I would agree with you if they where selling an application, they are not. They are selling a system and using windows on that system was a poor choice for a number of security reasons including not being able to produce source code. Had they gone with other closed source smaller oses they could trim it down to the bare min needed and supply the source. I know when I worked with QNX getting source from them was just an NDA away and we where only buy several hundread licenses.
Being that I have to work with LM every day, I would like to tell you how they make any choice.
1. Find the most logical aproach quicly throw this one out its to logical others may be able to come and steel it.
2. Find the cheapest aproach throw this out we cant make money on cheap.
3. Find the most difficult and awkward way of designing the product so that it will take 20 times the budget and time to make work then require a 5 thousand man staff of LM employees to operate and maintain because of its complexity.
Because lucas arts will be unable to resist making some crappy light saber dueling game, And every Star Wars geek will have to own it, No matter how bad it is.
On another note I will buy an XBOX-360 PS3 and Revalution. But the only one im realy excited about is the nintendo.
a messed up parent has every right to mess up their 12 year old child.A parent has the right to teach a child any values they wish. And the government should only step in if the parrent is abusing that child.Who are you or anyone to tell me or anyone else they are a messed up parrent messing up their child. If you realy want to help all those messed up children, you should take all the money and time spent trying to regulate movies, smokes, games etc.. and put it into public education.
Um I get this feature from my basic cable, its called on demand and and I can go look at a list of movies and play them anytime I want for a fee or because I have some subscription movie channels I can watch any of the movies on those channels anytime I want for no extra charge. This seems to little to late too me.
Assumption #1: God gave us free will. (because he loves us)
Assumption #2: God is omniscient.
Since God already knows all our future actions, we no longer have free-will; al our actions are pre-determined. So humanity's free will and God's omniscience are mutually exclusive; you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Im no bible thumper (I'm an agnostic) but your logic is flawed. God is omniscent meaing basicly everything happens at once now then and later are all the same. So in a sense everything has already happened in an omiscent beings eyes. So your statement is like saying everyone in the past didn't have free will because we know now what happend. They had free will at the time they made the choice.
FTFA "would save the equivalent of 10,000 barrels of oil a day". What they are realy saing is we would save electricty (gereated from coal, wind, solar, nuke, and a very few oil powerplants), equivilent to that of burning 10,000 barrels of oil. Why did they phrase it that way? to make it sound like some how this would reduce the amount of oil.
I realy have to wonder also if they didn't use the same study that they tried to use in 2001 when the tried looking at this before.
No 100 - 150 dollars an hour is a fair price... I was a professional computer tech for 2-3 years. The company I worked for charged 100 dollars an hour for standard non networked computers to be fixed, and 130 an hour to fix network problems. I have since moved into programing but I do work on the side sometimes, I charge 100 an hour any less would not be worth it to me (I might as well do it for free which I do for friends/family). Those few clients I have worked for call me back when they get in real trouble and are always happy with my work. Thats how I like it.
All of you you See ID fanatics get out of my lane you are wasting my time. And doubly so for those that insist on calling a manager over or some of the other dumb crap people have done in these postings. If you can't simply follow the rules for making a transaction (ie sign card, sign recipt) Then please don't shop or possibly just wear a hat that says Im an a** hole so I don't get behind you in line. I mean I could write "check for birth marck on ass" The clerk doesn't need to do it thats not how the card works. I bet you are all the same people that have a coupon that says internet only and think "Hey they will accept this at the store".
If the music was in a plain mp3 format this would work out as far as I'm concerned. I don't buy online music, And my CD purchases are low, 2 a year. But at a nickle a song I can see myself spending 5-10 dollars a month on music. So as far as I am concerned the the music industry would be going from like 22 to 120 dollars a year from me. I would personaly spend as much (buyling less songs) for a dime a song. However at 25 cents a song my buying would drop to 1-2 dollars a month.
On another point From TFA: And it would destroy record companies' incentive to invest in new acts, Pfohl said.
and exactly how would a plan that required selling more songs cause record companies to want to produce less?
