http://blog.chron.com/techblog/2009/12/houstons-snapstream-to-power-the-daily-show-colbert-report/

It violates the First Amendment. Go read the verdict. It summarizes the issues pretty well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzenegger_v._Entertainment_Merchants_Association

In the USA there are NO ratings that are legally enforced. Film ratings are just like videogame ratings: they are totally voluntary. MPAA ratings are only self-enforced. They are NOT legally enforced.

It violates the first amendment. The Supreme Court said so. I'm guessing they know more about law than me or most of the people here.

except tobacco has been shown to have negative effects. videogames have not. Even pornography laws are not nearly as cut and dry as people like to think they are. In the USA what is and is not pornographic is frequently subject to lawsuits.

Nope. totally wrong. Film and videogame ratings are NOT legally enforced anywhere in the USA. ALL film and videogame ratings are voluntary and enforced by the industry not the force of law.

IBM has donated their code to Apache and the OpenOffice.org project so hopefully IBM's code will make it into OO.o and perhaps LibreOffice http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/ibm-throws-its-source-code-and-support-behind-openoffice/9240

I've taught a few online classes for a state-wide community college. To say I've "taught" them is kind. I was basically a grader. The first day of the semester they blasted the material onto the online Blackboard system and it had all the due dates and assignments. I couldn't change anything on the syllabus because the syllabus was standardized for every section across the state and so were the grading tools. This meant that when they turned in speeches (yes I "taught" public speaking online for one of the classes as strange as that sounds) and the speeches were done on terrible topics I couldn't lower their grade or tell them to redo it. When their voices had no enthusiasm at all I couldn't lower their grade because the state mandated grading tool didn't have anything that covered enthusiasm. This meant that you could take the class, do a speech that wasn't really appropriate, read in a monotone and still get an A as long as you took all the tests, had good eye contact, and met the time length and visual aid requirements.

Business Week has done a few scathing articles about for-profit colleges in the last year. One showed how they go into homeless shelters and try to get homeless people to sign up for student loan money. One college even went so far as to actually pay the homeless students for attending classes. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_19/b4177064219731.htm?chan=magazine+channel_features

Another story was about how they have gotten into the practice of buying up super small trade colleges so that they can get the accreditation. One of these for-profit schools bought an aviation school and "expanded" it into mainstream courses http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_11/b4170050344129.htm

A third story was about how these for-profit schools also target the military. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_02/b4162036095366.htm

I'm assuming the parent is referring to Blizzard the game company who uses bittorrent to distribute updates for their games World of Warcraft and the soon to be released Starcraft 2.

People always say this but I'm now a phd student and the only time I ever had a class where we used a professor's book was one class where the book was actually out of print so he just gave us photocopies of it. What subjects are people taking where this is happening?

name one

because it is made by a tiny company that can't get the volume manufacturing discounts apple can? When hp, dell, or acer come out with an ipad clone it will very likely be cheaper than the ipad.

Dad is that you? My dad also works at a machine shop that has a similar CNC setup.

You think that studio executives aren't controlling the image of the gaming industry by policing the boundaries of mainstream games?