Hugo Chavez has offered free heating oil to needy US Citizens due to high prices. This is hardly the actions of someone who wants to "bury" you. Chavez does not like the Busheviks, and vice-versa. The Busheviks try to confuse the issue by projecting Chavez's general loathing for W with a non-existent loathing for the USA.
Chavez is kind of over the top. But we have to remember he is not catering to a US media market, he is catering to his constituancy.
I see this as the executives seeing the size of the pie they intend to steal on getting smaller. Best to get rid of product development who are impeding their stuffing their golden parachutes. What do they care about the future of the company. They will have retired to their gated communities by then.
No doubt after laying of 10% of their workforce, Intel will continue to lament the lack of "qualified" CS and CEE candidates that have 10 years of experience in technologies that are 3 years old.
Everyone likes to talk about the "early lead" of HD-DVD. But what they fail to realize is that neither of these formats will make any real penetration in the video market. It's too soon after DVD and there simply are not enough HDTV TVs out there to justify them.
Where the "format war" will be fought and won is in archival storage. Here, Blu-Ray has the clear advantage. And despite Sony's poor execution on PS3, this will also vault Blu-Ray ahead as the gamers who do buy PS3 will be using Blu-Ray by necessity. HD-DVD is merely an option for X-Box 360 so 360 games will never ship on HD-DVD rather than DVD.
Barely anyone will notice for years to come... but Blu-Ray will win.
Well, the bike lights are erring towards five normal LEDs. But they are starting to put out units with 2 or 3 luxeon stars in the 5W variety. The problem with these configurations is that they are just as expensive as HID but put out far less light per watt.
LEDs BIG unassailable virtue is that they are super-sturdy solid state. Incandescent, HID and Compact flouresent all break fairly readily. They are all hollow vessels. An LED is enclosed inside a solid bulb. They're far harder to damage and they do not burn out. Persons who absoluetly NEED their lights to work no matter what in rough conditions (like cavers) would probably choose LED over HID.
For the home, I think you'll probably see lots of LED night lights and LED spots. For colored bulbs I could see LED having niche because they do not depend on a filter. Rather, the LED can be tuned to precisely emit the desired frequencies.
I'm not anti-capitalist. I'm a "fair trader" who believes in a refereed marketplace where rules are maintained in order enforce basic ethics and preserve the "multi-producer"/"multi-buyer" model (the only way capitalism can work).
What disgusts me are these coyotes who eat other peoples lunches like crazy claiming it was there brilliance. Then when someone comes along and says "I can do that for free" they run to the courts and Congress and attempt to create regulatory barriers (that they previously decried) to protect their own interest against free commerce (something they previously trumpeted).
I don't think commercial software will ever disappear. But I do think that "trivial" software that commands exorbidant fees (Oracle... Tivoli) will. If you want to maintain value, you have to do something better then what a bunch of volunteers can produce.
Any good capitalist will trumpet their value based on supply and demand. Then when someone decides to give something away they'll cry like babies. Remember the banks suing the credit unions.
Yes absoluetly people have the right to make free software. And as long as dedicated hobbyists are willing to give it away for the sake of personal satisfaction and being able to control their tools, the corporate guys are going to have to work harder.
There is a difference between homo-erotic violence and just plain violence. In homo-erotic violence, the gay guys get an erection.
There is a realization here that the innate desire to pummel in the back of every guys mind and letting it out helps one realize themselves cathartically.
No, I'm pretty sure you are super-imposing your desires on the film. Who hasn't wanted to beat up some "pretty boy" at some point. I think you need to unwad your panties. I'll keep my briefs thank you.
I find the depiction of violence without gut-retching gore offensive and de-sensitizing. i.e. I hate professional wrestling. Somehow I do not believe this bill will target a WWE game. But if you explode a body and watch the guts splatter against the walls, somehow that's considered below community standards. Take out the gore... no problem.
Actually, I think that every kill in a video games should be accompanied by a crying wife and a starving child. That would really bring the violence home.
Isn't Slashdot implicitly breaking the DMCA by posting this crack? That would be a real unintended consequence of the law if crooks could use it to protect their activities.
