Thanks for writing that, and I for the most part completely agree with you, except for one point.
I probably didn't make myself clear enough (then again, trying to write a quick little thing while at work doesn't give me the ability to completely explain myself, just to overly generalize and touch on some main topics), but when I said "work together" I actually meant that exactly like that.
What happened under Saddam wasn't working together, at all. It was being stopped from killing each other by rather harsh means. So yeah, your point is as valid as mine, we're just looking at things from two different directions.
And kudos for your last paragraph:) I wish more people would learn to think for themselves and evaluate the world around them from an objective point of view. Alas, those people are rare:)
Despite what Microsoft thinks and how they're been acting in the past with all their 'standards'; Describing all the exceptions doesn't make something a standard. Describing them in the context of a non-standardized environment, makes it even less so.
Although I'm quite sure that Microsoft really doesn't give a and will push this through as 'their' standard that everyone else will have to adhere to to be able to do anything with Mickyshaft generated content anyway.
Whether ISO approves of this or not is inconsequential, the only thing that matters is that M$ can now say: Look, we proposed a standard, it's not our fault 'they' think it's not good enough.
When that actual war was fought, Bosnia didn't actually even exist yet. The reason it 'works' now is because that country was split up in several parts (Servia, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Montenegro, and it feels like I'm forgetting one)
These splits have been mostly made between ethnical group lines, and they're now moderately peacefully living together, although it's not exactly all 'pacified' yet.
Yes Gulf War II was a big disaster. However, if the situation ever stabilizes the Iraqis will have a chance to guide their own lives. China's policy in Tibet is to weaken the local populice by flooding the area with Han Chinese immigrants. I suspect that most Tibetans would like to control their own future if possible but at this point they'd be glad to just not watch as their culture is destroyed in front of their eyes. I don't see that kind of cultural assassination going on in Iraq.
Sorry.. I normally try to refrain from commenting on these kind of issues, since I'm European, and will be considered someone not knowledgable enough by a lot of people. But... I can't resist this time.
The US is actually doing *exactly* that in Iraq: Do things our "democratic" way or we'll stay here and keep killing people. You'd see this if you'd actually look at things happening from a distance. The current not-yet-civil war is a direct result of the US removing the one authority figure in charge, and trying to democratize the country. I personally believe that Iraq isn't A> ready B> helped with democracy.
You can't force two peoples (in this case mainly divided along religious borders) to work together if they don't want to, and haven't in known history. This is simply an enormous mistake in thinking.
Democracy is what works for *us* (most of the time anyway), but forcing that on other people and countries should not be the way to propagate it, I think.
Feel free to disagree, but that's my (possibly biased) point of view.
Funny, you sort of go completely past the point of the *actual* difference between ceramic condensators and electrolytic condensators, which is that one's polarized and the other isn't. They're not interchangable.
This is getting to be way off topic, but seriously. It seems you don't know the primary reason of existence for DVDs, which is something that the multi angle button is used in quite a lot.
Of course I'm talking about the driving force behind almost all new electronical inventions, the Pr0N.
An F/OSS supporter that is actually honest enough to see that what their 'enemy' is doing is only beneficial for the whole. Kudos to them, I say. At least they know what they stand for (as is obvious from their name, really:) and don't blindly deny the possibilities that this case gives them.
It's not so much 'how many cameras' as 'who are using them'
If I'm being an 'unpopular' person, due to being critical of say the government and the police, then what's the keep them from using all the camera footage they have to find something I might conceivable have done wrong. (Or just make something up, or make a correlation to something I've never done, or change some of the footage, or make sure that bits and pieces show up in different order, or...)
If you give people the power to potentially abuse something like this, then they will do it. If you manage to make people insensitive to this problem with 'privacy', then they won't really mind.
1984 isn't going to be built in 1 year, it needs time. (We're 22/23 years further now, and we're almost there! George Orwell eat your heart out!)
"(the more profit, the more useful it is)" So a treatment for cancer taken three times daily for the rest of your life is more useful than a cure for cancer? I'll keep that in mind.
Bingo. You got it in one. The same goes for a lot of other fields as well. Take for example Diabetes-B, which is a controllable disease, as long as you check your bloodsugarlevel 2 times a day, and either use insulin or dieting restriction to adjust for it.
However, to do these tests, you need testsstrips, which are not very cheap, and (surprise!) don't get covered by almost all medical insurances. What *does* get covered is the amputation required when your extremities start dying off. Something that could've been very easilly prevented by aforementioned checks.
