I think that was just the price for one Sony PS3, twenty games, a HDTV, a set of speakers, and enough weed and pop to last the control group occupied until Clinton is Elected in '08;-)
Now I'm a liberal, and proud of it. Why am I a liberal? I like the whole liberty thing. But, Hillary and Joe don't seem to get that. Sure I don't want a big company selling harmful products, but lets please separate ones views of decency from harm.
In this article, they do talk about the CDC, and that is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. So, why this study? Is it to make sure the new Nintendo controller is ergonomically safe? I doubt it! It's to grab some of them "values-voters."
The government created rating system for the movies harms the creativity of the movies. To make sure the box office gets the max income, producers will curb the language, so the movie can earn a PG-13 stamp. At the same time, I'm an adult who likes adult issues and situations, but all of my R rated movies have sex scenes that are about as original as American cheese. They all look the same. Don't ruin the new media forms before they hit their potential.
Seriously, if the CDC is going to spend 90 Million plus USD to study the effects of gamming, why don't they study the effects that my monitor has on my vision. I don't care if someone else's child is going to be harmed by playing a game that their parents shouldn't have let them have in the first place. I do care about creative artwork... Artwork that isn't censored or cheese.
I think that if the Senate did a honest research of gamming and children, they would find that children who play video games are going to be faster, smarter, brighter, and will excel in every area... except maybe with the women.
Reminds me of a simple hack I did a few months ago...
I wrote a script to generate timely blog-news results. I read the headlines from the Google News rss feed. Then I put the headlines into a Google Blogsearch, and read the rss feed for the first result. The results from the blog search are often timely news headlines.
You can see working code (php) at my weblog (with a working example in the sidebar). (sorry I have ads on this site) http://slipgrid.net/about-weblog-news/
You can also see a working example at my news agg... no ads here... The ones generated by this method are gray. http://freepress.slipgrid.net/
When they see it on p2p networks, they will read the watermark, and trace it to a customer, so they can sue them for the cost of the song times one quadrillion.
How does this help?
Well, it doesn't. It only gives customers another reason to *not* buy the song.
Doesn't Google block some searches in the USA? I've seen the message that says results were blocked because of the DMCA. I know that you can also report DMCA violations to Google, and maybe get them to block them.
Um...no. Owning an iPod and knowing how to use it doesn't make you a geek. Knowing how to use your Windows smartphone doesn't make you a geek. Discussing mobile phone design doesn't make you a geek, because from tfa, I don't think they were talking about protocols or other engineering aspects. Even knowing how to synchronize your email with your smartphone doesn't make you a geek. It makes you a slave, but not a geek.
Yeah, but some teen who wants to *fit-in* with the geeky kids, might buy these things thanking it helps. It's like when you were in high school, and saw that guy walking about with a tie dye Dead shirt on. He wasn't a hippy, and likly never found a Dead song that he liked, and never when to the show, but he did buy a tie dye shirt. Very trendy.
Now, I've got a cs degree, and I know I geek my friends out with blab that they don't care about, but I don't own an iPod because of the DRM issues. Some people might say that someone who won't buy an iPod because of the DRM issues is a bigger geek than someone who owns them. However, the article is making a point. It does't matter if these people have any geek-cred. It's obvious that they want that geek-cred, just like the dude with the tie dye shirt.
People should understand that a computer can only do a few things. It will read data, write data, some i/o, and some processing.
I wish one of my clients could understand that an ip address is like a phone number. If he has a hosted and remote server running his email with one domain name, that he can't run a webserver at his office using the same domain name.
Boole's and Shannon's insight is that all information about a comptuer problem can be expressed using only two nouns. They are zero and one, or on and off, or high-voltage and low-voltage.
I wish people were not scared of their computer. Many people never learn to use a computer well, because they are afraid they will break it.
GUI does not equal Windows!
Updates are important!
IE does not equal Internet!
Many people can't tell when they are online and when they are not.
MS is not your friend... so stop giving them money
I think the public should know more about DRM issues and patent issues.
I'm just waiting for the Flat Earthiers and "conservatives" to explain why the government should run search engines to wade through the phone calls of citizens without warrant; or, will it be the normal "six degrees of separation from Bin Laden" explanations.
