The bars displaying signal strength should be an indication of how the phone is working. The iPhone was claiming to be working quite well, which would lead the user to think that any problems in the connection where the fault of the party on the other end.
Hmm, how to make this a car analogy? They were displaying 48mpg while you were filling up 10 gallons every 300 miles, implying the pump is wrong.
On the other hand, I bought a Sony Reader and I love it. I just don't buy it for books I'll be reading more than once or books where the price difference won't justify a purchase. The reading experience on the Reader is better than a paper book. It lays flat, it can be held in a single hand or not at all. There is no curve to the page. There is no flipping hand positions from left page to right page...etc...
Tons of free books out there have justified the cost for me. I just don't see it going mainstream until the price of books makes sense.
When everyone says free, they are generally talking about the marginal cost.
The marginal cost of an ebook is practically $0.00. The marginal cost of a $8 paperback is at least $2 (materials and physical movement of the book.)
Taking a popular book as an example: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer paperback $7.99 kindle $9.99
So the marginal cost per book goes down and the price goes up. It's easy to see where customers think they're getting gouged when they're paying more for a cheaper copy that is more restrictive (no resell possible).
It does not. It now means that a server runs just that program, instead of a client running the client and server.
Take Bad Company 2 for instance. You can rent servers from their approved vendors. So, while they are technically dedicated servers, they are someone else's servers that are just being rented. The traditional commands available to server admins are no longer there. Basically, for BC2, "dedicated servers" means that we get to pay for their servers.
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Anti-competitive practices are extremely vague, however. Prices too high, gouging from monopoly. Prices too low, running out the competition to the monopoly. Prices the same as competitors, collusion.
Really? You think that Weird Al could sell a song just lifting the entire track and replacing the words? You don't think he'd have to pay anyone for it?
These Downfall videos were 99+% produced by the makers of Downfall. A requirement of fair use for parody is that only the minimum amount required be taken. Well, that means *none* of the video/sound need be taken. The creator of the parody can reproduce all of that themselves. Just because they aren't up to that quality of production is no reason to strip the copyright holder's rights.
We seem to agree that it's a moot point in this case because they aren't creating parody of Downfall at all.
Even in Texas, which is very much an "at will" state, there is some protection. It's a pretty uphill battle for an employer to show "for cause", especially for an employee who has been there for a while.
They can certainly fire you and try to keep you from getting unemployment but it will require a lot of work and expense.
Just offering you something for quitting instead of getting fired would sink their case and generally get them in hot water. Basically, they bluffed you into quitting.
There is nothing stopping the people making the videos from creating those scenes themselves...except that they don't want to put forth the effort. The sole reason they take the video from somewhere else is to save themselves the effort of producing quality work. Copying it has nothing to do with parody or satire, it is about creating the video and voice for the video.
A more blurry line might be if they recreated the scene themselves using the text from the movie, but even that was written by someone (I don't believe it was captured in the minutes). Still, they would be using the work of someone else instead of doing work they could be doing themselves.
This is different from parody, exactly as you mention above. If they were making a parody of Downfall, they would need to have enough from Downfall that it would be recognizable. Their specific requirements for these videos is to have an infuriated Hitler railing on about something, this doesn't require Downfall at all.
That said, I'm curious how sales of the movie have gone since these videos started appearing. The scene is remarkably well done, and I've nearly purchased it myself but decided not to because of the family killing scene which I just couldn't watch.
Depends on which state. In an "at will" state, they could dismiss you, but it wouldn't be "for cause". That is, the former employee would be able to file for unemployment, since it is a change in the position the employee was hired into.
I started using the express version for free. Then went ahead and bought the deluxe version which included 150 lists. The vocabulary words in it already have sounds attached. It's some pretty slick software and they went out of their way to make it user friendly for managing/editing cards and lists of cards. For instance, I can make a list then do all the sounds at once if I want. Press record, speak my word/phrase, press record again to stop, check it with playback, press next for the next card in the list.
It has a variety of modes, from simply viewing the cards to self-checking recognition to actually typing the answer. I'm currently doing Japanese with these cards and I was very impressed with how well it handles the input methods. I can type in English one second and when it asks for a response in Japanese it switches to a Japanese input method automatically.
It also has a couple activities that you might find useful. I like the multiple choice activity.
I disagree, I think you should look around the world by moving the phone, then thrusting it forward to shoot. This would be awesome...for everyone else watching.
Moon first, it's amazing and easy to find. They'll get to see it in more vivid detail than possible in pictures.
Jupiter and Saturn are a different experience. They'll be dull and tiny compared to everything we've seen. The rings of Saturn will be visible as well as the 4 big moons of Jupiter. The big "ooh" factor here is that when you zoom in on those two particular "stars", there is a whole lot more to see.
I've heard people say good things about M42, in Orion, but I've never had much luck, too much light in my area.
