I agree entirely, the ending was awful. I was all ready for a final fight with Alma or with the guy she was controlling and instead got a cut scene with Alma *erm* taking avantage of me. Which, if you're keeping score, means that in the first one you were her son pulled from her prematurely going after your brother and in the second you were kinda competeing with the other dude to be her new baby daddy. I wonder if in the third you'll play the child created from 2 who goes back in time and become his own grandfather.
I hope in 3 they go back to the style of having everything in close quarters where it's scary/creepy and not open areas like in COD/Halo/GoW/etc
I just realized by saying "people that don't know better" implied that PG was better which I didn't intend (though I do like it better), what I meant it that people who don't know there's an alternative won't look for one which may or may not be better for them.
Well I can't speak on prices but I will say that I know for certain godaddy uses mysql as its default and I wouldn't be too surprised if a number of others did that as well. As such that price doesn't matter that much if 85% of hosts offer mysql by default b/c people who don't know better will just go with the default.
Yes yes, I'm crazy, fine. My credibility is shot. I could never had said anything and there's no way the folks at wp changed anything...
Look, I can't very well prove things w/ out a screen shot and even then it would be skeptical but I swear what I've said is true and regardless of your belief I doubt the dubious mods at wp are any more reliable than I. Hell maybe even you are one of them and are just posting along with ur friends to discredit my post:). Or maybe I'm just insane. Either way the fact remain that the article and it's discussion page are gone and soon so will the discussion page's discussion page for what most obviously seems someone's ire at the fact that, "some one would dare make fun of this man".
Regardless of any of this it is important to note the spurious actions of the moderators at Wikipedia and their blatant disregard of the people who view the site. All information is precious, even if it doesn't register on some statistical analysis of google or whatever random thing they use to prove their points.
I actually followed this article's delete fiasco and I can tell you that there were many more votes for keeping than on the page the parent listed. Originally on the discussion page and then on the discussion's discussion page a number of us voiced "keep" votes that seem to be missing on the linked article. Moreover (and yes I'm sure some wikites w/ mod points will mod me to hell of this, though at "bad" how much worse can I go right;D), admin on this issue would routinely edit discussion pages and discussion's discussion pages to remove keep votes. I even had my opinion stuck down b/c I was a new user and hadn't done much.
Frankly I believe some mod/modette got a stick full of self-riteous idignation over the supposed "taking advantage/making fun of issue" up their arse about this and decided the page would be deleted no matter what. And that is what people are taking issue with in this thread: mods filtering based on their own opinions and oft using self-approved "rules" to defend their biases.
Harddrive space aside, can anyone give me a good reason not to archive any and all kinds of knowledge? Pretending something doesn't exist by removing it from wp doesn't in any way diminish any offensive qualities the subject has and including the same thing in wp (in an unbiased "this is what this is about/says/does/believes and wether that is correct or not is not for us to say") in no way supports or condones it. If that were true there shouldn't be articles on the Holocaust, The Trail of Tears, etc.
sounds like he is bashing IE 7 for becoming more compliant while dropping support for IE hacks/work-arounds at the same time... maybe he has a point that hacks and work-arounds should be supported iniitally to aid conversion process but still it seems unfair to bash M$ for becoming more standard compliant...
"With results like that, is there really a good basis for argument against these cameras?"
Maybe. A good argument for them does not negate the existence of arguments against them...
I for one don't believe that an oath to secrecy trumps the constitution, or the risk of the destruction of our nation from corruption. Obviously the people releasing this information agree. They believe that our rights and freedoms are more important than keeping damaging secrets. They of all people would know that the goings on that we're not aware of are more damaging to our nation than they are helping. They wouldn't release it otherwise.
Either that or they haven't seen the "stop snitching" video yet
Shouldn't it go more like:
Washington Post: Hello, do you have a minute to take a survey? Citizen: Of course I do! Washington Post: Great! We were just wondering whether you're concerned with the recent news of the NSA? Citizen: What news?
*click* Washington Post: Another call with no objections!
My generation (born in early 70's if you ask) doesn't seem to have the "drink a few every night after work" mentality that our parents did.
Oh that's right, you all were the genereation doing coke like pixie sticks...
More to the point of the article, if there were a beer you could recover from almost instantly with no problem I would be getting so wasted ALL the time:D
I know people here aren't M$ fans and SS isn't the best DB ever BUT if you are going to end anything why not start with DBase, or access or Sybase (can't add a NOT NUlL column b/c there is no default value option as last as version 11.9!?!?!).
SS has it's faults yes (wtf, SS2000 doesn't allow row level locking?!!?!?!?!?) but it certainly isn't the worst by far and it can be a very good option for some people so don't go dismissing it so quickly.
