I know a few of us are working on alternative proposals for the team. They gave it the good freshman try, but there are plenty of designers that use the software that will step up to the challenge.
First to go -- Yellow background and floating picture...:)
I easily spent that ($182 for WoW) going to see one movie a month with my wife last year ($10 per ticket, 2 tickets, 12 months) or around 24 hours of entertainment. For the same amount of money I had somewhere in the range of 1000 hours of game play in WoW (20 hours a week, 52 weeks).
Online gaming is AMAZINGLY cheap for the total entertainment value you can gain from it. Even if you played 1/10th as much as that, you are still getting 5x the value of seeing the newest Hollywood blockbuster once per month.
Just think of the distributed processing potential of the Los Angeles Basin! Millions upon millions of SETI cycles can be run just by the denizens of Santa Monica's 3rd Street Promonade. Drug research and nuclear explosion test data pulled from The Valley at an amazing clip.
And people say that the owners of these devices are airheads. Nay! These are the future foremothers of the next great technological revolution -- GLDPs (Gonad Localized Distributed Processing). I for one applaud these persons of the technical cusp!
Most likely, significantly less than $25 million. 500 employees would result in considerably more overhead, and as it appears they are able to handle all the relevant tasks with 21, what would 500 accomplish?
Following news of the explosion of a minor star in one of its undeveloped quadrants, stock of the Milky Way Galaxy (MWG) on the Interstellar Stock Market sees a slight dip in price, followed by a rebound.
My guess is the 30,000 accounts is an approximation was rounded up/down to make it an easy number to remember. The same with the 30mil, which could be 32mil, or 28mil.
Buy a game console for its games. Buy a media player for its media playing abilities. Let's stop encouraging the console makers to bloat their consoles. Concentrate on one thing and--for the love of the game--get it right!
While this seems apparent to you or I, for some reason those in the marketing departments of major companies really do think that more is more. I agree with your sentiment, and will second the right is better notion.
I am hedging my bets that the concept of due-process will eventually be up for a Senate referendum on its legality. I hope to hell I am wrong, but with the way that our government works, I don't rule out anything.:(
Currently, from my understanding (and there very well could be examples that I just don't know about), our Court system does not allow for people to be found guilty of crimes today that were not crimes when they were committed in the past.
That doesn't mean that it won't be changed in the future -- but I hope to whatever god oversees legal due process that even the lawyers would line up to defend against those wanting to change it.
You bring up a good point. And it is a slippery slope when talking about the survelliance and analysis of populations. I do agree with you, and am usually the first to throw up the caution flag when discussing personal liberties. However, there is a jump in level between what I post on a public website by my own hand, and cameras in the sky that monitor where I walk (though our compatriots in the London already have to deal with this).
You mention Payback schemes, by which I assume you mean "savings cards" say for cash-back on gas, or discounts on groceries (if I misunderstood, my apologies, as the rest won't apply). How do you pay for your gas or purchases? If it is with cash, then you can be relatively sure that it isn't trackable. But if you are putting it on your VISA checkcard, then not participating in the payback program really doesn't matter -- if the government wanted to find out what you purchased, the probably could by going through your purchase records on your digital money.
On MySpace, I am independently wealthy, married to *two* supermodels, and have so much Slashdot karma that I have infinite mod points.
Because, as we all know, no one lies on the Internet.:)
In all seriousness though, there is a difference between the NSA parsing MySpace pages and the NSA pulling down phone records. It's my fault if I put anything on the social sites that could be used against me in the future (see: retarded bank robbers who post pictures of their "loot" with masks off on their MySpace pages) as the site is public by its very definition (well, the publicly non-friend sections that is). My phone records on the other hand, are private.
Data mine all you want, I don't think it will give you that much information. That is, other than how not to style a webpage.
My wife went this route after she had a number of jewelery items removed from her bag on a flight from Miami to DC. Granted, it wasn't smart of her to put the small jewelery case inside her checked baggage, but in all honesty, those bags *should* be protected and safe.
We filed all necessary paperwork, talked to numerous TSA agents via the phone, and followed up diligently. We finally contacted a small claims lawyer who sent a letter requesting a full audit of the investigation, or a check for the declared amount.
This happened in 2003.
We still have not heard back from the TSA, and "we are still researching" is the SOP for anyone we talk to. Now, I don't know what the customer service SLAs for most of the businesses that/.s work for are off the top of my head, but 2.5+ years seems out of the norm to me.
