Unfortunately, there are probably laws regarding survailence, so it's unfortunate that things like this cannot happen:
"I'm sorry your honor, I wasn't aware that I didn't have the right to be silent until after the officer cuffed me and put me into your patrol car. I would now like all video survailence of my actions before such to be stricken from the record."
So, you don't have the right to not divulge information about yourself until after you've been arrested because you didn't divulge information about yourself? Why do I have less rights as an individual than an arrested suspect? Why do I lawfully have to divulge my identification if I don't know why I'm being asked for it? (and why is an officer allowed to not answer a question regarding an investigation of me as a suspect when asked?)
"I'm investigating an investigation." No, that's the job of Internal Affairs. He's investigating a situation, and the act of conductiong one is an investigation.
She would not have freaked out if he wasn't holding the door closed in the first place.
His website does not have me believe that the officer stopped out of the blue for no reason. It explains the report of striking.
I find it odd that everyone is equating "Show me identification" to "What is your name?". The former is what actually transpired, while the latter is the only thing required by law for Hiibel to provide. The video shows the officer repeatedly asking to see identification, Hiibel at the onset asks why he should even have it. At that point, I personally would have asked his name, and if he even had any identification on him at all.
Would the officer be placed into additional danger, or would he likely recieve less voluntary information, if the subject knew he was being investigated for a specific potential crime, rather than "an investigation"?
I personally would freely give out my name, but I see no need for an officer to know my drivers license (or social security number as the case may be), age, blood type, criminal record, or anything else by way of giving him my license, unless I knew what I may be potentially charged for. The fifth amendment provides that I shouldn't have to divulge things which may incriminate myself (or lead to the connection of events that do so -- see dissenting court opinions), so why should I?
You didn't read closely enough. Boucher's bill is the DMCRA, which not only imposes restrictions on the scope of the DMCA, but gives the Commission the power to regulate what is required to be visible to the consumer on a package of digital music.
They were pretty much market leader at the time as well. The problem that the Xenon will have, is that they aren't marketing to people that don't already have an Xbox (which is a considerable amount, noting that it's so far behind the PS2 in sales) by giving them a way to buy existing Xbox games without having to buy an Xbox, and be able to play Xenon games as well.
This is the situation I'm in, and they haven't broken past my rough threshold for # of games I want for a console before buying it (which is around 10), being at only 3 or so. If the Xenon was backward compatible, I might be able to include those 3 in with my decisions, even if there are only 5-7 Xenon games I want.
It wasn't even until the PSOne refresh that I even considered buying one, though I would have gotten a PS2 even if I'd passed, with only two PS2 games out that I cared for near launch.
Well, of course you can make out using linux. It's apparently just not free. Just remember that when you see Debian standing at the corner looking real sexy.
I love my computer's hard drive and the ability to store loads of music on it for playback on-demand. The computer isn't the only place music is played, however. Everyone uses CDs anymore. Not everyone buys the newest iWalkman when their existing players just work. I don't want big pieces of plastic that scratch (which doesn't actually happen to my own) and skip (ditto, if you have a good player) easily, but it is commonly available, and cheap (CD-R).
So, you tell us to stop listening to CDs in the car (which nowadays, comes with an in-dash CD player, and not anything more advanced), and offer no replacement technology for that activity?
The infrastructure for a new technology needs to exist before the old is phased out. It's the natural progression for things. Video tapes--both prerecorded and blank--are still being sold and bought, because people still own VHS players that work, and don't want to pay for the newest thing (PVR with DVD-+RAM/Rom/whatever) that does the same basic thing--yet. The analogy to CD/cassette is coming along, but it's also now been 20 years since its inception into the marketplace. DVD hasn't had quite that long, and yet we're still fiddling with recording types, as well as new broadcast formats and media capacities (re: blu-ray etc.).
Best Buy isn't trying to sell me a USB-key for the newest Britney Spears album yet, and until they start doing things like this, CDs won't be going away any time soon.
