I need to use more smileys:-( . Just sayin', walls built of sticks or straw are not real walls as the GGP claims.
Japanese houses, like American houses, are not built to last. But I understand that Japanese and Californians have good reason not to build solid walls.
That's actually pretty funny in context. It's a shame how poorly sarcasm translates in text. Particularly with the abundance of it on/.;-)
Can this be scaled up to encompass all of DC? We can install "voting" buttons in everyone's residence and call it the "I'm sick of your bullshit" button. When the majority of the country presses it, DC is silenced for a day.
It probably wouldn't accomplish much, but that's not much different than things are going right now. At least we could stop the flow of noise pollution emanating from DC for a couple for days per year.
It's the 21st century here in Japan. Any shoji screens still in houses are usually decorative or a just to give a little visual privacy.
We use real walls.We use real walls.
Not according to wikipedia, which says timber frames are popular.
Only on/. would someone, in a different country, try to use Wikipedia to disagree with the reality of someone who actually lives in the country in question. Also, "timber frame" does not mean what you apparently think it does. The majority of homes in the US (and many other countries) are also timber frame.
I knew a few people that worked at AOL in it's heyday. At one point AOL was one of the biggest contributors (cpu cycle wise) to SETI@home. I don't think it was a corporate idea. I believe that someone started installing it for their own personal reason and a sizable part of the company seemed to think it was a good idea.
The fanboys have this pathalogical need to pretend there is a void that Apple needs to fill. TV is their current fixation.
Whatever. I think you don't have a wife to realize what is and isn't wife-friendly.
I have a simple HTPC setup with a Harmony remote that control everything through a single 'activity' button press, and I still need to go "fix it" once a week. PC freezes, XBMC hangs, IR signals have no 'ack' protocol so they get missed...
Shit happens to most PC-based setups. Wives don't want to deal with the shit. Hence, most things outside of TV aren't wife-friendly.
You must be doing something very wrong then. My wife is probably less "tech savvy" than everybody else I know. Including my parents. I looked at the Harmony remotes, but decided that they probably wouldn't survive very long in our house. Instead I went with a URC MX-500. It's not a pretty or fancy, but it has more macros and customizable buttons than I need and is tough as nails. I've had little trouble getting it set up for my Luddite wife, so I know the Harmony remotes should be easier (at least that was my impression). My DLNA server crashes maybe 2 or 3 times a year. Other than that, there's very few things that go wrong for her. But you are right, wives don't want to deal with that shit at all. That's what kids are for. My 8 year old can fix just about anything that goes wrong and probably knows the satellite box better than I do.
Bose is a name to be reckoned with, but only the name. Their actual equipment is pretty mediocre, dead average, but priced as if it were premium equipment. You're paying 5x/10x the price for the badge, nothing more (hence the common apocryphal backronym Buy Other Sound Equipment).
"The images you are seeing on television you are seeing over, and over, and over, and it's the same picture of some person walking out of some building with a vase, and you see it 20 times, and you think, "My goodness, were there that many vases?"
Because there's evidence that the words we hear and the words we recall or imagine trigger similar brain processes, the study suggests scientists may one day be able to tune in to the words you're thinking.
So the TSA should be rolling this out in 2-3 years whether it's ready or not. I can see it now. They'll be monitoring how peoples brain reacts while a recoding recites works like: "Bomb" "Ammonium nitrate" "Communist" Or the program states you are thinking the following: "5 oz. of toothpaste" "Bottled water" "Why are these fucking idiots doing this?" Clearly only a terrorist would think such things.
Without space exploration there isn't much point to our civilization.
is that sarcasm? most of human culture and endeavors and civilization had existed fine before there ever was space travel, and will continue to do so with or without it.
I believe that, in this case, "our" is shorthand for Sid Meier's.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with what they are doing
There is absolutely everything wrong with they are doing.
I understand that digital delivery and games that can be played online has confused the issue, along with the persistent confusion over what copyright is.
