I wasn't aware of it, but that's not quite what I had in mind.:) In its present form, it's too small and limited to be anything but a notepad and game platform. It would actually have to grow in size to become useful in any function other than a purely consumer fashion.
... having boatloads of cash doesn't make you smart. Icahn is an idiot if he believes that a) Yahoo and MS can merge peacefully, and b) Yahoo brings anything other than a brand to MS. MS doesn't want anything other than Yahoo email users, Yahoo portal users and Yahoo search engine users. Note to MS: users come and go. You tried it before with various other web companies, and it didn't work then. It won't work now.
Interesting. I wish I had mod points for this. A Nintendo DS for development platform? Make it a bit bigger, get a crank in it, and it'd be like the OLPC, except it also would be priced like one.
There are pretty much two things wrong with dual-booting on the OLPC: it drives up cost, and installs a product that is supposed to reach end-of-life in a few months.
The end result of this is going to be a laptop that is close to what it was supposed to be, but where close simply results in it not being able to properly do its originally intended job: to be a learning tool for people with zero or close to zero existing infrastructure.
In short, dual-booting kills off the OLPC as it was intended, and prevents Linux from getting exposure separately from Windows. It's a win-win for Windows, and a status-quo for everyone else.
hardware without proper software is irrelevant. There is no technology gap, there is a gap in technology that simplifies life and makes certain things more efficient. XP does not really help with that.
The third Indy movie was complete awesomeness. The third SW movie was actually great (I refuse to acknowledge the existence of Ewoks. Sue me). The second GodFather movie was apparently better than the first (never seen either one, speaking from hearsay).
I'd say there isn't much of a pattern, unless you're looking for one.
Got a source for any of your claims? I've read UFO sources from as far back as the 50s, and none of them were "disappeared", or were visited by anyone other than a few curious reporters.
Absolutely. Hence the weasel words "demanded results". Dealing with natural disasters is important to everyone. Dealing with displacement due to a dam of national importance is important only to the ones affected. Guess which group gets the attention of the government?
Oposing view points are often quickly modded down just because people don't want agree with it or beleave it to be true. While it is not censorship in true sience of the word, it is a way for the moderators to say Hey I don't want people reading this, and if they do I don't want them to think it is a valad argument.
Oh please. Stop this. Seriously. This gets regularly trotted out by people who have no concept of what censorship actually is. Do you know who actually does the "censoring" in Slashdot? You do. You, by setting your preferences to filter out comments under a certain threshold, you remove someone's ability to be read. As a result, you're the censor on slashdot. Not CowboyNeal, not the moderators, but you - and you alone. So stop blaming others for your actions.
Not to mention that telling others that an opinion is worthless is not the same as censoring. Sometimes, I wish people would spend some time in a country that actually does censor speech, so that they understand the difference. Censoring speech: someone breaks your fingers or throws you in the slammer for propagating illegal/unwanted opinions. Moderating: a mark that tells others "Warning - stupid person talking."
Normally, confusing the two is a sign that the person is 13 and hasn't gotten to political science in high school yet, but that'd make your UID too low. I can only assume you're just confused.
I also have no idea how you managed to misspell "threatened" like that.
It's not that simple. There are a fair amount of Chinese - both inside China and outside of China - who do not share my belief in the necessity of free speech. That's part of the reason why the Chinese government is still in place: according to a good chunk of the population, it's doing a good job.
There are significant philosophical differences between China and the West (as nebulous a region as that is). This is one of them. Belittling them, dismissing them or otherwise ignoring them will not help in dealing with them. One of the biggest strength of the Chinese government right now is that it can leverage a massive and widespread feeling in the population that the West is treating China unfairly and more like a stupid dog than an equal nation.
Then again, another useful item to keep in mind is that 0.1% of the population amounts to 1 million people. In other words, Chinese crackpots are about as big a group as certain European nations.
Yes, it has. Snakes were introduced into one of the Indonesian islands to deal with an introduced toad. Turns out that some of the indigenous animals were a lot easier for the snakes to catch. As a result, the local animal life is not only threatened by the toads, but also by the snake. If I'm off on the details, my apologies - I couldn't find the original story.
This isn't the only story though. There have been a few attempts to introduce natural predators, and they've generally all turned up atrocious and unpredicted side effects. The reason this isn't done is because it's been tried before, and the end-result wasn't any better.
My comment was based on my personal experience of why cell-phones are bad: the act of talking and concentrating on something other than driving is what's distracting, not the fact that I'm holding something in my hand to do so. I'd be curious to know whether there are studies that compare talking on a cell phone to talking to a passenger - I haven't seen any.
Dammit, I already commented, otherwise I'd mod you up.
This is one of the most insightful comments on the entire "three strikes" approach. The problem I see is that this would take research on the part of the voting public. As far as I can tell, the majority of any voting public anywhere is only interested in how much money it is promised during the election cycle.
