Sooo, people with a spare tire, first aid kit, and jack in their car are all paranoid?
Sooo, presumably then, you're suggesting that changing a tire, or putting a band-aid on a cut occurs at roughly the same frequency as defending yourself from a deadly gun attack by a crazed psycho? They're not even in the same ballpark. It's this ridiculous concept that carrying a gun with the possible intent to use it, is the same as putting on your socks in the morning, that is a large part of the issue here. Guns are the problem. They're not the solution.
If the students were armed, as provided for by the 2nd amendment, someone could have dropped that guy early on and saved 30 or more people.
Why is it that as soon as there is an event like this, the NRA-crazies start trotting out the 2nd Amendment argument. The 2nd Amendment was written at a time when there was little in the way of coordinated law-enforcement (particularly at the federal level) and America was much more of an 'every-man-for-himself' environment in which to live. Furthermore, it was perceived that the government should be capable of being overthrown should it ever become too powerful and threaten individual civil liberties; but the fact that it maintained a standing army, meant that armed uprising would be necessary to achieve this.
But please, don't let me stop you pushing your right-wing nonsense before the latest pile of bodies is even cold. That's exactly the kind of democratic debate that your forefathers wanted to protect.
Ah, it's so frustrating to hear news like this. All those people did not have to die.
No, they didn't. Funny that isn't it. If the guy hadn't been a gun-toting nutbar, there would have been considerably fewer casualties. But hey, let's just take your advice and give guns to even more people, because that's gonna be less dangerous isn't it...
It almost beggars belief that you're suggesting students should have been armed, just on the off-chance that some psycho-loon should walk into their class and spray bullets everywhere. I have a great love of America, and American people, but the day your society reaches the point that everyone has to carry a gun, just to go to school will be the last day I ever visit your godforsaken country.
And let's be honest, it's not as if Tiger doesn't stack up favorably to Vista, and Apple desperately needs Leopard to convince people to switch.
Way to... entirely miss my point...
Whether or not Tiger stacks up well against Vista is not the issue here. It's about the image it projects of Apple as a company. I'm currently at the point of considering my next purchase. I was seriously considering a Mac Pro, but it doesn't fill me with confidence that Apple seem to see their own product (that I'm interested in), as their second priority right now after a cell phone.
Missing deadlines is barely an issue for me. Putting out public statements that basically say "we consider the phone more important than the OS release..." *is* an issue if you're an OS customer.
You and me both. It's one thing to announce a delay in the OS (shit happens) but to then go on to state that the reason is because developers have been shifted to the iPhone, is nothing more than a big "Fuck You!" to pretty much every one of their loyal customer base that supported them through leaner times and stayed faithful to the Macintosh.
I can't blame Apple for going down this road, because clearly they're hoping for another iPod style success. But, it's a crying shame, that just when they're perfectly positioned to take customer share away from Microsoft's crumbling OS empire, they turn their attention elsewhere. (And I'm no MS hater).
How could you sue someone that exaggerated amount? The legal system has been blinded by the Riaa.
Unless I'm very much mistaken, you can sue someone for whatever amount you want. It's then up to you to *prove* that you deserve what you're asking for. This has nothing to do with any blindness on the part of the legal system. In many cases, the litigant may ask for a disproportionate level of restitution in order to scare the defendant into settling early and minimize the risk of severe financial damage. I'd say it's a fairly common tactic.
The blithe lack of concern by the British Public continually amazes me...
Actually, some of us are disgusted to the point where we've gone to live abroad because we can't stand the damn place any more. Out of my closest circle of friends whom you could count on two hands, 5 have now relocated (to California, New York, Australia(2) & New Zealand) at the last count. My younger sister is about to go to Switzerland, my parents live for 10 months of the year in Spain and I'm in Japan.
Apple pretty much owns video and TV production now.
As someone who used to be the head of a digital post-production facility, and still keeps a very close eye on industry trends, I can assure you that you are fundamentally wrong. Having the capability or potential to do something and actually doing it, are two different things.
I see a very bright future for Apple in the broadcast industry, but they sure as hell aren't there yet.
IS that why you repeat something other people have said to try and grab Karma?
