... was travelling all around the world and associated to many jihadists.
We may not know all the details but the bit we know seems to be enough to warrant the harsh sentence (and the judge lamented he could not give a longer one, so the evidence must have been quite damning, not just a bit of paper, which is what the sensationalist press is highlighting).
Solaris is free and runs in out of the shelf machines (several big companies, like HP, are happy to provide harwdare support in their boxes running Solaris).
If you don'w want support, the cost to you is zero (I wonder how much support they will get from MS if they are a small shop).
And Solaris 10 is now perhaps the most advanced (and resilient) OS you can get for free (you get easy to configure quasi virtual machines out of the box).
.... is not part of living in the real world, yeah, you are absolutely right.
Many people will experience the thrill of problem solving for a very few precious years while they are students. After that life will be a routinary exercise in which the knowledge of the ancient is not used at all.
My goodness, trigonometry is deeply embeded in the history of civilizations and culture. No wonder we repeat history's mistakes: we are always finding excuses to avoid learning something tha "will not be useful".
What a shame that there are people so materialistic. While I go through my bills I may not need to use trigonometry, but heck, I remember fondly how well it felt to solve thos problems. It gave me a sense of achievement, a sense that I was cleverer than I thought.
But nooooo, it is not useful. But repeating "do you want ketchup with that" in a neutral English accent is I suppose.
It is not cheap. Monopolies, in case you did not know, raise the costs of the goods and services you use because they stiffle any meaningful competition/
In any case, it is a well nknown fact in the industry, specially when it comes to directory services, that, technical merits aside, MS solutions are more expensive per seat. Also you need more System Administrators given the restrictions of MS operating systems and tools (when handling directory services the posibility of using proper scripting languages can be all the difference in the world, saving you real money).
Also aparent spped sacrifices flexibility, as well as apparent ease of use does.
Ease of use is fine for desktop users, for systmes administrators it is an straight jacket better avoided (and in today's regularoty climate, documenting point anc click colutions is becoming a nightmare, nothing compared with a few clean, fully codumentable scripts and configuration files about how you are implementing your name services).
Always looking for a silverback alpha male with the mantle of authority.
We monkies can't be bothered to read arguments and analyze them critically, we need to know the peg in which the other monkey is sitting to decide if we beat him or offer to groom him.
I recently bought one of these aberrations of pseudo CDs.
I put in on my office PC ( I have not owned CD player for at least 5 years) which runs Windows and it did not play.
I ejected it, went back to the shop and demanded a refund.
When asked the reason I simply said it does not play in my computer.
The salesperson told me, thinking he was insightful "that is to avoid people copying it" to which I retorted " I wan to play the CD, not to copy it".
They lost a sale, as simple as that. I wish most people will do likewise.I also took the trouble to write to the artist in question, their agents replyed and I had to lecture them in how they were making life difficult for their potential fans. What do you do when you are an artist in a niche market? Do you rise the barrier of entry to potential buyers or do you make it as easy as possible for them to enjoy your product?
I kind of understand if they try this shit with the best selling acts, but to insist on this with artists that will sell a handful of CDs is just madness.
Unless you are MS that is not bussiness. Pretty much any company that matters in the software industry has abandoned the idea of selling software per se and make money by providing services (customization, training, advice) and support (fixes, patch releases).
TO insist in making money just by selling software is childish and goes against the flow of the whole industry.
.... if companies (MS included) did not pretend all the time that the compnay is a surrogate family to which you have to give unconditional love and loyalty.
Many companies demand loyalty in many forms but then can't be arsed to give that back in the form of a little respect.
Altough people know what their obligations are they are not robots, you surely are not expecting that a place where you spend 1/3 of your time or more will no be the subcject of some emotional investment.
.... denying the blindingly obvious (that violent and explicit material should be regulated when it comes to children) I will do nothing, because gamers have obivously lost touch with reality.
If special interest lobbies are getting the best deals out of goverment it is because the popualce is perfectly happy with the situation as it stands.
But some people have difficulty accepting that people delegating some interventionist powers to a goverment (by omission od disinterest in many cases) is perfectly valid in a democratic system.
Children are not the regular populace. Their freedoms are coerced in many ways because most societies belive (rightly so in my opinion) that there are certain things a child can't handle because he lacks the experience.
The logic summersault that you take from controlling sales of adult material to children to banning books for everybody is frankly farsical.
No matter how many hours you watched those shows, it was glaringly obvious that the characters were fictional.
The closer the characters get to real people (and in games and of course movies this is astonishingly close) the faster imitation (an innate learning mechanism in children, but also in adults) takes place.
We have all heard many instances in which children get injured by donning a Superman cape and jumping from the window believing they are going to fly.
