That's code for "I don't have a fucking clue how it works, otherwise I'd be designing this shit instead of being a human spam filter in the abuse department."
...is a recount considered more accurate than the original count? If a recount doesn't agree with the figures from a prevoius counting, shouldn't they count it again until they get two countings that match? That way there couldn't be any dispute. Why is a "margin of error" tolerated, especially when the difference in votes is so close? The numbers should be *exact*.
It's most likely something along the lines of "Mom and Dad found out I was in the game so now we all have to act like good Christians and sue the world over to prevent the tarnishing of our reputation." It does irritate me when people try to make themselves look better by professing that they attend church...
Most churches profess forgiveness, so it's a lame excuse anyway. They shouldn't need to hide this to be good Christians in the future, and hiding it won't undo her actions anyway. Not only that, but nudity isn't a sin in most Christian religions anyway.
You realize that's why we have the concept of 'a minor' right? So that dumb youthful indiscretions do not tarnish one's life for ever?
That's also why you have parents. Why did they let her run around topless for spring break in the first place if it was going to be such an issue? As for "tarnishing one's life", well, you're born topless. I don't understand why being seen with your shirt off is such a big deal anyway. Hell, until you hit the teenage years, lots of parents think little girls running around on the beach with no shirt on is "cute". As soon as they have breasts, though, everybody's sexual insecurities make them all uncomfortable about it. People like that need to grow up.
To top it off, it's not like somebody forced her to do this, or paid her to do it. It's something that happened in a public place, and as such it shouldn't be any less legal to photograph it than it is to witness it. If having a photograph of a naked person in public who happens to be a minor is a crime, it should be the guardian of that minor who allowed them to be naked in public who should be held responsible. That assumes that the real goal here is to protect minors though, and not to make people feel all warm and fuzzy inside because they don't have to be embarresed that they're aroused by sexually mature women.
Since we're on slashdot I guess I should throw out a strawman here. What happens if a 17 year old streaks past the camera in a live newscast? Should the news outlet be prosecuted for child pornography, or be disallowed to keep that footage in their archive?
So -what- if win-proprietary features work with.NET only on win machines? That's not the definition of cross-platform development; it's a feature.
That's thinking with the blinders on.
There shouldn't *be* any win-proprietary features in there to not be supported by other platforms, because that, by definition, *isn't* cross platform.
Around here Starbucks has, beleive it or not, one of the cheapest non-gas-station large cups coffee around. Everybody raves about the crap they serve at Dunkin Donuts, but the Starbucks stuff is cheaper and better tasting... (It's not hard to be better than Dunkin Donuts, so don't consider that a ringing endorsement). If you're going to go through the trouble of pulling off the road and poping $2 for a coffee, where would you rather go? Some dingy gas station, an over priced donut shop, or Starbucks? It's a no-brainer.
The disk stays put after impact. That means it's being "shot" downward. Like, towards the floor. So this guy has proven that twisting the PSP makes the door pop open, and that gravity works. Amazing!
Now all you need is star shaped disks and to try this from really high up.
That's funny. I have two PS2s and they work great. One of them I've had since release day. I have two gamecubes too, but that's because the first one broke after 9 months. I play the PS2 way more frequently too, so it's not like I wore that first gamecube out.
The reality of the situation is that when you make things, some percentage of them break or are defective. When you make millions of something, that can mean there are thousands of defective units. You can bet that a large percentage of people who have their unit break will complain in some public forum about it, but most people with no issues don't even read such things, much less post there.
Let's see somebody post a video of what happens when you twist the hinge on the DS flip screen.... Oh wait, we won't see any of those because that would destroy the system, whereas it seems the PSP keeps working just fine after making these little video clips, so people will make lots of them just for fun. If you have your system break, you have a ligitimate complaint, but they're *all* still under warranty at this point. Everybody else is either incapable of making a rational assessment of a situation like this, or is a fanboy for one side or the other.
