Even if it wasn't stated in the box, it was advertised that it did run Linux. Even people who doesn't need or care about this functionality should stay up to Sony on this. Next time they may remove a funcionality you do care about. Conceptually, it is the same thing as removing the capability of playing Bluray discs.
How do people play RTSs then? Show me a good player of Warcraft, Starcraft or Supcomm and I'll show you a person that can manage at least half a dozen tasks simultaneously.
didn't they? Not many people complained about the size. Today, what makes the bulk of a software release is the media assets included, not the code itself. Since the iPad has some good GBs of space, and most people will fill these with videos and songs, I doubt some added MB from fat binaries would make a difference.
so basically you imply that any depiction of an illegal act is in itself illegal? There is rape porn. There are (lots of movies) depicting murders, robbery. I enjoy fragging people in FPS, and even throwing nukes in RTS. Does that makes me a potential murderer or worse? Taking pleasure in imagining something is not the same thing as doing it. There might be some correlation, I don't deny it, but for me, people who shoot others after viewing violent movies or playing violent games would probably do it anyway. They are attracted to these media because they are mentally unstable, not the contrary. The question is, not only unstable people like these media. In the same way, there must be people who enjoy seeing kids hentai (or however it is called) who are not pedophiles - and I suspect they form the vast majority of the population. Heck, how many people watched 2girls1cup? do you most of these would do it?
because they are DRAWINGS. Artistic depictions. No real people were involved in the manufacturing of the drawing, other than the artists themselves. So no child ever suffered.
The only way you can say drawings hurt real people is by either stating [1] that pedophilia is such a vile thing that it can't even actually be depicted or narrated, because it hurts some kind of society moral conscience (which is exactly what most people defend), OR that [2] drawings somehow furthers demand for real-life child abuse.
The problem with [1] is that it's thoughtcrime, and with [2] is that it hasn't been proved. I don't feel confortable with either one, it seriously hurts what should be a definition of a crime in a civilized, democratic society.
I do acknowledge, though, that there is a real problem with today image processing software such as Photoshop. It is possible to edit a photo of a real child so that it is impossible to know its origin - a real photo depicting someone or an original drawing.
Let's say you take a picture of your 5 yo daughter, in your backyard pool. She's wearing a swimsuit. You publish the photo on a public site, say Flickr, with a license that allows non-commercial use of the photo.
Some weeks later, a policeman bursts in a suspected pedophile home. He finds that picture of your daughter printed, which the suspect has jerked off to (I really hope you don't really have a daughter at this point), along with others pictures of girls about the same age he obtained in a similar manner. Was there any crime commited?
Let's try something harder. Your 16 yo daughter take her own picture doing a sensual pose, perhaps showing her breasts, using her own cellphone. She passes this picture to a friend of hers using SMS/text messages, which passes to another friend, which then passes it to the same supected pedophile of the above case. Was there any crime commited? If so, by whom? What if the picture was taken by your daughter's 18 yo friend, with you daughter knowledge and consent?
On how the reprimand is applied, its intensity, and so on. If there is a real concern from the school board, I'd say it would make a difference. Problem is, most of the times the people responsible see bullying as a nuisance, not as a serious problem that has to be dealt with. They don't want to go to the hassle of educating the bullies on why bullying is bad. Rather, they see the bullied kids as incompetent since they can't deal with it themselves. And the kids do noticed that, which only enhances their despair - bullied kids are usually already lonesome, being seen as a loser by adults that are supposed to be helping them might trigger powerful feelings in the more fragile ones. That said, I think this kind of overly open bullying is a facet of American society, so ultra competitive that it categorizes people as either losers or popular since they are small kids (I am not American, so I might be talking out of my ass here, but that is the impression we got from news such as these).
That's correct, but now at least people will be aware that there is a choice. And perhaps that will lead to people realizing the other choices might provide a more secure web-browsing experience....
Ok, who am I deceiving here?
Who modded this comment troll? Is he a troll just because he doesn't suffer from eyestrain from looking at LCDs? I read many ebooks, thousands of pages at smartphones and internet tablets and never suffered more eyestrain than when reading a dead-tree-paper book. Mod me troll as well.
