It is funny you mention the phrase "afterschool special" and relate an anecdote about a high school peer. She was 14 and he was 19. Guess what? The same thing can and does happen at any high school in the United States. Freshman date Seniors because Freshman girls like the clout dating an upperclassman holds and Seniors date Freshman because they are naive and easy. This was happening decades before MySpace. Now, when Suzy Q comes home smelling of beer, cigarettes and cheap sex, she can blame MySpace. Now, parents no longer have to blame themselves, they can blame a corporation. Now, instead of teaching a valuable life lesson to their child, they teach their child to blame others for their problems and sue people.
Are you really surprised when they have a 2-D fighter as number one? While Guilty Gear does have "beautiful animations," there is no connectivity with the environment. A static/semi animated background with automata bouncing around shooting sparkles from the hands, no matter how beautifully painted, is still a static/semi animated background.
There will only ever be one Big Blue. If IBM wants to solve a problem, IBM finds a way to solve the problem. When HP builds a computer can beat a Grand Master at chess, then they can be the Big P.
A game 10 years old that cost only a few megabyte of bandwidth to distrubute does not deserve a 4.50 price tag.
It deserves whatever price tag the market will bear. If the market is willing to pay $4.50 for a ROM, than Nintendo should charge that. That is one of the ways a capitalistic market works. Video games are luxury items. It is not food, it is not water and it is not air. It is a luxury. If $4.50 is too much for you, do not pay it. If it is too much for too many people, than they price will go down or the product will go away. I would rather pay the $4.50 than steal the ROM.
In a lot of developing countries like this a job at a major multinational serves to support not just the family but the entire extended family.
The stereotypical tech geek notwithstanding, I hope you are putting an Indian's extended family at higher importance than an American's family who has been outsourced because of sheer numbers. Of course, you probably do not consider what a son/daughter pays for a nursing home for his parents and in-laws. To hell with the sarcasm, I think it is disgusting to think Indians loosing their jobs and not being able to support their family is any more tragic than Americans in the same situation. (FYI, I am using American in place of United States Citizen because I enjoy the way it rolls off the tongue.)
No doubt some of these people even had to quit other jobs to join Apple, and can't return.
As opposed to having a job taken away because of cost of living difference? And then trying to find a job in a market glutted with workers whose jobs were similarly taken away? Something tells me the non-American (Indian in this case) worker will have a much better time of it.
...abusing foreign workers because management knew they could work them 14 hours a day and the people couldn't say or do anything about it....you have to work whatever overtime is demanded of you, for free.
It is called unpaid overtime and it happens when a program plan underestimates the labor reqired, the time required or the difficulty of the problem. It also happens when the spectre of outsourcing is floating over a workers head.
You say you have worked for the "international division of a large multinational," yet you have a very naive view of American management. You think they take advantage of a worker because they are not American? You think only American management does such things?
I have worked for an engineering firm for 3 years. A program can be thriving one day, employing 30-40 engineers, and be canceled the next. If an engineer can be placed, wonderful. If an engineer sits on overhead for too long, it is layoff time. We have approved overtime that we can be payed for, but to meet a milestone, keep your job and improve your employment future, you work whatever hours are required. I am lucky. My job has requirements that make it impossible to outsource, but if I were to loose it, I would have to take one that could be outsourced. The spectre is still there.
The world economy has many pitfalls. They are not all going to occur in the US. The world economy giveth and the world economy taketh away.
I read about using THz imaging to have moving "X-Rays," which could help arthritis research and diagnosis as well as many other skeletal ailments. Plus make that cool scene from Total Recal where Ah-nold walks through the metal detector a reality.
FTFA: Identified chemicals related to defense applications, including nuclear weapons, from 600 meters away using passive sensing at the Nevada Test Site.
Passive, as in detecting THz radiation naturally emitted from a target, not projecting THz radiation at the taget you were refering to. That is, unless said enterprising terrorist builds a trigger that goes off whence it detects the THz radiation emitted by his/her bomb. We could only be so lucky.
How about an exercise? Boys, pay attention, this is especially for you. What would happen if we did a little term swap here.
...if the next iteration of the Xbox or Playstation can rip off some of Nintendo's good ideas, I think we'll all be better for it.
If we replace the first phrase with Windows and the second term with Linux's then we get:
...if the next iteration of Windows can rip off some of Linux's good ideas, I think we'll all be better for it.
