Yeah, I'm very worried about false positive rates on these.
Many of the signs seem to be things that can have very normal reasons for occurring. You're worried about your flight, the machine falsely accusing you, you ran, etc. Airports are very stressful places so looking for stressed people seems to be a red herring.
Well, the RIAA is one of the most hated because they sue people. They abuse the courts and extort money from college students and single mothers. They are a horde of lying POS.
You can't really fault a business from trying to keep their content from being shared though. Based on the letter, it appears that they really just want it off the network. If that's all they want, fine.
Doubtful. The president/executive branch has very little influence on the lower courts. They weigh in on matters that will directly affect them, such as national security, but file sharing tends to be pretty low on the list of important things to the executive branch.
Biden has also a history of being pretty pro-copyright, so that would actually skew it the other way.
I think it has more to do with the courts (especially specific judges) getting sick of the RIAA.
At any time, there is likely to be 1% of the population walking around with drugs or fake ID on them. To me that seems like the program did nothing, which is not surprising since the TSA really does nothing beneficial.
Well, the webpage is not an infringer. They are a host of the infringing content.
Toyota (via their lawyer) told the webpage to determine what was infringing. However, the webpage has absolutely no ability to determine who owns the copyright.
So planets look a lot like noise. They really aren't all that much different than the expected noise levels on the images. Especially on the first one from Fomalhaut.
100% true on the advanced degrees. I went to a regional university for undergrad with a great financial package, then did PhD work at the top rated University in the country for the field.
Not a single person cares where I went to undergrad.
If BS/BA is your final goal, you need to weigh the costs to the benefits later on. A BS/BA gives you a leg up on people w/o one in the job market but can leave you deeply in debt. Is it worth it for your chosen career field? Is the degree really needed for your field? For some it is, for others it isn't.
I largely agree with you. Going to an expensive, mid-level university for a liberal arts degree is a waste of money. The amount of debt for the later pay-off is not in your favor. This is especially true if you are planning on an advanced degree (nobody cares where you went to undergrad when you have a MS degree or higher).
Teenagers need to realize that there are a ton of people out there with english, psy, sociology, journalism, etc. degrees with very little applicable skills to the general job market. You need to learn a skill-set that employers will find useful to make a university education worth the money. Otherwise, most jobs are going to be generic paper pushing jobs that will not readily be capable of paying off large student loans.
True, the crafting system was pretty well done in the original. One of the best out there for the amount of options.
Like you hit on though, it was almost impossible to do it and enjoy most of the other content. It was very hard to be a crafter and have any hopes of combat skills.
Largely true. SWG was released as an early beta build. It needed another year of quality development. It had a very weak SW feel to it, and was missing huge amounts of content.
Classes didn't function, quests were broken, the Galactic War was a fantasy that didn't exist, and the list goes on. Even the races weren't balanced. If you didn't log onto the game every week to pay rent all your stuff was deleted, and sometimes it was just plain deleted from bugs.
That seems to be the largest issue with SW products lately. They're not finished when released. Hopefully, it gets corrected in future products.
The big issue is that the stats are loaded because of the timeframe and the system they employed.
By limiting the number of installs, you ensure that issues will arise down the road. Very few install 3-5 copies of the game in the first month (or first weeks).
Like many have said, this becomes an issue a few years from now when you reinstall the old favorite. It also eliminates the "first sale" right, as the game realistically can't be resold. These are the key drawbacks of their scheme.
The other side is "What does the DRM really accomplish?" Novices won't copy the software anyway, so they only have to deal with the drawbacks. Hardcore users tend to know how to pirate the game. If they're pissed off by the company, it's not likely they'll buy the software. If the company is known for good customer service and has a good reputation, they're much more likely to reduce piracy.
Half the time, DRM forces people to search out the places you find pirated games. NoCD cracks are a prime example.
it's all about how you sell yourself. Highlight responsibilities that you were given or unique insights gained. Show that you have commitment, drive, analytic skills, people skills, teamwork, etc. Set yourself up as a valuable employee who was recognized.
Anything to highlight what makes the experience special and relevant. A "job" is not overly relevant, it is what you did and learned that matters to employers.
Also, be sure to research the position and company you are applying for. The more you know, the better you can tailor your application/resume and interview. Go into an interview with intelligent questions for them. It should not be a one way street in an interview. Easy questions are about work environment, benefits, company products (detailed ones are best), growth potential/promotion tracks, etc.
grading scales are meaningless b/c any test can be constructed to get whatever grade distribution you want.
Put obvious questions in the test, and see everyone pass with >90%.
Make the questions hard by requiring detailed thought and extensive mathematical calculation by hand, and watch everyone get 50%.
