Very true. It's not like most families that raise 'Political' children try to also teach them technology.
Those children are shown how to use human resources to use people and technology.
Being a politician mostly involves high skills in using other people to accomplish tasks and do the 'understanding' for the politician. That is pretty much the opposite of learning how to understand technology themselves.
Our tanks have targetting systems that can see through smoke and lock onto targets miles away, our troops have glasses that can see at night, and I can go down to the local sporting goods store and buy a laser rangefinder that will accurately measure distances out to a mile or so with a margin of error of an inch or less... but a SPACESHIP can't land because of a few clouds?
The shuttle can trigger lightning on a cloudy day.
This could easily disable electronic devices on-board.
Does the author imply that Britain's last 10 years were somehow better than US' years? These are the people who are much more used to terrorist attacks and now don't even question cameras on every street corner. I am sure in proportion to their population they have lost many more lives to terrorism than us. Stop looking for excuses!
They also now have cameras that watch other cameras because of so many being purposely destroyed.
Supposing it was a terrorist or a pedophile? How would you like Homeland Security or the FBI knocking on your door, asking you deep questions and impounding all your computer equipment for investigation? The suspicious activity did all originate from your IP address, after all.
Very true, and It's stupid to not care.
But, it's not like the FBI/HS are all bumbling idiots as many people would like to think that they are.
FBI/HS wouldn't just immediately walk up and start seizing equipment if they thought that there was terrorist activity going on with a person. It would be much more involved, like background checks, a surveillance unit, etc... That surveillance unit would pick up the wireless activity quite quickly and find the REAL offender.
Unless there was an extreme situation, they'd take plenty of time before acting. And yes, there are examples of where they haven't done their research, but that's a very small portion of the total number of investigations that they have done.
With many people using their ISP's default settings, and manual spam filtering being impractical for many users, what can be done to avoid giving ISPs and anti-spam companies extensive, fully automated censorship abilities?"
Well, there you go.
They shouldn't use the default settings.
The Masses are getting what they want. The least amount of spam possible.
If some people are really interested in their email then they would be well advised to spend a few minutes looking at the filtering options.
I have no idea what the hell is going on. But Half-Life 2 gives me major motion sickness. Never had that before playing these games.
Make sure that your framerate for the resolution that you are playing at isn't 60Hz. Try 70/72/75/etc... and give it a go.
Even though it's hard to see, different framerates can make people queasy and/or have epileptic problems.
I had a similar problem with Quake1 and then found out that 60Hz at the resolution I was using was the problem.
HL2 gave me a similar problem. Then I found out that I was using a different resolution for HL2 singleplayer as opposed to CS:S. Once I set HL2 to the same settings as CS:S, the discomfort went away.
What I wouldn't give to see the contents of this contract. Since Valve really wanted to be able to distrubte electronically and bypass a publisher, I would imagine that's in their somewhere. Still, I think any publisher could make a lot of money still of HL2. Lets face it, there's still mods coming (DoD) and with an XBox version on its way, store shelves will be packed again with HL2 boxes.
As far as Steam online distribution, I'm sure that matter is very detailed in the contract by Valve.
Valve just finished several years of lawsuits vs Sierra/Vivendi and one of the main disputed issues was Valve wanting to distribute games directly to people on-line.
After going through years of that, I'm sure that Valve is very paranoid about getting back into the jam they just got out of.
IMO, EA will cash in on the console distribution mostly. After all, the PC distribution may be a loss in the long run. Once an EA/Steam game is installed, Valve will be able to sell more games directly to those PC players and that's a loss of future EA sales.
Valve wins: They get an Evil & powerful distributor to sell more copies of the game than Valve would otherwise. Using Steam, they will also get to directly advertise to those people.
EA wins: Bragging rights about having (implied created by EA as always) the most popular on-line FPS games in the world. And, they'll hope that the console sales make up for future losses by Steam distributed games to the PC gamers.
When The UN patches, we get millions of dead Rowandans, we get Oil for food corruption, we get special little jobs for family members.
