in the subject line, which is annoying, but anyway
Comparisons like this don't mean squat because when it comes to software for most home users, well, the games won't work on Unbuntu without trying to use Wine, etc, etc.
If developers see that ubuntu isn't bad compared to windows 7, they might make it work on both, enticing more users to ubuntu. If home users read ubuntu isn't bad compared to windows 7, they might start using it, enticing more developers to ubuntu.
You don't need the government to play nanny for your kids- you, as a parent, should be responsible for their upbringing and making bans won't do a single thing to keep the ones that're going to get it from getting access to violent games.
I would also suggest that censoring games, keeping your kids from seeing any violence until they're whatever age, is not exactly my definition of "good parenting." It's harder than that, since you have to communicate with your kid to tell them what it means, and put it in context, know if they are ready even though they might be younger or older than the 16/18 whatever cutoff.
I've known 12 year olds who can handle violence in videogames better than my 20 something downstairs neighbor who has anger management issues
(to be fair, maybe he doesn't have anger management issues, he might just be a racist and have a very bad microphone on his xbox)
That link you provided didn't show what you implied it showed. The title included the phrase "mosque at ground zero" but the article itself was little more than a quote by the organizer who said it was to be a multifaith memorial.
This is the same mentality as those who say that opposing the building of the Ground Zero Mosque is "anti-Islamic".
You mean "the Islamic community center two blocks away from ground zero." Just because the media have accepted the term designed to stir up the most controversy and ratings about the issue is no reason to accept the distortion of the facts.
And the fact is that this is not a mosque and it is not at ground zero.
SecureWorks Researcher Joe Stewart believes that Iraq Defense is a Libyan hacker who is trying to gain followers for a cyber jihad hacking group called Brigades of Tariq ibn Ziyad.
It definitely sounds tenuous, my first thought was this was some bored kid in suburbia who accidentally caused some damage and was trying to throw off the trail. It sounds though like Robert McMillian of PC world is convinced. Stewart's article is a little more skeptical about that group being the actual perpetrator, but if it is...
The goal of Tariq ibn Ziyad is "to penetrate U.S. agencies belonging to the U.S. Army," Iraq Resistance said, according to a Google translation of his post announcing the group.
Even then, "anti-american" is arguably an overstatement. Anyway, there might be a little more than just "I don't think the US should be in Iraq."
Because I have a computer, a laptop, my wife's laptop, a tv, a sky box, a DVD player, a video player (Yes we do still have one) and a standard lamp all competing for socket space.
Are they all going to be within a 15 cm radius of each other? Because otherwise this wouldn't help, it's only 85% efficient at 15 cm and drops off from there, if they're going to be any further, this won't really help. Not to mention, I really doubt anyone is going to be making VCR players that can be powered wirelessly.
Funny, since the concern not long ago was making wall warts more efficient (switching ones did a good job on that) and working on reducing "leaky" devices like TVs and monitors that don't turn fully off (my NEC has a hard off switch for that reason). But now we can lose any and all those gains with an inefficient transfer system.
Why would you need your desktop computer or TV to have wireless power? I'd expect this would be useful mainly for mobile devices or things that for some reason or another need power but can't have a battery or wires. The "powerpad" that's out right now which is technically wireless is marketed as a convinient charging station for your cell phone, handheld gaming systems, camera ETC. With that, you have to set the thing right on top of the charging station, but 15 cm isn't that far either, it's probably not going to replace all cords anytime soon.
If your mechanic thinks that "The Little Mermaid" was a Shakespearean drama, that really doesn't affect his ability to fix your car.
As long as he doesn't have the right to vote.
On any literary or shakespeare boards, or for any required reading lists, sure, he should not have the right to vote, I agree.
Naturally we're not talking about taking away his right to vote for government, since our government and democracy are largely based on the idea that everyone gets to vote (mostly). An unstated implication is that having views that are not common, or maybe are clearly wrong, or are downright idiotic, does not mean you shouldn't get to vote. First of all, what sounds idiotic to you may actually be true (though maybe not in this case). Second, those who would judge which views should disqualify one from voting are the worst people to actually be judges of that. Third and most importantly though, having one or two or even many idiotic or wrong opinions does not mean you are an idiot incapable of making informed, rational decisions on voting matters. Consider that some of our founding fathers had views on race and slavery that we can all agree were idiotic and immoral. Despite having at least one glaring idiotic view, and that view -actually making it into the constitution-, their creation worked. To the point where it's still going today.