Good point, but I will back up Apple because I have become acustom to iTMS and my iPod. With this new MTV venture, they have no track record to convince me to move formats. My guess is that I am not the only one that feels this way.
Assuming a $15k price tag on the Wii, I would purchase it if the VR/sensory Manga expansion was included in the base package.
Granted, no one who came to visit would be allowed to see it though!
While it is a stretch to use these numbers to try to discern the demographic from the NSA survey, here is a past survey breakdown from a Washington Post telephone pool. This was taken in Dec.
Oh crap, my constituents are upset again about something. Let's knee-jerk a bill together that is ill-defined and problematic. God knows it won't ever pass, but it looks like we did something!
F.E.A.R. on a P1 with a TNT video card wouldn't look that bad if the sole function of the cards were to play the game.
On a computer it would be unplayable, in a console it would work, might not be pretty, but it would work.
But comparing the Wii to a P1 based solely on clock speed vs. the "faster" PS3 and XBox360 is nowhere near accurate. Isn't the PowerPC processor in the Wii RISC vs. the CISC processor in the 360? I don't know about the PS3 unfortunately.
Now, I know you're trolling. There are plenty of moderate muslims. This is the same as saying that all American are Bible-Thumping-Christians, when we damned well know that it isn't true.
I don't think it was a troll. It is a war against Islamic fanatics. It is not a war against Islamic moderates. Just as actions during WWII against Italy were against the facist government running the country, and not italian peasants living outside Rome. There was certainly collateral damage done to the populus that wasn't involved in the politics of the country however.
Islam isn't the problem. But people with adgendas that would twist the words of the Prophet Muhammad to fit their narrow-minded views on the world. Christians have the same problem, as the most vocal subset tends to be the most reactionary. The main difference is that as of today, they haven't resorted to car bombs and dynamite vests in the United States. We could talk about Ireland however...
I am still trying to find a politican that can tell me what we are being protected from. And where all this tax money is going for "protection".
The minute people realize that military might and security is better suited to pre-emptively strike, or to reactively defend, vs. constant vigilance, the easier it will be for them to stop worrying about what may happen. This isn't to say that spending money on intelligence services to attempt to keep abreast of developing situations is bad, but even with a perfectly unbueracratic government, with infinite funds, you can't be aware of everything, all the time.
Didn't people read 1984? Though, even Winston was discovered in the end -- but it was because of Julia!
The fact that it is happening, under the auspices of "safety and security" are more frightening than whatever bits of information that the NSA has on me due to the tracked phone calls.
The essential liberty that Franklin talks about isn't the "essential right to private phone calls", that much is true. However, you do the the essential right to a law-abiding government elected by you, to protect you.
When the government is in violation of the laws that THEY enacted, as a proxy for the laws WE wanted, something is wrong -- and it is time to question if they are acting in the interest of the consituents they are sworn to protect.
Jefferson's quote about the tree of liberty is far more applicable than Franklin's.
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I know a few of us are working on alternative proposals for the team. They gave it the good freshman try, but there are plenty of designers that use the software that will step up to the challenge.
:)
First to go -- Yellow background and floating picture...
Probably because the BBB is really nothing more than an organization founded to extort from businesses a form of "protection" money.
Online gaming is AMAZINGLY cheap for the total entertainment value you can gain from it. Even if you played 1/10th as much as that, you are still getting 5x the value of seeing the newest Hollywood blockbuster once per month.
And people say that the owners of these devices are airheads. Nay! These are the future foremothers of the next great technological revolution -- GLDPs (Gonad Localized Distributed Processing). I for one applaud these persons of the technical cusp!
Lol. I agree. And that's what I get for a quick read and reply while trying to do two different other things :)
Most likely, significantly less than $25 million. 500 employees would result in considerably more overhead, and as it appears they are able to handle all the relevant tasks with 21, what would 500 accomplish?
Following news of the explosion of a minor star in one of its undeveloped quadrants, stock of the Milky Way Galaxy (MWG) on the Interstellar Stock Market sees a slight dip in price, followed by a rebound.
My guess is the 30,000 accounts is an approximation was rounded up/down to make it an easy number to remember. The same with the 30mil, which could be 32mil, or 28mil.
Help us John Connor. You are our only hope!
Quite the connundrum then. The vigilant distrust for all things DRM-related, or the satisfaction of midget on midget fetish porn, with ponies.
:)
Sometimes the Internet isn't all it was cracked up to be -- with moral decisions such as that.
While this seems apparent to you or I, for some reason those in the marketing departments of major companies really do think that more is more. I agree with your sentiment, and will second the right is better notion.
