It will also prepare them for life as an adult. You know where you watch other people do things instead of doing them yourself. Like sports and cooking.
I don't know, I've got 3 C64s in the garage that were made around then, cost about $200 new, and they all still work. If I run across a C64 in a garage sale, I expect it to work. The power supply...That's another story, but the computers usually work fine. Of course your right when you say that the ones that still work were the ones that were well made by definition.
But can the data be retrieved after it fades? It would be useless for security if the paper could be read the same way that erased hard drives used to be able to be read.
If the gaming companies want to advocate for Linux (Which in the long run is in their best interest), what they really need to do is put a small program on the disk that goes out and automatically downloads the Linux binary, and installs it. Then they put Linux on the box right next to Windows. This would give a much better experience to the Linux users, while at the same time making sure that MS doesn't lock them out of the game market later because of some precieved competition.
At this point there are not that many different package managers in common use, so it would even be reletively simple for them to test for the local package manager and do the install through that.
The most important thing though would be to be able to truthfully put Linux on the box in the store. There is no reason for a separate box, so it would not increase their costs at all.
"Without value in IP, there is no economic reason to innovate"
While you can debate whether IP is an absolute right, human rights violation, or somewhere in between. Your statement that innovation will not happen without "value in IP" is verifiably false. Just look at the vast majority of human history.
I never understood the E.T. hate. I thought it was a pretty decent game, and most of the complaints I hear about it would apply to 90% of the Atari 2600 games made. I've always figured that it was too difficult for most people, so they just didn't want to play.
Don't you mean 106+ hours of cut scenes, and 4 yours of game play? I would suggest he just wait until after he can't game any more before starting any modern Final Fantasy game.
The reason that people are not being narrower by ignoring the RF exposure risk is because we have the entire history of mankind to look at for examples of humans being bombarded with RF. You then add on the millions of conversations that have gone on with people complaining about RF radiation, and you find that these people as a group, do not understand what radiation is. They think that radiation by definition is similar if not the same as nuclear radiation.
Given that there is an infinite number of things we don't know for sure whether they have ill effects on us or not, picking one out of the blue because you think it has some association with nuclear radiation makes you ripe for ridicule. Add to that, the fact that the same people who are worried about Little Sabastian being exposed to radiation, no doubt are more than happy to let Little Sabastian ride in cars, or cross the street, (activities that are known to carry more risk than RF exposure) it becomes clear that these individuals could use a large roll of tinfoil and a hat making course.
I would say that your example is actually one of lack of choice. If the content providers would give you the choice between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, then there would be no detriment to the consumer for having the choice of of hardware. The fear that consumers have about choosing the wrong hardware is that they fear that they will have their choices limited in the future.
And just as with the Linux example, how do you propose that MS remove the offending code from the millions of disks they have already sent out? The FUD is that it is somehow better to get caught with closed source copyright violations than open source copyright violations.
Don't forget our national 'No child moves ahead' mandate. It is often referred to as 'No child left behind', but if one child moves ahead of the rest, they by definition leave the rest behind, and that has been made a strict and public taboo.
By the same token, if some corporate whistle blower were to come forward, and show that Microsoft has used even one small piece of GPL'ed code in it's Windows product, the entire product would then be bound by the GPL, and their entire monopoly would collapse. Given the number of times that MS has been caught committing acts of copyright violation in, or in the production of their OS, this does not seem to be completely unrealistic. This would put MS in major trouble and it'd send huge ripples throughout the closed source software community.
The general debate here is whether the Judge crossed a line or not. What worries me more is that police entrapment is becoming common place and accepted. An agent of the sheriff's department, went online to look for someone that would agree to have sex with a minor. The goal was to create a situation that lead to a crime. As I understand it, that is entrapment, and is illegal.
I don't know the name of the movie, but there was a trailer that was running for a while, where an adult was at a club, and two hot twins offer sex to the adult. The adult asks "You two are 18, right?" and the response was "Well, together we are 34!". While this was obviously intended to be humor, it presents a reasonable hypothetical situation.
