So what about those stupid electronic signature collectors? Some of those things are so badly broken that all you can manage to produce is one line after signing your entire name. Even if they are working properly, they will often only produce a blocky straight-line approximation of your real signature. How can these be accepted as valid signatures by anyone?
I dunno, I'm probably in a minority, but SMB 2 was probably my least favorite of the early SMB games. I've downloaded SMB and Super Mario World from the Virtual Console, and I like those ones (and liked them when they were new too). I'd much rather see SMB 3.
As for Ecco, I'm actually surprised it is as popular as it is. I owned it back in the day when I had a Genesis, and it was okay, but I didn't think the gameplay was that good. I remember being impressed by the graphics at the time, though.
Missile Command and Pac Man seem a little weak, but then Microsoft doesn't have the vast array of existing console games to choose from that Nintendo does.
That's an interesting hypothesis, and one I've heard before. What is the evidence for it though? Is it just that all of our current models break down at that point, so we assume there was nothingness? Or do we have some sort of observed evidence to support the idea that time itself did not exist prior to the big bang?
As humans, we have a hard time envisioning "eternity," but we have an equally hard time grappling with the idea that existence itself would have a finite beginning or end. Both of these concepts exist too far out of our experience to really grasp. I guess this is why people find so much comfort in faith in a divine being that both exists eternally and defines the beginning and end of existence as we know it.
Knowing the Russians, this claimed territory will become a polluted industrial mess. Hell, if they're not careful, they could pollute it so badly that nothing would ever grow there.
I agree, this rush to drugs to treat suicidal cells is just going to create a generation of drug-dependent artificially happy zombie cells, and the last thing I want is for my cells to be wandering aimlessly around my body with a perma-grin, glazed eyes, and an irresistible urge to eat my delicious brain. Psychotherapy should be tried before resorting to drugs. Even if drugs are determined to be the best course, they should still be coupled with regular therapy sessions.
Well then all we need to do is write a simple script to iterate over all of the cells in the body and run the sed command. The list may be too long though, so we might have to use xargs, but that's no big deal.
I always knew shell scripting would save lives one day.
Nothing. What we should do is require that everyone be required to be splashed with holy water or made to stand in front of a mirror before they can board a plane. After all, terrorists are burned by holy water, and don't show a reflection. This way, we could easily identify them before they can do any harm.
Or maybe I'm thinking about vampires. I get those mixed up sometimes. Oh well, at the very least we can cover airplanes in green Kryptonite, I'm pretty sure that stuff will stop terrorists.
I know we like to blame the UN for everything here at Slashdot, but the embargo against Cuba was enacted by President Kennedy in 1961, with the total travel ban enacted in 1963. The UN certainly has its hands in a lot of useless sanctions, but to pretend the UN is responsible for the Cuba situation, or that the US does not exert tremendous influence over the UN, is just flat wrong.
They probably won't change during the useful life of the OLPC. The US still is under the impression that sanctions and trade embargoes will actually cause regime change in these countries. Even though they haven't worked at all (and in fact have only served to further entrench the regimes in question) over the more than 40 years they've been in place, we're still convinced that if we keep them around just a little bit longer, democracy will flourish.
Like John Stewart said, we've given up trying to kill Castro with food poison, now we're trying to kill him with "old age poison." If we wait long enough, the regimes will eventually fall, and we can then claim it was all because of the embargo.
I don't know about anyone else, but I plan to camp out all night in front of the FSF so I can be the first to get a copy of the final version of the GPLv3. Then I'm going to sell it on eBay.
It probably has more to do with what the college students running the site prefer. Maybe there is a direct correlation between preferring Windows and a propensity to join the Young Republicans, who knows. Maybe the Democrats get their IT folks from colleges and small companies where people are used to spending little or nothing on server software, while the Republicans tend to favor getting their IT people from larger companies that are used to spending a lot of money on that sort of thing.
Either way, the choice of software on the website is highly unlikely to have any bearing at all on what the candidates think about copyright. It might have more to do with how much money the individual candidates have set aside for IT infrastructure.
