Here's the summary: Well, it's obvious that the game industry is at a complete lack of ideas, so here's an idea: Let's not think too hard on what the next game should be, and instead just touch up a few games from the past to stir up that old nostalgic feeling so we don't have to waste money on creativity.
Same for this Wayland heresy getting started over at Ubuntu. The Computer is the Network, the Network is the Computer. Just words to em, merrily breaking X and the idea of network transparency, not because it will perform better but because the ignorant fools don't realize X's network transparancy isn't the cause of the performance issues they are trying to solve. But mostly because they probably don't personally use apps remotely and don't even realize that they are tossing one of the greatest ideas in computing history down the shitter.
If you're going to throw such statements around, you better get your facts straight. The Wayland developers never blamed the networking protocol for the problems of X, but rather the fundamental architecture of X. In fact, Wayland has been built with networking in mind since nearly the beginning.
The point is, though, that the way the laws are structured now is not working, so we need to think about some other ways of structuring the law so that it accomplishes its goals, which is to make the roads safer.
I think I will add to the OP of this thread, and say that if someone is pulled over for some other illegal road activity, and they are found to be distracted with a cell phone in some manner, then they should be cited for that as well as the reason they were pulled over.
I know this isn't popular here on slashdot, but being able to target both should be pretty easy using Mono. MonoTouch is already out there, and is a well proven technology, and MonoDroid should be out soon. Just remember to keep the business logic of the app separate from platform specifics.
Or, you could just stick to C, which will work on both platforms as well.
I was in the hospital a little while back for an injury, and on the way there in the ambulance, I could feel every little bump we went over even though we never went over a speed bump, and it was very painful.
I hate to say it, but I'm somewhat superficial with my phones. I don't need them to be "beautiful" or anything, but I don't want it to be ugly. This was definitely an ugly phone. I have the Nokia N900, which won't win any beauty contests, but I think it definitely looks nicer than the Kin. I even had an OpenMoko, although I actually think that's a somewhat elegant looking phone.
Programmer 1: So, yeah, we need more pictures to feed to our AI. Programmer 2: They're on this jump drive. Should I plug it into the front USB port, or the rear? P1 firmly grabs the drive, and plugs it into the closest port he could find P1: Wow, that's...quite a load.
Since it's been shown that aerobic exercise can improve reaction time, I can't help but wonder how much better of gamers they would be if they also exercised a bit as well. They wouldn't need to go to a gym. Just some running, or crunches, or something on a regular basis would help, I would bet.
Since it's been shown that aerobic exercise can improve reaction time, I can't help but wonder how much better of gamers they would be if they also exercised a bit as well. They wouldn't need to go to a gym. Just some running, or crunches, or something on a regular basis would help, I would bet.
I used to work for a cable company (a major one, I might add), and I had that unfortunate conversation with lots of customers.
What's ironic is that this usually took place in areas where the company I worked for used some local contractors. In areas where the company hired directly, I only heard praise of the technicians, and their punctuality.
Supposedly it's supposed to be better for businesses to hire locally, but from my experience, the local contractors were lazy fucktards.
That's a good point. I should have mentioned that many people who do go into prisons for non-violent crimes tend to come out worse than when they went in.
The US prison system is fucked up anyway. Most prisoners are mentally ill in some manner, and there are very few programs in the prison systems to deal with that, and so when they get out, they're still dangerous.
In fact, recidivism rates (re-offense after being release) are about 60% within three years in the US (here and here).
The way I see it is that we should do away with the time based punishment for the most part, and have incarceration be based on mental health. Criminals should only get out if they're considered mentally healthy, especially if they're convicted of violent and/or sex crimes.
This is anecdotal of course, but this is more or less true for me.
Ever since the advent of Amazon MP3, and eMusic, I haven't downloaded any more music (I've used Jamendo before which also provides DRM-free music, but they didn't have any of the artists I cared about).
Hulu has precluded me from downloading a lot of videos, and it's also got some interesting movies I'd never bother to rent at a video place (I recommend Ink, and Strictly Sexual).
If such a thing were done, it would make the laws easy to understand and follow, and we can't have that, otherwise we'll bankrupt the lawyers!
As much as I hate the bitch, Ayn Rand was right about one thing--that governments make needless laws to create criminals of its citizens in hopes they'll pay them to not be criminals any more (well, paraphrased, anyway).
This thought process doesn't really work for computer standards, so I couldn't give a reason for the disorganization of the RFCs.
That said, one counter argument to the second paragraph of this is Hanlon's Razor--"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."--which would play to the disorganization all around.
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Now, if only he could bust the myth that he's too weak to stand for his own principles, that would be great.
I know I never have, and I use KDE quite a lot. I don't know anyone that has. It's usually OpenOffice.org that's being use.
Here's the summary: Well, it's obvious that the game industry is at a complete lack of ideas, so here's an idea: Let's not think too hard on what the next game should be, and instead just touch up a few games from the past to stir up that old nostalgic feeling so we don't have to waste money on creativity.
