I would like to add, police spends most of its time looking for men in case of rape. That's what I call sexism.
Step back in real world the GP was a troll ok. However, most active terrorist group (i.e. the one that killed massively during the last 5 years) are muslim extremist. So yes, police job is to find a way to spot Muslim Extremist because they are much more likely to blow a plane.
Seriously now, if you are muslim and taking the plane on a regular basis with your wife a kids, who are you most afraid to blow the plane ? A muslim extremist or a IRA extremist ? Hell, if people of my ethnicity or religion were more likely to blow a plane, I would be more than happy if the police do its job and double check on me. ( Doesn't mean it would not piss me. I was living for a while in an area known for drug "business". Very often when I took the plane or international train I had my hand luggage checked manually or a longer than usual quiz. )
A Mac Pro is 2500$ and for a NVidia Quadro you add 1650$. I assume that's not the price range the GP had in mind when saying "all of the affordable computers they sell are non upgradable"
That would be a bit unfair that MacOS, Linux could improve their security freely but Microsoft would have to provide easy to abuse holes in Windows just because a side economy happen to make money from them.
And what will they do when Windows looses market share ( and it will because it will be in the position of being the only door maker that cannot put lock on its doors because of the bouncer union ) Request Linux providers and Apple to provide their OS configured with root as default ?
Yes there have been many more critical flaws. But only recently ( we are talking goverment time scale ) the goverment realise the threat and start to react. Actually massive botnet and such have not been a hot topic outside IT world since a long time. There is no reason for the government to announce Linux and such patches. Currently the threat comes from Windows.
Let's wait for the next update to see if it was really the beginning of something or just something suspicious ( tinfoil hatter by definition should have some sort of backup to restore a previous safe version )
Agree with you. Bad example, Internet Explorer has lost its status of mature in exchange for "outdated but established" ( ok I'm nice, but I can't find anything beter to say without being rude )
Maturity doesn't have anything to do with the vendor. JUnit, Apache, Tomcat, Windows 2000(yek), Linux are mature. Mature means that the product ( or product line ) is well known, has a well known range of applicability, a known range of pro/con/limitations/constraints/... Basically it means that the technology is known. Everything mature has to be bleeding edge at one point. There is no way to create a mature product from day one, even if you are a big and powerfull corportation throwing billion in it. And Rails is no exception.
However I fail to see the relationship between Security issues and Maturity. Internet Explorer is mature and you still get your weekly critical security flaw.
We are not talking about a platform that used to be a leader in gaming and is slowly sliding into oblivion. This is not the final nail on the coffin like it would have been for Amiga or Atari back in the days.
There is no gaming scene for Mac. Don't lure yourself, people that want to play games or think game s are even midly important on their home computer already have Windows somewhere. People buying Mac have given up gaming. Anything that could drive down the cost of development of game for Mac is welcome. Companies don't invest in costly cross platform development if they don't think they could get their money back. And considering what I just said, Mac market is not something appealing ( wasn't Steve Jobs saying that Mac is not and will never be a game platform or is that an urban legend ? ) With this techno, they can try the Mac market for cheap and if they make a few buck out of it, they may consider developing for Mac in the future. Also throwing more games to the market can only dynamise it, and maybe convince a number of current moderate gamer ( like me ) to switch to Mac ( why dual booting and pay for both Windows and Mac OS ?? )
Note, I'm aware that WoW exists on Mac. But games like WoW are exclusive, it is very likely that because of the subscription involved, playing WoW means not playing anything else for years, so I think the WoW port effect is somehow limited for the Mac Game Market as a whole.
"the reasons they aren't selling games as they would like to is because of the ever increasing system requirment"
That's a very good reason. I have much less time to play those days with work and family, so I'm buying less games, fair enough. The problem is for people with low buying rate like me( like 1 game a year ) you almost have to buy a new gaming machine exclusively to play one game if you would like to play the game as it is supposed to be played ( like with at least 50% of the effects enabled ) That drives the cost of gaming to about 500$ per year, minimum.
Compare that to WoW and it doesn't look so expensive after all.
