Quite frankly, up until this point, everything about stem cells was about ethics. That is what makes this story so humongous. Yep. Except the stem cells are created by adding genes to skin cells via a virus. I wonder if this breakthrough will be held back with bible-thumpers claiming God wants skin cells to remain skin cells and setting back the research for ANOTHER decade.
Don't like ESRB's rating criteria? Start your own game rating system. No, just please no. The point of the ESRB is so that the government doesn't step in and impose it's own censorship, ala the FCC.
The congressional hearings and demands in this area disturb me since it's a "natural" progression of events which could wind up getting an official government agency overwatching content.
Trust is a lucid thing. Once they start doing bad things by me I will withdraw my trust. Right now I have no problem with them funding the public view from the road, and there simply isn't a slippery slope argument that can be made.
Pro Tip: you can better prove that you're right with evidence instead of calling people morons. Perhaps THAT was what you meant with "Welcome to Slashdot."
Thing is, when it's done by a company, ideally, they ought to be responsible for it.
* Google is using their own money for this venture, not taking it from the taxpayer. * Google is upfront with what this is for. Government might install cameras for "safety" but once the infrastructure is in place there's all sorts of new things they can push by. * It's not permanent. Just a car driving. It's not surveiling street corners. * Google doesn't have the government database cross-references. The camera sees a car driving along the same road: they have no ability to figure out who's car it is and what it's doing there.
Training cameras at my street corner and watching my car drive through traffic and putting my records in a perpetual database ripe for corrupt public servants to cross-reference is completely apart from some dude recording the view outside a car window. * Google can, potentially, be stopped by law: perhaps you should ask city hall? When it's opposition to government installing camera network, though, then it's clearly because you're a criminal/terrorist/pedophile.
Why can't the international community create a parallel DNS system and administrate its own domains? I mean, bits are bits, right? Wouldn't just be as simple as setting your DNS servers to ones on a "WorldDNS" network that don't communicate with the US lead system?
It's very possible to get a Windows "Hello World" made in Visual Studio in under 5 or 6K.
If setting it to "release" mode is all you rely on you'll be unhappy. You can enter project settings and set options such as align on 1-Byte boundaries instead of the default 16, REALLY remove debugging information (strangely, some still sticks around), set the linker to exclude the default libs, things like that. Look at the options, think about what they would do, and set it to the one you think is appropriate. When done, save your profile for future projects.
You might have to dig around the Win32 API to get the "native" equivalent to printf (it'd probably be easier to just call one of the messagebox functions), but you can do it.
Ya gotta trick Microsoft's compiler into doing what you want (as opposed to just passing parameters to gcc) but it can get done. I've personally built an application for our sysadmins that monitors a specific system environment variable and lets you set it to one of three possible values from the notification area with just a click. All in exactly 4608 bytes, packaged in an EXE, including the tray icon with only Visual Studio and no packing utilities.
To be fair, though, you shouldn't HAVE to dig through all that stuff, and, heh, I probably should have stopped when the application was done. But I had a coworker tell me from the start I should just do it in.NET and I had a heart attack and aspired to make the tiniest thing possible. B)
I still don't see what's forcing someone to go along with micropayments, really. If I like FPS games and this one doesn't allow online play without a fee, I'm not only not going to pay the fee, but likely not get the game, either. If every game Christmas '08 comes out requiring an online pay-to-play, then I won't be treating myself to any of them next year.
Like, people complain now that movies cost too much to go out and see. I haven't been to a movie in about a decade and don't see myself going to one anytime in the forseeable future. Obviously I've been outvoted on my complaints of cost and quality, but I make due.
If you really really hate buying extras for a game... don't?
I don't like it either, so, the day EVERY publisher gimps their games in the interest of collecting micropayments will be the day I hang my controllers for good.
Yay capitalism! Of course, "Yay capitalism" also includes your right to, oh, I don't know, NOT buy those games?
Don't like it? Don't buy it. They'll either change their ways or go out of business while other companies continue to provide free support and online play.
