About the cognitive awareness which exists between the leftmost and rightmost appendage of an organism and the unique level to which it doesn't always exist.
This merger frenzy is now creating corporate organisms with an exponentially larger number of hands.
What do we expect?
Maybe Fox can do a special about it and call it "when corporate bureaucracies attack!"
I think the reason Clinton got impeachment proceedings (above and beyond that each political party simply wants to gun the other one down like a sick dog...) was the lying.
Like with an employer, you can break a bunch of rules around the office and may get written up on it, but lie to your boss and let them catch you doing it and you're screwed.
In essence congress was representing the people and ergo Clinton's "boss".
The Bush matters have been sneakier, he's got a team of people who do nothing but make sure there's a way anything he wants to do can be construed into being "legal" on some level. When brought before congress on much of it instead of lying he said "Yep.. i did it.. Here's what I think is the legal precedent to allow me that authority".
If when the Lewenski thing was brought up in front of Congress Bill had said "Yeah, she cockholstered the first wang, and from what I understand you aren't legally entitled to morally or ethically charge me with anything over a blow job" it would have been a world different. Now of course this would have had separate consequences such as actually damaging Hillary's political career in that she would be seen as a woman who couldn't at least keep her man from tagging some intern nookie. And I don't think she was above telling Bill to cover it up for her sake.
But now I'm off in conspiracy theory land and there are others here at Slashdot who are the professionals at that so I will defer to them.
Windows not backwards compatible out of the box? You realize that some of the biggest performance hindrances to windows are all that old legacy code and the desire to support every backwater old piece of hardware possible? Right?
MS doesn't make a bad gaming box, and backwards compatibility is never guaranteed in that field... just hoped for. I personally feel that no matter how evil MS is that doesn't mean they should be subjected to the same abuses that we scream are unjust to everybody else, and I do hope that MS unleashes a torrent of suits on Lucent as a "Oh you wanna play that way?" measure.
I may be wrong, and I know someone will correct me in a witty and sarcastic way if I am, but I think the reason Clinton got in so much trouble was that whole lying to congress part, not the blow job. If getting a blow job is illegal, put me on trial now, I look forward to the testimony.
The question would now be if Bush also lied to Congress, or reported the information he had, which later turned out to be fallacious. If it's the latter then he no more lied to congress than a child losing a spelling bee lied about the correct spelling of something. Prove that he knew one thing and willfully deceived congress by saying something else and it's time for his trial too.
I will admit sometimes in my quiet moments I wonder where my less intrusive, small government minded conservative party went and when it will be coming back..
I think you should officially give up on this one. As mentioned above, Slashdot prefers the retro logo look for people. Heck, Microsoft can't even get an actual LOGO used, they get Bill of Borg as their icon.
Well from my "extensive research" which was that my wife and I tried both. It backs up my assertion that Gameplay > graphics.
So no, I will not say that going for more realistic graphics was the reason EQ2 has failed, but I will say that in playing both I got a feel for where each put their money. Even on the last day she played it my wife confessed that it looked beautiful, but just lacked in actual gameplay. After they supposedly revamed things she tried again and came to the same conclusion a second time.
WoW didn't put their money into "realistic graphics", of course WoW was also helped by the fact that the art style for which it is known is a less realistic and more exaggerated "cartoonish" look.
EQ2 had minor extentions upon the same gameplay concepts they had in EQ, but jacked up the graphics. Which was following the supposed gist of the article in that more realism == better game.
Or in somewhat logical terms:
EQ Graphics > WoW Graphics WoW Gameplay > EQ Gameplay Wow > EQ2 (evidenced by subscriber retention and numbers)
At the moment my wife knows that for any given site I have an account on there's a list of probably account names and a list of probable passwords. A few she remembers the combinations for. These are mostly financial in the case something unforeseen should happen to me (Like the other Illuminati realizing I talk about them on websites).
More and more I see the reality that family websites, and other hosting/presences become heirlooms after time. My in-laws already like that my wife and I put some photos up on a website for them to be able to get to, I can see that expanding. Eventually the family website might be the magical thing that is passed down from matriarch to matriarch within a family the way the photo albums are now. Someday my son or daughter may be maintaining the old site and see blogs I posted and get all misty eyed like I do about the stopwatch my grandfather left to me.
Now my porn? Well that I will be encrypting.. for all the reasons mentioned above.
Person predicts that the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer.
Can we get film at 11?
