I personally wouldn't have a use for that, since I draw about as well as the average 3 year old, but that would be an awesome feature to have.
The first person to release a decent tablet that can effectively use a Wacom stylus will almost instantly lock up purchases from everyone that uses a Wacom...although I'm not sure how excited Wacom would be about that:-)
That would be quite welcome, but if ditching the display port meant gaining a USB port (or even an additional one) or an SDHC slot, I would gladly trade it away.
Naturally, this is based on my own plans for it, so YMMV with that.
Give me these four things, and I'll buy it in a second:
1. Wireless-N 2. Built-in Bluetooth (think external controller used for emulators and games.) 3. SDHC card slot 4. At least one standard USB slot (preferably USB 3.0, but even 2.0 would be fine...just so long as it's a standard port without any proprietary nonsense.)
For the love of Jim Darkmagic, PLEASE FREAKIN' INCLUDE THESE FOUR THINGS.
On the flip side of that coin (Because I love exploring those) what would you do if someone swiped your music off your web site and started selling it as their own? I've actually seen that happen to a couple of artist friends in the past. Actually some magazine was doing that just recently, too...
Honestly? I'd be flattered that someone liked it enough to think there was money to be made in selling it under their own name, but on the other hand I'd feel a little betrayed that they were making money off something I intended to be given away freely.
I would likely ask them to at the very least attach my name to it (attribution and all that), but I don't think I would necessarily threaten them with legal action if they didn't stop selling it. I'd ask them to stop, sure...but that'd be as far as I went.
Like I said, my interest is mostly limited to people hearing it...there isn't much in the way of drone and spacey-ambient out there, so I'm just doing what I can to help the culture expand.
Filesharing is a boon for people like myself. I do some writing (nothing released to the public yet, although once it is it will all be distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike license) and also make some spacey-ambient and drone-type music. The music I make is freely available to all (both on Last.FM and in a torrent.) Since I care more about people hearing my music (and, in the future, reading my writing) rather than getting money for it, filesharing is perfect for me.
I've got a donate button on my site, but even after I officially put my stuff up for "sale", I will continue to ensure it's available for free. I've gotten my fair share of music and writings for free...I feel like I should contribute something back, know what I mean?::end self-plug::
I'm mildly interested in it, but I have no desire to spend hour upon hour playing the same game again. That was my biggest gripe with WoW (and every other MMO I've played, from Gemstone III to Meridian 59 to Everquest to WoW, and everything in between.) When you're in the depths of an MMO, you miss out on everything else that gets released.*
Both of my downstairs neighbors are into WoW (they put in about 2 hours a day or so, unless its a Friday night.) Any interest I have ins eeing the changes could be done looking over their shoulder.
*ironically, I'm in my 74th hour of Dragon Quest IX:x
Pfft, I wish! That would have made it crazy awesome, not having to get up lol:)
But seriously though, our ages at the time ranged from 20-27, all of us either full-time employed or full-time students with part-time jobs. How else do you think we were able to afford properly setting up a 10-person LAN? (not to mention sustain it for months with the required snacks, booze, and soda.)
Luckily, my buddy already had some exercise equipment in his basement, so we took shifts putting in some physical activity. Also luckily, I was working full-time six days a week as a mechanic back then, so I got in PLENTY of physical exercise during the day.
I have some absolutely AMAZING, AMAZING memories associated with WoW. I was in the closed and open betas, playing in my friend's basement during the summer of 2004. We had the run of his house (his Dad was in India from March until December of that year), so we set up two huge folding tables in his basement, and got a permanent 10-person LAN setup. Myself and the 9 other people spent ungodly amounts of time in WoW (during both betas and after launch.) I played religiously until about a week after Burning Crusade came out, and I haven't picked it up since.
The funny thing is, despite all the amazing memories I have with WoW, I have pretty much zero interest in making any new ones. I think it has more to do with being done with MMOs in general; not even The Old Republic has piqued my interest enough to plunk down some cash.
"The Daily Mail want us to be scared of everything - even the weather. Remember when it snowed? SNOW, there is SNOW! Immigrant snow! Immigrant, gypsy snow! Immigrant, gypsy, pedophile snow! Don't make a snowman, or it will come into your house and fuck you." -Russell Brand
See, that's the thing, I've heard conflicting "reports"...I've heard reports say that he savagely molested and raped two women, I've heard reports that they both decided to file against him once they both existed, I've heard "rape" in Sweden is not wearing a condom...