I am a contractor for the government and things usualy play out like this:
Governemt contact "I want a system that can do (insert wild fantasy here)"
(this is called the requirements phase) Contractor "I have written a full specification to provide you your dream"
Government contact weighs specification on a scale. Governemt contact "looks good"
2 weeks before delivery
Governemt contact "It doesn't have a CD-ROM drive in it does it?" Contractor "yes the entire system boots from CD-ROM" Governemt contact "No good, people could play music on this critical system" Contractor "But it doesnt have speakers!" Governemt contact "NO CD-ROM"
Contractor scambles to reove the CD-ROM from the design
so the specification thing doesn't help.
The government is built to protect the rights of the people to be free. As long as that freedom does not infringe on others rights. This freedom also alows us to dictate our own moral code, that we may follow as long it does not affect the rights of other.
... We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men.
(Note, by the way, that the philosophical underpinnings of the nation place the endowment of those rights at creation -- not at birth, not at the time that citizenship is attained, but at the creation of the individual...)
So now you are saying that creation happens at conception? The same thing as saying life begins at conception. Not to mention that the quote as it is written litteraly ment Men and only men not women or children or slaves. We as a more advanced society have overcome the poor implamentation of a good idea and use the word men to mean citizens.
Non citizens do not have the same rights that citizens have. Look at all the noncitizens we kill around the world every day (Iraq is a good example).
1. When is an embryo "life"? Moral Question
2. At some arbitrary time? Repeat of qustion 1
3. When it's in a woman's womb? Repeat of question 1
4. When it's "wanted" by someone as the product of actions to create a child? Repeat of question 1
5. When and how does it become life? Repeat of question 1
6. What's the magic cutoff? Repeat of question 1
7. When and why is it ok to destroy it? Legal Question
8. When it can exist on its own? Irelivent or just another repeat of quesiton 1
What does "exist on its own" mean? slightly clarification of question 8
so breakling that down you have 2 questions
1. When is an embryo "life"? Moral Question
2. When and why is it ok to destroy it? Legal Question
since 1 is a moral question its none of the governments buisness. So we are left with 1 question
1. When and why is it ok to destroy it? Legal Question
which legaly is a matter of rights. The thing that needs to be decided first is when does an embryo have rights.
Dogs are alive but we can kill them when we feel we don't want them legaly because they have no rights.
Hacking = Breaking and entering
DOS = criminal mischief?
Pirateing = Shop lifting
I personaly would like to see what kind of sentence a real world DOS would get. Say you get a chain lock and put it on the front door of convience store. Or better yet in the middle of the night brick up all the doors.
The difference is people are dumb and have been taught by the media (movies and TV) to be afraid of technology. So they are even more afraid of those that can use that technology and terrified by the idea that someone may missuse it.
Ok I worked for a company that I did basicly just this for a few years. I would drive to a small buisness/schools/homes and fix computers. I realy started to hate the job because 90% of the time you are the bad guy.
That being said I do a few jobs here and there on the side for customers that arn't a pain in the butt. I charge what I feel is worth my free time. Generaly I charge #100 an hour 1 hour min. I do not warent my work I do not come back for free. If I come to your house/buisness you will be charged at least $100. If people don't like this attitude they won't call me (which I am just fine with, I have a job). But there are those that understand this and when they realy need help they call and I help them and they pay.
Because the PSP isnt designed as the ultimate game device. It is designed as the ultimate in tecno fassion. So a small loss in function for greater over all visable apeal is worth it. This article explains how Japans tech is basicly marketed to the teenage school girls.
I see shadows like this all the time. An object small cloud or something casts a shadow that shadow can be seen as a line of darkness against a light background. Just so happens the shadow is falling on the lighs sensor making it come on. Still 1 in a million picture though.
Cell phone already have manditory GPS systems in it now just put RFID recievers in them and wham. you can locate everyone in an area with a license with a phone call...
Fable: its the best steak ever realy come out to my house and ill give it to.
