I think that they ought to sell the AO-rated Manhunt 2 online and have the M-rated one in stores. They already have the AO-rated game done, and just because Nintendo doesn't allow AO rated games on their systems doesn't mean that it can't be published. The Action Replay, and the cheat devices before it have never been Nintendo-approved, but they are created and sold, anyway.
Or they could just release it in the Netherlands and include and English language option..
Besides the fact that almost all videos on YouTube (and other sites) are legal or fair use (or SHOULD be fair use), what about fansubs? Fansubbing is in that gray area where it's technically illegal, but anime companies would be crazy to crack down on it. Because of the honor code amongst most subbers, when an anime gets licensed, it stops being subbed. Furthermore, the benefits that fansubs have on anime in America are incalculable. Besides the fact that fansubs are originally what made anime popular here, they also serve to make series popular, and, in turn, serve as spectacular free marketing research for anime companies.
For instance, when Naruto was still only in Japan, it was a massively popular series in the fansub community over here. Anime licensing companies could see this and it showed them that bringing Naruto over to the US would be financially sound. This concept takes away much of the risk involved in localizing animes.
And, for some numbers to back me up, when The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was finally released here in America, the first DVD sold 60,000 copies. Compare this to Japan's 80,000 copies sold, and then consider the fact that those 60,000 copies were almost solely from the publicity of the fansubs.
I live in Central Indiana and we have Insight Broadband, here, and we went through all of these shinanigans all this past year.
First, everything was fine on our 4mbit/128kbit cable service. The upload sucked, but it worked alright. Then, they decided to upgrade everyone's service to 10mbit/1mbit for free (which gives us some of the best cable that I know). That's where the problems started.
When it was 4mbit/128kbit, people could max their measly 128kbit line and it probably didn't hurt Insight all that much. But when they started upgrading for the "InsightBB 10.0" switch, people continued to max their lines, but all of the sudden they were maxing their 1mbit lines instead of their 128kbit lines.
So Insight started calling people telling them to reduce their bandwidth usage. The broadbandreports.com forums were booming, and for awhile they had a similar stance to Comcast, i.e., "there is no set limit, we can't tell you that limit, just decrease your usage."
People were really pissed for a while, but eventually, after enough calls, some people were getting answers. The answers were varied. Some people were told not to upload more than 5gb per day, some were told not to exceed 50gb per month, and some were told to cap their upload speeds to 40kb/sec or 50kb/sec. My personal phone experience with one of their managers was that there wasn't really a set cap, but he recommended that I cap my upload speed to 20kb/sec (which is what I capped it at back when I had the 128kbit upload connection, and is roughly equal to 50gb per month, if uploading 24/7).
About a month after that, Insight got Sandvine. Torrent performance crashed and burned. Suddenly it was very hard to seed things (though sometimes you could and sometimes you couldn't), and I couldn't download at more than 80kb/sec on any torrent, no matter how many seeds. This, again, made people angry, and broadbandreports.com was booming, again. Insight continually denied capping or tampering with torrents, though no one believed them. Eventually, the problem sorted itself out. I'm guessing that Insight wasn't intentionally tampering with torrents; I bet Sandvine was set up to screw with torrents, and it took them a little bit to tweak it so that it was no longer doing so on such a magnitude.
It took several months of poor service, but now things are stable and running fine. I get a full 10mbit/1mbit connection, now, and torrents run smoothly, again. I've kept my torrents capped at 20kb/sec upload and haven't received a call, since.
Thankfully, Insight's CEO regularly reads broadbandreports.com and posts there, occasionally, so all throughout the problems, our concerns and complaints were heard. I highly doubt that Comcast would do something that nice, but Comcast has a much larger userbase, so it evens things out, a bit.
Also, it's worth noting that, as far as I know, we don't have a download limit. Though I'm sure if we downloaded 300gb per month (which is over 121kb/sec 24/7), we might get an angry call, too (though how could you download that much per month? How many DVD+Rs would you be going through??).
Don't forget that Starcraft II was playable and Blizzard had a nice LAN party set up in the convention hall where there you could play Red vs. Blue on teams of (I think) 3 vs 3.
I like the new layout, as well as the new features, as compared to 2003. I suppose I'm not an Office power user, so I'm not particularly privy to any drawbacks to 2007, but from an average-user perspective, I really like Office 2007, which is more than I can say for Vista.
Once again, we have the people at colleges and universities that know what they're doing, and the people at K-12 schools that are completely and blissfully ignorant of reality and how behaviors work, completely at odds with eachother.