Prior to computerized voting, we had mechanical machines made by (drum roll please) Diebold since at least the 70's. McDonalds has been around since the 40's so, clearly it's good food that's good for you.
There seems to be an almost religious fantatisism with keeping everything nicely contained within the same timeline of events at Paramount.
While not related, I had played through the Halflife 2 Epsiode 2 commentary and they mentioned something about the flashlight battery now being separate from the main HEV sprinting battery, and their argument was that they weren't going to make the game less fun just for the sake of a keeping bad game design decision true throughout the lifespan of the series.
We must get the records of everyone that eats pizza, shops at a mall, watches movies, enjoys breakfast and buys gas! Dear downix:
We're working on it. One step at a time.
True, but that doesn't make it any more classy a move.
There's been a real shift away from giving credit where credit is due because things are bought and paid for. TV for a while now has been fast-forwarding and shrinking-towards-illegible credits since they just can't be bothered with it and are using the space instead to promote something else. Movies haven't had credits in the beginning of the movie for maybe 40 years and instead lump them at the end where nobody sticks around for it in the theaters.
It's really unfortunate that our ownership and consumer society commoditizes EVERYTHING to the point where an individual's pride and accomplishment is just trivia instead of a display of credit.
Given that he's the CEO of Sony's gaming division, I guess if he's not happy he is empowered to manage and organize so that he can become happy with it. Whining to the press about it certainly won't make it better.
Hasn't integrated audio and video been around forever?
Supporting DirectX 10 and all that is great and all, but, how fast will it be? I remember getting an nForce 4 integrated video board for my folks some time ago and it supported the latest DirectX versions and, while it ran all the nVidia eyecandy demos, it sure was slow.
I mean, TFA makes reference to Hypertransport 3.0 and all, but memory bandwidth is only part of pretty pixels.
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Given that "lib-tard" would be built off of "retard", it's safe to say it's .dll. :D
The congressional hearings and demands in this area disturb me since it's a "natural" progression of events which could wind up getting an official government agency overwatching content.
Probably get Google's cooperation? From what base case are you inferring that "probably" from? It's not probable from where I stand.
Trust is a lucid thing. Once they start doing bad things by me I will withdraw my trust. Right now I have no problem with them funding the public view from the road, and there simply isn't a slippery slope argument that can be made.
Pro Tip: you can better prove that you're right with evidence instead of calling people morons. Perhaps THAT was what you meant with "Welcome to Slashdot."
Google can't force me to pay tribute, can't incarcerate me, can't draft me into combat, can't take my children away, can't deny my rights in any way.
It's not hypocritical if they're, oh I don't know, two completely unrelated and dissimilar entities.
Or perhaps I shouldn't trust my mother because I can't trust the guy who mugged me?
Thing is, when it's done by a company, ideally, they ought to be responsible for it.
* Google is using their own money for this venture, not taking it from the taxpayer.
* Google is upfront with what this is for. Government might install cameras for "safety" but once the infrastructure is in place there's all sorts of new things they can push by.
* It's not permanent. Just a car driving. It's not surveiling street corners.
* Google doesn't have the government database cross-references. The camera sees a car driving along the same road: they have no ability to figure out who's car it is and what it's doing there.
Training cameras at my street corner and watching my car drive through traffic and putting my records in a perpetual database ripe for corrupt public servants to cross-reference is completely apart from some dude recording the view outside a car window.
* Google can, potentially, be stopped by law: perhaps you should ask city hall? When it's opposition to government installing camera network, though, then it's clearly because you're a criminal/terrorist/pedophile.
Coolest stuff I've ever seen. Thanks!
Not saying I was a wizard, BTW, but a hello world just doesn't have to be 1.5M and it's not Microsoft's fault farther than just making it difficult.
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Why can't the international community create a parallel DNS system and administrate its own domains? I mean, bits are bits, right? Wouldn't just be as simple as setting your DNS servers to ones on a "WorldDNS" network that don't communicate with the US lead system?
It's very possible to get a Windows "Hello World" made in Visual Studio in under 5 or 6K.