You and people like you are exactly why there is definitely a very real debate as to whether man made global warming is happening or not. I point out an often told lie, and show exactly how each person can verify this for themselves, and the response is personal attacks, a restating of one side of the argument in caps, and a restatement of the original lie.
Just look at your very first sentence. "The debate among informed parties IS over." Right there you make anyone that does not agree with you, dismiss you as a fanatic. You make it very clear that you feel anyone who is even considering debating the issue is not "informed". This means that you are unwilling to discuss the issue in a rational and scientific manner. You are simply expecting people to believe, the same way they would believe in a god. You expect them to take it as a matter of faith.
The final paragraph really drives home why you certainly help keep the very real debate going. Everything you say becomes suspect because you obviously jump to conclusions without any evidence and accuse those that don't bow to your authority of being destroyers of the world.
You are correct. I would also like to add that the debate is NOT over. If it was, every time the subject comes up, we wouldn't need to hear someone tell us that the debate is over. That is simple a 'tell the lie often enough and people will believe it' attempt. When was the last time the Sun was mentioned on Slashdot, and someone piped in "The debate is over, the Sun is hot!"; Or how about the comment "The debate is over Microsoft publishes Windows".
Apparently it's not illegal to discriminate on gender when it's a business though... It always amazes me that "Curves" gyms can advertise both on their signs and on TV that the are a gym for "women only".
Am I the only one that finds it disturbing that we now have 'Czars' in the United States? It may just be a title, but it may also be a 'repeat it often enough and they believe it' situation.
Perhaps they released the video so that a bunch of people on Slashdot could argue over how it is possible, and when Slashdot posters explain exactly how this could be made, the submitter will have half of their R&D done.
I think that #3 will happen as a natural progression from MS's anti-piracy efforts and OEM deals. It used to be that when an new MS OS came out, you went out and bought a copy, and installed it on all the computers in your home. Maybe you even went in halfsies with a pal. Now, not only are you not able (without some real effort) install on multiple machines, but you don't even go out and buy a copy of the OS. You buy a computer with the OS already on it. Now what happens to your old machine. Yes, some people will toss them out. Many will keep running their old software. But, there will also be a significantly large group of people that will just install Linux. They won't care if it runs everything, as it is the second computer that they use for writing emails, or surfing the web with someone else in the family is on the gamer system. They may not do much on those systems, but their existence in their homes will show them that there are other choices. Some may even decide that they like Linux better, or that it suits their needs all by itself. That is how I see #3 coming about.
Because we don't do initial tests on humans. We find a lot of the procedures that work on mice, but not humans. We don't find many procedures that work on humans, but not mice.
Of course we are not talking about people that want know who their least favorite candidate is. We are talking about people who openly admit that they don't know who is bad and who is worse. The best thing for these people to do is vote third party. The reason is that they won't be helping the worse of two candidates. They likely won't affect the outcome any more than if they stayed home, but it a third party candidate got 10% of the vote because of this, you can be sure that the two major parties would start thinking a little harder about how to keep the prols happy.
For me it's the partial redundancy. Although the marginal performance improvement is nice, the fact that one of my drives can fail without me loosing data is great. Particularly since if you loose 2 drives at the same time in a totally redundant array, you are just as screwed as if you loose two drives at the raid-5. Being able to loose one drive without data loss and only loosing 20% in a 5 disk array to redundancy is pretty damn cool.
"Those Windows blue screens, which I've never seen in XP, are more than likely related to third party drivers than they would be to the OS anyway."
Why is it that poor hardware support in Windows is not considered a problem with Windows, but it is with Linux. I have heard this statement many, many times, and it just goes to show that hardware support just isn't up to snuff in Windows. The biggest difference is that MS has succeeded in shifting the blame away from their OS.
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It will also prepare them for life as an adult. You know where you watch other people do things instead of doing them yourself. Like sports and cooking.
