Banning swearing, porn sprays, etc., helps ensure a mature environment.
I generally enjoy shooting counter terrorists in the face with an AK, but not while being called the N-word by a 12-year old whilst an animated homosexual act loops on the wall.
If you have any other readily apparently congenital condition, you cannot get private insurance, or such insurance would be written to exclude anything related to the condition. The scenario is exactly as the submitter describes.
So, this dystopian world would not be anything new. Just an extension of the current policy.
Once again, we have an over-engineered solution to a non-existent problem.
Welcome to academia. I think it's an interesting start, and maybe someday we'll have solved the additional problems you've listed. And let's face it, rebooting for updates is annoying, mission critical or not.
One point you miss in your reasons for not using the original heart, and in general everyone else seems to miss, is that a major reason for needing a transplant is a congenital heart defect. So, not only can you not use the original, but you are also not giving the recipient an abnormally long life nor superhuman capabilities. Well, maybe you are from their point of view.
This reminds me of the Huey Lewis and the News, Genesis, and Whitney Houston chapters in American Psycho. I can just picture Christian Bale reciting this as he's preparing to kill someone.
"I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself."
The way I understand it is their policies prohibit them from examining individual users. But this won't stop them from running a bunch of statistics and saying, well, 8.5% of the users are using feature X in such and such a way.
Well, for me in San Andreas at least, once I got aircraft the world certainly shrunk quite a bit, and shattered the illusion of scale they had so carefully created. Also, they flew just terrible, not the least bit realistic and were no fun at all -- missions involving them were usually simply frustrating. So, I am glad there will be no aircraft, and agree with their stated reason -- consider they also stated the world would be smaller than San Andreas.
Heh, ever watch 'Modern Marvels'? You'll hear it in the intro and every time they go to commercial.
Some of the Imp noises also seem really common. I remember some creature on 'Earth 2' made the same noises as the Imps, for example.
I notice this a lot. It's most noticeable if the sound is in a video game where you hear it over and over, and then on TV or in a movie. The absolute WORST has to be the "128 and central.." police radio chatter. In every police show and movie ever made. And Sim City.
That piece of crap RAZR was $200 with contract when it came out, and people ate that shit up. The iPhone costs more, though it is within the same order of magnitude, and it might actually be a halfway decent phone. Of course you're not going to be able to develop for it despite running "OS X" but the target market doesn't care.
Everyone who plays WoW will buy it. If you don't play WoW, you either aren't interested or you would have started by now, or you realized how pointless and boring the game is and have no intention of buying a pointless and boring expansion.
you can simply put your swap partition on a flash device as opposed to the hard disk
And it wouldn't take any more effort to do this in Windows, either. But Vista isn't simply moving the swapfile.
keep track of the recently used apps, and preload them into memory on startup
That's not at all what Windows is doing.
Under Windows, if I bog the CPU down Winamp will start skipping because it won't get CPU time often enough to keep the audio device buffer from emptying.
This must be Winamp's fault, because Windows has had an "interactive" scheduler since NT.
a knowledgeable Linux hacker could code up one of Vista's enhancements in a day or two and the community would begin to comment on it and improve it. That's the power of free software.
Ah yes, the true strength of open source software: to copy successful implementations of innovative designs.
I also suspect that as was the case with XP's prefetching, there is again a gross misconception of what exactly superfetch is doing. Prefetching used no extra RAM -- it is simply a collection of small files describing the order in which pages in an executable (executables in Windows are memory mapped) are loaded on startup, yet people were frequently advised to "turn it off to improve performance", or worse, routinely delete their prefetch cache, which was even worse than simply disabling prefetching as XP went on to regenerate it when a program was loaded.
Nice ad hominem. I was actually at GameStop yesterday looking for a Classic controller to play Link to the Past with on my Wii when I saw the sign on the register. I did not see a sign for the PS3 discount.
Actually, they used to give you $50 for your PS2, but upped it to $100 if you bought a PS3 also during your tradein. You see, they are losing money on the PS3, bigtime, and want to get rid of it "somehow".
