Yeah because going to an unsavory website and requiring access by giving them my credit card information without actually buying anything is a GREAT idea. I can't think of anyone I trust more with my credit information than a pr0n site... Not to mention a child would never be able to get access to a credit card, or the pr0n stashed in their parents' sock drawer, or saved on the hard drive, or on the recent documents list, or...
There's a real easy way to prevent damage to your game install from using a no-cd crack. Only use cracks that use a modified game exe file. Rename your original file to the same name plus (original) at the end. Then put the crack in the directory. If problems occur, delete the crack and name the original file back to it's original name. I've never had a single issue so far.
Personally I find that the time involved in figuring out how to undo the stupid DRM that stays on my system even after I've removed the game from the computer is a huge cost.
DRM should be listed on the label of software just under the requirements and recommendations as well as on the sleeve that holds the discs. They should also have to let you know when the software is being installed and an option to cancel the install. There should also be an easy uninstall application for each of them for when the game is no longer on the system. If I knew games had DRM like SecuROM on them beforehand I never would have bought them. It should be illegal to shadily install programs on my system without my explicit consent.
Actually I want to say that it is red pepper that does that not lime, but I'm having a hell of a time locating the article. Basically there is a certain gene or lack thereof in the central american and/or south american populace that breaks down corn and allows for the extraction of a certain nutrient from it. In those that lack it they cannot gain this certain nutrient (the name escapes me at the moment). However by adding, like I said red pepper IIRC, it allows the synthesis of a different precursor to the nutrient that the body has a natural way of making. It is thought of as one of the original reasons for spicy foods being so prevalent in the mexican culture.
I am a biochemist, I don't claim to be an expert on this particular reaction but we have an experiment at the school I work at in which the students blow into a straw in lime water. The CO2 from their lungs is supposed to convert to the precipitate and increased the turbidity of the solution. So if they tried this in the oceans it would cloud up the water. This can have effects on the temperature of the oceans as well as mess with the local animals. The other problem is the experiment doesn't really work too well. We also never have to remake the solutions. The precipitate evolves CO2 over time and this process is sped up with agitation. Somehow I would imagine that tidal forces would have no problem evolving the gasses right back into the air. So unless we have a machine constantly forcing CO2 into the area with the lime water I can't imagine it would stay down there for long. (Not to mention, what are you going to be using to power the machine that does so? Hmm, maybe something that generates CO2 as a biproduct?)
IANAP but couldn't this type of effect basically explain gravitational attraction? In philosophy of science we talked about "nelectricity" a made up force that no one can detect but people say it is there. A comparison to god and magic, (that it is pointless and more or less against Occum's Razor) but maybe some similar effect that occurs on a larger level, a stronger attraction rather than the Casimir effect's weak attraction. This "nelectricity" in this case is actually observed second hand, gravity, we just haven't found or explained the virtual particle pair that causes it.
Good thing I only download FLAC and transcode it myself to mp3... I mean, I buy cds straight from the RIAA for $50 a pop so I can bypass those greedy artists... yeah, that's the ticket...
I don't accept it and I don't keep buying the BS. My cell plan is free incoming everything. I have no home telephone service (because I have a cell phone...). My automobile was a flat cost with pretty much everything standard. (only bullshit I deal with is the fact that I'm not allowed to read the cause for the CEL for some reason unless I pay about $3000 for a device to do so) I don't have appliances to buy (yet). I do have to put up with ISP bullshit, but that's just because they have a damned monopoly. If there was competition I wouldn't buy their BS either./anecdote
Now everyone will know my name is Bob Lablaw! Seriously, anyone that puts in their real name on a remotely accessible non-business account has some neurons not firing properly...
Anyone know if there will be a recap of this for viewing afterward? I will be in class at the time and I doubt I can persuade the professor to show it during lecture...
I don't know how many science classes you or congress people have taken but I have a degree in biochemistry and am currently taking microbiology. The science classes are heavily populated with women. And I'm not talking weight here either. In many of my classes I was one of the three men in the class.
About $60 Can't vouch for the speed on that one though. As far as the difference between that and SSD there is probably a difference in speed, number of writes per life of drive, and the type of controller.
Since this coating absorbs mainly non-orange, it might be possible to combine this with greenhouses. The plants get the orange light and the coating takes the rest.
Probably not going to happen. The wavelengths of light that plants absorb effects their growth patterns. IIRC blue light encourages growth along the stalk upwards. Red light encourages widening growth laterally. Though the plants should be able to photosynthesize, it wouldn't be as good and they'd not germinate properly.
