They have created a vicious cycle that makes it so that they drive down the profits of domestic manufacturers, which sends the good jobs out of the country
I'd prefer selling lawnmowers to manufacturing them. I'd hardly call "manufacturing" jobs "good."
Yeah, they used to be $9/hr + benefits in the midwest, but the stuff also cost more. There are way better jobs out there, you just need some education to get them. Let China make crap, and when they get money and want better jobs, they'll outsource too.
In the 90's, our trade deficit was high and the MFGer's were going oversees then.. I didn't hear many complain about that.
Of course, you can't calculate it in terms of jobs, either. As productivity increases, it requires fewer people to yield the same amount of product. Even Marxists agree with that.
the author theorizes that perhaps someday instead of frequent flyer miles we'll get WoW gold or EQ plat as a reward for using our credit cards.
My old work place used to give out credit-card points as a reward to their employees, which we could cash in on gift cards to various places like best buy and what not. It was great, considering they paid us next to nothing.
Recently (after I quit, thank god), the management decided to keep all the points for themselves. We're talking about a half a million points per month, here--roughly $7,200 in gift cards at Best Buy.
Since the management does nothing on the job but play MMORPG's instead of working, I predict they will dominate the EQ world 6 months after they implement this points-to-plat program, and then suddenly stop playing shortly after due to bankruptcy.
According to this video, the media can be stored for 50 years, and it also looks more like a replacement for tape backups than hard drives at this point.
Coupled with this article, which says that it's "10 times faster than a normal DVD burner (whatever that means)," and holds about 300GB (278 GBytes formatted) it's clear that they're aiming for removable media.
Apparently each 300GB disk is about the size of a DVD (but thicker due to it having it's own little shell, like a floppy/zip/mini disk). Just like all removable media, it needs its own drive. Unlike most, it needs a HUGE drive, about the size of one of the old tape drives (2xCD-ROM drives but longer).
It's an interesting backup solution, maybe if you got a bunch of these and made a RAID-0 across them, you'd have something really cool.
Imagine a nice sun storm, where everybody's chips would stop functionning... that would be freakin nice. A million retarded and naked persons running in the streets "OO BOOLAH BEE LOO AH"
I can hear the thoughts running through you Bush hater's heads, "how can this be evil? This must be evil somehow. Must...Be....Evil...".
The blogosphere gives more representation to the right-wing agenda. True, there are [far, far(??)] more left-wing blogs for demographic reasons, however there aren't may news organizations that aren't disproportionately left-wing.
After all, it was blogging that destroyed Dan Rather's career. All news organizations submit lies as news at some point or another. With blogs out there, there's a sort of check on that, and with the media statistically more left wing than right, it's more likely to hurt the left.
It's all probably due to republicans painting themselves as a repressed minority. When Rather released those forged documents, people were genuinely pissed (or disillusioned). It's emotion that moves people on issues, not fact. Not now, not ever.
Among the things that brought people to the polls in record numbers was a genuine distrust for the other side: The right was thinking the left was lying its way to victory, and the left just plain hated and distrusted Bush.
And now, for the moment you've all been waiting for, how am I going to get my post -1 troll. Kerry and Bush were alike on the issues people were talking about: Gay Marriage and the War. Amazing how people are most incensed when both options are so very alike (NVidia Vs. ATI, for a nerdly example).
So, WHAT WEBSERVERS are being hacked into to do this? IIS? Apache 1.3? Apache 2? Windows only? Linux only? Something else? All of the above?
I think it's any webservers whose webmasters use IE. Lemme explain:
1) a dumb webmaster has his PW for his webspace stored in windows 2) dumb webmaster (who should know better) visits a site while using IE, and the site steals his password 3) script or person uses the password to login to the webspace, add in malicious code, and the cycle continues
Last time I checked, what groups like Operation Rescue do is about as far from "peacably assembling" as you can get.
I would not normally respond to something like this, but you should know but the nature of the ammendment referred to the manner in which they assembled, NOT what they discussed.
Like it or not, it's not constitutional to spy on these meetings. If there is reason to believe some or all the members are going to commit murder, it's certainly constitutional to GET A WARRANT FOR EACH MEMBER and listen in. However, spying on a whole group, no matter what they're doing, is certainly not kosher. Moreover, just because all of these people were in a group doesn't mean the GROUP organized any killings.
These people were probably also registered Republicans. Does that mean Bush should be sent to jail under RICO?
