I've read a lot on a non-eInk eBook (the REB-1100, successor to the Rocket Book). It's fine, whether used with the backlight or in reflective mode.
The problem with current e-ink is the horrible flashing when you change pages. Show the text overlain, then black, then white, then just the new text? Ugh.
The minute we started the game, everybody had a good laugh about typical American ignorance.
Which only proves your own provincialism, because it wasn't ignorance at all. It was political correctness. The game makers deliberately used the term "African American" because all the alternatives are seen as offensive by some people. It might not even be incorrect; is the character supposed to be American?
In the UK, "Asian" refers predominantly to people south asian descent, the subcontinent. "East Asian" refers to people of Chinese or surrounding regional descent, this is what Americans refer to as "Asian".
Well, we used to refer to the "East Asian" types as "Oriental", with "Indian" being for that subcontinent, but someone got their back up about that term (which simply means "eastern", of course... the usual whine is that "oriental" refers to rugs, not people. The rugs in question are mostly Persian, whose people we would refer to as "Iranian" or "Middle Eastern", not Asian), and that's now Politically Incorrect.
This isn't a case where Psystar was making boxes, buying retail copies of MacOS, installing those on the boxes and selling box and MacOS together. That's how Psystar portrayed it, but it turns out that what they were actually doing was cloning all the machines from a master copy of the OS, then including a (still-unopened) copy of MacOS with the box. If you want to use 17 USC 117 (running programs) and 17 USC 109 (First Sale), you have to actually observe the forms. It's not enough to claim that the result is the same as if you'd observed the forms. Thus the case was a slam-dunk for Apple.
If a magazine or website is really scoring out of 10 or out of 100, then we ought to see some 1's and 2's. But we don't do we ?
With magazines, traditionally, no. If a game is THAT bad, the magazine won't bother to print a review of it. Not that there isn't plenty of inflation going on, but there are other less-nefarious reasons you don't see terrible reviews.
Same goes for restaurant reviews from respected restaurant critics; if you see a really awful one, it's generally going to be of a well-known place which you'd expect better from; if the critic goes to a really awful new or obscure place, they just won't bother with it.
I draw the line at having a go at the families of the world leaders. By all means, show Obama, Bush and Mugabe as animals all you like, but leave their wives and children alone.
The First Lady is a member of the administration; there's even a Congressionally-authorized "Office of the First Lady". She's a public figure, and thus fair game. (the same doesn't go for the children, of course)
Since it's nearly impossible (short of moving or living in a bubble) to avoid the allergens involved with hay fever, the theory that exposing oneself or one's children to those allergens to prevent allergies seems flawed to say the least. Nearly everyone with pollen allergies _is_ regularly exposed.
Fascist, communist, fake democratic national security states (Australia/UK/Russia/USA etc.), all the same crap. Sell your soul for your bank owned plastic McMansion and your cool cars.
Sure. What did my soul ever do for me, anyway? Unfortunately, nobody seems to want it; they used to prefer small green pieces of paper, but lately they've been preferring other colors and chunks of precious metals.
When dealing with large, murderous, totalitarian governments (no, I don't mean the US, which only aspires to the last), mentioning the Nazis isn't always inappropriate.
The world of _1984_ would look great to someone from Somalia or some of the other hellholes of the world. _Brave New World_ even more so. Yet they're still both considered dystopian. Same goes for Neuromancer.
Huh? Why should you not be able to do a Service Pack or Maintenance Update for free? Most IT companies do it, and I haven't heard of them having to defer booking revenue under US-GAAP. Are you sure that what you heard about Apple's reason for withholding features is true?
Wireless-N wasn't a service pack or maintenance update; it was a new feature. I looked over the regulations and Apple's interpretation was at least plausible.
No. That's a totally useless basis for comparison. If I can have 'free' energy (from a carbon-footprint POV), then I can propose any old idiotic idea and can label it 'green'.
Exactly. For instance, I use the "free energy" to synthesize 2,2,4-trimethylpentane from CO2 and water, then burn the stuff in an ordinary gasoline car.
This is opposed to batteries which really aren't good for the environment, but all those Prius owners don't really seem to care about Lithum strip mines while patting themselves on their backs.
That's because they know there's no lithium in the Prius batteries.
SOX isn't a bad thing! If anything, it is a bit watered down. SOX basically makes it a requirement what normal IT and Accounting people consider good practices and common sense.
Right. Like not booking the revenue for a product until it's completely delivered. And not allowing a free item to be considered a separate deliverable, booked separately. Thus requiring that if Apple wanted to enable the 802.11n feature in their computers, they would either have to book the revenue for the computer when they enabled the feature (months later), or they'd have to charge extra for the feature. That kind of good practice and common sense?
Which is where the Precautionary Principle - the philosophical basis you need to apply, knowingly or unknowingly, whenever you start to apply science (or any action based on anything, for that matter) - comes in.