The biggest problem is that the public demands more from it's games now. It's not good enough to have a great game dynamic build and a fun game, it had better also have cutting edge graphics, professional voiceovers.. and maybe a pony.
First off, I think the recent jump in gas prices and the resulting continued consumption proves that taxing fuel higher won't really deter most people. If the supply really has peaked in production and will go downhill from here normal supply and demand should take care of jacking up the price anyways. No need for government interference there.
Next, If people really want to make a difference then they should. And if they are serious and not just howling with the rest of the conservationist dogs over the topic they shouldn't require a government mandate, huge tax breaks, or anything other than knowing where to buy more efficient items and/or alternative energy systems. Again, no need for the government to stick it's nose in business here.
Personally, I have upgraded appliances in my house over time and bought the most efficient models (even though they cost more) because I believe in the long term savings, as well as benefit to the environment. (And when they say a more efficient AC system will "pay for itself" over a 15 year old system which is still clunking along they usually aren't joking, BTW)
I do have an SUV, but it's a more moderate sized build and gets over 20 mpg (good for one of those). I have it because from time to time I do need to move things around (like going to home depot to buy fertilizer, large items, etc)
Personal opinion of mine would be far more at countries that are ramping up fossil fuel consumption to push their growth agendas. But of course we're the evil American empire and are to blame.. it's OK, I know..
The way I see it there are a few possible outcomes to this. The government is trying to prove that there isn't sufficient software capable of helping parents keep their children away from porn. That is what they're looking for information to prove/disprove.
Beyond the repercussions of them wanting information from ISP's there is a greater question here and that is what will be the outcome? I work in the security and content control industry. I know what's out there, and I have seen how much a parent can lock down a PC , I have helped my friends do it so that they wouldn't have to worry as much about their 5 year old surfing. There are great tools, but it's like direct TV with an almost infinite number of channels, you can only control what you know to look out for.
Let's just say that they do find that there isn't good enough software out there and they decide to legislate the problem. I think this would be a bad idea, but what are they going to do?
a) Implement a national firewall/control system? As much of the traffic comes from inside the nation this would be virtually impossible to put into place.
b) Outlaw pornography on the internet? Hold on while I say HA! Watch how fast some less then identifiable lobbying groups representing certain multi BILLION dollar industries make sure that doesn't happen. Not to mention it would only be able to apply to US companies meaning just like many gambling sites they would move to overseas servers.
c) Some kind of government subsidy to software manufacturers to come up with a technology that can really work. Such as a free content filtering software with a government funded list of porn sites that it would block. (Imagine the job of being paid by the government to FIND PORN so that you could list it.. the mind boggles, but I bet it would pay well)
d) Pass some big wordy and much touted law which would say , much as many laws already do, that distributing porn to a minor is illegal and if we can prove you're doing it.. you're in BIG trouble mister!
I think D is the most likely outcome and what we have here are bureaucrats posturing on the need to look moral in order to win over soccer moms.
You know, this was flagged as funny, but in some ways those are the reasons that when I was young I gravitated towards the Republican Party.
I come from a household where earning your own keep, not being reliant on anybody, and doing the right thing because it was the right thing were just the way you were raised to be. When I was in my formative years politically the Dems were the ones wanting to regulate everything it seemed, wanting to subsidize everything, wanting to build up the welfare state. Those things pushed me Red.
Now I look at the Republicans and see they're just a different flavor of the same problem in many respects. kinda sad.
But back on topic. The government does have the right to ask for things from individuals and companies in the process of investigations. That's what this is about. The question is how broad or narrow those allowed requests are. Also, just finding that software is out there to control this, but that people don't use it won't help this act get defended. Although it might raise the idea of government subsidized spam and content filtering for parents to use. Which annoys me even more as it's something parents should handle up on themselves.
Slipping some away from the much loved and extolled absolute minimist page design to fit some mroe functionality in?
I do agree though, definitely the first step to global domination.
We almost beat razorgore this last week DUE TO the lag. Seems mind controlling him and destroying the eggs was good and the mobs that were supposed to be attacking him weren't. They'd just stand next to him, I suppose hoping the disapproving stares would cause him to stop destroying eggs.
On the other hand, Blizzard has not been above doling out a free day here or there when server issues erupted into full scale cratacularness.
I also strongly suspect AT&T beta/piloting it's "Wouldn't it be a pity if something nasty happened to your precious data?" scalable bandwidth usage plan.
