I remember learning in Psychology that the oldest child tends to have the highest IQ but the youngest child tends to have the next highest, indicating that it's the parents' time that's the major factor.
I still think there might be a place so someone could show pictures of their work on the internet without having them stolen. The internet is a system that allows you to download content to your computer. Assuming by "stolen" you mean "put on someones computer and used as they see fit without the copyright holders permission," well, the whole internet is kind of designed to facilitate stealing. Sorry, but that's the nature of the beast.
Were there REALLY no DMCA or copyright controls on music, though, someone would eventually make something with a really cool user interface, like iTunes, but where music would be genuinely free. Sounds like bittorrent, limewire or any open source file sharing system. The reason that iTunes works is because people often want to do the right thing; it has nothing to do with the DMCA or copyright controls or anything like that. I've purchased a lot of music in my life because it's the right thing to do. If it weren't for my own moral compass, I would be able to get all the music I would like without paying for it. The DMCA and copyright controls have nothing to do with it.
First off, I'm sorry for all you Canadians whose politics are getting fucked up by stupid companies.
Second, it made some small amount of sense when the DMCA was put in place in the US because it hadn't been tried before. There were no examples of the DMCA in another large, first world country failing spectacularly. I still think that Orrin Hatch is an idiot at best, but at least they had some justification for it.
But these politicians have no such defense. The DMCA was a failure by anyones metric, online piracy is out of control and pirated materials are sold without much problem. How could anyone in their right mind think that more of the same will help anything? How could anyone think that this is in Canada's best interest? This makes no sense.
p.s. This isn't meant to say anything about canada in general or to endorse piracy.
I'm guessing that there will be a huge backlash against sony and microsoft if they ban manhunt 2. Nintendo, keeping up the family friendly perception, will keep the policy.
According to the wikipedia article, it would have been stealthy if it weren't for the fact that it was going so darn fast and so hot that they could see it from hundreds of miles away and it appeared to be the largest thing in the sky. While it had some stealthy parts, it was horrible at it in practice.
The article mentions a New York judge that ruled the opposite way in a similar case. Pardon my ignorance, but can anyone explain exactly how it's deemed even mildly legal for the RIAA to file suits against individuals and have motions against them when they're not allowed to face their accuser due to secrecy? This seems like an open and shut case to me.
While I agree that it was wrong of the US and USSR to play chess with the world, would it have been any better if the US hadn't played at all? If the US hadn't opposed the USSR, what would have stopped them from raping the world as they saw fit?
Assuming such lasers exist, shooting down a satellite is much, much harder than hitting any airplane. The satellite has a known trajectory that doesn't change much over the course of weeks, making it very easy to plan exactly how to fire the laser. Also, a satellite will change a few degrees per second at most.
On the other hand you have an aircraft traveling at mach 6. This requires you to accurately plot the trajectory, get the laser in place and aimed and firing for however long it needs to be concentrated on the same spot, all in a matter of minutes. Assuming the laser needs to be concentrated on the same spot for 1 second, the aircraft will have traveled nearly a mile. Not an easy task.
That does highlight the one area in which you'd want a pilot, though, and that's to make sure that no real technology falls into the enemy's hands. If there's one thing that can't go wrong, it's the contingency of having one get captured.
To the person with the "clever" moral compass comment, just because the US is performing reconnaissance doesn't make them the bad guy. Or are you saying that all through both world wars and the cold war the US was morally wrong to perform flyovers?
If it's anything like the SR-71, it won't be an issue whether they see it or not, they'll just accelerate. The Blackbird was a horribly un-stealthy plane, seen from hundreds of miles away by radar. However, while they were shot at quite frequently, they were never destroyed by enemy fire because of their speed and altitude. If a new version is in the works and this isn't just the same rumor that's been passed around for years, then it could easily incorporate the same defense mechanism.
Right, because a game which was announced two years ago is completely suited for challenging a game announced over a decade ago for the "vaporware" crown.
Maybe, but adding 10 stories to a 50 story building might not be; also, the sale of the produce would offset a lot of the cost (organic, locally grown food is like pure gold).
As one poster mentioned, the lower levels could be used for sunlight-independent things like fungus. The mid levels, which get light rarely, could be devoted to dark-loving plants, like many varieties of peas (kentucky bluegrass does better in the shade as well, but it's not edible). The higher levels could be devoted to the sunlight-loving plants like trees and grains. Also, if raising livestock, you wouldn't need even artificial sunlight, just normal electric light.
For those things which require electricity, in addition to the wind power already mentioned, you could (hopefully) use excess heat to at least offset the needs.
