"School officials" shouldn't be allowed to do a body search on any student, ever. Lockers, sure. Bags, maybe. But even a patdown is probably going to far for anyone that isn't a police officer.
And why on earth do kids get less rights just because they happen to be in school, anyways? Other than the fact that they can't vote, that is.
Why would it have anything to do with clustering? It's called CLUTTER. It should be making a mess. And really, I can mess up my desktop enough on my own.
Though you may have to hunt around for the software to transcode mp3s into the DRM package your maker uses, it's generally fairly easy to make your own ringtones.
No, I don't think there's too much innovation... but it is in the wrong places.
Why no innovate solutions to the long-running problems that have been there for years?
For example, the the demented belief that everything should be configured by editing poorly- or un-commented text files. Or the related godawful mess that linux pretends is "documentation".
Various people in this thread have brought up a wide variety of basic functions that linux has had deep issues with for years, but that work well enough tat the dedicated few can get around.
Any linux distrobution that is being aimed at the average user, as opposed to the existing linux crowd NEEDS to focus more on the basics. Especially the under-the-hood stuff that nobody really sees when it's working right, but is a catastrophic mess for a normal user when it goes wrong.
History is very much on their side. If you can convince somebody of something, whether it's entirely logical or utterly insane, they will then act on that belief.
You see this a lot in Japan. CDs, DVDs, games, even manga all will have special editions with assorted random goodies ranging from plastic figures to posters to (I kid you not ) panties.
Unlike laptops, desktop computers let you have multiple drives, and thus the smart use of SSDs... A smaller, cheaper SSD for the OS, and a large HD for data storage, etc.
It's actually sort of sad. Opera keeps coming out with new browser features, those features get adopted into other browsers months or years later, and then people act as though those browsers were the ones to implement it.
There's also the fact that a lot of doctors are lazy. Once they have defined the problem, they stop looking, even if the medical definition of the problem is the name for the collection of symptoms, rather than any given cause for that collection of symptoms.
I read a book some time back regarding ADD/ADHD. The author, a doctor, gave all kinds of examples of kids that had been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, but rather than stopping there, and just throwing ritalyn at them, he actually took the time to investigate and found various causes for the symptoms, and treated those causes instead of just masking the symptoms with ritalyn.
Which is to say, they are competing against the internet itself. Email, facebook, youtube, slashdot, wiki, flashgames. All of the free legal entertainments and timekillers online effectively chew into paid entertainment sales aswell.
Books are a bad example - most sellers will accept returns if you haven't damaged them.
Games, on the other hand, are an insanely stupid thing to buy without having tried first. Games aren't worse the cost to me unless I'll still be playing it in a year's time, and most of them are lucky to hold my interest for a week.
Only Japan allows people to possess these hideous images without penalty.
Lie. There are countries that allow drawings, CG representations fictional stories and the like depicting sex with children. In canada, a decade or so back, somebody challenged the law and had manage to have it overturned at least partly because because it was rediculous to treat drawings of non-existant children, fictional stories, etc. the same as real child-porn, where children were actually harmed. Unless they've put another law back in it's place, it's still legal to possess drawings of naked children having sex - provided no real children were used in their production. There are apparently some regional laws prohibiting depictins of rape in porn though.
Six of the G-7 countries have found ways to protect the innocent from being prosecuted for possession of child pornography.
So, 6 out of 7 are nice enough to not prosecute you for child porn possession, if you happen to be innocent. Leaving asside "innocent until proven guilty" issues, that means that one of the G-7 countries quite happy to prosecute the innocent for child porn charges. Which one is that, and why is nobody making a bigger stink about it?
Is it not time for Japan to find a way to punish the guilty?
Rapelay is legal in Japan, so the people who play it aren't guilty of anything other than being pervs. I assure you, if one of them goes out and rapes somebody in real life, the Japanese police will be all over it... and you do NOT want to go through japanese police questioning. They apparently learn how to do it by watching those old american cop movies where the cops could get away with anything... and then amp it up a few notches. The confession rate in japan is apparently very high.
Interesting side note: The article mentions that Illusion.jp has removed RapeLay from it's website... but a quick check shows that another game called "Battle Raper" is still up.
Turn your home into a giant wi-fi antenna. You could then either open it up to other to use, or keep it locked down, and brag to your friends that you can connect to the net from halfway accross the city. Or both.
Awesome! Slashdot works a hundred times better for me too now! Except that I'm getting white-on-white titles. But other than that, it's a vast improvement.
Slashdot Mirror
It also teaches you to do what the crazy old man with the long beard tells you, no matter how insane it sounds at the time.
"School officials" shouldn't be allowed to do a body search on any student, ever. Lockers, sure. Bags, maybe. But even a patdown is probably going to far for anyone that isn't a police officer.
And why on earth do kids get less rights just because they happen to be in school, anyways? Other than the fact that they can't vote, that is.
Why would it have anything to do with clustering? It's called CLUTTER. It should be making a mess. And really, I can mess up my desktop enough on my own.
