that's a pretty broad interpretation of terrorism, since in the most cases people associate it more with violence or physical force and not "legal force". maybe even so broad that posting a "trespasser's will be shot" sign or "beware of dog" is more of a terrorist act than this is
if you're going through the trouble of swapping buckets, just swap a bucket of regular chips for another that is more full. this sort of thing is why they have the cameras though
the Catholic story of Jesus takes pains to point out that even though he's the son of God he has to work his way through life in the same manner as everyone else. The story of the Matrix is the story of someone to whom everything comes easy, someone whose natural talent lets him skip most of the hard work and drudgery that everyone else has to do to get good at manipulating the Matrix. he's surrounded by people whose only purpose is to help him get better, rather than by people that he can teach to raise themselves.
that seems like the opposite to me, with the only link being that both characters are singled out for extra suffering rather than living the good life like one my expect given their background.
the Matrix that i saw was about one person being singled out to receive special powers, be singled out just for who he was, defy all the rules, and naturally outshine people who worked hard to train themselves to do things. that all seems like hero worshipping to me, and not exactly a humble journey that would align itself with Catholic teaching. maybe Catholics just like Ray-Bans and trenchcoats
it's fun to discuss breeding sanctuaries on Slashdot. once they've solved the problem of the declining populations of African and Asian animals, will they tackle the breeding problem among the rare American Nerd? our population is strugging right now, they've already had to start importing more of us from Asia and Africa to sustain the population. maybe they could build sanctuaries for us in the wilds of Africa
here's my point (and i agree that it's not a strong one), we tend to think of products as "made in U.S." and "not made in the U.S.", even though all these companies are all over the world (ok, mostly asia). i'm suggesting that it might be that someone is a monopoly in their country, without drowning out the marketplace in ours, especially since some countries like Japan and China are really bad at opening their own market to outside products. here's the list of brands of DVD players that are on circuit city's website right now :
Matsushita (Japan) - Panasonic and JVC Samsung (Korea) Desay (China) AMW (U.S. importer?) CyberHome (U.S. importer?) Polaroid (U.S.) Philips (Netherlands) Hitachi (Japan) Sony (Japan) Onkyo (Japan) LG (Korea) - Zenith (founded in U.S.) Harman/Kardon (U.S.?)
it looks like more of them are from Japan than i realized, but I'm interested because I have heard that lots of these companies that look like competitors to us are not really competitors in the sense that we think of them...they're really just partners in larger corporate groups. even setting aside Onkyo on that list because they're a small player, Hitachi and Matsushita are reasonably sized competition to Sony so maybe they don't hold such a majority of the Japanese market. i'd be interested to see each of their relative market shares and any information about ties among them though.
and i still also think that Sony (and a lot of companies really) would be doing the same crap MS does, if they had the opportunity. i'm no fan of MS, but i'm also no fan of Sony
it's easier than that. Google should just block all service to Australians, users will get up a referendum to change that law when they find out they can't access their stuff:)
i predict that this post will be caught in a Flamebait/Insightful moderation spiral that will whirl out of control until all Slashdot is consumed by its energy...
or maybe all the moderators will save their points and move onto the next post
Sony isn't exactly a good corporate citizen. they have a long enough history of locking in their products to their own add-ons (you paid how much for that Memory Stick?), that it seems like the only thing keeping them from attracting litigation like Microsoft is that they're not an American company (Japan doesn't share our distaste for monopolies) and they've not been as successful at the lockin as MS has.
there's another problem here. don't they lose money on each console sale? they're setting themselves up with a couple bad options:
1. some customers wait until a better version is released, and maybe in the meantime decide to get a PS2 instead
2. some customers don't wait, and they buy both versions which are both money losers for MS
it seems like either they aren't really ready to launch the console and are using this staggered release to put out an inferior product to the PS3 first and a comparable/better product later, or the later offerings are going to be less powerful and they're targetted at people that wouldn't shell out for the first ones
what would you call the whole of the following combined parts?
more importantly, WHY would you even need to refer to the whole of those combined parts? seriously, how often does anything come up that generically involves those areas, since they have so little in common. the fact that they are connected by land only means so much, as i don't see people scrapping around for a word that applies specifically to the people in Turkey and Greece. if such a situation arises that you need a term for those continents together, i suggest that you continue to use terms such as "The New World", "The Americas", "The Western Hemisphere" or my favorite "North and South Americans"
If you look at the patent filing (or even the posts to which you're replying), you'll notice that this regards also finding numbers expressed as words or equations. The terms in their example are "one thousand two hundred", "1,234,567", and "2*X=23".
