"They are expressing some kind of moral indignation as though they really deserved kudos for what they did, even though it was almost entirely self-serving."
They do deserve Kudos! That's where we differ I guess.
If their mission is to find a way to make Gamers not look like blood lusting psychopaths, and their solution is to be nice and show others that the crazies are isolated cases, mission accomplished. I'd be pissed off too if I went to a lot of trouble to try to shed a stereotype, and got completely ignored. The news probably only wants to report bad things when it comes to video games anyway. That's, I'm sure, what Tycho and gang are feeling. And that's the dismay that he wrote at the bottom of his article about how pissed he was about the coverage was towards the Child's Play Drive.
It's not like you hear in the local news every night that 100 000 mothers in your city still love their children.
"But my bigger problem is that when they don't get the press they want, they turn around and act as though they aren't doing it for press, and that they really are nice guys who just want to help the kids."
And I suppose that every other charity is different? Or that Bill Gates really doesn't care about the tax breaks, he's donating to see the smiles on the faces of the needy cus it warms his heart. Don't act so shocked that someone is doing something for their own benefit, everyone does it from time to time. They did it for the press, and some needy children benefitted from it. When it gets down to brass tacks, I say take what you can and run with it. The world aint getting any nicer. But how many good things come out of less than admirable motives? Not many.
"Heck, most people assume before they know anything that you are working some angle when you do good deeds."
"So the thing that is annoying is, first of all, the whole thing is a front. Second, they don't even have the decency to shrug it off when people realize it's a front."
There was no assuming going on here. There's nothing wrong with trying to get people to realise that a gamer is not a killer. There's nothing wrong with getting publicity to remove media perjudice. If everone thought you were a child rapist, would you go to great lengths to change that slander? OF COURSE! You saying that what they are doing is bad. Of course it is if you still think that gamers are sinister, then you'll automatically find a bad angle, regardless of the story.
And of course you're forgetting something, which I mentioned in my previous post. THEY TOLD EVERYONE THEY WANTED TO GENERATE POSITIVE PUBLICITY FOR GAMERS!!! THERE WAS NO ALTERIOR MOTIVES INVOLVED!!!
Well I don't see anything wrong with what PA did or how they view their accomplishment. For the reason that they set out with the intent to get good press. What's wrong with someone expressing their clear motives? It's much better than those who use the pretense of the word charity to establish their goals.
I agree. Didn't they used to make a day of going to public hangings?
As a whole our society has gotten WAY LESS violent. I'd hate to see what the news would make of the 19th century if knowledge and information was as wide spread as it is today. There'd be a whole different picture.
I digress...Won't somebody think of the children!?
There are not many publications readily available about Li-ion Batteries. These few notes may prove useful.
Lithium Ion rechargeable batteries were originally developed by AEA in the UK. The nominal cell voltage is considered to be 3.6V, as compared with Lead acid at 2V and Nickel Cadmium at 1.2V. When fully charged the Li-Ion cell will be at 4.2V.
If correctly charged, the battery can accept 1000 charge/discharge cycles, but going over voltage by just 2% will reduce this to less than 100 cycles. Charging to 98% voltage will only reduce capacity by about 5% for that charge. That is why Keene Electronics' Li-Ion charger tends towards but never gets to 8.4V.
Li-Ion batteries lose their capacity with every charge/discharge cycle. The slope is such that after about 100 charges the effective capacity is reduced to about 75%-85% of the original.
Li-Ion chemistry inherently does not allow for fast charge, 4 hours is the fastest it can take without being damaged.
Li-Ion batteries stored for any time irreversibly lose capacity. The clock starts from the time the cell is made, and runs whether the battery is used or not. It loses approximately 10%/year.
The main advantage of Li-Ion is that it allows a high power to weight/volume ratio, but this does not come cheap.
Many camera manufacturers have included microprocessor chips in the battery, to give an indication of the remaining usage time. This is inherently inaccurate, because it makes its predictions based on previous usage of the battery, so if you are in standby mode, it will exagerate the time available for recording. I suspect the real reason for the micropressor is to prevent the use of alternative power sources.
