It's a seriously good point. Seeing as the parent is the child's "guardian", and therefore responsibile for them - every time they condemn something for leading their kid astray, that parent is admitting, publicly, they're a bad parent.
In the cave-man days, who told the Sabre-Tooth tigers to stop eating the little kids? No-one. Their parents were being real parents and chasing them away with big-ass pointy sticks, not moaning and whining about needing a public committee to oversee a legislative addition to the "Constitution of the Third Cave from the Left". Shoooot. Your kids, your problem.
Well, it's still going on. The US armed forces have "Apache" and "Commanche" helicopters, and use "Tomahawk" cruise missiles. As Noam Chomsky put it, it would be like Nazi Germany having tanks named "Jew" and "Gypsy". Oh, but it's the US, so it must be OK... it has a pretty flag on it... so pretty...
What's the difference? GTA didn't happen, "The Passion" certainly didn't happen like that, and "Saving Private Ryan" had about as much historical insight as my lunch did.
Seriously, just because it looks (or even claims to be) fact-based, doesn't mean to say it is.
What the heck was that you just wrote?? Do you often write really, incredibly, obviously unfounded blanket statements about entire developed countries?
"Germans have a history of building up a meticulous and highly ordered societies, then burning up everything in a orgy of violence and mayhem"
What history was that? Are you talking about the 1st and 2nd world wars? If you've studied history, you'd realise they were part of the same war, a European (and eventually global) 'civil' war.
Germany has learned more than most countries, and has decided to err on the side of caution when it comes to dictatorial implications or nazi imagery, and this was an example of that. Anything regarding the world wars has to be presented in such a way as to educate the viewer about the dangers of [nazi] totalitarianism, as opposed to glorifying it. Hence, nazi swastikas and other imagery are banned in Germany, unless there's a really good reason to have it (ie museums, etc.).
Funnily enough, a video game featuring Germans fighting other countries was looked at with some scrutiny.
Saying this is as simple as "get rid of the red square otherwise we'll see WWIII" is unjustly trivialising a very complex and deep situation.
Germany has a very strong technical sector, and saying they don't innovate is ridiculous. Just thinking a statement like that is even logically viable shows a great insight into your perspective;) It's akin to someone saying "All the French surrender on first hearing a shot" or "All muslims are terrorists" or "All Americans are addicted to twinkies and murder".
We already know about "XP reloaded", and we know that Microsoft introduces functionality with each service pack they release. Those two facts alone prove your point about the stagnation of Windows over the next two years moot...
It's not hard to see why you missed the other definitions of instigate - they don't fit your point so well:-P
Instigate \In"sti*gate\,
To urge on; goad.
To stir up; foment.
I do work for a small company. Our web presence is quite small. I'm influential, as I'm the only guy who actually knows about this stuff. It's not that strange a concept to understand, is it?:)
Oh, and I'm also quite good at what I do. That might have something to do with it.
All they have to do is make sure it can only move in the same directions and extents as a human. Once that's achieved, it can't possibly break your legs off. After all, it's enhancing existing human motions, not inventing new ones.
If you're thinking of the same one I am, they came up with jet-powered shoes, which is a similar yet fundamentally different technology.
This suit enhances strength and load-bearing capability. The jet-shoes enhanced speed alone. There was no back brace or luggage compartment - just big-ass loud shoes:)
Then again, there was the spring-loaded running suit those guys made. It retained almost as much energy running as a Kangaroo (one of the most efficient runners on the world). With it, people could run really fast and jump high, all without power. True, it was massive and you'd look a dick wearing it, but technologically fantastic.
Then don't tell prospective employers you coded VB for a year... sheesh!
Seriously, why on earth are you letting people pigeon-hole you like that? Just find a job you want to do, and tell the interviewer why you're the best at it. Job done.
You can't let one year of your life erradicate 7 previous years. Explain to whoever asks about that 1 year how you were sandwiched in there. I fail to believe all employers are that stupid. Oh, wait...
