That's indeed what I meant - put mature games in a different section, so people who buy them see clearly they are different from the 'childrens' games. I've just bought a PS2 last weekend and been shopping around for games, and every shop is the same: one rack/wall for xbox, one for nintendo and one for ps2. Then they're ordered by name, by popularity or how recent they are. Everywhere mature and other games are mixed together. And the reason why x-rated movies are behind a curtain are usually not because you are ashamed, but because children walking in the store can't see all the nice pictures on the covers:-)
because usually 18+ games are in the same rack as other games, or parents think 'its only a video game'.
If all 18+ games would be in a seperate part of the shop, like in video rental places behind some curtains, maybe then parents would start to think if it was appropriate for their child..
good question - that's the problem I have with tests of video cards, usually they only test current models and not new models compared to old models.. at home I've got a P3-500 with some Diamond Viper card in it.. would like to know if it's really interesting for me to upgrade the videocard or not.. or just buy a new computer, but if I buy a new computer I won't be spending $500 on a videocard, so are the built-in graphic cards better then what I've got now ??
Well if they charge him with stalking/harassment of each of his recipients they can probably put him away for a few million years:)
But your point how much time is wasted is very good. For them it may only be an email but if you multiple the numbers you get an enormous amount of time/resources wasted because of this one person. On the other hand, you probably don't want to know how many company time is wasted by/. every day..
But let's not forget that there are people out there who would never have bought the CDs. Sure, they downloaded the CDs for free, but this doesn't mean that they'd be willing to pay money for the CD even if shelling out money was the only way to obtain the music on the CD--especially when a person downloads a CD and discovers that the CD sucks because most of the songs are completely different from the few by that artist that are played on the radio.
I've heard this over and over and in the end it's just a lame excuse.
Ok so what if it's a bad cd you've downloaded? If you hear it's a shitty cd which you'd never buy, you *delete* the mp3s and don't listen to them again. End of story. And if there's ever a problem with the RIAA knocking on your door, they won't find the files on your harddisk anymore.
If you don't like the cd, don't trade it with others, don't store it on your harddisk or listen to it anymore.
Reminds me of what I heard on an Iron Maiden concert a few months ago: Our new cd is coming out and will be good. Please buy it and don't download it. Only if you feel it's real bad then send it to your friends, as they'll appreciate you send them a shitty cd.. Which sums it up pretty good: if it's a bad cd then it isn't worth sharing or keeping, if it's good enough to keep and listen to, then it's worth buying too.
And no, I'm not against piracy but tired of hearing this excuse over and over by people who still have huge mp3 collections.
If you like to set up a huge mp3 collection, make a dedicated pc as mp3 player, listen to it a lot, then music *is* worth something to you. Don't say you only listen to shitty songs you'd never buy, turn the radio on then. And for the people who don't want to buy thousands of cds and like to listen to music (like me): turn on the radio.. and if you really want some specific songs/genres/.. then take a subscription to digital radio,... and only buy these very few cds you really think are worth buying.
Ah isn't it great ushering in the next generation? Doesn't it just make you feel old as dirt to hear someone who is not only ignorant of Jennicam, but also indignant of the idea that he should know about it.
I've been thinking about this too..
Does anyone know if there's a website which bookmarks 'special' things/evolutions on the internet ? A sort of diary ?
When I got on the net (+10 years ago) it as first bitnet and there were rumours about the great shutdown (yes the whole net was shut down).
I do remember UK domains were.uk.co instead of.co.uk (maybe only for mail or through bitnet to internet gateways ? which they've also changed one point into time) I remember this mozilla thingy coming out, wauw, it was better then gopher, but I disliked the grey background.. should've bought some domain names back then when they were almost free..
I'm sure a lot of people here will have similar memories of things changing/happening, but is it written down somewhere so the next generation or even just the people who came on the net after us can find anything about it ?
while biometrics themselves are harder to forge, the tool which reads them may be compromised/replaced/.. so unless there's a lot of authentication, this is very vulnerable to a man in the middle attack/sniffing/.. Just read the output of a retina scan and replay it at another machine...
If biometrics really get used everywhere, its security system will eventually get cracked and then you've got a major problem.. cause you can't re-issue new retinas:-)
they shouldn't only look to the last year but check with previous years too.. some of these 'jobs' may still have been filled by people who weren't skilled enough.. dot com boom leftovers ?
Compared to 100 years ago we still have an infinite growth in IT jobs:-)
they could just put it on ebay with a $1 starting bid..
anyway, why are they only thinking how to get it down when it's already up there for a while ? you'd suspect they'd think about these things before they launch them into orbit..
