Well, it was widely speculated that the reason Bush is so adamantly against the ICC is Kissenger. That I don't have a link for, nor the will to find one for you. At this point though, it looks like the right move, with the unsightly acts documented in Abu Ghraive and Guantanamo Bay. Given his 2000 running platform, its possible he expected to be in the sights of such a court. Not that he's somehow responsible or encourages the use of torture. But when the world's strongest nation backs out of something like the antiballistic treaty, throws more money into the Defense Department than they know what do to with, you're going to attract the attention of the world's mice.
Actually, Zel challenged Chris Matthews to a duel. Russert mostly does Meet the Press, Matthews is the talking head behind "Hardball" (with Chris Matthews). Quite a spectacle when I saw it live. Zel didn't storm off the set, but he was quite belligerant for the remainder of the interview.
As for Stewart, he's playing a tricky position extremely well. The show somehow mixes satire into a combination of the Tonight Show and your cable news networks. Unlike other satires like theOnion, the Daily Show gets access to personalities in the flesh. Stewart walks a fine line between the soft interviews like Good Morning America or the Today show and generally guest unfriendly shows like Hardball. When he's percieved as a soft interviewer, he falls back on the "Its a comedy show" line. I saw the Kerry interview, and I have to agree with the Crossfire folks, I don't recall any difficult questions posed to Kerry. That said, Stewart does an immaculate job as a comedian, even on a bipartisan hackery news show.
I'm not sure whether the controversy is manufactured or what. If it is, expect an irreverant bit spoofing Crossfire with stupid gimmicks like a guy with a bowtie that SPINS when someone comes back with a hard rebuttal. Actually, I'd enjoy that.
I happen to live in the Midwest, near a place not too far distinguished from Orange County. As a matter of fact, it isn't difficult to find a job, provided you have five years experience. Hell, I've seen postings asking for ten years experience in software development, with a zero percentage leadership role. After ten years, I'd hope to be moving up beyond bottom rung grunt.
Also, pricing yourself on the low end isn't gonna be too attractive. Its hard to justify in the employers mind that you're not spouting a plethora of BS when you tell them how you're the best man for the job, and you also bring X Y and Z to the company above and beyond what they're looking for, and then ask for a salary 10 thousand below the next cheapest potential hire. Hell, they're afraid you'll leave for another opportunity in an instant.
More importantly, its likely the gov't has made copies of the entire disk. Any passwords, private keys or other sensative information that would be harmful if known is now comprimised. Even if the disk is verified somehow to be unscathed, it still bears this burden. It would then be a trivial matter for law enforcement to snoop on secure data streams, which I hear the UK is big on.
How can the GBA serve as a second pillar when the DS clearly has designs to take over its position? I mean, if the DS isn't the successor to the GBA, can you rightly call it backwards-compatible with GBA games?
I don't know why they bother with that whole denying peoples rights thing when they could just say "think Republican, without the pandering to the whole God thing."
Any in-depth on FFT should naturally include its Counterparts from the Ogre series. Hell, I'd much prefer an indepth on the Ogre series than another "here's something you probably know a ton about already!"
My largest problem with the games-as-a-form-of-storytelling concept is that the strongest examples they can point to are the weakest examples of games. The gameplay in final fantasy is underwhelming.
Deus Ex is easily the best game out there fusing game and story, but Warren would be quick to point out its shortcomings. Major plot points are outside your control. Your character exudes as much sentiment as the robot he essentially is. What it does well is give you narrative that doesn't interrupt the action, and provides dialog sequences that can provide you with options and differing outcomes. You can get away with killing very few people, but the choice for nonviolence effects little in the game. The path at the end should have been triggered by the actions you had taken to create real and motivated enemies.
One caveat, I feel the authors conclusions that "we need to push forward with designing games from a strongly holistic standpoint if we're to get anywhere with emotional affect, story "telling", and thematics" are just as "wrong and prejudiced" as developers who "want to tell you that games are just about fun." Nobody takes the claims that crossword puzzles or scrabble are a form of art in desperate need of guidance. It's extremely presumptious to tell someone that they're doing their Art wrong.
Several companies make spare battery packs for the SP, as well as "extended life batteries." I don't see why they wont move into the DS market in six months to a year.
