Hah, wish I had mod points (but then I'd have to choose between "funny" and "insightful").
Deus Ex was one of the best games ever made, IMO. You'd think given that opinion, I'd have played Deus Ex: Invisible War even if it was mediocre, but I gave up on it after a couple hours. I guess I realized there are a ton of shooters out there, so why would I want to play one that can't even come up with its own original ideas (ie it was a mediocre shooter based on an amazing first person RPG).
Honestly, Bioshock did the same thing - dumbed down the RPG elements and created a very linear story line (admittedly with an extremely well written story). I guess that's the future of "first person RPGs" in the age of the "next gen console". Gotta be accessible to the masses...
This guy was talking about *money* - the whole point of my analogy was using brokerage accounts, where you have exchanged your actual *money* for stock, which is basically a completely virtual item based on people's perception of the worth of the company. If you invest in a public company that runs virtual worlds using real money in the economy, and that company tanks because it turns out their economy has collapsed... how is that any different from losing your money on the virtual collapse vs the stock collapse? (Well, I can answer that partly - with a "real" stock you have different channels of legal recourse vs the virtual economy... but if the company goes down the tubes, you are probably SOL either way!)
Since when has Homeland Security used the LAW to detain, deport, investigate, or refuse entry the US?
Actually... I wouldn't be surprised if it was illegal in some states. In the 1950's in some states it was not only illegal to be a Communist, it was illegal to discuss Communism or even talk to a Communist. Amazing...
How is this modded "interesting"!? It's a stupid statement. They should be required to be content-agnostic on LEGAL content. Spam, worms, and DoS attacks are illegal, and thus should be blocked wherever possible. Miscellaneous P2P content (which is a really generic term anyway, they are actually blocking BitTorrent, but the same principle applies) is NOT illegal, so there is no good reason beyond their own business rules to interfere. And if they have not specifically stated in their TOS that they don't allow that traffic (and is THAT even legal for a supposedly "unlimited bandwidth" service?) I don't see how they can get away with what they are doing...
But you chose to play THE STOCK MARKET; nobody chose to play in life. Thus, the victim also shares some of the blame, when this happens inside THE STOCK MARKET.
So, if someone puts money in a brokerage account and it gets hacked, is it the victim's fault, too?
Big surprise, you're saying Comcast owns all of Philadelphia? Wow, that's so surprising considering how they own the city in many more ways than cable connectivity.
Also, your subject seems to be fairly contradictory to your whole post. As clearly stated in the US Constitution, interstate commerce - which clearly applies when, for example, CA gets a significant amount of electricity, natural gas, etc. from not only NV, CO, and WA, but also Canada - is the realm of the Federal government.
So yes, cable TV, Internet access, and electricity - these are clearly Federal issues.
Let's be honest though - Java is a shortcut - and primary reason anyone chooses to develop with it is portability and portability alone...
Hmm, I would strongly disagree. Portability is a factor, but ease of development and security are huge factors for Java on a cell phone (or any platform!) Would you allow any native application/ActiveX control to run in your web browser?
Sounds like they just took a bunch of concepts from Rubin's last company and put them on a Linux platform using more open-source libraries for the middleware (Freetype, SQL Lite, etc).
Danger (aka Sidekick aka HipTop) is based on a custom Java VM as well, and allows developers to write apps for it using a Java SDK. What they don't have is Google's massive marketing machine...
This has to be one of the stupidest things ever posted! Someone was paid big bucks by Google to make a sound like a bad scat musician on... oh nevermind, it's not even worth completing the joke.
You can clearly see you are wrong by just looking at prices in the aggregate (ie whole computer systems, ie all computer components put together - CPU, memory, HDD, GPU, display...). A top of the line laptop from 5 years ago was twice what a top of the line laptop costs today. Desktop computers have undergone the same or more.
Of course, there will always be the early adopter/enthusiast/moron who wants to pay $600 for a graphics card. But if you are willing to settle for 2/3 the performance at 1/3 the price, mainstream PC hardware is a LOT cheaper than it used to be.
