The difference between Slashdot and digg is that there have been surveys showing that most people digg stories without even reading them. Also, considering that digg has hundreds of stories per day and Slashdot has about three to five, there are a LOT more stories on digg to distribute all that traffic. I'm willing to wager that the Slashdot effect is still worse than the digg effect, and will be until digg is a large factor larger than Slashdot.
You missed permanence in the Pros. That is, a retail DVD will last damn near forever. A DVD burnt on a DVD+R, even if it's a Taiyo Yuden DVD+R, will last for a maximum of about 10 years. And DVDs stored on a HDD will only last until the HDD gives out. So every couple of years you end up having to transfer your movies to a different disc or new HDD, whereas you can just leave DVDs sit on a shelf and never have to move them.
At least, that's one of the things I think about when downloading.
The criteria that needs to be met for a city to be considered "intelligent" seems more like criteria that would need to be met to be considered "advanced." Last I checked, broadband, "digital inclusion," etc... have nothing to do with intelligence -- just technological advancement and modernity.
Everyone's all for spying, until they're the ones being spied on.
It seems to me that most people who advocate covert spying are also the same people that push the mantra of, "If you have nothing to hide then why should you care?"
The person is the child abuser. We all have thought problems. I, for one, for some reason or another, whenever I'm in a train station and I'm walking next to the tracks behind the yellow line, I constantly envision myself jumping down onto the tracks. When I'm near the edge of a cliff, I envision myself falling off the cliff. It seems that whenever I'm in a position in which I could die by doing something, my mind imagines me doing it. I'm not sure why it happens, but it happens and I can't change that.
But DO I take an action that will lead to my death? Of course not. No matter how much my brain imagines it, I just deal with it and continue on. Jumping into an oncoming train would be extremely stupid, and there's really no satisfactory reason for me to be doing such a silly act. I can make this decision because I am a human being, and humans have free will. It doesn't matter how much you crave doing something -- it is ultimately your choice whether you give in to your urges and imaginings, and you must ultimately take responsibility for those consequences. Sure, it would satisfy some psychotic idea in my brain to go and throw myself in front of a train, but I know that it would be foolish and I'm quite frankly not quite up to enduring the consequences that would result from that action. Everyone has to evaluate the consequences and ultimately CHOOSE which option to take. And if they choose to molest a child because that would satisfy some psychotic tick in their brain, despite the fact that they know that what they're doing is immoral and illegal, then that is their choice and they ought to be ready to take responsibility for the consequences that ensue.
Xuranova, you forget that all of the Xbox 360's sales numbers come from Europe and America. It's only sold all of about ten consoles in Japan. ^_^
Of course, that could change with Blue Dragon, so we'll see. I'd like to see Microsoft do well this generation, though.
This does have great potential because every cow can be the perfect cow, but I thought that there were still some problems with cloning. For instance, I thought that -all- cloned animals thus far have suffered from obesity. Is that still true? Had it even been true? If it is true, wouldn't that mean that there is SOME health effect going on of which we have no idea why?
I only watch the History Channel, Discovery Channel (Mythbusters only, Discovery documentaries are nothing but made-for-TV drama movies), Travel Channel, Food Network, and some National Geographic. I can safely say that most of the time, there is always something to be learnt from watching TV as I watch it.
I was homeschooled until second grade. I then went to private schools from second to fourth grade and after that I went to public schools from fourth to seventh grade. After seventh grade, I had had enough of schools and asked to be homeschooled again.
Throughout my life, my computer, TV, and video game time have never been limited. I've been a straight 'A' student my entire life (college is another matter, of course. ^_^) and video games have never brought me down. Through my experiences, I can confidently say that video games had actually made me more intelligent. Perhaps it's because of the kind of games that I prefer -- games like Civilization, RPGs (not the pop-culture crap that Final Fantasy is now, but REAL RPGs, like the old Final Fantasies, Dragon Quest, and other SNES-era JRPGs), and Strategy and Simulation games. Back when I used to come home from school and play games, I feel that I could read faster, had a better memory, and could retain data easier than I can nowadays when I come home and read the news on the computer. In fact, I can guarantee it so much that I'm trying to revert back to my old days of playing lots and lots of RPGs, again.
Playing video games has nothing to do with the lower grades. The problem comes when the child doesn't have enough discipline to make sure that their game-playing doesn't get in the way of their education. Of course, public schools are another problem as when I was homeschooled, learning was fun, whereas when I was in private and public schools, learning was more of a chore.
