Linux is, indeed, based on what is now a very old paradigm - approaching half a century. Concepts have advanced since, and much of what we do is just to retain that backwards compatability.
Windows, is, well, Windows. This being/., no more be said of that.
Grokking object-oriented programming, and users' mindsets as well, I agree that it would be worth at least examining the concept of a "file-less OS", one that simply keeps a live OO system persistent. I'd like to write software knowing that when an object is instantiated, it persists until explicitly deleted - without having to awkwardly save state to something as non-orthoganal as a file. I want to be able to manipulate & transport objects as such, not as files. Obviously the prime issues are performance (storage vs. RAM consistency) and recovering from shutdown; resolving these is simply a geeky engineering challenge, not an impossibility. The concept of "files" is archaic. Storing/transferring what we call a "file" would be better served by persistence & portability of objects.
A prime example is the notion of "restarting" a computer. Why, these days, should a computer startup time be so long? it should simply resume, but more robustly than "sleep" or "hibernate" - restoring the state of objects as they were, not restarting from practically scratch every time.
Could be that the OS ultimately does store data as "files", but that is an implementation abstraction, not a core of the paradigm. Users do not intuitively think of "files", and programmers should not force them to due to ancient rock-and-chisel backwards compatability.
"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." - Chinese proverb
the 'Fix it' button, including one that prevents users from connecting a USB storage device -- useful in protecting against one of the infection vectors of the 'Downadup' worm.
Funny, something I just sent a co-worker fits this.
"Everything, from people to rocks, axiomatically has a basic nature to what it does, what it just tends to do and how. I find life is much simpler and more pleasant when I recognize what that is, and interact on it/he/she/they on it's own terms and in its own way. This G-D net-nanny [or, in TFA's case, "Fix It" disabling functionality] stuff is just another example of what screws up human existence: instead of facilitating things happening, it stands in the way and interferes in obtuse ways."
The problem isn't people attaching USB storage devices, it's that OS design flaws allow for malicious misuse. Of course, M$'s "Fix It" solution is to kill the messenger, not fix the "yeah I'll do anything you say" OS - and we all know what kind of annoyance, headaches, breakage and new infection vectors will follow as a result.
The proposed 4-month delay just got a huge boost from the in-progress "economic stimulus" bill (aka "end-run wholesale spending grab"). Buried in the $825B-and-rising-fast bill is a further allocation of $650,000,000 to fund more ads and "free" converter boxes. That much free money - above and beyond what has already been allocated for ads & coupons - is motivating someone to see that this delay is as long as possible.
When you can actually afford to buy a nuclear weapon, maintain it, and store it safely - and you're actually interested in a thoughtful answer to your question instead of just waving an emotional strawman argument - we'll talk.
BTW: you can, in fact, legally* own nearly anything short of a WMD by filing appropriate paperwork and paying a $200 tax. People who can actually afford the big scary stuff are smart enough to not do anything stupid with it.
(* - your local jurisdiction may vary... and is ripe for SCOTUS challenge if it doesn't.)
A black hole is just the gravity well of a given mass compressed into a sufficiently small space. In this case, the given mass is miniscule, so very little (practically nothing, hence the "evaporation" issue) will be drawn to it.
You have more to worry about from the gravitational pull of your shoes.
Seriously dude, spell out your acronyms; it's just common courtesy.
On a geek board like/.? Geeks revel in acronyms and expect the intended audience to know them. If you don't know, or are unwilling to look them up, you're not in the intended audience.
In this particular case, - those interested in the obscure subject matter already know the acronyms and use them as compelete terms without spelling them out (just like "SATA", "IBM", "USB", etc.). - too many of those who don't already know the terms are, as/.'s recent "killer app" discussion shows, are likely to respond with obnoxious & ignorant postings if they did see those acronyms & terms explained up front. - those who already know, or are willing to spend a few seconds looking up those terms, are much more likely to engage in interesting & reasoned debate. I'm tired of the hostile bigoted hysteria of those not so inclined.
I am kinda curious though which one OP was interested in.
Aside from general curiosity and expectation that a peek in the registry would reveal some surprising facts...
Per your comments:
1. I'm wondering if "taxpayer information" could, under the new FOIA rules, be revealed so long as personally identifying info (name, address, etc.) was redacted. I don't care so much about who has registered, I'm wondering if certain obscure loopholes have been used to register otherwise prohibited items at all.
