The "big deal" regarding this is we've had nearly 8 years of 0 communication (people forget that Bush actually had a level of transparency in his early days of office - his televised speech regarding stem cell research, for example). It is looking like, regardless whether one agrees with his policies, Obama will at least tell us his thought process and solicit our feedback. (It might all get dumped to null for all I know, but at least he's asking).
Except for the fact that in this situation the economic and humanitarian sides aren't mutually exclusive. This isn't some limited resource - if "not-poor" people buy some, AMD will produce more to fill the gap - and due to economies of scale, etc, these new ones may be even cheaper than the first ones. And your food analogy fails - unlike food the PIC isn't something people can't live without. If I take food intended for a hungry person, I've taken something from them that they require to live. If I buy a PIC, all I've done is make the person wait until next Thursday to pick one up as opposed to today.
I think the key phrase in your post is "used to work." My brand new Linksys wireless-g router has the option to turn off the broadcast of SSID. So it looks like the management did finally listen to the developers, just not while you were around to witness it.
Unless of course, the universe started at some point before what would appear to be the point of origin - and then was set in motion.
It would be like you walking into a room to see me approaching one corner. From my current direction and speed, you may extrapolate that I started walking from the other corner. Of course, the reality could be that I was dropped into the room from the ceiling.
Here is the deal about freedom of speech. It does not equal freedom to be heard. If I own a television station/radio station/whatever - I can very well choose to not publicize what you have to say. That is because your constitional right to say whatever you want STOPS right at the entryway to my PRIVATE property.
All the federal government is doing here is allowing the compiliation of a list of people who want their privacy respected - and enacting fines for those who ignore that privacy. The telemarketers aren't having their free speech halted, rather they are being stopped from performing the equivalent of trespassing.
Well, it isn't saying that its the first 1st-person RPG. Only the first to use the engine of a 1st-person shooter, namely Half-Life 2. Morrowind used its own engine.
And the correct response to that violation is not to force them to ship Sun's Java implementation. Rather it is to fine them and require them to either
1) Ship a "real" Java runtime (which could be anyone's implementation - including Microsoft's)
2) Ship no Java runtime at all
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The "big deal" regarding this is we've had nearly 8 years of 0 communication (people forget that Bush actually had a level of transparency in his early days of office - his televised speech regarding stem cell research, for example). It is looking like, regardless whether one agrees with his policies, Obama will at least tell us his thought process and solicit our feedback. (It might all get dumped to null for all I know, but at least he's asking).
Not SMB3 - but I did have Mario Kart 64 crash on me...so it does happen.
Except for the fact that in this situation the economic and humanitarian sides aren't mutually exclusive. This isn't some limited resource - if "not-poor" people buy some, AMD will produce more to fill the gap - and due to economies of scale, etc, these new ones may be even cheaper than the first ones. And your food analogy fails - unlike food the PIC isn't something people can't live without. If I take food intended for a hungry person, I've taken something from them that they require to live. If I buy a PIC, all I've done is make the person wait until next Thursday to pick one up as opposed to today.
I think the key phrase in your post is "used to work." My brand new Linksys wireless-g router has the option to turn off the broadcast of SSID. So it looks like the management did finally listen to the developers, just not while you were around to witness it.
Eh, you gotta start somewhere
Unless of course, the universe started at some point before what would appear to be the point of origin - and then was set in motion. It would be like you walking into a room to see me approaching one corner. From my current direction and speed, you may extrapolate that I started walking from the other corner. Of course, the reality could be that I was dropped into the room from the ceiling.
Here is the deal about freedom of speech. It does not equal freedom to be heard. If I own a television station/radio station/whatever - I can very well choose to not publicize what you have to say. That is because your constitional right to say whatever you want STOPS right at the entryway to my PRIVATE property. All the federal government is doing here is allowing the compiliation of a list of people who want their privacy respected - and enacting fines for those who ignore that privacy. The telemarketers aren't having their free speech halted, rather they are being stopped from performing the equivalent of trespassing.
Well, it isn't saying that its the first 1st-person RPG. Only the first to use the engine of a 1st-person shooter, namely Half-Life 2. Morrowind used its own engine.
And the correct response to that violation is not to force them to ship Sun's Java implementation. Rather it is to fine them and require them to either 1) Ship a "real" Java runtime (which could be anyone's implementation - including Microsoft's) 2) Ship no Java runtime at all