My biggest problem with all this crap is as follows:
I feel my freedom of speech and information allows me to go out and read up on Nazi Germany if I want. It doesn't mean I'm going to go out and slaughter millions of Jews and try to invade Russia. I'm just interested in the war and I want to find out as much as I can about what happened. Now if this data is collected and I find that I have a police officer following me around town pulling me over every time I go 3 miles over the speed limit, or I go to the library to pick up a book that has more information and I'm questioned when I check out the book, then we get to a point where this information is abused. I fear that we as a society will be afraid to learn about controversial figures and won't even bother to look up the real information (or try to find it if it's out there.)
I even find that in some of the more harsh speedtrap areas of the US, the general populace seems more introverted. Sure, when they first start harsh penalties, the people are in an uproar, but only those that drone through their day and hate anyone that might deviate from the norm will remain in such harsh environments. That and those that can't afford to move. I suppose if your looking to reduce crime rates and your not completely freaked out by the fact that your neighbor never looks at you on their way into their social cave, maybe this kind of social monitoring doesn't seem so bad to you.
Then again, I could just be overreacting. But I'd rather be information safe, then sorry later.
I don't know. I sat there watching this banana dance on the screen, knowing that someone posted it falsely and I couldn't help but laugh. I don't know if I was laughing at the fact that someone created the video, the fact that someone was watching it (wait, I was watching it), or the fact that he posted the wrong link and it somehow made it funnier.
An add-on controller which not all gamers will have, meaning developers can't make cames which completely depend on it, any more than they can for "alternative" PlayStation controllers.
So, couldn't the gaming community and/or Nintendo save some money and just come out with that controller setup as an addon for the Game Cube, and get people excited over the controller?
I think he was the one who conjured wine from water, making all the men in town drunk and disorderly. In their dilusional state they told great disasters in the world causing one poor man to fall in the river. In his current state of near alcohol poisoning, he imagined the Earth was being flooded and proceeded to round up all the chickens and animals in the area and place them on a boat. The man who saved him used an almost swim like motion to "part" the water to save him. A bard wrote down the events to use in a song later and lost his scrolls in a cave. Of course, the bard was drunk, so the story was may more interesting in memory than it actually was in real life. The wine is what started it all!
Blame Jesus!
This was in no way proven true, nor is it proven false.
I don't mean to take this thread off course, but what makes a person want to see the grave of a (famous) person, let alone take a picture of it? This is something I've been trying to understand for some time now. Is it bragging rights? Do you respect (or disrespect) a person by visiting their grave and posing next to it?
There's a certain other gravesite that is commonly defaced by those that "honor" the person for what they did in life and even that doesn't make sense to me. I'm sorry, I just don't understand our (as in human) fascination with death.
If I had code standards that are that specific, I'd have to spend more time sifting the standards than actually coding the program. I, however, prefer the code it now, and make it efficient later technique, so I'm sure my argument is lost on some folks here.
That's the only reason I run Active Desktop at work. One icon. The Recycle Bin. The only reason I have that there is to remind me to empty it every night. If only I had a trash can icon on my garage door.
"If Vista makes companies more productive then they can create more jobs - if not then teh net effect is zero (or less because of switching costs)"
I don't buy that comment at all. It's like the grandparent post stated. The company will continue to make whatever it is they make and most likely, nothing will change. Businesses today are basically forced by a heavy hand to upgrade the OS on everyone's machines. Does Linux/Unix or Windows (NT, 98, or even 3.1) still do word processing, control production lines, air and ventilation controls and what ever else the control programs running on them needed to do when they were designed? Yes. The only reason companies upgrade is the thought that they might not have support for those outdated systems, but in practice, the system has probably run flawlessly for years without a major problem. The company will go out, purchase new hardware, and a new OS and the systems in place will still run just as they did the day before. Except now, you have a fancier looking interface.
The other reason I don't buy your comment is the opposite reasoning. If a company can get one person more efficient at cranking out documents, they aren't going to hire anyone new. They will let attrition remove those that they no longer need and shift the work load to the more efficient worker. A new OS isn't going to do that though. Training and productivity software will. Since Microsoft has their hands in that realm, they can basically say, "This new version of Office will make your workers 5% more efficient, but unfortunately, the installer won't allow you to put it on our old OS. Here's a shiny new one. By the way, that will be $___ please."
