You're right, Kim Jong Ill was a happy little man who liked American Movies and had no aggressive intention towards the South until Bush invaded Iraq, where the children danced and played with gumdrop smiles.
How many countries had Kim Jong invaded? None. Sure, he was agressive to the South, but that is as they were to him. Big deal. As I said previously, dictators have one objective, staying in power. Invading South Korea would most likely involve military defeat and the end of his regime. He may come off as stupid to your racist programming but to be a brutal dictator you have to be smart and tough.
Bush may not have made things better, but I think it's a little naive to think that none of this would be happening if a Democrat was in office.
What the hell does that have to do with anything? You do realise the rest of the world laughs at you with the bi-partisan nonsense? It's a great way of keeping the population asking the wrong (right) questions. The point is that it wouldn't have happend if someone sane was in power, regardless of which party they belong to. Bush/Cheney came to power with one main objective; Iraq. This has been publicly stated by them in their Project For A New American Century publications since 1998. The PNAC does not represent all republicans. This (like most things) is not a partisan issue and anytime that you people waste arguing that way is time not spend debating the actual problem.
Now, just shut up and do what your leaders tell you. Be a good American.
That's the funniest thing I've read in quite a while... yeah, Europeans will be just queueing up to send their troops to die in Korea so Bush can gain a few percent in the polls.
Well, it depends on the objective. Many Euro nations signed up for Afganistan, which did have a valid(ish) reason for invasion. The lack of support for Iraq was basically them saying "what WMDs?" and "what threat?". Should N. Korea kick off you'd get a similar response to 1990's Kuwait. Provided they hire the correct PR team that is...;-)
When the US troops leave South Korea and North Korea disarms as a result.
I was actually speaking about Bush's actions being exactly the ones that cause despot leaders to go a little crazy and paranoid. When you invade a country, others start to ask "am I next?". This is a point I've been continually making for four years now and N. Korea publicly showing off their nukes is actually worse than anything I had realistically considered as something that might happen.
Of course, "I told you so" means nothing when your childrens hair falls out.
We're stretched so thin that we're losing Afghanistan. We can't afford to go invade North Korea.
Not true. It's political forces restricting the deployment, not logistical. If they wanted to send more men to either warzone they could, but it would look bad in an election year. Should N. Korea hit the fan, not only will you have your own troops ready, you'll have the rest of Nato at your side.
What's even crazier is that if he stopped the stupidity we'd probably send a crapload of aid and all the bondage porn he could handle.
That doesn't help him stay in power. Repressing his people does, as he can blame us for all of their problems. It was exactly the same with the Iraqi sanctions; they only strengthened Saddam's position. Ditto islamic extremists and the west; we are collectively blaming each other and using this as a justification for whatever takes our fancy. It works out well and neither side wants to destroy their enemy as their followers would start to look inward for things to get upset about. Federal deficit? Fuck that, there are dirty bombs and WMDs to be worried about!
It is a nuke. It's been known for some time that N. Korea have nukes. They were just rattling the sabre with this test, stirring things up somewhat. They feel threatened and they just gave their enemies a glimpse of their arsenal in the hope that they won't be attacked.
South Korea exists because the US sent massive military assistance to the South. If you think Bush is scary, you had better read up on you freaky neighbor to the north.
Dictators have but one objective; to stay in power. Concequently, N Korea will not be launching nukes any time soon as it'll have a detrimental effect on the leadership's health. On the other hand, Bush has only two more years left, has started an unprovoked war of aggression and has stated, several times, that the US is considering the use of "tactical" nukes (ones with a teaspoon of marketing sugar).
Now, in all seriousness, which is the most dangerous nation right now? It's because of Americas recent actions that N. Korea feels it needs to have nukes. Is there any doubt now that Bush has made the world a decidedly more dangerous place? When do I get so say "I told you so"?
As far as getting hacked, if it's a separate dirty lan, it's supposed to be unconnected to *anything* including the internet. Hard to hack across an air gap. If they need something from the internet, download it on the 'safe' box/lan and transfer it themselves.
dev boxes aren't on a separate lan for security reasons. It's to prevent foulups trashing the whole company network. Duplicate IPs, high-bandwidth throughput tests etc; you don't want them on your corporate lan.
