Couldn't that also mean it's driven by a single, two-rotor rotary engine, where the rotor is ceramic instead of metal, and this engine drives both wheels the way a single engine drives all four wheels in 4-wheel-drive cars and trucks?
Why is government involvement needed in any of this? After reading the 3-page summary, I don't see any function that particularly needs government intervention. Everything can be done by industry groups, private standards bodies, or other independent foundations.
The problem is, America's IP laws are (were?) one of the keys to our industrial dominance. They provided the guarantee to entrepeneurs that if they came up with a new product and took the time and effort to develop and market it, then they wouldn't have to share the financial reward with parasites who simply copied their idea. Entrepreneurialism is the key to America's dominance, and patent laws are what ensure that potential reward is worth the initial risk. Other coutries, notably Japan during their westernization in the mid/late 1800s, even copied our IP laws, to great success. The problem is that in the software industry, it seems that disparate researchers tend to come up with the same solutions/ideas without copying each other. Yet patent and copyright laws protect whoever patents or copyrights the IP first, even if they weren't the first to derive that particular IP. This drives corporations to patent every patentable idea, even if they don't yet know how to incorporate it into a product. Then, another researcher at another company independently contrives the same idea or solution, but b/c it's already been patented by someone else, he can't use it. How you solve this problem without slaying the goose that lays the golden egg, I'm not too sure, but that's one of the main problems as I see it.
So when was the break even point that they recover all the money that has been spent developing it?
Think of it as a long-term investment for the human race, that over the course of human history will pay itself off millions of times over. Clean energy (only byproducts = water & heat, no radioactive byproducts) from the most abundant source in the universe (hydrogen) with significantly less risk than fission power (or arguably even fossil fuels). As far as investments go, it's a no-brainer, even if your great-grandchildren are the first to reap its rewards.
The rise of Fox News and talk radio shows that there is another group that is just looking for a filter that reinforces their viewpoint without any disturbing debate entering without being spun.
Liberals love to console themselves by dissing Fox News & Rush as organizations that only "filter" and "reinforce" their own viewpoints, but that's not necessarily the case. Any Conservative or Libertarian will tell you that liberals have owned the American media since the sixties. Liberals attempt to rebut that by saying that mainstream media is not liberal at all, rather it's moderate.
In actuality, mainstream media may not be as liberal as Liberals think it should be to qualify as liberal, but it's quite obvious to Conservatives and Libertarians that all mainstream news is reported from a liberal perspective, not a conservative or libertarian one. Because of that, there has been a pent-up demand among Conservatives and Libertarians for news that is reported more from their point of view.
Liberals don't understand that, hence they also don't understand that that pent-up demand is the exact cause of Fox and Rush's success. There's no conspiracy, no right-wing brainwashing, it's just the capitalistic forces of supply and demand. The demand was there first, and Fox and Rush supplied the products.
Fox, Rush, & co. are reporting and discussing news from the right perspective, the only difference is that they don't attempt to disguise their views or slant their news as liberal mainstream media has done for thirty years. If you don't like it, no one's forcing you to listen or to watch. People watch and listen because they already agree with what is being said, and simply like having someone say it publicly and unapologetically for a change. There's no deception going on.
What Liberals can't seem to accept is that their strategy of controlling the zeitgist of America by owning mainstream media has been outed and countered. Now all you can do is whine about how unfair it all is, but the fact is, Liberals are reaping what they've sown.
I can't say much about Rush since I don't listen to him, but isn't it interesting how often Bill O'Reilly invites Liberals onto his show and then argues with them? I can't remember ever seeing a liberal talk-show/news host invite Conservatives or Libertarians onto his show and argue with them. Fair and balanced indeed...
I don't think they took him seriously at all. He said he would go forward, even without the UN, yet France and Germany clung to the idea that they could stop him by delaying things at the UN.
I think you underestimate the intelligence of the elite rulers of Germany and France. Look at the results of the Iraq mess - US in serious debt, distrust of our unchecked power giving rise to anti-Americanism around the world, previously disparate forces uniting against us because of that. The French have been saying for years that America is a "hyperpower" that needs balancing. Uniting the world against us is certainly one way of doing that, and I think de Villepin, Chiraq, Shroeder & co. were quite aware of this being a potential result of an unsupported Iraqi invasion. I don't think they underestimated Bush's will to invade at all, rather they counted on it.
there's a lot more going on out there that CNN reports.
Right on! I'm sure Lacy Peterson isn't the only woman murdered by her adulterous husband in the world. Why can't CNN show more foreign news like that!?
