Yeah, because evaporative cooling wasn't invented yet (isn't built into our bodies or anything), and can't work in the desert where anything wet will evaporate and cause that cooling effect...
(Just for the benefit of those that don't get your reference.)
Just for the record, the ancient Egyptians knew to place covered wooden trays of water into wet sand to make ice. When the once-wet sand is dry, you have ice.
Correction: USB 2.0 has a theoretical peak higher than Firewire 400. The difference in real speed lies in the isochronous mode that USB lacks.
Basically, USB allows one device to talk on the wire at a time. So if you have a USB 2.0 HDD and a USB 1.1 mouse on the same bus, they get equal time, but the mouse wastes 99% of the bus for 50% of the time, for an overall loss of about 49%. So you only get half the speed you're supposed to get.
Firewire's isochronous mode allows devices that use more than their fair share (they max out the bus and beg for more) to "borrow" the unused bandwidth during the time slot belonging to a device that doesn't use the full bandwidth. So while a FW scanner might only use 50Mbps, a HDD on the same bus might be transferring a file and "borrow" the other 350Mbps, even during the scanner's time slot. This is why Firewire outshines USB in raw data transfer in all but the most scripted of Intel's tests (Intel invented USB).
So, the moral of the story: If the HDD is the ONLY thing connected to that USB bus (that port and probably the one next to it on the PC), then, yes, it might be a bit faster than FW400. If it's sharing a USB bus, it's going to be much slower, and may not be fast enough for video.
Actually, what we got here in the US was Animal Crossing+. They re-released AC as AC+ in Japan and added the e-Reader stuff that was standard in the US version.
Your car insurance doesn't pay when you crash your own car. It's not an accident, it's your own stupidity, and they don't pay.
Similarly, if you cause yourself harm with drugs (or food, or poison, or power tools, or...) then you should only be covered for emergency services, not for long-term "repairs" for damage you've caused yourself. This allows your stomach to be pumped if you ingest too much of something, but does not cover treatments for liver/kidney/heart/brain damage from long-term abuse. Then you pay more if you're a druggie idiot. Meanwhile, those of us with some self-control can enjoy a diversion once in a while and not be lawbreakers or socially penalized for a single indiscretion.
As for the others who argue with the reply that "alcohol is a drug too!", well, alcohol is a drug, but it's one that has measurable food value (it contains carbohydrates and such). While it modifies your mood, the effect is much less stressful to the body than that of "illicit" drugs such as marijuana. Alcohol inhibits brain function by masquerading as an "easy" food source to your body's cells, even though it's complex and not ready to be used by those cells. Your liver and pancreas eventually even things out and you return to normal. Marijuana instead has no measurable food value and distributes extremely complex non-food chemicals (not carbs, not proteins) throughout your body, which attach to various types of cells and need to be forcibly removed by the immune system. This can take months and is much more taxing on your body's defenses. The stress relief gained through moderate alcohol use is actually a small net gain, while the same stress relief with marijuana is a huge net loss in terms of allowing your body to rejuvinate itself.
No, you just hear "developers! developers! developers! developers!" chanted for 5-10 minutes while Ballmer catches his breath after all that chair-throwing.
Legalizing these drugs (and others) serves two purposes:
1) It allows for the users without self-restraint to remove themselves from the picture, usually through death. It sounds hardhearted, but this really is the only way to convince some people. This has the side effect of showing a generation of would-be users just how awful addiction really is, and during their childhood to top it off!
2) It allows law enforcement to get back to its REAL job - enforcing laws to benefit society. There's nothing beneficial in forcing useless people to stop killing themselves. Allow them to die and enforce the laws that benefit the "greater good". Now, this doesn't mean that we should turn a blind eye when someone in their death throes decides to stir trouble for everyone else. If you murder, steal, etc. you should still be held accountable for that.