The issue of battery capacity is also one that needs clarification. Many cameras which utilise Li-Ion will operate over a voltage range of 8.4V to 5.3V. For a camera which consumes 1.4A at 7.2V in record mode, one could assume that a fully charged 1500mAH capacity battery would allow it to run for about an hour. In practice, since the camera switches off when the voltage drops to 5.3V, much of the charge will be unuseable, and the useful record time will be reduced.
In summary, do not be surprised if your expensive Li-Ion battery does not perform as well as the supplier may have you believe, and be pleased if it is still functions well after a year or so usage.
I found here a short write up in refference to the life and usage, and death of a Li-Ion bettery. It seams that apple's choice for battery is performing as expected. And consumer disappointment fueled by poor consumer research.
I have an even bigger problem with Poster Boy StuntMan, here in Canada anyways. Downloading is legal. Sharing and uploading is illegal. This advertisement (warning) does not reflect the rights of Canadians. They shouldn't show them on Canadian screens.
Alternatively, there is a series of Music downloading ads in Canada that do reflect the rights of Canadians. They focus on sanctioned download services to be safer for your computer and more reliable and trustworthy. But they do not once say that downloading is illegal.
While I was mearly making a joke, this has long been a concern of mine. How socially sensative I may or may not be notwithstanding, it fringes on false advertising, they should give you the movie start time, not the preview start time.
In fact, I came across a petition once (petitiononline.com maybe?) that called for presicely this. I signed it.
We should also consider that we live in the real world. Some of us more than others I guess, but the real world nonetheless. Robots, with feelings, a heart, love capacity, is a fluffy hollywood and star trek plot line, nothing more. It's a toaster!
There is an old theological framework that suggests that "God cannot create anything that superceeds him". By the same token, a human cannot create a superior intelligence, and an equal can only be created through...conventional means ; )
You say "..no matter how sophisticated and intelligent..." It will never be more sophisticated or intelligent than the cumulative human intelligence. Even any learning algorithms will all be based on mathematics than humans already have learned. Therefor robot intelligence is nothing more than a reflection of human self-achievment.
heh...or that's what the robots would like you to believe!!! jk!
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In the first place I wasn't proposing linux to be any kind of solution. I wasn't providing any solution, niether did I find the need to undertake the task of solution-ing (OED).
I was mearly pointing out that most windows/PC users have little computer education.
Since, however, you bring it up... I don't know much about Linux, I've played with RH once here at work. That's about it. I understand it enough though to know that to use it, you must know how to use a computer. And so in a nutshell roundabout way, it kinda does solve that particular problem.
I don't see to many dummies or casual home users using Linux out there do you?
And no ones forcing your hand to use windows (larf). There is always an alternative. You'll have to pay your exit fee like everyone else however.
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Anyone with half a brain and/or access to someone that can take the time to teach them a bit will be perfectly safe from such things.
The windows world is not proliferated with users like you though.
By knowing what to do with something that you didn't ask for, and file types you don't recognize, you can automatically count yourself in the top 95th percentile of the smartest windows/PC users.
Windows thrives on people who know nothing about computers.
The iPod isn't made for someone with a fifty rack cd colection. It's made for the music collector. While I can't consider myself a full out music collector, I am a heavy consumer of music. I'll have spent a handy $7500.00 on my music collection during my life, easily. That's 7500 iTunes purchases. We can see that the numbers begin to add up.
I have 300 cd's. Not an uncommon number for a music afficianado. A co-worker of mine owns twice as much and his Music library will amount to 40-50 gigs.
iPods are not for the casual pop consumer who owns 50 cd's. Compare this to the collector who has 50 Rolling Stones cd's, and the entire pink floyd discography.
Hell I probably have more NIN material than most people have of any music.
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"They are expressing some kind of moral indignation as though they really deserved kudos for what they did, even though it was almost entirely self-serving." They do deserve Kudos! That's where we differ I guess. If their mission is to find a way to make Gamers not look like blood lusting psychopaths, and their solution is to be nice and show others that the crazies are isolated cases, mission accomplished. I'd be pissed off too if I went to a lot of trouble to try to shed a stereotype, and got completely ignored. The news probably only wants to report bad things when it comes to video games anyway. That's, I'm sure, what Tycho and gang are feeling. And that's the dismay that he wrote at the bottom of his article about how pissed he was about the coverage was towards the Child's Play Drive.