The hospitals and the insurance companies make more 'profit' off of those amputations than off of patients that need a steady supply of not-so-cheap teststrips.
So yeah, you got it in once. Treating the symptoms is (for the corporate world) almost always better than curing the disease.
Giant squid sold to Japanese Sushi bar for record amount.
Reuters (JP): The giant squid captured yesterday for study, has been sold to an up-scale Japanese Sushi Bar for a record amount of $170,000, thus providing a needed extra bit of money for the research team, according to spokesman Tsunemi Kubodera. The Sushi Bar is currently booked full for the next week.
An example of where advertisement actually adds to the whole gameplay concept and experience is Eve Online.
At all jumpgates there are billboards, and they will show advertisements for in-game corporations (Such as Quafe, who makes energy drinks, strangely enough they buy cigarettes, garbage and assorted minerals...), or list one of the current top5 most wanted people. Inside stations there will be advertisement for the corporation in question all over the place, and even for other corporations as well.
This adds to the whole game, and to the whole atmosphere of play.
Another great example is the stripbar advertisement billboard that comes with certain built outposts, including the picture of a stripper:)
However any 'real world' advertisement in this game would just simply make no sense. And I think there are quite a lot of games where advertisement wouldn't make sense, or just be plain annoying or detracting from the game.
Another example where it does work is in Quake (2?) where the background music was written by Nine Inch Nails (NIN for short), you can get a nailgun as a weapon, and the boxes containing the nails actually have the NIN log on them, that's just brilliant, and in its way an advertisement for the band (Whom I'll visit in March;)
So what? Pretty much all heated food or drink is prepared and usually served at temperatures higher than it can be immediately consumed. If McDonald's hands you fresh french fries which just came out of the fryer they will likely burn you too if you try to eat them immediately. Most people are smart enough to let hot food cool down before eating or drinking it, or if they do manage to burn themselves they don't blame others for their own mistakes
The point here was that the coffee was actually too hot according to regulations. But anyway, McD's handing you fresh french fries which just came out of the fryer? Like that's ever going to happen....
There are about 39 time zones instead of 24 (as popularly believed). This is due to fractional hour offsets and zones with offsets larger than 12 hours near the International Date Line. Some micronations may use offsets that are not recognized by all authorities.
It's not about writing special support for that 0.6%. It's about writing something that follows a number of definitions made to actually make it work with 100%. Since they're incapable (or unwilling) to do this, it leaves out not only that 0.6% of opera users, but most probably also a large set of users that use PDAs, Mobiles, Voice Readers, etc. Especially (as has been mentioned before) people that are blind have a hard time no the internet nowadays anyway. Since most webpages are (unfortunately) not following standards, so a VR or a braille reader will have serious problems with that website.
It's very unfortunate that the general idea seems to be 'if it works in IE, even though it needs to be hacked to bits, and not follow standards at all, it's okay!'...
It really isn't that hard to follow the standards. The main problem there however, is that you have to have at least a clue as to what the hell you're doing, and most 'designers' nowadays using dreamweaver/frontpage/whatevercrapthereis, have no clue, and have never learned anything about how to aquire clues either.
Uhm.. Not to put a spanner in your ideas, but where I live 20Mb and 24Mb (cable and ADSL respectively) are available to customers without any problems. I'm currently paying 60 euros a month for a 20Mb downlink (granted that uplink is 2Mb). So if you would want to use this for purely retrievable data, then your 10Mb doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
And just ftr, this is sustained. I get 2.4MB/s from my corporate network through a VPN connection without any real problems.
Furthermore in the university town I used to live, we had Gb fibre pretty much all over the place. My connection to the university network was 11MB/s sustained, only limited because of the intermediate 1G -> 100Mb router.
So it's available, just not everywhere yet (and yes, I live in the Netherlands, which seems to be a leader in the broadband arena at the moment)
The whole point of this was the question whether it wouldn't be *cheaper* to develop 2D games (I'd like an Aleste/Zanex/R-type kind of game), thus actually reducing costs, thus actually making it cost *less* than $60.
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Just put your arm in one, and tada! You've got your own personalized barcode..
I do a 360 around your PS3 and Wii on it?
I was always convinced Irish Breakfast consisted of a pint of Guiness... Hmmm.. I might be wrong though
I was actually trying to make a point where the killing doesn't necessarilly have to be 'first person'..