I don't know, I've got 3 C64s in the garage that were made around then, cost about $200 new, and they all still work. If I run across a C64 in a garage sale, I expect it to work. The power supply...That's another story, but the computers usually work fine. Of course your right when you say that the ones that still work were the ones that were well made by definition.
But can the data be retrieved after it fades? It would be useless for security if the paper could be read the same way that erased hard drives used to be able to be read.
If the gaming companies want to advocate for Linux (Which in the long run is in their best interest), what they really need to do is put a small program on the disk that goes out and automatically downloads the Linux binary, and installs it. Then they put Linux on the box right next to Windows. This would give a much better experience to the Linux users, while at the same time making sure that MS doesn't lock them out of the game market later because of some precieved competition.
At this point there are not that many different package managers in common use, so it would even be reletively simple for them to test for the local package manager and do the install through that.
The most important thing though would be to be able to truthfully put Linux on the box in the store. There is no reason for a separate box, so it would not increase their costs at all.
"Without value in IP, there is no economic reason to innovate"
While you can debate whether IP is an absolute right, human rights violation, or somewhere in between. Your statement that innovation will not happen without "value in IP" is verifiably false. Just look at the vast majority of human history.
I never understood the E.T. hate. I thought it was a pretty decent game, and most of the complaints I hear about it would apply to 90% of the Atari 2600 games made. I've always figured that it was too difficult for most people, so they just didn't want to play.
Don't you mean 106+ hours of cut scenes, and 4 yours of game play? I would suggest he just wait until after he can't game any more before starting any modern Final Fantasy game.
The reason that people are not being narrower by ignoring the RF exposure risk is because we have the entire history of mankind to look at for examples of humans being bombarded with RF. You then add on the millions of conversations that have gone on with people complaining about RF radiation, and you find that these people as a group, do not understand what radiation is. They think that radiation by definition is similar if not the same as nuclear radiation.
Given that there is an infinite number of things we don't know for sure whether they have ill effects on us or not, picking one out of the blue because you think it has some association with nuclear radiation makes you ripe for ridicule. Add to that, the fact that the same people who are worried about Little Sabastian being exposed to radiation, no doubt are more than happy to let Little Sabastian ride in cars, or cross the street, (activities that are known to carry more risk than RF exposure) it becomes clear that these individuals could use a large roll of tinfoil and a hat making course.
I would say that your example is actually one of lack of choice. If the content providers would give you the choice between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, then there would be no detriment to the consumer for having the choice of of hardware. The fear that consumers have about choosing the wrong hardware is that they fear that they will have their choices limited in the future.
And just as with the Linux example, how do you propose that MS remove the offending code from the millions of disks they have already sent out? The FUD is that it is somehow better to get caught with closed source copyright violations than open source copyright violations.
Don't forget our national 'No child moves ahead' mandate. It is often referred to as 'No child left behind', but if one child moves ahead of the rest, they by definition leave the rest behind, and that has been made a strict and public taboo.
By the same token, if some corporate whistle blower were to come forward, and show that Microsoft has used even one small piece of GPL'ed code in it's Windows product, the entire product would then be bound by the GPL, and their entire monopoly would collapse. Given the number of times that MS has been caught committing acts of copyright violation in, or in the production of their OS, this does not seem to be completely unrealistic. This would put MS in major trouble and it'd send huge ripples throughout the closed source software community.
The general debate here is whether the Judge crossed a line or not. What worries me more is that police entrapment is becoming common place and accepted. An agent of the sheriff's department, went online to look for someone that would agree to have sex with a minor. The goal was to create a situation that lead to a crime. As I understand it, that is entrapment, and is illegal.
I don't know the name of the movie, but there was a trailer that was running for a while, where an adult was at a club, and two hot twins offer sex to the adult. The adult asks "You two are 18, right?" and the response was "Well, together we are 34!". While this was obviously intended to be humor, it presents a reasonable hypothetical situation.
