Although I completely agree with you, you left out one point. While adults are often able to make the kind of analysis that you are suggesting, children generally are not.
This is not a perfect world and if someone can take advantage of the imperfections by selling Tobacco, Alcohol, Games, Christianity and drugs to children who are unprepared to recognize their addictive and dangerous effects, they will. Parents are often not in the position to recognize these problems and help their children learn to handle them--just another aspect of this imperfect world.
So although your premise is correct, I have to say that if WOW had been available when I was a kid I would probably be making half what I am now and I'd most likely be miserable.
while i recognize that parents have a difficult time regulating their kids exposure to drugs/alcohol/sex because it can occur in a small period of time out of their sight, if your kid is spending massive amounts of time playing WoW and you don't know it you're doing something wrong
i think if you know anything about how hard it is to explain this stuff to old people, you'd not be surprised that the geezers in our government are slow to catch on.
The other big killer app is "Surround Gaming." Matrox includes a Surround Gaming Utility, the latest version of which supports around 120 games. This simple application will find supported games on your hard drive and automatically edit their configuration files to support triple-wide display resolutions like 1920x480, 2400x600, 3072x768, or 3840x1024. Because the OS sees the TripleHead2Go device as though it were a single monitor with a maximum resolution of 3840x1024, it works just fine with SLI configurations.
yup, there probably not a Star Trek reference (and if there was it'd make more sense to be Wesley Crusher, the one that was involved in a billion plot segments with Data).
Spinner surely refers to the fact that it moves around wildly because they can't get the controls corrected, and Crusher refers to what inevitably happens when they try to move it around objects
i was trying to say that they didn't buy the right name, they bought "ThinkPad" and not "IBM" and maybe people were buying it because of the other name. as someone else said, a certain percentage of their customers was willing to pay a premium for an IBM laptop (in the same way that many people will pay extra for an Apple computer or IPod), and perhaps those same people aren't as enamored of the name Lenovo. another set of customers bought IBMs because of their customer support, and maybe those same people aren't sure that they'll get the same service under the new regime.
what wasn't even addressed is that it's completely business-as-usual when an asian country encourages their citizens to only buy local products, but when it's a western country doing it suddenly it's a big scandal?
he forgot the golden rule: when american companies have poor sales in asia it's called "national pride", and when americans would rather buy from an american company than one from asia it's oppression and xenophobia.
i buy stuff made overseas all the time, but i think i speak for a lot of us when i say that all things being equal it makes sense to buy it from an american company. so the question is, these laptops were being sold by IBM and now they're being sold by Lenovo, were they getting sales before that were just "benefit of the doubt" sales based on the reputation of the company and good will for an american firm, or were they legitimately better? if they were mostly based on reputation and good will, then Lenovo didn't really buy that.
I can only hope that this backfires bigtime on the lawyers.
those aren't lawyers, they're comedians. check out this gem FTA :
In any case, Mr. Wallace added, "the devil is in the details.
"Suppose I write something saying that teleportation is possible by merely converting matter to energy, beaming the energy to a distant location and reconverting energy back to matter," he said. "Does this mean that my statements compromise the patents of the first person to actually make such a system work? No patent attorney would argue such a thing."
well, SOME attorney (not gonna name names) was just in court arguing that NTP has valid claim to a patent that RIM in fact implemented
Firewall plus destination address combined with "target DROP" or "destination nat fakeauthserver.localdomain". I'm not worried (largely because I don't use Windows for anything). Pirates aren't worried either.
this is probably why Windows started including it's own firewall. most people will use that rather than getting one from someone else, and the Windows firewall is clearly not going to prevent Windows from connecting out whereas another company's product just might.
my guess is that the site is getting WallStreet-dotted, probably a lot of financial sites are carrying this somewhere at the bottom of their news lineup
A memo written by unidentified government officials in Washington stated that addressing Microsoft's complaints could result in 'substantial donations'
the problem that i find is that conversational parts of the movies are not too loud (they're just right really), it's the action parts of the movies that turn into a sonic blast. i find that when i watch DVDs i'm constantly adjusting the sound up and down to compensate for the changes in action, so i can't imagine doing that sort of a thing at a theater.
I was talking with an attorney a while ago who said that these days anyone who is a business leader should have a crim. def. attorney retained or available.
a lawyer that thinks that everyone should have a lawyer. does this guy have a name or can we just call him John Q Lawyer?
that makes a lot of sense, because the first sustained burst of gamma rays hit the earth in 1967 giving rise to the first superheroes. at first i thought this was ludicrous, now i'm all for it
1. they'd rather lose 2% than endanger 98% of song sales (NOT iPod sales, i read this as iPods are being opened not iTunes), because whatever solution you put in France might break out
2. see #1
3. i'm sure French people really have favorite U.S. companies...
