Possibly, but conspiracy theories aside, I think the cartoon wasn't trying for "gang mentality" but more for trust in your friends and parents. I don't recall it being "blind" trust as the Dungeon Master was questioned at times, especially but not solely by Eric. Also, one of the major episodes was when the kids defied the DM and went after Vengar. This actually worked out pretty well in terms of problem solving (convincing the dragon Tiamat to help) and actually succeeding in their cause (capturing Vengar). However, their morals got the best of them and while they succeeded in their task, they (rightly, I think) chose not to kill the immobilized bad guy to get home. Moral: Feel free to go about things your own way, but try to do what's right, not always what you want.
So, sure, dissension is a wonderful trait of American freedoms, and no one ever said Eric didn't get to voice his own opinion. But there's no harm in teaching kids to respect their elders (the Dungeon Master) or support their friends.
Eric's character was spoiled, unfriendly, and a snob. I'd say rather than trying to make people feel like always going along with the group was a good thing, it was more that being an unqualified spoiled brat was not. It was a show for kids, not Farenheit 911.
As I recall from the episodes, Eric was reluctant to follow the group mostly for the simple reason that the Dungeon Master told them it was the right thing to do. While taking orders blindly from someone who claims to know best is not often a good solution, I think it had proved enough times that little DM was out for the good of the party and provided helpful knowledge. Not following because you're a coward or don't think it's safe may still be valid reasons to make your own way, but in a case where your leader has always lead you well and your solution is as unknown as your leader's, one might choose the leaders...
The video in thing was for troubleshooting, say, network issues on a computer when SSH/RDP isn't available. Hardware issues of any sort that would prevent a boot to allow SSH access would make a small video-in device handy.
I'd like to be able to carry my laptop to the server room and hook up a VGA input so I can view what's on the server's screen without either purchasing a KVM or lugging in a full external monitor. Sort of like a temporary slave function (or just a F-key that allows video in...I'm not all that bothered about the keyboard and mouse).
A virtual keypad (like one of those you can lay down in front of you) plugged into your virtual eyewear (that projects the screen onto your eye) would be a nice space-saver too. Everything wireless, computer the size of an iPod in your pocket.
Seriously, I've been seeing typing like this appear in blogs recently.
I've seen similar additions in cover letters. The exposure to English some foreign students have is...limited. "U got a spot for me at ur university?" does indeed happen.
In chess, if you know you're going to win (which is often the case, sometimes several moves before it happens), it's customary to offer a draw out of courtesy, rather than to drag out the inevitable. While Sony may be trying to use this analogy, from popular opinion it seems more like admitting defeat.
Other countries have more reason to launch against us than we do against them. We destroy cultures with our capitalism. We proclaim them religious zealots and kill them. We denounce leaders because of their treatment of their own people, while flushing our own ideals down the toilet. We call POWs enemy combatants so we can torture them.
We're lame. We've been an intruding, imperialist nation in a world for a long time now, and other countries are finally getting sick of it. We need to change our policies, curb our corporate growth, and clean up our act. I hope we don't get nuked by a small country we pissed off, because the rest of the world will just say, "They deserved it."
I'm pro-America. But I feel like we're being led (and have been led for a long time) towards an anti-American goal.
What's Yahoo supposed to do when faced with a subpoena from the Chinese Government? Tell the Chinese the US Government thinks you're douchebags and so we're not really gonna give you what you want? Sure, that'll work real well.
They leave. China's a large market and I suppose a little tongue-lashing from a US kettle, I mean congressperson), about morality isn't going to bother them overmuch. The bad press they'll get over it is important to them however. Just look at Microsoft's market share after all the bad publicity they've gotten over the years...
I'm really not firming up my point here. Hold on...
Okay, a "moral" company would not help an immoral state. However, the line between helping a state and helping the people of the state is tricky. Yahoo is useful for dissidents and non-dissidents alike so to pull out is a bad thing. But if the choice comes between pulling out to save one person or continuing on to assist a country of people...it's not black and white.
