How about an example of an actual professor, or more than one example that justifies the word "people"? Bonus if you can provide a recent example. Times have changed.
I think you can burn the file with its DRM to a DVD, you just can't watch it on a normal DVD player. Yet.
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No, *I* would have teased him about *that* show!:-)
Time for tele bye bye!:-P
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You have a point. My older kids tended to tease my youngest about the (appropriately) childish shows he watched until I put a stop to it.
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Thanks for the tip! Mod parent up (say the kids):-)
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All we had when I was a teenager was an Atari, with blocky dragons that looked like seahorses. I probably would have been ecstatic with animal crossing.
Why is it that violent, scary, or criminal subject matter in video games exhilarates teens today? Do they feel like doing another Columbine and need relief?
Why does a game have to simulate a nightmare or a crime for you to like it?
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Is it just me, or is Nintendo the only company that doesn't cater only to mature audiences? Does Gen Y (or Z or whatever) really demand such over-the-top nightmarish games? Am I so old that only us NES veterans enjoy games that even my young kids can play?
I went to the toy store to buy my son a birthday present. While I was there, I walked down the aisle, taking note of the rough percentage of games for each platform were rated anything below teen or mature. I noticed that only Nintendo had any games I'd want my kids to play.
I don't mind a little violence, but why does every game have to simulate a nightmare or a crime to be worth playing? I just don't understand. I'd appreciate it if someone explained it to me.
As I recall, Microsoft has never been near the top on a per-year basis, so they have no chance of being at the top overall. I would be surprised if they ever broke the top-20 patenters on a per-year basis, let alone be even in the top-50 cumulative.
Wouldn't Microsoft have to be innovative to be near the top?
how does/would IP multicast account for missing or dropped packets? Is it even possible to do so or do all multicast packets have to function more like UDP then TCP?
I believe Forward Error Correction can account for missing and dropped packets. From Wikipedia: "FEC is accomplished by adding redundancy to the transmitted information using a predetermined algorithm." I remember someone presenting this solution at the IETF many years ago.
It seems to me that MS could just come up with some useful XML schema(s) that RSS carries, just like it carries HTML markup right now. Why do they have to extend the RSS (family of) standard(s)?
In another year or so I predict we'll walk around with a bootable disk AND our data on a keychain, thus making computers neutral, diskless devices that anyone can walk up to and use. And they'll boot up instantly.
"The question is can those batteries be charged efficiently enough to have lower overall pollution than the common internal-combustion engine method?"
" I can't say for sure what would pollute less"
Scientific American has an article this month about
burying carbon dioxide. You can do that with a stationary hydrogen production facility, but you can't do it with vehicles that roam all over the place. I think the production facility will pollute less.
TFA says, "At their desk, users have only a keyboard, mouse, monitor and a networking unit that connects them to their computer", but the summary says, "Blade desktops feature only input devices and a 'networking unit,'". I doubt the summary is correct.
What would be faster for a lot of people is humming intervals. Unfortunately some people are tone deaf, and even if humming turned out to be a superior system of communication, it would probably meet with the same resistance that the metric system has met. I wonder if people who would normally grow up tone deaf could learn to hum intervals. Music seems to have healing properties as well, so we could even improve our health!
Has anyone ever considered setting up several high-latency, error-correcting communications links to keep the bits in motion? Just pull the bits off when you need them.
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How about an example of an actual professor, or more than one example that justifies the word "people"? Bonus if you can provide a recent example. Times have changed.
"Fact 1: MIT has granted Full Professorships to people without degrees."
Can you cite an example, please?
I think you can burn the file with its DRM to a DVD, you just can't watch it on a normal DVD player. Yet.
No, *I* would have teased him about *that* show! :-)
Time for tele bye bye! :-P
You have a point. My older kids tended to tease my youngest about the (appropriately) childish shows he watched until I put a stop to it.
Thanks for the tip! Mod parent up (say the kids) :-)
All we had when I was a teenager was an Atari, with blocky dragons that looked like seahorses. I probably would have been ecstatic with animal crossing. Why is it that violent, scary, or criminal subject matter in video games exhilarates teens today? Do they feel like doing another Columbine and need relief?
Why does a game have to simulate a nightmare or a crime for you to like it?
Is it just me, or is Nintendo the only company that doesn't cater only to mature audiences? Does Gen Y (or Z or whatever) really demand such over-the-top nightmarish games? Am I so old that only us NES veterans enjoy games that even my young kids can play?
I went to the toy store to buy my son a birthday present. While I was there, I walked down the aisle, taking note of the rough percentage of games for each platform were rated anything below teen or mature. I noticed that only Nintendo had any games I'd want my kids to play.
I don't mind a little violence, but why does every game have to simulate a nightmare or a crime to be worth playing? I just don't understand. I'd appreciate it if someone explained it to me.
Oh no! Is Google Base THE Base? That's "Al Qaeda" in Arabic, ya know. :-)
I think the point is rather to read up-to-date electrons rather than dead trees.
Does it let me send return-receipts back to the requester without hanging? Bug 321139)
It seems to me that MS could just come up with some useful XML schema(s) that RSS carries, just like it carries HTML markup right now. Why do they have to extend the RSS (family of) standard(s)?
In another year or so I predict we'll walk around with a bootable disk AND our data on a keychain, thus making computers neutral, diskless devices that anyone can walk up to and use. And they'll boot up instantly.
How about power over fiber? :-)
Scientific American has an article this month about burying carbon dioxide. You can do that with a stationary hydrogen production facility, but you can't do it with vehicles that roam all over the place. I think the production facility will pollute less.
TFA says, "At their desk, users have only a keyboard, mouse, monitor and a networking unit that connects them to their computer", but the summary says, "Blade desktops feature only input devices and a 'networking unit,'". I doubt the summary is correct.
Geico wouldn't have to pay actors to play Neanderthals, they could just use real ones for free!
Cool! Capatalism can continue after we exploit all the Earth's resources and the people of 3rd world countries! :-)
Speech is not faster, it's more natural.
What would be faster for a lot of people is humming intervals. Unfortunately some people are tone deaf, and even if humming turned out to be a superior system of communication, it would probably meet with the same resistance that the metric system has met. I wonder if people who would normally grow up tone deaf could learn to hum intervals. Music seems to have healing properties as well, so we could even improve our health!
Has anyone ever considered setting up several high-latency, error-correcting communications links to keep the bits in motion? Just pull the bits off when you need them.