Same thing should happen in China and other third world countries if the US, Canada and Europe give them a chance. The Chinese workers will gain some skills on the assembly line and then they'll protest for and get higher pay or better working conditions.
Of course they will only get higher pay until the cost exceeds the cost of jumping to the new third world nation. Then they'll be screwed just like the manufacturing workers in the first world.
Sure globalization benefits everyone, it just doesn't do it evenly, and it does it on a glacial scale.
Off Topic: I know who the "first world" is. I know who the "third world" is. One thing always bothered me. Who's the "second world"?
As an American, I've never really had a problem playing the Germans or the Japanese in WWII games. As someone said, you get a joy out of playing the bad guys. The thing about playing the bad guys is, you know you're the bad guys. It's pretend. You're really good, but you're just pretending to be bad. I imagine, there's an identity issue when you know, deep down, you are the bad guy. You're not necessarily bad yourself, but you're one of the bad guys, and that's unescapable.
I'd like to hear from some of the German/.ers about this (The Japanese wouldn't necessarily have the same insight, as the Japanese have never trully admitted to what happened during the war ("comfort women" anyone?).). Intellectually, you know the Nazis are one of the most horrendous groups in history, yet good ol' gramps fought in the war for them, and he's not a bad guy. I imagine there's a disconnect there, and I'd like to hear more about it.
smith copied himself onto bane, an unplugged character -then- uploaded himself through the hardline. putting himself in bane's shoes initially is the actual leap in science for scifi fans. how could Smith do that when in M1 it was established that agents could only jump into plugged-in people?
Well bane was effectively plugged into the matrix when he jumped into bane. The connections on the ships and the connections in the farms can be assumed to be essentially the same, after all they do the exact same thing. The real question is, why didn't the agents just do this in the beginning?
I remember playing with the Atari Lynx one summer when I was at geek camp. The Lynx blew me away. Sega also had a color portable, the Gamegear (I thought the Gamegear was the first color screen portable, but I guess I was wrong.), but there was simply no comparison. The Gamegear's screen would quickly blur out, making playing impossible. Compounding the problem, the included cartridge (Yes little boys, there was once a time when you bought a console/portable and not only got two controllers, memory (granted it was built in to the cartridge...), and a game sometimes two.) was Sonic the Hedgehog also known as the the fastetest platform game around. You simply couldn't play the game at any real speed. It was like playing blind, or on faith. ("Run for three seconds, then A! Stop. Okay. Run. Stop. Where am I? Okay. Run. Shit what happened? Oh I fell off.")
The Lynx on the other hand had a crisp screen. You could actually PLAY the games. No blur out. The pixels would actually refresh at a decent rate. It was great. Alas the lynx died, but it was the best portable for YEARS. (I don't know about the Gameboy Advances, but the previous Gameboys were basically just the 1989 version made thiner, with a crapy 3 color screen.)
I can't expect all individuals to act in a community minded way, but I'm glad Xouvert won't be encouraging this counter productive behaviour.
I don't see how it's counter productive to provide binaryonly drivers. If you don't want to use them, then don't. Nothing stops someone from making a Free driver. Hell sometimes the Free drivers provide support for things that the "official" drivers don't. (i.e. disabling macrovision)
I have nothing against Free software per se. I just have something against things not working.
you want good graphics performance but you didn't check to see if the card is supported before spending $400?
This is core problem with linux and other Free operating systems. Hardware support ALWAYS lags, and sometimes isn't even fully supported. Why should I not by the best thing out there? Most people like things to work!
The stuff about the $400 card is just an example for X. The actual card I have is a matrox g450 that doesn't have 3d acceleration support when xinerama is enabled. Funny. I don't have any problem running dual heads and then firing up Unreal, so 3d acceleration in this mode is supported in hardware. Also when I got the card, I had to use Matrox's drivers because the Free drivers didn't support xinerama AT ALL. Eventually they did, but it was buggy as hell. I don't think TV out is supported by the Free drivers at all.
The rant I posted on my website was in response to the fact that I had to PATCH THE KERNEL in order to get my Sony DSC-F707 camera to be supported as a usb storage device. (You change an hex number in 'unusual_devs.h'.) That is the power of linux. Oops. Free Software and GNU/Linux.
My biggest worry about this fork was that the developers were going to announce a "practical" approach to drivers, one that would include non-free drivers etc.
"Vector Graphics Display"? It's an oscilloscope. Instead of just using a standard raster display, and using tried and true vector-raster algorithms, you're supposed to use an oscilloscope. While I'm sure there are people here that own one or more oscilloscopes, I have only met one person that owned an oscilloscope, and he got that one for free because it was flakey.