The least they could've done was go on strike though...
Oh, no question American cars are more about American style (big and bold), and possibly torque.:-) I don't know much about Harleys other than they're expensive and generally made to be loud. Not really a performer. I'm surprised about the seat though...I guess making it uncomfortable reminds you that you're a tough guy riding a mean bike. (I kid.) I'm a little surprised the one you rode had such poor performance (not just speed, but acceleration, turning, etc), I'd never heard that about the bikes.
You'll see less American car commercials focusing on $2000 off! and more on style (as in style, not being extraneous) and even economy. The newer Ford fusion, while still a Ford, is at least a step in the right direction: clean lines, gets more than 20 MPG (if only just). American cars are generally cheaply made and cheaply bought. American trucks however still dominate the market, with a couple strong entries from Toyota and Nissan. This is our market... as the song goes.
And, you know, Americans are, err, more full-figured these days. If you give us some small, zippy car, it won't be that zippy after we sit down in it.
America's a different market. Up until recently, generally speaking, people wanted technology put into performance, not efficiency. You can have both (Tesla) but it will cost you. People from the Union of Concerned Scientists preach that with products available today, you can increase the fuel efficiency of any automobile on the market by 30-80% depending on the auto. Auto manufacturers are only just getting around to it because, finally, gas prices are high enough that Americans are asking for it.
As for Harley's: it's a taste. Like buying the biggest pickup truck you can find and jacking it up to 12 feet in the air. Or owning a hummer. Or a Ferrari for that matter. Now you might say, "a Ferrari? That's cool though!" Sez you. Still gets less than 10 mpg, you can't ever really use its speed without risk of getting caught, so you have an expensive, fuel quaffing car that looks pretty.
Personally, I hate Harleys. People make them loud as a cannon, drive down your road at 6 in the morning to go to work. "Loud pipes save lives," they say, which is utter crap because I can't even hear the tractor trailer next to me with my windows up, how the heck am I going to hear you coming up behind me? Whatever, it's a feeling of power thing, I gather, sitting on a big rumbling beast of metal.
On the topic of public rudeness, we should be able to jam the internet when people take Internet Anonymity as a right to be overly flippant. Let's see, Swiss army knife here...just need to find the right cable....What town do you live in again?
I don't see the experiment concerning running a human through giant laboratory mazes with potentially deadly pitfalls. Armed only with pogo shoes and a trans-dimensional gun, the person is forced to dodge machine gun fire, suffer taunting quips from the AI running the experiments, and even commit fratricide. I will say that the carrot at the end of the stick, the Portal Song, does make the reward outweigh the risk.
Keep simple access logs, and viola, you're protected.
This is the RIAA. Is that a stringed instrument I hear you're distributing over wifi? Copyrighted. Pay up. We'd go after your ISP too, but they've already paid us off. Same as Starbucks.
Customers are stupid, and only look at the up-front cost of the phone, and not how much it costs them over time with monthly fees, so AT&T and Apple make more profit by jacking up their monthly fees.
Yes. There was a contest recently that if you won, you received a free iPhone. Since it's useless without a $50/month service...
A single-carrier for a phone is a problem for people who want the phone but aren't on that carrier. Apple has cut such a sweet deal by allowing only AT&T to carry the iPhone, that it's not a problem for them. I imagine if they made the phone available to any network, they wouldn't get the per phone fees they do from AT&T.
Whats being insinuated by people is they will do number 3, based on Apples practice with AT&T.
What was the final outcome of Apple's firmware update? Did they actually send out an update that rendered hacked iPhones unusable on purpose? Or was it just an update like any other, but because of the nature of the hack, your iPhone would rendered unusable? Could you choose not to allow Apple to update the phone and still have it remain usable, or would the service not work because your phone wasn't updated? If you reflashed with the original firmware, was your phone usable and updatable again?