Let's assume that Manhunt is the equivalent of Hostel. A movie like Hostel, just like Manhunt games, are made to be so gratuitously violent as to push the bounds of what we find believable. I can guarantee that the images in both are comparable, with Hostel's being more life-like. Both are made for adults.
In the US system of movies, there's the R rating (for 16 years and older) and the NC-17 rating (for 17 years and older). These are roughly equivalent to M and AO. If a movie is R, you can see it in theaters and buy it at wal-mart. If it's NC17, you can only see it in one or two theaters in a large city. If you want to buy it, you have to go to an adult store or get an edited copy.
Likewise, an M rated game is restricted to 17 year old people, but it's available everywhere. An AO rated game is restricted to 18 year old people and can only be found through adult retailers (for the most part).
The outrage is, why should Manhunt, certainly no worse in violent content than Hostel or Hostel II, get a higher rating? My biggest complaint is that the AO rating is so rarely used that this will certainly make for even more bad press for what is, in the end, a good game development house that pushes the limits of technology, genre, and social acceptance (the last one being what gets them in trouble).
Finally, to suggest that an uproar over a rating of AO means that it's made for children is to suggest that Hostel's R rating implies it's made for children.
Flamebait or troll, my friend, because you are completely diverting the conversation. Dell's not restricting the hardware you can buy, Dell's restricting the software, and that's something that Apple does all day long. When Apple offers an alternative operating system and does better than Dell, then you can talk.
Yeah, too bad the laws of thermodynamics still hold. I won't be holding my breath, at least not until there's a paper on it or someone explains how this technology conserves energy.
Sorry to go against the stream here, but I like vista. I'm not a microsoft fanboy (I use linux for my server needs), but I recently bought a laptop (high-ish end, $2000) and it works great. No major complaints to speak of, all the compatibility I want is there, and the interface looks pretty good. Is it the greatest thing since sliced bread? No. Is it the worst thing in the world? No. Is it a competent upgrade that needs a few work arounds (running as administrator instead of just double clicking)? Yes. Overall, I like the UAC (that only pops on when I'm doing something new:D) and it's decent and reasonably compatible with past versions. That's all I'm looking for anyway.
No offense sir, but assuming you're saying "gasoline" when you say "gas", you're absolutely, 100% wrong and never should have been modded informative.
When the article says "perfect combustion", it's referring to oxygen and hydrogen and nothing else. As it points out, most combustion occurs with a component that involves carbon, which is why C02 is present in most combustion reactions. The truth of the matter is that "perfect" combustion only occurs with pure hydrogen, which doesn't exist in the real world because hydrogen is so reactive.
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Pornotube? It's all about spankwire my friend.
I remember learning in Psychology that the oldest child tends to have the highest IQ but the youngest child tends to have the next highest, indicating that it's the parents' time that's the major factor.
First off, I'm sorry for all you Canadians whose politics are getting fucked up by stupid companies.
Second, it made some small amount of sense when the DMCA was put in place in the US because it hadn't been tried before. There were no examples of the DMCA in another large, first world country failing spectacularly. I still think that Orrin Hatch is an idiot at best, but at least they had some justification for it.
But these politicians have no such defense. The DMCA was a failure by anyones metric, online piracy is out of control and pirated materials are sold without much problem. How could anyone in their right mind think that more of the same will help anything? How could anyone think that this is in Canada's best interest? This makes no sense.
p.s. This isn't meant to say anything about canada in general or to endorse piracy.
You shouldn't buy from Shell, they're mainly a gasoline/oil company.
I'm guessing that there will be a huge backlash against sony and microsoft if they ban manhunt 2. Nintendo, keeping up the family friendly perception, will keep the policy.
According to the wikipedia article, it would have been stealthy if it weren't for the fact that it was going so darn fast and so hot that they could see it from hundreds of miles away and it appeared to be the largest thing in the sky. While it had some stealthy parts, it was horrible at it in practice.
The article mentions a New York judge that ruled the opposite way in a similar case. Pardon my ignorance, but can anyone explain exactly how it's deemed even mildly legal for the RIAA to file suits against individuals and have motions against them when they're not allowed to face their accuser due to secrecy? This seems like an open and shut case to me.
While I agree that it was wrong of the US and USSR to play chess with the world, would it have been any better if the US hadn't played at all? If the US hadn't opposed the USSR, what would have stopped them from raping the world as they saw fit?
yes, yes I did. *hangs head in shame*
Assuming such lasers exist, shooting down a satellite is much, much harder than hitting any airplane. The satellite has a known trajectory that doesn't change much over the course of weeks, making it very easy to plan exactly how to fire the laser. Also, a satellite will change a few degrees per second at most.