The precautionary principle is a suicide pact. Had it been consistently applied from the dawn of history, humanity would be extinct right now; hopefully the niche would have been filled by some other intelligent animal -- one too intelligent to follow the precautionary principle.
Couldn't you make the same argument for the Emergency Broadcast System, which seems to work just fine?
The Emergency Broadcast System goes through some pains to avoid this issue. There's the unique tone before and after the message, the specific wording, the fact that it's done as a crawl (on TV), etc. Also, very little programming is in fact disaster shows.
You could try to implement similar measures in games, but I think they'd work far less well.
Miami was hit by Hurricane Andrew(a Cat 5), it caused a lot of damage in Homestead and some other areas but nothing really on the scale of Katrina.
Homestead was essentially destroyed. If the hurricane had come ashore at Miami instead of Homestead, it would have done far more damage. Not preparedness so much as luck... and not being below sea level, of course, though in a direct hit the storm surge would flood Miami anyway.
The last hurricane to hit South Florida did relatively minor damage, although power was out for about a week in most places
Hurricane Wilma (same year as Katrina) did major damage though.
Thank you California for your crappy draconic regulations on everything that spreads to everything else in the US. Lead free solder in consumer products, thank you California.
I think you mean "draconian". Dragons don't really care how much power you use, and I'd imagine if they watched TVs they'd be the big stadium-sized ones.
Chalk me up for "what could possibly go wrong". Though the answers are pretty simple
1) Real emergency alert being dismissed as phony.
2) In-game alert being misinterpreted as real.
Option 1 isn't a huge problem. Not that it won't happen, but that it's unlikely to actually be of consequence. Most people don't have gaming networks as their only source of information, and those who do are usually safe in their basement anyway (well, unless it's a flood).
Option 2 is a major problem. Right now these are channels which only present fiction. Given the possibility that some of it is real (though nearly all of it is still fiction), some fools are going to misinterpret the fiction as real. And checking other sources won't completely solve the problem, because some of the time, those other sources will pick up the fictional information and present it through their own channels, making even sensible people believe it's real.
Actually, I wonder if that might not be so farfetched... could a case be made that the *AA-type powers actually support content piracy, provided it's aimed at their competitors??
No; the last thing the *AAs want is for people to learn that content can be found outside their rubrick. Even if people are pirating it.
Keep in mind that lasers in reality aren't like lasers in movies. In the real world, you don't see it coming, and even after it hits, you don't know where it came from.
Lasers scatter significantly in the atmosphere, so while the target might have other problems, I don't see why a nearby counter-laser system couldn't tell which direction the beam came from.
I discovered what had happened after some digging at the bureau of public records. I explained what had happened to the judge and he told me the ignorance of the law is ones own fault period.
Judge was an idiot. Ignorance of the _law_ is no excuse. Ignorance of specific FACTS often is; ignorance of the law in your case would be if you knew your license was suspended but you didn't know that driving with a suspended license was illegal.
In this case, the courts will (as usual) rule for the government. On two grounds 1) You can always head down to the state capital and examine the laws in their law library, on paper. 2) States have long been incorporating copyrighted codes into their laws by reference, and the courts have been perfectly happy to let them do it. Want to add an electrical outlet? That'll be $$$$ for the NEC, please.
The more interesting case will be if some enterprising person buys the $200 CD, strips the laws themselves out of it (minus any formatting or commentary by the publishing company), and posts them or starts selling his own CD.
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I've read a lot on a non-eInk eBook (the REB-1100, successor to the Rocket Book). It's fine, whether used with the backlight or in reflective mode.
The problem with current e-ink is the horrible flashing when you change pages. Show the text overlain, then black, then white, then just the new text? Ugh.
Which only proves your own provincialism, because it wasn't ignorance at all. It was political correctness. The game makers deliberately used the term "African American" because all the alternatives are seen as offensive by some people. It might not even be incorrect; is the character supposed to be American?
Well, we used to refer to the "East Asian" types as "Oriental", with "Indian" being for that subcontinent, but someone got their back up about that term (which simply means "eastern", of course... the usual whine is that "oriental" refers to rugs, not people. The rugs in question are mostly Persian, whose people we would refer to as "Iranian" or "Middle Eastern", not Asian), and that's now Politically Incorrect.
This isn't a case where Psystar was making boxes, buying retail copies of MacOS, installing those on the boxes and selling box and MacOS together. That's how Psystar portrayed it, but it turns out that what they were actually doing was cloning all the machines from a master copy of the OS, then including a (still-unopened) copy of MacOS with the box. If you want to use 17 USC 117 (running programs) and 17 USC 109 (First Sale), you have to actually observe the forms. It's not enough to claim that the result is the same as if you'd observed the forms. Thus the case was a slam-dunk for Apple.
With magazines, traditionally, no. If a game is THAT bad, the magazine won't bother to print a review of it. Not that there isn't plenty of inflation going on, but there are other less-nefarious reasons you don't see terrible reviews.