Customer:/Walks to houes
Fable: Heres that apple i promised isnt it the best apple you ever tasted.
Customer: it is a very good apple but wheres that steak.
Well thats what the game feels like to me anyway the game was hyped as being this large game with things you did early in the game affecting the outcome of the game later.
In actuality the game is a small game that is fairly tightly scripted and things you do seem to have very little to do with the outcome later in the game.
SPOILER WARNING!
for example at one point you get to choose wether or not to kill the bandit king. If you do kill him his friends send assassins to kill you to avenge his death. If you don't kill him he sends assassins to kill you for showing him up.
and my favorite:
At one point in time you get to fight and presumanbly kill a certain character to win the heart of a lady. In the end the character apears from no where and helps you out no matter if you optionaly "killed" him. Ok its possible he didnt die he was just defeated but you have his helmet in your inventory and he is still wearing it!
Im glad that games like this still come out... It reminds me of the old industry sims like detroit or ports of call. They arnt real exciting but fun to waste a few hours with. And if the game would be 2 player it would make it alot better.
If your going to ban violent video games you better ban those peskey books.... Lets see Running Man comes to mind as the same theme as the game. I think books are actualy worse for you because you have to visualize the violence yourself! Books are even unrated any kid can go and pickup a book about violence and sex, oh wait they are made to read those books by school.
Anyway everyone thinks its dumb to ban books its also dumb to ban video games.... if you cant tell reality from fantasy youll be dropping anvils on
your friends heads after watching the Road Runner!
Im rambling but this whole subject pisses me off because it is just a repeat of past events Books, Rock and Roll, Pen And Paper roll playing games.. All these things have been blamed on kids killing each other. When one becomes more exceptable or a better target comes out stupid people jump all over it I mean who today thinks that areosmith is the Devil?
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I would agree with you if they where selling an application, they are not. They are selling a system and using windows on that system was a poor choice for a number of security reasons including not being able to produce source code. Had they gone with other closed source smaller oses they could trim it down to the bare min needed and supply the source. I know when I worked with QNX getting source from them was just an NDA away and we where only buy several hundread licenses.
Being that I have to work with LM every day, I would like to tell you how they make any choice. 1. Find the most logical aproach quicly throw this one out its to logical others may be able to come and steel it. 2. Find the cheapest aproach throw this out we cant make money on cheap. 3. Find the most difficult and awkward way of designing the product so that it will take 20 times the budget and time to make work then require a 5 thousand man staff of LM employees to operate and maintain because of its complexity.
Because lucas arts will be unable to resist making some crappy light saber dueling game, And every Star Wars geek will have to own it, No matter how bad it is. On another note I will buy an XBOX-360 PS3 and Revalution. But the only one im realy excited about is the nintendo.
Just paste the intro from fallout infront of Mad Max.
Don't get em wrong this is one of my all time favorite games I just don't think it would make a good movie.
there should not be any government censorship
a messed up parent has every right to mess up their 12 year old child.A parent has the right to teach a child any values they wish. And the government should only step in if the parrent is abusing that child.Who are you or anyone to tell me or anyone else they are a messed up parrent messing up their child. If you realy want to help all those messed up children, you should take all the money and time spent trying to regulate movies, smokes, games etc.. and put it into public education.
Um I get this feature from my basic cable, its called on demand and and I can go look at a list of movies and play them anytime I want for a fee or because I have some subscription movie channels I can watch any of the movies on those channels anytime I want for no extra charge. This seems to little to late too me.
Assumption #1: God gave us free will. (because he loves us)
Assumption #2: God is omniscient.
Since God already knows all our future actions, we no longer have free-will; al our actions are pre-determined. So humanity's free will and God's omniscience are mutually exclusive; you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Im no bible thumper (I'm an agnostic) but your logic is flawed. God is omniscent meaing basicly everything happens at once now then and later are all the same. So in a sense everything has already happened in an omiscent beings eyes. So your statement is like saying everyone in the past didn't have free will because we know now what happend. They had free will at the time they made the choice.
