"Software which comes with dire threats attached if you make a copy for a friend."
the copy is illegal, is that really so hard to understand?? If Linus torvald woke up tomorrow, assuming he still holds hte copyright for his work on linux, he could close off all of his mods to linux. It doesn't come with dire threats attatched, it comes with the protection of current law. If people don't like the lisense, no one forces them to by the product, not even windows.
Thats the beauty of the market. If you really wanted to improve the code in use, you would release under BSD so any author, no matter his personal feelings, can use your insight. If you don't want to improve all the code base, but only other open source, go with the GPL.
anyways, not a single proprietary hoarder has ever enslaved someone(as software goes). Hate you break it to you, but the information and alternatives have always been there. If people willingly choose to not get informed, whether its BSD, GPL, or that EULA you hate so much, its all the same. Those people aren't slaves, they are willingly bending over and taking it.
But I take it from your outlook you want even copyright protection completely removed? I also assume then you want patents done away with? I argue copyright forces people to be even more creative. Not only allowing them to come up with something new but by reinventing something already there, possibly making it much better. Even patents do this by forcing people to not walk the same trodden path because its already been trail blazed. Sounds like a pretty effective way of forcing everyone who wants in now to be creative. Of course, as a non programmer, I like the free software movement because it gives me things for free that i value at a much higher price. Consumer surplus has pretty much been maximized so I'm happy.
"Just because the bosses of most proprietary software companies make most of their money from threatening people with jail time for sharing other people's work, doesn't mean you should be allowed to do so."
now this is just false and you know it. Why try and refute something you don't agree with by using some argument that is pretty much complete horse shit. most software companies make money by selling software. Almost all do actually and no major company makes a majority of its money from lawsuits(or as you put it, threatening people with jail time for using works whose copyright control is in their hands). Well, I guess it depends on your time scale. If IBM wins 100,000 dollars for infringement, I guess over htat one nano second as the money is transferred they made all their money from law suits. But not in any other way.
If the GPL is about freedom, then so be it. Its fine, but you know, so is the BSD lisence, its about complete freedom. Anyone can take this and do anything they want with it. That is about as free as it gets. The GPL on the other hand represents a different kind of freedom. More restrictive but guaranteeing of rights for much longer into the future.
and you know, you can't under any lisence take someone elses work, stick a EULA on it and sue someone for infringement on your copyright. You can sue them if they decide that because one program in your suit of thousands of programs was free that means everything in your software package has become free. This is the choice BSD gives you, it allows you to use some open and some closed software and sell it all together.
I don't know which one is better, the BSD or GPL. But I will say this, it doesn't matter at all to me. What matters to me is working software at a price I am willing to pay and whatever gives that to me wins.
nope, not in the slightest, but I also don't believe that China will control our policy by holding our debt. just speaking as an american, if it came down to a choice between China having a major say in our policy and not being able to borrow money, I would take the latter in a heartbeat. but that is just me.
you do realize that China doesn't buy US debt because they are trying to be our friends or are somehow similar to western germany as america was coming off the gold standard??
China buys american debt as one of its many ways of keeping its currency down(covert to dollar then buy our debt,note you can keep your real investment value about the same or with small growth from interest on debt you don't get when holding cash). It is in China's favor to continue to hold its currency down as they have been doing for a long time. It has been pegged to float around the same rate for longer than I can remember and this is beleived to be one of the reasons so many jobs are exported to China.
If China were to dumb US debt, it could be a little problematic for its own economic plans. A spike in the US interest rate would draw a great deal of money into our country and we would see the dollar INCREASE in value. This would cause major problems for China as it would have to either buy up its own currency to hold hte exchange rate steady with the US dollar thereby losing its competitive advantage with several other countries or it could revalue its currency.
Anyways, if these doomsday prediction of China gaining control over the US by owning enough of its debt ever came to pass, the US always has one major trump card, we can at any time invalidate all those US treasury bonds and they become nothing more than scraps of paper. Yes, I know its extreme, but its pretty much on par with the idea that China would gain a say in our government that way.
for anyone reading this comment, I found out the alarm system in my house acts as a pretty good faraday cage. most of our walls to the outside have windows and doors all around them. The windows actually ahve screens with wires in the screen so if anyone messes with that, the alarm is triggered. There is a very similar situation with doors but no screens.
I had a friend visit and the wireless access point was in my parents room. The house turns at a 90 degree angle so my friend was staying in a room that was no more than 15 feet from the router(802.11b). but with his door shut, he recieved no signal at all and with the door open, his signal jumped to 75%(it broke the circuit so no current was running through a significant portion). I'm highlighting this mainly because all the other walls involved were not shielded, only one wall!