That's called NOT PATCHING. It's also known as 'making empty statements and waiting for things to go completely out of control unless there's $$$ to be made (or the chance they will be lost)'.
The UN, like Microsoft, does things that have to do with $$$ more than they do it out of being nice people.
People complain about the USA having too many guns and that's why we're the murder capital of the world. But, that's disinformative. I'm 30 times more likely to get my brains blown out by a firearm in Africa than I am in the USA.
What's the UN doing about that? Not much. Their Club Members aren't interested in that because there isn't as much profit as there is elsewhere in the world.
But that was after the start of Eternal September. (Now that AOL has dropped USENET, is it finally October?) And those of us who complained when Prodigy got 'net access sure looked back fondly when AOL hooked up.
I remember when AOL gave it's clients USENET access. That very day their USENET servers screwed up and re-posted every single article ~7 times. AOL SAYS 'HI INTERNET WE'RE HERE'!!!
AOL then allowed easy access to every single newsgroup (but one) and did two very Evil things.
First: It filtered out one newsgroup from it's list alt.aol-sucks (renamed Flames And Complaints About AOL and only accessible by looking for it that way) and Second: Made alt.best.of.the.internet one of the default newsgroup to post to.
We had Webcrawler a decade ago. It was THE Google since there wasn't a competitor yet. Then AOL ate it and people immediately fled to a new contender Altavista (and dejanews for USENET searches).
I remember dumping Netscape as soon as AOL got it's filthy hands on it.
I didn't come back until Firefox.
On another 'golden years' note: It's sad that until 1993 I had my phone number and po box mailing address in my USENET.sig in case someone wanted to contact me. By spring 1994 I had to start hiding my email address as well.
In 1995 I started using 'x-no-archive' in my USENET posts to disarm Trolls from posting some twisted version of something I'd said the year before.
so if the UN runs the internet, I suppose that attacks against 3rd world computers will be ignored until millions of computers are slag. then when they do intervene, it will be half-hearted with the help unable to actually help, just stand around watching shit burn.
I see your point. The UN will act just like Microsoft does now.
Exactly. Of course a good portion of studies, even when conducted properly, produce inaccurate results. That's the whole purpose of peer review; doing further research tends to filter out the bad stuff.
Yes, but sometimes it takes some time.
Like that Magical Dark Matter Pixie Dust that's been all the rage for a while.
I can't wait for the loud chorus of MY BAD! when that is cleared up.
Just about half-way down through the screenshots you can see IE looking at MSN.COM with the FILE options open.
There is an 'EDIT WITH NOTEPAD' option.
Yes, I'd love to edit that source code with an excellent text editor like that:
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Valve attempted to change things by setting up direct download rather than buying from the shelf. Interesting as it changes delivery, but there was no compelling reason to buy it on-line once it hit the shelves. (Compelling to me would have been a couple bucks savings)
Valve couldn't do that. After all, they were in the middle of a lawsuit with Sierra...Sierra claiming that Valve was dodging retail sales with online purchasing and Valve suing about Internet Cafe licenses. And, of course, a zillion other claims vs each other with other parties involved.
If Valve charged less online, they would have been shooting themselves in the foot.
And yeah, I'll repeat that - tans are gross. Darker skin is attractive if it's natural. More pale tones are attractive, if they're natural. But some white chick trying to tan herself into J-Lo is just gross and looks... uncomfortable.
Yes, it is gross. I lived in Santa Barbara for 20 years and saw a lot of that leathery stuff going on even on 30 year old women.
Also, I was a beach bum/Volleyball Tournament (girls) following guy for many years and spend uncounted complete days under the sun.
I used sunscreen always, especially around the face. I'm 40 and still get checked for Identification at bars quite often because I used some common sense even though I was wasting quite a bit of my life in the sun watching things bounce.
There are pictures of monks who are 80+ years old and avoided the sun as much as possible and their skin looks like a 10 year olds.
This is why simple jokes like this should always be posed AC, so far the guy has lost 2 karma over a very simple basic joke... that mods were jealous of being beaten to the punchline on...