Sorry mods, someone has to say it. Give my karma points to the American citizens.
Anyway, the French government may have something interesting to add to this. Google had two kids on a mission to inform, who happened to realize that if the Internet is a popularity contest, the winner would be the most link-able. The government's may not have had the insight to develop Page Rank, but I'm sure they've spent many years trying to translate voice to text. I'd imaging the world governments might also be able to do a good bit of image recognition. Don't you think the US has this, or something close, on their droids. Some of this government technology, if it exist (and I have to believe it does and the NSA is using it), could be very profitable when added to a search engine. And if France has already developed it, then maybe they will have a step up on the competition.
Also, has anyone else every gotten bugged out by the name gmail? Though I know better (or not), I can't help but get spooked sometimes. It seems that it could somehow relates to GovernmentMAIL. Ok, that's just silly. At least I know I earned my -1 karma mod this time.
Well, I believe that both our environment and our governments are much more fragile than many would like to admit.
You state that, "if we do something so bad that billions will perish, we won't be able to continue doing 'harm; and the planet will recuperate itself," as if that should comfort a population facing extinction. The article is saying that we've already done something so bad that billions will perish; here's how you can increase your chances of surviving. Nuclear war would cause major catastrophes, but what is the side effect of nuclear waste. Here's a map of nuclear reactors in the US. That waste creates hot spots that are buried around our globe. We can keep the sealed for some time, but not forever. And what happens to that waste if humans are no longer able to maintain it (to keep it sealed). The globe will become inhabitable by anything that can't handle high amounts of radiation.
You say that anything we do slowly to the environment will be quickly absorbed, as if the environment is some sort of sponge. Well, I'm sure that James Lovelock would say that we haven't done damage slowly, but very quickly. Many, many tons of greenhouse gasses in a period of 30 years.
The chaotic anarchy that Mr. Lovelock addresses is not global war. You can have large scale war with very primitive weapons, but you can not have large scale war without a large population. I believe Mr. Lovelock is suggesting that you will have wild anarchy in the areas where people survive.
The idea that war requires democracy is silly. War has been around long before people got the vote, and war continues though we don't have any true democracies on the planet.
You say, "we should work at arming our own households, investing in bountiful properties, creating communities of people who love one another but are no adverse to profit or personal gain." Why are your household of you don't fear a Mad Max type ending? Why buy bountiful properties, other than to develop them and make money? Do you want to create communities that love one another, or communities where people fear one another. It seems like you, as many misguided conservative, are promoting a form of corporate democracy. One where the people with the arms, or the people with the land, or the people with the money, rule. It seems like you believe you have little control of the environment.
You start your post by saying, "and people think us Christ followers are bonkers." What troubles me, is a group of Christian who believe that the Earth is just a middle point for us, and that we don't need to take care of it from an environmental stand point, because at some time doomsday will come, and the Earth will be left for the sinners, and you will rise to some better place. That would be a bonkers excuse to not care about the environment. It also seems like an excuse used by many Christian Conservatives to not take care of the environment.
Furthermore, you should understand the power of our environment. For the first time since the civil war, a major US city was destroyed, and not by war mind you, but by weather. A major factor effecting our economy is the price of power. The factors behind this are environmental in nature. I could even say that your views are shaped by the environment. You live in a comfortable climate, or if you don't, you have AC. Every time you try to breath, airs around. Every business deal you make that involves environmental policy, cost you money. Every business deal you make that doesn't involve environmental policy, makes you money. Regardless, you still have air to breath. It seems possible that environmental incentives have shaped the conservative views you express.
I disagree with this article. I find Google Video to be wildlyentertaining. They provide endless amounts of entertainment without charge. Yeah it would be nice if the people who hold the video would give us complete access to it, but Google Video just provides a way to share. I've never bought anything from the site and I think the prices are high. But, Google just provides the way to share, and the market should work the prices out. I also like that when you visit the site, you don't feel like they are pressuring you to buy something.
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My cubicles walls help give me more free time to spend on Slashdot... And, that's Stuff that Matters...
I think that was just the price for one Sony PS3, twenty games, a HDTV, a set of speakers, and enough weed and pop to last the control group occupied until Clinton is Elected in '08;-)
Now I'm a liberal, and proud of it. Why am I a liberal? I like the whole liberty thing. But, Hillary and Joe don't seem to get that. Sure I don't want a big company selling harmful products, but lets please separate ones views of decency from harm.