It's not like you hear in the local news every night that 100 000 mothers in your city still love their children.
"But my bigger problem is that when they don't get the press they want, they turn around and act as though they aren't doing it for press, and that they really are nice guys who just want to help the kids."
And I suppose that every other charity is different? Or that Bill Gates really doesn't care about the tax breaks, he's donating to see the smiles on the faces of the needy cus it warms his heart. Don't act so shocked that someone is doing something for their own benefit, everyone does it from time to time. They did it for the press, and some needy children benefitted from it. When it gets down to brass tacks, I say take what you can and run with it. The world aint getting any nicer. But how many good things come out of less than admirable motives? Not many.
"Heck, most people assume before they know anything that you are working some angle when you do good deeds."
"So the thing that is annoying is, first of all, the whole thing is a front. Second, they don't even have the decency to shrug it off when people realize it's a front."
There was no assuming going on here. There's nothing wrong with trying to get people to realise that a gamer is not a killer. There's nothing wrong with getting publicity to remove media perjudice. If everone thought you were a child rapist, would you go to great lengths to change that slander? OF COURSE! You saying that what they are doing is bad. Of course it is if you still think that gamers are sinister, then you'll automatically find a bad angle, regardless of the story.
And of course you're forgetting something, which I mentioned in my previous post. THEY TOLD EVERYONE THEY WANTED TO GENERATE POSITIVE PUBLICITY FOR GAMERS!!! THERE WAS NO ALTERIOR MOTIVES INVOLVED!!!
[/sarcasm] formatting to my "...children!?" remark.
I always forget to qualify my jokes.
Well I don't see anything wrong with what PA did or how they view their accomplishment. For the reason that they set out with the intent to get good press. What's wrong with someone expressing their clear motives? It's much better than those who use the pretense of the word charity to establish their goals.
I agree. Didn't they used to make a day of going to public hangings?
As a whole our society has gotten WAY LESS violent. I'd hate to see what the news would make of the 19th century if knowledge and information was as wide spread as it is today. There'd be a whole different picture.
I digress...Won't somebody think of the children!?
I don't see anyone placing the blame of those punks who would drop cinder blocks off of highway bridges, squarely where it belongs.
Tetris has obviously warped the minds of our youth.
When I'm feeling peckish, I like to use Kartoo It searches for items in an interesting way.
I do too. I sing the super mario bros. song in my head or whistle it... that's normal... right?
"Do any slashdotters have experience with their companies pulling the plug on Linux projects due to the SCO trial or is it business as usual?"
No. In fact two new projects have begun.
Lithium Ion Batteries
There are not many publications readily available about Li-ion Batteries. These few notes may prove useful.
Lithium Ion rechargeable batteries were originally developed by AEA in the UK. The nominal cell voltage is considered to be 3.6V, as compared with Lead acid at 2V and Nickel Cadmium at 1.2V. When fully charged the Li-Ion cell will be at 4.2V.
If correctly charged, the battery can accept 1000 charge/discharge cycles, but going over voltage by just 2% will reduce this to less than 100 cycles. Charging to 98% voltage will only reduce capacity by about 5% for that charge. That is why Keene Electronics' Li-Ion charger tends towards but never gets to 8.4V.
Li-Ion batteries lose their capacity with every charge/discharge cycle. The slope is such that after about 100 charges the effective capacity is reduced to about 75%-85% of the original.
Li-Ion chemistry inherently does not allow for fast charge, 4 hours is the fastest it can take without being damaged.
Li-Ion batteries stored for any time irreversibly lose capacity. The clock starts from the time the cell is made, and runs whether the battery is used or not. It loses approximately 10%/year.
The main advantage of Li-Ion is that it allows a high power to weight/volume ratio, but this does not come cheap.
Many camera manufacturers have included microprocessor chips in the battery, to give an indication of the remaining usage time. This is inherently inaccurate, because it makes its predictions based on previous usage of the battery, so if you are in standby mode, it will exagerate the time available for recording. I suspect the real reason for the micropressor is to prevent the use of alternative power sources.
The issue of battery capacity is also one that needs clarification. Many cameras which utilise Li-Ion will operate over a voltage range of 8.4V to 5.3V. For a camera which consumes 1.4A at 7.2V in record mode, one could assume that a fully charged 1500mAH capacity battery would allow it to run for about an hour. In practice, since the camera switches off when the voltage drops to 5.3V, much of the charge will be unuseable, and the useful record time will be reduced.
