The price, $300 for the Sony model I like, doesn't seem all that bad. The price of books in general for it seems high to me.
So far as serialized type content like blogs and web comics go I think it's entirely possible right now. I don't know that we really need to wait for anyone to create an open format for it. We just need a site that specializes in providing content from other sites reformatted to fit neatly into any of the already available open formats. The implementation could be iffy though as you'd need to get permission from each site before providing their repackaged content, although maybe we could just push for the common blogging sites to implement an eReader viewing option similiar to how most now facilitate RSS feeds.
One characters actions, even emotive and purely cosmetic actions produce server load. Because the server has to forward a packet to each of the characters within range that the action happened. That said the inability of WoW to handle midsized crowds without lots of lag is a bit perplexing. I would guess that there is a lot more processing being done than we know about, whether or not that processing is necesary to the enjoyment of the game we can't really judge.
What is unreasonable is that Blizard will actively persecute anyone running a private server that they deem worthwhile. Selling a client that is restricted to only using their servers is sketchy but widely accepted as proven by many posts in this discussion. Frankly I don't care about EULA's, I buy a product and I'll use it however I see fit. I'm not really interested in playing WoW anymore, I quit over a year ago. But if someone set up a server allowing me to use the same client to explore a totally new game world I'd probably be interested.
What Blizzard and other MMO companies are doing would be like Apple telling people they can only use content on their iPod's that they purchased through the itunes site, and in the event that they stop purchasing content you are no longer allowed to use your iPod.
I remember getting in an arguement with a teacher when I was in the fourth grade. She marked my spelling "co-operate" incorrect, which is/was rubish in my opinion. I had been reading on my own as entertainment for years by then and many of the books I read hyphenated it's spelling. I don't remember whether or not I won that arguement, though I suspect not. If english teachers are going to demand we stay abreast of the most recent spelling trends they aught to press for a more logical system for establishing how words are spelled.
I remember hating that show as a kid. It signaled the end to my TV watching time for the day, and it wasn't ever as fun to watch as the local news on any of the other networks. For the heck of it I decided to watch what I could of it on Friday evening. I will probably be watching more of that in the future. The reporting was very well done. There weren't any fluff pieces. The points of fact were calmly discussed all around and I couldn't detect any obvious political leanings in the overall presentation.
One of my Chairforce friends was deployed with the Army. Because he was a "com troop", a computer programmer in reality, he was assigned radio duty. He told us that once he went out on a mission or some such and they ended up bringing back a prisoner. My friend spent the half hour ride back to the base holding a gun to the prisoner's head, just in case he somehow got free of his restraints. Apparently that was fairly common practice.
The "wrong" of polygamy is that it's currently illegal. Because it is illegal it is practiced in secret. Which opens the door to all kinds of abuses, much like how the prohibition of alcohol led to the rise of organized crime. There isn't anything, outside of religious propoganda, that is wrong with polygamy and it's opposite polyandry.
That this Court Martial is going to be more of a formality to ensure that the SEAL team members are cleared of all charges and allow the administration to say that they took it seriously.
Actually it's not entirely up to you what may or may not go in your mailbox. I believe federal regulations prohibit anyone from placing anything but US Postal office delivered mail, or your outgoing mail intended for the post office to deliver. That's in the US of course, your mileage may vary in other countries.
Engineers already did find a good viable solution to nuclear waste. But it's politically forbidden. Breeder reactors would reduce the amount of dangerous waste in a huge way. Unfortunately they could also be used to make weapons grade nuclear materials. Which is of course why we don't want countries like Iran developing them.
1.1% to 1.6% doesn't seem like that huge of a difference especially when we are talking about a device that is smaller and obviously more fragile than it's beefier compatriots. Not to mention the lower standards of quality when manufacturing a practically disposable mini computer.
Completely offtopic, but I remember almost getting scammed by someone on Autotrader.com years ago that wanted to use a third party company to hold my money while I test drove the car in question. The supposed third party was actually the scammer and was calling their "service" SquareTrade.
I got in trouble once doing this kind of reptitive homework. I had to write each word from a list of words a large number of times. After doing a few iterations of a word I realized it might be quicker to write the first letter for each of that particular word and then do the second and such, rather than writing out the whole word at once before going to the next iteration of that word. This way I didn't have to remember how to spell the word but instead just remember what letter I was writing. It ended up being painfully evident what I had done because my handwriting was worse in this method.
