What if you decided to shock yourself with your toaster in the middle of the night, catch on fire and burn down the entire apartment complex killing 10 people in their sleep?
Just thinking. Don't mind me. I'm not for locking anyone up for conditions unless they affect other's right to live.
If I could completly shut off my Windows PC and run all my games on Linux tomorrow, I would. No questions asked. Is it blind faith or loss of faith? I'm not sure.
I've always favored the solar panel roof theory for some time, but the one thing that keeps it from being funded is the lack of the electric companies being able to charge people for it.
but I don't remember there being any provisions for communicating things like OS type, version, or patch lists over the TCP/IP headers.
I think that's more of the point than "security". They are using security as the buzz word to try to squeeze in more control. It's something like what's going on in the US. You must register your gun in the interest of security, etc. While it might work to keep the common man from doing something stupid, most of the people outside this scope will not be affected by it.
This is a sad attempt at MS data collecting and trying to block you from getting on the Internet unless you sign over your first born and give Microsoft co-signer rights on your checkbook. One of the first tactics in war is to take out the communication lines.
What will a blind person get as a reward for killing something? If your companion is there with you, how will they feel in danger at any time? Do they still experience the thrill of the hunt, when they can't see the deer standing out in the field? When deer don't move they are quite silent.
Don't get me wrong. If a blind man or woman wants to hunt, I guess I could see it as long as they are with someone that can spot down range and see that there are no houses there, but it still comes down to the aspect that they are not the one's sighting it in. Sure they are controlling their breathing for accuracy and pulling the trigger, but who's to blame if the gun slips and richocets off a rock into the companions skull?
Wouldn't they get the same thrill by going to a target range?
I wished I hadn't posted earlier to mod you up a point.
I never understood why people hate electronics in cars. You could say that using steel in your car is improper because you can't find steel naturally in nature and sculpt it to fit your old part location without external help, a lot of tools, a smelter and time.
Buying a brake drum for your car is exactly like buying a replacement ABS sensor. You may not be able to make one on your own, but you can freely walk into the parts store down the road and pick up a new one. The only difference here, is that without building your own smelter, forge and anvil to pound out your new car parts, you buy a tool for about $200 (maybe less now) that will tell you exactly what is wrong so you can replace it.
With a horse, all you had to do was smith yourself a new set of horseshoes and some tack! Why do you need to get all these complicated A-arms and gears and such.
The difference being when that person changes the code so much that it interferes with the operation of other parts.
It would be like someone handing you a car, you make the seat roll back further, but in doing so you only change the range of the seat so it can't slide all the way back up. When you put that seat back into the factory to put in the new cars, those people that used to slide the seat all the way up to reach the pedals now have to modify the design of the car to fit their need. Sure, over time, someone might be smart enough to extend the bar to fit both types of drivers, but there will be another person that thinks that bar reaches too far into the back seats and their kids trip over them every time they get in or out. Now you have to redesign the slide rails for the seat and integrate them into the side panel of car.
I suppose it "could" work, but your going to have iterations of the car that conflict with other people's opinions. You can look at any of the big "tech wars" going on today in technology and see that people don't like things changing all the time and are very opinionated.
You could design it to accept crashes and keep going instead of trying to avoid them. In fact, encourage the drivers to crash for the fun of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BumperCar.jpg
I think if you remove or even replace all the instances of the word Microsoft or "Copyright Microsoft" in the document, it might reduce to somewhere around 2-300 pages.
Chutes and Ladders: Where you drive over your enemy in a Sherman tank to slide down the chute first.
Scrabble: Put your true feelings in writing using our nifty square letters.
Trivial Pursuit: Strike down thine enemy with extremely insightful information!
Candyland: Don't make me beat you with this candy cane boy!
The Game of Life: Just like real life, you will be killed in a drive-by shooting by a college dropout.
I admit, Risk/Axis & Allies being based on war could come off as a violent game, but you can't win by attacking alone. Aggravation could cause you to want to kill your brother. Clue pretty much avoids violence and makes you want to solve the crime and find out who did it. Monopoly could be violent if you bankrupt your abusive parent. Battleship I can see. Your out to sink your friends ships. I guess that's not all that nice.
I guess I never thought of board games being violent. What kind of boardgames do the Germans have? (Don't mind me stereotyping here).
Beerfest 1402: Find the ingredients for the best beer!
Carbuilder: Build your car and race it around the board to see who's cardboard cutout handles better.