Say we lived in a police state (some say we're already there). Would Jefferson be against a militia meeting to discuss the matter? Certainly not. In fact, Jefferson frequently said there should be a revolution every 20 years or so, just to 'water the liberty tree with the blood of patriots and tyrants' (paraphrased).
The problem with something like RICO is who decides which organization is doing what, and how. Again, it makes it illegal to even associate with people who may or may not do naughty things. This means it can be abused, and I, personally, don't trust the government to discern who's "good" and who's "evil," especially in this age where the FBI doesn't even need a warrant to monitor an organization which it deems "evil."
The poster mentioned youTube. I frequently visit youTube when I get bored but I have never seen a single ad there? Where are the revenues coming from?
1. Setup Community oriented website 2. Get tons of users 3. ??? 4. PROFIT!!
My guess is 3 is sell your e-mail address or other information. I didn't start getting spam on one of my e-mail addresses until I signed up for myspace *looks around accusingly*. Never used youTube though, so what is #3?
I'm not sure finding people guilty by whom they choose to associate with is legal.
Last time I checked, it unconstitutional to prohibit people from peacably assembling.
With this RICO act, you could be procecuted simply by showing up at a meeting and being seen by an FBI agent who is now allowed to monitor the proceedings without a warrant (also unconstitutional).
Isn't it funny how these things compound? The government makes booze illegal, a black market forms, then they have to make further laws to combat the new problems they just created. In the end, we might have been better off not having any laws on the subject in the first place. One of those great economists (probably Freedman) once said that Statism and Libertarianism work, but any step towards statism will lead to total statism, simply because anything in between doesn't work.
Those bastard French people are trying to take away our freedom by taking restrictions out of DRM!
DRM is a right of companies. If you make DRM illegal, you're taking away liberty (I use that term because "freedom" is no longer correctly associated with it).
It's laws that make breaking DRM a crime that take away liberty, NOT DRM. After you buy something, being able to do what you want with it legally is a liberty (it's called personal property). However, if it's HARD or impossible to do it, that's YOUR problem and you shouldn't have bought a product with DRM in it.
For instance, building a mote around your house on your land is a liberty. Not having the man-power to do so has nothing to do with liberty.
Similarly, breaking DRM is a liberty. Not being able to do so also has nothing to do with your liberty.
Again, I'm using the term "liberty" because it refers to a specific concept. See THIS video.
Oh, I also use it because I'm a libertarian.. but that's neither here nor there. As a libertarian, I think the DMCA and similar laws should be repealed. However, I also would strongly dissapprove of a law like the french one mentioned in TFA instituted in the US.
If I remember correctly, the French government is setup the reverse of ours: The liberty the French enjoy are considered a gift from the government, as they're technically a police state. In this country, the liberties the government takes away is usually against our constitution. Read it sometime, it doesn't say you have any liberty, it says that the government isn't allowed to TAKE your liberty.
While all these things can be done without a fancy eye candy layer or 3D acceleration, they suck up CPU power. We'll eventually see the 'gee whiz' stuff go away, but the real productivity boosts will stick around.
Boy ain't that the truth. When I was running OS X 10.1, I disabled text anti-aliasing and menu translucency using 3rd party software. The file manager worked nearly twice as fast on my Dual 800Mhz G4 PowerMac.
On my G5 it makes no noticable difference. I only wish I could use that old OS 9 Geneva font, as Lucida looks like crap without AA.
I still prefer to minimize the prettiness of OS X, usually to make windows I'm working in more high contrast and easier to find using peripheral vision (Three monitor setup on my G5).
OS X's file manager still isn't as snappy as OS 9's. Even on the G5, I still miss the speed I got from OS 9 on my four-years-young Dual 800, even though 9 didn't have DP support in the OS. Personally, I blame the.TIFF icon files.
It's all a balance though, without comparatively huge-ass icons and fonts, I couldn't see a thing on my two 1280x960 20" CRTs. Even with all the crap I put in my dock, the icons are still more than 32x32 pixels (OS 9's icon size max limit).
Consider a magazine with exactly one advertiser, entirely supported by that advertiser's dollars. These do exist. The "articles" are little different from the ads. The material identified as ads is at least presented honestly as persuasion, not information. The material identifed as articles is misrepresented as information when in fact it is persuasion.
Hear, hear! I read the journal of the AMA, and they're ALWAYS talking about how people should go see "doctors." Scandalous.
Their news desk has been shamed and discredited, their mainstream programming is garbage.
You're forgetting CSI--an uber hit in its timeslot.
