Well said! I play video games that can only be described as horrendously violent (Postal 2 is rediculously funny) for a good chunk of my life. (5-6 years of gaming, that's for sure.) Hell, I even did it for a LIVING for 2 years.
I know the difference between video games and reality. The reality is that you can get away with violence in games because it's just that -- a game. Anybody who uses a game like Grand Theft Auto as inspiration is a total farking idiot.
And any PARENT who tries to hold a video game maker responsible for their own faulty parenting is also a total farking idiot. Moreso, in fact. If THEY had raised their kids (instead of relying on video games to do it for them) then maybe the kids would have the knowledge and values required to realize that it is just a farking game.
I don't use Netscape, but I've been using the nightly builds of Mozilla Firebird as my default browser for MONTHS and I have fallen in love. =)
It's stable. It's fast. No popups. Tabbed browsing. And, the most important thing: FireBird won't install any spyware on my computer just because I visited a website.
I don't use Internet Explorer because it, well, sucks.
Here in Canada, a CD is typically $19.99 + tax. (In Manitoba, it's 14% - 7% GST, 7% PST) Total cost of CD = $22.79.
However, I do not believe that the ruling in question applies to Canada. (I haven't read the article -- keep getting distracted by Blazing Saddles.:)
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Poultry in Motion: With Invention, Chicken Catching Goes High-Tech
By SCOTT KILMAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
ELLIJAY, Ga. -- One enduring frustration of the poultry industry is that chickens can't be made to cross the road. Or even the chicken coop.
It's a snap to coax barnyard animals like pigs and cattle to go where you want them -- but "you can't herd chickens," says Paul S. Berry of the British Silsoe Research Institute, an agricultural-research center that has studied the problem for decades.
For that reason, poultry farmers have long relied on human catchers. Their job is to run around inside chicken houses, nabbing by hand more than eight billion birds a year. This is hard not only on the chickens, which get roughed up, but also on the catchers. The birds flap, scratch and befoul their captors. Most people can tolerate only a few months of that before flying the coop.
Now after years of attempts that ended in failure, including one ill-fated chicken vacuum, manufacturers have finally produced machines capable of catching and caging chickens. Looking like a combination airport baggage carousel and tank, the devices can capture 150 birds a minute. That's as many as a team of eight skilled men can corral.
"Automation is the way to go," says Brad Cole, live-production manager for a Tyson Foods Inc. slaughter plant in Georgia, the nation's top poultry-producing state. In a dimly lighted chicken house here in Ellijay, he stood and watched as one of the new harvesters, Lewis/Mola LLC's model PH2000, strutted its stuff.
Out of the gloom and dust of a chicken house as long as a football field, a PH2000 emerged. Hundreds of fluffy white birds tipped their heads and stared. The nine-ton, 42-foot-long contraption crept closer, slowly sweeping a low metal ramp back and forth through the flock like a giant scythe. The ramp gently nudged the birds in their chests. They lifted their feet to get out of its way, only to find themselves standing on the ramp itself. As more birds stepped on, they crowded one another toward a conveyor belt.
Whoosh! Each chicken was whisked up the belt into a small compartment, where a burst of air pushed it into a metal chute. Within seconds, the bird came to rest, blinking, still on its feet inside a wire cage.
In the past year, chicken companies including Tyson, Perdue Farms Inc. and Pilgrim's Pride Corp. have snapped up scores of the machines, which cost around $200,000. Today, about 5% of U.S. birds are caught mechanically, according to industry officials. The machines come from manufacturers including Bright Coop Inc., Techno-Catch LLC and Anglia Autoflow Ltd.
Some of the biggest fans are animal-rights groups, including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The machines are far more gentle on the birds than human handlers are. "We support using machines that reduce the panic, fear and horror of chickens," says Karen Davis of United Poultry Concerns, a Machipongo, Va., group that opposes eating chickens and also runs a sanctuary for a few lucky birds that manage to escape the farms (usually by falling off a truck).
Chickens hate being caught by human beings because catchers grab them by the feet and carry several birds upside down in each hand. "Being held upside down freaks out the birds," says Michael P. Lacy of the University of Georgia's poultry-science department. "As long as they are on their feet, they feel like they are in control, like people."
Human catchers are expected to snag as many as 1,000 birds an hour. As the men tire during eight-hour shifts, they accidentally slam birds against the cages, breaking wings and legs. Up to 25% of broilers on some farms are hurt in the process. By contrast, a recent study in the British scientific journal Animal Welfare found that a mechanical catcher in use in Germany reduced some injuries by as much as 50%.
That's good news for the birds, and also for the industry. Bruising disqualifies a chicken from the supermarket
Wait a second.. didn't they say that was going to happen when the Y2K bug was supposed to hit? Flights disappearing from radar, etc? Funny, they seem to have handled it fine. =)
Why doesn't the computerized voting system use a system like this:
1) The government includes a 10 or 12-digit "key" printed on the card that they mail you when it's time to vote. (Could even be a barcode on the back of the card.)
2) When you actually vote, you have to enter your driver's licence # to make the vote count.