As for net access, let them have it. I've worked in places where you needed permission to download a zip file. Didn't work there all that long.
And developers aren't admins, this is true, but they do generally need admin priviledges on the boxes (at least windoze ones that I'm familiar with). To me that's another reason why they need something on a separate box/lan so any damage they might cause is contained.
Agreed. Things like Ghost and/or network booting are great for this sort of thing. In a perfect world they could trash the box and have it up and running in a few hours. I reckon VMWare etc will help out somewhat in this respect in the years to come.
It just seems to be ideological insanity and, to be blunt, extremely immatue, to get so worked up over a caption error.
The problem is it's not a bug, it's a feature. They've made the exact same mistake too many times in a short period for it to be random. And they also did it in a pre-recorded show; I could see your "typo" point of view if it were live and a one-off. My post essentially stated that they have a history of this sort of thing and that there is proof of a biased influnce coming from the upper management levels.
Fox have painted themselves so deeply in a partisan corner that you'd be considered insane not to consider whether this was intentional.
Is it just me or does anyone else find that the immaturity displayed in a lot of TDS segments tends to counter any substanence they might have?
YES!! I've been downloading TDS over bittorrent for three years or so now. It's actually aired here in the UK now, but I prefer the convienence of the downloads.
Jon Stewart (and his writers) can be at times incredibly insightful. They can hit on issues never covered elsewhere. His gambit on Crossfire was outstanding and showed he could debate on-the-spot. Even Colberts Whitehouse Correspondants Dinner Speach (I suspect they share writers) was briliant. I've shown it to numerous journalists and political staffers I know and they all love it. One said it was quite possibly the best thing he'd ever seen.
OK, now that I've established that I have A LOT of time for the show, I must air my gripe. The segements are just junk. Drop them. I really don't care for them chopping up interviews to make people say silly things. If it's a relevant or current issue then fair play, but most of the time it's just an irrelevancy. And it's not very funny. I suppose it may come down to my Bill Hicks experiences. On politics he's amazing. But drop the dick jokes please, I can listen to Dice Clay if I want that sort of thing.
Also, the interviews can be utter garbage as well. Recently has been decent, the leader of Pakistan, Trent Lott et al have offered interesting conversation. But most of the time it's just someone hawking some bullshit book or worse, a bullshit movie. I'd much prefer if they would just give Jon an extra 15 minutes than get some non-entity on just because no one decent is available.
As a long standing viewer to the show I am sorely tempted to drop them an email on my thoughts. TDS could be so much more, if they just dropped the college humour.
For a counterpoint, check out the UKs "Bremner, Bird & Fortune" (also on bittorrent). It's an hour of some of the best political satire available.
Have you ever read transcripts of the television news casts? Each story is usually a paragraph of text at most, whereas the reporting on the same subject in a newspaper will usually be several columns.
How to Watch TV News is a fascinating analysis on just why that is. In summation, TV as a different form of media compared to print isn't suited to news with the exception of visual news such as national disasters. For politics and international affairs, TV news doesn't have the time to spend on each issue to give much information across. Instead you get sound bites. On the other hand, Katrina and 9-11 were ratings goldmines.
Ultimately it always comes down to ratings, the bottom line in any media endevour. Americans also don't like bad news, which is why Newsweek localises it's cover for the US market. Example (27 Sept 2006): internationally the cover story was "losing Afganistan". In the states, they got a fluff piece about the photographer Annie Leibovitz.
It saddens me that today's youth brags about getting all their news from the daily show while newspaper circulation is in rapid decline.
I'm not sure that they are saying that it's their only source though. For me it's the only US news source I trust, but I round it off with many other international sources. I'm finding blogs are the best these days, simply to act as a filter onto media I wouldn't normally read. Take the Christian Science Monitor; normally I'd stay the hell away from them simply based on their name (Christian science?), but I've read some linked articles on there from time to time that are changing my preconceptions on them.
since then there hasn't seemed to be the willingness to go out on a limb to make accusations that can lead to serious investigation.