However, it is really this fucking simple:
Customer purchased product from store.
Customer owns product from store.
Customer after some period of time sells product used to somebody else.
Store already got paid, so they have no legal interest, much less moral or ethical interest, in the second sale.
First Sale Doctrine covers this. Everywhere else in the physical world you cannot pull this fucking shit for two seconds without being called crazy greedy retarded sons of bitches.
Yes, but this is not in the physical world, is it?
I have said before, and some of disagreed with me (they are wrong), but when you pay for copyrighted content you are granted rights in return for the consideration you paid.
I certainly agree with your sentiment. Unfortunately, our opinion on this is not supported by the USPTO, the legislative or judicial (and generally the executive) branches of government. Until such time that we change their minds, educate them, or replace them, this is the law no matter how wrong we feel it is.
As slow and dumb as the gov/t is, I feel we have a better chance of changing the companies minds by voting with our dollars. Unless it becomes compulsory to purchase their product, I simply don't. This is a freaking game, you are not going to die or suffer any harm if you don't play it. There are plenty of other games we can purchase and from companies that feel as you do. Support them and not ones that are pulling this kind of crap. If you feel that is not enough then find candidates for office that believe as you do and help them to get elected. Or run for office yourself. Start a petition at the local level and if you are successful, take it nationwide. Obviously you feel much stronger about it than I do. But bitching about it on/. won't help. Let me know if you do start a petition though, I'll gladly sign it. If you choose to run for office and depending on your other views, I may also send you a campaign contribution. However this is not in my top 5 issue either.
companies are still trying to figure out how to receive dollars spent on games they make, when they are bought. Is that wrong? if so please tell me how.
In my case they need to figure out a better way to receive my dollars. There's absolutely nothing wrong with what they are doing. It simply means that I will refuse to support their business by purchasing their products. If enough people feel the same way, then they will either find a way to stop treating people like shit and make money or go out of business.
The SR-71 was a 'stealth' aircraft that was not at all stealthy. As in easily visible on radar and even more visible on thermal scopes on account of HUGE engines and lots of air friction.
It used tons of fuel, couldn't be kept fully fueled on the ground because it would simply leak and was a nightmare to maintain.
No. The SR-71 was not a "stealth" aircraft. It was designed to be high flying and fast as hell. You can't make a mach1 stealth plane. As far as I know there still no way to eliminate the sonic boom. Nor can you make a Mach 3+ aircraft that does not have all kinds of thermal issues. Of course it leaked fuel on the ground. There is still no way to compensate for the thermal expansion that occurs from friction caused at mach 3+. It's physics. It also takes a ton of fuel to go that fast. Technology has come a long way in the last 50 years, but you're still going to need to use a ton of fuel to go those speeds, and there are still issues with friction and heating.
Since this is/. a car analogy is in order. Some of the high end Ferraris are not capable of being driven in stop and go traffic. They simply cannot get enough airflow to not overheat in prolonged speeds below 30 mile/hour. And don't even talk about fuel efficiency. Specialized cars for drag racing are even worse. It's hard to go extremely fast, and there are trade offs. But sometimes you have to make tradeoffs for specialized cars, and planes.
So yeah non were shot down, they fell down all on their own.
Actually I thought it was more than that, that had crashed. Still, just about every plane that has even been put into production has had crashes during testing. At least 3 of those 11 were "trainers". Those had tan elevated rear cockpit, which seriously screwed up the aerodynamics of the plane, and two were the armed interceptor version. It was also prone to "unstarts" due to the spike sticking out of the front of the engines positioning itself improperly. Franky I'm amazed that it even worked at all considering the tech available at the time. I'm by no means saying it was a perfect plane, but it did what it was designed to do very well. Which was to get intel quickly and safely.
By comparison, the U2 has it's own issues, namely a very small airspeed window that does not stall the aircraft or send it upwards uncontrollably. It is also a bitch to land. So much so that another pilot has to drive a chase care to guide the pilot to land.