2. That's the loophole [ab]use I'm primarily interested in: whether obtuse wording in 922(o) has resulted in backroom deals to legally (letter of law, decidedly not spirit thereof) register otherwise prohibited new items. I can't find any above-board use of the exception at all, despite the usefulness & desirability of the banned products to many. Methinks some are pulling strings to quietly get new stuff that the rest of us would have to pay a 2000% markup for just to get old/used versions, if available at all.
3. Police are specifically exempted. I'm also curious how far that exemption is being stretched ("you are hereby an honorary deputy - now where's your $1400 for that new M4 you wanted? Yes it's legal, just don't tell anybody.").
4. Can't re-register those (not to be confused with "I've got the paperwork to prove it, even if the BATFE lost their copy"). No amnesties have been granted for a _long_ time.
Many of us DO care if any of these are true. Obtaining a real M16 illegally is not an option, even if you've got the $20,000 for one (20+ years old and well used, as opposed to recent-manufactured listing for $1400 for those who can get 'em legally), as the penalty is $250,000 and 10 years in federal prison. Some of us DO want to play by the rules.
Now maybe I'll file a FOIA request with the BATFE to reveal the NFA registry contents (with personal names & addresses redacted, of course) to demonstrate errors and abuses, especially involving 922(o). Don't see how, under this EO, they could say "no". Results could be VERY interesting...
Computing ballistics in the field has been an ongoing issue for long-range shooters, as determining the required elevation & windage settings for precision shots depends heavily on a variety of factors (wind speed, temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, bullet weight, ballistic coefficient, barrel length, powder burn rate, barrel twist, target angle, distance, and even latitude & direction). Until recently, sharpshooters/snipers addressed the problem by computing ballistics tables ahead of time, memorizing or taking paper copies into the field, developing a reliable "gut feel", and even using specialized slide rules (ex.: Mil-Dot Master); only recently have portable computers been adapted or built (Palm Pilot, Barrett BORS) to improve situational accuracy. Bringing the iPod Touch into the picture via a convenient mounting system allows tremendous improvement & flexibility in creating applications to solve ballistics problems, as there are already at least 3 apps available, and both professionals & hobbists can easily develop their own apps. That this mounting system is provided by Knights Armament, a well-respected name in high-quality small arms, helps as well.
Those with snide remarks should be aware that (A) this is legitimately needed by military and police to keep your life safe and comfortable, and (B) long-range target shooting is a legitimate and popular sport.
Not only is the content distributed among 14 pages in bite-size pieces, but those pieces take up roughly 1/72nd of the page space allocated. Along with the much-lamented dilution of content across excessive pages, do advertisers realize that their paid-for links may be up to 10 page-downs below the article?
Hint: there's no sustainable market for an internet webpad like this.
An awful lot of people are using the iPod Touch (and iPhone, aside from the phone part) for exactly that. AFAIK, music/video is actually a relatively small part of its common use, with the dominant "killer app" being "internet webpad". Personally I've largely abandoned my ultraportable laptop in favor of surfing & email via the iPod Touch; music playing is nice, but the right-now pocket email/net access is almost life-changing. A larger version would be even more "killer app".
The market for such an internet webpad may not be huge, but it's certainly sustainable.
Due to driving being considered a privilege in our culture*, by getting a driver's license you automatically waive certain rights. The right to have a lawyer present, with the obvious purpose of getting your body to reduce your BAC to 0 before administering a blood/breathalyzer test, is one of those waived rights.
Alternatively and to the same end: police - having detained you for reasonable suspicion per "Terry stop" rules - are granted the power to search for and acquire evidence ASAP. In this case, the evidence is your BAC. Subsequent to acquring the evidence - you breathing into the breathalyzer - you may then have your lawyer argue that the instrumentation used in prosecution was faulty. The reasonable acquisition of evidence is well-established in criminal law.
The OP's issue regards challenging the interpretation of evidence, not the acquisition thereof. For multiple reasons, you can't inhibit police from acquiring your BAC if they can articulate a reason why they think you were DWI.
* - surely our Founding Fathers would have included "right to vehicular travel" in the Bill Of Rights if they had any inkling such an obvious natural right would be infringed so much as it is.
If you're pulled over and suspected of DUI, then don't take the damn test
In many states, refusal to take a breathalyzer test is legally presumed an admission of guilt. You'll have a much harder time reversing a conviction based on a refusal to take the test (to wit: voluntary admission of guilt without evidence thereof) than challenging the accuracy of the instruments used.
