I've seen that happen once. When did Google come out? 10 years ago? Maybe some installations don't suffer any outages in 10 years, but I doubt most survive that long.
Good question! I'd guess that if you give someone else a copy while keeping a copy then the second copy isn't considered 'for personal purposes', but I know that laws vary around the place. Specifically, doesn't Canada have explicitly unregulated personal copying in this way? IE. if we both lived in Canada, I could burn you a copy of Metallica's latest CD and there's jack all Metallica or anyone else can say about it? Of course if I then ask for money for it...
That's a major problem in a lot of recent movies. It's like some idiot in Hollywood is teaching that "if 95% of the screen moves, people will think it is more actionny." The worst offender I can think of for this one is Bourne Supremacy. 30 minutes into that film I had my eyes closed because the constant shaky-cam was giving me a headache. Hell, I could give my baby brother a bottle full of red cordial and video camera and he'd shoot a steadier shot.
300, on the other hand, did their action scenes perfectly. The high-speed action interspersed with slow-motion scenes let you see what was actually going on, and at the same time gave a tremendous feeling of the pace of the battle. I really hope more directors take that style up, because it worked awesomely.
Yes, yes you can. It'd be like making a rerun of Herbie the Love Bug, and casting a Ford F150 as Herbie.
Speaking of whom, the version I heard was that they didn't want American viewers to confuse Bumblebee with said Herbie. For heavens' sake, what's next, cars with fans under the dash to blow air in your face, gas jets to make them look like rockets, and big hidden speakers to make a 'whoosh' noise? (Cmon someone has to have read that story...:P )
Compared to a traditional bike, you lose the drag of the drive train, if there is any. There isn't. Not appreciably, anyway. And this thing's frontal area is monstrous. This thing's big advantage is its whirly choppy blades of doom.
No, what killed DVD-Audio was some top-brass exec being asked by his 12-year-old daughter why the kids at school were laughing at her. Apparently they'd found out her daddy "made DVDA albums".
I'm pretty sure the government isn't going to be prosecuting you for breaking an NDA, as it's a civil matter, not a criminal one. All this right-to-free-speech stuff is just saying the US government won't go all Kim Jong Il on you and beat the soles of your feet with broken bottles for saying "bush is a tosser".*
Obviously I'm not a lawyer, but that's my take on it.
* Unless you're a terrorist, of course. National Security is Serious Business.
Interesting... that may be a component, although I'd suspect it's more to do with variable-ratio reinforcement - it's the percentage chance of a reward (abusive guy is actually nice) that makes it 'addictive' and hard for abused partners (it's not always women, I know of at least two cases of guys in this situation, one of whom actually committed suicide) to break out. It's the same scenario seen in problem gamblers and WoWcrack-heads, although arguably much more serious than either.
If I watch a TV show live, It's okay. (Even if I don't watch the commercials.)
If I record a TV show with a VCR and watch it later, It's okay.
If I record a TV show on a DVR and watch it later, It's okay. Everything up to this point has been OK.
If I have a friend record a TV show (VCR or DVR) and give me the recording so I can watch it later, It's okay. Narp. That's the bit that's not OK. Well, I'm pretty sure it's not legal anyways. If your friend actually hands you his only copy then sure, but if he copies the tape and hands you the copy (as happens in a torrent) then you're making an unauthorized copy and therefore violating copyright.
I recall reading that what Koreans wanted most out of Starcraft II was more Starcraft with better graphics. Hell, that's what I want out of Starcraft II, as does everyone I've talked to. And I'm sure as hell pleased that that's what we're getting! ^^
Sure, this gig pays more, but the work environment is not nearly the same. There's no heady optimism about the future, and that, really, when you think about it, the collapse of the dot net boom and worse, the later ruling about expensing stock options, and then the war, this decade has been utterly depressing. At least things are looking up... When I started university in '99, the dot com boom was booming, and kids were dropping out of high school to earn $80/hour building cruddy websites with Netscape Composer. By the time I was nearing the end of third year and starting to look for a job, every single job required 5-10 years experience in everything, simply because us graduates were competing against swarms of developers with 10+ years experience, who were willing to work for AU$30k/year just to put food on their families' tables.
