I'm sure this will also feature Google's well known "infinite retention" plan, whereby anything you ever write is saved on their backup servers, sent into space as microwaves to be preserved should the earth be destroyed, and also dumped into several randomly selected alternate dimensions so even cataclysmic destruction of our reality can't get rid of your records.
I'm sure another layer of abstraction to the network is exactly what gamers need to reduce lag.
Overloaded and slow routers will say, "Whoah, his network card RUNS LINUX. I'll shuffle these packets through more quickly."
I'd believe their hype more if we already had an openly tiered internet and these guys gave you a free year's subcription to the top tier with purchase of the card.
You have a good point, but this is a legal proceeding, rather than a disagreement on an already controversial matter.
If other states see Maine getting trampled, they'll realize they could be next, and will hopefully band together for a legal solution, not attempt secession.
Hopefully this will restir the notion of state's rights, because it's obvious when all of the power is condensed into one entity, the stage is set for massive abuse.
The founding fathers knew this. Society seems to have forgotten this. We need a clash of the titans like this to hopefully reawaken some interest in maintaining the sanctity of our rights and freedoms.
Contrary to your assumptions, I'm actually a 4th year college student starting this fall. I just remember very well the efforts of our administrators to keep us from doing things that were frowned upon but not technically illegal (I also remember how much trouble I got in for simply making a post on an obscure message board that our school's system administrator happened to be a member of where I asked how to circumvent their security. My first taste of punishment simply for inquiring.) and see much of the same happening here.
I guess I also meant my post to be a little broader (probably to the point of being off topic) than it seems, as my biggest issue is with the idiot legislators who are currently trying to impose all sorts of sanctions and rules on social networking websites when the websites themselves are technically safer than physical meeting places as long as the kids are properly educated and exercise due caution.
I'm just waiting for more fallacious appeals to emotion in the fight against kids talking to one another.
Do politicians even consider how ridiculous their arguments are? Why, ghettos have become a haven for drug dealers, prostitutes, and other nerdowells! Do we ban ghettos? No, I believe parents simply teach their kids about the dangers of going there, and before they're old enough to understand that, the parents simply don't allow them to go there.
It's sad how human ignorance comes back with a vengeance with the emergence of any new technology or tool, without fail.
the primary motivation behind its invention is likely so the little Jewish American Princesses who plague the school never have to go without a trendy and cold bottle of water or a makeup mirror with a lightbulb.
I guess to more accurately state my intentions, I'd have to say I won't INITIALLY be buying one.
Once the PS2 gets down to the $200-300 price point I'll consider it, but to drop $70 on one game means it better be one hell of a good game.
As I've grown older, my interest in videogames has waned anyway, and I think Nintendo's approach of pick-up games will work better anyway, which is another reason I'm writing Sony off: The people who can afford it aren't the target audience, and the target audience will have a hell of a time convincing the parents to drop that kind of money on a videogame machine when it works out to two average car payments just for the console.
At least these guys don't make the typical arrogant mistake of "analysts" and try and set something in stone before 2 of the 3 competitors are even released, but I think they also need to realize unanswered questions only work when they are rhetorical.
An article laying out the past in an industry where the past has had precious little to do with the next generation, then asking a bunch of questions is about as useful as extended opinion posts from fanboys on forums.
You fucking idiot. I know this. I addressed this very fact in my post.
My question has to do with why we can't educate our population to a point where puerile and downright dishonest tactics like that won't work in a campaign.
What I don't get is why bad social policy is so frequently good political policy.
These lawmakers have to know after repeated rulings of unconstitutionality that this type of law won't stick around. Why do they insist on passing more of them, rather than educating the population on personal responsibility and the constitution?
Your opponent can't accuse you of being in bed with the videogames industry and trying to foist violence on minors if they understand why this type of law won't work in the first place.
Maybe I'm giving the average American too much credit.
Your post is an example of a specific type of logical fallacy called a straw man as well as more specifically a false dichotomy.
Nowhere did I state there are only 2 options here: Running for office or voting. Nowhere did I state running for office was the best solution.