Good luck with that.
(BTW: the whole "release the source code" thing is more a rasing-the-stakes legal tactic than a legitimate questioning of the equipment involved. Are you REALLY ready to expend considerable resources to find vindicating flaws in a commercial product? You have to convince the prosecutor you will do it, and succeed, before he'll drop charges in favor of keeping that revenue path flowing.)
The question makes perfect sense, as does the answer.
"Can anyone educate me on why a mandated cutting [of] analog [service] is a requirement of DTV?"
The transition to DTV frees up radio spectrum space currently used by analog. That space is very valuable, and has been sold/licensed for hundreds of billions of dollars. Those who will use the space have a pressing need to access that space ASAP - both to be able to use it at all, and to recoup their very large investment (every delayed day costs them millions in lost revenue).
Yes, technically, DTV can co-exist alongside analog TV. But as most broadcasters & viewers transition to DTV, maintaining that legacy service stalls other technical advancements (ex.: 4G) which would serve a whole lotta people for a whole lotta profit.
Translation: DTV requires cutting analog TV service because not doing so means you (and 50 million other people) don't get your 4G video cell phone just because Gramma wants to watch some podunk TV channel on her 1962-vintage television.
Even if 911 is allowed, other highly relevant calls cannot be made.
This is like speed bumps: sounds good, until the ambulance or cop can't get to you in time because they have to go from 50 to 5 MPH periodically in the area, or can't move because they bottomed out the vehicle after hitting one at 50 after not seeing it.
How about facing the reality that bad things happen to stupid people doing stupid things, and teach kids to not be stupid? Proactively blocking their every move because they might do something dumb does not turn them into responsible adults.
That's a major factor in Buhddist/Nepalese sand art (proper name escapes me): a great deal of effort goes into making an intricate work of art, only to have it brushed away a few days later.
From the Japanese samurai classic text Hagakure: "In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things."
Yes, all the snide comments about VR being so '90s, been there done that didn't work, and rehashing of all the gung-ho fanboy rhetoric aside, there IS something new to this.
Photosynth.
A major problem with VR was having to construct everything manually. You want a shelf full of products? start drawing lots of polygons by hand - and that's a lot of polygons. Yes, there were some tools to help, but it still came down to a largely handcrafted virtual world - most of which turned out pretty lame.
Enter Photosynth.
Now said shopkeeper can spend 10 minutes wandering thru his store with a video camera running, take a gazillion frames of lots of angles of view, and let Photosynth stitch it all together into a fully-formed, fully-illustrated 3D model. Behold: a detailed, realistic 3D walk-thru rendering of the entire store in about an hour, mostly generated automatically.
And before anyone complains that it's slow, hard to use, etc. - it's little different from "first person shooters", which provide a familiar 3D interactive walkthru experience. Difference is, this one is the real world - without all that tedious hand-measuring hand-coding of agonizing detail of reality.
'bout time someone did this. Made sense to me long before I saw Photosynth turn pictures into 3D models, M$ just did it before I got to it (funny how deep pockets helps that...).
There's a market out there of people who want to buy games, but are willing to wait a while to do so in order to pay a lower price. This demand is being satisfied by those who pay "full price", then find they can sell their copy later, allegedly denying the manufacturer a second sale.
Lesson: as time passes, lower the price.
No way, no how, am I going to pay more than $10 for a game. Call me cheap, but I've got mouths to feed and bills to pay. Heck, I don't want to pay more than $5 unless it's real good....but I _DO_ buy games. I may be way behind the times, but I spend the money - the question is who wants it. If the manufacturer wants my money, they'll drop the price to something I'll actually pay for. If they don't, then someone else will be willing to sell me their used copy... though I'd rather pay a couple bucks more for a new one.
Quit complaining, guys. The market is there - sell to it, don't stifle it.
I can top that. It was such a searing sight I have to.
Wandered into Best Buy's high-end HDTV room. I look up from my shuffling feet, and see - duplicated across four dozen big-screen high-def displays covering two large walls - a very bloody live human birth.
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I'm inclined to agree.
Linux is, indeed, based on what is now a very old paradigm - approaching half a century. Concepts have advanced since, and much of what we do is just to retain that backwards compatability.
Windows, is, well, Windows. This being /., no more be said of that.
