A picture is porn when it is used to depict a person or people in a sexually explicit way and not for medical purposes, and this is especially so when the owner's intent is to make a profit. A photograph is not needed to show proper condom use. Something handdrawn would be quite sufficient and since it isn't meant to be sexually explicit and could even be considered for medical use then it wouldn't be porn.
I say we need a worm that will go around to all the Vista machines when they get upgraded (or bought) and reset all the admin passwords to something the user will never guess. That should help solve the problem of the user blindly entering it even when prompted by something they didn't initiate.
They aren't the requirements to execute Vista, they are the requirements to execute Vista, and things on top of it, which is of course the point to having an OS.
Which isn't an accurate way of writing requirements since "and things on top of it" could mean anywhere from 1 extra application to 30. So 1 gigabyte of RAM is basically useless unless that phrase is defined to be certain apps, or better yet, none at all since adding extra apps into the equation just masks what the real requirements are of the OS.
The marketing programs and upgrade tool are designed to ease some of the uncertainty around Vista well ahead of the back-to-school and holiday shopping seasons, the two biggest PC selling times of the year. Vista had long been expected to arrive by the 2006 holidays, but Microsoft said in March that it would not arrive on store shelves until January.
First of all, which holiday shopping seasons are they referring to and how many are there to begin with? I thought there was Christmas and maybe Hanukkah and that was about it. And second of all, what the hell does "by the 2006 holidays" mean? That narrows it down to about...365 days since there are holidays all throughout a calendar year. People who phrase things like that are complete idiots.
It looks like shoppers this holiday season will be able to pick from all the next-gen consoles.
You get presents for Halloween too? I thought I was the only one. Why would they bring out a console for the Halloween holiday season? Maybe you were referring to the Thanksgiving holiday? If not then which holiday season did you mean? There are a ton of holidays in a calendar year and more than 1 in Q4.
After all evolution is not going to have an organism waste lots of energy repairing DNA damage and having pools of immune cells constantly checking for mutant cells if the organism is just going to get eaten by a cat in an average of a few months after birth.
After all? You make it sound so natural and obvious. I didn't realize evolution had the ability to think and make a choice like that. Using that logic evolution should be smarter and realize that it shouldn't let cancer take over in the first place since it would mean almost certain death eventually. Evolution can no longer live if its host dies.
In addition to the fact that someone already corrected you on the fact that the release of the game will be next year and not this year, I have to ask exactly what holiday do you consider the game to be available for, Halloween? Considering the release is October 16 I don't see any other (major) holiday that you could be referring to that is close to October 16.
Now, if there's a better outlet to fast-paced violent video games, then lets find it. IMHO if it means that some bored teenager wants to do -something- I'd rather it be beating the crap out of some virtual enemy than against a real person.
There is nothign better than a teenage boy using the newest 1st person punching game as a training tool for the real fights at school.
Media reflects our culture not the other way around, "fix" our culture and the desire for simulated violence will go away on it's own.
Media reflects culture? That's one way to absolve the media of any responsiblity (agree with their excuse). That must be why TV commercials try to attract a person to buy something that is new on the market and be the first to grab it before all his/her friends do. They are only reflecting....well,something that doesn't exist yet so I guess they aren't reflecting anything at all but instead trying to create/modify the culture. At that point they can call upon your excuse and say "look, we are just doing what the public does." which conveniently forgets which came first- chicken or egg.
This is both good and bad. Good because it should offer more flexibility now and better design for authenticating to Windows while allowing ISVs to integrate their authentication mechanisms in a cleaner fashion. However it will be bad just for those who have to rewrite all their existing code to work with the new model, especially since the new model isn't backwards compatible which will probably annoy many people but it's one way to force adoption of the newer model. Hopefully they are headed in the right direction.
My psych classes (developmental) did in fact cover this concept and it does stem from the lack of a child's brain to think abstractly. Children 7-11 begin to solve problems using concrete ideas but abstract thoughts don't occur until 11-15 years of age.
