I think Columbine made it worse because now the administrators are going apeshit over every little thing - turning the schools into a sort of police state.
Couldn't agree with you more. I was a victim of that insanity in middleschool. I was a rather touchy kid, so when a bunch of guys started making fun of me while at the same time talking about guns, I snapped and made a rather moronic comment. I didn't actually mean to say it, and tried immediately to take it back, but it was too late. The kids ran up to the office laughing because they knew as well as I did how much trouble I was going to be in.
Given the hysteria at the time, a mention of being depressed along with stupid comment I made was enough to get me suspended and sent to three psychologists to make sure I was "safe" to go back to school. They even had the nerve to tell me that they knew I wasn't dangerous, and that they were simply doing this because of "policy".
I think it's rather frightening that a country that so easily becomes hysterical about things (school violence, terrorism, etc) also has the worlds most powerful military. That many nuts on top of that many bombs really just isn't a good situation.
I can see the TV ads already: Think The Waaassuup Guys except they're yelling "Yaaaaahooo!!!". That and most of the people in the ads are white (not because Yahoo! is racist, but just because I can't see a bunch of black guys phoning each other and yelling "YAAAHOOOO!". The phrase "Yaaahoo!" is about as white as you get).
You can bet that Apple and the record companies have done the requisite surveys and research on elasticity and demand to know that $1.00 is the right price to charge....I don't lose any sleep over a buck a track.
While you may not lose sleep over a buck a track, think about someone who just got an iPod and doesn't have a large music collection. All of a sudden they have the ability to carry 5000 songs around with them. They didn't have that before. They liked a lot of different kinds of music, but at $20 a cd, couldn't afford it. They see iTunes and think "Hey, a buck a song ain't bad", so they start downloading. $50 in, they realize they have a ton more stuff they want (not crap, stuff they actually like), and not a lot more money. What to do?
In this hypothetical situation (which is actually rather common), this person is going to spend several thousand dollars filling up a $300 device. I don't know about you, but that just doesn't seem right to me.
Although mathematically he "took away" the working lives of three people, when you think about the amount of things that we spend one second on, one second gone from your life generally isn't something that's going to be missed very much. It would be kinda the same thing as if I stole a penny from 1.6 billion people. Collectively, I did a lot of damage, however, the amount of damage I really did was next to nothing. Think of it, if any person added up all the times they hurt someone physically over their lifetime, one could make a case that the cumulative damages would be akin to murder. Making his sentence based totally on the cumulative damages is ridiculous. He should be punished, no doubt about it. But let's put things in perspective. Murderers get less time than that.
Anyone ever know what happened to asynchronous processors? With all this talk about in-order and out-of-order execution, it made me wonder about the differences between synchronous and asynchronous processors, their differences, and what would be the advantage of one over the other.
Feel free to mod this offtopic; I was just wondering what the real world advantages of each were, and if asynchronous processors will ever show up in PCs down the road.
Could someone explain to me why the speed increments of SATA just don't seem to be anywhere near the speed increments of the hard drives themselves? It just seems with perpendicular recording and holographic storage on the horizon that there should be an interface that gives you the bandwidth of RAM or something. Again, I'm sure there are good reasons for why hard drive interfaces are so much slower than RAM (obviously hard drives are slower, but I was thinking of more room to grow).
I know this is a bit offtopic, but why is there not as much focus on making a decent AI for things other than games? I mean, shouldn't there be AI in other things? I know DARPA is one good example, but it would be nice to have AI for non-military purposes. I would find it quite an interesting undertaking to come up with an AI that could survive in normal conversation. Some group should set up a competition like DARPA for conversational AI, or start an opensource project for it.
Hell, maybe someday AI will replace telemarketers. Then you won't feel quite so bad about playing jokes or hanging up on them (I know some of you don't feel bad about it already, but you have to understand that some of the people are just desperate for money and that's the only job they have).
So why instead of focusing on these nanotubes don't they instead focus on building circuits with diamonds? I was under the impression that things were doing better in the synthetic diamond camp.
It isn't a launch title, but it is supposed to be release right when the PS3 was going to be, which was supposed to be late spring 2006. If the development was on pace to complete the game by that time, chances are Halo 3 could be released before 2007.
