That's one of the main reasons I use Firefox more than Safari. I love having things like Wikipedia and Merriam-Webster available from my search box. I think the limited search function hurts Safari more than anyone.
(Note: I only have 10.3.9 - if Safari for 10.4 contains more search options, I have no idea.)
The main problem with that advice: Most people overestimate their intelligence. Unintelligent people are FAR more likely to overestimate it than those who are actually in the top 5-10%. This is borne out by everyday experience, but there have been studies to back up that experience. Most stupid people think they're smart. So if you can't trust a person to decide whether they're smart or not, when you say "all smart people should drop out" you run the risk of convincing many stupid people to drop out, as well. And those stupid people are NOT likely to go much of anywhere in life without an education. They certainly won't be the next Jobs or Gates.
I actually thought that under the patriot act maybe libraries did, but apparently they either don't, or my local one is thumbing its nose at the law. Just yesterday I went to return some money that I found in a book I'd checked out. They said they couldn't pull up who checked it out last - once the book is checked back in, that information leaves their computers forever.
Yeah, and I know that every time I say "Should we go to the store?" I'm horribly embarrassed because I'm afraid people will think I'm talking about pee going to the store.
At the end of each commericial, if a child's voice whispered "wee" in sort of a mystical way, it would do wonders in changing the perception of the name.
Ooh. I don't really like the name, but I like that. It works. Playing up the "Whee" interpretation in a "It's okay to let your inner child run loose" kind of way.
Actually, they did find some shells containing sarin, a nerve gas. I remember that I just happened to look at the Fox News page that day, and then searched all over CNN.com and couldn't find a word about it. Definitely made me wonder who's biased.
the cost diff is negligable (seriously negligable; how much do you think it adds when a whole player goes for $40?)
Even if it only adds $20, that's still raising the price of the whole system by 10%. Nintendo is obviously trying to make this system as inexpensive as possible to appeal to a wide audience.
think extra DVD player in the kids room.
Again, I think that 90% of people who need a DVD player for this purpose already have one. It would be good for the people who *happen* to be looking for a second player at the same time as a video game system. I'm not convinced that's a huge percentage of buyers.
Eh. I'm a Nintendo fangirl who loves her cartoony games, and I cringe at the name. And I don't really see how it's going to encourage my mom or dad or grandparents to pick up a controller.
But then, I also hate the name MacBook Pro with a passion. My favorite companies just aren't giving me the cool names this year for some reason. Hopefully the idiots coming up with the naming schemes aren't involved in any other aspects of product creation.
Why the fuck even bother with that? You can get small-as-hell DVD players now for about $40 at your local Target
Exactly. I've already got a DVD player, as do most people. Whether the $40 piece of crap from Target or some tricked-out multi-disc-loading thing that cost hundreds. So why would I want to pay extra when I buy a game system so it can play the DVDs that I've already got my DVD player for?? I *sort of* understood the allure of built-in DVD players a few years ago, when people were still in the process of switching from VCRs. But now, most people have one, and unless yours happens to conk out at the same time you've decided to buy a game system (or you watched them on your old console), why would you pay extra for one in your new console?
Yes, and some people do that. But in the case of your spouse, you have a bit of added incentive to not kill them aside from the illegality. Like, y'know, loving them, or raising kids with them, or little things like that.
If the copyright is less than the author's life, you can still kill them before it runs out to make it run out faster. However, the cost of waiting for it to run out would probably be favorable vs the cost of killing the copyright holder.
First, anyone with large amounts of money could be equally targeted by an individual looking for money.
And I'm sure they are now and then. But the difference is, your money doesn't go into the public domain when you die.
Second, killing an author to move his popular work into the public domain does not guarantee the murderer any profits because the monopoly would be gone.
It doesn't guarantee it, it merely makes it possible. If Steamboat Willie were to finally pass into the public domain, no one would be guaranteed profit from it. But you *could* start making prints of the cels, etc and selling them perfectly legally and profiting from them, which you can't do now. Plenty of publishing companies make money off of books that are in the public domain and easily gotten for free at bartleby.org - but people will pay to buy the hard copy anyhow. So, no, it doesn't guarantee a profit - but if something is super-popular, it could make it very likely.