I know who will make the Blue-Ray ("Blu" isn't even a word) vs. HD-DVD decision.
That was probably sarcasm but Blu doesn't have to be a word. It has a marketing scheme. Lots of products use variations of real words to sell their product such as the HD sometimes being referred to as hi-def instead of high-definition.
Scientists and Philosophers have been waving this theory around for at least 30 years. The problem in the past has always been that even though they really, really wanted this theory to be true, they didn't have any good evidence for it. As far as I can tell from TFA, that is still the case.
Are you sure you aren't getting this theory confused with evolution?
So what do your daughters do when they go to a friend's house? Who do they talk to online then? What about at school, are there computers at school/library they can use and do things that they know you wouldn't like if you found out about it (like talking to strange guys online)?
to the New World Order. The United States will not exist in future. Maybe this is one way to begin that process: by having the UN (that does not elected members but appointed members) govern the world.
God Damned the USA seems to be more fitting at this point.
WHy shouldn't He? We aren't allowed to admit His existence in public anymore and students aren't allowed to say or do anything in schools that would confirm His existence or even their beliefs.
From what I know it is also not only something you could be blackmailed for that could cause you to not get a clearance but just by the sheer fact you lied makes the FBI wonder what else you are lying about and what you may lie about in the future. They don't want to give a clearance to someone they don't trust.
The Net is also more popular now then it was 5 or 10 years ago when Frontpage 98 was available and people had WYSIWYG editors to use. People do need more concrete examples of what they can do instead of open-ended anything goes possibilities but now we also have more people who can do that and at the very least that makes the site/idea catch on faster hence the soaring popularity of MySpace.
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You need to go back to school since you obviously don't know how Puritans really act. This isn't puritanical by a long shot.
A picture is porn when it is used to depict a person or people in a sexually explicit way and not for medical purposes, and this is especially so when the owner's intent is to make a profit. A photograph is not needed to show proper condom use. Something handdrawn would be quite sufficient and since it isn't meant to be sexually explicit and could even be considered for medical use then it wouldn't be porn.
I say we need a worm that will go around to all the Vista machines when they get upgraded (or bought) and reset all the admin passwords to something the user will never guess. That should help solve the problem of the user blindly entering it even when prompted by something they didn't initiate.
Think about it, how many of us linux users are regularly downloading a virus cleaning program?
WHen there is a Linux version finally available I'll download it but they seem to only be available for Windows, as usual.
They aren't the requirements to execute Vista, they are the requirements to execute Vista, and things on top of it, which is of course the point to having an OS.
Which isn't an accurate way of writing requirements since "and things on top of it" could mean anywhere from 1 extra application to 30. So 1 gigabyte of RAM is basically useless unless that phrase is defined to be certain apps, or better yet, none at all since adding extra apps into the equation just masks what the real requirements are of the OS.
The marketing programs and upgrade tool are designed to ease some of the uncertainty around Vista well ahead of the back-to-school and holiday shopping seasons, the two biggest PC selling times of the year. Vista had long been expected to arrive by the 2006 holidays, but Microsoft said in March that it would not arrive on store shelves until January.
First of all, which holiday shopping seasons are they referring to and how many are there to begin with? I thought there was Christmas and maybe Hanukkah and that was about it. And second of all, what the hell does "by the 2006 holidays" mean? That narrows it down to about...365 days since there are holidays all throughout a calendar year. People who phrase things like that are complete idiots.
In that case we'll just call the RIAA on you. They will know what to do.
It looks like shoppers this holiday season will be able to pick from all the next-gen consoles.
You get presents for Halloween too? I thought I was the only one. Why would they bring out a console for the Halloween holiday season? Maybe you were referring to the Thanksgiving holiday? If not then which holiday season did you mean? There are a ton of holidays in a calendar year and more than 1 in Q4.
After all evolution is not going to have an organism waste lots of energy repairing DNA damage and having pools of immune cells constantly checking for mutant cells if the organism is just going to get eaten by a cat in an average of a few months after birth.
