I agree that you didn't deserve that down moderation, and I didn't mean to imply that was the only one. I was using it as an example, like hiding a surprise party from your significant other or hiding your whereabouts from a stalker. Besides, even if society should change (which is another argument), it's not going to any time in the near future.
For a hugely sucesful artist who's shows are sold out they are being stolen from with no added benefit at all. There's no benefit for them at the moment, but what about three years down the road? A few years ago Britney Spears was the hottest of all the shits, and now she's nothing. However, widespread piracy and some good marketing could get her back to where she was if she were to produce more music.
The worst case scenario is that a hugely popular artist will become even more popular and thus be able to charge more for concert tickets and get larger venues.
I'm ashamed to say it took me a minute to get it. What's interesting to me is that the article says they've transformed music from a good to a service, ie you don't pay for the song, you pay for the performance. That's exactly the way it is for the artists in the US right now, they make their money off of the tours and make a pittance from the sale of CDs. The music industry keeps looking more and more corrupt all the time...
ps it was the grateful dead that I first heard of using this business model, they'd let anyone copy their music that wanted to, they'd just make sure that anything sold at their concerts had their logo on it.
Why do you say that? Google still requires participation from the users or else they'd shrivel up and die. If everyone stopped searching with Google, a large portion of their revenue would disappear instantly. If everyone disabled or white-listed javascript, then Google would lose the foothold in third party sites too. It's the nature of the internet that you can do whatever you wish, and you get to determine what happens in your browser. People use Google because they trust them, and if that trust disappeared so would the company.
I know there were some DDOS attacks that brought down Yahoo, but has Google ever been successfully attacked like that? The only time I've ever heard of Google having any sort of problems with malicious users was their insecure javascript running gmail, and that's been fixed.
And as for the privacy deal, there's nothing forcing people to use this kind of service. If 90% of the people in the world are constantly updating the site with where they are and who they're with, the site will almost always have your location whether you sign up for it or not.
If 90% of the people in the world are a part of the service that degrades their privacy, the reasonable expectation of privacy gets lowered, and people start thinking that you have something to hide. It's an idiosyncrasy until it's a cop that gets that suspicion.
On the other hand, if 90% of the people in this world are willing to give up privacy for convenience (a very logical choice, one that everyone on this site has made, probably many times), then perhaps the other 10% should accept some compromises and deal with it.
It's actually very fortunate. Privacy is something that I value highly, and yet sometimes I don't mind losing it (I wouldn't mind every one of these posts coming back to my employer, etc). Fighting the loss of privacy will help keep the loss of privacy in check so that, when we reach an equilibrium with the internet, when the change isn't so great, we can sit back and see that we've struck a good balance between public information and the ability to keep things private, for instance, which porn sites we subscribe to.
This is the first triple-A title from what is widely considered the best American studio for console RPGs; it's set in an entirely new universe and it's been highly anticipated among people who loved kotor and nwn. While you personally may not like the game or the system it's on, it's at least deserving of some recognition. With all the shitty, biased and completely wrong stories that Zonk posts throughout the day, complaining about this may dilute the legitimate complaints about Zonk's stories.
KotOR worked for me because the force was enough of a cross-over (and I'm not a SW fan by any means) to bring in the "magic". I haven't read everything there is to read about mass effect, but from what I can gather, it'll be as much of a hybrid as kotor. The mass effect itself is supposedly something of a magical ability only done more scientifically.
Also, the difference between an AK-47 and swords is that swords have more of a history and they come from a time when stories were the way to get information out; to a bronze age civilization, a steel sword seems magical. To us, the difference between an AK-47 and an M80 is purely technical. If there's a company out there that can change the differences between two pieces of equipment from a purely technical exercise into one of backstory, it's Bioware.