Most star viewing is probably best done without a scope, maybe a green laser pointer.
Some equipment that might be helpful: A filter for the moon, especially if it will be full. On a 4" scope, that's a lot of light to be focused on the eye. $12 I spent about $130 on a nice eyepiece with good eye relief (distance from your eye to the eyepiece). This made it much easier to share the scope with my kids. It also lets people with glasses view with glasses on. I only bought the really nice one at my highest resolution (so far).
In CoD, after you die, you get to see the other guy shoot you in the kill cam. When they're aimbotting, there is no transition from one point to the next. The crosshairs instantly jump directly onto you when the shot is taken.
The wallhacks which target people through walls are a bit harder to spot. The one I looked at on youtube puts a nice yellow box around every player. I suspect there are at least as many people using wall hacks as aimbots. You'll see on the kill cam where they're looking at the entire battleground, move over a player that can't be seen from distance, then zoom in and take a shot.
It isn't merely about people being really good, it's about doing the impossible. I defy you or anyone to move your mouse across 50% of the screen for an accurate headshot so quickly that it doesn't travel on any point in between. Now do it 25 times in a row - all headshots, no misses. Oh, and do it without regard to which weapon you're using.
I can understand about dedicated servers and presenting the game to the average player but there needs to be a votekick or something available.
I started with the poster's premise that it works. This would imply that he has some method for knowing that it works.
I've had all sorts of situations like this with graphics programming where I know at the end of it that it works, but I didn't follow a rigorous mathematical outline to get the code done. Sure, I could go back and figure it out after the fact, but I generally don't.
I might write some code that renders something from a new file format. Visual inspection of the results is worth far more to me at the end than the formal proof that it works.
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Or, we go with the simple, elegant solution to the problem...it's not possible.
In an ideal world there is no editing either.
The bars displaying signal strength should be an indication of how the phone is working. The iPhone was claiming to be working quite well, which would lead the user to think that any problems in the connection where the fault of the party on the other end.
Hmm, how to make this a car analogy? They were displaying 48mpg while you were filling up 10 gallons every 300 miles, implying the pump is wrong.
Yea, it's far more likely that if MSM were to wake up and mention this issue they would just go with the "extremist radical" tag.
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On the other hand, I bought a Sony Reader and I love it. I just don't buy it for books I'll be reading more than once or books where the price difference won't justify a purchase. The reading experience on the Reader is better than a paper book. It lays flat, it can be held in a single hand or not at all. There is no curve to the page. There is no flipping hand positions from left page to right page...etc...
Tons of free books out there have justified the cost for me. I just don't see it going mainstream until the price of books makes sense.
When everyone says free, they are generally talking about the marginal cost.
The marginal cost of an ebook is practically $0.00. The marginal cost of a $8 paperback is at least $2 (materials and physical movement of the book.)
Taking a popular book as an example:
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
paperback $7.99
kindle $9.99
So the marginal cost per book goes down and the price goes up. It's easy to see where customers think they're getting gouged when they're paying more for a cheaper copy that is more restrictive (no resell possible).
If you want to be really paranoid, you could say they tacked on the charge of documents to make every nation afraid and justify taking on wikileaks.
It does not. It now means that a server runs just that program, instead of a client running the client and server.
Take Bad Company 2 for instance. You can rent servers from their approved vendors. So, while they are technically dedicated servers, they are someone else's servers that are just being rented. The traditional commands available to server admins are no longer there. Basically, for BC2, "dedicated servers" means that we get to pay for their servers.
Anti-competitive practices are extremely vague, however. Prices too high, gouging from monopoly. Prices too low, running out the competition to the monopoly. Prices the same as competitors, collusion.
Really? You think that Weird Al could sell a song just lifting the entire track and replacing the words? You don't think he'd have to pay anyone for it?
These Downfall videos were 99+% produced by the makers of Downfall. A requirement of fair use for parody is that only the minimum amount required be taken. Well, that means *none* of the video/sound need be taken. The creator of the parody can reproduce all of that themselves. Just because they aren't up to that quality of production is no reason to strip the copyright holder's rights.
We seem to agree that it's a moot point in this case because they aren't creating parody of Downfall at all.
Correct. I was mostly mocking the parent post's attitude that it was obvious the two were equal.
Even in Texas, which is very much an "at will" state, there is some protection. It's a pretty uphill battle for an employer to show "for cause", especially for an employee who has been there for a while.
They can certainly fire you and try to keep you from getting unemployment but it will require a lot of work and expense.
Just offering you something for quitting instead of getting fired would sink their case and generally get them in hot water. Basically, they bluffed you into quitting.
Bullshit, Hollywood proves that a million rehashes of the same story can coexist.
And for everything he wrote, it was never a matter of what he wrote about, but how he wrote it.