Grokking object-oriented programming, and users' mindsets as well, I agree that it would be worth at least examining the concept of a "file-less OS", one that simply keeps a live OO system persistent. I'd like to write software knowing that when an object is instantiated, it persists until explicitly deleted - without having to awkwardly save state to something as non-orthoganal as a file. I want to be able to manipulate & transport objects as such, not as files. Obviously the prime issues are performance (storage vs. RAM consistency) and recovering from shutdown; resolving these is simply a geeky engineering challenge, not an impossibility. The concept of "files" is archaic. Storing/transferring what we call a "file" would be better served by persistence & portability of objects.
A prime example is the notion of "restarting" a computer. Why, these days, should a computer startup time be so long? it should simply resume, but more robustly than "sleep" or "hibernate" - restoring the state of objects as they were, not restarting from practically scratch every time.
Could be that the OS ultimately does store data as "files", but that is an implementation abstraction, not a core of the paradigm. Users do not intuitively think of "files", and programmers should not force them to due to ancient rock-and-chisel backwards compatability.
"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
- Chinese proverb
the 'Fix it' button, including one that prevents users from connecting a USB storage device -- useful in protecting against one of the infection vectors of the 'Downadup' worm.
Funny, something I just sent a co-worker fits this.
"Everything, from people to rocks, axiomatically has a basic nature to what it does, what it just tends to do and how. I find life is much simpler and more pleasant when I recognize what that is, and interact on it/he/she/they on it's own terms and in its own way. This G-D net-nanny [or, in TFA's case, "Fix It" disabling functionality] stuff is just another example of what screws up human existence: instead of facilitating things happening, it stands in the way and interferes in obtuse ways."
The problem isn't people attaching USB storage devices, it's that OS design flaws allow for malicious misuse. Of course, M$'s "Fix It" solution is to kill the messenger, not fix the "yeah I'll do anything you say" OS - and we all know what kind of annoyance, headaches, breakage and new infection vectors will follow as a result.
...as bad publicity.
Funny, the page doesn't have a link to a printer-friendly copy of the article.
The iPhone's screen points one way.
The iPhone's camera points in the opposite direction.
Kinda hard to have a video conference when you have to be on both sides of the device at once for it to work.
The proposed 4-month delay just got a huge boost from the in-progress "economic stimulus" bill (aka "end-run wholesale spending grab"). Buried in the $825B-and-rising-fast bill is a further allocation of $650,000,000 to fund more ads and "free" converter boxes. That much free money - above and beyond what has already been allocated for ads & coupons - is motivating someone to see that this delay is as long as possible.
Depends on how many million I made off that movie.
Uwe? is that you?
When you can actually afford to buy a nuclear weapon, maintain it, and store it safely - and you're actually interested in a thoughtful answer to your question instead of just waving an emotional strawman argument - we'll talk.
BTW: you can, in fact, legally* own nearly anything short of a WMD by filing appropriate paperwork and paying a $200 tax. People who can actually afford the big scary stuff are smart enough to not do anything stupid with it.
(* - your local jurisdiction may vary ... and is ripe for SCOTUS challenge if it doesn't.)
A black hole is just the gravity well of a given mass compressed into a sufficiently small space. In this case, the given mass is miniscule, so very little (practically nothing, hence the "evaporation" issue) will be drawn to it.
You have more to worry about from the gravitational pull of your shoes.
Seriously dude, spell out your acronyms; it's just common courtesy.
On a geek board like /.? Geeks revel in acronyms and expect the intended audience to know them. If you don't know, or are unwilling to look them up, you're not in the intended audience.
In this particular case, /.'s recent "killer app" discussion shows, are likely to respond with obnoxious & ignorant postings if they did see those acronyms & terms explained up front.
- those interested in the obscure subject matter already know the acronyms and use them as compelete terms without spelling them out (just like "SATA", "IBM", "USB", etc.).
- too many of those who don't already know the terms are, as
- those who already know, or are willing to spend a few seconds looking up those terms, are much more likely to engage in interesting & reasoned debate. I'm tired of the hostile bigoted hysteria of those not so inclined.
I am kinda curious though which one OP was interested in.
Aside from general curiosity and expectation that a peek in the registry would reveal some surprising facts...
Per your comments:
1. I'm wondering if "taxpayer information" could, under the new FOIA rules, be revealed so long as personally identifying info (name, address, etc.) was redacted. I don't care so much about who has registered, I'm wondering if certain obscure loopholes have been used to register otherwise prohibited items at all.