I don't own a TV, but everyone's always telling me how when they murder me, they're going to get away with it because they watch that show... It's obviously very popular.
I actually like this form of advertising IF it gives me some interesting information. If it is the same 4 minute segment run over months, I'll ignore it and it will likely fail. If they give me something interesting to do with produce, I can actually see it working.
I'm halfway looking forward to this "educational nutrition programming."
... and orange veggies are a great source of betakerotine... This program brought to you by, Skittles: You're in the wrong isle, fat ass
It means didly if you don't mention your field of work.
I work in final cut pro about half the time--storing huge amounts of movie data is a must. I was poking fun at the fact that Apple prides itself as the king of (now HD) movie editing, yet their best computer only holds 2 hard drives without [expensive or timeconsuming] case mods. How exactly are you supposed to import raw HD video without a RAID?
Now, as for enclosures, I didn't realize bridgeboards had come down in price so much (back in my day...). It looks like oxford is dumping its 911 series on the market now, they used to be $50 wholesale.
After looking on froogle.com briefly, however, the cheapest firewire enclosure costs $60.. still twice as much as he originally suggested. True, USB bridgeboards may make it cheaper, but I'd really be wary about doing even MPEG2 over USB2.
very easy to add external Firewire or USB drives (costs you the price of the drive +$30 for a case)
WHOOOA there buddy. Firewire/USB bridgeboards (bridgeboard? You know, because "firewire hard drive" is an oxymoron and they need a converter). Those add about $80 to the thing, PLUS $20-30 for the power supply, and THEN the case.
Don't forget that bridgeboards SLOW PERFORMANCE. It's embarrassing, really.
Trust me, I'm a REAL professional and I bought a PowerMac "only 2 internal drives" G5. Try stuffing a terabyte and a 10,000rpm boot drive in there without one of those new-fangled case-mods.. I dare you.
Those case mods are cool though.. you can stuff drives in the "processor" bay, behind the PCIs (does you no good with my 12" 6800 Ultra, but oh well), or even replace your optical drive with 4 SATA drives.
However, it still costs $70 EACH for those case mods, NOT INCLUDING THE CONTROLLER card (~$100).
So $30 is a bad estimate. Me? I ended up buying an external SATA controller card, building my own case, and using a PC power supply. $150 total... not including drives.
Nowhere else can I find people with the experience, breadth and width of skills, and general good-naturedness of character than right here at Slashdot. This site features the presence of the creme de la creme of the programming world, and has experts in any particular field always ready with answers to difficult questions.
I'm the best programmer ever, and I never read slashdot. IANAL but I do play one on TV so let me put this in lamen's terms:
Something about GPL and evil corporations with their DRM and a closing statement half-assedly tying it all together and no mention about the article.
I agree with the parent poster. I too am a web developer (mainly PHP, javascript, and SLQ) and find all those sources totally indespensible.
When I was first learning php, however, I just started up a phpbb (forum), pointed at the screen at an object, and then read code until I found out how to change it, printing it out and taking it to coffee shops helps too, and it makes you look hella nerdy.
Btw, for the record, phpbb is coded amazingly well. I recently built my own portal (CMS) for it, fully functional and customizable, in under 20 hours.
It's so versitile I can use it for just about any future job, and it's mainly due to me just pilfering fantastic code from phpbb.. templates.php is an AMAZING piece of work for ANY web page.
Well, I for one, want to have a smarter AI in all games.
Processor isn't the only limitation for smarter AI. Let's not forget with Firaxis fired all the AI guys to do Civ III because they were taking too long.
Instead, any level above "Regent" (IIRC) simply cheats in various ways--makes more moeny from nothing, makes a percentage more money in every cash-related trade, etc.
Civil rights now refers to rights for blacks by the popular lexicon.
Civil liberties is the "new" term.
In actually, it should become "Government Restrictions", as the whole constitution didn't actually grant you freedom of speech, it said congress wasn't allowed to infringe upon your freedom of speech.
Sort of a minor misconception, but it's important to realize that what the congress is doing is SPECIFICALLY prohibited by the constitution.
It's all under the guise of good intentions too, let us not forget the hate crimes law. Oh, and in Arizona, if you're accused of having child pornography, your computer may be seized before they get a warrant to do so (I don't think they can look at it though).
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My skinny friend's rather portly ex just let out a few billion cubic meters of flatulance.
Dont.Fuck.With.My.TiVo.
Actually, TiVo is suing someone else for patent infringement. So.. your tivo is fucking with others.
