the fact that if I play one of these new fangled CDs through a system with digital output I can always just pipe the output (lets say optical) to the input on another system and copy the CD with digital quality.
What exactly are they trying to prove?
Uma cabaca, un arane, un pedaco de pau!
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I concur. In Brasil, where I lived for a couple of years, there is a minimal presence of US telco companies. The big monopoly is TeleBras which charges outrageous fees to even hook a phone up to your house. In the US where we take cheap connection fees (I think it averages about $60.00 to run a phoneline to your house in most locals) we have no concept of what many people in the world are paying for phone service. If I remember correctly it was about the equivelant of $1000.00 us to have a phone line ran to your house in Brasil.
It is ridiculous to blame first world telcos for prices when it is the local telcos giving the shaft to the local people.
Could it be argued thatn any powersource that extracts energy from wave motion would reduce the total amount of energy in the ocean, and therefore reduce the overall tempurature of the ocean, and in turn reduce ice pack melt off, planetary tempuraure, etc?
I work for a major console game company. The simple truth is cheats help make a product more interesting and so they are put in. Yes some are inplace for testing but they are intentionally left in and some are added just for fun factor. They are then anonymously leaked....
You have to remember that this is the same public that prefers coal fired power plants to nuclear plants.... It is not a matter of truth but marketing, kind of like Intel VS AMD. Not the better product but the better marketed product.
I was working for a comercial shop... making good pay, and got laid off. Now I work for the game industry, make the same pay, but crazy long hours. I think the work is funner though...
Forget the mig-29. The su-27 and its derivitives are arguably the most advanced air fighter in the world. The su-37 with thrust vectoring and supercruise is awesome and its manouverability is unmatched by any western fighter. It is such a nice platform that several high ranking US generals and retired Air Force officers have recomended buying the airframe and installing western avionics in it as a much cheaper alternitive to the f-22 or JSF.
for some info on the su-27 see
http://www.sci.fi/~fta/Su-27.htm
I worked at a national lab for the federal government (managed by a third party contractor). They had an aprroved list of software that you could install and use. We were working on some new 3D tools, and were developing geometry, textures, and environments. It was a pain getting permision to run un-tested software. And don't get me started on the procurement hassles. Yet inspite of the hassles you were able to develop, just not at the pace and with the efficeincy that you would like, while you sit waiting for the crushing wheels of beauracracy.
I have also worked for other shops that let you install just about anything you wanted. These environments though are different from working for a national lab. At the national lab the IT department had no guarentees that you were proficient enough to fix whatever you might break by installing software. At the pure software development shops, it was understood that you were capable enough to install, unistall, and fix software at your own discretion and you only bothered IT when the hardware broke.
In my opinion it is easier to get your tasks done in the more open environment.
Ok, I agree. Though it is a gross generalization I will say that most people are willing to fight for freedom. Be they Americans, Europeans, Asians, martians, whatever.
Outside of freedom is there realy anything worth fighting for?
Agreed. But do not have the right to force "freedom" upon them. Freedom is a very diffucult concecpt to describe and my view may differ from thiers. The purpose of an army is not to force my or my societies view upon anyone but to maintain and protect my "freedom" from those who would seek to destroy it. You can not say that there are no such people. Sept 11th demonstrates otherwise. There will always be people out there who want to force their ways upon others, be it for whatever reason, power, money, religion etc.
Explotation and marginilation are wrong. But alowing anyone to abuse me at their discretion is also wrong. I do not oppose a standing army, in a world such as ours, whose purpose is to ensure domestic tranquility. I do, however, oppose an army whose purpose is to force others to believe the same things that I, or my society/government believes.
How do you bring democracy and libery to the rest of the world? The only path that I can see is by being an example. It is a contradiction to force democracy and liberty upon another, but it is not evil to ensure your own liberties and democracy when it is threatened by others.
That is bullshit. The people of China dont want me to be less free. The people of Brazil want the same thing I do, to be peacfull, happy, make love to my wife, have children etc. Is there someone in Vietnam plotting to *DENY* me libert? No, they have none - THEY *WANT* more!
I am not speaking of societies, or countries as a whole I am speaking of individuals in societies who feel that it is somehow their right to force their systems, beliefs, religion etc. upon you or of governments that follow the same policies.
