Thanks for that. I am tired of all the hype about the Wii, especially since most of the games don't really track the motion that well.
I'm into Call of Duty 3 on the Wii right now. Graphics aren't the best, and I grew tired of the WW2 genre 20 WW2 games ago, but the gameplay is cool...
Nothing comes as close to mouse-keyboard as the nunchik-wiimote combo... I can't stand the thumbsticks on other consoles... I think for FPS, the control on the wii is more natural than anything else
Warioware: Smooth moves is the most overrated game so far
Your problem is you haven't turned it into a drinking game yet.
Sit down with a few cases of beer and play it with some friends. Every time you screw up you take a drink.
Fun times. Already starting some new memories now... Well from what I can remember anyway:)
. Get Rayman's Raving Rabbits, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz or hold out for Mario Party 8.
Wife and I tried Super Monkey Ball and it really wasn't for us. The control is klunky and not very much. I found myself getting quite irritated by the control and the multi-player wasn't nearly as fun as Warioware Smooth Moves.
The problem with web browsers is they were never meant to do any of the things we make them do today
Unfortunately it is what it is.
When the iframe was added to the browser spec a bunch of us used it to feed data to and from a server and do what ajax does today.
Happens all the time - things morph into something they were never intended for. Doesn't make it wrong. If it was wrong browser developers would pare things back. Instead they ( rightly so ) move forward.
WTF??? IIRC, a 5.25" ( double sided ) floppy held 360k and a 3.5" floppy held 720k.
If you go back further to single sided floppies ( like the apple II ), you had 180k on each side. Heck I remember kits that made it so you could punch the other side of the 5.25" disk so you could write on both sides on the Apple II.
1.44MB floppies came out later on when High Density floppies were around, and we briefly had 1.2MB 5.25" floppies as well.
You never saw a reduction by 1/3 in any of those calculations...
Nope, read your EULA. Microsoft has the right to audit at your expense at any time.
Has the EULA ever been tested as a binding contract? Is it set in stone that an EULA is legally binding?
Besides that, I can make you sign a contract that has laws in it that attempt to circumvent statues, but statues always trump contracts. There's laws against sifting through people's financial records - you need to subpoena them afaik. But ianal, I just play one on/.
The concept is referred to as a "contract of adhesion," where insofar as the terms in the contract are those that can be reasonably expected to be found in similar contracts for similar purpose, the contract is considered binding whether or not a "meeting of the minds" has occurred over the material details of the contract. I actually don't like contracts of adhesion at all, and wish they didn't exist. But they do.
In order to have a contract you need: 1) Offer 2) Acceptance 3) Consideration 4) Intention 5) Capacity to contract
Of most interesting is consideration. When you purchase an item from a store there's consideration. I offer my $5 for your pack of cigarettes. Their needs to be consideration on both sides to have a contract.
What I find interesting is that there is no consideration in a EULA; it's one sided. You've already paid for the license, and now you're being asked to agree to the terms after the contract has been made. At no point has any more consideration happened on your part.
Agreeing to an EULA IMO is like making a promise. If I promise someone a trip to Vegas for nothing in return, there is no contract, just a promise and it's unenforceable. I'm quite surprised no one has challenged an EULA under contract law asking where the consideration is when you agree to the therms? Simply agreeing to terms of usage without offering up any consideration is quite interesting because the money is paid to the store, and the store then sends money to the manufacturer.
Of course the problem lies in convincing a judge that a click-through agreement after a contract has been made is not binding, and who wants to battle Micro$oft? I for one don't.
How about a MS product that won't give you a BSOD?
I'm glad the mods were wise enough to mod you down - any OS can suffer that - in Unix and Linux it's called a Kernel Panic. And yes, I've seen enough Kernel pancis in Linux to know that it can happen in any OS...
Leave it up to parents and oneself to make this decision.
Shouldn't booze too then be left to parents? And porn? If my 16 year old by wants a playboy I wouldn't stand in his way. Really, with the internet nowadays porn is readily available anyway.
The reason we have these controls in place is because some parents are truly incompetent and don't parent when they should, and the rest of society pays a price for these parents incompetance.
A parent can still go into an adults only section in a video game store and buy a game for their kid, there's no laws against that afaik.
And enforce them. Cisco uses the trade mark and is required to enforce it in order to protect it... If they didn't follow suit they risk losing that trade mark no?
but QB is the accounting software used by most accountants,
I'd say more accountants work with Peoplesoft, SAP, Great Plains, AccPac than QuickBooks. The world is ripe with accounting software out there, and Quickbooks isn't the only thing, not even close.
Many accountants yes. most? Now you're just talking out your arse.
lol a funny aside, I work with a python dude here that thinks that databases suck and processing csv files is much better because he can do things sooooooo much faster by loading everything into memory.
His last set of code was trying to do about 10 million summaries of about 20 million records over and over...
I had to remind him that databases generally aren't stored in memory and if CSV parsing was so awesome in Python then no one in their right mind would deploy a database at all...
Which divx are you talking about. If you're talking about the one that's pretty much identical to xvid, it's doing fairly well.
