Except that emusic was around before apple's music store and back then it was all you could download for a monthly fee. For those of us that were subscribers back then, its hard to look at this version of emusic with any enthusiasm.
It is interesting that this situation is similar to the ways that anti-virus and anti-spyware products detect bad stuff. I wonder how long it will be before cd imaging products have to adopt some of the sneakier ways of hiding their presence that spyware and viruses use?
I watched it last week (and wrote a short write up on my blog). It was pretty bland and uninteresting. Nothing that hasn't been talked about a million times before. The one that the Game Show Network (errr, GSN as they are now known, because heaven forbid the name of your network describes your content!) aired last year was pretty much the same as this one. The PBS website is the most instersting thing about the documentary. There wasn't anything in here that one couldn't get from Steven Kent's book, which isn't surprizing since he appeared on the show!
There are tons of great free online stations like WOXY. I can understand why one might pay for radio in your car, but not for streaming radio on the internet.
I've had similar things happen under xp. Type in an address and hit enter and nothing happens. I find it more frequently when I cut and paste a url and hit enter. SOmetimes I have to delete the last couple letters in the url and type them in again and it works. I've also found that sometimes it is hesitating before responding and if I sit there for 20 seconds it will eventually go to the url.
But I don't run into it that often, so I haven't worried about it too much.
The thing that unfortunatly happens when this research is applied to videogames, it is seen as either unique to gaming or a negative when it is neither. When I was a kid, I would get so wrapped up in books that my parents would talk to me and I wouldn't hear them. Them damn books! Those kids with blank stares on thier faces as they read these "stories" with their "words" and encouraging kids to "think." Where's Jack Thompson when we REALLY need him???
This is getting into the premice for a novel but, if we can already detect large gas giant planets circling around stars, then it doesn't seem unlikely that that a more advanced civilization could detect our planet orbiting the sun. Assuming that is true, and assuming that the life form is aquainted with carbond based life that likes water, we might look pretty interesting. Of course there are a lot of "ifs" and assumptions in that but, it is fun to day dream about.
Well that may be, but that does not seem relevent to the case here. According to the article, he was being interviewed by the television at the time, so if he was disrupting traffic or anything like that, why wasn't teh camera crew arrested as well? He was doing it for their benifit at the time of arrest after all. According to the article he showed them what he was doing was nondestructive. And finally, according to the article he still hasn't been charged. Unless the details are different, this doesn't sound like the situation you described. He didn't even, "screech like scalded hogs" when they arrested him.
I used to love Blade Runner. But I can't watch it any more. I realized a huge logic hole that prevents me from enjoying the film at all.
(if you don't want to risk ruining the film for yourself, stop reading!!)
If they are so worried about replicants infiltrating humans, why didn't they just make them green or put a huge tatoo on their forehead? Or even in a less conspicuous place? There is no logical reason that I can think of why such a precaution could not have been taken. If they did that, the entire film falls apart. As may the original story, but I can't remember it too clearly.
So is this the reason why people seem to be so much more rude on the Internet?
I was going to make the joke about only a moron would ask such a stupid question, but I see people beat me to it.
However, there are a couple reasons why people can be rude on the internet. One is, as others have emtnioned, the anonymity. If you piss people off, you can just go somewhere else. And you can have fun annoying strangers.
That mainly applies to trolls. But another reaosn why flame wars erupts so easilly is that people are usually at a website or a chat room because of the topic more than the people. Therefore, people are generally interested in information and that mutual interest in technology, or whatever, is the reason they are on the same site, rather than friendship.
Finally, there is also the fact that a lot of people have poor communication skills and don't put their message across as well and because text is much more limited than face to face communication, subtlties are often lost.
I seem to recall that the title "Night of the Flesh Eaters" had been used by another film and that is why they changed it. But yes, they forgot to put the notice on when they changed it, regardless of why it was changed.
I use yahoo email all the time and never knew that there were any differences between the way it works in ie and firefox. However, I never send anything but text email anyway, so it isn't surprizing that i never missed a feature i never use.
However, teh fact reamins that while I may not have the same features as an IE user, I still use yahoo mail, so i don't see to see that as much of a hinderance.
Any other common sites out there with more of a substantial difference between browsers?
I often hear people complain that there are sites that don't work in Firefox or Mozilla, but I very very rarely run into them, and there are none that I go to regularly that don't work well in Firefox.
So what are some of these sites that you go to regularly that don't work well in Firefox? Please give specific urls so I can see it myself.
As a grad student, I can say that the papers I've gotten that were stollen stuck out like a sore thumb because they are generic and repeat the same claims that have been said a million times. They are often so generic that they could apply to anything. Let's face it, if a student is too lazy to write their own essay, it is unlikely that they will bea able to tell a good essay from a bad one.