You're a fucking idiot not worth my time. I can't wait for the hand-holding hippie mods to send me down to flamebait hell, but, really, you're not worth anyone's time when you spew bullshit like this.
You are a remarkably idealistic fool who has apparently ignored the fact that voting only allows us a choice between two equally bad candidates.
The US government is currently a good old boys club run by the elite, and the downward spiral they have had us on will only continue once our population wakes up and realizes that we must actively hold the government accountable for its actions. Sadly, this will likely never happen, as once a population has entertainment (television, gladiator battles, whatever the British Empire used to pacify it's population) and food, they stop caring.
of a book that tells you how to expertly pass the blame when various security holes you leave in your PHP application cause the destruction of your company's website and theft of significant information.
Keep in mind not a single civillian would have had to die if their heroic freedom fighters in Hezbolla didn't insist on setting up operations in the center of residential neighborhoods, launching rockets from their cities, and overall using the civillians as human shields.
You're an idiot who has been thoroughly taken by the terrorist propaganda. As someone previously mentioned, an IDF general put it best: "Israelis are sleeping in bomb shelters. Lebanese are sleeping with bombs."
I think we may have peaked with the baby boomers. They got to ride the wave of new medical advances and didn't have the weight of fast food (har har) holding them back.
Our generations (current teenagers up to 30-somethings) have grown up with McDonalds and more, and with obesity on the rise with no end in sight, I think we'll begin to see another decline with our generation, with arthritis, diabetes, and heart disease all coming on earlier.
The problem is my vote gets drowned out by the sea of ignorant fools who continue to vote in politicians who will always choose good political policy, regardless of whether or not it's bad social policy.
We desperately need the current generation of senior citizens to die off. That, or we need to make voting significantly more accessible to informed people who have shit to do.
These boneheaded politicians have fucked our country in so many ways in the past 6 years alone it's almost inconceivable, and there's no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I'm sure this will also feature Google's well known "infinite retention" plan, whereby anything you ever write is saved on their backup servers, sent into space as microwaves to be preserved should the earth be destroyed, and also dumped into several randomly selected alternate dimensions so even cataclysmic destruction of our reality can't get rid of your records.
Maybe he's more like American farmers, and hoping to be paid karma to not post.
I'm sure another layer of abstraction to the network is exactly what gamers need to reduce lag.
Overloaded and slow routers will say, "Whoah, his network card RUNS LINUX. I'll shuffle these packets through more quickly."
I'd believe their hype more if we already had an openly tiered internet and these guys gave you a free year's subcription to the top tier with purchase of the card.
You have a good point, but this is a legal proceeding, rather than a disagreement on an already controversial matter.
If other states see Maine getting trampled, they'll realize they could be next, and will hopefully band together for a legal solution, not attempt secession.
The feds WILL lose.
Hopefully this will restir the notion of state's rights, because it's obvious when all of the power is condensed into one entity, the stage is set for massive abuse.
The founding fathers knew this. Society seems to have forgotten this. We need a clash of the titans like this to hopefully reawaken some interest in maintaining the sanctity of our rights and freedoms.
Contrary to your assumptions, I'm actually a 4th year college student starting this fall. I just remember very well the efforts of our administrators to keep us from doing things that were frowned upon but not technically illegal (I also remember how much trouble I got in for simply making a post on an obscure message board that our school's system administrator happened to be a member of where I asked how to circumvent their security. My first taste of punishment simply for inquiring.) and see much of the same happening here.
I guess I also meant my post to be a little broader (probably to the point of being off topic) than it seems, as my biggest issue is with the idiot legislators who are currently trying to impose all sorts of sanctions and rules on social networking websites when the websites themselves are technically safer than physical meeting places as long as the kids are properly educated and exercise due caution.
Your trolling needs serious work. If you're interested, you may subscribe to my newsletter, as my ideas are quite intriguing.
I'm just waiting for more fallacious appeals to emotion in the fight against kids talking to one another.
Do politicians even consider how ridiculous their arguments are? Why, ghettos have become a haven for drug dealers, prostitutes, and other nerdowells! Do we ban ghettos? No, I believe parents simply teach their kids about the dangers of going there, and before they're old enough to understand that, the parents simply don't allow them to go there.
