When referring to a Jb of data its not Jigabyte its actually Jagabyte. Hard drive manufacturers are still trying to sell us just a little less space even at the Jiga level!
It's the safety and invitation I feel when I step across my home's threshold that leaches out the poisons I inevitably ingest in my daily rounds.
Is this not the reason man makes a home! I was in Chicago for a few weeks recently. For a metropolitan its got a very different vibe than NYC. People there are different. I myself live in LA! ahah, which is the happy medium I think. You are close enough here to city and rural areas and beach! Lots of nature and mountains to enjoy.
...and they evicted the poor
who already lived there to achieve that goal.
It's got nothing to do with the need to improve people's mental faculties by
communing with nature.
You could say that it has something to do with improving the mental faculties of wealthier people?
I think what you take as energizing really is the opposite. It takes energy to be in such a busy place. Your attention is all over the place so your mind is running full speed. You walk a lot so you do more physical exercise. Its great for a little while because it's like getting a work out. When you work out you get endorphins goin and your heart rate goes up and it feels good. If you were working out non stop all day you would no longer get those endorphins goin and just be tired. Living in the city is tiring just as working out all day long every day is. I'm not talking about like lightly working out. I'm saying hard pushing to the limit everyday.
SotC wasn't that easy. But is was pretty. The views and sounds pulled you into the world, which is very refreshing in the game world. SotC was an experiment though. I would like to see what they learned in making that game and incorporate it into other games. It really was boss battle: the game. If I had to climb all over a titan in the Zelda games it would be pretty awesome.
I like what Mirror's Edge did about this. When you die you start over a little ways back, at the beginning of a section. But sections were short and timed so you could build up speed. Getting back into the game play right away without the punishment of waiting made it feel fun and exciting. You also had less fear of falling off the building which is great because then you are living like a runner. The characters in the game don't fear falling because they do this everyday. If us normal people were faced with the situation in real life most wouldn't jump off a building. Even if they knew they could make it. The risk is high in real life. In the game its more about getting thru the courses and not about having to be careful.
I dont think that I contradict my own point. I understand that copyright is there to promote creativity by allowing for a compensation period via temporary monopoly. Ideas/content/info is still inherently free. You can give it so someone and they will have it in their memories. Transfer is instant by viewing/experiencing. As for the author not seeing much of those profits, that is another matter all together involving the system of distribution screwing over the author. This is a different subject of corporate entities taking advantage of individuals.
I agree with you, though with less anger I suppose. You can't take the view of paying for it if you like it or not being allowed an opinion on it if you didn't help to compensate the author. That's just a load of crap.
Information/content/whatever is inherently free. The exchange of ideas is free. It is free because the actual act of transferring the information to a person's mind costs nothing really. Yea distribution of mass info costs something but paying for distribution isn't paying for the creator.
Anyway, some of these guys here arguing about having the right to even talk about this piece of art if you haven't payed for it's consumption just sounds like a bunch of fans or kids bickering about who is cooler. It's a form of verbal domination to decide who has rights and who doesn't as this matter shouldn't even come into the argument.
Those that say everyone who read Watchmen and liked it should pay because the creators deserve it shouldn't mix this demand with the argument that one should not be allowed an opinion if they have not paid.
Also, there are those of us who do believe the copyright system is in failure due to long terms of rights. Art and media should belong to the public after the author makes the bulk of profits (about 10-15 years) allowing future generations the ability to use these ideas to create new ideas and innovate pushing society forward. But that's for another post!
Btw, I read Watchmen a long time ago. I never paid for it. I borrowed the book from a friend and read it all in one sitting. After that though I had no need to collect a book for the sole purpose of paying money. I probably caused many people to go out and purchase the book though. Regardless I don't think the author saw much of those profits.
I didn't RTFA but, usually when someone is asserting some statistic or trend in an article I would do the smart thing and try to find out where they are getting their data from. Do they cite it in the article? If not then it's a poorly written and researched article. There is a reason you have cite everything in college papers!