I don't think anyone in the public knows the full, true story. Hopefully, we will, but as of right now, I don't think anyone does.
I kind of wish I was in a psychology course during all this...it would be interesting to examine the reactions of governments and officials to Assange. Some of the response seems like its been ripped straight from a movie or book, with thinly veiled attempts at painting the man as a terrorist. The strength of the rhetoric seems directly proportional to the level of embarrassment groked from different leaked cables.
I still can't get over the fact that Malcolm McDowell was in that...I kept expecting him to look at Picard and tell him to come get one in the yarbles.
No need to ask if he has any...we all know he does.
I was like that too, especially since I used an HTC Ozone for so long (which had possibly the greatest keyboard ever put on a phone.) Now that I have a phone without a hard keyboard though, I don't really miss it at all. Besides, most of the slider keyboards that come on Android phones are ass-tastic...they're either mushy, or small, or oddly laid out.
I don't know, but that's a topic I'm going to have to get educated on in the next year or two...I'm writing a book as well as a series of short stories that I intend to self-publish and distribute digitally, but I will also host them for free on my website (one of those "I'd love it if you paid me, but I care more about you reading it" kind of deals.)
The pirating of legally-free software never ceases to amuse me...I know the licence is for a "paid" version of the program, but still, for personal users, the "free" version is more than sufficient. That being said, Avast's response to this has been PERFECT.
If a site offers up ads on subjects I'm interested in, I have no problem leaving them unblocked. I learn about products I care about, the site gets ad revenue, and the company gets word-of-mouth. Everyone wins.
So long as sites show me ads relevant to their own subject, I have no problem with them (excluding fly-over ads or ads with sound...those are NEVER ok.)
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I personally wouldn't have a use for that, since I draw about as well as the average 3 year old, but that would be an awesome feature to have.
The first person to release a decent tablet that can effectively use a Wacom stylus will almost instantly lock up purchases from everyone that uses a Wacom...although I'm not sure how excited Wacom would be about that :-)
I can see your point...after being modded at +5 for discussing your choice of activity involving butts, there's nowhere to go but up! :)
That would be quite welcome, but if ditching the display port meant gaining a USB port (or even an additional one) or an SDHC slot, I would gladly trade it away.
Naturally, this is based on my own plans for it, so YMMV with that.
Give me these four things, and I'll buy it in a second:
1. Wireless-N
2. Built-in Bluetooth (think external controller used for emulators and games.)
3. SDHC card slot
4. At least one standard USB slot (preferably USB 3.0, but even 2.0 would be fine...just so long as it's a standard port without any proprietary nonsense.)
For the love of Jim Darkmagic, PLEASE FREAKIN' INCLUDE THESE FOUR THINGS.
On the flip side of that coin (Because I love exploring those) what would you do if someone swiped your music off your web site and started selling it as their own? I've actually seen that happen to a couple of artist friends in the past. Actually some magazine was doing that just recently, too...
Honestly? I'd be flattered that someone liked it enough to think there was money to be made in selling it under their own name, but on the other hand I'd feel a little betrayed that they were making money off something I intended to be given away freely.
I would likely ask them to at the very least attach my name to it (attribution and all that), but I don't think I would necessarily threaten them with legal action if they didn't stop selling it. I'd ask them to stop, sure...but that'd be as far as I went.
Like I said, my interest is mostly limited to people hearing it...there isn't much in the way of drone and spacey-ambient out there, so I'm just doing what I can to help the culture expand.
::begin self-plug::
Filesharing is a boon for people like myself. I do some writing (nothing released to the public yet, although once it is it will all be distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike license) and also make some spacey-ambient and drone-type music. The music I make is freely available to all (both on Last.FM and in a torrent.) Since I care more about people hearing my music (and, in the future, reading my writing) rather than getting money for it, filesharing is perfect for me.
I've got a donate button on my site, but even after I officially put my stuff up for "sale", I will continue to ensure it's available for free. I've gotten my fair share of music and writings for free...I feel like I should contribute something back, know what I mean? ::end self-plug::
I'm mildly interested in it, but I have no desire to spend hour upon hour playing the same game again. That was my biggest gripe with WoW (and every other MMO I've played, from Gemstone III to Meridian 59 to Everquest to WoW, and everything in between.) When you're in the depths of an MMO, you miss out on everything else that gets released.*
Both of my downstairs neighbors are into WoW (they put in about 2 hours a day or so, unless its a Friday night.) Any interest I have ins eeing the changes could be done looking over their shoulder.