I do not believe in taking liberties from anyone. Let them do what they may so long is it does not interfere with my liberties. When they impinge upon my liberties I do, however, believe that some form of action needs be taken.
In as much as there are people in the world that want to take away the liberies that you enjoy as a Canadian, and make you think, play, and pray, in their prescribed manner, it is necessary to train professionals to defend the rest of us against the malcontents. When there are no longer any malcontents then the need for professional soldiers will dissapear. Until that day it appears that professional soldiers will remain a necesity. That they be trained in the best manner possible is inherently self explanitory, and that they use the talents that exist in the game industry to help devlop tools to better train their people also seems self explanitory.
In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children.
Let's look at the US. Historically, the US was populated by people who fled rather than effect political change in their countries of origin. Political problems could be dealt with in the US by avoiding them rather than dealing with them. And except for declaring independence from a country thousands of miles away, the US population has not exactly demonstrated much eagerness or involvement in significant political change. There was the civil war, but both its causes and its outcome hardly make it a shining example of independent thought. And if you want to have an example of how sheepishly the US population accepts governmental power, look no further than the last presidential election.
Boy another set of wrangling and gross misrepresentation. A portion of the original pilgrims to the US fled to the US because of religous intolerance in Europe. They left a repressive society that dictated how, where and what they must worship to a place where they could worship following the dictates of their conciense. How is this a bad thing?
Oh? You mean the Europeans that got themselves killed by the millions fighting for their freedom and democracy throughout the last few centuries?
How about the europeans that died by the millions trying to foist their fascist or Nazi, or communist beliefs upon others?
The Europeans that developed the philosophies and ideas on which the United States was founded?
Yes the radicals. Look at what happened to Martin Luther when he dared to think "outside of the lines". The US provided a place where those people with "new" ideas about government, a government by the people and for the people, could be born. This could not of happened in the Monarchies of Europe. The people of the United States, created in it's constitution a form a government that was an example to the rest of the world. Sure there has been and will continue to be growth, but show me another government in the world whose principle governing document and form has endured for as long as the US constitution.
All of the things you accuse the US of were not created in the US. Genocide, slavery, and opression existied long before the US came to be. They were all common practices in europe at the time the people you accuse of fleeing, fled.
Again you are arguing with nothing more than inflamatory rhetoric, or "HOT AIR".
And even in its earlier periods, the US managed to almost completely exterminate American Indians, deny democracy to the majority of its citizens, and enslave blacks. The US does not have a stellar record of democracy, individual freedoms, or justice. And unlike those European countries, the US still has the same political and legal systems in place that allowed those abuses.
Oh come on now, are you inferring that in Europe slavery never happened, that the majority of european people were living in democracy, and had great personal freedoms? In what since do the same political and legal systems exist that allowed this?
You make a bunch of statement that are little more than inflamatory rhetoric without any factual data and expect me to swallow it.
From where I stand it appears that the US was the leader in democracy and personal freedom, setting an example that others followed.
The ability to police and monitor an individual in a society is not a freedom.
How this inflamatory troll rates a 5 I'll never know.
If they are running pre-release (beta) versions of the software for demo purposes there may also be some lock ups. I develop games for consoles and believe me it is possible to lock them up with buggy code. While anything that is a full released package (software), has undergone some pretty thorough testing by the console manufacturer before the manufacturer (sony, nintendo) will put their name on it and let it ship. So if the software on the xbox is beta it may be at fault as well as anything.
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the fact that if I play one of these new fangled CDs through a system with digital output I can always just pipe the output (lets say optical) to the input on another system and copy the CD with digital quality.
What exactly are they trying to prove?
Uma cabaca, un arane, un pedaco de pau!
these jokers?
this guy, but he will sell you a chunk of it. $15.99 for an acre.
leads to violent children is bogus.
It's logic like this (from my discreet math days)...
1)Penguins are black and white
2)Old TV shows are black and white
3)Therefore some penguins are old TV shows.
How cheap RAM and Lara Croft's breasts gave birth to a multibillion-dollar industry
But really how many of us have mp3s on work computers? Quite a few I would imagine. Just think of the liabilty you are posing to your work.