Tivo has yet to turn a profit and they think this will make a difference? I don't get it.
They have created a vicious cycle that makes it so that they drive down the profits of domestic manufacturers, which sends the good jobs out of the country
I'd prefer selling lawnmowers to manufacturing them. I'd hardly call "manufacturing" jobs "good."
Yeah, they used to be $9/hr + benefits in the midwest, but the stuff also cost more. There are way better jobs out there, you just need some education to get them. Let China make crap, and when they get money and want better jobs, they'll outsource too.
In the 90's, our trade deficit was high and the MFGer's were going oversees then.. I didn't hear many complain about that.
Of course, you can't calculate it in terms of jobs, either. As productivity increases, it requires fewer people to yield the same amount of product. Even Marxists agree with that.
the author theorizes that perhaps someday instead of frequent flyer miles we'll get WoW gold or EQ plat as a reward for using our credit cards.
My old work place used to give out credit-card points as a reward to their employees, which we could cash in on gift cards to various places like best buy and what not. It was great, considering they paid us next to nothing.
Recently (after I quit, thank god), the management decided to keep all the points for themselves. We're talking about a half a million points per month, here--roughly $7,200 in gift cards at Best Buy.
Since the management does nothing on the job but play MMORPG's instead of working, I predict they will dominate the EQ world 6 months after they implement this points-to-plat program, and then suddenly stop playing shortly after due to bankruptcy.
According to this video, the media can be stored for 50 years, and it also looks more like a replacement for tape backups than hard drives at this point.
Coupled with this article, which says that it's "10 times faster than a normal DVD burner (whatever that means)," and holds about 300GB (278 GBytes formatted) it's clear that they're aiming for removable media.
Apparently each 300GB disk is about the size of a DVD (but thicker due to it having it's own little shell, like a floppy/zip/mini disk). Just like all removable media, it needs its own drive. Unlike most, it needs a HUGE drive, about the size of one of the old tape drives (2xCD-ROM drives but longer).
It's an interesting backup solution, maybe if you got a bunch of these and made a RAID-0 across them, you'd have something really cool.
But what brought Rather down was not just his running with the story. He could have survived - with a black eye
Hah! You made a funny and you didn't even know it!
Imagine a nice sun storm, where everybody's chips would stop functionning... that would be freakin nice. A million retarded and naked persons running in the streets "OO BOOLAH BEE LOO AH"
More like "LOTTERY TICKETS?! I CAN'T LOSE!!"
I can hear the thoughts running through you Bush hater's heads, "how can this be evil? This must be evil somehow. Must...Be....Evil...".
The blogosphere gives more representation to the right-wing agenda. True, there are [far, far(??)] more left-wing blogs for demographic reasons, however there aren't may news organizations that aren't disproportionately left-wing.
After all, it was blogging that destroyed Dan Rather's career. All news organizations submit lies as news at some point or another. With blogs out there, there's a sort of check on that, and with the media statistically more left wing than right, it's more likely to hurt the left.
It's all probably due to republicans painting themselves as a repressed minority. When Rather released those forged documents, people were genuinely pissed (or disillusioned). It's emotion that moves people on issues, not fact. Not now, not ever.
Among the things that brought people to the polls in record numbers was a genuine distrust for the other side: The right was thinking the left was lying its way to victory, and the left just plain hated and distrusted Bush.
And now, for the moment you've all been waiting for, how am I going to get my post -1 troll. Kerry and Bush were alike on the issues people were talking about: Gay Marriage and the War. Amazing how people are most incensed when both options are so very alike (NVidia Vs. ATI, for a nerdly example).
So, WHAT WEBSERVERS are being hacked into to do this? IIS? Apache 1.3? Apache 2? Windows only? Linux only? Something else? All of the above?
I think it's any webservers whose webmasters use IE. Lemme explain:
1) a dumb webmaster has his PW for his webspace stored in windows
2) dumb webmaster (who should know better) visits a site while using IE, and the site steals his password
3) script or person uses the password to login to the webspace, add in malicious code, and the cycle continues
Last time I checked, what groups like Operation Rescue do is about as far from "peacably assembling" as you can get.
I would not normally respond to something like this, but you should know but the nature of the ammendment referred to the manner in which they assembled, NOT what they discussed.
Like it or not, it's not constitutional to spy on these meetings. If there is reason to believe some or all the members are going to commit murder, it's certainly constitutional to GET A WARRANT FOR EACH MEMBER and listen in. However, spying on a whole group, no matter what they're doing, is certainly not kosher. Moreover, just because all of these people were in a group doesn't mean the GROUP organized any killings.
