Up until now I was of the opinion widespread distribution of video, music, games on physical media was doomed to die out because digital downloads are just so much more convenient. It seems the people who run the download services are doing their best to make sure that never happens.
I'm a Mac and I found it to be pretty decent, for a commercial about an operating system.
You know, I was about to say how the worst thing about that ad was the way it failed to create the idea that the people shown are really computers, and instead shows a bunch of people rabidly obsessed with their particular kind of computer. "Who the hell calls themselves a computer?", I thought. I found it creepy.
Except there was no suggestion to teach them as alternatives, just to discuss creationism if it should come up, in order to clarify the difference between an item of religious belief and a scientific theory.
EA has no motivation to give a damn about your playing the game in the far future. For them, the ideal would be to sell you a 50 currency-unit game that you maybe start once and then never play again. The instant you pay for a game that game starts to eat into EA's revenue because as long as you're playing it, you have less incentive to buy a new one. (And they have to ship bug fixes, maybe run servers etc. depending on the game.) That they have to provide you with a reasonable amount of content to get you to play the game is an unfortunate reality.
Well, I can't see how anything "supernatural" could both exist and have an effect on the natural world. If something affects the world, it must interface with the world somewhere, which puts it squarely in the realm of the natural. The things you use the scientific method to understand, otherwise. This does seem, to me, to prove a supernatural god just can't exist.
No, I'd say it's very much the user's rights which are being "managed", in the sense that a worker in a company is managed by their superiors... Emphasis on superiors.
It's also taking a big chance, as both parties will probably be quite a bit more mature in a few years, and probably regret not getting something with lasting value, such as platinum or a finer grade of gold.
Gee, here I thought marriage was about the person, not about the value of the jewelry. The ring is a symbol, what kind of person gives a damn about how much it cost? Seems to me a well-thought out, meaningful ring, however cheap, is immeasurably more valuable than the biggest of diamonds.Seriously, if I was about to marry someone and found out the monetary value of a ring has any significant meaning to them, I'd be doing some very serious re-evaluation of that person's feelings towards me.
Yep, it's going to get ugly. Street View has gotten its share of flak, and that is one company taking photos. If this takes off and they get geolocation working and synths linked together, it's a completely different level of exposure. I think it's quite neat, myself, since my views on privacy as threatened here have started to veer towards "just give up and learn to live with it" anyway. But MS is not going to be able to police all the stuff people post, there's going to be so much content it's ridiculous. Noise will be made.
My gut feeling tells me the solution will rather involve changing our expectations of privacy. In short, people will stop caring so much who knows what about their personal lives. Methods of identification will have to be changed to cope with identity thieves, but still. Privacy is becoming impossible, and it seems a lot of people won't care. Let's hope we're capable of setting aside our taboos when we are capable of seeing just how everyone breaks them.
Just to provide an alternate viewpoint on Mass Effect - I like RPGs, especially ones with good stories. Mass effect was decidedly mediocre. Cookiecutter design, uninteresting cardboard characters, a plot straight out of the space opera for dummies guide book and and side quests that you do a few of and realize you'd rather sit in your chair and stare at the walls than drudge through yet another desert planet with your MAKO.
Now, clearly people like the game. That's fine with me, but I'd like to point out it's not for everyone.
Bad to the point of me thinking the editors might as well just pull this entire posting. Except that'd be too easy on them, I guess. Seriously, though - RTFA, anyone?
Hear hear.Freedom of choice is what democracy is all about. One band of oligarchs blaming voters for the other band of oligarchs winning because some voters didn't want either of their crap is just disgraceful.
Chopping the file into segments and encrypting the pieces separately? If you're sending files where only a clearly defineable portion is likely to be changed, this might work.
I don't think you understood the problem - difficulty typing on the touchscreen is one issue, but apparently people are also getting sluggish response from it, which is a separate issue. Way to pin it on fat fingers, though.
A steam engine does not, as far as I know, experience anything, nor does it consider itself an entity in any way. I can't, strictly speaking, prove that you do, either, but you yourself know you do. What's experiencing if not a way to get information from the world in order to make decisions - with free will - about it?
