Military personnel are professional killers, so to the extent there's a difference between them and hitmen, it's a subtle one.
No it isn't. Military professionals do not hire themselves out to kill a specific person for a sum of money. They aren't really rewarded for their ability to kill either. Subduing and holding an area with minimal loss of life is generally seen as preferrable.
And Amen to that - also, I wish this kind of selectiveness could be applied to TV. It might even assuage any eventual non-skipability of ads in mainstream players, something which makes me grind my teeth.
No, I have a HDTV monitor from 2001, so none of the current HDTV crap will play on it. Frankly, I don't see the appeal, nor am I willing to spend $thousands on something I can't even record.
UMD could have been successful, if Sony "opened" it up more.
Maybe if it had been a mini dvd that played in a dvd player. UMD confronts the problem that nobody is willing to buy the same dvd twice so they can play it on a psp. I'd rather spend the cash and rip my dvd to mpegs and watch them on a laptop.
See, companies exist to make money. There's no more or less to it than that.
See, companies operate in a country, and it's in the interest of that country to protect its workforce. That means that when a significant portion of jobs are exported abroad, it should be examined for its impact on the national level and possibly discouraged.
But, if you let some foreign programmer best you in a cost/benefits analysis, your job is toast.
Simple short term profit motive will result in bankruptcy, as the foreign programmer gains experience that he uses in his market, not ours. After a while, it becomes difficult to hire anyone locally and the wages of that foreign programmer have risen dramatically. Some cost savings, right?
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The Pirate Bay guys have had their equipment seized for breaking no Swedish law.
The difference is that, in Sweden, this is a huge scandal, and great publicity for the fledgeling political party that's forming out of this debacle. It should be interesting to see what happens in sweden in the next election.
Well, I think it's fine the way it is - most places won't sell M games to kids. Problem is, parents won't parent: this means deciding if little timmy can play silent hill.
He also likes to 'set aside' bills that he doesn't agree with. This means that he signs it, but then ignores it. It's almost like the legislative branch doesn't exist.
Tell me something: is it currently illegal for a 14 year old kid to buy an R rated movie? Last I checked, it wasn't. Why hold video games to a higher standard?
There is absolutely nothing that entitles you to get a tech job. The Indians can do the same job you do at a much lower cost. I know if I was your boss, I would probably say something like... "Thank god the racist prick is out on the street where he belongs."
So now objecting to my job moving overseas is racist? I don't care what race the guy who's doing my job is. I'm opposed to sending the job where I can't follow.
And you are saying it takes VB developers time to learn VB.NET because they're bad developers. Nevermind the fact that VB has been around for years, that people have been developing in VB for years and that many of the core VB functions and objects have been moved out of VB and into the.NET framework. Of course it takes time to learn these things.
Yeah, except that VB was targetted to non-programmers, so they suck at it. Because they aren't programmers. For a decent programmer, VB->VB.NET should be the work of a week or two.
The language is not what makes a bad programmer - it's their education and experience.
And VB is targetted at people who don't want to program much.
Hardware is advancing whether we ask it to or not. So why not take advantage of the better hardware by adding language features that make the programmer's job easier?
How does demanding a 3D card and an assload of disk and memory make my job easier?
Do you think we should all still be writing C++ to-the-metal in Visual Studio 6.0 on Windows 98?
Regulating software is mornoic anyway. If dumb people buy bad software, that's their own damn problem. Sue the vendor, or something. That's why lawsuits exist, after all!
Yeah, that's great if they can actually examine the software in question. As it stands, companies go to great lengths to conceal any flaws in their software.
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Military personnel are professional killers, so to the extent there's a difference between them and hitmen, it's a subtle one.
No it isn't. Military professionals do not hire themselves out to kill a specific person for a sum of money. They aren't really rewarded for their ability to kill either. Subduing and holding an area with minimal loss of life is generally seen as preferrable.
And Amen to that - also, I wish this kind of selectiveness could be applied to TV. It might even assuage any eventual non-skipability of ads in mainstream players, something which makes me grind my teeth.
All ads are skippable. Go climb a mountain.
The DRM is sucky yes. But what are you going to do in 2009?
Watch regular TV. I expect them to push it back again.
As a bonus, I bought a half gigger SD card for $40 last month.
Storing a lot of data for personal gaming probably doesn't have too many options.
I dunno, ever heard of MiniSD? Also, compact flash.
