I was doing a whois with one of the forms the other day and was unable to pass the test. there were thick lines over the text and it was sloppy cursivish text I was supposed to identify.
True, the new ones do not have PS/2 ports at all though.
Most annoying though is that the mouspad and nipple cannot both be disabled at once, though it is hard to accidently do damage with the nipple if tap click is off.
If you get a high end gfc laptp the trackpad is not the space (though your design sensibilities may still be irked).
The high end Dells have a nipple and a touch pad. The touchpad can be disabled and stays such forever, you can still use the nipple and a mouse, and the touch pad is not wasted space, just ugly at that point because the whole case is packed with stuff.
You do understand that Robin Hood is a hero, right?
So even if you don't like it, you cannot shut up the people who use that logic by extending it to thievery, because the same people would support it in that case too.
I actually like this but not because it is OK since they are the underdog. I like it because it is a sign of Red Hat working within the system to get what it wants. Better would be to change the system, but still Open source workign within a corrupt system helps Open Source and hurts noone weather it is right or wrong.
Also, not all lobying is bad. Lobying is a very important part of free speach (or should it be illegel to talk to politions?) I think that all Red Hat needs to do is educate lawmakers on the pros of open source (as represented by them) and some of them will understand. I think it is a strong enough position to be in that no lieing, no bribing, and no trickery needs to be done. Also I don't think Open Source needs special favors, I don't even think it needs even consideration. I think the case for it's use in the public sector is so strong (interoperability and auditability) that with even a little consideration it can overcime special favors against it to a degree. How many coputers does MS donate to schools/libraries each year and yet some states still require open standards (even if it is going to be MS's). And MS has been snubbed by an entire national government even when they tried to give the software away for free.
We do not need special favors, we need consideration. And to get that there are two ways, letter writing campagns and lobyists. OSS needs both.
how do you get off saying most kids are buying M rated games mased on those links?
Are you saying most COULD buy the games with transport and money? And maybe even keep them if their parents didn't care?
I hope that when I have children I am smart enough to keep track of what they do even if it is on some new fangled (20+ year old home game console) technology that I don't really understand at all (mostly do to willful ignorance, how else would I not know that it is possible to get something violent for it).
How many people do you speculate played DOAX that were under 17?
How many that were under 14?
And how many did so without parents knowing about it?
More telling is that over 70% of games are E/Ec/KA.
Some Teen rated games are definatly violent. I have played some that make me personally un-easy, and I like violent games. In fact the only game that ever made me feel uneasy playing it was rated T.
Well, I would hardly call either of those links very enlightening or informative.
The first one uses a surveys from 3+ years ago throught. But most talk about how quick it is all changing. They all talk about Mature game sales on the rise, but what about the over 18 gaming population quickly growing at the same time? Almost all of the things about how quickly mature game sales were rising were independant of age. Also the mention of over 70% of people under 18 buying M rated games doesn't mention how succesful they were in stores with a policy to check. It may not have been a big deal in 2001 but now in 2005 most stores have policies to check.
The second link is a gathering of meaningless numbers. What counts as violence, the word, or the description? If it is the word they would be leaving out Blood, Blood and Gore which I doubt was done. But on the other end we have games like Mario Party 2 and Mario Cart: Double Dash, and is that the same Super Monkey Ball I played? It has a rating of Violence which means "Scenes involving aggresive conflict". So, is "mild violence" count? because that is "Mild scenes depicting characters in unsafe and/or violent situations." "Mild comic violence" (not an official description but there plenty) presumable includes Bugs Bunny using his Air Breaks after giving Elmer a "Spare". That may be the kind of thing you don't want your children to see, so they list it on the box, but saying the sky is falling 1/3 of E rated video games include it would be a stretch for even the most zealoteous conservative on the planet.
Considering the low threshold for a violence descripter I would be most concverned about the approx. 10% of T and M games that do not have a violence descripter.
Also, the points on thinking/education just show that those descripters arn't used because the system is primarly being used to ward off parents complaining about violence, you can bet if there were parent groups saying "I can't find edutainment" games like BF1942 would include the descripter, and certainly games like Pirates! and Civilization. In fact I am sure that any semi-reasonable person can tell that there is plenty of real edutainment (not BF1942/pirates! despite what I know from playing Sid Meier games throughout my life) available and it makes up for more then 1 game out of all the E/T/M games on the site.
and what is this.002% I see, are they saying 1/100 of a game rated M says edutanement, that should be your big hint you linked us to BS.
