gap between.
I want a small device that has great signal strength and audio quality. Currently I haven't found anything like this. I have many computers for email, web browsing. I can't think of any reason to do this on the go. I have a digital SLR camera for photography, I can't imagine needing a webcam quality snapshot taker in my pocket. I don't need games on a phone, ever.
I usually end up buying the lowest model nokia's as they come close to fullfilling these needs and seem to have the best reception of any phone available in the US, but they're still typically packed with featues I don't want.
Adding features increases complexity, which requires a more complicated or in depth UI. It can potentially eat into your battery time, and with some models the actual phone features and processing abilities are sacrificed so that they can pack more novelty crap on.
That'll shut them up fast. You're being abused because you're setting a precedent of giving things away for free. You will be more valued and less annoyed if you put a value on your time.
I confess I don't really understand the situation, you didn't provide the person a system, why is it at all your responsibility to help them?
Clarifying: The characters were mostly cutouts, and while there was development, there was no fullfillment to it, except perhaps in the end of eva movie which came quite a bit later. I'd agree that that was much better.
And many series had good character development prior, even shonen series. Macross was darn near a soap opera, and eva has contemporaries such as rouroni kenshin with much better characters and emotional developments.
Eva is overrated. It's not horrible, but it's not great. It's sensational, nothing else.
Emotional development?
I think we watched different series.
Wow.. nevermind, didn't realize what I Was dealing with here, my bad.
It's easy to say "if you don't like it's just because you don't understand it." But that's a cop out. I enjoyed all the creative use of various religious dogmas and mythology. I was impressed they managed to push some of them together to fit with the story, but as I said in a previous post, this was mostly accidental.
It is poorly written, and poorly executed. You ask for examples of things that are better. I'd say most things. Do you want something specificly dealing with the same existentialist vs nihlistic themes? Or do you need something heavily laced with judeo christian mysticisms?
Just because it's japanese, has psudeo religious overtones, doesn't make it good.
The anime got critical acclaim/notice for being so weird, timing, and all it's judeo christian references. The manga isn't finished yet, and does not follow the anime strictly. Really the anime was pretty poorly written, the creators are definitely clever and creative, but it was clear they didn't have much plan for the series and just got lucky (in america at least.)
Anime came first, was written and directed by otaku-loved crazyboy hideki anno. The manga is written and illustrated by the character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto. The relation between the two is pretty loose. The manga is actually being written well, if slowly.