Your post is interesting, but it's wrong. As a person without citizenship in the US you are not protected by any of the laws governing the United States. Only if Canada found a problem with the US government snooping your stuff would there be trouble (and you'd still likely loose, since you contact google, and google is inside the united states).
My problem with the patriot act is basically opposite to your problem here. Citizens of the United States are now subject to loss of constitutional rights simply if they are suspected to be involved in terrorism. A citizen of another country already has their own rights, which are protected by their respective country. The US has been more aggressive with other countries, and acted in ways that are not very smart while overseas. There has however been no breach of international law, and all of the international political demands made by the united states were legitimate.
As the United States grows more and more communistic, the people hurt are more and more within the borders, not outside.
The sentence means that people who are against video games (as a form of artistic expression) are people who have not experienced video games (the term in general, like before). Some people claim they dont like flying on airplanes, many not because they have tried it, but simply because they have some predujice to trying it. These people are predujice because they find something which is not related to the actual experience to be offensive, or frightening.
The same deal goes with video games, and it's actually more obvious. Lets take Hilary Clinton as an example (she is outspokenly against video games). She has voiced her concerns for womens health (a term which I can't grasp fully, but which has a calm, harmless, potpuri like vibe). She does not excercise regularly. She does not seem the type who would enjoy a good old fashioned action movie like "The Patriot". Does this make her a bad person (I don't think so). What it does mean, is that she is someone who is more apt to write a speech, and collect political funds to get excited than she would be to stimulate her senses (audiovisually, or mechanically).
I think the essence of the sentence you criticized is that people who criticize video games are totally disconnected from the realm of interest that draws video game players. Some may not care to take a realistic impression, and others are completely incapable of gaining a realistic impression.
Actually the DRM on iTunes still infringes on many fair use rules. I wouldn't call the sony rootkit DRM, it's just uncontrolled corporate greed. Am I the only one who finds this settlement a little under satisfactory? I certainly wont do a wipe/clean install of windows for $7.50. Even if your system wasn't infected with anything, hiring a professional just to remove the rootkit will cost more than $7.50.
This really isn't to discourage people from making their claim. Do it just to hurt Sony, they need some feedback. What is bothersome to me, is that every time a large company breaks the law and scams their customers they get off with something worth under $15. You can get in more trouble than that just mowing someones lawn.
E85 is not ethanol. E85 is really low quality gasoline with a small percentage (think 5%) ethanol. Even though Ethanol is 113 octane, E85 is still 2 points below what is considered "regular". Making a move to E85 would be very detrimental. It may help a gas station, but it wont help your car, and it wont make you less dependent on middle eastern oil.
Even a switch to 100% ethanol would likely only take a fuel map change, which isn't very hard, especially if you have a reason to run that kind of race fuel. I think the true problem with getting ethanol to be used in the US is taxes. It is taxed as alcohol, and as fuel. The governemnt further hinders by requiring that most of a fuel be gasoline, and only a small percentage be alcohol.
I dont think there is a need for a watermark. Just go to newzbin, and you can see that more albums are available to the public than individual tracks. Most media types will go through a release on usenet or bittorrent before they hit music networks.
Most of us are assuming that providers who charge a extra "VoIP fee" are just looking for more money. This idea is upheld, because users on all the reported ISPs who are charging the fee report problems with voip service when not paying the "protection money".
I think another question comes to the service though. Should a internet provider really be giving priority to conversations? Normally if you want better service (for gaming as an example), you get the best package that your ISP will sell you. Normally this type of upgrade doesn't give you better priority on the network, it just gives you a wider bandwidth. I think it begs the question: why should other users suffer a lower priority connection to help other internet users who are on VoIP?
You can't using windows for gaming due to the insecure nature: Running Spybot S&D, Norton antivirus, and microsoft firewall will bring your system to a halt (I know, Norton is a cheapshot). The thing is windows just need too many helper applications to run reasonably, and if you're going to spend all the time making sure everything is correct why should you have to pay Microsoft through the nose for that responsibility?
