What I meant by groupthink, was everyone agreeing like sheep. Discussing and thinking in a group is something else entirely. Peer review on the internet isn't guaranteed to be "peer" review. When people publish a journal, yes, that is peer review, but it's more structured.
Some people don't like wading through unreviewed papers. Even though I read Slashdot, OS News, Ars Technica and a few others, I still buy a copy of Linux Format every so often. Peer review is a nice idea, and I'm not saying that a published journal is inherently better or more effective, but often peer review can totally miss something. Peer review is subject to groupthink - Slashdot is a prime example, if you look in the Firehose, or how comments are rated. Recently, there was that article on Slashdot about cold fusion. Turned out to be very under tested and probably a load of crap, but peer review saw that it was big news.
ID theft will continue, now that criminals have about 4.5 million people's personal data from those backup tapes the Bank of New York lost. Not to mention all of the other data losses we've heard about on Slashdot. No amount of securing your personal data will help now, unless you plan on changing your date of birth and address. Seriously, that's all it takes. All it took to prove to Medicare (Australian health cover, just a shade short of socialised health) over the phone that I was me, when I needed to change some details, was my date of birth and current address. You put those on almost every form you fill out offline, and if you shop online, you put your address on those too. Date of birth and current address can be used as a lever to "update" someone's Medicare details, and have a new card sent to an ID thief. Medicare counts as a form of ID, so that makes the lever a little bit longer. An ID thief can use the new Medicare card as ID for other changes and updates. Even get a copy of a person's birth certificate sent to them.
Won't be the only one out there, since software patents are only enforceable in a few countries. Someone in Europe will distribute a decent implementation of it.
I think it's like how anyone can do a cover of someone else's song. It's not just a bunch of people rehashing other peoples' songs, either. Jeremy Soule, noteworthy composer who's done a lot of games, has even submitted a mix. I'm not sure, but I think Uematsu, of Final Fantasy fame, has said he likes OC Remix too.
I'll start off by saying that I do download music and movies. There would be very few on Slashdot who don't. I also like to think I have a little bit of ethical rationale for it. When it comes to music, I only download it if it's not available in any local music stores. You try getting obscure Norwegian neoclassical metal in North Queensland, and you'll see why about 40% of my music is "illegally" downloaded. If they don't sell it here, they don't want my money, anyway. About 50% is from OC Remix, VG Mix and other similar sites, so free. The other 10% is what I've bought. Music can be produced for next to nothing these days. Software and hardware are almost trivial to obtain now, and the original purpose of the record labels is entirely obsolete. Digital distribution is virtually free, unless you host it on your own web space. Movies, however, I feel differently about. I rarely download them to keep, but I figure streaming a movie once is no different to borrowing it from a friend. Movies cost millions of dollars to create, or at least the big budget Hollywood movies do, so I don't feel right pirating them. Of course, if a movie is awful, that feeling immediately disappears.
The wording of that seems to have nothing to do with the legality of sharing files. Promusicae just don't like competing. At least there's one such organisation that says what it means.
They do, and they want to stop that. As long as people are forced to physically go to a store and buy some hard media, the copyright holders have us over a barrel and can do whatever they want. Sony's rootkit on it's music CDs, Starforce on a lot of games. Sooner or later, if laws and regulations force us to use hard media, those self-destructing DVDs will become the norm. Except, we'll be paying $20 each, instead of $5.
Isn't this taking away what people pay for? I know the main reason I got a faster internet connection was so I wouldn't have to wait for videos to buffer.
If you're using Linux, it can be pretty easy too. Ubuntu and it's progeny have the fonts in the repositories, so you just open up your package manager and search for them. I'm sure other distros would too.
It is a dupe, but when we saw it last, I think it was only theoretically capable of self replication. From the look of the summary, it may actually be capable of it, now. I haven't read the article yet. I came straight to the comments to see if it wasn't just me thinking I'd seen it before.
These 11% (would probably be higher if more people actually knew what their governments could do) are proof that paranoid schizophrenia doesn't exist. It's not paranoia when people really are watching your every move, reading your email, and listening to your phone conversations. Paranoid schizophrenics, rejoice! You're just schizophrenic now!
