One of my high school teachers, a fairly forward-minded guy, had one of those Apple cameras. It was AWFUL. The photos were extremely washed out, and the color gamut was all messed up. Anyone unfortunate to be in the frame would up looking like a vampire, with washed out skin tones and red eyes.
This is just wishful thinking on the part of the manufacturers. "Consumers want power! They want specialization!" No, that's almost exactly the opposite of what consumers want, which is low cost and flexibility. Rather, uber-powerful, single purpose devices are the manufacturer's wet dream. They've been pushing that idea since the '90s, and if anything, the opposite has happened. Phones and gaming consoles are now more like general-purpose PCs than ever.
If netbooks die, it won't be due to "technology changes," it'll be due to Microsoft and Intel doing everything in their power to kill them off, despite high consumer demand. This is a short-sighted, greedy move on their part, and if they don't offer what consumers want, then someone else will move in that will. This is why I think Chrome OS, despite its simplicity, will be huge. If nothing else, it'll light a fire under Microsoft's and Intel's feet.
Or even easier: Fly to Mexico and jump the border. I find it interesting that legitimate visitors have such a hard time getting into the country when our southern border is Swiss cheese.
The money would be well worth it. We're in the Information Age, and presidents can't be cut off from the world forever. Someone has to keep them connected, and it might as well be RIM. That equals a fat government contract for many years to come.
Well, what about people who do have that sort of personality? What are they supposed to do, starve?
What's the point of education and experience if it all comes down to your natural personality and who you know?
Maybe we should give out the personality tests before we let people into education. "Sorry, we know you want to be an Engineer, and you could be great at it, but you're just not bubbly enough. You'll have to settle for after hours janitor."
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There's a boss fight in Phantom Hourglass that takes place in second person view.
Awkward, but fun.
You'd think that since they're selling out, they'd start selling them to the general population.
They've put together a nice piece of hardware, but none of their operating decisions make sense.
1. Go on a world tour. Meet with world leaders, extend a friendly hand, and basically try to smooth things out. Might hire Obama to tag along, he seems like he'd be good at that sort of thing. 2. Begin a gradual withdrawal from Iraq. A roughly eight-percent reduction every month for twelve months. In the meantime, petition the U.N. to establish a multi-national peacekeeping force, with the consent of the Iraqi government and assistance from the U.S., of course. 3. Place more troops into Afghanistan, where they should have been in the first place. 4. Revitalize our hunt for bin Laden. 5. Other than 1-4, stop screwing with the Middle East, and tell them as such. 6. Work toward making airport security a more pleasant process. Get rid of the liquid rules and shoe checks that are not only annoying, but degrading. 7. Push a bill through Congress, called the AMERICAN Act (I'll hire someone who can make that an acronym), that will steeply scale back provisions of both the DMCA and the PATRIOT Act. We'll tack some anti-torture legislation in there as well.
That doesn't completely fix the mess, but it's a good step forward. It also kills two birds with one stone. If 2-6 succeed, they'll grant me more popular support, so I don't have to spend so damn long campaigning.
Phase 2: Moving America Forward
1. Work to have NCLB repealed. 2. Take some of that defense money we're no longer blowing in Iraq and put it toward an initiative to make fiber-optic internet available in every home. Yes, I know about dark fiber. Basically, it'll be like how FDR spread telephone lines during the depression. It'll build up our infrastructure and create jobs. 3. Give NASA a mandate to return to the Moon and eventually Mars, and actually fund it. 4. Threaten to withhold education funds from any state not teaching evolution or promoting ID in a science class. 5. Roll back faith-based initiatives.
Phase 3: Loose Ends
Here we'll tackle some misc. issues that will also help my re-election chances.
1. Unveil a universal health-care bill. Not sure on the details, but a crucial component would be protecting individual rights. For instance, if you're on govt-ran healthcare, you won't be forced at gunpoint to stop eating bacon and smoking. Personally, I envision a government-owned corporation, sort of like the Post Office. 2. Unveil a new tax code that reduces loopholes and paperwork. No, not a national sales tax or a "flat tax," though it would most likely be flatter than what we have now. 3. Step up illegal immigrant enforcement. No, we won't be wasting resources on border patrols. Instead, we'll focus on employers who hire illegals. Yeah, okay, that'll be tricky to work out.
Phase 4: Second Term
Cover issues that would hurt reelection chances. Pardon all non-violent drug offenders. Open relations with Cuba. Massive DEA cuts.
Introduce a bill that would decriminalize marijuana, thus reducing strain on the prison system. But here's the catch: It'll boost sentences and enforcement for harder drugs, like coke and meth. It'll also fund treatment centers for addicts. If congress doesn't pass it, I'll accuse them of being soft on drugs.