Just wondering whether Apple went out of its way to kill unlocked iPhones, or if it was just the hack combined with a normal patch that made the phone unusable. As a developer, it makes sense to create your patches to work with the product you supplied, not adjust them to work with a hacked product. But if they could have done a proper patch and not unlocked phones inoperative, then that's "evil".
I run TF2 in 1680x1050 with a GeForce 6800GS Overclocked-out-of-the-box. Never skips, never gets busy, no artifacts. My processor is a single core Athlon (somewhere in the 3.2 GHz range). 2 GB of memory. It's not a "new" box by any means, but I haven't found a game that doesn't run on full (except FEAR with some of the most advanced features) graphics.
Charging back would hurt those companies, not Valve/Steam, in fact it probably helps Steam as it makes the boxed version a less attractive proposition for both buyers and sellers.
If you charge back Walmart or whatever, they'll show their ire to Valve by either not allowing their game any shelf space, or charging them a fee for returned merchandise that isn't the user's fault.
And if you download it from steam, well you can just charge back Valve.
The end of the first "map" on Portal is worth the whole game.
And my favorite quote (I paraphrase):
"Here at Aperture Technologies, we're bound by regulations to inform you that further progression through the training is very dangerous and may result in pain or physical disability, such as death."
Firstly they would need to buy new hardware, the obvious choice is to go to Linux since you can keep your hardware.
If hardware was the only factor, then sure. But the MacOS, as a desktop operating system, is on par with Windows usability. Linux, sadly, is still not.
I mentioned the other day to a colleague that it would have been useful for all involved if a 100% GUI OS had held off for another decade or two, so people would learn better what they're doing with a computer. I think another generation of command line installation and setup would've done wonders for understanding of the machines.
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Possibly, but conspiracy theories aside, I think the cartoon wasn't trying for "gang mentality" but more for trust in your friends and parents. I don't recall it being "blind" trust as the Dungeon Master was questioned at times, especially but not solely by Eric. Also, one of the major episodes was when the kids defied the DM and went after Vengar. This actually worked out pretty well in terms of problem solving (convincing the dragon Tiamat to help) and actually succeeding in their cause (capturing Vengar). However, their morals got the best of them and while they succeeded in their task, they (rightly, I think) chose not to kill the immobilized bad guy to get home. Moral: Feel free to go about things your own way, but try to do what's right, not always what you want.
So, sure, dissension is a wonderful trait of American freedoms, and no one ever said Eric didn't get to voice his own opinion. But there's no harm in teaching kids to respect their elders (the Dungeon Master) or support their friends.
Eric's character was spoiled, unfriendly, and a snob. I'd say rather than trying to make people feel like always going along with the group was a good thing, it was more that being an unqualified spoiled brat was not. It was a show for kids, not Farenheit 911.
As I recall from the episodes, Eric was reluctant to follow the group mostly for the simple reason that the Dungeon Master told them it was the right thing to do. While taking orders blindly from someone who claims to know best is not often a good solution, I think it had proved enough times that little DM was out for the good of the party and provided helpful knowledge. Not following because you're a coward or don't think it's safe may still be valid reasons to make your own way, but in a case where your leader has always lead you well and your solution is as unknown as your leader's, one might choose the leaders...
The video in thing was for troubleshooting, say, network issues on a computer when SSH/RDP isn't available. Hardware issues of any sort that would prevent a boot to allow SSH access would make a small video-in device handy.
I'd like to be able to carry my laptop to the server room and hook up a VGA input so I can view what's on the server's screen without either purchasing a KVM or lugging in a full external monitor. Sort of like a temporary slave function (or just a F-key that allows video in...I'm not all that bothered about the keyboard and mouse).
A virtual keypad (like one of those you can lay down in front of you) plugged into your virtual eyewear (that projects the screen onto your eye) would be a nice space-saver too. Everything wireless, computer the size of an iPod in your pocket.
hu kars so lng as u cn reed it?
