I mean...it just struck me. Every game I play is about war.
So that's a bad thing? War and conflict are (for better or worse) an integral part of human nature, it motivates and fascinates us. Look at popular media and you see lots of war. It's a popular theme in movies, theater, games, books, and academia. Even sports can be considered to be a tranference of warlike tendencies into something a little less deadly. Video games are just a small part of this... that open up a new way for us to experience war/conflict on some level.
Add to this that there are a LOT of games that don't have warfare as the main concept... sports games, sim games, the tycoon series, puzzle games (tetris et. al.), flight sims, driving/racing sims, hunting and fishing titles, and so on.
That is not the point which a person is necessarily "impaired".
Actually, field sobriety tests administred by (some) police... tracking moving objects with your eyes, balance tests, motor skills tests, test exactly that... the problem being that this type of thing doesn't really hold up in court, so is used more as a preliminary assay as to whether or not the officer should ask the person to submit to a blood alcohol level test. Even if blood alcohol level is kind of bogus (which I'm not going to argue, as it falls outside the scope of this point), it's a heck of a lot more acceptable to a court/jury than an officer saying "he looked drunk to me". And probably less succeptible to "human error".
The difference is, theater owners can't fine you if you keep it on. They can't take away your phone either -- all they can do is yell at you.
The theatre is (presumably) private property. The owner (or management staff, whatever) has the right to your visiting privileges (like in the casinos, if you read that article/thread). If they use a cellphone, tell 'em to get out, if they refuse, charge them with trespassing. No additional legislation needed.
From what I remember of an earlier post of his on one of the innumerable Doom ]|[ threads, his opinion was that the Raedon cards are superior to the NVidia cards, and have been for a while... his main beef seemed to be that ATI's drivers were so crappy that NVidia was able to outperform them, even though the Raedon card has better specs. Of course, IANJC, so take with as many grains of salt as appropriate.
You know, there are a lot of starving children in Africa who would be benefited by much less effort than what went into this device that will lead to many premature deaths through sloth and gluttony.
What an excellent idea! I'll replace my robotic internet-enabled lawnmower with starving kids from Africa! Any lawn clippings they don't eat, they can send home to their families.
Pepper (get a mill if you can, the taste of fresh ground pepper can't be beat)
Sugar
Vinegar
Oils (olive, vegetable and sesame)
Flour and/or corn starch.
Soy sauce
Mustard
Spices depend alot on what you're cooking and/or on your taste. The ones I use most are:
oregano, thyme, tarragon, tumeric, rosemary, cinnamon, bay leaves, allspice, and nutmeg (I'm probably missing a few).
Err... ok... Alton's a chef & geek, and I'm not... but a cigar cutter? Other than semi-safety, what's the benefit of using these over a small, sharp knife?
Distopia is typically presented by heavily cybernetic society where the humanity is not really concerned about space. The other trend, is diametrically opposite with humanity focused on space exploration.
I don't really think that these two are mutally exclusive in most of sci fi... the reason one or the other doesn't focus heavily in a book is generally because the other is highlit more importantly, by the focus of the store, while the other is taken "for granted". Or both are. Or one or the other doesn't exist (or sufficiently advanced, etc.. etc..).
Actually, it's instructive to compare the tax rates that angered the colonists with our tremendously higher taxes today.
The taxes that angered the colonists were being paid to a nation several thousand miles away, to a government that didn't give them a say in how they were being ruled. Yeah, the taxes we pay today make those pale by comparison, but at least (in theory) it's for a government that (in theory) represents the goverend.
Yes, this is the flip side to the "reciprocity" coin... your driving offenses in ND appear on your WA license, but on the plus side, you don't have to get a drivers license for every state between WA and ND if you want to drive from one to the other:) AFAIK (and as an interesting aside), this is done state-by-state on a national level, there may be certain standards, but to my knowledge there is no inter-state or federal body that deals with this license reciprocity stuff, the DMV's from the various states just got together and decided to share information... which has it's ups and downs =)
I would highly recommend SpamBouncer...
it's a procmail-based system, but highly configurable... currently it's at around.5% mis-diagnosis... one valid email id'd as spam, and one piece of spam id'd as email, out of over 400 messages. I'm very satisfied with its performance.
We work fairly closely with the state for alot of online stuff, (manage a state, county and local websites, state agencies, web apps, that kind of thing) and we're a big open source shop... we've had developers that have worked (in spite of our stupid IP-owning contracts) for open source projects such as FreeTDS. We use Apache, Perl, tomcat, mysql, Postgres, Linux. Yeah, we have some commercial stuff here too, Oracle, Informix, and some commercial dev libraries. On the whole, we use open source when we can... we're a pretty geeky shop and management doesn't care how the job gets done as long as it does get done, which makes for a pretty cool environment to work in, as we can play around with all sorts of different methods.
