The flags were cleared, they didn't lose money, they don't live under a cloud of suspicion.
They didn't lose money, but if there had been payments they couldn't make during the course of the investigation becuase their assest were frozen by Fatherland Security, they very well could have.
Banking systems only work if there's a predictable amount of time between when a transaction is made and when it is processed. If a third party can arbitrarily hold up your funds for an indeterminate amount of time, you're better off keeping cash in your mattress.
I bought a vehicle in 1990 and wrote a check for it. The dealer had to record where I got the money because "the IRS wants to know the source of any payment in excess of a certain dollar amount."
That was the Internal Revenue Service. This was the Department of Homeland Security. It's a different issue.
And Google is taking it upon itself to upload it, unencrypted, over the internet.
Only if you download Google Desktop, and install it, and root through the configuration options, and explicitly enable the one permitting Google to do that.
I think "Google taking it upon itself" might just be the wrong term to use for such behavior.
When Nintendo swapped the buttons from our left hand to our right, we became even more limited in what the games can really do.
Buh?
There is not a game console out today that can run a decent game of Kaboom.
Zuh?
(P.S.: the joystick-in-the-left hand originated in the arcades, not with Nintendo, and any console made in the past 25 years could be made to support a paddle controller given under $10 of parts and a couple hours of hobbyist time.)
You also have to consider MS may be in a position to drop the 360 price tag by the time the PS3 comes out. I have no idea if it will, but it seems like the smart thing to do.
Absolutely. Microsoft is going to want to counter the PS3 launch somehow, and cutting the 360's price to significantly below the PS3's is a no-brainer.
The interesting thing is that having the highest sale price in the market can be a GOOD thing -- it can make the product seem more elite and powerful than the competition. How many gamers will buy a PS3 BECAUSE it's $200 more than the 360 and Revolution, assuming that it must therefore be $200 better than those consoles?
Sources have verified that the controllers will have ten buttons, two analog sticks, and a D-pad. Some have doubted the validity of this claim in the past but it is now quite certain that it's true.
Only 10 buttons? So the analog sticks aren't going to be clickable anymore, like on the PS2 Dual Shock controller?
Waiting for games to trickle out isn't my idea of fun.
Buying a new game every month or so isn't MY idea of fun. I'd rather have four titles a year with superlative replay value than 20 a year that get stale after three weeks.
When Larry Ellison say "mission critical", naturally he means "customer installations large enough that Oracle's revenues would be notably reduced if they migrated to an open-source alternative"...
I have to use a second e-mail account when I want to send out EXE files.
Aww. How horrible.
Email attachments are perhaps the worst imaginable way of distributing executables. It's too bad that your clients don't know of or care about alternative delivery systems, but that's not enough for me to conclude that Gmail was overbearing or foolish in forbidding EXE attachments.
I don't want legislation passed based on your -- or anybody else's -- IMAGINATION.
If there are studies that demonstrate that experiencing violence in games causes people to be more accepting of violence, or any of the other effects you propose, I'm open to discussing whether this is something that we need a law to counteract. But to the best of my knowledge, studies into the effects of violent games have been inconclusive and the scientific community is quite far from any consensus. Until then -- until lawmakers have knowledge of what the problem IS -- lawmakers should not be trying to fix anything.
I know it's off topic, but boy could the US have some awesome super-fast railways if it wanted!...to spend untold trillions of dollars on rebuilding railways to high-speed specs, resulting in a form of travel that's no faster than, and in less demand than, domestic air travel!
That's what the rest of your sentence was going to be, right?
That means your company is doing things the wrong way.
All companies do everything the wrong way. It's not worth having a superiority complex over.
At my last 2 jobs, when I wanted a day off I went to 1 webpage, clicked the day, and hit submit. About 30 seconds if the intranet is slow. Another 60 seconds to type an email to m group saying that I'll be off.
You must not have been a very essential part of the team if your absence didn't require prior approval from a higher-up.
I dont' have time to learn a whole new langauge and mess with a compiler. I just want to write (essentially) a script and have it run. Why does everything have to be so @$%%ing complicated.
It's only complicated because you seem to insist on using a language which fell out of general favor about 20 years ago.
I think something like Python would meet your needs quite nicely. The drawback is, you'll have to learn its syntax. It's honestly not that big a drawback, if you already understand basic principles of programming.
Sure, you may see the caller ID isn't somebody you recognize, but often you have to answer it anyways.
Whaaaat.
Do the phones have a feature where the 'Talk' button presses itself and the phone crawls out of your pocket and up to your ear if you let it ring for more than 10 seconds?
Cheaper brands will have cheaper components and lower specifications than many name-brand companies.
They MAY, but it does not follow that they MUST.
Basically, you get what you pay for.