Other example, of which USian and other audiences may not be fully aware is wrestling. In Mexico wrestlers are quasi mytical people, I would say pretty much akin to superheroes (i.e. not taken seriously but by children). Children very often get injured trying to imitate these wrestlers. For 30 years the goverment took notice and banned wrestling on TV and the accidents came to an almost complete stop. Later in the late 80s wrestling was back on TV and the accidents began to happen again.
It is completely disingenous to mantain that children , that learn by imitation, will not be affected in any way if violence in some games is presented in a glamourized way reinforced by positive feedback (the more enemies you kill the more points you get).
... is cleare a "lets pretend" game. There is no way whatsoever that a child could understand that as a glamourazitaion of violence.
Violent games on the other hand depict graphical situations that resemble reality very closely.
You may be forgetting like primates (which is what we are ) learn by imitation, children are imitating all the time behaviour that seems socially acceptable.
If they play 3 or 4 hours a day a game that portrays as acceptable to solve all your problems by killing and maiming other people, in a plausibly realistic environment, how can you compare that againt cowboys and indians?
Gamers should get real and stop the denial. They have a responsability to stop any negative effects that gaming may have in society.
Children should not get adult material without a supervising adult, I don't care if that is a game, a movie or a magazine.
-Allow you to use their thechnology for "turn-key" auctions websites for niche-markets (i.e an auctins site for Londoners wanting to but books in Hungarian...).
-Associate with stock-bokers in order to auction financial goods and services.
-Make Pay-Pal a real bank.
etc.etc.etc
VoIP has nothing to do with their core bussiness, if I was a shareholder I would be asking a lot of questions....
Slashdot Mirror
... was travelling all around the world and associated to many jihadists.
We may not know all the details but the bit we know seems to be enough to warrant the harsh sentence (and the judge lamented he could not give a longer one, so the evidence must have been quite damning, not just a bit of paper, which is what the sensationalist press is highlighting).
Solaris is free and runs in out of the shelf machines (several big companies, like HP, are happy to provide harwdare support in their boxes running Solaris).
If you don'w want support, the cost to you is zero (I wonder how much support they will get from MS if they are a small shop).
And Solaris 10 is now perhaps the most advanced (and resilient) OS you can get for free (you get easy to configure quasi virtual machines out of the box).
.... is not part of living in the real world, yeah, you are absolutely right.
Many people will experience the thrill of problem solving for a very few precious years while they are students. After that life will be a routinary exercise in which the knowledge of the ancient is not used at all.
My goodness, trigonometry is deeply embeded in the history of civilizations and culture. No wonder we repeat history's mistakes: we are always finding excuses to avoid learning something tha "will not be useful".
What a shame that there are people so materialistic. While I go through my bills I may not need to use trigonometry, but heck, I remember fondly how well it felt to solve thos problems. It gave me a sense of achievement, a sense that I was cleverer than I thought.
But nooooo, it is not useful. But repeating "do you want ketchup with that" in a neutral English accent is I suppose.
Why do you need to lie?
Honestly.
It is not cheap. Monopolies, in case you did not know, raise the costs of the goods and services you use because they stiffle any meaningful competition/
In any case, it is a well nknown fact in the industry, specially when it comes to directory services, that, technical merits aside, MS solutions are more expensive per seat. Also you need more System Administrators given the restrictions of MS operating systems and tools (when handling directory services the posibility of using proper scripting languages can be all the difference in the world, saving you real money).
Also aparent spped sacrifices flexibility, as well as apparent ease of use does.
Ease of use is fine for desktop users, for systmes administrators it is an straight jacket better avoided (and in today's regularoty climate, documenting point anc click colutions is becoming a nightmare, nothing compared with a few clean, fully codumentable scripts and configuration files about how you are implementing your name services).
Always looking for a silverback alpha male with the mantle of authority.
We monkies can't be bothered to read arguments and analyze them critically, we need to know the peg in which the other monkey is sitting to decide if we beat him or offer to groom him.
http://www.electriccinema.co.uk/the-experience.php >The Electric cinema in London, UK does exactly that.
Imagine champagne in a comfy leather sofa watching a good film (cheaper than most Central London chains).
I recently bought one of these aberrations of pseudo CDs.
I put in on my office PC ( I have not owned CD player for at least 5 years) which runs Windows and it did not play.
I ejected it, went back to the shop and demanded a refund.
When asked the reason I simply said it does not play in my computer.
The salesperson told me, thinking he was insightful "that is to avoid people copying it" to which I retorted " I wan to play the CD, not to copy it".