Take an addition test. You can ask 10+20= or 13439702+907803= They test the same concepts, but vary greatly in difficulty.
It is completely arbitrary, that's why it is so frequent to have a curve. It is just a mathematical way of "arbitrarily" fitting everyone into the "standard" grading scale.
Realistically, teachers don't do a straight mathematical average very much. They have as much leeway as they want in assigning grades. So it's stupid.
I've had high school classes where nobody got more than 32%. So everyone gets the same grade now? It was just a hard exam meant to be challenging and force people to apply knowledge to new things, knowing that the entire grading scale is curved like mad. It may not be the best method of testing, but Pittsburgh just told me that everyone in the class is the same.
I believe that many people do believe in some form of property rights.
However, the RIAA seems to be shooting themselves in the foot with their very aggressive pursuit of stricter copyrights. It causes push-back from most of us who follow the issue b/c they are so adept at inflating all their claims and escalating their demands for stricter copyrights at the expense of "fair use." It hurts their imagine and makes them out to be slime balls. Any attempt by the record companies to expand or defend copyright is seen as a power grab that will be continually broadened, so people want to stop it now. ("or stick it to the man")
Now there are many who just don't care about the copyright, but for those who follow that line they at least realize that it is "grey" at best.
Yeah, that seems to be the most likely motive. There aren't that many experienced, anti-RIAA lawyers out there. This basically takes one out until the issue is resolved. It will also likely take the blog out for the time being as well.
It appears to be a pretty baseless accusation though IANAL.
I would disagree with that to a large extent. Some things are politicized, but for the most part the researchers do report what they find. Politicians then just pick and choose the reports that support their view. In the grand scheme of things, there are very few topics that fall into this regime (basically climate change and energy studies).
I would say that privately (corporate) funded research is much worse. Drug industries and Tobacco industries are two prime examples where negative research gets suppressed and positive results get released.
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Yeah, I'm very worried about false positive rates on these.
Many of the signs seem to be things that can have very normal reasons for occurring. You're worried about your flight, the machine falsely accusing you, you ran, etc. Airports are very stressful places so looking for stressed people seems to be a red herring.
Good work there HP! You just made 10s of thousands of people aware of this upstart that offers product at a reduced price with a bogus complaint.
Well, the RIAA is one of the most hated because they sue people. They abuse the courts and extort money from college students and single mothers. They are a horde of lying POS.
You can't really fault a business from trying to keep their content from being shared though. Based on the letter, it appears that they really just want it off the network. If that's all they want, fine.
Doubtful. The president/executive branch has very little influence on the lower courts. They weigh in on matters that will directly affect them, such as national security, but file sharing tends to be pretty low on the list of important things to the executive branch.
Biden has also a history of being pretty pro-copyright, so that would actually skew it the other way.
I think it has more to do with the courts (especially specific judges) getting sick of the RIAA.
Yup, nothing new here except the packaging and some added sterilizing steps. The tech used isn't exactly revolutionary based on the description.
This was really confusing from the article/title. They weren't very clear that this is a piezoelectric material to replace PZT (not lead per se).
I hope this goes somewhere. Wuttig is a cool guy.
Density is important for shielding. The new chemical is probably not as dense as lead.
Yeah, that was basically my thought exactly.
At any time, there is likely to be 1% of the population walking around with drugs or fake ID on them. To me that seems like the program did nothing, which is not surprising since the TSA really does nothing beneficial.
I sense a huge uptick in the number of infringement notices sent to Tennessee schools.
Who determines if they're legally valid?
Yeah, it is completely retarded. Obvious car enthusiasts photographing/drawing their favorite cars made by your company. Huge fans of your product.
How do you respond?
Tell them they can't and throw your lawyers on them. That will make them even more loyal customers. Hah!
Well, the webpage is not an infringer. They are a host of the infringing content.
Toyota (via their lawyer) told the webpage to determine what was infringing. However, the webpage has absolutely no ability to determine who owns the copyright.
So planets look a lot like noise. They really aren't all that much different than the expected noise levels on the images. Especially on the first one from Fomalhaut.
100% true on the advanced degrees. I went to a regional university for undergrad with a great financial package, then did PhD work at the top rated University in the country for the field.
Not a single person cares where I went to undergrad.
If BS/BA is your final goal, you need to weigh the costs to the benefits later on. A BS/BA gives you a leg up on people w/o one in the job market but can leave you deeply in debt. Is it worth it for your chosen career field? Is the degree really needed for your field? For some it is, for others it isn't.
I largely agree with you. Going to an expensive, mid-level university for a liberal arts degree is a waste of money. The amount of debt for the later pay-off is not in your favor. This is especially true if you are planning on an advanced degree (nobody cares where you went to undergrad when you have a MS degree or higher).
