In other words, Michael Robertson sold out. More power to him, I guess. I'd probably do the same for piles of cash. I was upset because I paid for the lindows family pack (I think that's what it was called) not long before he sold out and removed the "windows support" from lindows.
Razer's just not very good at writing software for their products (maybe they hired some ex ATI staffers). I've got a mamba mouse, the software screws up all the time. End up having to "reboot" the mouse to get it going again.
How about the other people, experts like economists, computer modelers, relevant businesses, etc or the people actually making the decisions, like politicians?
(fixed for accuracy, since voters don't make decisions)
Those people will all be dead with everyone else due to the global warming so you can safely overlook their misguided opinions.
I've had instances where I wish there were some sort of rating system for books. An example would be last summer when my 12 year old daughter asked me to get her a copy of a book called "Go ask alice". Sounded ok. Plot summary on the back seemed like no big deal.... it wasn't until someone else mentioned they were shocked I'd let her read it that I actually picked it up and realized I'd made a big mistake. In the end I spent a lot of time talking to her about the issues within since you can't put the shit back in the horse.
Having said that, I think that there are games rated T that I've given to my kids when they were as young as 8. There needs to be some way for a parent to have some idea what the content is and form the basis for an opinion. Games aren't really art, and most aren't even educational unless you're trying to teach the kids that they can get their money back from the hooker in gta if you kill the hooker after using her services. That game's a bad example, though.. even without a rating system it's pretty obvious that it's not for kids.
I think the best thing to do is make it a voluntary system like the one on games, where it is not legislated. When it comes to movies, I think the ratings are often a bit more conservative than they should be. My 10 year old has seen many many PG-13 movies, and even one or two R rated movies. Still, the fact that I think the rating is too conservative doesn't mean that I think the rating system should go away. It provides a baseline for me as a parent to make a decision about letting my kids watch it. It's not a perfect system, but I think it's far better than no system at all. Like the movie system they should all be voluntary, there are plenty of not rated movies out there - some of which are perfectly OK for kids to see; but the fact that it's not rated would tip me off that I need to do some investigation (probably just a quick trip to imdb or something) before letting my kids watch.
So to answer your question, I'd support voluntary ratings for books - but not mandatory ones. I was under the impression that video game and movie ratings were voluntary, are they not?
Mr. Capps missed a major point, probably because he's part of the problem. PC game developers haven't made any significant progress in several years. PC Games today are portable to consoles, and are therefore "stuck" having to support old hardware like you'd find in a PS3 or XBOX 360 or PC from 2008.
Small devices like phones are improving in capability rapidly, while games for other platforms have stagnated for several years. On the small device market games are inexpensive.
If he wants customers to be willing to pay 60 times the price of a smartphone game, he needs to provide something better than the smartphone game does.
I don't see it happening from any existing game shop anytime soon, they all love making the easy money with console ports. It'll take a few nerds to create a new company that does something amazing to move the game industry forward at this point.
I think you can safely forget about laser ignition systems in NASCAR for a good long time after they're available in regular production cars. While NASCAR cars have been refined over the decades, they are still not using very much technology that would have been unfamiliar to a regular car mechanic in the late 1970s.
Now, if you'd said Formula 1, then that would make sense.
Interesting idea, but somehow I think that Facebook, Google, Ebay, and Paypal all like having customers with the ability to access the sites. There are competitors for all of those currently in existence, and that's exactly where the users would go.
I own two, both of them do. It's not something I paid attention to when I was shopping; just sort of wound up that way. Every computer in my house supports ipv6, nothing but ipv4 from the ISP, though.
Sounds to me like you need to chill out. You're likely about the same age as that 50 year old's children and so in his eyes are a kid.
As for congress, have you seen them? Nearly every member is ancient; we're just about all kids to them.
Don't the trade embargoes prevent Iran from legitimately obtaining Siemens SCADA systems in the first place? How are they going to sue Siemens for this even if Siemens was involved?