90% of PCs run a version of windows that will be unsafe, and unsupported (no directx) in under a year from the release of Vista. Developers will have to move on to another platform already (vista will not run pre-vista apps well), and moving on to a platform that is doomed to begin with is not a good idea. We know most developers will not support XP or 2000 if Vista gains a hold of the market. A move to Linux really wouldn't make developers jobs any harder: it will just move the workload to another platform.
Of course developers could choose to use openGL on windows, and by doing so cut down on some of their cross-platform development work, but all of the supporting structure for openGL is implemented in unix, not windows. You always have the problem that if Microsoft doesn't bless your moves (and you'd be moving against xbox by switching to openGL) they might sabatage your efforts.
Just one more thing to think about in case I haven't convinced you yet: PC gamers endure changes. They are playing on the PC because they belive in provides the best experience, not because it's easy (if ease of use was the goal, you'd use a console). All of the software (expensive, difficult to configure) required to run a windows box securely makes the change from windows to linux trivial for a gamer. Next-gen games will require real hardware upgrades to provide the best experience (that's what pc gamers are looking for), so a change of operating system makes sense.
The solution is clearly NOT vista: supporting a dying platform may be a viable option to keep users hooked. When they realize that they can't play games from X studio if they "upgrade" to vista, they will take into consideration other options.
IBM will not be forced to upgrade to vista. Their software runs server side, and almost all of it is supported directly by IBM. There is no reason in fact for IBM to support Vista, and by doing so support Microsoft.
Think of it this way: If nobody supports vista, nobody will have to support vista! While IBM moving away from microsoft is a move in the right direction, IBM will not be able to crush Vista on their own, they will need help.
The only group that will need to support Vista is game developers. Most (with exception of Epic, iD, and a few others) have gone so far to avoid opengl, and embrace directx, they will be forced to adopt Vista just to keep things moderately insecure (Microsoft will strategically drop security support for xp soon enough).
It should be noted, there is no reason for game devs to support windows; It's far too insecure for gaming, and that wont get any better. A move to linux (and with it FreeBSD by binary compatibility) would allow devs to go with only 2-3 major platforms: OpenGL for PS3, linux/PC, and possibly nintendo revolution. Of course you would have to support directX for xbox360, but over time the extra cost to develop for microsoft would probably kill their projects.
We have come to the point where the time to move away from microsoft is NOW, but unfortunately it will take a while for vendors and developers to realize that.
SuSE is redhat based, and it does a better job it than Redhat. SuSE was a german company, IBM germany likely is still using at least parts of SuSE to implement their own distribution.
Someone has to state the obvious. Past users of Novell aren't going to just switch directly to another Novell product that is completely unlike the other one. Whatever growth of SuSE will be because of the sucess of SuSE to provide a good linux distribution, and not because of Novell's name. We saw this before with Corel; They made a unique linux distribution, and some liked it. Nobody decided to move their department to Corel Linux just because they had been using WP.
The general idea is there, but what about when you want to start writing Java as a beginner? Do you really think that someone should understand/memorize the "public static void main (String [] arg)" line? Even experienced programmers from C/C++ wont understand what all of those things mean, and it really just means main(). Maybe books are better because they encourage a programmer to understand, but juggling everything on your desk can get bothersome.
It makes perfect sense to question a government. Of course there are many other reasons to protect your own privacy, apart from things eternal. I wasn't trying to sound like privacy doesn't matter, because it does. Dispelling some of the 666 fear is probably a good idea to rationally discuss the implications of RFID.
It is critical to understand what component is actually unsafe before any action can be taken to counter it. Likely of the 5% of "unsafe" internet traffic, 4% of it is from a perspective of sites that are not safe for MSIE. Of course there is no reason for any traffic to go to a "unsafe" site, as they do not have good content. OTOH, I could probably get away with saying that 20% of the web is useless, and not get a counter argument.