Seriously, I've been seeing typing like this appear in blogs recently.
I've seen similar additions in cover letters. The exposure to English some foreign students have is...limited. "U got a spot for me at ur university?" does indeed happen.
It has already been shown that descendants of traditionally short ethnicities grow wider when raised in the United States.
Fixed.
In chess, if you know you're going to win (which is often the case, sometimes several moves before it happens), it's customary to offer a draw out of courtesy, rather than to drag out the inevitable. While Sony may be trying to use this analogy, from popular opinion it seems more like admitting defeat.
Other countries have more reason to launch against us than we do against them. We destroy cultures with our capitalism. We proclaim them religious zealots and kill them. We denounce leaders because of their treatment of their own people, while flushing our own ideals down the toilet. We call POWs enemy combatants so we can torture them.
We're lame. We've been an intruding, imperialist nation in a world for a long time now, and other countries are finally getting sick of it. We need to change our policies, curb our corporate growth, and clean up our act. I hope we don't get nuked by a small country we pissed off, because the rest of the world will just say, "They deserved it."
I'm pro-America. But I feel like we're being led (and have been led for a long time) towards an anti-American goal.
but don't they have a team of engineers involved to make sure things like this don't happen
Perhaps, on the MIT campus, they couldn't find one?
What's Yahoo supposed to do when faced with a subpoena from the Chinese Government?
Tell the Chinese the US Government thinks you're douchebags and so we're not really gonna give you what you want?
Sure, that'll work real well.
They leave. China's a large market and I suppose a little tongue-lashing from a US kettle, I mean congressperson), about morality isn't going to bother them overmuch. The bad press they'll get over it is important to them however. Just look at Microsoft's market share after all the bad publicity they've gotten over the years...
I'm really not firming up my point here. Hold on...
Okay, a "moral" company would not help an immoral state. However, the line between helping a state and helping the people of the state is tricky. Yahoo is useful for dissidents and non-dissidents alike so to pull out is a bad thing. But if the choice comes between pulling out to save one person or continuing on to assist a country of people...it's not black and white.
The least they could've done was go on strike though...
Oh, no question American cars are more about American style (big and bold), and possibly torque. :-) I don't know much about Harleys other than they're expensive and generally made to be loud. Not really a performer. I'm surprised about the seat though...I guess making it uncomfortable reminds you that you're a tough guy riding a mean bike. (I kid.) I'm a little surprised the one you rode had such poor performance (not just speed, but acceleration, turning, etc), I'd never heard that about the bikes.
You'll see less American car commercials focusing on $2000 off! and more on style (as in style, not being extraneous) and even economy. The newer Ford fusion, while still a Ford, is at least a step in the right direction: clean lines, gets more than 20 MPG (if only just). American cars are generally cheaply made and cheaply bought. American trucks however still dominate the market, with a couple strong entries from Toyota and Nissan. This is our market... as the song goes.
And, you know, Americans are, err, more full-figured these days. If you give us some small, zippy car, it won't be that zippy after we sit down in it.
America's a different market. Up until recently, generally speaking, people wanted technology put into performance, not efficiency. You can have both (Tesla) but it will cost you. People from the Union of Concerned Scientists preach that with products available today, you can increase the fuel efficiency of any automobile on the market by 30-80% depending on the auto. Auto manufacturers are only just getting around to it because, finally, gas prices are high enough that Americans are asking for it.
As for Harley's: it's a taste. Like buying the biggest pickup truck you can find and jacking it up to 12 feet in the air. Or owning a hummer. Or a Ferrari for that matter. Now you might say, "a Ferrari? That's cool though!" Sez you. Still gets less than 10 mpg, you can't ever really use its speed without risk of getting caught, so you have an expensive, fuel quaffing car that looks pretty.
