Well apparently, that problem has been fixed. If you just put blue LED's all around your house and work area, you'll never get tired and you'll never have to sleep! Problem solved!
It's not like you'll ever just be so tired that you'll just want to sleep! If you put that blue light in your car, it means it will take away all your exhaustion! That means it must be safe!
You wouldn't use a shire horse for rapid transit
Well, obviously not! Those Shire Horses are designed for little tiny Hobbits! They wouldn't work on normal-sized people!
I don't know. What do the commercials say? Something like "This isn't the separate internet for mobile phones, this is the REAL internet."
Well, having the "real" internet in a browser and wanting to ban porn seem to be rather conflicting ideas. Porn is so ubiquitous that if one app can already access it, there'll be lots of apps that'll be able to whether that's what they're specifically designed for or not. Porn's insidious like that.
Well, I think you're wrong. Fortunately for us Slashdot readers, this idea of copyright protection being a lost cause has been brought to us by Ars Technica. I'm relatively certain that at no point in time, has anyone brought up this idea before. Ever.
As president, I will seek a balance between the interest of copyright holders and consumers of digital media.
Oh Really? Basically he's saying "I won't tell you how I'll seek a balance, but this answer is sufficiently vague enough so that I can do pretty much anything I want to do about it - which includes completely ignoring the issue!"
Well, it's obviously NOT a good idea because it's in the "Your Rights Online" category. That has to mean there are some rights being infringed up, right? It's not like they would put in the YRO category just to make a sensationalist headline to get hits rather than actually inform people... right?
"That means people who get Dells will have SHOCKING Personalities!"
Looks like Dell has been amping up their marketing department. Just remember, "It's not a bug, it's a feature!"
let's not lose sight of plot and character. When's the last time plot and character mattered to most American audiences?
All kidding aside, it all comes down to the bottom line. It's sad really, think of the classics like Ben Hur or The 10 Commandments. When they wanted a crowd, they got off their butts and hired a crowd of people. If you watch some of those older movies, it's amazing how much better the crowds looked with real people. It's a sad state of affairs when 50+ year old movie effects can outshine what we make today.
Unfortunately, that's where we're heading. It's cheaper to make a hundred people on the computer than to actually hire a hundred people for a day. Pretty soon, everything's going to be like Beowulf - we'll see the likenesses of actors rendered onscreen. Why hire them if you can make them do what you want on the computer for a fraction of the cost?
But does no one think that Prisoners might be inclined to remove their tracking chips? I'm just saying I can't imagine most of them are losing any sleep about breaking the law...
That's how smart people would do it. Unfortunately, having a P2P program doesn't necessarily make one smart. There are a LOT more stupid people downloading stuff than people who step back a minute and think about it.
If I opened up my network, anyone could start downloading pirated movies and music and use up all of my bandwidth that I want to use for downloading pirated movies and music!
"Hey all, we're coming out with this really cool new product that everyone's been waiting for! It doesn't matter that you can get it cheaper and better elsewhere, you are going to buy it from us because we are SONY. And since we're SONY, we obviously have the best product and we're going to assume that you'll have to replace every single previous version of your old products with new versions of OUR product. As a matter of fact, we're probably going to make it mandatory that you use our version of the product by making future versions of our technology incompatible with anything but our version of the product. We are SONY; Resistance is futile."
It might work! But only if that insects - along with carrying various diseases - also carried giant, planet-killing asteroids with them.
If we just call the "Dinosaur Period" the Jurassic through Cretaceous, that lasted from 200 million years before now to 65 million years before now (+/- 5-10 million years).
I find it kind of hard to swallow that Dinosaurs couldn't build up an immunity to disease over a period of 135 [i]million[/i] years.
Viruses can evolve and change hundreds of times in the course of a human lifetime (which you can't even measure with Geologic time). If Viruses were around for 135 million years when Dinosaurs were around, the Dinosaurs had to have pretty hefty immune systems to be able to cope with all the new viruses evolving. And considering that they actually lasted until a giant rock fell out of the sky, I'd say that getting head colds probably didn't do them in.
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It's a feature!
You mean click 10 times to see the top 10 gadgets?
Well apparently, that problem has been fixed. If you just put blue LED's all around your house and work area, you'll never get tired and you'll never have to sleep! Problem solved!
It's not like you'll ever just be so tired that you'll just want to sleep! If you put that blue light in your car, it means it will take away all your exhaustion! That means it must be safe!