All it takes is for centos.org to buy 1 support license for RHEL and then it's effectively the same thing.
Red Hat obviously understands this, and it isn't worth $1000 a year in extra revenue for all the ill will it would generate if they made it harder to acquire their source RPMs.
He said "realistically", and I would imagine that means "financially and otherwise optimal". Routing address lines is much more expensive than a few more 1-transistor DRAM cells (no one was talking about NAND flash - these days manufacturers lie about that as much as they do magnetic storage). So if they can get 24 more bits per 10 bits of address space with just 24 more transistors, why the hell not?
Who cares about how it's addressed? We are talking about efficiency of DATA storage, not addressing.
It's not related to trademark infringement, and though Comcast clearly practices false advertising of their own product, it in no way mentions either of those companies. So unfortunately I don't think it's really relevant...
I don't know, it's been scientifically proven that Freud was a geek... Sigmund Freud: You seem to be suffering from a mild case of hysteria. Girl at Mall: You are such a geek! [walks off with her friend] Billy the Kid: Way to go, egghead! Sigmund Freud: Wha...? Socrates: GEEK!
Wow, I guess that means the entire population of the Netherlands are geeks - or any country other than the US where we are impressed with anyone who knows more than 8th grade Spanish as a second language.
I really think people are misusing the term "geek" these days...
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Hah, wish I had mod points (but then I'd have to choose between "funny" and "insightful").
Deus Ex was one of the best games ever made, IMO. You'd think given that opinion, I'd have played Deus Ex: Invisible War even if it was mediocre, but I gave up on it after a couple hours. I guess I realized there are a ton of shooters out there, so why would I want to play one that can't even come up with its own original ideas (ie it was a mediocre shooter based on an amazing first person RPG).
Honestly, Bioshock did the same thing - dumbed down the RPG elements and created a very linear story line (admittedly with an extremely well written story). I guess that's the future of "first person RPGs" in the age of the "next gen console". Gotta be accessible to the masses...
"How the BSA Squeezes the Little Guys"
For a second I thought the title of this article was very, very disturbing.
Exactly!
This guy was talking about *money* - the whole point of my analogy was using brokerage accounts, where you have exchanged your actual *money* for stock, which is basically a completely virtual item based on people's perception of the worth of the company. If you invest in a public company that runs virtual worlds using real money in the economy, and that company tanks because it turns out their economy has collapsed... how is that any different from losing your money on the virtual collapse vs the stock collapse? (Well, I can answer that partly - with a "real" stock you have different channels of legal recourse vs the virtual economy... but if the company goes down the tubes, you are probably SOL either way!)
Ktorrent is just a BitTorrent client that uses KDE. Comcast blocks the BitTorrent PROTOCOL, who cares what UI you are using.
Since when has Homeland Security used the LAW to detain, deport, investigate, or refuse entry the US?
Actually... I wouldn't be surprised if it was illegal in some states. In the 1950's in some states it was not only illegal to be a Communist, it was illegal to discuss Communism or even talk to a Communist. Amazing...
How is this modded "interesting"!? It's a stupid statement. They should be required to be content-agnostic on LEGAL content. Spam, worms, and DoS attacks are illegal, and thus should be blocked wherever possible. Miscellaneous P2P content (which is a really generic term anyway, they are actually blocking BitTorrent, but the same principle applies) is NOT illegal, so there is no good reason beyond their own business rules to interfere. And if they have not specifically stated in their TOS that they don't allow that traffic (and is THAT even legal for a supposedly "unlimited bandwidth" service?) I don't see how they can get away with what they are doing...
But you chose to play THE STOCK MARKET; nobody chose to play in life. Thus, the victim also shares some of the blame, when this happens inside THE STOCK MARKET.
So, if someone puts money in a brokerage account and it gets hacked, is it the victim's fault, too?
Big surprise, you're saying Comcast owns all of Philadelphia? Wow, that's so surprising considering how they own the city in many more ways than cable connectivity.