As for the car, what else should I play in it? All I have at the moment is the factory CD player (or I can install the one I bought for a different vehicle that also plays MP3-CDs, but the same issue remains). Is there a large supply and market available for alternative media players for car stereo systems? I didn't think so. And while we're on the subject, I got rid of my CD Walkman cassette adapter years ago, and I'm not about to do anything similar using some extraneous line-in bullshit. Car clutter sucks.
How are you spending 1/100th of the cost of anyone's CD collection for the same amount of music without doing so illegally? How does an iPod (which is hardware to buy) and perhaps digital songs (which are roughly analagous to the cost of CDs per-track, certainly not on the order of 1/100 the cost) magically reduce the cost of a collection?
Of course, this is all in comparison to circumventing copy protection. It doesn't really matter what the industry sells the music on, people are going to want it for cheaper than the cost of it in the store. If they could get the store to pay them to listen to music, they would do that. Right now, free is the bottom line, and that's what people will use, apart from the cost of time and energy to copy and burn songs onto cheap media they bought at the store.
It's not a brave new world. It's an old, old world, with a lot of tradition. The powers-that-be are going to slow innovation for the longest time possible, which I must say, sucks for all of us that want the new world to just get here already.
His figure was 'over 10%', so anything under the 250HP you mention would have an increase of 'over 10%' by having an increase of 25HP. Just nit-picking. The VW 1.8 turbo is probably closer to 180HP stock, and with an extra 25HP would be more like a 13~14% increase.
(Halo is reaaaal "Xbox exclusive" when you can buy it for PC!)
Wait, you can PLAY Halo for the PC? Mine barely runs! Hrm, I just remembered my new graphics card purchase. Maybe now that I'm two hardware generations ahead I'll be able to run it at a reasonable level of detail.
Plus, that's not even considering the countries who are not recording and reporting their actual pollution figures. Nor does it take into account differences in how these things are even tested between countries.
OTOH I have a bit of trouble with the idea of someone alt-tabbing to and from a ut2004 onslaught to read stuff on the web, or keep an IRC session going. For me, games have always been an attention grabbing thing, and not something I can just leave and comeback to without loosing all the immersion you normally get, but mabey I'm just lousy at multitasking (chat-frag-chat-frag-chat-fragged-chat-frag?).
I suppose it's less common with multiplayer games (once they actually get started), but while setting things up amongst a group of friends, it can be easier to have external programs running. Singleplayer has all sorts of uses. For something like UT, play a quick match, chat, match, chat, etc. There's downtime. For less action-oriented games, there's even more.
Wine et al could go into the power-use category, I think. It's not so much the OS itself that I've always had problems with, rather than installation and hardware compatibility (of course).
Uh, how is dominance of the desktop OS market (Windows) any different from dominance of the console OS market (XNA)? So you won't be able to 'buy' XNA like you can buy Windows separate from a computer; but, it'll be just like buying a computer from your favorite brand. I can see it now:
"Buy the new DELL X-BOX today!"
Microsoft wants to become the underlying software and middleware for console systems, and likely charge the manufacturers of said systems royalties. Yeah, I'd really like this to happen.
There's a difference between 30 seconds rebooting (which is longer on Win2k) and booting back to Linux after gaming, and the half a second it takes to pause a game and half a second to alt-tab to everything else that I've been doing: chatting and looking things up on the internet. I could even be downloading things if I'm not playing online.
Now, combine that with my personal lack of Linux power-use and ability to get dual boot to even work on my machine (which is somewhat of a long story), and anyone else like me probably isn't going to bother. When I'm done gaming, all my stuff is just there.
Yes, AMD has released them for those purposes. The fact that TechReport didn't test them using database query benchmarks is their perrogative. If you didn't see anything you liked on the testing methods page, you probably shouldn't have bothered reading it any more.
I can see from your previous posts that you're a TechReport fanboi and that's fine, but don't try and justify their consumer level report as something useful for IT professionals on Slashdot.
