Why should they? Sony and MS are going for the Teen and above market. Nintendo has always had the kids market and I know a LOT of parents who let their kids play anything Nintendo because they know it's kid-friendly.
You want games for older kids/adults, buy a PS2 or an XBox. You want games for kids, buy a GameCube. (That is in NO WAY a slap at Nintendo or the GC.)
OOOHHH! You're going to nickle and dime Microsoft to death buying Xboxes? Great! And why don't you try to kill a blue whale with a nerf-bat? We're talking about a company with $40,000,000,000.00 (US) in LIQUID ASSETS! Even if Microsoft was losing money on each XBox sold it would take every human being on the planet buying one, and then buyong NO GAMES before it would hurt them!
Why bother? As a console the XBox is a very impressive system. As a PC it's a piece of crap!
Can you upgrade it?
No. You can't.
What happens when you hit the eject button on the DVD-ROM drive?
The silly thing reboots.
Does it support VGA/XVGA/SVGA?
Nope.
That's just the limitations coming out of the box! Then there is the cost and labor. After all is said and done the price jumps to about $300.00 not including labor and the chance of destrying your motherboard due to a botched solder job, probably jump the price to $400.00 to get some other guy to mod your box for you.
Great. For $400.00 you have a computer that can never be upgraded, has to be attached to a TV and requires home-made adapters to get the mouse and keyboard to work. You can get a better deal at Wal Mart.
If you want to mod your XBox becuase it makes your inner nerd all giddy go ahead and do it. Have fun! If you are trying to turn an XBox into a cheap and crappy PC please save your money and time.
Right. Sure. How many people out there are going to buy the most pwerful console out there only to turn it into a crappy, locked down, non-upgradable PC? A few hundred? Get real.
Yes, not everyone grows up at the same time, some 14-year olds are almost adult in their reasoning skills and maturity and some 30-years olds act like they are 12. That being said, there comes a point in time where you have to be held accountable for your actions if you are ready or not. Rather than give a test to every living person we have decided that at 18 you are a (mostly) adult, and that at 21 you are old enough to drink, an at 36 you are mature enough to run for President of the United States. And for the most part most people fit into these catagories at these ages.
We do not have the time or money to test each and every person. So we find a system that, while imperfect, works most of the time and we try to make the best of it.
And you are still able to expose your children to whatever you feel appropriate at the age you feel appropriate. This law does not outlaw you letting your kids play GTA3, it mearly makes it your responcibility to buy it for them. If you want your 12-year old playing DOOM3 that's your business. But you will have to trek on down to the store and buy it.
One of my local retailers, Fred Meyer, already cards kids when they try to buy R rated movies, explicit content CDs, and M rated games and will not seel said items to anyone under 17 (I think, maybe 18). When I was 16 I would have been very annoyed, but as an adult I support this.
The coats are different colors. How is this possible?
It's possible because cat fur color is not controlled by the cat's genes alone. The hormone mixture in the mother cat's womb can have a dramatic effect on a cats hair color. It would nearly impossible to get a cloned cat to have the same exact coloration unless you used the same mother cat, and MAYBE if you created the clone pretty much at the moment of conception.
At least that's what the last article on Cc had to say about it.
Nobody was expecting the same memories; they were, however, expecting the same behavior patterns.
The scientists were certainly not expecting the clone to have the original's memories, but that's simply not true for many of the peopl wanting to clone their pets. Most people's ideas of clones are that Sixth Day sci-fi crap. They expect that a clone is a copy of their precious Fluffy at the time the DNA was donated, memories and all. The vast unwashed masses of Americans have no idea how memory actually works (look at the number of "memory transfer posts" in this article, pretty scary).
To hell with cloning, most people have very little knowledge of basic science and have the most outrageous expectations of science. Why? Because they only thing most people know about science is what they see in movies and TV.
If you don't beleive me, ask members of your family. You'll be very surprised at what you find.
