A security officer can now take these IDs for granted much more easily than this 50-shot system.
Either way, security isn't improved, just ease of recognition.
Unless he's been trained to recognize all fifty state IDs, that security officer doesn't have a clue what forty-nine of those ID cards should look like. And in the case of states that have no security features on their IDs, anyone who has a few thousand dollars to spend on an ID card printer can duplicate them.
Having a single ID design means that the aforementioned security guard only has to know the appearance and security features of one ID card. We don't have 50 different sets of currency. Why should we have 50 different forms of ID? And don't tell me that having 50 different sets of currency would be more secure.;)
IMO, this is something that the states should have taken care of themselves a loooong time ago. Having a standard set of security features makes it easier for everyone to tell that an ID is legit.
I don't like the idea of a national database, but having a standard design for drivers licenses and state id cards is a good thing. Think about it. They're the most frequently used form of id in this country, but every state has a different design, and most have very minimal security features.
I know because I see at least a dozen out-of-state drivers licenses a month. Many of them, except for being printed on plastic, look like something I could whip up in half an hour with the GIMP and a decent inkjet printer. How do I know if it's the real deal? The truth is that I don't.
So even if the database is bad, having a standard appearance and set of security features for all state-issued id cards is a good thing. It just makes it easier to tell that you're looking at the real deal.
The problem is that if the popular vote becomes more important, lobbyists and special interest groups will just focus more attention on the populace. Picture a mass-mailed letter from the RIAA:
Dear Mr./Mrs. X
We at the Recording Industries Association of American would like to inform you of a grave threat to American culture...blah blah...drm good...fair use bad...have a free Napster download...please vote for these representatives who support our campaign to defend American culture:
Rep X Rep Y Rep Z
Yours truly, The RIAA
Can't you picture this? Compulsory voting isn't the solution to the problem. The problem is education and ignorance. People who are well-informed are more likely to make wise decisions. People who aren't will vote with their emotions, or, perhaps worse, vote based on hearsay.
English gets it's own unique dialect for every 100 miles of travel. neighboring dialects are close, but when you travel 1000+ miles things get complicated, The basics are there but the phrases are not.
You forgot that the dialect can vary wildly within the same local. For example, have you ever tried talking to an "average" teenage girl? Not only do they say things like "like" and "ohmygod" way too much, but the FBI agents who come to talk to you afterwards will almost certainly speak in a completely different dialect! It gets so confusing....
Sure - and 49% of Americans didnt want Bush either.
49% of voting Americans. Half of the country doesn't vote. So just about one-quarter of Americans wanted Bush out badly enough to vote for Kerry. The question is, do you want the ones who don't care to vote? Think carefully before answering.
IMHO there's nothing wrong if the creator of the work can set whatever license he wants - including (at his option) insane prices and unbreakable DRM.
Fine, but their right to tell me what to do with their work ends as soon as I hand over the cash. Then it's my copy, and they can kiss my ass. I'm not sharing it, but I'm sure as hell gonna do whatever else I want with it, including finding a way around any DRM.
What the consumer should do is react to this by ignoring the obscenely licensed crap the RIAA puts out and starts supporting their local bands that'll let you listen to music without the threats and lawsuits.
You can also go to places like CD Baby and Strange Fortune that specialize in indepentdent music. I was gonna also link one of my old favorite trance artists, Minister, but he's got an obnoxiously loud audio loop on his front page.:-/ If you look him up, turn the speakers/headphones waaay down before the page finishes loading.
For example, we can't buy songs from the Apple USA store.
Have you tried using a proxy server located in the US? Tor might fit the bill, as I'm sure many of their end-of-the-line proxies are located in the US.
Not really. Try navigating an OS with only the keyboard, or fire up a console rts and see how well a d-pad works with a cursor. It's quite painful in most operating systems. And that keyboard...it's a bit small. That's a poor place to put it, too. You have to reach over the screen or around the unit to type.
Sorry, I just don't think it will work. Portable media player? Yes. PDA? Well, can you picture yourself taking down notes, phone numbers, and appointment times with that little keyboard? Touchscreen + handwriting recognition is the only way to go for a PDA.
It's a great technical achievement, but I'm concerned it will be turned to piracy uses eventually.
Any general purpose computing device can be used to infringe upon copyright. You're using one right now. Mind if we take a look at your home directory to check for infringement?
It would be nice if console developers would release or permit to be released an official version of Linux for their platforms so that hardware and software exploits didn't need to be used.
So an "official" Linux distribution couldn't be used to infigrine upon copyright? Your contradictory post is nonsense.