Pour resources into alternative fuels. Give a hard push to nuclear + Electric/diesel hybrids. Cut back ethanol funding, but instead put it toward biodiesel.
Also, we'd work on copyright, patents, and all that good stuff. Smack down the RIAA/MPAA and their lawsuits. Probably push tort reform for that matter.
In my last days, I guess I'd do what every other president does and give that whole Middle East peace thing a shot.
Dammit all to hell. I just got Insight broadband a few months ago, and have been loving it. $40 a month for 10mb without any (noticeable) "shaping."
Well, that was fun while it lasted.
Microsoft didnt fully "realize" the Xbox potential and underground groups brought that to light making something good better. Is there really anything wrong with that? I love mod chips and really believe they should stay. Modding Cars, Game consoles, houses pretty much everything is what people want, make it so.
It's a real shame that the American way is now itself illegal.
Actually, I think it's pretty clever. It solves the sharing/piracy conundrum that holds features like these back while simultaneously making piracy profitable and even somewhat legitimate.
Of course it will be horribly implemented, and I want nothing to do with it.
You know, I'm trying to switch to reddit, as I'm sure as hell not going to frequent digg anymore, but their RSS feed is really irritating. Instead of linking to the comment page, it links directly to the site the story is about. So I then have to go to the reddit main page and then click on the damn comment link to see them. Defeats the whole point.
But I have to commend the editors of Slashdot. Despite all the annoyances over the years, when the shit hits the fan, they stand by what they say. That's a lot more than I can say about Kevin "1337 Hax0r d00d" Rose.
Action talks, bullshit walks, and the management of digg.com just prove that they're full of shit.
I think there are a few problems in this discussion. First, we must bear in mind that Mr. Beckerman has taken time out of his busy schedule to not only answer the questions, but to also follow up in the resulting discussion. I'll agree that this is one of Slashdot's worst interviews. His answers were terse, and could be considered rude. However, I think he deserves credit for going out of his way to participate in the discussion, which doesn't happen often in Slashdot interviews. At the same time, he's dealing with Slashdot groupthink, and the general vagueness of U.S. law.
I think the gist of what he's been saying can be summed up like so:
1. If you share RIAA music on the internet, you're at risk for a lawsuit, no matter the source. However, the RIAA has expressed no interest in downloaders. 2. Much of the law surrounding this issue is determined by case law. In other words, your outcome will largely be based upon the judge's biases and whomever has the most money.
I think the most helpful thing Mr. Beckerman did here today is reaffirm our cynicism of the United States legal system.
Sounds about as good, if not better than their list. I've been a gamer for over nineteen years, and I have to say that Counter-Strike and BF2 are two of the best online shooters ever, GTA:SA is truly a revolutionary game that has more content than you can shake a stick at, and Half Life 2 has the best pacing of any game I've played.
My buddy and I spent most of the summer arguing over the best games of all time. The problem? How do you determine? Do you go by pure fun factor, or do you also consider timelessness, innovation, and/or influence? For instance, Super Mario Bros. is one of the most influential titles ever, but most would consider Mario 3 or World to be superior. Which one wins out?
Though they made an excellent point with Blade Runner, which IMHO is perhaps the best graphical adventure ever made.
My picks for the best games, based off my own personal enjoyment:
Best Single Player FPS: Doom (Close second would be HL2) Best Online FPS: Quake Best JRPG: Final Fantasy VII Best Western RPG: Oblivion Best Platformer: Super Mario World (Mario 3 is a damn close second, NSMB a somewhat distant third) Best Sports: NBA Jam (Second place goes to the NFL2K series) Best Arcade: Yar's Revenge Best Strategy: Advance Wars: Dual Strike Best Text Adventure: Zork Best Overall: GTA: San Andreas (Say what you will, but what other game combines action, stealth, racing, rhythm, basketball, arcade games, and even a dating sim into a huge, open world? Combine with a great plot and RPG elements, and you have what is perhaps, to date, the ULTIMATE game.)
If he's that big of a threat, what's he doing out of jail in the first place?
One of the founding ideals of our justice system is that once you pay your debt to society, you're free to live your life. Get rid of the registries and make sentences for sex offenders longer.
No room in the jails you say? Then perhaps we should stop tossing people into prisons for minor things. Then maybe we'd have room for, you know, the dangerous people.
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Considering that he lacks a jaw, I would say no.
One of my high school teachers, a fairly forward-minded guy, had one of those Apple cameras. It was AWFUL. The photos were extremely washed out, and the color gamut was all messed up. Anyone unfortunate to be in the frame would up looking like a vampire, with washed out skin tones and red eyes.
