"The fact that the overwhelming number of terrorists are now young Middle Eastern males has established a profile."
Yes, and there have been reports of situations involving the search/detainment of a Middle Easterner based SOLELY on his race. Because people believe that if you're Middle Eastern, you're a terrorist. It's a lot like people thinking that all blacks are criminals, which is racial profiling.
I do believe I remember there also being a shortage of the original X-Boxes when they were being released. Either, too many people like Microsoft or Microsoft isn't making enough consoles.
And, why would they even include this information in an article? Of COURSE the old console prices are going to drop, how obvious is that. There is always a higher demand for the newer and usually better stuff, so the price for the old stuff goes down. That's just common sense.
Since this is in London, there's not much I can say about it being unconstitutional, but similar events are happening in the US. A lot of the detainments and searches are because of racial profiling.
Terrorism is affecting the world in a huge way, and I don't mean the terrorists scaring everyone and killing people, I mean the governments are taking completely outragous steps to "prevent" it. Yes, it may have helped but is it really really worth sacrificing our freedom and rights for? There are other solutions..
Seems like they say intelligence is bad because people become more aware. Which kinda supports the idea that the government somewhat depends on the ignorance of society..
I recently started learning perl and this is the first state of the onion that I've read. I think they went a little overboard with the props and whatnot, they should have focused more on information.
I think this might be a necesarry step for them to be able to build and sell the PS3 for less than $384570394857345, in order to actually compete with X Box 360.
This is incredible, Google has grown from a small search engine to a huge technology group. This new software seems like a great idea.
I predict that Google is going to soon be one of the leading technology companies out there, if it isn't already
I've been wanting a good/compact/decent memory MP3 player for awhile now. The reason I didn't get the iPod shuffleis because my friend said they break very easy, plus I don't like the lack of a display screen.
The name, yeah, kinda wierd but oh well, not a huge deal. I think this is going to be good competition for the iPod shuffle if it gets alot of media attention like the iPod does.
There will always be loopholes in any program/code/language/os.. So yeah.
As long as the program exsists, there will be people to exploit it's problems.
Jeez! I just got Office 2003, and now this? A year before release? WHAT?! Office 12 is coming too soon.. for me anyways:(
And what were they thinking?! R.I.P. Clippy..:'(
Wow, is microsoft receiving that bad of approval ratings? They must be getting desperate.. I mean seriously, taking information from a third party blog on how to run their business?! Wow..
$30 million dollars.. The best they are going to get out of all that money is probably a small reduction in the ammount of piracy, if even that. Their biggest mistake would be to try and and reduce piracy by creating more complex encryptions, etc.. Cause there will always be someone who will break it and figure out how to get around the new system.
Waste of money if you ask me.
I understand where this person is coming from but they are viewing the industry in a different way then he is. People can say, "yeah some games are good and not bad influencing, but other games (shooters, GTA, etc) are a bad influence." Though IMO I think this is wrong. I think games give people skills such as multitasking and quick thinking, which are both required in almost every good game out there..
I agree that the knowledge we would gain from this comletely outweighs the lost profits. This would be a huge ammount of information that everyone could benefit from in a huge way.
The advantages are worth the losses.
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It seems like all that any of this software will do is simply delay the deistribution of pirated software. People will always find a way around it..
This is just further evidence supporting PEBKAC.
Best advice ever.. "RTFM!"
"The fact that the overwhelming number of terrorists are now young Middle Eastern males has established a profile." Yes, and there have been reports of situations involving the search/detainment of a Middle Easterner based SOLELY on his race. Because people believe that if you're Middle Eastern, you're a terrorist. It's a lot like people thinking that all blacks are criminals, which is racial profiling.
I do believe I remember there also being a shortage of the original X-Boxes when they were being released. Either, too many people like Microsoft or Microsoft isn't making enough consoles. And, why would they even include this information in an article? Of COURSE the old console prices are going to drop, how obvious is that. There is always a higher demand for the newer and usually better stuff, so the price for the old stuff goes down. That's just common sense.
Since this is in London, there's not much I can say about it being unconstitutional, but similar events are happening in the US. A lot of the detainments and searches are because of racial profiling. Terrorism is affecting the world in a huge way, and I don't mean the terrorists scaring everyone and killing people, I mean the governments are taking completely outragous steps to "prevent" it. Yes, it may have helped but is it really really worth sacrificing our freedom and rights for? There are other solutions..
Seems like they say intelligence is bad because people become more aware. Which kinda supports the idea that the government somewhat depends on the ignorance of society..
I recently started learning perl and this is the first state of the onion that I've read. I think they went a little overboard with the props and whatnot, they should have focused more on information.
I think this might be a necesarry step for them to be able to build and sell the PS3 for less than $384570394857345, in order to actually compete with X Box 360.
This is incredible, Google has grown from a small search engine to a huge technology group. This new software seems like a great idea. I predict that Google is going to soon be one of the leading technology companies out there, if it isn't already
I've been wanting a good/compact/decent memory MP3 player for awhile now. The reason I didn't get the iPod shuffleis because my friend said they break very easy, plus I don't like the lack of a display screen. The name, yeah, kinda wierd but oh well, not a huge deal. I think this is going to be good competition for the iPod shuffle if it gets alot of media attention like the iPod does.
There will always be loopholes in any program/code/language/os.. So yeah. As long as the program exsists, there will be people to exploit it's problems.
And they said Linux is more secure than Windows..
Jeez! I just got Office 2003, and now this? A year before release? WHAT?! Office 12 is coming too soon.. for me anyways :(
And what were they thinking?! R.I.P. Clippy.. :'(
Wow, is microsoft receiving that bad of approval ratings? They must be getting desperate.. I mean seriously, taking information from a third party blog on how to run their business?! Wow..
Didn't we see that one coming from the beginning?
$30 million dollars.. The best they are going to get out of all that money is probably a small reduction in the ammount of piracy, if even that. Their biggest mistake would be to try and and reduce piracy by creating more complex encryptions, etc.. Cause there will always be someone who will break it and figure out how to get around the new system. Waste of money if you ask me.
I understand where this person is coming from but they are viewing the industry in a different way then he is. People can say, "yeah some games are good and not bad influencing, but other games (shooters, GTA, etc) are a bad influence." Though IMO I think this is wrong. I think games give people skills such as multitasking and quick thinking, which are both required in almost every good game out there..
I agree that the knowledge we would gain from this comletely outweighs the lost profits. This would be a huge ammount of information that everyone could benefit from in a huge way. The advantages are worth the losses.
I agree that the knowledge we gain from this completely outweighs the lost profits..