They are offering stuff that college kids want because they are convinced that the best employees they can get are recent college graduates. The problem is, if all you hire is recent college graduates, you get a bunch of people who will work slavishly churning out a whole lot of crap they think is the most awesome thing ever. This can be a good thing, but you need to have plenty of direction from more experienced employees to turn all of that youthful energy into something the company can make money with.
As the company ages, it will move past that mindset. They may have more difficulty than some others, because the founders are those rare people that actually managed to move their pet project in college into a huge company. Eventually, though, they will take more of a back seat, and the college kids currently in their employ will settle down and start families, and the culture will change. The only other option is constant churn to kick out the old guys and bring in new kids. That sort of strategy, though, usually just ends up breeding low morale and a lot of mercenary employees who are only there until they find something better.
Another thing to remember is that company loyalty is helped along a whole lot by the company being successful. Google operates a lot like a startup because they are still bringing in tons of cash, and their stock price is lofty. Eventually, they will settle into the slow growth and basically flat stock of a mature company. At that time, they will have more of a challenge getting their employees to work as hard, especially when competitors move into their space and trim the profit margins, forcing them to cut back on some of these perks.
Just because you can come up with one helpful use of a technology doesn't mean the technology isn't invasive. If a technology has the potential to be abused, it will be.
My kids play the Wii constantly. I play it when I get the time to. There, now you've heard from a Wii owner whose system isn't gathering dust.
If you are the kind of person who is out buying 1080p TV sets when they still cost as much as they do, then you're probably also the kind of person who will spend $600 on a game console so you can have the most powerful system on the market. If that's you, then go buy a PS3. Technophiles are not the target market for the Wii.
If you didn't like any of Nintendo's previous offerings, why would you think you would like the Wii? Did you just get one because everyone else was, and you wanted to be part of the crowd? Or did you pretend to get one just so you could troll Slashdot?
I agree with you that Nintendo's stock will fall (although probably not plummet), but not for the reasons you state.
The Big Bang is supported by evidence. What was there before the Big Bang is unknown. Saying "we don't know what was there before the Big Bang" is a lot different than saying "God was there."
For all we know, maybe God created the Big Bang. Maybe the Big Bang spontaneously appeared out of nothing. Maybe the Big Bang happened after a Big Crunch, and maybe the Universe has been creating and recreating itself forever. Maybe the Big Bang started when Great Green Arkleseizure sneezed. As soon as we have some solid supporting evidence for any of these possibilities, they will become Scientific Theories. Before then, they are just hypotheses. However, with no real way to test them, they are not particularly interesting hypotheses.
Given that it is the ACLU, they may be hoping that some police department will sue so they can have a judgment in court stating that videotaping police in public is just as legal as videotaping anyone else in public.
Sure we'll get all of their secrets, but who cares? We already know about the secret lab under the Eiffel Tower where they're breeding all of the super soldiers, and we already know about the mind control agents they put into French cheeses. What else could they possibly have to hide?
It was attacked twice 8 years apart. By that metric, we aren't due for another attack until 2009. In the meantime, there have been several attacks on US interests abroad. Terrorist attacks on US soil were extremely rare before DHS, and are extremely rare now.
The M rating is made for games like this. I don't understand why they have the need for an M (17+) versus an AO (18+) rating. Are 18 years olds able to handle much more intense violence than 17 year olds?
The only reason I can see for AO (or NC-17 in movies) is to have a separate rating reserved for porn. If you consider games like this porn, you may need to see a psychiatrist.
Seriously, a game like Manhunt 2 gets an AO rating, while true horror games like "Play with the Teletubbies" get rated EC (Early Childhood)! Where is the justice in that?
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So what about those stupid electronic signature collectors? Some of those things are so badly broken that all you can manage to produce is one line after signing your entire name. Even if they are working properly, they will often only produce a blocky straight-line approximation of your real signature. How can these be accepted as valid signatures by anyone?
