I would say that games like HL2 are more like "holonovels" than strictly games. You're watching a story unfold, where you can participate, to an extent, which is one of the things that draws you into the story, but they're really closer to films than playtime.
That doesn't mean they're not fun, too. Just that that is one of the many entertainment options available to us, and I would hope that it does not come to dominate the market to the exclusion of other kinds of games, too. Not every game needs to have a story, but every game that depends on a story should have a good one....
Everyone thought they were so fundamental and obvious that they didn't need to be stated, and they didn't want to create the impression that those were the ONLY rights reserved for the people....
Indeed. The financial industry does not make the stuff. They don't make a single product or service that anyone can use. They're supposed to be the grease that keeps the economy going, not a gigantic industry dominating over other industries.
The occupy wall street movement has viscerally identified a part of the problem. If only they had solutions that would rectify it instead of further empowering the bankers and investment houses. But.. what can you expect from a movement kick-started by an up to $60/year convenience fee charged by a single large national bank.
Apple TV still doesn't support 1080p30. It doesn't support 1080 anything. I'm reserving judgement on whether people want something like it until they put out a product that matches the resolution of the televisions people actually have without relying on the television to upscale its output.
In other words.. they may not be making much money, but they're not really trying, either. It might be that they wouldn't make much money if they bothered to try, but we won't know that until they do.
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side note: why do we have all these devices that take a H.264 or MPEG stream, render the frames, and output those frames to the television? Every television built for the new digital standard already has a built-in capability to translate H.264 and MPEG video into a picture. The devices should just send the compressed stream directly to the television, bypassing the middleman and saving on hardware and power requirements.
Maybe, but the browser app should be persistent, so you can still type and read some of your emails when you're not connected to the network, and have it send and receive stuff when you are.
The other problem with browser apps is that they're often little more than web pages formatted for mobile devices. Even small latency and load times become an issue when every action you take requires a whole new page load in real time.
Gmail DOES support html emails, though. If you're designing server reports to be sent to your gmail account, why not line them up by having the server build an html table?
m4st3rm!nd isn't nearly as complex as you think. It's barely more secure than "password" excepting that password is the first password in the password dictionary...
That's a pretty weak argument. I'm not sure how spot checking the tags of vehicles affects the drivers' right to be secure in their persons, papers, effects and what not.. The tags are there specifically to enable checking. If it can be done automatically, so much the better.
We don't protect rights to make the police have a difficult time finding the guilty and enforcing the laws. We protect rights because they are rights. If you argument is, "this would make it more likely for me to get caught when I'm breaking the law," what you're interested in isn't justice OR liberty. Further, the proper way to mitigate an unjust law is to remove or modify it. Not to capriciously enforce it. That only compounds the injustice.
If you have a corrupt system, no amount of careful wording will do more than stave off the absurdity for ever diminishing periods.
If you don't have a corrupt system, you can use general terms, like, "shall not be infringed," "shall not be violated," "shall not be construed" or "reserved to...or to the people" and even the spirit of what you wrote will be followed.
Indeed. The bailout should never have happened. It would've been one thing to bail out the depositors, but any banks themselves saying they needed the money should've been dissolved, their assets sold off to make the depositors whole, and the depositors can move their money to wherever they want. Local banks maybe.
Credit unions are still part of the federal reserve system btw, so I don't understand why people think they're any less shady than banks. Especially smaller, local banks.
On the other hand, it also means that there is a healthy resale market, It's actually plausible to sell your machine after two years and have the proceeds make a significant dent in buying a current one.
But B&N offers you the option of getting them from PG, whereas amazon does not natively support ePub. If amazon didn't offer them for free, you couldn't get them for free.
Might want to give the touch-screen e-ink nook a try, then. The touch screen accepts swipe gestures, touching sides or middle, and there are two buttons on the side for flipping pages. You don't leave the book itself without touching the n button which is located in a place that you are not likely to hit accidentally across a number of different ways of holding the device. Also, the buttons on the sides can be flipped as to whether the top advances or the bottom advances, to allow the most comfortable holding position.
It actually has fewer features than the first gen nook, but the features it has are pretty well thought out. Also, it accepts ePub natively, which Amazon has yet to allow without wonky conversions for some reason...
And using the software on an iPad, B&N syncs your last page across the devices for purchased books.
Your wording does no better. Indeed the problem is that once you start down the road of trying to form the perfectly worded genie wish, you've already lost. English isn't a programming language, and concepts are broader than can be expressed likewise anyway.
Even with your privacy wording, the sentence will be twisted to mean something absurd, in part because the courts love making absurd rulings, presumably as a motivator to legislatures to play the genie wish game with progressively more wordy and less understandable documents. I suppose we'll always need lawyers, but at the same time, the existence of lawyers only exacerbates the problem, not only by breeding complacency by partially alleviating the issue through careful research, but also by arguing the very absurd interpretations that are sometimes accepted by the courts!
I think that's what solarcity is claiming to do...
There's a lot of hype, though and I wasn't able to figure out where all the money is supposedly coming from / going, so I'm suspicious of shenanigans...
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I would say that games like HL2 are more like "holonovels" than strictly games. You're watching a story unfold, where you can participate, to an extent, which is one of the things that draws you into the story, but they're really closer to films than playtime.
That doesn't mean they're not fun, too. Just that that is one of the many entertainment options available to us, and I would hope that it does not come to dominate the market to the exclusion of other kinds of games, too. Not every game needs to have a story, but every game that depends on a story should have a good one....
Uh.. Have you played mine craft since "classic?" The "goal" is surviving the night... There are plenty of rules and mechanisms...
