Actually the tanks didn't roll over him. They stopped for about 30 minutes. The Unknown Rebel then disappeared into the crowd and no-one knows who he is or what happened to him.
Of the 65 games studied, Super Mario Brothers ranked #5 in the death rate. It earned a whopping 4.8 deaths per minute!
There is nothing in Super Mario Brothers that forces the player to kill 4.8 characters per minute. You can choose to play it aggressively, or you can play it as a pacifist, by trying to avoid killing things. I think this survey shows a lot more about the violent nature of the reviewers than it does about the games themselves.
I read once that deja vu can occur when the messages from each eye are handled by the brain out of synchronisation. First the image from one eye is processed, processed and stored in the brain, then a millisecond or so later, the brain starts to process the image from the other idea, and finds that it has already an exact copy of the same image in memory. You then get a sudden and very powerful feeling of having already seen the location before, because you just have seen it a millisecond ago!
Usually the brain is able to pair up the two images as being the same, but an occasional glitch can happen. Taking drugs or being tired might increase the chance of these glitches. Of course it would be possible to test this theory (it is falsifiable, unlike most other theories for deja vu) by seeing if people with only one eye get deja vu as frequently as people with two eyes.
I have no evidence that this theory is true, but it sounds plausible and I think the truth could be close to this explanation.
Anti-virus, anti-spyware, etc. costs money to produce.
Microsoft can develop their products and recover their development costs by adding it onto the cost of the Windows operating system, which everyone is forced to pay anyway, whether or not they download the free product. Every other company has to market their product with their own money and there is no guarantee that they will get that money back.
Even if Microsoft's anti-spyware were made into a separate download, every Windows customer is paying for it, whether they like it or not.
Normally you should let capitalism do it's job, but when you have a company abusing a monopoly to force its way into other markets, it's an extremely bad idea for the consumer to let market forces continue without intervention.
So, can you offer a single good reason why anyone would reasonably use "Barney" or "Barbie" or "Pokemon" as keywords for a site featuring a naked woman with semen all over her face?
What if the guy is called Barney, the woman is called Barbie, and... well I'll leave the rest to your imagination.
You're missing the point though. Trying to censor content based on fuzzy guidelines is not helping promote freedom. If a pornography site is number 1 in Google for the keyword Barbie, complain to Google that it's keyword matching rules are broken and get them to delist the site. Don't just get your government to go round censoring things you disagree with. Once they start on that path, where will they stop? If porn can be censored what about pro-Muslim sites using words like 'Jesus' in their keywords? Oh the horror! It must be censored too!
By the way, I'm not American so I don't really care, I'm just making some suggestions that you can choose to ignore if you wish.
far outside the realm of their ability to control it.
While it's true that they cannot control the content on the Internet, they can block certain websites at the borders and/or punish consumers of the content. Reminds me of another country that often appears in Slashdot headlines...
Of course, just because they can do it (and they can using terrorism / savethechildren as an excuse) doesn't mean that they should do it. Guard your rights carefully so that you lose them (phonetapping without warrant).
make it a federal felony for Webmasters to use innocent words... but actually feature sexual content on their sites.
How do you define what makes a word 'innocent'? Are they going to make a list of all "innocent" words, or what?
The 163-page Child Protection and Safety Act represents the most extensive rewriting of federal laws relating to child pornography, sex offender registration and child exploitation in a decade.
the courts have already spoken and doing it would result in immediate punishment for violating the court order.
Oh, sorry I didn't realise you get an immediate punishment if you violate a court order. You mean like the immediate punishment that Microsoft gets when they break agreements made under the Anti Trust ruling?
If Microsoft wanted to mess up Java again, they are powerful enough to do that whether the courts like it or not. Open Source or not Open Source, it makes no difference (as long as they retain the trademark and control of the standards of course). Personally I think Java is already badly enough messed up that Microsoft no longer need to be afraid of it.
I have a Java client on my webserver and half the mails I get are because the Java client doesn't work on people's computer. Usually this is because they have some old version of Microsoft's Java Runtime installed, which only supports Java 1.1 (badly).
What a mess! I can't really see how opening it up will make it any worse than it already is today.