That said, I HIGHLY recommend that you don't keep tabs on your kids. I grew up with the internet and I'd be a stupid, naive dolt, not to mention I'd probably be one of those complete-asshole-why-do-today's-kids-have-to-be-so -annoying kids that spl this n u kant ndrst4nd zem and day abbreviate evtg, if I didn't learn the lessons that I have via the internet.
Just educate your kids and tell them not to give away personally identifiable information online. Let them experience the internet untapped, I'd say.
Perhaps search engines could keep the IPs, but replace ccc and ddd (aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd) with "xxx.xxx", thus deleting any identifiable information (aside from ISP and region), but keeping the valuable information that helps search engine makers improve their search resutls, based on region.
Well, immediately upon using it, I noted that you couldn't press CTRL+Enter to automatically add "www." and ".com" to a web address. Also, there are no tabs.
I'd rather just use Torpark and then just go to Tools>Options>Privacy>Settings... then check all the boxes and make sure to check "Clear private data when closing Firefox."
Where is the "Book Gamer," or other similar gamer? I know for a fact that I'm not the only one who doesn't play games for random nudity, violence, explosions, guns, sci-fi, mechs, and other themes which magically turn "childish" games into "mature" games.
I want storyline-driven games -- SNES era RPGs, Dragon Quests, a REAL Final Fantasy (not Nomura's horrible pop-culture Final Fantasies), and maybe some Lufia or Disgaea in there. Game companies have all but forgotten our kind everywhere outside of Japan. There's still plenty of us out here -- RPGs were huge on the NES and SNES -- but we have to rely on fan translations, or raw Japanese versions of games like Ys, Arc the Lad, and the once-every-three-to-four-years Dragon Quest.
Bush inherited a falling economy, which would have been hard -- albeit, not impossible -- to have saved without the small depression we had during his first term, and since then, the economy has been slowly, kind of fixed (though it seems more like the free market fixed itself, I think).
Other than that, there's really nothing I can think of that Bush has done right, and oh so many things done wrong...
Couldn't one just use a large magnetic (from unitednuclear, or some other such company), and shove it up against the harddrive? Then you could just say that the HDD stopped functioning, and they likely couldn't pin it on you, without reasonable doubt that you just enjoy magnets (who DOESN'T enjoy large magnets?)...?
If Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are the Hiroshi Yamauchi of Microsoft, I'd love to see the Satoru Iwata of Microsoft come forward and start running the company -- someone who's all about innovation, friendliness, working with third-parties of every country, and all about perfection.
Anyone who would be intelligent enough to report a sexual predator wouldn't meet the sexual rpedator in real life or give out personal information to begin with. The only people who are "preyed upon" are the imbeciles who are somehow convinced to have sex with a stranger over the internet. Moreover, with this kind of button, there will be SO MANY false reports/prank reports/anything reports that it will just be a huge, enormous waste of police resources, money, and time.
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Us Americans are the hardest working people in the world, and right above us is Japan. However, the irony is truely great as we are some of the least efficient workers, too (and Japan is one of the most efficient).
Unfortunately, all work and no play makes one unhealthy. Perhaps the reason, then, why Japan has the highest life expectancies in the world is because while they may get around the same time off as Americans, they're CONSTANTLY having holidays. There's nearly a holiday every same-day-as-the-month, e.g., January 1st, February 2nd, March 3rd..., whrereas us Americans don't really have very many holidays (unless you work for the postal service -_-;)...
If there's no way to get him to shut up, there's always a chance that an Audio Spotlight will show up on eBay (about $2500!), in which case you could beam the sounds of hardcore bestiality at his door, so that every time he opens his door to get his newspaper, he's in for a surprise.;-)
I live in Indiana and there was just today an article in the newspaper about "forensic computer science."
Basically, their job is to scout around computers and look for illicit content. They usually do jobs for either a police department, or they can be contracted out to companies that suspect their employees of wrongdoings.
And get this: Their starting salary... $80,000 - $100,000.
United Nuclear, everyone's favorite company, saves the day, again!
http://www.switch2hydrogen.com/
One load will get you 500 miles, and it comes free with a solar-powered hydrolysis machine. (Still in beta testing, not for sale...yet)
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The difference between Slashdot and digg is that there have been surveys showing that most people digg stories without even reading them. Also, considering that digg has hundreds of stories per day and Slashdot has about three to five, there are a LOT more stories on digg to distribute all that traffic. I'm willing to wager that the Slashdot effect is still worse than the digg effect, and will be until digg is a large factor larger than Slashdot.
