It's all well and good to understand how the American electoral system works, but part of that is also understanding that it does not always represent the will of the American people. If it did, then electoral results would always match result of the nationwide popular vote, and we wouldn't be having this conversation.
The best you can say for it is that it precisely represents "the will of the 50 states", which is not quite the same thing, and honestly not a very useful property to have, in that a state is not a conscious being and therefore doesn't have any "will" to speak of, only a set of algorithmic rules it blindly follows.
So yes, Trump was duly elected under the rules of American elections. That doesn't mean he gets to claim any kind of mandate from the American people, though, because the simple and unarguable fact is that most Americans didn't want him to be elected.
What? You're proposing the tyranny of the majority, my friend. The system was set up precisely to avoid what you're saying.:)
I used it in my bash web-page checker, that periodically downloaded and then diff'd the PAX web page, to let me know early when it changed: that helped me get the jump on when tickets went on sale. Yay curl!
Don't get me started on Google and their smartphones. As smartphones become more and more prevalent, Google has decided to release smartphones without true Activesync (Exchange) support. Here you can see that Activesync remains the 4th highest-requested feature on the Android operating system, since the issue was raised in November 2009:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4475
They don't need multi-touch screens, better media players, better menu layout: people need their freakin' business email and calendars. There has been no feedback, about this issue, and, according to the dev site above, the issue hasn't even been assigned. I know that most people here would legally wed Google if they could, but Google is ignoring the biggest smartphone market that this story seems to claim is so important.
Further, to respond to the parent post, the NUMBER ONE issue with Google smartphones is that their voice-dialing sucks:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1181&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars
This has been an UNASSIGNED enhancement request since November 2008!
If you carry a personal phone with a camera in it into a business, you open yourself up to a world of trouble, if the business wants to get nasty. Maybe you didn't take a picture of the secret plans and send them out to all their competitors, but if you're serious about not opening yourself up to trouble, don't carry in a personal phone. I suppose it depends on your job...
The biggest hurdle is that GM is going is to have to get a eye-augmentation surgery figured out that enables us to see in ultraviolet. Every new car comes with free cyborg surgery! You too can see in ultraviolet!
Or, they could just use visible light lasers. You know.
Nah - kevlar wouldn't stop a sniper round. If we're talking about Baghdad, and the snipers are enemy forces firing AK47s, then the 7.62 round they fire would go through the Kevlar as if it wasn't there.
Body armor doesn't stop sniper rounds. Kinda like how your comment didn't stop my comment from shooting it out of the air.;)
i tried - I placed a post in front of the sun, peeked out to the left, used two pairs of sunglasses at the same time, and still couldn't see it. I call hoax. It's incredibly clear here, too - dry and clear.
Here's my post on my blog relevant to this:
http://oregonstate.edu/~brewsteb/2006/10/24/69/
As follows:
"I do not envy the position of the Official Xbox Magazine. In the past, they had an easy business model: do articles, and provide DVDs filled with demos. As practically the only source where you could go to find demos for games before they came out, OXM's success was guaranteed!
Fast forward to today, when OXMs biggest selling point has been one-upped by the Marketplace. Now, as soon as a developer has finished the code, it can be pushed to every single connected gamer, without forcing that customer to buy a magazine. More exposure == more profit. Simple!
So, now that OXM has lost its exclusive grip on demos, how does it regain that same level of gotta-have-it-ness? For one, it can seek exclusive rights on new game demos, and prevent them from appearing on the Marketplace, at least for a while.
This seems like a winner - get the games out before anyone else, and move some magazines. The fundamental shift here, though, is that OXM has now firmly moved from ENABLER to OBSTRUCTOR. Do you understand the distinction? Since my magazine hasn't arrived yet, I cannot play Rainbow 6 because of their exclusive deal. Will my mag get here before the demo hits the Marketplace, anyway? What about everyone else who doesn't subscribe?
You and I - we're just plain our of luck... that is, until that blasted e-word finally expires.
I, for one, will not be renewing my subscription. The money would go towards supporting the blocking of demos that I otherwise would be able to play. You don't want me to do that, and I don't want me to do that."
