Personally, I think Babylon 5 would make for a far more compelling MMOG than Star Trek would. Star Trek's sense of conflict was always generated by large-scale disagreements which disturbed a utopian balance - in essence, there were a few major characters (Federation, Romulans, Cardassians...) duking it out. But B5 brought that sense of conflict down to a personal level, where individuals had conflict with one another because they lived in an imperfect society - one wrapped up in a spinning tin can, to boot.
You could *have* space combat, if you wanted. But you wouldn't *need* space combat in B5 - there's enough potential for plot material right there on the station. Star Trek would be hard-pressed to do the same, since generally everybody on board any ship or space station was already on the same side.
Generally a T-bone (side impact) collision is deadly because the vehicle is not designed for nearly as much protection for the occupants for such collisions. Seat belts, most airbags, and crumple zones are all designed primarily to protect against collisions with the front of the vehicle. In a side impact collision, however, the occupants are sitting much closer to the thing that kills them (the doors and side supports of the car).
The collision being talked about in the article, on the other hand, was a head-on collision, which is deadly because the effective speed of collision is roughly the sum of the speeds of each vehicle (in this case, about 110 MPH). The solar car was also likely not designed with the same safety features in mind (such as crumple zones). Because of the difference in mass, the momentum transfer was also much more severe to the solar car.
You also no longer define the type of formelement (radiobutton, selectboxes,...) the browsing tool chooses the most apropriate system.
As much as this is the Right Thing To Do, it isn't going to satisfy people who try to micromanage what their web pages look like. These are the same people who put caveats on their sites like "This Site Requires the Shockwave Flash Plugin", and then use a Flash widget to perform basic site navigation, but then don't provide a non-Flash way to use the site, all for the sake of dictating exactly how the site will look.
If you hate somebody enough, you can find reasons to object to anything they do or don't do.
This also happens when you are in political opposition to a person and could stand to benefit personally from their ouster, even if you don't hate them (or even their views on the issues) at all.
None of those statements (even if incontrovertibly true) speak to the issue of whether having webcams in jails is a good/bad thing. I could just as easily say that the 9th Circuit has made numerous rulings that were later overturned by the Supreme Court, and leave the inference to the reader that this ruling is also crap because of the 9th's past record.
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Don't they take a mug shot of you during booking? And we've seen those turn up online frequently for celebs, so are they a matter of public record?
FDR and Truman were wartime presidents during the biggest international conflict in which the US has ever been involved. The sheer vastness of the technological improvements brought about by the war were in large part responsible for economic strength at that time.
I guess I'm not sure what the difference is between an average Firefox user and a "power user" of the web, then. If there are features that Opera has that you simply can't get in Firefox/Mozilla, you'd do your crusade a service by posting what they are.
Well, you're also faced with the ridiculous dimension of the system (we probably don't even know what all the important dimensions are), as well as the fact that the only system you have available for study is in situ, destroying any meaningful chance of examining the phase space because of the ridiculously large perturbations introduced from the outside every day.
In a relatively low-dimensional nonlinear system, characterization of the possible trajectories of the system might be possible (determining the bounds of the trajectory, the likelihood of following one manifold versus another). But we already know that the market is a horribly high-dimensional system which is perturbed almost all the time by forces external to the system. Probably the most you can hope for is an analysis leading to the same sorts of conclusions we already know, but which unfortunately are almost entirely dependent upon the perturbations of the system being very large compared to the natural trajectory of the system: market up/downswings based on good/bad news, trends of stocks versus bonds based on interest rates, etc.
People who say minors can't contract (in the US at least) simply don't know what the hell they're talking about.
That's a bit overdramatic. Saying whether or not minors can form contracts is a bit dependent on what you consider a "contract". Enforceability is probably what the seller is interested in, and since there is no guarantee that a contract with a minor can be enforced, it might as well be the same thing as minors being unable to enter contracts in the first place from the seller's perspective.
Also, I'm a minor, how can I legally "sign" a contract? I'm guessing plenty of kids play games. Hell, you could even get your 4 year old daughter to click through the EULA for you.
As Pinhead says, it is not hands that summon us - it is desire.
Anyway, as a minor, you can't legally sign a contract. You also can't establish an account with most (if not all) MMOG companies as a minor - if you did register the account as a minor, the company has every right to arbitrarily terminate the account for being created under the false pretense that you are a minor (making the contract invalid).