There, problem solved. The government has your driver's licence number. It could easily maintain a database like that.
... except then they could easily tie your vote to that individual number... which would be a gross breach of privacy... never mind. =)
Maeda is best known for the series Blue Submarine 6 (1998), which he designed and directed.
He has also done turns as animator, character designer, and in other roles, on well-known anime projects such as Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986), The Wings of Honeamise (1987), and Neon Genesis Evangellion (1995).
Sounds like anime to me. Please do some research before you hit the "reply" button next time.
(Disclaimer: I haven't read the linked article) I've been using QCast Tuner for my PS2 for the last week or so and it rocks -- supports lots of file formats too:
Kazaa was doing pretty good until very recently -- my guess was that this list was compiled before the whole "US has global jurisdiction" thing, which sets a very dangerous legal prescedent. First Yahoo, now this?
If there is going to be a global community, there have to be global rules -- rules which are mutually agreed upon.
And the RIAA has had excellent results in the courts. They saw the destruction of Napster by the California legal system. They have left Madster (formerly Aimster) bloodied on the ropes and about to be called for a TKO and this month they won the right to sue Australian-based KaZaa in the US.
What has this won them so far? To be quite blunt, nothing. (Source)
This is petty and stupid. If Phoenix (the web browser) was a piece of computer hardware -THEN- I could understand why Phoenix (the bios guys) would have issue. But it's not.
I mean, it's a fricken WEB BROWSER. And a free one at that! Like.. really. Give me a break. =)
Yes, this is true -- but guess what? Halo wasn't meant to be played online. It was meant to be played over a local network.
Halo 2, like the other games designed with online play in mind, have MUCH lower bandwidth usage.
Remember how bad Quake's netcode was? Same idea.:)
It isn't gamers directly -- it's John Carmack, et all, over at id Software who drive the high-end PC market; gamers have to buy the latest and greatest card just to be able to run the next id game. (Doom 3 is going to be HUGE, but it's going to require a beast of a computer to run.)
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Well said! I play video games that can only be described as horrendously violent (Postal 2 is rediculously funny) for a good chunk of my life. (5-6 years of gaming, that's for sure.) Hell, I even did it for a LIVING for 2 years.
I know the difference between video games and reality. The reality is that you can get away with violence in games because it's just that -- a game. Anybody who uses a game like Grand Theft Auto as inspiration is a total farking idiot.
And any PARENT who tries to hold a video game maker responsible for their own faulty parenting is also a total farking idiot. Moreso, in fact. If THEY had raised their kids (instead of relying on video games to do it for them) then maybe the kids would have the knowledge and values required to realize that it is just a farking game.
*Shakes head at idiot parents*
I don't use Netscape, but I've been using the nightly builds of Mozilla Firebird as my default browser for MONTHS and I have fallen in love. =) It's stable. It's fast. No popups. Tabbed browsing. And, the most important thing: FireBird won't install any spyware on my computer just because I visited a website. I don't use Internet Explorer because it, well, sucks.
Q3F implemented QWTF physics a LONG time ago..
Somebody should take a screenshot of X11 ASCII running TTYQuake in a window. :P
Happy birthday, DNS! I wasn't sure how else to celebrate, so:
-bash-2.05b$ nslookup happy.com
Server: dnsr01-eth0.nyc01.dsl.net
Address: 216.175.203.50
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: happy.com
Address: 64.45.128.45
-bash-2.05b$ nslookup birthday.com
Server: dnsr01-eth0.nyc01.dsl.net
Address: 216.175.203.50
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: birthday.com
Address: 207.5.97.78
-bash-2.05b$ nslookup dns.com
Server: dnsr01-eth0.nyc01.dsl.net
Address: 216.175.203.50
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: dns.com
Address: 127.0.0.1
*Shrug* =)
Here in Canada, a CD is typically $19.99 + tax. (In Manitoba, it's 14% - 7% GST, 7% PST) Total cost of CD = $22.79.
:)
However, I do not believe that the ruling in question applies to Canada. (I haven't read the article -- keep getting distracted by Blazing Saddles.
Poultry in Motion: With Invention,
Chicken Catching Goes High-Tech
By SCOTT KILMAN
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
ELLIJAY, Ga. -- One enduring frustration of the poultry industry is that chickens can't be made to cross the road. Or even the chicken coop.
It's a snap to coax barnyard animals like pigs and cattle to go where you want them -- but "you can't herd chickens," says Paul S. Berry of the British Silsoe Research Institute, an agricultural-research center that has studied the problem for decades.
For that reason, poultry farmers have long relied on human catchers. Their job is to run around inside chicken houses, nabbing by hand more than eight billion birds a year. This is hard not only on the chickens, which get roughed up, but also on the catchers. The birds flap, scratch and befoul their captors. Most people can tolerate only a few months of that before flying the coop.
Now after years of attempts that ended in failure, including one ill-fated chicken vacuum, manufacturers have finally produced machines capable of catching and caging chickens. Looking like a combination airport baggage carousel and tank, the devices can capture 150 birds a minute. That's as many as a team of eight skilled men can corral.