Castlebuilder: Castles weren't made for war! They were made to protect the trees. Build up your castle to keep the tree from it's mighty enemy, the wind.
Sourkraught: Draw cards until you find all the tools and ingrediants needed to turn your cabbage into fermented food. If you draw the same card as your neighbor, you must hug each other and hide sausages down the back of their shirt.
Don't you know? Just about every game review is already canned and shipped to the "reviewer" when they receive their version of the game. At least that's my conspiracy theory on it. Dispute it if you will, but read some of the reviews from different sites and you'll think they cut and paste the text from somewhere and changed a few words here and there.
That's my biggest problem with MS. The technology is out there and they can research ways to improve it all they want, but they research ways to "take over" the technology more often than they improve an existing technology.
And that's the issue today. In PCs and Consoles. You notice it more on consoles because they are forced to write near/at the peak of the machine. People don't realize this and will compare screen shots of systems to try to find out which is better even though the game was probably a simple recompile and slapped onto a different disc. If you learned on single threaded applications, it will be easier to code on them, but if you learned on multi-core, your already a step ahead and you should probably have your resume updated.
You could have easily spent that money on a video card for your PC, complaining about a less costly console that plays a game out of the box won't win you any arguments in my book.
Last I checked the Envoy and everything else I'd consider a "sport" utility has 3 seats in the back and 2 up front. The only thing that I've seen go above this are vans and those way oversized vehicles [Armada (8), Expedition (7), Escalade (7)]. I wouldn't even consider them "sport" utility vehicles. They should rightly get a commercial vehicle tag so you have to get special training to drive them so that you can operate them on the road without interrupting the flow of traffic.
I pitty you if you have 6 kids. Maybe it's time to get some protection instead of complaining to everyone else about your problems driving an SUV on the same road everyone else has no problems with?
What we need is to label the left most lane a passing lanes so people will hopefully realize that they are in the wrong lane. Think of it like the carpool lane markings.
Yeah, because the video game market and Java didn't exist before Microsoft "innovated" them. It's just as posted in the article:
'That's their M.O. They describe their development approach as "chasing tail lights." They aren't interested in markets until they're worth billions, so they let others develop the markets, and have been content to catch-up.' Scoble responds that Microsoft's innovation can be found in the little things: 'I remember when they improved the error messages you get in Internet Explorer, or when they improved fonts in Windows with ClearType technology.
The industry existed, Microsoft came in and tacked on Live, and thought up their own version of a JIT language that they had control of.
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What if you decided to shock yourself with your toaster in the middle of the night, catch on fire and burn down the entire apartment complex killing 10 people in their sleep?
Just thinking. Don't mind me. I'm not for locking anyone up for conditions unless they affect other's right to live.
If I could completly shut off my Windows PC and run all my games on Linux tomorrow, I would. No questions asked. Is it blind faith or loss of faith? I'm not sure.
Yeah, but would I get an IR-Ticket for my giant penis shaped balloon?
I've always favored the solar panel roof theory for some time, but the one thing that keeps it from being funded is the lack of the electric companies being able to charge people for it.
The number of the month is: 12
Hah! Nibbles. Pfft. Vista is so powerful that it only processes words!
What will a blind person get as a reward for killing something? If your companion is there with you, how will they feel in danger at any time? Do they still experience the thrill of the hunt, when they can't see the deer standing out in the field? When deer don't move they are quite silent.
Don't get me wrong. If a blind man or woman wants to hunt, I guess I could see it as long as they are with someone that can spot down range and see that there are no houses there, but it still comes down to the aspect that they are not the one's sighting it in. Sure they are controlling their breathing for accuracy and pulling the trigger, but who's to blame if the gun slips and richocets off a rock into the companions skull?
Wouldn't they get the same thrill by going to a target range?
I wished I hadn't posted earlier to mod you up a point.
I never understood why people hate electronics in cars. You could say that using steel in your car is improper because you can't find steel naturally in nature and sculpt it to fit your old part location without external help, a lot of tools, a smelter and time.
Buying a brake drum for your car is exactly like buying a replacement ABS sensor. You may not be able to make one on your own, but you can freely walk into the parts store down the road and pick up a new one. The only difference here, is that without building your own smelter, forge and anvil to pound out your new car parts, you buy a tool for about $200 (maybe less now) that will tell you exactly what is wrong so you can replace it.
With a horse, all you had to do was smith yourself a new set of horseshoes and some tack! Why do you need to get all these complicated A-arms and gears and such.