Well, obviously not! Those Shire Horses are designed for little tiny Hobbits! They wouldn't work on normal-sized people!
I don't know. What do the commercials say? Something like "This isn't the separate internet for mobile phones, this is the REAL internet."
Well, having the "real" internet in a browser and wanting to ban porn seem to be rather conflicting ideas. Porn is so ubiquitous that if one app can already access it, there'll be lots of apps that'll be able to whether that's what they're specifically designed for or not. Porn's insidious like that.
Well, I think you're wrong. Fortunately for us Slashdot readers, this idea of copyright protection being a lost cause has been brought to us by Ars Technica. I'm relatively certain that at no point in time, has anyone brought up this idea before. Ever.
Vs Verbosity. But luckily, he was wearying his +3 Armor of Monotonous Speaking.
James Cameron is working on computer networking technology? I think we see where this is going...
Academics are nice and all, but where do I sign up for the pool to guess the date of the first LAN party?
I routinely get around 5-6 hours of sleep and I have effects never side gotten any!
Awwwwww... our little system is all grown up now! Who's a good system? Who's a good system?
Spend hundreds of dollars and hours of processing time and frustration. Or spend 30 bucks and buy the movie again...
Hmmmm.... tough decision.
As president, I will seek a balance between the interest of copyright holders and consumers of digital media.
Oh Really? Basically he's saying "I won't tell you how I'll seek a balance, but this answer is sufficiently vague enough so that I can do pretty much anything I want to do about it - which includes completely ignoring the issue!"
Well, it's obviously NOT a good idea because it's in the "Your Rights Online" category. That has to mean there are some rights being infringed up, right? It's not like they would put in the YRO category just to make a sensationalist headline to get hits rather than actually inform people... right?
Are we saying that Patent Trolling is the same thing as Developing?
"That means people who get Dells will have SHOCKING Personalities!" Looks like Dell has been amping up their marketing department. Just remember, "It's not a bug, it's a feature!"
All kidding aside, it all comes down to the bottom line. It's sad really, think of the classics like Ben Hur or The 10 Commandments. When they wanted a crowd, they got off their butts and hired a crowd of people. If you watch some of those older movies, it's amazing how much better the crowds looked with real people. It's a sad state of affairs when 50+ year old movie effects can outshine what we make today.
Unfortunately, that's where we're heading. It's cheaper to make a hundred people on the computer than to actually hire a hundred people for a day. Pretty soon, everything's going to be like Beowulf - we'll see the likenesses of actors rendered onscreen. Why hire them if you can make them do what you want on the computer for a fraction of the cost?
But does no one think that Prisoners might be inclined to remove their tracking chips? I'm just saying I can't imagine most of them are losing any sleep about breaking the law...
That's how smart people would do it. Unfortunately, having a P2P program doesn't necessarily make one smart. There are a LOT more stupid people downloading stuff than people who step back a minute and think about it.
If I opened up my network, anyone could start downloading pirated movies and music and use up all of my bandwidth that I want to use for downloading pirated movies and music!
Our automatic car-driving overlords
And this news comes just minutes after I bought a case of Anti-thimerosal cream!
I just read your post...
Now I'm going to go out and buy The Platinum Pass, Blackjack, and Hookers! In fact, forget the The Platinum Pass and the Blackjack!
Sounds like a familiar Sony marketing technique.
"Hey all, we're coming out with this really cool new product that everyone's been waiting for! It doesn't matter that you can get it cheaper and better elsewhere, you are going to buy it from us because we are SONY. And since we're SONY, we obviously have the best product and we're going to assume that you'll have to replace every single previous version of your old products with new versions of OUR product. As a matter of fact, we're probably going to make it mandatory that you use our version of the product by making future versions of our technology incompatible with anything but our version of the product. We are SONY; Resistance is futile."
It might work! But only if that insects - along with carrying various diseases - also carried giant, planet-killing asteroids with them. If we just call the "Dinosaur Period" the Jurassic through Cretaceous, that lasted from 200 million years before now to 65 million years before now (+/- 5-10 million years). I find it kind of hard to swallow that Dinosaurs couldn't build up an immunity to disease over a period of 135 [i]million[/i] years. Viruses can evolve and change hundreds of times in the course of a human lifetime (which you can't even measure with Geologic time). If Viruses were around for 135 million years when Dinosaurs were around, the Dinosaurs had to have pretty hefty immune systems to be able to cope with all the new viruses evolving. And considering that they actually lasted until a giant rock fell out of the sky, I'd say that getting head colds probably didn't do them in.