Hmm. How to explain, I guess the better choice of phrase would've been 'and people will keep dying'.
Thanks for writing that, and I for the most part completely agree with you, except for one point.
:) I wish more people would learn to think for themselves and evaluate the world around them from an objective point of view. Alas, those people are rare :)
I probably didn't make myself clear enough (then again, trying to write a quick little thing while at work doesn't give me the ability to completely explain myself, just to overly generalize and touch on some main topics), but when I said "work together" I actually meant that exactly like that.
What happened under Saddam wasn't working together, at all. It was being stopped from killing each other by rather harsh means. So yeah, your point is as valid as mine, we're just looking at things from two different directions.
And kudos for your last paragraph
Despite what Microsoft thinks and how they're been acting in the past with all their 'standards'; Describing all the exceptions doesn't make something a standard. Describing them in the context of a non-standardized environment, makes it even less so.
Although I'm quite sure that Microsoft really doesn't give a and will push this through as 'their' standard that everyone else will have to adhere to to be able to do anything with Mickyshaft generated content anyway.
Whether ISO approves of this or not is inconsequential, the only thing that matters is that M$ can now say: Look, we proposed a standard, it's not our fault 'they' think it's not good enough.
Not... Exactly...
When that actual war was fought, Bosnia didn't actually even exist yet. The reason it 'works' now is because that country was split up in several parts (Servia, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Montenegro, and it feels like I'm forgetting one)
These splits have been mostly made between ethnical group lines, and they're now moderately peacefully living together, although it's not exactly all 'pacified' yet.
Sorry.. I normally try to refrain from commenting on these kind of issues, since I'm European, and will be considered someone not knowledgable enough by a lot of people. But... I can't resist this time.
The US is actually doing *exactly* that in Iraq: Do things our "democratic" way or we'll stay here and keep killing people. You'd see this if you'd actually look at things happening from a distance. The current not-yet-civil war is a direct result of the US removing the one authority figure in charge, and trying to democratize the country. I personally believe that Iraq isn't A> ready B> helped with democracy.
You can't force two peoples (in this case mainly divided along religious borders) to work together if they don't want to, and haven't in known history. This is simply an enormous mistake in thinking.
Democracy is what works for *us* (most of the time anyway), but forcing that on other people and countries should not be the way to propagate it, I think.
Feel free to disagree, but that's my (possibly biased) point of view.
Funny, you sort of go completely past the point of the *actual* difference between ceramic condensators and electrolytic condensators, which is that one's polarized and the other isn't. They're not interchangable.
http://www.etv.tudelft.nl/vereeniging/archief/lust rum/90/english.html was the Guiness book of records attempt by the faculty of Electrical Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
:) Although walking through the corridors was a slight bit of a problem with all the cables lying there.
:)
I was there and it was absolutely hilarious
Great stuff for those interested in Tetris
This is getting to be way off topic, but seriously. It seems you don't know the primary reason of existence for DVDs, which is something that the multi angle button is used in quite a lot.
Of course I'm talking about the driving force behind almost all new electronical inventions, the Pr0N.
An F/OSS supporter that is actually honest enough to see that what their 'enemy' is doing is only beneficial for the whole. Kudos to them, I say. At least they know what they stand for (as is obvious from their name, really :) and don't blindly deny the possibilities that this case gives them.
*cheers*
It's not so much 'how many cameras' as 'who are using them'
If I'm being an 'unpopular' person, due to being critical of say the government and the police, then what's the keep them from using all the camera footage they have to find something I might conceivable have done wrong. (Or just make something up, or make a correlation to something I've never done, or change some of the footage, or make sure that bits and pieces show up in different order, or...)
If you give people the power to potentially abuse something like this, then they will do it. If you manage to make people insensitive to this problem with 'privacy', then they won't really mind.
1984 isn't going to be built in 1 year, it needs time. (We're 22/23 years further now, and we're almost there! George Orwell eat your heart out!)
Bingo. You got it in one. The same goes for a lot of other fields as well. Take for example Diabetes-B, which is a controllable disease, as long as you check your bloodsugarlevel 2 times a day, and either use insulin or dieting restriction to adjust for it.
However, to do these tests, you need testsstrips, which are not very cheap, and (surprise!) don't get covered by almost all medical insurances. What *does* get covered is the amputation required when your extremities start dying off. Something that could've been very easilly prevented by aforementioned checks.
