And what's stopping someone from adding "trees." and "grass." as top levels as well as "trees.plants." and "trees.plants.greenstuff." ?
Additional top-level domains will both allow intelligent domain operators to organize their data better and make life more confusing and less predictable for users.
I'm sorry, but when was the last time a hockey player got jail time for assault? Exactly, its part of the game. When you're part of an organization with its own discipline measures, you don't bring the law into it unless necessary.
The girl should be given detention or forced to write an essay on ADD medication or something.
You need to play Killzone 2. Its not perfect by any means, but it goes a lot further down the 'wow that's a nice side-effect' alley.
My personal beef is that story-based games no longer include alternate plot arcs. The old Wing Commander series is a great example, several other games bothered too. The problem seems obvious: you have a chunk of the game that each player probably won't see due to their play style, but that's the interesting bit -- when my play style affects the outcome in a real way.
I agree with most of your rant, but what's your problem with the controls in RE4? If its the fact that you can't shoot and move at the same time, that's a feature of the game since the beginning and adds to the concept. Its not a first person shooter, its a survival horror.
F.E.A.R. 2 has some pretty good story and horror effects. They do a good job of drawing you in, its not your typical FPS fare. In fact, the shooting is not the main experience for me when playing F.E.A.R. 2.
You do realize that CBC is the Canadian Broadcast Corporation. Their whole purpose is practically to disseminate Canadian content. Global and CTV are also regulated by the CanCon restrictions and air plenty of foreign content. CBC doesn't because their goal isn't simple mass appeal (which hardly breeds good production values).
My telco advertises *657 service (I may have those numbers slightly wrong) to report harassing phone calls, despite caller ID. Simply dial the code and it replies telling you that the call has been logged. If a police report is also filed, these records are given directly to the police, or if a certain number of these automated complaints are made, a report is automatically filed.
The same thing can be achieved by calling the operator immediately after the phone call and reporting it as harassing. The phone company knows who called you, they don't like people abusing the service any more than landlords appreciate the loud annoying neighbour that makes people move out of their buildings.
In my opinion, the transition to port 587 is nearly pointless. I already use authentication on port 25 to identify customers.
And according to one of the only people I'd trust on SMTP issues, "the SUBMIT specification has several fundamental flaws that make compliance practically impossible. I advise against all use of port 587" -- djb.
The original XBox proves that Windows is unnecessary to play games on modern hardware. Microsoft could just as easily ship the XBox "OS" for gaming PCs to make them Direct-X gaming machines with restrictive DRM for PC game designers to target (as well as the XBox hardware itself for the obvious fixed-hardware design advantages).
Basically, the vast majority of what is commonly known as "Windows" is completely useless to the vast majority of reasons for using Windows over Linux or something else.
Youtube works with Linux. DVDs play on Linux. There are licensed Codecs available for Linux if you live in a backward country like the USA where you can't use your own purchased media, or you can just use the free software if you live somewhere reasonable like Canada.
Actually, as others will probably point out to you, 'state' is still applicable. The Country of Canada would be 'the state' in this case, which has provinces.
The 'eh' was funny, although grammatically incorrect.
The Streisand Effect applies if he were to try and draw attention to what he sees as the negative portrayal of himself.
If he simply minds his own business and creates a personal website about himself with no reference to this other hypothetical blogger, it should have no such effect.
An employer who Googled indiscriminately might then find both, and wonder which is the person applying for the job in question.
My full first and last name return about 31,100 hits in Google, with quotes. Using the colloquial version of my first name returns over 146,000 results. It helps that I share a name with an NHL coach, I'm sure.
When I first started using the web heavily in 1995, I couldn't use my first initial + last name, first name + last name or various versions of the above as sign-ins on major websites at the time as they were already taken.
I began signing my name on E-mails and the like with my middle initial included, to try and differentiate my identity. All of the top ten results on Google for that, in quotes, are currently me. Some of the 16,000 other results may not be.
One of the primary differences is that IP addresses are left behind as cookie crumbs everywhere you go online. In real life, you wouldn't leave your home address and telephone number on business cards laying on the street at every intersection with a date/time stamp indicating that you'd been there, would you?
While the type of information seems similar, the resulting availability of personal behaviour data that is discoverable as a result is unnerving.
It sure does have a difference. People already know their phone numbers are publicly listed information and act accordingly. People should routinely expect others to have Caller-ID or access to reverse directories.
IP addresses are not published in a big white book that is handed out to every home in North America, and your IP identity is not something you assume will be public knowledge without good reason. As a result, people do expect privacy even though the data is obviously available to their ISP, usually a private company who the user trusts.
Locally, I heard one woman say she simply counts to five then goes, whether its her turn or not because four-way stops are too complicated to figure out.
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The new gTLDs wouldn't make any difference unless they're well-managed and regulated. None of the current gTLDs are, so why believe these would be?
And what's stopping someone from adding "trees." and "grass." as top levels as well as "trees.plants." and "trees.plants.greenstuff." ?
Additional top-level domains will both allow intelligent domain operators to organize their data better and make life more confusing and less predictable for users.
I'm sorry, but when was the last time a hockey player got jail time for assault? Exactly, its part of the game. When you're part of an organization with its own discipline measures, you don't bring the law into it unless necessary.