This is just wishful thinking on the part of the manufacturers. "Consumers want power! They want specialization!" No, that's almost exactly the opposite of what consumers want, which is low cost and flexibility. Rather, uber-powerful, single purpose devices are the manufacturer's wet dream. They've been pushing that idea since the '90s, and if anything, the opposite has happened. Phones and gaming consoles are now more like general-purpose PCs than ever.
If netbooks die, it won't be due to "technology changes," it'll be due to Microsoft and Intel doing everything in their power to kill them off, despite high consumer demand. This is a short-sighted, greedy move on their part, and if they don't offer what consumers want, then someone else will move in that will. This is why I think Chrome OS, despite its simplicity, will be huge. If nothing else, it'll light a fire under Microsoft's and Intel's feet.
Or even easier: Fly to Mexico and jump the border. I find it interesting that legitimate visitors have such a hard time getting into the country when our southern border is Swiss cheese.
It was me. Sorry.
The money would be well worth it. We're in the Information Age, and presidents can't be cut off from the world forever. Someone has to keep them connected, and it might as well be RIM. That equals a fat government contract for many years to come.
Well, what about people who do have that sort of personality? What are they supposed to do, starve? What's the point of education and experience if it all comes down to your natural personality and who you know? Maybe we should give out the personality tests before we let people into education. "Sorry, we know you want to be an Engineer, and you could be great at it, but you're just not bubbly enough. You'll have to settle for after hours janitor."
There's a boss fight in Phantom Hourglass that takes place in second person view. Awkward, but fun.
You'd think that since they're selling out, they'd start selling them to the general population. They've put together a nice piece of hardware, but none of their operating decisions make sense.
Oh, that's easy to fix: Just use it as a Windows key!
This is by no means a complete list.
Phase 1: Fixing the Bush Mess (First 100 Days)
1. Go on a world tour. Meet with world leaders, extend a friendly hand, and basically try to smooth things out. Might hire Obama to tag along, he seems like he'd be good at that sort of thing.
2. Begin a gradual withdrawal from Iraq. A roughly eight-percent reduction every month for twelve months. In the meantime, petition the U.N. to establish a multi-national peacekeeping force, with the consent of the Iraqi government and assistance from the U.S., of course.
3. Place more troops into Afghanistan, where they should have been in the first place.
4. Revitalize our hunt for bin Laden.
5. Other than 1-4, stop screwing with the Middle East, and tell them as such.
6. Work toward making airport security a more pleasant process. Get rid of the liquid rules and shoe checks that are not only annoying, but degrading.
7. Push a bill through Congress, called the AMERICAN Act (I'll hire someone who can make that an acronym), that will steeply scale back provisions of both the DMCA and the PATRIOT Act. We'll tack some anti-torture legislation in there as well.
That doesn't completely fix the mess, but it's a good step forward. It also kills two birds with one stone. If 2-6 succeed, they'll grant me more popular support, so I don't have to spend so damn long campaigning.
Phase 2: Moving America Forward
1. Work to have NCLB repealed.
2. Take some of that defense money we're no longer blowing in Iraq and put it toward an initiative to make fiber-optic internet available in every home. Yes, I know about dark fiber. Basically, it'll be like how FDR spread telephone lines during the depression. It'll build up our infrastructure and create jobs.
3. Give NASA a mandate to return to the Moon and eventually Mars, and actually fund it.
4. Threaten to withhold education funds from any state not teaching evolution or promoting ID in a science class.
5. Roll back faith-based initiatives.
Phase 3: Loose Ends
Here we'll tackle some misc. issues that will also help my re-election chances.
1. Unveil a universal health-care bill. Not sure on the details, but a crucial component would be protecting individual rights. For instance, if you're on govt-ran healthcare, you won't be forced at gunpoint to stop eating bacon and smoking. Personally, I envision a government-owned corporation, sort of like the Post Office.
2. Unveil a new tax code that reduces loopholes and paperwork. No, not a national sales tax or a "flat tax," though it would most likely be flatter than what we have now.
3. Step up illegal immigrant enforcement. No, we won't be wasting resources on border patrols. Instead, we'll focus on employers who hire illegals. Yeah, okay, that'll be tricky to work out.
Phase 4: Second Term
Cover issues that would hurt reelection chances. Pardon all non-violent drug offenders. Open relations with Cuba. Massive DEA cuts.
Introduce a bill that would decriminalize marijuana, thus reducing strain on the prison system. But here's the catch: It'll boost sentences and enforcement for harder drugs, like coke and meth. It'll also fund treatment centers for addicts. If congress doesn't pass it, I'll accuse them of being soft on drugs.
