So you think its right to taser someone because they're acting suspicious? Would you like it if when you got pulled over for speeding, the cop went over and tasered you, first thing?
Originally, tasers as used in law enforcement were conceived as an alternative to lethal force--why shoot someone when you can use nonlethal weaponry?
Yet it has been proven over and over throughout history that whenever you give someone a nonlethal weapon, they're more likely to use them than a lethal weapon, even though its supposed to be a replacement for the lethal weapon.
And not surprisingly, this has happened with tasers, too; police are using them in absurd circumstances, even in some cases when the subject did nothing beyond verbal defiance, and worse, in cases where someone was "acting suspicious", such as in a recent case where an Egyptian man was tasered on a bus without any provocation--yet these were supposed to be used as replacements for guns, not as general-purpose weapons to put down anyone who looks suspicious!
Of course, I know Flash supports VP6; what I was saying is that the Flash H.263 decoder is really really slow; it lags on a 720p video even though H.263 is a comparatively simple standard to decode.
Of course, on a serious note, I welcome the ability to upload high quality videos without relying on absurdly high bitrates to compensate for H.263's crappiness.
x264 is normally set to 5.1 because everyone uses --partitions all, and p4x4 partitions require Level 5.1. Of course, the PS3 isn't as restrictive as it should be; you can make it play simply by modifying the header to say "4.1".
Google employees donate roughly 93% Democratic. Google as a corporation donates roughly evenly. This is not at all surprising to anyone with a clue, given the business they are in and who their employees are.
Isn't _______ (space program, particle physics, string theory, insert science program that isn't directly applicable to everyday life here) totally useless and a huge waste of money? This money could be better used elsewhere!
When you were a kid, you might have had a sandbox. In the sandbox, you had all sorts of toys to play with. Did you ever complain that, since you had to make your own fun, that sandboxes and the associated toys were a complete waste of money?
I'd rather have a sandbox where I can do what I want than a game that force-feeds me content and tells me I have to do things exactly the way it wants.
Perhaps the tutorials should be a bit better than they are now; the point of the game is that you only spend time doing nothing if you want to spend time doing nothing. It doesn't spoonfeed you the content; you're forced to actually play the game rather than mindlessly carry out a series of "fetch me this spoon and kill 17 kobolds."
Uh, time commitment? Are you serious? EVE's time commitment is much less than most other games; the main "time commitment" issue I've found is longer fleet operations and such; on the other hand, if I want to log in, plan some market manipulation or set up some production, it just takes me a few minutes. There are loads of different professions; choose one that doesn't require a large time commitment, and you can easily play 1 hour a week if you want. On the other hand, if you want to do something with a large time commitment, you can do that too. Its a game of choice; it doesn't force you to be a fucking moron and grind missions for hours a day for nearly no payout.
Its a sandbox. It provides you with pretty pathetic NPC-related gameplay, and asks you to make your own, whether it be building a corporation, taking part in the stock market, competing in the cutthroat economy, or conquering space and maintaining an empire.
While it certainly has its flaws, the most important thing one has to remember when trying EVE is that if you are uncreative enough that you want your game spoonfed to you, a'la World of Warcraft, EVE Online is not the game for you.
Just because you could not express your disagreement with others in a manner that others view as respectful (and as a result likely got yourself banned from Wikipedia) doesn't mean that these students will too. When people act like trolls, push their POVs over everyone else, and refuse to even debate the issue with others without engaging in massive revert-wars, they generally get banned, and then they go post their whines here on Slashdot.
Even though there are cases in which other users and admins go too far, one has to learn that the most important skill of being a Wikipedian is to know when to stop arguing and calm the fuck down. Almost everyone who I see get banned for edit-warring is because they refuse to do this.
The amount of time the MPAA claims it will take to crack something (in this case, 10 years) is inversely related to how long it will actually take (in this case, a few weeks).
Something people constantly misunderstand about supercomputers is that they assume that all problems can be broken apart into manageable portions that can be split among thousands of computers. Many problems exist that have vast memory requirements and/or require interaction among all parts of the problem, and so have to be run on a single supercomputer.
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So you think its right to taser someone because they're acting suspicious? Would you like it if when you got pulled over for speeding, the cop went over and tasered you, first thing?
Originally, tasers as used in law enforcement were conceived as an alternative to lethal force--why shoot someone when you can use nonlethal weaponry?
Yet it has been proven over and over throughout history that whenever you give someone a nonlethal weapon, they're more likely to use them than a lethal weapon, even though its supposed to be a replacement for the lethal weapon.
And not surprisingly, this has happened with tasers, too; police are using them in absurd circumstances, even in some cases when the subject did nothing beyond verbal defiance, and worse, in cases where someone was "acting suspicious", such as in a recent case where an Egyptian man was tasered on a bus without any provocation--yet these were supposed to be used as replacements for guns, not as general-purpose weapons to put down anyone who looks suspicious!