The difference being when that person changes the code so much that it interferes with the operation of other parts.
It would be like someone handing you a car, you make the seat roll back further, but in doing so you only change the range of the seat so it can't slide all the way back up. When you put that seat back into the factory to put in the new cars, those people that used to slide the seat all the way up to reach the pedals now have to modify the design of the car to fit their need. Sure, over time, someone might be smart enough to extend the bar to fit both types of drivers, but there will be another person that thinks that bar reaches too far into the back seats and their kids trip over them every time they get in or out. Now you have to redesign the slide rails for the seat and integrate them into the side panel of car.
I suppose it "could" work, but your going to have iterations of the car that conflict with other people's opinions. You can look at any of the big "tech wars" going on today in technology and see that people don't like things changing all the time and are very opinionated.
You could design it to accept crashes and keep going instead of trying to avoid them. In fact, encourage the drivers to crash for the fun of it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BumperCar.jpg
I think if you remove or even replace all the instances of the word Microsoft or "Copyright Microsoft" in the document, it might reduce to somewhere around 2-300 pages.
Chutes and Ladders: Where you drive over your enemy in a Sherman tank to slide down the chute first.
Scrabble: Put your true feelings in writing using our nifty square letters.
Trivial Pursuit: Strike down thine enemy with extremely insightful information!
Candyland: Don't make me beat you with this candy cane boy!
The Game of Life: Just like real life, you will be killed in a drive-by shooting by a college dropout.
I admit, Risk/Axis & Allies being based on war could come off as a violent game, but you can't win by attacking alone. Aggravation could cause you to want to kill your brother. Clue pretty much avoids violence and makes you want to solve the crime and find out who did it. Monopoly could be violent if you bankrupt your abusive parent. Battleship I can see. Your out to sink your friends ships. I guess that's not all that nice.
I guess I never thought of board games being violent. What kind of boardgames do the Germans have? (Don't mind me stereotyping here).
Beerfest 1402: Find the ingredients for the best beer!
Carbuilder: Build your car and race it around the board to see who's cardboard cutout handles better.
Castlebuilder: Castles weren't made for war! They were made to protect the trees. Build up your castle to keep the tree from it's mighty enemy, the wind.
Sourkraught: Draw cards until you find all the tools and ingrediants needed to turn your cabbage into fermented food. If you draw the same card as your neighbor, you must hug each other and hide sausages down the back of their shirt.
I've already spent way too much time on this...
Don't you know? Just about every game review is already canned and shipped to the "reviewer" when they receive their version of the game. At least that's my conspiracy theory on it. Dispute it if you will, but read some of the reviews from different sites and you'll think they cut and paste the text from somewhere and changed a few words here and there.
That's my biggest problem with MS. The technology is out there and they can research ways to improve it all they want, but they research ways to "take over" the technology more often than they improve an existing technology.
And that's the issue today. In PCs and Consoles. You notice it more on consoles because they are forced to write near/at the peak of the machine. People don't realize this and will compare screen shots of systems to try to find out which is better even though the game was probably a simple recompile and slapped onto a different disc. If you learned on single threaded applications, it will be easier to code on them, but if you learned on multi-core, your already a step ahead and you should probably have your resume updated.
You could have easily spent that money on a video card for your PC, complaining about a less costly console that plays a game out of the box won't win you any arguments in my book.
What SUV seats 8?
Last I checked the Envoy and everything else I'd consider a "sport" utility has 3 seats in the back and 2 up front. The only thing that I've seen go above this are vans and those way oversized vehicles [Armada (8), Expedition (7), Escalade (7)]. I wouldn't even consider them "sport" utility vehicles. They should rightly get a commercial vehicle tag so you have to get special training to drive them so that you can operate them on the road without interrupting the flow of traffic.
I pitty you if you have 6 kids. Maybe it's time to get some protection instead of complaining to everyone else about your problems driving an SUV on the same road everyone else has no problems with?
So you do what everyone else does and tailgate to keep that bastard from getting in front of you?
What we need is to label the left most lane a passing lanes so people will hopefully realize that they are in the wrong lane. Think of it like the carpool lane markings.
You can fit the same number of kids in a Monte Carlo, Tarus, or even a Honda...
The industry existed, Microsoft came in and tacked on Live, and thought up their own version of a JIT language that they had control of.
If it is ultrasound and we use that to "peek" at our young ones, wouldn't that make it "fairly" safe?
What would happen if you turned the device upside down and mounted to to the bottom of a platform or a car? Would it take too much energy?