I'm not going to go find the article but here's what i remember on the subject.
Both Sony and Disney said that they would not allow their movies to be pressed by a company who also presses pornographic movies, and because of the high cost in pressing Blu-Ray movies and Sony and Disney being two of the high profile movie houses this means that none of the Blu-Ray manufacturers are willing to put the Porn on Blu-Ray. However last i heard the porn industry supposedly found "someone" to do it.
In this case, I believe that the particular example I gave of learned behaviour IS bad. Not in every case. I said 'a victim' because in this case, I believe learned behaviour to be harmful. How is it harmful that someone learns that certain words are offensive and is consequently offended by them? Wouldn't it be more harmful if you didn't fully understand the meaning of the words commonly used in your primary language?
then you're a victim of learned behaviour. Welcome to society where we learn from a young age how to interact with each other.
Are you honestly saying that following a learned behavior is bad? When you say that you are "a victim" of your learning it sounds like you are. The alternatives to learned behavior is either knowing everything you know from the start of your existence, or acting on pure instincts. Either way if you are saying you are not a "victim" of learned behaviors then you would be a very interesting case study.
What you say is true but you twist it in a profoundly stupid way.
To say that being offended by foul language is a learned behavior is obviously the case, but you present it as though only childish people would let a learned behavior influence them. The statement "Those words upset me cause mommy and daddy told me they should." is obviously meant to belittle people who have learned that offensive language is offensive.
My question is what in life isn't learned? Did you pop out of your mom and look at the sky and say "hey that's what the color blue looks like"? Chances are you look at blue objects and know they are blue because your "mommy and daddy" told you they are. WOW what a loser to grow up and be confined by some learned behavior!
The reason people are offended by offensive language (i know it sounds simple when stated like that but i'll continue to explain in case it's still not clear) is because when people are learning the language they speak, they learn that when people say certain things they are trying to be... wait for it... offensive. What purpose does the word fuck have in the English language other than to be offensive? It can add meaning to a phrase but because of the way it has been defined in our language (as an obscenity) it adds that meaning in an offensive manner. Is it so unreasonable that someone gets offended by an offensive word?
I can understand not wanting it to be offensive, but since the word first appeared around the 1500s and has been considered obscene since then i doubt you'll have much luck getting it changed.
Also for all those who get upset that crap isn't obscene while shit is. Is it really so amazing that the language has a non obscene way of saying the same thing? Saying "I had sex with my wife" is not nearly as vulgar as saying "I fucked my wife" yet people take issue that "ah crap" is seen as not vulgar while "holy shit" is. Sorry but it's the way language works. There are different ways of conveying information and emotions and the fact that there are two different words that covey the same meaning but different emotions is a good thing, get over it (though they are much better ways of expressing yourself than using words like crap all the time).
The people working with the fingerprints have actually been screened. I work for a company that does pre-employment background screening and anyone who ever has access to the prints has to submit to an FBI background check. Also it's not like it's some programmer matching the prints to a criminal database. We simply collect the prints and send them to the FBI where they match them to any records they have and send the rap sheet back. So the people actually matching the prints are FBI agents who have also undergone background checks as part of their job.
So yeah it's not some kid in his moms basement making up criminal records and attaching them to job applicants willy-nilly.
there are no Nintendo or Sony games on the PC There have been some recent developments since you last checked out the PC game scene. There was this little game called Everquest which has had a sequel. There was another called Star Wars Galaxy which got a lot of notice, and most recently there is another one called Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. All of these games are developed and/or published by Sony along with others not mentioned.
Resistance: Fall of Man used a little over 20 gigs on the blu-ray disc, if i had a PS3 i would be grateful to have that all on one disc and not have to swap out ever couple levels. It may not be a necessity, just like when CDs came out you could get by with installing off of 20+ floppies... it's just a nice convenience that i am surprised everyone gets so upset about.
And for the record i have neither PS3, Xbox360 or Wii, so i'm not trying to stick up for anyone and say anyone is better than anyone else.
"No. It always shows the desktops right-side up. It's a 'cube' but only 4 sides, not all 6, are used. Although I wonder what it'd do if you had 6 desktops?"