This study really only shows that most web users do not think about their safety; We already knew that considering they are using MSIE.
I can't deny an assertion that Christians work as public servants in the US, but I'd like to qualify the statement. Christians will look forward to the end times (some in anticipation, some in uncertainty), but the underlying principle is that you can't change God's time. At different points in time, the 12 disciples wanted Jesus to bring deliverance to their people, but he did not come 2000 years ago to conquer.
How does this really relate to RFID? Barcodes could certainly be a mechanism for giving everyone a number, but it's obvious. Really, with all the people who are somewhat tolerant of Christian beliefs, it would be difficult to get someone to take a barcode on their forhead. On the other hand, an RFID tag could be placed inside nearly anything (barring lead, and copper suspensions), and still operate. Excuses for placing an RFID tag (considering the many ways to do so) could be endless, and as the scripture says "right hand or forhead", it may not matter so much where, as what. Either way, do not be afraid; Those who are sealed by God will not be vulnerable to the mark of the beast.
The problem was not that Siegenthaler would sue Wikimedia, but that the environment Wikipedia had built was considered fact-based enough for Siegenthaler to put a poster in some serious heat.
About multiple authors: I don't actually believe you, when you assert my lack of understanding of multiple authors (which would make you a troll for disputing it); The problem is not that "Mike" writes an article about Particle Physics and "Joe" writes an article about Kitchen Knives. The problem is that, in the same article, there can be multiple authors who don't even get along. Wikimedia does not provide for the lack of professionalism, and without paying their authors, there is no way for them to select who should get what articles.
Everything2 at least provided a workaround for the multiple author problem by allowing multiple views of a specific topic (understand, this is not like Wikipedia's disambiguation page which just allows for different meanings to the same words). It would be nice for Wikipedia (or the Wikimedia Foundation, whoever is running the agenda) to at least acknowlege the problem, and provide a simple (even if imcomplete) solution to it.
The problem is ASL is it's own language. I know what you're thinking: "you're just saying that so deaf people will feel comfortable"; In fact whoever worked to create/spread ASL wasn't thinking about cultural effects. ASL uses a dictionary (lexicon) that is almost identical to English, but it's grammar patterns are all mixed up. So, even if a deaf person developed the ability to read english words, they would still have significant trouble understanding English sentences.
Honestly I dont think this system is a good idea. In situations that are crucial enough to require a translator, the solution provided by this software will not be reliable enough.
Wikipedia has outgrown its usefulness, it was quite clear this was the case when a few months ago someone was attacked legally for comitting libel against someone he wrote an article about. The whole idea of multiple authors for the same article is really absurd. Nobody can ensure that someone who edited an article actually understood what the first article meant, and there is no real organization to the moderation. The moderators are far too concerned with public opinion, wikipedia attempts to enforce their rules not with a gauge of quality, but simply by threatening their users.
As mathsfreak said, this is not a science topic. I'm sure being a Maths Freak, one would want to read scientific articles. This one is just a political/religious battle between the Humanists, Mormons, Humanist Mormons, Humanist Christians, and Christians. It should have been filed under "Garbage" and rejected, or filed under politics at worst.
The tools only work if the editors actually think about where to put things, in this case they clearly aren't.
RMS is still pushing forward, and there are a lot of people who are happy with the state of open source now. The thing is, with the competition (from a legal standpoint) of DRM, trusted computing, and etc, the GPL must make changes to counter these new ideas.
Some people are afraid that the changes in gpl3 will keep people from embracing open source, but it is essential to have a licence that will be of use in the years to come.
RMS has liberal views, but at this point he's the only one addressing the problem. Btw... RMS isn't that popular around here, you're more likely to get modded down for incorrect spelling.
