Artist records music, sells 1000 copies, 500 copies downloaded. If the 500 downloaded hadn't been downloaded the artist would not work any less, the music was already created.
Barber gives 1500 haircuts, gets paid for 1000, the 500 that refused to pay all resulted in say, an hour's worth of work each.
Do you understand the difference?
Meh, I remember a microprocessor course I took where we had to code for an integrated system that had 512 bytes of RAM and 4kB of "storage" (essentially RAM that couldn't be directly accessed), it felt a bit like writing a bootloader for x86..
My first reaction when I read the whole "...something big is about to happen." bit was "Oh great, now it's not just Linux fanboys who get a free ride on slashdot, apparently people who know just how great the PlayRevolution360++ soopar deluxe rad pro is even though they've never even seen one are also included"
Uhm, there have been keyboard + mouse addons for consoles for several generations, it's just that they tend to be overpriced and incompatible with standard hardware (so that you can't just use your regular USB or PS/2 keyboard/mouse with your console..
Actually, I think it's not as much copyright infringement as "both made a spiral in Illustrator and used the same stock brush", I've used that brush in a logo but mine was slightly more detailed than just a spiral so it didn't look just like the debian logo..
I think the problem with military applications is that this equipment (at least right now) is quite heavy, and I don't see soldiers giving up ammunition, body armor, food and other stuff like that just so that they can stay in touch with their CO using MSN Messenger...
Well, In france they use AZERTY, quite a traumatic experience when coming from Sweden (QWERTY with three "extra" characters..)/Mikael
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Europe has a very infantile view of sexuality, where it's shoved in people's faces to titter over.
M..T..V, The Playboy channel and countless other examples. And all of these manage to make sex sell because, well, sex is considered "dirty" and "private"..
Seen any European "sex comedies" lately?
No, can't say I have, what does this have to do with anything btw? And when you write "sex comedies" I think of those horrible college comedies that american moviegoers seem to love (since there is a never-ending stream of them). Ya' know, the ones where at least half the jokes are about young americans and their pitiful attempts at sex that fail horribly due to them having no knowledge of what sex is really like...
The US generally treats it as a private subject that should keep some dignity.
No, The US treats sex as a private matter that should be used to sell records, cars and just about anything else, as long as you don't show nipples or any other "naughty bits"..
A great example is the swedish movie "Fucking Åmål" (Called "Show me love" in some countries where the mere word "fucking" is considered evil *cough*USA*cough*), in Sweden most people saw it as a movie about being young in a small town, peer pressure and a lot of other "normal" issues, in the US people labeled it a "lesbian movie" because the movie is about two young girls who fall in love..
I'll answer this one.. I've tried Blender. In fact, it was the first 3d app that I did any serious work in. However, after switching to 3D Studio MAX 4.2 (followed by 5,6 and 7) and then Maya I've begun to wonder how I could get anything done with Blender, every time I've tried to use it again after promises that it's gotten so much better since the NaN days I've immediatly noticed that I hate the UI and that the workflow just seems "wrong" somehow..
Now, I have no doubt that some people love Blender, but the opinion of most of the people I work with (all avid 3D Studio, Lightwave or Maya users) is that Blender is sub-par in so many areas that it's not worth it if you can run Maya or 3dsmax instead.. Of course, YMMV..
Why does a human have to enter the metadata? Why not let the machine do what it can to derive what the file is about, and ask the human whether or not it's right? Such a system can be taught to "learn" when it's right or wrong, and it'd get better with time.
Let me be the first to say this.. NOOOOOOOO!!
A system like this would pretty much assure that millions of "lusers" world-wide would just click on the Ok button without even reviewing the metadata, then when they share their data with other people we'll have to manually change it, sort of like how lots of mp3s used to have really crappy id3v1 tags (crappy as in "every field is completely wrong").
If you're saying you want a cell phone that doubles as an mp3 player then I already have one of those, so it's not a new idea.. In fact, I noticed a few months ago that it seems to be one of those hot new features that everyone has to have in their new cell phone..
It's not as much about seizing the oil as making sure that you'll have troops in the right places when the oil really starts to run low, at least that's my take on it..
You do realize that in most the world's countries the two main political parties in the US are both considered fairly far to the right on the classic political spectrum, right?
8:30 to 18:00 is not labour limited, that 9h and 30m out of the 24 hours of the day and adds up to 47h 30m per week, labour limited for me would be four hours of work per day or so...
The only reason the child porn filters got applied in Sweden was because the tabloids (Aftonbladet and Expressen) decided to make it their issue of the day pretty much accusing swedish ISPs of being pro-child porn with arguments along the line of "other countries have it so uhm.. THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" and any voices pointing out that this system would be horribly inefficient were drowned by the battlecry of the tabloids...