Then it gives you a hexagon to spin around (still with no top or bottom)
"It's sad that Spanish language radio appears to have more selection than "regular" radio in my area of the US from the limited listening I did."
Nah, i listen to a lot of spanish radio and at least in the western states and on XM it's the same quality as english radio. The same songs get played over and over, and it's controlled the same as any other radio station because they're all owned by the same company.
Actually, there's really not a lot of exclusivity between the two services. That completely depends on what you listen to. If you are looking for generic "rock" channels or "country" music then you will find both on the two services. But if you are like me and bought satellite radio so you can still catch the sporting events on those 12 hour road trips then you had better decide what you like best.
If you like college sports, MLB or NHL then you had better choose XM. If you like NFL or NBA then you had better choose Sirius. There is no way to listen to college football and later the NFL on the same radio. This is actually a MAJOR draw back for a lot of people.
bah, sorry, i haven't posted in a while and while i did use breaks to make paragraphs i obviously did it wrong (had it on html format rather than plain text) and i got a block of text out. Sorry.
"Most Linux and Mac users aren't heavy gamers"
I know this is one of those statistics we throw around that have no basis in reality and i'm sure you didn't mean it as gospel fact, but i would be curious what % of people with an install of Linux or OSX play could be classified as heavy gamers, or even moderate gamers. I bet you would be surprised.
You have to understand that there are countless people using computers with OSX or Linux on them. Just because the majority of the install base right now may be corporations it doesn't mean that the small percentage of people using linux/osx at home don't want to play games. I use linux on all my personal home computers and i love playing games on them, i don't want to reboot just to load up a game, and more than that i want all that linux has WHILE i'm playing the game. I would love it if the game i want to play had a native port but if not i will settle for wine/cedega.
Just because it's not "their general use" doesn't mean that it's not useful for someone or that it can't become the "general use" of the OS.
And when you say "Most people tend to use Windows or consoles for gaming" what other choice do they have? If compnaies like transgaming didn't try to make games cross platform, and companied like ID didn't port to other platforms then there would literally be no choice but to play commercial games on windows. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. If you only make games for windows then people will only play those games on windows.
"Funny, when I set up that Dell to match the specs of the MacBook, it comes out to $2325. I didn't add the Dell UltraSharp quality display at $149, since I'm not sure if it's needed. Either way, I'd say they're still pretty damn comparable. I'm guessing you forgot to add Bluetooth, XP Pro, DVD burner, 1GB memory, 802.11a/b/g card, ATI graphics, etc."
I'm not sure what parts you added cause i added all that stuff and the dell came out to just under 2,000. But out of curiosity why did you add XP Pro? If i could pay someone $10,000 to give me a mac with Softimage installed on it would that make Macs more expensive? Just seems strange when talking about price of hardware to add more software cost.
If we are comparing prices other than just hardware i thought it was interesting that to upgrade the dell to 3 years of warranty it costs $240, while to upgrade the Macbook to the same 3 year warranty it would up your price by $349.
I say if you want to save money then buy the $100 MIT laptop, if you want a good computer then shop around and buy the one that works best for you. Who cares what brand label it has on it... it's only a tool, not a religion.
"Another interesting point is that it seems to me that this is the development arena for the military's new autonomously roving gun platform."
At some point this may be true, but more immediately this is the development arena for the military's new autonomous supply delivery system. If you look at the people that are most often getting attacked it's the supply caravans. If we didn't have to have people in those vehicles then the loss when a caravan is attacked is much less. Just because we can make a robot that can get from point A to point B doesn't mean it can easily identify and lock onto an enemy then fire... think of going to the taxpayers to pay for that.
Actually for a US patent you have 1 year from the time you make the invention public to apply for the patent and if you do it within that time then it counts as if you had filed on the day you made it public.
apparently i didn't proof read well enough (so i'm sure some slashdot nazi will flame me) but when i said the child was a minority i meant a minor. I hope most of the people reading this can understand the intended meaning.
People seem to be screeming about the first ammendment being raped here by some right wing governor in Utah. Can we be resonable and think clearly for a second (i know this is slashdot but let's try.)