Of course, I know Flash supports VP6; what I was saying is that the Flash H.263 decoder is really really slow; it lags on a 720p video even though H.263 is a comparatively simple standard to decode.
They were given gigantic subsidies and tax benefits in order to lay that copper.
See this link for a guide, and any of my recent uploads for an example. For a really extreme example that demonstrates how terribly inefficient the Flash H.263 decoder is, see this 720p 8megabit clip of Transformers. Its quite possible already.
Of course, on a serious note, I welcome the ability to upload high quality videos without relying on absurdly high bitrates to compensate for H.263's crappiness.
Except the fact that its creation was funded by taxpayer dollars?
The iPhneo keybaord doesn't hvae any such isseu.
x264 is normally set to 5.1 because everyone uses --partitions all, and p4x4 partitions require Level 5.1. Of course, the PS3 isn't as restrictive as it should be; you can make it play simply by modifying the header to say "4.1".
Both the PS3 and Xbox 360 already support H.264; why in the world would anyone use DivX when a better option is available?
Google employees donate roughly 93% Democratic. Google as a corporation donates roughly evenly. This is not at all surprising to anyone with a clue, given the business they are in and who their employees are.
Take it home.
Cross out the parts you think are ridiculous.
Sign it.
Return it.
All of you people responding to this post with rebuttals about how useful science is--your sarcasm detector is broken.
I'm moderated troll, and someone responds with the usual rebuttal to my point...
Is Slashdot's sarcasm-detector broken today?!
Isn't _______ (space program, particle physics, string theory, insert science program that isn't directly applicable to everyday life here) totally useless and a huge waste of money? This money could be better used elsewhere!
When you were a kid, you might have had a sandbox. In the sandbox, you had all sorts of toys to play with. Did you ever complain that, since you had to make your own fun, that sandboxes and the associated toys were a complete waste of money?
I'd rather have a sandbox where I can do what I want than a game that force-feeds me content and tells me I have to do things exactly the way it wants.
Perhaps the tutorials should be a bit better than they are now; the point of the game is that you only spend time doing nothing if you want to spend time doing nothing. It doesn't spoonfeed you the content; you're forced to actually play the game rather than mindlessly carry out a series of "fetch me this spoon and kill 17 kobolds."
Uh, time commitment? Are you serious? EVE's time commitment is much less than most other games; the main "time commitment" issue I've found is longer fleet operations and such; on the other hand, if I want to log in, plan some market manipulation or set up some production, it just takes me a few minutes. There are loads of different professions; choose one that doesn't require a large time commitment, and you can easily play 1 hour a week if you want. On the other hand, if you want to do something with a large time commitment, you can do that too. Its a game of choice; it doesn't force you to be a fucking moron and grind missions for hours a day for nearly no payout.
Its a sandbox. It provides you with pretty pathetic NPC-related gameplay, and asks you to make your own, whether it be building a corporation, taking part in the stock market, competing in the cutthroat economy, or conquering space and maintaining an empire.
While it certainly has its flaws, the most important thing one has to remember when trying EVE is that if you are uncreative enough that you want your game spoonfed to you, a'la World of Warcraft, EVE Online is not the game for you.
The articles were deleted in complete accordance with policies.
Of course, what this means is that if you disagree with the deletions, you think the policies need revision (which they probably do).
Just because you could not express your disagreement with others in a manner that others view as respectful (and as a result likely got yourself banned from Wikipedia) doesn't mean that these students will too. When people act like trolls, push their POVs over everyone else, and refuse to even debate the issue with others without engaging in massive revert-wars, they generally get banned, and then they go post their whines here on Slashdot.
Even though there are cases in which other users and admins go too far, one has to learn that the most important skill of being a Wikipedian is to know when to stop arguing and calm the fuck down. Almost everyone who I see get banned for edit-warring is because they refuse to do this.
The amount of time the MPAA claims it will take to crack something (in this case, 10 years) is inversely related to how long it will actually take (in this case, a few weeks).
Comcast doesn't filter Bittorrent--they FALSIFY RST packets in order to terminate connections, which is wire fraud and therefore completely illegal.
Incorrect. It said ON THE GAME BOX of all restricted versions of the game that there was territory restriction.
Something people constantly misunderstand about supercomputers is that they assume that all problems can be broken apart into manageable portions that can be split among thousands of computers. Many problems exist that have vast memory requirements and/or require interaction among all parts of the problem, and so have to be run on a single supercomputer.
PAL: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3801111/Manhunt_2_%5BPAL%5D%5BPS2DVD%5D%5BEnglish%5D NTSC fix (to play on NTSC PS2s): http://www.rapidsafe.net/rc-IzMkNmYzcTM/Manhunt_2__Banned___Uncut__NTSC_Fix_-_CHRONiC.rar