Being a slaveowner, a racist, and arguing passionately against intermingling of races (and being hypocritical on that as well) evidently have no bearing on your ability to effectively CREATE a government. Don't try to tell me that having odd views about astronomy (or Disney movies) means you shouldn't be able to vote in that government.
How do you turn a stem cell into the tissue you're trying to make? The answer to that question turns out to be incredibly complicated, which is why we can't yet take ANY stem cell, adult, embryonic, or induced pluripotent, and make it into a vat of neurons of a specific type. We are finding out how it happens naturally by studying embryos, and we are finding out how we can do it by studying stem cells in culture.
Studying ESC is essential to this process. If you have a stem cell culture and are trying to make a specific type of neurons, you'll probably be adding mixtures of growth factors that mimics what you'd find in the developing embryo brain. If you're using adult stem cells and don't get the desired target, that might be that the mixture didn't work, or it could be that adult cells wont turn into those cells.
Did you have them pulled before September 17th 2010? Because expecting your dentist to follow research that isn't in his field, hasn't been published yet, and likely wasn't even started by the time you had yours out, that's probably unrealistic.
Anyway, wisdom teeth probably aren't the only source of pluripotent stem cells. Work in mouse has shown that their whisker bulge carries neural crest stem cells, trials are underway to see if these cells can fix damaged spinal cords.
This does not validate the views of the anti-vaccination brigade.
No, but they'll take it as such. They take discredited research, the fact that the research on their side is even being questioned at all (because you know that proves there's a conspiracy), and a former playboy model's testimony, and validate their beliefs with it. Naturally a court case somewhat in their favor is going to be even more "proofy" for them. Had it been against them, they merely would have used it as further proof there's a conspiracy.
but there are more than just this fellow that seem to feel that one is necessary, on both sides of the political spectrum.
They're the oddballs, not the norm. Most of us who dislike things about the government either keep things in perspective and just live with it (like, sure, I hate that companies say I don't actually own software, but at the end of the day, most software I use it doesn't matter) or if we do try to change things, it's with less dramatic measures that are more likely to succeed, like running for office or propositions.
The only people advocating "Revolution" are the people who don't realize that government isn't going to work 100% how you want it to no matter what. Or people who have gun fetishes and want an excuse to shoot people, I think there may be a few of those.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. If this ruling holds, the used video game market is on its last legs.
From my perspective, it's pretty much already dead on the PC, since no major retailer resells PC games.
On the consoles, publishers are already offering carrots since they can't as easily use the stick. DLC is becoming prevalent, several are offering bonus content you can't get if you buy the game used.
I'd expect the next generation of consoles to provide some type of lock in so that your disc will only work on the console you install it on.
Truth be told, the death of the used console game market would be a lot worse were it not for the fact that gamestop already pretty much has a monopoly there. Gamestop, not consumers, are profiting off of used sales. And as a former employee of gamestop, I'd personally say I'd much rather developers get extra money than gamestop. Don't get me wrong, reselling games you didn't like for $5 is still better than getting nothing, but there is a small silver lining there.
Is there a way someone could flood these websites with fake credit card numbers that when the scammers try to buy something with it, they get rickrolled? Like Mr. Douchebag scammer takes his girlfriend out for a nice steak dinner using a credit card he, er, downloaded or something from us, and then he goes to pay for it and the waiter swipes the card, and then the fancy music playing in the background screeches to a stop, and "Never gonna give you up" starts playing, and everyone laughs at him, and his girlfriend leaves with another dude...
I'm not the most technically gifted person on slashdot, if someone else knows how to make this happen...
science should be treated, as it was always intended, with a grain of salt.
Are we talking "grain of salt" as in "not taking it so seriously" or "understanding that some changes to scientific theory and predictions are bound to occur."