Something like this could provide what you need for protection and it woudl be an interesting project. you could have ahouse that looks like a new breed of spider lives in it!
hmmmm.... I know selling 20 or 30 different things at a wal - mart is much easier. 10 of those things might fit into one pocket. But even if on average a person at wal mart only got 20 things, I couldn't imagine a busy day where they sell millions of units. Even in my area's walmart in the middle of nowhere(so it is the center of shopping and life), there might be 200 people waiting in line on the busy days of the year. Well, lets say they can clear that out in about 20 minutes, and we refresh that many people for 12 hours, that means we have
36*200 = 7200
lets me generous and say 40 items per person(that is probably over board, I get in line with 2 or 3 things usually)
7200 * 40 = 288,000? so I guess 14 or so wal marts like mine could do that many sales but I highly doubt my wal mart even see's numbers like that. If you took out things people don't buy or can't buy online due to restrictions(food, single pieces of candy) I bet those numbers really fall.
I don't believe I have once heard an American president have our country go to war to relieve suffering of another group. It just seems to be our last excuse when we run out of good reasons to do what we are doing. Everyone one of my friends who rapantly supported the war couldn't deal with there not being weapons of mass destruction. First they say it'll take time to find them, then they start comparing the size of hte country to finding a needle in california. And finally, instead of admitting we went to war on a bad reason, try to say its all worth it for the humanity.
Thats all bullshit, the USA doesn't go to war and put american lives on the line so Iraqis sleep well at night, its so americans can sleep better. If there are good consequences(spreading democracy and such) then so be it.
Now on the other hand, the UN, which conveniently ignores the slaughter of innocent people around the globe, should probably be doing some of these altruistic works. But nope. Let all them Europeans have a say, and lots of other countries, nad guess what, the world doesn't come to save the Sudanese or stop the blood shed in Rwanda(I think, Tutsis(sp?) and the Hootu's(sp?)). So all the europeans who say we don't care about human life need to go shove it. Start doing something if you care or just shut the hell up because you obviously are just looking to blame someone else for what your own decadence can lead to.
just as a note, most of the major problems in africa and the middle east have there roots with European foreign policy and only since WWII has america actually involved itself in those things. At least I can always say america wasn't the root of the problem and actaully tries to do something to solve it rather than complain.
just as one more note, I will agree there is a vast difference between a 15 and 18 year old, but not very much of one when it comes to drinking a beer. Hence I limited it to certain times. I also don't feel there is a difference when playing doom III or watching wrestling. Hence the reason I don't believe it bans on either of these things.
and also noting, on your last comment, I feel upmost that it should be the parent involved in whatever their children buy and depending on the age, have different amounts of say.
and of course, when your child is 16 and working at a job and getting a pay check, he or she probably doesn't want to have to drag his or her parent along to buy a game. I would have hated it to no end.
And sure, people will say "well, its better than them turning into a raging maniac with a gun" but that kind of extremism prooves nothing. Give me 100 kids and I will give them the most violent games on earth and I bet not one will go on a killing rampage, I'm so sure about it, I'll bet every dime I have on it.
I'm thinking this is more directly effecting something like people in the 15-18 year old age group who might be making there own money. I highly doubt your biggest problem is violent games if your 10 year old is stealing 50 dollars from your purse or wallet to go by a game.
I actually thought about some of the things i wrote, and while i still feel they are valid, I think there is a more important reason why I am very much against these bans. Basically, it creates this horrible little circle that I would have been in where the parents don't care to find out whether or not the game is actually bad and just don't buy it out of fear.
My mom was this kind of person but I am much more like my dad, try it first, and then decide if its bad. Consequently, my dad thought mortal kombat II was a really funny game and my mom hated it completely because of what she heard after she bought it.
My problem will always be with the overprotective and uninformed parent.
I only agree with these kinds of laws if parents are also forced to get informed. And frankly, most won't and that is what annoys me. If you don't have the information, if you haven't even seen it for yourself, I don't care if you are a parent, you shouldn't be making the decision. Once you are informed, its your decision to make. Until then, your's will probably be as wrong as your kids choice.