It's amazing how stupid so many of the people who go into K-12 education are, considering they should have learnt the same behavioral science that anyone else learns in that field of study in college.
I think it can be energy-efficient to use. unitednuclear.com's hydrogen-powered car kit will include a solar-powered hydrogen fuel generator. Modern gas-stations, with their ample roof-space, along with increasingly efficient solar cells, would be able to produce their own hydrogen fuel. Then, the average hydrogen car owner could make their own gas at home for when they go back and forth to work, and if they need a refill on the go, they could use a gas-station. It would reduce the demand on gas stations AND save the average citizen money.
As far as I know, producing the hydrogen to begin with is the most energy-hungry step in creating hydrogen fuel. If that is the case, I see no reason why this scenario couldn't work.
Hotmail already offers 2GB. This isn't an e-mail storage service like GMail (though Gmail can and is used for some file storage), this is a separate endeavor meant entirely for file storage.
I work for the Department of Transportation as an intern and I can vouch that they are definitely trying to keep tabs on EVERYTHING that you do. We have a ridiculous database that crashes every day that we have to 'create a new task' in every time we change what we're working on. They're very insistent on it, despite the fact that we could be working on 10 different things at the same time -- and the system only allows one task at a time.
The system in place takes more time up just using it than it's worth. If a manager wants to know what an employee is working on, they should stop by or call the employee's damn office phone. Forcing the employee to detail everything that they're doing at any given time is time-consuming and often times impossible.
Any time they try to do something good, the government steps in and says it's anti-competitive. Meanwhile, Apple and Linux implement similar features and brag about how Windows doesn't have them.
I'm not trying to take sides in the OS wars, but I'm really getting sick of the government bullying Microsoft. If there's anything worse than a company bullying someone, it's the government bullying someone, regardless of who they are.
Now take one of those DVDs and run Nero's CD-DVD Speed on it.
I used to use Fujifilm all the time, because they used Taiyo-Yuden. Then they switched to Ritek, and I unknowingly bought a spindle. The first clue that something was wrong was that things played and copied from the DVD at inconsistent speeds. And then a couple were completely faulty and cut out 100's of MBs of data, randomly. So I ran CD-DVD Speed's Disc Quality on it and got spikes of errors everywhere, and the maximum read spead varied from 2x to 14x (this is a 16x DVD, too). Even on some of the Ritek DVDs that don't have too many errors, the speed on them is inanely inconsistent.
So I bought some Taiyo-Yuden DVDs from http://www.supermediastore.com/ and tried them out. I've not gotten any bad discs from Taiyo, yet (though some people have reported bad Taiyo-discs, but nevertheless, the occurrence rate is leagues underneath that of other companies). And the speeds are very consistent. The speeds start (on my 8x Taiyo-Yuden DVD+Rs) at ~7x in the inside of the DVD, and the speed linearly increases, without any spikes at all, up to about ~12-14x on the outside of the DVD (again, these are 8x DVDs).
In anycase, I've had numerous bad experiences with Ritek DVDs since then. My cousin's computer refuses to burn 16x Ritek DVD-Rs at anything more than 2.4x, and occasionally those go bad, too. I've never had a problem with Taiyo-Yuden.
Exactly. We don't have a right to food, clothing, shelter, or medicine. We do not have the 'right' to any physical or material good, because having a 'right' to a physical good means that we have the 'right' to obtain that physical good from someone who works very hard to create that good.
What we DO have a right to is the right to produce our own food, clothing, shelter, and medicine. If you want to make your own Aspirin, there shouldn't be anything stopping you. But I don't think that you should be able to go to someone who DOES make their own Aspirin and say, "I have a right to this Aspirin. Give it to me for free."
...Not the fact that he doesn't know what a website is, but the fact that he admits to not knowing what a website is. The fact that he doesn't know what it is isn't a problem -- you can teach someone out of their ignorance. But think about how much worse it would be if he did what most judges do, i.e., pretend they know what they're talking about and make poor judgments and court decisions..
Actually, the biggest problem of today is that we do fear our children. When teachers fear their students, they stop teaching and start controlling. And children nowadays are controlled in everything they do. They can't bring a butter knife to school to cut their bread, they can't talk about how horrible their teacher are on Myspace, they can't make maps of their schools in games to play on with friends.
And when people try to control children and try to force them to sit and be quiet -- something that is unnatural for children -- they go berserk, cause problems, lash out, and ignore authority.
And the more they ignore authority and lash out, the more we fear them. And the more we fear them, the more we control them. It's a loathsome, repeating cycle that needs to stop.