the listing is actually "string numbers, the ordinal numbers, and the roman numerals", but you're right they do mention later on that "According to embodiments of the invention, an entire mathematical equation may be emphasized, including variables and mathematical operators". it looks like they also determine if a number is in the header/footer to ignore page numbering. not the most novel patent i've seen, but yet another patent that gets totally dumbed down when it's summarized in a Slashdot article
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that's a pretty broad interpretation of terrorism, since in the most cases people associate it more with violence or physical force and not "legal force". maybe even so broad that posting a "trespasser's will be shot" sign or "beware of dog" is more of a terrorist act than this is
"i don't get it. what's so fun about a plane?"
maybe he passed his low UID onto his kids
if you're going through the trouble of swapping buckets, just swap a bucket of regular chips for another that is more full. this sort of thing is why they have the cameras though
the Catholic story of Jesus takes pains to point out that even though he's the son of God he has to work his way through life in the same manner as everyone else. The story of the Matrix is the story of someone to whom everything comes easy, someone whose natural talent lets him skip most of the hard work and drudgery that everyone else has to do to get good at manipulating the Matrix. he's surrounded by people whose only purpose is to help him get better, rather than by people that he can teach to raise themselves.
that seems like the opposite to me, with the only link being that both characters are singled out for extra suffering rather than living the good life like one my expect given their background.
the Matrix that i saw was about one person being singled out to receive special powers, be singled out just for who he was, defy all the rules, and naturally outshine people who worked hard to train themselves to do things. that all seems like hero worshipping to me, and not exactly a humble journey that would align itself with Catholic teaching. maybe Catholics just like Ray-Bans and trenchcoats
unfortunately they're not offering drive-thru service like the last time
it's fun to discuss breeding sanctuaries on Slashdot. once they've solved the problem of the declining populations of African and Asian animals, will they tackle the breeding problem among the rare American Nerd? our population is strugging right now, they've already had to start importing more of us from Asia and Africa to sustain the population. maybe they could build sanctuaries for us in the wilds of Africa
so what you're saying is that they can just add a sticker to the textbook indicating that there are other competing theories?
here's my point (and i agree that it's not a strong one), we tend to think of products as "made in U.S." and "not made in the U.S.", even though all these companies are all over the world (ok, mostly asia). i'm suggesting that it might be that someone is a monopoly in their country, without drowning out the marketplace in ours, especially since some countries like Japan and China are really bad at opening their own market to outside products. here's the list of brands of DVD players that are on circuit city's website right now :
Matsushita (Japan) - Panasonic and JVC
Samsung (Korea)
Desay (China)
AMW (U.S. importer?)
CyberHome (U.S. importer?)
Polaroid (U.S.)
Philips (Netherlands)
Hitachi (Japan)
Sony (Japan)
Onkyo (Japan)
LG (Korea) - Zenith (founded in U.S.)
Harman/Kardon (U.S.?)
it looks like more of them are from Japan than i realized, but I'm interested because I have heard that lots of these companies that look like competitors to us are not really competitors in the sense that we think of them...they're really just partners in larger corporate groups. even setting aside Onkyo on that list because they're a small player, Hitachi and Matsushita are reasonably sized competition to Sony so maybe they don't hold such a majority of the Japanese market. i'd be interested to see each of their relative market shares and any information about ties among them though.
and i still also think that Sony (and a lot of companies really) would be doing the same crap MS does, if they had the opportunity. i'm no fan of MS, but i'm also no fan of Sony
it's easier than that. Google should just block all service to Australians, users will get up a referendum to change that law when they find out they can't access their stuff :)
they also don't re-release movies much anymore, how many times have "Gone with the Wind" and "Star Wars" been pushed back out to the theaters?
i predict that this post will be caught in a Flamebait/Insightful moderation spiral that will whirl out of control until all Slashdot is consumed by its energy...
or maybe all the moderators will save their points and move onto the next post
Sony isn't exactly a good corporate citizen. they have a long enough history of locking in their products to their own add-ons (you paid how much for that Memory Stick?), that it seems like the only thing keeping them from attracting litigation like Microsoft is that they're not an American company (Japan doesn't share our distaste for monopolies) and they've not been as successful at the lockin as MS has.
there's another problem here. don't they lose money on each console sale? they're setting themselves up with a couple bad options :
1. some customers wait until a better version is released, and maybe in the meantime decide to get a PS2 instead
2. some customers don't wait, and they buy both versions which are both money losers for MS
it seems like either they aren't really ready to launch the console and are using this staggered release to put out an inferior product to the PS3 first and a comparable/better product later, or the later offerings are going to be less powerful and they're targetted at people that wouldn't shell out for the first ones
Perfect Dark Zero couldn't possibly be a sequel, i mean come on if it were a sequel it would be Perfect Dark Two or Three
just wait until SCO sees the code though, it clearly must have been stolen from one of their properties
followup question: just what is so great about Mauradon loot that L60 hunters will spend the entire day going in and out of it?
i would trust someone who owns it over their website, the grandparent clearly has one and gets less range from it than that
i much prefer its companion product that detects when the other person sounds like they're bored and tells you to be more interesting