Do you really think that the government should make anything some people find distasteful illegal?
I would love to make embarassingly bad reading comprehension illegal but alas...
No the government shouldn't make things people find simply distasteful illegal. I didn't suggest that Paintball should be illegal. I'm simply stating that the parent's position that banning paintball was part of a nefarious evil ploy to strip us of our paintball guns was just silly.
People make decisions based on the information they have available to them. Most people aren't well aquainted with paintball. Their exposure is often out of context and ill informed.
How ill informed? Because it's a 'noble' thing to send one's son off to join the military. But paintball is viewed as 'training killers'. Ironic isn't it? The government spends trillions of dollars every year training our youth to kill, but then acts outraged when vaguely military training is being sold. I can think of 3 shooting rampages in which the shooter had military training off the top of my head. But we don't ban the military. Why? Because most people know someone in the military. Most people are friends with someone who serves in the military. Most people are relatively well informed about the effects of the military on their friends and family. They've seen first hand what it's like. Paintball doesn't have that. So it's only natural that people can get confused and erroneous impressions from their minimal exposure (and often very very bad spokespeople with poor tact).
It's the duty of society to prohibit activities which are damaging to society: murder, theft, rape and assault. We take away freedoms which we have deemed harmful to others. It's an arbitrary line at which we decide the threat to public safety is less than the threat to society. If paintball *did* actually cause people to go on shooting rampages... and you didn't know anyone who played. Then the cost to society is ~0 and the benefit is great. With that misinformation then banning it is the proper thing to do.
If the Jews had been eating babies, stealing everyone's money and ploting the down fall of civilization then it would have been a prudent course of action to pass laws to protect yourself.
Education is the only defense we have against ignorance. Ignorance is what drives unfounded fears. Education is the solution. If the paintball industry wants to survive then they need to demonstrate to the government that any fear related to their sport is unwarranted. Instead of assuming the politicians are a bunch of nazis who want to enslave the masses you need to view them like you would a family member who simply is ill-informed. Take them to a game. Teach them to play. Pull back the veil of secrecy and trust them to see for themselves what it is all about. If you go into it assuming this is some grand conspiracy to take away your guns, then you'll just come across as a paranoid paramilitary looking to overthrow the government--precisely the sort of stereotype that they're used to seeing being associated with war games. They're normal people with legitimate fears based on inaccurate knowledge.
As much as I hate to see paintball and airsoft banned... I don't see how this is the government subjagating its population. More like being a stupid hysterical parent (of which I have seen dozens in response to paintball over the years).
Just because this isn't effective, doesn't mean it isn't well intentioned. I'm sure the reason they're doing this is out of fear and outrage not some nefarious plot to supress the paintball revolution that was slowly fermenting in their borders.
Stupid? Yes. Ignorant? Yes. Useless? Yes. Evil plot by the government? Not likely. The government is run by people just like you and me. Most normal people think paintball is a strange and violent game played by a bunch of sociopaths. Normal people also think the world is 7,000 years old. Think they're more likely to get their identiy stolen by buying something on amazon than by their brother in law. Think only children play video games. Think photoshop only runs on a mac.... etc etc etc...
And who can really blame them in this instance. When else would you think it's normal for two people to be eating lunch and excitedly recounting how "He totally didn't see me coming. He was just sitting there and I snuck up behind him and shot him in the head. SPLAT!"
I probably spend... ~$5.5k a year on my car. (Car payments, Gas and Insurance).
My daily drive is about 30 minutes. My daily bike ride is about 45 minutes. My daily bus trip is about 1.5 hours.
The downside to my bike is there is no shower at work. So I can't ride any day that clients are coming and I need to look all presentable (stupid helmet). Also rain kind of dampens my enthusiasm to show up to work sopping wet and not be able to take a nice warm shower and dry pair of shoes. I also can't ride during the winter because I don't want to ride in traffic after dark.
Now. Here is what would be great: covered bike paths. I can't imagine that a basic bike path covered option would be more expensive than a road. Certainly cheaper than a bridge. Add lights and the freedom from cars and you've covered everything except for hat hair. That could be solved with a change in culture where every office has a shower.
Also. I would like to stop punishing a millionaire.
If anyone out there makes more than $1m per year and would like to lower their tax burden just give me a call. I will happily swap incomes with you.