You can't get much more serious accusations than this weeks Panorama. It alleges that the current pope was the spearhead of a 40 year campaign to cover up child abuse by the clergy. The official strategy was to first silence the child with "forgiveness" (and the threat of ex-communication from the church), then move the offender somewhere else. The number one objective for this to to keep the story away from the public eye. This was repeated by hundreds of priests all around the world, some of whom repeatedly and unashamedly raped over 100 children.
Though I do agree that the BBC has been Blairs bitch of late. They seem to be ahead of the curve in building the propaganda for whatever Labour want to do next.
What any of that has to do with a caption typo, I have no idea. I won't even get into the level of your world view.
It has everything to do with it. The grandparent makes the point that there is a concerted effort to give out misinformation in todays media. And if you are in any doubt on whether Fox does this, watch Outfoxed. trailer on offical site.
In this documentary you will learn of the infamous daily fox memos. Each day they were told what to cover and what not to cover. They were told specific word sequences to use for things. For example, using "targetted killing" instead of "assasination". It was no accident that "flip flop" was on the tip of everyones tounges in late 2004.
Fox is a disinformation network. Saddam, terror, Saddam, terror, Saddam, terror. If you repeat the mantra enough, people believe you.
It doesn't matter if it is a hardware failure or a software failure. If you are near launch and your demo fails in a controlled environment you are in major, major trouble.
Everyone that works in the software industry is laughing right now. Demos failing? When do they ever work fully? I've never seen it. In every demo I've done of new software I've had to scrirt around or omit functionality that I knew would fail. That's the trick to a good demo; knowing what works and how to sell it.
I'm sure we've all seen the video of Bill Gates demoing a prerelease version of Win98 that bsod'ed when using plug & play. Welcome to demoland. Hell, version 1.0 rarely works in most releases of anything, let alone a pre-release alpha.
I'm surprised the stock only dropped as little as it did, to be frank.
The stock market isn't that fickle, especially WRT a company like Sony with varied interests & divisions. It's not even relevant; the battery fiasco is far more linked to recent drops.
Stocks only change in value because buyers perceive the value to change. The battery story has been in almost every major media outlet since it broke and snowballed. On the other hand, on a few geek sites are reading about PS2 demos. Big deal. We don't represent much of the investing market.
Agreed; I have a two year old device from HTC and it pisses all over this new one. I would have breached it's 300 contact limit already and I've installed enough apps to use up the 24 meg twice over. And that's not including software on the SD-card such as TomTom which comes in around about 700 meg. Hell, I even run a RAM disk on it to swap 32meg of the main RAM for a little extra high-speed storage for web cache and mail attachments.
24 meg? What were they thinking? Flash ROM is cheap cheap cheap these days; you can get a 2gig SD card for around $40. They could have given it up to 256 meg without even blinking.
I can send a couple of gigs of mp3s from my laptop to my cellphone using bluetooth.
Ironically, I have a cellphone running a Microsoft OS and I can do the same. It can also do it over Wifi using samba, FTP or HTTP. If it had an HD it would be better and smaller than the zune, but with SD cards at approx 20UKP / 2 gig it's not a big deal.
Sure my phone cost a couple hundred bucks more than the Zune
With 12-month contract mine actually cost a lot less, approx $50 USD.
We're going to be seeing more and more of these smart phones in the USA within the next couple of years and they will make everything the Zune promised to do possible without the odious DRM restrictions from Microsoft.
That's where the irony just rolls over and dies. The MS phones cannot interact with MS wma DRM at all. They only way to listen to music is technically illegal, unless you are converting Creative Commons media.
In the UK, if you report a phone stolen it gets disabled on all networks at the IMEI level (like locking out the MAC address of a network card). IMEI numbers may be able to be changed with specialist equipment (which could be illegal) but is not available to a casual thief.