Before I start this, I must let you know I'm an open-source developer. I've instigated linux use at the company I work for (proving it's more reliable than windows, and cheaper). I moved our web systems from IIS to Apache, from ASP to PHP, and our databases from MSSQL to MySQL. I feel I have to say that before what follows, so I'm not moderated as troll/flamebait/whatever. Even if I am, who cares. I gots to say this:
Microsoft are business partners with SCO. Lots of companies are. There's nothing untoward about that.
Everyone's acting like they met up in a dark alley and handed over a fat envelope stuffed with cash and discussed how best to sabotage Linux. They didn't. It was a perfectly legitimate business deal between two companies.
People here are saying it's anti-Linux. How is that possible? Because they're paying money to SCO? If that were true, everyone who has a SCO license is "anti-Linux". Everyone who even buys a Microsoft license is "anti-Linux". If you think about it for a second, that can't possibly be the case.
It's not like Linux is this great desktop OS that's ripened into something everyone's clamouring to get hold of. Let's face it, it beats the crap out of MS products on the server side, but on the desktop front it's usable, yet not ready for prime-time just yet. There are too many disparate systems for Average Joe to figure out what they do, let alone how to fix them when they go awry/get upgraded.
When Linux is ready for the desktop, people will buy it. Microsoft can't stop that. Nothing can get between the public and good, free stuff. Not even Bill. Until then, instead of attributing Linux's relative obscurity to Microsoft's bad actions, maybe we should start attributing it to the fact end users don't want to edit.conf files to play an MP3, and work on it. After all, step #1 is identifying the problem. As long as we are all barking up the Microsoft tree, we're wasting our energies, and making the Linux community look like a bunch of jealous kids.
Again, I'm a proponent of Linux (the only one at our company:(), and I'd love to see Linux on everyone's desktop. I just think we need to work on the real problems, not the perceived ones.
That's the whole idea of the test - you take a machine that was going to the field, as close to the day as possible (if not on the day), and analyse it completely. We're talking 100% disassembly. Check each component over. Vote using it. Check the registers. Check that the code is the same, etc. It's not hard to do when you have the box right in front of you. Doing it via SSH would be very difficult indeed, however.
Well, the fact you can rattle off the big games for the Mac shows how few there are. Trying that with PC games would lead to headaches.
There's no point arguing that Macs are good games machines - they're not. Speak to games manufacturers and ask them. "Mac support? Maybe in 6 months time.".
Games for the Mac that are on the PC usually come out months and months afterwards.
Powerbook graphics architecture isn't as well developed as the mobile nVidia chipsets (especially not the 5700). That means, a Mac powerbook is second best to the desktop mac, which in turn is second best to a PC.
I'll enjoy my 15-pound laptop that does useful stuff, runs programmes I need, and doesn't cost over $2000 for the most basic model.
It's a moot point, as having to go through that will put anyone off a network. Having that effected, a p2p network would close in days. People would move to the next network, and so it continues.
What inroads? Don't get me wrong - linux is freakin' great, but it's no threat to Windows on the desktop. Microsoft are merely spending a tiny, miniscule amount of their money on hedging their bets for the future. It sounds like a sensible business move, but of course this is slashdot, so it must be a sign of the apocalypse.
They'll put a fire-axe right through it, and pump water in. Simple. They're not trying to protect the paintwork, but stop it exploding. Dinging the hood is the least of their worries:-P
How do you get that information to the person downloading the music without the monitoring company also getting it? Once they have it, they adjust their monitors to pick up on swapped bytes and headers, and they defeat the techniques.
If they enforce monitoring on a P2P network, people will leave the network. They're not bound to a specific network - people will just search on google for the next best filesharing network and join it. They can't ever, ever win this, even with a "war on filesharing".
I mean, after the "war on drugs" it's impossible to buy drugs in the US, right?
With all due respect to macs, the games are slightly lacking.