On the other hand you have an aircraft traveling at mach 6. This requires you to accurately plot the trajectory, get the laser in place and aimed and firing for however long it needs to be concentrated on the same spot, all in a matter of minutes. Assuming the laser needs to be concentrated on the same spot for 1 second, the aircraft will have traveled nearly a mile. Not an easy task.
That does highlight the one area in which you'd want a pilot, though, and that's to make sure that no real technology falls into the enemy's hands. If there's one thing that can't go wrong, it's the contingency of having one get captured.
To the person with the "clever" moral compass comment, just because the US is performing reconnaissance doesn't make them the bad guy. Or are you saying that all through both world wars and the cold war the US was morally wrong to perform flyovers?
If it's anything like the SR-71, it won't be an issue whether they see it or not, they'll just accelerate. The Blackbird was a horribly un-stealthy plane, seen from hundreds of miles away by radar. However, while they were shot at quite frequently, they were never destroyed by enemy fire because of their speed and altitude. If a new version is in the works and this isn't just the same rumor that's been passed around for years, then it could easily incorporate the same defense mechanism.
Right, because a game which was announced two years ago is completely suited for challenging a game announced over a decade ago for the "vaporware" crown.
Maybe, but adding 10 stories to a 50 story building might not be; also, the sale of the produce would offset a lot of the cost (organic, locally grown food is like pure gold).
As one poster mentioned, the lower levels could be used for sunlight-independent things like fungus. The mid levels, which get light rarely, could be devoted to dark-loving plants, like many varieties of peas (kentucky bluegrass does better in the shade as well, but it's not edible). The higher levels could be devoted to the sunlight-loving plants like trees and grains. Also, if raising livestock, you wouldn't need even artificial sunlight, just normal electric light.
For those things which require electricity, in addition to the wind power already mentioned, you could (hopefully) use excess heat to at least offset the needs.
Let's assume that Manhunt is the equivalent of Hostel. A movie like Hostel, just like Manhunt games, are made to be so gratuitously violent as to push the bounds of what we find believable. I can guarantee that the images in both are comparable, with Hostel's being more life-like. Both are made for adults.
In the US system of movies, there's the R rating (for 16 years and older) and the NC-17 rating (for 17 years and older). These are roughly equivalent to M and AO. If a movie is R, you can see it in theaters and buy it at wal-mart. If it's NC17, you can only see it in one or two theaters in a large city. If you want to buy it, you have to go to an adult store or get an edited copy.
Likewise, an M rated game is restricted to 17 year old people, but it's available everywhere. An AO rated game is restricted to 18 year old people and can only be found through adult retailers (for the most part).
The outrage is, why should Manhunt, certainly no worse in violent content than Hostel or Hostel II, get a higher rating? My biggest complaint is that the AO rating is so rarely used that this will certainly make for even more bad press for what is, in the end, a good game development house that pushes the limits of technology, genre, and social acceptance (the last one being what gets them in trouble).
Finally, to suggest that an uproar over a rating of AO means that it's made for children is to suggest that Hostel's R rating implies it's made for children.
Flamebait or troll, my friend, because you are completely diverting the conversation. Dell's not restricting the hardware you can buy, Dell's restricting the software, and that's something that Apple does all day long. When Apple offers an alternative operating system and does better than Dell, then you can talk.
Yeah, too bad the laws of thermodynamics still hold. I won't be holding my breath, at least not until there's a paper on it or someone explains how this technology conserves energy.
Sorry to go against the stream here, but I like vista. I'm not a microsoft fanboy (I use linux for my server needs), but I recently bought a laptop (high-ish end, $2000) and it works great. No major complaints to speak of, all the compatibility I want is there, and the interface looks pretty good. Is it the greatest thing since sliced bread? No. Is it the worst thing in the world? No. Is it a competent upgrade that needs a few work arounds (running as administrator instead of just double clicking)? Yes. Overall, I like the UAC (that only pops on when I'm doing something new :D) and it's decent and reasonably compatible with past versions. That's all I'm looking for anyway.
What about Tang? The greatest drink man has or ever will know certainly should count for something.
If that weren't enough, freeze-dry technology, MRI and CAT scan machines, pens that can write anywhere, etc all came from NASA developments.
No offense sir, but assuming you're saying "gasoline" when you say "gas", you're absolutely, 100% wrong and never should have been modded informative.
When the article says "perfect combustion", it's referring to oxygen and hydrogen and nothing else. As it points out, most combustion occurs with a component that involves carbon, which is why C02 is present in most combustion reactions. The truth of the matter is that "perfect" combustion only occurs with pure hydrogen, which doesn't exist in the real world because hydrogen is so reactive.
So are they finally going to get that car out that runs on water and produces no emissions other than water vapor? Or is that still an "urban legend"?