Teenagers need to realize that there are a ton of people out there with english, psy, sociology, journalism, etc. degrees with very little applicable skills to the general job market. You need to learn a skill-set that employers will find useful to make a university education worth the money. Otherwise, most jobs are going to be generic paper pushing jobs that will not readily be capable of paying off large student loans.
It's largely true. There is a problem with the system when innocent people settle, rather than fight the charges, because it costs too much to fight.
True, the crafting system was pretty well done in the original. One of the best out there for the amount of options.
Like you hit on though, it was almost impossible to do it and enjoy most of the other content. It was very hard to be a crafter and have any hopes of combat skills.
Largely true. SWG was released as an early beta build. It needed another year of quality development. It had a very weak SW feel to it, and was missing huge amounts of content.
Classes didn't function, quests were broken, the Galactic War was a fantasy that didn't exist, and the list goes on. Even the races weren't balanced. If you didn't log onto the game every week to pay rent all your stuff was deleted, and sometimes it was just plain deleted from bugs.
That seems to be the largest issue with SW products lately. They're not finished when released. Hopefully, it gets corrected in future products.
The big issue is that the stats are loaded because of the timeframe and the system they employed.
By limiting the number of installs, you ensure that issues will arise down the road. Very few install 3-5 copies of the game in the first month (or first weeks).
Like many have said, this becomes an issue a few years from now when you reinstall the old favorite. It also eliminates the "first sale" right, as the game realistically can't be resold. These are the key drawbacks of their scheme.
The other side is "What does the DRM really accomplish?" Novices won't copy the software anyway, so they only have to deal with the drawbacks. Hardcore users tend to know how to pirate the game. If they're pissed off by the company, it's not likely they'll buy the software. If the company is known for good customer service and has a good reputation, they're much more likely to reduce piracy.
Half the time, DRM forces people to search out the places you find pirated games. NoCD cracks are a prime example.
it's all about how you sell yourself. Highlight responsibilities that you were given or unique insights gained. Show that you have commitment, drive, analytic skills, people skills, teamwork, etc. Set yourself up as a valuable employee who was recognized.
Anything to highlight what makes the experience special and relevant. A "job" is not overly relevant, it is what you did and learned that matters to employers.
Also, be sure to research the position and company you are applying for. The more you know, the better you can tailor your application/resume and interview. Go into an interview with intelligent questions for them. It should not be a one way street in an interview. Easy questions are about work environment, benefits, company products (detailed ones are best), growth potential/promotion tracks, etc.
grading scales are meaningless b/c any test can be constructed to get whatever grade distribution you want.
Put obvious questions in the test, and see everyone pass with >90%.
Make the questions hard by requiring detailed thought and extensive mathematical calculation by hand, and watch everyone get 50%.
Take an addition test.
You can ask
10+20=
or
13439702+907803=
They test the same concepts, but vary greatly in difficulty.
It is completely arbitrary, that's why it is so frequent to have a curve. It is just a mathematical way of "arbitrarily" fitting everyone into the "standard" grading scale.
Sweet, I'm not as dumb as I thought I was.
Realistically, teachers don't do a straight mathematical average very much. They have as much leeway as they want in assigning grades. So it's stupid.
I've had high school classes where nobody got more than 32%. So everyone gets the same grade now? It was just a hard exam meant to be challenging and force people to apply knowledge to new things, knowing that the entire grading scale is curved like mad. It may not be the best method of testing, but Pittsburgh just told me that everyone in the class is the same.
I believe that many people do believe in some form of property rights.
However, the RIAA seems to be shooting themselves in the foot with their very aggressive pursuit of stricter copyrights. It causes push-back from most of us who follow the issue b/c they are so adept at inflating all their claims and escalating their demands for stricter copyrights at the expense of "fair use." It hurts their imagine and makes them out to be slime balls. Any attempt by the record companies to expand or defend copyright is seen as a power grab that will be continually broadened, so people want to stop it now. ("or stick it to the man")
Now there are many who just don't care about the copyright, but for those who follow that line they at least realize that it is "grey" at best.
Yeah, that seems to be the most likely motive. There aren't that many experienced, anti-RIAA lawyers out there. This basically takes one out until the issue is resolved. It will also likely take the blog out for the time being as well.
It appears to be a pretty baseless accusation though IANAL.
can anyone say "Hello privacy lawsuit!"?
I would disagree with that to a large extent. Some things are politicized, but for the most part the researchers do report what they find. Politicians then just pick and choose the reports that support their view. In the grand scheme of things, there are very few topics that fall into this regime (basically climate change and energy studies).
I would say that privately (corporate) funded research is much worse. Drug industries and Tobacco industries are two prime examples where negative research gets suppressed and positive results get released.