The Japanese Ys series is one of the best series of RPGs ever, in my opinion. It's hardly time-wasting nonsense.
You missed permanence in the Pros. That is, a retail DVD will last damn near forever. A DVD burnt on a DVD+R, even if it's a Taiyo Yuden DVD+R, will last for a maximum of about 10 years. And DVDs stored on a HDD will only last until the HDD gives out. So every couple of years you end up having to transfer your movies to a different disc or new HDD, whereas you can just leave DVDs sit on a shelf and never have to move them.
At least, that's one of the things I think about when downloading.
The criteria that needs to be met for a city to be considered "intelligent" seems more like criteria that would need to be met to be considered "advanced." Last I checked, broadband, "digital inclusion," etc... have nothing to do with intelligence -- just technological advancement and modernity.
It seems to me that most people who advocate covert spying are also the same people that push the mantra of, "If you have nothing to hide then why should you care?"
The person is the child abuser. We all have thought problems. I, for one, for some reason or another, whenever I'm in a train station and I'm walking next to the tracks behind the yellow line, I constantly envision myself jumping down onto the tracks. When I'm near the edge of a cliff, I envision myself falling off the cliff. It seems that whenever I'm in a position in which I could die by doing something, my mind imagines me doing it. I'm not sure why it happens, but it happens and I can't change that.
But DO I take an action that will lead to my death? Of course not. No matter how much my brain imagines it, I just deal with it and continue on. Jumping into an oncoming train would be extremely stupid, and there's really no satisfactory reason for me to be doing such a silly act. I can make this decision because I am a human being, and humans have free will. It doesn't matter how much you crave doing something -- it is ultimately your choice whether you give in to your urges and imaginings, and you must ultimately take responsibility for those consequences. Sure, it would satisfy some psychotic idea in my brain to go and throw myself in front of a train, but I know that it would be foolish and I'm quite frankly not quite up to enduring the consequences that would result from that action. Everyone has to evaluate the consequences and ultimately CHOOSE which option to take. And if they choose to molest a child because that would satisfy some psychotic tick in their brain, despite the fact that they know that what they're doing is immoral and illegal, then that is their choice and they ought to be ready to take responsibility for the consequences that ensue.
Xuranova, you forget that all of the Xbox 360's sales numbers come from Europe and America. It's only sold all of about ten consoles in Japan. ^_^ Of course, that could change with Blue Dragon, so we'll see. I'd like to see Microsoft do well this generation, though.
Professor: "And what's this layer of ozone. That's never been there before!"
This does have great potential because every cow can be the perfect cow, but I thought that there were still some problems with cloning. For instance, I thought that -all- cloned animals thus far have suffered from obesity. Is that still true? Had it even been true? If it is true, wouldn't that mean that there is SOME health effect going on of which we have no idea why?
I only watch the History Channel, Discovery Channel (Mythbusters only, Discovery documentaries are nothing but made-for-TV drama movies), Travel Channel, Food Network, and some National Geographic. I can safely say that most of the time, there is always something to be learnt from watching TV as I watch it.
I was homeschooled until second grade. I then went to private schools from second to fourth grade and after that I went to public schools from fourth to seventh grade. After seventh grade, I had had enough of schools and asked to be homeschooled again.
Throughout my life, my computer, TV, and video game time have never been limited. I've been a straight 'A' student my entire life (college is another matter, of course. ^_^) and video games have never brought me down. Through my experiences, I can confidently say that video games had actually made me more intelligent. Perhaps it's because of the kind of games that I prefer -- games like Civilization, RPGs (not the pop-culture crap that Final Fantasy is now, but REAL RPGs, like the old Final Fantasies, Dragon Quest, and other SNES-era JRPGs), and Strategy and Simulation games. Back when I used to come home from school and play games, I feel that I could read faster, had a better memory, and could retain data easier than I can nowadays when I come home and read the news on the computer. In fact, I can guarantee it so much that I'm trying to revert back to my old days of playing lots and lots of RPGs, again.
Playing video games has nothing to do with the lower grades. The problem comes when the child doesn't have enough discipline to make sure that their game-playing doesn't get in the way of their education. Of course, public schools are another problem as when I was homeschooled, learning was fun, whereas when I was in private and public schools, learning was more of a chore.