In any case, judging by the quote you posted, it seems we more or less agree on this matter.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it's a duck. That "you" have an "illusion" of free will is a strange claim to make. Who is this "you" the brain is fooling into thinking it's in control? The brain is in control, although in a distributed manner. Sure, if you want to think of yourself as a dictator holding all the strings, getting information from and passing instructions to from the different facilities of your nervous system, you're going to run into all kinds of trouble because, frankly, it just isn't so. There's no differentiating the experience of self, or of free will, or of anything, really, and the brain that does the experiencing, usually experiencing any given event in a multitude of different, even conflicting ways. If you can't tell the difference between having or not having free will, why do you think there is one in the first place?
If a desire can guide us, how does that differ from free will? So the mind is basically a combination of brain "modules" of varying function and complexity - how does that nullify the idea of free will? You ARE your brain (and the rest of your body, of course), therefore if your brain is able to moderate it's own actions, you have free will.
Geotagging is not that hard nowadays, assuming you have a device capable of creating a gps log and are using a digital camera (timestamps). Take the log, load it into gpicsync and let the program tag your photos for you. Just make sure the gps device and your camera have their clocks synchronized. I'm still waiting for a decent way to browse photos on a map, though - pretty much what you're looking forward to, I guess. Picasa lets you view geotagged photos in albums in google earth, but it's not much more than a gimmick. Something that would let you draw a circle on a map to limit your search to that area, then use a time slider to further refine the search and then allow keywords, face recognition once we get that, would be useful.
Sure, but how are you going to distribute those films? Digital, I'd bet, which means scanning the master copies in, processing, syncing audio, all the mechanical labour that goes into making a digital copy of a film. That costs money. Storing the films costs money. I'd guess Universal wasn't expecting to make much on the films any more, didn't feel like donating them either (I don't know how much of the rights to the films and the music in them they hold, probably in some cases there would have been licensing issues. Again, costly labour sorting all that out) and so decided to just get rid of them in the cheapest way possible. It sucks, but that's business for you.
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Up until now I was of the opinion widespread distribution of video, music, games on physical media was doomed to die out because digital downloads are just so much more convenient. It seems the people who run the download services are doing their best to make sure that never happens.
I'm a Mac and I found it to be pretty decent, for a commercial about an operating system.
You know, I was about to say how the worst thing about that ad was the way it failed to create the idea that the people shown are really computers, and instead shows a bunch of people rabidly obsessed with their particular kind of computer. "Who the hell calls themselves a computer?", I thought. I found it creepy.
So basically you're in favour of Barr's suit because it's good for your candidate, not because you find he has a valid point?
Well, at least you're honest about it.
Too bad EU countries are plunging headlong into the same authoritarian surveillance state that's rising in the US.
Except there was no suggestion to teach them as alternatives, just to discuss creationism if it should come up, in order to clarify the difference between an item of religious belief and a scientific theory.
EA has no motivation to give a damn about your playing the game in the far future. For them, the ideal would be to sell you a 50 currency-unit game that you maybe start once and then never play again. The instant you pay for a game that game starts to eat into EA's revenue because as long as you're playing it, you have less incentive to buy a new one. (And they have to ship bug fixes, maybe run servers etc. depending on the game.) That they have to provide you with a reasonable amount of content to get you to play the game is an unfortunate reality.
Well, I can't see how anything "supernatural" could both exist and have an effect on the natural world. If something affects the world, it must interface with the world somewhere, which puts it squarely in the realm of the natural. The things you use the scientific method to understand, otherwise. This does seem, to me, to prove a supernatural god just can't exist.
No, I'd say it's very much the user's rights which are being "managed", in the sense that a worker in a company is managed by their superiors... Emphasis on superiors.
It's also taking a big chance, as both parties will probably be quite a bit more mature in a few years, and probably regret not getting something with lasting value, such as platinum or a finer grade of gold.
Gee, here I thought marriage was about the person, not about the value of the jewelry. The ring is a symbol, what kind of person gives a damn about how much it cost? Seems to me a well-thought out, meaningful ring, however cheap, is immeasurably more valuable than the biggest of diamonds.Seriously, if I was about to marry someone and found out the monetary value of a ring has any significant meaning to them, I'd be doing some very serious re-evaluation of that person's feelings towards me.
Don't knock it. This is proof a poor process CAN lead to good results. Those responsible for this should be generously rewarded.