Are you kidding me? What about Mass Effect 2008, NCAA Mass Effect, Mass Effect: Special Anniversary Edition, Mass Effect: March Madness, and Mass Effect: Preseason Highlights? I have to buy every one of them every year! The so-incremental-you-can-hardly-tell-they're-there improvements are amazing and the updated roster is worth every penny!
the answer is firing the self-centered idiots more concerned with their career than with keeping passengers safe. It's all well and good when you look at it that way, but for better or worse, people are more concerned about providing for their own families and keeping them safe than they are about keeping strangers safe. Losing a good career can risk putting your family out on the streets, and nobody's going to risk that for close calls and near misses that almost never result in actual accidents. If we see an increase in fatalities because of these incidents, then you can start blaming those who don't come forward. For now, though, they're protecting themselves and their families, and if you think you're going to convince people to do otherwise you're insane.
NASA maintains a database where pilots can anonymously report anything they want to about the airways, and it's a publicly searchable database. NASA's numbers look like they're very different, and more accurate, than the numbers that the FAA gets that aren't anonymous. If pilots feel more comfortable reporting unsafe conditions anonymously and to a third party, then they should protect that anonymity for the sake of getting accurate numbers and fixing more.
Using normal standards of prior art, the NVidia dev kit for their GPU and the folding@home application on ATI video cards should be enough to show that "on a video card" is pretty standard nowadays.
And you can't forget to factor in the fact that on average a password will be found in half the time of an exhaustive search, so you're looking at a day and a half to two and a half days per password. When you're hacking the right computer, that's completely and perfectly acceptable.
Agreed. The methodology may be flawed, and there might be *potential* problems coming up, but there certainly aren't any immediate problems in aviation safety right now. As I remember it, the commercial aircraft in the US have less than one crash a year, which is a phenomenal record by any measure. While I appreciate that reports like these are done to make sure that no shits making its way to the fan, there's certainly not a problem right now.
really great coders...their forums and web servers all point at the same database as the game itself Just thought I'd point out your contradiction. web servers are notoriously easy to hack, so giving access to the game database to the web servers is a decision that they shouldn't have made.
It's immersive and beautiful and sci-fi in a way that no mmo to date has been. It's riddled with problems, but at the core they have a very good game, and in the end that's what wins out.
Maybe it's like the video from "The Ring," where if you get one you'll be forced to live out the rest of your life in your mom's basement and become pasty white and never see any girls.
Music is an exchange of ideas. Listen to a hymn, an ancient poem, dark side of the moon, stadium arcadium, etc. In fact, music is even better as exchanging ideas since it has more "bandwidth" than just the word: the tone and speed of the music. Songs are the oldest way of preserving and extending knowledge.
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You're forgetting the keyboard and mouse. They're the reason that RTS games are almost exclusively the domain of PCs.
I agree that you didn't deserve that down moderation, and I didn't mean to imply that was the only one. I was using it as an example, like hiding a surprise party from your significant other or hiding your whereabouts from a stalker. Besides, even if society should change (which is another argument), it's not going to any time in the near future.
The worst case scenario is that a hugely popular artist will become even more popular and thus be able to charge more for concert tickets and get larger venues.
I'm ashamed to say it took me a minute to get it. What's interesting to me is that the article says they've transformed music from a good to a service, ie you don't pay for the song, you pay for the performance. That's exactly the way it is for the artists in the US right now, they make their money off of the tours and make a pittance from the sale of CDs. The music industry keeps looking more and more corrupt all the time...
ps it was the grateful dead that I first heard of using this business model, they'd let anyone copy their music that wanted to, they'd just make sure that anything sold at their concerts had their logo on it.
Why do you say that? Google still requires participation from the users or else they'd shrivel up and die. If everyone stopped searching with Google, a large portion of their revenue would disappear instantly. If everyone disabled or white-listed javascript, then Google would lose the foothold in third party sites too. It's the nature of the internet that you can do whatever you wish, and you get to determine what happens in your browser. People use Google because they trust them, and if that trust disappeared so would the company.
I know there were some DDOS attacks that brought down Yahoo, but has Google ever been successfully attacked like that? The only time I've ever heard of Google having any sort of problems with malicious users was their insecure javascript running gmail, and that's been fixed.