Doing things differently has always gotten me in trouble in school though. In math classes I often got chewed out for arriving at the answer in a non-conventional way. For example 99 x 99
The conventional method is: 99 x 99 = 891 + 8910 = 9801
My method might go more like this:
99 x 99 = 99 x 100 - 99 = 9900 - 99 = 9801
And while my method could take longer to write out it was simpler to keep track of in my head and always felt more intuitive. So I would just go with it and skip showing the work most of the time, which was another thing that teachers just love.
I've often been bemused at the horror that some people express when it's suggested that maybe they need glasses. I've been wearing glasses for most of my life, 27 of my 31 years. So I'm pretty used to them and they rarely ever bother me in any way.
Normally it seems to be a cosmetic concern. For instance when I deployed I got the ChairForce to issue me some hideously ugly prescription sunglasses. I can't wear them now as they got scratched to hell and back and my prescription is different now. But I wore them constantly. A woman I knew that deployed at the same time complained constantly about having to choose between everything being blurry but bearable brightness or sharp but painfully bright. When I suggested she get some glasses like mine she seemed genuinely disgusted at the idea of wearing such unattractive glasses.
Maybe you can't focus on something else while working hard but that doesn't mean someone else can't. I used to play that stupid break out game on my ipod while doing a stationary cycle. I couldn't play it the whole time because eventually my hands would get to sweaty and the interface wouldn't work properly. But I could keep my heart rate in the 160's while doing that.
I've ridden in and driven several cars that had a relatively dumb cruise control. Shifting the car into nuetral did not kill the cruise and it would rapidly rev up the engine as the car slowed down. Not that blowing an engine isn't worth avoiding a runaway incident where you risk many lives.
One of the huge advantages of the internet is that you can discuss the news article and the various opinionated slants in a much more immediate fashion. With a newspapper you would have to send in a letter to the editor to get a discussion going. And because of their publishing schedule the discussion can only progress so fast.
I often frequent a locally maintained forum that posts links to news articles of interest on the local level all the way up to the international level. And my favorite aspect of it is discussing the news with people who often have a very different view and opinion. Their opinions may or may not affect mine directly but by having the discussion I am at least made aware of other possibilities and that hopefully affects the way I see new things in the future.
Not that this is always the case, but it could be that s/he is unaware of any site that attracts that much local traffic. I can't think of any websites for my city of about 350k people that are likely to have say 10k hits a day. Maybe the local news channels and newspaper sites but that'd be it. And honestly I've only gone to those sites a few times because the site designs are horrible. I can't imagine that many other people spend much time actually browsing them.
I have seen adds though on other random sites that personalize the add they show to some extent based on where they think I am located. So I wonder if there isn't a possible market for an advertising company that shows locally relevant adds to you regardless of where the site you are visiting is located. Google could probably do something like this with their system where the estimated location of your IP is just another factor in selecting the correct add to show.
Several years ago I was looking for a local place to take ballroom dancing lessons. I had to resort to the phonebook because there was absolutely nothing online of use to me that I could find. If I had seen an online add for a local studio they would have been a huge step closer to having me as a customer.
So basically you agree with me. You may own your property only so long as you continue to pay a government for it.
There is no option to take your property and provide for your own defense and such. I'm also fairly sure that if you owned land bordering another country and tried to sell it to that neighboring country you'd get in some trouble. So in reality you do not own any piece of land that is already claimed by a nation. And in all likelyhood if new land were created somewhere and you were the first to stake a claim on it you'd be absorbed by some nation and ordered to pay your taxes. Sealand is the only "nation" I'm aware of that managed to come even close to pulling off something like that.
Exactly. I'm a bit suprised there isn't an open sourced repository of maps out there already. We could then just make an app to tell you where you are on that map for most every GPS enabled device.
Actually you own that house only so long as you pay the appropriate taxes and maintain the property according to local ordincances. The healthiest way to look at any real estate is that you are constantly renting it from the government. And regardless this is a completely invalid arguement in copyright matters because someone can not in a mater of seconds or even hours create an exact duplicate of your house for a few cents worth of electricity.
You would own the copyrights for that movie. Copyrights are an artificial grant from the government designed to foster and encourage creation of new media to enrich our culture as it eventually enters the Public Domain. The laws regarding the terms of Copyrights have become to out of whack with the general publics desire that those laws are no longer respected by a huge proportion of of the public. Somewhere there's a quote about laws that no one respects being worthless.