Changing the IMEI is illegal in the UK, they past legislation a year or so on this. However, changing it is trivial. I'd imagine that most of the small independent mobile shops (ones that sell pre-paid phones and accessories) would do it for you provided you asked in the right way. Failing that, all you need is a data cable for most phones. But this system could take it a step further; if the phone is disabled you might not be able to boot up to the point where you can change the IMEI. If it's designed right that is.
What kind of business idea is this? What are they gaining out of this? Essentially if a cell phone is lost or stolen then it is as good as gone.
You miss the point. People are robbed, sometimes violently, for their phones everyday. If all phones had a system like this, there would be no point in robbing people of them.
Police around the world are concerned about the value of the goods we are carrying. For the past ten years or so it's just really been cash, credit cards and mobiles that folk carried. Cash is less common now, credit cards are more 'secure' but increasingly we are carrying laptops, mp3 players and so on. Street crime will likely increase due to the increased profitability now. And as phones are one of the more overt gadgets (especially when in use), they make a good place to start in terms of making them less valuable to a thief.
I would say it is similar to paying for a CD of a record you already had on vinyl.
I disagree. CDs offer some advantages over vinyl, such as track skipping and fewer quality issues such as rumble and warpage. This would be more similar to someone borrowing your vinyl record and converting it to a CD, then selling it back to you. Except that is also a bad analogy as in this example you are at least paying for their time. Upsampling a bunch of videos is a simple hands-off batch script.
Usually when you buy a CD of something you had on vinyl, the CD is taken from the original master. This is the biggest flaw in your analogy; the CD does not derive from the existing product. These "high-quality" videos are simply relabled low-quality ones. In any other consumer product that would be illegal due to false advertising; certainally that is the case under UK law.
It's always interesting seeing an Apple story first thing on a Saturday morning. The Apple astroturfers that post here aren't working yet, so the discussion is quite candid. Compare to how it looks in four or five hours. If anyone is really bored, you could do a little study on post time vs post point-of-view. I think slashdot is crying out for this kind of study; it's quite possibly the most astroturfed site on the net.
By the way, in GTA:San Andreas you get to fly a plane. Why haven't we seen an increase in plane thefts if GTA is such a good tutor?
Oh my, I think you have something there. You could fly the Dodo in the first GTA3 Liberty City game, but it was a bit of an aquired skill. That game was released in 2001. What else happened that year?
Perhaps Scotland needs a regime change now? (actually, most Scots would agree with that!)
If you are running at a lower resolution (640*480) then simply turning on AA looks a lot better than upping the resolution.
It's a laptop so I made sure it had a card powerful enough to run at native resolution for the next few years or so. 1280x800 IIRC. I'll try your suggestion out on my old rig, it's still active for multiplayer etc. and the source games take it down to 15fps at times. Though I have to admit, the higher resolution comes in handy for long range vision in games if there's a lot of sniping going on.
Hold on now, he rebufed the bill not because he doesn't feel the idea is right, just that it has no bussiness in a defense appropriations bill.
Exactly. That's why he's probably one of the best guys in there. Most of the others would be happy to turn a blind eye to riders provided it was for something they want. The whole "relative morality" debate. If what you say above is true, then we need more folk like him, regardless of their personal viewpoints.
after some repitition I was able to easily remember "V" in Photoshop is "A" in Multi-Ad Creator. While an Optimus would have been ideal at first, quickly it would have been rendered useless in favor of committing keys to memory.
I think it will work, for just that reason. By pressing ctrl, you will see all of the options, including ones you don't know about. You mentally associate that function with that particular key location, instead of finding it through trawling the menus. You'd notice a lot of new tricks with this keyboard. It would be amazing to use it with something heavy on shortcuts such as Eclipse.
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How many countries had Kim Jong invaded? None. Sure, he was agressive to the South, but that is as they were to him. Big deal. As I said previously, dictators have one objective, staying in power. Invading South Korea would most likely involve military defeat and the end of his regime. He may come off as stupid to your racist programming but to be a brutal dictator you have to be smart and tough.