If 90% of the people in the world are a part of the service that degrades their privacy, the reasonable expectation of privacy gets lowered, and people start thinking that you have something to hide. It's an idiosyncrasy until it's a cop that gets that suspicion.
On the other hand, if 90% of the people in this world are willing to give up privacy for convenience (a very logical choice, one that everyone on this site has made, probably many times), then perhaps the other 10% should accept some compromises and deal with it.
It's actually very fortunate. Privacy is something that I value highly, and yet sometimes I don't mind losing it (I wouldn't mind every one of these posts coming back to my employer, etc). Fighting the loss of privacy will help keep the loss of privacy in check so that, when we reach an equilibrium with the internet, when the change isn't so great, we can sit back and see that we've struck a good balance between public information and the ability to keep things private, for instance, which porn sites we subscribe to.
This is the first triple-A title from what is widely considered the best American studio for console RPGs; it's set in an entirely new universe and it's been highly anticipated among people who loved kotor and nwn. While you personally may not like the game or the system it's on, it's at least deserving of some recognition. With all the shitty, biased and completely wrong stories that Zonk posts throughout the day, complaining about this may dilute the legitimate complaints about Zonk's stories.
Also, the difference between an AK-47 and swords is that swords have more of a history and they come from a time when stories were the way to get information out; to a bronze age civilization, a steel sword seems magical. To us, the difference between an AK-47 and an M80 is purely technical. If there's a company out there that can change the differences between two pieces of equipment from a purely technical exercise into one of backstory, it's Bioware.
Are you kidding me? What about Mass Effect 2008, NCAA Mass Effect, Mass Effect: Special Anniversary Edition, Mass Effect: March Madness, and Mass Effect: Preseason Highlights? I have to buy every one of them every year! The so-incremental-you-can-hardly-tell-they're-there improvements are amazing and the updated roster is worth every penny!
NASA maintains a database where pilots can anonymously report anything they want to about the airways, and it's a publicly searchable database. NASA's numbers look like they're very different, and more accurate, than the numbers that the FAA gets that aren't anonymous. If pilots feel more comfortable reporting unsafe conditions anonymously and to a third party, then they should protect that anonymity for the sake of getting accurate numbers and fixing more.
Using normal standards of prior art, the NVidia dev kit for their GPU and the folding@home application on ATI video cards should be enough to show that "on a video card" is pretty standard nowadays.
And you can't forget to factor in the fact that on average a password will be found in half the time of an exhaustive search, so you're looking at a day and a half to two and a half days per password. When you're hacking the right computer, that's completely and perfectly acceptable.
Agreed. The methodology may be flawed, and there might be *potential* problems coming up, but there certainly aren't any immediate problems in aviation safety right now. As I remember it, the commercial aircraft in the US have less than one crash a year, which is a phenomenal record by any measure. While I appreciate that reports like these are done to make sure that no shits making its way to the fan, there's certainly not a problem right now.
It's immersive and beautiful and sci-fi in a way that no mmo to date has been. It's riddled with problems, but at the core they have a very good game, and in the end that's what wins out.
And nobody on slashdot cares. I mean, seriously, first post here is low hanging fruit...you're think some AC would have jumped on this...
What were the portions that were taken out? Details, not generalities.
I'd love for comments to have a year associate with them.
Maybe it's like the video from "The Ring," where if you get one you'll be forced to live out the rest of your life in your mom's basement and become pasty white and never see any girls.
As for why they're in tears, I have no idea.
Music is an exchange of ideas. Listen to a hymn, an ancient poem, dark side of the moon, stadium arcadium, etc. In fact, music is even better as exchanging ideas since it has more "bandwidth" than just the word: the tone and speed of the music. Songs are the oldest way of preserving and extending knowledge.
I'll wipe your ass for $15,000, but only once. Maybe twice.
Return a video game? Where is the dream world you're writing from?