They lost a sale, as simple as that. I wish most people will do likewise.I also took the trouble to write to the artist in question, their agents replyed and I had to lecture them in how they were making life difficult for their potential fans. What do you do when you are an artist in a niche market? Do you rise the barrier of entry to potential buyers or do you make it as easy as possible for them to enjoy your product?
I kind of understand if they try this shit with the best selling acts, but to insist on this with artists that will sell a handful of CDs is just madness.
... to point us to any well known project's web site where such language is used.
May I venture that you are quoting your own b.o.?
A binary file that is easily reproduceable?
Unless you are MS that is not bussiness. Pretty much any company that matters in the software industry has abandoned the idea of selling software per se and make money by providing services (customization, training, advice) and support (fixes, patch releases).
TO insist in making money just by selling software is childish and goes against the flow of the whole industry.
.... if companies (MS included) did not pretend all the time that the compnay is a surrogate family to which you have to give unconditional love and loyalty.
Many companies demand loyalty in many forms but then can't be arsed to give that back in the form of a little respect.
Altough people know what their obligations are they are not robots, you surely are not expecting that a place where you spend 1/3 of your time or more will no be the subcject of some emotional investment.
Movies may be based on books, that does not mean they should be textually accurate.
....
And again.
Movies may be based on books, that does not mean they should be textually accurate.
And agian.
Movies
They make an interesting point and then they let us salivating on the expectation of the nitty gritty details.
What are those oh so insightful cultural references in a movie where my greatest recollecion of it is of a vomiting (or was it shitting) mega worm?
Which are not necessarily the ones you are infering.
.... denying the blindingly obvious (that violent and explicit material should be regulated when it comes to children) I will do nothing, because gamers have obivously lost touch with reality.
.... gives that mandate to a goverment.
If special interest lobbies are getting the best deals out of goverment it is because the popualce is perfectly happy with the situation as it stands.
But some people have difficulty accepting that people delegating some interventionist powers to a goverment (by omission od disinterest in many cases) is perfectly valid in a democratic system.
Unfortunately society has not decided to control books in a similar way, perhaps given they iconic value as a cultural item.
Sorry, but you are completely out of place.
Children are not the regular populace. Their freedoms are coerced in many ways because most societies belive (rightly so in my opinion) that there are certain things a child can't handle because he lacks the experience.
The logic summersault that you take from controlling sales of adult material to children to banning books for everybody is frankly farsical.
No matter how many hours you watched those shows, it was glaringly obvious that the characters were fictional.
The closer the characters get to real people (and in games and of course movies this is astonishingly close) the faster imitation (an innate learning mechanism in children, but also in adults) takes place.
We have all heard many instances in which children get injured by donning a Superman cape and jumping from the window believing they are going to fly.
Other example, of which USian and other audiences may not be fully aware is wrestling. In Mexico wrestlers are quasi mytical people, I would say pretty much akin to superheroes (i.e. not taken seriously but by children). Children very often get injured trying to imitate these wrestlers. For 30 years the goverment took notice and banned wrestling on TV and the accidents came to an almost complete stop. Later in the late 80s wrestling was back on TV and the accidents began to happen again.
It is completely disingenous to mantain that children , that learn by imitation, will not be affected in any way if violence in some games is presented in a glamourized way reinforced by positive feedback (the more enemies you kill the more points you get).
... is cleare a "lets pretend" game. There is no way whatsoever that a child could understand that as a glamourazitaion of violence.
Violent games on the other hand depict graphical situations that resemble reality very closely.
You may be forgetting like primates (which is what we are ) learn by imitation, children are imitating all the time behaviour that seems socially acceptable.
If they play 3 or 4 hours a day a game that portrays as acceptable to solve all your problems by killing and maiming other people, in a plausibly realistic environment, how can you compare that againt cowboys and indians?
Gamers should get real and stop the denial. They have a responsability to stop any negative effects that gaming may have in society.
Children should not get adult material without a supervising adult, I don't care if that is a game, a movie or a magazine.
... and the stereotyping of Singaporeans was equaly perverse.
THe idiocity always was both ways and it is worth pointing that small detail out.
There are millions of things Ebay could do:
-Allow you to use their thechnology for "turn-key" auctions websites for niche-markets (i.e an auctins site for Londoners wanting to but books in Hungarian...).
-Associate with stock-bokers in order to auction financial goods and services.
-Make Pay-Pal a real bank.
etc.etc.etc
VoIP has nothing to do with their core bussiness, if I was a shareholder I would be asking a lot of questions....
What else do you need?
Turn the damn thing off while in a dnagerous situation (skiing, no matter how sloe you are, is inherintly dangerous).
For bunnies sakes, can't you unplug yourself from your gadgets and listen to the real world for 5 minutes?
Somebody using his brain to distinguish hype from need.
The nano comes with a shuffle function....