She just plugged it in, and *poof* it just worked. All necessary software and drivers were already installed by default. Let me know when Windows can do that, k?
Windows does this. Has for a long, long while.
Hey. You asked!
First and most importantly, how do you stop him from illegally obtaining a gun? Isn't that a different problem?
Remove guns. Prosecute offenders. Deal with exceptions -- deal with the new, much smaller problem.
If you anticipate a market with a scale similar to that of drugs growing, then that society is deeply, deeply troubled.
It's absurd to solve a gun problem by throwing more guns at it. Agreed. Look how well that concept serves in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. Or Texas. Or Somalia. Or D.C.. Or Virginia. More guns does not equal less violence, no matter how they want to paint it.
Hey, it worked for Moses...the 10 commandments are still around.
That's out of the original 15. You don't know that. The guy in Raiders' face melted before he could tell us how many there were...
Negative, the cell that was arrested intended to attack Toronto.
For our globally-challenged American readers: Toronto does not have (many?) sugar maple sugarbushes. Picture L.A. with a small fraction of the following: "marine layer", vanity, and racial tension (just the lingering reflection of the racist crap promoted by American entertainment and media). Lived in both. Same traffic. Less guns.
In your face, PM Harper. Face it, you don't even look American...
Excuse me for my ignorance/laziness, but I wonder if the/. gang can give me a point to what the vector capabilities of the new engine are? Are we talking better SVG support, or a more powerful Flash replacement? Despite being busy as hell of late, the thought of developing vector-based media and supporting tools _without_ Adobe/Macromedia is very motivating...
I feel for you and concur entirely. I have an uncle who is as big and healthy as a horse otherwise, and is likely to outlive us all (he has also been degrading over 15+ years). Living as a semi-catatonic horse, but alive. For a while, this gentle giant of a man even became violent. That's just wrong. Any drug that could prevent or lessen the effects of Alzheimer's gets an arms-wide welcome from me.
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So, technically, Daikatana has been more of a hit than, say, the XBox
You know, you're underlying point is quite good. I would simply suggest replacing "hit" with "success". Being a developer myself, anything that kept the bills paid (ie. paid for itself) was a success. I've had WAY too many products come nowhere near to paying: thus, failures (or, as we like to kid ourselves, "limited successes").
Thanks for the enlightenment, Jack.
(despite how gloriously biting that sounds, I'm sincere!)
I've known about the "begs the question" issue for a while, since the late Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau used to throw it around in Parliament (correctly, his hobbies included logic theory). I completely agree with your argument. The "begs" in that term has no translation and the concept of self-proof has no simple replacement. I did not, however, give any thought to the "disinterest" issue. Wow. I'm not sure why I assumed it had more than one meaning. Again, thanks. I feel like I've learned something today.
I am probably echoing something that has been said before, but does it not seem logical to have an XPrize-like contest for a personal commuter vehicle? I am just pulling this out of the air, but a $500M prize goes to the first production-grade, 1000 mpg, 4-adult, safety compliant, very-low-emission vehicle? Hell, I'd put up the money if the terms were right - recovering a half-bill from a true winner would be a cinch.
Of course, that triggers a call for non-gasoline powered entries, but there needs to be some energy/cost/mass/convenience/infrastructure component that mirrors the current gasoline culture. Again, my apologies if this is unoriginal... oh, and off-topic.
Maybe I wasn't clear on that. I can build a Dell. Have done so many times. Looks like a Dell, runs like a Dell. We just end up playing with semantics otherwise. What does it mean to "be" a Dell? Out of the package? Nah. If I put Linux on a previous WinDell, is it still a Dell?.... yeah. It is.
I could probably build an Apple machine too. But not a Mac. Couldn't make it act like a Mac. In addition, if I put Windows on the Mac, is it still a Mac.... well, now we're talking. Is it sold as a Mac? The Dell is still a Dell. Do you agree that it would be wrapped with "A Mac running Windows" or "Windows on Apple hardware" in order to qualify it? Kinda get where I'm at?