"Except that the economy of China gets a big influx of money by selling to USA. Sure they can stop selling all their cheap goods over here, but if they do, what are they going to do with them?"
Except that the economy of the US gets a big influx of money by buying from China. Sure we can stop buying all their cheap goods over here, but if we do, what are we going to do?
According to it, it peaks on April 22nd at 22:30 UT, which puts it at 6:30pm EDT, or 8:30am on April 23rd for Sydney, Australia. So the middle of the night between April 22 and April 23 would be good for you.
There already exist no-fly zones all over the place. I don't see why we couldn't just set up a perimeter around the cable as a no-fly zone and planes fly around it, like they would a military base, an erupting volcano, or other such places.
To hell with half of these arguments. I'll tell you why I think the idea of making this vaccine mandatory is absurd, and it's not some neo-conservative, religious, or otherwise belief. I disagree with the vaccine because, unlike other vaccines that protect you against things that you can merely catch by chance, the government would be forcing kids to get a vaccine because they ASSUME that since most people sleep with everything that moves, that you're also going to go sleep around. I don't want the government to start getting in the habit of requiring everyone to do something based on the assumption that that person will do an action simply because the majority of people do that action.
To me, it's no different than racial profiling. "Oh, he's black, so he has a higher chance to commit a crime," "Oh, she's a teenager, she's going to sleep around and get an STD," -- both are profiling, both are assuming, and in both cases, there are many millions of people that would be discriminated against simply because people ASSUME that they're going to do something.
It's about time someone else realized this. I can hear the noise and it drives me insane.
Also, Australia fails to take into account not only the noise that fluorescents put out, but the fact that incandescents have uses far beyond just house lighting. Incandescents can be used for portable lamps, novelty lightning, and just about everything else under the sun. Hell, halogen bulbs are a type of incandescent, and those things are brighter than anything. They're used in car headlights, among other things.
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I think that they ought to sell the AO-rated Manhunt 2 online and have the M-rated one in stores. They already have the AO-rated game done, and just because Nintendo doesn't allow AO rated games on their systems doesn't mean that it can't be published. The Action Replay, and the cheat devices before it have never been Nintendo-approved, but they are created and sold, anyway.
Or they could just release it in the Netherlands and include and English language option..
"I would guess about 10% of video is legal."
Besides the fact that almost all videos on YouTube (and other sites) are legal or fair use (or SHOULD be fair use), what about fansubs? Fansubbing is in that gray area where it's technically illegal, but anime companies would be crazy to crack down on it. Because of the honor code amongst most subbers, when an anime gets licensed, it stops being subbed. Furthermore, the benefits that fansubs have on anime in America are incalculable. Besides the fact that fansubs are originally what made anime popular here, they also serve to make series popular, and, in turn, serve as spectacular free marketing research for anime companies.
For instance, when Naruto was still only in Japan, it was a massively popular series in the fansub community over here. Anime licensing companies could see this and it showed them that bringing Naruto over to the US would be financially sound. This concept takes away much of the risk involved in localizing animes.
And, for some numbers to back me up, when The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was finally released here in America, the first DVD sold 60,000 copies. Compare this to Japan's 80,000 copies sold, and then consider the fact that those 60,000 copies were almost solely from the publicity of the fansubs.
I live in Central Indiana and we have Insight Broadband, here, and we went through all of these shinanigans all this past year.
First, everything was fine on our 4mbit/128kbit cable service. The upload sucked, but it worked alright. Then, they decided to upgrade everyone's service to 10mbit/1mbit for free (which gives us some of the best cable that I know). That's where the problems started.
When it was 4mbit/128kbit, people could max their measly 128kbit line and it probably didn't hurt Insight all that much. But when they started upgrading for the "InsightBB 10.0" switch, people continued to max their lines, but all of the sudden they were maxing their 1mbit lines instead of their 128kbit lines.
So Insight started calling people telling them to reduce their bandwidth usage. The broadbandreports.com forums were booming, and for awhile they had a similar stance to Comcast, i.e., "there is no set limit, we can't tell you that limit, just decrease your usage."
People were really pissed for a while, but eventually, after enough calls, some people were getting answers. The answers were varied. Some people were told not to upload more than 5gb per day, some were told not to exceed 50gb per month, and some were told to cap their upload speeds to 40kb/sec or 50kb/sec. My personal phone experience with one of their managers was that there wasn't really a set cap, but he recommended that I cap my upload speed to 20kb/sec (which is what I capped it at back when I had the 128kbit upload connection, and is roughly equal to 50gb per month, if uploading 24/7).