Wait a minute...where I work, you can't wear T-shirts to work, so I'd have to use it for personal purposes. What am I going to do with a T-Shirt that I can't wear?
What's so complicated? Let's assume for the moment that this actualy does hit production and they find a way to make them recordable. When you go to buy the blank version of this to burn something, now that's the confusing part. Will it be HD/DVD-+R, HDDVDR/DVD-R, HDDVD-R+R, HDDVD-R/DVD-RW, HDVDV-RW/DVD-RW !?
Think of the massive lan parties! You could coordinate several hundred people in a "test".
The question I have is: If this shock sensor information is available to everyone, why don't I have a shock monitor utility yet? Yeah, sure...I would find about 15 minutes of entertainment out of it, but I'm a gadget geek and I like that kind of relationship.
Couldn't you just edit the MSI with Orca and remove the Condition or did they change that recently as well? (you could even extract the MSI using one of the many tools available) I had to do this several times on my Win 2000 build so I could run software that "was not supported" on 2K.
Yeah, but when your shift clutch point is right around 2.5-3K RPM, you will either stall the car, spin your tires, or burn up your clutch trying to engage it slower. Sports cars drive MUCH different than a truck, especially with a 9000 RPM Redline. If the car had torque in the low band it wouldn't be an issue, but the rotary engine has very little torque on the low range and increases from that point forward. Trust me, if I had a "low" gear, I'd definately use it.
I drive an RX8, winter driving is crazy as it is. Sometimes you just need to gun it to get somewhere. I've never been impressed by any traction control so far. Even when I had my Grand Prix GTP it was horrid when traction control was on. It would apply the brakes on both wheels and practically stall the car and go nowhere.
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My biggest problem with all this crap is as follows:
I feel my freedom of speech and information allows me to go out and read up on Nazi Germany if I want. It doesn't mean I'm going to go out and slaughter millions of Jews and try to invade Russia. I'm just interested in the war and I want to find out as much as I can about what happened. Now if this data is collected and I find that I have a police officer following me around town pulling me over every time I go 3 miles over the speed limit, or I go to the library to pick up a book that has more information and I'm questioned when I check out the book, then we get to a point where this information is abused. I fear that we as a society will be afraid to learn about controversial figures and won't even bother to look up the real information (or try to find it if it's out there.)
I even find that in some of the more harsh speedtrap areas of the US, the general populace seems more introverted. Sure, when they first start harsh penalties, the people are in an uproar, but only those that drone through their day and hate anyone that might deviate from the norm will remain in such harsh environments. That and those that can't afford to move. I suppose if your looking to reduce crime rates and your not completely freaked out by the fact that your neighbor never looks at you on their way into their social cave, maybe this kind of social monitoring doesn't seem so bad to you.
Then again, I could just be overreacting. But I'd rather be information safe, then sorry later.
I don't see why. Think about it this way. You brought a smile to the faces of many...or at least one.
I don't know. I sat there watching this banana dance on the screen, knowing that someone posted it falsely and I couldn't help but laugh. I don't know if I was laughing at the fact that someone created the video, the fact that someone was watching it (wait, I was watching it), or the fact that he posted the wrong link and it somehow made it funnier.
Not from what I hear. I don't think there is a "wired" PS3 controller yet...
An add-on controller which not all gamers will have, meaning developers can't make cames which completely depend on it, any more than they can for "alternative" PlayStation controllers.
...or maybe that's what they are doing...hmm?
So, couldn't the gaming community and/or Nintendo save some money and just come out with that controller setup as an addon for the Game Cube, and get people excited over the controller?
I think he was the one who conjured wine from water, making all the men in town drunk and disorderly. In their dilusional state they told great disasters in the world causing one poor man to fall in the river. In his current state of near alcohol poisoning, he imagined the Earth was being flooded and proceeded to round up all the chickens and animals in the area and place them on a boat. The man who saved him used an almost swim like motion to "part" the water to save him. A bard wrote down the events to use in a song later and lost his scrolls in a cave. Of course, the bard was drunk, so the story was may more interesting in memory than it actually was in real life. The wine is what started it all!
Blame Jesus!
This was in no way proven true, nor is it proven false.
In 1993 Doom was released. Since that date, violent crimes have been on a steady decline.
