A creative activist is an activist who does creative work in the course of their activism
In other words, someone who claims his work to be the truth, except it's actually not. And yes, Michael Moore falls into that despicable category. As does Aaron Sorkin, though to a much lesser degree.
The iPad can't come close to replacing a PC, but really probably the reason why Windows gave that message is that without iTunes installed it's detected as a music and video player. IE, an entertainment device. It doesn't know about Apps or anything else.
You've got a serious chicken/egg issue there. Wouldn't the Jews have been the original occupants of that area until successive generations of occupiers pushed them out? Who is the real invader?
When a certain number of years pass, a people who don't live in an area cease to have any claim whatsoever on it. It's not theirs, and it never was. That they had land hundreds or thousands of years should have absolutely no bearing. So yes, the taking of land in the 1940s to form the state of Israel was a travesty.
However, by the same rule, it's also too late. The Israelis have been there so long that it'd now be a crime to push them out. This doesn't touch the subject of the displacement of people today by, say, settlements. Lands captured in conflicts are a trickier subject too.
You might wonder "what is this time period then?" And I don't really have the answer. The span of a human lifetime? Not easy for me to say.
Because invading Cuba's airspace was clearly a smart move eh? You know, one can easily look at this from a different angle. The US likes the embargo, but wants to look like they're trying to be the good guys, so they're 'seeking to improve ties' while at the same time disrespecting Cuba and forcing them to shoot down two planes. But no, obviously the mad Cubans are at fault with their warmongering and especially because Castro loves the embargo.
The embargo still exists because of one major reason -- there is a giant ex-Cuban population in Florida and they are rabidly anti-Castro. They oppose any attempt to lift the embargo. Florida is a disproportionately powerful swing state in the Presidential election (it was the deciding state in 2000, but it's always been a tough area). No President can afford to disregard them.
But, it wasn't removing the copy protection, and it wasn't sharing outside of the home... so I think this finding is BS... Still, it doesn't keep us from building our own. It's very simple, actually...
The ruling is probably legitimate. 'Piracy' was never in question or charged, the lawsuit was about whether Kaleidescape violated the terms of the extremely complex contract that they signed with the DVD-CCA. It was a contract dispute form the beginning. And of course nothing will stop you from building your own, especially if you use software that's in a legal grey area. Kaleidescape was trying to sell products in the US that had to be completely in the white area of the law.
Some of the reason why they were that expensive was that in the early 80s, blank VHS tapes cost upwards of $50.
Today, the media that DVDs are recorded on are so cheap as to almost be free. "Blu-Ray/DVD combo packs" are in fashion just because it costs so little to press an extra copy onto a DVD. But way back when, the price of the physical media was a significant portion of the total cost.
Rich people dont have the IQ to do that. Kalidescape did it for them, completely automatic, buy disc, insert in drive, next time you walk by remove the disc. zero effort ripping.
Using anyDVD+Handbrake and setting up a NAS with XBMC is way WAY beyond the abilities of the 1%
It's not way beyond their abilities, it's that their time is a bit too valuable to waste on pointless continuing busy work when another product actually does what they want well. Still pretty damn pricey though..
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhh. "Awesome kid summers." Yes, I know exactly what you mean! Home alone, plenty of time for awesome classic RPGs. How many hours did I put in on Bard's Tale and Starflight! Haha.
Technically, of course they are. But when it comes to language and popular terms, no, they were not called that at all. No one called the consoles 'computers' back then, for they had few of the features that people expected of computers. In the 1980s the 'home computer' was short for 'general-purpose home computer' in the minds of most, a machine that booted up into an operating system from where you executed games, word processors, spreadsheets.. or games which had a spreadsheet pause-screen so you could hit a hotkey when the boss came by and you were playing games at work. No one called the Nintendo a 'computer' even though it was indeed a computing device.
Ultima 3 was a tough grind, but it was mostly a dungeon-crawling RPG that wasn't all that distinctive from others of the period.
Ultima 4 is the game that introduced many of the concepts and the characters that came to define Ultima. It was the first game in the series that made party members distinctive, the first to introduce virtue (I commonly slaughtered towns of villagers in Ultima 3 for gold), and so forth.
I think Might and Magic 4&5 was when that series really took off. >_>
"A lot" is two words. You don't write "alittle", do you? Please?
While it might be off-topic, I think this still deserves to be moderated up. A frequent slashdot poster has the above in his sig, and by now I just have the above rule impressed in my mind. I never make the 'alot' mistake now.
Well, that and I have spell check turned on in Firefox.
I found the best way to play some of these older games is through DosBox, full screen.