Hope this makes sense, I am pretty pissed off that those pages were linked since they are polluting even to the quality of discussion I expect on/. I am not re-reading my post so who knows what it says, but I did try to fact check any fact I stated (which is probably more that can be said for the links, or they may have realized that.002% of 648 makes no sense).
Sorry,
I didn't mean to be a prick, I just had this image of 1000's of/.'ers sending un readable emails. And there was only one typo I noticeed, but for something that is supposed to influence a company I don't think that was good. I am happy to see that my fears were unjustified.
Point well taken, and I absolutly agree on the new folder.
I was actually thinking more for objects within programs, I don't think anyone can argue that Mac OS (9 or 10) is not very well designed. The only thing I really dislike about it is the ease with which to rename something. In the list view I have clicked on a file (the name not the icon) hit Command-A and before I know it some descriptive folder name listing a customer's name is now a with a circle over it.
Now this could be because I am lazy or too stupid to organize my icons properly, but I really like the right click new file option in windows explorer.
so much easier then dealing with a cluttered start menu, where every application has decied it want to be in the root programs folder, to just right click a new excell document and double click it.
On programs where you may be dealing with 3 or 4 different types of objects (easily) and each has a dozen different things to do with 6 or so unique to it there are now an additional 30 shortcuts to know.
Also how do you re-arange icons on your desktop (or is a cluttered desktop a Windows/Linux thing because find works so well). I have folders of interesting stuff, torrents I am currently downloading or uploading at a low rate until I have uploaded the entire file, and various work files littering my desktop. I arrange them by date usually, but if I know I nead a PDF I do it my type and if I hav eany idea the file name I do it by name.
Also to the shortcuts work on objects in menues? What about toolbars or toolbar buttons?
Context menues are a great feature, and not having access to them is an annoyance, also not shipping with a scroll wheel feels like not shipping with a web browser too me, very 1995, it's almost as bad as having a PS-2 port on the back of my machine.
In my opinion what Apple neads most is to ship with a scroll wheel mouse (one button even) and what PCs need most is to maximize to only the needed width, because after reading accross 15+ inches my eye cannot return to the next line properly.
I find that teaching people to use the left mouse button is no problem, but getting them to ue the right one is neigh impossible.
I get a call a week from my parents asking how do I do this with this and I ask them what it says when they right click it. over 3/4's the time it fixes their problem.
As for the MACs not needing a right mouse button because people think about their design I say BS.
I Ctrl click or long click on a Mac as much as I right click on an MS or Linux box, and the long click seams to be a little buggy or not completly implemented (in OS 9 anyway).
And I'd hardly call browsing the non context sesitive menues at the top through 100's of options or using 1000's of keybopard shortcuts good solutions to a dozen things I'd likly want to do within 3 inches of my pointer.
I think it was over-confidence and pressure to launch alongside the DS.
Funny, I remember thinking when the DS was announced later then the PSP how it was being rushed. Even leading up to the DS's release people were talking about how it was being rushed to compete with Sony, and yet now that we see thing the DS had more production and less problems (no flying cartridges at least).
The only question needs an explanation not a yes or no.
Also the link to your other post ezplains nothing. Are you saying the cell is powerful enough to render spiderman quality graphics in real time?
The PS2 was supposed to allow 3,000,000 polygons/sec . Even developers were tricked into thinking it was more then it was (the Metal Gear guy in an interview said they had a lot less options then he wanted, but it could have been learning curve, because I don't know if he still was disapointed in the hardware for the newest title).
In my area to counteract the stigmatism of being for stupid people the tech schools started activly looking for better students and became more selective.
The very students that should be encouraged or even forced to go to these schools could not go if they wanted to. What we really need is tech schools to be the default for high school in this country and strait high schools to be only for academic life bound. The tech schools here have about the same college rate as the general high schools.