But most parents don't want this, they just want the government to step in and set up laws so they don't have to be informed about anything or ever have a slightly unconfortable conversation with their kids. "Just hide it all away so I don't have to deal with it" seems to be the mindset so I say, force them to be informed by not having these laws. Then their failures and lack of knowledge will show through. And of course, I am looking at for my own concerns in the end. While hte law might be a relief for you, I see it as another burden that can still effect me if I'm dressing a certain way.
so really what you need is a parent who can explain why that wrestler didn`t die. It would help a lot and probably not detract from the fun of watching if someone just sat down with the kid and explained that these people train for years, every single day, so that when they do these things, they don`t get hurt.
anyways, neither out of control violence or begging for mercy are unheard of in real life.
there are lots of things on tv and in games nad movies that if taken the wrong way could be very hazardous. I find things using guns and knifes possibly the worst because even a 9 year old can wield them. Its a lot harder for a 9 year old to pile drive a friend(probably the deadliest move in wrestling). I think the key is having someone to explain the truth to them so it isn`t taken out of context.
one other possibility to consider, they both have kids and don`t want them using any of these things but don`t feel other people need to be burdened by it and want to keep the parenting to themselves.
lots of people have problems with age limits on certain goods when there isn:t a real difference between that 15 eyar old and that 18 year old consuming it. So cocaine doesn`t really apply. I was always told growing up its ok to drink, but doing it in excess is just stupid because you get nothing out of it but the chance to kill yourself and that driving after drinking is out of hte option because you put others at risk.
This stuff is legal when people are over 18, so it will always be out there and I don`t see why people should be jumping through hoops when someone else doesn`t want their children exposed to it.
As for your last comment, htere is huge dissention as to whether or not violent or sexually mature video games are guaranteed to be harmful. I grew up with them nad so did most of my friends. We mostly turned out just fine. The one kid who didn`t suffered from several other things that probably meant he shouldn`t have those games. I understand where you are coming from, try to see where the other people are coming from. Some of us have a rational reason for hwat we feel.
there is a major difference I replied to earlier, most of these H1-B people(at least the 15 to 20 I have met, 10 or so I know well) started on H1-B and are either currently trying to or have already rolled over to a different visa so they can get citizenship and start a family in the US. Lots of these people what to only be in America for the money at first but within 5 or 10 years, they begin to really see it as their home, more so than their home country.
I know a lot of people see the H1-B with a lot of extra work as the quickest way to get to the US where life can be better on a lot of levels.
ok, just wondering hwo you see the fall of our entire economy from these foreign workers. It sure seems that for all your alarmism, the economy is doing pretty darn well. Industries are growing at home, not shrinking. It sure looks like everything is OK. Of course, you could cry about the dollar getting weaker but it seems that is something you should like. It means more of us will be buying things made by them red blooded americans.
oddly enough, I don`t know a single unemployed programmer. I do know about 10 employed ones, all of whom are indian actually. Of course, I`m sure they spell the end of the American economy. I mean, my god, a highly educated foreigner who is trying to start a family and build a life in the US. and actually, most of them started on the H1-B program and rolled their Visa over so they could stay.
so please, just attempt to explain how these programs spell the end of our economy.
I'm not sure about the answer to your question, but I would say even if it is putting lots of technologies together, its still difficult to do. I"m sure its as hard as getting all the parts of a complex computer program to work together when they were developed separately. Look at all the problems we see with OS's when soemthing new is added.
But from what I have read, it seems a lot of hte advances are home grown for ASIMO.
well, a trading card company became the leader in video games(Nintendo). Every company evolves by what it sees open to it. They both are kind of surprising, but I am sure there are loads more examples.
just wondering if you have ever tried to use your cell phone and see if it effects any of your IFR instruments. I've tried this a few times(in VFR conditions) and I haven't seen any changes. But of course, I only have me and a few other people to go on.
Since your against it, I was wondering if you might have had an experience or if your just taking the safe route until actual research is done.
nothing, 3 commercial airline pilots talked two adn several instructors, not a single one has said they have problems using their own phones while in flight(I'm assuming for the commercial pilots they are referring to when they take a smaller plane up, but who knows). At least as my own experience goes it never does anything.
Its more like they have never tested what happens when 200 phones suddenly go active and the possibility of all that interference building up and messing up electronics in a plane. Of course, if your in a small plane this is no problem(I mean like private craft) because the entire design is around not needing any of hte electronics(older models at least). I have no real clue about the commercial jets. But hey, with the ban, they can keep charging you 4 dollars a minute for a call.
besides a horrible lack of eloquence, there was one good point made in the grandparent, this work is probably too slow. What they need is to be up and running and better than NT 4 at least a couple years before MS cuts support, and I don't know if they can do that seeing what there pace was like up until now. The reason you need to be out before support is cut is simple, you need to make some name for yourself and an Alpha version just doesn't cut it. And after that, you need a chance to find some of those pesky bugs that only can be found after general implementation.