Click the word that you didn't understand, "GTK," in the article. It was convieniently made into a link for people like you who don't know what it is. The text on this linked page is nice enough to start out with a concise description of what GTK is, and gets into more detail if you care to learn more. Here's an example: "GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off projects to complete application suites." This is what hypertext is designed for. The author of this story did the "Right Thing"®
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That said, I think that an awards show is a good idea for the industry. At the very least, having an awards show with some gravitas would be a great way to put a public stamp of approval on the hard work that development houses put into their games.
Awards shows only give awards to people/things that belong to whatever group gives the awards. Movie and music awards "work" because there is a vast cartel for each of those industries which clearly define who the 'in' crowd is. More importantly it defines who the 'in' crowd *isn't*. Sure many great games take millions of dollars and huge teams of talented people to create. At the same time there are equally great games that take only a few talented people to create and distribute. Encouraging games to go down the path of movies and music is to continue down a path that denys recognition and compensation to independant developers, makes marketing costs the largest barrier to entry into the gaming market for new companies, and maintains the distribution cartel's ability to dip into your wallet and spend your hard earned money on more advertising.
We have review sites and independant awards already. Why do we need to be spoon fed this trash by the middlemen we all hate to give money to?
it won't use memory cards until they're reformatted (thus causing any saved games to be lost)
Where did you hear this?
My memory cards work fine in both of my PS2s (a new one, and an old one from release day). No reformat required.
it overheats easily due to the absence of a cooling fan
Also bullshit.
Now I see that these same (lack of) quality standards are going to be utilized in the PSP design.
THey've shipped a half million of these things already. Unless you can get a percentage of defective units you can't make comments like this. Let's say 100 of these things are bad so far, and 20 or so people have complained on the internet about it... That's 0.02% of them. That woudn't be so bad. But you don't know how many have broken, only that some of them have. Even if it's almost 10 times worse than my example above, you'd still have less than a one in 500 chance of getting a defective unit.
The FDA can examine imported food that emits radiation. Wow, what a police state we live in!
Electronics that emit radiation, not food that emits radiation. "electronics that emit radiation" was one item in the list; it was not a list of things that emit radiation.
Also, as other people in this thread have been so kind to reference, the restriction, upheld by the FDA, is that you cannot sell in the US cheese that was made with raw milk unless it has been aged at least 60 days.
You're wrong, and you're going to have to come to terms with it.
The product's name is Nintendo DS. How can they possibly get more specific than to tell you exactly what it is. Do you want a couple of sentences of summary after ever time the mention it? "The Nintendo DS, a portable game console" etc... It would be silly to do something like that for the PS2 or the Xbox, right? "The Xbox, Microsoft's video game console..." It gets a little redundant.
Also, this is the *games* section of Slashdot. Since the DS has been mentioned in other posts in this section, and even linked to repeatedly, you should know what it is if you're paying attention.
Also, Americans can't decide what an acceptable risk is , compared to Europeans? WOW that's a good one! Did you ever hear of Socialism ? Yeah....his post get +5 Insightful ?
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blah blah blah fuzzy-logic blah blah blah
That's code for "I don't have a fucking clue how it works, otherwise I'd be designing this shit instead of being a human spam filter in the abuse department."
Which brings me back to the original question... What makes one recount more accurate than the previous one?
Because bad ballots come out, even when the voter did everything right.
Clearly the number of bad ballots shouldn't change between countings.... Unless somebody is doing something unsavory.... Right?
No offense, but, No Shit.(TM)
Obviously I was asking why the rules are the way they are, not why we're obeying the rules.
...is a recount considered more accurate than the original count? If a recount doesn't agree with the figures from a prevoius counting, shouldn't they count it again until they get two countings that match? That way there couldn't be any dispute. Why is a "margin of error" tolerated, especially when the difference in votes is so close? The numbers should be *exact*.
It's possible that the extra fuel weighs less than heat-shielded wings and a tail plus wheeled landing gear.