Dear Voting Public,
please stop being taken in by election-cycle pandering, appeals to emotions and empty rhetoric. Otherwise, there's no point in intelligent, competent and caring people running for office, or being in a democracy.
Multitasking is completely overrated. My strong suspicion, coming from watching people who consider themselves awesome multitaskers, is that they're simply better at quickly switching from one task to another. But they don't actually multitask - and if they do, they do it badly.
In driving, where things happen in fractions of second, I seriously doubt that they'll be better at multitasking while driving.
The problem is that this research shows that the real issue is not so much the hands-full talking (though certainly an issue in manual tranmissions), but lack of attention.
Banning regular cell-phone talk in cars is not going to do much to improve safety.
It looks like we've hit the area where it's going to take more and more effort to get less and less improvements in safety. I wonder where it will stop?
The USDA doesn't have a clear candidate. What makes you think you know more than the USDA?
I find it interesting that you blame people for making up reasons for things happening, yet you're very quick to jump to unproven conclusions as well. I smell confirmation bias.
50% of the drive towards hard-core DRM is the removal of the 2nd-hand market.
Piracy is a drop in the bucket compared to the legal 2nd hand market. Gamestop's percentage of revenue from used products was 32% last year, with 44% of its overall profit coming from there.
Publishers would love to get their hands on that market - even if it is not the same market as the new market.
Just because you can create an opinion doesn't make it so.
Funny how your opinion seems to be exempt from this rule. I'd point you to civil disobedience and lack of ability to influence rules made by a ruling elite for cases where your model falls apart, but I think you're too busy reading digg comments.
The reason you're not supposed to compare physical objects and digital objects is that they're nothing alike. It's like comparing a Ferrari and a dodo to figure out how mass transportation ought to work. It's complete nonsense.
So someone put together a story on spectacular hard disk failure, space shuttle, physic experiments and heroic success, and decided to host this on anything less than an industrial-strength web server? The only thing that could have made for a quicker or larger slashdotting would be if somehow it also involved big guns and Natalie Portman (with hot grits, petrified).
Seriously people. Show some foresight here. At least the editors should have shown some mercy.
Well, judging from the posts on the forum, EA will help customers who have exceeded their 3 activation limit. I suspect you'll have to lie though and say that you switched computer, and not tell them that you bought the game used.
Fun times. I've definitely soured on buying Spore.
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I wasn't aware of it, but that's not quite what I had in mind. :) In its present form, it's too small and limited to be anything but a notepad and game platform. It would actually have to grow in size to become useful in any function other than a purely consumer fashion.
... having boatloads of cash doesn't make you smart. Icahn is an idiot if he believes that a) Yahoo and MS can merge peacefully, and b) Yahoo brings anything other than a brand to MS. MS doesn't want anything other than Yahoo email users, Yahoo portal users and Yahoo search engine users. Note to MS: users come and go. You tried it before with various other web companies, and it didn't work then. It won't work now.
Interesting. I wish I had mod points for this. A Nintendo DS for development platform? Make it a bit bigger, get a crank in it, and it'd be like the OLPC, except it also would be priced like one.
There are pretty much two things wrong with dual-booting on the OLPC: it drives up cost, and installs a product that is supposed to reach end-of-life in a few months.
The end result of this is going to be a laptop that is close to what it was supposed to be, but where close simply results in it not being able to properly do its originally intended job: to be a learning tool for people with zero or close to zero existing infrastructure.
In short, dual-booting kills off the OLPC as it was intended, and prevents Linux from getting exposure separately from Windows. It's a win-win for Windows, and a status-quo for everyone else.
hardware without proper software is irrelevant. There is no technology gap, there is a gap in technology that simplifies life and makes certain things more efficient. XP does not really help with that.
I think you're confusing ethics and laws. Medical ethics are more like the Hypocratic oath - "Do no harm" than HIPAA rules.
The third Indy movie was complete awesomeness. The third SW movie was actually great (I refuse to acknowledge the existence of Ewoks. Sue me). The second GodFather movie was apparently better than the first (never seen either one, speaking from hearsay).
I'd say there isn't much of a pattern, unless you're looking for one.
Got a source for any of your claims? I've read UFO sources from as far back as the 50s, and none of them were "disappeared", or were visited by anyone other than a few curious reporters.
Absolutely. Hence the weasel words "demanded results". Dealing with natural disasters is important to everyone. Dealing with displacement due to a dam of national importance is important only to the ones affected. Guess which group gets the attention of the government?
Thank you. I was suspecting something like this, but it's great to hear someone with actual insight talk about it and put the proper words to it.
Bingo. It is already being contrasted with the US governments handling of Katrina by pro-CCP bloggers and commenters.
China can already legitimately claim that its brand of government is better at delivering demanded results than the American version.