FTFA "would save the equivalent of 10,000 barrels of oil a day". What they are realy saing is we would save electricty (gereated from coal, wind, solar, nuke, and a very few oil powerplants), equivilent to that of burning 10,000 barrels of oil. Why did they phrase it that way? to make it sound like some how this would reduce the amount of oil.
I realy have to wonder also if they didn't use the same study that they tried to use in 2001 when the tried looking at this before.
is Battle tech the cresent hawks' inception.
No 100 - 150 dollars an hour is a fair price... I was a professional computer tech for 2-3 years. The company I worked for charged 100 dollars an hour for standard non networked computers to be fixed, and 130 an hour to fix network problems. I have since moved into programing but I do work on the side sometimes, I charge 100 an hour any less would not be worth it to me (I might as well do it for free which I do for friends/family). Those few clients I have worked for call me back when they get in real trouble and are always happy with my work. Thats how I like it.
All of you you See ID fanatics get out of my lane you are wasting my time. And doubly so for those that insist on calling a manager over or some of the other dumb crap people have done in these postings. If you can't simply follow the rules for making a transaction (ie sign card, sign recipt) Then please don't shop or possibly just wear a hat that says Im an a** hole so I don't get behind you in line. I mean I could write "check for birth marck on ass" The clerk doesn't need to do it thats not how the card works. I bet you are all the same people that have a coupon that says internet only and think "Hey they will accept this at the store".
If the music was in a plain mp3 format this would work out as far as I'm concerned. I don't buy online music, And my CD purchases are low, 2 a year. But at a nickle a song I can see myself spending 5-10 dollars a month on music. So as far as I am concerned the the music industry would be going from like 22 to 120 dollars a year from me. I would personaly spend as much (buyling less songs) for a dime a song. However at 25 cents a song my buying would drop to 1-2 dollars a month.
On another point From TFA:
And it would destroy record companies' incentive to invest in new acts, Pfohl said.
and exactly how would a plan that required selling more songs cause record companies to want to produce less?
I am a contractor for the government and things usualy play out like this:
Governemt contact "I want a system that can do (insert wild fantasy here)"
(this is called the requirements phase)
Contractor "I have written a full specification to provide you your dream"
Government contact weighs specification on a scale.
Governemt contact "looks good"
2 weeks before delivery Governemt contact "It doesn't have a CD-ROM drive in it does it?"
Contractor "yes the entire system boots from CD-ROM"
Governemt contact "No good, people could play music on this critical system"
Contractor "But it doesnt have speakers!"
Governemt contact "NO CD-ROM"
Contractor scambles to reove the CD-ROM from the design
so the specification thing doesn't help.
The government is built to protect the rights of the people to be free. As long as that freedom does not infringe on others rights. This freedom also alows us to dictate our own moral code, that we may follow as long it does not affect the rights of other.
... We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men.
(Note, by the way, that the philosophical underpinnings of the nation place the endowment of those rights at creation -- not at birth, not at the time that citizenship is attained, but at the creation of the individual...)
So now you are saying that creation happens at conception? The same thing as saying life begins at conception. Not to mention that the quote as it is written litteraly ment Men and only men not women or children or slaves. We as a more advanced society have overcome the poor implamentation of a good idea and use the word men to mean citizens.
Non citizens do not have the same rights that citizens have. Look at all the noncitizens we kill around the world every day (Iraq is a good example).
This is myt view on your questions:
1. When is an embryo "life"? Moral Question
2. At some arbitrary time? Repeat of qustion 1
3. When it's in a woman's womb? Repeat of question 1
4. When it's "wanted" by someone as the product of actions to create a child? Repeat of question 1
5. When and how does it become life? Repeat of question 1
6. What's the magic cutoff? Repeat of question 1
7. When and why is it ok to destroy it? Legal Question
8. When it can exist on its own? Irelivent or just another repeat of quesiton 1
What does "exist on its own" mean? slightly clarification of question 8
so breakling that down you have 2 questions
1. When is an embryo "life"? Moral Question
2. When and why is it ok to destroy it? Legal Question
since 1 is a moral question its none of the governments buisness. So we are left with 1 question
1. When and why is it ok to destroy it? Legal Question
which legaly is a matter of rights. The thing that needs to be decided first is when does an embryo have rights.