Besides, I believe the argument didn't hold water before the Intel switch, so why should it now? There were and are no (current) Apple Macintosh clones. Nobody but Apple can build a Mac - making the hardware MacOS compatible is illegal. That's Apple's right, and they're exercising it. Whether those tides are changing remains to be seen...
You've beat down your only argument, though, jocknerd. You cannot put a bunch of parts together and get a Mac. You yourself wrap it:
...and get something equivalent to Mac hardware. (my emphasis)
Which is to say, you can make a PC. You cannot, however, make a Mac. It cannot operate like a Mac, so it fails.
I hear your philosophical argument, but it falls flat in reality. I can put together a car that is equivalent to a Ferrari, but I cannot put together a Ferrari. Apple maintains enough proprietary stranglehold to maintain their exclusive ownership. That's their right. The original posit is still correct however, the hardware and OS of Macs are proprietary. Show me a homemade PC running like a Mac and I'll admit the exception, but you will not be able to do so without twisting the rules. Someday you could be absolutely right, but as of now it's still not the case. My 2c worth.
I hope you're reading the subthreads, Thangodin, because although phpWebber is correct his realism is, well, too real. If more people do not explore and question as you have, the whole MMORPG vertical will homogenize and be yet another gaming collective that never reaches its full potential.
Great ideas. Keep mulling them over, and keep sharing them. You may just have an effect somewhere. Maybe a big one. I particularly like the cooperative Paladin concept. Advance by helping others. Fascinating - tough to implement, but yikes what a great paradox! The most powerful players will lose significant amounts of power if they abuse it. Brilliant.
phpWebber: wow (no p.u.n. intended - ok, maybe a little)! You have been thinking it over, and put together some of the most penetrating and succint analysis I've yet read. Don't take my comments above as being against what you said. I am still digesting some of it, but wanted to encourage Thangodin because despite any failures his ideas might suffer, there would be diamonds strewn in the wreckage. You too are exploring and questioning, but like me, you are an engineer. Factors of Safety ruin it everytime.
I had a PET with 32k! I was the king of the block for close to 2 years. But, hey, that baby got me started in programming (want a game? WRITE a game) those 23ish years ago. Ye gads. I'm OLD.
Microsoft is a sleeping giant. In the old days, let's call it the "Billic" period, the giant caused a pretty big ruckus. Thrashed about, threatened and stomped on competitors, etc. Remember? It was big, unstoppable, growing daily. The head was becoming the world's richest man, and thus had that extra bit of power besides the forces of momentum of the monstrous company beneath him. When the Bill-head spoke, people listened... for a while. Until things coming out of the Bill-head's mouth stopped making sense and reflecting reality. The final crumble of the Bill-head was the whole DOJ thing. The Bill-head made no sense anymore, and the giant was too long distracted to really worry about. Heck, it had stopped growing too, and drifted into a coma, hadn't it?
Then the Bill-head moved to the left shoulder and the Ballmer-head sprouted above the sternum. The Ballmer-head hasn't made sense at all. Everything the Ballmer-head seems to say is lost the next day. How many times has the giant _said_ it was going to focus on (i.e. crush) something and it not come to pass? The giant's body has actually gone into a coma -- things are still humming along, yet nothing too strenuous or dynamic, and certainly not novel or "run for the hills" earth shattering. The Ballmer- and Bill-heads are still yammering and murmuring though, respectively. The "Ballmeric" period is quite mild compared to the "Billic" period.
Now, let's look at the Apple giant. Yup, they were and are a giant, but for a while there, they were sinking. Really, if they weren't, what was it that Jobs turned around? If it was so swell, why did it not remain status quo? The Jobs-head of the Apple giant was very good at chewing on its extremities and saying the right things at the right times -- called "MacWorlds". It fell off for a while there, but the body lopped off its replacement head and stuck the Jobs-head back on... with some rather hefty glue. Things have been rosey and lickable ever since.
The Microsoft giant could awaken, pop out of its coma, given the right double-decapitation and replacement, but that's a rare event - and a tricky one too. The giant _will_ thrash though. At some point, the coma will cause more atrophy than the body can handle, and the giant will actually get up and _do_ what the head says at the time, with all the force of self-preservation. That could be a big mess or a big welcome change, depending on that whole decapitation thing.
