I would say that it is a grey area for all of those. And you can't have everything all or none or we end up with people like Bush saying you are with us or you are a terrorist. I am under the belief that copyright infringement is wrong and should be punished but not to the extent that the RIAA and the like currently exercise also copyright should be enforced for like 10 years only, not like what is it now 120 years? There is no proof showing that people sharing and dling music files takes from sales. There is data to suggest that it actually helps the industry in people's exposure to music (I was reading BMI's sales growth and it continually goes up). Their tactics are just a bunch of FUD.
As for identity theft I would say that is a criminal offense as you are literally doing it to steal another person's money or assets. As it is a criminal offense to impersonate a police officer it would be criminal to steal another person's identity.
Stealing secrets is also difficult. For example in the case of a trade secret stealing a recipe for example gives you the ability to copy the food or drink and generate sales based on work you did not do to develop a product. You could jump at saying that stealing that info is the same as dling a song but you aren't going to be convicted of stealing the trade secret until you try to produce and sell that product. Having the info doesn't do any damage. With songs it's just file sharing and passing of information. Its not the crime of piracy until you start to sell that music that you acquired without paying for a license or whatever. Anyway this subject can be argued for a long time. Basically with copyright I am sticking to the idea that everyone is coming at it from the wrong angle. The copyright laws need to change to lowering the amount of time it is enforcible to 10 years or something short like that. This is the source of the problem as the temporary monopoly on an IP hurts the citizenry and hence the culture if it is not released to public domain after a short time.
Its like this: The RIAA is a company that sells spinner hubcaps which are totally gay. They drive by your house and see that you have rims with spinners so they decide you robbed them, even though your spinners are cold hard ali 20's probably with LEDs on them too. So they pull out their mac-10's and drop like 5 magazines on your car, cuz they are gangstas literally.
He could setup the jock and then use the jock as RIAA bait to prove that their methods for pointing the finger at the jock are questionable hopefully setting things so that RIAA will need to have better proof in their next lawsuit.
The Meme is what gives a Internets its power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.
it would be pretty awesome if such an implementation was cheap:) Oh maybe (this might be just gimmicky but whatever) you could hold like a ball, that could be squeezed. It could fill with liquid via a pump and be filled or emptied based on whatever output from the comp, essentially giving you an object in hand that it tactile and changes in weight. Sounds messy but I wonder what it would feel like.
Why not just limit a copyright to like 10 years. If you cant make money in 10 years then you are probably not adding much to enrich our culture. I am guessing that 95% of profit on a movie is made within the first year after release, hence the large amount of shit coming out the pipe all the time. It's either cutting copyright down to 10 years or somehow getting rid of the middlemen (distributors) by having a national centralized music database/ store where the money songs make go directly to artists that publish them. The site can be paid for not out of the artist's pocket but from the tax payers'. Hopefully it keeps taxes from paying for war (if that could ever happen in this country). Anyway, advertising for artists is done on this central site (through searching algorithms and paid ads maybe). If the artists want more advertisement they can pay out of pocket to ad firms on their own. This way artists that are chosen by the population (by buying their music) can afford to keep themselves going and creating more art. Btw, I don't know how this will work with movies cuz those still take a lot more actual money to make and a lot more people. Music is really on a smaller scale on the content creation end.
If you want to make a glove that can pull on your fingers in various ways I would look to using 'muscle wire'. When current is applied to the metal it contracts much like a muscle. Though you need to band them together in clusters to get any kind of strength and possible heat dissipation. Heat is the enemy as if the wire doesn't cool down quick enough it wont expand back to regular size. But this type of mechanic to a feedback glove would be best in my mind. Anything with like regular mechanical parts like motors or whatever would be too annoying and wouldnt have that organic feel to hand motion.
I am in agreement with your dime idea. I have been thinking that music is vastly overpriced at $.99 or even $.89. As the amount of music grows (especially crappy music) and the size of ipods and media players grow (which i believe contributes to perceived worth of music to the average joe) the price of music should drop drastically. The temporary? monopoly of copyright that the labels hold causes them to charge what ever they want because they have a monopoly and they know it.
since you called it the Airbook here is a pic I made for you. It should probably be the real logo. I would think about possibly thinking about buying one if that was on the back of the screen. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v161/thetick82/MacbookAir.jpg
Sorry that just because the damn thing doesn't glow or have spinners it doesn't fit into your idea of beauty. Be more accepting of other cultures, including the mainstream culture of your own land.