Even though people will not nessiserily be able to get jobs in the area they studied at tech school a work focused education would lead to a better understanding of what was expected of people when they worked. Of course better adherance to existing school policy would probably take care of that too. 40 absences a school year is bullshit.
Do you think that the people complaining would rather the product not have existed?
Because I have not heard any "I wish Blizzard would just not make games any more" type comments in this context.
All I hear is "I wish it was perfect, I am paying for it", well I wish a lot of things I pay for are perfect too.
I wish the 12 pack of prozen hamburgers I baught didn't taste bad, but it does. Early adopters of everything suffer, and their complaints are what makes things good for everyone else.
My friends dad who does this kind of stuff told me that in the last 12 years (this was 2003 I believe) we have had 10 record hot years if meassured ove the last millenium.
He currently is currently measuring water flow in various gaps arounf the arctic circle so we can have a better picture of how exactly the flows of the ocean do effect global weather.
So how does that effect the interpretation of the law?
In the context I don't think it meant the term politically.
I really just don't know what is meant by "conservatice" in this context:
Broadcom and Atheros say that making the interface information public would be illegal, because it could allow users to change the parameters of a chip in ways that violate the rules for using unlicensed spectrum (for example, by increasing its power or changing its operating frequency). That is a worry, but it depends on rather a conservative interpretation of the law.
Were the laws enforced stronger in the past? Is there even a parralell? Is it not possible to mechanically increase the power of modern broadcast devieces because in the pst it was possible and manufacturers were blamed?
In that context I see "conservative" as being minimal, but then it has an opposite meaning of what it seams to want to say on its face.
I do like your political definition of the words, they sum it up really eloquently, but it does not help me understand the text.
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I was doing a whois with one of the forms the other day and was unable to pass the test. there were thick lines over the text and it was sloppy cursivish text I was supposed to identify.
True, the new ones do not have PS/2 ports at all though.
Most annoying though is that the mouspad and nipple cannot both be disabled at once, though it is hard to accidently do damage with the nipple if tap click is off.
If you get a high end gfc laptp the trackpad is not the space (though your design sensibilities may still be irked).
The high end Dells have a nipple and a touch pad. The touchpad can be disabled and stays such forever, you can still use the nipple and a mouse, and the touch pad is not wasted space, just ugly at that point because the whole case is packed with stuff.
You do understand that Robin Hood is a hero, right?
So even if you don't like it, you cannot shut up the people who use that logic by extending it to thievery, because the same people would support it in that case too.
I actually like this but not because it is OK since they are the underdog. I like it because it is a sign of Red Hat working within the system to get what it wants. Better would be to change the system, but still Open source workign within a corrupt system helps Open Source and hurts noone weather it is right or wrong.
Also, not all lobying is bad. Lobying is a very important part of free speach (or should it be illegel to talk to politions?) I think that all Red Hat needs to do is educate lawmakers on the pros of open source (as represented by them) and some of them will understand. I think it is a strong enough position to be in that no lieing, no bribing, and no trickery needs to be done. Also I don't think Open Source needs special favors, I don't even think it needs even consideration. I think the case for it's use in the public sector is so strong (interoperability and auditability) that with even a little consideration it can overcime special favors against it to a degree. How many coputers does MS donate to schools/libraries each year and yet some states still require open standards (even if it is going to be MS's). And MS has been snubbed by an entire national government even when they tried to give the software away for free.
We do not need special favors, we need consideration. And to get that there are two ways, letter writing campagns and lobyists. OSS needs both.
how do you get off saying most kids are buying M rated games mased on those links?
Are you saying most COULD buy the games with transport and money? And maybe even keep them if their parents didn't care?
I hope that when I have children I am smart enough to keep track of what they do even if it is on some new fangled (20+ year old home game console) technology that I don't really understand at all (mostly do to willful ignorance, how else would I not know that it is possible to get something violent for it).
How many people do you speculate played DOAX that were under 17?
How many that were under 14?
And how many did so without parents knowing about it?
More telling is that over 70% of games are E/Ec/KA.
Some Teen rated games are definatly violent. I have played some that make me personally un-easy, and I like violent games. In fact the only game that ever made me feel uneasy playing it was rated T.
Well, I would hardly call either of those links very enlightening or informative.
.002% I see, are they saying 1/100 of a game rated M says edutanement, that should be your big hint you linked us to BS.