The first phrase is modded +4 interesting and the second is modded -NaN Overated Flametroll. Now, is slashdot awash in Sony fanboys or did you all start drooling so much when you read fangirl that you completely ignored that statement? Competition is good. Ripping off someone's idea is bad, because it leads to uncontrollable patenting by paranoid companies.
Now that we have that out of the way, will you marry me?
It is much more indideous than that. China has an international reputation for having a lack of respect for patents or copyrights. Reguardless of you opinion on "intellectual property," they copy research results and produce product at a much decreased cost because they do not have to pay for the R&D. (I am sure there are other factors, but that is the most significant to this story.)
China knows this, and wants to divest the responsibility from the state. How so best to do this than to blame an individual. A doctor bent on individual success stuped to the evil of stealing research results, instead of taking the long, arduous road of independent research that would have enriched him, his colleagues and students, and therefore, the State. Of course, this is true for any scientist in any country in any field.
Is it the truth? Maybe, or maybe I just have my capitalist tinfoil hat on. Will we ever really be able to know? They censor google, they run the press, they make the truth. Do you really think Tiananmen Square is as well known in China as Kent State is in the US? What do you think?
The key to Nintendo's success has, and always will be, making/hosting fun games. As long as people want to play fun games, Nintendo will have a place. Add to that not selling consoles at a loss, and Nintendo is in a great position. I think Nintendo could only sell units in Japan and still turn a profit this year.
Considering the amount of tech in the box, the PS3 is decidedly a bargain. I mean, Toshiba has to sell their HD-DVD player, just a player mind you, for $499.99. An Sony can sell the premium PS3 for $599?
This is one of two things:
A - The game playing capability of the PS3 is only worth $100.
B - Sony is dumping its product onto the market.
I may be a Nintendo fanboy, but I am a capitalist first. Wii...
You do not have to write your own Web Browser to set the default search engine and homepage to MSN.com
They could just package Firefox with Windows and have its default search engine and homepage set to MSN. This would eliminate a great deal of IE security holes (yes, there would be Firfox security holes, but crashing Firefox does not crash you computer,) eliminate the cost of maintaining and patching the IE baseline and put the onus on Open Source software.
And as long as they do not modify the source code, they do not have to provide a MS build. They just use the same one as everyone else who downloads it from mozilla. And if they want to customize some interfaces, I here the source code is availble.
Why do you think that USA is so hated by the general population in the Middle-East?
Because we are portrayed as the white, Christian west, the source of all the woe in the Middle East. Because we are the white devil. Because they have been rabble roused into hating us the same way we are continuously rabble roused into hating them. Because we side with Israel.
Because we have power. Because we are not afraid to use that power. Because we know embargoes and condemnations from the UN will NOT stop Iran from producing nuclear weapons, because people will sell around the embargo and no one cares what the UN says. Because the latest people to use our power have used it like a broadsword and not like a scalpel. Because we are the new Rome.
Because we are human and we make mistakes.
Because we want our way of life to remain the same. Because we can choose to be Christian or Muslim. Because we can say what we want. Because we can depose our entire government by stepping to the other side of a curtain and checking the other box. Because we won the Cold War.
Because we lost the Vietnam War.
Because we could fix all of our problems at home at the expense of ignoring everyone else abroad, but we still have the homeless, the illiterate, the destitute and ghettos.
Now mod me down, because I am not part of the group think and my ideas and opinions burn you eyes.
They will also cover all the RSI injuries related to the repetitive motion of beer drinking and masterbation. Not to mention all those baseball bat swinging and football throwing injuries.
I am not sure if you area fanboy or a troll. Oop, answered my own question!
You have just experienced a sarcasm cramp. In this state, your ability to identify sarcasm and/or irony completely seize up and causes you to take sarcastic and/or ironic statements literally and to spasmatically react to them in an agressive manner. Sarcasm cramps can be brought on by a lack of sleep, lack of caffeine, extreme fanboyism or plain stupidity.
Similarly to female menstral cramps, the female orgasm has been shown to provide a soothing affect, going so far as to release the cramp and allow the sufferer to return to a state of rational thinking. My suggestion? Go watch some pr0n.
How many hours did you spend walking around hoping for a random battle with Warmech?
On another note, the Rat Tail quest in the Castle of Ordeals from is one of my favorites. Did you have any idea what this Rat Tail was going to do for your party? What does prove your courage really mean? In Link you got more hearts, in Dragon Warrior you got new kit, but in Final Fantasy you got a complete transformation of your party. All for a little Rat Tail. End to end, delivery to reward, one of my favorite quests.
