That's what I was thinking. Census bureau employs a lot of people. But more than that, how much is a 2001 laptop worth anymore? I don't think loosing that is any big deal.
I've been waiting for my entire gaming existance for there to be good controls on which I can swing something and a sword swings on a screen somewhere. I certainly think immersion is a wonderful goal that we are on the verge of achieving. That games haven't had accelerometers in their controllers already puzzles me, but I think a new age of gaming can now begin.
Not that Apples keep trying to innovate, but hurrah for what may be some real competition. Mostly, yay for letting me listen to non-podcasted NPR, as long as its reception turns out okay.
Seriously. For most retail industries, over 50% of their sales come in the Christmas period. For the iPod to have more than half of its Christmas quarter sales out of the holiday season shows something about its resilliance. As such, new products come out soon before the Christmas season, like the iPod nano did in mid September last year.
This is just a slow tech news week. I'm rather certain that an analysis via quarterly earnings is not decreasing.
Has anyone with access to lots of passwords ever done a statistical analysis on them? I imagine some words would come up fairly often, just because people aren't so different from each other.
Well yeah. They revise their aims to an easy goal, which will inevitably fail to larger producers of the same thing (Valve), avoid prosecution for investor fraud, and keep the rest of the millions of investor money.
I'm a bit surprised they didn't think of this sooner.
Actually, no. Pulling out of a country who will have more internet users than America and Europe combined in the next 10-15 years is not good for any internet business. There is no amount of publicity enhancement that could cover this change, especially since there are no other large internet companies who are competing with Google for the least evil award.
Taking a moral path is not about always being right. It is about always striving to be right & taking the care to reevaluate situations based on the current and future situations. I'm just glad there are still companies who know the M word.
No, actually it IS legal, up until a North American corperation liscences it. This is a detailed desciption of why based on US and Japanese copyright law, but it boils down to a combination of 'fair use,' 'non-commercial' and no one standing to lose money over it (since no one owns a translated (sellable) copy).
That's why most fansubbed stuff has "do not sell or auction, do not distribute after has been liscenced" in it. Because that keeps them legal. I would also like to say that I was going to suggest Animesuki myself, as it does keep to only 100% legal stuff. (Unlike others I could name.)
...But that's not the point. They're just making an extra copy, in a more easily viewable form for most people. Who cares if they only take video that start with the letter 'A'? That certainly disciminates against some people, but it's still more free stuff available.
The National Archive isn't going to stop what they're doing.
Yeah, how unstable would a system be that depended on random encouners with chemical substances? About as unstable, I imagine, as almost all life on Earth.
While in truth this isn't completely stable, it's still the best we're ever going to do in biological reprogramming, so we need to start the work sometime. Sure beats having to rely on EM sensitive devices all the time.
I'm just impressed that the engineers thought to use what is always the office's most reliable appliance, the copying machine. Because if you need one device that's not going to break--why go anywhere else?
While I am not particularly interested in the specific answer, I am quite interested in the methods other slashdotters would know to get at information of this sort. I doubt I am the only one who clicked upon the discussion for that reason.
That's why we come to ask slashdot; to see a discussion and pool general knowledge. If the answer turns out to be 'Sorry dude,' then even that tells me something.
As far as the question in point, [thinly veiled attempt not to get modded 'offtopic'] all I can suggest is looking into finding tech specs on other hardware your thing gets plugged into.
Sounds like a flaw, except that this tooth enamel is deposited early in childhood. Especially in the early days of the slave trade, children were a rarity to export since you could get much more value per space from a fully grown person.
Actually the headline was accurate this time. The division of Microsoft that includes its games lost almost $300M in the last quarter. The implicaiton is that Microsoft on a whole still gained money, which they did. It was up last year, just shown in comparison.
The article itself is misleading, as it was certainly a planned loss.
Low-def is just fine with me. I'm happy with the current level of graphics in games, and don't particularly think that better graphics = better games. Sure, FFX was prettier than (original) FFVI. But how fun? About the same.
Please, put more effort into gameplay, story, characters, controllers (!!), etc. and spend relatively less on redering.
It occurs to me that this will also help non-huge 3rd party dev's get into the market. Not so shabby, having less graphics.
Clevaland (okay, Avon Lake) D&B has a DDR, at least a few years ago when I went.
The impression I got from the place is that they were trying to meld Chucky Cheese mentality with legal gambling randomized incentive methods. (Note: Real gambling is, as yet, illegal on Ohio land.) The Arcade was a small part of the entire place. The one time I went I saw a family cash in some several thousand tickets and get a cheap blender. I can't even imagine how much those games would have had to cost them. Kinda scary.
Nevertheless, as a place to hang out with a dozen plus coworkers, none of whom can afford an apartment big enough or nice enough for that number, I can't think of a lot of better places to go where you can hear each other speak and not feel obligated to buy food & drink.
Tis a pity that all my friends can't be real gamers.
Well, perhaps not.
I suggest you read about Griswold v. Connecticut for more information about the U.S. Supreme Court's take on the right to privacy.
Precisely. Privacy is certainly not a freedom of speech. It is a freedom of self interest though--bound up with that 'pursuit of happiness' that was oddly enough put into one of America's founding documents.
Griswold is the legal backing of this right. It was a '65 case about contraceptives that 7 of 9 justices backed, because the understanding of privacy is inherent in the other constitutional protections (in their "penumbras," as Justice Douglas wrote for the majority). All Justice nominees are asked about their agreement with this case, since it's pretty important to senetors as well. Roberts was non-commital on everything, but you could tell from his tone that he agreed with Griswold at least.
The problem comes down to a (possibly) simpler moral question of order versus freedom. In D&D terms, Lawful vs. Chaotic. The mean of American humans, I'm pretty sure, is still in the neutral range.