Those are totally different functions and flown in completely different environments. TFA was about the U2 and that was what I was comparing to. Plenty of F-16s were shot down. Of course they were designed as a jack of all trades type of aircraft. And they were a hell of a plane for being as cheap and versatile as they are/were. The F-35 looked like it was going to be a great replacement on paper, but has turned into a bloated pig in reality. Still, not a single SR-71 was ever shot down, so regardless of the hours flown, that's a perfect record for that statistic. Even with the millions of flight hours F-16s have, a lot more than zero of them have been shot down.
There's plenty they could do differently today. Stealth technology, carbon fiber, etc. But all of that is expensive. Do you put new tires on the old Ford and drive it to work for another year, or buy a new Ferrari? Depends on your budget.
They already had a Ferrari in the SR-71, but chose to retire it and kept the old Ford.
There's plenty they could do differently today. Stealth technology, carbon fiber, etc. But all of that is expensive. Do you put new tires on the old Ford and drive it to work for another year, or buy a new Ferrari? Depends on your budget.
They already had a Ferrari in the SR-71, but chose to retire it and kept the old Ford.
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Just try plugging a Cray-1 into a 110 line. It'll pull 115 kW with the memory maxed out. That would be over 1000 amps on a 110 line.
What is with MS and their apparent inability to cope with leap years?
This time they thought the Mayan calendar ended at the beginning of 2012 and not the end.
I need to use more smileys :-( . Just sayin', walls built of sticks or straw are not real walls as the GGP claims.
Japanese houses, like American houses, are not built to last. But I understand that Japanese and Californians have good reason not to build solid walls.
That's actually pretty funny in context. It's a shame how poorly sarcasm translates in text. Particularly with the abundance of it on /. ;-)
Can this be scaled up to encompass all of DC? We can install "voting" buttons in everyone's residence and call it the "I'm sick of your bullshit" button. When the majority of the country presses it, DC is silenced for a day.
It probably wouldn't accomplish much, but that's not much different than things are going right now. At least we could stop the flow of noise pollution emanating from DC for a couple for days per year.
It's the 21st century here in Japan. Any shoji screens still in houses are usually decorative or a just to give a little visual privacy. We use real walls.We use real walls.
Not according to wikipedia, which says timber frames are popular.
Only on /. would someone, in a different country, try to use Wikipedia to disagree with the reality of someone who actually lives in the country in question. Also, "timber frame" does not mean what you apparently think it does. The majority of homes in the US (and many other countries) are also timber frame.
I knew a few people that worked at AOL in it's heyday. At one point AOL was one of the biggest contributors (cpu cycle wise) to SETI@home. I don't think it was a corporate idea. I believe that someone started installing it for their own personal reason and a sizable part of the company seemed to think it was a good idea.
The fanboys have this pathalogical need to pretend there is a void that Apple needs to fill. TV is their current fixation.
Whatever. I think you don't have a wife to realize what is and isn't wife-friendly.
I have a simple HTPC setup with a Harmony remote that control everything through a single 'activity' button press, and I still need to go "fix it" once a week. PC freezes, XBMC hangs, IR signals have no 'ack' protocol so they get missed...
Shit happens to most PC-based setups. Wives don't want to deal with the shit. Hence, most things outside of TV aren't wife-friendly.
You must be doing something very wrong then. My wife is probably less "tech savvy" than everybody else I know. Including my parents. I looked at the Harmony remotes, but decided that they probably wouldn't survive very long in our house. Instead I went with a URC MX-500. It's not a pretty or fancy, but it has more macros and customizable buttons than I need and is tough as nails. I've had little trouble getting it set up for my Luddite wife, so I know the Harmony remotes should be easier (at least that was my impression). My DLNA server crashes maybe 2 or 3 times a year. Other than that, there's very few things that go wrong for her. But you are right, wives don't want to deal with that shit at all. That's what kids are for. My 8 year old can fix just about anything that goes wrong and probably knows the satellite box better than I do.