Come to beautiful Iceland and enjoy jetskiing on our lovely LAKE OF FIERY LAVA!
It works for me, should be a sure fire thing to do.
But what happens when they start exporting this energy and in 20 years we're depleting our planets natrual heat supplies? Will this help counteract the global warming being caused by well... depleting our other natrual resources?
When will a celebrity champion this cause so it can finally make sense to me?!?
IMHO , SWG was doomed from the get go. The reason is that they had a great IP to develop a game off of. They had two options they could go for. Either make a game for star wars fans, or make a game for MMORPG players.
They tried to straddle the fence and it cost them. The SW fans didn't feel that this game was any more SW than any other sci fi based MMORPG other than character references and some races. I mean really now, how many beast tamers did you see in the star wars movies? They got a similarly tepid response from MMORPG junkies because it really wasn't anything innovative to the genre and was cursed with some bottability issues.
So they roll out NGE to try to fix this. Problem, the hardcore SW people have already left, and you remake the game to try to be more appeasing to what they're looking for. This annoys the MMORPG people because now it's even less of a game they can get into.
In a perfect world it would have been "Hey, you got Star Wars in my MMORPG! No you got MMORPG in my Star Wars! Hey these are two great tastes that taste great together!!!"
Instead we got "Hey, you got MMORPG in my star wars, and I seem to have gotten some Star wars in your MMORPG, how about we let this Sony person throw it on the ground and piss on it?"
Slashdot Mirror
About the cognitive awareness which exists between the leftmost and rightmost appendage of an organism and the unique level to which it doesn't always exist.
This merger frenzy is now creating corporate organisms with an exponentially larger number of hands.
What do we expect?
Maybe Fox can do a special about it and call it "when corporate bureaucracies attack!"
So now I'll need to write a check to Google each time I yell "HONEY! WHERE ARE MY KEYS?" in the house?
"Can you pound an 8" nail through a board with your penis?"
But better would be
"He has his name on his license plate, my mom used to do that to my underwear.."
"Your mom put license plates on your underwear?"
Possibly my favorite geek centric movie evar...
For those with no Clue.... Val Kilmer has Already done this years ago!
You should also have your social science department pony up and support the cause of Ending Women's Sufferage NOW!
Women have Sufferaged long enouugh, we're a civilized people, we should be able to stop this dead in it's tracks!
(Shamelessly ripped from the Man Show with all due honor given to them for it)
I think the reason Clinton got impeachment proceedings (above and beyond that each political party simply wants to gun the other one down like a sick dog...) was the lying.
Like with an employer, you can break a bunch of rules around the office and may get written up on it, but lie to your boss and let them catch you doing it and you're screwed.
In essence congress was representing the people and ergo Clinton's "boss".
The Bush matters have been sneakier, he's got a team of people who do nothing but make sure there's a way anything he wants to do can be construed into being "legal" on some level. When brought before congress on much of it instead of lying he said "Yep.. i did it.. Here's what I think is the legal precedent to allow me that authority".
If when the Lewenski thing was brought up in front of Congress Bill had said "Yeah, she cockholstered the first wang, and from what I understand you aren't legally entitled to morally or ethically charge me with anything over a blow job" it would have been a world different. Now of course this would have had separate consequences such as actually damaging Hillary's political career in that she would be seen as a woman who couldn't at least keep her man from tagging some intern nookie. And I don't think she was above telling Bill to cover it up for her sake.
But now I'm off in conspiracy theory land and there are others here at Slashdot who are the professionals at that so I will defer to them.
Windows not backwards compatible out of the box? You realize that some of the biggest performance hindrances to windows are all that old legacy code and the desire to support every backwater old piece of hardware possible? Right?
MS doesn't make a bad gaming box, and backwards compatibility is never guaranteed in that field... just hoped for. I personally feel that no matter how evil MS is that doesn't mean they should be subjected to the same abuses that we scream are unjust to everybody else, and I do hope that MS unleashes a torrent of suits on Lucent as a "Oh you wanna play that way?" measure.
I may be wrong, and I know someone will correct me in a witty and sarcastic way if I am, but I think the reason Clinton got in so much trouble was that whole lying to congress part, not the blow job. If getting a blow job is illegal, put me on trial now, I look forward to the testimony.
The question would now be if Bush also lied to Congress, or reported the information he had, which later turned out to be fallacious. If it's the latter then he no more lied to congress than a child losing a spelling bee lied about the correct spelling of something. Prove that he knew one thing and willfully deceived congress by saying something else and it's time for his trial too.