.NET and I had a heart attack and aspired to make the tiniest thing possible. B)
If setting it to "release" mode is all you rely on you'll be unhappy. You can enter project settings and set options such as align on 1-Byte boundaries instead of the default 16, REALLY remove debugging information (strangely, some still sticks around), set the linker to exclude the default libs, things like that. Look at the options, think about what they would do, and set it to the one you think is appropriate. When done, save your profile for future projects.
You might have to dig around the Win32 API to get the "native" equivalent to printf (it'd probably be easier to just call one of the messagebox functions), but you can do it.
Ya gotta trick Microsoft's compiler into doing what you want (as opposed to just passing parameters to gcc) but it can get done. I've personally built an application for our sysadmins that monitors a specific system environment variable and lets you set it to one of three possible values from the notification area with just a click. All in exactly 4608 bytes, packaged in an EXE, including the tray icon with only Visual Studio and no packing utilities.
To be fair, though, you shouldn't HAVE to dig through all that stuff, and, heh, I probably should have stopped when the application was done. But I had a coworker tell me from the start I should just do it in
You had me up to "first two". Compared to the original, Ghostbusters 2 was sad.
Fast, Good, or Cheap.
Choose two.
I still don't see what's forcing someone to go along with micropayments, really. If I like FPS games and this one doesn't allow online play without a fee, I'm not only not going to pay the fee, but likely not get the game, either. If every game Christmas '08 comes out requiring an online pay-to-play, then I won't be treating myself to any of them next year.
Like, people complain now that movies cost too much to go out and see. I haven't been to a movie in about a decade and don't see myself going to one anytime in the forseeable future. Obviously I've been outvoted on my complaints of cost and quality, but I make due.
If you really really hate buying extras for a game... don't?
I don't like it either, so, the day EVERY publisher gimps their games in the interest of collecting micropayments will be the day I hang my controllers for good.
Don't like it? Don't buy it. They'll either change their ways or go out of business while other companies continue to provide free support and online play.
This directory might indicate someone's already started an emulator project. The time for ascention is now[-ish].
There seems to be an almost religious fantatisism with keeping everything nicely contained within the same timeline of events at Paramount.
While not related, I had played through the Halflife 2 Epsiode 2 commentary and they mentioned something about the flashlight battery now being separate from the main HEV sprinting battery, and their argument was that they weren't going to make the game less fun just for the sake of a keeping bad game design decision true throughout the lifespan of the series.
That said, I've always felt this was the most compelling argument for allowing for new things to happen without always resorting to time travel: http://bztv.typepad.com/newsviews/files/ST2004Reboot.pdf
We're working on it. One step at a time.
Love,
FBI, CIA, DHS, NSA, ATF, DOJ, USA et al.
True, but that doesn't make it any more classy a move.
There's been a real shift away from giving credit where credit is due because things are bought and paid for. TV for a while now has been fast-forwarding and shrinking-towards-illegible credits since they just can't be bothered with it and are using the space instead to promote something else. Movies haven't had credits in the beginning of the movie for maybe 40 years and instead lump them at the end where nobody sticks around for it in the theaters.
It's really unfortunate that our ownership and consumer society commoditizes EVERYTHING to the point where an individual's pride and accomplishment is just trivia instead of a display of credit.
Given that he's the CEO of Sony's gaming division, I guess if he's not happy he is empowered to manage and organize so that he can become happy with it. Whining to the press about it certainly won't make it better.
Hasn't integrated audio and video been around forever?
Supporting DirectX 10 and all that is great and all, but, how fast will it be? I remember getting an nForce 4 integrated video board for my folks some time ago and it supported the latest DirectX versions and, while it ran all the nVidia eyecandy demos, it sure was slow.
I mean, TFA makes reference to Hypertransport 3.0 and all, but memory bandwidth is only part of pretty pixels.
Nah, you purchased the right to view a subset of the pixels available for a film. Those other pixels left out? Hoo, boy, those'll cost ya. :)
Space truly is the final frontier [of litigation].