Judging from my experiences over the summer, the odds are likely "not really." Unless there's some sort of second interview where they fly you out again to ask the technical questions.
It beats spending six months after graduation wondering why employers never call you back. In the current market, you should probably consider the idea of starting your own company seriously. If you think a PhD will help you on that track, by all means.
It also depends on the nature of what you'll be doing in the program. Software engineers vs Computer Scientists. Very few companies need the kind of expertise a PhD provides in CS. You should probably be looking for who they are. Essentially, you'd be working in an R&D group for one of the big names. R&D isn't popular at the moment, though usually it never is. That's why you should consider your own company.
I'm not sure I agree with you on that. The thing is that the DS isn't quite built to be a 802.11 enabled palmtop. You dont want to switch out devices just to go from playing a game to instant messaging someone. Furthermore, GAIM is an internet protocol, for which these things would have to have access to a hotspot or other AP. Anywhere those go, your laptop goes better. As for some seperate, peer to peer solution, well, that's already built in. Called Pictochat, but I suspect you know that.
Personally, I just picked up a gba and toolkit last may, and I love it. Advance wars is a great game, and if DS Wars can do multiplayer without needing more than one cart, I'd love that. What's most attractive personally about the 802.11 is the potential to do the same kind of things that warppipe and kai xpress and the halo thingy do. If Nintendo's bright, they're working with national hotspot franchises to provide support for net play, so I can find someone to play against without feeling like a child predator. I don't think I'll know anyone nearby to picto chat with.
I'm looking forward to particpating in the homebrew community of this device. I've been a lurker in the history of the GBA and GBC, but the launch for the DS looks like a great window between having a hackable system and falling victim to the other consequences.
Anyone know of a site dedicated to DS hackery? It would be cool to see who makes the first VoIP hack, or just a walkie talkie mod.
What I don't get is why the small percentage. I certainly don't have much expectation for social security-- I constantly ask my mother how she plans to retire, and the answer I get is that she doesn't. I don't think she understands or wants to think about what happens when she can't work. She's already on a shit-ton of medications, and doctors only expect this to deteriorate.
But if this 5 percent investment is insigniciant, why go on in the first place? The only answer that computes to me is that Wall Street would like a boost from demand, and some form of broker's fees. I don't think the Democrats can trick or scare the AARP into believing anything.
I don't know if you're aware of this, but mesa is intended as a software rendering replacement for 3d hardware. The "code" for drawing polygons is actually a set of circuits; all the drivers do is feed the hungry beasts and put the gory remains on display.
The two concepts are incompatible; good luck on that.
As far as I can grasp, politics isn't about what people say, it's about what they want. I've spoken with a lot of military folks, and they're almost all in favor of voting themselves a pay raise. Whether it's deserved or not, I'm in no position to tell you. They're more divided about things like the military service of the two candidates, and many are under-informed. And certainly there's something odd about voting your boss out. In the business world it might make perfect sense, but for many in the service, your life is in his hands. Admitting you don't trust his judgement isn't something they want to think about. One caveat, most of the guys I know aren't reservists, who might feel entirely differently.
The Christian religious right should take offense at the mere idea of a preemptive war, and war in general. The teachings of Jesus were that love is the first and foremost commandment; to forsake revenge and turn the other cheek. Many are discouraged by the president's actions and choices, but others are willing to skirt the issues as long as he talks about praying for the nation and faith based intitiatives. Plus, the next president may appoint a new Supreme Court judge, willing to go to bat for them to protect the sanctity of marriage and combat Roe vs Wade.
The businessmen and financiers are naturally supporting Bush. His policy of spend and don't tax appeals to them, and economic recovery to them means a bigger number attached to the S&P 500 and the DOW index. What concerns me most is what would have happened had Bush's plan to let people invest SS in the market. For the last 4 years, the market has been relatively flat while inflation and interest rates have fallen. Job growth has been barely enough to meet population growth. Consumer confidence and personal savings rates are the most important part of the economic recovery. But they see Kerry as the man who's going to restart the double taxation of dividends, and generally shift the burden back on the investor class, who many of these people serve or are. To them, the president is most important as an economic stimulus and the man who chooses the next Alan Greenspan.