If something is in development or testing you put it on an isolated clean room environment, you don't patch it on to the company network regardless of how much disdain some guy in another department might have for them.
I.T. should be controlling your OC-192 sonnet ring. I.T. should be controlling the software in your MRI machine, particle accelerator, dosimeter. I.T. should be testing and certifying software before it is used on the OBD-II code scanner if it is going to connect to the company network (afaik, they do not). If your motor pool's on-board computers had network connectivity to your company's internal network.. you guessed it, I.T. should be trained and in control of those as well.
Yes, all of these things require special knowledge; hence the fact that you have it departments like "network" where there are specially trained engineers who understand OC-192 sonnet rings. If you have a particle accelerator that needs network access, you would be foolish to not have someone (or preferably a department) trained on basic operation of the device as it relates to network communications at a minimum.
To do otherwise is negligence, inviting all sorts of legal and ethical problems.
You make it sound so drastic, but let's bring the tone down a little. He's the head of a clinical department and tech inclined enough to pick an appropriate tool and deploy it. Of course IT needs to audit this thing, but it's not exactly "rouge hardware".
rogue[rohg] noun, verb, rogued, roguing, adjective
11. no longer obedient, belonging, or accepted and hence not controllable or answerable; deviating, renegade
Pretty sure that a server IT does not have access to fits the definition of "rogue hardware" perfectly.
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I think soulkill pretty accurately summed it up.
My kids want to upgrade to 3ds, but the price is just a little unreasonable in my opinion.
In other words, Michael Robertson sold out. More power to him, I guess. I'd probably do the same for piles of cash. I was upset because I paid for the lindows family pack (I think that's what it was called) not long before he sold out and removed the "windows support" from lindows.
Razer's just not very good at writing software for their products (maybe they hired some ex ATI staffers). I've got a mamba mouse, the software screws up all the time. End up having to "reboot" the mouse to get it going again.
We could open up a bunny ranch and a big casino on the moon. It'll be the hottest tourist destination in the galaxy.
How about the other people, experts like economists, computer modelers, relevant businesses, etc or the people actually making the decisions, like politicians?
(fixed for accuracy, since voters don't make decisions)
Those people will all be dead with everyone else due to the global warming so you can safely overlook their misguided opinions.
I've had instances where I wish there were some sort of rating system for books. An example would be last summer when my 12 year old daughter asked me to get her a copy of a book called "Go ask alice". Sounded ok. Plot summary on the back seemed like no big deal.... it wasn't until someone else mentioned they were shocked I'd let her read it that I actually picked it up and realized I'd made a big mistake. In the end I spent a lot of time talking to her about the issues within since you can't put the shit back in the horse.
Having said that, I think that there are games rated T that I've given to my kids when they were as young as 8. There needs to be some way for a parent to have some idea what the content is and form the basis for an opinion. Games aren't really art, and most aren't even educational unless you're trying to teach the kids that they can get their money back from the hooker in gta if you kill the hooker after using her services. That game's a bad example, though.. even without a rating system it's pretty obvious that it's not for kids.
I think the best thing to do is make it a voluntary system like the one on games, where it is not legislated. When it comes to movies, I think the ratings are often a bit more conservative than they should be. My 10 year old has seen many many PG-13 movies, and even one or two R rated movies. Still, the fact that I think the rating is too conservative doesn't mean that I think the rating system should go away. It provides a baseline for me as a parent to make a decision about letting my kids watch it. It's not a perfect system, but I think it's far better than no system at all. Like the movie system they should all be voluntary, there are plenty of not rated movies out there - some of which are perfectly OK for kids to see; but the fact that it's not rated would tip me off that I need to do some investigation (probably just a quick trip to imdb or something) before letting my kids watch.
So to answer your question, I'd support voluntary ratings for books - but not mandatory ones. I was under the impression that video game and movie ratings were voluntary, are they not?
'Self-regulation' of this kind is bad precisely because it does work and can't be eliminated overnight through the courts.
I'm not trying to troll you here, but I don't understand what's bad about the video game rating system that it would need to be eliminated?