2. That's the loophole [ab]use I'm primarily interested in: whether obtuse wording in 922(o) has resulted in backroom deals to legally (letter of law, decidedly not spirit thereof) register otherwise prohibited new items. I can't find any above-board use of the exception at all, despite the usefulness & desirability of the banned products to many. Methinks some are pulling strings to quietly get new stuff that the rest of us would have to pay a 2000% markup for just to get old/used versions, if available at all.
3. Police are specifically exempted. I'm also curious how far that exemption is being stretched ("you are hereby an honorary deputy - now where's your $1400 for that new M4 you wanted? Yes it's legal, just don't tell anybody.").
4. Can't re-register those (not to be confused with "I've got the paperwork to prove it, even if the BATFE lost their copy"). No amnesties have been granted for a _long_ time.
Many of us DO care if any of these are true. Obtaining a real M16 illegally is not an option, even if you've got the $20,000 for one (20+ years old and well used, as opposed to recent-manufactured listing for $1400 for those who can get 'em legally), as the penalty is $250,000 and 10 years in federal prison. Some of us DO want to play by the rules.
What this OP really wants is his own M4.
Now maybe I'll file a FOIA request with the BATFE to reveal the NFA registry contents (with personal names & addresses redacted, of course) to demonstrate errors and abuses, especially involving 922(o). Don't see how, under this EO, they could say "no". Results could be VERY interesting...
(If you don't grok that, Google is your friend.)
Computing ballistics in the field has been an ongoing issue for long-range shooters, as determining the required elevation & windage settings for precision shots depends heavily on a variety of factors (wind speed, temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, bullet weight, ballistic coefficient, barrel length, powder burn rate, barrel twist, target angle, distance, and even latitude & direction). Until recently, sharpshooters/snipers addressed the problem by computing ballistics tables ahead of time, memorizing or taking paper copies into the field, developing a reliable "gut feel", and even using specialized slide rules (ex.: Mil-Dot Master); only recently have portable computers been adapted or built (Palm Pilot, Barrett BORS) to improve situational accuracy. Bringing the iPod Touch into the picture via a convenient mounting system allows tremendous improvement & flexibility in creating applications to solve ballistics problems, as there are already at least 3 apps available, and both professionals & hobbists can easily develop their own apps. That this mounting system is provided by Knights Armament, a well-respected name in high-quality small arms, helps as well.
Those with snide remarks should be aware that (A) this is legitimately needed by military and police to keep your life safe and comfortable, and (B) long-range target shooting is a legitimate and popular sport.
Not only is the content distributed among 14 pages in bite-size pieces, but those pieces take up roughly 1/72nd of the page space allocated. Along with the much-lamented dilution of content across excessive pages, do advertisers realize that their paid-for links may be up to 10 page-downs below the article?
Hint: there's no sustainable market for an internet webpad like this.
An awful lot of people are using the iPod Touch (and iPhone, aside from the phone part) for exactly that. AFAIK, music/video is actually a relatively small part of its common use, with the dominant "killer app" being "internet webpad". Personally I've largely abandoned my ultraportable laptop in favor of surfing & email via the iPod Touch; music playing is nice, but the right-now pocket email/net access is almost life-changing. A larger version would be even more "killer app".
The market for such an internet webpad may not be huge, but it's certainly sustainable.
Due to driving being considered a privilege in our culture*, by getting a driver's license you automatically waive certain rights. The right to have a lawyer present, with the obvious purpose of getting your body to reduce your BAC to 0 before administering a blood/breathalyzer test, is one of those waived rights.
Alternatively and to the same end: police - having detained you for reasonable suspicion per "Terry stop" rules - are granted the power to search for and acquire evidence ASAP. In this case, the evidence is your BAC. Subsequent to acquring the evidence - you breathing into the breathalyzer - you may then have your lawyer argue that the instrumentation used in prosecution was faulty. The reasonable acquisition of evidence is well-established in criminal law.
The OP's issue regards challenging the interpretation of evidence, not the acquisition thereof. For multiple reasons, you can't inhibit police from acquiring your BAC if they can articulate a reason why they think you were DWI.
* - surely our Founding Fathers would have included "right to vehicular travel" in the Bill Of Rights if they had any inkling such an obvious natural right would be infringed so much as it is.
If you're pulled over and suspected of DUI, then don't take the damn test
In many states, refusal to take a breathalyzer test is legally presumed an admission of guilt. You'll have a much harder time reversing a conviction based on a refusal to take the test (to wit: voluntary admission of guilt without evidence thereof) than challenging the accuracy of the instruments used.