"Automation is the way to go," says Brad Cole, live-production manager for a Tyson Foods Inc. slaughter plant in Georgia, the nation's top poultry-producing state. In a dimly lighted chicken house here in Ellijay, he stood and watched as one of the new harvesters, Lewis/Mola LLC's model PH2000, strutted its stuff.
Out of the gloom and dust of a chicken house as long as a football field, a PH2000 emerged. Hundreds of fluffy white birds tipped their heads and stared. The nine-ton, 42-foot-long contraption crept closer, slowly sweeping a low metal ramp back and forth through the flock like a giant scythe. The ramp gently nudged the birds in their chests. They lifted their feet to get out of its way, only to find themselves standing on the ramp itself. As more birds stepped on, they crowded one another toward a conveyor belt.
Whoosh! Each chicken was whisked up the belt into a small compartment, where a burst of air pushed it into a metal chute. Within seconds, the bird came to rest, blinking, still on its feet inside a wire cage.
In the past year, chicken companies including Tyson, Perdue Farms Inc. and Pilgrim's Pride Corp. have snapped up scores of the machines, which cost around $200,000. Today, about 5% of U.S. birds are caught mechanically, according to industry officials. The machines come from manufacturers including Bright Coop Inc., Techno-Catch LLC and Anglia Autoflow Ltd.
Some of the biggest fans are animal-rights groups, including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The machines are far more gentle on the birds than human handlers are. "We support using machines that reduce the panic, fear and horror of chickens," says Karen Davis of United Poultry Concerns, a Machipongo, Va., group that opposes eating chickens and also runs a sanctuary for a few lucky birds that manage to escape the farms (usually by falling off a truck).
Chickens hate being caught by human beings because catchers grab them by the feet and carry several birds upside down in each hand. "Being held upside down freaks out the birds," says Michael P. Lacy of the University of Georgia's poultry-science department. "As long as they are on their feet, they feel like they are in control, like people."
Human catchers are expected to snag as many as 1,000 birds an hour. As the men tire during eight-hour shifts, they accidentally slam birds against the cages, breaking wings and legs. Up to 25% of broilers on some farms are hurt in the process. By contrast, a recent study in the British scientific journal Animal Welfare found that a mechanical catcher in use in Germany reduced some injuries by as much as 50%.
That's good news for the birds, and also for the industry. Bruising disqualifies a chicken from the supermarket
Does anybody have any mirror/BitTorrent URLs for that wrapper? Good ol' Slashdot effect at 7.22 AM...
No idea on pricing, but very cool nonetheless. If you have to ask, you can't afford it. ;)
Wait a second.. didn't they say that was going to happen when the Y2K bug was supposed to hit? Flights disappearing from radar, etc? Funny, they seem to have handled it fine. =)
Why doesn't the computerized voting system use a system like this:
... except then they could easily tie your vote to that individual number ... which would be a gross breach of privacy ... never mind. =)
1) The government includes a 10 or 12-digit "key" printed on the card that they mail you when it's time to vote. (Could even be a barcode on the back of the card.)
2) When you actually vote, you have to enter your driver's licence # to make the vote count.
There, problem solved. The government has your driver's licence number. It could easily maintain a database like that.
That's the list from the QCast Tuner site... *Shrug*
Music
Video/Movies
Pictures
- JPEG
- PNG
Yes, it runs on Linux. Check it out. =)A user has given a Insightful (+1) moderation to your comment, RTFA, attached to 2002 MP3 Winners and Losers. Your comment is currently scored (3).
*Raises eyebrow*
I just copied and pasted text from the article.. nothing insightful there..
Kazaa was doing pretty good until very recently -- my guess was that this list was compiled before the whole "US has global jurisdiction" thing, which sets a very dangerous legal prescedent. First Yahoo, now this?
If there is going to be a global community, there have to be global rules -- rules which are mutually agreed upon.
Smart people invest their money in stock portfolios. Rednecks invest in commemorative plates."
I did not know that.
* CitizenC removes his foot from his mouth
This is petty and stupid. If Phoenix (the web browser) was a piece of computer hardware -THEN- I could understand why Phoenix (the bios guys) would have issue. But it's not.
I mean, it's a fricken WEB BROWSER. And a free one at that! Like.. really. Give me a break. =)
Is there a way to enable "single window mode" in Phoenix 0.4?
Yes, this is true -- but guess what? Halo wasn't meant to be played online. It was meant to be played over a local network. Halo 2, like the other games designed with online play in mind, have MUCH lower bandwidth usage. Remember how bad Quake's netcode was? Same idea. :)
"Version Inflation" -- to your average luser, "the higher the version number, the better it must be."
It isn't gamers directly -- it's John Carmack, et all, over at id Software who drive the high-end PC market; gamers have to buy the latest and greatest card just to be able to run the next id game. (Doom 3 is going to be HUGE, but it's going to require a beast of a computer to run.)
For those of us who are younger and never saw the original theatrical release of Star Wars, could you clarify the Han Solo/Greedo example?