About a month after that, Insight got Sandvine. Torrent performance crashed and burned. Suddenly it was very hard to seed things (though sometimes you could and sometimes you couldn't), and I couldn't download at more than 80kb/sec on any torrent, no matter how many seeds. This, again, made people angry, and broadbandreports.com was booming, again. Insight continually denied capping or tampering with torrents, though no one believed them. Eventually, the problem sorted itself out. I'm guessing that Insight wasn't intentionally tampering with torrents; I bet Sandvine was set up to screw with torrents, and it took them a little bit to tweak it so that it was no longer doing so on such a magnitude.
It took several months of poor service, but now things are stable and running fine. I get a full 10mbit/1mbit connection, now, and torrents run smoothly, again. I've kept my torrents capped at 20kb/sec upload and haven't received a call, since.
Thankfully, Insight's CEO regularly reads broadbandreports.com and posts there, occasionally, so all throughout the problems, our concerns and complaints were heard. I highly doubt that Comcast would do something that nice, but Comcast has a much larger userbase, so it evens things out, a bit.
Also, it's worth noting that, as far as I know, we don't have a download limit. Though I'm sure if we downloaded 300gb per month (which is over 121kb/sec 24/7), we might get an angry call, too (though how could you download that much per month? How many DVD+Rs would you be going through??).
You forget that Europe is the place where the PSP has sold in record numbers.
Don't forget that Starcraft II was playable and Blizzard had a nice LAN party set up in the convention hall where there you could play Red vs. Blue on teams of (I think) 3 vs 3.
I like the new layout, as well as the new features, as compared to 2003. I suppose I'm not an Office power user, so I'm not particularly privy to any drawbacks to 2007, but from an average-user perspective, I really like Office 2007, which is more than I can say for Vista.
Once again, we have the people at colleges and universities that know what they're doing, and the people at K-12 schools that are completely and blissfully ignorant of reality and how behaviors work, completely at odds with eachother.
It's amazing how stupid so many of the people who go into K-12 education are, considering they should have learnt the same behavioral science that anyone else learns in that field of study in college.
I think it can be energy-efficient to use. unitednuclear.com's hydrogen-powered car kit will include a solar-powered hydrogen fuel generator. Modern gas-stations, with their ample roof-space, along with increasingly efficient solar cells, would be able to produce their own hydrogen fuel. Then, the average hydrogen car owner could make their own gas at home for when they go back and forth to work, and if they need a refill on the go, they could use a gas-station. It would reduce the demand on gas stations AND save the average citizen money.
As far as I know, producing the hydrogen to begin with is the most energy-hungry step in creating hydrogen fuel. If that is the case, I see no reason why this scenario couldn't work.
Hotmail already offers 2GB. This isn't an e-mail storage service like GMail (though Gmail can and is used for some file storage), this is a separate endeavor meant entirely for file storage.
I work for the Department of Transportation as an intern and I can vouch that they are definitely trying to keep tabs on EVERYTHING that you do. We have a ridiculous database that crashes every day that we have to 'create a new task' in every time we change what we're working on. They're very insistent on it, despite the fact that we could be working on 10 different things at the same time -- and the system only allows one task at a time.
The system in place takes more time up just using it than it's worth. If a manager wants to know what an employee is working on, they should stop by or call the employee's damn office phone. Forcing the employee to detail everything that they're doing at any given time is time-consuming and often times impossible.
Any time they try to do something good, the government steps in and says it's anti-competitive. Meanwhile, Apple and Linux implement similar features and brag about how Windows doesn't have them.
I'm not trying to take sides in the OS wars, but I'm really getting sick of the government bullying Microsoft. If there's anything worse than a company bullying someone, it's the government bullying someone, regardless of who they are.
Now take one of those DVDs and run Nero's CD-DVD Speed on it.
I used to use Fujifilm all the time, because they used Taiyo-Yuden. Then they switched to Ritek, and I unknowingly bought a spindle. The first clue that something was wrong was that things played and copied from the DVD at inconsistent speeds. And then a couple were completely faulty and cut out 100's of MBs of data, randomly. So I ran CD-DVD Speed's Disc Quality on it and got spikes of errors everywhere, and the maximum read spead varied from 2x to 14x (this is a 16x DVD, too). Even on some of the Ritek DVDs that don't have too many errors, the speed on them is inanely inconsistent.