While there's plenty of geeks who'd like to old school it up with this, requiring them to shell out $500+ dollars for an oscilloscope instead of just using an old VGA monitor or even the TV (to complete the old school feel) is just pointlessly limiting your market.
Something like this has been done before, only with something much more evil, Microsoft Barney. While the hacked Barney doesn't have freeform language, it does have freeform movement and can be remotely controlled.
Contrary to their names, the north and south bridges do not actually lie to the north or the south. Nor are they bridges. They're actually tunnels to the east and west.
I just don't cosmic ray variation would account for more than half of the 20th century's climatic change. The variation just wouldn't be that great given the fact that the solar system simply hasn't moved very far in 100 years.
as some one who is from southern illinois, and lives in carbondale, I have to say you are shit.
I assume you're making light of the Pyramid Apparment fire back in '92. Since the 10 year aniversary past just last Decemeber, it got a writeup in the DE. The case is still open. There is a suspect, but not enough evidence for an arrest. He was a resident of the building. He has left the country. Given the fact that the apartment building was popular with international students, and the suspect left the country, wouldn't it bne incredibly likely that it was "a damn foriegner us hicks hate"?
If Kazaa plans on making money from using other people's bandwidth, isn't that going to be in violation of some ISP's service agreements? I know my ISP prohibts "commercial" use, so if I share files and for which I am paid in some form, wouldn't that in violation of that agreement?
You're not getting paid. Kazza, RIAA, and MPAA are. You're just their unwitting distribution agent. You do the work. They take the money. PERFECT!
Everyone has played it, and most people don't have any imagination to try something new. The worst part is, the game is boring, and takes days to play to completion.
Growing up, my favorite boardgame was Scotland Yard. 5 detectives run around trying to catch Mr. X. A great mix of cooperative and competitive play. Fun, and doesn't take hours to play.
Now my personal favorite boardgame (as a concept, not play value) is the 1980's version of "Life". You go to college Get a job. Get married. Have 1.5 kids. Then at the end you decide whether you're going to retire to the house in the suburbs or try the alternate route and go for a million dollars and live in the mansion. If you don't get a million dollars, you lose. Even if you have more money than anyone else, you still lose.
The current version eliminated the "big gamble", so if you end the game with a million dollars you go the mansion, if not you go to the house in the suburbs.
Still the winner is the one with the most money. A wonderful game for children. Perhaps I should make one where you have to exploit workers, bust unions, dismantel health and safety regulations, and bribe politicians...
There are two problems with the questec system. First, it does nothing. You can't overrule a call. It doesn't markedly better than humans. It's not even used to determine who calls the World Series. Yet, the umpires are being held up to the machine. Therefore, it superfluous at best, and a distraction at worse.
Secondly (and here's the real rub) a questec ball/strike isn't necessarily a legal ball/strike. The rule is that the ball must cross the plate. The questec system only checks where the ball is in relation to the front of the plate. If the ball tails over the plate later, questec call is it a ball, but it's legally a strike. A real umpire knows this. The machine doesn't. That was the whole point Curt Shilling was making.
Yet another craptacular thing brought to baseball by Bud Selig -- The Man with the Reverse Midas Touch.
... that a NASA MMOPRG/FlightSim combo would be kind of cool.
Imagine if you could join in an existing Space Program to build ISS, online, and participate in it somehow... sort of an entire virtual NASA. 20 guys in Mission Control, 12 guys in Space, 8 on the ISS already, etc... that'd be fun, if the tech was right and well presented.
Really? Why? Have you ever watched NASA-TV? It's incredibly boring and tedious. Why would you want that? Why would you want to be one of the 20 that sit in mission control and monitor telemetry. There's no science. Nothing new. Nothing exciting.
Look I've been to Space Camp/Academy twice. While there I took part in three "missions". Once as part of the crew (I was the commander), and twice as part of mission control (orbiter systems officer, and launch gantry officer). Mission Control is BORING. You throw a couple of switches, and say "check", "nominal", and "go". That's it. If that's your idea of a good time, man...
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Apex DVD players are junk... and so are Cyberhome, for that matter.
*snip*
Not worth it. Spend 50 bucks and get a decent one.
Oh the irony.
*whack*
Same thing should happen in China and other third world countries if the US, Canada and Europe give them a chance. The Chinese workers will gain some skills on the assembly line and then they'll protest for and get higher pay or better working conditions.
Of course they will only get higher pay until the cost exceeds the cost of jumping to the new third world nation. Then they'll be screwed just like the manufacturing workers in the first world.
Sure globalization benefits everyone, it just doesn't do it evenly, and it does it on a glacial scale.
Off Topic: I know who the "first world" is. I know who the "third world" is. One thing always bothered me. Who's the "second world"?