Who cares about 2 Karma? Mod me down if you people want to!
Most people either have crap Karma or have so much that 2 points isn't a big deal.
Woo, mod me down 2 points. I'll really mess up my life and I'll have to go abuse some drugs or pick up a prostitute to make me feel like a better man.
The Karma system here is better than most places. If you post better than average you'll eventally have so much Karma you won't (shouldn't anyway) give a flying damn...just like me. I won't post AC because I'm not so obsessed with Karma that I'll be upset over having 48 vs 50.
Judges are no more "honarable" than a lawyer, becaus ethey were lawyers. and THIS is one of the biggest problems in the American justice system
Yes, it's a small gene puddle.
I had a case where my attorneys laid out how things would work and how it could be fixed.
They said that since all Judges were lawyers, and all lawyers when to school and partied/golfed/etc... together, they have a lot of 'friend' ties and all that I needed to do was to come of with the cash to pay person X who is a school buddy of Judge Y and shazam, I win since the suing plaintiff is not paying his attorney unless he wins.
And yes, I (deservedly) won but it still cost me a nice chunk of change to assure a victory.
I feel sorry for the people who don't understand or cannot afford to PAY for justice.
It also left a bad taste in my mouth that I could have crushed a person with a valid claim against me for the same amount of $$$.
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Don't bet the farm on that.
Very true. It's not like most families that raise 'Political' children try to also teach them technology.
Those children are shown how to use human resources to use people and technology.
Being a politician mostly involves high skills in using other people to accomplish tasks and do the 'understanding' for the politician. That is pretty much the opposite of learning how to understand technology themselves.
What is morally wrong about doing whatever you want with something you paid for and own?
What's morally wrong is anyone arbitrarily dictating what you can and cannot do with your personal property.
I'm pretty sure that sheep wouldn't agree with you.
You work from 12:00-20:00, he works from 15:00-23:00. You keep that in your contact information from him. He publishes it in his .VCF.
- brains overlords.
I, for one, welcome our new computer tell-you-when-to-call-people-instead-of-using-our
How do you figure? Do you find it harder to find restaurants in large cities?
Only if most of those restaurants in large cities give you a menu that only lists Viagra as something you can order.
Our tanks have targetting systems that can see through smoke and lock onto targets miles away, our troops have glasses that can see at night, and I can go down to the local sporting goods store and buy a laser rangefinder that will accurately measure distances out to a mile or so with a margin of error of an inch or less ... but a SPACESHIP can't land because of a few clouds?
The shuttle can trigger lightning on a cloudy day.
This could easily disable electronic devices on-board.
Protecting Space Systems from Lightning article.
Does the author imply that Britain's last 10 years were somehow better than US' years? These are the people who are much more used to terrorist attacks and now don't even question cameras on every street corner. I am sure in proportion to their population they have lost many more lives to terrorism than us. Stop looking for excuses!
They also now have cameras that watch other cameras because of so many being purposely destroyed.
Supposing it was a terrorist or a pedophile? How would you like Homeland Security or the FBI knocking on your door, asking you deep questions and impounding all your computer equipment for investigation? The suspicious activity did all originate from your IP address, after all.
Very true, and It's stupid to not care.
But, it's not like the FBI/HS are all bumbling idiots as many people would like to think that they are.
FBI/HS wouldn't just immediately walk up and start seizing equipment if they thought that there was terrorist activity going on with a person. It would be much more involved, like background checks, a surveillance unit, etc... That surveillance unit would pick up the wireless activity quite quickly and find the REAL offender.
Unless there was an extreme situation, they'd take plenty of time before acting. And yes, there are examples of where they haven't done their research, but that's a very small portion of the total number of investigations that they have done.
With many people using their ISP's default settings, and manual spam filtering being impractical for many users, what can be done to avoid giving ISPs and anti-spam companies extensive, fully automated censorship abilities?"
Well, there you go.
They shouldn't use the default settings.
The Masses are getting what they want. The least amount of spam possible.
