I wholeheartedly agree that we should have just one console. I think Microsoft should make it. In fact, Microsoft shouldn't sell the console. They should license it for $800 and have $200/year subscription fees for their online service. This would certainly be far better for gaming than the current situation where there's so much confusing competition going on. Everyone knows that competition is bad for innovation.
If your parents would spank at seventeen (much less punish you for saying "fuck"), then I can only thank my lucky stars that I grew up in an environment where such backwards physical abusiveness was not acceptable.
Such articles equating parental control to Big Brother is actually a dis-service to those righteous, caring parents who would actually take a stand to achieve something.
If I were a seventeen-year-old, this is what I would have to say to my "rightous, caring" parent: "Fuck off and let me buy a soda at lunch if I want to."
Dude, if the kids are in high school and they're still not responsible enough to decide what they're going to eat on their own, then the grandparent poster is 100% correct.
I'm not terribly torn up about the gaming industry going downhill, what with the only titles recently released being yearly updates to re-hashed sports titles or GTA variants, but I do wonder how the industry became profitable in the first place.
This is one problem, sure, but what about the fact that the truly innovative titles are the ones that you'd never hear about anyway? If anything, marketing is more responsible for the decline in quality, since big re-hashed sequels to popular titles tend get far more marketing than newer innovative products.
I've always wondered, how is DVI in any way better than HDMI.
HDMI can downgrade your signal to a lower resolution if it detects that your hardware is not in compliance with its content regulation hardware. DVI does not do this. So, there's your answer.
"But... the teacher (aka "the victim") felt threatened."
So what? How is the teacher a "victim?"
A feeling does not justify legal action. If it did, the fact that some people look at other people in a threatening manner on the bus could land the perpetrators in jail. Doesn't this sound a little insane to you?
There are NO free sources of hydrogen around to tap, to the best of my knowledge.
Oh, come now... It's common knowledge that Hydrogen is remarkably abundant in various molecular clouds just waiting for some enterprising interstellar voortrekker to come and harvest!;)
You may complain, but I thought Melbourne had a far better public transportation system than pretty much any U.S. city I've been to. Sydney's wasn't too bad either. Best public transport I've seen is probably in Seoul though.
Maybe your Greek mythology instructor was simply pronouncing the god's name as the Greeks would have done. Considering Uranus is the Roman form of the name and "Ouranos" is a closer approximation of the original Greek, this seems plausible.
In societies where homosexuality wasn't a problem, notably ancient Greece, there are as many if not more male nudes than female nudes.
And, your point here is, what? Homosexuality = being okay with nude men or statues thereof? Wasn't the previous point that being okay with nude men doesn't necessarily mean a guy is gay? In addition, are the only people who look at statues of nude men other men? Are women totally uninterested in the figure of the male nude (members of slashdot not included)?
Basically, the primary reason American society is not comfortable with the idea of the male nude is because all the shallow bible nuts want to have convenient 'whores' to be able to fuck without reproach while at the same time demonizing their sinful ways so they don't have to take responsibility for their own pubescent mentality. Since such men are not comfortable with their own sexuality, they feel threatened by nude statues of their gender which force them to look at their own state of constant denial. Thus, women are the handy brainless fuck-dolls and men are the self-repressed domineering neurotic violent cave trolls.
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I wholeheartedly agree that we should have just one console. I think Microsoft should make it. In fact, Microsoft shouldn't sell the console. They should license it for $800 and have $200/year subscription fees for their online service. This would certainly be far better for gaming than the current situation where there's so much confusing competition going on. Everyone knows that competition is bad for innovation.
What a bunch of crap.
Whenever I hear about some kind of "do no harm" attitude I always want to ask "does it pass the WW2 test?"
Is that the test where you drop two atomic bombs on a civilian population?
If your parents would spank at seventeen (much less punish you for saying "fuck"), then I can only thank my lucky stars that I grew up in an environment where such backwards physical abusiveness was not acceptable.
Such articles equating parental control to Big Brother is actually a dis-service to those righteous, caring parents who would actually take a stand to achieve something.
If I were a seventeen-year-old, this is what I would have to say to my "rightous, caring" parent: "Fuck off and let me buy a soda at lunch if I want to."