Good luck with that.
(BTW: the whole "release the source code" thing is more a rasing-the-stakes legal tactic than a legitimate questioning of the equipment involved. Are you REALLY ready to expend considerable resources to find vindicating flaws in a commercial product? You have to convince the prosecutor you will do it, and succeed, before he'll drop charges in favor of keeping that revenue path flowing.)
The question makes perfect sense, as does the answer.
"Can anyone educate me on why a mandated cutting [of] analog [service] is a requirement of DTV?"
The transition to DTV frees up radio spectrum space currently used by analog. That space is very valuable, and has been sold/licensed for hundreds of billions of dollars. Those who will use the space have a pressing need to access that space ASAP - both to be able to use it at all, and to recoup their very large investment (every delayed day costs them millions in lost revenue).
Yes, technically, DTV can co-exist alongside analog TV. But as most broadcasters & viewers transition to DTV, maintaining that legacy service stalls other technical advancements (ex.: 4G) which would serve a whole lotta people for a whole lotta profit.
Translation: DTV requires cutting analog TV service because not doing so means you (and 50 million other people) don't get your 4G video cell phone just because Gramma wants to watch some podunk TV channel on her 1962-vintage television.
Even if 911 is allowed, other highly relevant calls cannot be made.
This is like speed bumps: sounds good, until the ambulance or cop can't get to you in time because they have to go from 50 to 5 MPH periodically in the area, or can't move because they bottomed out the vehicle after hitting one at 50 after not seeing it.
How about facing the reality that bad things happen to stupid people doing stupid things, and teach kids to not be stupid? Proactively blocking their every move because they might do something dumb does not turn them into responsible adults.
That's a major factor in Buhddist/Nepalese sand art (proper name escapes me): a great deal of effort goes into making an intricate work of art, only to have it brushed away a few days later.
From the Japanese samurai classic text Hagakure: "In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things."
Yes, all the snide comments about VR being so '90s, been there done that didn't work, and rehashing of all the gung-ho fanboy rhetoric aside, there IS something new to this.
Photosynth.
A major problem with VR was having to construct everything manually. You want a shelf full of products? start drawing lots of polygons by hand - and that's a lot of polygons. Yes, there were some tools to help, but it still came down to a largely handcrafted virtual world - most of which turned out pretty lame.
Enter Photosynth.
Now said shopkeeper can spend 10 minutes wandering thru his store with a video camera running, take a gazillion frames of lots of angles of view, and let Photosynth stitch it all together into a fully-formed, fully-illustrated 3D model. Behold: a detailed, realistic 3D walk-thru rendering of the entire store in about an hour, mostly generated automatically.
And before anyone complains that it's slow, hard to use, etc. - it's little different from "first person shooters", which provide a familiar 3D interactive walkthru experience. Difference is, this one is the real world - without all that tedious hand-measuring hand-coding of agonizing detail of reality.
'bout time someone did this. Made sense to me long before I saw Photosynth turn pictures into 3D models, M$ just did it before I got to it (funny how deep pockets helps that...).
There's a market out there of people who want to buy games, but are willing to wait a while to do so in order to pay a lower price. This demand is being satisfied by those who pay "full price", then find they can sell their copy later, allegedly denying the manufacturer a second sale.
Lesson: as time passes, lower the price.
No way, no how, am I going to pay more than $10 for a game. Call me cheap, but I've got mouths to feed and bills to pay. Heck, I don't want to pay more than $5 unless it's real good. ...but I _DO_ buy games. I may be way behind the times, but I spend the money - the question is who wants it. If the manufacturer wants my money, they'll drop the price to something I'll actually pay for. If they don't, then someone else will be willing to sell me their used copy ... though I'd rather pay a couple bucks more for a new one.
Quit complaining, guys. The market is there - sell to it, don't stifle it.
The school needs more.
The school needs TEACHERS, people who actually know how to use the equipment and how to teach others to.
Just putting equipment in the room has been a failing and expensive step for as long as personal computers have existed.
"Angels and Demons", along with other current & soon movies, was shot using a Red camera.
They're in the process of fulfilling 4000 orders. Not promising to, actually building & shipping them.
I can top that. It was such a searing sight I have to.
Wandered into Best Buy's high-end HDTV room. I look up from my shuffling feet, and see - duplicated across four dozen big-screen high-def displays covering two large walls - a very bloody live human birth.