Bose is a name to be reckoned with, but only the name. Their actual equipment is pretty mediocre, dead average, but priced as if it were premium equipment. You're paying 5x/10x the price for the badge, nothing more (hence the common apocryphal backronym Buy Other Sound Equipment).
Bose lawyers are to be reckoned with. Most of their equipment is shit, that's why the don't publish specs. You pay 5 to 10 times the price for sound that is missing in easily audible frequencies. Here's a link anyone considering a Bose Acoustimass product should read first.
"The images you are seeing on television you are seeing over, and over, and over, and it's the same picture of some person walking out of some building with a vase, and you see it 20 times, and you think, "My goodness, were there that many vases?"
Because there's evidence that the words we hear and the words we recall or imagine trigger similar brain processes, the study suggests scientists may one day be able to tune in to the words you're thinking.
So the TSA should be rolling this out in 2-3 years whether it's ready or not. I can see it now. They'll be monitoring how peoples brain reacts while a recoding recites works like: "Bomb" "Ammonium nitrate" "Communist" Or the program states you are thinking the following: "5 oz. of toothpaste" "Bottled water" "Why are these fucking idiots doing this?" Clearly only a terrorist would think such things.
but..does it run Linux?
Not even with the 16K RAM pack upgrade.
And no, I cannot imagine a Beowulf cluster of them either.
the lego keyboard doesn't suck anymore than the original.
Lets be honest here, I got to use one when it was new, and it... wasn't that good.
Suck any more? Are you kidding? It's an improvement. ;-)
Without space exploration there isn't much point to our civilization.
is that sarcasm? most of human culture and endeavors and civilization had existed fine before there ever was space travel, and will continue to do so with or without it.
I believe that, in this case, "our" is shorthand for Sid Meier's.
I see what you strawberried there. Good horse.
I concur. The AC strawberried the point rather well. A good horse to you as well sir.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with what they are doing
There is absolutely everything wrong with they are doing.
I understand that digital delivery and games that can be played online has confused the issue, along with the persistent confusion over what copyright is.
However, it is really this fucking simple:
Customer purchased product from store. Customer owns product from store. Customer after some period of time sells product used to somebody else. Store already got paid, so they have no legal interest, much less moral or ethical interest, in the second sale.
First Sale Doctrine covers this. Everywhere else in the physical world you cannot pull this fucking shit for two seconds without being called crazy greedy retarded sons of bitches.
Yes, but this is not in the physical world, is it?
I have said before, and some of disagreed with me (they are wrong), but when you pay for copyrighted content you are granted rights in return for the consideration you paid.
I certainly agree with your sentiment. Unfortunately, our opinion on this is not supported by the USPTO, the legislative or judicial (and generally the executive) branches of government. Until such time that we change their minds, educate them, or replace them, this is the law no matter how wrong we feel it is.
As slow and dumb as the gov/t is, I feel we have a better chance of changing the companies minds by voting with our dollars. Unless it becomes compulsory to purchase their product, I simply don't. This is a freaking game, you are not going to die or suffer any harm if you don't play it. There are plenty of other games we can purchase and from companies that feel as you do. Support them and not ones that are pulling this kind of crap. If you feel that is not enough then find candidates for office that believe as you do and help them to get elected. Or run for office yourself. Start a petition at the local level and if you are successful, take it nationwide. Obviously you feel much stronger about it than I do. But bitching about it on /. won't help. Let me know if you do start a petition though, I'll gladly sign it. If you choose to run for office and depending on your other views, I may also send you a campaign contribution. However this is not in my top 5 issue either.
companies are still trying to figure out how to receive dollars spent on games they make, when they are bought. Is that wrong? if so please tell me how.
In my case they need to figure out a better way to receive my dollars. There's absolutely nothing wrong with what they are doing. It simply means that I will refuse to support their business by purchasing their products. If enough people feel the same way, then they will either find a way to stop treating people like shit and make money or go out of business.