Presumably then, in order to hold someone in such contempt, every word you've ever uttered is entirely original and has never even been conceived of until you brought it's shining light into the world. Congratulations! You must be one of those gifted people we're discussing.
why did they send the notices to the university, if they knew the exact students?
From the tone of the question I'm sure you already know the answer, but presumably because they think:
1. universities will cave-in rather than risk any involvement in a law suit
2. students will be forced to pay if the university is involved, because the few thousand dollars settlement is nothing compared to the tens of thousands at risk if the student gets kicked off their course.
3. because they're a bunch of fucking thugs with morals that make Hitler look like a guy you'd want to marry your daughter.
Maybe I'm just a cynic, but when I read "In all likelihood one of his first priorities will be "closing the usability gap" between Solaris and Linux." - I genuinely wasn't sure which one was supposed to be ahead of the other,
That would be a waste of a question as all you'd get was a PR sales pitch
Let's be serious for a moment. Every question that provides anything other than an opportunity to puff the success of the PS3 is going to be a waste of time. I hate to be so judgemental before the responses have been provided. I really do. But does anyone, expect Harrison to do anything than provide a set of PR filtered, detail-light, mumbo-jumbo which reveals exactly nothing more than we already know.
If I genuinely thought we'd get brutal honesty... a few "yeah we really fucked up on that one" answers; or even something like "things haven't gone as well as we'd hoped", it would cement my respect for the man, and his company in a way that nothing they have done so far has achieved. But it won't happen. We all know it won't happen. And one wonders what the point of the exercise is other than Sony trying to appear receptive to the geek crowd and shift a few more units.
Maybe I'm just too cynical these days. But for once, I genuinely would love to be proved wrong.
Apologies - I've tried not to include any serious spoilers in this one, but you might want to be wary if you haven't finished the game.
I'm in two minds on this one. I finished the game and never really found myself doubting that I would. However, I do kinda understand what you're saying about the storyline never really materializing.
Although I enjoyed the game immensely, I never felt myself getting caught up in the story like I did with FFX. There was something about Yuna's tragic but inevitable slide towards her seemingly unstoppable fate that really gripped me. I genuinely didn't feel like I was sure what was going to happen until fairly near the end - especially with regard to her relationship with Tidus. However, with FFXII there were very few surprises and the outcome seemed all too easy to predict. It was more of a "do this, this and this to save the day" experience. Even some of the intended twists (Balthier's father) seemed a little bolted on just to add spice to the story.
But, as with all things, different things appeal to different minds. Sad though it may be, I actually get a real kick out of power-levelling for hour after hour. I liked the new battle system, and the programmer in me quite liked the gambit system, although I actually seem to be one of the few people these days who also loves turn-based battling. I've read opinion pieces in almost every game magazine I've ever seen arguing that technology has moved on, and turn-based systems are no longer acceptable, but some people actually like it that way.
Unlike the parent, I actually didn't get that attached to the characters this time around. There was no one who had the kind of personality that made me want to care about them. Ashe was a little too full of herself and didn't soften enough for me. Penelo had no depth at all other than being a sidekick for Vaan, who himself wavered between mildly likeable and slightly annoying. Balthier was amusing at times and had probably the best end-story of them all, and Fran while interesting for her voice, wasn't a patch on the fabulous Lulu from FFX. Basch - well I mean what can you say - he was as wooden as a fence-post.
The one thing I would say, is that the end FMV sequence with the Angela Aki song is for me, far and away the nicest and most cinematic ending of any of the FFs so far. I'd seriously recommend to the parent poster that if you're only 5 hours from the end of the game, it's worth spending an afternoon to complete it, as the finest moments are definitely in the last 5 minutes. Although you could always just download the movie from somewhere if you haven't already.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Not only is Linux not ready for desktop -it's unlikely to ever be 'ready'. There have been enough developers, working for enough years on Linux for them to have been able to roll out a decent desktop system by now. Whatever they might have you believe, most people developing for Linux have never had, and will never have desktop as a target. When you're smart enough to be able to develop distro code, your primary motivation isn't always satisfying the person who can barely plug the damn machine in.
Given how many of the pump n dump boiler room schemes are Mob-backed, I'm surprised that this bank hasn't been visited by goons I think many would consider the investment banking industry and organized crime to be one and the same.