In summary, do not be surprised if your expensive Li-Ion battery does not perform as well as the supplier may have you believe, and be pleased if it is still functions well after a year or so usage.
I found here a short write up in refference to the life and usage, and death of a Li-Ion bettery. It seams that apple's choice for battery is performing as expected. And consumer disappointment fueled by poor consumer research.
I have an even bigger problem with Poster Boy StuntMan, here in Canada anyways. Downloading is legal. Sharing and uploading is illegal. This advertisement (warning) does not reflect the rights of Canadians. They shouldn't show them on Canadian screens.
Alternatively, there is a series of Music downloading ads in Canada that do reflect the rights of Canadians. They focus on sanctioned download services to be safer for your computer and more reliable and trustworthy. But they do not once say that downloading is illegal.
While I was mearly making a joke, this has long been a concern of mine. How socially sensative I may or may not be notwithstanding, it fringes on false advertising, they should give you the movie start time, not the preview start time.
In fact, I came across a petition once (petitiononline.com maybe?) that called for presicely this. I signed it.
Because "TRAILER" means after the movie.
We should also consider that we live in the real world. Some of us more than others I guess, but the real world nonetheless. Robots, with feelings, a heart, love capacity, is a fluffy hollywood and star trek plot line, nothing more. It's a toaster!
There is an old theological framework that suggests that "God cannot create anything that superceeds him". By the same token, a human cannot create a superior intelligence, and an equal can only be created through...conventional means ; )
You say "..no matter how sophisticated and intelligent..." It will never be more sophisticated or intelligent than the cumulative human intelligence. Even any learning algorithms will all be based on mathematics than humans already have learned. Therefor robot intelligence is nothing more than a reflection of human self-achievment.
heh...or that's what the robots would like you to believe!!! jk!
Let the dry humping commence.
*opens BBEdit*
You're looking good....Mmmmm....It's been a while.....
Apologies to Gabe.
*high five*
In the first place I wasn't proposing linux to be any kind of solution. I wasn't providing any solution, niether did I find the need to undertake the task of solution-ing (OED).
I was mearly pointing out that most windows/PC users have little computer education.
Since, however, you bring it up...
I don't know much about Linux, I've played with RH once here at work. That's about it. I understand it enough though to know that to use it, you must know how to use a computer. And so in a nutshell roundabout way, it kinda does solve that particular problem.
I don't see to many dummies or casual home users using Linux out there do you?
And no ones forcing your hand to use windows (larf). There is always an alternative. You'll have to pay your exit fee like everyone else however.
Anyone with half a brain and/or access to someone that can take the time to teach them a bit will be perfectly safe from such things.
The windows world is not proliferated with users like you though.
By knowing what to do with something that you didn't ask for, and file types you don't recognize, you can automatically count yourself in the top 95th percentile of the smartest windows/PC users.
Windows thrives on people who know nothing about computers.
The iPod isn't made for someone with a fifty rack cd colection. It's made for the music collector. While I can't consider myself a full out music collector, I am a heavy consumer of music. I'll have spent a handy $7500.00 on my music collection during my life, easily. That's 7500 iTunes purchases. We can see that the numbers begin to add up.
I have 300 cd's. Not an uncommon number for a music afficianado. A co-worker of mine owns twice as much and his Music library will amount to 40-50 gigs.
iPods are not for the casual pop consumer who owns 50 cd's. Compare this to the collector who has 50 Rolling Stones cd's, and the entire pink floyd discography.
Hell I probably have more NIN material than most people have of any music.
"Just don't allow cookies. (Yes, it seems too simple)"
I'll agree.
CIRCLE GETS THE SQUARE!!
And with that, they ate SCO. And there was much rejoicing.
yaaay...
Yeah!
*Hides behind NanoGators shoulders.*
Not only that, but now you must buy an eighty dollar video game (namely doom III) in order to validate it's purchase.
HAHA, j00 are teh sux0rs!
Taken from the Wired Article attributed above.
"Meanwhile, I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough..."
Hmm....looks like he said it atleast once. Flaimbait....check