If I want to load the home page for Example Widgets, I should just need to hunt for the common name "Example Widgets", pick the match that makes the most sense (assuming more than one match is found), and have my lookup return a DNS domain name.
But then you have the search engine problem. Which results go on top? Do you pay to get better placement? Is there a click-through counter to determine most popular picks? Random order? You don't want this method to be useless, and then have to build yet another service on top of this.
Or when someone else biometric info gets written to the log device. Yeah, having a regular gun anyone is able to fire but that records certain info is fine, but how reliable will that information be? A device for recording your vehicle's speed before a crash is one thing, a device recording who fired a gun (fatally, at a person) is another.
Want to know something sickening? Buying a house, with cash, takes less than 20 minutes.
Why is that sickening? Of course paying with cash expedites the process. There's little paperwork to do, just transfer the money and the title. Technically, it's just one piece of paper. For most people, the majority of the work is in working out a mortgage.
I don't think how a key character died is an irrelavant detail. The devil IS in the details (pardon the unintended pun). A work rests on the details. The details give it authenticity. If you just make up the details or skim over them, then the rest relies and builds on bullshit.
The way to credibly discredit something is to attack its foundations. If you can prove the foundations false, that which builds on it cannot be trusted.
Yeah, but why should it matter what band you're on? If you need that many, there should be 'banks', so you don't run out of buttons. What if you want 19 FM stations and 1 AM station on your presets? YOu're kinda fucked then, even though the radio has enough memory to store 20 station presets.
They should be like bookmarks. Do I need to be in http://slashdot.org/ before I can see and use my/. bookmarks? That would be retarded. Technology is supposed to help people, not make them remember and fugure out a bunch of stuff to tune into a station while driving a 2 ton killing machine.
Most of the time a package declared to be a gift will get through ok, but if it gets opened it better look like a gift, ie, no invoice, receipt, etc. Whenever I mailorder CDs in, they're usually marked as promo materials, and marked with a much lower than paid for amount, so the tax doesn't hurt as much.
Maybe you should look into the other print shops you can be dealing with directly in your native format? I dunno, just a crazy, far out idea... but if someone doesn't want my money, I'll go next door, and make sure they know why and how much business they're losing.
People have been predicting the downfall of the mainstream media for a while for the same reasons. My feeling is that people never notice what is bad unless their is an alternative.
There is almost always an alternative. People don't notice (or care) when the current situation is pervasive. It's the 'no one changes the defaults' problem. So unless it's something you care about or that visibly affects you, it doesn't matter how bad it is or how many alternatives there are.
You realize that's bad, right? On the scale of q=0..9, 9 is the worst quality. But I'm sure your golden ears told you the difference and you've done that on purpose.
Unfortunately even half my coworkers don't know what a PNG is.
Why would they need to know about PNGs? Do they know about MPEG2? MPEG4? DD5.1? DTS? PCM? Why would they care. It either works, or it doesn't. If it does, great, if it doesn't, well, shitty software or broken content.
Now, if your cow-orkers are web developers or graphic designers, you have a problem. Or rather, they have a problem.
But believe it or not, intellectual property exists simply to protect stupid abilities and rights such as these which dont even matter while removing our personal freedom.
Huh? Those 'stupid' abilities and rights are what lets bands create, produce and sell their music. It's what puts shiny CDs in pretty boxes, surrounded by colourful paper, and on store shelves, and in your CD player. It puts food on the plates of thousands of people.
There is plenty of music available where this is not required. Here's a hint. Head over to mp3.com, where you can download, legally, for free, more music than you could listen to in a lifetime. And hey, those mp3.com people are really nice folks, they'll happily send you a burned CD for a small fee.
If you don't like the business model then don't support it. No one is forcing you to listen to and buy music produced and sold in the manner you so strongly object to.
I get most of my stuff from Amazon, and the rest from larger distros that carry indie-type obscure stuff. Works fine. You can't expect your local music store to stock every CD ever pressed. (Though my local HMV and A&B Sound has plenty of both Juno Reactor _and_ VNV Nation. I know, I've bought a few.)