But should not the coroner still be culpable of something? An official should not be spreading a password around like that, and unless proof of the paper (or someone else) hacking his password is found, there is only on explanation for how they got it.
There is this little thing in the US court system called precedent . Judges do not automatically know what is right and what is wrong from a legal standpoint. Judges are supposed to be very intelligent individuals who must interpret the law and apply it to new situations. This is not Nam. This is bowling. There are rules. A judge must take past judgements into account or, the the collective body of case law which a court should consider when interpreting the law. It is very similar to code reuse. You reuse a line class to make a polygon class, the court reuses a Right to Assemble case to render judgement in an Unlawful Gathering case.
In this case, we have the Philadelphia Attourney General's Office seizing computer equipment owned by a Press outlet to determine whether a felony was commited. Breaking this down,
valid = GovernmentAgencyAlpha->Seize(FreePressOrgBeta->Get (InfoProperty), investigation, crime)
investigation = Grand Jury
crime = False (We do not know if there has a been a crime yet, innocent until proven guilty implies this is False)
valid = True
Since the court uphelp it, the expression evalutates to true. GovernementAgencyAlpha is just an instantiation of the GovernementAgency class. FreePressOrgBeta is just an instantiation of the FreePressOrg class. This precendent says a government agency can seize a press agency's information gathering equipment in the case of a Grand Jury investigation before it is apparent a crime has been commited. The collective knowledgebase of US law now has this precendent, and attourneys could now argue a point of precedent, which is an immensely powerful thing, anywhere in the US for any state government agency to seize a press organizations information storage property during a Grand Jury investigation.
Now, I do not know about you, but I always took that freedom of the press thing a great deal more seriously than that right to bear arms thing. Of course, I just tried to explain court precedent in terms of OOD, so you might already thing I am crazy. A thousand apologies if my syntax is a bit screwy, I have been coding in a pseudo language for the past year. Its almost like picking up an accent.
Do you mean the early adopters who are willing to spend way to much on a piece of kit so they can flaunt their technical superiority? I wear a watch, I carry a planner and I have a pen. My watch is self winding (yes, it is even an analog watch), I recharge my planner once a year (calendar refils) and a pen is always at hand. I guess that just leaves the effort of finding the correct date and writing something down. Oh, and manually checking the schedule.
Slashdot Mirror
Now, for my "old man" disclaimer...I'm 25....
Dude, you have a seriously skewed view if you think you need an old man disclaimer at the age of 25.
It is funny you mention the phrase "afterschool special" and relate an anecdote about a high school peer. She was 14 and he was 19. Guess what? The same thing can and does happen at any high school in the United States. Freshman date Seniors because Freshman girls like the clout dating an upperclassman holds and Seniors date Freshman because they are naive and easy. This was happening decades before MySpace. Now, when Suzy Q comes home smelling of beer, cigarettes and cheap sex, she can blame MySpace. Now, parents no longer have to blame themselves, they can blame a corporation. Now, instead of teaching a valuable life lesson to their child, they teach their child to blame others for their problems and sue people.
Are you really surprised when they have a 2-D fighter as number one? While Guilty Gear does have "beautiful animations," there is no connectivity with the environment. A static/semi animated background with automata bouncing around shooting sparkles from the hands, no matter how beautifully painted, is still a static/semi animated background.
And seriously, where is Viewtiful Joe?
There will only ever be one Big Blue. If IBM wants to solve a problem, IBM finds a way to solve the problem. When HP builds a computer can beat a Grand Master at chess, then they can be the Big P.
A game 10 years old that cost only a few megabyte of bandwidth to distrubute does not deserve a 4.50 price tag.
It deserves whatever price tag the market will bear. If the market is willing to pay $4.50 for a ROM, than Nintendo should charge that. That is one of the ways a capitalistic market works. Video games are luxury items. It is not food, it is not water and it is not air. It is a luxury. If $4.50 is too much for you, do not pay it. If it is too much for too many people, than they price will go down or the product will go away. I would rather pay the $4.50 than steal the ROM.
In a lot of developing countries like this a job at a major multinational serves to support not just the family but the entire extended family.
...abusing foreign workers because management knew they could work them 14 hours a day and the people couldn't say or do anything about it. ...you have to work whatever overtime is demanded of you, for free.