Dark Helmet: "What happened to then?" Col. Sanders: "We passed it." Dark Helmet: "When?" Col. Sanders: "Just now. We're at now, now." Dark Helmet: "Go back to then." Col. Sanders: "When?" Dark Helmet: "Now." Col. Sanders: "Now?" Dark Helmet: "Now!" Col. Sanders: "I can't." Dark Helmet: "Why?" Col. Sanders: "We missed it." Dark Helmet: "When?" Col. Sanders: "Just now." Dark Helmet: "When will then be now?" Col. Sanders: "Soon."
So instead of trying to prove that you're smarter than the average \.er by playing with semantics,
Actually, I think it's a fair comment. The question becomes somewhat ambiguous when the line between the World Wide Web (which is ostensibly what the article poster meant) and the Internet as a whole is blurred. Is the intention to redevelop IP and/or TCP/UDP to be better suited for the distribution of web content, to the possible detriment of other forms of Internet content? Or is the question what it appears to be to the uncareful reader, that being to arrive at a new application-level protocol suite for more efficient/effective distribution of web content without breaking the levels below?
Actually, prions are more like reality television. Normally, you have regular functioning TV shows being produced constantly by your big networks. However, the introduction of reality TV is dangerous because, due to its very low cost of production (you don't have to pay your actors anymore, since they are now "contestants"), it starts changing every other show on TV into a reality TV show. Over time, these reality shows aggregate throughout prime-time until eventually you have nothing but a hideous brain-destroying mass of crap.
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Personally, I think Babylon 5 would make for a far more compelling MMOG than Star Trek would. Star Trek's sense of conflict was always generated by large-scale disagreements which disturbed a utopian balance - in essence, there were a few major characters (Federation, Romulans, Cardassians...) duking it out. But B5 brought that sense of conflict down to a personal level, where individuals had conflict with one another because they lived in an imperfect society - one wrapped up in a spinning tin can, to boot.
You could *have* space combat, if you wanted. But you wouldn't *need* space combat in B5 - there's enough potential for plot material right there on the station. Star Trek would be hard-pressed to do the same, since generally everybody on board any ship or space station was already on the same side.
Blood makes noise.
A $38k tax deduction doesn't mean you get $38k back from the government. It does mean, however, that $38k of your money does not get taxed.
Generally a T-bone (side impact) collision is deadly because the vehicle is not designed for nearly as much protection for the occupants for such collisions. Seat belts, most airbags, and crumple zones are all designed primarily to protect against collisions with the front of the vehicle. In a side impact collision, however, the occupants are sitting much closer to the thing that kills them (the doors and side supports of the car).
The collision being talked about in the article, on the other hand, was a head-on collision, which is deadly because the effective speed of collision is roughly the sum of the speeds of each vehicle (in this case, about 110 MPH). The solar car was also likely not designed with the same safety features in mind (such as crumple zones). Because of the difference in mass, the momentum transfer was also much more severe to the solar car.
They could always just subcontract portions of the game to Troika.
You also no longer define the type of formelement (radiobutton, selectboxes,...) the browsing tool chooses the most apropriate system.
As much as this is the Right Thing To Do, it isn't going to satisfy people who try to micromanage what their web pages look like. These are the same people who put caveats on their sites like "This Site Requires the Shockwave Flash Plugin", and then use a Flash widget to perform basic site navigation, but then don't provide a non-Flash way to use the site, all for the sake of dictating exactly how the site will look.
If you hate somebody enough, you can find reasons to object to anything they do or don't do.
This also happens when you are in political opposition to a person and could stand to benefit personally from their ouster, even if you don't hate them (or even their views on the issues) at all.
None of those statements (even if incontrovertibly true) speak to the issue of whether having webcams in jails is a good/bad thing. I could just as easily say that the 9th Circuit has made numerous rulings that were later overturned by the Supreme Court, and leave the inference to the reader that this ruling is also crap because of the 9th's past record.
Don't they take a mug shot of you during booking? And we've seen those turn up online frequently for celebs, so are they a matter of public record?
Maybe not everyone on /. is on a moralistic crusade for their favorite technology.
I agree - there is a serious lesson to be learned here, not just by ZD/eWeek, but by any company with an online presence.