There may be 10,000 people living in the Steamboat Springs area (give or take a few thousand), but they certainly aren't all working for the local government! It is very clear that this OSS move is very small, very unimportant in this small mountain community. If my little sister can handle e17, I think professionals working for the government should be expected to, especially when it means a significantly lower cost to the public (not that any of the nature-lovers in Colorado care about fiscal responsibility)
Speak with your wallet and dont buy a PS3. Stick to a console that isn't heavily influenced by TCA principles; If you bought the 360, why oh why would you complain about Sony's problems. Everyone knew the PS3 would late in coming just because of the elaborate amount of new tech they put in it. As the article said, there will likely be no delay in the NA market even though there will be a delay in Japan. This means Sony delays bringing the PS3 to international market completely intentionally, and it is not a result of market pressure.
Remember, when you buy a console you are only adding to the supply problems, and therefor boosting media attention. I'm not going to do that until I find a company worthy of that kind of attention. Hopefully Revolution will avoid all the TCA problems, and I can justify buying it with more than just avoiding Sony and Micro$oft.
well, it should be noted that halo has its own amount of frustration. First, chasing someone halfway accross the map with your pistol, only to see him duck and recharge is very frustrating. Second, there is still a great incentive to run around, except its all about imbalanced weapons. Speaking about imbalanced weapons, why is the rocket launcher so good against vehicles? Bungie actually made this worse in Halo 2, its pointless to go against a vehicle with anything but a RL, and trying wihout a RL is equally pointless.
The grand assumption is that most will want their website indexed. Of course if someone is determined enough to keep their site from being indexed/copied by google, they should have used the robots file. Copyrights are always something you have to protect yourself; Perfect 10 skipped quite a few steps involved in protecting their copyright and went straight to suing google.
This case is clearly a gold digging scheme, so here's hoping "Perfect 10" loses.
The newspapers will be forced to keep the skilled investigative reporters when they lay off all of their dead-weight reporters. Market forces determine that the lower quality reporters will find something else to do. In the information age we live in today, there is no reason to say more information -> better information. In fact, hiding good information with bad information makes it less accessable.
Come to think of it, maybe the CIA is trying to obfuscate their classified database by adding useless historical documents?
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Your post is interesting, but it's wrong. As a person without citizenship in the US you are not protected by any of the laws governing the United States. Only if Canada found a problem with the US government snooping your stuff would there be trouble (and you'd still likely loose, since you contact google, and google is inside the united states).
My problem with the patriot act is basically opposite to your problem here. Citizens of the United States are now subject to loss of constitutional rights simply if they are suspected to be involved in terrorism. A citizen of another country already has their own rights, which are protected by their respective country. The US has been more aggressive with other countries, and acted in ways that are not very smart while overseas. There has however been no breach of international law, and all of the international political demands made by the united states were legitimate.
As the United States grows more and more communistic, the people hurt are more and more within the borders, not outside.
The sentence means that people who are against video games (as a form of artistic expression) are people who have not experienced video games (the term in general, like before). Some people claim they dont like flying on airplanes, many not because they have tried it, but simply because they have some predujice to trying it. These people are predujice because they find something which is not related to the actual experience to be offensive, or frightening.
The same deal goes with video games, and it's actually more obvious. Lets take Hilary Clinton as an example (she is outspokenly against video games). She has voiced her concerns for womens health (a term which I can't grasp fully, but which has a calm, harmless, potpuri like vibe). She does not excercise regularly. She does not seem the type who would enjoy a good old fashioned action movie like "The Patriot". Does this make her a bad person (I don't think so). What it does mean, is that she is someone who is more apt to write a speech, and collect political funds to get excited than she would be to stimulate her senses (audiovisually, or mechanically).
I think the essence of the sentence you criticized is that people who criticize video games are totally disconnected from the realm of interest that draws video game players. Some may not care to take a realistic impression, and others are completely incapable of gaining a realistic impression.
Actually the DRM on iTunes still infringes on many fair use rules. I wouldn't call the sony rootkit DRM, it's just uncontrolled corporate greed. Am I the only one who finds this settlement a little under satisfactory? I certainly wont do a wipe/clean install of windows for $7.50. Even if your system wasn't infected with anything, hiring a professional just to remove the rootkit will cost more than $7.50.