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I'm not attributing it to gaming, but it makes you wonder...
Fair enough.
I don't mean to take this thread off course, but what makes a person want to see the grave of a (famous) person, let alone take a picture of it? This is something I've been trying to understand for some time now. Is it bragging rights? Do you respect (or disrespect) a person by visiting their grave and posing next to it?
There's a certain other gravesite that is commonly defaced by those that "honor" the person for what they did in life and even that doesn't make sense to me. I'm sorry, I just don't understand our (as in human) fascination with death.
If I had code standards that are that specific, I'd have to spend more time sifting the standards than actually coding the program. I, however, prefer the code it now, and make it efficient later technique, so I'm sure my argument is lost on some folks here.
That's the only reason I run Active Desktop at work. One icon. The Recycle Bin. The only reason I have that there is to remind me to empty it every night. If only I had a trash can icon on my garage door.
It's nice to see someone publicly displaying the use of cracks, roms and serial numbers. Oh, I suppose he owns all that software...my mistake.
"If Vista makes companies more productive then they can create more jobs - if not then teh net effect is zero (or less because of switching costs)"
I don't buy that comment at all. It's like the grandparent post stated. The company will continue to make whatever it is they make and most likely, nothing will change. Businesses today are basically forced by a heavy hand to upgrade the OS on everyone's machines. Does Linux/Unix or Windows (NT, 98, or even 3.1) still do word processing, control production lines, air and ventilation controls and what ever else the control programs running on them needed to do when they were designed? Yes. The only reason companies upgrade is the thought that they might not have support for those outdated systems, but in practice, the system has probably run flawlessly for years without a major problem. The company will go out, purchase new hardware, and a new OS and the systems in place will still run just as they did the day before. Except now, you have a fancier looking interface.
The other reason I don't buy your comment is the opposite reasoning. If a company can get one person more efficient at cranking out documents, they aren't going to hire anyone new. They will let attrition remove those that they no longer need and shift the work load to the more efficient worker. A new OS isn't going to do that though. Training and productivity software will. Since Microsoft has their hands in that realm, they can basically say, "This new version of Office will make your workers 5% more efficient, but unfortunately, the installer won't allow you to put it on our old OS. Here's a shiny new one. By the way, that will be $___ please."
Wait a minute...where I work, you can't wear T-shirts to work, so I'd have to use it for personal purposes. What am I going to do with a T-Shirt that I can't wear?
What's so complicated? Let's assume for the moment that this actualy does hit production and they find a way to make them recordable. When you go to buy the blank version of this to burn something, now that's the confusing part. Will it be HD/DVD-+R, HDDVDR/DVD-R, HDDVD-R+R, HDDVD-R/DVD-RW, HDVDV-RW/DVD-RW !?
"a learning process modeled on Microsoft's management techniques."
Buy out the other students and force them into non-existance so your the only one left to get a cut of the available grades?
Think of the massive lan parties! You could coordinate several hundred people in a "test".
The question I have is: If this shock sensor information is available to everyone, why don't I have a shock monitor utility yet? Yeah, sure...I would find about 15 minutes of entertainment out of it, but I'm a gadget geek and I like that kind of relationship.
Or you would figure out the AI on your AI chip and be able to beat every game you play using the same techniques...
So, in your XOR relationship, if you can have both gameplay and video you would have neither? 1 XOR 1 = 0
Couldn't you just edit the MSI with Orca and remove the Condition or did they change that recently as well? (you could even extract the MSI using one of the many tools available) I had to do this several times on my Win 2000 build so I could run software that "was not supported" on 2K.
You apparently missed where Microsoft lied to everyone... http://1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3153167
Yeah, but when your shift clutch point is right around 2.5-3K RPM, you will either stall the car, spin your tires, or burn up your clutch trying to engage it slower. Sports cars drive MUCH different than a truck, especially with a 9000 RPM Redline. If the car had torque in the low band it wouldn't be an issue, but the rotary engine has very little torque on the low range and increases from that point forward. Trust me, if I had a "low" gear, I'd definately use it.
I drive an RX8, winter driving is crazy as it is. Sometimes you just need to gun it to get somewhere. I've never been impressed by any traction control so far. Even when I had my Grand Prix GTP it was horrid when traction control was on. It would apply the brakes on both wheels and practically stall the car and go nowhere.