These people were probably also registered Republicans. Does that mean Bush should be sent to jail under RICO?
Say we lived in a police state (some say we're already there). Would Jefferson be against a militia meeting to discuss the matter? Certainly not. In fact, Jefferson frequently said there should be a revolution every 20 years or so, just to 'water the liberty tree with the blood of patriots and tyrants' (paraphrased).
The problem with something like RICO is who decides which organization is doing what, and how. Again, it makes it illegal to even associate with people who may or may not do naughty things. This means it can be abused, and I, personally, don't trust the government to discern who's "good" and who's "evil," especially in this age where the FBI doesn't even need a warrant to monitor an organization which it deems "evil."
The poster mentioned youTube. I frequently visit youTube when I get bored but I have never seen a single ad there? Where are the revenues coming from?
1. Setup Community oriented website
2. Get tons of users
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!
My guess is 3 is sell your e-mail address or other information. I didn't start getting spam on one of my e-mail addresses until I signed up for myspace *looks around accusingly*. Never used youTube though, so what is #3?
I'm not sure finding people guilty by whom they choose to associate with is legal.
Last time I checked, it unconstitutional to prohibit people from peacably assembling.
With this RICO act, you could be procecuted simply by showing up at a meeting and being seen by an FBI agent who is now allowed to monitor the proceedings without a warrant (also unconstitutional).
Isn't it funny how these things compound? The government makes booze illegal, a black market forms, then they have to make further laws to combat the new problems they just created. In the end, we might have been better off not having any laws on the subject in the first place. One of those great economists (probably Freedman) once said that Statism and Libertarianism work, but any step towards statism will lead to total statism, simply because anything in between doesn't work.
... Windows 98. No, seriously, think about it:
The scientists will then have just six seconds to monitor its performance before the £1m engine eventually crashes into the ground.
Replace the word "scientists" with "consumers", "£1m" with "$5b", and "engine" with "OS." Also, add the phrase "If it boots," before the statement.
Those bastard French people are trying to take away our freedom by taking restrictions out of DRM!
DRM is a right of companies. If you make DRM illegal, you're taking away liberty (I use that term because "freedom" is no longer correctly associated with it).
It's laws that make breaking DRM a crime that take away liberty, NOT DRM. After you buy something, being able to do what you want with it legally is a liberty (it's called personal property). However, if it's HARD or impossible to do it, that's YOUR problem and you shouldn't have bought a product with DRM in it.
For instance, building a mote around your house on your land is a liberty. Not having the man-power to do so has nothing to do with liberty.
Similarly, breaking DRM is a liberty. Not being able to do so also has nothing to do with your liberty.
Again, I'm using the term "liberty" because it refers to a specific concept. See THIS video.
Oh, I also use it because I'm a libertarian.. but that's neither here nor there. As a libertarian, I think the DMCA and similar laws should be repealed. However, I also would strongly dissapprove of a law like the french one mentioned in TFA instituted in the US.
If I remember correctly, the French government is setup the reverse of ours: The liberty the French enjoy are considered a gift from the government, as they're technically a police state. In this country, the liberties the government takes away is usually against our constitution. Read it sometime, it doesn't say you have any liberty, it says that the government isn't allowed to TAKE your liberty.
While all these things can be done without a fancy eye candy layer or 3D acceleration, they suck up CPU power. We'll eventually see the 'gee whiz' stuff go away, but the real productivity boosts will stick around.
.TIFF icon files.
Boy ain't that the truth. When I was running OS X 10.1, I disabled text anti-aliasing and menu translucency using 3rd party software. The file manager worked nearly twice as fast on my Dual 800Mhz G4 PowerMac.
On my G5 it makes no noticable difference. I only wish I could use that old OS 9 Geneva font, as Lucida looks like crap without AA.
I still prefer to minimize the prettiness of OS X, usually to make windows I'm working in more high contrast and easier to find using peripheral vision (Three monitor setup on my G5).
OS X's file manager still isn't as snappy as OS 9's. Even on the G5, I still miss the speed I got from OS 9 on my four-years-young Dual 800, even though 9 didn't have DP support in the OS. Personally, I blame the
It's all a balance though, without comparatively huge-ass icons and fonts, I couldn't see a thing on my two 1280x960 20" CRTs. Even with all the crap I put in my dock, the icons are still more than 32x32 pixels (OS 9's icon size max limit).
