How long until some some kid gets killed...by a cop who thought this thing was real?
It's a question worth asking.
My father, still a hunter, didn't own or play with replica guns or gun toys at any age. That was the one line between reality and fantasy his father would never cross.
I think it is significant that this story breaks a few weeks after the Google Ubuntu rumours
Google is in the advertising business.
Its clients pay for placement on the Windows desktop. They are not dropping coins in the collection plate at The Cathedral of Saint Torvalds.
Google is known to end-users as a search engine. Google distributes a handful of associated tray apps and other small utilities
But Google is not a brand name in software. Google is not a brand name in hardware, Google is not a brand name in retail. It is not Microsoft, it is not Dell, and it is not Walmart.
In competing directly with these behemoths you can burn through a lot of money very quickly. iTunes for Windows is the model that best works for Google.
To prove that the middle class is tone-deaf to the siren call of Linux, you need only point to the rapid decline in OEM Linux offerings from Walmart.com. Down to four boxes, at last count.
If that comes to pass I (and many other myth users) will just ignore/bypass/break these laws
not so easy to do when rights management is embedded in the hardware: no certified motherboard or HD decoder, no digital tv.
I will just chuck my TV to the curb
but you aren't the market. the family with the plasma tv is the market. replay of the superbowl can wait until tomorrow. pay per view is still cheaper than the megaplex.
it's a well-established legal theory, known as "contributory negligence".
There is a profound difference in theory and consequence between a felony charge and an action in tort. "Contributory negligence" simply has no place in criminal law.
You mean like what Disney does when they rip-off the public domain and create their own versions of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Pinocchio, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Alice in Wonderland, and The Jungle Book??
You could fill out a substantial portion of your video collection with historically significant independent productions based on these old stories. The young Julie Andrews in Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, for example. Korda's technicolor Jungle Book. So why the obsession with Disney? The coldly practical answer is that the Disney versions remain marketable.
Thanks to KRUD we have a subscription based GNU/Linux distribution...
and with KRUD I still have my OS if I stop the service I just don't get any more updates.
I see we have a new candidate here for the worst acronym ever to emerge from the bowels of Linux and Open Source.
There is a reason why a younger generation of story-tellers like Brad Bird look to Disney, to Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnson, The Nine Old Men who took the art of animation where Iwerks could not go.
Add Exchange type calendaring and this could seriously hurt Outlook and Microsoft in general.
how many times have we heard this one before?
you think your boss wants Google to become the "one-stop" shopping center for corporate records under subpoena? e-mail, contact lists, schedules. it's a gold mine.
If Caniff had wanted to keep his creation, he should instead have started out for himself, and suffered years of uncertainty and poverty until he came up with his great character. Which he might never have done. But at least he could have kept the full rewards.
Milton Caniff was born in 1907. Terry and the Pirates first appeared in 1934, after a four year "apprenticeship" in the profession. Caniff brought cinematic story-telling and sophisticated artistic technique to the comic strip, his most famous creation, the enigmatic asian adventuress, the Dragon Lady.
$149? For the educational edition maybe... you have to be a teacher or student to get that.
Student-Teacher Office is available pretty much anywhere in the states for $125-$150. Retail boxed. No ID required. Installs on three PCs.
Add to this the resource-rich Office website and you have everything home users have come to expect from Microsoft. Geeks haven't a clue how remote they are from the mass consumer market.
after technology and bandwidth costs aren't prohibitive or a factor and the game engines have gotten as realistic as they can so there isn't anything left but to create game content, then perhaps it will be more mom and pop shops again
But where and how do mom and pop recruit and pay for the essential creative talent?
They will need artists to conceive, build and populate their world. They will need writers to bring that world to life. They will need designers who know how to translate stories into game-play.
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today stars are foisted, created, presented to the consuming public by fiat, not a great surprise
explain to me how this differs from (and is inferior to) a traditional patronage system in which an aristocratic elite gets to decide who performs in public at all.
Why not block ALL of *.gov, permanently? Perhaps with exceptions for certain scientific sites (e.g. nasa.gov, any "national laboratories", etc.)
You strip the Wikipedia of authority excluding contributions from sources in the federal government. This is, after all, an arena in which decisions are made which affect the entire country.
It also seems to me that the image of the company is what's going to detract attention from any serious accomplishments. It's kind of like Toys 'R' Us getting in to the nuclear power industry - nobody would really take it seriously, because of the brand name.
How many engineers got their start building Erector sets, which entered the american market in 1913? Erector had a realism and complexity that appealed more than Meccano. Our family owns a set which lets you build a model of the Parachute Drop from the 1939 New York World's Fair.
I have the quaint idea that a parent should review the content of any thing before they let their children have it if they are so concerned about said content.
