>>>Sorry.. but this statement is just B.S. Apple IIs and TRaSh-80s were the gateway for hundreds of future computer users and programmers.
Yes. At HOME. I too learned programming via my Atari 800 and Commodore 64, but it was at home. Not in the schools where the teachers didn't know what to do with them, and the 8 bit computers just collected dust. A gigantic waste of money. Even now you won't find too many computers in college classrooms. The professors understand that learning happens *in the brain* through exercising it. Anything that slows/interferes with that process is a hindrance, not a help.
>>>go after people who have expressed in both word and deed they want to kill us.
Take a look at the youtube video of the little girl whose jaw was blown-off by a drone. In fact there are thousands of videos just like that. You really think these little kids deserve to be shot all to hell, and their bodies permanently damaged? They are not a threat to us.
You are correct (programmer skills improve over a console's life), but exaggerate a bit. The games you cite as examples were probably developed for the PS1, and then last-minute ported to the PS2. That happened with Final Fantasy 4 which is really an NES game, but was retargeted to Super Nintendo near the end of development. Ditto "Animal Crossing" and "Luigi's Mansion" which were originally N64 games, but released to the Gamecube since the n64 had been discontinued.
Final Fantasy 10 and Gran Turismo 4 were both released during the PS2's first year of life, and since they were targeted from the ground-up as PS2 titles, they were waaaaay beyond anything the PS1 could do. They had double the pixels (480i instead of 240i) and millions more polygons for a smoother look.
Some politician somewhere will try to outlaw the stuffing of cats. (And then go stuff dead cow flesh into his mouth while he walks-round in dead cow skin.) It is confusing why some animals are protected & their killing outlawed, while other animals get murdered in the billions.
>>>go after people who have expressed in both word and deed they want to kill us.
Take a look at the youtube video of the little girl whose jaw was blown-off by a drone. In fact there are thousands of videos just like that. You really think these little kids deserve to be shot all to hell, and their bodies permanently damaged, just becasue "I'ma skeered little american"
Big. Fat. Pussy. That's what you Americans are. No better then the Natsi scum that broke into homes and shot kids "for sport". Americans are the new Holocaust.
Microsoft altready tried the "Smash a PC into a console" with the original Xbox, and they lost a lot of money doing it. It is cheaper to design a console that is easy-to-assemble and save some cash, especially if it is designed to allow integration later on (such as the PS2slim with one single CPU instead of several independent chips).
Upgrading from LP to cassettes to CD don't offer new content..... just the same old stuff that you need to repurchase. But the 5-year-cycle for consoles provides better sound, better graphics, and new games. We want and are willing to pay for improved technology & the new game styles it permits. (Unless you're still sitting there playing your old Atari?)
>>>>>30 years ago my school spent millions-of-dollars..... It was a gigantic waste of money >> >>Apple IIs and TRaSh-80s were the gateway for hundreds of future computer users and programmers.
Didn't I say MY school? (checks). Yes..... yes I did. First off in my school the only thing TRS-80s were used for was 10th grade BASIC programming, and it was a joke (10 Print "Hello World". 20 Goto 10). The Apple IIs mostly just sat idle collecting dust unless someone wanted to print a banner to advertise the Spring Dance. It was used like a toy not an educational toy.
Furthermore MY school didn't produce hundreds of users/programmers. The total number was only ~100 per year and 99% of those people graduated to become burger flippers or Walmart clerks. (Which are both decent jobs, but neither needed training in programming.) AS I SAID: Millions of dollars wasted and the students learned practically nothing from those machines.
A few days ago/. published an article about how school internet is being used, not for eduation, but for watching TV or facebook. i.e. Goofing off. Yeah. That's taxpayer dollars well spent (not).
>>>If they don't sell the product you want, and the price you want, that doesn't entitle you to just TAKE it.
Of course not. Vice-versa they are not entitled to sell me shit like Transformers 2 for $15-20 and then expect me to just lose my money w/o benefit of a refund. I download it first. Then I buy later if I like the product (example: I downloaded & later bought Spiderman 1/2/3).
Just because you CAN buy a gold-plated car doesn't mean you should. Money is finite. We don't need to be spending ~40,000 a month (or ~$500,000 a year) on a high speed internet line when $10,000 worth of reusable textbooks can do the same task for an entire decade.
>>>With as much bullshit as we've laden educators and students alike with, they shouldn't have to wait for lag when accessing educational resources.
30 years ago my school spent millions-of-dollars on computers (Apple IIs and TRS-80s). It was a gigantic waste of money whereupon we student learned NOTHING. I can't help wondering if THIS new plan will also be a gigantic waste of money. The best way to learn is to exercise the computer *in your head* not the one on the desk.