These are the voters who Kerry has not reached out to. His one liners ("I voted for the 87 billion before I voted against it") from the primary campaign is coming back to haunt him. Most people are cynical, and assume that all politicans lie, or at least optimists in their favorite version of reality. If you think that politicians are untrustworthy (not unreasonable for people seeking to be among the most powerful men in the world), and support Kerry, you have to ask yourself, what do you think he has been lying about?
I guess the first thing that springs to mind is:why Ubuntu over Debian or Fedora Core?
Ubuntu is not nessecarily compatible with Debian, meaning mixing and matching is a gamble, and the package versions will quickly skew and generate conflicts. On the other hand, Fedora Core offers the same release schedule as Ubuntu, with a larger audience and group of developers.
Ubuntu is nice, but for someone not directly on the Ubuntu team, what is so compelling that would entice me to switch from Debian or Fedora and stay?
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Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't "outsource" their OS. During my years at school, the department had a large 82 processor mainframe donated from walmart, who probably outgrew it. It's a pain in the ass to program, the professors say, so it's mainly unused and sits behind a plexiglass secure datacenter as a display only. Plus, the Beowulf cluster the department has is comparable in scope and power, thanks to ten years worth of technological advancements in processing, networking and Beowulf itself.
More importantly to Sun, that company is the ONE that has the resources to destroy their patents in court. With MS out of the way, they can move forward with other companies trying the per employee tactic. Unless you're gunning for IBM, nobody's in a condition to stand up.
The end result is probably going to be less about charity donations and more about less pre user liscences.
You're forgetting how much of that 32 MB serves as a buffer rather than storage. The music of a PS2 game itself is regularly streamed of the disk. Grand theft auto uses passive loading, or asynchronous loading of 3d data or whatever you want to call it to avoid load times.
Every other game has load times. The above technologies are off limits for power consumption. Either the games will feature less graphic quality (a very real possibility given the LCD screen resolution) or load times. Its likely that some games will feature both load times and subpar quality; handheld games are a tight market driven by cost reductions both fixed and recurring.
As hard as Washington has tried, I don't think the Fed can be called encrypted. Certainly it is difficult to comprehend the documents, procedures and statements from the Beltway, but it's little more than word substitution.
What about seek time? And how far will 32 MB carry you? Is it enough to store a 3d executable, 3d data, and your expectations for sound and music?
Games aren't made by stupid people, but every second they have to spend addressing this issue is time they can't allocate to extra features like multiplayer or a faster subroutine for something like antialiasing. Nobody is doing this now because nobody is doing portable rotational media until just now.
If you can't get more than 2 hours of movies out of it, then I have dismal hopes for the battery life from your average game maker. Just as not every game on the PS2 looks as great as Square's, there will be games that last longer than others.
Of course, the GBC wasn't yet a twinkle in the eyes of those mourning the death of Gumpei when Sonic GG was in stores.
After the fact, I'd have to disagree with you about the GBC, to an extent. Bionic Commando: Elite Forces was a great game, as was Xtreme Sports (bad title though). And Shantae puts Sonic GG to shame in both departments.
But this is all in the past. All I know is that this is yet another line drawn in the magical seal of PSP homebrew development, when you have to do your own power consumption tests to make sure you're not pushing too hard. I only hope the DS does better to attract a crowd. It would be neat to write a program to call a fellow DS hacker with the 802.11 and mic built into the DS, certainly.
The worst part of this is that it puts incumbants and poll leaders in a great position. The underdog wants the chance for the other guy to screw up. The leader of course doesn't want this to happen, but doesn't want to look afraid to debate.
This year it puts Kerry in a tough spot. He needs the media exposure as much as he needs the President to screw up. The Bush campaign could have easily walked away from it without serious reprecussion. Instead they used Kerry's needs to sanitize the affair. Kerry gets a gamble made worse by the negotiations, and America gets another boring infomercial where two guys stand up and declare how awesome it is to be them, and how awesome America will be if you BUY NOW!
Of course, if this is treated in any way like the Conventions, media coverage will be irrelevant. Most of the cable news channels featured Chris Matthews or Ron Reagan or Larry King or Bill O'Reilly talking over the majority of the convention. They're already fighting over how to present the debates; the networks want cut-aways that show one guy talking and the other listening.