Actually, I think I was trying to point out that it's useful for non- IT professionals on Slashdot, rather than people such as yourself. Still, even in my short term experience with Slashdot itself, IT professionals seem to be only one type of Slashdot reader, among many.
I personally find TechReport useful for good first impressions of new (to me) technology, hardware, and links to the same sorts of things at other sites. Joe Blow benchmarks on typical end-user hardware are good for that. This isn't what you expected (ie, you must be a new visitor there), and I guess my suggestion to you is to either use it as it is, or just not read TechReport. You're don't seem to be particularly interested in what they have to say.
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"I'm sorry your honor, I wasn't aware that I didn't have the right to be silent until after the officer cuffed me and put me into your patrol car. I would now like all video survailence of my actions before such to be stricken from the record."
So, you don't have the right to not divulge information about yourself until after you've been arrested because you didn't divulge information about yourself? Why do I have less rights as an individual than an arrested suspect? Why do I lawfully have to divulge my identification if I don't know why I'm being asked for it? (and why is an officer allowed to not answer a question regarding an investigation of me as a suspect when asked?)
"I'm investigating an investigation." No, that's the job of Internal Affairs. He's investigating a situation, and the act of conductiong one is an investigation.
His website does not have me believe that the officer stopped out of the blue for no reason. It explains the report of striking.
I find it odd that everyone is equating "Show me identification" to "What is your name?". The former is what actually transpired, while the latter is the only thing required by law for Hiibel to provide. The video shows the officer repeatedly asking to see identification, Hiibel at the onset asks why he should even have it. At that point, I personally would have asked his name, and if he even had any identification on him at all.
Would the officer be placed into additional danger, or would he likely recieve less voluntary information, if the subject knew he was being investigated for a specific potential crime, rather than "an investigation"?
I personally would freely give out my name, but I see no need for an officer to know my drivers license (or social security number as the case may be), age, blood type, criminal record, or anything else by way of giving him my license, unless I knew what I may be potentially charged for. The fifth amendment provides that I shouldn't have to divulge things which may incriminate myself (or lead to the connection of events that do so -- see dissenting court opinions), so why should I?
You didn't read closely enough. Boucher's bill is the DMCRA, which not only imposes restrictions on the scope of the DMCA, but gives the Commission the power to regulate what is required to be visible to the consumer on a package of digital music.
I think her term would be up by now.
This is the situation I'm in, and they haven't broken past my rough threshold for # of games I want for a console before buying it (which is around 10), being at only 3 or so. If the Xenon was backward compatible, I might be able to include those 3 in with my decisions, even if there are only 5-7 Xenon games I want.
It wasn't even until the PSOne refresh that I even considered buying one, though I would have gotten a PS2 even if I'd passed, with only two PS2 games out that I cared for near launch.
yes.
Yeah, but it's still all IBM running the show in all three machines. Partnered with Sony for the CELL, and PPC variants for MS and Nintendo.
Well, of course you can make out using linux. It's apparently just not free. Just remember that when you see Debian standing at the corner looking real sexy.
And I suppose Safari isn't a bad name. I mean, with all the spyware/malware/popups/virus/crap on the internet, it's a real jungle out there.
You guys may want to check out radios from Eclipse.
And here all this time I thought that sig was an ironic joke about stereotypes on slashdot.
No.
So, you tell us to stop listening to CDs in the car (which nowadays, comes with an in-dash CD player, and not anything more advanced), and offer no replacement technology for that activity?
The infrastructure for a new technology needs to exist before the old is phased out. It's the natural progression for things. Video tapes--both prerecorded and blank--are still being sold and bought, because people still own VHS players that work, and don't want to pay for the newest thing (PVR with DVD-+RAM/Rom/whatever) that does the same basic thing--yet. The analogy to CD/cassette is coming along, but it's also now been 20 years since its inception into the marketplace. DVD hasn't had quite that long, and yet we're still fiddling with recording types, as well as new broadcast formats and media capacities (re: blu-ray etc.).