I don't think drugs are good. Not even marijuana. But I think that people who are stupid enough to harm themselves should be allowed to. It's a long-forgotten concept here in America... "Freedom" they used to call it. Free will and the ability to exercise it are a necessity. Consequences should arise from conflicting interests, not from arbitrary rules.
They'll do it one of two ways: A - They'll put the modem inside the house, run RF cable up to an antenna that down converts the 2.5ghz signal into something used by conventional cable systems and use a regular DOCSIS compliant cablemodem. B - They'll embed everything in the antenna and you'll be screwed/unable to change the broadcast frequency. My money's on B.
They'll do both. They'll go with (A) if you're far enough out from their nearest tower and they think your signal will be weak. They'll go with (B) first if they think they can.
No harder to lock a rogue connection to a WISP's network than it is to knock 'em off a cable providers.
It's called "volume control", and, yes, they can do it. They change your SLA on the fly, thus telling your modem to slow down. If your modem fails to respond to the SLA change, they bring out the banhammer, and good luck getting their DHCP system to give you a new IP. And just for the record, those "static IPs" that you buy... they're just reserved DHCP-ed addresses and aren't really static at all.
Apple's talking-head people have said more than once that they won't change the case designs during the Intel switchover. They're worried about losing "the Mac faithful" if they do. The general reasoning behind this is this: everyone knows about the Intel switch. Some people are vocal about how bad it is for Apple to do this. So to prove that their systems are "still Macs" and not just "shiny PC's" Apple is leaving the form factor alone until the switch is done.
Mac Minis didn't change. iMacs didn't change. PowerBook/MacBook Pros didn't change. PowerMac/Mac Pros didn't change. The only system that changed was the iBook/MacBook, and it didn't change very much. And really, they're targetting the non-Mac-faithful crowd with those anyway, so it's not as critical for that product.
AIFF at 11kHz, mono, 16-bit with Intel 10:1 or IMA 8:1 compression (both types are lossless) would be better. That would come out to roughly 100kB per minute of audio.
In fact, with that Intel 10:1 compression around, I never quite understood what the big deal was with MP3. It's still just ~10:1 compression (unless you destroy the sound quality, then it's about 15:1), but it's lossy. Now it's so common that all kinds of extra stuff handles it automatically and it makes more sense to use it (more devices work with it).
As for "open standards", well, it doesn't get much more open than AIFF audio. It is, after all, the Audio Interchange File Format. It's quite well documented, and is widely supported.
1) Get a sound meter (dB meter, noise level meter, or whatever it's called where you are) and call the cops again. Show the meter to the officer. 2) Buy big speakers and send some noise his direction that he CAN hear. I recommend NES chiptunes. 3) Disconnect the device without his knowledge. He can't hear it, so he can't tell if it's working or not. 4) Kick the neighbor in the nuts. If he gets angry, kick him in the nuts again. If he threatens you, proceed to #5. 5) Shoot him. You didn't need the curmudgeonly bastard anyway. Take his stuff and tell his family he went on vacation to BFE. Be sure to dispose of his body properly - through a wood chipper, then burn the chunks. Invite other young neighbors over for BBQ. Display a big cookbook with a cover that says "To Serve Annoying Old Neighbors".
(And just for the humor impaired, options 4 and 5 are not serious. I am not the voice in your head telling you to assault or kill your neighbor. That voice is named Larry. I'm Matt.)
What I would absolutely love is to have an Asterisk server that used its "modem" as a connection to a land-line. (Finally! A good use for a WinModem!)
When calling in, it would: - "Time-shift" by a second or two unless a receiver is picked up. - Timeshifting allows it to detect a fax and decode it into a TIFF, then deposit that TIFF on the filesystem or in an email inbox. - Timeshifting allows it to detect caller ID info and compare to a black/white list system. - For faxes, non-whitelist numbers are automatically disconnected. - For voice, only blacklisted numbers get auto-disconnection. - Record voice-mail/answering messages direct-to-disk as MP3 audio, tagging them with timestamp and caller ID data in the ID3 tags.
