Most universities now offer CS degrees with a focus in game development. You still get a decent background in CS principals like software engineering, but get to take classes in game development and 3D engines your junior and senior years.
Agreed. I do not care for American capitalism. CEO's and other majority stock holders end up being the ones that end up profiting the most from all their employees work.
The app that Apple pulled needed to perform various steps to enable the easter egg, so it's not as if the volume buttons are instantly reconfigured. You have to go out of your way substantially to enable it, and still people did it, because they really wanted to.
That is because some people enjoy using the items they purchased as they see fit. If came out with a brand of axes and sent a copyright license along with it you implicitly agree to by purchasing and it read, "By purchasing this Axe, you agree to only use it for chopping Birch trees and you may not modify the handle nor the axe head in any way without explicit permission of Antisyzygy Inc.". Most people would probably want to use the axe to also chop down other types of trees or even planks of wood, or maybe they would want to add a special grip to it. Software and hardware is no different than any other tool. You use it for purposes as you see fit and if it simply doesn't work for that purpose then you get a different tool or augment your tool to work. I don't want to argue the copyright portion. A tool to do something virtually is still a tool, albeit a more abstract version. Im not disagreeing that Apple's product is designed for aesthetics and ergonomics in that order. Its just bullshit you can't do something with a tool you purchase. If there was an alternative to loading apps through there App store I wouldn't complain.
You also have to pay attention to Macro-economics. For example, investors have been systematically selling off stocks and moving to government bonds because there is a lot of uncertainty as well as fear. The entire global market is being affected by this. Most of the fear sell-offs are based on fear-mongering headlines, and manipulations by rating agencies or others with vested interest. Rating's agencies like Moody's, ect. seem to strategically be downgrading credit rankings of banks and nations when things look like they might start gaining ground in the currency and certain commodity markets. The tinfoil hat nutjob in me thinks that someone is shorting markets big time and trying to keep the prices of stocks and currencies down to gain some big profits.This being so they are making some "arrangements" with rating's agencies. I have no idea if this is true, but there were some major coincidences recently that made me suspicious. If you follow global economy or market news at all you will hear everyone talking about how there may be a "double dip recession" which is furthering increasing peoples fear. Overall, its not that Activision stock is a bad buy in relation to the Micro side of it, its just that no one is a buyer right now because everyone is trying to safeguard their assets in things like bonds and gold.
What a crazy world it would be if we could just switch the number base and make prime numbers no longer prime. Methinks modern encryption methods would no longer work.
The 'pleases" part probably has some underlining context to it such as "selfishly pleases" or "amusingly pleases" which would not be translated with the same underlying sexual interpretation. I remember in Japanese class one time I thought I said "I like to eat sushi because it is healthy", but I used the word "Genki" which actually translated what I said into something like "I enjoy eating sushi that is energetic and alive". My japanese teacher laughed at me and pretended to be a maki roll bouncing around the room.
Norse runes had meanings on their own, typically used in divination. I.e. you have a bag of runes and toss them on the table. Each one has an associated meaning like, property, heritage, success in war, protection, ect. The way they landed (rightside up, upside down, face up, face down) determined what they meant.
Its interesting how companies spout out capitalist philosophy based arguments against laws when it benefits them, but are quick to use non-capitalist strategies to edge the competition out.
Reminds me of this guy I knew who was perpetually brain-torched on marijuana. He had these wild delusions of how the illuminati, free masons and skull and bones were planning to take over America. I think the pot use was a side effect of his mental condition.
Well, I would wager surviving the next 20 minutes would be 99.9 percent. If no infant had survived after being born that premature before, it stands to reason she still wont. Im just asking if a medical professional knows the answer.
Your solution is similar to Nazi Germany. Make it a matter of pride to buy "American" goods. Channel "Patriotism" into business. Replace "American" with "German" and "Patriotism" with "Nationalism". I haven't thought about it enough to come up with a valid solution. That is the scientist in me speaking. The emotional part of me says to put a tariff on all Chinese goods.
Its actually a lot worse than that. The Chinese have the rest of the world "by the balls" as it were. We depend upon Chinese goods to fuel our Walmart economy. No company in the US can produce products at the price the Chinese can, and this even factors in the transit cost. They do this by having a low standard of living and unsafe, usurious work conditions which is quite ironic considering the whole point of Communism is to uplift the worker. They apply the same philosophy to their acquirement of natural resources such as the rare metals you mentioned in passing (because the Chinese basically refused to sell Japan rare metals until they gave over the ship Captain). Rare metals are essential for electronics which is what the Japanese depend on for their exports. The Chinese can provide rare metals cheaper because they let their environment suffer through the creation of acid lakes, gutted out topography unsuitable for wildlife, and increased emissions; not to mention the crappy work conditions of their citizens. Paired with their low cost production of resources, they also manipulate financial markets such as the way they "peg" their currency to the US dollar and refuse to let the market treat their currency like any other. Overall, the Chinese want to get all the benefits of a capitalist market, but refuse to accept the consequences and actively throw threats around to get their way like a little spoiled child. They maneuvered themselves into a position where they can just make demands and we have to accept it otherwise our own people will suffer. Shame on our government for being so short-sighted.