What the hell does that have to do with anything? You do realise the rest of the world laughs at you with the bi-partisan nonsense? It's a great way of keeping the population asking the wrong (right) questions. The point is that it wouldn't have happend if someone sane was in power, regardless of which party they belong to. Bush/Cheney came to power with one main objective; Iraq. This has been publicly stated by them in their Project For A New American Century publications since 1998. The PNAC does not represent all republicans. This (like most things) is not a partisan issue and anytime that you people waste arguing that way is time not spend debating the actual problem.
Now, just shut up and do what your leaders tell you. Be a good American.
Well, it depends on the objective. Many Euro nations signed up for Afganistan, which did have a valid(ish) reason for invasion. The lack of support for Iraq was basically them saying "what WMDs?" and "what threat?". Should N. Korea kick off you'd get a similar response to 1990's Kuwait. Provided they hire the correct PR team that is... ;-)
I was actually speaking about Bush's actions being exactly the ones that cause despot leaders to go a little crazy and paranoid. When you invade a country, others start to ask "am I next?". This is a point I've been continually making for four years now and N. Korea publicly showing off their nukes is actually worse than anything I had realistically considered as something that might happen.
Of course, "I told you so" means nothing when your childrens hair falls out.
Not true. It's political forces restricting the deployment, not logistical. If they wanted to send more men to either warzone they could, but it would look bad in an election year. Should N. Korea hit the fan, not only will you have your own troops ready, you'll have the rest of Nato at your side.
That doesn't help him stay in power. Repressing his people does, as he can blame us for all of their problems. It was exactly the same with the Iraqi sanctions; they only strengthened Saddam's position. Ditto islamic extremists and the west; we are collectively blaming each other and using this as a justification for whatever takes our fancy. It works out well and neither side wants to destroy their enemy as their followers would start to look inward for things to get upset about. Federal deficit? Fuck that, there are dirty bombs and WMDs to be worried about!
It is a nuke. It's been known for some time that N. Korea have nukes. They were just rattling the sabre with this test, stirring things up somewhat. They feel threatened and they just gave their enemies a glimpse of their arsenal in the hope that they won't be attacked.
Dictators have but one objective; to stay in power. Concequently, N Korea will not be launching nukes any time soon as it'll have a detrimental effect on the leadership's health. On the other hand, Bush has only two more years left, has started an unprovoked war of aggression and has stated, several times, that the US is considering the use of "tactical" nukes (ones with a teaspoon of marketing sugar).
Now, in all seriousness, which is the most dangerous nation right now? It's because of Americas recent actions that N. Korea feels it needs to have nukes. Is there any doubt now that Bush has made the world a decidedly more dangerous place? When do I get so say "I told you so"?
Relax, it's probably just a movie poster
dev boxes aren't on a separate lan for security reasons. It's to prevent foulups trashing the whole company network. Duplicate IPs, high-bandwidth throughput tests etc; you don't want them on your corporate lan.
As for net access, let them have it. I've worked in places where you needed permission to download a zip file. Didn't work there all that long.
Agreed. Things like Ghost and/or network booting are great for this sort of thing. In a perfect world they could trash the box and have it up and running in a few hours. I reckon VMWare etc will help out somewhat in this respect in the years to come.
The problem is it's not a bug, it's a feature. They've made the exact same mistake too many times in a short period for it to be random. And they also did it in a pre-recorded show; I could see your "typo" point of view if it were live and a one-off. My post essentially stated that they have a history of this sort of thing and that there is proof of a biased influnce coming from the upper management levels.
Fox have painted themselves so deeply in a partisan corner that you'd be considered insane not to consider whether this was intentional.
YES!! I've been downloading TDS over bittorrent for three years or so now. It's actually aired here in the UK now, but I prefer the convienence of the downloads.
Jon Stewart (and his writers) can be at times incredibly insightful. They can hit on issues never covered elsewhere. His gambit on Crossfire was outstanding and showed he could debate on-the-spot. Even Colberts Whitehouse Correspondants Dinner Speach (I suspect they share writers) was briliant. I've shown it to numerous journalists and political staffers I know and they all love it. One said it was quite possibly the best thing he'd ever seen.
