Personally I think that the ESA/ESRB should sue BestBuy/any other store that ignores the rating system putin place because really that's the core problem with the whole system.
Suing a company for doing something you don't like, that has no basis in law, is just asking for a harassment counter-suit.
EB, BestBuy, etc. don't even bother to enforce the ratings and while it's nice to blame the parents, by not enforcing it in the stores it makes it difficult for a parent to effectively managed their child's access. I'm not suggesting the government enforce this but the ESA themselves. Really I doubt this would even be half the issue it is if they enforced their own rating system well enough.
I've said it numerous times before, the ESA should send secret underaged shoppers to specific locations and if a location sells to them then you cut off that store's supply of M rated games for X amount of time. And that X increases with the number of offenses.
Unfortunately while the corporate bobble heads all agree that it should be enforced and put policies in place they still turn a blind eye to the managers and clerks on the floor selling it to anyone who walks through the door to keep making their quotas, and the ESA doesn't seem to really care either since everyone is making more money. If they don't take charge and start managing themselves then SOMEONE will eventually step in and manage it for them... it's unfortunate but really the software companies are doing it to themselves.
That's the problem. Corporate America only cares about one thing: money. They pay lip service to everything not mandated by law, unless they think it's something that they will lose customers over.
Okay try this one on for size. Make a hard link of a file. Now edit one of the hardlinks and save it (not save-as, just save). Now which one is the copy? From the file systems POV the edited one will be a copy. But from the users point of view it might be the original, especially if they had no way of knowing the hard link had been made.
From the file system's POV, both are just a name pointing to one disk location. In fact, you even said that in the following paragraph:
For example, since I don't have Time Machine yet I currently snapshot my home directory by making a image of it populated by hardlinks. this happens in the background so I don't even know it is happening. Nor do the other users on the computer. You can't really say which is the link since it's a hard link not a softlink or alias. A hard link is an identical file system entry as the original and should be indistinguishable. The save will sever the link.
Any sane API for tracking file changes would use the inode number rather than the file path. inodes are, by definition, unique to a file. Heck, they even keep count of how many hard links point to a file (and are deleted when that hits 0).
Is the monitor you have plugged into your Mac Mini smaller than your clock radio, too?
I have a few of those little 9" VGA 'Point of Sale' monitors on the test bench that I use occasionally to set up or test a system, but I sure wouldn't want to stare at one for hours a day...
This is a discussion of the footprint of the Mac Mini vs. the footprint of the iMac. The iMac is built-in to a flat panel monitor. Given the high availability of flat panel monitors, it's assumed that's what you'd get for your Mac Mini.
Apple will even sell you one with the Mac Mini (scroll down to "Apple Displays").
Consider that Microsoft had to convince people over several versions of windows to use it over DOS applications.
To be honest, for several versions, Windows had little to offer over DOS.
When Windows 95 came out and started offering things that DOS didn't (pre-emptive multitasking, unified APIs for hardware, etc...) things finally started picking up.
The main page has both a search box and Flash navigation for selecting a year, month, and day. Keep in mind that the Daily Show only has new episodes 4 days a week.
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Bills are apparently numbered for each session of Congress.
The 109th Congress's HR1201 AKA "Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act of 2005," a bill to alter the Federal Trade Commission Act to punish companies that mislabel copy-protected CDs, got stuck in committee.
The 110th Congress's HR1201 AKA "Freedom And Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 2007," a bill to alter Copyright Law to add fair use exemptions, is new.
Adding to the confusion, both were proposed by Rick Boucher.
Does it run threads? No? Don't call us, we'll call you.
Last time I checked (which was like 10 years ago), .shtml stood for Server Side Includes (SSI) HTML, which are definitely not static.
.htmls?
Wouldn't it have been better to choose an extension/term not already used, such as
Suing a company for doing something you don't like, that has no basis in law, is just asking for a harassment counter-suit.
That's the problem. Corporate America only cares about one thing: money. They pay lip service to everything not mandated by law, unless they think it's something that they will lose customers over.
Class Action lawsuit?
Given that Half-life 1 predates Steam, I certainly hope you'd be able to play it without being connected to the Internet.
Last time I checked, laws that tried to limit who could purchase games based on their ESRB rating were being tossed out left and right.
Certainly there has to be a law against something before a company can be sued for breaking said law...
From the file system's POV, both are just a name pointing to one disk location. In fact, you even said that in the following paragraph:
Any sane API for tracking file changes would use the inode number rather than the file path. inodes are, by definition, unique to a file. Heck, they even keep count of how many hard links point to a file (and are deleted when that hits 0).
"It's Schadenfreude. Making me feel glad that I'm not you!" -- "Gary Coleman", Avenue Q
Since they're done with Apple, will they go after Orange next?
Yes, I know I'm comparing Apples to Oranges...
I don't know about EQ1, but EQ2 is releasing it's fourth expansion just in time for its third anniversary... so an expansion every 9 months or so.
IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses. Just a reminder, in case you thought 64-bit user ids were ridiculous...
...and other peripherals such as keyboard, mouse, speakers...
Actually, I was trying to imply that the Mac Mini is small enough to stack on top of something else, so you only have to worry about the monitor.
This is a discussion of the footprint of the Mac Mini vs. the footprint of the iMac. The iMac is built-in to a flat panel monitor. Given the high availability of flat panel monitors, it's assumed that's what you'd get for your Mac Mini.
Apple will even sell you one with the Mac Mini (scroll down to "Apple Displays").
Sure it is... it just doesn't stand for Macintosh.
(Media Access Control? I forget. Ask one of the networking people.)
Any particular reason that you skipped Feisty?
Given that the Mac Mini is smaller than the clock radio or DVD+R spindle on my desk at home, I'm not sure where you're going with this...
To be honest, for several versions, Windows had little to offer over DOS.
When Windows 95 came out and started offering things that DOS didn't (pre-emptive multitasking, unified APIs for hardware, etc...) things finally started picking up.
The main page has both a search box and Flash navigation for selecting a year, month, and day. Keep in mind that the Daily Show only has new episodes 4 days a week.
That's OK... the last time I tried using their site with Firefox on Windows, it didn't work with that either despite claiming to.
Are you suggesting that Ten Steven's series of tubes isn't going to be mocked for all eternity?
Make sure you watch the next video, too... the Play button at the end of the video plays the next video.
PDF is basically universally supported... for reading.
If you need to exchange documents with someone that needs to edit them, PDF is not an option.
Hey, you just gave me a great idea. I'll use this return address:
G.W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, D.C. 20500
They'll never realize it's fake!
er... according to the article. Freudian slip. :P