This really isn't to discourage people from making their claim. Do it just to hurt Sony, they need some feedback. What is bothersome to me, is that every time a large company breaks the law and scams their customers they get off with something worth under $15. You can get in more trouble than that just mowing someones lawn.
E85 is not ethanol. E85 is really low quality gasoline with a small percentage (think 5%) ethanol. Even though Ethanol is 113 octane, E85 is still 2 points below what is considered "regular". Making a move to E85 would be very detrimental. It may help a gas station, but it wont help your car, and it wont make you less dependent on middle eastern oil.
Even a switch to 100% ethanol would likely only take a fuel map change, which isn't very hard, especially if you have a reason to run that kind of race fuel. I think the true problem with getting ethanol to be used in the US is taxes. It is taxed as alcohol, and as fuel. The governemnt further hinders by requiring that most of a fuel be gasoline, and only a small percentage be alcohol.
I dont think there is a need for a watermark. Just go to newzbin, and you can see that more albums are available to the public than individual tracks. Most media types will go through a release on usenet or bittorrent before they hit music networks.
Most of us are assuming that providers who charge a extra "VoIP fee" are just looking for more money. This idea is upheld, because users on all the reported ISPs who are charging the fee report problems with voip service when not paying the "protection money".
I think another question comes to the service though. Should a internet provider really be giving priority to conversations? Normally if you want better service (for gaming as an example), you get the best package that your ISP will sell you. Normally this type of upgrade doesn't give you better priority on the network, it just gives you a wider bandwidth. I think it begs the question: why should other users suffer a lower priority connection to help other internet users who are on VoIP?
You can't using windows for gaming due to the insecure nature: Running Spybot S&D, Norton antivirus, and microsoft firewall will bring your system to a halt (I know, Norton is a cheapshot). The thing is windows just need too many helper applications to run reasonably, and if you're going to spend all the time making sure everything is correct why should you have to pay Microsoft through the nose for that responsibility?
90% of PCs run a version of windows that will be unsafe, and unsupported (no directx) in under a year from the release of Vista. Developers will have to move on to another platform already (vista will not run pre-vista apps well), and moving on to a platform that is doomed to begin with is not a good idea. We know most developers will not support XP or 2000 if Vista gains a hold of the market. A move to Linux really wouldn't make developers jobs any harder: it will just move the workload to another platform.
Of course developers could choose to use openGL on windows, and by doing so cut down on some of their cross-platform development work, but all of the supporting structure for openGL is implemented in unix, not windows. You always have the problem that if Microsoft doesn't bless your moves (and you'd be moving against xbox by switching to openGL) they might sabatage your efforts.
Just one more thing to think about in case I haven't convinced you yet: PC gamers endure changes. They are playing on the PC because they belive in provides the best experience, not because it's easy (if ease of use was the goal, you'd use a console). All of the software (expensive, difficult to configure) required to run a windows box securely makes the change from windows to linux trivial for a gamer. Next-gen games will require real hardware upgrades to provide the best experience (that's what pc gamers are looking for), so a change of operating system makes sense.
The solution is clearly NOT vista: supporting a dying platform may be a viable option to keep users hooked. When they realize that they can't play games from X studio if they "upgrade" to vista, they will take into consideration other options.
IBM will not be forced to upgrade to vista. Their software runs server side, and almost all of it is supported directly by IBM. There is no reason in fact for IBM to support Vista, and by doing so support Microsoft.
Think of it this way: If nobody supports vista, nobody will have to support vista! While IBM moving away from microsoft is a move in the right direction, IBM will not be able to crush Vista on their own, they will need help.
The only group that will need to support Vista is game developers. Most (with exception of Epic, iD, and a few others) have gone so far to avoid opengl, and embrace directx, they will be forced to adopt Vista just to keep things moderately insecure (Microsoft will strategically drop security support for xp soon enough).