You can end the tyrannical punishment of our government and I will be punished in your stead. I will bear the bruden of your %40 income tax while suffering the horrors of $600k in disposable income.
Taxes aren't too complicated. People just want to get out of paying them wherever they can.
I can fill out my taxes in less than 30 minutes. It's only if you want to pay as little as humanely possible that you have to spend time filling out taxes. If you don't like having to spend time itemizing all your expenses just take the standard deduciton! Bam! Easy!
If you're spending a lot of time itemizing deductions then you're the sort of person who would probably pay more taxes under a less complicated tax code. It means you're currently avoiding taxes due to extrenuous circumstances. Balance the tax burden from those who are taking deductions to those currently taking little to no deductions and the person who benefits most financially from a less complicated tax code are those such as myself who already spend no time on our taxes.
Fine by me. Stop giving deducitons for reproducing. But don't start whining when you have to pay more.
Microsoft Office is cross platform, provides proper extension supports (there are thousands of office plug ins) oh yeah and it works, arguably better than OO on every single front except for price.
Or Microsoft accurately recognizes that a vast majority of their revenue is from OEM bundles and is willing to take an extremely small hit from a million or so computer geeks who know how to download, burn and install a product they'll have to reinstall in 12 months.
Either you stop using it and wouldn't have payed them anyway, or you buy it and they get your money eventually anyway. Either way they lose no money.
CLIs are great IF you know the command to launch it.
What if you type in Word. Do you get MS Word or WordPad or Word Search?
What if you don't know the program's name ("Writer" comes to mind) but you know it's a part of Open Office? What if you don't know anything about the program but would recognize it if you saw it?
The list of things on a computer which a person should know the correct command to launch are very few. Vista's: Windows Key -> "Search Phrase" -> Enter. System seems to be the best. You can search or if you can't find it then look through your program list. It's the best of both worlds.
Now the worst place for a CLI is anywhere the user doesn't know 'what they can do'. If you launch a CL program you're presented with no possibilities. You have no idea what the program can do. It's like driving up to a drive through without a menu. You can start quizing the person on the other end of the little box what they offer but a nice photo menu is the fastest way to absorb data.
Just because the US is bad doesn't mean the rest of the world isn't even worse off.
Where else do you put money? The US might be crappy, but you do a lot worse. I suppose you could invest in the swedes... but they're dirty rotten socialists so that wouldn't make a very good headline.
That being said I do agree. The rich deserve to pay more because they benefit most from culture and government.
The ability I have to retain wealth without fear of those with less forming a gang and taking it from me through mob rule is literally invaluable because it allows me to potentially earn almost infinite wealth. The person who has almost nothing to lose gains much less from a working government.
Those who advocate small government often are advocating a protection of *their* wealth. Which is to say they want the parts of government which serve them. (Police, Firedepartment and national security).
Take away those 3 things and their wealth is just what they claim to own until someone with a big stick, so to speak, comes along and engages in a debate over the philosophy of personal property.
If you're free from your employer supplied healthcare plan capitalism can flourish. Suddenly everybody becomes a free agent able to start their own competitive business.
The risk of creating your own business and going it alone is dramatically reduced. You don't have to literally wory about dieing and or going completely bankrupt for life because you quit your job.
Large projects still need large groups of people. But many tasks can be accomplished by smaller businesses which aren't able to compete with the insurance pool of a larger company. Universal healthcare is a boon for capitalism. Calling it socialist is incredibly short sighted by unimaginative people looking for political gain.
It's interesting point. At first I was sort of peeved that I couldn't purchase movies on Xbox Live. That I had to pay every time to watch them... but then it occured to me. I've NEVER watched a movie I rented on Xbox live again. Ever. The number of movies which I do find myself wanting to watch again are so few that multiple rentals would still make financial sense instead of 'gambling' that I would watch every DVD inmy collection more than once.
I have a pile of HD-DVDs. Just because they were pretty much the cost of a rental so there was no reason *not* to own them.
I think financially the Rent and Rip system actually won't make any sense. At first I could see their perspective. But in all honesty I don't actually now see any value in the system. Especially now that I have netflix instant view. If I want to watch it again... I don't even have to wait for a lot of movies and TV Shows.
The movie industry HAS TO OFFER AN AFFORDABLE ON DEMAND SYSTEM. Then they get to control the content and prevent saving it to the hard drive. It offers the immediacy of ownership. They get to award compensation directly to the studio whose film was viewed as a royalty from the subscription service and it's infinitely more accessible than Piracy.
