Yeah, I was confused why I was modded insightful as well. I was more than anything trying to be funny, not a troll or deeply insightful as some have thought. You know with a subject of "Gaaah!! Go, go fist of death!" I thought people would get it. maybe I needed a Oh well. You must admit that "monitored privacy" is a bit of an oxymoron.
Yes, undoubtedly it is. I also copy and paste often from pages. I use the best feature available on a mac.. expose to easily switch back and forth between the unnecessary programs on my macbook. Granted, if I had a larger screen or dual screen, I might not prefer having a full screen browser. As always YMMV.
No, I do not want the government monitoring my privacy. That is the exact opposite of privacy. lack of necessary logic resulting in core dump in 5... 4.. 3.. 2.. 1 Oh wait this is slashdot, logic not requited. End Sequence.
Although I am a switcher, I really can't stand safari on my mac. The whole non automatic resizing does it to me. I want my browser to be full screen, or at least resize itself when the page size changes. Plus, I *need* adblock and noscript.
I must be an insensitive clod, as I have no idea what you are suggesting. Do the Amish consider US citizens English? or was there an ww2 elite special operations force comprised of the Amish? If the latter, please provide more information as to their operational procedures. My imagination is not sufficient to attempt to understand what an Elite Amish Corps would look like, or how they would function.
Thats sort of funny. While I thought the Welsh and the Scottish were English, I didn't think any one considered the United states citizens, English. Well, maybe the anti-immigration folks.
Well, hes actually trying, in this case, to get the manufacturers of video games to abide by their own rating systems. Every now and then congress threatens to take over the job of rating video games, movies, or music if the industries don't do a better job. I think the only defense Microsoft would have would be to remove the mature content warning altogether. Either they think it the rating on the box isn't accurate, doesn't matter, or they simply don't care. Its like Al Gore being a big environmentalist, but spending thousands on electricity every month.
There is a limit to which any corporation will care about enforcing a label that hurts its own sales.
or perhaps one could also argue that Microsoft job is only to inform others to make their own minds. Radical concept. I guess they could have ads saying that Halo contains mature content.
Seeing as we also have problems keeping guns, tobbaco, drugs,alcohol out of the hands of minors. It shouldn't really come to anyones suprise that we also have problems with video games. In light of that one would have to question the sanity of anyone actually spending any time on the problem.
Sorry fro replying to my own post. I just realized that my post had nothing to do with movies. Oh well. its a good title anyways. It will most likey be modded down because someone will think I'm dissing fantasy and or firefly.
I don't think it has anything to do with drama, or abstraction. It just comes down to the fact that for many people including myself, we *don't* like pretending to be dwarfs, fairies, wizards,warlocks, or even giants. People have their own definition of fun, and thats okay. Just because its not fantasy doesn't mean its not "creative" or "not boring". Believe it or not, their is a reason why Seinfeld and not firefly is the greatest tv show ever, and it has nothing to do with how "boring" one is or how much or more "creative" one is.
It as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened. The entire splashdot community dissapeared.
I'd venture to guess most people just have windows + office. So it might cut into the new office flavor. What other software would your typical consumer buy? Games? Direct x 10 is going to force gamers to buy Vista.
I'm not really trying to argue as I'm more curious.
No, your right it never really died, it was just zombie-fied. Its fun to watch pillage the countryside and devour human brains, but its not the sharpest bulb in the drawer.
I object to guitar hero, because it makes something that is fun for me ( playing the guitar) into something that is not fun (pressing big bright shiny buttons on a toy guitar).
Id rather play baseball or race a real car than the video equivalents. However, playing a baseball game is easier to arrange on short notice than calling up 17 other people to play baseball with me. I actually *don't* like racing games. FPS are fun, but I'd rather play laser tag.
but GH doesn't make anything playing a guitar easier or more enjoyable, and its not more convenient. It limits my creativity, rather than expanding it.
but, to each their own. If you like it, knock yourself out.
I imagine thats a part of the problem, I really don't know what percentage of the problem is due to bad cooperate software. I've seen some terrible stuff as well. It sounds strange now, but I'm guessing that may have actually been the fastest( or at least the cheapest) way to do it back when it was done. Microsoft has produced too many ways of doing everything, and doesn't always do a good job maintaining computability for all of those ways.
I've seen something similar for the pc. Don't know if I could find it via google. it would increase the difficulty level 100%, but it would finally remove my objection to the game.
I don't know if we should be accepting the advice of someone who bought in to pokemon and beanie tabbies. I think it might be a better idea to go with the billionaire that doesn't invest in stuffed animals.