That was maybe acceptable in the infancy of the internet
In the beginning everyone just copied from each other and didn't know what else to put on there.. the net then wasn't really interesting or useful.. was just a way to put some documentation online. Some people started to make a homepage and others copied this.
I too had a 'homepage' which said who I was and what I liked and even listed my cd collection.. (and of course the links to homepages of irc friends)(aaargh I can't believe I admit this)
Worst of all it was at a free provider of which I lost the password so it was online between 1995 and 2000 until by coincidence I found out it still existed so I contacted the admin who luckily removed this content.
Anyone else have similar stories of content online long after its due time ?
Indeed. Someone who makes decisions about what things get implemented should get some common sense.
It is not because technology makes something possible, what you get is actually useful.
Too many companies just see security/defence/military as an easy way to earn a lot of money. Create something which is totally useless in the real world, but because it could prevent bad things from happening or it's for the national safety, you can get a lot of taxpayers $$$ for it.
Same thing with the face-recognition programs. Oh terrorists show up everywhere ! Quickly create a program which scans their images to a database and sell it to every airport and even if it doesn't work very reliable still ask a lot of money for it. Duh.. better work on prevention - if you don't know who the terrorists because one government agency doesn't talk to the other, you're not able to search for them even using whatever tool. If the procedures at airports etc don't have huge loopholes in them they would already be effective and you wouldn't need more expensive tools.
So what you need is a check on all highways/exits/main roads/.. which monitors if all cars/trucks passing do have their gps/safety id system enabled, and police taking the people off the roads who have it disabled.
Would it be possible and accepted in the usa ? Maybe, maybe not. Not today, maybe later.
In other countries ? I believe so. I remember a collegue at work who went to I believe Singapore said they had a system with automatic payments on the highways.. you don't have the system in your car or haven't paid and you drive on the highway ? You go to jail..
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the other side who just got knocked into the stone age (maybe iron age if they're lucky). For some countries that's still progress:-)
weird - I had the opposite problem ! I used the immunize option of adaware and had problems with my tcp/ip stack. ISP cable company helpdesk couldn't quite help.. line was ok, problem was in the software. Ping did work, but mail or surfing didn't:-( (I was also using win98se) The solution - I bought a larger harddisk (was planning to upgrade anyway) and installed that one..
They would be shooting themselves in the foot if they release it on any console too soon.
Arcade machines are big $$$. They cost a lot to purchase, and most of them generate some revenue during their lifecycle with the sale of spare parts. (some arcade controllers are designed that bad you can only think they were especially made to break after a while)(I have a Lethal Enforcers cabinet, had to repair 2 lightguns..)
Anyway, why would people play the game at the arcades if they can have a perfect copy at home ? OK a deluxe sitdown cabinet gives you something extra, but the regular standup version would loose its appeal.
And why would arcade owners spend big $$$ to see their income drop when Sega releases a console version 3 months later ?
On the other hand, they did release Crazy Taxi and House of the dead.. so probably they will release a console version too someday.. at least 6 months to a year after the arcade.
* Shortening time-outs because you're in a hurry, or giving back lost privileges due to expediency. If you're serious about punishing your kids, you sacrifice. When you give in and give back things you took away, the punishments have no meaning and the child won't care about being "punished
Doesn't always work, kids can also use this to run the show.. ie you're going someplace and the kid doesn't want to.. he starts causing trouble, and you'll miss your appointment because he's punished and you'll have to wait for him. Seen it happen enough with one of the neighbour kids who also has ADHD..
I worked for a company which had this available.. it was a spin-off of Lernout and Hauspie (Document Management Partners).
We had a search-engine (Scout) which was fully lingual processing. Each document was analysed sentence by sentence (which is subject, verb,.. like you learnt in school) so it knew what subjects the document was talking about. There were links between all languages it knew (all major european languages: english, french, german, spanish, maybe italian and portuguese too, I don't remember) so asking a result in english could give you answers in spanish back too.
We had linked our summary-generator to it, so when you got results back from your question, you saw like a 5-sentence summary of each document (which you could realtime change to more/less sentences), and when you viewed the whole document, foreign documents (or foreign summaries) got translated.
Pretty impressive stuff. Ie you could surf a website in a language you didn't know (spanish in my case), just copy/paste an article, and view a translated summary, to get a good idea about what it was talking was about.
Unfortunately the company got in financial problems due to L and H's problems, and raising money a few weeks after 9/11 wasn't helping either..
We didn't have a lot of clients yet, some local ones (newspaper, local police) and were a partner of Documentum in which we had integrated our searchengine.
I know there's still another spin-off (research lab) which uses this stuff too, so maybe who knows in a few years someone will try to commercialise it (again)..