Heavens, do you ever get any fun at all in your life? Do you ever laugh? Is there ever anything that you find interesting, fascinating, or just plain beautiful, just for its own sake? I do laugh. I laugh at the immortalised screwup that is the Leaning Tower. I laugh at Steve Ballmer's latest buzzword-laden, meaningless sentence. I laugh when a politician tries vainly to take a serious stance on an issue they know nothing about; doubly hard when they have a financial interest in that issue. Anyway, it's useless perusing a phonebook for spelling errors. People spell their surnames all kinds of weird ways:P.
To me, the Leaning Tower of Pisa was a monument of how human mistakes live on for centuries, and it was a miracle it was still standing. Now they've gone and reinforced it and taken all the fun out of it. They might as well have straightened it... It was also funny to me how an utterly useless building (who'd want to work with gravity pulling you gently towards the open window?) is conserved simply because it's old. If the same thing had happened today, which it does on a regular basis, the building would have been torn down.
It must be a slow news day!:O
But seriously, no bananas is a bad thing... At least we'll still have banana flavoured stuff, since the flavouring almost certainly doesn't come from bananas...
It's nothing to do with them being Communists. Actually, if they were to do something with Communist motivation, it would be feeding the poor. This is more about stamping out sedition. Something any government could do, completely separate from their political style.
Touch screens are probably the only path to the future for sub notebooks, IMO. Have a look at some videos on Youtube of Eee PCs modded to have a touch screen. It really seems to make a difference. That would probably add a few dollars to the production cost, but since the sub-notebook class seems to have been hijacked by higher-priced machines, it wouldn't be all that much more expensive.
I've always thought a trackball would be more use. I've never liked those little joystick things (aka 'clitmouse'). A trackball the size of a small marble in the upper right would be nice. With left click being pushing the ball in, and right click on the shoulder of the laptop, like the R button on a game pad. My main reasoning is, you can roll a ball faster or slower, but with a trackstick, it's either digital, and therefore one speed, or it's analogue, but it's so small it requires too much subtlety to move the cursor slowly.
Sorry. My hardware has pretty much only ever moved forward, however slowly (Still using a GeForce 6200, which I only got about a year ago). I've never had reason to find out they fall back to the default when they fail. I've found when I set the options too high it causes a lot of problems, since a game will technically run without a hitch, but be completely unusable, even on menu screens.
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Afterthought: How can you possibly be a poser on Slashdot and not understand the meaning of the word "groupthink"?
What I meant by groupthink, was everyone agreeing like sheep. Discussing and thinking in a group is something else entirely. Peer review on the internet isn't guaranteed to be "peer" review. When people publish a journal, yes, that is peer review, but it's more structured.
Some people don't like wading through unreviewed papers. Even though I read Slashdot, OS News, Ars Technica and a few others, I still buy a copy of Linux Format every so often. Peer review is a nice idea, and I'm not saying that a published journal is inherently better or more effective, but often peer review can totally miss something. Peer review is subject to groupthink - Slashdot is a prime example, if you look in the Firehose, or how comments are rated. Recently, there was that article on Slashdot about cold fusion. Turned out to be very under tested and probably a load of crap, but peer review saw that it was big news.
ID theft will continue, now that criminals have about 4.5 million people's personal data from those backup tapes the Bank of New York lost. Not to mention all of the other data losses we've heard about on Slashdot. No amount of securing your personal data will help now, unless you plan on changing your date of birth and address. Seriously, that's all it takes. All it took to prove to Medicare (Australian health cover, just a shade short of socialised health) over the phone that I was me, when I needed to change some details, was my date of birth and current address. You put those on almost every form you fill out offline, and if you shop online, you put your address on those too. Date of birth and current address can be used as a lever to "update" someone's Medicare details, and have a new card sent to an ID thief. Medicare counts as a form of ID, so that makes the lever a little bit longer. An ID thief can use the new Medicare card as ID for other changes and updates. Even get a copy of a person's birth certificate sent to them.
Won't be the only one out there, since software patents are only enforceable in a few countries. Someone in Europe will distribute a decent implementation of it.
I think it's like how anyone can do a cover of someone else's song. It's not just a bunch of people rehashing other peoples' songs, either. Jeremy Soule, noteworthy composer who's done a lot of games, has even submitted a mix. I'm not sure, but I think Uematsu, of Final Fantasy fame, has said he likes OC Remix too.