I think the GP was referring to the old technology that really sucked ass where you get a movie on a Divx disc and it expires after a couple days, not the Divx/xvid codec.
All anyone has to do is pull up Clinton's finger-wagging "sexual relations" denial. If you're in the public eye and everything you say gets recorded
Give me a break. The Republicans tried to impeach Clinton for lying about that sexual relations, but no one has gone after Dubya for lying about the presence of WMD's and invading a country on false information.
I know this is off topic, and the mods will have at me for this, but I have Karma to burn...
This is the RIAA's opportunity to make the court work for them.
In this case, it's pretty tough to bust a web site complying with the laws in the nation they operate; it's like the US going after a pot dealer in Amsterdam for breaking US laws.
Thing is, you can go to Amsterdam, you can buy the pot, but you can't bring it to the US because it's illegal.
Same with those who bought mp3's from allofmp3.com - sure they can legally purchase an illegal product, but that doesn't create legality of that product.
, that marks you as a (e. g.) smoker, thereby exempting you from both state-funded medical care
That's just stupid. What about a mark for those whe eat KFC 5 days a week? What about a mark for those who go base jumping? What about a mark for snowboarders? What about a mark for obese people? People who don't exercies regularly?
That argument doesn't sit well with me - a mark for smokers and trans-fats consumers. It's an easy slippery slope to fall down, as we all take part in self-inflcting activities. No one in this world has a right to draw a line in the sand and say which activites should exempt you from public health care and which ones don't.
I'm from Canada. Should something like that crap happen I'd be knocking on my Member of Parliament's door so fast...
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Thanks for that. I am tired of all the hype about the Wii, especially since most of the games don't really track the motion that well.
I'm into Call of Duty 3 on the Wii right now. Graphics aren't the best, and I grew tired of the WW2 genre 20 WW2 games ago, but the gameplay is cool...
Nothing comes as close to mouse-keyboard as the nunchik-wiimote combo... I can't stand the thumbsticks on other consoles... I think for FPS, the control on the wii is more natural than anything else
Warioware: Smooth moves is the most overrated game so far
:)
Your problem is you haven't turned it into a drinking game yet.
Sit down with a few cases of beer and play it with some friends. Every time you screw up you take a drink.
Fun times. Already starting some new memories now... Well from what I can remember anyway
. Get Rayman's Raving Rabbits, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz or hold out for Mario Party 8.
Wife and I tried Super Monkey Ball and it really wasn't for us. The control is klunky and not very much. I found myself getting quite irritated by the control and the multi-player wasn't nearly as fun as Warioware Smooth Moves.
The problem with web browsers is they were never meant to do any of the things we make them do today
Unfortunately it is what it is.
When the iframe was added to the browser spec a bunch of us used it to feed data to and from a server and do what ajax does today.
Happens all the time - things morph into something they were never intended for. Doesn't make it wrong. If it was wrong browser developers would pare things back. Instead they ( rightly so ) move forward.
WTF??? IIRC, a 5.25" ( double sided ) floppy held 360k and a 3.5" floppy held 720k.
If you go back further to single sided floppies ( like the apple II ), you had 180k on each side. Heck I remember kits that made it so you could punch the other side of the 5.25" disk so you could write on both sides on the Apple II.
1.44MB floppies came out later on when High Density floppies were around, and we briefly had 1.2MB 5.25" floppies as well.
You never saw a reduction by 1/3 in any of those calculations...
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Nope, read your EULA. Microsoft has the right to audit at your expense at any time.
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Has the EULA ever been tested as a binding contract? Is it set in stone that an EULA is legally binding?
Besides that, I can make you sign a contract that has laws in it that attempt to circumvent statues, but statues always trump contracts. There's laws against sifting through people's financial records - you need to subpoena them afaik. But ianal, I just play one on
But even just talking about CSS, is doing CSS really just design?
.style1 {font: size 8pt; } .style2 {font: size 9pt; } .style39029 { font: size 10pt; }
Especially with all the crappy designers out there who use Dreamweaver and really haven't a clue about CSS and could care less.
We're all stuck with
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The concept is referred to as a "contract of adhesion," where insofar as the terms in the contract are those that can be reasonably expected to be found in similar contracts for similar purpose, the contract is considered binding whether or not a "meeting of the minds" has occurred over the material details of the contract. I actually don't like contracts of adhesion at all, and wish they didn't exist. But they do.
In order to have a contract you need:
1) Offer
2) Acceptance
3) Consideration
4) Intention
5) Capacity to contract
Of most interesting is consideration. When you purchase an item from a store there's consideration. I offer my $5 for your pack of cigarettes. Their needs to be consideration on both sides to have a contract.
What I find interesting is that there is no consideration in a EULA; it's one sided. You've already paid for the license, and now you're being asked to agree to the terms after the contract has been made. At no point has any more consideration happened on your part.
Agreeing to an EULA IMO is like making a promise. If I promise someone a trip to Vegas for nothing in return, there is no contract, just a promise and it's unenforceable. I'm quite surprised no one has challenged an EULA under contract law asking where the consideration is when you agree to the therms? Simply agreeing to terms of usage without offering up any consideration is quite interesting because the money is paid to the store, and the store then sends money to the manufacturer.