Sorry, "Fight Club" was about rebellion and self realization. Same thing with another movie of that time "American Beauty".
The protaginist (he has no name) is a bitch office worker who subconsciously develops an aggressive persona that manifests itself when he "sleeps". There was no homo-sexuality in the film. The only person who got fucked was Marla. The fact that men were hugging in a testicle cancer support group is meant to be farscicle.
You are right that fist to skull contact is more likely to result in a broken hand. But orbital bones can certainly break under contact with elbow (as sometimes happens in basketball games).
The skull is NOT impenetrable. A properly swung baseball bat can easily penetrate it. More to the point, a properly swung staff or wooden sword can do the job as well. It can most certainly be accomplished with a hammer, but you'd have to be VERY skilled with a frying pan (though you could certainly kill with blunt force).
For the record, one punch can CERTAINLY kill if the person is hit in the correct way. The fact that you have not perished yet does not constitute evidence.
The president CAN make a signing statement. If he likes, he can even do a signing dance complete with silly hats. Neither institution has any basis under the constitution or the law.
Traditionally, signing statements have been a way for a president to define himself politically with respect to the law. He identifies the portions he is reluctant to while embracing the parts that he likes. It does NOT give the president to execute a line item veto on a bill. The president has NEVER had this authority, and neither does GW Bush regardless of how loudly Alberto Gonzalez might assert it.
A whistleblower is someone who reports about law-breaking at his own peril. So those divulging the information about the illegal wiretaps by the NSA... that is whistleblowing and it should be protected.
Those who are leaking just for political or personal gain (like outing Valerie Plame) are the ones who are breaking the law.
When Judith Miller was in jail, the Repukes were talking about shield laws to keep journalists to testify as to what they know to secret grand juries. These people have no sense of appropriateness, only partisanship.
Here is the guide regarding what you can leak and what you may not ethically
if (government_offials_breaking_law()) {
Leak( true ); } else {// include political retribution against CIA operatives here
Leak( false ); }
Provided that manufacturers want to add HD-DVD decoding (MPEG-4) and software for file system reading (potential copyright issues here)... Blu-Ray hardware in theory can read and display HD-DVD content. The reverse is not true. As the name implies, Blue-Ray discs require a smaller wavelength (blue) laser to read.
I would not bet that blu-ray players would be capable of reading HD-DVD on the initial release. This would give HD-DVD content an advantage of being "universally readable" and a default "lingua franca" paradoxically sink the more capable Blu-Ray players. I suspect that HD-DVD support is something that Sony would allow only after they had "won" the Hi-Def optical format war.
Sorry Kenny, we can't afford a PS3 like the Cartmans. We'll have to make due with a PS2 now discounted to $100.
As long as they can still make $$$ on it, Sony will still sell it. When PS2 came out, Sony was not content with just selling the PS3, they actually shrunk the thing and sold LCD screens for it.
Sony now has the PSP, so I don't expect to see any LCD screens for the PS2. But I do expect to see the PS2 for sale for another 2-3 years. The PS2 could not possibly compete with the PS3 for $$$. The only possible competition would be with PSP buying.
Lets not forget that this generation of Dads are the first ones who played video games. These 30 something dads once scurried down to arcades and dropped quarters into Pac-Man. They were the first generation that played on home Atari systems.
You can be sure that these dads will be putting PS3s underneath the tree for Christmas. But don't forget that they will be playing the games too!!!!
Oh yeah... that and all the 20 somethings who have extra income and would much rather put their entertainment dollars down on a game console than a bowling league.
Sony has too much invested in this launch. AND, they are now about a year behind Microsoft AND Nintendo is about ready to launch their next system.
Oh no, Sony has to release in time for the Christmas buying season or their goose is cooked. If they do not, everyone who WOULD have bought a PS3 for gaming will have bought an XBox 360 or a Wii.
The failure of PS3 would not affect Blu-Ray. The success of both Blu-Ray and/or HD-DVD will not be determined on the console market where DVD is already saturated and consumers have already spent real ??? on the switch from VHS to DVD. The real battle will be in secondary backup storage for PCs. This is where Blu-Ray has the lead due to their increased storge capacity.