O've never really understood the problem with the "nightmarish language" that is php. sure, I've programed in c, python, perl, pascal, delphi,Java, and yes php. They're all sort of messed up in their own ways. From having taught english, I can tell you its very messed up. part of being a programmer is thinking in new, creative, and yes nightmarish ways. Like putting Linux on a toaster, or making translating the Bible into Klingon. I would argue that PHP is the eqiuvalient of Linux on a toaster. The fact that it even works is amazing, and the fact that you cna use it for complex things is even more amazing.
Their framework has terrible speed on their own language.
care to site benchmarks? I saw one that had zend framework doing horribly as well. They were using version 0.4 beta. They're up to.92 beta now. From what I've heard on the news groups its doing better. Take a look at the language shoot out for comparison. Its still much faster than ruby.
I believe the questions you ask affect the outcome. Just like asking an electron if its spin is up or down, forces it to choose one or the other. people's actions can change as well based upon your expectations of them. You give a kid a choice, do you want to clean your room, or play with fireworks and gasoline? you're giving a choice between good and evil. If you ask would you like to clean your room, or help me mow the lawn you're giving them a choice between two goods.
Granted that isn't the best example. And yes this theory of psycology probaly predates any understanding of quantum physics. but as some one who likes quantam mechanicn wierdness, i just like thinking of it that way
Also, I think of things in terms of Quantum electro dynamics. In that, the path you choose is determined by a sum over time of all of the probabilities of every possible path.
No, I would say there are only good people. Sometimes they make bad decisions, but at their core they always have the capacity to do good things. You might say I'm an optimist, but really I'm just a strong believer in quantum mechanics. If you measure for goodness, you might just influence the outcome of the result.
I nominate you for the "best replacement of a bad analogy with a good one, but with different items" award. It seems you were not eligible for the "best replacement of a bad analogy with a good one." award due to substituting a bb gun for the knife used in the original analogy. As such, it will be presented to you in the pre-ceremony along with the technological awards and will only be aired in a montage during the actual awards ceremony broadcast.
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Yeah, I was confused why I was modded insightful as well. I was more than anything trying to be funny, not a troll or deeply insightful as some have thought. You know with a subject of "Gaaah!! Go, go fist of death!" I thought people would get it. maybe I needed a Oh well. You must admit that "monitored privacy" is a bit of an oxymoron.
Yes, undoubtedly it is. I also copy and paste often from pages. I use the best feature available on a mac .. expose to easily switch back and forth between the unnecessary programs on my macbook. Granted, if I had a larger screen or dual screen, I might not prefer having a full screen browser. As always YMMV.
No, I do not want the government monitoring my privacy. That is the exact opposite of privacy. lack of necessary logic resulting in core dump in 5... 4 .. 3.. 2 .. 1 Oh wait this is slashdot, logic not requited. End Sequence.
Although I am a switcher, I really can't stand safari on my mac. The whole non automatic resizing does it to me. I want my browser to be full screen, or at least resize itself when the page size changes. Plus, I *need* adblock and noscript.
Company says it is working for its customers. More at 11.
I must be an insensitive clod, as I have no idea what you are suggesting. Do the Amish consider US citizens English? or was there an ww2 elite special operations force comprised of the Amish? If the latter, please provide more information as to their operational procedures. My imagination is not sufficient to attempt to understand what an Elite Amish Corps would look like, or how they would function.
If it wasn't for the English you'd be Krauts
Thats sort of funny. While I thought the Welsh and the Scottish were English, I didn't think any one considered the United states citizens, English. Well, maybe the anti-immigration folks.
Well, hes actually trying, in this case, to get the manufacturers of video games to abide by their own rating systems. Every now and then congress threatens to take over the job of rating video games, movies, or music if the industries don't do a better job. I think the only defense Microsoft would have would be to remove the mature content warning altogether. Either they think it the rating on the box isn't accurate, doesn't matter, or they simply don't care. Its like Al Gore being a big environmentalist, but spending thousands on electricity every month.
There is a limit to which any corporation will care about enforcing a label that hurts its own sales.
or perhaps one could also argue that Microsoft job is only to inform others to make their own minds. Radical concept. I guess they could have ads saying that Halo contains mature content.
Seeing as we also have problems keeping guns, tobbaco, drugs,alcohol out of the hands of minors. It shouldn't really come to anyones suprise that we also have problems with video games. In light of that one would have to question the sanity of anyone actually spending any time on the problem.