There is one advantage Linux had, it wasn't aiming for a fixed goal. Rather, you had someone make an OS and just try to improve it. And Linux came up a hell of a lot faster.
But for all that, I say more power to this group, hopefully this will give them a little more presense and maybe a few more contributors. OSS is either and start and die thing or it starts and snowballs into something great. If they can get this implementation running at full soon, that could be a huge dent in MS monopoly. They will probably continue to extend there support for NT4 if it really takes off.
I say we just switch over and use nature's way of determining importance, natural selection. Unfortunately, humans are so far above everything else, we can wipe out entire ecosystems in a blink of nature's eye. So nature's way has failed us.
I think all we have that we can trust is our own values, for better or for worse.
You've missed on about all points here, except the first. Japanese people aren't introverted, but there are culture reasons for what they do. First off, in public, it is rude in Japan to speak on a cell phone, especially loud enough for anyone to hear you. This means those walkie talkies would fail miserably. I felt like the rudest person on earth when I first got here and was making calls on my phone. This helped with the first boom on cell phones especially, to the point where a lot of young Japanese people(college age) don't even have an e-mail address, they give out the address for their cell phone!
Japanese aren't introverted within their own groups, no more than Americans in a big city. It just happens to be the fact that a lot of the time, they won't except or talk to a foreigner who has no repsect for their culture. A lot of american's think this is introversion when its really then not wanting to talk to the rude obnoxious person who is around them.
There are a couple other factors I've been studying that seem to have a huge impact on this consumerism. The first is the single child phenomenom(much more common than in the US). When parents who grew up in the tech bubble only have one, or maybe 2 children, they can afford to buy them almost anything. I walk around and see 9 year olds with cell phones. It kinda reminds of me of San Jose during the tech bubble. But with one child, parents usually support them completely for a long time, especially daughters. This means that when they start working, since they cannot afford a decent place of their own, the parents step up and either let them live at home or pay for their housing. This also helps in making the girls the drivers of the tech industry here. If you want to talk about novelty, it is espeicially strong with the girls in this country(even when it comes to foreign boyfriends).
At least all students from middle school on spend a great deal of time interacting with each other. Their clubs, especially in college, are almost as tightly knit as frats and sororities in the US. I missed 2 days of practice for my club and everyone was angry at me, like I had done something horrid(this was finals week btw).
But there are lots of other reasons for why Japan is so different from America. Americans might wait in line for 2 hours for that amazingly not good starbucks coffee, a japanese person spends 100$ of money they have on a new toy. They both seem pretty foolish to me and they are both really novelty items.
Instead of blaming the education system, it might be easier to blame the vast majority of society that doesn't mind these errors. When I am in my classes that demand writing skills, I shape up quickly. It is very obvious because everything else I write becomes more comprehensible. But when I have semester's loaded down with math and physics, I don't need anything but the most basic of writing skills, and it shows everywhere else.
Maybe the best person to blame is the manager or director who is either ok with these errors or too ignorant to notice the errors.
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excuse me, my math was slightly off, 8 million, when compared to the EBITDA, makes up about 1.33 percent(I hope I didn't miss it this time). But to highlight what it means against gross profits, it is just under 0.5 percent.
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you obviously have no idea how small 400 million dollars is in hte scheme of things at Time Warner. Most people in that company feel AOL is a lag on business, not some cash cow to be milked. That 400 million dollars you are riving about doesn't even hit 1% of total revenue to Time Warner. They bring in over 41 billion dollars a year in revenue (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=TWX).
So why would they lay off so few people? It obviously can't be to randomly inflate profits for a quarter or two because of the sheer amount of money we are talking about. For example, Lets say these ~1000 people are making about ~80,000 a year(I'm over on both numbers probably). Then we are talking about 8 million dollars saved by Time Warner. Now lets see what this does to their profits. They made(EBITDA) over 6 billion last year. So what is 8 million on this scheme of things? 0.75% or so. People do not make such foolish business decision to increase profits by less than 1 percent.
These lay offs come probably because AOL is seen as a huge drag on the Time Warner company(hence the reason it is no longer AOL Time Warner).
Before you try to say anything about money or the financials of a major corporation, try to do a tiny bit of research so you don't sound quite so ignorant. It took me a total of 2 minute to look this stuff up.
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"Software which comes with dire threats attached if you make a copy for a friend."
the copy is illegal, is that really so hard to understand?? If Linus torvald woke up tomorrow, assuming he still holds hte copyright for his work on linux, he could close off all of his mods to linux. It doesn't come with dire threats attatched, it comes with the protection of current law. If people don't like the lisense, no one forces them to by the product, not even windows.