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Well, it was widely speculated that the reason Bush is so adamantly against the ICC is Kissenger. That I don't have a link for, nor the will to find one for you. At this point though, it looks like the right move, with the unsightly acts documented in Abu Ghraive and Guantanamo Bay. Given his 2000 running platform, its possible he expected to be in the sights of such a court. Not that he's somehow responsible or encourages the use of torture. But when the world's strongest nation backs out of something like the antiballistic treaty, throws more money into the Defense Department than they know what do to with, you're going to attract the attention of the world's mice.
Actually, Zel challenged Chris Matthews to a duel. Russert mostly does Meet the Press, Matthews is the talking head behind "Hardball" (with Chris Matthews). Quite a spectacle when I saw it live. Zel didn't storm off the set, but he was quite belligerant for the remainder of the interview.
As for Stewart, he's playing a tricky position extremely well. The show somehow mixes satire into a combination of the Tonight Show and your cable news networks. Unlike other satires like theOnion, the Daily Show gets access to personalities in the flesh. Stewart walks a fine line between the soft interviews like Good Morning America or the Today show and generally guest unfriendly shows like Hardball. When he's percieved as a soft interviewer, he falls back on the "Its a comedy show" line. I saw the Kerry interview, and I have to agree with the Crossfire folks, I don't recall any difficult questions posed to Kerry. That said, Stewart does an immaculate job as a comedian, even on a bipartisan hackery news show.
I'm not sure whether the controversy is manufactured or what. If it is, expect an irreverant bit spoofing Crossfire with stupid gimmicks like a guy with a bowtie that SPINS when someone comes back with a hard rebuttal. Actually, I'd enjoy that.
I happen to live in the Midwest, near a place not too far distinguished from Orange County. As a matter of fact, it isn't difficult to find a job, provided you have five years experience. Hell, I've seen postings asking for ten years experience in software development, with a zero percentage leadership role. After ten years, I'd hope to be moving up beyond bottom rung grunt.
Also, pricing yourself on the low end isn't gonna be too attractive. Its hard to justify in the employers mind that you're not spouting a plethora of BS when you tell them how you're the best man for the job, and you also bring X Y and Z to the company above and beyond what they're looking for, and then ask for a salary 10 thousand below the next cheapest potential hire. Hell, they're afraid you'll leave for another opportunity in an instant.
Unless Microsoft's been writing viruses and exploits themselves!
More importantly, its likely the gov't has made copies of the entire disk. Any passwords, private keys or other sensative information that would be harmful if known is now comprimised. Even if the disk is verified somehow to be unscathed, it still bears this burden. It would then be a trivial matter for law enforcement to snoop on secure data streams, which I hear the UK is big on.
How can the GBA serve as a second pillar when the DS clearly has designs to take over its position? I mean, if the DS isn't the successor to the GBA, can you rightly call it backwards-compatible with GBA games?
I don't know why they bother with that whole denying peoples rights thing when they could just say "think Republican, without the pandering to the whole God thing."
Any in-depth on FFT should naturally include its Counterparts from the Ogre series. Hell, I'd much prefer an indepth on the Ogre series than another "here's something you probably know a ton about already!"
My largest problem with the games-as-a-form-of-storytelling concept is that the strongest examples they can point to are the weakest examples of games. The gameplay in final fantasy is underwhelming.
Deus Ex is easily the best game out there fusing game and story, but Warren would be quick to point out its shortcomings. Major plot points are outside your control. Your character exudes as much sentiment as the robot he essentially is. What it does well is give you narrative that doesn't interrupt the action, and provides dialog sequences that can provide you with options and differing outcomes. You can get away with killing very few people, but the choice for nonviolence effects little in the game. The path at the end should have been triggered by the actions you had taken to create real and motivated enemies.
One caveat, I feel the authors conclusions that "we need to push forward with designing games from a strongly holistic standpoint if we're to get anywhere with emotional affect, story "telling", and thematics" are just as "wrong and prejudiced" as developers who "want to tell you that games are just about fun." Nobody takes the claims that crossword puzzles or scrabble are a form of art in desperate need of guidance. It's extremely presumptious to tell someone that they're doing their Art wrong.
Several companies make spare battery packs for the SP, as well as "extended life batteries." I don't see why they wont move into the DS market in six months to a year.
