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Trump absolutely has a proven track record of evil. I mean, the guy has documented connections to Fat Tony. He's quite literally a mobster.

If you want to watch him acting like the evil dick he is for a while, try this https://www.youtube.com/watch?....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You don't know WTF you are talking about. You're comparing Apples and Oranges.

1. Doom static world
2. Minecraft dynamic world

Minecraft can be summed up in 2 words: Digital Lego

Let me know the last time you could, in-game build structures like Minas Tirith, Hogwart's Castle, etc.

Yes, we all know Minecraft looks like shit. That isn't the point. Repeat after me: user generated content

You don't know WTF you are talking about. You're comparing Apples and Oranges.

1. Doom static world
2. Minecraft dynamic world

Minecraft can be summed up in 2 words: Digital Lego

Let me know the last time you could, in-game build structures like Minas Tirith, Hogwart's Castle, etc.

Yes, we all know Minecraft looks like shit. That isn't the point. Repeat after me: user generated content

With much of the EU going into negative interest rates, keeping it in the bank, even at 0% inflation, will be a money-loser. Give it time, they'll have to bring it back.

Check out this interview with an economist. From 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Doesn't matter; you have ten seconds to comply.

Actually "twenty seconds to comply". Your geek card is hereby revoked...

Looks like the takedown has been reversed as you can view the original video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Smells like the perfect opportunity for a "Copyright Deadlock". (Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... )

Were you monetizing the video? The people affected by this are usually making money off of it.

https://www.youtube.com/result...

YouTube is greatly at fault because they have a slick, nearly instant system for the claim, but counter-claims can be ignored for weeks or months for monetized content. They are systematically, and deliberately, biased against the little guy.

https://www.youtube.com/result...

Thank you for these tips on making my Mac less obnoxious. It's also reassuring that you don't think I need to replace it.

While I do appreciate your suggestions, I do think that you need to work on your mentoring style. It seems more appropriate to the Marines than us more gentle civilians. Perhaps if you were less strident people might like you better.

LOL! I DO apologize for my "strident" (I would say more like "spastic"!) "mentoring" style! I'm really NOT like that!!!

But I am glad you saw through my drubbing to extract the few nuggets of information I provided in amongst the un-called-for insults!

Sometimes, after battling with some truly uncivilized Anonymous Cowards on here, I tend to get "trigger-happy".

Again, please accept my apologies, and if you have any further questions, please let me know. I promise not to bite off your head and sh** down your neck! (Quoting "Gunny" in Full Metal Jacket)...

I truly was serious that I think you don't need to replace your Mac. Having said that, I don't know how much RAM you have in that MBA, and if it is only 4 GB, it is almost guaranteed to be a little slower overall than a machine with more RAM. That's just a fact of life, regardless of the OS. Having said that, I only have 4 GB in my MBP, and have done some fairly resource-heavy stuff such as 16 simultaneous tracks of Multitrack Recording/Editing in Logic Pro, Editing Video in Final Cut Pro X, DVD Authoring in iDVD, etc. And I can't think of a time when I felt like I was in "Swap-File Hell" like with my work's Windows 7 laptop.

If you think you'd like to try out Linux to see if you REALLY like it better than OS X, you can certainly either setup Linux on a USB Drive and boot from that, or use Disk Utility to (non-destructively) Partition an (unused) area of your Hard Drive into another Volume and install a Linux on that. Then, you can hold down the "Option" key on Bootup, and be presented with a "Bootloader" that will easily let you start up in either Linux or OS X.

The documentary Money As Debt describes fractional reserve banking perfectly. This documentary should be mandatory in every high school.

You just described the gamer-gate movement. They absolutely go out of their way to review stuff that was not targeted at them.

You just described the social justice warriors posing as games journalists. Now let's have a laugh as Polygon "shreds some demons".

Only one response to this: Kick Six https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yes.

Naaaaa nanana nana nana na na na ... Katamari Damaciiiiii...

Perfect song for the car.

Ryan Fenton

Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women

"Sabotaging"? I certainly love the word, but it is decidedly non-applicable... Let's see:

sabotage -- destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war"

How do the reviews — however negative — destroy or hinder anything?