I doubt Bush even expects to get a legacy out of it, he just wants to be the "Big Idea President" for the 2004 campaign. What better way than to propose an expensive, useless, NASA-run program that he knows will most likely be cancelled after he leaves office.
I went to Unicast's site and tried a few ads in the gallery, and they failed to run each time. First I tried it on Opera (on WXP Pro), and the button to run the ad wouldn't even respond to my mouseclicks. Next, loaded the page in IE6, clicked the button, and it asked me to wait a minute while it verified my system meets the requirements. What do you know, it doesn't, b/c I've disabled the MS JVM and am running Sun's instead. Fwiw, here's the requirement list for Unicast's fullscreen interstitial to work. I doubt any/.'ers are going to being seeing any Unicast ads anytime soon...
In order to view the Video Commercial demos on our Web site, the following system requirements are necessary:
Windows Operating System
Internet Explorer browser
Windows Media Player version 7.1 or higher
Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
If you believe that your system meets these requirements, yet are unsure whether you have a Microsoft JVM, you can determine your configuration and enable the Microsoft JVM with these steps:
Go to the ?Tools? menu of your I.E. browser
Click on ?Internet Options?
Click on the ?Advanced? tab (top, far right tab) within the ?Internet Options? window
Scroll down about half-way and look for ?Microsoft VM?.
Be sure that ?JIT compiler for virtual machine enabled? is checked (note that if all Microsoft VM boxes are checked, that is fine)
Once checked, scroll down and see if there is a ?Sun JVM? in the ?Advanced? listings. If you find this and it is checked, uncheck these.
Once complete it may be necessary to restart your computer
By altering these settings, you will not be limiting your access to any online content or opening your system up to any additional security risks.
If during the steps above, you found the Sun JVM, but did not see the Microsoft JVM and would like more information, click here.
For information on why Unicast requires the Microsoft JVM, click here.
It requires two things:
Quantity of games
Quality of games
The underlying assumption being that it first requires a large installed base of people willing to buy games, after and only after which comes quantity and quality of games. Does Linux have such a user base? I get the impression that Linux's current user base consists mainly of software and IT professionals who are devoted to making it the best OS for office/server/development usage, or at least a feasible alternative to MS's products. Will a large enough amount of these people take time off from their crusade to immerse themselves in enough Linux games (that they purchased) to make it worth it to game companies to port/develop to/for Linux? You tell me...
It's still beyond me why people even bother giving MySQL the time of day when the incomparably superior Postgres is available under GPL.
Once the Postgres native Win32 port is done, then you'll probably see increased uptake. As it is, anyone who develops on Windows boxes (yes there are such people) is excluded from using Postgresql.
For example, I run a one-man non-profit during my spare time in grad school, where I develop and maintain websites for other non-profits. It lets me write off most of my computer kit purchases, and put some very interesting philanthropy work on my resume. But I'm studying Asian languages and use WinXP for its excellent language support via MS's IME. So I'm among those for whom it's just easier to use MySQL, especially since the sites I develop aren't that large or complicated.
There are also a decent lot of bloggers out there running blogs on Windows servers for whom a MySQL-based blog makes a lot of sense.
Which is why most of us would classify you as mentally ill.
Not mentally ill, just indoctrinated. Religion is a process of psychological training that exploits various human needs, from hope for an afterlife to emotional fulfillment. It satisfies these needs in return for idealogical fealty, which religous leaders can use to exercise power over a populace in various ways. In my observation, most people get religion b/c they are either afraid of ceasing to exist when they die or because certain aspects of religion stimulate them emotionally (revivals especially), but usually not because they rationally believe everything in the Bible is true. That acceptance of the verity of religious doctrine tends to come after or in return for the emotional benefits provided by religion.
Some people have the innate intelligence/skepticism/whatever to see through it immediately, while others (like myself, born raised and indoctrinated in the Bible Belt) eventually come to understand this through experience and continual, open-minded re-evaluation of their beliefs. Many others never do.
Also, for Death Row, just take a PCJ from Malibu to the junkyard, but don't drive into the main entrance of the junkyard. Instead cut through the alley to the left, and go along the little harbor around to the back of the junkyard. In the back corner, there is a gap in the wall of junk and the junkyard wall, you can walk in through there. Go in, kill all the guys, rescue Lance, then exit through the same secret entrance. Get back on the PCJ, and escape via the bridge over the harbor. You'll completely bypass all the Comets that way, and the PCJ can get Lance to the hospital quickly before he runs out of health.