Over-exposure (sorry) to porn causes burnout. Pretty soon the naked ladies/men aren't enough. You move onto "normal" hardcore (normal for your gender and sexual preference). Then that no longer gets Mr./Ms. Happy to pay attention and you move off into the borderline stuff. Then that no longer trips your trigger and you move further into teh realm of the odd and forbiddon. Soon you're furiously masturbating to Smurph porn and liking it.
Nothing says a market doesn't exist like it having to rely on porn to make it profitable.
This could cause TiVo and ReplayTV to lower, or drop, the fees for their guide services. Eventually the manufacturing costs of TiVos and Replays will drop enough that they can sell in the $300.00 price range and make a profit. Maybe.
Parody is a well established excemption of copyright law. You can parody any work ever created.
"Wierd" Al always asks permission before he parodies anyone's work. He doesn't have to, and he knows it, but he always does (depending on who you beleive in that Coolio song screwup).
Copyright holders here aren't terribly interested in parody. They're more interested in busting the balls of some sap who hacks his robot dog or knocking the heads of those day-care centers that have unlisenced pictures of Goofy, Donald, Micky and Wall E. Gator on their walls.
That's okay. They got your IP address when you looked at the page. Now they'll be flinging port scans and evil malware at your system in an attempt to knockdown the P2P program you've got running.
I handle it thusly: I have my data drive in a mirrored RAID configuration. I also backup to a removable hard drive. The backup drive is isolated from the server (this is a home LAN and I don't have anything so vital that I need off-site storage) and is not powered on when not in use. I spin the drive often enough to avoid stiction issues, moslty by backing up to it again.
Between the redundancy of the mirrored drives and the backup I haven't lost anything in a while. I can't say the same thing about tape. I've had way too many tapes fail. And tapes are lagging so far behind hard drives that it just isn't funny at all.
I would have gotten a ride, if we had a car. I didn't live far enought from school for the cold-weather bus to pick us up, either.
I remember one really bad cold snap when it got to -72 F. I saw an arc of golden-yellow ice coming out of a snowbank. It took me a few minutes to realize that what I was seeing was dog pee that had frozen in mid air.
Well, I *DID* walk to school in the snow. Down to about -30 degrees F. Below that I could stay home. Granted, this was when I lived in Fairbanks, AK in the 1970's, but still..
What what pointless rants are we going to fling at our grandkids? "Why, when I was your age we didn't have PVRs! You had to record your shows to tape!" "Spoiled brats! We didn't have cable TV until I was twelve!" "Oh, the teleporter is too slow? We had to drive for an hour in a car!"
Look what happened to AltaVista. It's the free market at work.
I happened to AlaVista, it happened to Yahoo!, it happened to Dogpile, it has happened to every search engine that has ecer existed. And someday a better search engine than google may come along and google will cease to be relevant.
There is no need to regulate search engines at all. Those that suck, or only return worthless (which coiuld include purchased) links will die.
We're talking search engines here, not power companies or people who manufacture baby food.
I have read both books and sgree with you. I think my favorite "After Man" animal was the land-bat (I don't know the name, it's been years since I read the book) who's wings had evolved into legs, thus having the beast walk on its hands. While unlikely, it was interesting.
Considering that MS' TCP/IP stack is an implentation of the BSD stack, the fault does not lie with MS, but with the BSD stack. It is also important to note that MS fixed the problem in their sample code and said so.
I don't like Microsoft any more than most poeple, but can we please keep the MS bashing to valid points? Whenever you pound MS for spurious reasons you weaken any argument you may have against them. Why should anyone place any merit in your valid gripes if you spew so many without any merit?
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I'm sure you can get a Linux version of Zork for either the PS2 or the Dreamcast.
She never said that.
"No one will ever need more than 16KB of RAM" - Bill Gates
It's "640KB of RAM" and he never said that, either.
Why should they? Sony and MS are going for the Teen and above market. Nintendo has always had the kids market and I know a LOT of parents who let their kids play anything Nintendo because they know it's kid-friendly.