I'll start off by saying that I do download music and movies. There would be very few on Slashdot who don't. I also like to think I have a little bit of ethical rationale for it. When it comes to music, I only download it if it's not available in any local music stores. You try getting obscure Norwegian neoclassical metal in North Queensland, and you'll see why about 40% of my music is "illegally" downloaded. If they don't sell it here, they don't want my money, anyway. About 50% is from OC Remix, VG Mix and other similar sites, so free. The other 10% is what I've bought. Music can be produced for next to nothing these days. Software and hardware are almost trivial to obtain now, and the original purpose of the record labels is entirely obsolete. Digital distribution is virtually free, unless you host it on your own web space. Movies, however, I feel differently about. I rarely download them to keep, but I figure streaming a movie once is no different to borrowing it from a friend. Movies cost millions of dollars to create, or at least the big budget Hollywood movies do, so I don't feel right pirating them. Of course, if a movie is awful, that feeling immediately disappears.
The wording of that seems to have nothing to do with the legality of sharing files. Promusicae just don't like competing. At least there's one such organisation that says what it means.
They do, and they want to stop that. As long as people are forced to physically go to a store and buy some hard media, the copyright holders have us over a barrel and can do whatever they want. Sony's rootkit on it's music CDs, Starforce on a lot of games. Sooner or later, if laws and regulations force us to use hard media, those self-destructing DVDs will become the norm. Except, we'll be paying $20 each, instead of $5.
Isn't this taking away what people pay for? I know the main reason I got a faster internet connection was so I wouldn't have to wait for videos to buffer.
I like my soy and bean curd diet!
If you're using Linux, it can be pretty easy too. Ubuntu and it's progeny have the fonts in the repositories, so you just open up your package manager and search for them. I'm sure other distros would too.
Can't wait to print off some Gundam models from 3d model files, instead of shelling out for the expensive model kits :P.
It is a dupe, but when we saw it last, I think it was only theoretically capable of self replication. From the look of the summary, it may actually be capable of it, now. I haven't read the article yet. I came straight to the comments to see if it wasn't just me thinking I'd seen it before.
These 11% (would probably be higher if more people actually knew what their governments could do) are proof that paranoid schizophrenia doesn't exist. It's not paranoia when people really are watching your every move, reading your email, and listening to your phone conversations. Paranoid schizophrenics, rejoice! You're just schizophrenic now!
It's a real shame you posted anonymously. Now I have to resort to words to call you a retard, instead of just modding you down.
That's it! I'm taking my ball, and going home!
To me, the Leaning Tower of Pisa was a monument of how human mistakes live on for centuries, and it was a miracle it was still standing. Now they've gone and reinforced it and taken all the fun out of it. They might as well have straightened it... It was also funny to me how an utterly useless building (who'd want to work with gravity pulling you gently towards the open window?) is conserved simply because it's old. If the same thing had happened today, which it does on a regular basis, the building would have been torn down.
It must be a slow news day! :O
But seriously, no bananas is a bad thing... At least we'll still have banana flavoured stuff, since the flavouring almost certainly doesn't come from bananas...
It's nothing to do with them being Communists. Actually, if they were to do something with Communist motivation, it would be feeding the poor. This is more about stamping out sedition. Something any government could do, completely separate from their political style.
Touch screens are probably the only path to the future for sub notebooks, IMO. Have a look at some videos on Youtube of Eee PCs modded to have a touch screen. It really seems to make a difference. That would probably add a few dollars to the production cost, but since the sub-notebook class seems to have been hijacked by higher-priced machines, it wouldn't be all that much more expensive.
I've always thought a trackball would be more use. I've never liked those little joystick things (aka 'clitmouse'). A trackball the size of a small marble in the upper right would be nice. With left click being pushing the ball in, and right click on the shoulder of the laptop, like the R button on a game pad. My main reasoning is, you can roll a ball faster or slower, but with a trackstick, it's either digital, and therefore one speed, or it's analogue, but it's so small it requires too much subtlety to move the cursor slowly.
Sorry. My hardware has pretty much only ever moved forward, however slowly (Still using a GeForce 6200, which I only got about a year ago). I've never had reason to find out they fall back to the default when they fail. I've found when I set the options too high it causes a lot of problems, since a game will technically run without a hitch, but be completely unusable, even on menu screens.
I said pretty much the same thing, earlier, and was modded troll for it. What the fuck?