When calling out, it would: - Detect local numbers and "911" and route it to the PSTN connection. - Detect long-distance numbers and route it through VoIP. - Allow "mobius faxing" against people you hate.
This would solve problems with telemarketers much in the same way spam filtering keeps inboxes clean. Sure, it's not perfect. But it would be sooooooo cool to be able to mobius fax an outbound line from a telemarketer.
The average price for NES games was: Big-name games: $50 Lesser-known games: $40 Budget games: $30 Greatest Hits: $20
For SNES, that changed to: Big-name: $60 Lesser-known: $45 Budget: $25 Greatest Hits: $30
To compare/contrast, the Genesis (at roughly the same time) was like this: Big-name: $60 Lesser-known: $40 Budget: $20 Greatest Hits: $30
The N64 stepped it up to: Big-name: $60-$80 (depending on raw-cart costs for the much larger ROM chips) Lesser-known: $60 Budget: $50 Greatest Hits: $50
And the reason Nintendo got so much flack for "high prices" was because the PSX (using much cheaper CD's) was priced like this: Big-name: $50 Lesser-known: $40 Budget: $30 Greatest Hits: $20
Pretty much everyone that has made disk-based games has priced them at the PSX/NES pricing structure ever since.
The Gamecube controller uses the same hardware as the N64 one. It does not detect direction and speed. It's a 512x512 "grid". (Don't ask me why they used a 9-bit number on each axis. It's a barely noticeable increase in precision.)
As for starting the system with the stick off-center, that's a feature, not a bug. The stick auto-calibrates every time the system starts up. If you happen to have the stick tilted at startup, it calibrates that as the center "neutral point", thus when the stick goes back to neutral, it's being sensed as tilted the opposite direction from where you had it when you turned the system on. You can force the system to auto-calibrate at any time by pressing L+R+Start. This works for both the N64 and the Gamecube.
If you have a Mac and want Civ IV, buy Civ IV. Aspyr has long been a beacon of hope in the otherwise-dark Mac gaming world, and they just came through with Civ IV a month or two ago.
DS9 was a "gem" because of competition. Babylon 5 was airing during the same period as DS9, thus Star Trek started to look a bit lame (compared to what it was before... ?). So they stepped it up a notch. And when B5 ended its run, they stopped competing and went back to... well, Voyager.
Is it possible that the however million people who bought halo actually like it as a game?
Entirely. But I think his point was that they call it the "best FPS ever". And they're clearly wrong. That title obviously belongs to Deus Ex. He's just saying that these people pretend to be "hardcore" gamers because they think it makes them "cool". That makes them "posers". Posers are attracted to the PlayStation/Xbox brands more than the "kiddie" Nintendo brand that might make them "uncool" if they were to be seen playing one.
Personally, I fall into a category at the opposite end of the spectrum: the curmudgeon. I'm a Nintendo fanboy for life. I got my first NES when I was 8, I got the SNES when I was 13, the N64 when I was 16. I have one of every type of Nintendo system, with the exception of the Gameboy Color. Yes, that means I have a Virtual Boy. (I picked it up for $30 when Wal-mart was closing them out.) I play Nintendo games because I remember the "glory days" when I was a kid (NES and SNES era). I own a PSX, but only because I wanted to play FF7 and FF8 without glitches that emulators of the late 90's produced (CVGS, I'm looking at you). And also... you kids get off my lawn!
I think you know this already... I will buy a Wii. I will not buy an Xbox360 or a PS3.
The reason the US refuses to use the metric system is:
1) Switching from one arbitrary measurement to another arbitrary measurement is pointless. Making a "metric system" that isn't arbitrary would fix this issue. 2) People are lazy. They've learned imperial measurements and see no benefits to switching (see #1), and therefore are loathe to expend time to learn a new system. 3) Imperial units are more "organic" than metric units. The tip of the thumb is about an inch long. The forearm is about a foot and a half. The foot is about a foot (surprise!). This makes them easier to "eyeball" when working with things that don't have a tight tolerance (read: most stuff normal people work on).