It is funny that everyone bitches when a company holds back a release *Forever* while the developers Duke it out over new technology, features, etc... Rather than Nuke a few features in favor of a quick release. Yet when they trash a few features to make a release date, they get the same kind of flack.
Of course everyone mentions Blizzard... I would be willing to bet that the difference is the marketing, I mean, Blizzard doesn't announce games until they are good and ready... they don't need years of buzz. I would be willing to bet that they always have a good bit of feature chopping in every blizz game (in fact when you open and look at MPQ files, you could find lost character classes, never activated items, etc etc, it just happens BEFORE the marketing, rather than after.
"A Canadian panel of leading scientists warns that nanomaterials appearing in a rapidly growing number of products might potentially be able to enter cells and interfere with biological processes... Their small size, the report says, may allow them "to usurp traditional biological protective mechanisms" and, as a result, possibly have "enhanced toxicological effects." The 16-member panel that wrote the new report included some of Canada's leading scientists and top international experts on nanomaterials."
Ok, that's a lot of ifs and maybes. How about you do the testing before adamantly stating that "Nanomaterials More Dangerous Than We Think." And how about more than 16 people, not all of which are scientists and experts on nanomaterials, actually chime in on this.
I pay for hardware. I don't pay for software. I pay for the box, the printed discs, the manual, the artwork, etc. I don't pay for the game. If I don't need or want the physical property I'll just download it. I have no moral dilemma with this in any way shape of form. If I find myself in a position that my hardware fails and I don't feel the urge or need to even download the software again, then it isn't worth my money.
I get $20-30 an hour for doing random surveys, taste testing, and the like for a local ad research agency so they'd have to do far better than $5 per month. If they are collecting my info they damn well better ask me first and they sure as hell better be paying ME for it. Not the other way around. If they paid for my internet connection I'd consider taking a 1 hour survey a month about my surfing habits. But they sure as hell better not actually track me and you don't get to do it unless I say so. Opt-out my ass.
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How about we make it simple? You start offering good quality shit at a reasonable price and I will just BUY it so I can watch/read/listen to it.
Fixed that for you.
Yeah because going to an unsavory website and requiring access by giving them my credit card information without actually buying anything is a GREAT idea. I can't think of anyone I trust more with my credit information than a pr0n site... Not to mention a child would never be able to get access to a credit card, or the pr0n stashed in their parents' sock drawer, or saved on the hard drive, or on the recent documents list, or...
There's a real easy way to prevent damage to your game install from using a no-cd crack. Only use cracks that use a modified game exe file. Rename your original file to the same name plus (original) at the end. Then put the crack in the directory. If problems occur, delete the crack and name the original file back to it's original name. I've never had a single issue so far.
Personally I find that the time involved in figuring out how to undo the stupid DRM that stays on my system even after I've removed the game from the computer is a huge cost.
DRM should be listed on the label of software just under the requirements and recommendations as well as on the sleeve that holds the discs. They should also have to let you know when the software is being installed and an option to cancel the install. There should also be an easy uninstall application for each of them for when the game is no longer on the system. If I knew games had DRM like SecuROM on them beforehand I never would have bought them. It should be illegal to shadily install programs on my system without my explicit consent.
Anyone have some spare time on their hands?
This is slashdot. Everyone has spare time on their hands...
Actually I want to say that it is red pepper that does that not lime, but I'm having a hell of a time locating the article. Basically there is a certain gene or lack thereof in the central american and/or south american populace that breaks down corn and allows for the extraction of a certain nutrient from it. In those that lack it they cannot gain this certain nutrient (the name escapes me at the moment). However by adding, like I said red pepper IIRC, it allows the synthesis of a different precursor to the nutrient that the body has a natural way of making. It is thought of as one of the original reasons for spicy foods being so prevalent in the mexican culture.
I am a biochemist, I don't claim to be an expert on this particular reaction but we have an experiment at the school I work at in which the students blow into a straw in lime water. The CO2 from their lungs is supposed to convert to the precipitate and increased the turbidity of the solution. So if they tried this in the oceans it would cloud up the water. This can have effects on the temperature of the oceans as well as mess with the local animals. The other problem is the experiment doesn't really work too well. We also never have to remake the solutions. The precipitate evolves CO2 over time and this process is sped up with agitation. Somehow I would imagine that tidal forces would have no problem evolving the gasses right back into the air. So unless we have a machine constantly forcing CO2 into the area with the lime water I can't imagine it would stay down there for long. (Not to mention, what are you going to be using to power the machine that does so? Hmm, maybe something that generates CO2 as a biproduct?)
You only have second hand observations of gravity? Where do you live?
On earth, where people can't see gravitational forces. They see objects' motion affected by it.