The final linked article starts with this dubious sounding statement:
The bottom is about to fall out of the market for imaging tools like Symantec Ghost... The Vista install DVD is, in fact, just one big system image.
But then immediately contradicts itself by pointing out:
But this flexibility only extends to the installation of Windows itself. To clone a full system with apps installed, Symantec Ghost or a similar utility must be used to create that image.
People don't use Ghost to make a copy of an unconfigured fresh install of Windows, they configure it first, then Ghost it. This new installer will have no effect whatsoever on sales of Ghost, or any other imaging software. After such a terrible start to the article, I'm not sure it's even worth reading the rest.
Lying is not a crime. As long as they aren't promising anything in a sales contract, they can say whatever they like. If you want a promise, get it written in your contract. You are kidding yourself if you believe PR speak can be judged in a court of law.
Microsoft just wants to make money and they have to try their hardest to get people to trust them. Wouldn't you expect them to say that they are a nice company? Do you think it would be better if they said 'We hate consumers having choice and we are trying to prevent competition'? There is no point bashing them for using good PR. Any other company would do the same. Perhaps Linux companies could learn something about marketing from them if they would take the time to study how Microsoft does what it does best - marketing.
When you want to move a file out of a browser's jail, it has to go through a program that "sanitizes" it. Often, a translation to a well-documented format that doesn't contain execution capability will do the job. Converting incoming.doc files to Open Document XML format, for example.
That's easy, just open them in Word and use 'Save As...'.
OK, that was a joke, but this post does have a serious point. What program will you use to do the sanitation?
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Actually the tanks didn't roll over him. They stopped for about 30 minutes. The Unknown Rebel then disappeared into the crowd and no-one knows who he is or what happened to him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
Of the 65 games studied, Super Mario Brothers ranked #5 in the death rate. It earned a whopping 4.8 deaths per minute!
There is nothing in Super Mario Brothers that forces the player to kill 4.8 characters per minute. You can choose to play it aggressively, or you can play it as a pacifist, by trying to avoid killing things. I think this survey shows a lot more about the violent nature of the reviewers than it does about the games themselves.
I think there is a world market for maybe five cores.
Someone should document this as a proper HOW-TO, filling out all the missing details, and perhaps providing some more "improvements".
Thanks for the clarification!
I read once that deja vu can occur when the messages from each eye are handled by the brain out of synchronisation. First the image from one eye is processed, processed and stored in the brain, then a millisecond or so later, the brain starts to process the image from the other idea, and finds that it has already an exact copy of the same image in memory. You then get a sudden and very powerful feeling of having already seen the location before, because you just have seen it a millisecond ago!
Usually the brain is able to pair up the two images as being the same, but an occasional glitch can happen. Taking drugs or being tired might increase the chance of these glitches. Of course it would be possible to test this theory (it is falsifiable, unlike most other theories for deja vu) by seeing if people with only one eye get deja vu as frequently as people with two eyes.
I have no evidence that this theory is true, but it sounds plausible and I think the truth could be close to this explanation.
Anti-virus, anti-spyware, etc. costs money to produce.
Microsoft can develop their products and recover their development costs by adding it onto the cost of the Windows operating system, which everyone is forced to pay anyway, whether or not they download the free product. Every other company has to market their product with their own money and there is no guarantee that they will get that money back.
Even if Microsoft's anti-spyware were made into a separate download, every Windows customer is paying for it, whether they like it or not.
Normally you should let capitalism do it's job, but when you have a company abusing a monopoly to force its way into other markets, it's an extremely bad idea for the consumer to let market forces continue without intervention.
Terrible news for the Barbie/Furbie fetishists out there, to say nothing about being completely impossible to enforce globally.
Perfect Example:
Searching for Barby turns up this Russian site: http://spec.e-horizon.ru/stas/index.html
(They will be wondering why they are getting so many hits all of a sudden!)
So, can you offer a single good reason why anyone would reasonably use "Barney" or "Barbie" or "Pokemon" as keywords for a site featuring a naked woman with semen all over her face?
What if the guy is called Barney, the woman is called Barbie, and... well I'll leave the rest to your imagination.