I'm not sure your definition of "games" even includes scrabble...
Everyone thought they were so fundamental and obvious that they didn't need to be stated, and they didn't want to create the impression that those were the ONLY rights reserved for the people....
Indeed. The financial industry does not make the stuff. They don't make a single product or service that anyone can use. They're supposed to be the grease that keeps the economy going, not a gigantic industry dominating over other industries.
The occupy wall street movement has viscerally identified a part of the problem. If only they had solutions that would rectify it instead of further empowering the bankers and investment houses. But.. what can you expect from a movement kick-started by an up to $60/year convenience fee charged by a single large national bank.
So the real question is..
How can we be sure that the most ardent supporters of prohibition aren't actually funded by those profiting from the smuggling....
Hmmm...
Are we talking about the beta email product that google offers to everyone for free?
If so, there's still a workaround: use imap to get your emails using the client of your choice.
Apple TV still doesn't support 1080p30. It doesn't support 1080 anything. I'm reserving judgement on whether people want something like it until they put out a product that matches the resolution of the televisions people actually have without relying on the television to upscale its output.
In other words.. they may not be making much money, but they're not really trying, either. It might be that they wouldn't make much money if they bothered to try, but we won't know that until they do.
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side note:
why do we have all these devices that take a H.264 or MPEG stream, render the frames, and output those frames to the television? Every television built for the new digital standard already has a built-in capability to translate H.264 and MPEG video into a picture. The devices should just send the compressed stream directly to the television, bypassing the middleman and saving on hardware and power requirements.
Maybe, but the browser app should be persistent, so you can still type and read some of your emails when you're not connected to the network, and have it send and receive stuff when you are.
The other problem with browser apps is that they're often little more than web pages formatted for mobile devices. Even small latency and load times become an issue when every action you take requires a whole new page load in real time.
Gmail DOES support html emails, though. If you're designing server reports to be sent to your gmail account, why not line them up by having the server build an html table?
m4st3rm!nd isn't nearly as complex as you think. It's barely more secure than "password" excepting that password is the first password in the password dictionary...
DId you not read the xkcd a few weeks ago about this very subject?
It's an iPod touch. After two weeks, the back's going to be so scratched that you won't even know it was engraved....
That's a pretty weak argument. I'm not sure how spot checking the tags of vehicles affects the drivers' right to be secure in their persons, papers, effects and what not.. The tags are there specifically to enable checking. If it can be done automatically, so much the better.
We don't protect rights to make the police have a difficult time finding the guilty and enforcing the laws. We protect rights because they are rights. If you argument is, "this would make it more likely for me to get caught when I'm breaking the law," what you're interested in isn't justice OR liberty. Further, the proper way to mitigate an unjust law is to remove or modify it. Not to capriciously enforce it. That only compounds the injustice.
Been in a coma for the past 9 years, have we?
If you have a corrupt system, no amount of careful wording will do more than stave off the absurdity for ever diminishing periods.
If you don't have a corrupt system, you can use general terms, like, "shall not be infringed," "shall not be violated," "shall not be construed" or "reserved to...or to the people" and even the spirit of what you wrote will be followed.
Don't surveys also indicate that most /.ers don't even read the whole summary even once?
If there isn't any quinine in it, it's not a gin and tonic. You want to get malaria or something?
I've always wondered whether the gin was supposed to help the quinine go down, or the other way around.....
Unfortunately, however, both groups intersect the set of people who have access to sensitive information.....
Indeed. The bailout should never have happened. It would've been one thing to bail out the depositors, but any banks themselves saying they needed the money should've been dissolved, their assets sold off to make the depositors whole, and the depositors can move their money to wherever they want. Local banks maybe.
Credit unions are still part of the federal reserve system btw, so I don't understand why people think they're any less shady than banks. Especially smaller, local banks.
On the other hand, it also means that there is a healthy resale market, It's actually plausible to sell your machine after two years and have the proceeds make a significant dent in buying a current one.
But B&N offers you the option of getting them from PG, whereas amazon does not natively support ePub. If amazon didn't offer them for free, you couldn't get them for free.
Might want to give the touch-screen e-ink nook a try, then. The touch screen accepts swipe gestures, touching sides or middle, and there are two buttons on the side for flipping pages. You don't leave the book itself without touching the n button which is located in a place that you are not likely to hit accidentally across a number of different ways of holding the device. Also, the buttons on the sides can be flipped as to whether the top advances or the bottom advances, to allow the most comfortable holding position.
It actually has fewer features than the first gen nook, but the features it has are pretty well thought out. Also, it accepts ePub natively, which Amazon has yet to allow without wonky conversions for some reason...
And using the software on an iPad, B&N syncs your last page across the devices for purchased books.
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Your wording does no better. Indeed the problem is that once you start down the road of trying to form the perfectly worded genie wish, you've already lost. English isn't a programming language, and concepts are broader than can be expressed likewise anyway.
Even with your privacy wording, the sentence will be twisted to mean something absurd, in part because the courts love making absurd rulings, presumably as a motivator to legislatures to play the genie wish game with progressively more wordy and less understandable documents. I suppose we'll always need lawyers, but at the same time, the existence of lawyers only exacerbates the problem, not only by breeding complacency by partially alleviating the issue through careful research, but also by arguing the very absurd interpretations that are sometimes accepted by the courts!
Missed it by that much....
I think that's what solarcity is claiming to do...
There's a lot of hype, though and I wasn't able to figure out where all the money is supposedly coming from / going, so I'm suspicious of shenanigans...
Zombies have a goal....