Sure I could play old games on my machine, and they will be very cheap. But that's not working like that, I'm not a dedicated player. If I want to play a game, I ask my colleagues/friends what they play and how they find the game ( so we can share the experience and have a nice conversation at the coffie machine - which is a good added value to the game itself ) Then I check if I can play this game on my machine and if I cannot, well I use the money to go to the restaurant ( which is a topic always working for the coffie machine meeting:-) )and the sale is lost... forever.
The best experience you have with a TV is 3 meters away in couch while for a computer it is 0.5 meter away with a keyboard and mouse.
Technically if you want to really use all the neat additional features of media pc you need to get close to the screen and use a keyboard. Sure you can do tons of thing through the remote, but it requires a lot of work for anything else than basic operations. Try to browse the web for available content + download + display from your couch, or find an internet radio and stream it to the kitchen. Yes that can work, you can setup RSS feed and that kind of thing, but that's not an out of the box experience. To get the best of it one member of the family must become a dedicated media operator.
Most people still don't own an HD TV, so everything with text basically sucks, so you need an additional PC/Screen to browse internet.
Media Center generally also sucks at gaming so you still need a console.
So finally what's left? Either you use it as an average PC on a desk, or as an average Tivo with your TV. And besides another challenge of the Media PC is to try to find convergence in a world where every actor try to pull the blanket to itself : There is still nothing close to interoperability like integration with your sky-decoder, limitation with DRM formats (try to skip Disney 30min of crapvertisement with Media Player ), vendor lock in of content provider (iTune, websites, bbcnews, internet provider dsl tv, realmedia, wmv), or hardware provider ( Sony LocationFree and Apple stuff ),...
Indeed the word comes straight from French. Same as you said for Brazilian Portuguese, the word alimentation is also used for "electricity supply". The PSU of a computer for example is called an "Alimentation". Power Leads are called "Alimentation" cables.
Why destroying the car ? I doesn't help with your problem.
Beter try to 1. Talk the guy out of this 2. Just destroy the moskito repeler in a fashion that is not apparent to the owner. After all if he doesn't hear it, you just have to take the first opportunity, open the box, and cut the alimentation to the speaker. Your problem is solve. The owner is happy because the nice blue led tells him that the device is working. And after all, if the guy is really paranoid, teens are not *really* invading his property, so he will never realise that the device is not actually working ( like garlic neclace to repel vampire )
Off course if the guy has a real reason because your kids (neighbourhood kids) are drinking in his lawn every night, you have to solve that problem first. In that case, if you destroy the mosquito before, you can be certain the owner will call the police and unlike the sound, they will be able to see that you detroyed you neighbour property.
With this argument I wonder why we are not using a "print you own" passport service. Much faster, the administration send you a pdf and you print it on your own printer at home. After all, it is only a matter of having it properly checked.
Personally if my country issue an official document that identify myself I expect it to be a little more harder to copy than using a simple copier. There are tons of places where checks will be weaker than at airports (at least in Europe where a lot of countries uses an ID Card). That is in those places where they will rely on electronic only checking.
I guess in that frame of mind, what will happen sooner is Ads follows Eye. Wherever you are watching the crappy Flash Animation follows you. Or worse, nobody is watching during the ads... your TV tuner goes in time delay mode you show what you have missed as soon as you come back.
For me exiting software are new features in Eclipse, CVS, Xen, JBoss, a lot of Apache frameworks. Because they are powerful and allow me to work beter and faster.
It appears however that for Joe User, I'm a boring guy using boring software. He never develops anything. For him iTunes, NewsLeecher, Outlook, Google Earth, Messenger,... are exiting.
Note that since I'm using Lotus Notes, I also find Outlook exiting:-)
I worked for a company where server were serviced for something like 1000 EUR/month per server. There was not much difference between a Windows Server and a Linux Server ( when you factor the fact that Windows server were smaller box and Linux server were generally more entreprise grade ) except that with the Windows Server you had an initial cost for the OS. After a year, the cost of the initial license wasn't really a point.
You still can be a little sceptical when you look at the numbers: Total project in 1 year to migrate 70.000 desktop = 130.000 GBP. If you pay a developer less than 10.000 GBP a year in average( not much for qualified personel, even in Spain ) that's a team of 13 persons for 1 year. Manager, coordination and everything included. Well sure that's not a lot.