Having said that, pushing Open Source in government, (ANY government, at least here in the US) is very tricky... this is changing a bit as security is becoming a bit of a critical issue for many agencies, and the "don't ask, don't tell" policies of many commercial shops w/r/t security is starting to wear thin. However, for the large part, commercial vendors still run the show. Our states' information management services division is very much a buzzword-du-jour type shop, pimping the latest redmond-hyped technology, often to the detriment of the taxpayer (when a simple open source solution would suffice just as easily, and cost only labor...) Of course, finding someone who can run a few "Wizards" to cobble together some microsoft apps into a work system is alot easier than finding people clueful enough about open source to make it work really well...
Also another prevailing attitude is the good old "you get what you pay for" stance, although this varies from place to place... the reaction covers the scale from "We don't want no hippie-pinko crap on our network" to "You can save us how much????"
Hopefully as time goes on, the attitudes in government towards open source will shift further towards the positive, but I think that this could take quite a while. Just a few thoughts....
As much as I think that Slashdot is funny as hell, I can't stand the "Open Source" attitude they have. -- "I don't care if the whole world stops working... just so long as it's open"
He didn't say litigate the good fight... there are other ways of opposing Forgent's stupidity than in the law courts... and at any rate, there's lots of ways that this cash-grab can be legally challenged... prior art, and also the fact that the patent hasn't been enforced in all the years it's been in existence (this may only apply to copyright law though, I'm not sure)
How about all those websites that, for a fee, would let you store your docs on their websites so you could access them from anywhere you had internet access?
Yes, because lord knows that FTP'ing into my account, or setting up a password-protected directory on my webpage is too hard. This service doesn't really add anything for most people, since most of these services are readily available from any ISP worth a damn.
espite your skewed perspective, there are hundreds of millions (perhaps billions) of young adults who choose to abstain from sex until marriage
Uhh, and I suppose you have unbiased research figures to back this up? According to the numbers from the studies a quick google search returned, a ballpark figure of around 70% of unmarried teens have had sex by age 18. *shrug*
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I mean...it just struck me. Every game I play is about war.
So that's a bad thing? War and conflict are (for better or worse) an integral part of human nature, it motivates and fascinates us. Look at popular media and you see lots of war. It's a popular theme in movies, theater, games, books, and academia. Even sports can be considered to be a tranference of warlike tendencies into something a little less deadly. Video games are just a small part of this... that open up a new way for us to experience war/conflict on some level.
Add to this that there are a LOT of games that don't have warfare as the main concept... sports games, sim games, the tycoon series, puzzle games (tetris et. al.), flight sims, driving/racing sims, hunting and fishing titles, and so on.
That is not the point which a person is necessarily "impaired".
Actually, field sobriety tests administred by (some) police... tracking moving objects with your eyes, balance tests, motor skills tests, test exactly that... the problem being that this type of thing doesn't really hold up in court, so is used more as a preliminary assay as to whether or not the officer should ask the person to submit to a blood alcohol level test. Even if blood alcohol level is kind of bogus (which I'm not going to argue, as it falls outside the scope of this point), it's a heck of a lot more acceptable to a court/jury than an officer saying "he looked drunk to me". And probably less succeptible to "human error".
The difference is, theater owners can't fine you if you keep it on. They can't take away your phone either -- all they can do is yell at you.
The theatre is (presumably) private property. The owner (or management staff, whatever) has the right to your visiting privileges (like in the casinos, if you read that article/thread). If they use a cellphone, tell 'em to get out, if they refuse, charge them with trespassing. No additional legislation needed.
From what I remember of an earlier post of his on one of the innumerable Doom ]|[ threads, his opinion was that the Raedon cards are superior to the NVidia cards, and have been for a while... his main beef seemed to be that ATI's drivers were so crappy that NVidia was able to outperform them, even though the Raedon card has better specs. Of course, IANJC, so take with as many grains of salt as appropriate.
Ouch... (-1, Awful Pun) or maybe (+1, Awful Pun) Decisions, decisions.
You know, there are a lot of starving children in Africa who would be benefited by much less effort than what went into this device that will lead to many premature deaths through sloth and gluttony.
What an excellent idea! I'll replace my robotic internet-enabled lawnmower with starving kids from Africa! Any lawn clippings they don't eat, they can send home to their families.
Yes. =P
- Salt
- Pepper (get a mill if you can, the taste of fresh ground pepper can't be beat)
- Sugar
- Vinegar
- Oils (olive, vegetable and sesame)
- Flour and/or corn starch.
- Soy sauce
- Mustard
Spices depend alot on what you're cooking and/or on your taste. The ones I use most are: oregano, thyme, tarragon, tumeric, rosemary, cinnamon, bay leaves, allspice, and nutmeg (I'm probably missing a few).Err... ok... Alton's a chef & geek, and I'm not... but a cigar cutter? Other than semi-safety, what's the benefit of using these over a small, sharp knife?
Distopia is typically presented by heavily cybernetic society where the humanity is not really concerned about space. The other trend, is diametrically opposite with humanity focused on space exploration.