Not taking science seriously, such as thinking maybe the law of gravity won't really apply this time so you can jump off that building, or not really caring whether or not global warming is occurring is dangerous and fairly illogical. Understanding that scientific theories often change with new facts, but that those changes don't mean the whole thing is bunk, that's good.
For the rest, this estimate will prove just about anything between the third coming of the messiah and the imminent destruction of the Earth by magnetic core spin reversal.
Hey now! Some of us just believe one or the other, that this is a sign of Jesus' return, or that the Earth's magnetic core is going to stop. It's only a lunatic fringe of our organizations that believe ice loss means Jesus is coming to stop the Earth's magnetic core!
How dare you think that as a Canadian I don't like Van Halen!
That wasn't an extremely polite way of saying that... admit it, you're not actually Canadian, are you? You're from New York! Nice try, NY, but -real- Canadians would apologize for being Canadian and liking Van Halen, and then would invite AC to have a beer.
Twitter was used for something useful! Stop the presses!!!!
First 4chan does something nice, now twitter actually helped rescue a POW... what other weird things is the internet going to do this week? A comment thread on youtube produces lasting peace in the middle east?
Yes, I find it humorous that some Taliban soldiers don't actually know what the internet is.
I would guess that if all Islamic fundamentalists were on the internet and could access the vast wealth of porn contained therein, we'd have less Islamic fundamentalists.
Please have lots of grandkids and then tell them about this repeatedly.
Tsuneoka: "Back in my day, we only tweeted when we needed rescuing from being a POW!" Grandkids "I'm looking at your twitter archive right now. '1/1/2010 LOL, so drunk right now, I can't believe I signed up for TWITTER!'" Tsuneoka: "Right. Drunk. Clearly an effort to ward off being captured by islamic militants."
I hope his experience taught him something about Islam
That they just imprison you, as opposed to raping and killing your whole village as the christian crusaders did? Or that they aren't the evil geniuses one should be worried about?
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"We know that this is a joke, but we're going to approach it as if it's a serious thing." Your tax dollars at work, people.
If the money isn't being spent on enforcing drug laws they -don't- realize are jokes, that's probably a slight improvement.
in the subject line, which is annoying, but anyway
Comparisons like this don't mean squat because when it comes to software for most home users, well, the games won't work on Unbuntu without trying to use Wine, etc, etc.
If developers see that ubuntu isn't bad compared to windows 7, they might make it work on both, enticing more users to ubuntu. If home users read ubuntu isn't bad compared to windows 7, they might start using it, enticing more developers to ubuntu.
To me, comparisons mean a little more than squat.
You don't need the government to play nanny for your kids- you, as a parent, should be responsible for their upbringing and making bans won't do a single thing to keep the ones that're going to get it from getting access to violent games.
I would also suggest that censoring games, keeping your kids from seeing any violence until they're whatever age, is not exactly my definition of "good parenting." It's harder than that, since you have to communicate with your kid to tell them what it means, and put it in context, know if they are ready even though they might be younger or older than the 16/18 whatever cutoff.
I've known 12 year olds who can handle violence in videogames better than my 20 something downstairs neighbor who has anger management issues
(to be fair, maybe he doesn't have anger management issues, he might just be a racist and have a very bad microphone on his xbox)
That link you provided didn't show what you implied it showed. The title included the phrase "mosque at ground zero" but the article itself was little more than a quote by the organizer who said it was to be a multifaith memorial.
That's not a mosque.
This is the same mentality as those who say that opposing the building of the Ground Zero Mosque is "anti-Islamic".
You mean "the Islamic community center two blocks away from ground zero." Just because the media have accepted the term designed to stir up the most controversy and ratings about the issue is no reason to accept the distortion of the facts.
And the fact is that this is not a mosque and it is not at ground zero.
From TFA:
It definitely sounds tenuous, my first thought was this was some bored kid in suburbia who accidentally caused some damage and was trying to throw off the trail. It sounds though like Robert McMillian of PC world is convinced. Stewart's article is a little more skeptical about that group being the actual perpetrator, but if it is...
The goal of Tariq ibn Ziyad is "to penetrate U.S. agencies belonging to the U.S. Army," Iraq Resistance said, according to a Google translation of his post announcing the group.
