Originally there really wasn't any competition at a lower price point, nor were there any existing devices in the home. The tablet platform, while not ideal for most games, also doesn't suck for casual games. Today tablets and smartphones are common place in the home, even multiple devices. Additionally the games for these are substantially cheaper than they are for consoles and mobile gaming devices, in many cases, free. $200 for a 3DS + $40 for Pokemon Y, or a tablet I already have + $6.99 for Minecraft PE? The decision isn't terribly hard.
Except it isn't eye-for-an-eye. That would require doing to the convicted what which they did to the victim(s). Personally I'd rather see them forced to contribute back to society. Revenge and misguided attempts at "closure" seem a stupid waste.
I fail to see why guillotines and firing squads were ever abandoned. They're simple, economical, instantaneous, and about as humane as an execution could ever be made to be. Everything to come about since has been nothing but white-washed torture theater.
Actually it does. Article 1 section 8 communicates the authority to Congress the unqualified ability "To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;" As stated before, just because it does not align with your ideals, does not make it "un-Constitutional".
Except that this isn't the first time the theory has been put to a test. If I'm not mistaken explicit experiments pertaining to this date back nearly half a century. Whether wittingly or not the echelon formation has been in application by the military for the same reasons hypothesized for far longer than that.
This has long been the explanation of why birds fly in an echelon formation and why throughout a migration the front ranks cycle from the front to the rear. As the leading rank of birds tire, the next rank takes over allowing them a bit of a rest.
My frustration doesn't (yet) come from the security angle, but rather having to provide modern software solutions that are compatible with that antiquated pile. I would argue though that at least in the business context (which is really the only environment that counts for Microsoft anyway) where ever user is not an admin user, Windows 7/8 are in many ways far more secure than XP. This is especially true for PEBKAC where Microsoft has made it far easier to neuter the user. With this piecemeal patching of MSE and such but not the OS itself the difference between XP and 7/8 security will rapidly and steadily be distanced.
From Microsoft's perspective, everything. From my perspective as chief of engineering whose user base expects the world of modern computing but can't be bothered to migrate off XP a lot. Supporting legacy systems while delivering modern software is a huge headache. Putting new on old often requires adaptation and in many cases limits the tools available to you. If you want a car analogy it's a bit like adapting a hand crank starter to a push button ignition switch.
How do you (Microsoft) expect to get people off of that d*mn OS if you keep patching security holes. That was the one lever that might just have been able to do it and now you've gone an f**ked that up. To make matters worse, your piecemeal security patching (MSE, etc.) but not the OS proper will give these holdouts the false impression that their systems are secure when nothing could be further from the truth. Windows 9 won't move them off any more than Windows 8 was able to. All you're doing is hanging yet another neon sign pointing to the ragged, fetid and diseased hole of the malware whore these XP boxes have become.
FYI - the fact that America has a "court" that is not open to public scrutiny is blatantly unconstitutional, no matter what rationale you try to use to justify it.
Citation required. It may not fit your patriotic--don't tread on me, wave my flag in one, Constitution in the other--definition of "American" but I certainly do not see how a closed court is unconstitutional. For that matter closed proceedings are actually quite common. For instance when was the last time you got to sit in on a case where a juvenile is the accused?
Maybe I am lacking insight because for the life of me I cannot grasp how you are being modded "insightful". You're just waving about the Constitution, pointing at unrelated articles. With respect to the FISA court and its proceedings, no person is being held for crimes, no person is being placed in double-jeopardy as by reason of the previous, no person is being compelled to confess to a crime, no person is being executed, neither constrained, nor subject to forfeiture of property. There are no criminal prosecutions taking place in the FISA court and therefore has absolutely nothing to do with either the fifth or sixth amendments.
The FISA court signs warrants for surveillance. Of which electronic surveillance must be constrained to foreign parties or agents of foreign parties with a requirement that the involvement of U.S. citizens is shown to be minimized. Physical surveillance must be constrained to property used exclusively by foreign parties. In other words, in many cases the U.S. Constitution isn't even applicable since the surveillance warrants issued by the FISA court are not even dealing with U.S. Citizens. With respect to cases involving U.S. Citizens the court is fulfilling its fourth amendment duty to issue warrants after probably cause has been shown.