Of course the problem lies in convincing a judge that a click-through agreement after a contract has been made is not binding, and who wants to battle Micro$oft? I for one don't.
Here in Canada we have to tip with $5 bills instead. It sucks bad dude...
How about a MS product that won't give you a BSOD?
I'm glad the mods were wise enough to mod you down - any OS can suffer that - in Unix and Linux it's called a Kernel Panic. And yes, I've seen enough Kernel pancis in Linux to know that it can happen in any OS...
He pays Madonna a million bucks to sit on his...
:)
Lap??? Face??? Chihuahua???? What?
Leave it up to parents and oneself to make this decision.
Shouldn't booze too then be left to parents? And porn? If my 16 year old by wants a playboy I wouldn't stand in his way. Really, with the internet nowadays porn is readily available anyway.
The reason we have these controls in place is because some parents are truly incompetent and don't parent when they should, and the rest of society pays a price for these parents incompetance.
A parent can still go into an adults only section in a video game store and buy a game for their kid, there's no laws against that afaik.
l. Do that a hundred and one times, that's a hundred and one years, seperately.
So maybe he'll be sentenced to 101 concurrent 1 year sentences totalling 1 year in jail all together.
IMO, his crimers are not akin to murder which warrants a life sentence in many states ( at least the ones that lack the death penatly ).
But does it run on the iPhone or the Apple TV?
:)
You're thinking of NetBSD that claims to run on everything, not FreeBSD
there's minimal crapware on the OEM OS disk itself.
Never bought a Dell? Bloody hell do they load you up with crapware - My favourite is the 90 day trial of Norton... And the AOL free trial... Etc...
Marks are really only valid if you use them.
And enforce them. Cisco uses the trade mark and is required to enforce it in order to protect it... If they didn't follow suit they risk losing that trade mark no?
but QB is the accounting software used by most accountants,
I'd say more accountants work with Peoplesoft, SAP, Great Plains, AccPac than QuickBooks. The world is ripe with accounting software out there, and Quickbooks isn't the only thing, not even close.
Many accountants yes. most? Now you're just talking out your arse.
lol a funny aside, I work with a python dude here that thinks that databases suck and processing csv files is much better because he can do things sooooooo much faster by loading everything into memory.
His last set of code was trying to do about 10 million summaries of about 20 million records over and over...
I had to remind him that databases generally aren't stored in memory and if CSV parsing was so awesome in Python then no one in their right mind would deploy a database at all...
I don't see what IBM has to gain if their 5Ghz processor
How about licensing their innovation to Intel or AMD?
Which divx are you talking about. If you're talking about the one that's pretty much identical to xvid, it's doing fairly well.
I think the GP was referring to the old technology that really sucked ass where you get a movie on a Divx disc and it expires after a couple days, not the Divx/xvid codec.
All anyone has to do is pull up Clinton's finger-wagging "sexual relations" denial. If you're in the public eye and everything you say gets recorded
Give me a break. The Republicans tried to impeach Clinton for lying about that sexual relations, but no one has gone after Dubya for lying about the presence of WMD's and invading a country on false information.
I know this is off topic, and the mods will have at me for this, but I have Karma to burn...
This is the RIAA's opportunity to make the court work for them.
:)
In this case, it's pretty tough to bust a web site complying with the laws in the nation they operate; it's like the US going after a pot dealer in Amsterdam for breaking US laws.
Thing is, you can go to Amsterdam, you can buy the pot, but you can't bring it to the US because it's illegal.
Same with those who bought mp3's from allofmp3.com - sure they can legally purchase an illegal product, but that doesn't create legality of that product.
Possion of stolen goods is just as bad as theft.
Usual IANAL disclaimer of course applies
Maybe I'm just a fundamentalist, but children first need to learn basic skills like reading and writing.
This is why countries like Japan and China kick the crap out of us in terms of education - they don't have this Montessori approach to education.
, that marks you as a (e. g.) smoker, thereby exempting you from both state-funded medical care
That's just stupid. What about a mark for those whe eat KFC 5 days a week? What about a mark for those who go base jumping? What about a mark for snowboarders? What about a mark for obese people? People who don't exercies regularly?
That argument doesn't sit well with me - a mark for smokers and trans-fats consumers. It's an easy slippery slope to fall down, as we all take part in self-inflcting activities. No one in this world has a right to draw a line in the sand and say which activites should exempt you from public health care and which ones don't.
I'm from Canada. Should something like that crap happen I'd be knocking on my Member of Parliament's door so fast...
http://www.wikipedia.org/
Uhm, what about wikipedia is "Web 2.0" ?
Wikpedia uses no ajax, and uses standard http post methods, and generally is ( somewhat ) static content...
I thought Web 2.0 was supposed to be about user driven content using ajax and a load of other eye candy crap...
The AJAX API [google.com] might be what you're looking for.
That's a client-side lib. What if you want to make the call from a server?