Not saying it is not a good think, even if it was more expensive to go opensource. OpenSource and Open Standard makes *especially* more sense for a government. But in this case the difference is so huge, you would like to ask a breakdown of that. It looks too much more like "become an expert C Unix programming in only 8 hours" or "loose 50 kilos in less than 7 days"
My girlfriend would be in the 77%. However this is not about the fact that she likes more a Plasma TV , it is because we can actually enjoy the plasma tv more, while the diamond will be forever... in a safe.
If you ask her if she want to spend 5000 USD in a plasma TV or in various little stuffs like new clothes, small trips, restaurant, theaters, opera... No way she will even consider a plasma TV.
That's not a question of technology, that's a question of bang per buck.
At least they want something to *blame*, especially in non-technical companies: You pay for an OS, it doesn't do what you expected and the vendor doesn't listen to you. That's the vendor fault.
Now, you take a free linux distro on the net, and it doesn't do what you expected. Well that's another matter. You can blame the incorporal "community" for the lack of concern, and ultimatly that means that you will blame your own IT department with argument like "Not competent enough to fix the OS", or they "mislead the management" and that can have nasty consequences...
Listening suppose somebody tells you something you understand.
As they grow larger, communities tend to produce more noise than information. Your objective becomes to find the significant subset of the community that you will listen to for a specific subject and try to make concessions for the rest of the community. Certainly not an easy thing, and even less when there is interest clash : geek / mom-pop / dell-hp-... / business.
Same as democraty. In a small village you can invite everybody to take the decisions about a new road in the village. At country scale, you can't do that as easily.
It is not like the US has always been a society of Engineer and Scientist that suddenly would turn to other interests. There have best and worst period like everywhere else. The majority of people everywhere in the world have always expected the technology to just work. It is only from period to period that being a scientist/engineer in a specific field has really been fashionable, mainly when a breaktrough in science produce huge impact on everyday life and for a while look like magic. When the magic is over, a bridge, power line, train, computer is just another bridge, power line, train, computer. Nothing to talk about.
Science has never been intersting to the vast majority of people. Looking good, be socially respected, having power, money, women, success,... have always been the higher is the priorities.
That's a problem with a good agent/bad agent. Note that I would no like an agent that change the content or significance of what I put in my resume. But I like the fact that the agent go through the trouble of making those painfull cover-sheet for me. In my case, my agent is applying for a lot of different offers in the same company, so I guess he does not take risks ( but who knows )
I had an agent in the past through which I applied for a development job that insist on asking me on what "application" I was specialised: not language, so VB, Java didn't work, I had to talk about Office, LotusNotes,... ( and say I was not intersted by anything he could come with )
NB: Often your agent must send maximum three resumes. In my company here, they request max 5 resume and ask a pro/con list for each candidate. But they use multiple agents.
As a parent you need to find the fine line where to stop controling. Sure, there are some area where experimentation must be strickly understood and respected by the kid.
Like unprotected sex, drugs, eating whatever crap when you are diabetic, crime,... those area are not open to experimentation. Experimentation there will likely screw up your life far deeper than the little pleasure or "cool factor" they give you now.
Off course, using a kind of automated system like here is a bit in contradiction with the fact that those limits must be "understood" as I said before. If your kids don't know there is some danger in that direction, they will find a way to overcome it. On the other hand, that can a usefull tool for kids with specific deseases and avoid stupid mistakes ( e.g. I have a friend critically to eggs and he made some stupid mistake (i.e. not intentionally) while younger )
My agency edits my resume, not the content though but generally, for the job they apply on my behalf, they must fill in a big cover sheet that contains some justification of why the agent sent my resume, some general information about the me and the agency,... My resume is generally copy-pasted in a section of that document or sometimes various sections of my resume are copy-pasted at various places in that document. Note that they always include the original resume together with the cover, but that's never what the prospective employers used during the interview. So I guess it makes the life of the Agent easier with an easy to edit document. And certainly it makes MY life easier if I don't have to fill-in those cover sheet. After all what's the point of using an agent if he doesn't make applying easier for you ?