I think you're missing a forest surrounding those trees. Perhaps I should have made it a bit clearer by inserting the word "reasonably", as in "...must be memorized as they cannot be reasonably deduced."
Since you chose science as your soap box I'll pick on chemistry. How do you deal with the notion of a specific atom such as Thorium. I suppose you my try to understand the Thorium atom by drawing a picture in your mind of it properties, the influence those properties have within a given system as well as comparative relationships to each of its isotopes as well as to other atoms. You might try to grasp notions of electrons, protons, covalence, ionization energies, thermal conductivity, electrical resistivity, etc. But can you really understand Thorium? For every layer of abstraction provided by your hated domain specific languages that you peel off you find yourself surrounded by increasingly complex notions pertaining to manifold complex systems. Soon you find yourself overwhelmed and spiraling out of control through an ever divergent maze of ideas, ideas that make up the thing you are trying to understand. Even experts in the pertaining field have to get off ride at some point as the depth and complexity overwhelm their ability to understand. How much harder for a novice...
Your pithy saying is cute and all but really does not comprehend the requirements of those details. Take away even the memorization of things that we take for granted everyday such as spoken languages, walking, eating, etc.. What are you left with? Abstractions provide critical foundations for deeper investigations and acquisition of understanding.
Have you ever worked in or known someone that has worked in technical support? Don't assume anything. There's a reason why first level support is commonly staffed by Rolodex flippers or AI.
With respect to healthy lifestyle, particularly as it pertains to nutrition, an accurate understanding is not very common at all and is perpetuated by the disinformation campaigns of the food industry. For that matter even when knowledgeable people don't always do what is right and proper but rather that which is more expedient or gratifying in the short term.
As then could everyone else making suggestions. But then since no one else did either what conclusion could we draw? We all think we know exactly what his situation is? Or, that everyone expected that the implication of their suggestions was that they were ideas to look at rather than a specific prescription for remedy?
I'm uncertain how "you" use them but I can say with strong confidence that you are not using them how people actually use them. I suppose there could be any number of factors to cause such short life, but I would expect your culprit is a ridiculously dirty power supply or you're making things up. Most nearly all of the fixtures at my house CFLs. I have never experienced a CFL burn out inside of a week or two--even the ones operating outdoors during Minnesota winters. I've had a few faulty ones burn out after a year or two or just plain DOA but certainly nothing as you describe nor have I heard anyone else (except perhaps haters on./) say such things.
Pushing boundaries and becoming more than you presently are should always be the foremost goal of everyone. Does everyone succeed in every endeavor? Of course not. But even the struggle of the journey itself bares fruit. To simply give up and accept only that which is easy would be a tragic waste so much potential.
There are no assumptions embedded in there. If he can already check off these boxes of then he can move on to other suggestions such as study skills, academic accommodations, clinical diagnosis/treatment, etc.. Not knowing the applicability of something to a particular circumstance does not invalidate the merit of suggesting it. With regards to this subject, lifestyle is one of the biggest contributors to cognitive performance or lack thereof. It only makes sense to start there. If the TV won't turn on you don't first take it to a TV repair man, you check to see if the bloody thing is even plugged and branch out from there.
While I do not disagree with this, there are certain quanta of knowledge that form the building blocks of understanding. They form the language of discussion for a particular discipline and must be memorized as they cannot be deduced.
To make such a statement is both cruel and more demonstrative of your own lacking than his. Anyone attempting to improve their lot in life by investing in themselves should lauded not ridiculed. Just because his path may be harder than someone else's doesn't mean he should give up, nor does it mean he cannot overcome present circumstance.
Perhaps you need to re-read the question... He reports that he is slow of mind and has difficulty with recollection then asks for help with this. To what do you point to in my post regarding improving his cognitive abilities as off-topic?
Sales and use tax is like trying to capture a quantity of dye after it has been poured into the river. It is stupidly inefficient and increasingly ineffectual. Even worse it disproportionately impacts people with a lower income. Gather the dye before it has been poured out with an income tax and be done with it.