Judging from my experiences over the summer, the odds are likely "not really." Unless there's some sort of second interview where they fly you out again to ask the technical questions.
It beats spending six months after graduation wondering why employers never call you back. In the current market, you should probably consider the idea of starting your own company seriously. If you think a PhD will help you on that track, by all means.
It also depends on the nature of what you'll be doing in the program. Software engineers vs Computer Scientists. Very few companies need the kind of expertise a PhD provides in CS. You should probably be looking for who they are. Essentially, you'd be working in an R&D group for one of the big names. R&D isn't popular at the moment, though usually it never is. That's why you should consider your own company.
I'm not sure I agree with you on that. The thing is that the DS isn't quite built to be a 802.11 enabled palmtop. You dont want to switch out devices just to go from playing a game to instant messaging someone. Furthermore, GAIM is an internet protocol, for which these things would have to have access to a hotspot or other AP. Anywhere those go, your laptop goes better. As for some seperate, peer to peer solution, well, that's already built in. Called Pictochat, but I suspect you know that.
Personally, I just picked up a gba and toolkit last may, and I love it. Advance wars is a great game, and if DS Wars can do multiplayer without needing more than one cart, I'd love that. What's most attractive personally about the 802.11 is the potential to do the same kind of things that warppipe and kai xpress and the halo thingy do. If Nintendo's bright, they're working with national hotspot franchises to provide support for net play, so I can find someone to play against without feeling like a child predator. I don't think I'll know anyone nearby to picto chat with.
I'm looking forward to particpating in the homebrew community of this device. I've been a lurker in the history of the GBA and GBC, but the launch for the DS looks like a great window between having a hackable system and falling victim to the other consequences.
Anyone know of a site dedicated to DS hackery? It would be cool to see who makes the first VoIP hack, or just a walkie talkie mod.
What I don't get is why the small percentage. I certainly don't have much expectation for social security-- I constantly ask my mother how she plans to retire, and the answer I get is that she doesn't. I don't think she understands or wants to think about what happens when she can't work. She's already on a shit-ton of medications, and doctors only expect this to deteriorate.
But if this 5 percent investment is insigniciant, why go on in the first place? The only answer that computes to me is that Wall Street would like a boost from demand, and some form of broker's fees. I don't think the Democrats can trick or scare the AARP into believing anything.
I don't know if you're aware of this, but mesa is intended as a software rendering replacement for 3d hardware. The "code" for drawing polygons is actually a set of circuits; all the drivers do is feed the hungry beasts and put the gory remains on display.
The two concepts are incompatible; good luck on that.
As far as I can grasp, politics isn't about what people say, it's about what they want. I've spoken with a lot of military folks, and they're almost all in favor of voting themselves a pay raise. Whether it's deserved or not, I'm in no position to tell you. They're more divided about things like the military service of the two candidates, and many are under-informed. And certainly there's something odd about voting your boss out. In the business world it might make perfect sense, but for many in the service, your life is in his hands. Admitting you don't trust his judgement isn't something they want to think about. One caveat, most of the guys I know aren't reservists, who might feel entirely differently.
The Christian religious right should take offense at the mere idea of a preemptive war, and war in general. The teachings of Jesus were that love is the first and foremost commandment; to forsake revenge and turn the other cheek. Many are discouraged by the president's actions and choices, but others are willing to skirt the issues as long as he talks about praying for the nation and faith based intitiatives. Plus, the next president may appoint a new Supreme Court judge, willing to go to bat for them to protect the sanctity of marriage and combat Roe vs Wade.
The businessmen and financiers are naturally supporting Bush. His policy of spend and don't tax appeals to them, and economic recovery to them means a bigger number attached to the S&P 500 and the DOW index. What concerns me most is what would have happened had Bush's plan to let people invest SS in the market. For the last 4 years, the market has been relatively flat while inflation and interest rates have fallen. Job growth has been barely enough to meet population growth. Consumer confidence and personal savings rates are the most important part of the economic recovery. But they see Kerry as the man who's going to restart the double taxation of dividends, and generally shift the burden back on the investor class, who many of these people serve or are. To them, the president is most important as an economic stimulus and the man who chooses the next Alan Greenspan.