Once again the terms are chosen not for accuracy, but for a spin — to build up our emotional reaction to the story...

> Having a small number of options (just as Apple products do) makes consumers very aware of the time in the cycle of their product, so wait for release before buying.

Actually, I just picked up a MacBook Pro last month because I **need** a nVidia GPU for CUDA work. (Current MBP's use an ATI GPU; there is no gurantee Apple will switch back to nVidia.) I wouldn't change a single thing -- the # of ports are perfect -- except swap out the ancient nVida 750M for a more modern GPU. Thankfully we have also an eGPU option such as BizonBox

Challenge accepted and please not that in pretty much every measure the PC is curbstomping the Mac on performance.

Regarding SEGA, the one thing that's sad is that the last console they released at the end of that crazy upgrade train was the Dreamcast, which was a much better system that what Sony had at the time, IMHO.

Obligatory Family Guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There's a video of this on Horizon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Photoshop creates women. Out of food if need be.

(And yes, it's fake, but then again, it's photoshopped, so what do you expect?)

Commodore's brand is now thrown around on products that have neither the innovativeness nor the features of the original Commodore computers. In fact the brand has now been prostituted so much, it's all but worthless. I hope the same won't happen with Nokia, but it seems likely.

Oh, you mean like This Filing Cabinet and other office products, that were made by Commodore LONG before they started making computers.

In fact, that's why the Commodore PET had a metal case. Because they could make it "in house".

You mean this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

First off, arcade games have been using these for years. Skip to 45 seconds in for an example (volume warning - it's in an arcade so it's loud): https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There's another arcade game with little fish bowls that's also transparent. It's really cool just to look at.

Also, many years ago, around 20 or so, I took a calculator apart and removed the back-most layer of the LCD and... voila - it was transparent. This capability has existed for decades (in fact all LCD displays are transparent - it's only the more modern OLED where that hasn't been the case) but there have always been backlights or some other material placed behind them to make them contrast as much as possible.

Google did an April Fool's joke a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I saw the transparent LCD display on slot machines at a trade show in Vegas over 6 years ago. They were mechanical reel slot machines with the front glass as a clear panel that could draw lines or pictures over the matching symbols. This video shows one that is a bit fancier than the ones I saw years ago, but after the spin you can see the lines draw across the matches.

Limits, do they even exist?

" space spore that is trying to colonize the minds of humanity as part of an intergalactic conquest scheme". Your confusing pot and magic mushrooms. Pot isn't a spore, but Terence Mckenna thought that magic mushrooms just might be exactly what your thinking. Not that I agree, but just pointing out that idea of a "space spore" isn't something new.

The point of the article isn't about "pot heads", it's the fact that pot is shown in drug tests far longer than other drugs, far past the point of it's effects. Adding in the fact of growing acceptance amongst the public; plus it's becoming established scientific fact that urine drug tests aren't an accurate measurement to show how affected someone is. The only real way to find the impairment level is a blood test.

The "proper" methodology for all testing would be a double-screen. The first would be the standard urine test. If shown positive to only pot, then allow an employee to be hired anyway BUT within two weeks run a blood test on Monday morning. This would show who was actually under the influence as opposed to a non-worktime user. Blood tests at the 5 nanogram per milliliter limit, some type of as-of-yet not invented finger-prick test, is needed. But the current system of testing for usage from the past few weeks up to the past several years (for some hair tests) is really over-the-top.

I think you're really stretching here to try to make YouTube out as the bad guy

I've been clear that this is due to the way DMCA is set up. Youtube is just making money off of the bad situation.

Okay, but you still haven't said what you think YouTube should do.

Content ID breaks fair use.

The problem with fair use is that it's effectively impossible to know if it applies without going to court. There are some guidelines in the law, but there's no way that YouTube (or any third party) can possibly evaluate whether or not a given use qualifies. That's something that the copyright owner and the potential infringer have to resolve for themselves, perhaps in court. ContentID in no way breaks that, it just moves the burden of scanning for potential infringements from the copyright owner to YouTube (essentially a service YouTube provides to the content owner in exchange for a license). Consider scenarios with and without ContentID:

Scenario A: Random person uploads a video containing your content. You notice it and file a DMCA takedown. YouTube takes it down. Uploader files a response claiming fair use. YouTube puts the video back up. You and uploader resolve the dispute between yourselves (perhaps in court) and act accordingly.

