I've never read or seen any of it, either. But I have talked to a girl in the last two years, which is about all it takes to having a passing knowledge of the Twilight saga methinks.
Mod parent up. This might not be so useful for getting driving directions to the house the cute girl you're stalking lives at, but this could still be used for many other purposes like local advertising and other demographic data mining.
but I'd be more interested in doing stuff like the rollercoasters or playing about with the physics stuff, rather than just building a big block..
Perhaps you should just go buy Garry's Mod... that sounds exactly like what you are describing. Also, it actually has a physics engine, as opposed to Minecraft's "sometimes we have gravity" engine.
And yes, I do "play" minecraft. There is nothing quite like it if you get a thrill out of exploring interesting places.
That would be a good point if I could take my phone and modify it. Motorola also has a pretty firm stance on locking down the system so I can't get at it.
Are you also aware that people like you are in the minority? Most people are not going to use google (or anything else, for that matter) to research various technical terms and studies so that they can better understand the trial they find themselves on. Most just don't care or have the aptitude for learning technical topics in such short timeframes.
This is the whole point of bringing on "expert witnesses" so that these distinguished professors and whatnot can attempt to explain how DNA sampling works to a mother of 12 on welfare.
The sad thing is that all the various CSI television shows have probably already so corrupted most jurors that the whole thing is useless.
It has nothing to do with being reasonable. The simple fact of the matter is that it's not worth their time / money to sue them, considering lawyer time is expensive and they're unlikely to even get their court costs covered even after they win their case.
It would be hard for me to do that, since I wasn't alive back then.
I admit my China history is somewhat lacking; my statement you replied to was meant to be more generalized. But now I'm curious- what happened during the first half of the 20th century in China that has to do with what I said?
It was easier back then. Yeah, a peasant might not have been allowed a weapon, but mere farming implements or even sharp sticks and rocks were good enough in enough numbers. A well trained soldier could still only handle one or two people at a time.
Now the government has weapons. One (barely) trained soldier can kill hundreds or thousands from a distance. That has to be a game changer.
The problem with that approach is that you have all that energy stored in your garage overnight. Have you ever seen a capacitor bank at a power station blow? It's not pretty. Or rather it is, in a 4th of July sort of way.
About once a year I just take my Model M, hold it upside-down, and give it a vigorous shaking. Of course, I have to vacuum afterwards, but still... canned air is a waste.
Yeah, the keys still have more dried food stuck to them than the floor at Burger King, but that just adds more tactile response for my fingers, not to mention added security from people not wanting to touch it. It's a feature.
Regardless of if Sony learns their lesson this generation, I'm still praying the hacking community learns theirs. That being: If you jailbreak a console, wait until the fucking thing is retired before publically announcing it. That way you don't have to play nearly as tiring a game of cat and mouse. Jailbreak it asap, fine. Then spend your time doing actual homebrew and apps for it. As soon as it's retired, go ahead and release it ALL at once.
Most people want their code to be used by others, and its tough if nobody else has the means to run your code. Or know it exists at all.
I think that was just the justification they gave for it. They removed it because organizations like the US government were buying PS3s by the pallet-load, installing Linux on them, and clustering them together to make a cheap supercomputer.
You can imagine that didn't sit well at Sony HQ, since they were subsidizing the price with the assumption the customer would buy enough games to make up for the loss.
Your error is that you mistake "base psychological need" with a natural right. I have a base need to eat food. I have a base need to procreate. I have a base need to be warm and comfortable. Are those natural rights? No. If so, then I could go demand that the bank is infringing on my natural rights because they took my house away and left me in the cold.
Also, you say Nature does not accept rule by assholes, and yet there are plenty of examples to cite where we have, and gladly. Just to name a few- Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, these are all names of people who led millions of people, and (according to most people) were assholes. I know what you're going to say- "But those people were eventually all removed from power! Nature wins again!" but it wasn't by their own people. Stalin wasn't removed at all and died in power. And what about other people in power who may be considered assholes by some, but aren't typically viewed in that light by the history books. Ask a Native American what they thought of Andrew Jackson and I bet you're get something roughly translating to "asshole." I'd also like to point out that plenty of rulers who were NOT assholes were not accepted, which further invalidates your theory.
You only think that because you've been culturally engineered by growing up in a society like that.
There are plenty of examples throughout the history of human existence where that was not the case, with exception of murder. The right to light is perhaps the only natural right we have.
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I work for Sony.
...don't take any lessons from anyone employed by Sony.
I'll throw my two cents in here too. DD-WRT has been rock-solid for me, and has some rather nice graphs for viewing bandwidth.
I've never read or seen any of it, either. But I have talked to a girl in the last two years, which is about all it takes to having a passing knowledge of the Twilight saga methinks.
What's crazy is that my [em]entire state[/em] is in that zone.
Yes, it does cost a whole $10 now... but that's pretty cheap in "price to see a movie" terms.
Either way, that $10 gets you a ton of improvements over what the free original gave you.