Sorry fro replying to my own post. I just realized that my post had nothing to do with movies. Oh well. its a good title anyways. It will most likey be modded down because someone will think I'm dissing fantasy and or firefly.
I don't think it has anything to do with drama, or abstraction. It just comes down to the fact that for many people including myself, we *don't* like pretending to be dwarfs, fairies, wizards,warlocks, or even giants. People have their own definition of fun, and thats okay. Just because its not fantasy doesn't mean its not "creative" or "not boring". Believe it or not, their is a reason why Seinfeld and not firefly is the greatest tv show ever, and it has nothing to do with how "boring" one is or how much or more "creative" one is.
It as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened. The entire splashdot community dissapeared.
I'd venture to guess most people just have windows + office. So it might cut into the new office flavor. What other software would your typical consumer buy? Games? Direct x 10 is going to force gamers to buy Vista.
I'm not really trying to argue as I'm more curious.
No, your right it never really died, it was just zombie-fied. Its fun to watch pillage the countryside and devour human brains, but its not the sharpest bulb in the drawer.
Yeah, my memmories are from the NES version. I never realized that there was a better c64 version. I got into c64 just as it was dying ;(
I object to guitar hero, because it makes something that is fun for me ( playing the guitar) into something that is not fun (pressing big bright shiny buttons on a toy guitar).
Id rather play baseball or race a real car than the video equivalents. However, playing a baseball game is easier to arrange on short notice than calling up 17 other people to play baseball with me. I actually *don't* like racing games. FPS are fun, but I'd rather play laser tag.
but GH doesn't make anything playing a guitar easier or more enjoyable, and its not more convenient. It limits my creativity, rather than expanding it.
but, to each their own. If you like it, knock yourself out.
I imagine thats a part of the problem, I really don't know what percentage of the problem is due to bad cooperate software. I've seen some terrible stuff as well. It sounds strange now, but I'm guessing that may have actually been the fastest( or at least the cheapest) way to do it back when it was done. Microsoft has produced too many ways of doing everything, and doesn't always do a good job maintaining computability for all of those ways.
I've seen something similar for the pc. Don't know if I could find it via google. it would increase the difficulty level 100%, but it would finally remove my objection to the game.
I don't know if we should be accepting the advice of someone who bought in to pokemon and beanie tabbies. I think it might be a better idea to go with the billionaire that doesn't invest in stuffed animals.
O've never really understood the problem with the "nightmarish language" that is php. sure, I've programed in c, python, perl, pascal, delphi,Java, and yes php. They're all sort of messed up in their own ways. From having taught english, I can tell you its very messed up. part of being a programmer is thinking in new, creative, and yes nightmarish ways. Like putting Linux on a toaster, or making translating the Bible into Klingon. I would argue that PHP is the eqiuvalient of Linux on a toaster. The fact that it even works is amazing, and the fact that you cna use it for complex things is even more amazing.
Stupidity is neither the exclusive domain of a single racial, social,political or economic class.
in the immortal words, of Mr Forest Gump. "Stupid is as Stupid Does".
Their framework has terrible speed on their own language.
.92 beta now. From what I've heard on the news groups its doing better. Take a look at the language shoot out for comparison. Its still much faster than ruby.
care to site benchmarks? I saw one that had zend framework doing horribly as well. They were using version 0.4 beta. They're up to
I believe the questions you ask affect the outcome. Just like asking an electron if its spin is up or down, forces it to choose one or the other. people's actions can change as well based upon your expectations of them. You give a kid a choice, do you want to clean your room, or play with fireworks and gasoline? you're giving a choice between good and evil. If you ask would you like to clean your room, or help me mow the lawn you're giving them a choice between two goods.
Granted that isn't the best example. And yes this theory of psycology probaly predates any understanding of quantum physics. but as some one who likes quantam mechanicn wierdness, i just like thinking of it that way
Also, I think of things in terms of Quantum electro dynamics. In that, the path you choose is determined by a sum over time of all of the probabilities of every possible path.
No, I would say there are only good people. Sometimes they make bad decisions, but at their core they always have the capacity to do good things. You might say I'm an optimist, but really I'm just a strong believer in quantum mechanics. If you measure for goodness, you might just influence the outcome of the result.
Right, but not in the legal world.
I nominate you for the "best replacement of a bad analogy with a good one, but with different items" award. It seems you were not eligible for the "best replacement of a bad analogy with a good one." award due to substituting a bb gun for the knife used in the original analogy. As such, it will be presented to you in the pre-ceremony along with the technological awards and will only be aired in a montage during the actual awards ceremony broadcast.