Mr. Capps missed a major point, probably because he's part of the problem. PC game developers haven't made any significant progress in several years. PC Games today are portable to consoles, and are therefore "stuck" having to support old hardware like you'd find in a PS3 or XBOX 360 or PC from 2008.
Small devices like phones are improving in capability rapidly, while games for other platforms have stagnated for several years. On the small device market games are inexpensive.
If he wants customers to be willing to pay 60 times the price of a smartphone game, he needs to provide something better than the smartphone game does.
I don't see it happening from any existing game shop anytime soon, they all love making the easy money with console ports. It'll take a few nerds to create a new company that does something amazing to move the game industry forward at this point.
I think you can safely forget about laser ignition systems in NASCAR for a good long time after they're available in regular production cars. While NASCAR cars have been refined over the decades, they are still not using very much technology that would have been unfamiliar to a regular car mechanic in the late 1970s.
Now, if you'd said Formula 1, then that would make sense.
If you ain't first, yer last!
"Whilst the cost of switching would be huge" What's more to discuss....
may not choose it but like to have 3G as an option
The good sit down games are always 4 tokens.
Interesting idea, but somehow I think that Facebook, Google, Ebay, and Paypal all like having customers with the ability to access the sites. There are competitors for all of those currently in existence, and that's exactly where the users would go.
I own two, both of them do. It's not something I paid attention to when I was shopping; just sort of wound up that way. Every computer in my house supports ipv6, nothing but ipv4 from the ISP, though.
/. that even the wrt54g that I bought in 2002 had a firmware update to add end to end v6 support http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/05/05/26/2152227/IPv6-for-the-Linksys-WRT54G
Hell, I read on
Sounds to me like you need to chill out. You're likely about the same age as that 50 year old's children and so in his eyes are a kid. As for congress, have you seen them? Nearly every member is ancient; we're just about all kids to them.
If it will get hits for /. then yes.
There's no use in selling the iPhone 5 (black or white), when the iPhone 4 hasn't been released yet.
Let's do the time warp again!
The fourth amendment does not apply in Michigan as 100% of the state is within the US constitution free zone. http://www.aclu.org/constitution-free-zone-map Thanks, G Dubya!
Don't the trade embargoes prevent Iran from legitimately obtaining Siemens SCADA systems in the first place? How are they going to sue Siemens for this even if Siemens was involved?
Corporations and Stevie Jobs.
Wouldn't be totally surprising. It also would not be unwarranted. iPhone is well known for being insecure.
If something is in development or testing you put it on an isolated clean room environment, you don't patch it on to the company network regardless of how much disdain some guy in another department might have for them.
I.T. should be controlling your OC-192 sonnet ring. I.T. should be controlling the software in your MRI machine, particle accelerator, dosimeter. I.T. should be testing and certifying software before it is used on the OBD-II code scanner if it is going to connect to the company network (afaik, they do not). If your motor pool's on-board computers had network connectivity to your company's internal network.. you guessed it, I.T. should be trained and in control of those as well.
Yes, all of these things require special knowledge; hence the fact that you have it departments like "network" where there are specially trained engineers who understand OC-192 sonnet rings. If you have a particle accelerator that needs network access, you would be foolish to not have someone (or preferably a department) trained on basic operation of the device as it relates to network communications at a minimum.
To do otherwise is negligence, inviting all sorts of legal and ethical problems.
You make it sound so drastic, but let's bring the tone down a little. He's the head of a clinical department and tech inclined enough to pick an appropriate tool and deploy it. Of course IT needs to audit this thing, but it's not exactly "rouge hardware".
rogue[rohg] noun, verb, rogued, roguing, adjective
11. no longer obedient, belonging, or accepted and hence not controllable or answerable; deviating, renegade
Pretty sure that a server IT does not have access to fits the definition of "rogue hardware" perfectly.
Apple wants to store apple customers' history in the cloud. I'll have nothing to do wit apple products, thanks.
Code kiddies and wannabees always have been and always will be.