I will admit sometimes in my quiet moments I wonder where my less intrusive, small government minded conservative party went and when it will be coming back..
From personal experience.. "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" stops working when people hit puberty and figure out some key things.
I think you should officially give up on this one. As mentioned above, Slashdot prefers the retro logo look for people. Heck, Microsoft can't even get an actual LOGO used, they get Bill of Borg as their icon.
embrace the old skool.
Well from my "extensive research" which was that my wife and I tried both. It backs up my assertion that Gameplay > graphics.
So no, I will not say that going for more realistic graphics was the reason EQ2 has failed, but I will say that in playing both I got a feel for where each put their money. Even on the last day she played it my wife confessed that it looked beautiful, but just lacked in actual gameplay. After they supposedly revamed things she tried again and came to the same conclusion a second time.
WoW didn't put their money into "realistic graphics", of course WoW was also helped by the fact that the art style for which it is known is a less realistic and more exaggerated "cartoonish" look.
EQ2 had minor extentions upon the same gameplay concepts they had in EQ, but jacked up the graphics. Which was following the supposed gist of the article in that more realism == better game.
Or in somewhat logical terms:
EQ Graphics > WoW Graphics
WoW Gameplay > EQ Gameplay
Wow > EQ2 (evidenced by subscriber retention and numbers)
Ergo
Gameplay > Graphics
Of all the MMORPGs out right now, the one doing best (WoW) is the one which specifically went for a less "realistic" look and feel to it's design.
EQ2 for instance went for the "make things look more real" approach, and look where they are.
At the moment my wife knows that for any given site I have an account on there's a list of probably account names and a list of probable passwords. A few she remembers the combinations for. These are mostly financial in the case something unforeseen should happen to me (Like the other Illuminati realizing I talk about them on websites).
More and more I see the reality that family websites, and other hosting/presences become heirlooms after time. My in-laws already like that my wife and I put some photos up on a website for them to be able to get to, I can see that expanding. Eventually the family website might be the magical thing that is passed down from matriarch to matriarch within a family the way the photo albums are now. Someday my son or daughter may be maintaining the old site and see blogs I posted and get all misty eyed like I do about the stopwatch my grandfather left to me.
Now my porn? Well that I will be encrypting.. for all the reasons mentioned above.
Pick up the Windown XP CD and strike down your Mac OS... then your journey to the dark side, will be complete.
There's a shocker!
Person predicts that the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer.
Can we get film at 11?
The biggest problem is that the public demands more from it's games now. It's not good enough to have a great game dynamic build and a fun game, it had better also have cutting edge graphics, professional voiceovers.. and maybe a pony.
A spoon full of sugar (/w gold nanoparticles) helps the ricin go down? the ricin go down.. the ricin go down??
(Shameless theft of riff from and apologies to Mary Poppins)
First off, I think the recent jump in gas prices and the resulting continued consumption proves that taxing fuel higher won't really deter most people. If the supply really has peaked in production and will go downhill from here normal supply and demand should take care of jacking up the price anyways. No need for government interference there. Next, If people really want to make a difference then they should. And if they are serious and not just howling with the rest of the conservationist dogs over the topic they shouldn't require a government mandate, huge tax breaks, or anything other than knowing where to buy more efficient items and/or alternative energy systems. Again, no need for the government to stick it's nose in business here. Personally, I have upgraded appliances in my house over time and bought the most efficient models (even though they cost more) because I believe in the long term savings, as well as benefit to the environment. (And when they say a more efficient AC system will "pay for itself" over a 15 year old system which is still clunking along they usually aren't joking, BTW) I do have an SUV, but it's a more moderate sized build and gets over 20 mpg (good for one of those). I have it because from time to time I do need to move things around (like going to home depot to buy fertilizer, large items, etc) Personal opinion of mine would be far more at countries that are ramping up fossil fuel consumption to push their growth agendas. But of course we're the evil American empire and are to blame.. it's OK, I know..
The way I see it there are a few possible outcomes to this. The government is trying to prove that there isn't sufficient software capable of helping parents keep their children away from porn. That is what they're looking for information to prove/disprove.
Beyond the repercussions of them wanting information from ISP's there is a greater question here and that is what will be the outcome? I work in the security and content control industry. I know what's out there, and I have seen how much a parent can lock down a PC , I have helped my friends do it so that they wouldn't have to worry as much about their 5 year old surfing. There are great tools, but it's like direct TV with an almost infinite number of channels, you can only control what you know to look out for.