To the media coverage of it all: rarely do journalists rate themselves in the masses. They are the educators, the seers, the guidance of the masses. Thus, they like to think of themselves as _peers_ to the giants. In their minds, elevated to a level noticeable by those giants (pro or con) but still respected by the giants, and definitely a level well above their readership. The giant that suits their personality best and maintains that lofty status will be their bias. Underdog (Linux), slick (Apple), friendly (Google), gynormous (sic - Microsoft)... whatever.
Bottom line, when the giants change, so do the loyalties.
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That's out of the original 15. You don't know that. The guy in Raiders' face melted before he could tell us how many there were...
In your face, PM Harper. Face it, you don't even look American...
Excuse me for my ignorance/laziness, but I wonder if the /. gang can give me a point to what the vector capabilities of the new engine are? Are we talking better SVG support, or a more powerful Flash replacement? Despite being busy as hell of late, the thought of developing vector-based media and supporting tools _without_ Adobe/Macromedia is very motivating...
I feel for you and concur entirely. I have an uncle who is as big and healthy as a horse otherwise, and is likely to outlive us all (he has also been degrading over 15+ years). Living as a semi-catatonic horse, but alive. For a while, this gentle giant of a man even became violent. That's just wrong. Any drug that could prevent or lessen the effects of Alzheimer's gets an arms-wide welcome from me.
Thanks for the enlightenment, Jack.
(despite how gloriously biting that sounds, I'm sincere!)
I've known about the "begs the question" issue for a while, since the late Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau used to throw it around in Parliament (correctly, his hobbies included logic theory). I completely agree with your argument. The "begs" in that term has no translation and the concept of self-proof has no simple replacement. I did not, however, give any thought to the "disinterest" issue. Wow. I'm not sure why I assumed it had more than one meaning. Again, thanks. I feel like I've learned something today.
I am probably echoing something that has been said before, but does it not seem logical to have an XPrize-like contest for a personal commuter vehicle? I am just pulling this out of the air, but a $500M prize goes to the first production-grade, 1000 mpg, 4-adult, safety compliant, very-low-emission vehicle? Hell, I'd put up the money if the terms were right - recovering a half-bill from a true winner would be a cinch.
Of course, that triggers a call for non-gasoline powered entries, but there needs to be some energy/cost/mass/convenience/infrastructure component that mirrors the current gasoline culture. Again, my apologies if this is unoriginal... oh, and off-topic.
[with much anguish]
"Simple Green is people!"
Maybe I wasn't clear on that. I can build a Dell. Have done so many times. Looks like a Dell, runs like a Dell. We just end up playing with semantics otherwise. What does it mean to "be" a Dell? Out of the package? Nah. If I put Linux on a previous WinDell, is it still a Dell? .... yeah. It is.
I could probably build an Apple machine too. But not a Mac. Couldn't make it act like a Mac. In addition, if I put Windows on the Mac, is it still a Mac.... well, now we're talking. Is it sold as a Mac? The Dell is still a Dell. Do you agree that it would be wrapped with "A Mac running Windows" or "Windows on Apple hardware" in order to qualify it? Kinda get where I'm at?
Besides, I believe the argument didn't hold water before the Intel switch, so why should it now? There were and are no (current) Apple Macintosh clones. Nobody but Apple can build a Mac - making the hardware MacOS compatible is illegal. That's Apple's right, and they're exercising it. Whether those tides are changing remains to be seen...
Which is to say, you can make a PC. You cannot, however, make a Mac. It cannot operate like a Mac, so it fails.
I hear your philosophical argument, but it falls flat in reality. I can put together a car that is equivalent to a Ferrari, but I cannot put together a Ferrari. Apple maintains enough proprietary stranglehold to maintain their exclusive ownership. That's their right. The original posit is still correct however, the hardware and OS of Macs are proprietary. Show me a homemade PC running like a Mac and I'll admit the exception, but you will not be able to do so without twisting the rules. Someday you could be absolutely right, but as of now it's still not the case. My 2c worth.