4. they seem to be doing ok so far
5. i'm not sure i mind a big company being against a rule here, the rule here is strange. if i make up a song format off the top of my head right now, the iPod has to support it? it sounds like Apple is being forced to support a new format invented by Microsoft after iPods had been released, and one that afaik requires licencees to pay a portion of their revenue to Microsoft for use
Sony/MS and the music industry have been interested in this for a long time, but it doesn't really seem like their slice of the pie has been growing. but certainly the best case for Apple is that it stays the same, and the best case is never the most likely.
the most interesting story on the making of was where they talked about misordering of the reels of film causing most of the racing lights in the glow effects added to the movie. apparently when film is shipped to a studio it has inherent flaws in its composition, but the flaws aren't very evident if you use the reels in the order that they were produced (because the flaws are mostly the same from one frame to the next), but they stacked the boxes of film in a random order causing the flaws to be mixed between reels and the lighting effect magnified them.
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i think if you know anything about how hard it is to explain this stuff to old people, you'd not be surprised that the geezers in our government are slow to catch on.
well, yes, i'm sure that TiVo is at a competitive disadvantage when compared to an illegal alternative
yup, there probably not a Star Trek reference (and if there was it'd make more sense to be Wesley Crusher, the one that was involved in a billion plot segments with Data).
Spinner surely refers to the fact that it moves around wildly because they can't get the controls corrected, and Crusher refers to what inevitably happens when they try to move it around objects
i was trying to say that they didn't buy the right name, they bought "ThinkPad" and not "IBM" and maybe people were buying it because of the other name. as someone else said, a certain percentage of their customers was willing to pay a premium for an IBM laptop (in the same way that many people will pay extra for an Apple computer or IPod), and perhaps those same people aren't as enamored of the name Lenovo. another set of customers bought IBMs because of their customer support, and maybe those same people aren't sure that they'll get the same service under the new regime.
what wasn't even addressed is that it's completely business-as-usual when an asian country encourages their citizens to only buy local products, but when it's a western country doing it suddenly it's a big scandal?
he forgot the golden rule: when american companies have poor sales in asia it's called "national pride", and when americans would rather buy from an american company than one from asia it's oppression and xenophobia.
i buy stuff made overseas all the time, but i think i speak for a lot of us when i say that all things being equal it makes sense to buy it from an american company. so the question is, these laptops were being sold by IBM and now they're being sold by Lenovo, were they getting sales before that were just "benefit of the doubt" sales based on the reputation of the company and good will for an american firm, or were they legitimately better? if they were mostly based on reputation and good will, then Lenovo didn't really buy that.
i'm shocked that someone would mark this informative because of a link to Oprahsaurus
it's like playing Battleship against someone that's firing 10 times per turn. Hey, you sunk my Battleship, Submarine and Destroyer!
my guess is that the site is getting WallStreet-dotted, probably a lot of financial sites are carrying this somewhere at the bottom of their news lineup
you're living proof that non-starters are the smartest of all, some day i will get around to proving that
i think it was a typo, here :
A memo written by unidentified government officials in Washington stated that addressing Microsoft's complaints could result in 'substantial donations'
the problem that i find is that conversational parts of the movies are not too loud (they're just right really), it's the action parts of the movies that turn into a sonic blast. i find that when i watch DVDs i'm constantly adjusting the sound up and down to compensate for the changes in action, so i can't imagine doing that sort of a thing at a theater.
unlike a lot of the webservers hosting the beautiful websites featured on Slashdot, ugly women are generally always available
that makes a lot of sense, because the first sustained burst of gamma rays hit the earth in 1967 giving rise to the first superheroes. at first i thought this was ludicrous, now i'm all for it
*starts humming the tune Meet George Jetson*
1. they'd rather lose 2% than endanger 98% of song sales (NOT iPod sales, i read this as iPods are being opened not iTunes), because whatever solution you put in France might break out 2. see #1 3. i'm sure French people really have favorite U.S. companies... 4. they seem to be doing ok so far 5. i'm not sure i mind a big company being against a rule here, the rule here is strange. if i make up a song format off the top of my head right now, the iPod has to support it? it sounds like Apple is being forced to support a new format invented by Microsoft after iPods had been released, and one that afaik requires licencees to pay a portion of their revenue to Microsoft for use Sony/MS and the music industry have been interested in this for a long time, but it doesn't really seem like their slice of the pie has been growing. but certainly the best case for Apple is that it stays the same, and the best case is never the most likely.
the most interesting story on the making of was where they talked about misordering of the reels of film causing most of the racing lights in the glow effects added to the movie. apparently when film is shipped to a studio it has inherent flaws in its composition, but the flaws aren't very evident if you use the reels in the order that they were produced (because the flaws are mostly the same from one frame to the next), but they stacked the boxes of film in a random order causing the flaws to be mixed between reels and the lighting effect magnified them.
just hang in there, in May they're putting out the iDog Nano to solve both your problems with one check made out to Apple
don't break the flow, man. he had a McGyver-thing going on and i was feeling it