Correct. And how much of each dollar you spend on that name-brand appliance goes to marketing, brand awareness, and other things that have no bearing on the quality of the appliance itself?
The whistleblower law is to protect a consciencious objector to an unlawful government practice.
But according to YOUR interpretation of the law (which law?), the only body that an objector may appeal to for relief is an arm of the government itself!
Stuff that seemed completely out of place (e.g. extra bass boost because Jobs was slightly deaf) went into the design
I doubt Jobs' specific hearing problems had anything to do with that decision.
Take a look at any consumer audio product built in the last 20 years; chances are it has some sort of "Super Mega Bass Boost" function available on it (low-end shelftop units in particular embrace this feature).
People tend to think that audio with overemphasized low frequencies sounds fuller and louder, and therefore better, than well-equalized, true-to-life audio. Stereo manufacturers, Apple included, are simply giving the public what the public believes it wants.
Actually dumbass (yes, that's you trollboy), using justin bailey for the password gave you everything you needed to beat the mother brain.
Okay, but it wasn't named after "the first kid who beat Metroid on the NES" as you claimed.
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And PCs (I.e. IBM and clones) weren't generally referred to by a generic "PC". No, you had an XT
The XT was IBM's second personal computer model; the first was indeed named "PC" (accompanied by, as is IBM's nature, some inscrutable 4-digit model number).
I believe the XT differed from the PC in that it used an 8088 CPU instead of the fully-16-bit 8086, and it was with the XT that the Color Graphics Adapter was introduced.
The 386 was a 32-bit processor and was out in 1986 if memory serves.
Intel had started selling 'em, but IBM hadn't started buying 'em yet. Perhaps Compaq or some of the other clone OEMs had started selling 32-bit systems in 1986, but as is the situation with 64-bit Windows systems today it's unlikely that there was much software being released to take advantage of the new hardware.
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There weren't any cells in the U.S.
No?
Who carried out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing?
Who carried out the 2001 WTC and Pentagon bombings?
In other words, this has nothing to do with terrorism, the fascist Bush regime, the gestapo at DHS, or any other Orwellian fantasy you can cook up.
EXACTLY.
There is no reason for the gestapo at DHS to have their hands in this type of fraud investigation... yet they do!
The flags were cleared, they didn't lose money, they don't live under a cloud of suspicion.
They didn't lose money, but if there had been payments they couldn't make during the course of the investigation becuase their assest were frozen by Fatherland Security, they very well could have.
Banking systems only work if there's a predictable amount of time between when a transaction is made and when it is processed. If a third party can arbitrarily hold up your funds for an indeterminate amount of time, you're better off keeping cash in your mattress.
I bought a vehicle in 1990 and wrote a check for it. The dealer had to record where I got the money because "the IRS wants to know the source of any payment in excess of a certain dollar amount."
That was the Internal Revenue Service. This was the Department of Homeland Security. It's a different issue.
And Google is taking it upon itself to upload it, unencrypted, over the internet.
Only if you download Google Desktop, and install it, and root through the configuration options, and explicitly enable the one permitting Google to do that.
I think "Google taking it upon itself" might just be the wrong term to use for such behavior.
When Nintendo swapped the buttons from our left hand to our right, we became even more limited in what the games can really do.
Buh?
There is not a game console out today that can run a decent game of Kaboom.
Zuh?
(P.S.: the joystick-in-the-left hand originated in the arcades, not with Nintendo, and any console made in the past 25 years could be made to support a paddle controller given under $10 of parts and a couple hours of hobbyist time.)
You also have to consider MS may be in a position to drop the 360 price tag by the time the PS3 comes out. I have no idea if it will, but it seems like the smart thing to do.
Absolutely. Microsoft is going to want to counter the PS3 launch somehow, and cutting the 360's price to significantly below the PS3's is a no-brainer.
The interesting thing is that having the highest sale price in the market can be a GOOD thing -- it can make the product seem more elite and powerful than the competition. How many gamers will buy a PS3 BECAUSE it's $200 more than the 360 and Revolution, assuming that it must therefore be $200 better than those consoles?
Sources have verified that the controllers will have ten buttons, two analog sticks, and a D-pad. Some have doubted the validity of this claim in the past but it is now quite certain that it's true.
Only 10 buttons? So the analog sticks aren't going to be clickable anymore, like on the PS2 Dual Shock controller?
Waiting for games to trickle out isn't my idea of fun.
Buying a new game every month or so isn't MY idea of fun. I'd rather have four titles a year with superlative replay value than 20 a year that get stale after three weeks.
When Larry Ellison say "mission critical", naturally he means "customer installations large enough that Oracle's revenues would be notably reduced if they migrated to an open-source alternative"...
I have to use a second e-mail account when I want to send out EXE files.