Without a touchscreen, the PSP will never be anything more than a portable game console. Any experiments with Linux on the PSP will be just that-experiments. You'll never convice someone to use a PDA without a touchscreen.
If the tiny needle just pierces a hole in you, wouldn't it kind of pass through and leave a tiny hole you'd barely feel?
A science fiction needle or flechette gun has hundreds or thousands of the damn things packed into each casing. How would you feel if a thousand needles hit you at several hundred feet per second?
For your examples, God of War says Blood and Gore,Intense Violence,Nudity,Sexual Themes Strong Language and Manhunt says Blood and Gore,Intense Violence,Strong Language. How do you get much plainer than that?
That doesn't matter if the parents can't read or choose not to read.
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Halo has a few merits, but not many. The Warthog is loads of fun. Only being able to carry two weapons is realistic and makes players think more about which weapon they take. Some of the graphics are impressive, despite the game's age.
However, I recommend you stay away from Halo (except maybe the demo) because of the following: Most levels are very repetitive. The weapon balance is horrible. The frickin' shotgun is more accurate at long range and a better anti-aircraft weapon than the assault rifle. I can count the types of enemies encountered on two hands. Most of the audio is poor to average. There are more reasons, but I'm sure you get the jist of it.
I'm not a student of Trollology, but this document might prove useful to aspiring trolls. If anyone besides them has the patience to read the whole damn thing (I don't), I'm sure they'll learn a lot about spotting trolls.
I haven't seen anyone mention these yet, so be sure to tell your users how to run a process in the background and how to acess the virtual consoles (if they're each going to have their own *nix desktop).
If you make a cheat sheet, I suggest putting a detailed map of the *nix directory structure on the back side of it, with notes explaining what's in each directory.
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A security officer can now take these IDs for granted much more easily than this 50-shot system.
;)
Either way, security isn't improved, just ease of recognition.
Unless he's been trained to recognize all fifty state IDs, that security officer doesn't have a clue what forty-nine of those ID cards should look like. And in the case of states that have no security features on their IDs, anyone who has a few thousand dollars to spend on an ID card printer can duplicate them.
Having a single ID design means that the aforementioned security guard only has to know the appearance and security features of one ID card. We don't have 50 different sets of currency. Why should we have 50 different forms of ID? And don't tell me that having 50 different sets of currency would be more secure.
IMO, this is something that the states should have taken care of themselves a loooong time ago. Having a standard set of security features makes it easier for everyone to tell that an ID is legit.
I don't like the idea of a national database, but having a standard design for drivers licenses and state id cards is a good thing. Think about it. They're the most frequently used form of id in this country, but every state has a different design, and most have very minimal security features.
I know because I see at least a dozen out-of-state drivers licenses a month. Many of them, except for being printed on plastic, look like something I could whip up in half an hour with the GIMP and a decent inkjet printer. How do I know if it's the real deal? The truth is that I don't.
So even if the database is bad, having a standard appearance and set of security features for all state-issued id cards is a good thing. It just makes it easier to tell that you're looking at the real deal.
Marvel is suing Microsoft for damaging their intellectual property.
In that case, combine Plan A with Plan B and you're good to go.
her writings represent the equivalent of a crack whore in San Franciscos Tenderloin district offering a blowjob for $7.95 (incl. sales tax).
Where in San Francisco is this Tenderloin district you speak of?
The problem is that if the popular vote becomes more important, lobbyists and special interest groups will just focus more attention on the populace. Picture a mass-mailed letter from the RIAA:
Dear Mr./Mrs. X
We at the Recording Industries Association of American would like to inform you of a grave threat to American culture...blah blah...drm good...fair use bad...have a free Napster download...please vote for these representatives who support our campaign to defend American culture:
Rep X
Rep Y
Rep Z
Yours truly,
The RIAA
Can't you picture this? Compulsory voting isn't the solution to the problem. The problem is education and ignorance. People who are well-informed are more likely to make wise decisions. People who aren't will vote with their emotions, or, perhaps worse, vote based on hearsay.
um, you need an american credit card as well
;)
Those are fairly easy to get.
Or, you could just order some iTunes gift cards from Amazon. They ship to Australia.
English gets it's own unique dialect for every 100 miles of travel. neighboring dialects are close, but when you travel 1000+ miles things get complicated, The basics are there but the phrases are not.
You forgot that the dialect can vary wildly within the same local. For example, have you ever tried talking to an "average" teenage girl? Not only do they say things like "like" and "ohmygod" way too much, but the FBI agents who come to talk to you afterwards will almost certainly speak in a completely different dialect! It gets so confusing....