You've forgot: add a few small changes, and make sure you ask about these on exams, so every student knows he has to learn the new book or have a bad exam..
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That's indeed what I meant - put mature games in a different section, so people who buy them see clearly they are different from the 'childrens' games. :-)
I've just bought a PS2 last weekend and been shopping around for games, and every shop is the same: one rack/wall for xbox, one for nintendo and one for ps2. Then they're ordered
by name, by popularity or how recent they are.
Everywhere mature and other games are mixed together.
And the reason why x-rated movies are behind a curtain are usually not because you are ashamed, but because children walking in the store can't see all the nice pictures on the covers
indeed.. or complain that part of their freedom is taken away and they should have the freedom to choose..
because usually 18+ games are in the same rack as other games, or parents think 'its only a video game'.
If all 18+ games would be in a seperate part of the shop, like in video rental places behind some curtains, maybe then parents would start to think
if it was appropriate for their child..
good question - that's the problem I have with tests of video cards, usually they only test current models and not new models compared to old models.. at home I've got a P3-500 with some Diamond Viper card in it.. would like to know if it's really interesting for me to upgrade the videocard or not.. or just buy a new computer, but if I buy a new computer I won't be spending $500 on a videocard, so are the built-in graphic cards better then what I've got now ??
Well if they charge him with stalking/harassment of each of his recipients they can probably put him away for a few million years :)
/. every day..
But your point how much time is wasted is very good. For them it may only be an email but if you multiple the numbers you get an enormous amount of time/resources wasted because of this one person. On the other hand, you probably don't want to know how many company time is wasted by
I've heard this over and over and in the end it's just a lame excuse.
Ok so what if it's a bad cd you've downloaded? If you hear it's a shitty cd which you'd never buy, you *delete* the mp3s and don't listen to them again. End of story. And if there's ever a problem with the RIAA knocking on your door, they won't find the files on your harddisk anymore.
If you don't like the cd, don't trade it with others, don't store it on your harddisk or listen to it anymore.
Reminds me of what I heard on an Iron Maiden concert a few months ago: Our new cd is coming out and will be good. Please buy it and don't download it. Only if you feel it's real bad then send it to your friends, as they'll appreciate you send them a shitty cd..
Which sums it up pretty good: if it's a bad cd then it isn't worth sharing or keeping, if it's good enough to keep and listen to, then it's worth buying too.
And no, I'm not against piracy but tired of hearing this excuse over and over by people who still have huge mp3 collections.
... and only buy these very few cds you really think are worth buying.
If you like to set up a huge mp3 collection, make a dedicated pc as mp3 player, listen to it a lot, then music *is* worth something to you. Don't say you only listen to shitty songs you'd never buy, turn the radio on then.
And for the people who don't want to buy thousands of cds and like to listen to music (like me): turn on the radio.. and if you really want some specific songs/genres/.. then take a subscription to digital radio,
I've been thinking about this too..
Does anyone know if there's a website which bookmarks 'special' things/evolutions on the internet ? A sort of diary ?
When I got on the net (+10 years ago) it as first bitnet and there were rumours about the great shutdown (yes the whole net was shut down).
I do remember UK domains were
I remember this mozilla thingy coming out, wauw, it was better then gopher, but I disliked the grey background..
should've bought some domain names back then when they were almost free..
I'm sure a lot of people here will have similar memories of things changing/happening, but is it written down somewhere so the next generation or even just the people who came on the net after us can find anything about it ?
but biometrics are harder to forge
:-)
while biometrics themselves are harder to forge, the tool which reads them may be compromised/replaced/.. so unless there's a lot of authentication, this is very vulnerable to a man in the middle attack/sniffing/..
Just read the output of a retina scan and replay it at another machine...
If biometrics really get used everywhere, its security system will eventually get cracked and then you've got a major problem.. cause you can't
re-issue new retinas
We've yet to see credit cards with your face on
Sorry but there are banks which issue Visa cards with your picture on it. Sold it as 'more secure'..
less impressive: it'll take longer to drive from home to the airport and checking in than flying around half the world itself..
they shouldn't only look to the last year but check with previous years too..
:-)
some of these 'jobs' may still have been filled by people who weren't skilled enough.. dot com boom leftovers ?
Compared to 100 years ago we still have an infinite growth in IT jobs
anyway, why are they only thinking how to get it down when it's already up there for a while ?
you'd suspect they'd think about these things before they launch them into orbit..
In the beginning everyone just copied from each other and didn't know what else to put on there.. the net then wasn't really interesting or useful.. was just a way to put some documentation online. Some people started to make a homepage and others copied this.
