Living in snow country, I understand there is value in gunning it a little in a safe place to get a feel for road conditions and to remember how to correct out of a slide. Not to say you want to encourage people to power slide through corners and the like but there is something to be said for a good simulation being useful to train a person in emergency reactions.
On the other hand, if a game offers points for running down pedestrians, I can just see this coming up in court. "I don't know what happened Judge! I was distracted doing my nails, on the cell phone or whatever and I just didn't react to brake for the pedestrian for some reason." Being a _very_ cynical urban runner for about 20 years, trust me, we'll see this defense in vehicular manslaughter cases -- and who can say it wouldn't have some basis?
When it gets dicey for me is when you have a lone guy with a knife surrounded by cops, no hostage, it drags on for hours and it seems like a decision gets made, "Hey, this is getting into a lot of overtime costs and he's blocking a street so let's shoot him and be done with it." Perhaps a good reason to develop something like a Taser with a 50 yard reach?
We're all born stupid. Part of being kind is being kind to yourself and giving yourself some slack for the "wasted" time. From Kurt Vonnegut's latest, A Man Without a Country: "We are here on earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different."
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Yeah, that's been speculated for a while. But I say, "'Primitive', hell!" How many other people are dying for a good "Aliens-type" caves of Mars movie using current science as the backdrop?
Yes. I've even seen pictures on the news at night of Monsanto agents holding guns to farmer's heads, preventing them from buying standard seeds without the terminator gene. Someone stop these bastards from forcing their seeds down people's throats!
You too? I'll call your "Bullshit" and double.
As part of sweeping "economic restructuring" implemented by the Bush Administration in Iraq, Iraqi farmers will no longer be permitted to save their seeds. Instead, they will be forced to buy seeds from US corporations
By now, everyone should have wised up to the fact that when Bush uses the word "freedom" he means freedom for _corporations_. But when they passed a law forcing the cradle of civilization to buy Monsanto annually I think it highlighted just how clinically mad this administration is.
Other than send the cheap swill overseas and charge exorbitant prices for it,
So that's why your stuff always gives me a hangover! (Weirdest thing. Wish I _were_ kidding.)
A lot of South African agrees with me. Even there someone from one of their consulates told me in her opinion it suffers passing over the equator in shipping containers and is distinctly better in-country. Perhaps the same with Australia.
[W]ould you be happy to receive a Dell box with no OS and with an Ubuntu disk in the box, which you yourself installed, with no support from Dell?
What if it came with an assurance that the set of components you had configured *should* work
Yes and Great. The important thing for me is that the hardware has been tested with "some" flavor, there are decent drivers available for everything and a dedicated community board is up for sharing info all in one place. That's the no-nonsense legwork that has value. If it came preinstalled with a version I can live with, that would be a bonus.
And _no_ Microsoft tax. Showing some backbone would be appreciated. A "linux tax" to pay for the above would be a different matter. Just so long as it doesn't go to Microsoft.:)
Probably luck of the draw with your hardware. I went from _trying_ KnoppMyth to successfully following the online instructions for installing Fedora and the Myth rpm packages. Burned me up a bit too because my other machines are all Debian after transitioning from years with Red Hat/Fedora.
I'm happy but I don't particularly see MythTV as the economy route considering you really should dedicate some half-decent hardware to it. Perhaps more potential branded as an all-in-one Swiss Army Knife of media.
I'm sure this giveaway is seen by politicians as a way to cover their asses while finally finding the will to kill analog.
But think of the environmental impact of dozens of millions of TVs becoming landfill at once. If a lot of people are happy with a converter box, that could be a good thing. And if you aren't already used to HD, digital SD _is_ a lot better than analog TV so everybody's still happy.
I would argue for something like Stargate (except for the, well, "stargate" part) because of it's emphasis on the scientific _method_. Half the plots of their decade run were identical. They are gathering data with a probe, or a reconnaisance, and something unexpected occurs. They collect, capture, or are infected by "samples" where they retreat to the lab, sick bay or Daniel Jackson's library. After experimentation or other on-site or off-world research, group meetings are held to review the results and form a plan for further action.
