The negative press the IOC would receive over it, especially if the medalist broke a world record, would probably be enough for them to fall over themselves trying to recount their ruling.
Intriguing. You care so little, yet you post flames commanding the type of content that should be allowed. You care so little, yet you post three times in the span of an hour and 5 minutes. You care so little, yet you continue to read and reply on Slashdot instead of spending your time doing something you care more about.
One more thing, not having an account makes the post more hypocritical, not less.
Posting a flame regarding posts that contain self-awareness of the moderation system as an anonymous coward is hipocrisy. If you weren't afraid of being moderated for it, you'd have logged in to post it.
Alright, I will probably be modded down for this, but I still find it interesting as it validates something that I said about 2-3 years ago. Carmack stated on Icons:Doom that Doom was being developed with the Xbox in mind. They commented about having known before hand what the specifications and capabilities of the machine would be.
We've seen the poor ports, and simpler interfaces, and now there is proof that even the best developers are curtailing themselves in order to keep things in line with the lowest common denominator. While this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it could sign the end of some mainstream PC style games. In particular, I have never truly enjoyed the sloppy, slow controls of FPS on consoles, nor have I ever enjoyed playing an rts on a console.
Hopefully, if such a trend does occur, there will be a new movement of indies to come out and fill the void that could be created.
There are definite problems to overcome. The initial outlay of capital expenditure to create and maintain those robots will greatly outweigh the cost of labour. This means that for the first few years until the use of robots becomes economically efficient that there will be a large rate of unemployment and no benifit to the consumer.
Even when the potential benefit to the consumer exists, it doesn't mean that giant corporations are going to leave their profit margins the same for the sake of lowering the cost of their product to the consumer.
Why do that when they can show growth and increased profit margins to their shareholders?
You can never leave out the human factor, whether it is driven by politics or economics, or plain human emotion. When an OPEC nation finds another trillion barrels worth of oil in the ground, do the prices go down? No. They cap it and claim a shortage and artificially inflate the prices of crude.
Why would anyone have to smuggle in a WMD to use against us? Aren't most of the world's weapons of mass destruction already here?
Nuclear weapons? yes
Chemical, or biological/environmental? doubtful
It also should be noted that nuclear weapons sites are the likely most heavily defended areas on the planet. They had a spcial on tlc a few months back detailing the amount of security procedures and redundancy (both human and equipment) that go into keeping those sites safe.
Phillips isn't on the side of the consumers. They are on their own side. It is in their best interests to protect the standard as vigorously as they can to prevent other companies from getting a foothold on copy resistant technologies. They were merely positioning themselves so that when they release their own, they will have the best starting point they can. They were likely even in the process of creating their own works when other companies started releasing their own versions that broke the current standard.
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The negative press the IOC would receive over it, especially if the medalist broke a world record, would probably be enough for them to fall over themselves trying to recount their ruling.
Intriguing. You care so little, yet you post flames commanding the type of content that should be allowed. You care so little, yet you post three times in the span of an hour and 5 minutes. You care so little, yet you continue to read and reply on Slashdot instead of spending your time doing something you care more about. One more thing, not having an account makes the post more hypocritical, not less.
Posting a flame regarding posts that contain self-awareness of the moderation system as an anonymous coward is hipocrisy. If you weren't afraid of being moderated for it, you'd have logged in to post it.
I might have taken that well thought out post to heart if it weren't filled with such hypocrisy Mr Anonymous Coward...
Alright, I will probably be modded down for this, but I still find it interesting as it validates something that I said about 2-3 years ago. Carmack stated on Icons:Doom that Doom was being developed with the Xbox in mind. They commented about having known before hand what the specifications and capabilities of the machine would be. We've seen the poor ports, and simpler interfaces, and now there is proof that even the best developers are curtailing themselves in order to keep things in line with the lowest common denominator. While this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it could sign the end of some mainstream PC style games. In particular, I have never truly enjoyed the sloppy, slow controls of FPS on consoles, nor have I ever enjoyed playing an rts on a console. Hopefully, if such a trend does occur, there will be a new movement of indies to come out and fill the void that could be created.
There are definite problems to overcome. The initial outlay of capital expenditure to create and maintain those robots will greatly outweigh the cost of labour. This means that for the first few years until the use of robots becomes economically efficient that there will be a large rate of unemployment and no benifit to the consumer.
Even when the potential benefit to the consumer exists, it doesn't mean that giant corporations are going to leave their profit margins the same for the sake of lowering the cost of their product to the consumer.
Why do that when they can show growth and increased profit margins to their shareholders?
You can never leave out the human factor, whether it is driven by politics or economics, or plain human emotion. When an OPEC nation finds another trillion barrels worth of oil in the ground, do the prices go down? No. They cap it and claim a shortage and artificially inflate the prices of crude.
I also almost forgot about all the ms sites that were defaced by code red. You can get a list of them off attrition.org if you are so inclined.
I'm surprised no one remembers... http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:_8wS23gFVycC:w ww.xent.com/sept99/0593.html+microsoft+defacement& hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Why would anyone have to smuggle in a WMD to use against us? Aren't most of the world's weapons of mass destruction already here? Nuclear weapons? yes Chemical, or biological/environmental? doubtful It also should be noted that nuclear weapons sites are the likely most heavily defended areas on the planet. They had a spcial on tlc a few months back detailing the amount of security procedures and redundancy (both human and equipment) that go into keeping those sites safe.
I am forgetful, it keeps playing the same news clips from cnn every two or three days... (sound familiar?)
Phillips isn't on the side of the consumers. They are on their own side. It is in their best interests to protect the standard as vigorously as they can to prevent other companies from getting a foothold on copy resistant technologies. They were merely positioning themselves so that when they release their own, they will have the best starting point they can. They were likely even in the process of creating their own works when other companies started releasing their own versions that broke the current standard.