Now, it's getting to the point (mostly because all the IT guys switched course to study masonry or something, and now earn whatever they ask for thanks to the housing boom) where there's a "skills shortage" again. Companies are having trouble finding skilled workers to work for entry level wages, and so wages are slowly being pushed back up. It's not all bad. >.>
It depends on what the 'premium' content is. If it's like Blizzard's codes that they give out at BlizzCon and so forth, for vanity pets and other status symbols that don't affect gameplay, then it won't be a problem. Some people will cough up for the ego boost of having a cute pet or a different coloured shirt or whatever, and the rest won't mind too much. If, on the other hand, it's like your Penny Arcade link (you can't equip items above a certain level without playing, for instance) then it will suck mightily and may well sink the game (since if you have to pay per month to play the 'real' game without a massive disadvantage, it's pitting itself against WoW and we already have an excellent WoW, called WoW).
Also it depends on the level of PvP available - if it's a purely PvE game then it doesn't matter how good the next guy's gear is, as long as you can scope out upgrades for yourself to move the game along. If, on the other hand, his Catastrophic Axe of Instagib is actually going to be swung at your Flexible Shield of Damp Cardboard at some point, that point is probably the point where you'll quit the game.
Actually, maybe not so much for laptops... but the reason CFCs are an evironmental hazard, as you well know, is that they catalyze the breakdown of toxic but UV-light-absorbing ozone into oxygen. I wonder whether CFC 'scrubbers' could be used with ground-level high-voltage equipment to minimise ozone buildup?
Any time I have to spend f$%king with my OS instead of playing games, reading web pages, checking and answering my email is wasted. It's this spending-time-on-your-OS-is-your-ultimate-goal mentality that's holding Linux back from more mainstream adoption. The perfect OS would 'just work', let me run applications, and not require my attention in any way.
It's not measurement that's the problem. It's existance. A quantum object does not have a well-defined position/momentum. More information, please? This assertion is the fundamental problem I've always had with quantum theory, and every time I ask someone who thinks they know what they're taking about to explain it, they wave their hands around a bit, say "Heisenberg" a few times, then claim it's lunchtime and they really must go. The uncertainty principle as I've always had it explained to me (for instance, in my university physics course) is that observation of (ie. interaction with) a particle affects that particle in a way that you can't determine, and hence it isn't possible to simultaneously measure some quantities. There seems to be a big jump from "can't measure" to "doesn't exist" and no-one seems willing to talk about it.
This would punish cheaters, sure; but it would also punish those who just happen to be good (on that map in my case). To be honest, I don't care whether they guy that headshots me 5 seconds before I see him, every single time, is cheating or is just really good. Either way it makes the game suck for me, and it presents no challenge for him. Users *should* be grouped by ability level (whether natural or assisted) so that everyone can actually enjoy the game while they're getting good at it. Surely you didn't have as much fun 'owning noobs with your leet sniper skillz' as you would have playing against equally skilled players?
Iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows. And Australia is entirely peopled by criminals. And criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me.
Which is fine until people start making it a full time career. It's no fun to have your trolley disappear the moment you turn your back on it, leaving you with bags to carry and no $2.50 deposit (curse you, AU -> UK exchange rate). This sort of thing works well until it really catches on and then it gets annoying. Then again I never had problems like that in mainland Europe when I was over there so maybe it was just London.:P
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I misread that as "make sure the nightly backups are corrupted properly". Time for that coffee... >.>
I've seen that happen once. When did Google come out? 10 years ago? Maybe some installations don't suffer any outages in 10 years, but I doubt most survive that long.
"Float like a butterfly, swim like a bee." - not Mohommad Ali
Good question! I'd guess that if you give someone else a copy while keeping a copy then the second copy isn't considered 'for personal purposes', but I know that laws vary around the place. Specifically, doesn't Canada have explicitly unregulated personal copying in this way? IE. if we both lived in Canada, I could burn you a copy of Metallica's latest CD and there's jack all Metallica or anyone else can say about it? Of course if I then ask for money for it...
300, on the other hand, did their action scenes perfectly. The high-speed action interspersed with slow-motion scenes let you see what was actually going on, and at the same time gave a tremendous feeling of the pace of the battle. I really hope more directors take that style up, because it worked awesomely.
Yes, yes you can. It'd be like making a rerun of Herbie the Love Bug, and casting a Ford F150 as Herbie.
:P )
Speaking of whom, the version I heard was that they didn't want American viewers to confuse Bumblebee with said Herbie. For heavens' sake, what's next, cars with fans under the dash to blow air in your face, gas jets to make them look like rockets, and big hidden speakers to make a 'whoosh' noise? (Cmon someone has to have read that story...