Dogs are alive but we can kill them when we feel we don't want them legaly because they have no rights.
Hacking = Breaking and entering
DOS = criminal mischief?
Pirateing = Shop lifting
I personaly would like to see what kind of sentence a real world DOS would get. Say you get a chain lock and put it on the front door of convience store. Or better yet in the middle of the night brick up all the doors.
The difference is people are dumb and have been taught by the media (movies and TV) to be afraid of technology. So they are even more afraid of those that can use that technology and terrified by the idea that someone may missuse it.
Ok I worked for a company that I did basicly just this for a few years. I would drive to a small buisness/schools/homes and fix computers. I realy started to hate the job because 90% of the time you are the bad guy.
That being said I do a few jobs here and there on the side for customers that arn't a pain in the butt. I charge what I feel is worth my free time. Generaly I charge #100 an hour 1 hour min. I do not warent my work I do not come back for free. If I come to your house/buisness you will be charged at least $100. If people don't like this attitude they won't call me (which I am just fine with, I have a job). But there are those that understand this and when they realy need help they call and I help them and they pay.
Because the PSP isnt designed as the ultimate game device. It is designed as the ultimate in tecno fassion. So a small loss in function for greater over all visable apeal is worth it. This article explains how Japans tech is basicly marketed to the teenage school girls.
I see shadows like this all the time. An object small cloud or something casts a shadow that shadow can be seen as a line of darkness against a light background. Just so happens the shadow is falling on the lighs sensor making it come on. Still 1 in a million picture though.
I found this in my research but I cant find any real specs about the thing: Pyro A/V Link
News Man: Mr President how do you feel about the death of AOL
Voice over: Before the president answers let me say AOL is not dead
Mr. President: This is a pivital point in history
Cell phone already have manditory GPS systems in it now just put RFID recievers in them and wham. you can locate everyone in an area with a license with a phone call...
Fable: its the best steak ever realy come out to my house and ill give it to. Customer: /Walks to houes
Fable: Heres that apple i promised isnt it the best apple you ever tasted.
Customer: it is a very good apple but wheres that steak.
Well thats what the game feels like to me anyway the game was hyped as being this large game with things you did early in the game affecting the outcome of the game later.
In actuality the game is a small game that is fairly tightly scripted and things you do seem to have very little to do with the outcome later in the game.
SPOILER WARNING! for example at one point you get to choose wether or not to kill the bandit king. If you do kill him his friends send assassins to kill you to avenge his death. If you don't kill him he sends assassins to kill you for showing him up. and my favorite: At one point in time you get to fight and presumanbly kill a certain character to win the heart of a lady. In the end the character apears from no where and helps you out no matter if you optionaly "killed" him. Ok its possible he didnt die he was just defeated but you have his helmet in your inventory and he is still wearing it!
Im glad that games like this still come out... It reminds me of the old industry sims like detroit or ports of call. They arnt real exciting but fun to waste a few hours with. And if the game would be 2 player it would make it alot better.
If your going to ban violent video games you better ban those peskey books.... Lets see Running Man comes to mind as the same theme as the game. I think books are actualy worse for you because you have to visualize the violence yourself! Books are even unrated any kid can go and pickup a book about violence and sex, oh wait they are made to read those books by school. Anyway everyone thinks its dumb to ban books its also dumb to ban video games.... if you cant tell reality from fantasy youll be dropping anvils on your friends heads after watching the Road Runner! Im rambling but this whole subject pisses me off because it is just a repeat of past events Books, Rock and Roll, Pen And Paper roll playing games.. All these things have been blamed on kids killing each other. When one becomes more exceptable or a better target comes out stupid people jump all over it I mean who today thinks that areosmith is the Devil?