Because the PSP is much more(TM) than a game console. It is the ultimate 23rd century multimedia device brought to you in the 21st century by Sony. Well for sony marketing point of view.
If you have an older version of the PSP firmware, you will quickly see that the PSP is seriously lacking except in games. So, Sony provided a functional game console running on a wonderful hardware but almost nothing sweet that uses this hardware except for games. So now from time to time there is a new firmware with new feature you wonder why there were not supported from day 1. Same thing with PC games that are shipped with no network option and no map editor get "patched" 6 months later to include them ( if the game had enough success ).
Another reason, is off course homebrew development. Firmware contains flawed that allows user to play custom programs or even pirated games. The problem is I guess more obvious on the PSP than the DS since the PSP has been developed from day 1 to be a generic do everything machine. So a lot of firmwares update brings some midly interesting feature and essentially patch the holes introduced by the previous version.
I guess, we should see several more updates in the future because with the death of UMD Video, the PSP is a good console and a giant MP3 player, far from the multimedia powerhouse image Sony would like it to be.
Throwing money is maybe not always successful, generally because money is "thrown away" and not "invested". Off course the only other solution is throwing no money and that, for sure, won't solve the problem.
But indeed, you are right, taxes don't help. Changing societal problem takes years, even several generations and that is too much for politician. Talking for Europe, here, we have huge tax and there is nothing that's hugely beter than the US for our petrol dependency. You still need a car for a lot of every day tasks. Shopping tends to be concentrated in big shopping area outside cities, companies are installed in industrial zoning and the price of housing generally pushes you away from your workplace if you want to be able to afford something more than 30 square meters in the hookers area. You have to pay more to live downtown, you pay to have your stuff shipped to your home and you pay to go in public transportation. And all of those costs raises with petrol price, so you are back to square one.
That said, don't hope too much on third world countries. Except maybe a country like China, a lot of car used in third world countries are our own second/third/fourth hand cars. And even if people in third world countries were buying brand new car all the time, they still keep them much longer than here.
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I would like to add, police spends most of its time looking for men in case of rape. That's what I call sexism.
Step back in real world the GP was a troll ok. However, most active terrorist group (i.e. the one that killed massively during the last 5 years) are muslim extremist. So yes, police job is to find a way to spot Muslim Extremist because they are much more likely to blow a plane.
Seriously now, if you are muslim and taking the plane on a regular basis with your wife a kids, who are you most afraid to blow the plane ? A muslim extremist or a IRA extremist ? Hell, if people of my ethnicity or religion were more likely to blow a plane, I would be more than happy if the police do its job and double check on me. ( Doesn't mean it would not piss me. I was living for a while in an area known for drug "business". Very often when I took the plane or international train I had my hand luggage checked manually or a longer than usual quiz. )
A Mac Pro is 2500$ and for a NVidia Quadro you add 1650$.
I assume that's not the price range the GP had in mind when saying "all of the affordable computers they sell are non upgradable"
That would be a bit unfair that MacOS, Linux could improve their security freely but Microsoft would have to provide easy to abuse holes in Windows just because a side economy happen to make money from them.
And what will they do when Windows looses market share ( and it will because it will be in the position of being the only door maker that cannot put lock on its doors because of the bouncer union ) Request Linux providers and Apple to provide their OS configured with root as default ?
You have to start someday ...
Yes there have been many more critical flaws. But only recently ( we are talking goverment time scale ) the goverment realise the threat and start to react. Actually massive botnet and such have not been a hot topic outside IT world since a long time.
There is no reason for the government to announce Linux and such patches. Currently the threat comes from Windows.
Let's wait for the next update to see if it was really the beginning of something or just something suspicious ( tinfoil hatter by definition should have some sort of backup to restore a previous safe version )
Agree with you. Bad example, Internet Explorer has lost its status of mature in exchange for "outdated but established" ( ok I'm nice, but I can't find anything beter to say without being rude )
Maturity doesn't have anything to do with the vendor. JUnit, Apache, Tomcat, Windows 2000(yek), Linux are mature. Mature means that the product ( or product line ) is well known, has a well known range of applicability, a known range of pro/con/limitations/constraints/... Basically it means that the technology is known. Everything mature has to be bleeding edge at one point. There is no way to create a mature product from day one, even if you are a big and powerfull corportation throwing billion in it. And Rails is no exception.