I hope you're reading the subthreads, Thangodin, because although phpWebber is correct his realism is, well, too real. If more people do not explore and question as you have, the whole MMORPG vertical will homogenize and be yet another gaming collective that never reaches its full potential.
Great ideas. Keep mulling them over, and keep sharing them. You may just have an effect somewhere. Maybe a big one. I particularly like the cooperative Paladin concept. Advance by helping others. Fascinating - tough to implement, but yikes what a great paradox! The most powerful players will lose significant amounts of power if they abuse it. Brilliant.
phpWebber: wow (no p.u.n. intended - ok, maybe a little)! You have been thinking it over, and put together some of the most penetrating and succint analysis I've yet read. Don't take my comments above as being against what you said. I am still digesting some of it, but wanted to encourage Thangodin because despite any failures his ideas might suffer, there would be diamonds strewn in the wreckage. You too are exploring and questioning, but like me, you are an engineer. Factors of Safety ruin it everytime.
Thanks to you both for some brain-cud to chew on.
I had a PET with 32k! I was the king of the block for close to 2 years. But, hey, that baby got me started in programming (want a game? WRITE a game) those 23ish years ago. Ye gads. I'm OLD.
...runs significantly better on my far-from-stellar system (P4 3.4ghz, 1 gig RAM, Radeon x800).
:P
You're trolling... right?
Far from stellar. Sheesh!
Show off!
Microsoft is a sleeping giant. In the old days, let's call it the "Billic" period, the giant caused a pretty big ruckus. Thrashed about, threatened and stomped on competitors, etc. Remember? It was big, unstoppable, growing daily. The head was becoming the world's richest man, and thus had that extra bit of power besides the forces of momentum of the monstrous company beneath him. When the Bill-head spoke, people listened... for a while. Until things coming out of the Bill-head's mouth stopped making sense and reflecting reality. The final crumble of the Bill-head was the whole DOJ thing. The Bill-head made no sense anymore, and the giant was too long distracted to really worry about. Heck, it had stopped growing too, and drifted into a coma, hadn't it?
Then the Bill-head moved to the left shoulder and the Ballmer-head sprouted above the sternum. The Ballmer-head hasn't made sense at all. Everything the Ballmer-head seems to say is lost the next day. How many times has the giant _said_ it was going to focus on (i.e. crush) something and it not come to pass? The giant's body has actually gone into a coma -- things are still humming along, yet nothing too strenuous or dynamic, and certainly not novel or "run for the hills" earth shattering. The Ballmer- and Bill-heads are still yammering and murmuring though, respectively. The "Ballmeric" period is quite mild compared to the "Billic" period.
Now, let's look at the Apple giant. Yup, they were and are a giant, but for a while there, they were sinking. Really, if they weren't, what was it that Jobs turned around? If it was so swell, why did it not remain status quo? The Jobs-head of the Apple giant was very good at chewing on its extremities and saying the right things at the right times -- called "MacWorlds". It fell off for a while there, but the body lopped off its replacement head and stuck the Jobs-head back on... with some rather hefty glue. Things have been rosey and lickable ever since.
The Microsoft giant could awaken, pop out of its coma, given the right double-decapitation and replacement, but that's a rare event - and a tricky one too. The giant _will_ thrash though. At some point, the coma will cause more atrophy than the body can handle, and the giant will actually get up and _do_ what the head says at the time, with all the force of self-preservation. That could be a big mess or a big welcome change, depending on that whole decapitation thing.
To the media coverage of it all: rarely do journalists rate themselves in the masses. They are the educators, the seers, the guidance of the masses. Thus, they like to think of themselves as _peers_ to the giants. In their minds, elevated to a level noticeable by those giants (pro or con) but still respected by the giants, and definitely a level well above their readership. The giant that suits their personality best and maintains that lofty status will be their bias. Underdog (Linux), slick (Apple), friendly (Google), gynormous (sic - Microsoft)... whatever.
Bottom line, when the giants change, so do the loyalties.