Oh please. Stop this. Seriously. This gets regularly trotted out by people who have no concept of what censorship actually is. Do you know who actually does the "censoring" in Slashdot? You do. You, by setting your preferences to filter out comments under a certain threshold, you remove someone's ability to be read. As a result, you're the censor on slashdot. Not CowboyNeal, not the moderators, but you - and you alone. So stop blaming others for your actions.
Not to mention that telling others that an opinion is worthless is not the same as censoring. Sometimes, I wish people would spend some time in a country that actually does censor speech, so that they understand the difference. Censoring speech: someone breaks your fingers or throws you in the slammer for propagating illegal/unwanted opinions. Moderating: a mark that tells others "Warning - stupid person talking."
Normally, confusing the two is a sign that the person is 13 and hasn't gotten to political science in high school yet, but that'd make your UID too low. I can only assume you're just confused.
I also have no idea how you managed to misspell "threatened" like that.
It's not that simple. There are a fair amount of Chinese - both inside China and outside of China - who do not share my belief in the necessity of free speech. That's part of the reason why the Chinese government is still in place: according to a good chunk of the population, it's doing a good job. There are significant philosophical differences between China and the West (as nebulous a region as that is). This is one of them. Belittling them, dismissing them or otherwise ignoring them will not help in dealing with them. One of the biggest strength of the Chinese government right now is that it can leverage a massive and widespread feeling in the population that the West is treating China unfairly and more like a stupid dog than an equal nation. Then again, another useful item to keep in mind is that 0.1% of the population amounts to 1 million people. In other words, Chinese crackpots are about as big a group as certain European nations.
Yes, it has. Snakes were introduced into one of the Indonesian islands to deal with an introduced toad. Turns out that some of the indigenous animals were a lot easier for the snakes to catch. As a result, the local animal life is not only threatened by the toads, but also by the snake. If I'm off on the details, my apologies - I couldn't find the original story. This isn't the only story though. There have been a few attempts to introduce natural predators, and they've generally all turned up atrocious and unpredicted side effects. The reason this isn't done is because it's been tried before, and the end-result wasn't any better.
My comment was based on my personal experience of why cell-phones are bad: the act of talking and concentrating on something other than driving is what's distracting, not the fact that I'm holding something in my hand to do so. I'd be curious to know whether there are studies that compare talking on a cell phone to talking to a passenger - I haven't seen any.
Dammit, I already commented, otherwise I'd mod you up. This is one of the most insightful comments on the entire "three strikes" approach. The problem I see is that this would take research on the part of the voting public. As far as I can tell, the majority of any voting public anywhere is only interested in how much money it is promised during the election cycle.
Dear Voting Public, please stop being taken in by election-cycle pandering, appeals to emotions and empty rhetoric. Otherwise, there's no point in intelligent, competent and caring people running for office, or being in a democracy.
Multitasking is completely overrated. My strong suspicion, coming from watching people who consider themselves awesome multitaskers, is that they're simply better at quickly switching from one task to another. But they don't actually multitask - and if they do, they do it badly. In driving, where things happen in fractions of second, I seriously doubt that they'll be better at multitasking while driving.
The problem is that this research shows that the real issue is not so much the hands-full talking (though certainly an issue in manual tranmissions), but lack of attention. Banning regular cell-phone talk in cars is not going to do much to improve safety. It looks like we've hit the area where it's going to take more and more effort to get less and less improvements in safety. I wonder where it will stop?
The USDA doesn't have a clear candidate. What makes you think you know more than the USDA? I find it interesting that you blame people for making up reasons for things happening, yet you're very quick to jump to unproven conclusions as well. I smell confirmation bias.
50% of the drive towards hard-core DRM is the removal of the 2nd-hand market.
Piracy is a drop in the bucket compared to the legal 2nd hand market. Gamestop's percentage of revenue from used products was 32% last year, with 44% of its overall profit coming from there.
Publishers would love to get their hands on that market - even if it is not the same market as the new market.
Funny how your opinion seems to be exempt from this rule. I'd point you to civil disobedience and lack of ability to influence rules made by a ruling elite for cases where your model falls apart, but I think you're too busy reading digg comments.
The reason you're not supposed to compare physical objects and digital objects is that they're nothing alike. It's like comparing a Ferrari and a dodo to figure out how mass transportation ought to work. It's complete nonsense.
So someone put together a story on spectacular hard disk failure, space shuttle, physic experiments and heroic success, and decided to host this on anything less than an industrial-strength web server? The only thing that could have made for a quicker or larger slashdotting would be if somehow it also involved big guns and Natalie Portman (with hot grits, petrified).
Seriously people. Show some foresight here. At least the editors should have shown some mercy.
Soooo.... anyone got a coral cache of it?
Well, judging from the posts on the forum, EA will help customers who have exceeded their 3 activation limit. I suspect you'll have to lie though and say that you switched computer, and not tell them that you bought the game used.
Fun times. I've definitely soured on buying Spore.