How many have work sponsered mp3 servers? TIme to reconsider that move.
I remember countless hours spent playing NetTrek.... I was never much good but there were people in those matches that rocked.
Played it during the same era that I was heavily involved in MUDs.
Both prove a point, namely, good gameplay is more important than flashy graphics.
It would be worthwhile to update the client.....
any volunteers?
Bueller? Bueller? anyone?
Then all they would need is booster rockets to put it orbit.
that would be way cheaper than anything NASA is doing.
Heck, NASA should just buy a few of those at 6 mil a pop!
How do you pronounce that last name... ?
Yickie?
Ick?
last name sums up his ruling.
Non Progredi Est Regredi
no progression is regression
uma cabaca, um arame, um pedaco de pau!
I concur. In Brasil, where I lived for a couple of years, there is a minimal presence of US telco companies. The big monopoly is TeleBras which charges outrageous fees to even hook a phone up to your house. In the US where we take cheap connection fees (I think it averages about $60.00 to run a phoneline to your house in most locals) we have no concept of what many people in the world are paying for phone service. If I remember correctly it was about the equivelant of $1000.00 us to have a phone line ran to your house in Brasil.
It is ridiculous to blame first world telcos for prices when it is the local telcos giving the shaft to the local people.
Anytime a site asks me for an e-mail address I just enter theKing@graceland.com
I hope Elvis doesn't mind.
don't you spam on my blue suede shoes
Could it be argued thatn any powersource that extracts energy from wave motion would reduce the total amount of energy in the ocean, and therefore reduce the overall tempurature of the ocean, and in turn reduce ice pack melt off, planetary tempuraure, etc?
Just a thought.
I work for a major console game company. The simple truth is cheats help make a product more interesting and so they are put in. Yes some are inplace for testing but they are intentionally left in and some are added just for fun factor. They are then anonymously leaked....
You have to remember that this is the same public that prefers coal fired power plants to nuclear plants.... It is not a matter of truth but marketing, kind of like Intel VS AMD. Not the better product but the better marketed product.
I was working for a comercial shop... making good pay, and got laid off. Now I work for the game industry, make the same pay, but crazy long hours. I think the work is funner though...
Forget the mig-29. The su-27 and its derivitives are arguably the most advanced air fighter in the world. The su-37 with thrust vectoring and supercruise is awesome and its manouverability is unmatched by any western fighter. It is such a nice platform that several high ranking US generals and retired Air Force officers have recomended buying the airframe and installing western avionics in it as a much cheaper alternitive to the f-22 or JSF.
for some info on the su-27 see
http://www.sci.fi/~fta/Su-27.htm
I have worked in both types of environments.
I worked at a national lab for the federal government (managed by a third party contractor). They had an aprroved list of software that you could install and use. We were working on some new 3D tools, and were developing geometry, textures, and environments. It was a pain getting permision to run un-tested software. And don't get me started on the procurement hassles. Yet inspite of the hassles you were able to develop, just not at the pace and with the efficeincy that you would like, while you sit waiting for the crushing wheels of beauracracy.
I have also worked for other shops that let you install just about anything you wanted. These environments though are different from working for a national lab. At the national lab the IT department had no guarentees that you were proficient enough to fix whatever you might break by installing software. At the pure software development shops, it was understood that you were capable enough to install, unistall, and fix software at your own discretion and you only bothered IT when the hardware broke.
In my opinion it is easier to get your tasks done in the more open environment.
Ok, I agree. Though it is a gross generalization I will say that most people are willing to fight for freedom. Be they Americans, Europeans, Asians, martians, whatever.
Outside of freedom is there realy anything worth fighting for?
Agreed. But do not have the right to force "freedom" upon them. Freedom is a very diffucult concecpt to describe and my view may differ from thiers. The purpose of an army is not to force my or my societies view upon anyone but to maintain and protect my "freedom" from those who would seek to destroy it. You can not say that there are no such people. Sept 11th demonstrates otherwise. There will always be people out there who want to force their ways upon others, be it for whatever reason, power, money, religion etc.
Explotation and marginilation are wrong. But alowing anyone to abuse me at their discretion is also wrong. I do not oppose a standing army, in a world such as ours, whose purpose is to ensure domestic tranquility. I do, however, oppose an army whose purpose is to force others to believe the same things that I, or my society/government believes.