I don't really think that these two are mutally exclusive in most of sci fi... the reason one or the other doesn't focus heavily in a book is generally because the other is highlit more importantly, by the focus of the store, while the other is taken "for granted". Or both are. Or one or the other doesn't exist (or sufficiently advanced, etc.. etc..).
Never sign up anywhere with a real email address.
:-)
Or, just use your own email address wherever you damn well please, and use SpamBouncer.
If you'd READ THE FREAKING ARTICLE you'd see that planes like the Predator don't fit the requirements to be classified as a MODEL AIRPLANE.
I did qualify all my statements with "in theory" :-)
Actually, it's instructive to compare the tax rates that angered the colonists with our tremendously higher taxes today.
The taxes that angered the colonists were being paid to a nation several thousand miles away, to a government that didn't give them a say in how they were being ruled. Yeah, the taxes we pay today make those pale by comparison, but at least (in theory) it's for a government that (in theory) represents the goverend.
Yes, this is the flip side to the "reciprocity" coin... your driving offenses in ND appear on your WA license, but on the plus side, you don't have to get a drivers license for every state between WA and ND if you want to drive from one to the other :) AFAIK (and as an interesting aside), this is done state-by-state on a national level, there may be certain standards, but to my knowledge there is no inter-state or federal body that deals with this license reciprocity stuff, the DMV's from the various states just got together and decided to share information... which has it's ups and downs =)
I would highly recommend SpamBouncer... it's a procmail-based system, but highly configurable... currently it's at around .5% mis-diagnosis... one valid email id'd as spam, and one piece of spam id'd as email, out of over 400 messages. I'm very satisfied with its performance.
We work fairly closely with the state for alot of online stuff, (manage a state, county and local websites, state agencies, web apps, that kind of thing) and we're a big open source shop... we've had developers that have worked (in spite of our stupid IP-owning contracts) for open source projects such as FreeTDS. We use Apache, Perl, tomcat, mysql, Postgres, Linux. Yeah, we have some commercial stuff here too, Oracle, Informix, and some commercial dev libraries. On the whole, we use open source when we can... we're a pretty geeky shop and management doesn't care how the job gets done as long as it does get done, which makes for a pretty cool environment to work in, as we can play around with all sorts of different methods.
Having said that, pushing Open Source in government, (ANY government, at least here in the US) is very tricky... this is changing a bit as security is becoming a bit of a critical issue for many agencies, and the "don't ask, don't tell" policies of many commercial shops w/r/t security is starting to wear thin. However, for the large part, commercial vendors still run the show. Our states' information management services division is very much a buzzword-du-jour type shop, pimping the latest redmond-hyped technology, often to the detriment of the taxpayer (when a simple open source solution would suffice just as easily, and cost only labor...) Of course, finding someone who can run a few "Wizards" to cobble together some microsoft apps into a work system is alot easier than finding people clueful enough about open source to make it work really well...
Also another prevailing attitude is the good old "you get what you pay for" stance, although this varies from place to place... the reaction covers the scale from "We don't want no hippie-pinko crap on our network" to "You can save us how much????"
Hopefully as time goes on, the attitudes in government towards open source will shift further towards the positive, but I think that this could take quite a while. Just a few thoughts....
Black and White, which was innovative (if sort of a popular flop), got described in terms like this all the time.
Umm, I have never seen Black and White descriped as a "Missile Command style game".
tee hee!
("I flew from LA to Miami last week and the food was great")
:-)
You'd think that someone claiming to like airline food would immediately flag them as a paid rep of an airline. That, or a raving loony
As much as I think that Slashdot is funny as hell, I can't stand the "Open Source" attitude they have. -- "I don't care if the whole world stops working... just so long as it's open"
:-)
'nuff said
Haha, but now you can go to jail for life for using evil hacking tools (like 'ping') to kill people :-P
Fight what good fight? Forgent broke no laws.
He didn't say litigate the good fight... there are other ways of opposing Forgent's stupidity than in the law courts... and at any rate, there's lots of ways that this cash-grab can be legally challenged... prior art, and also the fact that the patent hasn't been enforced in all the years it's been in existence (this may only apply to copyright law though, I'm not sure)
How about all those websites that, for a fee, would let you store your docs on their websites so you could access them from anywhere you had internet access?
Yes, because lord knows that FTP'ing into my account, or setting up a password-protected directory on my webpage is too hard. This service doesn't really add anything for most people, since most of these services are readily available from any ISP worth a damn.
Actually, I believe only the first episode was not broadcast. I could be wrong on this though...
espite your skewed perspective, there are hundreds of millions (perhaps billions) of young adults who choose to abstain from sex until marriage
Uhh, and I suppose you have unbiased research figures to back this up? According to the numbers from the studies a quick google search returned, a ballpark figure of around 70% of unmarried teens have had sex by age 18. *shrug*