I too had a 'homepage' which said who I was and what I liked and even listed my cd collection.. (and of course the links to homepages of irc friends)(aaargh I can't believe I admit this)
Worst of all it was at a free provider of which I lost the password so it was online between 1995 and 2000 until by coincidence I found out it still existed so I contacted the admin who luckily removed this content.
Anyone else have similar stories of content online long after its due time ?
Indeed. Someone who makes decisions about what things get implemented should get some common sense.
It is not because technology makes something possible, what you get is actually useful.
Too many companies just see security/defence/military as an easy way to earn a lot of money. Create something which is totally useless in the real world, but because it could prevent bad things from happening or it's for the national safety, you can get a lot of taxpayers $$$ for it.
Same thing with the face-recognition programs. Oh terrorists show up everywhere ! Quickly create a program which scans their images to a database and sell it to every airport and even if it doesn't work very reliable still ask a lot of money for it.
Duh.. better work on prevention - if you don't know who the terrorists because one government agency doesn't talk to the other, you're not able to search for them even using whatever tool.
If the procedures at airports etc don't have huge loopholes in them they would already be effective and you wouldn't need more expensive tools.
So what you need is a check on all highways/exits/main roads/.. which monitors if all cars/trucks passing do have their gps/safety id system enabled, and police taking the people off the roads who have it disabled.
Would it be possible and accepted in the usa ?
Maybe, maybe not. Not today, maybe later.
In other countries ? I believe so.
I remember a collegue at work who went to I believe Singapore said they had a system with automatic payments on the highways.. you don't have the system in your car or haven't paid and you drive on the highway ? You go to jail..
the other side who just got knocked into the stone age (maybe iron age if they're lucky). :-)
For some countries that's still progress
weird - I had the opposite problem ! :-(
I used the immunize option of adaware and had problems with my tcp/ip stack. ISP cable company helpdesk couldn't quite help.. line was ok, problem was in the software. Ping did work, but mail or surfing didn't
(I was also using win98se)
The solution - I bought a larger harddisk (was planning to upgrade anyway) and installed that one..
Stern took over the pinball division from Sega..
Keith J., is that you ?? :-)
the carvings decoded spell '42'.
I know the feeling; sometime ago I was at a friend who still has a C=64 and I played 1942.
I remember loving this game, but now the sound suddenly was just annoying and graphics were too crude.
It's always difficult to step back when you're used to something nice.
They would be shooting themselves in the foot if they release it on any console too soon.
Arcade machines are big $$$. They cost a lot to purchase, and most of them generate some revenue during their lifecycle with the sale of spare parts. (some arcade controllers are designed that bad you can only think they were especially made to break after a while)(I have a Lethal Enforcers cabinet, had to repair 2 lightguns..)
Anyway, why would people play the game at the arcades if they can have a perfect copy at home ?
OK a deluxe sitdown cabinet gives you something extra, but the regular standup version would loose its appeal.
And why would arcade owners spend big $$$ to see their income drop when Sega releases a console version 3 months later ?
On the other hand, they did release Crazy Taxi and House of the dead.. so probably they will release a console version too someday.. at least 6 months to a year after the arcade.
Doesn't always work, kids can also use this to run the show.. ie you're going someplace and the kid doesn't want to.. he starts causing trouble, and you'll miss your appointment because he's punished and you'll have to wait for him.
Seen it happen enough with one of the neighbour kids who also has ADHD..
I worked for a company which had this available.. it was a spin-off of Lernout and Hauspie (Document Management Partners).
.. like you learnt in school) so it knew what subjects the document was talking about. There were links between all languages it knew (all major european languages: english, french, german, spanish, maybe italian and portuguese too, I don't remember) so asking a result in english could give you answers in spanish back too.
We had a search-engine (Scout) which was fully lingual processing. Each document was analysed sentence by sentence (which is subject, verb,
We had linked our summary-generator to it, so when you got results back from your question, you saw like a 5-sentence summary of each document (which you could realtime change to more/less sentences), and when you viewed the whole document, foreign documents (or foreign summaries) got translated.
Pretty impressive stuff. Ie you could surf a website in a language you didn't know (spanish in my case), just copy/paste an article, and view a translated summary, to get a good idea about what it was talking was about.
Unfortunately the company got in financial problems due to L and H's problems, and raising money a few weeks after 9/11 wasn't helping either..
We didn't have a lot of clients yet, some local ones (newspaper, local police) and were a partner of Documentum in which we had integrated our searchengine.
I know there's still another spin-off (research lab) which uses this stuff too, so maybe who knows in a few years someone will try to commercialise it (again)..
You've forgot: add a few small changes, and make sure you ask about these on exams,
so every student knows he has to learn the new book or have a bad exam..