I think there are payoffs between profs and book publishers.
LOL - only if your prof wrote the book!
As others have mentioned, often professors (especially for classes with more than one section a year) don't get to choose the textbook, they're just told which one to use.
I've had the opposite problem, btw - a professor didn't realize that the text had been updated *twice* in the two years since she last taught the class. She was going from the old edition, but most of us could only find the new edition - and there were major changed, like whole chapters missing that she wound up having to copy for us. Why the book needed to have a new edition every freaking year? I found out when I tried to return my 12th edition to the bookstore - oh, they can't take it back anymore, because they're stocking the 13th edition next year. Luckily I was able to sell it used on Amazon, though only for a few bucks.
Not at all. Because, see, emacs and vi actually exist, and so people can argue about which existant text editor is better *cough*emacs*cough*.
Infinium has been claiming for some time now to have a new console in the works, appropriately titled the Phantom. There is little to no evidence that this console will ever actually be produced, but they put out "updates" on it now and then, and have even managed to sucker in a new round of venture capital recently. So people are less shocked to hear that another product of theirs is "delayed" than they would be to hear that it's actually in stores.
because letting it go is a lousy thing to do to all the Apple employees who do honor their agreements and STFU about upcoming products.
It's also unfair to those of us with friends who work at Apple, who must suffer daily, knowing that they're working on something REALLY COOL but will never tell us. (My husband's friend to him right after the Intel announcement: "Well, my secret project isn't secret anymore." - turns out he'd been working on Rosetta for a year and a half.)
Not surprising to hear - isn't that the whole reason radiation works as a cancer treatment? It kills/damages all the cells in an area, but healthy cells bounce back while cancer cells can't fix themselves.
Well, it doesn't specify if it's one mile of real travel distance, or "as the crow flies". I've never seen One Infinite Loop or the area around it, so I don't know - but I do know that except for major cities (and that's only in the city part, not the suburbs), many areas easily turn "a mile" into two or three. The roads curve and twist in weird ways to accomodate sprawl, huge shopping centers get in the way, etc. If it truly is one mile straight down the street, I hope they'll be putting in lots of walking/biking paths so people don't drive between the two. But the practical distance may be much more than that, thanks to our horrible sprawling suburban planners.
Introduction of NES != founding of Nintendo. If you were truly born before Nintendo was founded, congratulations. Be sure to get Guinness to attend your next birthday party.
Virtual Boy was not intended as Nintendo's flagship gaming system. If they'd released the SNES with similar "capabilities" as its main selling point, or had tried to *replace* GameBoy with Virtual Boy, you'd have a point. But it was just a side product that didn't pan out - much like the Power Glove. There is a big difference between introducing one product that's a flop and betting your entire company on the flop.
As for losing a virtual monopoly... They're still the only one turning a profit on their consoles, even if their marketshare has fallen. It hasn't exactly destroyed the company.
Well, yes, that was exactly their strategy. Until Nintendo announced *their* strategy. Then suddenly MS decided that they want a cut of the un-gaming masses as well. Look for a string of crappy movie/Cartoon Network/Nickelodeon licensed platformers, coming to a 360 near you! "Family friendly" is code for "we know what animated characters your children can identify with more accuracy than their own grandparents."
Out of honest curiosity, would you count a more active game like DDR (or possible really-playing-it-type sports games on the Revolution) against that hour of "sedentary media" time? Or would the kids get a pass (or at least a bit of extra time) because they're up and moving?
I am a Nintendo fangirl (see sig), and tend to enjoy more kidlike games - Mario, Zelda (though anything that's 360-degree 3d in these series turns me off), Animal Crossing, etc etc.
I've actually been thinking that maybe after the PS3 comes out it'll be time for me to look at used PS2s... Between Kingdom Hearts 1&2, Katamari Damancy, and Guitar Hero, there's actually stuff that appeals to me that I can't get for Nintendo.
That said, I'd certainly go for Nintendo first for kids, but a PS2 would be a good compromise or second system if you also have teenage "hardcore gamers" in your house.
What happens if this thing comes out and it has massive lag, or a problem with the box "losing" the controller, or any number of other technical glitches (Power Glove anyone?).