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Hugo Chavez has offered free heating oil to needy US Citizens due to high prices. This is hardly the actions of someone who wants to "bury" you. Chavez does not like the Busheviks, and vice-versa. The Busheviks try to confuse the issue by projecting Chavez's general loathing for W with a non-existent loathing for the USA.
Chavez is kind of over the top. But we have to remember he is not catering to a US media market, he is catering to his constituancy.
I wonder if it will have an animatronic driver with minimal voice recognition just like the movie. ;-)
I see this as the executives seeing the size of the pie they intend to steal on getting smaller. Best to get rid of product development who are impeding their stuffing their golden parachutes. What do they care about the future of the company. They will have retired to their gated communities by then.
No doubt after laying of 10% of their workforce, Intel will continue to lament the lack of "qualified" CS and CEE candidates that have 10 years of experience in technologies that are 3 years old.
Everyone likes to talk about the "early lead" of HD-DVD. But what they fail to realize is that neither of these formats will make any real penetration in the video market. It's too soon after DVD and there simply are not enough HDTV TVs out there to justify them.
Where the "format war" will be fought and won is in archival storage. Here, Blu-Ray has the clear advantage. And despite Sony's poor execution on PS3, this will also vault Blu-Ray ahead as the gamers who do buy PS3 will be using Blu-Ray by necessity. HD-DVD is merely an option for X-Box 360 so 360 games will never ship on HD-DVD rather than DVD.
Barely anyone will notice for years to come
Well, the bike lights are erring towards five normal LEDs. But they are starting to put out units with 2 or 3 luxeon stars in the 5W variety. The problem with these configurations is that they are just as expensive as HID but put out far less light per watt.
LEDs BIG unassailable virtue is that they are super-sturdy solid state. Incandescent, HID and Compact flouresent all break fairly readily. They are all hollow vessels. An LED is enclosed inside a solid bulb. They're far harder to damage and they do not burn out. Persons who absoluetly NEED their lights to work no matter what in rough conditions (like cavers) would probably choose LED over HID.
For the home, I think you'll probably see lots of LED night lights and LED spots. For colored bulbs I could see LED having niche because they do not depend on a filter. Rather, the LED can be tuned to precisely emit the desired frequencies.
I'm not anti-capitalist. I'm a "fair trader" who believes in a refereed marketplace where rules are maintained in order enforce basic ethics and preserve the "multi-producer"/"multi-buyer" model (the only way capitalism can work).
What disgusts me are these coyotes who eat other peoples lunches like crazy claiming it was there brilliance. Then when someone comes along and says "I can do that for free" they run to the courts and Congress and attempt to create regulatory barriers (that they previously decried) to protect their own interest against free commerce (something they previously trumpeted).
I don't think commercial software will ever disappear. But I do think that "trivial" software that commands exorbidant fees (Oracle
Any good capitalist will trumpet their value based on supply and demand. Then when someone decides to give something away they'll cry like babies. Remember the banks suing the credit unions.
Yes absoluetly people have the right to make free software. And as long as dedicated hobbyists are willing to give it away for the sake of personal satisfaction and being able to control their tools, the corporate guys are going to have to work harder.
Jeesh, I had no idea.
Sounds like I'm raising my fees for PC repair.
Apple on the outside
There is a difference between homo-erotic violence and just plain violence. In homo-erotic violence, the gay guys get an erection.
There is a realization here that the innate desire to pummel in the back of every guys mind and letting it out helps one realize themselves cathartically.
No, I'm pretty sure you are super-imposing your desires on the film. Who hasn't wanted to beat up some "pretty boy" at some point. I think you need to unwad your panties. I'll keep my briefs thank you.
I find the depiction of violence without gut-retching gore offensive and de-sensitizing. i.e. I hate professional wrestling. Somehow I do not believe this bill will target a WWE game. But if you explode a body and watch the guts splatter against the walls, somehow that's considered below community standards. Take out the gore
Actually, I think that every kill in a video games should be accompanied by a crying wife and a starving child. That would really bring the violence home.
Isn't Slashdot implicitly breaking the DMCA by posting this crack? That would be a real unintended consequence of the law if crooks could use it to protect their activities.