Though you may have to hunt around for the software to transcode mp3s into the DRM package your maker uses, it's generally fairly easy to make your own ringtones.
For example, right here on their own website, the DRM packager for sony ericsson phones: http://developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/docstools/misc/p_misc.jsp
No, I don't think there's too much innovation... but it is in the wrong places.
Why no innovate solutions to the long-running problems that have been there for years?
For example, the the demented belief that everything should be configured by editing poorly- or un-commented text files. Or the related godawful mess that linux pretends is "documentation".
Various people in this thread have brought up a wide variety of basic functions that linux has had deep issues with for years, but that work well enough tat the dedicated few can get around.
Any linux distrobution that is being aimed at the average user, as opposed to the existing linux crowd NEEDS to focus more on the basics. Especially the under-the-hood stuff that nobody really sees when it's working right, but is a catastrophic mess for a normal user when it goes wrong.
History is very much on their side. If you can convince somebody of something, whether it's entirely logical or utterly insane, they will then act on that belief.
See every ideology and religion ever for details.
You see this a lot in Japan. CDs, DVDs, games, even manga all will have special editions with assorted random goodies ranging from plastic figures to posters to (I kid you not
) panties.
Unlike laptops, desktop computers let you have multiple drives, and thus the smart use of SSDs... A smaller, cheaper SSD for the OS, and a large HD for data storage, etc.
It's actually sort of sad. Opera keeps coming out with new browser features, those features get adopted into other browsers months or years later, and then people act as though those browsers were the ones to implement it.
But.. but... I want a kid designed by HR Giger or Brian Froud.
I've got dibs on the Eldar Craftworlds!
Yes. Action games bore me. Action games where I have to actually DO the action actively irritate me.
There's not shortage of pages that could use grammar/etc. repair.
There's also the fact that a lot of doctors are lazy. Once they have defined the problem, they stop looking, even if the medical definition of the problem is the name for the collection of symptoms, rather than any given cause for that collection of symptoms.
I read a book some time back regarding ADD/ADHD. The author, a doctor, gave all kinds of examples of kids that had been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, but rather than stopping there, and just throwing ritalyn at them, he actually took the time to investigate and found various causes for the symptoms, and treated those causes instead of just masking the symptoms with ritalyn.
Which is to say, they are competing against the internet itself. Email, facebook, youtube, slashdot, wiki, flashgames. All of the free legal entertainments and timekillers online effectively chew into paid entertainment sales aswell.
Books are a bad example - most sellers will accept returns if you haven't damaged them.
Games, on the other hand, are an insanely stupid thing to buy without having tried first. Games aren't worse the cost to me unless I'll still be playing it in a year's time, and most of them are lucky to hold my interest for a week.
Nikolai is laughing in his grave as we speak.
And that nutjob is just as likely to be one of the police supposedly there to prevent violence/etc.
Only Japan allows people to possess these hideous images without penalty.
Lie. There are countries that allow drawings, CG representations fictional stories and the like depicting sex with children. In canada, a decade or so back, somebody challenged the law and had manage to have it overturned at least partly because because it was rediculous to treat drawings of non-existant children, fictional stories, etc. the same as real child-porn, where children were actually harmed. Unless they've put another law back in it's place, it's still legal to possess drawings of naked children having sex - provided no real children were used in their production. There are apparently some regional laws prohibiting depictins of rape in porn though.
Six of the G-7 countries have found ways to protect the innocent from being prosecuted for possession of child pornography.
So, 6 out of 7 are nice enough to not prosecute you for child porn possession, if you happen to be innocent. Leaving asside "innocent until proven guilty" issues, that means that one of the G-7 countries quite happy to prosecute the innocent for child porn charges. Which one is that, and why is nobody making a bigger stink about it?
Is it not time for Japan to find a way to punish the guilty?
Rapelay is legal in Japan, so the people who play it aren't guilty of anything other than being pervs. I assure you, if one of them goes out and rapes somebody in real life, the Japanese police will be all over it... and you do NOT want to go through japanese police questioning. They apparently learn how to do it by watching those old american cop movies where the cops could get away with anything... and then amp it up a few notches. The confession rate in japan is apparently very high.
Interesting side note: The article mentions that Illusion.jp has removed RapeLay from it's website... but a quick check shows that another game called "Battle Raper" is still up.
You beat me to it.
Make the aps good enough, and don't even try to make them IE6 compatable. Just say "you need to upgrade for this to work. here's how you do it."
The main reason all those people haven't upgraded, is that just about everything on the web still works in IE6.
IE6 compatability is a bug, not a feature.
Who doesn't want a magic wand?
Turn your home into a giant wi-fi antenna. You could then either open it up to other to use, or keep it locked down, and brag to your friends that you can connect to the net from halfway accross the city. Or both.
I'm just surprised to hear that anyone uses the windows media player. I'll stick to CCCP+Zoomplayer with VLC as a backup.
Awesome! Slashdot works a hundred times better for me too now!
Except that I'm getting white-on-white titles. But other than that, it's a vast improvement.