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Originally there really wasn't any competition at a lower price point, nor were there any existing devices in the home. The tablet platform, while not ideal for most games, also doesn't suck for casual games. Today tablets and smartphones are common place in the home, even multiple devices. Additionally the games for these are substantially cheaper than they are for consoles and mobile gaming devices, in many cases, free. $200 for a 3DS + $40 for Pokemon Y, or a tablet I already have + $6.99 for Minecraft PE? The decision isn't terribly hard.
Caging them is expensive, but the bureaucratic/judicial process has ensured that killing them is more so. Either tradition seems a foolish waste.
Except it isn't eye-for-an-eye. That would require doing to the convicted what which they did to the victim(s). Personally I'd rather see them forced to contribute back to society. Revenge and misguided attempts at "closure" seem a stupid waste.
I fail to see why guillotines and firing squads were ever abandoned. They're simple, economical, instantaneous, and about as humane as an execution could ever be made to be. Everything to come about since has been nothing but white-washed torture theater.
Who says they have to go to an exchange. They'll just "convert" them in the same way they do houses, cars, etc. by means of public auction.
Actually it does. Article 1 section 8 communicates the authority to Congress the unqualified ability "To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;" As stated before, just because it does not align with your ideals, does not make it "un-Constitutional".
Except that this isn't the first time the theory has been put to a test. If I'm not mistaken explicit experiments pertaining to this date back nearly half a century. Whether wittingly or not the echelon formation has been in application by the military for the same reasons hypothesized for far longer than that.
This has long been the explanation of why birds fly in an echelon formation and why throughout a migration the front ranks cycle from the front to the rear. As the leading rank of birds tire, the next rank takes over allowing them a bit of a rest.
must have been going a little soft. Had to stuff the mattress I suppose.
My frustration doesn't (yet) come from the security angle, but rather having to provide modern software solutions that are compatible with that antiquated pile. I would argue though that at least in the business context (which is really the only environment that counts for Microsoft anyway) where ever user is not an admin user, Windows 7/8 are in many ways far more secure than XP. This is especially true for PEBKAC where Microsoft has made it far easier to neuter the user. With this piecemeal patching of MSE and such but not the OS itself the difference between XP and 7/8 security will rapidly and steadily be distanced.
From Microsoft's perspective, everything. From my perspective as chief of engineering whose user base expects the world of modern computing but can't be bothered to migrate off XP a lot. Supporting legacy systems while delivering modern software is a huge headache. Putting new on old often requires adaptation and in many cases limits the tools available to you. If you want a car analogy it's a bit like adapting a hand crank starter to a push button ignition switch.
How do you (Microsoft) expect to get people off of that d*mn OS if you keep patching security holes. That was the one lever that might just have been able to do it and now you've gone an f**ked that up. To make matters worse, your piecemeal security patching (MSE, etc.) but not the OS proper will give these holdouts the false impression that their systems are secure when nothing could be further from the truth. Windows 9 won't move them off any more than Windows 8 was able to. All you're doing is hanging yet another neon sign pointing to the ragged, fetid and diseased hole of the malware whore these XP boxes have become.
FYI - the fact that America has a "court" that is not open to public scrutiny is blatantly unconstitutional, no matter what rationale you try to use to justify it.
Citation required. It may not fit your patriotic--don't tread on me, wave my flag in one, Constitution in the other--definition of "American" but I certainly do not see how a closed court is unconstitutional. For that matter closed proceedings are actually quite common. For instance when was the last time you got to sit in on a case where a juvenile is the accused?
Maybe I am lacking insight because for the life of me I cannot grasp how you are being modded "insightful". You're just waving about the Constitution, pointing at unrelated articles. With respect to the FISA court and its proceedings, no person is being held for crimes, no person is being placed in double-jeopardy as by reason of the previous, no person is being compelled to confess to a crime, no person is being executed, neither constrained, nor subject to forfeiture of property. There are no criminal prosecutions taking place in the FISA court and therefore has absolutely nothing to do with either the fifth or sixth amendments.
The FISA court signs warrants for surveillance. Of which electronic surveillance must be constrained to foreign parties or agents of foreign parties with a requirement that the involvement of U.S. citizens is shown to be minimized. Physical surveillance must be constrained to property used exclusively by foreign parties. In other words, in many cases the U.S. Constitution isn't even applicable since the surveillance warrants issued by the FISA court are not even dealing with U.S. Citizens. With respect to cases involving U.S. Citizens the court is fulfilling its fourth amendment duty to issue warrants after probably cause has been shown.