However I fail to see the relationship between Security issues and Maturity. Internet Explorer is mature and you still get your weekly critical security flaw.
We are not talking about a platform that used to be a leader in gaming and is slowly sliding into oblivion. This is not the final nail on the coffin like it would have been for Amiga or Atari back in the days.
There is no gaming scene for Mac. Don't lure yourself, people that want to play games or think game s are even midly important on their home computer already have Windows somewhere. People buying Mac have given up gaming.
Anything that could drive down the cost of development of game for Mac is welcome. Companies don't invest in costly cross platform development if they don't think they could get their money back. And considering what I just said, Mac market is not something appealing ( wasn't Steve Jobs saying that Mac is not and will never be a game platform or is that an urban legend ? ) With this techno, they can try the Mac market for cheap and if they make a few buck out of it, they may consider developing for Mac in the future.
Also throwing more games to the market can only dynamise it, and maybe convince a number of current moderate gamer ( like me ) to switch to Mac ( why dual booting and pay for both Windows and Mac OS ?? )
Note, I'm aware that WoW exists on Mac. But games like WoW are exclusive, it is very likely that because of the subscription involved, playing WoW means not playing anything else for years, so I think the WoW port effect is somehow limited for the Mac Game Market as a whole.
"the reasons they aren't selling games as they would like to is because of the ever increasing system requirment"
:-) )and the sale is lost ... forever.
That's a very good reason. I have much less time to play those days with work and family, so I'm buying less games, fair enough.
The problem is for people with low buying rate like me( like 1 game a year ) you almost have to buy a new gaming machine exclusively to play one game if you would like to play the game as it is supposed to be played ( like with at least 50% of the effects enabled ) That drives the cost of gaming to about 500$ per year, minimum.
Compare that to WoW and it doesn't look so expensive after all.
Sure I could play old games on my machine, and they will be very cheap. But that's not working like that, I'm not a dedicated player. If I want to play a game, I ask my colleagues/friends what they play and how they find the game ( so we can share the experience and have a nice conversation at the coffie machine - which is a good added value to the game itself ) Then I check if I can play this game on my machine and if I cannot, well I use the money to go to the restaurant ( which is a topic always working for the coffie machine meeting
The best experience you have with a TV is 3 meters away in couch while for a computer it is 0.5 meter away with a keyboard and mouse.
...
Technically if you want to really use all the neat additional features of media pc you need to get close to the screen and use a keyboard. Sure you can do tons of thing through the remote, but it requires a lot of work for anything else than basic operations. Try to browse the web for available content + download + display from your couch, or find an internet radio and stream it to the kitchen. Yes that can work, you can setup RSS feed and that kind of thing, but that's not an out of the box experience. To get the best of it one member of the family must become a dedicated media operator.
Most people still don't own an HD TV, so everything with text basically sucks, so you need an additional PC/Screen to browse internet.
Media Center generally also sucks at gaming so you still need a console.
So finally what's left? Either you use it as an average PC on a desk, or as an average Tivo with your TV.
And besides another challenge of the Media PC is to try to find convergence in a world where every actor try to pull the blanket to itself : There is still nothing close to interoperability like integration with your sky-decoder, limitation with DRM formats (try to skip Disney 30min of crapvertisement with Media Player ), vendor lock in of content provider (iTune, websites, bbcnews, internet provider dsl tv, realmedia, wmv), or hardware provider ( Sony LocationFree and Apple stuff ),
Indeed the word comes straight from French. Same as you said for Brazilian Portuguese, the word alimentation is also used for "electricity supply". The PSU of a computer for example is called an "Alimentation". Power Leads are called "Alimentation" cables.
Why destroying the car ? I doesn't help with your problem.