Even then, "anti-american" is arguably an overstatement. Anyway, there might be a little more than just "I don't think the US should be in Iraq."
Because I have a computer, a laptop, my wife's laptop, a tv, a sky box, a DVD player, a video player (Yes we do still have one) and a standard lamp all competing for socket space.
Are they all going to be within a 15 cm radius of each other? Because otherwise this wouldn't help, it's only 85% efficient at 15 cm and drops off from there, if they're going to be any further, this won't really help. Not to mention, I really doubt anyone is going to be making VCR players that can be powered wirelessly.
Funny, since the concern not long ago was making wall warts more efficient (switching ones did a good job on that) and working on reducing "leaky" devices like TVs and monitors that don't turn fully off (my NEC has a hard off switch for that reason). But now we can lose any and all those gains with an inefficient transfer system.
Why would you need your desktop computer or TV to have wireless power? I'd expect this would be useful mainly for mobile devices or things that for some reason or another need power but can't have a battery or wires. The "powerpad" that's out right now which is technically wireless is marketed as a convinient charging station for your cell phone, handheld gaming systems, camera ETC. With that, you have to set the thing right on top of the charging station, but 15 cm isn't that far either, it's probably not going to replace all cords anytime soon.
If your mechanic thinks that "The Little Mermaid" was a Shakespearean drama, that really doesn't affect his ability to fix your car.
As long as he doesn't have the right to vote.
On any literary or shakespeare boards, or for any required reading lists, sure, he should not have the right to vote, I agree.
Naturally we're not talking about taking away his right to vote for government, since our government and democracy are largely based on the idea that everyone gets to vote (mostly). An unstated implication is that having views that are not common, or maybe are clearly wrong, or are downright idiotic, does not mean you shouldn't get to vote. First of all, what sounds idiotic to you may actually be true (though maybe not in this case). Second, those who would judge which views should disqualify one from voting are the worst people to actually be judges of that. Third and most importantly though, having one or two or even many idiotic or wrong opinions does not mean you are an idiot incapable of making informed, rational decisions on voting matters. Consider that some of our founding fathers had views on race and slavery that we can all agree were idiotic and immoral. Despite having at least one glaring idiotic view, and that view -actually making it into the constitution-, their creation worked. To the point where it's still going today.
Being a slaveowner, a racist, and arguing passionately against intermingling of races (and being hypocritical on that as well) evidently have no bearing on your ability to effectively CREATE a government. Don't try to tell me that having odd views about astronomy (or Disney movies) means you shouldn't be able to vote in that government.
How do you turn a stem cell into the tissue you're trying to make? The answer to that question turns out to be incredibly complicated, which is why we can't yet take ANY stem cell, adult, embryonic, or induced pluripotent, and make it into a vat of neurons of a specific type. We are finding out how it happens naturally by studying embryos, and we are finding out how we can do it by studying stem cells in culture.
Studying ESC is essential to this process. If you have a stem cell culture and are trying to make a specific type of neurons, you'll probably be adding mixtures of growth factors that mimics what you'd find in the developing embryo brain. If you're using adult stem cells and don't get the desired target, that might be that the mixture didn't work, or it could be that adult cells wont turn into those cells.
Did you have them pulled before September 17th 2010? Because expecting your dentist to follow research that isn't in his field, hasn't been published yet, and likely wasn't even started by the time you had yours out, that's probably unrealistic.
Anyway, wisdom teeth probably aren't the only source of pluripotent stem cells. Work in mouse has shown that their whisker bulge carries neural crest stem cells, trials are underway to see if these cells can fix damaged spinal cords.
If you don't like it, get yourself a nationalised health service.
Gee, thanks for that helpful advice!
This does not validate the views of the anti-vaccination brigade.
No, but they'll take it as such. They take discredited research, the fact that the research on their side is even being questioned at all (because you know that proves there's a conspiracy), and a former playboy model's testimony, and validate their beliefs with it. Naturally a court case somewhat in their favor is going to be even more "proofy" for them. Had it been against them, they merely would have used it as further proof there's a conspiracy.
but there are more than just this fellow that seem to feel that one is necessary, on both sides of the political spectrum.