I might be being naive, but in a discussion about gravity and general relativity you should be aware that Pythagoras theorem is only valid in an Euclidean space, i.e., a flat space. To a physicist, a theorem is worth only as long as it helps him building a model of reality. Math is an abstract subject, and while it is an invaluable tool to a physicist, it is not an end on itself. You may be right that mathematical proofs are "self-contained", but this discussion here is about real life, whatever it is. Math depends on a certain set of axioms, and if these are not representative of the physical reality we live in and seek to understand, this math is not useful. Have you tried measuring angles on a sphere?
In Brasil there is also an explicit provision for a single backup copy of computer programs (they might try and argue that a videogame is not a computer, though).
In 2004 we (in Brazil) had about 406.000 boxes (they were already eletronic voting machines then). That's about 10 times more than Spain at the same year. As stevelington said, we also don't count every box at each polling place (and we didn't do it before switching to eletronic boxes) but take them to a central place. Perhaps your way is faster (as maxwell_demon said below, counting is highly parallelizable, and having more people count makes the results be available faster). But I daresay counting votes is not as easy as it seems. There are null votes, and with a paper vote you might have problems identifying these - and the people at each poll station might not have the authority to decide. Also, I don't know about Spain political system, but Brazil have more than two dozen parties, five or six major ones. That poses additional complications.
Yeah, but what is your population? From Wikipedia, about 46M. Check Bras(z)il's: 190M. Your area? 500.000 square km, versus 8 millions and a half. And bear in mind that some of the brazilian population live in areas that only can be acessed by boat or airplane - not a big fraction, of course, but we have much bigger dispersion than Spain or any other European country.
substitute massive for dense. BH are dense objects, but they don't need to be massive. As long as you squeeze enough mass in a tiny enough place - hence the theoretical possibility of MBH forming - you have a black hole (pardon me if I oversimplified this).
And yet it could be wrong. That's all the previous posts are saying. What would've happened if people got attached to the cutting edge understanding of gravity and electromagnetics during the late 1800's? Stop being a scientific arse and admit that you - or scientists - don't know everything. If they did, there would be no point in building the LHC after all. Science is an exercise in LEARNING.
at least here. I don't know in the US, but here in Brazil (and I guess in most countries) it is simply impossible to have a "law" or treaty be secret and have any legal value. Of course, given enough money, these laws might be approved anyway, public scrutiny and all, and that is the sad part.
Says who? Then all men who perform worse than (pro-)women should compete in women's competitions? Should short and weaker men be allowed in women's baskteball? The rules said that the division is based on genre. There will be people who perform exceptionally well, and sometimes genetics will play a part. Having exceptions is normal. Should we forbid every baskteball player taller than a certain amount over the average to compete since their genetics give them an unfair advantage? That's just nuts.
I always wondered how these haven't taken twitter so far, with all the URLs being shortened. I am not a huge fan of twitter, but it serves me well as a means of getting information quickly from a plethora of sources. But I realy have a bad feeling about people clicking without a second thought in all those shortened URLs. All it takes is to subvert a popular tweeter and bang.
I don't think they did that. Quake was probably compiled as an executable with some changes to allow it to run in their OS. No I didn't RTFA, but I tried to browse their site and it is slashdotted. Perhaps their webserver run on Menuet as well?
he specifically asked to insert a verb, so The Dark Knight is excluded... anyway, I respectfully disagree. Haven't watched in Bruges, Transformers 1 was adequately funny, 2 was a piece of crap, but both Wall-E and Pan's Labyrinth are excellent movies, at least as good as TDK, and possibly better. For once they actually make sense whereas TDK not always does so.
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Even if it wasn't stated in the box, it was advertised that it did run Linux. Even people who doesn't need or care about this functionality should stay up to Sony on this. Next time they may remove a funcionality you do care about. Conceptually, it is the same thing as removing the capability of playing Bluray discs.
If you believe the story, he did tried to return it. He called Apple, and got a ticket that was never answered.