Well, you can use either of these hardware keyloggers:
o -annoying kids that spl this n u kant ndrst4nd zem and day abbreviate evtg, if I didn't learn the lessons that I have via the internet.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/7af2/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/5a05/
That said, I HIGHLY recommend that you don't keep tabs on your kids. I grew up with the internet and I'd be a stupid, naive dolt, not to mention I'd probably be one of those complete-asshole-why-do-today's-kids-have-to-be-s
Just educate your kids and tell them not to give away personally identifiable information online. Let them experience the internet untapped, I'd say.
Perhaps search engines could keep the IPs, but replace ccc and ddd (aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd) with "xxx.xxx", thus deleting any identifiable information (aside from ISP and region), but keeping the valuable information that helps search engine makers improve their search resutls, based on region.
I saw that on TV the other day while watching the Simpsons. It's absolutely real.
Well, immediately upon using it, I noted that you couldn't press CTRL+Enter to automatically add "www." and ".com" to a web address. Also, there are no tabs.
I'd rather just use Torpark and then just go to Tools>Options>Privacy>Settings... then check all the boxes and make sure to check "Clear private data when closing Firefox."
Where is the "Book Gamer," or other similar gamer? I know for a fact that I'm not the only one who doesn't play games for random nudity, violence, explosions, guns, sci-fi, mechs, and other themes which magically turn "childish" games into "mature" games.
I want storyline-driven games -- SNES era RPGs, Dragon Quests, a REAL Final Fantasy (not Nomura's horrible pop-culture Final Fantasies), and maybe some Lufia or Disgaea in there. Game companies have all but forgotten our kind everywhere outside of Japan. There's still plenty of us out here -- RPGs were huge on the NES and SNES -- but we have to rely on fan translations, or raw Japanese versions of games like Ys, Arc the Lad, and the once-every-three-to-four-years Dragon Quest.
Bush inherited a falling economy, which would have been hard -- albeit, not impossible -- to have saved without the small depression we had during his first term, and since then, the economy has been slowly, kind of fixed (though it seems more like the free market fixed itself, I think).
Other than that, there's really nothing I can think of that Bush has done right, and oh so many things done wrong...
Couldn't one just use a large magnetic (from unitednuclear, or some other such company), and shove it up against the harddrive? Then you could just say that the HDD stopped functioning, and they likely couldn't pin it on you, without reasonable doubt that you just enjoy magnets (who DOESN'T enjoy large magnets?)...?
If Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are the Hiroshi Yamauchi of Microsoft, I'd love to see the Satoru Iwata of Microsoft come forward and start running the company -- someone who's all about innovation, friendliness, working with third-parties of every country, and all about perfection.
Anyone who would be intelligent enough to report a sexual predator wouldn't meet the sexual rpedator in real life or give out personal information to begin with. The only people who are "preyed upon" are the imbeciles who are somehow convinced to have sex with a stranger over the internet. Moreover, with this kind of button, there will be SO MANY false reports/prank reports/anything reports that it will just be a huge, enormous waste of police resources, money, and time.
Us Americans are the hardest working people in the world, and right above us is Japan. However, the irony is truely great as we are some of the least efficient workers, too (and Japan is one of the most efficient).
Unfortunately, all work and no play makes one unhealthy. Perhaps the reason, then, why Japan has the highest life expectancies in the world is because while they may get around the same time off as Americans, they're CONSTANTLY having holidays. There's nearly a holiday every same-day-as-the-month, e.g., January 1st, February 2nd, March 3rd..., whrereas us Americans don't really have very many holidays (unless you work for the postal service -_-;)...
You don't watch Mythbusters, do you?
If there's no way to get him to shut up, there's always a chance that an Audio Spotlight will show up on eBay (about $2500!), in which case you could beam the sounds of hardcore bestiality at his door, so that every time he opens his door to get his newspaper, he's in for a surprise. ;-)
I live in Indiana and there was just today an article in the newspaper about "forensic computer science."
Basically, their job is to scout around computers and look for illicit content. They usually do jobs for either a police department, or they can be contracted out to companies that suspect their employees of wrongdoings.
And get this: Their starting salary... $80,000 - $100,000.
United Nuclear, everyone's favorite company, saves the day, again! http://www.switch2hydrogen.com/ One load will get you 500 miles, and it comes free with a solar-powered hydrolysis machine. (Still in beta testing, not for sale...yet)