Please direct me to your statistics. I would like to see how population density comes into play. Because the various data I have come up with shows US death toll pretty high from 2004 to 2006, but pretty low in like the late 90's and the opposite for India or china. Also the percent of deaths versus total population tells a different story. There isn't overcrowding in the states but that is the case in India or China. I didn't say there were no accidents or fatalities in those countries, just an observation in lifestyle which seems to affect lives. Anyway I would like some more input on the matter. Also I don't care about who's fault it is when an accident happens. In America who's fault seems to matter more than if you are alive, probably due to the litigation practices of the country.
From what i have seen, most people that play guitar suck at guitar on rockband or guitar hero. I think its just a matter of how different the controls are from the real thing. The drum setup is essentially no different that real drums in that u hit them and have to have timing and all that. Even having skills with bounce control help. Real guitar is just too different than hitting some buttons because you are not making chords or hitting strings. If the guitar controller has buttons for each string stacked up the neck as strings are and not along the neck as general hand positions could be maybe guitarists could have a better time playing but I believe that the controller for guitar hero works well in that the motions you can make with your body make you feel like a rockstar without having to practice like a rockstar. Real guitarists already can enjoy the fruits of their labor by playing a real guitar.
Which big three are you talking about? Chrysler isn't even a player anymore (Mercedes could barely sell the company). Ford and GM mostly sell to Americans. I would say the big three now are Toyota, Nissan and Honda or Toyota, Honda and Fiat.
u know, the smart car's 'tridon cage' is just a racing type roll cage dressed up so you dish out tons of cash for it. You could make any other car equally safe by correctly bring it to race spec. And when you cry about convenience or whatever, in racing safety and convenience are a trade off. Why wouldn't it be that way on the road? A car is a car anywhere it drives.
I dunno I thought that a light car is more efficient was common knowledge of the most basic of physics. Lotus always had the idea to design light, not too expensive sports cars with not too much power that could keep up with the big boys. If you can make a 1000lb car put 250 to 300 hp to the ground you will be going very fast. Heck, 180 hp is more than enuff on that weight. Why do people still think they can beat a motorcycle in (insert some american v8 car).
If you'd have visited those other countries like india, china, vietnam etc. you would notice that pedestrians arent idiots and that cars have the right of way simply because a person loses the battle with a car. When everyone is busy looking out for themselves the road systems work. In america (esp here in LA) people are idiots and just assume the instated system to work. Problem is that when someone goes out of line all the people in the vicinity are in danger of crashing, killing, etc. People here just don;t pay attention to the road because we are told that other people have to follow the rules too. We see a lot of accidents here. The time I spent in Asia opened my eyes to how stupid America is when I realized that the lines on the road in Vietnam were mostly a suggestion when I saw a bus trying to overtake a bus on a 2 lane road. Everyone casually just hopped off the road for a second to give birth to the oncoming traffic. I was the idiot that didn't try to get out of the way until the last second. As American's remember that our arrogance is our weakness.
From my experience I find that the drum kit in rock band is the easiest to transfer actual drum experience to game skill. Now I myself am no musician but my brother is a drummer (he also plays guitar and bass). And he turned out to be the best at the drums on rock band that I know, and he sucks at every other type of music timing game. The guitar on rock band/guitar hero, DDR, and all those other bemani games he sucks at. He was able to pick up the drums on rock band and easily do some of the harder stuff right away. He just didn't like the feel of the set because it feels like a bunch of practice pads that aren't even different sizes to make different sounds. So "musician guy" posting before you could possibly just suck as a drummer and have no hand eye coordination (no offense drummer guy) but some guys just have it and some don't.