It should be noted, there is no reason for game devs to support windows; It's far too insecure for gaming, and that wont get any better. A move to linux (and with it FreeBSD by binary compatibility) would allow devs to go with only 2-3 major platforms: OpenGL for PS3, linux/PC, and possibly nintendo revolution. Of course you would have to support directX for xbox360, but over time the extra cost to develop for microsoft would probably kill their projects.
We have come to the point where the time to move away from microsoft is NOW, but unfortunately it will take a while for vendors and developers to realize that.
SuSE is redhat based, and it does a better job it than Redhat. SuSE was a german company, IBM germany likely is still using at least parts of SuSE to implement their own distribution.
Someone has to state the obvious. Past users of Novell aren't going to just switch directly to another Novell product that is completely unlike the other one. Whatever growth of SuSE will be because of the sucess of SuSE to provide a good linux distribution, and not because of Novell's name. We saw this before with Corel; They made a unique linux distribution, and some liked it. Nobody decided to move their department to Corel Linux just because they had been using WP.
The general idea is there, but what about when you want to start writing Java as a beginner? Do you really think that someone should understand/memorize the "public static void main (String [] arg)" line? Even experienced programmers from C/C++ wont understand what all of those things mean, and it really just means main(). Maybe books are better because they encourage a programmer to understand, but juggling everything on your desk can get bothersome.
It makes perfect sense to question a government. Of course there are many other reasons to protect your own privacy, apart from things eternal. I wasn't trying to sound like privacy doesn't matter, because it does. Dispelling some of the 666 fear is probably a good idea to rationally discuss the implications of RFID.
It is critical to understand what component is actually unsafe before any action can be taken to counter it. Likely of the 5% of "unsafe" internet traffic, 4% of it is from a perspective of sites that are not safe for MSIE. Of course there is no reason for any traffic to go to a "unsafe" site, as they do not have good content. OTOH, I could probably get away with saying that 20% of the web is useless, and not get a counter argument.
This study really only shows that most web users do not think about their safety; We already knew that considering they are using MSIE.
I can't deny an assertion that Christians work as public servants in the US, but I'd like to qualify the statement. Christians will look forward to the end times (some in anticipation, some in uncertainty), but the underlying principle is that you can't change God's time. At different points in time, the 12 disciples wanted Jesus to bring deliverance to their people, but he did not come 2000 years ago to conquer.
How does this really relate to RFID? Barcodes could certainly be a mechanism for giving everyone a number, but it's obvious. Really, with all the people who are somewhat tolerant of Christian beliefs, it would be difficult to get someone to take a barcode on their forhead. On the other hand, an RFID tag could be placed inside nearly anything (barring lead, and copper suspensions), and still operate. Excuses for placing an RFID tag (considering the many ways to do so) could be endless, and as the scripture says "right hand or forhead", it may not matter so much where, as what. Either way, do not be afraid; Those who are sealed by God will not be vulnerable to the mark of the beast.
The problem was not that Siegenthaler would sue Wikimedia, but that the environment Wikipedia had built was considered fact-based enough for Siegenthaler to put a poster in some serious heat.
About multiple authors: I don't actually believe you, when you assert my lack of understanding of multiple authors (which would make you a troll for disputing it); The problem is not that "Mike" writes an article about Particle Physics and "Joe" writes an article about Kitchen Knives. The problem is that, in the same article, there can be multiple authors who don't even get along. Wikimedia does not provide for the lack of professionalism, and without paying their authors, there is no way for them to select who should get what articles.
Everything2 at least provided a workaround for the multiple author problem by allowing multiple views of a specific topic (understand, this is not like Wikipedia's disambiguation page which just allows for different meanings to the same words). It would be nice for Wikipedia (or the Wikimedia Foundation, whoever is running the agenda) to at least acknowlege the problem, and provide a simple (even if imcomplete) solution to it.