No, what killed DVD-Audio was some top-brass exec being asked by his 12-year-old daughter why the kids at school were laughing at her. Apparently they'd found out her daddy "made DVDA albums".
I'm pretty sure the government isn't going to be prosecuting you for breaking an NDA, as it's a civil matter, not a criminal one. All this right-to-free-speech stuff is just saying the US government won't go all Kim Jong Il on you and beat the soles of your feet with broken bottles for saying "bush is a tosser".*
Obviously I'm not a lawyer, but that's my take on it.
* Unless you're a terrorist, of course. National Security is Serious Business.
Sorry, bad wording. Your friend is then guilty of unauthorized distribution. And while that's not a crime, it is still illegal in most countries.
Interesting... that may be a component, although I'd suspect it's more to do with variable-ratio reinforcement - it's the percentage chance of a reward (abusive guy is actually nice) that makes it 'addictive' and hard for abused partners (it's not always women, I know of at least two cases of guys in this situation, one of whom actually committed suicide) to break out. It's the same scenario seen in problem gamblers and WoWcrack-heads, although arguably much more serious than either.
Record your own shows
Cherry blossoms all around
Upload and be sued.
If I record a TV show with a VCR and watch it later, It's okay.
If I record a TV show on a DVR and watch it later, It's okay. Everything up to this point has been OK. If I have a friend record a TV show (VCR or DVR) and give me the recording so I can watch it later, It's okay. Narp. That's the bit that's not OK. Well, I'm pretty sure it's not legal anyways. If your friend actually hands you his only copy then sure, but if he copies the tape and hands you the copy (as happens in a torrent) then you're making an unauthorized copy and therefore violating copyright.
LOSE!! It's LOSE! The only way you could 'loose' money is by untying it, or making it less tight.
Gah. Other than that your post is correct.
Now, it's getting to the point (mostly because all the IT guys switched course to study masonry or something, and now earn whatever they ask for thanks to the housing boom) where there's a "skills shortage" again. Companies are having trouble finding skilled workers to work for entry level wages, and so wages are slowly being pushed back up. It's not all bad. >.>
Your post makes me wish I'd saved a mod point.
+1 Truth
It depends on what the 'premium' content is. If it's like Blizzard's codes that they give out at BlizzCon and so forth, for vanity pets and other status symbols that don't affect gameplay, then it won't be a problem. Some people will cough up for the ego boost of having a cute pet or a different coloured shirt or whatever, and the rest won't mind too much. If, on the other hand, it's like your Penny Arcade link (you can't equip items above a certain level without playing, for instance) then it will suck mightily and may well sink the game (since if you have to pay per month to play the 'real' game without a massive disadvantage, it's pitting itself against WoW and we already have an excellent WoW, called WoW).
Also it depends on the level of PvP available - if it's a purely PvE game then it doesn't matter how good the next guy's gear is, as long as you can scope out upgrades for yourself to move the game along. If, on the other hand, his Catastrophic Axe of Instagib is actually going to be swung at your Flexible Shield of Damp Cardboard at some point, that point is probably the point where you'll quit the game.
Actually, maybe not so much for laptops... but the reason CFCs are an evironmental hazard, as you well know, is that they catalyze the breakdown of toxic but UV-light-absorbing ozone into oxygen. I wonder whether CFC 'scrubbers' could be used with ground-level high-voltage equipment to minimise ozone buildup?
Any time I have to spend f$%king with my OS instead of playing games, reading web pages, checking and answering my email is wasted. It's this spending-time-on-your-OS-is-your-ultimate-goal mentality that's holding Linux back from more mainstream adoption. The perfect OS would 'just work', let me run applications, and not require my attention in any way.
Your feeble attempt to hack my neural circuits with your random data cannoERROR215 PLEASE CONTACT YOUR NEURAL ADMINISTRATOR
Iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows. And Australia is entirely peopled by criminals. And criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me.
Which is fine until people start making it a full time career. It's no fun to have your trolley disappear the moment you turn your back on it, leaving you with bags to carry and no $2.50 deposit (curse you, AU -> UK exchange rate). This sort of thing works well until it really catches on and then it gets annoying. Then again I never had problems like that in mainland Europe when I was over there so maybe it was just London. :P