Uhm, I think it was related to there being pictures of undercover police officers from some country on the server... (Can't be bothered to look it up right now, too hot and humid for me to care, need icewater..)
Good point, however I still think it would be a wiser choice to go after the rich kids who are "playing hippie" as they also seem to be easier targets, most hippies seem to be a bit more knowledgeable of things like how to fight than them. Of course, you could charge a premium for beating up the real hippies...
The only problem here is that there is no real profit in beating up hippies, believe me I grew up with a whole bunch of them, the ones you are after are the so-called "trustafarians", they look sort of like hippies but aren't quite as clever, don't shower or bathe and they tend to have nice cars and lots of money...
Their large visualization systems and supercomputers are still quite competitive, the problem is that "no one" is interested in buying the workstations since it's just so much cheaper to use Windows, Linux or even OS X machines for workstations...
On Fallout 2: IIRC that was only in the horribly buggy ELV (English Low-Violence) version, there were no patches for it and lots of people seemed to accidently buy it when stores would carry the ELV version instead of the regular version. And then they pirated the real version where you could actually enter the military base...
Take for example the DVD software I have. They've made the interface look exactly like a DVD player! Brilliant!... Oh wait it's a complete pain to use. All the buttons are rendered tiny and instead of text labels they have little pictures, most of which are unrecognisable. (Where's the "Open file" menu option??). The volume control is even a knob you have to "rotate" by moving the mouse in little circles. WHATS WRONG WITH A SLIDER???
Exactly, DVD/Media players are an excellent example of the "our software is special and can't possibly look like the rest of your system" plague. Well not to worry, there are very few programs that look "standard" any more... I sure wish WinAMP, Trillian and all those other apps would just look like regular windows apps, that way I could change the colors of all my windows apps without having to create my own skins for all the apps I use...
Well you see, it's statements like the one you quoted that can normally be used to identify a fanboy. The covert message here was (I think) "Nintendo boring, Sony r0xx0rZ, byu teh PS3 ro yuo r teh l00zar Nintend0rk k1dd13!!!11"
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Artist records music, sells 1000 copies, 500 copies downloaded. If the 500 downloaded hadn't been downloaded the artist would not work any less, the music was already created.
Barber gives 1500 haircuts, gets paid for 1000, the 500 that refused to pay all resulted in say, an hour's worth of work each.
Do you understand the difference?
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Actually, the original Looney Tunes although it had a fairly innocent look to it was actually targeted at an adult audience..
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Well, In france they use AZERTY, quite a traumatic experience when coming from Sweden (QWERTY with three "extra" characters..) /Mikael
M..T..V, The Playboy channel and countless other examples. And all of these manage to make sex sell because, well, sex is considered "dirty" and "private"..
Seen any European "sex comedies" lately?
No, can't say I have, what does this have to do with anything btw? And when you write "sex comedies" I think of those horrible college comedies that american moviegoers seem to love (since there is a never-ending stream of them). Ya' know, the ones where at least half the jokes are about young americans and their pitiful attempts at sex that fail horribly due to them having no knowledge of what sex is really like...
The US generally treats it as a private subject that should keep some dignity.
No, The US treats sex as a private matter that should be used to sell records, cars and just about anything else, as long as you don't show nipples or any other "naughty bits"..
A great example is the swedish movie "Fucking Åmål" (Called "Show me love" in some countries where the mere word "fucking" is considered evil *cough*USA*cough*), in Sweden most people saw it as a movie about being young in a small town, peer pressure and a lot of other "normal" issues, in the US people labeled it a "lesbian movie" because the movie is about two young girls who fall in love..
Now, I have no doubt that some people love Blender, but the opinion of most of the people I work with (all avid 3D Studio, Lightwave or Maya users) is that Blender is sub-par in so many areas that it's not worth it if you can run Maya or 3dsmax instead.. Of course, YMMV..
/Mikael
Let me be the first to say this.. NOOOOOOOO!!
A system like this would pretty much assure that millions of "lusers" world-wide would just click on the Ok button without even reviewing the metadata, then when they share their data with other people we'll have to manually change it, sort of like how lots of mp3s used to have really crappy id3v1 tags (crappy as in "every field is completely wrong").
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Exactly, DVD/Media players are an excellent example of the "our software is special and can't possibly look like the rest of your system" plague. Well not to worry, there are very few programs that look "standard" any more... I sure wish WinAMP, Trillian and all those other apps would just look like regular windows apps, that way I could change the colors of all my windows apps without having to create my own skins for all the apps I use...
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Anders Zorn was a swedish painter, probably not where you heard it but it's the only Zorn I've heard of..
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