I dunno, I'm probably in a minority, but SMB 2 was probably my least favorite of the early SMB games. I've downloaded SMB and Super Mario World from the Virtual Console, and I like those ones (and liked them when they were new too). I'd much rather see SMB 3.
As for Ecco, I'm actually surprised it is as popular as it is. I owned it back in the day when I had a Genesis, and it was okay, but I didn't think the gameplay was that good. I remember being impressed by the graphics at the time, though.
Missile Command and Pac Man seem a little weak, but then Microsoft doesn't have the vast array of existing console games to choose from that Nintendo does.
Posting a story that is an aggregate of other stories would require the Slashdot editors to, you know, edit. That's not really their thing.
That's an interesting hypothesis, and one I've heard before. What is the evidence for it though? Is it just that all of our current models break down at that point, so we assume there was nothingness? Or do we have some sort of observed evidence to support the idea that time itself did not exist prior to the big bang?
As humans, we have a hard time envisioning "eternity," but we have an equally hard time grappling with the idea that existence itself would have a finite beginning or end. Both of these concepts exist too far out of our experience to really grasp. I guess this is why people find so much comfort in faith in a divine being that both exists eternally and defines the beginning and end of existence as we know it.
I agree, this rush to drugs to treat suicidal cells is just going to create a generation of drug-dependent artificially happy zombie cells, and the last thing I want is for my cells to be wandering aimlessly around my body with a perma-grin, glazed eyes, and an irresistible urge to eat my delicious brain. Psychotherapy should be tried before resorting to drugs. Even if drugs are determined to be the best course, they should still be coupled with regular therapy sessions.
Well then all we need to do is write a simple script to iterate over all of the cells in the body and run the sed command. The list may be too long though, so we might have to use xargs, but that's no big deal.
I always knew shell scripting would save lives one day.
I'm sure this is completely unrelated, but Google did recently hire the hypnotoad as head of development in its search engine division.
Nothing. What we should do is require that everyone be required to be splashed with holy water or made to stand in front of a mirror before they can board a plane. After all, terrorists are burned by holy water, and don't show a reflection. This way, we could easily identify them before they can do any harm.
Or maybe I'm thinking about vampires. I get those mixed up sometimes. Oh well, at the very least we can cover airplanes in green Kryptonite, I'm pretty sure that stuff will stop terrorists.
The embargo was enacted in 1961. The Cuban Missile Crisis (the "Russian nukes he had pointed at us") didn't happen until October 1962.
I know we like to blame the UN for everything here at Slashdot, but the embargo against Cuba was enacted by President Kennedy in 1961, with the total travel ban enacted in 1963. The UN certainly has its hands in a lot of useless sanctions, but to pretend the UN is responsible for the Cuba situation, or that the US does not exert tremendous influence over the UN, is just flat wrong.
They probably won't change during the useful life of the OLPC. The US still is under the impression that sanctions and trade embargoes will actually cause regime change in these countries. Even though they haven't worked at all (and in fact have only served to further entrench the regimes in question) over the more than 40 years they've been in place, we're still convinced that if we keep them around just a little bit longer, democracy will flourish.
Like John Stewart said, we've given up trying to kill Castro with food poison, now we're trying to kill him with "old age poison." If we wait long enough, the regimes will eventually fall, and we can then claim it was all because of the embargo.
I don't know about anyone else, but I plan to camp out all night in front of the FSF so I can be the first to get a copy of the final version of the GPLv3. Then I'm going to sell it on eBay.
It probably has more to do with what the college students running the site prefer. Maybe there is a direct correlation between preferring Windows and a propensity to join the Young Republicans, who knows. Maybe the Democrats get their IT folks from colleges and small companies where people are used to spending little or nothing on server software, while the Republicans tend to favor getting their IT people from larger companies that are used to spending a lot of money on that sort of thing.
Either way, the choice of software on the website is highly unlikely to have any bearing at all on what the candidates think about copyright. It might have more to do with how much money the individual candidates have set aside for IT infrastructure.