It's sad how human ignorance comes back with a vengeance with the emergence of any new technology or tool, without fail.
the primary motivation behind its invention is likely so the little Jewish American Princesses who plague the school never have to go without a trendy and cold bottle of water or a makeup mirror with a lightbulb.
I guess to more accurately state my intentions, I'd have to say I won't INITIALLY be buying one.
Once the PS2 gets down to the $200-300 price point I'll consider it, but to drop $70 on one game means it better be one hell of a good game.
As I've grown older, my interest in videogames has waned anyway, and I think Nintendo's approach of pick-up games will work better anyway, which is another reason I'm writing Sony off: The people who can afford it aren't the target audience, and the target audience will have a hell of a time convincing the parents to drop that kind of money on a videogame machine when it works out to two average car payments just for the console.
I'll write them off anyway.
I have no interest in a $600 console and $70 games.
At least these guys don't make the typical arrogant mistake of "analysts" and try and set something in stone before 2 of the 3 competitors are even released, but I think they also need to realize unanswered questions only work when they are rhetorical.
An article laying out the past in an industry where the past has had precious little to do with the next generation, then asking a bunch of questions is about as useful as extended opinion posts from fanboys on forums.
You fucking idiot. I know this. I addressed this very fact in my post.
My question has to do with why we can't educate our population to a point where puerile and downright dishonest tactics like that won't work in a campaign.
What I don't get is why bad social policy is so frequently good political policy.
These lawmakers have to know after repeated rulings of unconstitutionality that this type of law won't stick around. Why do they insist on passing more of them, rather than educating the population on personal responsibility and the constitution?
Your opponent can't accuse you of being in bed with the videogames industry and trying to foist violence on minors if they understand why this type of law won't work in the first place.
Maybe I'm giving the average American too much credit.
Your post is an example of a specific type of logical fallacy called a straw man as well as more specifically a false dichotomy.
Nowhere did I state there are only 2 options here: Running for office or voting. Nowhere did I state running for office was the best solution.
You're a fucking idiot not worth my time. I can't wait for the hand-holding hippie mods to send me down to flamebait hell, but, really, you're not worth anyone's time when you spew bullshit like this.
You are a remarkably idealistic fool who has apparently ignored the fact that voting only allows us a choice between two equally bad candidates.
The US government is currently a good old boys club run by the elite, and the downward spiral they have had us on will only continue once our population wakes up and realizes that we must actively hold the government accountable for its actions. Sadly, this will likely never happen, as once a population has entertainment (television, gladiator battles, whatever the British Empire used to pacify it's population) and food, they stop caring.
of a book that tells you how to expertly pass the blame when various security holes you leave in your PHP application cause the destruction of your company's website and theft of significant information.
I heartily suggest a better education in the fundamentals in logic for you, first.
Keep in mind not a single civillian would have had to die if their heroic freedom fighters in Hezbolla didn't insist on setting up operations in the center of residential neighborhoods, launching rockets from their cities, and overall using the civillians as human shields.
You're an idiot who has been thoroughly taken by the terrorist propaganda. As someone previously mentioned, an IDF general put it best: "Israelis are sleeping in bomb shelters. Lebanese are sleeping with bombs."
where I asked this exact question.
About Slashdot stories.
I think we may have peaked with the baby boomers. They got to ride the wave of new medical advances and didn't have the weight of fast food (har har) holding them back.
Our generations (current teenagers up to 30-somethings) have grown up with McDonalds and more, and with obesity on the rise with no end in sight, I think we'll begin to see another decline with our generation, with arthritis, diabetes, and heart disease all coming on earlier.
But the network was down.
I'm sorry, where did I say I don't vote?
The problem is my vote gets drowned out by the sea of ignorant fools who continue to vote in politicians who will always choose good political policy, regardless of whether or not it's bad social policy.
We desperately need the current generation of senior citizens to die off. That, or we need to make voting significantly more accessible to informed people who have shit to do.
These boneheaded politicians have fucked our country in so many ways in the past 6 years alone it's almost inconceivable, and there's no light at the end of the tunnel.
They probably see it as an investment in what is currently their third to fifth largest national industry.