Ok here's what I just don't get. People in China are Chinese citizens. They are bound and supported by Chinese law and government. If their government says they do not the right to certain parts of the internet then how is that a violation of their rights?
Last I checked the Chinese government never agreed to any list of unalienable human rights. Did the UN or any other international body ever decree that the right to post blogs bitching about your government is a fundamental right belonging to all people?
So why then is US company aided censorship a violation of human rights? I can see if the US companies help to compile lists of people to imprison or kill based on web usage (or any other widely regarded human rights violation).... but that doesn't seem the case FTFA.
I mean, if US based Movie_Company_0 makes a movie and supplies it internationally but does not provide copies to China b/c their government says "No", is that a violation of human rights? What about all of the movies made by forign Movie_Company_1 that cannot come into the US b/c the US says no?
Really though, is there any international agreement about freedom of intarnet???
It is hard because I really don't want to make people feel uncomfortable but at the same time I have no idea why it should make anyone feel uncomfortable.
Um, tell that to all of the Pagans who were "brought into the fold of Christianity". And the Native American Indians too. And everyone else who looks at the past and present and sees all of the evil religion has wrought upon our world and shudders to think what it will do in the future...
I don't think the feature would be much good to them disabled and apparently even when people know about it they are less than likely to find out how to disable it but rather to complain about it so chances are it would never get turned on.
Fact of the matter is that it is their software, the fact that they provide a method for turning the data gathering off at all is good enough. If people can't take the time to get involved with the software they are installing on their computers they can't really complain about it not things happening that can easily be turned off.
"The plans have been in your local office in Alpha Centuri for 50 of your Earth years. If you can't take the time to get involved in local politics, I've no sympathy for you at all."
I agree entirely with your assesment of good PMing and meant something similar in my post with all sarcasm aside.
Unfortunately for some of us developers there are PMs that fit the model I mentioned and even worse some higher ups that think my joke really is good project management:/
Good Project Managers hear from the developer 5 days, assume delivery in 4 days and promise it to the customers in 3 days.
But really, admin getting upset that users mess up when they know the users will is like construction workers getting upset when they have to hammer in a strut they know is going to come out or a fireman getting annoyed at fires occuring. It is part of the job, if you don't like it, don't take the job. And one more caveat (sp?), if there weren't use making mistakes there would be far less job openings for admins...
I'm pretty sure that mice are already conscious, thinking organisms - see the cheese experiments - (well unless you smack 'em hard enough on the head and knock 'em unconscious).
I think the concern along the lines which you are speaking (however bizarre and insanely remote) is more about if they might somehow gain a self awareness which may in some strange way elevate them from the status of animals to semi-human. While I am no biologist/psychologist I think that there would have to be some crazy turn of events to allow this "evolution" in mice.
Well DRM may not stop them from buying it but it may hamper them from sharing it.
That is, I know many people who carry their ipods on them all the time now ready to share their favorite music at a moments notice (provided they can find some speakers). I don't however, know many people who carry a ton of cd's with them wherever they go and a cd player ready to play for others if they get a chance. Also, some bars/djs are now starting to let people come up with their ipods and play a song or two off of them.
So what this comes down to is that allowing people to make digital copies of songs allows more portability and therefore a greater chance of music being spread to new listeners...
Step 1:Remove DRM, make digital copies of music
Step 2:Share music freely introducing people to new bands/songs quickly and easily and at any time
Step 3:PROFIT!
In my opinion, the internet is way better and safer than alcohol and drugs any day.
...Well sir, while I may not agree with what you have to say I will defend with my life your right to say it:P
But seriously, the article isn't about ranking addictions, it is merely trying to define them by examples and liken what they call internet addiction to that definition/those examples.
Now, while the clinic mentioned may be bunk, I feel that the concept of internet addiction is not. The way I see it, an addiction is a lack of moderation in one part of one's life. I think we can all agree the internet is part of our lives. And thus, an addiction to it must be possible... but that's just my opinion, IANAP(sychologist)
They are in business to make money and grow their business.
Buying up other companies and eliminating competitors (generally) brings extra money and business.
These actions are not that of some evil dark force but rather they are the actions of a company doing what it feels is best to survive and grow. From a company's standpoint a monopoly is not an evil thing, that is society's idea (Laws being society's representation of its ideas/beliefs).
Don't get angry at a company for doing what it does naturally. Get angry with a government that is too weak to enforce laws that are supposed to hinder actions that are natural to business but wrong in the eyes of society
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I agree entirely, the ending was awful. I was all ready for a final fight with Alma or with the guy she was controlling and instead got a cut scene with Alma *erm* taking avantage of me. Which, if you're keeping score, means that in the first one you were her son pulled from her prematurely going after your brother and in the second you were kinda competeing with the other dude to be her new baby daddy. I wonder if in the third you'll play the child created from 2 who goes back in time and become his own grandfather.
