Umm, yeah, I did read the summary, article, and parent posts. I don't remember seeing 5 bucks anywhere, but I did see fifteen and twenty dollars mentioned, but it may just be too early and I haven't had coffee yet. Yea, even if it was five bucks, thats less than the amount the library would charge you if you lost the book, but thats not the point. The point is whether or not the system would be feasible, and why.
Right, because the current system in places, across the entire country, isn't one where your name and home adress is on file, and if it was of any importance to the government, they can already do that. SO WHAT. It is a public library, in the sense that it is a service to the public. Since when does anyone have the right to anonymity in public?
What if you want to check out say ten books. Hey, thats like 200 bucks right there. Even if the interest isn't that much for you, imagine how much money the library would make from that. Would be almost like a small mutual fund. And no, he doesn't expect the library to give books out to anon people, he expects the system to either A) not change because its not feasible (like his post title says) or B) have users printed.
I for one agree with you here. BFD if you get your fingerprint scanned for library access. Unlikely that its going to happen anyways, other places have been using fingerprints for years. My mother was a substitute teacher, until they started requiring fingerprints for every teacher and substitute. Most people didn't complain, because it's not that big of a deal, and can help if something does go wrong.
..because the "resources" that they speak of in the link only talks about requiring fingerprints to access computers, similar to re-entering your password when you go to bid on something at ebay, just to make sure you are you. Unless im mistaken, you would have to have the balance of a PC on your card to use what you are being fingerprinted for, so why not just have cards that don't need to be fingerprinted, and those accounts can only use the paper resources of a library?
Especially some of the good old fscking hard games, like ninja gaiden and ghosts and ghouls. God, I could play those for longer than some titles that are being released today.
" First-time buyers at a retailer could see higher prices than a firm's repeat customers, and retailers may not offer discounts to consumers who buy the same brands regularly without even looking at alternative products on the same site" So...give people who repeatedly shop at your store a discount, but only if they change what brand they buy all the time, rather than having a favorite brand because.... oh I don't know....maybe it lasts longer?
Because you are thinking about it from a US mentality. Sure, we can pass a law to make it illegal to have porn in anything but the XXX TLD, but that means NOTHING to anyone else in any other country. Hmmm......sounds like the issue with offshores p2p and torrent servers.
"Firewall, NAT and proxy friendly, no worries about network configuration." I have yet to see some network application not need some sort of configuring to tweak its performance. Who knows, maybe im using the wrong things then.
..a big issue. Who isn't to say that she created the profile, put the pictures up, had those chats, and is now "offended" when yahoo wont take down the profile at her request. She then promptly sues yahoo for a slick 3 million, which I know will be a lot less on her end, but still, it's a lot of money. The "boyfriend" gets off scott free. I hope that in the proceedings, if there are any, that she has to at least prove that this ex-boyfriend did do this.
To illustrate my point, the second post that has a to blogspot for a gaming blog that does what I like. The author, in the second post, references someone else's blog, and then takes a direct quote from it to explain what he is talking about.
Except you get crossreferenced in a cross-reference to a cross-reference. I don't mind them, when used reasonably, like any other thing, but you can also summarize things too. I just get fed up with everyone referencing everyone else, it makes it hard to start reading to me.
Yea, seriously full of themselves, especially considering they claim to be the "best and brightest video game bloggers from around the world" On my scan through the links on that "article" it seemed that on US gamers opinions were being voiced. Then again, I didn't look at all the links, it just got so boring. Great reviewing....
..lets realize these people from the "blogosphere" are hard hitting, insightful questions, such as:
Is GTA an RPG?
Because obviously, if you play a role in a game, it's an RPG,.....oh wait....
Also, the need for someone to say "yes, according to Microsoft leetspeak is the language of the hour, and I'm down with it just as much as the next guy", and link to not only one, but TWO different explanations of leetspeak. Jesus, I wouldn't read this crap if it was the only opinion available on games. I would just go back to the old days and friggin rent video games.
Also, is it just me, or do these blogs have some sort of rule that you have to have at least 5 links per sentence??