I'm sure there are more reasons, but these seem to be the ones people cite the most. I don't think most Americans even know the metric system is French. We tend to blame England for that sort of tomfoolery.
Perhaps you missed the time when Steve Jobs threw a camera at a stage flunkie when things refused to work. Or when Quake 3 locked up during a demo on the keynote.
What amazes me is that around here, all of those that decry the NSA wiretapping, Gitmo, loss of privcy, et al., have no problem with the gov't running health care, and all sorts of programs.
It shouldn't amaze you. There's a fundamental difference between wiretapping/imprisonment/loss of privace and socialist programs. We understand wiretapping (et al) are bad. We have yet to understand how bad socialist programs can be. It's the usual lack of ability to learn from others' mistakes. About 95% of the population doesn't believe things that don't happen to them personally, from what I can tell. It only stands to reason that entire social groupings collectively act in a similar manner.
As for the article summary, I would also like to point out that the current regime is not theocratic in any sense. Theocracy is a governmental system where God is actively ruling over the people. Rebuplicans are not theocrats. They want to be in charge rather than having God in charge, so they're actually completely opposed to theocracy. (Disclaimer: I am a theocrat. I believe that no human government can rule, should rule, or even has the right to rule.)
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Yeah, because evaporative cooling wasn't invented yet (isn't built into our bodies or anything), and can't work in the desert where anything wet will evaporate and cause that cooling effect...
(Just for the benefit of those that don't get your reference.)
Just for the record, the ancient Egyptians knew to place covered wooden trays of water into wet sand to make ice. When the once-wet sand is dry, you have ice.
Correction: USB 2.0 has a theoretical peak higher than Firewire 400. The difference in real speed lies in the isochronous mode that USB lacks.
Basically, USB allows one device to talk on the wire at a time. So if you have a USB 2.0 HDD and a USB 1.1 mouse on the same bus, they get equal time, but the mouse wastes 99% of the bus for 50% of the time, for an overall loss of about 49%. So you only get half the speed you're supposed to get.
Firewire's isochronous mode allows devices that use more than their fair share (they max out the bus and beg for more) to "borrow" the unused bandwidth during the time slot belonging to a device that doesn't use the full bandwidth. So while a FW scanner might only use 50Mbps, a HDD on the same bus might be transferring a file and "borrow" the other 350Mbps, even during the scanner's time slot. This is why Firewire outshines USB in raw data transfer in all but the most scripted of Intel's tests (Intel invented USB).
So, the moral of the story: If the HDD is the ONLY thing connected to that USB bus (that port and probably the one next to it on the PC), then, yes, it might be a bit faster than FW400. If it's sharing a USB bus, it's going to be much slower, and may not be fast enough for video.
My response: "I've played on Live with all the 13 year olds cussing in my ear. I don't think I want to see them."
I believe the term you want is "Shitcock", also known as John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory (G.I.F.T.).
Actually, what we got here in the US was Animal Crossing+. They re-released AC as AC+ in Japan and added the e-Reader stuff that was standard in the US version.
Your car insurance doesn't pay when you crash your own car. It's not an accident, it's your own stupidity, and they don't pay.
Similarly, if you cause yourself harm with drugs (or food, or poison, or power tools, or...) then you should only be covered for emergency services, not for long-term "repairs" for damage you've caused yourself. This allows your stomach to be pumped if you ingest too much of something, but does not cover treatments for liver/kidney/heart/brain damage from long-term abuse. Then you pay more if you're a druggie idiot. Meanwhile, those of us with some self-control can enjoy a diversion once in a while and not be lawbreakers or socially penalized for a single indiscretion.