Same goes for restaurant reviews from respected restaurant critics; if you see a really awful one, it's generally going to be of a well-known place which you'd expect better from; if the critic goes to a really awful new or obscure place, they just won't bother with it.
The First Lady is a member of the administration; there's even a Congressionally-authorized "Office of the First Lady". She's a public figure, and thus fair game.
(the same doesn't go for the children, of course)
Since it's nearly impossible (short of moving or living in a bubble) to avoid the allergens involved with hay fever, the theory that exposing oneself or one's children to those allergens to prevent allergies seems flawed to say the least. Nearly everyone with pollen allergies _is_ regularly exposed.
They did manage to simulate a cat brain... but they failed to mention it was a dead cat.
Sure. What did my soul ever do for me, anyway? Unfortunately, nobody seems to want it; they used to prefer small green pieces of paper, but lately they've been preferring other colors and chunks of precious metals.
When dealing with large, murderous, totalitarian governments (no, I don't mean the US, which only aspires to the last), mentioning the Nazis isn't always inappropriate.
The world of _1984_ would look great to someone from Somalia or some of the other hellholes of the world. _Brave New World_ even more so. Yet they're still both considered dystopian. Same goes for Neuromancer.
Wireless-N wasn't a service pack or maintenance update; it was a new feature. I looked over the regulations and Apple's interpretation was at least plausible.
Exactly. For instance, I use the "free energy" to synthesize 2,2,4-trimethylpentane from CO2 and water, then burn the stuff in an ordinary gasoline car.
That's because they know there's no lithium in the Prius batteries.
The only arguments which will stop him are on the line of "Continue with this proposal and it will cost you my $$$$$ to your campaign fund".
Right. Like not booking the revenue for a product until it's completely delivered. And not allowing a free item to be considered a separate deliverable, booked separately. Thus requiring that if Apple wanted to enable the 802.11n feature in their computers, they would either have to book the revenue for the computer when they enabled the feature (months later), or they'd have to charge extra for the feature. That kind of good practice and common sense?
What country do you live in and are you currently accepting immigrants?
(because it sure as hell ain't the United States, where personal freedom and liberty have neither constituency nor champion)
The precautionary principle is a suicide pact. Had it been consistently applied from the dawn of history, humanity would be extinct right now; hopefully the niche would have been filled by some other intelligent animal -- one too intelligent to follow the precautionary principle.
The Emergency Broadcast System goes through some pains to avoid this issue. There's the unique tone before and after the message, the specific wording, the fact that it's done as a crawl (on TV), etc. Also, very little programming is in fact disaster shows.
You could try to implement similar measures in games, but I think they'd work far less well.
Homestead was essentially destroyed. If the hurricane had come ashore at Miami instead of Homestead, it would have done far more damage. Not preparedness so much as luck... and not being below sea level, of course, though in a direct hit the storm surge would flood Miami anyway.
Hurricane Wilma (same year as Katrina) did major damage though.
Dibs on whichever ark is carrying the telephone sanitizers.
I think you mean "draconian". Dragons don't really care how much power you use, and I'd imagine if they watched TVs they'd be the big stadium-sized ones.
Chalk me up for "what could possibly go wrong". Though the answers are pretty simple
1) Real emergency alert being dismissed as phony.
2) In-game alert being misinterpreted as real.
Option 1 isn't a huge problem. Not that it won't happen, but that it's unlikely to actually be of consequence. Most people don't have gaming networks as their only source of information, and those who do are usually safe in their basement anyway (well, unless it's a flood).
Option 2 is a major problem. Right now these are channels which only present fiction. Given the possibility that some of it is real (though nearly all of it is still fiction), some fools are going to misinterpret the fiction as real. And checking other sources won't completely solve the problem, because some of the time, those other sources will pick up the fictional information and present it through their own channels, making even sensible people believe it's real.
No; the last thing the *AAs want is for people to learn that content can be found outside their rubrick. Even if people are pirating it.
Lasers scatter significantly in the atmosphere, so while the target might have other problems, I don't see why a nearby counter-laser system couldn't tell which direction the beam came from.
Judge was an idiot. Ignorance of the _law_ is no excuse. Ignorance of specific FACTS often is; ignorance of the law in your case would be if you knew your license was suspended but you didn't know that driving with a suspended license was illegal.
In this case, the courts will (as usual) rule for the government. On two grounds
1) You can always head down to the state capital and examine the laws in their law library, on paper.
2) States have long been incorporating copyrighted codes into their laws by reference, and the courts have been perfectly happy to let them do it. Want to add an electrical outlet? That'll be $$$$ for the NEC, please.
The more interesting case will be if some enterprising person buys the $200 CD, strips the laws themselves out of it (minus any formatting or commentary by the publishing company), and posts them or starts selling his own CD.