These are the voters who Kerry has not reached out to. His one liners ("I voted for the 87 billion before I voted against it") from the primary campaign is coming back to haunt him. Most people are cynical, and assume that all politicans lie, or at least optimists in their favorite version of reality. If you think that politicians are untrustworthy (not unreasonable for people seeking to be among the most powerful men in the world), and support Kerry, you have to ask yourself, what do you think he has been lying about?
I guess the first thing that springs to mind is:why Ubuntu over Debian or Fedora Core?
Ubuntu is not nessecarily compatible with Debian, meaning mixing and matching is a gamble, and the package versions will quickly skew and generate conflicts. On the other hand, Fedora Core offers the same release schedule as Ubuntu, with a larger audience and group of developers.
Ubuntu is nice, but for someone not directly on the Ubuntu team, what is so compelling that would entice me to switch from Debian or Fedora and stay?
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't "outsource" their OS. During my years at school, the department had a large 82 processor mainframe donated from walmart, who probably outgrew it. It's a pain in the ass to program, the professors say, so it's mainly unused and sits behind a plexiglass secure datacenter as a display only. Plus, the Beowulf cluster the department has is comparable in scope and power, thanks to ten years worth of technological advancements in processing, networking and Beowulf itself.
More importantly to Sun, that company is the ONE that has the resources to destroy their patents in court. With MS out of the way, they can move forward with other companies trying the per employee tactic. Unless you're gunning for IBM, nobody's in a condition to stand up.
The end result is probably going to be less about charity donations and more about less pre user liscences.
You're forgetting how much of that 32 MB serves as a buffer rather than storage. The music of a PS2 game itself is regularly streamed of the disk. Grand theft auto uses passive loading, or asynchronous loading of 3d data or whatever you want to call it to avoid load times.
Every other game has load times. The above technologies are off limits for power consumption. Either the games will feature less graphic quality (a very real possibility given the LCD screen resolution) or load times. Its likely that some games will feature both load times and subpar quality; handheld games are a tight market driven by cost reductions both fixed and recurring.
As hard as Washington has tried, I don't think the Fed can be called encrypted. Certainly it is difficult to comprehend the documents, procedures and statements from the Beltway, but it's little more than word substitution.
What about seek time? And how far will 32 MB carry you? Is it enough to store a 3d executable, 3d data, and your expectations for sound and music?
Games aren't made by stupid people, but every second they have to spend addressing this issue is time they can't allocate to extra features like multiplayer or a faster subroutine for something like antialiasing. Nobody is doing this now because nobody is doing portable rotational media until just now.
If you can't get more than 2 hours of movies out of it, then I have dismal hopes for the battery life from your average game maker. Just as not every game on the PS2 looks as great as Square's, there will be games that last longer than others.
Of course, the GBC wasn't yet a twinkle in the eyes of those mourning the death of Gumpei when Sonic GG was in stores.
After the fact, I'd have to disagree with you about the GBC, to an extent. Bionic Commando: Elite Forces was a great game, as was Xtreme Sports (bad title though). And Shantae puts Sonic GG to shame in both departments.
But this is all in the past. All I know is that this is yet another line drawn in the magical seal of PSP homebrew development, when you have to do your own power consumption tests to make sure you're not pushing too hard. I only hope the DS does better to attract a crowd. It would be neat to write a program to call a fellow DS hacker with the 802.11 and mic built into the DS, certainly.
A more detailed analysis that backs many of the points made in the NPR article.
The worst part of this is that it puts incumbants and poll leaders in a great position. The underdog wants the chance for the other guy to screw up. The leader of course doesn't want this to happen, but doesn't want to look afraid to debate.
This year it puts Kerry in a tough spot. He needs the media exposure as much as he needs the President to screw up. The Bush campaign could have easily walked away from it without serious reprecussion. Instead they used Kerry's needs to sanitize the affair. Kerry gets a gamble made worse by the negotiations, and America gets another boring infomercial where two guys stand up and declare how awesome it is to be them, and how awesome America will be if you BUY NOW!
Of course, if this is treated in any way like the Conventions, media coverage will be irrelevant. Most of the cable news channels featured Chris Matthews or Ron Reagan or Larry King or Bill O'Reilly talking over the majority of the convention. They're already fighting over how to present the debates; the networks want cut-aways that show one guy talking and the other listening.