Also the kids in my family don't have their consoles connected online, so that means we'd all have games that refuse to play because they cannot "phone home" to the Game manufacturer's website.
Ditto with My kids.
They don't have internet-connected consoles, so how are they supposed to play Capcom games? I guess Capcom lost several million customers with this decision.
Even corporations. Let's boycott Capcom's games, Capcom's gadgets, and Capcom's websites.
-1 over-rated??? More like: +1 insightful.
I am with you 100%. Boycott them.
Dahmer forcing people to eat cyanide against their will has jack-all to do with what I said (the right to kill oneself voluntarily).
Problem solved. The marijuana/cocaine/etc ban makes it illegal to imbibe these substances. So let's just do the same with alcohol, and all our problems will disappear. No more drunks == no more drunk driving.
Note:
I'm being sarcastic.
I certainly hope so. People should be able to put anything they want into their bodies, upto and including cyanide. Else they are not truly free.
Deal with the abuse of the drugs (DUI) not the banning of them, or alcohol.
Maybe we can give the Chinese the French ISP phone number
Are the Chinese even allowed to dial outside their own country? Also I imagine the 15,000 mile distance would really create a lot of noise on the line. They'd be lucky if they got even 9600 bits per second. (Which means pages would take 5 times longer to load versus a full 50 kbit/s connection.)
Trivia:
China's average internet speed is 3900 kbit/s. For comparison the EU and US average ~10,000 kbit/s.
No you don't.
You need to eliminate the 5-minute backup at the toll booth, and thereby save yourself ~2000 hours over a lifetime. You don't need the human face, just as you don't need an operator asking, "Number please?" on the telephone.
+1 insightful.
I too hate waiting in toll booth lineups.
And if you turn-around and sell the Used book to somebody else for ~$3.00, then you've really only paid 68 cents.
Kindle - $8.09
Used - 0.68
Wow that is a bargain. Over 90% off the kindle price. If you read $1000 worth of books each year, you'll save over $900 buying used instead, and then selling it back via amazon's marketplace.
3) Mozilla is a foundation
Mozilla is a Corporation. Look it up. There's the non-profit foundation, and then there's the corporation that does the actual work of making the Gecko engine for Netscape, Firefox, and Seamonkey browsers. So to recount:
1 - Apple/Google's Webkit
2 - Mozilla Corporation (gecko)
3 - Microsoft Corporation (trident)
4 - Opera (presto)
5 - random other engines I've overlooked like Amiga's WebBrowse, Lynx, and so on
Our college professors don't have Bachelors degrees in Education, but they are some of the best teachers in the world. Foreigners flock to the US just to attend our colleges and universities.
In other words: I don't buy the argument you need an Education degree.
-1 Flamebait
The moderation on this forum is shit. There is not one word in this paragraph deserving the -1 HIT and making the post invisible. ----- "How can one be a Biology teacher without having a major in at least one of the sciences? Sad. Schools ought to demote these persons to HomeEc or English, and hire some actual degreed science majors to do the teaching."
>>>HTML has effectively been abandoned to four companies: Apple, Google, Opera, and Mozilla.
Sounds like a lot of FUD to me. It used to be:
- 1999 and earlier: No HTML standard existed and Mozilla Netscape just willy-nilly added new features (blink tag for example).
- 1999 and later: Ditto Microsoft once their IE became dominant. IE5 and 6 were browsers that complied with nothing, and even today still cause problems for web designers.
Better to have four companies talking to one another and hashing-out HTML5 and HTML6, rather than the old (a) chaos of Netscape producing non-compliant features or (b) Monopoly of MS-IE. We don't want to have another Format war like HD-DVD v. Bluray on the internet. We want consensus first, even if that slows progress a little.
Lots of public goods improve when competition is allowed to happen. Look at freight trains, which experienced a boom in profit, after the government stepped back and allowed them to operate in a free market (circa 1970 onward). Ditto phones when the ATT monopoly was broken up (1980 onward). And modems - after 30 years of stagnation at a slow 1 kbit/s, they rapidly grew from 1k to 56k once the ATT monopoly was lifted.
Postal service improved dramatically when the Laws barring UPS and FedEx from carrying goods were lifted. And then there's the military..... and yes I know you hate the military..... but it too has competition. There are dozens of contractors fighting against one another to win the right to build the next government plane, or engine, or hydraulic pump.
There's no reason we can't do the same with schools, where Microsoft High versus Apple High versus Penn State High (et cetera) compete to attract students and win those valuable government dollars. - Just like what happens in some European countries (the money follows the student to wherever he or she goes, even if it's a private or catholic school).
Basically the K-12 environment should be run the same way the College system is run. Students choose anywhere they want to attend, and colleges compete with one another, which raises the bar to a high level. IMHO.
I have both Physics and Engineering degrees. I'd be happy to go teach at my local middle-or-high school (I like teaching/tutoring) to replace the non-degreed biology teacher, but the fact of the matter:
- Unions won't allow that to happen.
They protect the lesser-qualified from losing his/her job.
Sounds like a MONOPOLY problem to me. If there were true competition (attend any school you want - like in the EU), then schools would be forced to hire better teachers and provide higher salaries, or else end-up like Circuit City or Wards or Atari (bankrupt).
But since there isn't any competition, the schools are free to devolve to the same level as Comcast (the lowest-scoring company in customer satisfaction).
MOD: -1 Flamebait
Poor moderation by someone who shouldn't have that power.
How can one be a Biology teacher without having a major in at least one of the sciences? Sad. Schools ought to demote these persons to HomeEc or English, and hire some actual degreed science majors to do the teaching. Maybe they can't do that because of Union rules
We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids? -- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commission