If some people are really interested in their email then they would be well advised to spend a few minutes looking at the filtering options.
Someone Said While Passing By: Framerate != Refresh rate
True...if we completely ignored the context of the discussion and did the AC 'Nitpick Boogie'.
Frame Rate
Refresh rate
It's all about context.
I have no idea what the hell is going on. But Half-Life 2 gives me major motion sickness. Never had that before playing these games.
Make sure that your framerate for the resolution that you are playing at isn't 60Hz. Try 70/72/75/etc... and give it a go.
Even though it's hard to see, different framerates can make people queasy and/or have epileptic problems.
I had a similar problem with Quake1 and then found out that 60Hz at the resolution I was using was the problem.
HL2 gave me a similar problem. Then I found out that I was using a different resolution for HL2 singleplayer as opposed to CS:S. Once I set HL2 to the same settings as CS:S, the discomfort went away.
He is not really a troll. He just publishes flamebait. {SNIP}
Flamebait is Trolling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamebait
What I wouldn't give to see the contents of this contract. Since Valve really wanted to be able to distrubte electronically and bypass a publisher, I would imagine that's in their somewhere. Still, I think any publisher could make a lot of money still of HL2. Lets face it, there's still mods coming (DoD) and with an XBox version on its way, store shelves will be packed again with HL2 boxes.
As far as Steam online distribution, I'm sure that matter is very detailed in the contract by Valve. Valve just finished several years of lawsuits vs Sierra/Vivendi and one of the main disputed issues was Valve wanting to distribute games directly to people on-line.
After going through years of that, I'm sure that Valve is very paranoid about getting back into the jam they just got out of.
IMO, EA will cash in on the console distribution mostly. After all, the PC distribution may be a loss in the long run. Once an EA/Steam game is installed, Valve will be able to sell more games directly to those PC players and that's a loss of future EA sales.
Valve wins: They get an Evil & powerful distributor to sell more copies of the game than Valve would otherwise. Using Steam, they will also get to directly advertise to those people.
EA wins: Bragging rights about having (implied created by EA as always) the most popular on-line FPS games in the world. And, they'll hope that the console sales make up for future losses by Steam distributed games to the PC gamers.
When The UN patches, we get millions of dead Rowandans, we get Oil for food corruption, we get special little jobs for family members.
That's called NOT PATCHING. It's also known as 'making empty statements and waiting for things to go completely out of control unless there's $$$ to be made (or the chance they will be lost)'.
The UN, like Microsoft, does things that have to do with $$$ more than they do it out of being nice people.
People complain about the USA having too many guns and that's why we're the murder capital of the world. But, that's disinformative. I'm 30 times more likely to get my brains blown out by a firearm in Africa than I am in the USA.
What's the UN doing about that? Not much. Their Club Members aren't interested in that because there isn't as much profit as there is elsewhere in the world.
But that was after the start of Eternal September. (Now that AOL has dropped USENET, is it finally October?) And those of us who complained when Prodigy got 'net access sure looked back fondly when AOL hooked up.
I remember when AOL gave it's clients USENET access. That very day their USENET servers screwed up and re-posted every single article ~7 times. AOL SAYS 'HI INTERNET WE'RE HERE'!!!
AOL then allowed easy access to every single newsgroup (but one) and did two very Evil things.
First: It filtered out one newsgroup from it's list alt.aol-sucks (renamed Flames And Complaints About AOL and only accessible by looking for it that way) and Second: Made alt.best.of.the.internet one of the default newsgroup to post to.
The Good Ole Days? YES.
.sig in case someone wanted to contact me. By spring 1994 I had to start hiding my email address as well.
We had Webcrawler a decade ago. It was THE Google since there wasn't a competitor yet. Then AOL ate it and people immediately fled to a new contender Altavista (and dejanews for USENET searches).
I remember dumping Netscape as soon as AOL got it's filthy hands on it.
I didn't come back until Firefox.