FDR and Truman were wartime presidents during the biggest international conflict in which the US has ever been involved. The sheer vastness of the technological improvements brought about by the war were in large part responsible for economic strength at that time.
Attendees recalled the initial fear and loathing the Beowulf project had to overcome.
/. joke of all time.
And now, "Beowulf" is a term synonymous with the most downmodded
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That depends on where you throw the stapler.
For a power user however Opera is the way to go.
I guess I'm not sure what the difference is between an average Firefox user and a "power user" of the web, then. If there are features that Opera has that you simply can't get in Firefox/Mozilla, you'd do your crusade a service by posting what they are.
Well, you're also faced with the ridiculous dimension of the system (we probably don't even know what all the important dimensions are), as well as the fact that the only system you have available for study is in situ, destroying any meaningful chance of examining the phase space because of the ridiculously large perturbations introduced from the outside every day.
Good post, btw.
In a relatively low-dimensional nonlinear system, characterization of the possible trajectories of the system might be possible (determining the bounds of the trajectory, the likelihood of following one manifold versus another). But we already know that the market is a horribly high-dimensional system which is perturbed almost all the time by forces external to the system. Probably the most you can hope for is an analysis leading to the same sorts of conclusions we already know, but which unfortunately are almost entirely dependent upon the perturbations of the system being very large compared to the natural trajectory of the system: market up/downswings based on good/bad news, trends of stocks versus bonds based on interest rates, etc.
In other words, the market is a chaotic system.
Matters are made worse by the fact that, unlike Americans, Australians are not protected by 'fair use' provisions.
What? Americans are protected by fair use provisions? I mean, I know we have them, but I didn't realize they still did anything.
People who say minors can't contract (in the US at least) simply don't know what the hell they're talking about.
That's a bit overdramatic. Saying whether or not minors can form contracts is a bit dependent on what you consider a "contract". Enforceability is probably what the seller is interested in, and since there is no guarantee that a contract with a minor can be enforced, it might as well be the same thing as minors being unable to enter contracts in the first place from the seller's perspective.
Did you know that gullible is not in the dictionary?
Evidently, only the apathetic are not gullible, as even the wildly suspicious will check the dictionary in an effort to debunk such claims.
Have there *been* any US lawsuits regarding virtual property yet? I'd like to read up on these, if there are any.
Also, I'm a minor, how can I legally "sign" a contract? I'm guessing plenty of kids play games. Hell, you could even get your 4 year old daughter to click through the EULA for you.
As Pinhead says, it is not hands that summon us - it is desire.
Anyway, as a minor, you can't legally sign a contract. You also can't establish an account with most (if not all) MMOG companies as a minor - if you did register the account as a minor, the company has every right to arbitrarily terminate the account for being created under the false pretense that you are a minor (making the contract invalid).
The future is here!
Dark Helmet: "What happened to then?"
Col. Sanders: "We passed it."
Dark Helmet: "When?"
Col. Sanders: "Just now. We're at now, now."
Dark Helmet: "Go back to then."
Col. Sanders: "When?"
Dark Helmet: "Now."
Col. Sanders: "Now?"
Dark Helmet: "Now!"
Col. Sanders: "I can't."
Dark Helmet: "Why?"
Col. Sanders: "We missed it."
Dark Helmet: "When?"
Col. Sanders: "Just now."
Dark Helmet: "When will then be now?"
Col. Sanders: "Soon."
So instead of trying to prove that you're smarter than the average \.er by playing with semantics,
Actually, I think it's a fair comment. The question becomes somewhat ambiguous when the line between the World Wide Web (which is ostensibly what the article poster meant) and the Internet as a whole is blurred. Is the intention to redevelop IP and/or TCP/UDP to be better suited for the distribution of web content, to the possible detriment of other forms of Internet content? Or is the question what it appears to be to the uncareful reader, that being to arrive at a new application-level protocol suite for more efficient/effective distribution of web content without breaking the levels below?
Actually, prions are more like reality television. Normally, you have regular functioning TV shows being produced constantly by your big networks. However, the introduction of reality TV is dangerous because, due to its very low cost of production (you don't have to pay your actors anymore, since they are now "contestants"), it starts changing every other show on TV into a reality TV show. Over time, these reality shows aggregate throughout prime-time until eventually you have nothing but a hideous brain-destroying mass of crap.