What do we do about the Chinese? Do we tariff their goods? Do we refuse to trade with them? Since we are currently coming out of a recession, if we do either of the things I mentioned we only hurt the American consumer. It will only drive prices up when there is not as much money to spend for the average person. This is exactly why I say the Chinese have us by the balls. I am not sure how to fix it.
Less Work Opportunities + Low Income + Reinforced Criminal Behavior in Prison = Increased Likelihood to Commit another Crime For Income
If you put people in prison for stealing food, and when they get out they can't afford food because they can't get a job and have no useful skills, they will probably steal food again. Our prison system is not even good at preventing crimes within their own facilities. Inmates must conform to a prison society based on criminal activity or have any number of bad things happen to them. There are some people in prison that are literally un-reformable violent criminals or drug dealers, and they tend to run the prison since the guards can't or won't protect other inmates and also inmates want some sort of escape from the harsh reality (i.e. drugs) which they don't deserve (and hence either become addicted or aren't really being punished for their crime since they can just dope themselves up and not care). Inmates begin to adapt to the lifestyle so they can survive or live a bit better and these adaptations carry with them upon release. Furthermore, they can't get decent jobs upon release and end up being poor. Why not look up the correlation between lower income and criminal activity? Basically, if the prison system kept prisoners completely safe and off drugs and gave them some sort of work to do that could translate into a skill upon release, then I think we would see a much lower recidivism rate.
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Most universities now offer CS degrees with a focus in game development. You still get a decent background in CS principals like software engineering, but get to take classes in game development and 3D engines your junior and senior years.
Agreed. I do not care for American capitalism. CEO's and other majority stock holders end up being the ones that end up profiting the most from all their employees work.
I know. But a lot of people are brainwashed into thinking communism = despotism.
Precisely an argument for Co-op or Communist control. Communist societies can be democratic you know.
The app that Apple pulled needed to perform various steps to enable the easter egg, so it's not as if the volume buttons are instantly reconfigured. You have to go out of your way substantially to enable it, and still people did it, because they really wanted to.
That is because some people enjoy using the items they purchased as they see fit. If came out with a brand of axes and sent a copyright license along with it you implicitly agree to by purchasing and it read, "By purchasing this Axe, you agree to only use it for chopping Birch trees and you may not modify the handle nor the axe head in any way without explicit permission of Antisyzygy Inc.". Most people would probably want to use the axe to also chop down other types of trees or even planks of wood, or maybe they would want to add a special grip to it. Software and hardware is no different than any other tool. You use it for purposes as you see fit and if it simply doesn't work for that purpose then you get a different tool or augment your tool to work. I don't want to argue the copyright portion. A tool to do something virtually is still a tool, albeit a more abstract version. Im not disagreeing that Apple's product is designed for aesthetics and ergonomics in that order. Its just bullshit you can't do something with a tool you purchase. If there was an alternative to loading apps through there App store I wouldn't complain.
I don't know why you are complaining. You should try posting an anti-Apple comment some time. It goes down in flames in a matter of minutes.
You also have to pay attention to Macro-economics. For example, investors have been systematically selling off stocks and moving to government bonds because there is a lot of uncertainty as well as fear. The entire global market is being affected by this. Most of the fear sell-offs are based on fear-mongering headlines, and manipulations by rating agencies or others with vested interest. Rating's agencies like Moody's, ect. seem to strategically be downgrading credit rankings of banks and nations when things look like they might start gaining ground in the currency and certain commodity markets. The tinfoil hat nutjob in me thinks that someone is shorting markets big time and trying to keep the prices of stocks and currencies down to gain some big profits.This being so they are making some "arrangements" with rating's agencies. I have no idea if this is true, but there were some major coincidences recently that made me suspicious. If you follow global economy or market news at all you will hear everyone talking about how there may be a "double dip recession" which is furthering increasing peoples fear. Overall, its not that Activision stock is a bad buy in relation to the Micro side of it, its just that no one is a buyer right now because everyone is trying to safeguard their assets in things like bonds and gold.
.... hence its a palindrome.
It sounds to me like you suffer from a degree of political chauvinism, though I can't tell if its also cultural chauvinism.