In this article, they do talk about the CDC, and that is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. So, why this study? Is it to make sure the new Nintendo controller is ergonomically safe? I doubt it! It's to grab some of them "values-voters."
The government created rating system for the movies harms the creativity of the movies. To make sure the box office gets the max income, producers will curb the language, so the movie can earn a PG-13 stamp. At the same time, I'm an adult who likes adult issues and situations, but all of my R rated movies have sex scenes that are about as original as American cheese. They all look the same. Don't ruin the new media forms before they hit their potential.
Seriously, if the CDC is going to spend 90 Million plus USD to study the effects of gamming, why don't they study the effects that my monitor has on my vision. I don't care if someone else's child is going to be harmed by playing a game that their parents shouldn't have let them have in the first place. I do care about creative artwork... Artwork that isn't censored or cheese.
I think that if the Senate did a honest research of gamming and children, they would find that children who play video games are going to be faster, smarter, brighter, and will excel in every area... except maybe with the women.
Reminds me of a simple hack I did a few months ago...
//something like this... //20 results
I wrote a script to generate timely blog-news results. I read the headlines from the Google News rss feed. Then I put the headlines into a Google Blogsearch, and read the rss feed for the first result. The results from the blog search are often timely news headlines.
while( googleNewsRss->headlines){
googleBlogSearchRSS(googleNewsRss->headlines, limit = 1)
}
You can see working code (php) at my weblog (with a working example in the sidebar). (sorry I have ads on this site)
http://slipgrid.net/about-weblog-news/
You can also see a working example at my news agg... no ads here... The ones generated by this method are gray.
http://freepress.slipgrid.net/
OK, so you tag downloads. Now what?
When they see it on p2p networks, they will read the watermark, and trace it to a customer, so they can sue them for the cost of the song times one quadrillion.
How does this help?
Well, it doesn't. It only gives customers another reason to *not* buy the song.
Doesn't Google block some searches in the USA? I've seen the message that says results were blocked because of the DMCA. I know that you can also report DMCA violations to Google, and maybe get them to block them.
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it. --Cray Seymore
Um...no. Owning an iPod and knowing how to use it doesn't make you a geek. Knowing how to use your Windows smartphone doesn't make you a geek. Discussing mobile phone design doesn't make you a geek, because from tfa, I don't think they were talking about protocols or other engineering aspects. Even knowing how to synchronize your email with your smartphone doesn't make you a geek. It makes you a slave, but not a geek.
Yeah, but some teen who wants to *fit-in* with the geeky kids, might buy these things thanking it helps. It's like when you were in high school, and saw that guy walking about with a tie dye Dead shirt on. He wasn't a hippy, and likly never found a Dead song that he liked, and never when to the show, but he did buy a tie dye shirt. Very trendy.
Now, I've got a cs degree, and I know I geek my friends out with blab that they don't care about, but I don't own an iPod because of the DRM issues. Some people might say that someone who won't buy an iPod because of the DRM issues is a bigger geek than someone who owns them. However, the article is making a point. It does't matter if these people have any geek-cred. It's obvious that they want that geek-cred, just like the dude with the tie dye shirt.
People should understand that a computer can only do a few things. It will read data, write data, some i/o, and some processing.
I wish one of my clients could understand that an ip address is like a phone number. If he has a hosted and remote server running his email with one domain name, that he can't run a webserver at his office using the same domain name.
Boole's and Shannon's insight is that all information about a comptuer problem can be expressed using only two nouns. They are zero and one, or on and off, or high-voltage and low-voltage.
I wish people were not scared of their computer. Many people never learn to use a computer well, because they are afraid they will break it.
GUI does not equal Windows!
Updates are important!
IE does not equal Internet!
Many people can't tell when they are online and when they are not.
MS is not your friend... so stop giving them money
I think the public should know more about DRM issues and patent issues.
I could go on, but...
I'm just waiting for the Flat Earthiers and "conservatives" to explain why the government should run search engines to wade through the phone calls of citizens without warrant; or, will it be the normal "six degrees of separation from Bin Laden" explanations.