They're the oddballs, not the norm. Most of us who dislike things about the government either keep things in perspective and just live with it (like, sure, I hate that companies say I don't actually own software, but at the end of the day, most software I use it doesn't matter) or if we do try to change things, it's with less dramatic measures that are more likely to succeed, like running for office or propositions.
The only people advocating "Revolution" are the people who don't realize that government isn't going to work 100% how you want it to no matter what. Or people who have gun fetishes and want an excuse to shoot people, I think there may be a few of those.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. If this ruling holds, the used video game market is on its last legs.
From my perspective, it's pretty much already dead on the PC, since no major retailer resells PC games.
On the consoles, publishers are already offering carrots since they can't as easily use the stick. DLC is becoming prevalent, several are offering bonus content you can't get if you buy the game used.
I'd expect the next generation of consoles to provide some type of lock in so that your disc will only work on the console you install it on.
Truth be told, the death of the used console game market would be a lot worse were it not for the fact that gamestop already pretty much has a monopoly there. Gamestop, not consumers, are profiting off of used sales. And as a former employee of gamestop, I'd personally say I'd much rather developers get extra money than gamestop. Don't get me wrong, reselling games you didn't like for $5 is still better than getting nothing, but there is a small silver lining there.
Is there a way someone could flood these websites with fake credit card numbers that when the scammers try to buy something with it, they get rickrolled? Like Mr. Douchebag scammer takes his girlfriend out for a nice steak dinner using a credit card he, er, downloaded or something from us, and then he goes to pay for it and the waiter swipes the card, and then the fancy music playing in the background screeches to a stop, and "Never gonna give you up" starts playing, and everyone laughs at him, and his girlfriend leaves with another dude...
I'm not the most technically gifted person on slashdot, if someone else knows how to make this happen...
science should be treated, as it was always intended, with a grain of salt.
Are we talking "grain of salt" as in "not taking it so seriously" or "understanding that some changes to scientific theory and predictions are bound to occur."
Not taking science seriously, such as thinking maybe the law of gravity won't really apply this time so you can jump off that building, or not really caring whether or not global warming is occurring is dangerous and fairly illogical. Understanding that scientific theories often change with new facts, but that those changes don't mean the whole thing is bunk, that's good.
For the rest, this estimate will prove just about anything between the third coming of the messiah and the imminent destruction of the Earth by magnetic core spin reversal.
Hey now! Some of us just believe one or the other, that this is a sign of Jesus' return, or that the Earth's magnetic core is going to stop. It's only a lunatic fringe of our organizations that believe ice loss means Jesus is coming to stop the Earth's magnetic core!
How dare you think that as a Canadian I don't like Van Halen!
That wasn't an extremely polite way of saying that... admit it, you're not actually Canadian, are you? You're from New York! Nice try, NY, but -real- Canadians would apologize for being Canadian and liking Van Halen, and then would invite AC to have a beer.
Twitter was used for something useful! Stop the presses!!!!
First 4chan does something nice, now twitter actually helped rescue a POW... what other weird things is the internet going to do this week? A comment thread on youtube produces lasting peace in the middle east?
Yes, I find it humorous that some Taliban soldiers don't actually know what the internet is.
I would guess that if all Islamic fundamentalists were on the internet and could access the vast wealth of porn contained therein, we'd have less Islamic fundamentalists.
Please have lots of grandkids and then tell them about this repeatedly.
Tsuneoka: "Back in my day, we only tweeted when we needed rescuing from being a POW!"
Grandkids "I'm looking at your twitter archive right now. '1/1/2010 LOL, so drunk right now, I can't believe I signed up for TWITTER!'"
Tsuneoka: "Right. Drunk. Clearly an effort to ward off being captured by islamic militants."
"They asked what that was. And I told them that if you write something on it, then you can reach many Japanese journalists. So they said, 'try it'."
So then, where's the trick, again?
The part where he used twitter to do something useful. That was quite a trick.
Tricking his captors into letting him send a Tweet is nothing compared to tricking VC's into giving twitter $50M.
You're right: his captors had guns.
I hope his experience taught him something about Islam
That they just imprison you, as opposed to raping and killing your whole village as the christian crusaders did? Or that they aren't the evil geniuses one should be worried about?