You're missing the point though. Trying to censor content based on fuzzy guidelines is not helping promote freedom. If a pornography site is number 1 in Google for the keyword Barbie, complain to Google that it's keyword matching rules are broken and get them to delist the site. Don't just get your government to go round censoring things you disagree with. Once they start on that path, where will they stop? If porn can be censored what about pro-Muslim sites using words like 'Jesus' in their keywords? Oh the horror! It must be censored too!
By the way, I'm not American so I don't really care, I'm just making some suggestions that you can choose to ignore if you wish.
far outside the realm of their ability to control it.
While it's true that they cannot control the content on the Internet, they can block certain websites at the borders and/or punish consumers of the content. Reminds me of another country that often appears in Slashdot headlines...
Of course, just because they can do it (and they can using terrorism / savethechildren as an excuse) doesn't mean that they should do it. Guard your rights carefully so that you lose them (phonetapping without warrant).
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I hope they remove the pictures of Linus Torvalds from the Barbie Linux ISOs after this announcement.
make it a federal felony for Webmasters to use innocent words ... but actually feature sexual content on their sites.
How do you define what makes a word 'innocent'? Are they going to make a list of all "innocent" words, or what?
The 163-page Child Protection and Safety Act represents the most extensive rewriting of federal laws relating to child pornography, sex offender registration and child exploitation in a decade.
Ah, I see...
Microsoft Vista! It's the silver bullet for everyone! Where do you want to go today? TM
Stupid question: What does the 4.0 mean?
the courts have already spoken and doing it would result in immediate punishment for violating the court order.
Oh, sorry I didn't realise you get an immediate punishment if you violate a court order. You mean like the immediate punishment that Microsoft gets when they break agreements made under the Anti Trust ruling?
If Microsoft wanted to mess up Java again, they are powerful enough to do that whether the courts like it or not. Open Source or not Open Source, it makes no difference (as long as they retain the trademark and control of the standards of course). Personally I think Java is already badly enough messed up that Microsoft no longer need to be afraid of it.
If someone is already willing to break the law to get what they want, making new laws probably won't stop them either.
I have a Java client on my webserver and half the mails I get are because the Java client doesn't work on people's computer. Usually this is because they have some old version of Microsoft's Java Runtime installed, which only supports Java 1.1 (badly).
What a mess! I can't really see how opening it up will make it any worse than it already is today.
What better way to harness the power of global kids?
You could use them to hunt for pirates! Arrrr me matey!
http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aseo&start= 0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozil la:en-US:official
The final linked article starts with this dubious sounding statement:
... The Vista install DVD is, in fact, just one big system image.
The bottom is about to fall out of the market for imaging tools like Symantec Ghost
But then immediately contradicts itself by pointing out:
But this flexibility only extends to the installation of Windows itself. To clone a full system with apps installed, Symantec Ghost or a similar utility must be used to create that image.
People don't use Ghost to make a copy of an unconfigured fresh install of Windows, they configure it first, then Ghost it. This new installer will have no effect whatsoever on sales of Ghost, or any other imaging software. After such a terrible start to the article, I'm not sure it's even worth reading the rest.
Lying is not a crime. As long as they aren't promising anything in a sales contract, they can say whatever they like. If you want a promise, get it written in your contract. You are kidding yourself if you believe PR speak can be judged in a court of law.
Everyone should learn at school: Buyer beware.
13. Tried to play a game and found that it didn't work except in Windows.
Microsoft just wants to make money and they have to try their hardest to get people to trust them. Wouldn't you expect them to say that they are a nice company? Do you think it would be better if they said 'We hate consumers having choice and we are trying to prevent competition'? There is no point bashing them for using good PR. Any other company would do the same. Perhaps Linux companies could learn something about marketing from them if they would take the time to study how Microsoft does what it does best - marketing.
When you want to move a file out of a browser's jail, it has to go through a program that "sanitizes" it. Often, a translation to a well-documented format that doesn't contain execution capability will do the job. Converting incoming .doc files to Open Document XML format, for example.
That's easy, just open them in Word and use 'Save As...'.
OK, that was a joke, but this post does have a serious point. What program will you use to do the sanitation?
It seems my first post was correct, even though I didn't write what I meant to write? Thanks for the extra information!
(By the way, you missed the missing apostrophe in your spelling correction to my incorrect factual correction.)