The people making those justifications disagree with the terms of copyright law as it exists today. It is entirely possible that even with more reasonable terms they would not respect the law. But the law does not currently allow a distinction between violating a copyright on something created 50 years ago and a movie that hasn't even hit theatre's yet, so while you are breaking this set of laws you might as well go whole hog.
According to the Wikipedia page for Ben and Jerry's their cap was actually 1:7 and they managed to keep it for a long while until they were already rather succesful and looking for a new CEO.
If it includes phone, cable and internet with ridiculous bandwidth that's pretty reasonable. It's certainly cheaper than the combination of my old phone, cheap Direct TV package, and DSL package were.
I'm going to have to agree with you that sex is indeed a lot of fun and can go on for hours. But in all honesty there is a limit to ones stamina. And that's why I love video games, movies, books and TV. Between sex and all those things there is never an excuse to be bored... when I am not at work. Driving in a tight cornering car with some decent acceleration is one of those things I've always loved, but it's too expensive for me to partake of currently.
That is correct. But most of those places were previously obtaining the food they needed. The underlying reasons they can not obtain that food now is usually economic, political or both. Zimbabwe is a good example, they were at one point in recent history considered the "Bread Basket" of affrica. The combination of political changes and a few years of draught has left the country unable to feed it's own people let alone export food.
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The price, $300 for the Sony model I like, doesn't seem all that bad. The price of books in general for it seems high to me.
So far as serialized type content like blogs and web comics go I think it's entirely possible right now. I don't know that we really need to wait for anyone to create an open format for it. We just need a site that specializes in providing content from other sites reformatted to fit neatly into any of the already available open formats. The implementation could be iffy though as you'd need to get permission from each site before providing their repackaged content, although maybe we could just push for the common blogging sites to implement an eReader viewing option similiar to how most now facilitate RSS feeds.
One characters actions, even emotive and purely cosmetic actions produce server load. Because the server has to forward a packet to each of the characters within range that the action happened. That said the inability of WoW to handle midsized crowds without lots of lag is a bit perplexing. I would guess that there is a lot more processing being done than we know about, whether or not that processing is necesary to the enjoyment of the game we can't really judge.
What is unreasonable is that Blizard will actively persecute anyone running a private server that they deem worthwhile. Selling a client that is restricted to only using their servers is sketchy but widely accepted as proven by many posts in this discussion. Frankly I don't care about EULA's, I buy a product and I'll use it however I see fit. I'm not really interested in playing WoW anymore, I quit over a year ago. But if someone set up a server allowing me to use the same client to explore a totally new game world I'd probably be interested.
What Blizzard and other MMO companies are doing would be like Apple telling people they can only use content on their iPod's that they purchased through the itunes site, and in the event that they stop purchasing content you are no longer allowed to use your iPod.
Good point, however this isn't a spelling test and I'm not graded on it.
I remember getting in an arguement with a teacher when I was in the fourth grade. She marked my spelling "co-operate" incorrect, which is/was rubish in my opinion. I had been reading on my own as entertainment for years by then and many of the books I read hyphenated it's spelling. I don't remember whether or not I won that arguement, though I suspect not. If english teachers are going to demand we stay abreast of the most recent spelling trends they aught to press for a more logical system for establishing how words are spelled.
I remember hating that show as a kid. It signaled the end to my TV watching time for the day, and it wasn't ever as fun to watch as the local news on any of the other networks. For the heck of it I decided to watch what I could of it on Friday evening. I will probably be watching more of that in the future. The reporting was very well done. There weren't any fluff pieces. The points of fact were calmly discussed all around and I couldn't detect any obvious political leanings in the overall presentation.
Thank you for reminding me of this show.
One of my Chairforce friends was deployed with the Army. Because he was a "com troop", a computer programmer in reality, he was assigned radio duty. He told us that once he went out on a mission or some such and they ended up bringing back a prisoner. My friend spent the half hour ride back to the base holding a gun to the prisoner's head, just in case he somehow got free of his restraints. Apparently that was fairly common practice.
The "wrong" of polygamy is that it's currently illegal. Because it is illegal it is practiced in secret. Which opens the door to all kinds of abuses, much like how the prohibition of alcohol led to the rise of organized crime. There isn't anything, outside of religious propoganda, that is wrong with polygamy and it's opposite polyandry.