What about the tried and true capsule with no wings or a tail to heat shield, just one insulated surface and a parachute?
I should have read that before posting. I used the word 'anyway' three too many times in that post. :)
It's most likely something along the lines of "Mom and Dad found out I was in the game so now we all have to act like good Christians and sue the world over to prevent the tarnishing of our reputation."
It does irritate me when people try to make themselves look better by professing that they attend church...
Most churches profess forgiveness, so it's a lame excuse anyway. They shouldn't need to hide this to be good Christians in the future, and hiding it won't undo her actions anyway. Not only that, but nudity isn't a sin in most Christian religions anyway.
You realize that's why we have the concept of 'a minor' right? So that dumb youthful indiscretions do not tarnish one's life for ever?
That's also why you have parents. Why did they let her run around topless for spring break in the first place if it was going to be such an issue? As for "tarnishing one's life", well, you're born topless. I don't understand why being seen with your shirt off is such a big deal anyway. Hell, until you hit the teenage years, lots of parents think little girls running around on the beach with no shirt on is "cute". As soon as they have breasts, though, everybody's sexual insecurities make them all uncomfortable about it. People like that need to grow up.
To top it off, it's not like somebody forced her to do this, or paid her to do it. It's something that happened in a public place, and as such it shouldn't be any less legal to photograph it than it is to witness it. If having a photograph of a naked person in public who happens to be a minor is a crime, it should be the guardian of that minor who allowed them to be naked in public who should be held responsible. That assumes that the real goal here is to protect minors though, and not to make people feel all warm and fuzzy inside because they don't have to be embarresed that they're aroused by sexually mature women.
Since we're on slashdot I guess I should throw out a strawman here. What happens if a 17 year old streaks past the camera in a live newscast? Should the news outlet be prosecuted for child pornography, or be disallowed to keep that footage in their archive?
VTOL seems like such a bad idea to me. Not only do you have to cary fuel for liftoff, but for landing as well. What's the benefit?
So -what- if win-proprietary features work with .NET only on win machines? That's not the definition of cross-platform development; it's a feature.
That's thinking with the blinders on.
There shouldn't *be* any win-proprietary features in there to not be supported by other platforms, because that, by definition, *isn't* cross platform.
It's a six-dollar mini-vacation.
$6? Where the hell do you go to Starbucks?
Around here Starbucks has, beleive it or not, one of the cheapest non-gas-station large cups coffee around. Everybody raves about the crap they serve at Dunkin Donuts, but the Starbucks stuff is cheaper and better tasting... (It's not hard to be better than Dunkin Donuts, so don't consider that a ringing endorsement). If you're going to go through the trouble of pulling off the road and poping $2 for a coffee, where would you rather go? Some dingy gas station, an over priced donut shop, or Starbucks? It's a no-brainer.
I don't see why you're so irked about someone considering the DS to be part of the Game Boy product line.
Because a "GameBoy" product has never failed, and Nintendo intends to keep it that way.
(Chill out guys, it's a joke.)
So use two labels and put one on each side of the disc... That way it stays balanced and you didn't have to buy and special labels.
Why would you be twisting the screen during game play anyway.
Why would you be twisting the PSP during play? What gameplay motion involves twisting?
That's *amazing*.
The disk stays put after impact. That means it's being "shot" downward. Like, towards the floor. So this guy has proven that twisting the PSP makes the door pop open, and that gravity works. Amazing!
Now all you need is star shaped disks and to try this from really high up.
That's funny. I have two PS2s and they work great. One of them I've had since release day. I have two gamecubes too, but that's because the first one broke after 9 months. I play the PS2 way more frequently too, so it's not like I wore that first gamecube out.
The reality of the situation is that when you make things, some percentage of them break or are defective. When you make millions of something, that can mean there are thousands of defective units. You can bet that a large percentage of people who have their unit break will complain in some public forum about it, but most people with no issues don't even read such things, much less post there.
