Maybe...my fear is that game publishers use the ability to patch to do what they do with PC games...release completely nonworking crap hoping that they can fix it before it reaches customers.
The avatar stuff...I suspect it's aimed at the myspace set.
Here's an idea! They could put out a version of Linux that runs on the PS3. People could then write Linux apps and release them with any license they want!
Oh...wait...they already do that.
What they don't let you do is get full access to the graphics...but they let you do a hell of a lot more with the box than Microsoft lets you do with the XBox 360.
If you are backing up important data, having the disk go bad is only one issue. I always "duplicate the data"...one disc stays home, one goes to work. No other error correction scheme will work if my house burns down.
The job market for software people in 2001-2005 was little different from the job market in 1991-1995. What changed was that people entering the market during the boom thought the boom was normal.
I was part of interviews in 2004...trying to hire a software developer. A majority of "software developers" who applied couldn't write a goddamn recursive function in the language of their choice. 2001-2005 was not a "depression". It was the market returning to normal after a period where any warm body got three competing offers.
The trouble is not "sick animals". The trouble is that bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics as they are used. The more you use the antibiotics, the faster they develop resistance. This includes bacteria that doesn't currently make either cattle or people sick. Bacteria that can later become infectious, or pass the resistance to other bacteria that are dangerous.
How so? The shell is there. sudo is there. You can do anything on Ubuntu that you can do on any other Linux box. My home Ubuntu box is actually running on a compiled kernel to get my KVM switch working. At work, I develop software on an Ubuntu box.
While it is true that all the other things you mention are negatives of large scale meat eating (as opposed to the relatively low meat diet of our ancestors) this particular problem isn't an issue with meat eating per se. It is an issue with how today's agribusiness raises cattle.
The thing is that the use of antibiotics in cattle ranching isn't particularly about food safety. The danger isn't that the antibiotics get in food and hurt people. The danger is that the use of antibiotics gives bacteria time to evolve resistance so that the next time it infects people, the antibiotics don't work. As such, food testing makes no difference. Even if the resulting beef tested utterly free of antibiotics, this would still be a horrible thing.
Nope. Problem not solved. Vegetarians will also suffer if and when diseases become resistant to these antibiotics because of overuse in the cattle industry.
Antibiotics should be banned for agricultural uses. It's putting all of us at risk so that a few can make a bigger profit.
Last time I set foot in one of their stores, I got something or other, and then waited literally five minutes for an employee to deign to take my money. It was the worst customer service I've ever seen. Literally ten employees within sight and not one at a register. It was idiotic. Yet at this branch, this happened repeatedly. It was not uncommon to see employees everywhere but at registers as ten people waited for one person. Finally, someone at the service desk waves me over, and after their stupid card reader failed to read my card twice and he went to get a manager, I said "fuck it" and went and bought the damn thing at Circuit City.
No shit. Over the Christmas holidays, we let our four-year-old watch "Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer". Half way through, he looks at us and says "why does the movie keep stopping!?" He was confused, because he'd never encountered a commercial before. (We limit his TV and what he does watch is almost entirely personally vetted DVDs.)
There is no reason why a parent of a toddler cannot have complete control over everything that child sees on TV. It just takes will. We took our child out of his original day care because they were showing fucking Power Rangers to the kids.
I have a four year old. Here's what I notice about him: He's always under the care of a responsible adult and never has the opportunity to attempt to drive a car.
I hear that argument a lot, but I never see the people making it explain why developers didn't abandon the original XBOX for the PS2 given the relative sales of those two boxes.
You also need to explain why "Sony Online Entertainment" would stop making PS3 exclusives.
Great. You hate it when merchants take extra steps to make sure it's actually you using the card. It's people like you that discourage merchants (and visa/mastercard) from adding extra security that would help ensure that thieves can't swipe cards and go to town.
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You obviously don't live in San Francisco.
Ridiculous to who? Do you realize exactly how much money is being made on ring tones?
Maybe...my fear is that game publishers use the ability to patch to do what they do with PC games...release completely nonworking crap hoping that they can fix it before it reaches customers.