How do you bring democracy and libery to the rest of the world? The only path that I can see is by being an example. It is a contradiction to force democracy and liberty upon another, but it is not evil to ensure your own liberties and democracy when it is threatened by others.
That is bullshit. The people of China dont want me to be less free. The people of Brazil want the same thing I do, to be peacfull, happy, make love to my wife, have children etc. Is there someone in Vietnam plotting to *DENY* me libert? No, they have none - THEY *WANT* more!
I am not speaking of societies, or countries as a whole I am speaking of individuals in societies who feel that it is somehow their right to force their systems, beliefs, religion etc. upon you or of governments that follow the same policies.
I do not believe in taking liberties from anyone. Let them do what they may so long is it does not interfere with my liberties. When they impinge upon my liberties I do, however, believe that some form of action needs be taken.
In as much as there are people in the world that want to take away the liberies that you enjoy as a Canadian, and make you think, play, and pray, in their prescribed manner, it is necessary to train professionals to defend the rest of us against the malcontents. When there are no longer any malcontents then the need for professional soldiers will dissapear. Until that day it appears that professional soldiers will remain a necesity. That they be trained in the best manner possible is inherently self explanitory, and that they use the talents that exist in the game industry to help devlop tools to better train their people also seems self explanitory.
In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children.
Let's look at the US. Historically, the US was populated by people who fled rather than effect political change in their countries of origin. Political problems could be dealt with in the US by avoiding them rather than dealing with them. And except for declaring independence from a country thousands of miles away, the US population has not exactly demonstrated much eagerness or involvement in significant political change. There was the civil war, but both its causes and its outcome hardly make it a shining example of independent thought. And if you want to have an example of how sheepishly the US population accepts governmental power, look no further than the last presidential election.
Boy another set of wrangling and gross misrepresentation. A portion of the original pilgrims to the US fled to the US because of religous intolerance in Europe. They left a repressive society that dictated how, where and what they must worship to a place where they could worship following the dictates of their conciense. How is this a bad thing?
Oh? You mean the Europeans that got themselves killed by the millions fighting for their freedom and democracy throughout the last few centuries?
How about the europeans that died by the millions trying to foist their fascist or Nazi, or communist beliefs upon others?
The Europeans that developed the philosophies and ideas on which the United States was founded?
Yes the radicals. Look at what happened to Martin Luther when he dared to think "outside of the lines". The US provided a place where those people with "new" ideas about government, a government by the people and for the people, could be born. This could not of happened in the Monarchies of Europe. The people of the United States, created in it's constitution a form a government that was an example to the rest of the world. Sure there has been and will continue to be growth, but show me another government in the world whose principle governing document and form has endured for as long as the US constitution.
All of the things you accuse the US of were not created in the US. Genocide, slavery, and opression existied long before the US came to be. They were all common practices in europe at the time the people you accuse of fleeing, fled.
Again you are arguing with nothing more than inflamatory rhetoric, or "HOT AIR".
Why do I feed the troll?
And even in its earlier periods, the US managed to almost completely exterminate American Indians, deny democracy to the majority of its citizens, and enslave blacks. The US does not have a stellar record of democracy, individual freedoms, or justice. And unlike those European countries, the US still has the same political and legal systems in place that allowed those abuses.
Oh come on now, are you inferring that in Europe slavery never happened, that the majority of european people were living in democracy, and had great personal freedoms? In what since do the same political and legal systems exist that allowed this?
You make a bunch of statement that are little more than inflamatory rhetoric without any factual data and expect me to swallow it.
From where I stand it appears that the US was the leader in democracy and personal freedom, setting an example that others followed.
The ability to police and monitor an individual in a society is not a freedom.
How this inflamatory troll rates a 5 I'll never know.
If they are running pre-release (beta) versions of the software for demo purposes there may also be some lock ups. I develop games for consoles and believe me it is possible to lock them up with buggy code. While anything that is a full released package (software), has undergone some pretty thorough testing by the console manufacturer before the manufacturer (sony, nintendo) will put their name on it and let it ship. So if the software on the xbox is beta it may be at fault as well as anything.
All your devKits are blong to US!