Also, your subject seems to be fairly contradictory to your whole post. As clearly stated in the US Constitution, interstate commerce - which clearly applies when, for example, CA gets a significant amount of electricity, natural gas, etc. from not only NV, CO, and WA, but also Canada - is the realm of the Federal government.
So yes, cable TV, Internet access, and electricity - these are clearly Federal issues.
Let's be honest though - Java is a shortcut - and primary reason anyone chooses to develop with it is portability and portability alone...
Hmm, I would strongly disagree. Portability is a factor, but ease of development and security are huge factors for Java on a cell phone (or any platform!) Would you allow any native application/ActiveX control to run in your web browser?
A 1983 MSRP of $595 is almost $2000 in 2007 dollars... so, yes! ;-P
Come on, you aren't going to show up on metacritic with a rating system like that!
Rachet and Clank received a 10.5/10 from some much more reliable and unbiased sources...
http://www.sonydefenseforce.com/?p=301
Sounds like they just took a bunch of concepts from Rubin's last company and put them on a Linux platform using more open-source libraries for the middleware (Freetype, SQL Lite, etc).
Danger (aka Sidekick aka HipTop) is based on a custom Java VM as well, and allows developers to write apps for it using a Java SDK. What they don't have is Google's massive marketing machine...
This has to be one of the stupidest things ever posted! Someone was paid big bucks by Google to make a sound like a bad scat musician on... oh nevermind, it's not even worth completing the joke.
Well there's you problem... who ever heard of FRUIT at a Mongolian barbeque!?
That won't work, Cheney will just make Google blur it out!
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1+Observatory+Cir+NW,+Washington,+DC+20008,+USA&ie=UTF8&ll=38.921348,-77.063322&spn=0.001252,0.001971&t=k&z=19&iwloc=addr&om=1
You can clearly see you are wrong by just looking at prices in the aggregate (ie whole computer systems, ie all computer components put together - CPU, memory, HDD, GPU, display...). A top of the line laptop from 5 years ago was twice what a top of the line laptop costs today. Desktop computers have undergone the same or more.
Of course, there will always be the early adopter/enthusiast/moron who wants to pay $600 for a graphics card. But if you are willing to settle for 2/3 the performance at 1/3 the price, mainstream PC hardware is a LOT cheaper than it used to be.
Not just the best Flash game, but possibly the best use of flash in the history of time!
http://www.homestarrunner.com/disk4of12.html
All it takes is for centos.org to buy 1 support license for RHEL and then it's effectively the same thing.
Red Hat obviously understands this, and it isn't worth $1000 a year in extra revenue for all the ill will it would generate if they made it harder to acquire their source RPMs.
He said "realistically", and I would imagine that means "financially and otherwise optimal". Routing address lines is much more expensive than a few more 1-transistor DRAM cells (no one was talking about NAND flash - these days manufacturers lie about that as much as they do magnetic storage). So if they can get 24 more bits per 10 bits of address space with just 24 more transistors, why the hell not?
Who cares about how it's addressed? We are talking about efficiency of DATA storage, not addressing.
WHOOSH! Right over your head it goes...
It's not related to trademark infringement, and though Comcast clearly practices false advertising of their own product, it in no way mentions either of those companies. So unfortunately I don't think it's really relevant...
I don't know, it's been scientifically proven that Freud was a geek...
Sigmund Freud: You seem to be suffering from a mild case of hysteria.
Girl at Mall: You are such a geek!
[walks off with her friend]
Billy the Kid: Way to go, egghead!
Sigmund Freud: Wha...?
Socrates: GEEK!
Wow, I guess that means the entire population of the Netherlands are geeks - or any country other than the US where we are impressed with anyone who knows more than 8th grade Spanish as a second language.
I really think people are misusing the term "geek" these days...
Or to summarize: the only sex he's going to have in the next 10 years isn't likely to lead to any children...
Problem is, you haven't mentioned a control group. Has crime in Amish country gone up or down?