It's a nice idea, but before they try building an entirely new search engine, why don't they fix the one on the wikipedia site. It's absolutely fucking useless, and incapable of even the most simplistic fuzzy search. Spell the name of a person wrong (which is entirely possible if it's an obscure or foreign name) by as little as one letter, and you're likely to get zero matches.
Quick example:
The president of South Africa is called Thabo Mbeki. He's the president of a country, so he'd rank as someone you may want to look up in an Encyclopedia, but he has a difficult name. Let's say you want to search for him but you've only heard his name and never seen it written.
Let's have a stab at:
Tabo Mbeki (zero matches)
Thabo Embeki (zero matches)
Thabo Mbekie (zero matches)
Get the picture Jimmy? Sort your existing search technology out before you start taking on Google.
I'd suggest that most of the people buying the console are doing it primarily for either Zelda or Wii Sports, both of which are big titles -although my suspicion is that Wii Sports is actually the stronger draw of the two, to casual gamers. So the new customers aren't experiencing the drought yet. The 2 key games that *are* available, are still driving console sales.
I understand your point though, especially if you look beyond the one or two games you're likely to pick up on the day of purchase. But by then, Nintendo have already sold you the console itself.
Who is to say that others aren't taking advantage of the spammer's work? If you can buy early and sell a day later, I imagine there'd be a lot of profit to be had.
Unfortunately I'm a little thin on the details, but I distinctly remember reading that at least one of the big investment banks has a team that does exactly that. i.e. monitoring the 'net to try and pick up as quickly as possible on pump'n'dump stocks in order to maximize any remaining value from from the spammers activities.
I didn't watch the video because I'm on a locked down machine at work without mp4 capability. But regardless, the only video I'm aware of featuring an A320 crashing is the infamous Paris airshow incident. In which case I think you may be confusing fly-by-wire (which in a sense contributed to the crash) and remote control. They're not the same thing.
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A couple of days ago, 62 people were killed in Iraq in a single day's "senseless mass killing".
I doubt either of you even noticed.
But please, don't let me stop you pushing your right-wing nonsense before the latest pile of bodies is even cold. That's exactly the kind of democratic debate that your forefathers wanted to protect.
No, they didn't. Funny that isn't it. If the guy hadn't been a gun-toting nutbar, there would have been considerably fewer casualties. But hey, let's just take your advice and give guns to even more people, because that's gonna be less dangerous isn't it...
It almost beggars belief that you're suggesting students should have been armed, just on the off-chance that some psycho-loon should walk into their class and spray bullets everywhere. I have a great love of America, and American people, but the day your society reaches the point that everyone has to carry a gun, just to go to school will be the last day I ever visit your godforsaken country.
Jesus... I've heard some scary fanboy shit before, but that's a classic.
Did you get that out of the brochure, or did Stevie Jobs have you scream it as he rammed a pole up your ass and made you his bitch?
Whether or not Tiger stacks up well against Vista is not the issue here. It's about the image it projects of Apple as a company. I'm currently at the point of considering my next purchase. I was seriously considering a Mac Pro, but it doesn't fill me with confidence that Apple seem to see their own product (that I'm interested in), as their second priority right now after a cell phone.
Missing deadlines is barely an issue for me. Putting out public statements that basically say "we consider the phone more important than the OS release..." *is* an issue if you're an OS customer.
I can't blame Apple for going down this road, because clearly they're hoping for another iPod style success. But, it's a crying shame, that just when they're perfectly positioned to take customer share away from Microsoft's crumbling OS empire, they turn their attention elsewhere. (And I'm no MS hater).
Anyone with any sense got out ages ago.
I see a very bright future for Apple in the broadcast industry, but they sure as hell aren't there yet.
1. universities will cave-in rather than risk any involvement in a law suit
2. students will be forced to pay if the university is involved, because the few thousand dollars settlement is nothing compared to the tens of thousands at risk if the student gets kicked off their course.
3. because they're a bunch of fucking thugs with morals that make Hitler look like a guy you'd want to marry your daughter.
Oh fuck... I think I've just Godwinned myself.