/. I am not re-reading my post so who knows what it says, but I did try to fact check any fact I stated (which is probably more that can be said for the links, or they may have realized that .002% of 648 makes no sense).
The first one uses a surveys from 3+ years ago throught. But most talk about how quick it is all changing. They all talk about Mature game sales on the rise, but what about the over 18 gaming population quickly growing at the same time? Almost all of the things about how quickly mature game sales were rising were independant of age. Also the mention of over 70% of people under 18 buying M rated games doesn't mention how succesful they were in stores with a policy to check. It may not have been a big deal in 2001 but now in 2005 most stores have policies to check.
The second link is a gathering of meaningless numbers. What counts as violence, the word, or the description? If it is the word they would be leaving out Blood, Blood and Gore which I doubt was done. But on the other end we have games like Mario Party 2 and Mario Cart: Double Dash, and is that the same Super Monkey Ball I played? It has a rating of Violence which means "Scenes involving aggresive conflict". So, is "mild violence" count? because that is "Mild scenes depicting characters in unsafe and/or violent situations." "Mild comic violence" (not an official description but there plenty) presumable includes Bugs Bunny using his Air Breaks after giving Elmer a "Spare". That may be the kind of thing you don't want your children to see, so they list it on the box, but saying the sky is falling 1/3 of E rated video games include it would be a stretch for even the most zealoteous conservative on the planet.
Considering the low threshold for a violence descripter I would be most concverned about the approx. 10% of T and M games that do not have a violence descripter.
Also, the points on thinking/education just show that those descripters arn't used because the system is primarly being used to ward off parents complaining about violence, you can bet if there were parent groups saying "I can't find edutainment" games like BF1942 would include the descripter, and certainly games like Pirates! and Civilization. In fact I am sure that any semi-reasonable person can tell that there is plenty of real edutainment (not BF1942/pirates! despite what I know from playing Sid Meier games throughout my life) available and it makes up for more then 1 game out of all the E/T/M games on the site.
and what is this
Hope this makes sense, I am pretty pissed off that those pages were linked since they are polluting even to the quality of discussion I expect on
For evidence that the 60-90% figure is wrong just look at the range.
a +/-15% number has to have something screwed up, especialy something where sales are tracked. Using their reasoning I could say 3-33% are M rated.
Sorry, /.'ers sending un readable emails. And there was only one typo I noticeed, but for something that is supposed to influence a company I don't think that was good. I am happy to see that my fears were unjustified.
I didn't mean to be a prick, I just had this image of 1000's of
Point well taken, and I absolutly agree on the new folder.
I was actually thinking more for objects within programs, I don't think anyone can argue that Mac OS (9 or 10) is not very well designed. The only thing I really dislike about it is the ease with which to rename something. In the list view I have clicked on a file (the name not the icon) hit Command-A and before I know it some descriptive folder name listing a customer's name is now a with a circle over it.
Now this could be because I am lazy or too stupid to organize my icons properly, but I really like the right click new file option in windows explorer.
so much easier then dealing with a cluttered start menu, where every application has decied it want to be in the root programs folder, to just right click a new excell document and double click it.
On programs where you may be dealing with 3 or 4 different types of objects (easily) and each has a dozen different things to do with 6 or so unique to it there are now an additional 30 shortcuts to know.
Also how do you re-arange icons on your desktop (or is a cluttered desktop a Windows/Linux thing because find works so well). I have folders of interesting stuff, torrents I am currently downloading or uploading at a low rate until I have uploaded the entire file, and various work files littering my desktop. I arrange them by date usually, but if I know I nead a PDF I do it my type and if I hav eany idea the file name I do it by name.
Also to the shortcuts work on objects in menues? What about toolbars or toolbar buttons?
Context menues are a great feature, and not having access to them is an annoyance, also not shipping with a scroll wheel feels like not shipping with a web browser too me, very 1995, it's almost as bad as having a PS-2 port on the back of my machine.
In my opinion what Apple neads most is to ship with a scroll wheel mouse (one button even) and what PCs need most is to maximize to only the needed width, because after reading accross 15+ inches my eye cannot return to the next line properly.