>>> 'Can I watch my teacher's algebra video when I get home?'
Aren't they exaggerating a bit? I watch hulu and youtube video with only 0.3 Mbit/s. It's called "video compression". So yes the student at home does need broadband to watch his teacher's video, but he doesn't need a monster amount. Comcast's or Verizon's Economy Service (1 to 1.5 Mbit/s) will provide more than the minimum.
>>>I guess demanding a full refund after watching an entire 3D movie in the theater is plausible. Go ahead, polish off that meal at that 5-star restaurant. Fuck 'em, you didn't like the color of the imported macadamia nuts in the salad, so you're not paying. I guess anything you purchase and might dislike, you're automatically entitled to a full refund. >>> Sure why not? It's like that with candy. "If you are not satisfied, return the unused portion for a full refund," is printed on Hersheys and Mars wrappers. And they can't even resell the item! At least if I return a $15 DVD like Transformers2, the store can resell it to someone else. Plus I'm not even asking for a full refund; I'd be happy with a $15 store credit.
Yeah the Rangers sucked, but Crusade would have been better if it had not been canceled. JMS released three scripts to the internet. One was a standalone of no importance, but two of them were the equivalent of Babylon 5's first season finale and the second season episode "Coming of Shadows". They were major stories to kick-off Crusade's 5 year arc.... but unfortunately TNT canceled the first season before JMS had a chance to film those scripts.
>>>"you went and scrounged up a pirated copy of Avengers? Instead of going to the concert, you copied a friends bootleg? Do you actually pay for anything?"
I haven't seen the movie yet, but I saw another movie called Spiderman, and liked it enough to buy the whole trilogy on disc. So YES I do "actually pay for anything".
As for JMS and other artists, they should demand an hourly wage as payment same as other copyrighted producers demand (i.e. engineers and programmers). They should get the money upfront and then they won't care about the downloads on the backend.
>>>This is true. It is impermissible for Congress to make failure to buy health insurance a federal crime..... It imposes a fine---
Which is what happens when you commit a crime. The crime in this case is unwillingness to buy hospital insurance... the punishment is a ~$1000 fine every year. It's just the same as what happens when you don't buy car insurance (the legislature fines).
>>>This caused the story arc to be accelerated and also caused the last part of the season to be scrambled. It got put on at random obscure times.
According to JMS, the only thing he changed was moving episodes 501, 502, 503 to the end of season 4. The original end-of-season cliffhanger was meant to be Sheridan's capture by Garibaldi, but that was pushed back three episodes. That's IT. Not a major change or "scrambling" of the original story.
Of course that meant Season 5 had three extra standalone stories (not part of the arc) which is why JMS invited Harlan Ellison, Neil Geiman, and one other guy as guest writers on those three episodes.
>>> If a screen were so bright as to be usable as a light source in a dark room,
It doesn't have to be bright. I'm not reading. I'm watching the TV or the computer screen! (duh)
Oh and if "electricity is cheap" so that we don't have to worry about leaving the lights burning in empty rooms, why are we all so damned worried about banning incandescents & replacing them with inferior-quality (and mercury-filled) CFLs? Let's just stick with the incandescents at home.
>>>>These modern designs aren't good for enclosed or upside-down fixtures... the heat kills them. >> >>Then why does the packaging explicitly state that such configurations are ok?
They don't. They say the exact-opposite. "Do not use this CFL in enclosed fixtures." -- That's okay but since the EU Parliament and US Congress outlawed the sale of regular bulbs (effective 2014), what are we supposed to use instead? I guess our enclosed fixtures will just have to stand empty w/ no bulbs.
Building in flood plains is pretty stupid. Rather than deal with that stupidity, humans are trying to redirect rivers around the towns...... and then they whine-and-moan when it doesn't work, and the river wipes out the town. DUH. Maybe after the river wipes-out your town, you should remove the wreckage and plant some crops there instead. The humans can live elsewhere.
Are you too fucking lazy to read to the end of my post. I VERY clearly stated: "Congress has the power to regulate commerce AMONG the states. Not inside the states, and most-definitely not commerce between two individuals (me and my doctor). They can NOT force me to buy insurance if I would rather pay cash directly to my physician."
I used Netscape from inception through 6. I never saw any problems with versions 1, 2, 3, or 4. To claim it lost the war because it was inferior to IE4 or IE5 is ridiculous. IE was a pile of trash in comparison to Netscape.
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Exercise? Bah. Humbug. (Bulls*$t!) I want the same setup I have at home:
- Laying down while I type.
- Ahhh relaxing.
Coool. I want to print-out the internal map for Link to Zelda. (Or maybe just a giant GIF.)
>>>A site which doesn't use that craptacularly insecure Flash to display simple pictures.