The Zune Pass is a model for Movie rentals that should be emulated. But combined with Netflix's Instant View.
Yeah. I actually have a seperate computer next to my work computer just to run ONE APP. Which needs XP32. I haven't bothered with VMWare just because I only have to use it every few weeks and I don't feel like wasting time installing windows to a VM. But if this is super easy (and it sounds like it is) then I can finally put that old box out to pasture.
We have Business Comcast. It's about $100 a month. They guarantee they'll have a technician out within like 4 hours. Their call support has an extremely short hold. We get 30+/4 mbps. Single digit pings to the surrounding 300 miles or so. They have no bandwidth caps (we are a VFX company so we're always uploading and downloading uncompressed video.)
Overall I would give them extremely high marks. If comcast wasn't kept out of my home neighborhood by a craptastic local cable monopoly then I would get it at home too without hesitation.
Because then we have to force developers to develop for multiple platforms and test against not only thousands of hardware variations but also dozens of OS configurations as well.
Make sure the taskbar is unlocked (in right click menu), and add a new toolbar such as the Address or Quick Launch (if you don't have one). The left hand side of this bar has a drag bar, which you can move it around, or pull it out of the taskbar and dock it to the top or sides of the screen, creating a new dock bar which you can populate.
1)Create new folder. 2)Drag folder to edge of screen. 3)Add links to folder. 4)Right click "Toolbars -> Whatever You want" 5)Right click "Auto hide"... etc.
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It was an Xbox360 exclusive for a year. I think that's what he's referring to. Not the DLC.
Waiting a year but getting a couple of extra levels? I would take the earlier launch date.
Do you really think that the government should make anything some people find distasteful illegal?
I would love to make embarassingly bad reading comprehension illegal but alas...
No the government shouldn't make things people find simply distasteful illegal. I didn't suggest that Paintball should be illegal. I'm simply stating that the parent's position that banning paintball was part of a nefarious evil ploy to strip us of our paintball guns was just silly.
People make decisions based on the information they have available to them. Most people aren't well aquainted with paintball. Their exposure is often out of context and ill informed.
How ill informed? Because it's a 'noble' thing to send one's son off to join the military. But paintball is viewed as 'training killers'. Ironic isn't it? The government spends trillions of dollars every year training our youth to kill, but then acts outraged when vaguely military training is being sold. I can think of 3 shooting rampages in which the shooter had military training off the top of my head. But we don't ban the military. Why? Because most people know someone in the military. Most people are friends with someone who serves in the military. Most people are relatively well informed about the effects of the military on their friends and family. They've seen first hand what it's like. Paintball doesn't have that. So it's only natural that people can get confused and erroneous impressions from their minimal exposure (and often very very bad spokespeople with poor tact).
It's the duty of society to prohibit activities which are damaging to society: murder, theft, rape and assault. We take away freedoms which we have deemed harmful to others. It's an arbitrary line at which we decide the threat to public safety is less than the threat to society. If paintball *did* actually cause people to go on shooting rampages... and you didn't know anyone who played. Then the cost to society is ~0 and the benefit is great. With that misinformation then banning it is the proper thing to do.
If the Jews had been eating babies, stealing everyone's money and ploting the down fall of civilization then it would have been a prudent course of action to pass laws to protect yourself.
Education is the only defense we have against ignorance. Ignorance is what drives unfounded fears. Education is the solution. If the paintball industry wants to survive then they need to demonstrate to the government that any fear related to their sport is unwarranted. Instead of assuming the politicians are a bunch of nazis who want to enslave the masses you need to view them like you would a family member who simply is ill-informed. Take them to a game. Teach them to play. Pull back the veil of secrecy and trust them to see for themselves what it is all about. If you go into it assuming this is some grand conspiracy to take away your guns, then you'll just come across as a paranoid paramilitary looking to overthrow the government--precisely the sort of stereotype that they're used to seeing being associated with war games. They're normal people with legitimate fears based on inaccurate knowledge.
As much as I hate to see paintball and airsoft banned... I don't see how this is the government subjagating its population. More like being a stupid hysterical parent (of which I have seen dozens in response to paintball over the years).