I hope in 3 they go back to the style of having everything in close quarters where it's scary/creepy and not open areas like in COD/Halo/GoW/etc
I just realized by saying "people that don't know better" implied that PG was better which I didn't intend (though I do like it better), what I meant it that people who don't know there's an alternative won't look for one which may or may not be better for them.
Well I can't speak on prices but I will say that I know for certain godaddy uses mysql as its default and I wouldn't be too surprised if a number of others did that as well. As such that price doesn't matter that much if 85% of hosts offer mysql by default b/c people who don't know better will just go with the default.
Yes yes, I'm crazy, fine. My credibility is shot. I could never had said anything and there's no way the folks at wp changed anything...
:). Or maybe I'm just insane. Either way the fact remain that the article and it's discussion page are gone and soon so will the discussion page's discussion page for what most obviously seems someone's ire at the fact that, "some one would dare make fun of this man".
Look, I can't very well prove things w/ out a screen shot and even then it would be skeptical but I swear what I've said is true and regardless of your belief I doubt the dubious mods at wp are any more reliable than I. Hell maybe even you are one of them and are just posting along with ur friends to discredit my post
Regardless of any of this it is important to note the spurious actions of the moderators at Wikipedia and their blatant disregard of the people who view the site. All information is precious, even if it doesn't register on some statistical analysis of google or whatever random thing they use to prove their points.
I actually followed this article's delete fiasco and I can tell you that there were many more votes for keeping than on the page the parent listed. Originally on the discussion page and then on the discussion's discussion page a number of us voiced "keep" votes that seem to be missing on the linked article. Moreover (and yes I'm sure some wikites w/ mod points will mod me to hell of this, though at "bad" how much worse can I go right ;D), admin on this issue would routinely edit discussion pages and discussion's discussion pages to remove keep votes. I even had my opinion stuck down b/c I was a new user and hadn't done much.
Frankly I believe some mod/modette got a stick full of self-riteous idignation over the supposed "taking advantage/making fun of issue" up their arse about this and decided the page would be deleted no matter what. And that is what people are taking issue with in this thread: mods filtering based on their own opinions and oft using self-approved "rules" to defend their biases.
Harddrive space aside, can anyone give me a good reason not to archive any and all kinds of knowledge? Pretending something doesn't exist by removing it from wp doesn't in any way diminish any offensive qualities the subject has and including the same thing in wp (in an unbiased "this is what this is about/says/does/believes and wether that is correct or not is not for us to say") in no way supports or condones it. If that were true there shouldn't be articles on the Holocaust, The Trail of Tears, etc.
"...you US folks have this pre-conditioned distrust of Royalty for some unfathomable reason..."
I believe the reason was taxation w/ out representation....
I guess my first question is how the kid can be in trouble if he isn't even an adult yet...
sounds like he is bashing IE 7 for becoming more compliant while dropping support for IE hacks/work-arounds at the same time... maybe he has a point that hacks and work-arounds should be supported iniitally to aid conversion process but still it seems unfair to bash M$ for becoming more standard compliant...
"With results like that, is there really a good basis for argument against these cameras?" Maybe. A good argument for them does not negate the existence of arguments against them...
Now drinking 4 beers a day makes me health conscious and not an alcoholic!!
I for one don't believe that an oath to secrecy trumps the constitution, or the risk of the destruction of our nation from corruption. Obviously the people releasing this information agree. They believe that our rights and freedoms are more important than keeping damaging secrets. They of all people would know that the goings on that we're not aware of are more damaging to our nation than they are helping. They wouldn't release it otherwise.
Either that or they haven't seen the "stop snitching" video yet
Shouldn't it go more like: Washington Post: Hello, do you have a minute to take a survey?
Citizen: Of course I do!
Washington Post: Great! We were just wondering whether you're concerned with the recent news of the NSA?
Citizen: What news?
*click*
Washington Post: Another call with no objections!
OMFG, does anyone here remember the vector arcade game "RIPOFF"??
If you want to get an idea of what hell is like try playing that game more than 1 time in succession...
My generation (born in early 70's if you ask) doesn't seem to have the "drink a few every night after work" mentality that our parents did.
...
:D
Oh that's right, you all were the genereation doing coke like pixie sticks
More to the point of the article, if there were a beer you could recover from almost instantly with no problem I would be getting so wasted ALL the time
I know people here aren't M$ fans and SS isn't the best DB ever BUT if you are going to end anything why not start with DBase, or access or Sybase (can't add a NOT NUlL column b/c there is no default value option as last as version 11.9!?!?!).