Wow? I've never seen sites that use Flash just to display pictures. Well a few but not that many. Most websites download just fine as JIFs and JPEGs.
>>>Sorry.. but this statement is just B.S. Apple IIs and TRaSh-80s were the gateway for hundreds of future computer users and programmers.
Yes.
At HOME.
I too learned programming via my Atari 800 and Commodore 64, but it was at home. Not in the schools where the teachers didn't know what to do with them, and the 8 bit computers just collected dust. A gigantic waste of money.
Even now you won't find too many computers in college classrooms. The professors understand that learning happens *in the brain* through exercising it. Anything that slows/interferes with that process is a hindrance, not a help.
>>>go after people who have expressed in both word and deed they want to kill us.
Take a look at the youtube video of the little girl whose jaw was blown-off by a drone. In fact there are thousands of videos just like that. You really think these little kids deserve to be shot all to hell, and their bodies permanently damaged? They are not a threat to us.
You are correct (programmer skills improve over a console's life), but exaggerate a bit. The games you cite as examples were probably developed for the PS1, and then last-minute ported to the PS2. That happened with Final Fantasy 4 which is really an NES game, but was retargeted to Super Nintendo near the end of development. Ditto "Animal Crossing" and "Luigi's Mansion" which were originally N64 games, but released to the Gamecube since the n64 had been discontinued.
Final Fantasy 10 and Gran Turismo 4 were both released during the PS2's first year of life, and since they were targeted from the ground-up as PS2 titles, they were waaaaay beyond anything the PS1 could do. They had double the pixels (480i instead of 240i) and millions more polygons for a smoother look.
>>>So what confuses you here?
Some politician somewhere will try to outlaw the stuffing of cats. (And then go stuff dead cow flesh into his mouth while he walks-round in dead cow skin.) It is confusing why some animals are protected & their killing outlawed, while other animals get murdered in the billions.
>>>go after people who have expressed in both word and deed they want to kill us.
Take a look at the youtube video of the little girl whose jaw was blown-off by a drone. In fact there are thousands of videos just like that. You really think these little kids deserve to be shot all to hell, and their bodies permanently damaged, just becasue "I'ma skeered little american"
Big. Fat. Pussy. That's what you Americans are. No better then the Natsi scum that broke into homes and shot kids "for sport".
Americans are the new Holocaust.
Microsoft altready tried the "Smash a PC into a console" with the original Xbox, and they lost a lot of money doing it. It is cheaper to design a console that is easy-to-assemble and save some cash, especially if it is designed to allow integration later on (such as the PS2slim with one single CPU instead of several independent chips).
Upgrading from LP to cassettes to CD don't offer new content..... just the same old stuff that you need to repurchase. But the 5-year-cycle for consoles provides better sound, better graphics, and new games. We want and are willing to pay for improved technology & the new game styles it permits. (Unless you're still sitting there playing your old Atari?)
So it's like a Gamecube with the Gameboy attached..... the Gameboy displays extra info about the players or overall maps. Nothing new really.
>>>>>30 years ago my school spent millions-of-dollars..... It was a gigantic waste of money
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>>Apple IIs and TRaSh-80s were the gateway for hundreds of future computer users and programmers.
Didn't I say MY school? (checks). Yes..... yes I did. First off in my school the only thing TRS-80s were used for was 10th grade BASIC programming, and it was a joke (10 Print "Hello World". 20 Goto 10). The Apple IIs mostly just sat idle collecting dust unless someone wanted to print a banner to advertise the Spring Dance. It was used like a toy not an educational toy.
Furthermore MY school didn't produce hundreds of users/programmers. The total number was only ~100 per year and 99% of those people graduated to become burger flippers or Walmart clerks. (Which are both decent jobs, but neither needed training in programming.) AS I SAID: Millions of dollars wasted and the students learned practically nothing from those machines.
A few days ago /. published an article about how school internet is being used, not for eduation, but for watching TV or facebook. i.e. Goofing off. Yeah. That's taxpayer dollars well spent (not).
>>>If they don't sell the product you want, and the price you want, that doesn't entitle you to just TAKE it.
Of course not.
Vice-versa they are not entitled to sell me shit like Transformers 2 for $15-20 and then expect me to just lose my money w/o benefit of a refund. I download it first. Then I buy later if I like the product (example: I downloaded & later bought Spiderman 1/2/3).
Just because you CAN buy a gold-plated car doesn't mean you should. Money is finite. We don't need to be spending ~40,000 a month (or ~$500,000 a year) on a high speed internet line when $10,000 worth of reusable textbooks can do the same task for an entire decade.
>>>With as much bullshit as we've laden educators and students alike with, they shouldn't have to wait for lag when accessing educational resources.