Let's see somebody post a video of what happens when you twist the hinge on the DS flip screen.... Oh wait, we won't see any of those because that would destroy the system, whereas it seems the PSP keeps working just fine after making these little video clips, so people will make lots of them just for fun. If you have your system break, you have a ligitimate complaint, but they're *all* still under warranty at this point. Everybody else is either incapable of making a rational assessment of a situation like this, or is a fanboy for one side or the other.
Two options:
Click the word that you didn't understand, "GTK," in the article. It was convieniently made into a link for people like you who don't know what it is. The text on this linked page is nice enough to start out with a concise description of what GTK is, and gets into more detail if you care to learn more. Here's an example: "GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off projects to complete application suites." This is what hypertext is designed for. The author of this story did the "Right Thing"®
Click the "Preferences" option on the left and uncheck sections which contain articles you don't understand so you don't see them on the front page anymore.
That said, I think that an awards show is a good idea for the industry. At the very least, having an awards show with some gravitas would be a great way to put a public stamp of approval on the hard work that development houses put into their games.
Awards shows only give awards to people/things that belong to whatever group gives the awards. Movie and music awards "work" because there is a vast cartel for each of those industries which clearly define who the 'in' crowd is. More importantly it defines who the 'in' crowd *isn't*. Sure many great games take millions of dollars and huge teams of talented people to create. At the same time there are equally great games that take only a few talented people to create and distribute. Encouraging games to go down the path of movies and music is to continue down a path that denys recognition and compensation to independant developers, makes marketing costs the largest barrier to entry into the gaming market for new companies, and maintains the distribution cartel's ability to dip into your wallet and spend your hard earned money on more advertising.
We have review sites and independant awards already. Why do we need to be spoon fed this trash by the middlemen we all hate to give money to?
There is a free flow of money from PED to USD and from USD to PED.
Not *really*. It looks like they keep a percentage of any transfer from PED->USD as a "service fee".
it won't use memory cards until they're reformatted (thus causing any saved games to be lost)
Where did you hear this?
My memory cards work fine in both of my PS2s (a new one, and an old one from release day). No reformat required.
it overheats easily due to the absence of a cooling fan
Also bullshit.
Now I see that these same (lack of) quality standards are going to be utilized in the PSP design.
THey've shipped a half million of these things already. Unless you can get a percentage of defective units you can't make comments like this. Let's say 100 of these things are bad so far, and 20 or so people have complained on the internet about it... That's 0.02% of them. That woudn't be so bad. But you don't know how many have broken, only that some of them have. Even if it's almost 10 times worse than my example above, you'd still have less than a one in 500 chance of getting a defective unit.
Patent free perhaps, but Copyright free? Not in your lifetime.
The FDA can examine imported food that emits radiation. Wow, what a police state we live in!
Electronics that emit radiation, not food that emits radiation. "electronics that emit radiation" was one item in the list; it was not a list of things that emit radiation.
Also, as other people in this thread have been so kind to reference, the restriction, upheld by the FDA, is that you cannot sell in the US cheese that was made with raw milk unless it has been aged at least 60 days.
You're wrong, and you're going to have to come to terms with it.
The product's name is Nintendo DS. How can they possibly get more specific than to tell you exactly what it is. Do you want a couple of sentences of summary after ever time the mention it? "The Nintendo DS, a portable game console" etc... It would be silly to do something like that for the PS2 or the Xbox, right? "The Xbox, Microsoft's video game console..." It gets a little redundant.
Also, this is the *games* section of Slashdot. Since the DS has been mentioned in other posts in this section, and even linked to repeatedly, you should know what it is if you're paying attention.
And FYI, I'm also not 14, and I bathe regularly.
Also, Americans can't decide what an acceptable risk is , compared to Europeans? WOW that's a good one! Did you ever hear of Socialism ? Yeah....his post get +5 Insightful ?
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It's funny, Laugh.