Same for this Wayland heresy getting started over at Ubuntu. The Computer is the Network, the Network is the Computer. Just words to em, merrily breaking X and the idea of network transparency, not because it will perform better but because the ignorant fools don't realize X's network transparancy isn't the cause of the performance issues they are trying to solve. But mostly because they probably don't personally use apps remotely and don't even realize that they are tossing one of the greatest ideas in computing history down the shitter.
If you're going to throw such statements around, you better get your facts straight. The Wayland developers never blamed the networking protocol for the problems of X, but rather the fundamental architecture of X. In fact, Wayland has been built with networking in mind since nearly the beginning.
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Most cable companies will sell you a static IP on a business account. A lot of telcos have the same policy.
It's about time that this finally happened. It makes sense that Toyota was the one to jump on this.
The point is, though, that the way the laws are structured now is not working, so we need to think about some other ways of structuring the law so that it accomplishes its goals, which is to make the roads safer.
I think I will add to the OP of this thread, and say that if someone is pulled over for some other illegal road activity, and they are found to be distracted with a cell phone in some manner, then they should be cited for that as well as the reason they were pulled over.
The parent is quite right on this. That said...
I know this isn't popular here on slashdot, but being able to target both should be pretty easy using Mono. MonoTouch is already out there, and is a well proven technology, and MonoDroid should be out soon. Just remember to keep the business logic of the app separate from platform specifics.
Or, you could just stick to C, which will work on both platforms as well.
Yes, because those things fly so blindingly fast, and autonomously. Right...
I was in the hospital a little while back for an injury, and on the way there in the ambulance, I could feel every little bump we went over even though we never went over a speed bump, and it was very painful.
I hate to say it, but I'm somewhat superficial with my phones. I don't need them to be "beautiful" or anything, but I don't want it to be ugly. This was definitely an ugly phone. I have the Nokia N900, which won't win any beauty contests, but I think it definitely looks nicer than the Kin. I even had an OpenMoko, although I actually think that's a somewhat elegant looking phone.
No one told me tweets are supposed to matter. Since when are they supposed to be important?
I just like to tweet silly, fleeting thoughts.
Programmer 1: So, yeah, we need more pictures to feed to our AI.
Programmer 2: They're on this jump drive. Should I plug it into the front USB port, or the rear?
P1 firmly grabs the drive, and plugs it into the closest port he could find
P1: Wow, that's...quite a load.
Since it's been shown that aerobic exercise can improve reaction time, I can't help but wonder how much better of gamers they would be if they also exercised a bit as well. They wouldn't need to go to a gym. Just some running, or crunches, or something on a regular basis would help, I would bet.
Dammit, this is the wrong story.
Since it's been shown that aerobic exercise can improve reaction time, I can't help but wonder how much better of gamers they would be if they also exercised a bit as well. They wouldn't need to go to a gym. Just some running, or crunches, or something on a regular basis would help, I would bet.
Yes, you're right. I should have qualified that statement with "using already established local business (contractors)."
I used to work for a cable company (a major one, I might add), and I had that unfortunate conversation with lots of customers.
What's ironic is that this usually took place in areas where the company I worked for used some local contractors. In areas where the company hired directly, I only heard praise of the technicians, and their punctuality.
Supposedly it's supposed to be better for businesses to hire locally, but from my experience, the local contractors were lazy fucktards.
That's a good point. I should have mentioned that many people who do go into prisons for non-violent crimes tend to come out worse than when they went in.
I should revise that. Longer term studies show recidivism rates as high as 94% (here).
The US prison system is fucked up anyway. Most prisoners are mentally ill in some manner, and there are very few programs in the prison systems to deal with that, and so when they get out, they're still dangerous.
In fact, recidivism rates (re-offense after being release) are about 60% within three years in the US (here and here).
The way I see it is that we should do away with the time based punishment for the most part, and have incarceration be based on mental health. Criminals should only get out if they're considered mentally healthy, especially if they're convicted of violent and/or sex crimes.
While I agree with you, I think it would still be stupid for Nintendo to ignore Apple.
Yup, and many magicians will tell you that the more intelligent people are easier to fool.
This is anecdotal of course, but this is more or less true for me.
Ever since the advent of Amazon MP3, and eMusic, I haven't downloaded any more music (I've used Jamendo before which also provides DRM-free music, but they didn't have any of the artists I cared about).
Hulu has precluded me from downloading a lot of videos, and it's also got some interesting movies I'd never bother to rent at a video place (I recommend Ink, and Strictly Sexual).
If such a thing were done, it would make the laws easy to understand and follow, and we can't have that, otherwise we'll bankrupt the lawyers!
As much as I hate the bitch, Ayn Rand was right about one thing--that governments make needless laws to create criminals of its citizens in hopes they'll pay them to not be criminals any more (well, paraphrased, anyway).
This thought process doesn't really work for computer standards, so I couldn't give a reason for the disorganization of the RFCs.
That said, one counter argument to the second paragraph of this is Hanlon's Razor--"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."--which would play to the disorganization all around.