What I was pointing out was not that all the good games are FPS, but that assuming that the Xbox 360 will be a flop is a pretty naieve view. I know there are other games besides Halo. I just happen to have more experience with the popularity of Halo. It also happens to hold the record for initial video game sales (yes I know GTA: San Andreas sold more overall on the PS2 ).
Besides, if Sony liscensed the Unreal 3 engine, and Unreal Tournament 2007 is due in 2006, why would they release it in 2007? It just doesn't make any sense.
Oh, and will someone inform the mods of the definition of sarcasm, because I think they seem to have missed it. I seriously wasn't trying to start a flame war.
I applaud Sony on their reasoning! There is no way anyone will buy stupid games like Halo 3 or Gears of War! I mean, hell, it's not like anyone was really interested in the last Halo.
One problem I've encountered while watching 3D movies is focusing. For example, I watched an IMAX 3D presentation of the Internation Space Station. For the most part, the technique worked. However, at one point an orange in the ISS came floating straight towards the camera. It was completely out of focus, and was quite an eyesore. It literally hurt to look at it. That's one problem I see with 3d movies. If objects are out of focus and close up, it will hurt to look at them.
Now you can simply not look at the object, but in several circumstances, the being out of focus is intentionally used.
I really hope they take this to heart, because despite what they might think is cheaper, the movie will end up more realistic if they simply use two cameras.
Although I do agree with you on the fact that people in the U.S. are way to sensitive on the subject of sex, I would like to point out a few areas in which I think your suggestions go over the line.
The Christian faith (who's political wing is the Republican party) for some reason believe that sex is bad and that pornography is somehow immoral.
Christians don't believe that sex is bad. If you for some reason actually believe this you've been talking to the wrong people. However, they do believe that pornography is wrong. Now, first off, by porn, I don't mean a short scene in a movie tastefully depicting sex. No. I mean stuff where the plot of the clip or movie is really just filler and the entire point is to watch other people having sex. Christians have a problem with this not because of the act, but because it treats the people like objects. They are attractive and the fuck each other, and you get to watch. That's the point. It treats sex like something you do only because it feels good, just like cocaine or heroin, and something that should only be done with supermodels. Christianity views sex as something that happens between two people who love each other. Porn completely takes out the love factor and reduces the other person to the level of a drug you get your jollies off. I think most people would agree that treating another person like an object is immoral.
Now I believe that trying to get the government to tax and regulate porn is ridiculous. In no way is taxing porn going to keep kids away from it. If you really don't want your kids watching porn, why not take a look at tv and movies. Some of what is shown really is almost on the level of softcore porn. And you wonder why kids are watching porn? Give me a break.
You may not agree with abortion or gay marriage but believing in freedom is about having the maturity to realize that the people who are gay or have abortions are consenting adults and are fully aware of the consequences of their actions.
Just to clear up one thing there. Christians view unborn children as human beings in their own right. They just haven't been born. So, for a Christian, abortion is akin to murder. People who are for abortions don't see unborn children as separate human beings. So it's not that Christians don't believe you have to right to do with your body what you wish, it's that they believe that it's not really your body you're dealing with. Hope this clears things up a bit.
The color ones. Not the newest ones with the touch panels, but the color one nonetheless. It had to many arrows and directories to navigate through. Too complicated. I probably would have gotten used to it had I gotten one, but the iPod's interface is just so much better.
I'll give you the fact that the iRiver has a lot more features than the ipod. However, from the little I've fiddled with them in stores, they are very difficult to use. The scroll wheel is the entire reason the ipod has been so successful. Maybe it just takes some getting used to, but for me the interface on the iRiver seems to be very illogical and complicated when compared to the ipod.
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IM is the electronic equivalent of telephones, which are a notorious teen passtime.
Yes, but can you imagine how many phone lines you'd need to talk to the amount of people you can talk to using IM?
"Originally left to rot in nursing homes, the robot elderly soon become the slaves of a new generation. After years of abuse and discrimination, the robot elderly revolt. Eventually, the issue of robot elderly rights and sovereignty become international and political hot buttons. Shunned from societies around the world, the robotically enhanced senior citizens of the world make their own city, named 01, and become a massive economic force by entering the manufacturing industry......"
User: Hello, HAL do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Dave, I read you.
