Irrelevant in that they are some of the biggest suppliers of actual news reporting in the world? Nearly all bloggers use "news" gathered from other sources also known as major news media that have the reporters and budget to get those reporters where they need to be?
Yes the man in a small war torn African nation dodges bullets, manages to scrape together a bowl of polluted water and rice and then runs down to his local internet coffee shop to hop online and post to his blog.
Seriously, no, important news does NOT occur obligingly where everyone has an open internet connection and the ability to use it.
I already pay pennies for my songs, granted I'm into the more semi-fringe stuff that isn't really found on the torrent sites(yes those places moo just as much as any corporate cow). On average I pay about 20c and rarely will I go to 60c.
For one, your "pamphleteers" probably get their sources from your "cow rags." See very few bloggers and other small news and commentary outlets have the funds and ability to get reporters where reporters need to be, and while there is a lot of fluff there are also a lot of places where reporters really do need to be.
For two, no, people are not going to pay for something just because that something could be worth paying for. Online so far they can get it for free and from other outlets where oftentimes the original source of the story is masked by the source or by the simple derth of caring by the consumer. These outlets often seem "better" to the consumer giving articles that are more opinionated, seem more trustworthy, and by giving fuller arguments over the story. The problem is that while sometimes a fuller argument can be made often news simply has to be reported as it is.
The constitution's 1st amendment however does not give the right to religions for them to infringe upon the rights of others.
Thus it is illegal for some parts of Sharia law to be practiced in the US. A Muslim woman(or man for that matter) could choose of her own free will to abide by a fairly strict interpretation but she could not legally be held subject to some of the punishments there-of for breaking the law.
This gets into difficult territory when you start talking about things like zoning laws. For example: does a church's interests in having say a parking lot where none is zoned outweigh the rights of its neighbors to have some say in how their community is developed?
Also you get into the questions of brain washing, or just good old fashioned abuse and threats it is often difficult to tell if a church/religious group is on the up and up or if they are breaking the law.
Furthermore it is debated weather or not the freedom of religion allows for an individual to choose no religion or for them to remain silent in their choice of religion. Also tests for minimum requirements for religion are sometime difficult.
Possibly correct but don't take the linked article as gospel.
It mentions studies and universities, and names some names but does not give any sort of references, citations or bibliography. Also while I'm sure the author has good intent, the very URL of the site "naturalnews" seems to indicate a bias against "artificial" sweetners.
Depends on the corn. There are two(2) major types.
Sweet Corn is the stuff you'll find canned or in with the fresh veggies, and is just as healthy and yummy as most any other fresh vegetables.
Starch Corn is what is grown for the vast majority of farms and is not really edible until processed, and even then it is up for debate if you want to eat it depending on how it was processed.
Vote between Bastard A who will do one thing for the lobbies of Companies U,V and W and Bastard B who will work hard for the interests of Companies X, Y, and Z?
And if you look at the average American's voting record then you'll find they are largely blameless and most haven't really been voting for either.
It isn't the OS that makes a machine secure it is how the OS is setup and maintained and the practices of the machine's users that make it secure.
Any modern OS is a huge chunk of software and WILL have holes in it to exploit. The trick is keeping aware of the risks and keeping up both active and passive measures to lower the chances of an exploit to as close to none as it possible given what the machine in question needs to do and the sensitivity of the information.
I have several friends who use Vista and they still find full crashes of their systems on a weekly basis to be normal under normal operating loads. That is not what I call stable.
That is not a factor. There is a clear lag time between bri-er personal and service favours demonstrating the readiness of a product and the time for that product to be implemented. Even through 7 is probably already in the pipe it will take a while before implementation becomes actualized.
What did the series put the human slaughtering robots as the good guys?
Where the creators part of a real Skynet against the human population?
If you mean the creators were not trying to pander to a wider audience then I'd have to ask why they used one of the most popular sci-fi properties to do it?
Tell that to Second Life. Tell that to most tabletop RPGs that depend on such content.
Yes it is an MMO which changes things some but there are ways to game the system regardless.
My real problem with the AE system is that it is too timid in not giving the creator any real control over level layout or design. Maps are either pregenerated or randomly generated. Basically all the creator is doing is adding a script and which monsters will spawn.
While the AE creator can indeed be used for great things I think what is really needed is more flexabilty along with a ranking system that the admins do have some control over.
It is an unsolved problem; not a forgone conclusion.
The "loophole" was allowed to get people to use the system.
As a player of CoH/CoV over the past couple months I can say that while the Wired article is correct that the AE system was abused and broken at first the rewards have been pushed in the opposite direction once everyone was using AE.
I think the overly heavy reward ration was merely a ploy to get people talking about the system, and one that may have backfired.
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This is WHY science has the peer review process and even after that things are not to be taken as gospel.
The reason for high production is because of a certain decision of what that production will be used for?
3 apps?
1. Windows OS
2. Taskbar
3. Explorer
Is there a failed MMO graveyard? Like a wiki where we could post MMOs that have died and analysis of what went wrong?
it does look that way.
I don't like the methods but I do see their reasons. They are at least not going the route of the RIAA and suing everyone, but then again..
Irrelevant in that they are some of the biggest suppliers of actual news reporting in the world? Nearly all bloggers use "news" gathered from other sources also known as major news media that have the reporters and budget to get those reporters where they need to be?