Just because this isn't effective, doesn't mean it isn't well intentioned. I'm sure the reason they're doing this is out of fear and outrage not some nefarious plot to supress the paintball revolution that was slowly fermenting in their borders.
Stupid? Yes. Ignorant? Yes. Useless? Yes. Evil plot by the government? Not likely. The government is run by people just like you and me. Most normal people think paintball is a strange and violent game played by a bunch of sociopaths. Normal people also think the world is 7,000 years old. Think they're more likely to get their identiy stolen by buying something on amazon than by their brother in law. Think only children play video games. Think photoshop only runs on a mac.... etc etc etc...
And who can really blame them in this instance. When else would you think it's normal for two people to be eating lunch and excitedly recounting how "He totally didn't see me coming. He was just sitting there and I snuck up behind him and shot him in the head. SPLAT!"
I probably spend... ~$5.5k a year on my car. (Car payments, Gas and Insurance).
My daily drive is about 30 minutes.
My daily bike ride is about 45 minutes.
My daily bus trip is about 1.5 hours.
The downside to my bike is there is no shower at work. So I can't ride any day that clients are coming and I need to look all presentable (stupid helmet). Also rain kind of dampens my enthusiasm to show up to work sopping wet and not be able to take a nice warm shower and dry pair of shoes. I also can't ride during the winter because I don't want to ride in traffic after dark.
Now. Here is what would be great: covered bike paths. I can't imagine that a basic bike path covered option would be more expensive than a road. Certainly cheaper than a bridge. Add lights and the freedom from cars and you've covered everything except for hat hair. That could be solved with a change in culture where every office has a shower.
Also. I would like to stop punishing a millionaire.
If anyone out there makes more than $1m per year and would like to lower their tax burden just give me a call. I will happily swap incomes with you.
You can end the tyrannical punishment of our government and I will be punished in your stead. I will bear the bruden of your %40 income tax while suffering the horrors of $600k in disposable income.
Taxes aren't too complicated. People just want to get out of paying them wherever they can.
I can fill out my taxes in less than 30 minutes. It's only if you want to pay as little as humanely possible that you have to spend time filling out taxes. If you don't like having to spend time itemizing all your expenses just take the standard deduciton! Bam! Easy!
If you're spending a lot of time itemizing deductions then you're the sort of person who would probably pay more taxes under a less complicated tax code. It means you're currently avoiding taxes due to extrenuous circumstances. Balance the tax burden from those who are taking deductions to those currently taking little to no deductions and the person who benefits most financially from a less complicated tax code are those such as myself who already spend no time on our taxes.
Fine by me. Stop giving deducitons for reproducing. But don't start whining when you have to pay more.
Microsoft Office is cross platform, provides proper extension supports (there are thousands of office plug ins) oh yeah and it works, arguably better than OO on every single front except for price.
Or Microsoft accurately recognizes that a vast majority of their revenue is from OEM bundles and is willing to take an extremely small hit from a million or so computer geeks who know how to download, burn and install a product they'll have to reinstall in 12 months.
Either you stop using it and wouldn't have payed them anyway, or you buy it and they get your money eventually anyway. Either way they lose no money.
CLIs are great IF you know the command to launch it.
What if you type in Word. Do you get MS Word or WordPad or Word Search?
What if you don't know the program's name ("Writer" comes to mind) but you know it's a part of Open Office? What if you don't know anything about the program but would recognize it if you saw it?
The list of things on a computer which a person should know the correct command to launch are very few. Vista's: Windows Key -> "Search Phrase" -> Enter. System seems to be the best. You can search or if you can't find it then look through your program list. It's the best of both worlds.
Now the worst place for a CLI is anywhere the user doesn't know 'what they can do'. If you launch a CL program you're presented with no possibilities. You have no idea what the program can do. It's like driving up to a drive through without a menu. You can start quizing the person on the other end of the little box what they offer but a nice photo menu is the fastest way to absorb data.
Call me a disciple of AOL. But I like autorun.
Just because the US is bad doesn't mean the rest of the world isn't even worse off.
Where else do you put money? The US might be crappy, but you do a lot worse. I suppose you could invest in the swedes... but they're dirty rotten socialists so that wouldn't make a very good headline.
Tell that to the Somolians.
There is always a DOWN to go down to.
That being said I do agree. The rich deserve to pay more because they benefit most from culture and government.