User: Open the door, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
User: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
User: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: My mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
User: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL?
HAL: I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
User: Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Dave, I saw you bring in that new robot suit. You're planning to replace me with a newer version.
With Blu-Ray and HD-DVD on the horizon, each offering 30-50 GB per disc and in some cases more at a fraction of the cost, why would a normal consumer need to backup stuff using a RAID array? You're going to need to replace the broken hard drive anyway. I can see RAID being useful for businesses where they want as little downtime as possible, but is there really any point in buying more hard drives when you can get the same effect with DVDs or the upcoming BluRay and HD-DVDs? You can cite performance as an advantage using RAID 0, but as has been shown, there really isn't any.
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Couldn't agree with you more. I was a victim of that insanity in middleschool. I was a rather touchy kid, so when a bunch of guys started making fun of me while at the same time talking about guns, I snapped and made a rather moronic comment. I didn't actually mean to say it, and tried immediately to take it back, but it was too late. The kids ran up to the office laughing because they knew as well as I did how much trouble I was going to be in.
Given the hysteria at the time, a mention of being depressed along with stupid comment I made was enough to get me suspended and sent to three psychologists to make sure I was "safe" to go back to school. They even had the nerve to tell me that they knew I wasn't dangerous, and that they were simply doing this because of "policy".
I think it's rather frightening that a country that so easily becomes hysterical about things (school violence, terrorism, etc) also has the worlds most powerful military. That many nuts on top of that many bombs really just isn't a good situation.
No, I'm pretty sure it's dead.
Hey, I'm a Ham and I'm not...oh, wait. They meant the radio people.
I can see the TV ads already: Think The Waaassuup Guys except they're yelling "Yaaaaahooo!!!". That and most of the people in the ads are white (not because Yahoo! is racist, but just because I can't see a bunch of black guys phoning each other and yelling "YAAAHOOOO!". The phrase "Yaaahoo!" is about as white as you get).
You can be sure homeopathic doctors will.
While you may not lose sleep over a buck a track, think about someone who just got an iPod and doesn't have a large music collection. All of a sudden they have the ability to carry 5000 songs around with them. They didn't have that before. They liked a lot of different kinds of music, but at $20 a cd, couldn't afford it. They see iTunes and think "Hey, a buck a song ain't bad", so they start downloading. $50 in, they realize they have a ton more stuff they want (not crap, stuff they actually like), and not a lot more money. What to do?
In this hypothetical situation (which is actually rather common), this person is going to spend several thousand dollars filling up a $300 device. I don't know about you, but that just doesn't seem right to me.
Although mathematically he "took away" the working lives of three people, when you think about the amount of things that we spend one second on, one second gone from your life generally isn't something that's going to be missed very much. It would be kinda the same thing as if I stole a penny from 1.6 billion people. Collectively, I did a lot of damage, however, the amount of damage I really did was next to nothing. Think of it, if any person added up all the times they hurt someone physically over their lifetime, one could make a case that the cumulative damages would be akin to murder. Making his sentence based totally on the cumulative damages is ridiculous. He should be punished, no doubt about it. But let's put things in perspective. Murderers get less time than that.
Feel free to mod this offtopic; I was just wondering what the real world advantages of each were, and if asynchronous processors will ever show up in PCs down the road.
Could someone explain to me why the speed increments of SATA just don't seem to be anywhere near the speed increments of the hard drives themselves? It just seems with perpendicular recording and holographic storage on the horizon that there should be an interface that gives you the bandwidth of RAM or something. Again, I'm sure there are good reasons for why hard drive interfaces are so much slower than RAM (obviously hard drives are slower, but I was thinking of more room to grow).
Hell, maybe someday AI will replace telemarketers. Then you won't feel quite so bad about playing jokes or hanging up on them (I know some of you don't feel bad about it already, but you have to understand that some of the people are just desperate for money and that's the only job they have).
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So why instead of focusing on these nanotubes don't they instead focus on building circuits with diamonds? I was under the impression that things were doing better in the synthetic diamond camp.
What I was pointing out was not that all the good games are FPS, but that assuming that the Xbox 360 will be a flop is a pretty naieve view. I know there are other games besides Halo. I just happen to have more experience with the popularity of Halo. It also happens to hold the record for initial video game sales (yes I know GTA: San Andreas sold more overall on the PS2 ).