OK, now that I've established that I have A LOT of time for the show, I must air my gripe. The segements are just junk. Drop them. I really don't care for them chopping up interviews to make people say silly things. If it's a relevant or current issue then fair play, but most of the time it's just an irrelevancy. And it's not very funny. I suppose it may come down to my Bill Hicks experiences. On politics he's amazing. But drop the dick jokes please, I can listen to Dice Clay if I want that sort of thing.
Also, the interviews can be utter garbage as well. Recently has been decent, the leader of Pakistan, Trent Lott et al have offered interesting conversation. But most of the time it's just someone hawking some bullshit book or worse, a bullshit movie. I'd much prefer if they would just give Jon an extra 15 minutes than get some non-entity on just because no one decent is available.
As a long standing viewer to the show I am sorely tempted to drop them an email on my thoughts. TDS could be so much more, if they just dropped the college humour.
For a counterpoint, check out the UKs "Bremner, Bird & Fortune" (also on bittorrent). It's an hour of some of the best political satire available.
How to Watch TV News is a fascinating analysis on just why that is. In summation, TV as a different form of media compared to print isn't suited to news with the exception of visual news such as national disasters. For politics and international affairs, TV news doesn't have the time to spend on each issue to give much information across. Instead you get sound bites. On the other hand, Katrina and 9-11 were ratings goldmines.
Ultimately it always comes down to ratings, the bottom line in any media endevour. Americans also don't like bad news, which is why Newsweek localises it's cover for the US market. Example (27 Sept 2006): internationally the cover story was "losing Afganistan". In the states, they got a fluff piece about the photographer Annie Leibovitz.
I'm not sure that they are saying that it's their only source though. For me it's the only US news source I trust, but I round it off with many other international sources. I'm finding blogs are the best these days, simply to act as a filter onto media I wouldn't normally read. Take the Christian Science Monitor; normally I'd stay the hell away from them simply based on their name (Christian science?), but I've read some linked articles on there from time to time that are changing my preconceptions on them.
You can't get much more serious accusations than this weeks Panorama. It alleges that the current pope was the spearhead of a 40 year campaign to cover up child abuse by the clergy. The official strategy was to first silence the child with "forgiveness" (and the threat of ex-communication from the church), then move the offender somewhere else. The number one objective for this to to keep the story away from the public eye. This was repeated by hundreds of priests all around the world, some of whom repeatedly and unashamedly raped over 100 children.
Though I do agree that the BBC has been Blairs bitch of late. They seem to be ahead of the curve in building the propaganda for whatever Labour want to do next.
Em, no. Most of the media folk I know (many) are gramar geeks. A love of language is a good incentive to get into journalism.
It has everything to do with it. The grandparent makes the point that there is a concerted effort to give out misinformation in todays media. And if you are in any doubt on whether Fox does this, watch Outfoxed. trailer on offical site.
In this documentary you will learn of the infamous daily fox memos. Each day they were told what to cover and what not to cover. They were told specific word sequences to use for things. For example, using "targetted killing" instead of "assasination". It was no accident that "flip flop" was on the tip of everyones tounges in late 2004.
Fox is a disinformation network. Saddam, terror, Saddam, terror, Saddam, terror. If you repeat the mantra enough, people believe you.
Everyone that works in the software industry is laughing right now. Demos failing? When do they ever work fully? I've never seen it. In every demo I've done of new software I've had to scrirt around or omit functionality that I knew would fail. That's the trick to a good demo; knowing what works and how to sell it.
I'm sure we've all seen the video of Bill Gates demoing a prerelease version of Win98 that bsod'ed when using plug & play. Welcome to demoland. Hell, version 1.0 rarely works in most releases of anything, let alone a pre-release alpha.
The stock market isn't that fickle, especially WRT a company like Sony with varied interests & divisions. It's not even relevant; the battery fiasco is far more linked to recent drops.
Stocks only change in value because buyers perceive the value to change. The battery story has been in almost every major media outlet since it broke and snowballed. On the other hand, on a few geek sites are reading about PS2 demos. Big deal. We don't represent much of the investing market.