IANAP but couldn't this type of effect basically explain gravitational attraction? In philosophy of science we talked about "nelectricity" a made up force that no one can detect but people say it is there. A comparison to god and magic, (that it is pointless and more or less against Occum's Razor) but maybe some similar effect that occurs on a larger level, a stronger attraction rather than the Casimir effect's weak attraction. This "nelectricity" in this case is actually observed second hand, gravity, we just haven't found or explained the virtual particle pair that causes it.
Good thing I only download FLAC and transcode it myself to mp3... I mean, I buy cds straight from the RIAA for $50 a pop so I can bypass those greedy artists... yeah, that's the ticket...
No I mean the neurons that say, "You know self, anyone that I gave my personal email address to should already know my name..."
I don't accept it and I don't keep buying the BS. My cell plan is free incoming everything. I have no home telephone service (because I have a cell phone...). My automobile was a flat cost with pretty much everything standard. (only bullshit I deal with is the fact that I'm not allowed to read the cause for the CEL for some reason unless I pay about $3000 for a device to do so) I don't have appliances to buy (yet). I do have to put up with ISP bullshit, but that's just because they have a damned monopoly. If there was competition I wouldn't buy their BS either. /anecdote
Now everyone will know my name is Bob Lablaw!
Seriously, anyone that puts in their real name on a remotely accessible non-business account has some neurons not firing properly...
Anyone know if there will be a recap of this for viewing afterward? I will be in class at the time and I doubt I can persuade the professor to show it during lecture...
"What the fuck gender is a gay hermaphrodite attracted to?".
A eunuch?
I don't know how many science classes you or congress people have taken but I have a degree in biochemistry and am currently taking microbiology. The science classes are heavily populated with women. And I'm not talking weight here either. In many of my classes I was one of the three men in the class.
am I missing something?
About $60
Can't vouch for the speed on that one though. As far as the difference between that and SSD there is probably a difference in speed, number of writes per life of drive, and the type of controller.
Since this coating absorbs mainly non-orange, it might be possible to combine this with greenhouses. The plants get the orange light and the coating takes the rest.
Probably not going to happen. The wavelengths of light that plants absorb effects their growth patterns. IIRC blue light encourages growth along the stalk upwards. Red light encourages widening growth laterally. Though the plants should be able to photosynthesize, it wouldn't be as good and they'd not germinate properly.
And, believe it or not, there are some people who might want to see mankind live and prosper for another couple of ten thousand years, at least.
Are they immortals or just see into the future?
Do we have a list of the processors affected by this? Or is this issue in ALL Intel processors?
It is funny that everyone bitches when a company holds back a release *Forever* while the developers Duke it out over new technology, features, etc... Rather than Nuke a few features in favor of a quick release. Yet when they trash a few features to make a release date, they get the same kind of flack.
Of course everyone mentions Blizzard... I would be willing to bet that the difference is the marketing, I mean, Blizzard doesn't announce games until they are good and ready... they don't need years of buzz. I would be willing to bet that they always have a good bit of feature chopping in every blizz game (in fact when you open and look at MPQ files, you could find lost character classes, never activated items, etc etc, it just happens BEFORE the marketing, rather than after.
I see what you did there...
"A Canadian panel of leading scientists warns that nanomaterials appearing in a rapidly growing number of products might potentially be able to enter cells and interfere with biological processes... Their small size, the report says, may allow them "to usurp traditional biological protective mechanisms" and, as a result, possibly have "enhanced toxicological effects." The 16-member panel that wrote the new report included some of Canada's leading scientists and top international experts on nanomaterials."
Ok, that's a lot of ifs and maybes. How about you do the testing before adamantly stating that "Nanomaterials More Dangerous Than We Think." And how about more than 16 people, not all of which are scientists and experts on nanomaterials, actually chime in on this.
And I shall call this flexible, organic archive of human genetic information a "cell."
I pay for hardware. I don't pay for software. I pay for the box, the printed discs, the manual, the artwork, etc. I don't pay for the game. If I don't need or want the physical property I'll just download it. I have no moral dilemma with this in any way shape of form. If I find myself in a position that my hardware fails and I don't feel the urge or need to even download the software again, then it isn't worth my money.
I'll pick choice C.
Cthulhu.
Why vote for a lesser evil?
I get $20-30 an hour for doing random surveys, taste testing, and the like for a local ad research agency so they'd have to do far better than $5 per month. If they are collecting my info they damn well better ask me first and they sure as hell better be paying ME for it. Not the other way around. If they paid for my internet connection I'd consider taking a 1 hour survey a month about my surfing habits. But they sure as hell better not actually track me and you don't get to do it unless I say so. Opt-out my ass.