Thats the beauty of the market. If you really wanted to improve the code in use, you would release under BSD so any author, no matter his personal feelings, can use your insight. If you don't want to improve all the code base, but only other open source, go with the GPL.
anyways, not a single proprietary hoarder has ever enslaved someone(as software goes). Hate you break it to you, but the information and alternatives have always been there. If people willingly choose to not get informed, whether its BSD, GPL, or that EULA you hate so much, its all the same. Those people aren't slaves, they are willingly bending over and taking it.
But I take it from your outlook you want even copyright protection completely removed? I also assume then you want patents done away with? I argue copyright forces people to be even more creative. Not only allowing them to come up with something new but by reinventing something already there, possibly making it much better. Even patents do this by forcing people to not walk the same trodden path because its already been trail blazed. Sounds like a pretty effective way of forcing everyone who wants in now to be creative. Of course, as a non programmer, I like the free software movement because it gives me things for free that i value at a much higher price. Consumer surplus has pretty much been maximized so I'm happy.
"Just because the bosses of most proprietary software companies make most of their money from threatening people with jail time for sharing other people's work, doesn't mean you should be allowed to do so."
now this is just false and you know it. Why try and refute something you don't agree with by using some argument that is pretty much complete horse shit. most software companies make money by selling software. Almost all do actually and no major company makes a majority of its money from lawsuits(or as you put it, threatening people with jail time for using works whose copyright control is in their hands). Well, I guess it depends on your time scale. If IBM wins 100,000 dollars for infringement, I guess over htat one nano second as the money is transferred they made all their money from law suits. But not in any other way.
If the GPL is about freedom, then so be it. Its fine, but you know, so is the BSD lisence, its about complete freedom. Anyone can take this and do anything they want with it. That is about as free as it gets. The GPL on the other hand represents a different kind of freedom. More restrictive but guaranteeing of rights for much longer into the future.
and you know, you can't under any lisence take someone elses work, stick a EULA on it and sue someone for infringement on your copyright. You can sue them if they decide that because one program in your suit of thousands of programs was free that means everything in your software package has become free. This is the choice BSD gives you, it allows you to use some open and some closed software and sell it all together.
I don't know which one is better, the BSD or GPL. But I will say this, it doesn't matter at all to me. What matters to me is working software at a price I am willing to pay and whatever gives that to me wins.
really, for code released under either I thought it would be a perfect example of
BSD = lets give private corp and Open source the chance to start form the same point and see who can actually do better when it comes down to it
GPL = expand the free software/Open source movement(yes they are intertwined, anything open source is by definition free).
nope, not in the slightest, but I also don't believe that China will control our policy by holding our debt. just speaking as an american, if it came down to a choice between China having a major say in our policy and not being able to borrow money, I would take the latter in a heartbeat. but that is just me.
you do realize that China doesn't buy US debt because they are trying to be our friends or are somehow similar to western germany as america was coming off the gold standard??
China buys american debt as one of its many ways of keeping its currency down(covert to dollar then buy our debt,note you can keep your real investment value about the same or with small growth from interest on debt you don't get when holding cash). It is in China's favor to continue to hold its currency down as they have been doing for a long time. It has been pegged to float around the same rate for longer than I can remember and this is beleived to be one of the reasons so many jobs are exported to China.
If China were to dumb US debt, it could be a little problematic for its own economic plans. A spike in the US interest rate would draw a great deal of money into our country and we would see the dollar INCREASE in value. This would cause major problems for China as it would have to either buy up its own currency to hold hte exchange rate steady with the US dollar thereby losing its competitive advantage with several other countries or it could revalue its currency.
Anyways, if these doomsday prediction of China gaining control over the US by owning enough of its debt ever came to pass, the US always has one major trump card, we can at any time invalidate all those US treasury bonds and they become nothing more than scraps of paper. Yes, I know its extreme, but its pretty much on par with the idea that China would gain a say in our government that way.
for anyone reading this comment, I found out the alarm system in my house acts as a pretty good faraday cage. most of our walls to the outside have windows and doors all around them. The windows actually ahve screens with wires in the screen so if anyone messes with that, the alarm is triggered. There is a very similar situation with doors but no screens. I had a friend visit and the wireless access point was in my parents room. The house turns at a 90 degree angle so my friend was staying in a room that was no more than 15 feet from the router(802.11b). but with his door shut, he recieved no signal at all and with the door open, his signal jumped to 75%(it broke the circuit so no current was running through a significant portion). I'm highlighting this mainly because all the other walls involved were not shielded, only one wall! Something like this could provide what you need for protection and it woudl be an interesting project. you could have ahouse that looks like a new breed of spider lives in it!