The ability I have to retain wealth without fear of those with less forming a gang and taking it from me through mob rule is literally invaluable because it allows me to potentially earn almost infinite wealth. The person who has almost nothing to lose gains much less from a working government.
Those who advocate small government often are advocating a protection of *their* wealth. Which is to say they want the parts of government which serve them. (Police, Firedepartment and national security).
Take away those 3 things and their wealth is just what they claim to own until someone with a big stick, so to speak, comes along and engages in a debate over the philosophy of personal property.
Which makes sense.
If you're free from your employer supplied healthcare plan capitalism can flourish. Suddenly everybody becomes a free agent able to start their own competitive business.
The risk of creating your own business and going it alone is dramatically reduced. You don't have to literally wory about dieing and or going completely bankrupt for life because you quit your job.
Large projects still need large groups of people. But many tasks can be accomplished by smaller businesses which aren't able to compete with the insurance pool of a larger company. Universal healthcare is a boon for capitalism. Calling it socialist is incredibly short sighted by unimaginative people looking for political gain.
30ms is pretty slow by memory standards.
Could you imagine a CD burner which takes 30ms per bit?
It'll need to get a LOT faster to be used in any kind of processing or storage medium.
It's interesting point. At first I was sort of peeved that I couldn't purchase movies on Xbox Live. That I had to pay every time to watch them... but then it occured to me. I've NEVER watched a movie I rented on Xbox live again. Ever. The number of movies which I do find myself wanting to watch again are so few that multiple rentals would still make financial sense instead of 'gambling' that I would watch every DVD inmy collection more than once.
I have a pile of HD-DVDs. Just because they were pretty much the cost of a rental so there was no reason *not* to own them.
I think financially the Rent and Rip system actually won't make any sense. At first I could see their perspective. But in all honesty I don't actually now see any value in the system. Especially now that I have netflix instant view. If I want to watch it again... I don't even have to wait for a lot of movies and TV Shows.
The movie industry HAS TO OFFER AN AFFORDABLE ON DEMAND SYSTEM. Then they get to control the content and prevent saving it to the hard drive. It offers the immediacy of ownership. They get to award compensation directly to the studio whose film was viewed as a royalty from the subscription service and it's infinitely more accessible than Piracy.
The Zune Pass is a model for Movie rentals that should be emulated. But combined with Netflix's Instant View.
Yeah. I actually have a seperate computer next to my work computer just to run ONE APP. Which needs XP32. I haven't bothered with VMWare just because I only have to use it every few weeks and I don't feel like wasting time installing windows to a VM. But if this is super easy (and it sounds like it is) then I can finally put that old box out to pasture.
Or Business Cable.
We have Business Comcast. It's about $100 a month. They guarantee they'll have a technician out within like 4 hours. Their call support has an extremely short hold. We get 30+/4 mbps. Single digit pings to the surrounding 300 miles or so. They have no bandwidth caps (we are a VFX company so we're always uploading and downloading uncompressed video.)
Overall I would give them extremely high marks. If comcast wasn't kept out of my home neighborhood by a craptastic local cable monopoly then I would get it at home too without hesitation.
It would seem this technique no longer works in Windows 7.
Guess we'll have to find a new approach.
But how many of those problems are science caused?
It's entirely possible if not likely that this bee crisis is tied into something else science has done.
After all. Bees were around for millions of years--so to all of a sudden coincidentally start going away during the industrialized era is suspicious.
You can't understand because it's not gone.
Drag a folder to the top of your screen. BAM! Done. Right click -> toolbars for more options.
Because then we have to force developers to develop for multiple platforms and test against not only thousands of hardware variations but also dozens of OS configurations as well.
I think you mean *deflation*.
Prices are currently dropping as are wages.
Make sure the taskbar is unlocked (in right click menu), and add a new toolbar such as the Address or Quick Launch (if you don't have one). The left hand side of this bar has a drag bar, which you can move it around, or pull it out of the taskbar and dock it to the top or sides of the screen, creating a new dock bar which you can populate.
1)Create new folder.
2)Drag folder to edge of screen.
3)Add links to folder.
4)Right click "Toolbars -> Whatever You want"
5)Right click "Auto hide"... etc.
Yeah... and you could call it an "upgrade" and it could be sold at a discount to the price of a full copy as well!
Brilliant!
I can run Windows 7 right now. I can't run Snow Leapord.
I assume the reviewer is in a similar predicament.