30 years ago my school spent millions-of-dollars on computers (Apple IIs and TRS-80s). It was a gigantic waste of money whereupon we student learned NOTHING. I can't help wondering if THIS new plan will also be a gigantic waste of money. The best way to learn is to exercise the computer *in your head* not the one on the desk.
>>> 'Can I watch my teacher's algebra video when I get home?'
Aren't they exaggerating a bit? I watch hulu and youtube video with only 0.3 Mbit/s. It's called "video compression". So yes the student at home does need broadband to watch his teacher's video, but he doesn't need a monster amount. Comcast's or Verizon's Economy Service (1 to 1.5 Mbit/s) will provide more than the minimum.
>>>I guess demanding a full refund after watching an entire 3D movie in the theater is plausible. Go ahead, polish off that meal at that 5-star restaurant. Fuck 'em, you didn't like the color of the imported macadamia nuts in the salad, so you're not paying. I guess anything you purchase and might dislike, you're automatically entitled to a full refund.
>>>
Sure why not?
It's like that with candy.
"If you are not satisfied, return the unused portion for a full refund," is printed on Hersheys and Mars wrappers. And they can't even resell the item! At least if I return a $15 DVD like Transformers2, the store can resell it to someone else.
Plus I'm not even asking for a full refund; I'd be happy with a $15 store credit.
>>>both crusade and legend of the rangers sucked.
Yeah the Rangers sucked, but Crusade would have been better if it had not been canceled. JMS released three scripts to the internet. One was a standalone of no importance, but two of them were the equivalent of Babylon 5's first season finale and the second season episode "Coming of Shadows". They were major stories to kick-off Crusade's 5 year arc.... but unfortunately TNT canceled the first season before JMS had a chance to film those scripts.
>>>"you went and scrounged up a pirated copy of Avengers? Instead of going to the concert, you copied a friends bootleg? Do you actually pay for anything?"
I haven't seen the movie yet, but I saw another movie called Spiderman, and liked it enough to buy the whole trilogy on disc. So YES I do "actually pay for anything".
As for JMS and other artists, they should demand an hourly wage as payment same as other copyrighted producers demand (i.e. engineers and programmers). They should get the money upfront and then they won't care about the downloads on the backend.
>>>This is true. It is impermissible for Congress to make failure to buy health insurance a federal crime..... It imposes a fine---
Which is what happens when you commit a crime. The crime in this case is unwillingness to buy hospital insurance... the punishment is a ~$1000 fine every year. It's just the same as what happens when you don't buy car insurance (the legislature fines).
>>>This caused the story arc to be accelerated and also caused the last part of the season to be scrambled. It got put on at random obscure times.
According to JMS, the only thing he changed was moving episodes 501, 502, 503 to the end of season 4. The original end-of-season cliffhanger was meant to be Sheridan's capture by Garibaldi, but that was pushed back three episodes. That's IT. Not a major change or "scrambling" of the original story.
Of course that meant Season 5 had three extra standalone stories (not part of the arc) which is why JMS invited Harlan Ellison, Neil Geiman, and one other guy as guest writers on those three episodes.
>>> If a screen were so bright as to be usable as a light source in a dark room,
It doesn't have to be bright. I'm not reading.
I'm watching the TV or the computer screen!
(duh)
Oh and if "electricity is cheap" so that we don't have to worry about leaving the lights burning in empty rooms, why are we all so damned worried about banning incandescents & replacing them with inferior-quality (and mercury-filled) CFLs? Let's just stick with the incandescents at home.
>>>>These modern designs aren't good for enclosed or upside-down fixtures... the heat kills them.
>>
>>Then why does the packaging explicitly state that such configurations are ok?
They don't. They say the exact-opposite. "Do not use this CFL in enclosed fixtures." -- That's okay but since the EU Parliament and US Congress outlawed the sale of regular bulbs (effective 2014), what are we supposed to use instead? I guess our enclosed fixtures will just have to stand empty w/ no bulbs.
Building in flood plains is pretty stupid. Rather than deal with that stupidity, humans are trying to redirect rivers around the towns...... and then they whine-and-moan when it doesn't work, and the river wipes out the town. DUH. Maybe after the river wipes-out your town, you should remove the wreckage and plant some crops there instead. The humans can live elsewhere.
Are you too fucking lazy to read to the end of my post. I VERY clearly stated: "Congress has the power to regulate commerce AMONG the states. Not inside the states, and most-definitely not commerce between two individuals (me and my doctor). They can NOT force me to buy insurance if I would rather pay cash directly to my physician."
You lazy piece of ass.
I used Netscape from inception through 6. I never saw any problems with versions 1, 2, 3, or 4. To claim it lost the war because it was inferior to IE4 or IE5 is ridiculous. IE was a pile of trash in comparison to Netscape.