Let's just say that they do find that there isn't good enough software out there and they decide to legislate the problem. I think this would be a bad idea, but what are they going to do?
a) Implement a national firewall/control system? As much of the traffic comes from inside the nation this would be virtually impossible to put into place.
b) Outlaw pornography on the internet? Hold on while I say HA! Watch how fast some less then identifiable lobbying groups representing certain multi BILLION dollar industries make sure that doesn't happen. Not to mention it would only be able to apply to US companies meaning just like many gambling sites they would move to overseas servers.
c) Some kind of government subsidy to software manufacturers to come up with a technology that can really work. Such as a free content filtering software with a government funded list of porn sites that it would block. (Imagine the job of being paid by the government to FIND PORN so that you could list it.. the mind boggles, but I bet it would pay well)
d) Pass some big wordy and much touted law which would say , much as many laws already do, that distributing porn to a minor is illegal and if we can prove you're doing it.. you're in BIG trouble mister!
I think D is the most likely outcome and what we have here are bureaucrats posturing on the need to look moral in order to win over soccer moms.
You know, this was flagged as funny, but in some ways those are the reasons that when I was young I gravitated towards the Republican Party.
I come from a household where earning your own keep, not being reliant on anybody, and doing the right thing because it was the right thing were just the way you were raised to be. When I was in my formative years politically the Dems were the ones wanting to regulate everything it seemed, wanting to subsidize everything, wanting to build up the welfare state. Those things pushed me Red.
Now I look at the Republicans and see they're just a different flavor of the same problem in many respects. kinda sad.
But back on topic. The government does have the right to ask for things from individuals and companies in the process of investigations. That's what this is about. The question is how broad or narrow those allowed requests are. Also, just finding that software is out there to control this, but that people don't use it won't help this act get defended. Although it might raise the idea of government subsidized spam and content filtering for parents to use. Which annoys me even more as it's something parents should handle up on themselves.
But that's just MHO and YMMV.
Um... that's not oil they're extracting there Tex.
Wasn't this story posted with a significantly different slant less than an hour ago?
So basically MIT has developed.. um.. Booze
Oh wait, that would be a mesication, would the device be shot glasses?
Slipping some away from the much loved and extolled absolute minimist page design to fit some mroe functionality in? I do agree though, definitely the first step to global domination.
We almost beat razorgore this last week DUE TO the lag. Seems mind controlling him and destroying the eggs was good and the mobs that were supposed to be attacking him weren't. They'd just stand next to him, I suppose hoping the disapproving stares would cause him to stop destroying eggs. On the other hand, Blizzard has not been above doling out a free day here or there when server issues erupted into full scale cratacularness. I also strongly suspect AT&T beta/piloting it's "Wouldn't it be a pity if something nasty happened to your precious data?" scalable bandwidth usage plan.
Ah yes... I can see it now.
Come to beautiful Iceland and enjoy jetskiing on our lovely LAKE OF FIERY LAVA!
It works for me, should be a sure fire thing to do.
But what happens when they start exporting this energy and in 20 years we're depleting our planets natrual heat supplies? Will this help counteract the global warming being caused by well... depleting our other natrual resources?
When will a celebrity champion this cause so it can finally make sense to me?!?
IMHO , SWG was doomed from the get go. The reason is that they had a great IP to develop a game off of. They had two options they could go for. Either make a game for star wars fans, or make a game for MMORPG players. They tried to straddle the fence and it cost them. The SW fans didn't feel that this game was any more SW than any other sci fi based MMORPG other than character references and some races. I mean really now, how many beast tamers did you see in the star wars movies? They got a similarly tepid response from MMORPG junkies because it really wasn't anything innovative to the genre and was cursed with some bottability issues. So they roll out NGE to try to fix this. Problem, the hardcore SW people have already left, and you remake the game to try to be more appeasing to what they're looking for. This annoys the MMORPG people because now it's even less of a game they can get into. In a perfect world it would have been "Hey, you got Star Wars in my MMORPG! No you got MMORPG in my Star Wars! Hey these are two great tastes that taste great together!!!" Instead we got "Hey, you got MMORPG in my star wars, and I seem to have gotten some Star wars in your MMORPG, how about we let this Sony person throw it on the ground and piss on it?"