Pour resources into alternative fuels. Give a hard push to nuclear + Electric/diesel hybrids. Cut back ethanol funding, but instead put it toward biodiesel.
Also, we'd work on copyright, patents, and all that good stuff. Smack down the RIAA/MPAA and their lawsuits. Probably push tort reform for that matter.
In my last days, I guess I'd do what every other president does and give that whole Middle East peace thing a shot.
Dammit all to hell. I just got Insight broadband a few months ago, and have been loving it. $40 a month for 10mb without any (noticeable) "shaping." Well, that was fun while it lasted.
No worries, unless your eyes are capable of picking up IR. On second thought, this might make an excellent anti-Predator device.
What the hell do you mean I can't smoke in here? Fuck you, I'm going back to USENET.
Actually, I think it's pretty clever. It solves the sharing/piracy conundrum that holds features like these back while simultaneously making piracy profitable and even somewhat legitimate.
Of course it will be horribly implemented, and I want nothing to do with it.
But it's a nice idea.
They make Scarlet Witch hand puppets?
You just outlined the plot of Gungrave.
You know, I'm trying to switch to reddit, as I'm sure as hell not going to frequent digg anymore, but their RSS feed is really irritating. Instead of linking to the comment page, it links directly to the site the story is about. So I then have to go to the reddit main page and then click on the damn comment link to see them. Defeats the whole point.
But I have to commend the editors of Slashdot. Despite all the annoyances over the years, when the shit hits the fan, they stand by what they say. That's a lot more than I can say about Kevin "1337 Hax0r d00d" Rose.
Action talks, bullshit walks, and the management of digg.com just prove that they're full of shit.
"Thou shall not kill" All three seem to have forgot that one.
I think there are a few problems in this discussion. First, we must bear in mind that Mr. Beckerman has taken time out of his busy schedule to not only answer the questions, but to also follow up in the resulting discussion. I'll agree that this is one of Slashdot's worst interviews. His answers were terse, and could be considered rude. However, I think he deserves credit for going out of his way to participate in the discussion, which doesn't happen often in Slashdot interviews. At the same time, he's dealing with Slashdot groupthink, and the general vagueness of U.S. law.
I think the gist of what he's been saying can be summed up like so:
1. If you share RIAA music on the internet, you're at risk for a lawsuit, no matter the source. However, the RIAA has expressed no interest in downloaders.
2. Much of the law surrounding this issue is determined by case law. In other words, your outcome will largely be based upon the judge's biases and whomever has the most money.
I think the most helpful thing Mr. Beckerman did here today is reaffirm our cynicism of the United States legal system.
Sounds about as good, if not better than their list. I've been a gamer for over nineteen years, and I have to say that Counter-Strike and BF2 are two of the best online shooters ever, GTA:SA is truly a revolutionary game that has more content than you can shake a stick at, and Half Life 2 has the best pacing of any game I've played.
My buddy and I spent most of the summer arguing over the best games of all time. The problem? How do you determine? Do you go by pure fun factor, or do you also consider timelessness, innovation, and/or influence? For instance, Super Mario Bros. is one of the most influential titles ever, but most would consider Mario 3 or World to be superior. Which one wins out?
Though they made an excellent point with Blade Runner, which IMHO is perhaps the best graphical adventure ever made.
My picks for the best games, based off my own personal enjoyment:
Best Single Player FPS: Doom (Close second would be HL2)
Best Online FPS: Quake
Best JRPG: Final Fantasy VII
Best Western RPG: Oblivion
Best Platformer: Super Mario World (Mario 3 is a damn close second, NSMB a somewhat distant third)
Best Sports: NBA Jam (Second place goes to the NFL2K series)
Best Arcade: Yar's Revenge
Best Strategy: Advance Wars: Dual Strike
Best Text Adventure: Zork
Best Overall: GTA: San Andreas (Say what you will, but what other game combines action, stealth, racing, rhythm, basketball, arcade games, and even a dating sim into a huge, open world? Combine with a great plot and RPG elements, and you have what is perhaps, to date, the ULTIMATE game.)
Perhaps you should read up on the first encyclopedist.
Of course, opening for Carlos Mencia didn't hurt either.
If he's that big of a threat, what's he doing out of jail in the first place?
One of the founding ideals of our justice system is that once you pay your debt to society, you're free to live your life. Get rid of the registries and make sentences for sex offenders longer.
No room in the jails you say? Then perhaps we should stop tossing people into prisons for minor things. Then maybe we'd have room for, you know, the dangerous people.