We're talking quite a few dollars here. Not like phasing out the turntable for a CD player.
The moral of the story seems clear: if I don't want my hardware to become incompatible junk I'll quickly make friends with MythTV and a software HD card like the pcHDTV.
There has been talk off and on about making daylight saving time permanent and as I remember it has always come down to a class issue. So that some manager can drive his little Buffy to tennis while it is still light in the evening how many groundskeepers, security, IT, air and boiler people, janitors, transit workers, cooks, etc have to get up that much earlier in the night?
The nice thing about Evolution is that it uses Mutt data format. It's easy to periodically burn an archive of your folders and grep/mutt as needed to search and retrieve.
I still have fond memories of the Polarbar Java email program. Great filtering options. But I had it disconnect from its data more than once too.
Yeah, but if French or German police try to go after some American neo-Nazi holocaust denying website and the U.S. government doesn't let them into the country just watch our free press expose the hypocrisy. Oh, wait.....
If perception is overly conservative and has false positives it is better than missing the occasional threat.
I had a cat that developed an aversion to ripples in my bedspread. I didn't even have an arm under the bedspread playing with it. It was just walking across the bed one day , put a paw on a ripple in the cloth and something about the way it sprung back made it jump. It avoided ripples on my bed for a couple years. I can only speculate that in considering bedspread ripples a threat it was interpreting an animism to them. Before you think that is going too far think about how a cat reacts to something like a CD tray opening, or, more interesting because there is sound but no external observable movement, something like a VCR starting up a timed recording. Certainly humans are equally spooked by false positives like the "person in the doorway" out of the corner of our eye who isn't there. Couple some of these psychological tendencies with the drive to be part of a community and believe the community mythos and you have organized religion.
My favorite human bad causal reasonings are ones that reflect unthinking egotism. "After surviving this plane crash, I _have_ to believe in God! Even though he took the head off the guy sitting next to me!"
They show via a few quick financial numbers that even though Apple is selling fewer machines, they're making more money per machine than your Dells or your Gateways.
Which is why my first computer was a ZX81. The first computer I did real stuff with was a Commodore and my first "really real" computer was a PC XT. I could afford them.
I was shown a study done in the '80s that compared Minneapolis, Kyoto and Taipai elementary schools. Their conclusion was that Asian kids didn't have a significantly higher homework load than the U.S. kids. The Asian kids might be taking sports and calligraphy, etc. in the evening while the American kids might be taking sports and band, etc.
One statistic that was amazing was that the American school didn't seem to know where about 14% of the kids _were_ at any given time. That percentage was trivial in Asia. As it would have been when I was a child in the U.S. and we were equally told to sit down in our assigned places, shut the &$@^ up and soak in knowledge. I see that dovetailing with the recent study that although a lot of the French still do 35 hour weeks, they get as much done as a U.S. 40 hour week. All that time spent team-building and working well with others in group projects builds adults who will be working in "The Office" in my opinion.
My take is that the inefficiency during the day is made up for in homework. And the myth of the Japanese student cramming 20 hours/day fell on eager Puritan Western ears because "idle hands are the devil's workshop".
We probably should bring them around every couple years just for chuckles. I know I find Ray Kurzwell's prediction that "by 2019 a $1,000 computer will at least [added poke mine] match the processing power of the human brain" funnier every time I hear it.
What I remember from Radio Shack is that they used to have a lot of books: an IC Projects series, at least one similar to an electronics kit projects, and some references on using test equipment and the like. A natural tie-in to their component sales to build your own kit.
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I'm of two minds.
Living in snow country, I understand there is value in gunning it a little in a safe place to get a feel for road conditions and to remember how to correct out of a slide. Not to say you want to encourage people to power slide through corners and the like but there is something to be said for a good simulation being useful to train a person in emergency reactions.