Which is not to say that it's not something that should still be faught for. (Yeah, yeah, I'm Chaotic Good, you shouldn't have asked.)
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I suppose you've never seen what equipment is standard at public schools?
No! It's revolting!
That's what I was thinking. Census bureau employs a lot of people. But more than that, how much is a 2001 laptop worth anymore? I don't think loosing that is any big deal.
I've been waiting for my entire gaming existance for there to be good controls on which I can swing something and a sword swings on a screen somewhere. I certainly think immersion is a wonderful goal that we are on the verge of achieving. That games haven't had accelerometers in their controllers already puzzles me, but I think a new age of gaming can now begin.
Not that Apples keep trying to innovate, but hurrah for what may be some real competition. Mostly, yay for letting me listen to non-podcasted NPR, as long as its reception turns out okay.
This is just a slow tech news week. I'm rather certain that an analysis via quarterly earnings is not decreasing.
I just don't know... I still don't think these are the droids I'm looking for.
Has anyone with access to lots of passwords ever done a statistical analysis on them? I imagine some words would come up fairly often, just because people aren't so different from each other.
I'm a bit surprised they didn't think of this sooner.
Ahh, but you're missing one major point. Google is profitable, which no govermental agency could ever acheive.
Taking a moral path is not about always being right. It is about always striving to be right & taking the care to reevaluate situations based on the current and future situations. I'm just glad there are still companies who know the M word.
That's why most fansubbed stuff has "do not sell or auction, do not distribute after has been liscenced" in it. Because that keeps them legal. I would also like to say that I was going to suggest Animesuki myself, as it does keep to only 100% legal stuff. (Unlike others I could name.)
...But that's not the point. They're just making an extra copy, in a more easily viewable form for most people. Who cares if they only take video that start with the letter 'A'? That certainly disciminates against some people, but it's still more free stuff available.
The National Archive isn't going to stop what they're doing.
Yeah, how unstable would a system be that depended on random encouners with chemical substances? About as unstable, I imagine, as almost all life on Earth.
While in truth this isn't completely stable, it's still the best we're ever going to do in biological reprogramming, so we need to start the work sometime. Sure beats having to rely on EM sensitive devices all the time.
I'm just impressed that the engineers thought to use what is always the office's most reliable appliance, the copying machine. Because if you need one device that's not going to break--why go anywhere else?
That Google summary is useful, but is actually just a simplified version of their true ways.
While I am not particularly interested in the specific answer, I am quite interested in the methods other slashdotters would know to get at information of this sort. I doubt I am the only one who clicked upon the discussion for that reason.
That's why we come to ask slashdot; to see a discussion and pool general knowledge. If the answer turns out to be 'Sorry dude,' then even that tells me something.
As far as the question in point, [thinly veiled attempt not to get modded 'offtopic'] all I can suggest is looking into finding tech specs on other hardware your thing gets plugged into.
Yes, it is quite a bit. This is also why we've seen a fair amount of new products coming from google since their IPO. They have a lot of money.
No, if anything I bet we just see another warning label. 'Loud enough to cause damage' is a relative thing, so no company can control for it.
Sounds like a flaw, except that this tooth enamel is deposited early in childhood. Especially in the early days of the slave trade, children were a rarity to export since you could get much more value per space from a fully grown person.
Actually the headline was accurate this time. The division of Microsoft that includes its games lost almost $300M in the last quarter. The implicaiton is that Microsoft on a whole still gained money, which they did. It was up last year, just shown in comparison. The article itself is misleading, as it was certainly a planned loss.
Low-def is just fine with me. I'm happy with the current level of graphics in games, and don't particularly think that better graphics = better games. Sure, FFX was prettier than (original) FFVI. But how fun? About the same.
Please, put more effort into gameplay, story, characters, controllers (!!), etc. and spend relatively less on redering.
It occurs to me that this will also help non-huge 3rd party dev's get into the market. Not so shabby, having less graphics.
Clevaland (okay, Avon Lake) D&B has a DDR, at least a few years ago when I went. The impression I got from the place is that they were trying to meld Chucky Cheese mentality with legal gambling randomized incentive methods. (Note: Real gambling is, as yet, illegal on Ohio land.) The Arcade was a small part of the entire place. The one time I went I saw a family cash in some several thousand tickets and get a cheap blender. I can't even imagine how much those games would have had to cost them. Kinda scary.
Nevertheless, as a place to hang out with a dozen plus coworkers, none of whom can afford an apartment big enough or nice enough for that number, I can't think of a lot of better places to go where you can hear each other speak and not feel obligated to buy food & drink.
Tis a pity that all my friends can't be real gamers.
Well, perhaps not.
Nothing beats a great "Launch Linup".
Go Spellcheck!
Yes, it was supposed to read "Launch Limp."
I suggest you read about Griswold v. Connecticut for more information about the U.S. Supreme Court's take on the right to privacy.
Precisely. Privacy is certainly not a freedom of speech. It is a freedom of self interest though--bound up with that 'pursuit of happiness' that was oddly enough put into one of America's founding documents.
Griswold is the legal backing of this right. It was a '65 case about contraceptives that 7 of 9 justices backed, because the understanding of privacy is inherent in the other constitutional protections (in their "penumbras," as Justice Douglas wrote for the majority). All Justice nominees are asked about their agreement with this case, since it's pretty important to senetors as well. Roberts was non-commital on everything, but you could tell from his tone that he agreed with Griswold at least.
The problem comes down to a (possibly) simpler moral question of order versus freedom. In D&D terms, Lawful vs. Chaotic. The mean of American humans, I'm pretty sure, is still in the neutral range.
Which is not to say that it's not something that should still be faught for. (Yeah, yeah, I'm Chaotic Good, you shouldn't have asked.)