Beter try to
1. Talk the guy out of this
2. Just destroy the moskito repeler in a fashion that is not apparent to the owner. After all if he doesn't hear it, you just have to take the first opportunity, open the box, and cut the alimentation to the speaker. Your problem is solve. The owner is happy because the nice blue led tells him that the device is working. And after all, if the guy is really paranoid, teens are not *really* invading his property, so he will never realise that the device is not actually working ( like garlic neclace to repel vampire )
Off course if the guy has a real reason because your kids (neighbourhood kids) are drinking in his lawn every night, you have to solve that problem first. In that case, if you destroy the mosquito before, you can be certain the owner will call the police and unlike the sound, they will be able to see that you detroyed you neighbour property.
With this argument I wonder why we are not using a "print you own" passport service. Much faster, the administration send you a pdf and you print it on your own printer at home. After all, it is only a matter of having it properly checked.
Personally if my country issue an official document that identify myself I expect it to be a little more harder to copy than using a simple copier. There are tons of places where checks will be weaker than at airports (at least in Europe where a lot of countries uses an ID Card). That is in those places where they will rely on electronic only checking.
I guess in that frame of mind, what will happen sooner is Ads follows Eye. Wherever you are watching the crappy Flash Animation follows you. ... your TV tuner goes in time delay mode you show what you have missed as soon as you come back.
Or worse, nobody is watching during the ads
For me exiting software are new features in Eclipse, CVS, Xen, JBoss, a lot of Apache frameworks. Because they are powerful and allow me to work beter and faster.
... are exiting.
:-)
It appears however that for Joe User, I'm a boring guy using boring software. He never develops anything. For him iTunes, NewsLeecher, Outlook, Google Earth, Messenger,
Note that since I'm using Lotus Notes, I also find Outlook exiting
Consequences ... :-)
as a woman she comes bundled with sneaky ways to make you regret that kind of move and a memory that fits with long term strategy.
I worked for a company where server were serviced for something like 1000 EUR/month per server. There was not much difference between a Windows Server and a Linux Server ( when you factor the fact that Windows server were smaller box and Linux server were generally more entreprise grade ) except that with the Windows Server you had an initial cost for the OS. After a year, the cost of the initial license wasn't really a point.
You still can be a little sceptical when you look at the numbers: Total project in 1 year to migrate 70.000 desktop = 130.000 GBP. If you pay a developer less than 10.000 GBP a year in average( not much for qualified personel, even in Spain ) that's a team of 13 persons for 1 year. Manager, coordination and everything included. Well sure that's not a lot.
Not saying it is not a good think, even if it was more expensive to go opensource. OpenSource and Open Standard makes *especially* more sense for a government. But in this case the difference is so huge, you would like to ask a breakdown of that. It looks too much more like "become an expert C Unix programming in only 8 hours" or "loose 50 kilos in less than 7 days"
My girlfriend would be in the 77%. However this is not about the fact that she likes more a Plasma TV , it is because we can actually enjoy the plasma tv more, while the diamond will be forever ... in a safe.
... No way she will even consider a plasma TV.
If you ask her if she want to spend 5000 USD in a plasma TV or in various little stuffs like new clothes, small trips, restaurant, theaters, opera
That's not a question of technology, that's a question of bang per buck.
At least they want something to *blame*, especially in non-technical companies: You pay for an OS, it doesn't do what you expected and the vendor doesn't listen to you. That's the vendor fault.
...
Now, you take a free linux distro on the net, and it doesn't do what you expected. Well that's another matter. You can blame the incorporal "community" for the lack of concern, and ultimatly that means that you will blame your own IT department with argument like "Not competent enough to fix the OS", or they "mislead the management" and that can have nasty consequences
Listening suppose somebody tells you something you understand.
As they grow larger, communities tend to produce more noise than information. Your objective becomes to find the significant subset of the community that you will listen to for a specific subject and try to make concessions for the rest of the community. Certainly not an easy thing, and even less when there is interest clash : geek / mom-pop / dell-hp-... / business.
Same as democraty. In a small village you can invite everybody to take the decisions about a new road in the village. At country scale, you can't do that as easily.
It is not like the US has always been a society of Engineer and Scientist that suddenly would turn to other interests. There have best and worst period like everywhere else.
... have always been the higher is the priorities.
The majority of people everywhere in the world have always expected the technology to just work. It is only from period to period that being a scientist/engineer in a specific field has really been fashionable, mainly when a breaktrough in science produce huge impact on everyday life and for a while look like magic.