Sure - and 49% of Americans didnt want Bush either.
49% of voting Americans. Half of the country doesn't vote. So just about one-quarter of Americans wanted Bush out badly enough to vote for Kerry. The question is, do you want the ones who don't care to vote? Think carefully before answering.
IMHO there's nothing wrong if the creator of the work can set whatever license he wants - including (at his option) insane prices and unbreakable DRM.
:-/ If you look him up, turn the speakers/headphones waaay down before the page finishes loading.
Fine, but their right to tell me what to do with their work ends as soon as I hand over the cash. Then it's my copy, and they can kiss my ass. I'm not sharing it, but I'm sure as hell gonna do whatever else I want with it, including finding a way around any DRM.
What the consumer should do is react to this by ignoring the obscenely licensed crap the RIAA puts out and starts supporting their local bands that'll let you listen to music without the threats and lawsuits.
You can also go to places like CD Baby and Strange Fortune that specialize in indepentdent music. I was gonna also link one of my old favorite trance artists, Minister, but he's got an obnoxiously loud audio loop on his front page.
For example, we can't buy songs from the Apple USA store.
Have you tried using a proxy server located in the US? Tor might fit the bill, as I'm sure many of their end-of-the-line proxies are located in the US.
Not really. Try navigating an OS with only the keyboard, or fire up a console rts and see how well a d-pad works with a cursor. It's quite painful in most operating systems. And that keyboard...it's a bit small. That's a poor place to put it, too. You have to reach over the screen or around the unit to type.
Sorry, I just don't think it will work. Portable media player? Yes. PDA? Well, can you picture yourself taking down notes, phone numbers, and appointment times with that little keyboard? Touchscreen + handwriting recognition is the only way to go for a PDA.
First Canada, and now Australia. When will the US stop trying to push its draconian laws such as the DMCA on other countries?
As soon everyone here tells the music and movie industries to fuck off.
It's a great technical achievement, but I'm concerned it will be turned to piracy uses eventually.
Any general purpose computing device can be used to infringe upon copyright. You're using one right now. Mind if we take a look at your home directory to check for infringement?
It would be nice if console developers would release or permit to be released an official version of Linux for their platforms so that hardware and software exploits didn't need to be used.
So an "official" Linux distribution couldn't be used to infigrine upon copyright? Your contradictory post is nonsense.
Are you a moron, a troll, or both?
Without a touchscreen, the PSP will never be anything more than a portable game console. Any experiments with Linux on the PSP will be just that-experiments. You'll never convice someone to use a PDA without a touchscreen.
If the tiny needle just pierces a hole in you, wouldn't it kind of pass through and leave a tiny hole you'd barely feel?
A science fiction needle or flechette gun has hundreds or thousands of the damn things packed into each casing. How would you feel if a thousand needles hit you at several hundred feet per second?
For your examples, God of War says Blood and Gore,Intense Violence,Nudity,Sexual Themes Strong Language and Manhunt says Blood and Gore,Intense Violence,Strong Language. How do you get much plainer than that?
That doesn't matter if the parents can't read or choose not to read.
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Halo has a few merits, but not many. The Warthog is loads of fun. Only being able to carry two weapons is realistic and makes players think more about which weapon they take. Some of the graphics are impressive, despite the game's age.
However, I recommend you stay away from Halo (except maybe the demo) because of the following: Most levels are very repetitive. The weapon balance is horrible. The frickin' shotgun is more accurate at long range and a better anti-aircraft weapon than the assault rifle. I can count the types of enemies encountered on two hands. Most of the audio is poor to average. There are more reasons, but I'm sure you get the jist of it.
Damn you Microsoft, you took Bungie away from me, don't even thnk about taking away Valve too!
Meh. Halo turned out to be a very average FPS. It might have been ground breaking had it been released on-schedule for the PC, and only the PC.
I'm not a student of Trollology, but this document might prove useful to aspiring trolls. If anyone besides them has the patience to read the whole damn thing (I don't), I'm sure they'll learn a lot about spotting trolls.
I haven't seen anyone mention these yet, so be sure to tell your users how to run a process in the background and how to acess the virtual consoles (if they're each going to have their own *nix desktop).
If you make a cheat sheet, I suggest putting a detailed map of the *nix directory structure on the back side of it, with notes explaining what's in each directory.
Yeah, but do they run Linux?
Offtopic? Someone didn't get the joke....