The difference is that the "quote" tag uses a stylesheet so it's *cooler*. Using boring old HTML when you could be using CSS is sooooo 20th century.
They are offering stuff that college kids want because they are convinced that the best employees they can get are recent college graduates. The problem is, if all you hire is recent college graduates, you get a bunch of people who will work slavishly churning out a whole lot of crap they think is the most awesome thing ever. This can be a good thing, but you need to have plenty of direction from more experienced employees to turn all of that youthful energy into something the company can make money with.
As the company ages, it will move past that mindset. They may have more difficulty than some others, because the founders are those rare people that actually managed to move their pet project in college into a huge company. Eventually, though, they will take more of a back seat, and the college kids currently in their employ will settle down and start families, and the culture will change. The only other option is constant churn to kick out the old guys and bring in new kids. That sort of strategy, though, usually just ends up breeding low morale and a lot of mercenary employees who are only there until they find something better.
Another thing to remember is that company loyalty is helped along a whole lot by the company being successful. Google operates a lot like a startup because they are still bringing in tons of cash, and their stock price is lofty. Eventually, they will settle into the slow growth and basically flat stock of a mature company. At that time, they will have more of a challenge getting their employees to work as hard, especially when competitors move into their space and trim the profit margins, forcing them to cut back on some of these perks.
Just because you can come up with one helpful use of a technology doesn't mean the technology isn't invasive. If a technology has the potential to be abused, it will be.
Hi,
My kids play the Wii constantly. I play it when I get the time to. There, now you've heard from a Wii owner whose system isn't gathering dust.
If you are the kind of person who is out buying 1080p TV sets when they still cost as much as they do, then you're probably also the kind of person who will spend $600 on a game console so you can have the most powerful system on the market. If that's you, then go buy a PS3. Technophiles are not the target market for the Wii.
If you didn't like any of Nintendo's previous offerings, why would you think you would like the Wii? Did you just get one because everyone else was, and you wanted to be part of the crowd? Or did you pretend to get one just so you could troll Slashdot?
I agree with you that Nintendo's stock will fall (although probably not plummet), but not for the reasons you state.
The Big Bang is supported by evidence. What was there before the Big Bang is unknown. Saying "we don't know what was there before the Big Bang" is a lot different than saying "God was there."
For all we know, maybe God created the Big Bang. Maybe the Big Bang spontaneously appeared out of nothing. Maybe the Big Bang happened after a Big Crunch, and maybe the Universe has been creating and recreating itself forever. Maybe the Big Bang started when Great Green Arkleseizure sneezed. As soon as we have some solid supporting evidence for any of these possibilities, they will become Scientific Theories. Before then, they are just hypotheses. However, with no real way to test them, they are not particularly interesting hypotheses.
Given that it is the ACLU, they may be hoping that some police department will sue so they can have a judgment in court stating that videotaping police in public is just as legal as videotaping anyone else in public.
Sure we'll get all of their secrets, but who cares? We already know about the secret lab under the Eiffel Tower where they're breeding all of the super soldiers, and we already know about the mind control agents they put into French cheeses. What else could they possibly have to hide?
It was attacked twice 8 years apart. By that metric, we aren't due for another attack until 2009. In the meantime, there have been several attacks on US interests abroad. Terrorist attacks on US soil were extremely rare before DHS, and are extremely rare now.
I never said that. What I said was that the ratings have traditionally been used that way, which is probably the way the porn industry prefers it.
The M rating is made for games like this. I don't understand why they have the need for an M (17+) versus an AO (18+) rating. Are 18 years olds able to handle much more intense violence than 17 year olds?
The only reason I can see for AO (or NC-17 in movies) is to have a separate rating reserved for porn. If you consider games like this porn, you may need to see a psychiatrist.
Seriously, a game like Manhunt 2 gets an AO rating, while true horror games like "Play with the Teletubbies" get rated EC (Early Childhood)! Where is the justice in that?