Yep, it's going to get ugly. Street View has gotten its share of flak, and that is one company taking photos. If this takes off and they get geolocation working and synths linked together, it's a completely different level of exposure. I think it's quite neat, myself, since my views on privacy as threatened here have started to veer towards "just give up and learn to live with it" anyway. But MS is not going to be able to police all the stuff people post, there's going to be so much content it's ridiculous. Noise will be made.
My gut feeling tells me the solution will rather involve changing our expectations of privacy. In short, people will stop caring so much who knows what about their personal lives. Methods of identification will have to be changed to cope with identity thieves, but still. Privacy is becoming impossible, and it seems a lot of people won't care. Let's hope we're capable of setting aside our taboos when we are capable of seeing just how everyone breaks them.
Just to provide an alternate viewpoint on Mass Effect - I like RPGs, especially ones with good stories. Mass effect was decidedly mediocre. Cookiecutter design, uninteresting cardboard characters, a plot straight out of the space opera for dummies guide book and and side quests that you do a few of and realize you'd rather sit in your chair and stare at the walls than drudge through yet another desert planet with your MAKO.
Now, clearly people like the game. That's fine with me, but I'd like to point out it's not for everyone.
Bad to the point of me thinking the editors might as well just pull this entire posting. Except that'd be too easy on them, I guess. Seriously, though - RTFA, anyone?
Hear hear.Freedom of choice is what democracy is all about. One band of oligarchs blaming voters for the other band of oligarchs winning because some voters didn't want either of their crap is just disgraceful.
Chopping the file into segments and encrypting the pieces separately? If you're sending files where only a clearly defineable portion is likely to be changed, this might work.
I don't think you understood the problem - difficulty typing on the touchscreen is one issue, but apparently people are also getting sluggish response from it, which is a separate issue. Way to pin it on fat fingers, though.
U.S law != world law
In any case, it's nothing a good, solid bombing campaign and some righteous propaganda can't fix.
A steam engine does not, as far as I know, experience anything, nor does it consider itself an entity in any way. I can't, strictly speaking, prove that you do, either, but you yourself know you do. What's experiencing if not a way to get information from the world in order to make decisions - with free will - about it? In any case, judging by the quote you posted, it seems we more or less agree on this matter.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it's a duck. That "you" have an "illusion" of free will is a strange claim to make. Who is this "you" the brain is fooling into thinking it's in control? The brain is in control, although in a distributed manner. Sure, if you want to think of yourself as a dictator holding all the strings, getting information from and passing instructions to from the different facilities of your nervous system, you're going to run into all kinds of trouble because, frankly, it just isn't so. There's no differentiating the experience of self, or of free will, or of anything, really, and the brain that does the experiencing, usually experiencing any given event in a multitude of different, even conflicting ways. If you can't tell the difference between having or not having free will, why do you think there is one in the first place?
If a desire can guide us, how does that differ from free will? So the mind is basically a combination of brain "modules" of varying function and complexity - how does that nullify the idea of free will? You ARE your brain (and the rest of your body, of course), therefore if your brain is able to moderate it's own actions, you have free will.
I'm getting some of it, too. I didn't know the OPs genitals were so small!
Geotagging is not that hard nowadays, assuming you have a device capable of creating a gps log and are using a digital camera (timestamps). Take the log, load it into gpicsync and let the program tag your photos for you. Just make sure the gps device and your camera have their clocks synchronized. I'm still waiting for a decent way to browse photos on a map, though - pretty much what you're looking forward to, I guess. Picasa lets you view geotagged photos in albums in google earth, but it's not much more than a gimmick. Something that would let you draw a circle on a map to limit your search to that area, then use a time slider to further refine the search and then allow keywords, face recognition once we get that, would be useful.
Sure, but how are you going to distribute those films? Digital, I'd bet, which means scanning the master copies in, processing, syncing audio, all the mechanical labour that goes into making a digital copy of a film. That costs money. Storing the films costs money. I'd guess Universal wasn't expecting to make much on the films any more, didn't feel like donating them either (I don't know how much of the rights to the films and the music in them they hold, probably in some cases there would have been licensing issues. Again, costly labour sorting all that out) and so decided to just get rid of them in the cheapest way possible. It sucks, but that's business for you.