Educational in the sense that you are using in say a university course. In general, thats what judges consider educational, not expanding your own personal horizons.
He wasn't implying that Nintendo was trying to hoodwink anyone, more that Nintendo has some pretty innovative games. At least, more so than PS2 and XBOX. Some that come to mind are the Warioware games, which are addictive as crack, and jut in general the touchpad functionality of the DS. The touchpad doesn't seem to be a terribly useful feature, but it sure is innovative. Also, I don't think Nintendo made this game, but it runs on a GBA, and it has a solar sensor, affecting the game depending on how much light is outside.
What exactly do you do to your systems to go through them that fast?! I am on my first PS2, and have had it since about 6 months after it was released. I average about fifteen hours or so a week playing, and have moved it several times (long car trip and bumping and whatnot) and I have still not managed to break it. Maybe I just got lucky and got a damn well made one.....
is that banks and credit issues have lost over 1.2 billion dollars in 2003, according to TFA, yet they are not the ones actively pursuing something that would help protect their users from this sort of fraud. I think it's great that someone is doing something about this issue for the general public.
Even still, downloading someone's song to your hard drive and listening too it doesn't really fall under fair use. It is being copied in its entirety, you aren't using it for satirical or education purpose. The only thing going for you is the fact that you aren't making money off of listening to it.
It's like condemning people for driving too fast after selling them cars that go 250 kmh.
Last time I checked, most places had some sort of speed limit in place which does comdemn people for going too fast, and alot of cars can go 250 kmh. What a great argument, and an awesome analogy
If you search on google, it is pretty easy to see that someone has been fired over blogging already. Its actually a fairly serious issue, one we spent time discussing in my ethics class. Granted the firing may have been over the content he posted, but he was fired because of the blog.
This seems like a pretty cool thing. The 45 degree angle view looked pretty neat, rather than the same boring straight down shots. The layers of data on top of the maps is pretty neat too, seeing as people have made their own hacks to google maps to do that. Just have to see how it finally pans out when it is released.
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Umm, yeah, I did read the summary, article, and parent posts. I don't remember seeing 5 bucks anywhere, but I did see fifteen and twenty dollars mentioned, but it may just be too early and I haven't had coffee yet. Yea, even if it was five bucks, thats less than the amount the library would charge you if you lost the book, but thats not the point. The point is whether or not the system would be feasible, and why.
Right, because the current system in places, across the entire country, isn't one where your name and home adress is on file, and if it was of any importance to the government, they can already do that. SO WHAT. It is a public library, in the sense that it is a service to the public. Since when does anyone have the right to anonymity in public?
What if you want to check out say ten books. Hey, thats like 200 bucks right there. Even if the interest isn't that much for you, imagine how much money the library would make from that. Would be almost like a small mutual fund. And no, he doesn't expect the library to give books out to anon people, he expects the system to either A) not change because its not feasible (like his post title says) or B) have users printed.
Yea, thats for losing a book, and those people aren't sane anyways. For simply checking out a book, to have to pay the amount it costs is rediculous.
Only the rich can afford privacy says the AC....you must have money!!! Mob him!!
I for one agree with you here. BFD if you get your fingerprint scanned for library access. Unlikely that its going to happen anyways, other places have been using fingerprints for years. My mother was a substitute teacher, until they started requiring fingerprints for every teacher and substitute. Most people didn't complain, because it's not that big of a deal, and can help if something does go wrong.
..because the "resources" that they speak of in the link only talks about requiring fingerprints to access computers, similar to re-entering your password when you go to bid on something at ebay, just to make sure you are you. Unless im mistaken, you would have to have the balance of a PC on your card to use what you are being fingerprinted for, so why not just have cards that don't need to be fingerprinted, and those accounts can only use the paper resources of a library?
"Harrison then confirmed that past-gen, Nintendo-created titles will indeed be downloadable for free.
Especially some of the good old fscking hard games, like ninja gaiden and ghosts and ghouls. God, I could play those for longer than some titles that are being released today.