Mod parent up. This might not be so useful for getting driving directions to the house the cute girl you're stalking lives at, but this could still be used for many other purposes like local advertising and other demographic data mining.
but I'd be more interested in doing stuff like the rollercoasters or playing about with the physics stuff, rather than just building a big block..
Perhaps you should just go buy Garry's Mod... that sounds exactly like what you are describing. Also, it actually has a physics engine, as opposed to Minecraft's "sometimes we have gravity" engine.
And yes, I do "play" minecraft. There is nothing quite like it if you get a thrill out of exploring interesting places.
I'd be OK with this, as long as I get to be a Technowizard.
And we never will know what might have come out it...
Slashdot has just opened up to a new demographic I think.
Who, crazy people? No, they've been here for years.
That would be a good point if I could take my phone and modify it. Motorola also has a pretty firm stance on locking down the system so I can't get at it.
Yeah, but wasn't the admission of guilt quoted from an email of the original finder? It's not like we saw a Samsung press release on this.
Are you also aware that people like you are in the minority? Most people are not going to use google (or anything else, for that matter) to research various technical terms and studies so that they can better understand the trial they find themselves on. Most just don't care or have the aptitude for learning technical topics in such short timeframes.
This is the whole point of bringing on "expert witnesses" so that these distinguished professors and whatnot can attempt to explain how DNA sampling works to a mother of 12 on welfare.
The sad thing is that all the various CSI television shows have probably already so corrupted most jurors that the whole thing is useless.
It has nothing to do with being reasonable. The simple fact of the matter is that it's not worth their time / money to sue them, considering lawyer time is expensive and they're unlikely to even get their court costs covered even after they win their case.
It would be hard for me to do that, since I wasn't alive back then.
I admit my China history is somewhat lacking; my statement you replied to was meant to be more generalized. But now I'm curious- what happened during the first half of the 20th century in China that has to do with what I said?
It was easier back then. Yeah, a peasant might not have been allowed a weapon, but mere farming implements or even sharp sticks and rocks were good enough in enough numbers. A well trained soldier could still only handle one or two people at a time.
Now the government has weapons. One (barely) trained soldier can kill hundreds or thousands from a distance. That has to be a game changer.
The problem with that approach is that you have all that energy stored in your garage overnight. Have you ever seen a capacitor bank at a power station blow? It's not pretty. Or rather it is, in a 4th of July sort of way.
About once a year I just take my Model M, hold it upside-down, and give it a vigorous shaking. Of course, I have to vacuum afterwards, but still... canned air is a waste.
Yeah, the keys still have more dried food stuck to them than the floor at Burger King, but that just adds more tactile response for my fingers, not to mention added security from people not wanting to touch it. It's a feature.
Nintendo handhelds have traditionally been great on battery life. Even the newer DS gets over 10 hours.
So I don't think it's so much as complaining (ok, it is) but that people are used to Nintendo gear lasting through a long car ride / flight.
Pick 2 for handhelds: Slim, slow, long lasting, powerful, large.
Slim and large, please.
This might not sound so bad if I lived in East Cow Butt, AR but I live in the middle of Los Angeles.
I happen to live in East Cow Butt, am 'forced' to use Comcast who have also continuously raised their rates, and I still think it sounds bad.
Regardless of if Sony learns their lesson this generation, I'm still praying the hacking community learns theirs. That being: If you jailbreak a console, wait until the fucking thing is retired before publically announcing it. That way you don't have to play nearly as tiring a game of cat and mouse. Jailbreak it asap, fine. Then spend your time doing actual homebrew and apps for it. As soon as it's retired, go ahead and release it ALL at once.
Most people want their code to be used by others, and its tough if nobody else has the means to run your code. Or know it exists at all.
I think that was just the justification they gave for it. They removed it because organizations like the US government were buying PS3s by the pallet-load, installing Linux on them, and clustering them together to make a cheap supercomputer.
You can imagine that didn't sit well at Sony HQ, since they were subsidizing the price with the assumption the customer would buy enough games to make up for the loss.
Your error is that you mistake "base psychological need" with a natural right. I have a base need to eat food. I have a base need to procreate. I have a base need to be warm and comfortable. Are those natural rights? No. If so, then I could go demand that the bank is infringing on my natural rights because they took my house away and left me in the cold.
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights#Natural_rights_versus_legal_rights and maybe this will help.
Also, you say Nature does not accept rule by assholes, and yet there are plenty of examples to cite where we have, and gladly. Just to name a few- Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, these are all names of people who led millions of people, and (according to most people) were assholes. I know what you're going to say- "But those people were eventually all removed from power! Nature wins again!" but it wasn't by their own people. Stalin wasn't removed at all and died in power. And what about other people in power who may be considered assholes by some, but aren't typically viewed in that light by the history books. Ask a Native American what they thought of Andrew Jackson and I bet you're get something roughly translating to "asshole." I'd also like to point out that plenty of rulers who were NOT assholes were not accepted, which further invalidates your theory.
Also, there is no need to resort to name calling.
You only think that because you've been culturally engineered by growing up in a society like that.
There are plenty of examples throughout the history of human existence where that was not the case, with exception of murder. The right to light is perhaps the only natural right we have.