Aww. How horrible.
Email attachments are perhaps the worst imaginable way of distributing executables. It's too bad that your clients don't know of or care about alternative delivery systems, but that's not enough for me to conclude that Gmail was overbearing or foolish in forbidding EXE attachments.
I imagine that it has each of the above effects
I don't want legislation passed based on your -- or anybody else's -- IMAGINATION.
If there are studies that demonstrate that experiencing violence in games causes people to be more accepting of violence, or any of the other effects you propose, I'm open to discussing whether this is something that we need a law to counteract. But to the best of my knowledge, studies into the effects of violent games have been inconclusive and the scientific community is quite far from any consensus. Until then -- until lawmakers have knowledge of what the problem IS -- lawmakers should not be trying to fix anything.
I know it's off topic, but boy could the US have some awesome super-fast railways if it wanted! ...to spend untold trillions of dollars on rebuilding railways to high-speed specs, resulting in a form of travel that's no faster than, and in less demand than, domestic air travel!
That's what the rest of your sentence was going to be, right?
Maybe now we won't have to worry about ceaseless cellphone blather during the entire flight...
Haven't flown on a US airline lately, have you? FAA requirements already forbid the use of cell phones while the plane is in motion.
That means your company is doing things the wrong way.
All companies do everything the wrong way. It's not worth having a superiority complex over.
At my last 2 jobs, when I wanted a day off I went to 1 webpage, clicked the day, and hit submit. About 30 seconds if the intranet is slow. Another 60 seconds to type an email to m group saying that I'll be off.
You must not have been a very essential part of the team if your absence didn't require prior approval from a higher-up.
I dont' have time to learn a whole new langauge and mess with a compiler. I just want to write (essentially) a script and have it run. Why does everything have to be so @$%%ing complicated.
It's only complicated because you seem to insist on using a language which fell out of general favor about 20 years ago.
I think something like Python would meet your needs quite nicely. The drawback is, you'll have to learn its syntax. It's honestly not that big a drawback, if you already understand basic principles of programming.
Sure, you may see the caller ID isn't somebody you recognize, but often you have to answer it anyways.
Whaaaat.
Do the phones have a feature where the 'Talk' button presses itself and the phone crawls out of your pocket and up to your ear if you let it ring for more than 10 seconds?
New cars are all designed in wind tunnels for maximum petrol efficiency
You must not be American.
How can boxy roadsters like the H2, the Honda Element, or the Scion xB possibly be aerodynamically efficient?
Cheaper brands will have cheaper components and lower specifications than many name-brand companies.
They MAY, but it does not follow that they MUST.
Basically, you get what you pay for.
Correct. And how much of each dollar you spend on that name-brand appliance goes to marketing, brand awareness, and other things that have no bearing on the quality of the appliance itself?
Does this mean that I'll have to upgrade by TurboGrafx-16 system to a Sony Playstation?
Guitar Hero
A trivial variant on the Dance Dance Revolution genre, only the controller is vaguely guitar-shaped rather than in the form of a floormat.
The whistleblower law is to protect a consciencious objector to an unlawful government practice.
But according to YOUR interpretation of the law (which law?), the only body that an objector may appeal to for relief is an arm of the government itself!
Do you see what's problematic about that?
Stuff that seemed completely out of place (e.g. extra bass boost because Jobs was slightly deaf) went into the design
I doubt Jobs' specific hearing problems had anything to do with that decision.
Take a look at any consumer audio product built in the last 20 years; chances are it has some sort of "Super Mega Bass Boost" function available on it (low-end shelftop units in particular embrace this feature).
People tend to think that audio with overemphasized low frequencies sounds fuller and louder, and therefore better, than well-equalized, true-to-life audio. Stereo manufacturers, Apple included, are simply giving the public what the public believes it wants.
Actually dumbass (yes, that's you trollboy), using justin bailey for the password gave you everything you needed to beat the mother brain.
Okay, but it wasn't named after "the first kid who beat Metroid on the NES" as you claimed.
And PCs (I.e. IBM and clones) weren't generally referred to by a generic "PC". No, you had an XT
The XT was IBM's second personal computer model; the first was indeed named "PC" (accompanied by, as is IBM's nature, some inscrutable 4-digit model number).
I believe the XT differed from the PC in that it used an 8088 CPU instead of the fully-16-bit 8086, and it was with the XT that the Color Graphics Adapter was introduced.
The 386 was a 32-bit processor and was out in 1986 if memory serves.
Intel had started selling 'em, but IBM hadn't started buying 'em yet. Perhaps Compaq or some of the other clone OEMs had started selling 32-bit systems in 1986, but as is the situation with 64-bit Windows systems today it's unlikely that there was much software being released to take advantage of the new hardware.