I figured they were basically the same discount seeing as how $50/$250 is proportional to $100/$500. If they are that desperate then why don't they just give an extra $50 off, period? By the way they had a big stack of X-Box 360's in the window but they don't seem to be "desperate" to get rid of those. Believe it or not most stores like having stock onhand to be able to sell rather than having to turn customers away.
I'm not saying the PS3 is exactly a fantastic seller but your argument that retailers are "desperate" based on the fact that, at GameStop, you get the same % discount on the PS3 when trading in a PS2 as you get on a Wii when trading in a GameCube is thin at best.
Rhode Island is 1214 square miles or 33844377600 square feet. A football field is 58000 square feet x 11000 = 638000000 square feet for the iceberg. Rhode Island is about 584524 football fields.
So the iceberg is about 1/53rd of the size of Rhode Island.
I used to have an older Bomberman for the TG-16. I didn't have that much multiplayer fun again until Smash Brothers for the N64 and later GC, and Bomberman didn't have the huge learning curve. Eventually the "Turbo Tab" that lets you connect the 5 controllers broke. I am buying a Wii just for Bomberman and Smash Brothers Brawl.
Yeah, it's pretty clear NBC has hired someone competent for their technical consultant. Of course that didn't stop them from doing an infinite-detail-from-zoomed-video* ("enhance!") scene later. I was originally blown away watching Law and Order SVU the other night when they said the girl was using Terminal Services to browse the web on another machine to cover her tracks, then the kidnapped scene, and now I hear they showed a real OS running on a computer, holy crap, that is verisimilitude** with a capital 'V'.
* Yes technically when something is captured on moving video you are continuously resampling the image such that your number of samples is bounded by number of frames X resolution, so you can actually theoretically recover more detail than what is immediately visible in one frame. But..seriously.
How does it really help much to have the source to the emulator?
The emulator itself without code has been free for some time, the CE 3.0 (which, theoretically, 5.0 is completely backwards compatible with) emulator has been free for years. You could also have used a real device and just cold booted to clear it. I don't see why you need a VM at all.
I'm just wondering, what real benefit does the source to the emulator afford you that you could not have worked on it before? Or are you just making an idiotic joke?
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Banning swearing, porn sprays, etc., helps ensure a mature environment. I generally enjoy shooting counter terrorists in the face with an AK, but not while being called the N-word by a 12-year old whilst an animated homosexual act loops on the wall.
"20%" of someone like Bill Gates' time is probably equivalent to a European's full time job.
If you have any other readily apparently congenital condition, you cannot get private insurance, or such insurance would be written to exclude anything related to the condition. The scenario is exactly as the submitter describes. So, this dystopian world would not be anything new. Just an extension of the current policy.
Welcome to academia. I think it's an interesting start, and maybe someday we'll have solved the additional problems you've listed. And let's face it, rebooting for updates is annoying, mission critical or not.
One point you miss in your reasons for not using the original heart, and in general everyone else seems to miss, is that a major reason for needing a transplant is a congenital heart defect. So, not only can you not use the original, but you are also not giving the recipient an abnormally long life nor superhuman capabilities. Well, maybe you are from their point of view.
This reminds me of the Huey Lewis and the News, Genesis, and Whitney Houston chapters in American Psycho. I can just picture Christian Bale reciting this as he's preparing to kill someone.
"I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself."
Where is the Slashdot cruiser?
The way I understand it is their policies prohibit them from examining individual users. But this won't stop them from running a bunch of statistics and saying, well, 8.5% of the users are using feature X in such and such a way.
...if he weren't in the game?
I also use a Blue Agave product in my morning orange juice. I do not believe it contains any fructose.
Well, for me in San Andreas at least, once I got aircraft the world certainly shrunk quite a bit, and shattered the illusion of scale they had so carefully created. Also, they flew just terrible, not the least bit realistic and were no fun at all -- missions involving them were usually simply frustrating. So, I am glad there will be no aircraft, and agree with their stated reason -- consider they also stated the world would be smaller than San Andreas.
Heh, ever watch 'Modern Marvels'? You'll hear it in the intro and every time they go to commercial. Some of the Imp noises also seem really common. I remember some creature on 'Earth 2' made the same noises as the Imps, for example.