On the other hand, if a game offers points for running down pedestrians, I can just see this coming up in court. "I don't know what happened Judge! I was distracted doing my nails, on the cell phone or whatever and I just didn't react to brake for the pedestrian for some reason." Being a _very_ cynical urban runner for about 20 years, trust me, we'll see this defense in vehicular manslaughter cases -- and who can say it wouldn't have some basis?
police officer shooting a man holding a knife.
Often reported as "suicide by cop" in the U.S.
When it gets dicey for me is when you have a lone guy with a knife surrounded by cops, no hostage, it drags on for hours and it seems like a decision gets made, "Hey, this is getting into a lot of overtime costs and he's blocking a street so let's shoot him and be done with it." Perhaps a good reason to develop something like a Taser with a 50 yard reach?
Freedom comes with responsibility. Anarchy and nihilism do not. The difference is relative freedom from fear of each other.
We're all born stupid. Part of being kind is being kind to yourself and giving yourself some slack for the "wasted" time. From Kurt Vonnegut's latest, A Man Without a Country: "We are here on earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different."
Yeah, that's been speculated for a while. But I say, "'Primitive', hell!" How many other people are dying for a good "Aliens-type" caves of Mars movie using current science as the backdrop?
Yes. I've even seen pictures on the news at night of Monsanto agents holding guns to farmer's heads, preventing them from buying standard seeds without the terminator gene. Someone stop these bastards from forcing their seeds down people's throats!
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You too? I'll call your "Bullshit" and double.
As part of sweeping "economic restructuring" implemented by the Bush Administration in Iraq, Iraqi farmers will no longer be permitted to save their seeds. Instead, they will be forced to buy seeds from US corporations
http://www.rense.com/general59/newiraqlawoutlaws.
Yes, "forced".
By now, everyone should have wised up to the fact that when Bush uses the word "freedom" he means freedom for _corporations_. But when they passed a law forcing the cradle of civilization to buy Monsanto annually I think it highlighted just how clinically mad this administration is.
workers have started sanding down the damaged area of the tank itself.
So sanding down the dings on a high pressure tank is a good idea?
Win9X seems to have conditioned a lot of users to think that reinstalling every 6 months or so is normal anyway.
Other than send the cheap swill overseas and charge exorbitant prices for it,
So that's why your stuff always gives me a hangover! (Weirdest thing. Wish I _were_ kidding.)
A lot of South African agrees with me. Even there someone from one of their consulates told me in her opinion it suffers passing over the equator in shipping containers and is distinctly better in-country. Perhaps the same with Australia.
[W]ould you be happy to receive a Dell box with no OS and with an Ubuntu disk in the box, which you yourself installed, with no support from Dell?
:)
What if it came with an assurance that the set of components you had configured *should* work
Yes and Great. The important thing for me is that the hardware has been tested with "some" flavor, there are decent drivers available for everything and a dedicated community board is up for sharing info all in one place. That's the no-nonsense legwork that has value. If it came preinstalled with a version I can live with, that would be a bonus.
And _no_ Microsoft tax. Showing some backbone would be appreciated. A "linux tax" to pay for the above would be a different matter. Just so long as it doesn't go to Microsoft.
Probably luck of the draw with your hardware. I went from _trying_ KnoppMyth to successfully following the online instructions for installing Fedora and the Myth rpm packages. Burned me up a bit too because my other machines are all Debian after transitioning from years with Red Hat/Fedora.
I'm happy but I don't particularly see MythTV as the economy route considering you really should dedicate some half-decent hardware to it. Perhaps more potential branded as an all-in-one Swiss Army Knife of media.
I'm sure this giveaway is seen by politicians as a way to cover their asses while finally finding the will to kill analog.
But think of the environmental impact of dozens of millions of TVs becoming landfill at once. If a lot of people are happy with a converter box, that could be a good thing. And if you aren't already used to HD, digital SD _is_ a lot better than analog TV so everybody's still happy.
I would argue for something like Stargate (except for the, well, "stargate" part) because of it's emphasis on the scientific _method_. Half the plots of their decade run were identical. They are gathering data with a probe, or a reconnaisance, and something unexpected occurs. They collect, capture, or are infected by "samples" where they retreat to the lab, sick bay or Daniel Jackson's library. After experimentation or other on-site or off-world research, group meetings are held to review the results and form a plan for further action.