Yeah, the aspect ratios were different for the lower resolutions especially: CGA: 160x100: 1.6 CGA/MCGA: 320x200: 1.6 or 160/200: 0.8 (see below) EGA: 640x350: 1.83 VGA: 640x480 1.33
Every regular non-widescreen resolution above that seems to follow the 4/3, 1.33 aspect ratio EXCEPT for 1280x1024 which has a ratio of 1.25.
Then you have to take account of the size of the pixels on the original display, as well as the various CGA composite-mode hacks that were popular which allowed for text and graphics with more colors, but only on composite monitors. For example, you have CGA 320x200 four-color mode, but the edges of the various pixels blend together in a composite-specific artifacting, which leads to an "effective" 160x200 16-color mode. Looks decent on a composite monitor, but horrible on an RGB monitor or, of course, emulation. This image shows a CGA image on a regular RGB monitor on the left, and the composite monitor on the right.
I got used to the four-color black-white-magenta-cyan color scheme because I had a computer with an EGA adapter and RGB monitor in the late 80s, so all these CGA games would look horrible. King's Quest II -- I played that all the way through with that horrible color scheme. Starflight as well. Then games started getting native EGA support and all was well.
Fortunately DosBox comes with a "composite mode" where it emulates the effect of a composite monitor so you can play composite games under emulation and they'll be in their original intended full-color glory!
I thought the whole thing was a cover to destroy WTC7. There was something in some archive that was damaging to someone, so the whole thing was staged by the CIA to destroy WTC 7 in a manner nobody would notice or care about.
Very very easy: The building was damaged by debris from the collapse of the WTC 1&2 towers, and fires burned for hours on the lower floors without any available fire suppression. The sprinkler system was poorly designed (requiring manual intervention), required electrical power, and were underserved by low water pressure. A few points of failure were taken out by the twin tower collapses, and firefighters had no way of putting out the fires in the building. Three hours before the building collapsed, firefighters noticed a bulge on an outer wall, a sign that structural integrity was failing, and they were evacuated.
If fires burn unchecked through a building for hours, then yes, that building will go down regardless of its construction.
The ONLY way the Matrix trilogy could be saved is if the fan theory was true and Neo never left the Matrix. then instead of some lame electro jesus it would be a royal mindfuck where the machines, realizing that a percentage would never accept the construct, created a much worse "real world" to give them something they could believe.
The biggest reason I disliked Matrix 3 was that I thought the ending of Matrix 2 was great and it opened up so many -cool- possibilities. "Wait.. he just used his powers in the real world? Is that not the real world after all, but another matrix? Are there matrices inside of matrices like the layers of an onion? How deep does it go? What are the other realities like?" And then the third movie swept all that aside with an explanation that was far less creative and far more boring: "oh yeah, his powers work in the real world too." Oh.
Plus the entire "attack on Zion" involved none of the principle characters, with people we didn't know or care about. Pretty and boring. It was an SFX exercise with no artistry.
Some effects were great, but any effect involving a CG human (especially Neo flying) were horrible. Explosions beautiful, machines were great, fire and lightning effects. But CG humans and cloth? Forget it. Much harder to do.
Oh I don't have any problem with app developers using new interfaces only available with the new OS. None of this is a slam on the developers themselves. I fully expect that if I'm running my apps on an older OS, eventually I won't be able to get updates anymore (and indeed, that's what had been happening).
What I object to is -only- making available the most recent version (as far as I know, that's not a decision of the developers), and there being no system to allow older OSes to download the most recent version that still works with that OS. Every open source project I've ever used has worked that way, and a good chunk of commercial apps too. I could still install old boxed software onto a Windows 95 VM or something like that. Will I get any support? Of course not and I don't expect it -- not that I expect support of any kind for a $3 app.
But the super-moderated walled garden experience is "you shouldn't have to worry about this, so you don't have the ability to fix it."
option/alt click 'restore' and you may be able to restore an old backup with your old software. You were smart, and you did do backups, didn't you?
Yup. And the backups restored all my settings. But for some reason, the backups did not restore my apps, or my audio files, though that didn't concern me since they're all in iTunes anyway.
I don't know why the backup refused to restore apps. I'd heard that apps don't get restored if you're restoring to a different version of the OS from what created the backup, but it should have been 3.1.3 both ways.
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A creative activist is an activist who does creative work in the course of their activism
In other words, someone who claims his work to be the truth, except it's actually not.
And yes, Michael Moore falls into that despicable category.
As does Aaron Sorkin, though to a much lesser degree.
The iPad can't come close to replacing a PC, but really probably the reason why Windows gave that message is that without iTunes installed it's detected as a music and video player. IE, an entertainment device. It doesn't know about Apps or anything else.