You want games for older kids/adults, buy a PS2 or an XBox. You want games for kids, buy a GameCube. (That is in NO WAY a slap at Nintendo or the GC.)
OOOHHH! You're going to nickle and dime Microsoft to death buying Xboxes? Great! And why don't you try to kill a blue whale with a nerf-bat? We're talking about a company with $40,000,000,000.00 (US) in LIQUID ASSETS! Even if Microsoft was losing money on each XBox sold it would take every human being on the planet buying one, and then buyong NO GAMES before it would hurt them!
Get a clue!
- Can you upgrade it?
No. You can't.
- What happens when you hit the eject button on the DVD-ROM drive?
The silly thing reboots.
- Does it support VGA/XVGA/SVGA?
Nope.
That's just the limitations coming out of the box! Then there is the cost and labor. After all is said and done the price jumps to about $300.00 not including labor and the chance of destrying your motherboard due to a botched solder job, probably jump the price to $400.00 to get some other guy to mod your box for you.Great. For $400.00 you have a computer that can never be upgraded, has to be attached to a TV and requires home-made adapters to get the mouse and keyboard to work. You can get a better deal at Wal Mart.
If you want to mod your XBox becuase it makes your inner nerd all giddy go ahead and do it. Have fun! If you are trying to turn an XBox into a cheap and crappy PC please save your money and time.
Right. Sure. How many people out there are going to buy the most pwerful console out there only to turn it into a crappy, locked down, non-upgradable PC? A few hundred? Get real.
Yes, not everyone grows up at the same time, some 14-year olds are almost adult in their reasoning skills and maturity and some 30-years olds act like they are 12. That being said, there comes a point in time where you have to be held accountable for your actions if you are ready or not. Rather than give a test to every living person we have decided that at 18 you are a (mostly) adult, and that at 21 you are old enough to drink, an at 36 you are mature enough to run for President of the United States. And for the most part most people fit into these catagories at these ages.
We do not have the time or money to test each and every person. So we find a system that, while imperfect, works most of the time and we try to make the best of it.
And you are still able to expose your children to whatever you feel appropriate at the age you feel appropriate. This law does not outlaw you letting your kids play GTA3, it mearly makes it your responcibility to buy it for them. If you want your 12-year old playing DOOM3 that's your business. But you will have to trek on down to the store and buy it.
One of my local retailers, Fred Meyer, already cards kids when they try to buy R rated movies, explicit content CDs, and M rated games and will not seel said items to anyone under 17 (I think, maybe 18). When I was 16 I would have been very annoyed, but as an adult I support this.
- Is a clone a full citizen?
- Is a clone even legally a human being?
- Is a clone a child of the donor, or the donor's parents (as it is basically a time-delayed twin)?
- Does a clone have any rights?
- Can a clone inherit your stuff?
Now, siome of you are going Duh, Rat! Of course clones are people!, but until we make a full an legal decision on this all bets are off.Well, considering that she doesn't look exactly like her donor, I think Mimeo would be a better name.
It's possible because cat fur color is not controlled by the cat's genes alone. The hormone mixture in the mother cat's womb can have a dramatic effect on a cats hair color. It would nearly impossible to get a cloned cat to have the same exact coloration unless you used the same mother cat, and MAYBE if you created the clone pretty much at the moment of conception.
At least that's what the last article on Cc had to say about it.
The scientists were certainly not expecting the clone to have the original's memories, but that's simply not true for many of the peopl wanting to clone their pets. Most people's ideas of clones are that Sixth Day sci-fi crap. They expect that a clone is a copy of their precious Fluffy at the time the DNA was donated, memories and all. The vast unwashed masses of Americans have no idea how memory actually works (look at the number of "memory transfer posts" in this article, pretty scary).
To hell with cloning, most people have very little knowledge of basic science and have the most outrageous expectations of science. Why? Because they only thing most people know about science is what they see in movies and TV.
If you don't beleive me, ask members of your family. You'll be very surprised at what you find.
