you can't have security AND privacy. The government has always had the ability to spy on it's citizens and I'm sorry but the future is going to be a ZERO privacy world, there's no other way social structures can be protected without full disclosure. Besides, everyone knows that if you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't care who sees what.

Nullify acts of congress? Aren't the amendments acts of congress as well? I think that's a pretty bad idea... remember it was federal law that fought the states when the south was trying to keep blacks as second class citizens.

So at first I felt like the kid was overreacting. Parents (or those in loco parentis, which I'll get to in a moment) have a legitimate need-to-know when it comes to what's going on in their kids' lives.

However, according to the article, this kid's mom doesn't have custody. The grandparents do, and so this doesn't seem to be due to divorce or other "ordinary" situations that would cause a parent to lose custody of their own kids. In other words, something is seriously messed up here, and so while the fact that this is a mother/son thing is good for grabbing ratings, it's not really all that relevant to the matter at hand.

Moral of the story: RTFA.

Pole Position & other 2-D car racing games... made it so much easier to pass and overtake other cars...

I'm watching my 3 year old boy play that with a 8-bit 2-D Lighning McQueen game (in an inflatable McQueen car he sits in, with a built-in steering wheel which is all kinds of awesome)... and I'm thinking he's going to take Driver's Ed before I give him the keys to my car...

That said, it's an interesting control perspective. I wouldn't mind having a chase camera as one of many views while actually driving.

Hmm... this doesn't look at all appealing to me.

As far as I can tell, this only works if you can accurately recreate the exact circumstances for each run, because under normal usage it is quite possible that a refactoring that seems slower, is actually faster but has to process a larger workset. As a programmer I'd be pretty unhappy if my compiler decided to rebel and reverse my O(n^4) refactoring back to the O(n^y) version because I happened to have a smallish y in the first run (so it seemed like an O(n^3) algorithm). Now, for most programs it's not a big deal because you're just reading something from the database. But you better hope the database doesn't get a hiccup or your code may be re-refactored behind your back.

Basically, this looks like IBM's version of Clippy, for programmers.

Microsoft doesn't include them in a default installation, but they do give development tools away for free. Even for their game console.

WikiLeaks claims they decrypted the material. While that's certainly possible, we have no way to know if this is true. They might have received it unencrypted, but made these assertions (including the Internet posts requesting supercomputer time) to throw investigators off-track.

I thought Dell had a touch screen option for one of there netbooks. They do it is the latitude netbook in the business line not the home line. Those school themed colors do not really suit me though.

Except they are going tow ant to use it beyond that. The new power line won't be more reliable, just more efficient. It's still a single point of fault. It's also a nice hedge against increased power need due to growth, and increased fuel costs.

Dont worry, we still have IRC...

I find Adobe proprietary apps like pdf viewer and flash to be very annoying. I would love a nice rain to wash that mud away.

The answer to your question RockDoctor depends on whether Sony actually makes money off of selling the consoles or only through the games. If they are "losing money" because the cost of the console is less than the resources required to produce it, then I can understand why this would be happening. In other words, as a business, Sony wants you to buying and using their console in such a way that would net them a profit.

It still does suck for those who do take advantage of OtherOS AND ALSO plays online using the same box. It's rather unfair Sony would do this.

>>>disk space and upload speed limitations have prevented me from achieving any >1.0 ratios

I counteract that by setting my download speed == upload speed (i.e. 15 KB/s DL). It helps keep my overall ratio very close to 1.0 since I'm only downloading as fast as I share.

Except his generalization has been more the exception for all the nerds I've ever met.

I've never seen such a thing on average being true. Almost all the nerds I've come across are into just as much banal shit as the next person. Sure there might be a few areas that they like that tend to be more complex, but it's outweighed by the other shit.

Except in the universe of physical-dimensions, when a body is moving in one dimension with a constant velocity, that velocity is not affected by the body's movements or even accelerations in any other dimension (unless, of course, the environment changes such that it now impedes the first dimension's constant motion). A spaceship in frictionless space moving at a constant velocity forward along the Z-axis will continue moving along the Z-axis with the same velocity even if maneuvering rockets give the spaceship new velocity along the X or Y axis.

Even under your own hypothesis, time must be different than space since time is the only dimension that must lose "speed" when velocity is increased in a different dimension. Consider a spaceship moving at 50% the speed of light along the Z-axis. Adding substantial velocity along the X or Y axis would increase the spaceship's overall speed, and the time experienced by those withing the spaceship would be slower (in agreement with your "conservation of space-time" hypothesis), but there would be no change to the velocity along the Z-axis. Losing that velocity in the X or Y axes would result in restoring the speed of time (as experienced by the passengers) to its previous rate, but not affect the velocity along the Z-axis. Therefore the time "axis" has special properties not shared by the several space axes.