The article states that you get the 3EGHz, 1gig ram, 120gig hard disk, Windows Pro,.11g wifi for about $2000, which is a lot less than a 17" powerbook with the same features (can you even get a 120gig HDD for a powerbook?)
This is a good machine! It fills the void between desktop and notebook, with a price that's affordable. The only notebook I'm aware of that's trying to fill the void with that much gusto is Dell's Inspiron XPS, which offers up to a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, as well as the stuff you get in this Acer.
Students might love this - they can have desktop performance in something they can take to lectures. slowly. in a cart.:-P
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America says it's the best, yet blatantly isn't. It proves this point day in, day out. It's getting old and laborious.
In the cave-man days, who told the Sabre-Tooth tigers to stop eating the little kids? No-one. Their parents were being real parents and chasing them away with big-ass pointy sticks, not moaning and whining about needing a public committee to oversee a legislative addition to the "Constitution of the Third Cave from the Left". Shoooot. Your kids, your problem.
Well, it's still going on. The US armed forces have "Apache" and "Commanche" helicopters, and use "Tomahawk" cruise missiles. As Noam Chomsky put it, it would be like Nazi Germany having tanks named "Jew" and "Gypsy". Oh, but it's the US, so it must be OK... it has a pretty flag on it... so pretty...
Seriously, just because it looks (or even claims to be) fact-based, doesn't mean to say it is.
"Germans have a history of building up a meticulous and highly ordered societies, then burning up everything in a orgy of violence and mayhem"
What history was that? Are you talking about the 1st and 2nd world wars? If you've studied history, you'd realise they were part of the same war, a European (and eventually global) 'civil' war.
Germany has learned more than most countries, and has decided to err on the side of caution when it comes to dictatorial implications or nazi imagery, and this was an example of that. Anything regarding the world wars has to be presented in such a way as to educate the viewer about the dangers of [nazi] totalitarianism, as opposed to glorifying it. Hence, nazi swastikas and other imagery are banned in Germany, unless there's a really good reason to have it (ie museums, etc.).
Funnily enough, a video game featuring Germans fighting other countries was looked at with some scrutiny.
Saying this is as simple as "get rid of the red square otherwise we'll see WWIII" is unjustly trivialising a very complex and deep situation.
Germany has a very strong technical sector, and saying they don't innovate is ridiculous. Just thinking a statement like that is even logically viable shows a great insight into your perspective ;) It's akin to someone saying "All the French surrender on first hearing a shot" or "All muslims are terrorists" or "All Americans are addicted to twinkies and murder".
nazi.
but the sounds are so much quieter... don't you think they thought of that? :-P
I've heard some emotive rubbish on here before, but that's the kicker. "Commands respect". Whatever, buddy. sheesh. pathetic.
We already know about "XP reloaded", and we know that Microsoft introduces functionality with each service pack they release. Those two facts alone prove your point about the stagnation of Windows over the next two years moot...
Instigate \In"sti*gate\,
To urge on; goad.
To stir up; foment.
I do work for a small company. Our web presence is quite small. I'm influential, as I'm the only guy who actually knows about this stuff. It's not that strange a concept to understand, is it? :)
Oh, and I'm also quite good at what I do. That might have something to do with it.
All they have to do is make sure it can only move in the same directions and extents as a human. Once that's achieved, it can't possibly break your legs off. After all, it's enhancing existing human motions, not inventing new ones.
This suit enhances strength and load-bearing capability. The jet-shoes enhanced speed alone. There was no back brace or luggage compartment - just big-ass loud shoes :)
Then again, there was the spring-loaded running suit those guys made. It retained almost as much energy running as a Kangaroo (one of the most efficient runners on the world). With it, people could run really fast and jump high, all without power. True, it was massive and you'd look a dick wearing it, but technologically fantastic.
Unfortunately for Linux, so will Windows.
Seriously, why on earth are you letting people pigeon-hole you like that? Just find a job you want to do, and tell the interviewer why you're the best at it. Job done.
