Most of the recent DVD's I've gotten from Netflix actually say "Netflix" on them, and there are NO extra features. There was the 'hint' of extra features and when you click it says 'get the real DVD.' So don't hold your breath there.
If you rip it from your own CD, how does that get flagged as 'legal'? I was always under the assumption that songs offered in Napster or IRC were just songs that someone else ripped from their CD (originally.) Would that song look any different if I ripped it myself versus someone else ripping it?
I would think the only MP3's that are flagged as 'legal' are those purchased from an online store such as iTunes or Amazon. Then they'd have a way to 'mark' that the song is legal for that person. Perhaps if you rip a CD with iTunes or another 'purchase enabled media player' they could mark the tracks at that point as well. I'm pretty sure WinAmp has no way of flagging something as 'legal' or not.
A previous commenter said, 'check these MD5's against and official database of 'legal' MD5's' I don't even know what they were expecting to exist. If your rip is in a database somewhere of 'legal', then it would be legal for anybody I happened to share it with as well.
I've had a USB Loader on my Wii for 2 years now. There has never been a single game I didn't own ripped to the harddrive. (In fact, several of the games I DO own are not on the drive because the disks became unreadable before I got the drive set up.)
Projecting your own dishonest tendencies or lack of self-control on to others isn't very nice. Not everyone steals everything they see just because they can.
I think it's interesting that this thread started because someone said they could get a higher resolution display by using an emulator. Someone else chipped in that running off the hard drive has the tangible benefit of being more robust than juggling disks. However, each of these completely valid uses keep being thrown out because OF COURSE people just want free games.
Having copies of games that you were supposed to pay for is a problem, but it it's a complete separate issue from the concept of emulation and 'media-shifting.' If you won't even respect the difference, how do you expect a corporation will, when it becomes an easy target that affects the bottom line.
I'm pretty sure he meant 'instinctive' rather than 'unconscious.' Famously, your baby did NOT come with a manual that told you when to simplify your sentences to help him learn. I'm not sure where the line between 'common sense' and 'instincts' is, or whether we're just doing what we've seen other people do (i.e. learned, but not necessarily taught.)
Whatever you call it, however, 'unconscious' is definitely the wrong word.
It seems to me that if you're sitting around thinking about various and sundry while you have a full bladder, then you've already failed at making the important decisions in life.
Your point started off being that 'more interesting = more pay' is not sustainable. That's true. If money is based on any sort of 'scarce' standard, then you'll run out if you increase the pay-grade of everyone phased out by machines. What's really supposed to happen however is that the minimum wage jobs shift, so everyone goes DOWN a pay-grade.
The 'idea' is supposed to be that when machines are doing the menial tasks, like 'farming', then the cost of living will go down for everyone. After removing the human cost, bread should drop to fraction of its previous price, and so the poverty line goes down. I'm not sure how well that will be accepted by people, but that's now the economics are supposed to work. I guess it's best if you think of your pay as a multiple of the cost-of-living index. "Woop, I got a new job, it pays 3x COL, I can buy a new house." (Too bad for the guys who make.8 COL)
But then you quickly changed to say, "There's no way everyone can have an interesting job." That's patently ridiculous. There were no computer programming jobs in 1950. (Well, as we know them.) That means all the computer programmers you know now are were doing something else back then. Probably doing something that is now being done by machines because it wasn't as "interesting."
Sure, if a machine takes your job, then it sucks for you, and you can't make a living doing the same thing. However, saying that there's nothing else for you to do is false, and probably defeatist or possibly lazy. I hesitate to say lazy because the transition could take a generation or two. So a specific individual could be royally screwed, but his offspring will almost definitely find one of the new "interesting" jobs....but perhaps for not much more pay.
Have you been absent during the latest era of Console/PC cross-development? They don't design for the high-bar and port down, they design for the low-bar and port up. I know it's a taboo word, but PC games have been 'dumbed-down' so they can also be played on a console. The resolutions and frame-rates are locked, the HUDs use overly large and brightly colored fonts. The controls consist of 4 buttons (which are often displayed on the screen when you are supposed to click them.) The games seem like they were made by Playskool except that they are violent.
The same will happen for PS3/PSP development. The PS3 version will be exactly like the PSP version...just bigger.
Cross development is painful for those who choose to play on the 'high-bar' system.
Not only are they available, but checking their main page, http://www.mattracks.com/ they are advertizing their role in Inception. I wonder which direction that relationship came from. Did the director want the tracks, or does Mattracks actively court films trying to get some product placement in there?
You got that backwards. It's a mod of StarCraft, and it doesn't incorporate ANYTHING from World of Warcraft except the title. (Although I'm pretty sure "World of X" is pretty generic in and of itself.)