Just because individual people could be smart doesnt mean that they can add to an organization. Corporate organizations are full of all kinds of people (a lot of idiots, but smart people too) but the structure seems to not take advantage of individuals specialties. It all just comes out at the least common denominator level. So highly skilled marketing, accounting and research divisions aren't 100% highly skilled. Also they aren't run by one philosopher-king who has the knowledge and responsibility to take the product or whatever to excellence.
well the RIAA runs an extortion racket as their business model with the types of contracts they make artists sign. Extortion is just business as usual. They see nothing wrong with it.
Copyright law isn't the same thing it used to be. Once the copyright period jumped to 70+ years it lost its power for the people. When copyright is short (like 10-15 years) then the next generation of artists can innovate by using the last gens' works. Most of the money made from a copyright product occurs within 2 years and 80% of that in the first 6 months. So holding on to the copyright for life just hurts society. The idea of copyright was to let the creator make some money for their efforts and then release their works to the ownership of the rest of the society. Ideas are free by nature. Copyright makes them not free for a supposed short while to be paid for the creators' efforts. 70+ years of copyright just brings stagnation to innovation and we lose overall as a society.
I'd be down with this if a few things happened right after the tax gets passed. First, a on campus server that can be accessed by any student should be setup and have every damn RIAA song on there for download, as the tax already pays for the music. And bittorrent education seminars for students will be held.
I was about to post exactly this and then I saw your post. This would be much better for PR if they just did this back as a joke. Corporations just have no sense of humor. They are definitely not from the internets.
for sure, my brother and I just really got into football. Sports are only fun when you get into the nuances of the sport. I was never into football and now that I finally took the time to understand it I wish that I had played in high school. I've always been into F1 racing and various other racing, except nascar ehhe. But the one thing that keeps my brother and I into watching sports is the athleticism. Watching the best of the best go against each other with a ruleset to even the playing field. Cheerleaders and all the extra stuff is a fun perk. It makes going to games more fun as an event.
Slashdot Mirror
do a barrel roll! in real-time! maybe even SPACE-TIME!!!
People are trying too hard just to play Crysis. wtf!
When referring to a Jb of data its not Jigabyte its actually Jagabyte. Hard drive manufacturers are still trying to sell us just a little less space even at the Jiga level!
It's the safety and invitation I feel when I step across my home's threshold that leaches out the poisons I inevitably ingest in my daily rounds.
Is this not the reason man makes a home! I was in Chicago for a few weeks recently. For a metropolitan its got a very different vibe than NYC. People there are different. I myself live in LA! ahah, which is the happy medium I think. You are close enough here to city and rural areas and beach! Lots of nature and mountains to enjoy.
...and they evicted the poor who already lived there to achieve that goal. It's got nothing to do with the need to improve people's mental faculties by communing with nature.
You could say that it has something to do with improving the mental faculties of wealthier people?
I think what you take as energizing really is the opposite. It takes energy to be in such a busy place. Your attention is all over the place so your mind is running full speed. You walk a lot so you do more physical exercise. Its great for a little while because it's like getting a work out. When you work out you get endorphins goin and your heart rate goes up and it feels good. If you were working out non stop all day you would no longer get those endorphins goin and just be tired. Living in the city is tiring just as working out all day long every day is. I'm not talking about like lightly working out. I'm saying hard pushing to the limit everyday.
yea it's all marketing. People buy what they hear about. It's the truth and I haven't seen any LED light fixture ads anywhere!
you could hook up a reasonable sized touch screen to it? the whole unit could be very light.
I don't know about you, but I find an iPhone a bit hefty.
I think you need to start workin' out, mate.
SotC wasn't that easy. But is was pretty. The views and sounds pulled you into the world, which is very refreshing in the game world. SotC was an experiment though. I would like to see what they learned in making that game and incorporate it into other games. It really was boss battle: the game. If I had to climb all over a titan in the Zelda games it would be pretty awesome.
I like what Mirror's Edge did about this. When you die you start over a little ways back, at the beginning of a section. But sections were short and timed so you could build up speed. Getting back into the game play right away without the punishment of waiting made it feel fun and exciting. You also had less fear of falling off the building which is great because then you are living like a runner. The characters in the game don't fear falling because they do this everyday. If us normal people were faced with the situation in real life most wouldn't jump off a building. Even if they knew they could make it. The risk is high in real life. In the game its more about getting thru the courses and not about having to be careful.