On another 'golden years' note: It's sad that until 1993 I had my phone number and po box mailing address in my USENET
In 1995 I started using 'x-no-archive' in my USENET posts to disarm Trolls from posting some twisted version of something I'd said the year before.
sigh
so if the UN runs the internet, I suppose that attacks against 3rd world computers will be ignored until millions of computers are slag. then when they do intervene, it will be half-hearted with the help unable to actually help, just stand around watching shit burn.
I see your point. The UN will act just like Microsoft does now.
Study Finds Women Who Drink Way More Fun To Study
Exactly. Of course a good portion of studies, even when conducted properly, produce inaccurate results. That's the whole purpose of peer review; doing further research tends to filter out the bad stuff.
Yes, but sometimes it takes some time.
Like that Magical Dark Matter Pixie Dust that's been all the rage for a while.
I can't wait for the loud chorus of MY BAD! when that is cleared up.
There is an 'EDIT WITH NOTEPAD' option.
Yes, I'd love to edit that source code with an excellent text editor like that:
Valve attempted to change things by setting up direct download rather than buying from the shelf. Interesting as it changes delivery, but there was no compelling reason to buy it on-line once it hit the shelves. (Compelling to me would have been a couple bucks savings)
Valve couldn't do that. After all, they were in the middle of a lawsuit with Sierra...Sierra claiming that Valve was dodging retail sales with online purchasing and Valve suing about Internet Cafe licenses. And, of course, a zillion other claims vs each other with other parties involved.
If Valve charged less online, they would have been shooting themselves in the foot.
the educated minority of the Internet world often choose to use alternative operating systems,
"The sort of thing not to say when protesting 101"
And yeah, I'll repeat that - tans are gross. Darker skin is attractive if it's natural. More pale tones are attractive, if they're natural. But some white chick trying to tan herself into J-Lo is just gross and looks... uncomfortable.
Yes, it is gross. I lived in Santa Barbara for 20 years and saw a lot of that leathery stuff going on even on 30 year old women.
Also, I was a beach bum/Volleyball Tournament (girls) following guy for many years and spend uncounted complete days under the sun.
I used sunscreen always, especially around the face. I'm 40 and still get checked for Identification at bars quite often because I used some common sense even though I was wasting quite a bit of my life in the sun watching things bounce.
There are pictures of monks who are 80+ years old and avoided the sun as much as possible and their skin looks like a 10 year olds.
This is why simple jokes like this should always be posed AC, so far the guy has lost 2 karma over a very simple basic joke... that mods were jealous of being beaten to the punchline on...
Who cares about 2 Karma? Mod me down if you people want to!
Most people either have crap Karma or have so much that 2 points isn't a big deal.
Woo, mod me down 2 points. I'll really mess up my life and I'll have to go abuse some drugs or pick up a prostitute to make me feel like a better man.
The Karma system here is better than most places. If you post better than average you'll eventally have so much Karma you won't (shouldn't anyway) give a flying damn...just like me. I won't post AC because I'm not so obsessed with Karma that I'll be upset over having 48 vs 50.
but we regret this "american buckaroo-style" (sic) way of doing space research
That's a correct term amd the equivalent of 'american cowboy style' and how we're viewed on much of this planet.
I only know this because of a) The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is one of my favorite cult classics, and b) all these damned Firefox plug-ins that save me from actually having to think very often.
Judges are no more "honarable" than a lawyer, becaus ethey were lawyers. and THIS is one of the biggest problems in the American justice system
Yes, it's a small gene puddle.
I had a case where my attorneys laid out how things would work and how it could be fixed.
They said that since all Judges were lawyers, and all lawyers when to school and partied/golfed/etc... together, they have a lot of 'friend' ties and all that I needed to do was to come of with the cash to pay person X who is a school buddy of Judge Y and shazam, I win since the suing plaintiff is not paying his attorney unless he wins.
And yes, I (deservedly) won but it still cost me a nice chunk of change to assure a victory.
I feel sorry for the people who don't understand or cannot afford to PAY for justice.
It also left a bad taste in my mouth that I could have crushed a person with a valid claim against me for the same amount of $$$.