The stereotypical tech geek notwithstanding, I hope you are putting an Indian's extended family at higher importance than an American's family who has been outsourced because of sheer numbers. Of course, you probably do not consider what a son/daughter pays for a nursing home for his parents and in-laws. To hell with the sarcasm, I think it is disgusting to think Indians loosing their jobs and not being able to support their family is any more tragic than Americans in the same situation. (FYI, I am using American in place of United States Citizen because I enjoy the way it rolls off the tongue.)
No doubt some of these people even had to quit other jobs to join Apple, and can't return.
As opposed to having a job taken away because of cost of living difference? And then trying to find a job in a market glutted with workers whose jobs were similarly taken away? Something tells me the non-American (Indian in this case) worker will have a much better time of it.
It is called unpaid overtime and it happens when a program plan underestimates the labor reqired, the time required or the difficulty of the problem. It also happens when the spectre of outsourcing is floating over a workers head.
You say you have worked for the "international division of a large multinational," yet you have a very naive view of American management. You think they take advantage of a worker because they are not American? You think only American management does such things?
I have worked for an engineering firm for 3 years. A program can be thriving one day, employing 30-40 engineers, and be canceled the next. If an engineer can be placed, wonderful. If an engineer sits on overhead for too long, it is layoff time. We have approved overtime that we can be payed for, but to meet a milestone, keep your job and improve your employment future, you work whatever hours are required. I am lucky. My job has requirements that make it impossible to outsource, but if I were to loose it, I would have to take one that could be outsourced. The spectre is still there.
The world economy has many pitfalls. They are not all going to occur in the US. The world economy giveth and the world economy taketh away.
Cool, so we pass legislation that fines the hell out of you if your kid buys a game judged inappropriate for him.
No, that does not sound quite right, either....
I read about using THz imaging to have moving "X-Rays," which could help arthritis research and diagnosis as well as many other skeletal ailments. Plus make that cool scene from Total Recal where Ah-nold walks through the metal detector a reality.
FTFA:
Identified chemicals related to defense applications, including nuclear weapons, from 600 meters away using passive sensing at the Nevada Test Site.
Passive, as in detecting THz radiation naturally emitted from a target, not projecting THz radiation at the taget you were refering to. That is, unless said enterprising terrorist builds a trigger that goes off whence it detects the THz radiation emitted by his/her bomb. We could only be so lucky.
ocmpletely is my new favorite word...
Now that we have that out of the way, will you marry me?
It is much more indideous than that. China has an international reputation for having a lack of respect for patents or copyrights. Reguardless of you opinion on "intellectual property," they copy research results and produce product at a much decreased cost because they do not have to pay for the R&D. (I am sure there are other factors, but that is the most significant to this story.)
China knows this, and wants to divest the responsibility from the state. How so best to do this than to blame an individual. A doctor bent on individual success stuped to the evil of stealing research results, instead of taking the long, arduous road of independent research that would have enriched him, his colleagues and students, and therefore, the State. Of course, this is true for any scientist in any country in any field.
Is it the truth? Maybe, or maybe I just have my capitalist tinfoil hat on. Will we ever really be able to know? They censor google, they run the press, they make the truth. Do you really think Tiananmen Square is as well known in China as Kent State is in the US? What do you think?
(Yeah, the tinfoil is starting to spark...)
The key to Nintendo's success has, and always will be, making/hosting fun games. As long as people want to play fun games, Nintendo will have a place. Add to that not selling consoles at a loss, and Nintendo is in a great position. I think Nintendo could only sell units in Japan and still turn a profit this year.
This makes me smile. Funny, yes, Insightful, most definitely.
This is one of two things:
I may be a Nintendo fanboy, but I am a capitalist first. Wii...
You do not have to write your own Web Browser to set the default search engine and homepage to MSN.com They could just package Firefox with Windows and have its default search engine and homepage set to MSN. This would eliminate a great deal of IE security holes (yes, there would be Firfox security holes, but crashing Firefox does not crash you computer,) eliminate the cost of maintaining and patching the IE baseline and put the onus on Open Source software. And as long as they do not modify the source code, they do not have to provide a MS build. They just use the same one as everyone else who downloads it from mozilla. And if they want to customize some interfaces, I here the source code is availble.
Why do you think that USA is so hated by the general population in the Middle-East?
Because we are portrayed as the white, Christian west, the source of all the woe in the Middle East. Because we are the white devil. Because they have been rabble roused into hating us the same way we are continuously rabble roused into hating them. Because we side with Israel.