Look, if it was the RIAA playing fast and loose with definitions and legalities and technicalities, you'd be all crying foul. But it's ok to do it yourself? You're sinking to that level? Any way you look at it, you're taking something that is not yours, without paying for it, and distributing it without permission to do so. In the common man's language we call it 'stealing'. But you call it whatever you like, whatever that makes you feel better about it.
And the whole point of copyright law is not to turn a creative work into property, or rather, it is to turn a creative work into communal property.
What? How do you get that? If anything, it's the opposite. You take something that is 'communal' in nature (ie music, culture in a broader sense) and turn it into private property to be sold and licensed.
And Verizon's point is that the law as written is unjust. This isn't about getting names, it's about granting large corporations unprecendented rights over the individual citizen.
Also over other corporations and organizations. If you facilitate internet access for end users or organizations, any copyright owner or a representative could send you any number of requests to identify your users. This is more than just the cost of running a legal business; this can potentially force you to hire tons of people to deal with these requests in a timely manner!
It COULD have been a good scene. But it was just a huge tease, which is probably why it felt so awkward and frustrating. I counted two sets of semi-visible nipples, for the price of two minutes of Neo's naked ass. Not to mention that it was completely pointless.
Except, that, maybe unintentionally, it revealed a pretty dark side of Zion. It seemed like the leaders, Morpheus included, were somehow leading some sort of a cult, and putting up appearances to deceive the people. Yes, they kinda explained as much, but there was something more, like some kind of sick pep rally.
Anyhow, I'm probably reading way too much into that scene.
I also agree that the Smiths fight scene was silly. The music didn't help. I just wanted the whole thing to end, but it kept dragging on and on.
How silty is the river? More than any major river in the US from what I understand?
As something to think about... left to its own devices, ie, with no silt management, how long will it take to fill up the reservoir with silt?
The amount of the stuff in rivers is very deceptive. Florida is having some real estate issues because of Mississippi's management (it's a almost totally controlled river). Some estimates have like a third of the Florida land area dissolving and breaking up into little islands and swamp land, all because there's now less silt in the rivers and the shores are just washing out.
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But then you have the search engine problem. Which results go on top? Do you pay to get better placement? Is there a click-through counter to determine most popular picks? Random order? You don't want this method to be useless, and then have to build yet another service on top of this.
What if they run out of infidels while money_in_bank>0?
Or when someone else biometric info gets written to the log device. Yeah, having a regular gun anyone is able to fire but that records certain info is fine, but how reliable will that information be? A device for recording your vehicle's speed before a crash is one thing, a device recording who fired a gun (fatally, at a person) is another.
Why is that sickening? Of course paying with cash expedites the process. There's little paperwork to do, just transfer the money and the title. Technically, it's just one piece of paper. For most people, the majority of the work is in working out a mortgage.
I don't think how a key character died is an irrelavant detail. The devil IS in the details (pardon the unintended pun). A work rests on the details. The details give it authenticity. If you just make up the details or skim over them, then the rest relies and builds on bullshit.
The way to credibly discredit something is to attack its foundations. If you can prove the foundations false, that which builds on it cannot be trusted.
Yeah, but why should it matter what band you're on? If you need that many, there should be 'banks', so you don't run out of buttons. What if you want 19 FM stations and 1 AM station on your presets? YOu're kinda fucked then, even though the radio has enough memory to store 20 station presets.
/. bookmarks? That would be retarded. Technology is supposed to help people, not make them remember and fugure out a bunch of stuff to tune into a station while driving a 2 ton killing machine.
They should be like bookmarks. Do I need to be in http://slashdot.org/ before I can see and use my
Most of the time a package declared to be a gift will get through ok, but if it gets opened it better look like a gift, ie, no invoice, receipt, etc. Whenever I mailorder CDs in, they're usually marked as promo materials, and marked with a much lower than paid for amount, so the tax doesn't hurt as much.