You and people like you are exactly why there is definitely a very real debate as to whether man made global warming is happening or not. I point out an often told lie, and show exactly how each person can verify this for themselves, and the response is personal attacks, a restating of one side of the argument in caps, and a restatement of the original lie.
Just look at your very first sentence. "The debate among informed parties IS over." Right there you make anyone that does not agree with you, dismiss you as a fanatic. You make it very clear that you feel anyone who is even considering debating the issue is not "informed". This means that you are unwilling to discuss the issue in a rational and scientific manner. You are simply expecting people to believe, the same way they would believe in a god. You expect them to take it as a matter of faith.
The final paragraph really drives home why you certainly help keep the very real debate going. Everything you say becomes suspect because you obviously jump to conclusions without any evidence and accuse those that don't bow to your authority of being destroyers of the world.
You are correct. I would also like to add that the debate is NOT over. If it was, every time the subject comes up, we wouldn't need to hear someone tell us that the debate is over. That is simple a 'tell the lie often enough and people will believe it' attempt. When was the last time the Sun was mentioned on Slashdot, and someone piped in "The debate is over, the Sun is hot!"; Or how about the comment "The debate is over Microsoft publishes Windows".
Apparently it's not illegal to discriminate on gender when it's a business though... It always amazes me that "Curves" gyms can advertise both on their signs and on TV that the are a gym for "women only".
Am I the only one that finds it disturbing that we now have 'Czars' in the United States? It may just be a title, but it may also be a 'repeat it often enough and they believe it' situation.
Maybe not, but my favorite was when they infringed on Stacker's copyright. They didn't even remove Staker's copyright notice when they included it.
Perhaps they released the video so that a bunch of people on Slashdot could argue over how it is possible, and when Slashdot posters explain exactly how this could be made, the submitter will have half of their R&D done.
I think that #3 will happen as a natural progression from MS's anti-piracy efforts and OEM deals. It used to be that when an new MS OS came out, you went out and bought a copy, and installed it on all the computers in your home. Maybe you even went in halfsies with a pal. Now, not only are you not able (without some real effort) install on multiple machines, but you don't even go out and buy a copy of the OS. You buy a computer with the OS already on it. Now what happens to your old machine. Yes, some people will toss them out. Many will keep running their old software. But, there will also be a significantly large group of people that will just install Linux. They won't care if it runs everything, as it is the second computer that they use for writing emails, or surfing the web with someone else in the family is on the gamer system. They may not do much on those systems, but their existence in their homes will show them that there are other choices. Some may even decide that they like Linux better, or that it suits their needs all by itself. That is how I see #3 coming about.
Because we don't do initial tests on humans. We find a lot of the procedures that work on mice, but not humans. We don't find many procedures that work on humans, but not mice.
Of course we are not talking about people that want know who their least favorite candidate is. We are talking about people who openly admit that they don't know who is bad and who is worse. The best thing for these people to do is vote third party. The reason is that they won't be helping the worse of two candidates. They likely won't affect the outcome any more than if they stayed home, but it a third party candidate got 10% of the vote because of this, you can be sure that the two major parties would start thinking a little harder about how to keep the prols happy.
The very existence of your comment shows that you do not believe the debate is over.
For me it's the partial redundancy. Although the marginal performance improvement is nice, the fact that one of my drives can fail without me loosing data is great. Particularly since if you loose 2 drives at the same time in a totally redundant array, you are just as screwed as if you loose two drives at the raid-5. Being able to loose one drive without data loss and only loosing 20% in a 5 disk array to redundancy is pretty damn cool.
"Those Windows blue screens, which I've never seen in XP, are more than likely related to third party drivers than they would be to the OS anyway."
Why is it that poor hardware support in Windows is not considered a problem with Windows, but it is with Linux. I have heard this statement many, many times, and it just goes to show that hardware support just isn't up to snuff in Windows. The biggest difference is that MS has succeeded in shifting the blame away from their OS.