One of the most rational fantasy shows around.
We're talking quite a few dollars here. Not like phasing out the turntable for a CD player.
The moral of the story seems clear: if I don't want my hardware to become incompatible junk I'll quickly make friends with MythTV and a software HD card like the pcHDTV.
There has been talk off and on about making daylight saving time permanent and as I remember it has always come down to a class issue. So that some manager can drive his little Buffy to tennis while it is still light in the evening how many groundskeepers, security, IT, air and boiler people, janitors, transit workers, cooks, etc have to get up that much earlier in the night?
Perhaps all the better. I can give it a test this year for next year.
The nice thing about Evolution is that it uses Mutt data format. It's easy to periodically burn an archive of your folders and grep/mutt as needed to search and retrieve.
I still have fond memories of the Polarbar Java email program. Great filtering options. But I had it disconnect from its data more than once too.
Yeah, but if French or German police try to go after some American neo-Nazi holocaust denying website and the U.S. government doesn't let them into the country just watch our free press expose the hypocrisy. Oh, wait.....
The guy who started this meme is tops on my list of CGI "artists" I'd like to throttle. Automatic 1/2 point off my grade for a movie on a 1-4 scale.
Me, I'm waiting for the Harley PC and Jack Daniel's monitor
If perception is overly conservative and has false positives it is better than missing the occasional threat.
I had a cat that developed an aversion to ripples in my bedspread. I didn't even have an arm under the bedspread playing with it. It was just walking across the bed one day , put a paw on a ripple in the cloth and something about the way it sprung back made it jump. It avoided ripples on my bed for a couple years. I can only speculate that in considering bedspread ripples a threat it was interpreting an animism to them. Before you think that is going too far think about how a cat reacts to something like a CD tray opening, or, more interesting because there is sound but no external observable movement, something like a VCR starting up a timed recording. Certainly humans are equally spooked by false positives like the "person in the doorway" out of the corner of our eye who isn't there. Couple some of these psychological tendencies with the drive to be part of a community and believe the community mythos and you have organized religion.
My favorite human bad causal reasonings are ones that reflect unthinking egotism. "After surviving this plane crash, I _have_ to believe in God! Even though he took the head off the guy sitting next to me!"
They show via a few quick financial numbers that even though Apple is selling fewer machines, they're making more money per machine than your Dells or your Gateways.
Which is why my first computer was a ZX81. The first computer I did real stuff with was a Commodore and my first "really real" computer was a PC XT. I could afford them.
I was shown a study done in the '80s that compared Minneapolis, Kyoto and Taipai elementary schools. Their conclusion was that Asian kids didn't have a significantly higher homework load than the U.S. kids. The Asian kids might be taking sports and calligraphy, etc. in the evening while the American kids might be taking sports and band, etc.
One statistic that was amazing was that the American school didn't seem to know where about 14% of the kids _were_ at any given time. That percentage was trivial in Asia. As it would have been when I was a child in the U.S. and we were equally told to sit down in our assigned places, shut the &$@^ up and soak in knowledge. I see that dovetailing with the recent study that although a lot of the French still do 35 hour weeks, they get as much done as a U.S. 40 hour week. All that time spent team-building and working well with others in group projects builds adults who will be working in "The Office" in my opinion.
My take is that the inefficiency during the day is made up for in homework. And the myth of the Japanese student cramming 20 hours/day fell on eager Puritan Western ears because "idle hands are the devil's workshop".
So, are we all having fun yet?
We probably should bring them around every couple years just for chuckles. I know I find Ray Kurzwell's prediction that "by 2019 a $1,000 computer will at least [added poke mine] match the processing power of the human brain" funnier every time I hear it.
What I remember from Radio Shack is that they used to have a lot of books: an IC Projects series, at least one similar to an electronics kit projects, and some references on using test equipment and the like. A natural tie-in to their component sales to build your own kit.