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I would say that it is a grey area for all of those. And you can't have everything all or none or we end up with people like Bush saying you are with us or you are a terrorist. I am under the belief that copyright infringement is wrong and should be punished but not to the extent that the RIAA and the like currently exercise also copyright should be enforced for like 10 years only, not like what is it now 120 years? There is no proof showing that people sharing and dling music files takes from sales. There is data to suggest that it actually helps the industry in people's exposure to music (I was reading BMI's sales growth and it continually goes up). Their tactics are just a bunch of FUD.
As for identity theft I would say that is a criminal offense as you are literally doing it to steal another person's money or assets. As it is a criminal offense to impersonate a police officer it would be criminal to steal another person's identity.
Stealing secrets is also difficult. For example in the case of a trade secret stealing a recipe for example gives you the ability to copy the food or drink and generate sales based on work you did not do to develop a product. You could jump at saying that stealing that info is the same as dling a song but you aren't going to be convicted of stealing the trade secret until you try to produce and sell that product. Having the info doesn't do any damage. With songs it's just file sharing and passing of information. Its not the crime of piracy until you start to sell that music that you acquired without paying for a license or whatever. Anyway this subject can be argued for a long time. Basically with copyright I am sticking to the idea that everyone is coming at it from the wrong angle. The copyright laws need to change to lowering the amount of time it is enforcible to 10 years or something short like that. This is the source of the problem as the temporary monopoly on an IP hurts the citizenry and hence the culture if it is not released to public domain after a short time.
So is sodomy in some states, but does anyone care?
Its like this: The RIAA is a company that sells spinner hubcaps which are totally gay. They drive by your house and see that you have rims with spinners so they decide you robbed them, even though your spinners are cold hard ali 20's probably with LEDs on them too. So they pull out their mac-10's and drop like 5 magazines on your car, cuz they are gangstas literally.
He could setup the jock and then use the jock as RIAA bait to prove that their methods for pointing the finger at the jock are questionable hopefully setting things so that RIAA will need to have better proof in their next lawsuit.
The Meme is what gives a Internets its power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.
it would be pretty awesome if such an implementation was cheap :) Oh maybe (this might be just gimmicky but whatever) you could hold like a ball, that could be squeezed. It could fill with liquid via a pump and be filled or emptied based on whatever output from the comp, essentially giving you an object in hand that it tactile and changes in weight. Sounds messy but I wonder what it would feel like.
Why not just limit a copyright to like 10 years. If you cant make money in 10 years then you are probably not adding much to enrich our culture. I am guessing that 95% of profit on a movie is made within the first year after release, hence the large amount of shit coming out the pipe all the time. It's either cutting copyright down to 10 years or somehow getting rid of the middlemen (distributors) by having a national centralized music database/ store where the money songs make go directly to artists that publish them. The site can be paid for not out of the artist's pocket but from the tax payers'. Hopefully it keeps taxes from paying for war (if that could ever happen in this country). Anyway, advertising for artists is done on this central site (through searching algorithms and paid ads maybe). If the artists want more advertisement they can pay out of pocket to ad firms on their own. This way artists that are chosen by the population (by buying their music) can afford to keep themselves going and creating more art. Btw, I don't know how this will work with movies cuz those still take a lot more actual money to make and a lot more people. Music is really on a smaller scale on the content creation end.
If you want to make a glove that can pull on your fingers in various ways I would look to using 'muscle wire'. When current is applied to the metal it contracts much like a muscle. Though you need to band them together in clusters to get any kind of strength and possible heat dissipation. Heat is the enemy as if the wire doesn't cool down quick enough it wont expand back to regular size. But this type of mechanic to a feedback glove would be best in my mind. Anything with like regular mechanical parts like motors or whatever would be too annoying and wouldnt have that organic feel to hand motion.
I am in agreement with your dime idea. I have been thinking that music is vastly overpriced at $.99 or even $.89. As the amount of music grows (especially crappy music) and the size of ipods and media players grow (which i believe contributes to perceived worth of music to the average joe) the price of music should drop drastically. The temporary? monopoly of copyright that the labels hold causes them to charge what ever they want because they have a monopoly and they know it.