SS has it's faults yes (wtf, SS2000 doesn't allow row level locking?!!?!?!?!?) but it certainly isn't the worst by far and it can be a very good option for some people so don't go dismissing it so quickly.
Ok here's what I just don't get. People in China are Chinese citizens. They are bound and supported by Chinese law and government. If their government says they do not the right to certain parts of the internet then how is that a violation of their rights?
Last I checked the Chinese government never agreed to any list of unalienable human rights. Did the UN or any other international body ever decree that the right to post blogs bitching about your government is a fundamental right belonging to all people?
So why then is US company aided censorship a violation of human rights? I can see if the US companies help to compile lists of people to imprison or kill based on web usage (or any other widely regarded human rights violation).... but that doesn't seem the case FTFA.
I mean, if US based Movie_Company_0 makes a movie and supplies it internationally but does not provide copies to China b/c their government says "No", is that a violation of human rights? What about all of the movies made by forign Movie_Company_1 that cannot come into the US b/c the US says no?
Really though, is there any international agreement about freedom of intarnet???
It is hard because I really don't want to make people feel uncomfortable but at the same time I have no idea why it should make anyone feel uncomfortable.
Um, tell that to all of the Pagans who were "brought into the fold of Christianity". And the Native American Indians too. And everyone else who looks at the past and present and sees all of the evil religion has wrought upon our world and shudders to think what it will do in the future...
I don't think the feature would be much good to them disabled and apparently even when people know about it they are less than likely to find out how to disable it but rather to complain about it so chances are it would never get turned on.
Fact of the matter is that it is their software, the fact that they provide a method for turning the data gathering off at all is good enough. If people can't take the time to get involved with the software they are installing on their computers they can't really complain about it not things happening that can easily be turned off.
"The plans have been in your local office in Alpha Centuri for 50 of your Earth years. If you can't take the time to get involved in local politics, I've no sympathy for you at all."
Sorry, I was being a bit cheeky there.
:/
I agree entirely with your assesment of good PMing and meant something similar in my post with all sarcasm aside.
Unfortunately for some of us developers there are PMs that fit the model I mentioned and even worse some higher ups that think my joke really is good project management
You forgot to add:
Good Project Managers hear from the developer 5 days, assume delivery in 4 days and promise it to the customers in 3 days.
But really, admin getting upset that users mess up when they know the users will is like construction workers getting upset when they have to hammer in a strut they know is going to come out or a fireman getting annoyed at fires occuring. It is part of the job, if you don't like it, don't take the job. And one more caveat (sp?), if there weren't use making mistakes there would be far less job openings for admins...
I'm pretty sure that mice are already conscious, thinking organisms - see the cheese experiments - (well unless you smack 'em hard enough on the head and knock 'em unconscious).
I think the concern along the lines which you are speaking (however bizarre and insanely remote) is more about if they might somehow gain a self awareness which may in some strange way elevate them from the status of animals to semi-human. While I am no biologist/psychologist I think that there would have to be some crazy turn of events to allow this "evolution" in mice.
Well DRM may not stop them from buying it but it may hamper them from sharing it.
That is, I know many people who carry their ipods on them all the time now ready to share their favorite music at a moments notice (provided they can find some speakers). I don't however, know many people who carry a ton of cd's with them wherever they go and a cd player ready to play for others if they get a chance. Also, some bars/djs are now starting to let people come up with their ipods and play a song or two off of them.
So what this comes down to is that allowing people to make digital copies of songs allows more portability and therefore a greater chance of music being spread to new listeners...
Step 1:Remove DRM, make digital copies of music
Step 2:Share music freely introducing people to new bands/songs quickly and easily and at any time
Step 3:PROFIT!
You can have my copy of GTA: Vice City when you pry if from my cold dead hands.
In my opinion, the internet is way better and safer than alcohol and drugs any day.
...Well sir, while I may not agree with what you have to say I will defend with my life your right to say it :P
... but that's just my opinion, IANAP(sychologist)
But seriously, the article isn't about ranking addictions, it is merely trying to define them by examples and liken what they call internet addiction to that definition/those examples.
Now, while the clinic mentioned may be bunk, I feel that the concept of internet addiction is not. The way I see it, an addiction is a lack of moderation in one part of one's life. I think we can all agree the internet is part of our lives. And thus, an addiction to it must be possible
Microsoft is a company.
They are in business to make money and grow their business.
Buying up other companies and eliminating competitors (generally) brings extra money and business.
These actions are not that of some evil dark force but rather they are the actions of a company doing what it feels is best to survive and grow. From a company's standpoint a monopoly is not an evil thing, that is society's idea (Laws being society's representation of its ideas/beliefs).
Don't get angry at a company for doing what it does naturally. Get angry with a government that is too weak to enforce laws that are supposed to hinder actions that are natural to business but wrong in the eyes of society