The SR-71 was a 'stealth' aircraft that was not at all stealthy. As in easily visible on radar and even more visible on thermal scopes on account of HUGE engines and lots of air friction.
It used tons of fuel, couldn't be kept fully fueled on the ground because it would simply leak and was a nightmare to maintain.
No. The SR-71 was not a "stealth" aircraft. It was designed to be high flying and fast as hell. You can't make a mach1 stealth plane. As far as I know there still no way to eliminate the sonic boom. Nor can you make a Mach 3+ aircraft that does not have all kinds of thermal issues. Of course it leaked fuel on the ground. There is still no way to compensate for the thermal expansion that occurs from friction caused at mach 3+. It's physics. It also takes a ton of fuel to go that fast. Technology has come a long way in the last 50 years, but you're still going to need to use a ton of fuel to go those speeds, and there are still issues with friction and heating.
Since this is /. a car analogy is in order. Some of the high end Ferraris are not capable of being driven in stop and go traffic. They simply cannot get enough airflow to not overheat in prolonged speeds below 30 mile/hour. And don't even talk about fuel efficiency. Specialized cars for drag racing are even worse. It's hard to go extremely fast, and there are trade offs. But sometimes you have to make tradeoffs for specialized cars, and planes.
So yeah non were shot down, they fell down all on their own.
Actually I thought it was more than that, that had crashed. Still, just about every plane that has even been put into production has had crashes during testing. At least 3 of those 11 were "trainers". Those had tan elevated rear cockpit, which seriously screwed up the aerodynamics of the plane, and two were the armed interceptor version. It was also prone to "unstarts" due to the spike sticking out of the front of the engines positioning itself improperly. Franky I'm amazed that it even worked at all considering the tech available at the time. I'm by no means saying it was a perfect plane, but it did what it was designed to do very well. Which was to get intel quickly and safely.
By comparison, the U2 has it's own issues, namely a very small airspeed window that does not stall the aircraft or send it upwards uncontrollably. It is also a bitch to land. So much so that another pilot has to drive a chase care to guide the pilot to land.
Those are totally different functions and flown in completely different environments. TFA was about the U2 and that was what I was comparing to. Plenty of F-16s were shot down. Of course they were designed as a jack of all trades type of aircraft. And they were a hell of a plane for being as cheap and versatile as they are/were. The F-35 looked like it was going to be a great replacement on paper, but has turned into a bloated pig in reality. Still, not a single SR-71 was ever shot down, so regardless of the hours flown, that's a perfect record for that statistic. Even with the millions of flight hours F-16s have, a lot more than zero of them have been shot down.
There's plenty they could do differently today. Stealth technology, carbon fiber, etc. But all of that is expensive. Do you put new tires on the old Ford and drive it to work for another year, or buy a new Ferrari? Depends on your budget.
They already had a Ferrari in the SR-71, but chose to retire it and kept the old Ford.
Because the SR-71 sucked.
How may were shot down? Oh yeah, none.
There's plenty they could do differently today. Stealth technology, carbon fiber, etc. But all of that is expensive. Do you put new tires on the old Ford and drive it to work for another year, or buy a new Ferrari? Depends on your budget.
They already had a Ferrari in the SR-71, but chose to retire it and kept the old Ford.
A sudden outbreak of commonsense at the USPTO?
Whatever it is, it couldn't have happened to a more deserving company.
It's a shame that the terms of the past settlements probably have clauses keeping the paying party from getting anything back.
Where's the Can-do spirit?!?
Presumably still playing in the sand on the other side of the planet. No one's heard from Spirit in almost two years.
S'OK. We'll have a manned moon base by 2020. And it'll be a 51st state.
By "state" I assume you meant province. And by "51" you meant 23rd (or 24th depending on how you count Taiwan). ;-)
And you could probably die from drinking too much pure Gatorade. Your point?
That sounds like something that Brawndo can use in a future advertising campaign.