How do people play RTSs then? Show me a good player of Warcraft, Starcraft or Supcomm and I'll show you a person that can manage at least half a dozen tasks simultaneously.
didn't they? Not many people complained about the size. Today, what makes the bulk of a software release is the media assets included, not the code itself. Since the iPad has some good GBs of space, and most people will fill these with videos and songs, I doubt some added MB from fat binaries would make a difference.
the word here is WOULD. He said that, if an iPhone hadn't got multitasking working under the hood, then everything WOULD hang if you ssh'ed into it.
so basically you imply that any depiction of an illegal act is in itself illegal? There is rape porn. There are (lots of movies) depicting murders, robbery. I enjoy fragging people in FPS, and even throwing nukes in RTS. Does that makes me a potential murderer or worse? Taking pleasure in imagining something is not the same thing as doing it. There might be some correlation, I don't deny it, but for me, people who shoot others after viewing violent movies or playing violent games would probably do it anyway. They are attracted to these media because they are mentally unstable, not the contrary. The question is, not only unstable people like these media. In the same way, there must be people who enjoy seeing kids hentai (or however it is called) who are not pedophiles - and I suspect they form the vast majority of the population. Heck, how many people watched 2girls1cup? do you most of these would do it?
because they are DRAWINGS. Artistic depictions. No real people were involved in the manufacturing of the drawing, other than the artists themselves. So no child ever suffered.
The only way you can say drawings hurt real people is by either stating [1] that pedophilia is such a vile thing that it can't even actually be depicted or narrated, because it hurts some kind of society moral conscience (which is exactly what most people defend), OR that [2] drawings somehow furthers demand for real-life child abuse.
The problem with [1] is that it's thoughtcrime, and with [2] is that it hasn't been proved. I don't feel confortable with either one, it seriously hurts what should be a definition of a crime in a civilized, democratic society.
I do acknowledge, though, that there is a real problem with today image processing software such as Photoshop. It is possible to edit a photo of a real child so that it is impossible to know its origin - a real photo depicting someone or an original drawing.
Let's say you take a picture of your 5 yo daughter, in your backyard pool. She's wearing a swimsuit. You publish the photo on a public site, say Flickr, with a license that allows non-commercial use of the photo.
Some weeks later, a policeman bursts in a suspected pedophile home. He finds that picture of your daughter printed, which the suspect has jerked off to (I really hope you don't really have a daughter at this point), along with others pictures of girls about the same age he obtained in a similar manner. Was there any crime commited?
Let's try something harder. Your 16 yo daughter take her own picture doing a sensual pose, perhaps showing her breasts, using her own cellphone. She passes this picture to a friend of hers using SMS/text messages, which passes to another friend, which then passes it to the same supected pedophile of the above case. Was there any crime commited? If so, by whom? What if the picture was taken by your daughter's 18 yo friend, with you daughter knowledge and consent?
Laws can be a mess.
On how the reprimand is applied, its intensity, and so on. If there is a real concern from the school board, I'd say it would make a difference. Problem is, most of the times the people responsible see bullying as a nuisance, not as a serious problem that has to be dealt with. They don't want to go to the hassle of educating the bullies on why bullying is bad. Rather, they see the bullied kids as incompetent since they can't deal with it themselves. And the kids do noticed that, which only enhances their despair - bullied kids are usually already lonesome, being seen as a loser by adults that are supposed to be helping them might trigger powerful feelings in the more fragile ones. That said, I think this kind of overly open bullying is a facet of American society, so ultra competitive that it categorizes people as either losers or popular since they are small kids (I am not American, so I might be talking out of my ass here, but that is the impression we got from news such as these).
That's correct, but now at least people will be aware that there is a choice. And perhaps that will lead to people realizing the other choices might provide a more secure web-browsing experience.... Ok, who am I deceiving here?
Who modded this comment troll? Is he a troll just because he doesn't suffer from eyestrain from looking at LCDs? I read many ebooks, thousands of pages at smartphones and internet tablets and never suffered more eyestrain than when reading a dead-tree-paper book. Mod me troll as well.