I dont think that I contradict my own point. I understand that copyright is there to promote creativity by allowing for a compensation period via temporary monopoly. Ideas/content/info is still inherently free. You can give it so someone and they will have it in their memories. Transfer is instant by viewing/experiencing. As for the author not seeing much of those profits, that is another matter all together involving the system of distribution screwing over the author. This is a different subject of corporate entities taking advantage of individuals.
I agree with you, though with less anger I suppose. You can't take the view of paying for it if you like it or not being allowed an opinion on it if you didn't help to compensate the author. That's just a load of crap.
Information/content/whatever is inherently free. The exchange of ideas is free. It is free because the actual act of transferring the information to a person's mind costs nothing really. Yea distribution of mass info costs something but paying for distribution isn't paying for the creator.
Anyway, some of these guys here arguing about having the right to even talk about this piece of art if you haven't payed for it's consumption just sounds like a bunch of fans or kids bickering about who is cooler. It's a form of verbal domination to decide who has rights and who doesn't as this matter shouldn't even come into the argument.
Those that say everyone who read Watchmen and liked it should pay because the creators deserve it shouldn't mix this demand with the argument that one should not be allowed an opinion if they have not paid.
Also, there are those of us who do believe the copyright system is in failure due to long terms of rights. Art and media should belong to the public after the author makes the bulk of profits (about 10-15 years) allowing future generations the ability to use these ideas to create new ideas and innovate pushing society forward. But that's for another post!
Btw, I read Watchmen a long time ago. I never paid for it. I borrowed the book from a friend and read it all in one sitting. After that though I had no need to collect a book for the sole purpose of paying money. I probably caused many people to go out and purchase the book though. Regardless I don't think the author saw much of those profits.
It means that the tubes will actually have dump trucks.
I didn't RTFA but, usually when someone is asserting some statistic or trend in an article I would do the smart thing and try to find out where they are getting their data from. Do they cite it in the article? If not then it's a poorly written and researched article. There is a reason you have cite everything in college papers!
Just because individual people could be smart doesnt mean that they can add to an organization. Corporate organizations are full of all kinds of people (a lot of idiots, but smart people too) but the structure seems to not take advantage of individuals specialties. It all just comes out at the least common denominator level. So highly skilled marketing, accounting and research divisions aren't 100% highly skilled. Also they aren't run by one philosopher-king who has the knowledge and responsibility to take the product or whatever to excellence.
well the RIAA runs an extortion racket as their business model with the types of contracts they make artists sign. Extortion is just business as usual. They see nothing wrong with it.
Copyright law isn't the same thing it used to be. Once the copyright period jumped to 70+ years it lost its power for the people. When copyright is short (like 10-15 years) then the next generation of artists can innovate by using the last gens' works. Most of the money made from a copyright product occurs within 2 years and 80% of that in the first 6 months. So holding on to the copyright for life just hurts society. The idea of copyright was to let the creator make some money for their efforts and then release their works to the ownership of the rest of the society. Ideas are free by nature. Copyright makes them not free for a supposed short while to be paid for the creators' efforts. 70+ years of copyright just brings stagnation to innovation and we lose overall as a society.
I'd be down with this if a few things happened right after the tax gets passed. First, a on campus server that can be accessed by any student should be setup and have every damn RIAA song on there for download, as the tax already pays for the music. And bittorrent education seminars for students will be held.
I was about to post exactly this and then I saw your post. This would be much better for PR if they just did this back as a joke. Corporations just have no sense of humor. They are definitely not from the internets.
for sure, my brother and I just really got into football. Sports are only fun when you get into the nuances of the sport. I was never into football and now that I finally took the time to understand it I wish that I had played in high school. I've always been into F1 racing and various other racing, except nascar ehhe. But the one thing that keeps my brother and I into watching sports is the athleticism. Watching the best of the best go against each other with a ruleset to even the playing field. Cheerleaders and all the extra stuff is a fun perk. It makes going to games more fun as an event.
fake a headache, be on the rag, or threaten to take half his belongings if he switches models
When they are on the rag thats BJ week!
I can do all those and more. Where do I fit in society?
It's what people used to call 5-door hatchbacks before marketing departments got to it.
not quite. ISP's arent the police and shouldn't have the powers that come with policing citizens.