On the other hand, I work in an field where the students are usually actually interested in the topic and because my research involves the internet (and I am nearly always better at doing resesarch on the internet than they are) they don't cheat too much (or at least they are so good that I haven't caught more than a handfull!).
The question in this situation is not whether downloading music is moral or not, but whether or not children should be taught about it in schools by industry designed programs.
Call me cynical, but I am a lot more concerned about indoctrinization in schools than I am about downloading music.
I've seen in a couple of the clips floating around that there are the same physics in this as in HL2, so that would have some change on the gameplay, especially if people are used to specific tactics on specific maps. (I remember seeing some barrels blown up in Aztec for example)
I also seem to have heard rumors that boosting has been taken out, which has some people mad. But the riot shield is also gone, which has just about everyone happy.
But remember this isn't "CS2" it is just the equivelent of when Valve release Deathmatch classic which was supposed to be Quake deathmatch with better graphics.
Certainly there are valid reasons to take it off. That port was designed to help give mechanics diagnostic information after all. So there has to be a tollerance to let you take off the insurance device and let a mechanic use the port (or jack into the insurance device if it keeps all the same data as a normal device).
I agree. I've never had a bit of problem with my 900 MHz phones. I suspect the only reason they came out with 2.4 GHz phones is to get customers to use the "2.4 gig is bigger than 900 meg, so it must be better!" line of reasoning.
While most of us use fake email addresses and info (or always try slashdot as username and password first) I have seen lots of friends and family members input their real information into those websites. So while the number of people who know better than putting real info into online forms is growing, I would imagine that there are still a majority of users that don't know better. Untill my I can train people like my dad to put in fake information, the registration sites will still be effective.
At my father's shop they finally had to replace one of their old machines. It was a huge pain for them because they had to rewrite all the tool paths for the machine since the old programs couldn't be converted to the new program's format.
I wish more publishers would adopt such a strategy. Unfortunately, I'm not a programmer, so I probably won't be publishing many of your books, but as an academic, I would love for academic works to come in combo packs. Because in the academic world, let's face it, the only one making money in the vast majority of the cases is the publisher, so it isn't as if the author has to worry about lost sales through piracy. Academic writing, if it is any good, is going to be cited. I would dearly love it if I could easilly cut and paste from an ariticle I want to cite, or could search through for that one section I know is in there, but isn't listed in the index.
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Except that emusic was around before apple's music store and back then it was all you could download for a monthly fee. For those of us that were subscribers back then, its hard to look at this version of emusic with any enthusiasm.
It is interesting that this situation is similar to the ways that anti-virus and anti-spyware products detect bad stuff. I wonder how long it will be before cd imaging products have to adopt some of the sneakier ways of hiding their presence that spyware and viruses use?
Yes, it was blue. An on "set" picture shows them in front of the blue screen.
No, it was the other way around. I saw that on the daily show and she was also on some other show the next day and said that it was a blue screen.
I watched it last week (and wrote a short write up on my blog). It was pretty bland and uninteresting. Nothing that hasn't been talked about a million times before. The one that the Game Show Network (errr, GSN as they are now known, because heaven forbid the name of your network describes your content!) aired last year was pretty much the same as this one. The PBS website is the most instersting thing about the documentary. There wasn't anything in here that one couldn't get from Steven Kent's book, which isn't surprizing since he appeared on the show!
There are tons of great free online stations like WOXY. I can understand why one might pay for radio in your car, but not for streaming radio on the internet.
I've had similar things happen under xp. Type in an address and hit enter and nothing happens. I find it more frequently when I cut and paste a url and hit enter. SOmetimes I have to delete the last couple letters in the url and type them in again and it works. I've also found that sometimes it is hesitating before responding and if I sit there for 20 seconds it will eventually go to the url.
But I don't run into it that often, so I haven't worried about it too much.
Thank you! I was beginning to lose faith in slashdot! I can't beleive that wasn't the first post!
There is quite a bit of variation. My site gets a similar number of hits a day and most people that go there use mozilla.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has been writing about this since the seventies.
The thing that unfortunatly happens when this research is applied to videogames, it is seen as either unique to gaming or a negative when it is neither. When I was a kid, I would get so wrapped up in books that my parents would talk to me and I wouldn't hear them. Them damn books! Those kids with blank stares on thier faces as they read these "stories" with their "words" and encouraging kids to "think." Where's Jack Thompson when we REALLY need him???
This is getting into the premice for a novel but, if we can already detect large gas giant planets circling around stars, then it doesn't seem unlikely that that a more advanced civilization could detect our planet orbiting the sun. Assuming that is true, and assuming that the life form is aquainted with carbond based life that likes water, we might look pretty interesting. Of course there are a lot of "ifs" and assumptions in that but, it is fun to day dream about.