So this state passes a law that says ISPs have to filter content for people that want it filtered. Person A living in Utah says they like porn so they don't call their ISP and everything continues like normal. Person B thinks this is a great idea because they don't like porn and don't want their 10 year old "accidentally" getting to a porn site so they call their ISP and have it filtered (which by the way, this isn't really stomping the rights of the child since A) they are a minority and have very few rights as it is and B) the parent pays for the service and is there for the one who is able to control it).
Now this doesn't screem to me that the constitution is being abused. It just tells me that people are silly. The reason i say they are silly is because there are a bunch of ISPs that already filter out porn and those kinds of sites as a service to their (largely christian) customers, so why do we need a bill for this? Just tell everyone that wants the content filtered to switch from their current ISP to one of the christian ISPs.
I agree with this post and think that it is very well written, so long as it is aimed at doing this as a buisness.
I know how to fix a car, thanks to countless hours of being forced to help my dad fix his cars while i was growing up, but i do not choose to work on cars professionally. If a friend asks me to help change his oil then i'm not going to charge him what he would pay for an oil change any where else. Instead i'm going to help him out and know that when i need a ride someplace he isn't going to charge me what a taxi would.
The problem with comparing computer repair to plumming is that there are far more people these days who have a basic working knowledge of computers than there are who have the same knowledge of plumming. This large supply of computer knowledge drives down the price of applying that knowledge.
Also if you had to pay to replace all the plumming in your house, or if you had to pay to replace your car, then you would be talking about tens of thousands of dollars, so you are willing to pay $60/hour to maintain them in order to prevent a major problem later. If you look at a computer the same way, and let's say that an average computer will cost two thousand dollars to completely replace (which is high as we all know), then for similar price to maintain ratio you would expect to pay no more than $6/hour.
"But, not being able to untrain skills has actually made me afraid to level my many 13-18s up any higher because I don't want to permenantly screw them up."
Since you haven't playing in 3 months you probably haven't kept up with the issues, but they have added respec as of about a month ago. I personally quit shortly after it was added, but if that's your only reason for not playing then you may be interested to know that you can now respec (albeit you have to respec all your skills from lvl 1, you have to do a taskforce to get the respec, and you can only get it beginning at lvl 20, then again at 30 and 40)
This question has been answered by him before. Basically when they had it free form it allowed those who knew what they were doing (power gamers) to become super powerful and the casual gamer ended up gimping themselves more often than not. At the time there was no respec possible so all the people who didn't know EXACTLY what to choose were very vocally upset so they changed it to make it more friendly to the average person and balance things out a bit.
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I'm not going to go find the article but here's what i remember on the subject.
Both Sony and Disney said that they would not allow their movies to be pressed by a company who also presses pornographic movies, and because of the high cost in pressing Blu-Ray movies and Sony and Disney being two of the high profile movie houses this means that none of the Blu-Ray manufacturers are willing to put the Porn on Blu-Ray. However last i heard the porn industry supposedly found "someone" to do it.
Are you honestly saying that following a learned behavior is bad? When you say that you are "a victim" of your learning it sounds like you are. The alternatives to learned behavior is either knowing everything you know from the start of your existence, or acting on pure instincts. Either way if you are saying you are not a "victim" of learned behaviors then you would be a very interesting case study.
What you say is true but you twist it in a profoundly stupid way.
To say that being offended by foul language is a learned behavior is obviously the case, but you present it as though only childish people would let a learned behavior influence them. The statement "Those words upset me cause mommy and daddy told me they should." is obviously meant to belittle people who have learned that offensive language is offensive.
My question is what in life isn't learned? Did you pop out of your mom and look at the sky and say "hey that's what the color blue looks like"? Chances are you look at blue objects and know they are blue because your "mommy and daddy" told you they are. WOW what a loser to grow up and be confined by some learned behavior!
The reason people are offended by offensive language (i know it sounds simple when stated like that but i'll continue to explain in case it's still not clear) is because when people are learning the language they speak, they learn that when people say certain things they are trying to be... wait for it... offensive. What purpose does the word fuck have in the English language other than to be offensive? It can add meaning to a phrase but because of the way it has been defined in our language (as an obscenity) it adds that meaning in an offensive manner. Is it so unreasonable that someone gets offended by an offensive word?
I can understand not wanting it to be offensive, but since the word first appeared around the 1500s and has been considered obscene since then i doubt you'll have much luck getting it changed.