Yes achievements are summed, giving the player a total score of all achievements from all games that is publically viewable. However, the achievements DIRECTLY tell you how well you are at a game compared to anyone else, and I doubt that this Sony guy was unaware of that. I can see exactly which levels I've beat and at what difficulty in GRAW, and I can compare that to the whole world. This Sony guy is saying that you can't. Ah falsehoods.
This statement is true:
"He also defend the lack of universal achievements on PS3: 'Frankly, how I view it is I don't care if you're great at Madden if I'm playing you in Resistance. Because that doesn't tell me you're that much better in Resistance. An overall score doesn't really tell me much, it tells me you've spent a lot of time online, it tells me you spend a lot of time playing games, but it doesn't tell me how good you are at a particular game.'".
But, that "overall score" he mentions is infinitely divisible for examination between the various games. An activity you can even do (well) on Xbox.com. Thanks for the lie, Sony!
Too true, no digital output from the 360. However, you are assuming that you can buy any HDMI cable to hook into a PS3 - I don't believe that fact is supported yet. There could still be a proprietary jack on the PS3, just like the 360. Time will tell!:)
FYI - 3' HDMI cable for $9: http://www.svideo.com/hdmihdmisp3.html
I'm more interested in a law that would require reviewers (read: bloggers) to actually finish a game before posting a formal review of it. Imagine what would have happened if Gamespy had actually finished Halo 2 before reviewing it ("THIS GAME'S ENDING SUCKS");
Just kidding.:)
You want a computer job, but weren't willing to put in the time it took to learn computer science? Hmmm.... sounds to me like you'll want a TECHNICAL job working with computers, not a COMPUTER SCIENCE job. You'll be PROGRAMMING, not writing new languauges. You'll be using other people's research, not doing research yourself. THAT's the difference. Anyone else think that way? Other ideas?
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It's all well and good to understand how the American electoral system works, but part of that is also understanding that it does not always represent the will of the American people. If it did, then electoral results would always match result of the nationwide popular vote, and we wouldn't be having this conversation.
The best you can say for it is that it precisely represents "the will of the 50 states", which is not quite the same thing, and honestly not a very useful property to have, in that a state is not a conscious being and therefore doesn't have any "will" to speak of, only a set of algorithmic rules it blindly follows.
So yes, Trump was duly elected under the rules of American elections. That doesn't mean he gets to claim any kind of mandate from the American people, though, because the simple and unarguable fact is that most Americans didn't want him to be elected.
What? You're proposing the tyranny of the majority, my friend. The system was set up precisely to avoid what you're saying. :)
Who cares! No-one cares! Stick to technology!
Sorry, you're wrong. McCain is no more Republican than Obama is.
Am I the only one that came in here looking for a Factorio blueprint?
I used it in my bash web-page checker, that periodically downloaded and then diff'd the PAX web page, to let me know early when it changed: that helped me get the jump on when tickets went on sale. Yay curl!
Dang, that guy knows his stuff.
I rinse it several times and then throw it in the trash. But that's only because I think it tastes like weeds. :)
Tons of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes are available! I know what I'm watching tonight!
Here in the United States, we say that the Delaware Aqueduct is 85 miles long. Get off my lawn!
Don't get me started on Google and their smartphones. As smartphones become more and more prevalent, Google has decided to release smartphones without true Activesync (Exchange) support. Here you can see that Activesync remains the 4th highest-requested feature on the Android operating system, since the issue was raised in November 2009: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4475 They don't need multi-touch screens, better media players, better menu layout: people need their freakin' business email and calendars. There has been no feedback, about this issue, and, according to the dev site above, the issue hasn't even been assigned. I know that most people here would legally wed Google if they could, but Google is ignoring the biggest smartphone market that this story seems to claim is so important. Further, to respond to the parent post, the NUMBER ONE issue with Google smartphones is that their voice-dialing sucks: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1181&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars This has been an UNASSIGNED enhancement request since November 2008!