Your email would much more likly be read with white space, and another check for typos wouldn't hurt.
I find that teaching people to use the left mouse button is no problem, but getting them to ue the right one is neigh impossible.
I get a call a week from my parents asking how do I do this with this and I ask them what it says when they right click it. over 3/4's the time it fixes their problem.
As for the MACs not needing a right mouse button because people think about their design I say BS.
I Ctrl click or long click on a Mac as much as I right click on an MS or Linux box, and the long click seams to be a little buggy or not completly implemented (in OS 9 anyway).
And I'd hardly call browsing the non context sesitive menues at the top through 100's of options or using 1000's of keybopard shortcuts good solutions to a dozen things I'd likly want to do within 3 inches of my pointer.
If you mean the Startac I think that was the perfectly sized phone, and still do.
If you mean something else then I am noise.
No, as it boils it will cool the surrounding area, and without more input it will get cool enough to stop boiling.
Also as the air fills up with water vapor pressure will rise, again without increased energy input (to remove the air) it will again stop boiling.
Has intel even committed to keeping its single core chips to under 100 Watts?
I think not
sell the bootable CD and compatability libraries for Linux.
Do it at 50%-75% the price of the console. Now people can chose either, and they make huge profits (game liscense and huge mark up on CD/libraries).
I think it was over-confidence and pressure to launch alongside the DS.
Funny, I remember thinking when the DS was announced later then the PSP how it was being rushed. Even leading up to the DS's release people were talking about how it was being rushed to compete with Sony, and yet now that we see thing the DS had more production and less problems (no flying cartridges at least).
Shit,
Crimes are now decided with a proponderance of evidance?
Nope what?
The only question needs an explanation not a yes or no.
Also the link to your other post ezplains nothing. Are you saying the cell is powerful enough to render spiderman quality graphics in real time?
The PS2 was supposed to allow 3,000,000 polygons/sec . Even developers were tricked into thinking it was more then it was (the Metal Gear guy in an interview said they had a lot less options then he wanted, but it could have been learning curve, because I don't know if he still was disapointed in the hardware for the newest title).
True, but not easy to get into.
In my area to counteract the stigmatism of being for stupid people the tech schools started activly looking for better students and became more selective.
The very students that should be encouraged or even forced to go to these schools could not go if they wanted to. What we really need is tech schools to be the default for high school in this country and strait high schools to be only for academic life bound. The tech schools here have about the same college rate as the general high schools.
Even though people will not nessiserily be able to get jobs in the area they studied at tech school a work focused education would lead to a better understanding of what was expected of people when they worked. Of course better adherance to existing school policy would probably take care of that too. 40 absences a school year is bullshit.
Just to your last paragraph.
Do you think that the people complaining would rather the product not have existed?
Because I have not heard any "I wish Blizzard would just not make games any more" type comments in this context.
All I hear is "I wish it was perfect, I am paying for it", well I wish a lot of things I pay for are perfect too.
I wish the 12 pack of prozen hamburgers I baught didn't taste bad, but it does. Early adopters of everything suffer, and their complaints are what makes things good for everyone else.
My friends dad who does this kind of stuff told me that in the last 12 years (this was 2003 I believe) we have had 10 record hot years if meassured ove the last millenium.
He currently is currently measuring water flow in various gaps arounf the arctic circle so we can have a better picture of how exactly the flows of the ocean do effect global weather.
What are they supposed to compare it too?
So how does that effect the interpretation of the law?
In the context I don't think it meant the term politically.
I really just don't know what is meant by "conservatice" in this context:
Broadcom and Atheros say that making the interface information public would be illegal, because it could allow users to change the parameters of a chip in ways that violate the rules for using unlicensed spectrum (for example, by increasing its power or changing its operating frequency). That is a worry, but it depends on rather a conservative interpretation of the law.
Were the laws enforced stronger in the past? Is there even a parralell? Is it not possible to mechanically increase the power of modern broadcast devieces because in the pst it was possible and manufacturers were blamed?
In that context I see "conservative" as being minimal, but then it has an opposite meaning of what it seams to want to say on its face.
I do like your political definition of the words, they sum it up really eloquently, but it does not help me understand the text.
In the context which difinitions would you use?
I see no clear cut choice.