I am hedging my bets that the concept of due-process will eventually be up for a Senate referendum on its legality. I hope to hell I am wrong, but with the way that our government works, I don't rule out anything. :(
Currently, from my understanding (and there very well could be examples that I just don't know about), our Court system does not allow for people to be found guilty of crimes today that were not crimes when they were committed in the past.
That doesn't mean that it won't be changed in the future -- but I hope to whatever god oversees legal due process that even the lawyers would line up to defend against those wanting to change it.
You mention Payback schemes, by which I assume you mean "savings cards" say for cash-back on gas, or discounts on groceries (if I misunderstood, my apologies, as the rest won't apply). How do you pay for your gas or purchases? If it is with cash, then you can be relatively sure that it isn't trackable. But if you are putting it on your VISA checkcard, then not participating in the payback program really doesn't matter -- if the government wanted to find out what you purchased, the probably could by going through your purchase records on your digital money.
Because, as we all know, no one lies on the Internet. :)
In all seriousness though, there is a difference between the NSA parsing MySpace pages and the NSA pulling down phone records. It's my fault if I put anything on the social sites that could be used against me in the future (see: retarded bank robbers who post pictures of their "loot" with masks off on their MySpace pages) as the site is public by its very definition (well, the publicly non-friend sections that is). My phone records on the other hand, are private.
Data mine all you want, I don't think it will give you that much information. That is, other than how not to style a webpage.
We filed all necessary paperwork, talked to numerous TSA agents via the phone, and followed up diligently. We finally contacted a small claims lawyer who sent a letter requesting a full audit of the investigation, or a check for the declared amount.
This happened in 2003.
We still have not heard back from the TSA, and "we are still researching" is the SOP for anyone we talk to. Now, I don't know what the customer service SLAs for most of the businesses that /.s work for are off the top of my head, but 2.5+ years seems out of the norm to me.
You do recall what happened with beamed microwave power sources from SimCity, don't you?
Good point, but I will back up Apple because I have become acustom to iTMS and my iPod. With this new MTV venture, they have no track record to convince me to move formats. My guess is that I am not the only one that feels this way.
Assuming a $15k price tag on the Wii, I would purchase it if the VR/sensory Manga expansion was included in the base package. Granted, no one who came to visit would be allowed to see it though!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/poll s/121905_demotrend.pdf
I am going to assume that it was a similar random distribution. (which the follow up to your initial post notes)
Oh crap, my constituents are upset again about something. Let's knee-jerk a bill together that is ill-defined and problematic. God knows it won't ever pass, but it looks like we did something!
On a computer it would be unplayable, in a console it would work, might not be pretty, but it would work.
But comparing the Wii to a P1 based solely on clock speed vs. the "faster" PS3 and XBox360 is nowhere near accurate. Isn't the PowerPC processor in the Wii RISC vs. the CISC processor in the 360? I don't know about the PS3 unfortunately.
I don't think it was a troll. It is a war against Islamic fanatics. It is not a war against Islamic moderates. Just as actions during WWII against Italy were against the facist government running the country, and not italian peasants living outside Rome. There was certainly collateral damage done to the populus that wasn't involved in the politics of the country however.
Islam isn't the problem. But people with adgendas that would twist the words of the Prophet Muhammad to fit their narrow-minded views on the world. Christians have the same problem, as the most vocal subset tends to be the most reactionary. The main difference is that as of today, they haven't resorted to car bombs and dynamite vests in the United States. We could talk about Ireland however...
The minute people realize that military might and security is better suited to pre-emptively strike, or to reactively defend, vs. constant vigilance, the easier it will be for them to stop worrying about what may happen. This isn't to say that spending money on intelligence services to attempt to keep abreast of developing situations is bad, but even with a perfectly unbueracratic government, with infinite funds, you can't be aware of everything, all the time.
Didn't people read 1984? Though, even Winston was discovered in the end -- but it was because of Julia!
The fact that it is happening, under the auspices of "safety and security" are more frightening than whatever bits of information that the NSA has on me due to the tracked phone calls.
The essential liberty that Franklin talks about isn't the "essential right to private phone calls", that much is true. However, you do the the essential right to a law-abiding government elected by you, to protect you.
When the government is in violation of the laws that THEY enacted, as a proxy for the laws WE wanted, something is wrong -- and it is time to question if they are acting in the interest of the consituents they are sworn to protect.
Jefferson's quote about the tree of liberty is far more applicable than Franklin's.