I think you're missing a forest surrounding those trees. Perhaps I should have made it a bit clearer by inserting the word "reasonably", as in "...must be memorized as they cannot be reasonably deduced."
Since you chose science as your soap box I'll pick on chemistry. How do you deal with the notion of a specific atom such as Thorium. I suppose you my try to understand the Thorium atom by drawing a picture in your mind of it properties, the influence those properties have within a given system as well as comparative relationships to each of its isotopes as well as to other atoms. You might try to grasp notions of electrons, protons, covalence, ionization energies, thermal conductivity, electrical resistivity, etc. But can you really understand Thorium? For every layer of abstraction provided by your hated domain specific languages that you peel off you find yourself surrounded by increasingly complex notions pertaining to manifold complex systems. Soon you find yourself overwhelmed and spiraling out of control through an ever divergent maze of ideas, ideas that make up the thing you are trying to understand. Even experts in the pertaining field have to get off ride at some point as the depth and complexity overwhelm their ability to understand. How much harder for a novice...
Your pithy saying is cute and all but really does not comprehend the requirements of those details. Take away even the memorization of things that we take for granted everyday such as spoken languages, walking, eating, etc.. What are you left with? Abstractions provide critical foundations for deeper investigations and acquisition of understanding.
Have you ever worked in or known someone that has worked in technical support? Don't assume anything. There's a reason why first level support is commonly staffed by Rolodex flippers or AI.
With respect to healthy lifestyle, particularly as it pertains to nutrition, an accurate understanding is not very common at all and is perpetuated by the disinformation campaigns of the food industry. For that matter even when knowledgeable people don't always do what is right and proper but rather that which is more expedient or gratifying in the short term.
As then could everyone else making suggestions. But then since no one else did either what conclusion could we draw? We all think we know exactly what his situation is? Or, that everyone expected that the implication of their suggestions was that they were ideas to look at rather than a specific prescription for remedy?
I'm uncertain how "you" use them but I can say with strong confidence that you are not using them how people actually use them. I suppose there could be any number of factors to cause such short life, but I would expect your culprit is a ridiculously dirty power supply or you're making things up. Most nearly all of the fixtures at my house CFLs. I have never experienced a CFL burn out inside of a week or two--even the ones operating outdoors during Minnesota winters. I've had a few faulty ones burn out after a year or two or just plain DOA but certainly nothing as you describe nor have I heard anyone else (except perhaps haters on ./) say such things.
Pushing boundaries and becoming more than you presently are should always be the foremost goal of everyone. Does everyone succeed in every endeavor? Of course not. But even the struggle of the journey itself bares fruit. To simply give up and accept only that which is easy would be a tragic waste so much potential.
There are no assumptions embedded in there. If he can already check off these boxes of then he can move on to other suggestions such as study skills, academic accommodations, clinical diagnosis/treatment, etc.. Not knowing the applicability of something to a particular circumstance does not invalidate the merit of suggesting it. With regards to this subject, lifestyle is one of the biggest contributors to cognitive performance or lack thereof. It only makes sense to start there. If the TV won't turn on you don't first take it to a TV repair man, you check to see if the bloody thing is even plugged and branch out from there.
While I do not disagree with this, there are certain quanta of knowledge that form the building blocks of understanding. They form the language of discussion for a particular discipline and must be memorized as they cannot be deduced.
Perhaps this tome isn't as beneficial as he recalls...
To make such a statement is both cruel and more demonstrative of your own lacking than his. Anyone attempting to improve their lot in life by investing in themselves should lauded not ridiculed. Just because his path may be harder than someone else's doesn't mean he should give up, nor does it mean he cannot overcome present circumstance.
Perhaps you need to re-read the question... He reports that he is slow of mind and has difficulty with recollection then asks for help with this. To what do you point to in my post regarding improving his cognitive abilities as off-topic?
Sales and use tax is like trying to capture a quantity of dye after it has been poured into the river. It is stupidly inefficient and increasingly ineffectual. Even worse it disproportionately impacts people with a lower income. Gather the dye before it has been poured out with an income tax and be done with it.