You can't let one year of your life erradicate 7 previous years. Explain to whoever asks about that 1 year how you were sandwiched in there. I fail to believe all employers are that stupid. Oh, wait...
Microsoft are business partners with SCO. Lots of companies are. There's nothing untoward about that.
Everyone's acting like they met up in a dark alley and handed over a fat envelope stuffed with cash and discussed how best to sabotage Linux. They didn't. It was a perfectly legitimate business deal between two companies.
People here are saying it's anti-Linux. How is that possible? Because they're paying money to SCO? If that were true, everyone who has a SCO license is "anti-Linux". Everyone who even buys a Microsoft license is "anti-Linux". If you think about it for a second, that can't possibly be the case.
It's not like Linux is this great desktop OS that's ripened into something everyone's clamouring to get hold of. Let's face it, it beats the crap out of MS products on the server side, but on the desktop front it's usable, yet not ready for prime-time just yet. There are too many disparate systems for Average Joe to figure out what they do, let alone how to fix them when they go awry/get upgraded.
When Linux is ready for the desktop, people will buy it. Microsoft can't stop that. Nothing can get between the public and good, free stuff. Not even Bill. Until then, instead of attributing Linux's relative obscurity to Microsoft's bad actions, maybe we should start attributing it to the fact end users don't want to edit .conf files to play an MP3, and work on it. After all, step #1 is identifying the problem. As long as we are all barking up the Microsoft tree, we're wasting our energies, and making the Linux community look like a bunch of jealous kids.
Again, I'm a proponent of Linux (the only one at our company :(), and I'd love to see Linux on everyone's desktop. I just think we need to work on the real problems, not the perceived ones.
That's the whole idea of the test - you take a machine that was going to the field, as close to the day as possible (if not on the day), and analyse it completely. We're talking 100% disassembly. Check each component over. Vote using it. Check the registers. Check that the code is the same, etc. It's not hard to do when you have the box right in front of you. Doing it via SSH would be very difficult indeed, however.
There's no point arguing that Macs are good games machines - they're not. Speak to games manufacturers and ask them. "Mac support? Maybe in 6 months time.".
Games for the Mac that are on the PC usually come out months and months afterwards.
Powerbook graphics architecture isn't as well developed as the mobile nVidia chipsets (especially not the 5700). That means, a Mac powerbook is second best to the desktop mac, which in turn is second best to a PC.
I'll enjoy my 15-pound laptop that does useful stuff, runs programmes I need, and doesn't cost over $2000 for the most basic model.
They're playing an unwinnable game, badly.
What inroads? Don't get me wrong - linux is freakin' great, but it's no threat to Windows on the desktop. Microsoft are merely spending a tiny, miniscule amount of their money on hedging their bets for the future. It sounds like a sensible business move, but of course this is slashdot, so it must be a sign of the apocalypse.
"He keeps crapping on the carpet! I thought you said he was house trained?!?"
They'll put a fire-axe right through it, and pump water in. Simple. They're not trying to protect the paintwork, but stop it exploding. Dinging the hood is the least of their worries :-P
If they enforce monitoring on a P2P network, people will leave the network. They're not bound to a specific network - people will just search on google for the next best filesharing network and join it. They can't ever, ever win this, even with a "war on filesharing".
I mean, after the "war on drugs" it's impossible to buy drugs in the US, right?
With all due respect to macs, the games are slightly lacking.
The article states that you get the 3EGHz, 1gig ram, 120gig hard disk, Windows Pro, .11g wifi for about $2000, which is a lot less than a 17" powerbook with the same features (can you even get a 120gig HDD for a powerbook?)
This is a good machine! It fills the void between desktop and notebook, with a price that's affordable. The only notebook I'm aware of that's trying to fill the void with that much gusto is Dell's Inspiron XPS, which offers up to a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, as well as the stuff you get in this Acer.
Students might love this - they can have desktop performance in something they can take to lectures. slowly. in a cart. :-P