Because we have power. Because we are not afraid to use that power. Because we know embargoes and condemnations from the UN will NOT stop Iran from producing nuclear weapons, because people will sell around the embargo and no one cares what the UN says. Because the latest people to use our power have used it like a broadsword and not like a scalpel. Because we are the new Rome.
Because we are human and we make mistakes.
Because we want our way of life to remain the same. Because we can choose to be Christian or Muslim. Because we can say what we want. Because we can depose our entire government by stepping to the other side of a curtain and checking the other box. Because we won the Cold War.
Because we lost the Vietnam War.
Because we could fix all of our problems at home at the expense of ignoring everyone else abroad, but we still have the homeless, the illiterate, the destitute and ghettos.
Now mod me down, because I am not part of the group think and my ideas and opinions burn you eyes.
They will also cover all the RSI injuries related to the repetitive motion of beer drinking and masterbation. Not to mention all those baseball bat swinging and football throwing injuries.
I am not sure if you area fanboy or a troll. Oop, answered my own question!
You have just experienced a sarcasm cramp. In this state, your ability to identify sarcasm and/or irony completely seize up and causes you to take sarcastic and/or ironic statements literally and to spasmatically react to them in an agressive manner. Sarcasm cramps can be brought on by a lack of sleep, lack of caffeine, extreme fanboyism or plain stupidity.
Similarly to female menstral cramps, the female orgasm has been shown to provide a soothing affect, going so far as to release the cramp and allow the sufferer to return to a state of rational thinking. My suggestion? Go watch some pr0n.
Please define failure. I think we use different dictionaries.
How many hours did you spend walking around hoping for a random battle with Warmech?
On another note, the Rat Tail quest in the Castle of Ordeals from is one of my favorites. Did you have any idea what this Rat Tail was going to do for your party? What does prove your courage really mean? In Link you got more hearts, in Dragon Warrior you got new kit, but in Final Fantasy you got a complete transformation of your party. All for a little Rat Tail. End to end, delivery to reward, one of my favorite quests.
But should not the coroner still be culpable of something? An official should not be spreading a password around like that, and unless proof of the paper (or someone else) hacking his password is found, there is only on explanation for how they got it.
There is this little thing in the US court system called precedent . Judges do not automatically know what is right and what is wrong from a legal standpoint. Judges are supposed to be very intelligent individuals who must interpret the law and apply it to new situations. This is not Nam. This is bowling. There are rules. A judge must take past judgements into account or, the the collective body of case law which a court should consider when interpreting the law. It is very similar to code reuse. You reuse a line class to make a polygon class, the court reuses a Right to Assemble case to render judgement in an Unlawful Gathering case.
t (InfoProperty), investigation, crime)
In this case, we have the Philadelphia Attourney General's Office seizing computer equipment owned by a Press outlet to determine whether a felony was commited. Breaking this down,
valid = GovernmentAgencyAlpha->Seize(FreePressOrgBeta->Ge
investigation = Grand Jury
crime = False (We do not know if there has a been a crime yet, innocent until proven guilty implies this is False)
valid = True
Since the court uphelp it, the expression evalutates to true. GovernementAgencyAlpha is just an instantiation of the GovernementAgency class. FreePressOrgBeta is just an instantiation of the FreePressOrg class. This precendent says a government agency can seize a press agency's information gathering equipment in the case of a Grand Jury investigation before it is apparent a crime has been commited. The collective knowledgebase of US law now has this precendent, and attourneys could now argue a point of precedent, which is an immensely powerful thing, anywhere in the US for any state government agency to seize a press organizations information storage property during a Grand Jury investigation.
Now, I do not know about you, but I always took that freedom of the press thing a great deal more seriously than that right to bear arms thing. Of course, I just tried to explain court precedent in terms of OOD, so you might already thing I am crazy. A thousand apologies if my syntax is a bit screwy, I have been coding in a pseudo language for the past year. Its almost like picking up an accent.
the high-end, tech-savvy consumers
Do you mean the early adopters who are willing to spend way to much on a piece of kit so they can flaunt their technical superiority? I wear a watch, I carry a planner and I have a pen. My watch is self winding (yes, it is even an analog watch), I recharge my planner once a year (calendar refils) and a pen is always at hand. I guess that just leaves the effort of finding the correct date and writing something down. Oh, and manually checking the schedule.
possess