so in other words, exactly like every pro linux discussion as well, don't see much of a difference, so I guess I shouldn't listen to either one?
hmmmm.... I know selling 20 or 30 different things at a wal - mart is much easier. 10 of those things might fit into one pocket. But even if on average a person at wal mart only got 20 things, I couldn't imagine a busy day where they sell millions of units. Even in my area's walmart in the middle of nowhere(so it is the center of shopping and life), there might be 200 people waiting in line on the busy days of the year. Well, lets say they can clear that out in about 20 minutes, and we refresh that many people for 12 hours, that means we have
36*200 = 7200
lets me generous and say 40 items per person(that is probably over board, I get in line with 2 or 3 things usually)
7200 * 40 = 288,000?
so I guess 14 or so wal marts like mine could do that many sales but I highly doubt my wal mart even see's numbers like that. If you took out things people don't buy or can't buy online due to restrictions(food, single pieces of candy) I bet those numbers really fall.
suffering which the usa is hard at work relieving
I don't believe I have once heard an American president have our country go to war to relieve suffering of another group. It just seems to be our last excuse when we run out of good reasons to do what we are doing. Everyone one of my friends who rapantly supported the war couldn't deal with there not being weapons of mass destruction. First they say it'll take time to find them, then they start comparing the size of hte country to finding a needle in california. And finally, instead of admitting we went to war on a bad reason, try to say its all worth it for the humanity.
Thats all bullshit, the USA doesn't go to war and put american lives on the line so Iraqis sleep well at night, its so americans can sleep better. If there are good consequences(spreading democracy and such) then so be it.
Now on the other hand, the UN, which conveniently ignores the slaughter of innocent people around the globe, should probably be doing some of these altruistic works. But nope. Let all them Europeans have a say, and lots of other countries, nad guess what, the world doesn't come to save the Sudanese or stop the blood shed in Rwanda(I think, Tutsis(sp?) and the Hootu's(sp?)). So all the europeans who say we don't care about human life need to go shove it. Start doing something if you care or just shut the hell up because you obviously are just looking to blame someone else for what your own decadence can lead to.
just as a note, most of the major problems in africa and the middle east have there roots with European foreign policy and only since WWII has america actually involved itself in those things. At least I can always say america wasn't the root of the problem and actaully tries to do something to solve it rather than complain.
just as one more note, I will agree there is a vast difference between a 15 and 18 year old, but not very much of one when it comes to drinking a beer. Hence I limited it to certain times. I also don't feel there is a difference when playing doom III or watching wrestling. Hence the reason I don't believe it bans on either of these things.
and also noting, on your last comment, I feel upmost that it should be the parent involved in whatever their children buy and depending on the age, have different amounts of say.
and of course, when your child is 16 and working at a job and getting a pay check, he or she probably doesn't want to have to drag his or her parent along to buy a game. I would have hated it to no end.
And sure, people will say "well, its better than them turning into a raging maniac with a gun" but that kind of extremism prooves nothing. Give me 100 kids and I will give them the most violent games on earth and I bet not one will go on a killing rampage, I'm so sure about it, I'll bet every dime I have on it.
I'm thinking this is more directly effecting something like people in the 15-18 year old age group who might be making there own money. I highly doubt your biggest problem is violent games if your 10 year old is stealing 50 dollars from your purse or wallet to go by a game.
not condecending or rude, just a parent.
I actually thought about some of the things i wrote, and while i still feel they are valid, I think there is a more important reason why I am very much against these bans. Basically, it creates this horrible little circle that I would have been in where the parents don't care to find out whether or not the game is actually bad and just don't buy it out of fear.
My mom was this kind of person but I am much more like my dad, try it first, and then decide if its bad. Consequently, my dad thought mortal kombat II was a really funny game and my mom hated it completely because of what she heard after she bought it.
My problem will always be with the overprotective and uninformed parent.
I only agree with these kinds of laws if parents are also forced to get informed. And frankly, most won't and that is what annoys me. If you don't have the information, if you haven't even seen it for yourself, I don't care if you are a parent, you shouldn't be making the decision. Once you are informed, its your decision to make. Until then, your's will probably be as wrong as your kids choice.