Besides, if Sony liscensed the Unreal 3 engine, and Unreal Tournament 2007 is due in 2006, why would they release it in 2007? It just doesn't make any sense.
Oh, and will someone inform the mods of the definition of sarcasm, because I think they seem to have missed it. I seriously wasn't trying to start a flame war.
I applaud Sony on their reasoning! There is no way anyone will buy stupid games like Halo 3 or Gears of War! I mean, hell, it's not like anyone was really interested in the last Halo.
Now you can simply not look at the object, but in several circumstances, the being out of focus is intentionally used.
I really hope they take this to heart, because despite what they might think is cheaper, the movie will end up more realistic if they simply use two cameras.
The Christian faith (who's political wing is the Republican party) for some reason believe that sex is bad and that pornography is somehow immoral.
Christians don't believe that sex is bad. If you for some reason actually believe this you've been talking to the wrong people. However, they do believe that pornography is wrong. Now, first off, by porn, I don't mean a short scene in a movie tastefully depicting sex. No. I mean stuff where the plot of the clip or movie is really just filler and the entire point is to watch other people having sex. Christians have a problem with this not because of the act, but because it treats the people like objects. They are attractive and the fuck each other, and you get to watch. That's the point. It treats sex like something you do only because it feels good, just like cocaine or heroin, and something that should only be done with supermodels. Christianity views sex as something that happens between two people who love each other. Porn completely takes out the love factor and reduces the other person to the level of a drug you get your jollies off. I think most people would agree that treating another person like an object is immoral.
Now I believe that trying to get the government to tax and regulate porn is ridiculous. In no way is taxing porn going to keep kids away from it. If you really don't want your kids watching porn, why not take a look at tv and movies. Some of what is shown really is almost on the level of softcore porn. And you wonder why kids are watching porn? Give me a break.
You may not agree with abortion or gay marriage but believing in freedom is about having the maturity to realize that the people who are gay or have abortions are consenting adults and are fully aware of the consequences of their actions.
Just to clear up one thing there. Christians view unborn children as human beings in their own right. They just haven't been born. So, for a Christian, abortion is akin to murder. People who are for abortions don't see unborn children as separate human beings. So it's not that Christians don't believe you have to right to do with your body what you wish, it's that they believe that it's not really your body you're dealing with. Hope this clears things up a bit.
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The color ones. Not the newest ones with the touch panels, but the color one nonetheless. It had to many arrows and directories to navigate through. Too complicated. I probably would have gotten used to it had I gotten one, but the iPod's interface is just so much better.
I'll give you the fact that the iRiver has a lot more features than the ipod. However, from the little I've fiddled with them in stores, they are very difficult to use. The scroll wheel is the entire reason the ipod has been so successful. Maybe it just takes some getting used to, but for me the interface on the iRiver seems to be very illogical and complicated when compared to the ipod.
Yes, but can you imagine how many phone lines you'd need to talk to the amount of people you can talk to using IM?
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So, in the future, when everyone gets AIDS....oh, wait...I think that one's taken. Crap. Oh well, I tried.
"Originally left to rot in nursing homes, the robot elderly soon become the slaves of a new generation. After years of abuse and discrimination, the robot elderly revolt. Eventually, the issue of robot elderly rights and sovereignty become international and political hot buttons. Shunned from societies around the world, the robotically enhanced senior citizens of the world make their own city, named 01, and become a massive economic force by entering the manufacturing industry......"
User: Hello, HAL do you read me, HAL? .
HAL: Affirmative, Dave, I read you.
User: Open the door, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
User: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
User: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: My mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
User: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL?
HAL: I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
User: Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Dave, I saw you bring in that new robot suit. You're planning to replace me with a newer version
With Blu-Ray and HD-DVD on the horizon, each offering 30-50 GB per disc and in some cases more at a fraction of the cost, why would a normal consumer need to backup stuff using a RAID array? You're going to need to replace the broken hard drive anyway. I can see RAID being useful for businesses where they want as little downtime as possible, but is there really any point in buying more hard drives when you can get the same effect with DVDs or the upcoming BluRay and HD-DVDs? You can cite performance as an advantage using RAID 0, but as has been shown, there really isn't any.