Shooting someone over a worthless piece of electronics. You must be Duhmerican!
I think it's just that he has no regard for thieves and criminals who attack him, that's all.
By which point your family will have already grown-up.
There was a headline on The Onion: "Wild, Unattached 20s Spent at Work."
You've got a serious chicken/egg issue there. Wouldn't the Jews have been the original occupants of that area until successive generations of occupiers pushed them out? Who is the real invader?
When a certain number of years pass, a people who don't live in an area cease to have any claim whatsoever on it. It's not theirs, and it never was. That they had land hundreds or thousands of years should have absolutely no bearing. So yes, the taking of land in the 1940s to form the state of Israel was a travesty.
However, by the same rule, it's also too late. The Israelis have been there so long that it'd now be a crime to push them out. This doesn't touch the subject of the displacement of people today by, say, settlements. Lands captured in conflicts are a trickier subject too.
You might wonder "what is this time period then?" And I don't really have the answer. The span of a human lifetime? Not easy for me to say.
Because invading Cuba's airspace was clearly a smart move eh?
You know, one can easily look at this from a different angle.
The US likes the embargo, but wants to look like they're trying to be the good guys, so they're 'seeking to improve ties' while at the same time disrespecting Cuba and forcing them to shoot down two planes.
But no, obviously the mad Cubans are at fault with their warmongering and especially because Castro loves the embargo.
The embargo still exists because of one major reason -- there is a giant ex-Cuban population in Florida and they are rabidly anti-Castro. They oppose any attempt to lift the embargo. Florida is a disproportionately powerful swing state in the Presidential election (it was the deciding state in 2000, but it's always been a tough area). No President can afford to disregard them.
Could you please tell us which part of the finding indicates that the judge did not make a legally-sound decision?
But, it wasn't removing the copy protection, and it wasn't sharing outside of the home... so I think this finding is BS... Still, it doesn't keep us from building our own. It's very simple, actually...
The ruling is probably legitimate. 'Piracy' was never in question or charged, the lawsuit was about whether Kaleidescape violated the terms of the extremely complex contract that they signed with the DVD-CCA. It was a contract dispute form the beginning. And of course nothing will stop you from building your own, especially if you use software that's in a legal grey area. Kaleidescape was trying to sell products in the US that had to be completely in the white area of the law.
Some of the reason why they were that expensive was that in the early 80s, blank VHS tapes cost upwards of $50.
Today, the media that DVDs are recorded on are so cheap as to almost be free. "Blu-Ray/DVD combo packs" are in fashion just because it costs so little to press an extra copy onto a DVD. But way back when, the price of the physical media was a significant portion of the total cost.
Rich people dont have the IQ to do that. Kalidescape did it for them, completely automatic, buy disc, insert in drive, next time you walk by remove the disc. zero effort ripping.
Using anyDVD+Handbrake and setting up a NAS with XBMC is way WAY beyond the abilities of the 1%
It's not way beyond their abilities, it's that their time is a bit too valuable to waste on pointless continuing busy work when another product actually does what they want well. Still pretty damn pricey though..
Hmmm, true, it was a mistake to include the clause "regardless of its construction." That was just asking for a refutation. >_>
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhh. "Awesome kid summers." Yes, I know exactly what you mean! Home alone, plenty of time for awesome classic RPGs. How many hours did I put in on Bard's Tale and Starflight! Haha.
Game consoles are computers.
Technically, of course they are.
But when it comes to language and popular terms, no, they were not called that at all. No one called the consoles 'computers' back then, for they had few of the features that people expected of computers. In the 1980s the 'home computer' was short for 'general-purpose home computer' in the minds of most, a machine that booted up into an operating system from where you executed games, word processors, spreadsheets.. or games which had a spreadsheet pause-screen so you could hit a hotkey when the boss came by and you were playing games at work. No one called the Nintendo a 'computer' even though it was indeed a computing device.
Ultima 3 was a tough grind, but it was mostly a dungeon-crawling RPG that wasn't all that distinctive from others of the period.
Ultima 4 is the game that introduced many of the concepts and the characters that came to define Ultima. It was the first game in the series that made party members distinctive, the first to introduce virtue (I commonly slaughtered towns of villagers in Ultima 3 for gold), and so forth.
I think Might and Magic 4&5 was when that series really took off. >_>
"A lot" is two words. You don't write "alittle", do you? Please?
While it might be off-topic, I think this still deserves to be moderated up. A frequent slashdot poster has the above in his sig, and by now I just have the above rule impressed in my mind. I never make the 'alot' mistake now.
Well, that and I have spell check turned on in Firefox.
I found the best way to play some of these older games is through DosBox, full screen.