I notice this a lot. It's most noticeable if the sound is in a video game where you hear it over and over, and then on TV or in a movie. The absolute WORST has to be the "128 and central.." police radio chatter. In every police show and movie ever made. And Sim City.
That piece of crap RAZR was $200 with contract when it came out, and people ate that shit up. The iPhone costs more, though it is within the same order of magnitude, and it might actually be a halfway decent phone. Of course you're not going to be able to develop for it despite running "OS X" but the target market doesn't care.
Everyone who plays WoW will buy it. If you don't play WoW, you either aren't interested or you would have started by now, or you realized how pointless and boring the game is and have no intention of buying a pointless and boring expansion.
you can simply put your swap partition on a flash device as opposed to the hard disk
And it wouldn't take any more effort to do this in Windows, either. But Vista isn't simply moving the swapfile.
keep track of the recently used apps, and preload them into memory on startup
That's not at all what Windows is doing.
Under Windows, if I bog the CPU down Winamp will start skipping because it won't get CPU time often enough to keep the audio device buffer from emptying. This must be Winamp's fault, because Windows has had an "interactive" scheduler since NT.
a knowledgeable Linux hacker could code up one of Vista's enhancements in a day or two and the community would begin to comment on it and improve it. That's the power of free software.
Ah yes, the true strength of open source software: to copy successful implementations of innovative designs.
I also suspect that as was the case with XP's prefetching, there is again a gross misconception of what exactly superfetch is doing. Prefetching used no extra RAM -- it is simply a collection of small files describing the order in which pages in an executable (executables in Windows are memory mapped) are loaded on startup, yet people were frequently advised to "turn it off to improve performance", or worse, routinely delete their prefetch cache, which was even worse than simply disabling prefetching as XP went on to regenerate it when a program was loaded.
Nice ad hominem. I was actually at GameStop yesterday looking for a Classic controller to play Link to the Past with on my Wii when I saw the sign on the register. I did not see a sign for the PS3 discount.
Actually, they used to give you $50 for your PS2, but upped it to $100 if you bought a PS3 also during your tradein. You see, they are losing money on the PS3, bigtime, and want to get rid of it "somehow".
I figured they were basically the same discount seeing as how $50/$250 is proportional to $100/$500. If they are that desperate then why don't they just give an extra $50 off, period? By the way they had a big stack of X-Box 360's in the window but they don't seem to be "desperate" to get rid of those. Believe it or not most stores like having stock onhand to be able to sell rather than having to turn customers away.
I'm not saying the PS3 is exactly a fantastic seller but your argument that retailers are "desperate" based on the fact that, at GameStop, you get the same % discount on the PS3 when trading in a PS2 as you get on a Wii when trading in a GameCube is thin at best.
They also give $50 off a Wii when you trade in your GameCube. I guess by your logic people are still buying the GameCube but not the Wii.
Or if you instead put $500k into an interest-bearing account to draw the utility payments off of, it would take much, much longer.
Rhode Island is 1214 square miles or 33844377600 square feet.
A football field is 58000 square feet x 11000 = 638000000 square feet for the iceberg.
Rhode Island is about 584524 football fields.
So the iceberg is about 1/53rd of the size of Rhode Island.
I used to have an older Bomberman for the TG-16. I didn't have that much multiplayer fun again until Smash Brothers for the N64 and later GC, and Bomberman didn't have the huge learning curve. Eventually the "Turbo Tab" that lets you connect the 5 controllers broke. I am buying a Wii just for Bomberman and Smash Brothers Brawl.
I'm going to make contributions to The Human Fund in the names of everyone I know.
* Yes technically when something is captured on moving video you are continuously resampling the image such that your number of samples is bounded by number of frames X resolution, so you can actually theoretically recover more detail than what is immediately visible in one frame. But..seriously.
** I love that word.
The emulator itself without code has been free for some time, the CE 3.0 (which, theoretically, 5.0 is completely backwards compatible with) emulator has been free for years. You could also have used a real device and just cold booted to clear it. I don't see why you need a VM at all.
I'm just wondering, what real benefit does the source to the emulator afford you that you could not have worked on it before? Or are you just making an idiotic joke?