If we eliminated the weapon, we could even eliminate the block against modding and posting in the same discussion: after all, the only reason it's there is so that people don't downmod their opponents
I've always assumed the block on modding and posting was to keep people from modding their own comments up and boosting their karma.
And for those of you who are FUDding about "skynet" -- 99.9% of the UAVs in the sky are ISR-only, like the Protoss Observer, not weapon platforms. And the ones that do have weapons don't fire at anything without a human issuing at least two orders, and that human is under observation himself. Please stop the FUD. The only functions these craft do autonomously are piloting
As the 9/11 hijackers so aptly proved, any plane in the wrong hands is a weapon.
While he certainly must summarize news stories to fit on his board, he doesn't need to translate. The official language of Liberia (founded by liberated American slaves) is English.
- Video. The PAL standard is better quality than NTSC (Never The Same Color), so why did the Americas adopt an inferior option?
That's the price we paid for having color TV long before Europe. The color extension to NTSC was approved in 1953 and was broadcasting later that year (though wide-spread adoption obviously took longer). The PAL standard wasn't approved until 1963 and didn't start broadcasting until 1967. Given that the European engineers had over a decade to study NTSC and learn from it's mistakes, I'd be very surprised if PAL wasn't slightly better; but that's hardly a good reason for North America to switch from an already well-established color standard (especially to one that wasn't backward compatible with NTSC B&W signals).
The problem is, Office tends to be 'compatible enough', certainly to the point where most people don't think twice about which version a.doc is created in when they open it.
OpenOffice has yet to reach that threshold.
My experience is just the opposite. I've had several documents created in MSOffice95 that wouldn't open properly in MSOffice2003. Open Office 3.0 on the other hand opened them just fine.
I read the article and it doesn't help much (but the summary title is in error as you stated). Out of a sample of 16 people being played a single sample of music (Jacko's Billie Jean) in both formats; 6 preferred 48kbps AAC+, and 10 preferred 160kbps OGG. The article doesn't state whether "can't tell the difference" was even offered as an option (though I suspect it wasn't). There must have been many complaints about their test, since they recently added this to the article:
Update: We have added a paragraph to clarify that this is simply a casual, anecdotal comparison of two products, and not a definitive study of the benefits of AAC and OGG Vorbis compression formats. We are well aware that AAC, OGG Vorbis, MP3 or WMA files of identical bit rates will not sound the same. If this was a serious study of codec performance, we would have used 16,000 people, not 16.
"Give the first hit for free" is a business model that has always worked well for drug dealers, so if this MMO is as addictive as they hope it should work well for them.
However, you aren't forced to buy Windows games only from the Windows Store(TM) where each game must be approved by Microsoft before you can buy it. If that were the case, developing games for Mac would suddenly start to look at lot more appealing, in spite of the smaller installed base.
What if the game taught you to be a better player?
I just had a terrifying thought of playing a game and seeing an animated paperclip pop up and say "It looks like you're trying to destroy the mothership, would you like some tips?"
Putting an optical drive on a portable device didn't make sense, and Sony did the right thing to get rid of it (though a little too late). Load times for games are slow, discs can easily be scratched and (most importantly for a portable device) it kills the battery.
Considering NBC Universal is a subsidiary of General Electric, one of the largest companies on the planet; my guess would be that the inaccuracy in the details of the report are that NBC is looking to buy Comcast rather than vise-versa.
...and since I'm fairly sure the hackers making this had absolutely no access to the original device or it's schematics and documentation, your point is what exactly?
Yeah, because those first generation Firewire-based iPods were so popular that Firewire completed supplanted USB as the dominant computer interface standard.
One would guess that the display of swastikas would be protected speech (and thus laws against it unconstitutional). However, given the attention to "hate crimes" apparently gaining a lot of focus, you never know.
Hate crime laws are (at least supposed to) look at the intent of the speech rather than it's form (i.e. It's OK to put swastikas in your video game; it's not OK to spray paint one on your local synagogue).
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The theory may not be correct but I don't see how it's self contradictory. Sounds like entropy at work.
Inflation Adjusted Box-Office Results Avatar has not been added yet, but it will likely still be in the top 5.
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He wasn't president at the time, but he was a senator and he did vote in favor of it.
Great comment! If I had mod points today I would mod you up.
Most digital cable channels (other than HD channels) are sent at 480i, so you wont see much difference from analog.
I've always assumed the block on modding and posting was to keep people from modding their own comments up and boosting their karma.
As the 9/11 hijackers so aptly proved, any plane in the wrong hands is a weapon.
While he certainly must summarize news stories to fit on his board, he doesn't need to translate. The official language of Liberia (founded by liberated American slaves) is English.
That's the price we paid for having color TV long before Europe. The color extension to NTSC was approved in 1953 and was broadcasting later that year (though wide-spread adoption obviously took longer). The PAL standard wasn't approved until 1963 and didn't start broadcasting until 1967. Given that the European engineers had over a decade to study NTSC and learn from it's mistakes, I'd be very surprised if PAL wasn't slightly better; but that's hardly a good reason for North America to switch from an already well-established color standard (especially to one that wasn't backward compatible with NTSC B&W signals).
My experience is just the opposite. I've had several documents created in MSOffice95 that wouldn't open properly in MSOffice2003. Open Office 3.0 on the other hand opened them just fine.
Where can I get this free popcorn and soda? And on a related note, where is all this free beer the OSS people keep talking about?
"Give the first hit for free" is a business model that has always worked well for drug dealers, so if this MMO is as addictive as they hope it should work well for them.
However, you aren't forced to buy Windows games only from the Windows Store(TM) where each game must be approved by Microsoft before you can buy it. If that were the case, developing games for Mac would suddenly start to look at lot more appealing, in spite of the smaller installed base.
I just had a terrifying thought of playing a game and seeing an animated paperclip pop up and say "It looks like you're trying to destroy the mothership, would you like some tips?"
Putting an optical drive on a portable device didn't make sense, and Sony did the right thing to get rid of it (though a little too late). Load times for games are slow, discs can easily be scratched and (most importantly for a portable device) it kills the battery.
Considering NBC Universal is a subsidiary of General Electric, one of the largest companies on the planet; my guess would be that the inaccuracy in the details of the report are that NBC is looking to buy Comcast rather than vise-versa.
...and since I'm fairly sure the hackers making this had absolutely no access to the original device or it's schematics and documentation, your point is what exactly?
Normally the windows in the Broken Window Fallacy are glass windows, not Windows OS.
Yeah, because those first generation Firewire-based iPods were so popular that Firewire completed supplanted USB as the dominant computer interface standard.
Hate crime laws are (at least supposed to) look at the intent of the speech rather than it's form (i.e. It's OK to put swastikas in your video game; it's not OK to spray paint one on your local synagogue).
Am I the only one who expected the logo for a Microsoft product called Courier to use a different font?
If Microsoft based XP on BSD and just added some GUI bits, then I'm sure they would release the source (as they would be legally required to do).