As for the others who argue with the reply that "alcohol is a drug too!", well, alcohol is a drug, but it's one that has measurable food value (it contains carbohydrates and such). While it modifies your mood, the effect is much less stressful to the body than that of "illicit" drugs such as marijuana. Alcohol inhibits brain function by masquerading as an "easy" food source to your body's cells, even though it's complex and not ready to be used by those cells. Your liver and pancreas eventually even things out and you return to normal. Marijuana instead has no measurable food value and distributes extremely complex non-food chemicals (not carbs, not proteins) throughout your body, which attach to various types of cells and need to be forcibly removed by the immune system. This can take months and is much more taxing on your body's defenses. The stress relief gained through moderate alcohol use is actually a small net gain, while the same stress relief with marijuana is a huge net loss in terms of allowing your body to rejuvinate itself.
So, either you can't control your mouth, or you don't know how to use the three shells.
I'm just hoping we don't ban toilet paper. Shells don't sound comfortable.
No, you just hear "developers! developers! developers! developers!" chanted for 5-10 minutes while Ballmer catches his breath after all that chair-throwing.
Legalizing these drugs (and others) serves two purposes:
1) It allows for the users without self-restraint to remove themselves from the picture, usually through death. It sounds hardhearted, but this really is the only way to convince some people. This has the side effect of showing a generation of would-be users just how awful addiction really is, and during their childhood to top it off!
2) It allows law enforcement to get back to its REAL job - enforcing laws to benefit society. There's nothing beneficial in forcing useless people to stop killing themselves. Allow them to die and enforce the laws that benefit the "greater good". Now, this doesn't mean that we should turn a blind eye when someone in their death throes decides to stir trouble for everyone else. If you murder, steal, etc. you should still be held accountable for that.
I don't think drugs are good. Not even marijuana. But I think that people who are stupid enough to harm themselves should be allowed to. It's a long-forgotten concept here in America... "Freedom" they used to call it. Free will and the ability to exercise it are a necessity. Consequences should arise from conflicting interests, not from arbitrary rules.
They'll do it one of two ways: A - They'll put the modem inside the house, run RF cable up to an antenna that down converts the 2.5ghz signal into something used by conventional cable systems and use a regular DOCSIS compliant cablemodem. B - They'll embed everything in the antenna and you'll be screwed/unable to change the broadcast frequency. My money's on B.
They'll do both. They'll go with (A) if you're far enough out from their nearest tower and they think your signal will be weak. They'll go with (B) first if they think they can.
No harder to lock a rogue connection to a WISP's network than it is to knock 'em off a cable providers.
It's called "volume control", and, yes, they can do it. They change your SLA on the fly, thus telling your modem to slow down. If your modem fails to respond to the SLA change, they bring out the banhammer, and good luck getting their DHCP system to give you a new IP. And just for the record, those "static IPs" that you buy... they're just reserved DHCP-ed addresses and aren't really static at all.
Apple's talking-head people have said more than once that they won't change the case designs during the Intel switchover. They're worried about losing "the Mac faithful" if they do. The general reasoning behind this is this: everyone knows about the Intel switch. Some people are vocal about how bad it is for Apple to do this. So to prove that their systems are "still Macs" and not just "shiny PC's" Apple is leaving the form factor alone until the switch is done.
Mac Minis didn't change. iMacs didn't change. PowerBook/MacBook Pros didn't change. PowerMac/Mac Pros didn't change. The only system that changed was the iBook/MacBook, and it didn't change very much. And really, they're targetting the non-Mac-faithful crowd with those anyway, so it's not as critical for that product.
AIFF at 11kHz, mono, 16-bit with Intel 10:1 or IMA 8:1 compression (both types are lossless) would be better. That would come out to roughly 100kB per minute of audio.
In fact, with that Intel 10:1 compression around, I never quite understood what the big deal was with MP3. It's still just ~10:1 compression (unless you destroy the sound quality, then it's about 15:1), but it's lossy. Now it's so common that all kinds of extra stuff handles it automatically and it makes more sense to use it (more devices work with it).