But most parents don't want this, they just want the government to step in and set up laws so they don't have to be informed about anything or ever have a slightly unconfortable conversation with their kids. "Just hide it all away so I don't have to deal with it" seems to be the mindset so I say, force them to be informed by not having these laws. Then their failures and lack of knowledge will show through. And of course, I am looking at for my own concerns in the end. While hte law might be a relief for you, I see it as another burden that can still effect me if I'm dressing a certain way.
so really what you need is a parent who can explain why that wrestler didn`t die. It would help a lot and probably not detract from the fun of watching if someone just sat down with the kid and explained that these people train for years, every single day, so that when they do these things, they don`t get hurt.
anyways, neither out of control violence or begging for mercy are unheard of in real life.
there are lots of things on tv and in games nad movies that if taken the wrong way could be very hazardous. I find things using guns and knifes possibly the worst because even a 9 year old can wield them. Its a lot harder for a 9 year old to pile drive a friend(probably the deadliest move in wrestling). I think the key is having someone to explain the truth to them so it isn`t taken out of context.
one other possibility to consider, they both have kids and don`t want them using any of these things but don`t feel other people need to be burdened by it and want to keep the parenting to themselves.
lots of people have problems with age limits on certain goods when there isn:t a real difference between that 15 eyar old and that 18 year old consuming it. So cocaine doesn`t really apply. I was always told growing up its ok to drink, but doing it in excess is just stupid because you get nothing out of it but the chance to kill yourself and that driving after drinking is out of hte option because you put others at risk.
This stuff is legal when people are over 18, so it will always be out there and I don`t see why people should be jumping through hoops when someone else doesn`t want their children exposed to it.
As for your last comment, htere is huge dissention as to whether or not violent or sexually mature video games are guaranteed to be harmful. I grew up with them nad so did most of my friends. We mostly turned out just fine. The one kid who didn`t suffered from several other things that probably meant he shouldn`t have those games. I understand where you are coming from, try to see where the other people are coming from. Some of us have a rational reason for hwat we feel.
there is a major difference I replied to earlier, most of these H1-B people(at least the 15 to 20 I have met, 10 or so I know well) started on H1-B and are either currently trying to or have already rolled over to a different visa so they can get citizenship and start a family in the US. Lots of these people what to only be in America for the money at first but within 5 or 10 years, they begin to really see it as their home, more so than their home country.
I know a lot of people see the H1-B with a lot of extra work as the quickest way to get to the US where life can be better on a lot of levels.
ok, just wondering hwo you see the fall of our entire economy from these foreign workers. It sure seems that for all your alarmism, the economy is doing pretty darn well. Industries are growing at home, not shrinking. It sure looks like everything is OK. Of course, you could cry about the dollar getting weaker but it seems that is something you should like. It means more of us will be buying things made by them red blooded americans. oddly enough, I don`t know a single unemployed programmer. I do know about 10 employed ones, all of whom are indian actually. Of course, I`m sure they spell the end of the American economy. I mean, my god, a highly educated foreigner who is trying to start a family and build a life in the US. and actually, most of them started on the H1-B program and rolled their Visa over so they could stay. so please, just attempt to explain how these programs spell the end of our economy.
I'm not sure about the answer to your question, but I would say even if it is putting lots of technologies together, its still difficult to do. I"m sure its as hard as getting all the parts of a complex computer program to work together when they were developed separately. Look at all the problems we see with OS's when soemthing new is added.
But from what I have read, it seems a lot of hte advances are home grown for ASIMO.
well, a trading card company became the leader in video games(Nintendo). Every company evolves by what it sees open to it. They both are kind of surprising, but I am sure there are loads more examples.
just wondering if you have ever tried to use your cell phone and see if it effects any of your IFR instruments. I've tried this a few times(in VFR conditions) and I haven't seen any changes. But of course, I only have me and a few other people to go on.
Since your against it, I was wondering if you might have had an experience or if your just taking the safe route until actual research is done.
nothing, 3 commercial airline pilots talked two adn several instructors, not a single one has said they have problems using their own phones while in flight(I'm assuming for the commercial pilots they are referring to when they take a smaller plane up, but who knows). At least as my own experience goes it never does anything. Its more like they have never tested what happens when 200 phones suddenly go active and the possibility of all that interference building up and messing up electronics in a plane. Of course, if your in a small plane this is no problem(I mean like private craft) because the entire design is around not needing any of hte electronics(older models at least). I have no real clue about the commercial jets. But hey, with the ban, they can keep charging you 4 dollars a minute for a call.