Wow, what kind of morons do you think are running Nintendo? This company has been around for over a century, and is the only company currently managing to make an actual profit on video game consoles. You actually believe that they would risk the entire existence of their company by putting out a new console (in a very competitive marketplace) with a main controller that faulty? I mean, if they would, they don't deserve to keep existing anyhow, because that would be such a colossally stupid move. They're not Sony or Microsoft, they don't have a bazillion other products that can keep them afloat if their console bombs. They've got consoles and handhelds, and that's their business.
Yes, it could still be a flop just because of the whims of consumers. But I seriously, seriously doubt it will be because of actual flaws in the technical aspects. They'd push back the date or cancel the controller entirely rather than risk that. The fact that they've gotten this far strongly suggests that it won't be a problem.
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(Note: I only have 10.3.9 - if Safari for 10.4 contains more search options, I have no idea.)
The main problem with that advice: Most people overestimate their intelligence. Unintelligent people are FAR more likely to overestimate it than those who are actually in the top 5-10%. This is borne out by everyday experience, but there have been studies to back up that experience. Most stupid people think they're smart. So if you can't trust a person to decide whether they're smart or not, when you say "all smart people should drop out" you run the risk of convincing many stupid people to drop out, as well. And those stupid people are NOT likely to go much of anywhere in life without an education. They certainly won't be the next Jobs or Gates.
I actually thought that under the patriot act maybe libraries did, but apparently they either don't, or my local one is thumbing its nose at the law. Just yesterday I went to return some money that I found in a book I'd checked out. They said they couldn't pull up who checked it out last - once the book is checked back in, that information leaves their computers forever.
Yeah, and I know that every time I say "Should we go to the store?" I'm horribly embarrassed because I'm afraid people will think I'm talking about pee going to the store.
Ooh. I don't really like the name, but I like that. It works. Playing up the "Whee" interpretation in a "It's okay to let your inner child run loose" kind of way.
Actually, they did find some shells containing sarin, a nerve gas. I remember that I just happened to look at the Fox News page that day, and then searched all over CNN.com and couldn't find a word about it. Definitely made me wonder who's biased.
Even if it only adds $20, that's still raising the price of the whole system by 10%. Nintendo is obviously trying to make this system as inexpensive as possible to appeal to a wide audience.
think extra DVD player in the kids room.
Again, I think that 90% of people who need a DVD player for this purpose already have one. It would be good for the people who *happen* to be looking for a second player at the same time as a video game system. I'm not convinced that's a huge percentage of buyers.
But then, I also hate the name MacBook Pro with a passion. My favorite companies just aren't giving me the cool names this year for some reason. Hopefully the idiots coming up with the naming schemes aren't involved in any other aspects of product creation.
Exactly. I've already got a DVD player, as do most people. Whether the $40 piece of crap from Target or some tricked-out multi-disc-loading thing that cost hundreds. So why would I want to pay extra when I buy a game system so it can play the DVDs that I've already got my DVD player for?? I *sort of* understood the allure of built-in DVD players a few years ago, when people were still in the process of switching from VCRs. But now, most people have one, and unless yours happens to conk out at the same time you've decided to buy a game system (or you watched them on your old console), why would you pay extra for one in your new console?
Did you copy and paste this rant directly from your response to a story introducing the first webcam?
If the copyright is less than the author's life, you can still kill them before it runs out to make it run out faster. However, the cost of waiting for it to run out would probably be favorable vs the cost of killing the copyright holder.
And I'm sure they are now and then. But the difference is, your money doesn't go into the public domain when you die.
Second, killing an author to move his popular work into the public domain does not guarantee the murderer any profits because the monopoly would be gone.
It doesn't guarantee it, it merely makes it possible. If Steamboat Willie were to finally pass into the public domain, no one would be guaranteed profit from it. But you *could* start making prints of the cels, etc and selling them perfectly legally and profiting from them, which you can't do now. Plenty of publishing companies make money off of books that are in the public domain and easily gotten for free at bartleby.org - but people will pay to buy the hard copy anyhow. So, no, it doesn't guarantee a profit - but if something is super-popular, it could make it very likely.