Over-exposure (sorry) to porn causes burnout. Pretty soon the naked ladies/men aren't enough. You move onto "normal" hardcore (normal for your gender and sexual preference). Then that no longer gets Mr./Ms. Happy to pay attention and you move off into the borderline stuff. Then that no longer trips your trigger and you move further into teh realm of the odd and forbiddon. Soon you're furiously masturbating to Smurph porn and liking it.
Nothing says a market doesn't exist like it having to rely on porn to make it profitable.
Maybe the Amish are right...
True, but Cartoon Network is rebroadcasting Futurama Sun-Thur at 11:00 pm, EST/PST. Just wamr up the old TiVo/Replay and burn your own.
This could cause TiVo and ReplayTV to lower, or drop, the fees for their guide services. Eventually the manufacturing costs of TiVos and Replays will drop enough that they can sell in the $300.00 price range and make a profit. Maybe.
- Parody is a well established excemption of copyright law. You can parody any work ever created.
- "Wierd" Al always asks permission before he parodies anyone's work. He doesn't have to, and he knows it, but he always does (depending on who you beleive in that Coolio song screwup).
Copyright holders here aren't terribly interested in parody. They're more interested in busting the balls of some sap who hacks his robot dog or knocking the heads of those day-care centers that have unlisenced pictures of Goofy, Donald, Micky and Wall E. Gator on their walls.I was going to say that most fanfic is crap, but then I remembered that Alan Dean Foster gets paid real money and his work is utter garbage!
That's okay. They got your IP address when you looked at the page. Now they'll be flinging port scans and evil malware at your system in an attempt to knockdown the P2P program you've got running.
I handle it thusly: I have my data drive in a mirrored RAID configuration. I also backup to a removable hard drive. The backup drive is isolated from the server (this is a home LAN and I don't have anything so vital that I need off-site storage) and is not powered on when not in use. I spin the drive often enough to avoid stiction issues, moslty by backing up to it again.
Between the redundancy of the mirrored drives and the backup I haven't lost anything in a while. I can't say the same thing about tape. I've had way too many tapes fail. And tapes are lagging so far behind hard drives that it just isn't funny at all.
I would have gotten a ride, if we had a car. I didn't live far enought from school for the cold-weather bus to pick us up, either.
I remember one really bad cold snap when it got to -72 F. I saw an arc of golden-yellow ice coming out of a snowbank. It took me a few minutes to realize that what I was seeing was dog pee that had frozen in mid air.
I do not miss that kind of cold at all!
That's why the two 120GB drives in my server are mirrored. Nothing sucks more than having your main data drive fail.
Well, I *DID* walk to school in the snow. Down to about -30 degrees F. Below that I could stay home. Granted, this was when I lived in Fairbanks, AK in the 1970's, but still..
What what pointless rants are we going to fling at our grandkids?
"Why, when I was your age we didn't have PVRs! You had to record your shows to tape!"
"Spoiled brats! We didn't have cable TV until I was twelve!"
"Oh, the teleporter is too slow? We had to drive for an hour in a car!"
and other pointless irate ramblings.
I happened to AlaVista, it happened to Yahoo!, it happened to Dogpile, it has happened to every search engine that has ecer existed. And someday a better search engine than google may come along and google will cease to be relevant.
There is no need to regulate search engines at all. Those that suck, or only return worthless (which coiuld include purchased) links will die.
We're talking search engines here, not power companies or people who manufacture baby food.
I have read both books and sgree with you. I think my favorite "After Man" animal was the land-bat (I don't know the name, it's been years since I read the book) who's wings had evolved into legs, thus having the beast walk on its hands. While unlikely, it was interesting.
Considering that MS' TCP/IP stack is an implentation of the BSD stack, the fault does not lie with MS, but with the BSD stack. It is also important to note that MS fixed the problem in their sample code and said so.
I don't like Microsoft any more than most poeple, but can we please keep the MS bashing to valid points? Whenever you pound MS for spurious reasons you weaken any argument you may have against them. Why should anyone place any merit in your valid gripes if you spew so many without any merit?