Sorry, "Fight Club" was about rebellion and self realization. Same thing with another movie of that time "American Beauty".
The protaginist (he has no name) is a bitch office worker who subconsciously develops an aggressive persona that manifests itself when he "sleeps". There was no homo-sexuality in the film. The only person who got fucked was Marla. The fact that men were hugging in a testicle cancer support group is meant to be farscicle.
Quit projecting.
You are right that fist to skull contact is more likely to result in a broken hand. But orbital bones can certainly break under contact with elbow (as sometimes happens in basketball games).
The skull is NOT impenetrable. A properly swung baseball bat can easily penetrate it. More to the point, a properly swung staff or wooden sword can do the job as well. It can most certainly be accomplished with a hammer, but you'd have to be VERY skilled with a frying pan (though you could certainly kill with blunt force).
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/0
For the record, one punch can CERTAINLY kill if the person is hit in the correct way. The fact that you have not perished yet does not constitute evidence.
The president CAN make a signing statement. If he likes, he can even do a signing dance complete with silly hats. Neither institution has any basis under the constitution or the law.
Traditionally, signing statements have been a way for a president to define himself politically with respect to the law. He identifies the portions he is reluctant to while embracing the parts that he likes. It does NOT give the president to execute a line item veto on a bill. The president has NEVER had this authority, and neither does GW Bush regardless of how loudly Alberto Gonzalez might assert it.
The attorney general is merely an enforcer of laws. He has no authority whatsoever to create or ratify them.
A whistleblower is someone who reports about law-breaking at his own peril. So those divulging the information about the illegal wiretaps by the NSA
Those who are leaking just for political or personal gain (like outing Valerie Plame) are the ones who are breaking the law.
When Judith Miller was in jail, the Repukes were talking about shield laws to keep journalists to testify as to what they know to secret grand juries. These people have no sense of appropriateness, only partisanship.
// include political retribution against CIA operatives here
Here is the guide regarding what you can leak and what you may not ethically
if (government_offials_breaking_law())
{
Leak( true );
}
else
{
Leak( false );
}
Provided that manufacturers want to add HD-DVD decoding (MPEG-4) and software for file system reading (potential copyright issues here)
I would not bet that blu-ray players would be capable of reading HD-DVD on the initial release. This would give HD-DVD content an advantage of being "universally readable" and a default "lingua franca" paradoxically sink the more capable Blu-Ray players. I suspect that HD-DVD support is something that Sony would allow only after they had "won" the Hi-Def optical format war.
Sorry Kenny, we can't afford a PS3 like the Cartmans. We'll have to make due with a PS2 now discounted to $100.
As long as they can still make $$$ on it, Sony will still sell it. When PS2 came out, Sony was not content with just selling the PS3, they actually shrunk the thing and sold LCD screens for it.
Sony now has the PSP, so I don't expect to see any LCD screens for the PS2. But I do expect to see the PS2 for sale for another 2-3 years. The PS2 could not possibly compete with the PS3 for $$$. The only possible competition would be with PSP buying.
Lets not forget that this generation of Dads are the first ones who played video games. These 30 something dads once scurried down to arcades and dropped quarters into Pac-Man. They were the first generation that played on home Atari systems.
You can be sure that these dads will be putting PS3s underneath the tree for Christmas. But don't forget that they will be playing the games too!!!!
Oh yeah
Sony has too much invested in this launch. AND, they are now about a year behind Microsoft AND Nintendo is about ready to launch their next system.
Oh no, Sony has to release in time for the Christmas buying season or their goose is cooked. If they do not, everyone who WOULD have bought a PS3 for gaming will have bought an XBox 360 or a Wii.
The failure of PS3 would not affect Blu-Ray. The success of both Blu-Ray and/or HD-DVD will not be determined on the console market where DVD is already saturated and consumers have already spent real ??? on the switch from VHS to DVD. The real battle will be in secondary backup storage for PCs. This is where Blu-Ray has the lead due to their increased storge capacity.
Lithgow also did a good scientist portrayel in "The Manhatten Project".
The problem with the Drake equation is that it contains absoluetly NOTHING that is measureable. Conjecture * Conjecture = Conjecture!!!!!