Consider a magazine with exactly one advertiser, entirely supported by that advertiser's dollars. These do exist. The "articles" are little different from the ads. The material identified as ads is at least presented honestly as persuasion, not information. The material identifed as articles is misrepresented as information when in fact it is persuasion.
Hear, hear! I read the journal of the AMA, and they're ALWAYS talking about how people should go see "doctors." Scandalous.
Their news desk has been shamed and discredited, their mainstream programming is garbage.
You're forgetting CSI--an uber hit in its timeslot.
I don't own a TV, but everyone's always telling me how when they murder me, they're going to get away with it because they watch that show... It's obviously very popular.
I'm halfway looking forward to this "educational nutrition programming."
It means didly if you don't mention your field of work.
I work in final cut pro about half the time--storing huge amounts of movie data is a must. I was poking fun at the fact that Apple prides itself as the king of (now HD) movie editing, yet their best computer only holds 2 hard drives without [expensive or timeconsuming] case mods. How exactly are you supposed to import raw HD video without a RAID?
Now, as for enclosures, I didn't realize bridgeboards had come down in price so much (back in my day...). It looks like oxford is dumping its 911 series on the market now, they used to be $50 wholesale.
After looking on froogle.com briefly, however, the cheapest firewire enclosure costs $60.. still twice as much as he originally suggested. True, USB bridgeboards may make it cheaper, but I'd really be wary about doing even MPEG2 over USB2.
very easy to add external Firewire or USB drives (costs you the price of the drive +$30 for a case)
WHOOOA there buddy. Firewire/USB bridgeboards (bridgeboard? You know, because "firewire hard drive" is an oxymoron and they need a converter). Those add about $80 to the thing, PLUS $20-30 for the power supply, and THEN the case.
Don't forget that bridgeboards SLOW PERFORMANCE. It's embarrassing, really.
Trust me, I'm a REAL professional and I bought a PowerMac "only 2 internal drives" G5. Try stuffing a terabyte and a 10,000rpm boot drive in there without one of those new-fangled case-mods.. I dare you.
Those case mods are cool though.. you can stuff drives in the "processor" bay, behind the PCIs (does you no good with my 12" 6800 Ultra, but oh well), or even replace your optical drive with 4 SATA drives.
However, it still costs $70 EACH for those case mods, NOT INCLUDING THE CONTROLLER card (~$100).
So $30 is a bad estimate. Me? I ended up buying an external SATA controller card, building my own case, and using a PC power supply. $150 total... not including drives.
Nowhere else can I find people with the experience, breadth and width of skills, and general good-naturedness of character than right here at Slashdot. This site features the presence of the creme de la creme of the programming world, and has experts in any particular field always ready with answers to difficult questions.
I'm the best programmer ever, and I never read slashdot. IANAL but I do play one on TV so let me put this in lamen's terms:
Something about GPL and evil corporations with their DRM and a closing statement half-assedly tying it all together and no mention about the article.
I hope I've set this all straight for you.
phpbb.com, not org.. sorry
I agree with the parent poster. I too am a web developer (mainly PHP, javascript, and SLQ) and find all those sources totally indespensible.
When I was first learning php, however, I just started up a phpbb (forum), pointed at the screen at an object, and then read code until I found out how to change it, printing it out and taking it to coffee shops helps too, and it makes you look hella nerdy.
Btw, for the record, phpbb is coded amazingly well. I recently built my own portal (CMS) for it, fully functional and customizable, in under 20 hours.
It's so versitile I can use it for just about any future job, and it's mainly due to me just pilfering fantastic code from phpbb.. templates.php is an AMAZING piece of work for ANY web page.
Well, I for one, want to have a smarter AI in all games.
Processor isn't the only limitation for smarter AI. Let's not forget with Firaxis fired all the AI guys to do Civ III because they were taking too long.
Instead, any level above "Regent" (IIRC) simply cheats in various ways--makes more moeny from nothing, makes a percentage more money in every cash-related trade, etc.
Civil rights now refers to rights for blacks by the popular lexicon.
Civil liberties is the "new" term.
In actually, it should become "Government Restrictions", as the whole constitution didn't actually grant you freedom of speech, it said congress wasn't allowed to infringe upon your freedom of speech.
Sort of a minor misconception, but it's important to realize that what the congress is doing is SPECIFICALLY prohibited by the constitution.
It's all under the guise of good intentions too, let us not forget the hate crimes law. Oh, and in Arizona, if you're accused of having child pornography, your computer may be seized before they get a warrant to do so (I don't think they can look at it though).