When the magic is over, a bridge, power line, train, computer is just another bridge, power line, train, computer. Nothing to talk about.
Science has never been intersting to the vast majority of people. Looking good, be socially respected, having power, money, women, success,
That's a problem with a good agent/bad agent. Note that I would no like an agent that change the content or significance of what I put in my resume. But I like the fact that the agent go through the trouble of making those painfull cover-sheet for me. In my case, my agent is applying for a lot of different offers in the same company, so I guess he does not take risks ( but who knows )
... ( and say I was not intersted by anything he could come with )
I had an agent in the past through which I applied for a development job that insist on asking me on what "application" I was specialised: not language, so VB, Java didn't work, I had to talk about Office, LotusNotes,
NB: Often your agent must send maximum three resumes. In my company here, they request max 5 resume and ask a pro/con list for each candidate. But they use multiple agents.
As a parent you need to find the fine line where to stop controling. Sure, there are some area where experimentation must be strickly understood and respected by the kid.
... those area are not open to experimentation. Experimentation there will likely screw up your life far deeper than the little pleasure or "cool factor" they give you now.
Like unprotected sex, drugs, eating whatever crap when you are diabetic, crime,
Off course, using a kind of automated system like here is a bit in contradiction with the fact that those limits must be "understood" as I said before. If your kids don't know there is some danger in that direction, they will find a way to overcome it.
On the other hand, that can a usefull tool for kids with specific deseases and avoid stupid mistakes ( e.g. I have a friend critically to eggs and he made some stupid mistake (i.e. not intentionally) while younger )
My agency edits my resume, not the content though but generally, for the job they apply on my behalf, they must fill in a big cover sheet that contains some justification of why the agent sent my resume, some general information about the me and the agency, ... My resume is generally copy-pasted in a section of that document or sometimes various sections of my resume are copy-pasted at various places in that document.
Note that they always include the original resume together with the cover, but that's never what the prospective employers used during the interview. So I guess it makes the life of the Agent easier with an easy to edit document. And certainly it makes MY life easier if I don't have to fill-in those cover sheet. After all what's the point of using an agent if he doesn't make applying easier for you ?
Because the PSP is much more(TM) than a game console. It is the ultimate 23rd century multimedia device brought to you in the 21st century by Sony. Well for sony marketing point of view.
If you have an older version of the PSP firmware, you will quickly see that the PSP is seriously lacking except in games. So, Sony provided a functional game console running on a wonderful hardware but almost nothing sweet that uses this hardware except for games. So now from time to time there is a new firmware with new feature you wonder why there were not supported from day 1. Same thing with PC games that are shipped with no network option and no map editor get "patched" 6 months later to include them ( if the game had enough success ).
Another reason, is off course homebrew development. Firmware contains flawed that allows user to play custom programs or even pirated games. The problem is I guess more obvious on the PSP than the DS since the PSP has been developed from day 1 to be a generic do everything machine. So a lot of firmwares update brings some midly interesting feature and essentially patch the holes introduced by the previous version.
I guess, we should see several more updates in the future because with the death of UMD Video, the PSP is a good console and a giant MP3 player, far from the multimedia powerhouse image Sony would like it to be.
Throwing money is maybe not always successful, generally because money is "thrown away" and not "invested". Off course the only other solution is throwing no money and that, for sure, won't solve the problem.
But indeed, you are right, taxes don't help. Changing societal problem takes years, even several generations and that is too much for politician. Talking for Europe, here, we have huge tax and there is nothing that's hugely beter than the US for our petrol dependency. You still need a car for a lot of every day tasks. Shopping tends to be concentrated in big shopping area outside cities, companies are installed in industrial zoning and the price of housing generally pushes you away from your workplace if you want to be able to afford something more than 30 square meters in the hookers area. You have to pay more to live downtown, you pay to have your stuff shipped to your home and you pay to go in public transportation. And all of those costs raises with petrol price, so you are back to square one.
That said, don't hope too much on third world countries. Except maybe a country like China, a lot of car used in third world countries are our own second/third/fourth hand cars. And even if people in third world countries were buying brand new car all the time, they still keep them much longer than here.