Take a look for a version of the album that was created from the multi-tracks used in Guitar Hero III... sounds way better than the retail CD. These tracks were apparently handed over to the GH team before the moron who compressed the shit out of the album did his dirty work.
Various version available on Demonoid, The Pirate Bay, etc.
The Republic addresses the scaling issues of the Democracy.
The term Democracy is used because we tend to hope that the character of it remains as we address the pragmatic issues with implementing it for 300 or 500 million people.
I'd like the think that the Internet is one step on the way to making direct Democracy feasible again even with hundreds of millions of people. Perhaps we could all be "present to vote" virtually and make our voices heard directly.
It would be a huge undertaking, but I think it's a goal worth striving for.
It's similar to how the videogame console makers operate, earning profit on both the hardware and the software.
Actually, consoles are usually sold at a loss in order to drive software sales. Sony bled money selling PS3s to be used in compute clusters where no games would be bought for them. Consoles such as the Wii that actually make money directly during their entire production run are quite uncommon.
The VCR can't tune into the channels anymore because they are now digital... it has to have help from another device. I've never heard of a VCR with a digital tuner.
The difference between having a conversation with a person in the car and a person on the phone has been discussed on/. many times before. The person who is present can react sensible to road conditions and shut up when needed, while the person on the phone cannot.
I don't personally think this legislation is a good idea, BTW. Sleep deprived drivers is a much bigger problem, but that is OK because it is a necessary part of our economy...
The USA has as many contradictions in its attitudes towards driving as it does in its attitudes about sex.
The problem with phone conversation doesn't lie in whether or not you have to hold your phone, but in the mental resources you have to use to maintain the conversation on the phone.
Hands-free headsets are simply not any safer to use because they don't address the actual cause of accidents: lack of mental focus on driving.
Actually the elasticity of these things change with the among of force applied. When you try to punch these things hard (just like a bullet does) they seem to rigid. But when you try to handle them with less force, like try to slowly pull or push them (just like when you try to wear them), they seem to be really elastic.
then the pragmatic thing to do is ignore it and browse at -1.
Once you realize you don't agree with moderation system, why not go all the way and simple "hide moderation scores" while browsing at -1? That allows you to make up your own mind for each comment without any consideration of what others think.
I been reading/. this way for a few months now and I highly recommend it, even compared to browsing at -1 and leaving scores on. I find it hard to think so many browse at the default of 2 or whatever... just a bunch of disjointed comments and replies to words you can't see. Maybe I'm just not living fast enough...
You expect me to listen to a man wax lyrical on the nature of war after he's spent an hour running around with a cardboard box over his head, and then take all this seriously? Sorry, no deal, no cookie.
You summed it up much better than I could have! Kudos.
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So, what's up with that "trolltalk" username? How do they put the link to goatse embedded in their slashdot page thing? Have they hacked Slashdot?
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Trolltalk
Read and learn! :)
Take a look for a version of the album that was created from the multi-tracks used in Guitar Hero III... sounds way better than the retail CD. These tracks were apparently handed over to the GH team before the moron who compressed the shit out of the album did his dirty work.
Various version available on Demonoid, The Pirate Bay, etc.
Lets try a little role playing.
No need to role play, seeing as the scenario you describe actually happened.
Liar. Your user name implies you may be the avatar of this very consciousness!
It's actually one of the prime reasons my father purchases a newspaper.
The Republic addresses the scaling issues of the Democracy.
The term Democracy is used because we tend to hope that the character of it remains as we address the pragmatic issues with implementing it for 300 or 500 million people.
I'd like the think that the Internet is one step on the way to making direct Democracy feasible again even with hundreds of millions of people. Perhaps we could all be "present to vote" virtually and make our voices heard directly.
It would be a huge undertaking, but I think it's a goal worth striving for.
Link is paywalled. :P
He probably meant "half century".
It's similar to how the videogame console makers operate, earning profit on both the hardware and the software.
Actually, consoles are usually sold at a loss in order to drive software sales. Sony bled money selling PS3s to be used in compute clusters where no games would be bought for them. Consoles such as the Wii that actually make money directly during their entire production run are quite uncommon.
When toasters really do run Linux...
You jest, but this toaster runs NetBSD, and it's not even a recent story.
There is no version of Chrome available for the iPhone, so your snarky remark seems misplaced.
The VCR can't tune into the channels anymore because they are now digital... it has to have help from another device. I've never heard of a VCR with a digital tuner.
The difference between having a conversation with a person in the car and a person on the phone has been discussed on /. many times before. The person who is present can react sensible to road conditions and shut up when needed, while the person on the phone cannot.
I don't personally think this legislation is a good idea, BTW. Sleep deprived drivers is a much bigger problem, but that is OK because it is a necessary part of our economy...
The USA has as many contradictions in its attitudes towards driving as it does in its attitudes about sex.
The problem with phone conversation doesn't lie in whether or not you have to hold your phone, but in the mental resources you have to use to maintain the conversation on the phone.
Hands-free headsets are simply not any safer to use because they don't address the actual cause of accidents: lack of mental focus on driving.
Don't put Canada in there. Or maybe the rest of the country is different? In Quebec...
Don't a large number of people in Quebec wish to have their own country? That implies they feel they are quite different from the rest of Canada.
(yes, I'm too lazy to fire up gnucharmap to get the accented e).
That's what the compose key is for. :)
Actually the elasticity of these things change with the among of force applied. When you try to punch these things hard (just like a bullet does) they seem to rigid. But when you try to handle them with less force, like try to slowly pull or push them (just like when you try to wear them), they seem to be really elastic.
Sounds similar to the way a cornflour and water mixture works.
then the pragmatic thing to do is ignore it and browse at -1.
Once you realize you don't agree with moderation system, why not go all the way and simple "hide moderation scores" while browsing at -1? That allows you to make up your own mind for each comment without any consideration of what others think.
I been reading /. this way for a few months now and I highly recommend it, even compared to browsing at -1 and leaving scores on. I find it hard to think so many browse at the default of 2 or whatever... just a bunch of disjointed comments and replies to words you can't see. Maybe I'm just not living fast enough...
A /. article without comments? What good is that? :P
Thanks for that bit of history... BTW, you must have a good memory!
Eris is larger than Pluto, so your solution doesn't solve the problem the GP was asking about.
How exactly would you set up K&M for four players while using one computer screen? Controllers would seem to be a necessity.
You expect me to listen to a man wax lyrical on the nature of war after he's spent an hour running around with a cardboard box over his head, and then take all this seriously? Sorry, no deal, no cookie.
You summed it up much better than I could have! Kudos.
He is saying that we have more capacity and usage then even Japan, which wouldn't surprise me as we have about 100X the number of people.
USA pop: 309,023,000 (2010 estimate)
Japan pop: 127,380,000 (2010 estimate)
2.426 times more... a bit less than 100X.
That's exactly how the witness protection program described it to me, yes.
I don't think staying up 84 hours to do something is *particularly* rare
Do you smoke crack or something? I don't think I've ever been awake for 48 hours straight, let alone 84.