Yeah, the aspect ratios were different for the lower resolutions especially:
CGA: 160x100: 1.6
CGA/MCGA: 320x200: 1.6 or 160/200: 0.8 (see below)
EGA: 640x350: 1.83
VGA: 640x480 1.33
Every regular non-widescreen resolution above that seems to follow the 4/3, 1.33 aspect ratio EXCEPT for 1280x1024 which has a ratio of 1.25.
Then you have to take account of the size of the pixels on the original display, as well as the various CGA composite-mode hacks that were popular which allowed for text and graphics with more colors, but only on composite monitors. For example, you have CGA 320x200 four-color mode, but the edges of the various pixels blend together in a composite-specific artifacting, which leads to an "effective" 160x200 16-color mode. Looks decent on a composite monitor, but horrible on an RGB monitor or, of course, emulation. This image shows a CGA image on a regular RGB monitor on the left, and the composite monitor on the right.
I got used to the four-color black-white-magenta-cyan color scheme because I had a computer with an EGA adapter and RGB monitor in the late 80s, so all these CGA games would look horrible. King's Quest II -- I played that all the way through with that horrible color scheme. Starflight as well. Then games started getting native EGA support and all was well.
Fortunately DosBox comes with a "composite mode" where it emulates the effect of a composite monitor so you can play composite games under emulation and they'll be in their original intended full-color glory!
We can only hope we get the military from the Starship Troopers movie. >_>
In the parent's defense, the conspiracy theorists have absolutely no facts and certainly nothing resembling logical argument on their side either.
I thought the whole thing was a cover to destroy WTC7. There was something in some archive that was damaging to someone, so the whole thing was staged by the CIA to destroy WTC 7 in a manner nobody would notice or care about.
IE, the entire plot to the 1998 X-Files movie.
Very very easy: The building was damaged by debris from the collapse of the WTC 1&2 towers, and fires burned for hours on the lower floors without any available fire suppression. The sprinkler system was poorly designed (requiring manual intervention), required electrical power, and were underserved by low water pressure. A few points of failure were taken out by the twin tower collapses, and firefighters had no way of putting out the fires in the building. Three hours before the building collapsed, firefighters noticed a bulge on an outer wall, a sign that structural integrity was failing, and they were evacuated.
If fires burn unchecked through a building for hours, then yes, that building will go down regardless of its construction.
I'm sorry if you find that scientific advancement is the only possible benefit to humanity, but some of us prize culture very highly as well.
The ONLY way the Matrix trilogy could be saved is if the fan theory was true and Neo never left the Matrix. then instead of some lame electro jesus it would be a royal mindfuck where the machines, realizing that a percentage would never accept the construct, created a much worse "real world" to give them something they could believe.
The biggest reason I disliked Matrix 3 was that I thought the ending of Matrix 2 was great and it opened up so many -cool- possibilities. "Wait.. he just used his powers in the real world? Is that not the real world after all, but another matrix? Are there matrices inside of matrices like the layers of an onion? How deep does it go? What are the other realities like?" And then the third movie swept all that aside with an explanation that was far less creative and far more boring: "oh yeah, his powers work in the real world too." Oh.
Plus the entire "attack on Zion" involved none of the principle characters, with people we didn't know or care about. Pretty and boring. It was an SFX exercise with no artistry.
Some effects were great, but any effect involving a CG human (especially Neo flying) were horrible. Explosions beautiful, machines were great, fire and lightning effects. But CG humans and cloth? Forget it. Much harder to do.
Oh I don't have any problem with app developers using new interfaces only available with the new OS. None of this is a slam on the developers themselves. I fully expect that if I'm running my apps on an older OS, eventually I won't be able to get updates anymore (and indeed, that's what had been happening).
What I object to is -only- making available the most recent version (as far as I know, that's not a decision of the developers), and there being no system to allow older OSes to download the most recent version that still works with that OS. Every open source project I've ever used has worked that way, and a good chunk of commercial apps too. I could still install old boxed software onto a Windows 95 VM or something like that. Will I get any support? Of course not and I don't expect it -- not that I expect support of any kind for a $3 app.
But the super-moderated walled garden experience is "you shouldn't have to worry about this, so you don't have the ability to fix it."
option/alt click 'restore' and you may be able to restore an old backup with your old software. You were smart, and you did do backups, didn't you?
Yup. And the backups restored all my settings. But for some reason, the backups did not restore my apps, or my audio files, though that didn't concern me since they're all in iTunes anyway.
I don't know why the backup refused to restore apps. I'd heard that apps don't get restored if you're restoring to a different version of the OS from what created the backup, but it should have been 3.1.3 both ways.