They use a beer lens on the camera to facilitate hotness.
since you called it the Airbook here is a pic I made for you. It should probably be the real logo. I would think about possibly thinking about buying one if that was on the back of the screen. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v161/thetick82/MacbookAir.jpg
Sorry that just because the damn thing doesn't glow or have spinners it doesn't fit into your idea of beauty. Be more accepting of other cultures, including the mainstream culture of your own land.
they were saving the tentacles for the japan release.
more like Snakes on a City. I hate these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking city!
With the dollar droppin' it like it's hot I don't think so.
hey this way instead of barfing all night long you could just drop a deuce.
dont forget the benefits of not causing corn prices to skyrocket screwing the poor people we export corn to.
Please direct me to your statistics. I would like to see how population density comes into play. Because the various data I have come up with shows US death toll pretty high from 2004 to 2006, but pretty low in like the late 90's and the opposite for India or china. Also the percent of deaths versus total population tells a different story. There isn't overcrowding in the states but that is the case in India or China. I didn't say there were no accidents or fatalities in those countries, just an observation in lifestyle which seems to affect lives. Anyway I would like some more input on the matter. Also I don't care about who's fault it is when an accident happens. In America who's fault seems to matter more than if you are alive, probably due to the litigation practices of the country.
From what i have seen, most people that play guitar suck at guitar on rockband or guitar hero. I think its just a matter of how different the controls are from the real thing. The drum setup is essentially no different that real drums in that u hit them and have to have timing and all that. Even having skills with bounce control help. Real guitar is just too different than hitting some buttons because you are not making chords or hitting strings. If the guitar controller has buttons for each string stacked up the neck as strings are and not along the neck as general hand positions could be maybe guitarists could have a better time playing but I believe that the controller for guitar hero works well in that the motions you can make with your body make you feel like a rockstar without having to practice like a rockstar. Real guitarists already can enjoy the fruits of their labor by playing a real guitar.
Which big three are you talking about? Chrysler isn't even a player anymore (Mercedes could barely sell the company). Ford and GM mostly sell to Americans. I would say the big three now are Toyota, Nissan and Honda or Toyota, Honda and Fiat.
u know, the smart car's 'tridon cage' is just a racing type roll cage dressed up so you dish out tons of cash for it. You could make any other car equally safe by correctly bring it to race spec. And when you cry about convenience or whatever, in racing safety and convenience are a trade off. Why wouldn't it be that way on the road? A car is a car anywhere it drives.
I dunno I thought that a light car is more efficient was common knowledge of the most basic of physics. Lotus always had the idea to design light, not too expensive sports cars with not too much power that could keep up with the big boys. If you can make a 1000lb car put 250 to 300 hp to the ground you will be going very fast. Heck, 180 hp is more than enuff on that weight. Why do people still think they can beat a motorcycle in (insert some american v8 car).
If you'd have visited those other countries like india, china, vietnam etc. you would notice that pedestrians arent idiots and that cars have the right of way simply because a person loses the battle with a car. When everyone is busy looking out for themselves the road systems work. In america (esp here in LA) people are idiots and just assume the instated system to work. Problem is that when someone goes out of line all the people in the vicinity are in danger of crashing, killing, etc. People here just don;t pay attention to the road because we are told that other people have to follow the rules too. We see a lot of accidents here. The time I spent in Asia opened my eyes to how stupid America is when I realized that the lines on the road in Vietnam were mostly a suggestion when I saw a bus trying to overtake a bus on a 2 lane road. Everyone casually just hopped off the road for a second to give birth to the oncoming traffic. I was the idiot that didn't try to get out of the way until the last second. As American's remember that our arrogance is our weakness.
From my experience I find that the drum kit in rock band is the easiest to transfer actual drum experience to game skill. Now I myself am no musician but my brother is a drummer (he also plays guitar and bass). And he turned out to be the best at the drums on rock band that I know, and he sucks at every other type of music timing game. The guitar on rock band/guitar hero, DDR, and all those other bemani games he sucks at. He was able to pick up the drums on rock band and easily do some of the harder stuff right away. He just didn't like the feel of the set because it feels like a bunch of practice pads that aren't even different sizes to make different sounds. So "musician guy" posting before you could possibly just suck as a drummer and have no hand eye coordination (no offense drummer guy) but some guys just have it and some don't.