Another way to win the Driver mission: Start the race, follow Hillary past the police station, until you come to the 3-way intersection where you have to make a 90-degree left turn. Get in the left lane, just behind Hillary's left rear bumper. When he starts turning left, he'll have to cross in front of you, at which point you ram him. You should be going fast enough to cause him to go careening down the sidewalk and miss the turn. Try to aim the collision so you ricochet off him to the left - he goes to the right of the corner building, you ricochet left and keep racing to the next marker while Hillary has to turn around and get back on course. In my experience, in most cases he'll get all screwed up and freaked out and can't figure out right away how to get back on the race track, giving you a few seconds to put some distance on him. From then, just drive fast and clean with no more than one mistake, and you should win.
Also, has anyone tried starting the race, then getting out of your car and blowing up Hillary with the rocket launcher, then finishing the race? Not sure if the game would let you do that or not.
What kind of crap is that? Everyone knows that in the real world when you plow your car into the water, you should just sit in it until it sinks to the bottom of the ocean. You'll just wake up in front of the hospital in a few hours.
True, true, but don't you just hate it when the hospital strips you of all the weapons you were carrying? I just can't get along without my chainsaw, MP5, SPAZ shotgun, M16, PSG-1, and Soviet-made RPG launcher. Not to mention the expense of replacing several thousand rounds of ammo, nades, and RPGs that I'd been carrying arround in my back pocket. That's just such a drag...
The thing is, the primary purpose of the HDD in the XBox isn't saving games; it's caching of data from the DVD.
Reducing load times on a console is great, but I think gamers see other primary uses of the hdd too. Without a hdd, where will we store our downloadable content and ripped soundtracks? I assume Xbox2 just won't have either feature...
Do you use some 3rd party software to give Windows virtual workspaces? I just upgraded to a Radeon 9800 AiW, and it comes with ATI's Hydravision multi-desktop manager. Haven't though much about it till now, but I'll give it a try.
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ceramic, double-rotor two-wheel drive
Couldn't that also mean it's driven by a single, two-rotor rotary engine, where the rotor is ceramic instead of metal, and this engine drives both wheels the way a single engine drives all four wheels in 4-wheel-drive cars and trucks?
I smack jerks that talk that way to their mother. please let me knw when I can come and kick your punk ass.
I'm sure he's quaking in his boots, you fucking Coward.
Why is government involvement needed in any of this? After reading the 3-page summary, I don't see any function that particularly needs government intervention. Everything can be done by industry groups, private standards bodies, or other independent foundations.
The problem is, America's IP laws are (were?) one of the keys to our industrial dominance. They provided the guarantee to entrepeneurs that if they came up with a new product and took the time and effort to develop and market it, then they wouldn't have to share the financial reward with parasites who simply copied their idea. Entrepreneurialism is the key to America's dominance, and patent laws are what ensure that potential reward is worth the initial risk. Other coutries, notably Japan during their westernization in the mid/late 1800s, even copied our IP laws, to great success. The problem is that in the software industry, it seems that disparate researchers tend to come up with the same solutions/ideas without copying each other. Yet patent and copyright laws protect whoever patents or copyrights the IP first, even if they weren't the first to derive that particular IP. This drives corporations to patent every patentable idea, even if they don't yet know how to incorporate it into a product. Then, another researcher at another company independently contrives the same idea or solution, but b/c it's already been patented by someone else, he can't use it. How you solve this problem without slaying the goose that lays the golden egg, I'm not too sure, but that's one of the main problems as I see it.
So when was the break even point that they recover all the money that has been spent developing it?
Think of it as a long-term investment for the human race, that over the course of human history will pay itself off millions of times over. Clean energy (only byproducts = water & heat, no radioactive byproducts) from the most abundant source in the universe (hydrogen) with significantly less risk than fission power (or arguably even fossil fuels). As far as investments go, it's a no-brainer, even if your great-grandchildren are the first to reap its rewards.
Basically CD's are just a way to advertise there concert.
No, concerts (and radio) are just a way to advertise the CDs and enrich the record labels.
The rise of Fox News and talk radio shows that there is another group that is just looking for a filter that reinforces their viewpoint without any disturbing debate entering without being spun.
Liberals love to console themselves by dissing Fox News & Rush as organizations that only "filter" and "reinforce" their own viewpoints, but that's not necessarily the case. Any Conservative or Libertarian will tell you that liberals have owned the American media since the sixties. Liberals attempt to rebut that by saying that mainstream media is not liberal at all, rather it's moderate.
In actuality, mainstream media may not be as liberal as Liberals think it should be to qualify as liberal, but it's quite obvious to Conservatives and Libertarians that all mainstream news is reported from a liberal perspective, not a conservative or libertarian one. Because of that, there has been a pent-up demand among Conservatives and Libertarians for news that is reported more from their point of view.