Sorry mods, someone has to say it. Give my karma points to the American citizens.
Anyway, the French government may have something interesting to add to this. Google had two kids on a mission to inform, who happened to realize that if the Internet is a popularity contest, the winner would be the most link-able. The government's may not have had the insight to develop Page Rank, but I'm sure they've spent many years trying to translate voice to text. I'd imaging the world governments might also be able to do a good bit of image recognition. Don't you think the US has this, or something close, on their droids. Some of this government technology, if it exist (and I have to believe it does and the NSA is using it), could be very profitable when added to a search engine. And if France has already developed it, then maybe they will have a step up on the competition.
Also, has anyone else every gotten bugged out by the name gmail? Though I know better (or not), I can't help but get spooked sometimes. It seems that it could somehow relates to GovernmentMAIL. Ok, that's just silly. At least I know I earned my -1 karma mod this time.
Well, I believe that both our environment and our governments are much more fragile than many would like to admit.
You state that, "if we do something so bad that billions will perish, we won't be able to continue doing 'harm; and the planet will recuperate itself," as if that should comfort a population facing extinction. The article is saying that we've already done something so bad that billions will perish; here's how you can increase your chances of surviving. Nuclear war would cause major catastrophes, but what is the side effect of nuclear waste. Here's a map of nuclear reactors in the US. That waste creates hot spots that are buried around our globe. We can keep the sealed for some time, but not forever. And what happens to that waste if humans are no longer able to maintain it (to keep it sealed). The globe will become inhabitable by anything that can't handle high amounts of radiation.
You say that anything we do slowly to the environment will be quickly absorbed, as if the environment is some sort of sponge. Well, I'm sure that James Lovelock would say that we haven't done damage slowly, but very quickly. Many, many tons of greenhouse gasses in a period of 30 years.
The chaotic anarchy that Mr. Lovelock addresses is not global war. You can have large scale war with very primitive weapons, but you can not have large scale war without a large population. I believe Mr. Lovelock is suggesting that you will have wild anarchy in the areas where people survive.
The idea that war requires democracy is silly. War has been around long before people got the vote, and war continues though we don't have any true democracies on the planet.
You say, "we should work at arming our own households, investing in bountiful properties, creating communities of people who love one another but are no adverse to profit or personal gain." Why are your household of you don't fear a Mad Max type ending? Why buy bountiful properties, other than to develop them and make money? Do you want to create communities that love one another, or communities where people fear one another. It seems like you, as many misguided conservative, are promoting a form of corporate democracy. One where the people with the arms, or the people with the land, or the people with the money, rule. It seems like you believe you have little control of the environment.
You start your post by saying, "and people think us Christ followers are bonkers." What troubles me, is a group of Christian who believe that the Earth is just a middle point for us, and that we don't need to take care of it from an environmental stand point, because at some time doomsday will come, and the Earth will be left for the sinners, and you will rise to some better place. That would be a bonkers excuse to not care about the environment. It also seems like an excuse used by many Christian Conservatives to not take care of the environment.
Furthermore, you should understand the power of our environment. For the first time since the civil war, a major US city was destroyed, and not by war mind you, but by weather. A major factor effecting our economy is the price of power. The factors behind this are environmental in nature. I could even say that your views are shaped by the environment. You live in a comfortable climate, or if you don't, you have AC. Every time you try to breath, airs around. Every business deal you make that involves environmental policy, cost you money. Every business deal you make that doesn't involve environmental policy, makes you money. Regardless, you still have air to breath. It seems possible that environmental incentives have shaped the conservative views you express.
I disagree with this article. I find Google Video to be wildly entertaining. They provide endless amounts of entertainment without charge. Yeah it would be nice if the people who hold the video would give us complete access to it, but Google Video just provides a way to share. I've never bought anything from the site and I think the prices are high. But, Google just provides the way to share, and the market should work the prices out. I also like that when you visit the site, you don't feel like they are pressuring you to buy something.
You know on Star Trek Next Gen, they always ask questions into the air, and a computer responds. I always though that was what Google is building.
So, where's the MSN spaces server located?
If the server's in the US, then they have no legal reason to take the blog down.
If the server's in China, then maybe they should move it back to the US, and then not take the weblog down.
Keep the Internet open... and don't use products from companies that will censor you.