As for "open standards", well, it doesn't get much more open than AIFF audio. It is, after all, the Audio Interchange File Format. It's quite well documented, and is widely supported.
"You're a bastard, aren't you?"
To which you reply: "In the flesh, on the run, and taking your lagers with me!"
Several (disjointed) ideas sprang to mind:
1) Get a sound meter (dB meter, noise level meter, or whatever it's called where you are) and call the cops again. Show the meter to the officer.
2) Buy big speakers and send some noise his direction that he CAN hear. I recommend NES chiptunes.
3) Disconnect the device without his knowledge. He can't hear it, so he can't tell if it's working or not.
4) Kick the neighbor in the nuts. If he gets angry, kick him in the nuts again. If he threatens you, proceed to #5.
5) Shoot him. You didn't need the curmudgeonly bastard anyway. Take his stuff and tell his family he went on vacation to BFE. Be sure to dispose of his body properly - through a wood chipper, then burn the chunks. Invite other young neighbors over for BBQ. Display a big cookbook with a cover that says "To Serve Annoying Old Neighbors".
(And just for the humor impaired, options 4 and 5 are not serious. I am not the voice in your head telling you to assault or kill your neighbor. That voice is named Larry. I'm Matt.)
I find how everyone only supports Ipod very frustrating
Ahhh... yes. Mac users' revenge. I speak for Mac users everywhere when I say, "Cry me a river."
What I would absolutely love is to have an Asterisk server that used its "modem" as a connection to a land-line. (Finally! A good use for a WinModem!)
When calling in, it would:
- "Time-shift" by a second or two unless a receiver is picked up.
- Timeshifting allows it to detect a fax and decode it into a TIFF, then deposit that TIFF on the filesystem or in an email inbox.
- Timeshifting allows it to detect caller ID info and compare to a black/white list system.
- For faxes, non-whitelist numbers are automatically disconnected.
- For voice, only blacklisted numbers get auto-disconnection.
- Record voice-mail/answering messages direct-to-disk as MP3 audio, tagging them with timestamp and caller ID data in the ID3 tags.
When calling out, it would:
- Detect local numbers and "911" and route it to the PSTN connection.
- Detect long-distance numbers and route it through VoIP.
- Allow "mobius faxing" against people you hate.
This would solve problems with telemarketers much in the same way spam filtering keeps inboxes clean. Sure, it's not perfect. But it would be sooooooo cool to be able to mobius fax an outbound line from a telemarketer.
The average price for NES games was:
Big-name games: $50
Lesser-known games: $40
Budget games: $30
Greatest Hits: $20
For SNES, that changed to:
Big-name: $60
Lesser-known: $45
Budget: $25
Greatest Hits: $30
To compare/contrast, the Genesis (at roughly the same time) was like this:
Big-name: $60
Lesser-known: $40
Budget: $20
Greatest Hits: $30
The N64 stepped it up to:
Big-name: $60-$80 (depending on raw-cart costs for the much larger ROM chips)
Lesser-known: $60
Budget: $50
Greatest Hits: $50
And the reason Nintendo got so much flack for "high prices" was because the PSX (using much cheaper CD's) was priced like this:
Big-name: $50
Lesser-known: $40
Budget: $30
Greatest Hits: $20
Pretty much everyone that has made disk-based games has priced them at the PSX/NES pricing structure ever since.
The Gamecube controller uses the same hardware as the N64 one. It does not detect direction and speed. It's a 512x512 "grid". (Don't ask me why they used a 9-bit number on each axis. It's a barely noticeable increase in precision.)
As for starting the system with the stick off-center, that's a feature, not a bug. The stick auto-calibrates every time the system starts up. If you happen to have the stick tilted at startup, it calibrates that as the center "neutral point", thus when the stick goes back to neutral, it's being sensed as tilted the opposite direction from where you had it when you turned the system on. You can force the system to auto-calibrate at any time by pressing L+R+Start. This works for both the N64 and the Gamecube.