Maybe I'm just a cynic, but when I read "In all likelihood one of his first priorities will be "closing the usability gap" between Solaris and Linux." - I genuinely wasn't sure which one was supposed to be ahead of the other,
If I genuinely thought we'd get brutal honesty... a few "yeah we really fucked up on that one" answers; or even something like "things haven't gone as well as we'd hoped", it would cement my respect for the man, and his company in a way that nothing they have done so far has achieved. But it won't happen. We all know it won't happen. And one wonders what the point of the exercise is other than Sony trying to appear receptive to the geek crowd and shift a few more units.
Maybe I'm just too cynical these days. But for once, I genuinely would love to be proved wrong.
Apologies - I've tried not to include any serious spoilers in this one, but you might want to be wary if you haven't finished the game.
I'm in two minds on this one. I finished the game and never really found myself doubting that I would. However, I do kinda understand what you're saying about the storyline never really materializing.
Although I enjoyed the game immensely, I never felt myself getting caught up in the story like I did with FFX. There was something about Yuna's tragic but inevitable slide towards her seemingly unstoppable fate that really gripped me. I genuinely didn't feel like I was sure what was going to happen until fairly near the end - especially with regard to her relationship with Tidus. However, with FFXII there were very few surprises and the outcome seemed all too easy to predict. It was more of a "do this, this and this to save the day" experience. Even some of the intended twists (Balthier's father) seemed a little bolted on just to add spice to the story.
But, as with all things, different things appeal to different minds. Sad though it may be, I actually get a real kick out of power-levelling for hour after hour. I liked the new battle system, and the programmer in me quite liked the gambit system, although I actually seem to be one of the few people these days who also loves turn-based battling. I've read opinion pieces in almost every game magazine I've ever seen arguing that technology has moved on, and turn-based systems are no longer acceptable, but some people actually like it that way.
Unlike the parent, I actually didn't get that attached to the characters this time around. There was no one who had the kind of personality that made me want to care about them. Ashe was a little too full of herself and didn't soften enough for me. Penelo had no depth at all other than being a sidekick for Vaan, who himself wavered between mildly likeable and slightly annoying. Balthier was amusing at times and had probably the best end-story of them all, and Fran while interesting for her voice, wasn't a patch on the fabulous Lulu from FFX. Basch - well I mean what can you say - he was as wooden as a fence-post.
The one thing I would say, is that the end FMV sequence with the Angela Aki song is for me, far and away the nicest and most cinematic ending of any of the FFs so far. I'd seriously recommend to the parent poster that if you're only 5 hours from the end of the game, it's worth spending an afternoon to complete it, as the finest moments are definitely in the last 5 minutes. Although you could always just download the movie from somewhere if you haven't already.
Well a quick look on The Google seems to indicate they weren't entirely innocent.
I'm confused by this. Spamming is bad, but when a spammer suffers the consequences of their actions, we're supposed to feel sorry for them?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Not only is Linux not ready for desktop -it's unlikely to ever be 'ready'. There have been enough developers, working for enough years on Linux for them to have been able to roll out a decent desktop system by now. Whatever they might have you believe, most people developing for Linux have never had, and will never have desktop as a target. When you're smart enough to be able to develop distro code, your primary motivation isn't always satisfying the person who can barely plug the damn machine in.
I'd never seen that screensaver before. It's nice to see Microsoft has a sense of humor about such things.
It's a nice idea, but before they try building an entirely new search engine, why don't they fix the one on the wikipedia site. It's absolutely fucking useless, and incapable of even the most simplistic fuzzy search. Spell the name of a person wrong (which is entirely possible if it's an obscure or foreign name) by as little as one letter, and you're likely to get zero matches.
Quick example: The president of South Africa is called Thabo Mbeki. He's the president of a country, so he'd rank as someone you may want to look up in an Encyclopedia, but he has a difficult name. Let's say you want to search for him but you've only heard his name and never seen it written.
Let's have a stab at: Tabo Mbeki (zero matches) Thabo Embeki (zero matches) Thabo Mbekie (zero matches)
Get the picture Jimmy? Sort your existing search technology out before you start taking on Google.
I understand your point though, especially if you look beyond the one or two games you're likely to pick up on the day of purchase. But by then, Nintendo have already sold you the console itself.
I didn't watch the video because I'm on a locked down machine at work without mp4 capability. But regardless, the only video I'm aware of featuring an A320 crashing is the infamous Paris airshow incident. In which case I think you may be confusing fly-by-wire (which in a sense contributed to the crash) and remote control. They're not the same thing.