Someone like my mother will go buy a new television - HDTV. She'll upgrade her cable box to HDTV.
Bet you $20 that she'll still have them hooked together with a composite cable, though.
Uh, have you ever watched HDTV?
No, I have a HDTV monitor from 2001, so none of the current HDTV crap will play on it. Frankly, I don't see the appeal, nor am I willing to spend $thousands on something I can't even record.
UMD could have been successful, if Sony "opened" it up more.
Maybe if it had been a mini dvd that played in a dvd player. UMD confronts the problem that nobody is willing to buy the same dvd twice so they can play it on a psp. I'd rather spend the cash and rip my dvd to mpegs and watch them on a laptop.
Nah, they simply disagree with you.
OTA Television is not encrypted, so there is no reason to avoid television because of DMCA, yet.
Like you'd need another reason to avoid television.
See, companies exist to make money. There's no more or less to it than that.
See, companies operate in a country, and it's in the interest of that country to protect its workforce. That means that when a significant portion of jobs are exported abroad, it should be examined for its impact on the national level and possibly discouraged.
But, if you let some foreign programmer best you in a cost/benefits analysis, your job is toast.
Simple short term profit motive will result in bankruptcy, as the foreign programmer gains experience that he uses in his market, not ours. After a while, it becomes difficult to hire anyone locally and the wages of that foreign programmer have risen dramatically. Some cost savings, right?
The Pirate Bay guys have had their equipment seized for breaking no Swedish law.
The difference is that, in Sweden, this is a huge scandal, and great publicity for the fledgeling political party that's forming out of this debacle. It should be interesting to see what happens in sweden in the next election.
Okay, good on the kingfisher, but I'm looking for some equivalence between $800 in india and something like $3000 in seattle, wa.
Well, I think it's fine the way it is - most places won't sell M games to kids. Problem is, parents won't parent: this means deciding if little timmy can play silent hill.
Also a kid from my area, is a suspect in that lacrosse team rape story you heard about on national news...
Good for you. Hopefully his life won't be ruined by the word of a random skank. Was he the one that was at the ATM or the one in some other state?
Simple solution: go to a cinema/draft house. 21 and up crowd, and you get dinner.
He also likes to 'set aside' bills that he doesn't agree with. This means that he signs it, but then ignores it. It's almost like the legislative branch doesn't exist.
Tell me something: is it currently illegal for a 14 year old kid to buy an R rated movie? Last I checked, it wasn't. Why hold video games to a higher standard?
There is absolutely nothing that entitles you to get a tech job. The Indians can do the same job you do at a much lower cost. I know if I was your boss, I would probably say something like... "Thank god the racist prick is out on the street where he belongs."
So now objecting to my job moving overseas is racist? I don't care what race the guy who's doing my job is. I'm opposed to sending the job where I can't follow.
Not one of us gets less than $800 per month.
So you get $800/month (or a bit more). What does that buy?
And you are saying it takes VB developers time to learn VB.NET because they're bad developers. Nevermind the fact that VB has been around for years, that people have been developing in VB for years and that many of the core VB functions and objects have been moved out of VB and into the .NET framework. Of course it takes time to learn these things.
Yeah, except that VB was targetted to non-programmers, so they suck at it. Because they aren't programmers. For a decent programmer, VB->VB.NET should be the work of a week or two.
The language is not what makes a bad programmer - it's their education and experience.
And VB is targetted at people who don't want to program much.
Hardware is advancing whether we ask it to or not. So why not take advantage of the better hardware by adding language features that make the programmer's job easier?
How does demanding a 3D card and an assload of disk and memory make my job easier?
Do you think we should all still be writing C++ to-the-metal in Visual Studio 6.0 on Windows 98?
C++ to the metal? what the hell?
In this case the existence of the thing is NOT illegal until a court of law says it is.
So Bush can prevent this by claiming that it's a state secret? Holy brainfuck, batman!
Regulating software is mornoic anyway. If dumb people buy bad software, that's their own damn problem. Sue the vendor, or something. That's why lawsuits exist, after all!
Yeah, that's great if they can actually examine the software in question. As it stands, companies go to great lengths to conceal any flaws in their software.
Sometimes keeping secret the fact that information is being collected is as important, or even more important, than the information itself.
In this case, the existence of the thing is itself illegal, so your example doesn't really hold water.