If you have a Mac and want Civ IV, buy Civ IV. Aspyr has long been a beacon of hope in the otherwise-dark Mac gaming world, and they just came through with Civ IV a month or two ago.
DS9 was a "gem" because of competition. Babylon 5 was airing during the same period as DS9, thus Star Trek started to look a bit lame (compared to what it was before... ?). So they stepped it up a notch. And when B5 ended its run, they stopped competing and went back to... well, Voyager.
Is it possible that the however million people who bought halo actually like it as a game?
Entirely. But I think his point was that they call it the "best FPS ever". And they're clearly wrong. That title obviously belongs to Deus Ex. He's just saying that these people pretend to be "hardcore" gamers because they think it makes them "cool". That makes them "posers". Posers are attracted to the PlayStation/Xbox brands more than the "kiddie" Nintendo brand that might make them "uncool" if they were to be seen playing one.
Personally, I fall into a category at the opposite end of the spectrum: the curmudgeon. I'm a Nintendo fanboy for life. I got my first NES when I was 8, I got the SNES when I was 13, the N64 when I was 16. I have one of every type of Nintendo system, with the exception of the Gameboy Color. Yes, that means I have a Virtual Boy. (I picked it up for $30 when Wal-mart was closing them out.) I play Nintendo games because I remember the "glory days" when I was a kid (NES and SNES era). I own a PSX, but only because I wanted to play FF7 and FF8 without glitches that emulators of the late 90's produced (CVGS, I'm looking at you). And also... you kids get off my lawn!
I think you know this already... I will buy a Wii. I will not buy an Xbox360 or a PS3.
The reason the US refuses to use the metric system is:
1) Switching from one arbitrary measurement to another arbitrary measurement is pointless. Making a "metric system" that isn't arbitrary would fix this issue.
2) People are lazy. They've learned imperial measurements and see no benefits to switching (see #1), and therefore are loathe to expend time to learn a new system.
3) Imperial units are more "organic" than metric units. The tip of the thumb is about an inch long. The forearm is about a foot and a half. The foot is about a foot (surprise!). This makes them easier to "eyeball" when working with things that don't have a tight tolerance (read: most stuff normal people work on).
I'm sure there are more reasons, but these seem to be the ones people cite the most. I don't think most Americans even know the metric system is French. We tend to blame England for that sort of tomfoolery.
Trace Memory.
I wish they'd make the Myst games for DS. I know you can wedge 2GB onto a memory card the size of a DS cart, so it should be possible.
They haven't singled out an ethnicity and made them wear yellow badges yet
I fully expect to be tagged with a purple triangle one of these days.
Perhaps you missed the time when Steve Jobs threw a camera at a stage flunkie when things refused to work. Or when Quake 3 locked up during a demo on the keynote.
There are several more in this video.
What amazes me is that around here, all of those that decry the NSA wiretapping, Gitmo, loss of privcy, et al., have no problem with the gov't running health care, and all sorts of programs.
It shouldn't amaze you. There's a fundamental difference between wiretapping/imprisonment/loss of privace and socialist programs. We understand wiretapping (et al) are bad. We have yet to understand how bad socialist programs can be. It's the usual lack of ability to learn from others' mistakes. About 95% of the population doesn't believe things that don't happen to them personally, from what I can tell. It only stands to reason that entire social groupings collectively act in a similar manner.
As for the article summary, I would also like to point out that the current regime is not theocratic in any sense. Theocracy is a governmental system where God is actively ruling over the people. Rebuplicans are not theocrats. They want to be in charge rather than having God in charge, so they're actually completely opposed to theocracy. (Disclaimer: I am a theocrat. I believe that no human government can rule, should rule, or even has the right to rule.)