Also for all those who get upset that crap isn't obscene while shit is. Is it really so amazing that the language has a non obscene way of saying the same thing? Saying "I had sex with my wife" is not nearly as vulgar as saying "I fucked my wife" yet people take issue that "ah crap" is seen as not vulgar while "holy shit" is. Sorry but it's the way language works. There are different ways of conveying information and emotions and the fact that there are two different words that covey the same meaning but different emotions is a good thing, get over it (though they are much better ways of expressing yourself than using words like crap all the time).
The people working with the fingerprints have actually been screened. I work for a company that does pre-employment background screening and anyone who ever has access to the prints has to submit to an FBI background check. Also it's not like it's some programmer matching the prints to a criminal database. We simply collect the prints and send them to the FBI where they match them to any records they have and send the rap sheet back. So the people actually matching the prints are FBI agents who have also undergone background checks as part of their job. So yeah it's not some kid in his moms basement making up criminal records and attaching them to job applicants willy-nilly.
Basically it means "Rockstar hasn't said anything about releasing one version of the game for the Xbox360 and another different version for the PS3"
"How many of those 3+ million PS3s are connected to HDTVs?"
Right let's assume that PS3 owners don't have HDTVs but suddenly everyone shopping at walmart does?
Resistance: Fall of Man used a little over 20 gigs on the blu-ray disc, if i had a PS3 i would be grateful to have that all on one disc and not have to swap out ever couple levels. It may not be a necessity, just like when CDs came out you could get by with installing off of 20+ floppies... it's just a nice convenience that i am surprised everyone gets so upset about.
And for the record i have neither PS3, Xbox360 or Wii, so i'm not trying to stick up for anyone and say anyone is better than anyone else.
"No. It always shows the desktops right-side up. It's a 'cube' but only 4 sides, not all 6, are used. Although I wonder what it'd do if you had 6 desktops?"
Then it gives you a hexagon to spin around (still with no top or bottom)
"It's sad that Spanish language radio appears to have more selection than "regular" radio in my area of the US from the limited listening I did."
Nah, i listen to a lot of spanish radio and at least in the western states and on XM it's the same quality as english radio. The same songs get played over and over, and it's controlled the same as any other radio station because they're all owned by the same company.
If you like college sports, MLB or NHL then you had better choose XM. If you like NFL or NBA then you had better choose Sirius. There is no way to listen to college football and later the NFL on the same radio. This is actually a MAJOR draw back for a lot of people.
bah, sorry, i haven't posted in a while and while i did use breaks to make paragraphs i obviously did it wrong (had it on html format rather than plain text) and i got a block of text out. Sorry.
"Most Linux and Mac users aren't heavy gamers" I know this is one of those statistics we throw around that have no basis in reality and i'm sure you didn't mean it as gospel fact, but i would be curious what % of people with an install of Linux or OSX play could be classified as heavy gamers, or even moderate gamers. I bet you would be surprised. You have to understand that there are countless people using computers with OSX or Linux on them. Just because the majority of the install base right now may be corporations it doesn't mean that the small percentage of people using linux/osx at home don't want to play games. I use linux on all my personal home computers and i love playing games on them, i don't want to reboot just to load up a game, and more than that i want all that linux has WHILE i'm playing the game. I would love it if the game i want to play had a native port but if not i will settle for wine/cedega. Just because it's not "their general use" doesn't mean that it's not useful for someone or that it can't become the "general use" of the OS. And when you say "Most people tend to use Windows or consoles for gaming" what other choice do they have? If compnaies like transgaming didn't try to make games cross platform, and companied like ID didn't port to other platforms then there would literally be no choice but to play commercial games on windows. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. If you only make games for windows then people will only play those games on windows.
"Funny, when I set up that Dell to match the specs of the MacBook, it comes out to $2325. I didn't add the Dell UltraSharp quality display at $149, since I'm not sure if it's needed. Either way, I'd say they're still pretty damn comparable. I'm guessing you forgot to add Bluetooth, XP Pro, DVD burner, 1GB memory, 802.11a/b/g card, ATI graphics, etc."