" First-time buyers at a retailer could see higher prices than a firm's repeat customers, and retailers may not offer discounts to consumers who buy the same brands regularly without even looking at alternative products on the same site" So...give people who repeatedly shop at your store a discount, but only if they change what brand they buy all the time, rather than having a favorite brand because.... oh I don't know....maybe it lasts longer?
Because you are thinking about it from a US mentality. Sure, we can pass a law to make it illegal to have porn in anything but the XXX TLD, but that means NOTHING to anyone else in any other country. Hmmm......sounds like the issue with offshores p2p and torrent servers.
"Firewall, NAT and proxy friendly, no worries about network configuration." I have yet to see some network application not need some sort of configuring to tweak its performance. Who knows, maybe im using the wrong things then.
..a big issue. Who isn't to say that she created the profile, put the pictures up, had those chats, and is now "offended" when yahoo wont take down the profile at her request. She then promptly sues yahoo for a slick 3 million, which I know will be a lot less on her end, but still, it's a lot of money. The "boyfriend" gets off scott free. I hope that in the proceedings, if there are any, that she has to at least prove that this ex-boyfriend did do this.
To illustrate my point, the second post that has a to blogspot for a gaming blog that does what I like. The author, in the second post, references someone else's blog, and then takes a direct quote from it to explain what he is talking about.
Except you get crossreferenced in a cross-reference to a cross-reference. I don't mind them, when used reasonably, like any other thing, but you can also summarize things too. I just get fed up with everyone referencing everyone else, it makes it hard to start reading to me.
Yea, seriously full of themselves, especially considering they claim to be the "best and brightest video game bloggers from around the world " On my scan through the links on that "article" it seemed that on US gamers opinions were being voiced. Then again, I didn't look at all the links, it just got so boring. Great reviewing....
Because obviously, if you play a role in a game, it's an RPG, .....oh wait....
Also, the need for someone to say "yes, according to Microsoft leetspeak is the language of the hour, and I'm down with it just as much as the next guy", and link to not only one, but TWO different explanations of leetspeak. Jesus, I wouldn't read this crap if it was the only opinion available on games. I would just go back to the old days and friggin rent video games.
Also, is it just me, or do these blogs have some sort of rule that you have to have at least 5 links per sentence??
Educational in the sense that you are using in say a university course. In general, thats what judges consider educational, not expanding your own personal horizons.
He wasn't implying that Nintendo was trying to hoodwink anyone, more that Nintendo has some pretty innovative games. At least, more so than PS2 and XBOX. Some that come to mind are the Warioware games, which are addictive as crack, and jut in general the touchpad functionality of the DS. The touchpad doesn't seem to be a terribly useful feature, but it sure is innovative. Also, I don't think Nintendo made this game, but it runs on a GBA, and it has a solar sensor, affecting the game depending on how much light is outside.
What exactly do you do to your systems to go through them that fast?! I am on my first PS2, and have had it since about 6 months after it was released. I average about fifteen hours or so a week playing, and have moved it several times (long car trip and bumping and whatnot) and I have still not managed to break it. Maybe I just got lucky and got a damn well made one.....
is that banks and credit issues have lost over 1.2 billion dollars in 2003, according to TFA, yet they are not the ones actively pursuing something that would help protect their users from this sort of fraud. I think it's great that someone is doing something about this issue for the general public.
Even still, downloading someone's song to your hard drive and listening too it doesn't really fall under fair use. It is being copied in its entirety, you aren't using it for satirical or education purpose. The only thing going for you is the fact that you aren't making money off of listening to it.
Last time I checked, most places had some sort of speed limit in place which does comdemn people for going too fast, and alot of cars can go 250 kmh. What a great argument, and an awesome analogy
If you search on google, it is pretty easy to see that someone has been fired over blogging already. Its actually a fairly serious issue, one we spent time discussing in my ethics class. Granted the firing may have been over the content he posted, but he was fired because of the blog.
This seems like a pretty cool thing. The 45 degree angle view looked pretty neat, rather than the same boring straight down shots. The layers of data on top of the maps is pretty neat too, seeing as people have made their own hacks to google maps to do that. Just have to see how it finally pans out when it is released.