Or you could even patronize the GNU Press.
Well not if you actually wanted a book on Autoconf, Automake or Libtool. None of those are available.
As an American, I've never really had a problem playing the Germans or the Japanese in WWII games. As someone said, you get a joy out of playing the bad guys. The thing about playing the bad guys is, you know you're the bad guys. It's pretend. You're really good, but you're just pretending to be bad. I imagine, there's an identity issue when you know, deep down, you are the bad guy. You're not necessarily bad yourself, but you're one of the bad guys, and that's unescapable.
/.ers about this (The Japanese wouldn't necessarily have the same insight, as the Japanese have never trully admitted to what happened during the war ("comfort women" anyone?).). Intellectually, you know the Nazis are one of the most horrendous groups in history, yet good ol' gramps fought in the war for them, and he's not a bad guy. I imagine there's a disconnect there, and I'd like to hear more about it.
I'd like to hear from some of the German
smith copied himself onto bane, an unplugged character -then- uploaded himself through the hardline. putting himself in bane's shoes initially is the actual leap in science for scifi fans. how could Smith do that when in M1 it was established that agents could only jump into plugged-in people?
Well bane was effectively plugged into the matrix when he jumped into bane. The connections on the ships and the connections in the farms can be assumed to be essentially the same, after all they do the exact same thing. The real question is, why didn't the agents just do this in the beginning?
I remember playing with the Atari Lynx one summer when I was at geek camp. The Lynx blew me away. Sega also had a color portable, the Gamegear (I thought the Gamegear was the first color screen portable, but I guess I was wrong.), but there was simply no comparison. The Gamegear's screen would quickly blur out, making playing impossible. Compounding the problem, the included cartridge (Yes little boys, there was once a time when you bought a console/portable and not only got two controllers, memory (granted it was built in to the cartridge...), and a game sometimes two.) was Sonic the Hedgehog also known as the the fastetest platform game around. You simply couldn't play the game at any real speed. It was like playing blind, or on faith. ("Run for three seconds, then A! Stop. Okay. Run. Stop. Where am I? Okay. Run. Shit what happened? Oh I fell off.")
The Lynx on the other hand had a crisp screen. You could actually PLAY the games. No blur out. The pixels would actually refresh at a decent rate. It was great. Alas the lynx died, but it was the best portable for YEARS. (I don't know about the Gameboy Advances, but the previous Gameboys were basically just the 1989 version made thiner, with a crapy 3 color screen.)
I can't expect all individuals to act in a community minded way, but I'm glad Xouvert won't be encouraging this counter productive behaviour.
I don't see how it's counter productive to provide binaryonly drivers. If you don't want to use them, then don't. Nothing stops someone from making a Free driver. Hell sometimes the Free drivers provide support for things that the "official" drivers don't. (i.e. disabling macrovision)
I have nothing against Free software per se. I just have something against things not working.
you want good graphics performance but you didn't check to see if the card is supported before spending $400?
This is core problem with linux and other Free operating systems. Hardware support ALWAYS lags, and sometimes isn't even fully supported. Why should I not by the best thing out there? Most people like things to work!
The stuff about the $400 card is just an example for X. The actual card I have is a matrox g450 that doesn't have 3d acceleration support when xinerama is enabled. Funny. I don't have any problem running dual heads and then firing up Unreal, so 3d acceleration in this mode is supported in hardware. Also when I got the card, I had to use Matrox's drivers because the Free drivers didn't support xinerama AT ALL. Eventually they did, but it was buggy as hell. I don't think TV out is supported by the Free drivers at all.
The rant I posted on my website was in response to the fact that I had to PATCH THE KERNEL in order to get my Sony DSC-F707 camera to be supported as a usb storage device. (You change an hex number in 'unusual_devs.h'.) That is the power of linux. Oops. Free Software and GNU/Linux.
Fuck downloading windows drivers. I'm scouring google and PATCHING MY KERNEL! Oooo boy!
My biggest worry about this fork was that the developers were going to announce a "practical" approach to drivers, one that would include non-free drivers etc.
I would much rather have a $400 video card that is stuck in VESA mode with software rendering, than having one that is fully supported, because having source code that fully support the card, is far more important than such triviality as having something that works!
"Vector Graphics Display"? It's an oscilloscope. Instead of just using a standard raster display, and using tried and true vector-raster algorithms, you're supposed to use an oscilloscope. While I'm sure there are people here that own one or more oscilloscopes, I have only met one person that owned an oscilloscope, and he got that one for free because it was flakey.
While there's plenty of geeks who'd like to old school it up with this, requiring them to shell out $500+ dollars for an oscilloscope instead of just using an old VGA monitor or even the TV (to complete the old school feel) is just pointlessly limiting your market.