Liberals don't understand that, hence they also don't understand that that pent-up demand is the exact cause of Fox and Rush's success. There's no conspiracy, no right-wing brainwashing, it's just the capitalistic forces of supply and demand. The demand was there first, and Fox and Rush supplied the products.
Fox, Rush, & co. are reporting and discussing news from the right perspective, the only difference is that they don't attempt to disguise their views or slant their news as liberal mainstream media has done for thirty years. If you don't like it, no one's forcing you to listen or to watch. People watch and listen because they already agree with what is being said, and simply like having someone say it publicly and unapologetically for a change. There's no deception going on.
What Liberals can't seem to accept is that their strategy of controlling the zeitgist of America by owning mainstream media has been outed and countered. Now all you can do is whine about how unfair it all is, but the fact is, Liberals are reaping what they've sown.
I can't say much about Rush since I don't listen to him, but isn't it interesting how often Bill O'Reilly invites Liberals onto his show and then argues with them? I can't remember ever seeing a liberal talk-show/news host invite Conservatives or Libertarians onto his show and argue with them. Fair and balanced indeed...
I don't think they took him seriously at all. He said he would go forward, even without the UN, yet France and Germany clung to the idea that they could stop him by delaying things at the UN.
I think you underestimate the intelligence of the elite rulers of Germany and France. Look at the results of the Iraq mess - US in serious debt, distrust of our unchecked power giving rise to anti-Americanism around the world, previously disparate forces uniting against us because of that. The French have been saying for years that America is a "hyperpower" that needs balancing. Uniting the world against us is certainly one way of doing that, and I think de Villepin, Chiraq, Shroeder & co. were quite aware of this being a potential result of an unsupported Iraqi invasion. I don't think they underestimated Bush's will to invade at all, rather they counted on it.
there's a lot more going on out there that CNN reports.
Right on! I'm sure Lacy Peterson isn't the only woman murdered by her adulterous husband in the world. Why can't CNN show more foreign news like that!?
They need to get the astronauts to being up some marijuana, so they what happens when you do it.... IN SPACE, ON WEED!
/. sure seems to make you forget how to type...
Well I don't know what the effects of doing weed in space are, but doing weed when browsing
I doubt Bush even expects to get a legacy out of it, he just wants to be the "Big Idea President" for the 2004 campaign. What better way than to propose an expensive, useless, NASA-run program that he knows will most likely be cancelled after he leaves office.
I went to Unicast's site and tried a few ads in the gallery, and they failed to run each time. First I tried it on Opera (on WXP Pro), and the button to run the ad wouldn't even respond to my mouseclicks. Next, loaded the page in IE6, clicked the button, and it asked me to wait a minute while it verified my system meets the requirements. What do you know, it doesn't, b/c I've disabled the MS JVM and am running Sun's instead. Fwiw, here's the requirement list for Unicast's fullscreen interstitial to work. I doubt any /.'ers are going to being seeing any Unicast ads anytime soon...
In order to view the Video Commercial demos on our Web site, the following system requirements are necessary:
Windows Operating System
Internet Explorer browser
Windows Media Player version 7.1 or higher
Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
If you believe that your system meets these requirements, yet are unsure whether you have a Microsoft JVM, you can determine your configuration and enable the Microsoft JVM with these steps:
Go to the ?Tools? menu of your I.E. browser
Click on ?Internet Options?
Click on the ?Advanced? tab (top, far right tab) within the ?Internet Options? window
Scroll down about half-way and look for ?Microsoft VM?.
Be sure that ?JIT compiler for virtual machine enabled? is checked (note that if all Microsoft VM boxes are checked, that is fine)
Once checked, scroll down and see if there is a ?Sun JVM? in the ?Advanced? listings. If you find this and it is checked, uncheck these.
Once complete it may be necessary to restart your computer
By altering these settings, you will not be limiting your access to any online content or opening your system up to any additional security risks.
If during the steps above, you found the Sun JVM, but did not see the Microsoft JVM and would like more information, click here.
For information on why Unicast requires the Microsoft JVM, click here.
It requires two things:
Quantity of games
Quality of games
The underlying assumption being that it first requires a large installed base of people willing to buy games, after and only after which comes quantity and quality of games. Does Linux have such a user base? I get the impression that Linux's current user base consists mainly of software and IT professionals who are devoted to making it the best OS for office/server/development usage, or at least a feasible alternative to MS's products. Will a large enough amount of these people take time off from their crusade to immerse themselves in enough Linux games (that they purchased) to make it worth it to game companies to port/develop to/for Linux? You tell me...