So I bought some Taiyo-Yuden DVDs from http://www.supermediastore.com/ and tried them out. I've not gotten any bad discs from Taiyo, yet (though some people have reported bad Taiyo-discs, but nevertheless, the occurrence rate is leagues underneath that of other companies). And the speeds are very consistent. The speeds start (on my 8x Taiyo-Yuden DVD+Rs) at ~7x in the inside of the DVD, and the speed linearly increases, without any spikes at all, up to about ~12-14x on the outside of the DVD (again, these are 8x DVDs).
In anycase, I've had numerous bad experiences with Ritek DVDs since then. My cousin's computer refuses to burn 16x Ritek DVD-Rs at anything more than 2.4x, and occasionally those go bad, too. I've never had a problem with Taiyo-Yuden.
Exactly. We don't have a right to food, clothing, shelter, or medicine. We do not have the 'right' to any physical or material good, because having a 'right' to a physical good means that we have the 'right' to obtain that physical good from someone who works very hard to create that good.
What we DO have a right to is the right to produce our own food, clothing, shelter, and medicine. If you want to make your own Aspirin, there shouldn't be anything stopping you. But I don't think that you should be able to go to someone who DOES make their own Aspirin and say, "I have a right to this Aspirin. Give it to me for free."
I was about to point that out, too. IE 6 was way faster than Firefox is, and while IE7 is slower, it's still faster than Firefox.
And I don't see how a mostly featureless web browser can be "big and bloated."
...Not the fact that he doesn't know what a website is, but the fact that he admits to not knowing what a website is. The fact that he doesn't know what it is isn't a problem -- you can teach someone out of their ignorance. But think about how much worse it would be if he did what most judges do, i.e., pretend they know what they're talking about and make poor judgments and court decisions..
They're not talking about Ratemyprofessors.com, are they? That site is indispensable!
Actually, the biggest problem of today is that we do fear our children. When teachers fear their students, they stop teaching and start controlling. And children nowadays are controlled in everything they do. They can't bring a butter knife to school to cut their bread, they can't talk about how horrible their teacher are on Myspace, they can't make maps of their schools in games to play on with friends.
And when people try to control children and try to force them to sit and be quiet -- something that is unnatural for children -- they go berserk, cause problems, lash out, and ignore authority.
And the more they ignore authority and lash out, the more we fear them. And the more we fear them, the more we control them. It's a loathsome, repeating cycle that needs to stop.
Except that the economy of the US gets a big influx of money by buying from China. Sure we can stop buying all their cheap goods over here, but if we do, what are we going to do?
Here's a link to some detailed info on the shower:
http://www.imo.net/calendar/2007
According to it, it peaks on April 22nd at 22:30 UT, which puts it at 6:30pm EDT, or 8:30am on April 23rd for Sydney, Australia. So the middle of the night between April 22 and April 23 would be good for you.
Just use this U.S. zip code map to see how large one zip code can be:
http://www.usnaviguide.com/zip.htm
Places in the plains, or less populated states have especially large zip-codes, and places like Wyoming just have weird zip codes.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "orient" is defined as, "the countries of the East, especially east Asia."
Therefore, an "oriental" person would be someone of the countries of the East, especially East Asia.
Therefore, the word is correct, so stop your arguing.
There already exist no-fly zones all over the place. I don't see why we couldn't just set up a perimeter around the cable as a no-fly zone and planes fly around it, like they would a military base, an erupting volcano, or other such places.
Not to mention that fluorescents let out a high-pitched noise, and some people can see their flickering, as well.
To hell with half of these arguments. I'll tell you why I think the idea of making this vaccine mandatory is absurd, and it's not some neo-conservative, religious, or otherwise belief. I disagree with the vaccine because, unlike other vaccines that protect you against things that you can merely catch by chance, the government would be forcing kids to get a vaccine because they ASSUME that since most people sleep with everything that moves, that you're also going to go sleep around. I don't want the government to start getting in the habit of requiring everyone to do something based on the assumption that that person will do an action simply because the majority of people do that action.
To me, it's no different than racial profiling. "Oh, he's black, so he has a higher chance to commit a crime," "Oh, she's a teenager, she's going to sleep around and get an STD," -- both are profiling, both are assuming, and in both cases, there are many millions of people that would be discriminated against simply because people ASSUME that they're going to do something.
It's about time someone else realized this. I can hear the noise and it drives me insane. Also, Australia fails to take into account not only the noise that fluorescents put out, but the fact that incandescents have uses far beyond just house lighting. Incandescents can be used for portable lamps, novelty lightning, and just about everything else under the sun. Hell, halogen bulbs are a type of incandescent, and those things are brighter than anything. They're used in car headlights, among other things.