The avatar stuff...I suspect it's aimed at the myspace set.
Here's an idea! They could put out a version of Linux that runs on the PS3. People could then write Linux apps and release them with any license they want!
Oh...wait...they already do that.
What they don't let you do is get full access to the graphics...but they let you do a hell of a lot more with the box than Microsoft lets you do with the XBox 360.
If you are backing up important data, having the disk go bad is only one issue. I always "duplicate the data"...one disc stays home, one goes to work. No other error correction scheme will work if my house burns down.
The job market for software people in 2001-2005 was little different from the job market in 1991-1995. What changed was that people entering the market during the boom thought the boom was normal.
I was part of interviews in 2004...trying to hire a software developer. A majority of "software developers" who applied couldn't write a goddamn recursive function in the language of their choice. 2001-2005 was not a "depression". It was the market returning to normal after a period where any warm body got three competing offers.
I'd rather pay $1 for safety than argue about "fairness", and be not safe.
What is much more likely than a life-ending event, is an asteroid that would take out a city. Is it worth $1 billion to potentially save a city?
Because we don't know whether it will hit the US, or some other part of the world, until it is far too late to do anything about it.
Arguing about whose responsibility it is a good way for nothing to get done.
That's not a fix.
The trouble is not "sick animals". The trouble is that bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics as they are used. The more you use the antibiotics, the faster they develop resistance. This includes bacteria that doesn't currently make either cattle or people sick. Bacteria that can later become infectious, or pass the resistance to other bacteria that are dangerous.
How so? The shell is there. sudo is there. You can do anything on Ubuntu that you can do on any other Linux box. My home Ubuntu box is actually running on a compiled kernel to get my KVM switch working. At work, I develop software on an Ubuntu box.
While it is true that all the other things you mention are negatives of large scale meat eating (as opposed to the relatively low meat diet of our ancestors) this particular problem isn't an issue with meat eating per se. It is an issue with how today's agribusiness raises cattle.
That must be for some definition of "humor" of which I was previously unaware.
The thing is that the use of antibiotics in cattle ranching isn't particularly about food safety. The danger isn't that the antibiotics get in food and hurt people. The danger is that the use of antibiotics gives bacteria time to evolve resistance so that the next time it infects people, the antibiotics don't work. As such, food testing makes no difference. Even if the resulting beef tested utterly free of antibiotics, this would still be a horrible thing.
Antibiotics should be banned for agricultural uses. It's putting all of us at risk so that a few can make a bigger profit.
Last time I set foot in one of their stores, I got something or other, and then waited literally five minutes for an employee to deign to take my money. It was the worst customer service I've ever seen. Literally ten employees within sight and not one at a register. It was idiotic. Yet at this branch, this happened repeatedly. It was not uncommon to see employees everywhere but at registers as ten people waited for one person. Finally, someone at the service desk waves me over, and after their stupid card reader failed to read my card twice and he went to get a manager, I said "fuck it" and went and bought the damn thing at Circuit City.
The game sure as hell better last more than five hours!
Or it could be that the big studios required Apple to put DRM on all songs regardless to avoid having to compete with DRM-free music.
I'd be shocked if any of those candidates actually knows what their site runs on.
There is no reason why a parent of a toddler cannot have complete control over everything that child sees on TV. It just takes will. We took our child out of his original day care because they were showing fucking Power Rangers to the kids.
I have a four year old. Here's what I notice about him: He's always under the care of a responsible adult and never has the opportunity to attempt to drive a car.
Because slashdot "editors" rarely read links submitted and aren't nearly as technical as they'd have you believe.
"It'll cost a lot of money to re-encode our entire catalog in MP3 format. We want our customers to pay that."
I hear that argument a lot, but I never see the people making it explain why developers didn't abandon the original XBOX for the PS2 given the relative sales of those two boxes.
You also need to explain why "Sony Online Entertainment" would stop making PS3 exclusives.
Great. You hate it when merchants take extra steps to make sure it's actually you using the card. It's people like you that discourage merchants (and visa/mastercard) from adding extra security that would help ensure that thieves can't swipe cards and go to town.