Other than the title, this is just a copy of any of a million 3rd person RPGs. I haven't done more than watch the Youtube trailer, so I don't know what the mod-team was promising to do and if any of that would cause problems, but changing the UI and the camera angle on the game doesn't seem to warrant any 'death by lawsuit' threats....unless, as other have surmised, they happen to have a 3rd person RPG in the StarCraft universe planned.
The search results for 'acne' vs 'acne,' were exactly the same. The difference was where the search started.
With the comma, the search results started immediately. Without the comma, the search results started after a 'Value-Added' section at the top of the page.
This doesn't show a problem with Google's search engine or algorithm, it shows that in addition to the search feature, Google also has a 'Decision Engine' (to steal a phrase)...or whatever that Wolfram Alpha crap said about itself.
This is exactly the same thing as the conversion/arithmetic functions that Google has. Is it Anti-trust for Google to automatically show you the "centimeters to inches" conversion instead of simply linking to another page that has a converter app?
I like this idea...the cordless mouse...no batteries included. They could probably make the mouse a passive RFID chip and just use proximity sensors or something.
Aside from worrying about my kids running off with it...'batteries' is the main reason I'm not impressed with 'wireless desktops'.
(And a note to the GP. I never rest my hand on my mouse ever. My palm never touches to mouse...even when I'm at rest, only my fingertips touch the plastic.)
On my IdeaPad, the facial recognition would track the eyes of a photograph, but not actually log you in. That was with a tiny drivers license photo. I'm not sure what a higher quality photo would have done.
ICQ assumes multi-line messages. (No "send-on-enter" crap.) ICQ has had offline-messages from the beginning. ICQ always kept message history.
Those are the biggest two, but there are a bunch of other things that ICQ did right when the other IM companies did it wrong.
AIM and MSN started out as 'super private IRC'. It behaves the same as the input line on an IRC channel.
ICQ though is more like 'super fast email'. ICQ is a 'low overhead email', like Verizon's "Push To Talk" is a low overhead Cell Phone call.
However, I admit that it's pretty much dead. The only people left that I still talk to are the same people I talked to back in 1998. All my family and 'new' friends are using a bunch of different networks. That's why I use a multi-network client (Miranda right now.).
JABBER is the future though.
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That's what I was going to say.
When an individual is convicted of a 'hacking' crime, the punishment is often, 'No access to computers.' When an male is convicted of rape, there is often a cry for him to be castrated.
I say when an individual is convicted of mis-using his corporation and corporate power that he have it be removed from him, (as well as any profits he might have earned at the time.)
Follow the signature trails, and get the people on both sides. The people responsible for oversight need to be held liable and the people who accepted the order need to be held liable. The further away from the central figure, the less their individual punishment would be. (However, emphasis goes UP, not down. We don't want any sacrificial lambs.)
Instead of a whole corporation paying for the actions of it's management, the management pays, and the punishment for the corporation is simply dealing with a management shift. (Hopefully a more carefully ethical one this time.)
That page used to be a lot more informative. I haven't even found the coverage map yet.
Logan isn't part of that yet is it? I just barely moved from Logan and I can't figure out how they seem to be averaging 23. I guess it might be the University and the fact that the student population is a huge percentage of the town.
They do something like this at my daughters school. I don't know if they have a name for it. In 1st grade she was encouraged to just write. It didn't matter what she wrote. It was more about penmanship than spelling. At the beginning of the year, it was pretty tough to tell what she was trying to spell. However, by the end of the year all 'common' words have come around to the correct spelling and the 'difficult' words are much closer. (Even learning some of the 'non-standard' tricks that English forces on you.)
Grammar is another story. Her sentences are exactly like you'd speak them, and there is no punctuation what-so-ever.
However, what is the alternative? No child knows how to spell or knows proper punctuation/grammar in First grade. Are you saying that they shouldn't even attempt original composition? Should they be stuck writing the alphabet over and over again until they've been taught all the grammar rules and know how to spell everything?
I thought it worked out great. (Also...my daughter likes to IM me while I'm at work. She is FORCED to invent spelling. She also started writing notes to her mother in crayon. She also wrote chore lists and shopping lists. She invents spelling all the time. It's something they are going to do whether the teacher asks them to or not. I hardly think it's harming her.)
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Most of the recent DVD's I've gotten from Netflix actually say "Netflix" on them, and there are NO extra features. There was the 'hint' of extra features and when you click it says 'get the real DVD.' So don't hold your breath there.
What's a 'legal' MP3?
If you rip it from your own CD, how does that get flagged as 'legal'? I was always under the assumption that songs offered in Napster or IRC were just songs that someone else ripped from their CD (originally.) Would that song look any different if I ripped it myself versus someone else ripping it?