I'm not sure what parts you added cause i added all that stuff and the dell came out to just under 2,000. But out of curiosity why did you add XP Pro? If i could pay someone $10,000 to give me a mac with Softimage installed on it would that make Macs more expensive? Just seems strange when talking about price of hardware to add more software cost.
If we are comparing prices other than just hardware i thought it was interesting that to upgrade the dell to 3 years of warranty it costs $240, while to upgrade the Macbook to the same 3 year warranty it would up your price by $349.
I say if you want to save money then buy the $100 MIT laptop, if you want a good computer then shop around and buy the one that works best for you. Who cares what brand label it has on it... it's only a tool, not a religion.
"Another interesting point is that it seems to me that this is the development arena for the military's new autonomously roving gun platform."
At some point this may be true, but more immediately this is the development arena for the military's new autonomous supply delivery system. If you look at the people that are most often getting attacked it's the supply caravans. If we didn't have to have people in those vehicles then the loss when a caravan is attacked is much less. Just because we can make a robot that can get from point A to point B doesn't mean it can easily identify and lock onto an enemy then fire... think of going to the taxpayers to pay for that.
Actually for a US patent you have 1 year from the time you make the invention public to apply for the patent and if you do it within that time then it counts as if you had filed on the day you made it public.
it's not really an article, it's a website for the game. Posting it would be very difficult.
I heard Hexus has a review up of the new staroffice too...
apparently i didn't proof read well enough (so i'm sure some slashdot nazi will flame me) but when i said the child was a minority i meant a minor. I hope most of the people reading this can understand the intended meaning.
People seem to be screeming about the first ammendment being raped here by some right wing governor in Utah. Can we be resonable and think clearly for a second (i know this is slashdot but let's try.)
So this state passes a law that says ISPs have to filter content for people that want it filtered. Person A living in Utah says they like porn so they don't call their ISP and everything continues like normal. Person B thinks this is a great idea because they don't like porn and don't want their 10 year old "accidentally" getting to a porn site so they call their ISP and have it filtered (which by the way, this isn't really stomping the rights of the child since A) they are a minority and have very few rights as it is and B) the parent pays for the service and is there for the one who is able to control it).
Now this doesn't screem to me that the constitution is being abused. It just tells me that people are silly. The reason i say they are silly is because there are a bunch of ISPs that already filter out porn and those kinds of sites as a service to their (largely christian) customers, so why do we need a bill for this? Just tell everyone that wants the content filtered to switch from their current ISP to one of the christian ISPs.
I agree with this post and think that it is very well written, so long as it is aimed at doing this as a buisness.
I know how to fix a car, thanks to countless hours of being forced to help my dad fix his cars while i was growing up, but i do not choose to work on cars professionally. If a friend asks me to help change his oil then i'm not going to charge him what he would pay for an oil change any where else. Instead i'm going to help him out and know that when i need a ride someplace he isn't going to charge me what a taxi would.
The problem with comparing computer repair to plumming is that there are far more people these days who have a basic working knowledge of computers than there are who have the same knowledge of plumming. This large supply of computer knowledge drives down the price of applying that knowledge.
Also if you had to pay to replace all the plumming in your house, or if you had to pay to replace your car, then you would be talking about tens of thousands of dollars, so you are willing to pay $60/hour to maintain them in order to prevent a major problem later. If you look at a computer the same way, and let's say that an average computer will cost two thousand dollars to completely replace (which is high as we all know), then for similar price to maintain ratio you would expect to pay no more than $6/hour.
"But, not being able to untrain skills has actually made me afraid to level my many 13-18s up any higher because I don't want to permenantly screw them up."
Since you haven't playing in 3 months you probably haven't kept up with the issues, but they have added respec as of about a month ago. I personally quit shortly after it was added, but if that's your only reason for not playing then you may be interested to know that you can now respec (albeit you have to respec all your skills from lvl 1, you have to do a taskforce to get the respec, and you can only get it beginning at lvl 20, then again at 30 and 40)
This question has been answered by him before. Basically when they had it free form it allowed those who knew what they were doing (power gamers) to become super powerful and the casual gamer ended up gimping themselves more often than not. At the time there was no respec possible so all the people who didn't know EXACTLY what to choose were very vocally upset so they changed it to make it more friendly to the average person and balance things out a bit.