The girl should be given detention or forced to write an essay on ADD medication or something.
You need to play Killzone 2. Its not perfect by any means, but it goes a lot further down the 'wow that's a nice side-effect' alley.
My personal beef is that story-based games no longer include alternate plot arcs. The old Wing Commander series is a great example, several other games bothered too. The problem seems obvious: you have a chunk of the game that each player probably won't see due to their play style, but that's the interesting bit -- when my play style affects the outcome in a real way.
I agree with most of your rant, but what's your problem with the controls in RE4? If its the fact that you can't shoot and move at the same time, that's a feature of the game since the beginning and adds to the concept. Its not a first person shooter, its a survival horror.
F.E.A.R. 2 has some pretty good story and horror effects. They do a good job of drawing you in, its not your typical FPS fare. In fact, the shooting is not the main experience for me when playing F.E.A.R. 2.
You do realize that CBC is the Canadian Broadcast Corporation. Their whole purpose is practically to disseminate Canadian content. Global and CTV are also regulated by the CanCon restrictions and air plenty of foreign content. CBC doesn't because their goal isn't simple mass appeal (which hardly breeds good production values).
My telco advertises *657 service (I may have those numbers slightly wrong) to report harassing phone calls, despite caller ID. Simply dial the code and it replies telling you that the call has been logged. If a police report is also filed, these records are given directly to the police, or if a certain number of these automated complaints are made, a report is automatically filed.
The same thing can be achieved by calling the operator immediately after the phone call and reporting it as harassing. The phone company knows who called you, they don't like people abusing the service any more than landlords appreciate the loud annoying neighbour that makes people move out of their buildings.
In my opinion, the transition to port 587 is nearly pointless. I already use authentication on port 25 to identify customers.
And according to one of the only people I'd trust on SMTP issues, "the SUBMIT specification has several fundamental flaws that make compliance practically impossible. I advise against all use of port 587" -- djb.
The original XBox proves that Windows is unnecessary to play games on modern hardware. Microsoft could just as easily ship the XBox "OS" for gaming PCs to make them Direct-X gaming machines with restrictive DRM for PC game designers to target (as well as the XBox hardware itself for the obvious fixed-hardware design advantages).
Basically, the vast majority of what is commonly known as "Windows" is completely useless to the vast majority of reasons for using Windows over Linux or something else.
Youtube works with Linux. DVDs play on Linux. There are licensed Codecs available for Linux if you live in a backward country like the USA where you can't use your own purchased media, or you can just use the free software if you live somewhere reasonable like Canada.
Next you'll tell me you like websites that take over a minute to load, too. :-)
Too bad you have to share Google space with that Jobs fellow ;-)
You mean the elevator?
Many intelligent crane designs use counter weights to not require actual heavy lifting.
No, its a tethered jet pack. Just like a TOW missile is still a missile, despite the wire connecting it to the launcher.
Actually, CBC probably has some of the best radio and news content available, while I'm not personally a fan of most of their TV series.
Their radio shows are all available online as podcasts, and they produce excellent content that I'm proud to sponsor with my tax money.
Actually, as others will probably point out to you, 'state' is still applicable. The Country of Canada would be 'the state' in this case, which has provinces.
The 'eh' was funny, although grammatically incorrect.
Changing your legal name is not out of the question either, of course.
The Streisand Effect applies if he were to try and draw attention to what he sees as the negative portrayal of himself.
If he simply minds his own business and creates a personal website about himself with no reference to this other hypothetical blogger, it should have no such effect.
An employer who Googled indiscriminately might then find both, and wonder which is the person applying for the job in question.
My full first and last name return about 31,100 hits in Google, with quotes. Using the colloquial version of my first name returns over 146,000 results. It helps that I share a name with an NHL coach, I'm sure.
When I first started using the web heavily in 1995, I couldn't use my first initial + last name, first name + last name or various versions of the above as sign-ins on major websites at the time as they were already taken.
I began signing my name on E-mails and the like with my middle initial included, to try and differentiate my identity. All of the top ten results on Google for that, in quotes, are currently me. Some of the 16,000 other results may not be.
Hey, they legalized women going topless in public, that's progressive right? :-)
You wouldn't expect ignorant old white men to want women to ... oh never mind.
One of the primary differences is that IP addresses are left behind as cookie crumbs everywhere you go online. In real life, you wouldn't leave your home address and telephone number on business cards laying on the street at every intersection with a date/time stamp indicating that you'd been there, would you?
While the type of information seems similar, the resulting availability of personal behaviour data that is discoverable as a result is unnerving.
... and if you want to use one at some point in the future, use it regularly for no reason starting now so there's no obvious pattern to rely on.
It sure does have a difference. People already know their phone numbers are publicly listed information and act accordingly. People should routinely expect others to have Caller-ID or access to reverse directories.
IP addresses are not published in a big white book that is handed out to every home in North America, and your IP identity is not something you assume will be public knowledge without good reason. As a result, people do expect privacy even though the data is obviously available to their ISP, usually a private company who the user trusts.
Locally, I heard one woman say she simply counts to five then goes, whether its her turn or not because four-way stops are too complicated to figure out.