Agreed; I have a two year old device from HTC and it pisses all over this new one. I would have breached it's 300 contact limit already and I've installed enough apps to use up the 24 meg twice over. And that's not including software on the SD-card such as TomTom which comes in around about 700 meg. Hell, I even run a RAM disk on it to swap 32meg of the main RAM for a little extra high-speed storage for web cache and mail attachments.
24 meg? What were they thinking? Flash ROM is cheap cheap cheap these days; you can get a 2gig SD card for around $40. They could have given it up to 256 meg without even blinking.
Ironically, I have a cellphone running a Microsoft OS and I can do the same. It can also do it over Wifi using samba, FTP or HTTP. If it had an HD it would be better and smaller than the zune, but with SD cards at approx 20UKP / 2 gig it's not a big deal.
With 12-month contract mine actually cost a lot less, approx $50 USD.
That's where the irony just rolls over and dies. The MS phones cannot interact with MS wma DRM at all. They only way to listen to music is technically illegal, unless you are converting Creative Commons media.
Changing the IMEI is illegal in the UK, they past legislation a year or so on this. However, changing it is trivial. I'd imagine that most of the small independent mobile shops (ones that sell pre-paid phones and accessories) would do it for you provided you asked in the right way. Failing that, all you need is a data cable for most phones. But this system could take it a step further; if the phone is disabled you might not be able to boot up to the point where you can change the IMEI. If it's designed right that is.
You miss the point. People are robbed, sometimes violently, for their phones everyday. If all phones had a system like this, there would be no point in robbing people of them.
Police around the world are concerned about the value of the goods we are carrying. For the past ten years or so it's just really been cash, credit cards and mobiles that folk carried. Cash is less common now, credit cards are more 'secure' but increasingly we are carrying laptops, mp3 players and so on. Street crime will likely increase due to the increased profitability now. And as phones are one of the more overt gadgets (especially when in use), they make a good place to start in terms of making them less valuable to a thief.
"A fool and his money are soon elected."
- Will Rogers
I disagree. CDs offer some advantages over vinyl, such as track skipping and fewer quality issues such as rumble and warpage. This would be more similar to someone borrowing your vinyl record and converting it to a CD, then selling it back to you. Except that is also a bad analogy as in this example you are at least paying for their time. Upsampling a bunch of videos is a simple hands-off batch script.
Usually when you buy a CD of something you had on vinyl, the CD is taken from the original master. This is the biggest flaw in your analogy; the CD does not derive from the existing product. These "high-quality" videos are simply relabled low-quality ones. In any other consumer product that would be illegal due to false advertising; certainally that is the case under UK law.
It's always interesting seeing an Apple story first thing on a Saturday morning. The Apple astroturfers that post here aren't working yet, so the discussion is quite candid. Compare to how it looks in four or five hours. If anyone is really bored, you could do a little study on post time vs post point-of-view. I think slashdot is crying out for this kind of study; it's quite possibly the most astroturfed site on the net.
Oh my, I think you have something there. You could fly the Dodo in the first GTA3 Liberty City game, but it was a bit of an aquired skill. That game was released in 2001. What else happened that year?
Perhaps Scotland needs a regime change now? (actually, most Scots would agree with that!)
It's a laptop so I made sure it had a card powerful enough to run at native resolution for the next few years or so. 1280x800 IIRC. I'll try your suggestion out on my old rig, it's still active for multiplayer etc. and the source games take it down to 15fps at times. Though I have to admit, the higher resolution comes in handy for long range vision in games if there's a lot of sniping going on.
Exactly. That's why he's probably one of the best guys in there. Most of the others would be happy to turn a blind eye to riders provided it was for something they want. The whole "relative morality" debate. If what you say above is true, then we need more folk like him, regardless of their personal viewpoints.
I think it will work, for just that reason. By pressing ctrl, you will see all of the options, including ones you don't know about. You mentally associate that function with that particular key location, instead of finding it through trawling the menus. You'd notice a lot of new tricks with this keyboard. It would be amazing to use it with something heavy on shortcuts such as Eclipse.