Dude, if the kids are in high school and they're still not responsible enough to decide what they're going to eat on their own, then the grandparent poster is 100% correct.
Remember that was the largest known object in the universe millions and millions of years ago. Who knows what it would look like today.
In all likelihood, not all that different. Now, if it were billions of years ago, that would be another story...
Literacy was adapted over hundreds of years
I believe literacy in certain parts of India is going up at a rate of about 20% per decade. That doesn't seem to fit your timescale.
I'm not terribly torn up about the gaming industry going downhill, what with the only titles recently released being yearly updates to re-hashed sports titles or GTA variants, but I do wonder how the industry became profitable in the first place.
This is one problem, sure, but what about the fact that the truly innovative titles are the ones that you'd never hear about anyway? If anything, marketing is more responsible for the decline in quality, since big re-hashed sequels to popular titles tend get far more marketing than newer innovative products.
I've always wondered, how is DVI in any way better than HDMI.
HDMI can downgrade your signal to a lower resolution if it detects that your hardware is not in compliance with its content regulation hardware. DVI does not do this. So, there's your answer.
cable wars (HDMI, component)
Uh, if I were component in that matchup, I'd be pretty worried.
Now, HDMI v. DVI might be a good fight...
Can you spell that?
"But... the teacher (aka "the victim") felt threatened."
So what? How is the teacher a "victim?"
A feeling does not justify legal action. If it did, the fact that some people look at other people in a threatening manner on the bus could land the perpetrators in jail. Doesn't this sound a little insane to you?
Brain cells are one of the places we know become feeling and even conscious beings. So... is it ethical for us to set them in products?
I'm aware that we already do all kinds of unholy things to animals for research, but this seems different.
It's true that playing with some cells in a dish is different than shoving tubes into an animal's organs and such. Which seems more ethical again?
Well, we have S-video and component connections on standard NTSC televisions nowadays, both of which are better than composite.
There are NO free sources of hydrogen around to tap, to the best of my knowledge.
;)
Oh, come now... It's common knowledge that Hydrogen is remarkably abundant in various molecular clouds just waiting for some enterprising interstellar voortrekker to come and harvest!
You may complain, but I thought Melbourne had a far better public transportation system than pretty much any U.S. city I've been to. Sydney's wasn't too bad either. Best public transport I've seen is probably in Seoul though.
Maybe your Greek mythology instructor was simply pronouncing the god's name as the Greeks would have done. Considering Uranus is the Roman form of the name and "Ouranos" is a closer approximation of the original Greek, this seems plausible.
In societies where homosexuality wasn't a problem, notably ancient Greece, there are as many if not more male nudes than female nudes.
And, your point here is, what? Homosexuality = being okay with nude men or statues thereof? Wasn't the previous point that being okay with nude men doesn't necessarily mean a guy is gay? In addition, are the only people who look at statues of nude men other men? Are women totally uninterested in the figure of the male nude (members of slashdot not included)?
Basically, the primary reason American society is not comfortable with the idea of the male nude is because all the shallow bible nuts want to have convenient 'whores' to be able to fuck without reproach while at the same time demonizing their sinful ways so they don't have to take responsibility for their own pubescent mentality. Since such men are not comfortable with their own sexuality, they feel threatened by nude statues of their gender which force them to look at their own state of constant denial. Thus, women are the handy brainless fuck-dolls and men are the self-repressed domineering neurotic violent cave trolls.
In other words, this makes for good porn.
"...but I've decided to cut my nose off to spite my face"
I don't think you realize what this phrase normally implies. From Wikipedia:
"To take rash or single-minded action that hurts your own cause in the end."
So, do you still want to cut your nose off?
I love the ignorant Apple nazis. Negatively mod me all you want, you'll never change the truth of the situation.
This is the option you're being presented with:
"Would you rather have a free BMW or a free cardboard box with wheels drawn on the sides?"
They picked the box.
Fortunately for them, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Wait, Red Hat is already free. Why would I want OS X when I already have a free alternative that is free in ways OS X will never be?
I'll give you South Korea.
Where do I sign up?
It was pointed out that Civ for the family is hard because it would require multiple computers.
That's hard? There are at least two computers in the household for every person in my family!
Don't even say that. I know you're probably trying to be funny, but there are some things you just don't joke about.