Best Buy isn't trying to sell me a USB-key for the newest Britney Spears album yet, and until they start doing things like this, CDs won't be going away any time soon.
As for the car, what else should I play in it? All I have at the moment is the factory CD player (or I can install the one I bought for a different vehicle that also plays MP3-CDs, but the same issue remains). Is there a large supply and market available for alternative media players for car stereo systems? I didn't think so. And while we're on the subject, I got rid of my CD Walkman cassette adapter years ago, and I'm not about to do anything similar using some extraneous line-in bullshit. Car clutter sucks.
How are you spending 1/100th of the cost of anyone's CD collection for the same amount of music without doing so illegally? How does an iPod (which is hardware to buy) and perhaps digital songs (which are roughly analagous to the cost of CDs per-track, certainly not on the order of 1/100 the cost) magically reduce the cost of a collection?
Of course, this is all in comparison to circumventing copy protection. It doesn't really matter what the industry sells the music on, people are going to want it for cheaper than the cost of it in the store. If they could get the store to pay them to listen to music, they would do that. Right now, free is the bottom line, and that's what people will use, apart from the cost of time and energy to copy and burn songs onto cheap media they bought at the store.
It's not a brave new world. It's an old, old world, with a lot of tradition. The powers-that-be are going to slow innovation for the longest time possible, which I must say, sucks for all of us that want the new world to just get here already.
His figure was 'over 10%', so anything under the 250HP you mention would have an increase of 'over 10%' by having an increase of 25HP. Just nit-picking. The VW 1.8 turbo is probably closer to 180HP stock, and with an extra 25HP would be more like a 13~14% increase.
I think that one can only be applied on a case-by-case basis.
At least, that's how it is in Britain... doubtless you Americans use the names the other way round or something
No, in America, we likely just use the word 'cooking' when cooking food in fat.
Wait, you can PLAY Halo for the PC? Mine barely runs! Hrm, I just remembered my new graphics card purchase. Maybe now that I'm two hardware generations ahead I'll be able to run it at a reasonable level of detail.
Plus, that's not even considering the countries who are not recording and reporting their actual pollution figures. Nor does it take into account differences in how these things are even tested between countries.
I suppose it's less common with multiplayer games (once they actually get started), but while setting things up amongst a group of friends, it can be easier to have external programs running. Singleplayer has all sorts of uses. For something like UT, play a quick match, chat, match, chat, etc. There's downtime. For less action-oriented games, there's even more.
Wine et al could go into the power-use category, I think. It's not so much the OS itself that I've always had problems with, rather than installation and hardware compatibility (of course).
Man, and I thought *I* was new here.
You rebel scum!
"Buy the new DELL X-BOX today!"
Microsoft wants to become the underlying software and middleware for console systems, and likely charge the manufacturers of said systems royalties. Yeah, I'd really like this to happen.
Yeah, but even half those people still buy Windows anyway!
Now, combine that with my personal lack of Linux power-use and ability to get dual boot to even work on my machine (which is somewhat of a long story), and anyone else like me probably isn't going to bother. When I'm done gaming, all my stuff is just there.
I can see from your previous posts that you're a TechReport fanboi and that's fine, but don't try and justify their consumer level report as something useful for IT professionals on Slashdot.
Actually, I think I was trying to point out that it's useful for non- IT professionals on Slashdot, rather than people such as yourself. Still, even in my short term experience with Slashdot itself, IT professionals seem to be only one type of Slashdot reader, among many.
I personally find TechReport useful for good first impressions of new (to me) technology, hardware, and links to the same sorts of things at other sites. Joe Blow benchmarks on typical end-user hardware are good for that. This isn't what you expected (ie, you must be a new visitor there), and I guess my suggestion to you is to either use it as it is, or just not read TechReport. You're don't seem to be particularly interested in what they have to say.