Scenario B: Random person uploads a video containing your content. ContentID notices it and takes the video down. Uploader files a dispute, claiming fair use. YouTube puts the video back up and notifies you. You and uploader resolve the dispute between yourselves (perhaps in court) and act accordingly.

Where Fair Use is broken is that most content owners are trans-national megacorps and most uploaders are individuals who are very unlikely to challenge the deep-pockets owner even if their use is fair.

Actually, ContentID partly solves that problem because many content owners don't necessarily want the content taken down, they just want to get paid for it, and perhaps apply some other terms. For example, I made this video tribute to my mother-in-law for her funeral. It's a slideshow set to some songs that she loved... those songs are under copyright (in spite of their age). After I uploaded it, YouTube notified me that copyright-protected content was found in it, and that means that I cannot monetize it. I'm fine with that; I have no desire whatsoever to make money from it (nor any expectation that it would be interesting to enough people) and the way ContentID works, I am still free to use YouTube as a vehicle to share that video. Without ContentID my video would have gotten taken down entirely, because DMCA takedowns down't allow the owner to say things like "it's okay to leave it up, but send us the ad revenue."

Now, if my video's use of those songs really is Fair Use, and if I saw an opportunity to make a lot of money by monetizing it, I could file a dispute and then go negotiate with the owners of the songs, or we could go to court.

I would never sign up for Content ID and have innocent videos flagged. That's also bad.

But what happens when innocent videos are flagged is totally up to you. You could set as your policy that you want to allow all use of your material. Or you could reserve the right to monetize your material, but have YouTube notify you of flagged videos and you could review them an allow those that are innocent. Or you could reserve the right to monetize and rely on uploaders of innocent videos to dispute, and review the disputes and allow those that are innocent. Or... there are a variety of other policies you could apply.

Seriously, I think ContentID is about the best solution to the problem of Fair Use in video sharing that is allowed by law.

Seagate HHDs unreliability is so legendary, in fact, that they should partner up with Old Spice.

Who arranges the blocks that fall from up above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Just hire these guys..

And for you, nothing but nixon futurama videos now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The Tetris movie reminds me of this

The ad hominem is coming from YOU in this thread and you are anonymous. So my point is sustained.

Good day, sir.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... It was truly hilarious the first time I saw this. Maybe they can pull off a humor angle... though a trilogy is probably a stretch.

It's just a matter of time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7ZGsD3REhQ

That's nothing; I hear it is going to be Uwe Boll's triumphant return to feature film directing. That's right, he's decided to retire from boxing, which it turns out he was much better at.

You will just have to do with this short story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The Dark Pixel Youtube channel put out a trailer for their vision of a Tetris live action movie, it's worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The official Microsoft Press Release detailed this mantrap very clearly.
They even released a video showing what happens when you step on the spikes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
What else do you want?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

but if it's anything like this trailer I will go to the midnight showing https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Then would this video of fast play leading up to Invisible Tetris and this video of Shirase mode in TGM3 make you a card-carrying member of the GOP?

(Hint: The bleeps when each piece spawns signal what the next piece will be.)

Dammit, McTetris, I'm getting way to old for this shit.

Dammit, McTetris, I'm getting way to old for this shit.

One way to think about this is to understand how to get a unbiased number out of a biased coin? A simplistic Von-Neumann extractor.
Basically, flip the coin twice, discard HH/TT and assign HT and TH to 0 and one. This throws away alot of flips (depending on how biased the coin is) but gets you what you want if the flips are independent.

Now imagine instead of a 2x2 matrix, a really large matrix that takes in a sequence of flips that depends on the minimum entropy of the source so that you avoid throwing away flips. How do you fill the elements of this matrix?

You can watch here and learn something...

Looks like she's using YouTube for profit as well...

With 519 subscribers? No she isn't.

Forking is not the answer.

It's what has essentially destroyed Linux from being accepted as a desktop platform for the masses - i.e. in-fighting and a million developers each working on a million different dists rather than combining their efforts under one umbrella company led by good leadership (Ubuntu for this reason is more successful than all other dists).