Maybe you should look into the other print shops you can be dealing with directly in your native format? I dunno, just a crazy, far out idea... but if someone doesn't want my money, I'll go next door, and make sure they know why and how much business they're losing.
There is almost always an alternative. People don't notice (or care) when the current situation is pervasive. It's the 'no one changes the defaults' problem. So unless it's something you care about or that visibly affects you, it doesn't matter how bad it is or how many alternatives there are.
This is what a 'solid archive' is for.
Uh, that would be all of 1 year ago? I remember when 30MB drives were big. When having a real HD period, was a big deal.
You're forgetting that Intel makes more than just x86 CPUs...
You realize that's bad, right? On the scale of q=0..9, 9 is the worst quality. But I'm sure your golden ears told you the difference and you've done that on purpose.
Why would they need to know about PNGs? Do they know about MPEG2? MPEG4? DD5.1? DTS? PCM? Why would they care. It either works, or it doesn't. If it does, great, if it doesn't, well, shitty software or broken content.
Now, if your cow-orkers are web developers or graphic designers, you have a problem. Or rather, they have a problem.
But without copyright it's effectively 'public property' by default; as soon as someone hears it they can record it, reproduce, etc.
Huh? Those 'stupid' abilities and rights are what lets bands create, produce and sell their music. It's what puts shiny CDs in pretty boxes, surrounded by colourful paper, and on store shelves, and in your CD player. It puts food on the plates of thousands of people.
There is plenty of music available where this is not required. Here's a hint. Head over to mp3.com, where you can download, legally, for free, more music than you could listen to in a lifetime. And hey, those mp3.com people are really nice folks, they'll happily send you a burned CD for a small fee.
If you don't like the business model then don't support it. No one is forcing you to listen to and buy music produced and sold in the manner you so strongly object to.
I get most of my stuff from Amazon, and the rest from larger distros that carry indie-type obscure stuff. Works fine. You can't expect your local music store to stock every CD ever pressed. (Though my local HMV and A&B Sound has plenty of both Juno Reactor _and_ VNV Nation. I know, I've bought a few.)
Look, if it was the RIAA playing fast and loose with definitions and legalities and technicalities, you'd be all crying foul. But it's ok to do it yourself? You're sinking to that level? Any way you look at it, you're taking something that is not yours, without paying for it, and distributing it without permission to do so. In the common man's language we call it 'stealing'. But you call it whatever you like, whatever that makes you feel better about it.
What? How do you get that? If anything, it's the opposite. You take something that is 'communal' in nature (ie music, culture in a broader sense) and turn it into private property to be sold and licensed.
Also over other corporations and organizations. If you facilitate internet access for end users or organizations, any copyright owner or a representative could send you any number of requests to identify your users. This is more than just the cost of running a legal business; this can potentially force you to hire tons of people to deal with these requests in a timely manner!
Fine, so re-register the pirated copy with your legal activation code. The pirated copy is still illegal.
It COULD have been a good scene. But it was just a huge tease, which is probably why it felt so awkward and frustrating. I counted two sets of semi-visible nipples, for the price of two minutes of Neo's naked ass. Not to mention that it was completely pointless.
Except, that, maybe unintentionally, it revealed a pretty dark side of Zion. It seemed like the leaders, Morpheus included, were somehow leading some sort of a cult, and putting up appearances to deceive the people. Yes, they kinda explained as much, but there was something more, like some kind of sick pep rally.
Anyhow, I'm probably reading way too much into that scene.
I also agree that the Smiths fight scene was silly. The music didn't help. I just wanted the whole thing to end, but it kept dragging on and on.
And...? Come on, the suspense is killing me!
How silty is the river? More than any major river in the US from what I understand?
As something to think about... left to its own devices, ie, with no silt management, how long will it take to fill up the reservoir with silt?
The amount of the stuff in rivers is very deceptive. Florida is having some real estate issues because of Mississippi's management (it's a almost totally controlled river). Some estimates have like a third of the Florida land area dissolving and breaking up into little islands and swamp land, all because there's now less silt in the rivers and the shores are just washing out.
Probably something to do with the varience of a flux capacitor.