1) Think up cool name for game
2) Open sourceforge project
3) wait for programmers and artists to come write it for you
4) ??
You forgot the most important step:
5) Profit!
Oh, wait... (ponders F/OSS game economics)
It's still beyond me why people even bother giving MySQL the time of day when the incomparably superior Postgres is available under GPL.
Once the Postgres native Win32 port is done, then you'll probably see increased uptake. As it is, anyone who develops on Windows boxes (yes there are such people) is excluded from using Postgresql.
For example, I run a one-man non-profit during my spare time in grad school, where I develop and maintain websites for other non-profits. It lets me write off most of my computer kit purchases, and put some very interesting philanthropy work on my resume. But I'm studying Asian languages and use WinXP for its excellent language support via MS's IME. So I'm among those for whom it's just easier to use MySQL, especially since the sites I develop aren't that large or complicated.
There are also a decent lot of bloggers out there running blogs on Windows servers for whom a MySQL-based blog makes a lot of sense.
From the article: Otherwise, unanticipated uses will lead to unintended consequences.
I for one welcome our new software overlords!
Which is why most of us would classify you as mentally ill.
Not mentally ill, just indoctrinated. Religion is a process of psychological training that exploits various human needs, from hope for an afterlife to emotional fulfillment. It satisfies these needs in return for idealogical fealty, which religous leaders can use to exercise power over a populace in various ways. In my observation, most people get religion b/c they are either afraid of ceasing to exist when they die or because certain aspects of religion stimulate them emotionally (revivals especially), but usually not because they rationally believe everything in the Bible is true. That acceptance of the verity of religious doctrine tends to come after or in return for the emotional benefits provided by religion.
Some people have the innate intelligence/skepticism/whatever to see through it immediately, while others (like myself, born raised and indoctrinated in the Bible Belt) eventually come to understand this through experience and continual, open-minded re-evaluation of their beliefs. Many others never do.
Or find himself some South Farthing pipeweed...
Also, for Death Row, just take a PCJ from Malibu to the junkyard, but don't drive into the main entrance of the junkyard. Instead cut through the alley to the left, and go along the little harbor around to the back of the junkyard. In the back corner, there is a gap in the wall of junk and the junkyard wall, you can walk in through there. Go in, kill all the guys, rescue Lance, then exit through the same secret entrance. Get back on the PCJ, and escape via the bridge over the harbor. You'll completely bypass all the Comets that way, and the PCJ can get Lance to the hospital quickly before he runs out of health.
Another way to win the Driver mission: Start the race, follow Hillary past the police station, until you come to the 3-way intersection where you have to make a 90-degree left turn. Get in the left lane, just behind Hillary's left rear bumper. When he starts turning left, he'll have to cross in front of you, at which point you ram him. You should be going fast enough to cause him to go careening down the sidewalk and miss the turn. Try to aim the collision so you ricochet off him to the left - he goes to the right of the corner building, you ricochet left and keep racing to the next marker while Hillary has to turn around and get back on course. In my experience, in most cases he'll get all screwed up and freaked out and can't figure out right away how to get back on the race track, giving you a few seconds to put some distance on him. From then, just drive fast and clean with no more than one mistake, and you should win.
Also, has anyone tried starting the race, then getting out of your car and blowing up Hillary with the rocket launcher, then finishing the race? Not sure if the game would let you do that or not.
What kind of crap is that? Everyone knows that in the real world when you plow your car into the water, you should just sit in it until it sinks to the bottom of the ocean. You'll just wake up in front of the hospital in a few hours.
True, true, but don't you just hate it when the hospital strips you of all the weapons you were carrying? I just can't get along without my chainsaw, MP5, SPAZ shotgun, M16, PSG-1, and Soviet-made RPG launcher. Not to mention the expense of replacing several thousand rounds of ammo, nades, and RPGs that I'd been carrying arround in my back pocket. That's just such a drag...
Yep, they scooped entire IT media on this story by a full two years. Not an unimpressive achievement, if you ask me.
Not the least either. Their sources have been improving, and afaik they were the first to report on Yamhill ~2 years ago.
The thing is, the primary purpose of the HDD in the XBox isn't saving games; it's caching of data from the DVD.
Reducing load times on a console is great, but I think gamers see other primary uses of the hdd too. Without a hdd, where will we store our downloadable content and ripped soundtracks? I assume Xbox2 just won't have either feature...
Do you use some 3rd party software to give Windows virtual workspaces? I just upgraded to a Radeon 9800 AiW, and it comes with ATI's Hydravision multi-desktop manager. Haven't though much about it till now, but I'll give it a try.