How do you review content that isn't exposed to the player until someone outside the game exposes the hidden keys or codes that unlock it?
The problem with Hot Coffee is that the mini-game arguably went beyond even the M rating on the box. It certainly did undermine trust in the voluntary rating system.
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It's a question worth asking.
My father, still a hunter, didn't own or play with replica guns or gun toys at any age. That was the one line between reality and fantasy his father would never cross.
Ringworld was an amusing technical conceit. But not much of a story.
Google is in the advertising business.
Its clients pay for placement on the Windows desktop. They are not dropping coins in the collection plate at The Cathedral of Saint Torvalds.
Google is known to end-users as a search engine.
Google distributes a handful of associated tray apps and other small utilities
But Google is not a brand name in software. Google is not a brand name in hardware, Google is not a brand name in retail. It is not Microsoft, it is not Dell, and it is not Walmart.
In competing directly with these behemoths you can burn through a lot of money very quickly. iTunes for Windows is the model that best works for Google.
To prove that the middle class is tone-deaf to the siren call of Linux, you need only point to the rapid decline in OEM Linux offerings from Walmart.com. Down to four boxes, at last count.
There are places where cell phone chatter is inappropriate and unwanted. if not banned. Text messaging is quiet and private.
It is 2006 and win32 is 97% of the market for desktop apps like Picassa.
not so easy to do when rights management is embedded in the hardware: no certified motherboard or HD decoder, no digital tv.
I will just chuck my TV to the curb
but you aren't the market. the family with the plasma tv is the market. replay of the superbowl can wait until tomorrow. pay per view is still cheaper than the megaplex.
There is a profound difference in theory and consequence between a felony charge and an action in tort. "Contributory negligence" simply has no place in criminal law.
You could fill out a substantial portion of your video collection with historically significant independent productions based on these old stories. The young Julie Andrews in Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, for example. Korda's technicolor Jungle Book. So why the obsession with Disney? The coldly practical answer is that the Disney versions remain marketable.
I see we have a new candidate here for the worst acronym ever to emerge from the bowels of Linux and Open Source.
It's a video surveillance company. You work in the data center, you become Big Brother.
Linux at Walmart.com has slipped to four systems with specs so mediocre it scarcely seems worth the trouble to keep them in stock.
The future mass-market PC at retail will be the media oriented Vista or the Mac.
It makes you wonder who would get off their fat ass to create something new, if they had seventy-five years of Disney to rip off first.
Ub Iwerks was the superior technician, but Disney was hell-bent on taking animation beyond novelty acts like Flip The Frog. Fiddlesticks and the Colorful Mediocrity of Ub Iwerks
There is a reason why a younger generation of story-tellers like Brad Bird look to Disney, to Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnson, The Nine Old Men who took the art of animation where Iwerks could not go.
how many times have we heard this one before?
you think your boss wants Google to become the "one-stop" shopping center for corporate records under subpoena? e-mail, contact lists, schedules. it's a gold mine.
Milton Caniff was born in 1907. Terry and the Pirates first appeared in 1934, after a four year "apprenticeship" in the profession. Caniff brought cinematic story-telling and sophisticated artistic technique to the comic strip, his most famous creation, the enigmatic asian adventuress, the Dragon Lady.
Mac users upgrade within the Mac family, Windows users within the Windows family. In twenty years nothing has changed that equation.
Student-Teacher Office is available pretty much anywhere in the states for $125-$150. Retail boxed. No ID required. Installs on three PCs.
Add to this the resource-rich Office website and you have everything home users have come to expect from Microsoft. Geeks haven't a clue how remote they are from the mass consumer market.
But where and how do mom and pop recruit and pay for the essential creative talent? They will need artists to conceive, build and populate their world. They will need writers to bring that world to life. They will need designers who know how to translate stories into game-play.
explain to me how this differs from (and is inferior to) a traditional patronage system in which an aristocratic elite gets to decide who performs in public at all.
You strip the Wikipedia of authority excluding contributions from sources in the federal government. This is, after all, an arena in which decisions are made which affect the entire country.
How many engineers got their start building Erector sets, which entered the american market in 1913? Erector had a realism and complexity that appealed more than Meccano. Our family owns a set which lets you build a model of the Parachute Drop from the 1939 New York World's Fair.
slightly off topic, perhaps, but I've yet to see a Linux-themed add campaign in the mass consumer market.
The more interesting question is:
Do kids give a damn about the independent labels or DRM free muaic?
How do you review content that isn't exposed to the player until someone outside the game exposes the hidden keys or codes that unlock it?
The problem with Hot Coffee is that the mini-game arguably went beyond even the M rating on the box. It certainly did undermine trust in the voluntary rating system.
only if you define "recent" as "200 years ago."