What a crazy world it would be if we could just switch the number base and make prime numbers no longer prime. Methinks modern encryption methods would no longer work.
The 'pleases" part probably has some underlining context to it such as "selfishly pleases" or "amusingly pleases" which would not be translated with the same underlying sexual interpretation. I remember in Japanese class one time I thought I said "I like to eat sushi because it is healthy", but I used the word "Genki" which actually translated what I said into something like "I enjoy eating sushi that is energetic and alive". My japanese teacher laughed at me and pretended to be a maki roll bouncing around the room.
Norse runes had meanings on their own, typically used in divination. I.e. you have a bag of runes and toss them on the table. Each one has an associated meaning like, property, heritage, success in war, protection, ect. The way they landed (rightside up, upside down, face up, face down) determined what they meant.
Its interesting how companies spout out capitalist philosophy based arguments against laws when it benefits them, but are quick to use non-capitalist strategies to edge the competition out.
Fifty Meteor Asteroid's Might Hit Earth In 2098
We better freeze the members of Aerosmith as well, otherwise he won't have epic tracks to listen to on his way to the asteroid.
I suppose thats what I get for skimming the article.
Reminds me of this guy I knew who was perpetually brain-torched on marijuana. He had these wild delusions of how the illuminati, free masons and skull and bones were planning to take over America. I think the pot use was a side effect of his mental condition.
Well, I would wager surviving the next 20 minutes would be 99.9 percent. If no infant had survived after being born that premature before, it stands to reason she still wont. Im just asking if a medical professional knows the answer.
Clever. I mean what is the probability of survival.
I wonder what the survival rate will be now she is stabilized?
You damn English manglers of the Middle English language!
Your solution is similar to Nazi Germany. Make it a matter of pride to buy "American" goods. Channel "Patriotism" into business. Replace "American" with "German" and "Patriotism" with "Nationalism". I haven't thought about it enough to come up with a valid solution. That is the scientist in me speaking. The emotional part of me says to put a tariff on all Chinese goods.
Its actually a lot worse than that. The Chinese have the rest of the world "by the balls" as it were. We depend upon Chinese goods to fuel our Walmart economy. No company in the US can produce products at the price the Chinese can, and this even factors in the transit cost. They do this by having a low standard of living and unsafe, usurious work conditions which is quite ironic considering the whole point of Communism is to uplift the worker. They apply the same philosophy to their acquirement of natural resources such as the rare metals you mentioned in passing (because the Chinese basically refused to sell Japan rare metals until they gave over the ship Captain). Rare metals are essential for electronics which is what the Japanese depend on for their exports. The Chinese can provide rare metals cheaper because they let their environment suffer through the creation of acid lakes, gutted out topography unsuitable for wildlife, and increased emissions; not to mention the crappy work conditions of their citizens. Paired with their low cost production of resources, they also manipulate financial markets such as the way they "peg" their currency to the US dollar and refuse to let the market treat their currency like any other. Overall, the Chinese want to get all the benefits of a capitalist market, but refuse to accept the consequences and actively throw threats around to get their way like a little spoiled child. They maneuvered themselves into a position where they can just make demands and we have to accept it otherwise our own people will suffer. Shame on our government for being so short-sighted.
What do we do about the Chinese? Do we tariff their goods? Do we refuse to trade with them? Since we are currently coming out of a recession, if we do either of the things I mentioned we only hurt the American consumer. It will only drive prices up when there is not as much money to spend for the average person. This is exactly why I say the Chinese have us by the balls. I am not sure how to fix it.
It could be neither.
Felony = Less Work Opportunities + Low Income
Less Work Opportunities + Low Income + Reinforced Criminal Behavior in Prison = Increased Likelihood to Commit another Crime For Income
If you put people in prison for stealing food, and when they get out they can't afford food because they can't get a job and have no useful skills, they will probably steal food again. Our prison system is not even good at preventing crimes within their own facilities. Inmates must conform to a prison society based on criminal activity or have any number of bad things happen to them. There are some people in prison that are literally un-reformable violent criminals or drug dealers, and they tend to run the prison since the guards can't or won't protect other inmates and also inmates want some sort of escape from the harsh reality (i.e. drugs) which they don't deserve (and hence either become addicted or aren't really being punished for their crime since they can just dope themselves up and not care). Inmates begin to adapt to the lifestyle so they can survive or live a bit better and these adaptations carry with them upon release. Furthermore, they can't get decent jobs upon release and end up being poor. Why not look up the correlation between lower income and criminal activity? Basically, if the prison system kept prisoners completely safe and off drugs and gave them some sort of work to do that could translate into a skill upon release, then I think we would see a much lower recidivism rate.