I would think the only MP3's that are flagged as 'legal' are those purchased from an online store such as iTunes or Amazon. Then they'd have a way to 'mark' that the song is legal for that person. Perhaps if you rip a CD with iTunes or another 'purchase enabled media player' they could mark the tracks at that point as well. I'm pretty sure WinAmp has no way of flagging something as 'legal' or not.
A previous commenter said, 'check these MD5's against and official database of 'legal' MD5's' I don't even know what they were expecting to exist. If your rip is in a database somewhere of 'legal', then it would be legal for anybody I happened to share it with as well.
I've had a USB Loader on my Wii for 2 years now. There has never been a single game I didn't own ripped to the harddrive. (In fact, several of the games I DO own are not on the drive because the disks became unreadable before I got the drive set up.)
Projecting your own dishonest tendencies or lack of self-control on to others isn't very nice. Not everyone steals everything they see just because they can.
I think it's interesting that this thread started because someone said they could get a higher resolution display by using an emulator. Someone else chipped in that running off the hard drive has the tangible benefit of being more robust than juggling disks. However, each of these completely valid uses keep being thrown out because OF COURSE people just want free games.
Having copies of games that you were supposed to pay for is a problem, but it it's a complete separate issue from the concept of emulation and 'media-shifting.' If you won't even respect the difference, how do you expect a corporation will, when it becomes an easy target that affects the bottom line.
That was the most convoluted fix I saw presented.
My opinion was that the screen for editing the templates shouldn't have a "SEND" button on it at all.
"If anything I tend to hit "reply" by mistake, when I meant to include "all" the participants."
This is me. Every time I've ever hit 'Reply All' it was immediately preceeded by clicking 'Reply' and shouting 'D'oh!'
"Roman records indicate that did not happen."
That's not an 'absence' of a citation. Just reference WHICH roman records indicate that.
I'm pretty sure he meant 'instinctive' rather than 'unconscious.' Famously, your baby did NOT come with a manual that told you when to simplify your sentences to help him learn. I'm not sure where the line between 'common sense' and 'instincts' is, or whether we're just doing what we've seen other people do (i.e. learned, but not necessarily taught.)
Whatever you call it, however, 'unconscious' is definitely the wrong word.
Open the window.
It seems to me that if you're sitting around thinking about various and sundry while you have a full bladder, then you've already failed at making the important decisions in life.
Psy-Ops? Isn't that what Dr Horrible's, (I mean Neil Patrick Harris) character was assigned to in Starship Troopers?
Your point started off being that 'more interesting = more pay' is not sustainable. That's true. If money is based on any sort of 'scarce' standard, then you'll run out if you increase the pay-grade of everyone phased out by machines. What's really supposed to happen however is that the minimum wage jobs shift, so everyone goes DOWN a pay-grade.
The 'idea' is supposed to be that when machines are doing the menial tasks, like 'farming', then the cost of living will go down for everyone. After removing the human cost, bread should drop to fraction of its previous price, and so the poverty line goes down. I'm not sure how well that will be accepted by people, but that's now the economics are supposed to work. I guess it's best if you think of your pay as a multiple of the cost-of-living index. "Woop, I got a new job, it pays 3x COL, I can buy a new house." (Too bad for the guys who make .8 COL)
But then you quickly changed to say, "There's no way everyone can have an interesting job." That's patently ridiculous. There were no computer programming jobs in 1950. (Well, as we know them.) That means all the computer programmers you know now are were doing something else back then. Probably doing something that is now being done by machines because it wasn't as "interesting."
Sure, if a machine takes your job, then it sucks for you, and you can't make a living doing the same thing. However, saying that there's nothing else for you to do is false, and probably defeatist or possibly lazy. I hesitate to say lazy because the transition could take a generation or two. So a specific individual could be royally screwed, but his offspring will almost definitely find one of the new "interesting" jobs....but perhaps for not much more pay.
Have you been absent during the latest era of Console/PC cross-development? They don't design for the high-bar and port down, they design for the low-bar and port up. I know it's a taboo word, but PC games have been 'dumbed-down' so they can also be played on a console. The resolutions and frame-rates are locked, the HUDs use overly large and brightly colored fonts. The controls consist of 4 buttons (which are often displayed on the screen when you are supposed to click them.) The games seem like they were made by Playskool except that they are violent.
The same will happen for PS3/PSP development. The PS3 version will be exactly like the PSP version...just bigger.
Cross development is painful for those who choose to play on the 'high-bar' system.
Not only are they available, but checking their main page, http://www.mattracks.com/ they are advertizing their role in Inception. I wonder which direction that relationship came from. Did the director want the tracks, or does Mattracks actively court films trying to get some product placement in there?
You got that backwards. It's a mod of StarCraft, and it doesn't incorporate ANYTHING from World of Warcraft except the title. (Although I'm pretty sure "World of X" is pretty generic in and of itself.)