*ironically, I'm in my 74th hour of Dragon Quest IX :x
I ALMOST agree with you...but I still loved just going solo every now and then.
Still, the connection and feeling of community certainly had at least something to do with it.
Pfft, I wish! That would have made it crazy awesome, not having to get up lol :)
But seriously though, our ages at the time ranged from 20-27, all of us either full-time employed or full-time students with part-time jobs. How else do you think we were able to afford properly setting up a 10-person LAN? (not to mention sustain it for months with the required snacks, booze, and soda.)
Luckily, my buddy already had some exercise equipment in his basement, so we took shifts putting in some physical activity. Also luckily, I was working full-time six days a week as a mechanic back then, so I got in PLENTY of physical exercise during the day.
I have some absolutely AMAZING, AMAZING memories associated with WoW. I was in the closed and open betas, playing in my friend's basement during the summer of 2004. We had the run of his house (his Dad was in India from March until December of that year), so we set up two huge folding tables in his basement, and got a permanent 10-person LAN setup. Myself and the 9 other people spent ungodly amounts of time in WoW (during both betas and after launch.) I played religiously until about a week after Burning Crusade came out, and I haven't picked it up since.
The funny thing is, despite all the amazing memories I have with WoW, I have pretty much zero interest in making any new ones. I think it has more to do with being done with MMOs in general; not even The Old Republic has piqued my interest enough to plunk down some cash.
"The Daily Mail want us to be scared of everything - even the weather. Remember when it snowed? SNOW, there is SNOW! Immigrant snow! Immigrant, gypsy snow! Immigrant, gypsy, pedophile snow! Don't make a snowman, or it will come into your house and fuck you." -Russell Brand
See, that's the thing, I've heard conflicting "reports"...I've heard reports say that he savagely molested and raped two women, I've heard reports that they both decided to file against him once they both existed, I've heard "rape" in Sweden is not wearing a condom...
I don't think anyone in the public knows the full, true story. Hopefully, we will, but as of right now, I don't think anyone does.
My point was that this is hardly the first time Assange has been in the news, and it's FAR from the first time Wikileaks has been in the news.
So why is Paypal only closing the account now? There's no way they weren't aware of their existence before now...
Following that line of thinking, why would Paypal even have allowed them to open an account in the first place?
The timing is very suspect, don't you think? I mean, come on...it's not like Wikileaks appeared last week. They've been around for a while.
I kind of wish I was in a psychology course during all this...it would be interesting to examine the reactions of governments and officials to Assange. Some of the response seems like its been ripped straight from a movie or book, with thinly veiled attempts at painting the man as a terrorist. The strength of the rhetoric seems directly proportional to the level of embarrassment groked from different leaked cables.
I still can't get over the fact that Malcolm McDowell was in that...I kept expecting him to look at Picard and tell him to come get one in the yarbles.
No need to ask if he has any...we all know he does.
I was like that too, especially since I used an HTC Ozone for so long (which had possibly the greatest keyboard ever put on a phone.) Now that I have a phone without a hard keyboard though, I don't really miss it at all. Besides, most of the slider keyboards that come on Android phones are ass-tastic...they're either mushy, or small, or oddly laid out.
All the classic samurai movies are Westerns with Swords® :)
I don't know, but that's a topic I'm going to have to get educated on in the next year or two...I'm writing a book as well as a series of short stories that I intend to self-publish and distribute digitally, but I will also host them for free on my website (one of those "I'd love it if you paid me, but I care more about you reading it" kind of deals.)
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This proves, objectively, with 100% accuracy, that software piracy does zero economic harm and is actually beneficial to everyone involved.
I wouldn't call tagging myself in the photos I want to appear on there to be the same as an "easy way", but thanks for the tip :)
The pirating of legally-free software never ceases to amuse me...I know the licence is for a "paid" version of the program, but still, for personal users, the "free" version is more than sufficient. That being said, Avast's response to this has been PERFECT.
If a site offers up ads on subjects I'm interested in, I have no problem leaving them unblocked. I learn about products I care about, the site gets ad revenue, and the company gets word-of-mouth. Everyone wins.
So long as sites show me ads relevant to their own subject, I have no problem with them (excluding fly-over ads or ads with sound...those are NEVER ok.)
Yay! Another Yojimbo fan! I am constantly amazed by the number of Kurosawa fans I know that haven't seen it...
My problem with it is they don't give you any easy way to control exactly which pictures appear on the "ribbon"...