The hospitals and the insurance companies make more 'profit' off of those amputations than off of patients that need a steady supply of not-so-cheap teststrips.
So yeah, you got it in once. Treating the symptoms is (for the corporate world) almost always better than curing the disease.
Splut.
And I'll bring my music!
Uhm... Hang on....
Hehehe. That's what I originally thought the article was about. A 360 day warranty replaced by a 365 :) That was actually rather funny :)
(As for the poster: XBOX360 would've been slightly more clear....)
Giant squid sold to Japanese Sushi bar for record amount.
Reuters (JP): The giant squid captured yesterday for study, has been sold to an up-scale Japanese Sushi Bar for a record amount of $170,000, thus providing a needed extra bit of money for the research team, according to spokesman Tsunemi Kubodera. The Sushi Bar is currently booked full for the next week.
An example of where advertisement actually adds to the whole gameplay concept and experience is Eve Online.
:)
;)
At all jumpgates there are billboards, and they will show advertisements for in-game corporations (Such as Quafe, who makes energy drinks, strangely enough they buy cigarettes, garbage and assorted minerals...), or list one of the current top5 most wanted people. Inside stations there will be advertisement for the corporation in question all over the place, and even for other corporations as well.
This adds to the whole game, and to the whole atmosphere of play.
Another great example is the stripbar advertisement billboard that comes with certain built outposts, including the picture of a stripper
However any 'real world' advertisement in this game would just simply make no sense. And I think there are quite a lot of games where advertisement wouldn't make sense, or just be plain annoying or detracting from the game.
Another example where it does work is in Quake (2?) where the background music was written by Nine Inch Nails (NIN for short), you can get a nailgun as a weapon, and the boxes containing the nails actually have the NIN log on them, that's just brilliant, and in its way an advertisement for the band (Whom I'll visit in March
Just my 2 rambling isk.
Splut.
The point here was that the coffee was actually too hot according to regulations. But anyway, McD's handing you fresh french fries which just came out of the fryer? Like that's ever going to happen....
There are about 39 time zones instead of 24 (as popularly believed). This is due to fractional hour offsets and zones with offsets larger than 12 hours near the International Date Line. Some micronations may use offsets that are not recognized by all authorities.
(That's from the wikipedia on timezones)
It's not about writing special support for that 0.6%. It's about writing something that follows a number of definitions made to actually make it work with 100%. Since they're incapable (or unwilling) to do this, it leaves out not only that 0.6% of opera users, but most probably also a large set of users that use PDAs, Mobiles, Voice Readers, etc. Especially (as has been mentioned before) people that are blind have a hard time no the internet nowadays anyway. Since most webpages are (unfortunately) not following standards, so a VR or a braille reader will have serious problems with that website.
It's very unfortunate that the general idea seems to be 'if it works in IE, even though it needs to be hacked to bits, and not follow standards at all, it's okay!'...
It really isn't that hard to follow the standards. The main problem there however, is that you have to have at least a clue as to what the hell you're doing, and most 'designers' nowadays using dreamweaver/frontpage/whatevercrapthereis, have no clue, and have never learned anything about how to aquire clues either.
Once again: It's a shame, really.
Splut.
Uhm.. Not to put a spanner in your ideas, but where I live 20Mb and 24Mb (cable and ADSL respectively) are available to customers without any problems. I'm currently paying 60 euros a month for a 20Mb downlink (granted that uplink is 2Mb). So if you would want to use this for purely retrievable data, then your 10Mb doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
And just ftr, this is sustained. I get 2.4MB/s from my corporate network through a VPN connection without any real problems.
Furthermore in the university town I used to live, we had Gb fibre pretty much all over the place. My connection to the university network was 11MB/s sustained, only limited because of the intermediate 1G -> 100Mb router.
So it's available, just not everywhere yet (and yes, I live in the Netherlands, which seems to be a leader in the broadband arena at the moment)
Splut.
You must've completely missed out on the Crusades then. Actually, come to think of it, so did most of us *ponder* Oh well. You get the point.
The whole point of this was the question whether it wouldn't be *cheaper* to develop 2D games (I'd like an Aleste/Zanex/R-type kind of game), thus actually reducing costs, thus actually making it cost *less* than $60.
Can we then please release the lawyers into the same region that these blind people are hunting? Please? Pwetty please with a bullet on top?