Personally, I hate Harleys. People make them loud as a cannon, drive down your road at 6 in the morning to go to work. "Loud pipes save lives," they say, which is utter crap because I can't even hear the tractor trailer next to me with my windows up, how the heck am I going to hear you coming up behind me? Whatever, it's a feeling of power thing, I gather, sitting on a big rumbling beast of metal.
Check again dumbass...
On the topic of public rudeness, we should be able to jam the internet when people take Internet Anonymity as a right to be overly flippant. Let's see, Swiss army knife here...just need to find the right cable....What town do you live in again?
I don't see the experiment concerning running a human through giant laboratory mazes with potentially deadly pitfalls. Armed only with pogo shoes and a trans-dimensional gun, the person is forced to dodge machine gun fire, suffer taunting quips from the AI running the experiments, and even commit fratricide. I will say that the carrot at the end of the stick, the Portal Song, does make the reward outweigh the risk.
Keep simple access logs, and viola, you're protected.
This is the RIAA. Is that a stringed instrument I hear you're distributing over wifi? Copyrighted. Pay up. We'd go after your ISP too, but they've already paid us off. Same as Starbucks.
Customers are stupid, and only look at the up-front cost of the phone, and not how much it costs them over time with monthly fees, so AT&T and Apple make more profit by jacking up their monthly fees.
Yes. There was a contest recently that if you won, you received a free iPhone. Since it's useless without a $50/month service...
My company policy doesn't allow posting on community forums.
A single-carrier for a phone is a problem for people who want the phone but aren't on that carrier. Apple has cut such a sweet deal by allowing only AT&T to carry the iPhone, that it's not a problem for them. I imagine if they made the phone available to any network, they wouldn't get the per phone fees they do from AT&T.
Whats being insinuated by people is they will do number 3, based on Apples practice with AT&T.
What was the final outcome of Apple's firmware update? Did they actually send out an update that rendered hacked iPhones unusable on purpose? Or was it just an update like any other, but because of the nature of the hack, your iPhone would rendered unusable? Could you choose not to allow Apple to update the phone and still have it remain usable, or would the service not work because your phone wasn't updated? If you reflashed with the original firmware, was your phone usable and updatable again?
Just wondering whether Apple went out of its way to kill unlocked iPhones, or if it was just the hack combined with a normal patch that made the phone unusable. As a developer, it makes sense to create your patches to work with the product you supplied, not adjust them to work with a hacked product. But if they could have done a proper patch and not unlocked phones inoperative, then that's "evil".
I run TF2 in 1680x1050 with a GeForce 6800GS Overclocked-out-of-the-box. Never skips, never gets busy, no artifacts. My processor is a single core Athlon (somewhere in the 3.2 GHz range). 2 GB of memory. It's not a "new" box by any means, but I haven't found a game that doesn't run on full (except FEAR with some of the most advanced features) graphics.
You're so nailed for copyright infringement.
Boo.
AH!
Charging back would hurt those companies, not Valve/Steam, in fact it probably helps Steam as it makes the boxed version a less attractive proposition for both buyers and sellers.
If you charge back Walmart or whatever, they'll show their ire to Valve by either not allowing their game any shelf space, or charging them a fee for returned merchandise that isn't the user's fault.
And if you download it from steam, well you can just charge back Valve.
The end of the first "map" on Portal is worth the whole game.
And my favorite quote (I paraphrase):
"Here at Aperture Technologies, we're bound by regulations to inform you that further progression through the training is very dangerous and may result in pain or physical disability, such as death."
Firstly they would need to buy new hardware, the obvious choice is to go to Linux since you can keep your hardware.
If hardware was the only factor, then sure. But the MacOS, as a desktop operating system, is on par with Windows usability. Linux, sadly, is still not.
I mentioned the other day to a colleague that it would have been useful for all involved if a 100% GUI OS had held off for another decade or two, so people would learn better what they're doing with a computer. I think another generation of command line installation and setup would've done wonders for understanding of the machines.
We have a hard enough time using CARP never mind specifying servers that just read or just write. I need to take a class. ;-)