Other than the title, this is just a copy of any of a million 3rd person RPGs. I haven't done more than watch the Youtube trailer, so I don't know what the mod-team was promising to do and if any of that would cause problems, but changing the UI and the camera angle on the game doesn't seem to warrant any 'death by lawsuit' threats....unless, as other have surmised, they happen to have a 3rd person RPG in the StarCraft universe planned.
Did anyone read the article?
The search results for 'acne' vs 'acne,' were exactly the same. The difference was where the search started.
With the comma, the search results started immediately. Without the comma, the search results started after a 'Value-Added' section at the top of the page.
This doesn't show a problem with Google's search engine or algorithm, it shows that in addition to the search feature, Google also has a 'Decision Engine' (to steal a phrase)...or whatever that Wolfram Alpha crap said about itself.
This is exactly the same thing as the conversion/arithmetic functions that Google has. Is it Anti-trust for Google to automatically show you the "centimeters to inches" conversion instead of simply linking to another page that has a converter app?
I thought it was a recursive question.
Didn't they already use Panther? That's not even on your list, so that means they're willing to use a broader ranged nomeclature than your suggestion.
What if you type it in one font and then someone else changes the font? Should they go through and correct all the line endings for you?
I like this idea...the cordless mouse...no batteries included. They could probably make the mouse a passive RFID chip and just use proximity sensors or something.
Aside from worrying about my kids running off with it...'batteries' is the main reason I'm not impressed with 'wireless desktops'.
(And a note to the GP. I never rest my hand on my mouse ever. My palm never touches to mouse...even when I'm at rest, only my fingertips touch the plastic.)
On my IdeaPad, the facial recognition would track the eyes of a photograph, but not actually log you in. That was with a tiny drivers license photo. I'm not sure what a higher quality photo would have done.
At least the ICQ style.
ICQ assumes multi-line messages. (No "send-on-enter" crap.)
ICQ has had offline-messages from the beginning.
ICQ always kept message history.
Those are the biggest two, but there are a bunch of other things that ICQ did right when the other IM companies did it wrong.
AIM and MSN started out as 'super private IRC'. It behaves the same as the input line on an IRC channel.
ICQ though is more like 'super fast email'. ICQ is a 'low overhead email', like Verizon's "Push To Talk" is a low overhead Cell Phone call.
However, I admit that it's pretty much dead. The only people left that I still talk to are the same people I talked to back in 1998. All my family and 'new' friends are using a bunch of different networks. That's why I use a multi-network client (Miranda right now.).
JABBER is the future though.
That's what I was going to say.
When an individual is convicted of a 'hacking' crime, the punishment is often, 'No access to computers.'
When an male is convicted of rape, there is often a cry for him to be castrated.
I say when an individual is convicted of mis-using his corporation and corporate power that he have it be removed from him, (as well as any profits he might have earned at the time.)
Follow the signature trails, and get the people on both sides. The people responsible for oversight need to be held liable and the people who accepted the order need to be held liable. The further away from the central figure, the less their individual punishment would be. (However, emphasis goes UP, not down. We don't want any sacrificial lambs.)
Instead of a whole corporation paying for the actions of it's management, the management pays, and the punishment for the corporation is simply dealing with a management shift. (Hopefully a more carefully ethical one this time.)
That page used to be a lot more informative. I haven't even found the coverage map yet.
Logan isn't part of that yet is it? I just barely moved from Logan and I can't figure out how they seem to be averaging 23. I guess it might be the University and the fact that the student population is a huge percentage of the town.
It's not for the ladies. Actually it's against anyone who doesn't have two bendable legs free.
You can't wear a dress. You can use it if you're in a brace. You have to be able to 'mount' the thing.
It's basically just a less useful design of a normal bicycle. The few improvements are balanced by new problems.
They do something like this at my daughters school. I don't know if they have a name for it. In 1st grade she was encouraged to just write. It didn't matter what she wrote. It was more about penmanship than spelling. At the beginning of the year, it was pretty tough to tell what she was trying to spell. However, by the end of the year all 'common' words have come around to the correct spelling and the 'difficult' words are much closer. (Even learning some of the 'non-standard' tricks that English forces on you.)
Grammar is another story. Her sentences are exactly like you'd speak them, and there is no punctuation what-so-ever.
However, what is the alternative? No child knows how to spell or knows proper punctuation/grammar in First grade. Are you saying that they shouldn't even attempt original composition? Should they be stuck writing the alphabet over and over again until they've been taught all the grammar rules and know how to spell everything?
I thought it worked out great. (Also...my daughter likes to IM me while I'm at work. She is FORCED to invent spelling. She also started writing notes to her mother in crayon. She also wrote chore lists and shopping lists. She invents spelling all the time. It's something they are going to do whether the teacher asks them to or not. I hardly think it's harming her.)