If you carry a personal phone with a camera in it into a business, you open yourself up to a world of trouble, if the business wants to get nasty. Maybe you didn't take a picture of the secret plans and send them out to all their competitors, but if you're serious about not opening yourself up to trouble, don't carry in a personal phone. I suppose it depends on your job...
The biggest hurdle is that GM is going is to have to get a eye-augmentation surgery figured out that enables us to see in ultraviolet. Every new car comes with free cyborg surgery! You too can see in ultraviolet! Or, they could just use visible light lasers. You know.
This has been done for awhile - I've had one on my desk for the last six months from highspeedpc. Check it out here: http://highspeedpc.com/
I wrote up an editorial on the specific details of the Xbox 360's power consumption. You can check it out here: http://www.planetxbox360.com/index.php/articledeta ils/show/1288
Nah - kevlar wouldn't stop a sniper round. If we're talking about Baghdad, and the snipers are enemy forces firing AK47s, then the 7.62 round they fire would go through the Kevlar as if it wasn't there.
;)
Body armor doesn't stop sniper rounds. Kinda like how your comment didn't stop my comment from shooting it out of the air.
i tried - I placed a post in front of the sun, peeked out to the left, used two pairs of sunglasses at the same time, and still couldn't see it. I call hoax. It's incredibly clear here, too - dry and clear.
Here's my post on my blog relevant to this: http://oregonstate.edu/~brewsteb/2006/10/24/69/ As follows: "I do not envy the position of the Official Xbox Magazine. In the past, they had an easy business model: do articles, and provide DVDs filled with demos. As practically the only source where you could go to find demos for games before they came out, OXM's success was guaranteed! Fast forward to today, when OXMs biggest selling point has been one-upped by the Marketplace. Now, as soon as a developer has finished the code, it can be pushed to every single connected gamer, without forcing that customer to buy a magazine. More exposure == more profit. Simple! So, now that OXM has lost its exclusive grip on demos, how does it regain that same level of gotta-have-it-ness? For one, it can seek exclusive rights on new game demos, and prevent them from appearing on the Marketplace, at least for a while. This seems like a winner - get the games out before anyone else, and move some magazines. The fundamental shift here, though, is that OXM has now firmly moved from ENABLER to OBSTRUCTOR. Do you understand the distinction? Since my magazine hasn't arrived yet, I cannot play Rainbow 6 because of their exclusive deal. Will my mag get here before the demo hits the Marketplace, anyway? What about everyone else who doesn't subscribe? You and I - we're just plain our of luck... that is, until that blasted e-word finally expires. I, for one, will not be renewing my subscription. The money would go towards supporting the blocking of demos that I otherwise would be able to play. You don't want me to do that, and I don't want me to do that."
"The PS3 isn't designed to lean towards games." A million Sony fanboys cried out in terror and then were silenced. Right here: http://games.slashdot.org/games/05/05/25/1758219.s html?tid=233&tid=212
Me too - I loved their style. It was unique, when so many games (and thus the box art) were so generic.
Too true, no digital output from the 360. However, you are assuming that you can buy any HDMI cable to hook into a PS3 - I don't believe that fact is supported yet. There could still be a proprietary jack on the PS3, just like the 360. Time will tell! :)
FYI - 3' HDMI cable for $9: http://www.svideo.com/hdmihdmisp3.html
FWIW, the Premium version of the 360 comes with the highest-end cable: it has component out, composite out, and optical out. A really great cable! :)
OTOH, what a dream job - game player for the ESRB! :p
I'm more interested in a law that would require reviewers (read: bloggers) to actually finish a game before posting a formal review of it. Imagine what would have happened if Gamespy had actually finished Halo 2 before reviewing it ("THIS GAME'S ENDING SUCKS");
Just kidding. :)
You want a computer job, but weren't willing to put in the time it took to learn computer science? Hmmm.... sounds to me like you'll want a TECHNICAL job working with computers, not a COMPUTER SCIENCE job. You'll be PROGRAMMING, not writing new languauges. You'll be using other people's research, not doing research yourself. THAT's the difference. Anyone else think that way? Other ideas?