besides a horrible lack of eloquence, there was one good point made in the grandparent, this work is probably too slow. What they need is to be up and running and better than NT 4 at least a couple years before MS cuts support, and I don't know if they can do that seeing what there pace was like up until now. The reason you need to be out before support is cut is simple, you need to make some name for yourself and an Alpha version just doesn't cut it. And after that, you need a chance to find some of those pesky bugs that only can be found after general implementation. There is one advantage Linux had, it wasn't aiming for a fixed goal. Rather, you had someone make an OS and just try to improve it. And Linux came up a hell of a lot faster. But for all that, I say more power to this group, hopefully this will give them a little more presense and maybe a few more contributors. OSS is either and start and die thing or it starts and snowballs into something great. If they can get this implementation running at full soon, that could be a huge dent in MS monopoly. They will probably continue to extend there support for NT4 if it really takes off.
I say we just switch over and use nature's way of determining importance, natural selection. Unfortunately, humans are so far above everything else, we can wipe out entire ecosystems in a blink of nature's eye. So nature's way has failed us.
I think all we have that we can trust is our own values, for better or for worse.
You've missed on about all points here, except the first. Japanese people aren't introverted, but there are culture reasons for what they do. First off, in public, it is rude in Japan to speak on a cell phone, especially loud enough for anyone to hear you. This means those walkie talkies would fail miserably. I felt like the rudest person on earth when I first got here and was making calls on my phone. This helped with the first boom on cell phones especially, to the point where a lot of young Japanese people(college age) don't even have an e-mail address, they give out the address for their cell phone!
Japanese aren't introverted within their own groups, no more than Americans in a big city. It just happens to be the fact that a lot of the time, they won't except or talk to a foreigner who has no repsect for their culture. A lot of american's think this is introversion when its really then not wanting to talk to the rude obnoxious person who is around them.
There are a couple other factors I've been studying that seem to have a huge impact on this consumerism. The first is the single child phenomenom(much more common than in the US). When parents who grew up in the tech bubble only have one, or maybe 2 children, they can afford to buy them almost anything. I walk around and see 9 year olds with cell phones. It kinda reminds of me of San Jose during the tech bubble. But with one child, parents usually support them completely for a long time, especially daughters. This means that when they start working, since they cannot afford a decent place of their own, the parents step up and either let them live at home or pay for their housing. This also helps in making the girls the drivers of the tech industry here. If you want to talk about novelty, it is espeicially strong with the girls in this country(even when it comes to foreign boyfriends).
At least all students from middle school on spend a great deal of time interacting with each other. Their clubs, especially in college, are almost as tightly knit as frats and sororities in the US. I missed 2 days of practice for my club and everyone was angry at me, like I had done something horrid(this was finals week btw).
But there are lots of other reasons for why Japan is so different from America. Americans might wait in line for 2 hours for that amazingly not good starbucks coffee, a japanese person spends 100$ of money they have on a new toy. They both seem pretty foolish to me and they are both really novelty items.
Instead of blaming the education system, it might be easier to blame the vast majority of society that doesn't mind these errors. When I am in my classes that demand writing skills, I shape up quickly. It is very obvious because everything else I write becomes more comprehensible. But when I have semester's loaded down with math and physics, I don't need anything but the most basic of writing skills, and it shows everywhere else. Maybe the best person to blame is the manager or director who is either ok with these errors or too ignorant to notice the errors.
excuse me, my math was slightly off, 8 million, when compared to the EBITDA, makes up about 1.33 percent(I hope I didn't miss it this time). But to highlight what it means against gross profits, it is just under 0.5 percent.
you obviously have no idea how small 400 million dollars is in hte scheme of things at Time Warner. Most people in that company feel AOL is a lag on business, not some cash cow to be milked. That 400 million dollars you are riving about doesn't even hit 1% of total revenue to Time Warner. They bring in over 41 billion dollars a year in revenue (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=TWX).
So why would they lay off so few people? It obviously can't be to randomly inflate profits for a quarter or two because of the sheer amount of money we are talking about. For example, Lets say these ~1000 people are making about ~80,000 a year(I'm over on both numbers probably). Then we are talking about 8 million dollars saved by Time Warner. Now lets see what this does to their profits. They made(EBITDA) over 6 billion last year. So what is 8 million on this scheme of things? 0.75% or so. People do not make such foolish business decision to increase profits by less than 1 percent.
These lay offs come probably because AOL is seen as a huge drag on the Time Warner company(hence the reason it is no longer AOL Time Warner).
Before you try to say anything about money or the financials of a major corporation, try to do a tiny bit of research so you don't sound quite so ignorant. It took me a total of 2 minute to look this stuff up.