Well that may be, but that does not seem relevent to the case here. According to the article, he was being interviewed by the television at the time, so if he was disrupting traffic or anything like that, why wasn't teh camera crew arrested as well? He was doing it for their benifit at the time of arrest after all. According to the article he showed them what he was doing was nondestructive. And finally, according to the article he still hasn't been charged. Unless the details are different, this doesn't sound like the situation you described. He didn't even, "screech like scalded hogs" when they arrested him.
I used to love Blade Runner. But I can't watch it any more. I realized a huge logic hole that prevents me from enjoying the film at all.
(if you don't want to risk ruining the film for yourself, stop reading!!)
If they are so worried about replicants infiltrating humans, why didn't they just make them green or put a huge tatoo on their forehead? Or even in a less conspicuous place? There is no logical reason that I can think of why such a precaution could not have been taken. If they did that, the entire film falls apart. As may the original story, but I can't remember it too clearly.
So is this the reason why people seem to be so much more rude on the Internet?
I was going to make the joke about only a moron would ask such a stupid question, but I see people beat me to it.
However, there are a couple reasons why people can be rude on the internet. One is, as others have emtnioned, the anonymity. If you piss people off, you can just go somewhere else. And you can have fun annoying strangers.
That mainly applies to trolls. But another reaosn why flame wars erupts so easilly is that people are usually at a website or a chat room because of the topic more than the people. Therefore, people are generally interested in information and that mutual interest in technology, or whatever, is the reason they are on the same site, rather than friendship.
Finally, there is also the fact that a lot of people have poor communication skills and don't put their message across as well and because text is much more limited than face to face communication, subtlties are often lost.
I seem to recall that the title "Night of the Flesh Eaters" had been used by another film and that is why they changed it. But yes, they forgot to put the notice on when they changed it, regardless of why it was changed.
I use yahoo email all the time and never knew that there were any differences between the way it works in ie and firefox. However, I never send anything but text email anyway, so it isn't surprizing that i never missed a feature i never use.
However, teh fact reamins that while I may not have the same features as an IE user, I still use yahoo mail, so i don't see to see that as much of a hinderance.
Any other common sites out there with more of a substantial difference between browsers?
I often hear people complain that there are sites that don't work in Firefox or Mozilla, but I very very rarely run into them, and there are none that I go to regularly that don't work well in Firefox.
So what are some of these sites that you go to regularly that don't work well in Firefox? Please give specific urls so I can see it myself.
As a grad student, I can say that the papers I've gotten that were stollen stuck out like a sore thumb because they are generic and repeat the same claims that have been said a million times. They are often so generic that they could apply to anything. Let's face it, if a student is too lazy to write their own essay, it is unlikely that they will bea able to tell a good essay from a bad one.
On the other hand, I work in an field where the students are usually actually interested in the topic and because my research involves the internet (and I am nearly always better at doing resesarch on the internet than they are) they don't cheat too much (or at least they are so good that I haven't caught more than a handfull!).
The question in this situation is not whether downloading music is moral or not, but whether or not children should be taught about it in schools by industry designed programs.
Call me cynical, but I am a lot more concerned about indoctrinization in schools than I am about downloading music.
I've seen in a couple of the clips floating around that there are the same physics in this as in HL2, so that would have some change on the gameplay, especially if people are used to specific tactics on specific maps. (I remember seeing some barrels blown up in Aztec for example)
I also seem to have heard rumors that boosting has been taken out, which has some people mad. But the riot shield is also gone, which has just about everyone happy.
But remember this isn't "CS2" it is just the equivelent of when Valve release Deathmatch classic which was supposed to be Quake deathmatch with better graphics.
Certainly there are valid reasons to take it off. That port was designed to help give mechanics diagnostic information after all. So there has to be a tollerance to let you take off the insurance device and let a mechanic use the port (or jack into the insurance device if it keeps all the same data as a normal device).
I agree. I've never had a bit of problem with my 900 MHz phones. I suspect the only reason they came out with 2.4 GHz phones is to get customers to use the "2.4 gig is bigger than 900 meg, so it must be better!" line of reasoning.
While most of us use fake email addresses and info (or always try slashdot as username and password first) I have seen lots of friends and family members input their real information into those websites. So while the number of people who know better than putting real info into online forms is growing, I would imagine that there are still a majority of users that don't know better. Untill my I can train people like my dad to put in fake information, the registration sites will still be effective.
At my father's shop they finally had to replace one of their old machines. It was a huge pain for them because they had to rewrite all the tool paths for the machine since the old programs couldn't be converted to the new program's format.
I wish more publishers would adopt such a strategy. Unfortunately, I'm not a programmer, so I probably won't be publishing many of your books, but as an academic, I would love for academic works to come in combo packs. Because in the academic world, let's face it, the only one making money in the vast majority of the cases is the publisher, so it isn't as if the author has to worry about lost sales through piracy. Academic writing, if it is any good, is going to be cited. I would dearly love it if I could easilly cut and paste from an ariticle I want to cite, or could search through for that one section I know is in there, but isn't listed in the index.