LOL - only if your prof wrote the book!
As others have mentioned, often professors (especially for classes with more than one section a year) don't get to choose the textbook, they're just told which one to use.
I've had the opposite problem, btw - a professor didn't realize that the text had been updated *twice* in the two years since she last taught the class. She was going from the old edition, but most of us could only find the new edition - and there were major changed, like whole chapters missing that she wound up having to copy for us. Why the book needed to have a new edition every freaking year? I found out when I tried to return my 12th edition to the bookstore - oh, they can't take it back anymore, because they're stocking the 13th edition next year. Luckily I was able to sell it used on Amazon, though only for a few bucks.
Infinium has been claiming for some time now to have a new console in the works, appropriately titled the Phantom. There is little to no evidence that this console will ever actually be produced, but they put out "updates" on it now and then, and have even managed to sucker in a new round of venture capital recently. So people are less shocked to hear that another product of theirs is "delayed" than they would be to hear that it's actually in stores.
It's also unfair to those of us with friends who work at Apple, who must suffer daily, knowing that they're working on something REALLY COOL but will never tell us. (My husband's friend to him right after the Intel announcement: "Well, my secret project isn't secret anymore." - turns out he'd been working on Rosetta for a year and a half.)
Not surprising to hear - isn't that the whole reason radiation works as a cancer treatment? It kills/damages all the cells in an area, but healthy cells bounce back while cancer cells can't fix themselves.
For my next trick, I'll teach you how to keep strangers from seeing your bare genitalia.
Well, it doesn't specify if it's one mile of real travel distance, or "as the crow flies". I've never seen One Infinite Loop or the area around it, so I don't know - but I do know that except for major cities (and that's only in the city part, not the suburbs), many areas easily turn "a mile" into two or three. The roads curve and twist in weird ways to accomodate sprawl, huge shopping centers get in the way, etc. If it truly is one mile straight down the street, I hope they'll be putting in lots of walking/biking paths so people don't drive between the two. But the practical distance may be much more than that, thanks to our horrible sprawling suburban planners.
That's a shame. I'd actually buy one for $50. Guess I'll be waiting to see used prices after the PS3 comes out.
Introduction of NES != founding of Nintendo. If you were truly born before Nintendo was founded, congratulations. Be sure to get Guinness to attend your next birthday party.
As for losing a virtual monopoly... They're still the only one turning a profit on their consoles, even if their marketshare has fallen. It hasn't exactly destroyed the company.
Well, yes, that was exactly their strategy. Until Nintendo announced *their* strategy. Then suddenly MS decided that they want a cut of the un-gaming masses as well. Look for a string of crappy movie/Cartoon Network/Nickelodeon licensed platformers, coming to a 360 near you! "Family friendly" is code for "we know what animated characters your children can identify with more accuracy than their own grandparents."
Out of honest curiosity, would you count a more active game like DDR (or possible really-playing-it-type sports games on the Revolution) against that hour of "sedentary media" time? Or would the kids get a pass (or at least a bit of extra time) because they're up and moving?
I've actually been thinking that maybe after the PS3 comes out it'll be time for me to look at used PS2s... Between Kingdom Hearts 1&2, Katamari Damancy, and Guitar Hero, there's actually stuff that appeals to me that I can't get for Nintendo.
That said, I'd certainly go for Nintendo first for kids, but a PS2 would be a good compromise or second system if you also have teenage "hardcore gamers" in your house.
Wow, what kind of morons do you think are running Nintendo? This company has been around for over a century, and is the only company currently managing to make an actual profit on video game consoles. You actually believe that they would risk the entire existence of their company by putting out a new console (in a very competitive marketplace) with a main controller that faulty? I mean, if they would, they don't deserve to keep existing anyhow, because that would be such a colossally stupid move. They're not Sony or Microsoft, they don't have a bazillion other products that can keep them afloat if their console bombs. They've got consoles and handhelds, and that's their business.
Yes, it could still be a flop just because of the whims of consumers. But I seriously, seriously doubt it will be because of actual flaws in the technical aspects. They'd push back the date or cancel the controller entirely rather than risk that. The fact that they've gotten this far strongly suggests that it won't be a problem.