Lastly, he would have probably given us even more good quotes about lawyers and maybe someone would have acted up one of them by now.
Weird Al parodies the existing item.
Downfall videos mock something else.
Weird Al gets permission from the songwriters and reproduces it.
Downfall videos don't get permission and don't reproduce the scene.
Weird Al replaces the lyrics, which is half the sound.
Downfall videos leave the video and sound intact and add subtitles.
Everyone involved in producing sound and video for Weird Al gets paid.
The people who did 99% of the work on the Downfall Videos don't get paid.
a == b QED
There is nothing stopping the people making the videos from creating those scenes themselves...except that they don't want to put forth the effort. The sole reason they take the video from somewhere else is to save themselves the effort of producing quality work. Copying it has nothing to do with parody or satire, it is about creating the video and voice for the video.
A more blurry line might be if they recreated the scene themselves using the text from the movie, but even that was written by someone (I don't believe it was captured in the minutes). Still, they would be using the work of someone else instead of doing work they could be doing themselves.
This is different from parody, exactly as you mention above. If they were making a parody of Downfall, they would need to have enough from Downfall that it would be recognizable. Their specific requirements for these videos is to have an infuriated Hitler railing on about something, this doesn't require Downfall at all.
That said, I'm curious how sales of the movie have gone since these videos started appearing. The scene is remarkably well done, and I've nearly purchased it myself but decided not to because of the family killing scene which I just couldn't watch.
Depends on which state. In an "at will" state, they could dismiss you, but it wouldn't be "for cause". That is, the former employee would be able to file for unemployment, since it is a change in the position the employee was hired into.
I started using the express version for free. Then went ahead and bought the deluxe version which included 150 lists. The vocabulary words in it already have sounds attached. It's some pretty slick software and they went out of their way to make it user friendly for managing/editing cards and lists of cards. For instance, I can make a list then do all the sounds at once if I want. Press record, speak my word/phrase, press record again to stop, check it with playback, press next for the next card in the list.
It has a variety of modes, from simply viewing the cards to self-checking recognition to actually typing the answer. I'm currently doing Japanese with these cards and I was very impressed with how well it handles the input methods. I can type in English one second and when it asks for a response in Japanese it switches to a Japanese input method automatically.
It also has a couple activities that you might find useful. I like the multiple choice activity.
One control freak company wants to sell more expensive hardware and one control freak company wants to sell less expensive hardware.
I disagree, I think you should look around the world by moving the phone, then thrusting it forward to shoot. This would be awesome...for everyone else watching.
If you'd done that you'd have received the message, "be sure to get stoned before watching this".
Moon first, it's amazing and easy to find. They'll get to see it in more vivid detail than possible in pictures.
Jupiter and Saturn are a different experience. They'll be dull and tiny compared to everything we've seen. The rings of Saturn will be visible as well as the 4 big moons of Jupiter. The big "ooh" factor here is that when you zoom in on those two particular "stars", there is a whole lot more to see.
I've heard people say good things about M42, in Orion, but I've never had much luck, too much light in my area.
Most star viewing is probably best done without a scope, maybe a green laser pointer.
Some equipment that might be helpful:
A filter for the moon, especially if it will be full. On a 4" scope, that's a lot of light to be focused on the eye. $12
I spent about $130 on a nice eyepiece with good eye relief (distance from your eye to the eyepiece). This made it much easier to share the scope with my kids. It also lets people with glasses view with glasses on. I only bought the really nice one at my highest resolution (so far).
I believe I've run into a lot more in the hardcore modes where the opponents don't get to view the killcam after they die.
In CoD, after you die, you get to see the other guy shoot you in the kill cam. When they're aimbotting, there is no transition from one point to the next. The crosshairs instantly jump directly onto you when the shot is taken.
The wallhacks which target people through walls are a bit harder to spot. The one I looked at on youtube puts a nice yellow box around every player. I suspect there are at least as many people using wall hacks as aimbots. You'll see on the kill cam where they're looking at the entire battleground, move over a player that can't be seen from distance, then zoom in and take a shot.
It isn't merely about people being really good, it's about doing the impossible. I defy you or anyone to move your mouse across 50% of the screen for an accurate headshot so quickly that it doesn't travel on any point in between. Now do it 25 times in a row - all headshots, no misses. Oh, and do it without regard to which weapon you're using.
I can understand about dedicated servers and presenting the game to the average player but there needs to be a votekick or something available.
I started with the poster's premise that it works. This would imply that he has some method for knowing that it works.
I've had all sorts of situations like this with graphics programming where I know at the end of it that it works, but I didn't follow a rigorous mathematical outline to get the code done. Sure, I could go back and figure it out after the fact, but I generally don't.
I might write some code that renders something from a new file format. Visual inspection of the results is worth far more to me at the end than the formal proof that it works.