I might be being naive, but in a discussion about gravity and general relativity you should be aware that Pythagoras theorem is only valid in an Euclidean space, i.e., a flat space. To a physicist, a theorem is worth only as long as it helps him building a model of reality. Math is an abstract subject, and while it is an invaluable tool to a physicist, it is not an end on itself. You may be right that mathematical proofs are "self-contained", but this discussion here is about real life, whatever it is. Math depends on a certain set of axioms, and if these are not representative of the physical reality we live in and seek to understand, this math is not useful. Have you tried measuring angles on a sphere?
In Brasil there is also an explicit provision for a single backup copy of computer programs (they might try and argue that a videogame is not a computer, though).
In 2004 we (in Brazil) had about 406.000 boxes (they were already eletronic voting machines then). That's about 10 times more than Spain at the same year. As stevelington said, we also don't count every box at each polling place (and we didn't do it before switching to eletronic boxes) but take them to a central place. Perhaps your way is faster (as maxwell_demon said below, counting is highly parallelizable, and having more people count makes the results be available faster). But I daresay counting votes is not as easy as it seems. There are null votes, and with a paper vote you might have problems identifying these - and the people at each poll station might not have the authority to decide. Also, I don't know about Spain political system, but Brazil have more than two dozen parties, five or six major ones. That poses additional complications.
Yeah, but what is your population? From Wikipedia, about 46M. Check Bras(z)il's: 190M. Your area? 500.000 square km, versus 8 millions and a half. And bear in mind that some of the brazilian population live in areas that only can be acessed by boat or airplane - not a big fraction, of course, but we have much bigger dispersion than Spain or any other European country.
substitute massive for dense. BH are dense objects, but they don't need to be massive. As long as you squeeze enough mass in a tiny enough place - hence the theoretical possibility of MBH forming - you have a black hole (pardon me if I oversimplified this).
And yet it could be wrong. That's all the previous posts are saying. What would've happened if people got attached to the cutting edge understanding of gravity and electromagnetics during the late 1800's? Stop being a scientific arse and admit that you - or scientists - don't know everything. If they did, there would be no point in building the LHC after all. Science is an exercise in LEARNING.
at least here. I don't know in the US, but here in Brazil (and I guess in most countries) it is simply impossible to have a "law" or treaty be secret and have any legal value. Of course, given enough money, these laws might be approved anyway, public scrutiny and all, and that is the sad part.
Says who? Then all men who perform worse than (pro-)women should compete in women's competitions? Should short and weaker men be allowed in women's baskteball? The rules said that the division is based on genre. There will be people who perform exceptionally well, and sometimes genetics will play a part. Having exceptions is normal. Should we forbid every baskteball player taller than a certain amount over the average to compete since their genetics give them an unfair advantage? That's just nuts.
I always wondered how these haven't taken twitter so far, with all the URLs being shortened. I am not a huge fan of twitter, but it serves me well as a means of getting information quickly from a plethora of sources. But I realy have a bad feeling about people clicking without a second thought in all those shortened URLs. All it takes is to subvert a popular tweeter and bang.
I don't think they did that. Quake was probably compiled as an executable with some changes to allow it to run in their OS. No I didn't RTFA, but I tried to browse their site and it is slashdotted. Perhaps their webserver run on Menuet as well?
I guess you are technically right, but most people would classify Descent and titles like X-Wing or TIE Fighter in another game category.
IIRC, Descent was one of the first real 3D games - although not an FPS. I didn't see it in the article, does anyone knows which engine it used?
Like what? HD video is degraded on non-HDMI connections? Please elaborate, while I know the DRM is in there, I've never been able to pinpoint it.
he specifically asked to insert a verb, so The Dark Knight is excluded... anyway, I respectfully disagree. Haven't watched in Bruges, Transformers 1 was adequately funny, 2 was a piece of crap, but both Wall-E and Pan's Labyrinth are excellent movies, at least as good as TDK, and possibly better. For once they actually make sense whereas TDK not always does so.