Something like this has been done before, only with something much more evil, Microsoft Barney. While the hacked Barney doesn't have freeform language, it does have freeform movement and can be remotely controlled.
Microsoft Barney isn't too bad. In fact, it can be pretty cool.
Contrary to their names, the north and south bridges do not actually lie to the north or the south. Nor are they bridges. They're actually tunnels to the east and west.
*Yes, yes, you can be a gamer _and_ a Linux user you know.
:)
Just not at the same time.
I just don't cosmic ray variation would account for more than half of the 20th century's climatic change. The variation just wouldn't be that great given the fact that the solar system simply hasn't moved very far in 100 years.
I'm just waiting for the antiscience republicans to jump on this. "See? Here's a study that says that cosmic rays cause climate change. Not greenhouse gases! See we were right to censor the EPA's report that global warming was primarly caused through human activity. Now let's continue with our report on how nicotine is not addictive, and creation science in our schools".
autofill doesn't understand how to fill two dimensions. autofill doesn't replace entries. Give me manual fill-right and fill-down any day.
Also dragging cells doesn't always figure out how to change the functions correctly.
excel is much better in these respects.
as some one who is from southern illinois, and lives in carbondale, I have to say you are shit.
I assume you're making light of the Pyramid Apparment fire back in '92. Since the 10 year aniversary past just last Decemeber, it got a writeup in the DE. The case is still open. There is a suspect, but not enough evidence for an arrest. He was a resident of the building. He has left the country. Given the fact that the apartment building was popular with international students, and the suspect left the country, wouldn't it bne incredibly likely that it was "a damn foriegner us hicks hate"?
Why do I even bother replying to ACs?
If Kazaa plans on making money from using other people's bandwidth, isn't that going to be in violation of some ISP's service agreements? I know my ISP prohibts "commercial" use, so if I share files and for which I am paid in some form, wouldn't that in violation of that agreement?
You're not getting paid. Kazza, RIAA, and MPAA are. You're just their unwitting distribution agent. You do the work. They take the money. PERFECT!
What is it with you Americans and Monopoly?
Everyone has played it, and most people don't have any imagination to try something new. The worst part is, the game is boring, and takes days to play to completion.
Growing up, my favorite boardgame was Scotland Yard. 5 detectives run around trying to catch Mr. X. A great mix of cooperative and competitive play. Fun, and doesn't take hours to play.
Now my personal favorite boardgame (as a concept, not play value) is the 1980's version of "Life". You go to college Get a job. Get married. Have 1.5 kids. Then at the end you decide whether you're going to retire to the house in the suburbs or try the alternate route and go for a million dollars and live in the mansion. If you don't get a million dollars, you lose. Even if you have more money than anyone else, you still lose.
The current version eliminated the "big gamble", so if you end the game with a million dollars you go the mansion, if not you go to the house in the suburbs.
Still the winner is the one with the most money. A wonderful game for children. Perhaps I should make one where you have to exploit workers, bust unions, dismantel health and safety regulations, and bribe politicians...
There are two problems with the questec system. First, it does nothing. You can't overrule a call. It doesn't markedly better than humans. It's not even used to determine who calls the World Series. Yet, the umpires are being held up to the machine. Therefore, it superfluous at best, and a distraction at worse.
Secondly (and here's the real rub) a questec ball/strike isn't necessarily a legal ball/strike. The rule is that the ball must cross the plate. The questec system only checks where the ball is in relation to the front of the plate. If the ball tails over the plate later, questec call is it a ball, but it's legally a strike. A real umpire knows this. The machine doesn't. That was
the whole point Curt Shilling was making.
Yet another craptacular thing brought to baseball by Bud Selig -- The Man with the Reverse Midas Touch.
please tell me what was taken out of xenosaga? And isn't the game just cutscenes? :)
Have our neighbors down under become infested with Klingons?
:P
Dude! Klingons have magenta blood. Vulcans have green blood.
(placing the L-sign on my forhead) LOOOSER!
Imagine if you could join in an existing Space Program to build ISS, online, and participate in it somehow
Really? Why? Have you ever watched NASA-TV? It's incredibly boring and tedious. Why would you want that? Why would you want to be one of the 20 that sit in mission control and monitor telemetry. There's no science. Nothing new. Nothing exciting.
Look I've been to Space Camp/Academy twice. While there I took part in three "missions". Once as part of the crew (I was the commander), and twice as part of mission control (orbiter systems officer, and launch gantry officer). Mission Control is BORING. You throw a couple of switches, and say "check", "nominal", and "go". That's it. If that's your idea of a good time, man...
The G4 I messed with at the Apple Store had X11 and xterm installed. Just use xterm dude.