Yes the man in a small war torn African nation dodges bullets, manages to scrape together a bowl of polluted water and rice and then runs down to his local internet coffee shop to hop online and post to his blog.
Seriously, no, important news does NOT occur obligingly where everyone has an open internet connection and the ability to use it.
I already pay pennies for my songs, granted I'm into the more semi-fringe stuff that isn't really found on the torrent sites(yes those places moo just as much as any corporate cow). On average I pay about 20c and rarely will I go to 60c.
For one, your "pamphleteers" probably get their sources from your "cow rags." See very few bloggers and other small news and commentary outlets have the funds and ability to get reporters where reporters need to be, and while there is a lot of fluff there are also a lot of places where reporters really do need to be.
For two, no, people are not going to pay for something just because that something could be worth paying for. Online so far they can get it for free and from other outlets where oftentimes the original source of the story is masked by the source or by the simple derth of caring by the consumer. These outlets often seem "better" to the consumer giving articles that are more opinionated, seem more trustworthy, and by giving fuller arguments over the story. The problem is that while sometimes a fuller argument can be made often news simply has to be reported as it is.
The constitution's 1st amendment however does not give the right to religions for them to infringe upon the rights of others.
Thus it is illegal for some parts of Sharia law to be practiced in the US. A Muslim woman(or man for that matter) could choose of her own free will to abide by a fairly strict interpretation but she could not legally be held subject to some of the punishments there-of for breaking the law.
This gets into difficult territory when you start talking about things like zoning laws. For example: does a church's interests in having say a parking lot where none is zoned outweigh the rights of its neighbors to have some say in how their community is developed?
Also you get into the questions of brain washing, or just good old fashioned abuse and threats it is often difficult to tell if a church/religious group is on the up and up or if they are breaking the law.
Furthermore it is debated weather or not the freedom of religion allows for an individual to choose no religion or for them to remain silent in their choice of religion. Also tests for minimum requirements for religion are sometime difficult.
Casinos in most districts are required to tell you the odds, and have other consumer protections put in place.
Ah, thank you. I'll have to try to read them sometime.
Only if you believe that chaos is an illusion based on imperfect knowledge of an ordered universe.
If you believe that the universe is fundamentally chaotic however then that doesn't hold up.
Possibly correct but don't take the linked article as gospel.
It mentions studies and universities, and names some names but does not give any sort of references, citations or bibliography. Also while I'm sure the author has good intent, the very URL of the site "naturalnews" seems to indicate a bias against "artificial" sweetners.
Depends on the corn. There are two(2) major types.
Sweet Corn is the stuff you'll find canned or in with the fresh veggies, and is just as healthy and yummy as most any other fresh vegetables.
Starch Corn is what is grown for the vast majority of farms and is not really edible until processed, and even then it is up for debate if you want to eat it depending on how it was processed.
Vote between Bastard A who will do one thing for the lobbies of Companies U,V and W and Bastard B who will work hard for the interests of Companies X, Y, and Z?
And if you look at the average American's voting record then you'll find they are largely blameless and most haven't really been voting for either.
Do you know how labor intensive sugar cane is? Or what kind of soil/weather conditions are required?
It might be viable in Brazil, but it isn't really an option in the US.
This would be true with any OS.
It isn't the OS that makes a machine secure it is how the OS is setup and maintained and the practices of the machine's users that make it secure.
Any modern OS is a huge chunk of software and WILL have holes in it to exploit. The trick is keeping aware of the risks and keeping up both active and passive measures to lower the chances of an exploit to as close to none as it possible given what the machine in question needs to do and the sensitivity of the information.
There is no "Secure" modern OS over time.
I have several friends who use Vista and they still find full crashes of their systems on a weekly basis to be normal under normal operating loads. That is not what I call stable.
That is not a factor. There is a clear lag time between bri-er personal and service favours demonstrating the readiness of a product and the time for that product to be implemented. Even through 7 is probably already in the pipe it will take a while before implementation becomes actualized.
Most DO but sometimes you have to put a line into the preferences manually.
Dude "Forever" isn't actually the title; its the release date.
Non-populist?
What did the series put the human slaughtering robots as the good guys?
Where the creators part of a real Skynet against the human population?
If you mean the creators were not trying to pander to a wider audience then I'd have to ask why they used one of the most popular sci-fi properties to do it?
Tell that to Second Life.
Tell that to most tabletop RPGs that depend on such content.
Yes it is an MMO which changes things some but there are ways to game the system regardless.
My real problem with the AE system is that it is too timid in not giving the creator any real control over level layout or design. Maps are either pregenerated or randomly generated. Basically all the creator is doing is adding a script and which monsters will spawn.
While the AE creator can indeed be used for great things I think what is really needed is more flexabilty along with a ranking system that the admins do have some control over.
It is an unsolved problem; not a forgone conclusion.
The "loophole" was allowed to get people to use the system.
As a player of CoH/CoV over the past couple months I can say that while the Wired article is correct that the AE system was abused and broken at first the rewards have been pushed in the opposite direction once everyone was using AE.
I think the overly heavy reward ration was merely a ploy to get people talking about the system, and one that may have backfired.