After all? You make it sound so natural and obvious. I didn't realize evolution had the ability to think and make a choice like that. Using that logic evolution should be smarter and realize that it shouldn't let cancer take over in the first place since it would mean almost certain death eventually. Evolution can no longer live if its host dies.
In addition to the fact that someone already corrected you on the fact that the release of the game will be next year and not this year, I have to ask exactly what holiday do you consider the game to be available for, Halloween? Considering the release is October 16 I don't see any other (major) holiday that you could be referring to that is close to October 16.
Now, if there's a better outlet to fast-paced violent video games, then lets find it. IMHO if it means that some bored teenager wants to do -something- I'd rather it be beating the crap out of some virtual enemy than against a real person.
There is nothign better than a teenage boy using the newest 1st person punching game as a training tool for the real fights at school.
Media reflects our culture not the other way around, "fix" our culture and the desire for simulated violence will go away on it's own.
Media reflects culture? That's one way to absolve the media of any responsiblity (agree with their excuse). That must be why TV commercials try to attract a person to buy something that is new on the market and be the first to grab it before all his/her friends do. They are only reflecting....well,something that doesn't exist yet so I guess they aren't reflecting anything at all but instead trying to create/modify the culture. At that point they can call upon your excuse and say "look, we are just doing what the public does." which conveniently forgets which came first- chicken or egg.
That's because there wasn't anything available to throw at it.
the numbers run differently in every line, with no discernable (to the consumer) relation.
I highly doubt even the employees at Intel know which one is the fastest chip (and I'm not just talking about the janitors there).
This is both good and bad. Good because it should offer more flexibility now and better design for authenticating to Windows while allowing ISVs to integrate their authentication mechanisms in a cleaner fashion. However it will be bad just for those who have to rewrite all their existing code to work with the new model, especially since the new model isn't backwards compatible which will probably annoy many people but it's one way to force adoption of the newer model. Hopefully they are headed in the right direction.
My psych classes (developmental) did in fact cover this concept and it does stem from the lack of a child's brain to think abstractly. Children 7-11 begin to solve problems using concrete ideas but abstract thoughts don't occur until 11-15 years of age.
I know who will make the Blue-Ray ("Blu" isn't even a word) vs. HD-DVD decision.
That was probably sarcasm but Blu doesn't have to be a word. It has a marketing scheme. Lots of products use variations of real words to sell their product such as the HD sometimes being referred to as hi-def instead of high-definition.
Scientists and Philosophers have been waving this theory around for at least 30 years. The problem in the past has always been that even though they really, really wanted this theory to be true, they didn't have any good evidence for it. As far as I can tell from TFA, that is still the case.
Are you sure you aren't getting this theory confused with evolution?
So what do your daughters do when they go to a friend's house? Who do they talk to online then? What about at school, are there computers at school/library they can use and do things that they know you wouldn't like if you found out about it (like talking to strange guys online)?
to the New World Order. The United States will not exist in future. Maybe this is one way to begin that process: by having the UN (that does not elected members but appointed members) govern the world.
God Damned the USA seems to be more fitting at this point.
WHy shouldn't He? We aren't allowed to admit His existence in public anymore and students aren't allowed to say or do anything in schools that would confirm His existence or even their beliefs.
don't forget religion is evil too, especially Christianity, and also those who don't believe evolution is real.
From what I know it is also not only something you could be blackmailed for that could cause you to not get a clearance but just by the sheer fact you lied makes the FBI wonder what else you are lying about and what you may lie about in the future. They don't want to give a clearance to someone they don't trust.
Considering the population of the U.S. compared to the # of terrorists that doesn't really surprise me. Come back with something less obvious.
The Net is also more popular now then it was 5 or 10 years ago when Frontpage 98 was available and people had WYSIWYG editors to use. People do need more concrete examples of what they can do instead of open-ended anything goes possibilities but now we also have more people who can do that and at the very least that makes the site/idea catch on faster hence the soaring popularity of MySpace.