The problem is ASL is it's own language. I know what you're thinking: "you're just saying that so deaf people will feel comfortable"; In fact whoever worked to create/spread ASL wasn't thinking about cultural effects. ASL uses a dictionary (lexicon) that is almost identical to English, but it's grammar patterns are all mixed up. So, even if a deaf person developed the ability to read english words, they would still have significant trouble understanding English sentences.
Honestly I dont think this system is a good idea. In situations that are crucial enough to require a translator, the solution provided by this software will not be reliable enough.
Wikipedia has outgrown its usefulness, it was quite clear this was the case when a few months ago someone was attacked legally for comitting libel against someone he wrote an article about. The whole idea of multiple authors for the same article is really absurd. Nobody can ensure that someone who edited an article actually understood what the first article meant, and there is no real organization to the moderation. The moderators are far too concerned with public opinion, wikipedia attempts to enforce their rules not with a gauge of quality, but simply by threatening their users.
The law is about programs, not one program. Microsoft uses all the memory at the operating system level, and thats why they suck.
As mathsfreak said, this is not a science topic. I'm sure being a Maths Freak, one would want to read scientific articles. This one is just a political/religious battle between the Humanists, Mormons, Humanist Mormons, Humanist Christians, and Christians. It should have been filed under "Garbage" and rejected, or filed under politics at worst.
The tools only work if the editors actually think about where to put things, in this case they clearly aren't.
RMS is still pushing forward, and there are a lot of people who are happy with the state of open source now. The thing is, with the competition (from a legal standpoint) of DRM, trusted computing, and etc, the GPL must make changes to counter these new ideas.
Some people are afraid that the changes in gpl3 will keep people from embracing open source, but it is essential to have a licence that will be of use in the years to come.
RMS has liberal views, but at this point he's the only one addressing the problem. Btw... RMS isn't that popular around here, you're more likely to get modded down for incorrect spelling.
There may be 10,000 people living in the Steamboat Springs area (give or take a few thousand), but they certainly aren't all working for the local government! It is very clear that this OSS move is very small, very unimportant in this small mountain community. If my little sister can handle e17, I think professionals working for the government should be expected to, especially when it means a significantly lower cost to the public (not that any of the nature-lovers in Colorado care about fiscal responsibility)
Speak with your wallet and dont buy a PS3. Stick to a console that isn't heavily influenced by TCA principles; If you bought the 360, why oh why would you complain about Sony's problems. Everyone knew the PS3 would late in coming just because of the elaborate amount of new tech they put in it. As the article said, there will likely be no delay in the NA market even though there will be a delay in Japan. This means Sony delays bringing the PS3 to international market completely intentionally, and it is not a result of market pressure.
Remember, when you buy a console you are only adding to the supply problems, and therefor boosting media attention. I'm not going to do that until I find a company worthy of that kind of attention. Hopefully Revolution will avoid all the TCA problems, and I can justify buying it with more than just avoiding Sony and Micro$oft.
well, it should be noted that halo has its own amount of frustration. First, chasing someone halfway accross the map with your pistol, only to see him duck and recharge is very frustrating. Second, there is still a great incentive to run around, except its all about imbalanced weapons. Speaking about imbalanced weapons, why is the rocket launcher so good against vehicles? Bungie actually made this worse in Halo 2, its pointless to go against a vehicle with anything but a RL, and trying wihout a RL is equally pointless.
The grand assumption is that most will want their website indexed. Of course if someone is determined enough to keep their site from being indexed/copied by google, they should have used the robots file. Copyrights are always something you have to protect yourself; Perfect 10 skipped quite a few steps involved in protecting their copyright and went straight to suing google.
This case is clearly a gold digging scheme, so here's hoping "Perfect 10" loses.
The newspapers will be forced to keep the skilled investigative reporters when they lay off all of their dead-weight reporters. Market forces determine that the lower quality reporters will find something else to do. In the information age we live in today, there is no reason to say more information -> better information. In fact, hiding good information with bad information makes it less accessable.
Come to think of it, maybe the CIA is trying to obfuscate their classified database by adding useless historical documents?