That this Court Martial is going to be more of a formality to ensure that the SEAL team members are cleared of all charges and allow the administration to say that they took it seriously.
Actually it's not entirely up to you what may or may not go in your mailbox. I believe federal regulations prohibit anyone from placing anything but US Postal office delivered mail, or your outgoing mail intended for the post office to deliver. That's in the US of course, your mileage may vary in other countries.
Engineers already did find a good viable solution to nuclear waste. But it's politically forbidden. Breeder reactors would reduce the amount of dangerous waste in a huge way. Unfortunately they could also be used to make weapons grade nuclear materials. Which is of course why we don't want countries like Iran developing them.
1.1% to 1.6% doesn't seem like that huge of a difference especially when we are talking about a device that is smaller and obviously more fragile than it's beefier compatriots. Not to mention the lower standards of quality when manufacturing a practically disposable mini computer.
Completely offtopic, but I remember almost getting scammed by someone on Autotrader.com years ago that wanted to use a third party company to hold my money while I test drove the car in question. The supposed third party was actually the scammer and was calling their "service" SquareTrade.
I got in trouble once doing this kind of reptitive homework. I had to write each word from a list of words a large number of times. After doing a few iterations of a word I realized it might be quicker to write the first letter for each of that particular word and then do the second and such, rather than writing out the whole word at once before going to the next iteration of that word. This way I didn't have to remember how to spell the word but instead just remember what letter I was writing. It ended up being painfully evident what I had done because my handwriting was worse in this method.
Doing things differently has always gotten me in trouble in school though. In math classes I often got chewed out for arriving at the answer in a non-conventional way. For example 99 x 99
The conventional method is:
99 x 99 = 891 + 8910 = 9801
My method might go more like this:
99 x 99 = 99 x 100 - 99 = 9900 - 99 = 9801
And while my method could take longer to write out it was simpler to keep track of in my head and always felt more intuitive. So I would just go with it and skip showing the work most of the time, which was another thing that teachers just love.
I've often been bemused at the horror that some people express when it's suggested that maybe they need glasses. I've been wearing glasses for most of my life, 27 of my 31 years. So I'm pretty used to them and they rarely ever bother me in any way.
Normally it seems to be a cosmetic concern. For instance when I deployed I got the ChairForce to issue me some hideously ugly prescription sunglasses. I can't wear them now as they got scratched to hell and back and my prescription is different now. But I wore them constantly. A woman I knew that deployed at the same time complained constantly about having to choose between everything being blurry but bearable brightness or sharp but painfully bright. When I suggested she get some glasses like mine she seemed genuinely disgusted at the idea of wearing such unattractive glasses.
Maybe you can't focus on something else while working hard but that doesn't mean someone else can't. I used to play that stupid break out game on my ipod while doing a stationary cycle. I couldn't play it the whole time because eventually my hands would get to sweaty and the interface wouldn't work properly. But I could keep my heart rate in the 160's while doing that.
I've ridden in and driven several cars that had a relatively dumb cruise control. Shifting the car into nuetral did not kill the cruise and it would rapidly rev up the engine as the car slowed down. Not that blowing an engine isn't worth avoiding a runaway incident where you risk many lives.
One of the huge advantages of the internet is that you can discuss the news article and the various opinionated slants in a much more immediate fashion. With a newspapper you would have to send in a letter to the editor to get a discussion going. And because of their publishing schedule the discussion can only progress so fast.
I often frequent a locally maintained forum that posts links to news articles of interest on the local level all the way up to the international level. And my favorite aspect of it is discussing the news with people who often have a very different view and opinion. Their opinions may or may not affect mine directly but by having the discussion I am at least made aware of other possibilities and that hopefully affects the way I see new things in the future.
Not that this is always the case, but it could be that s/he is unaware of any site that attracts that much local traffic. I can't think of any websites for my city of about 350k people that are likely to have say 10k hits a day. Maybe the local news channels and newspaper sites but that'd be it. And honestly I've only gone to those sites a few times because the site designs are horrible. I can't imagine that many other people spend much time actually browsing them.
I have seen adds though on other random sites that personalize the add they show to some extent based on where they think I am located. So I wonder if there isn't a possible market for an advertising company that shows locally relevant adds to you regardless of where the site you are visiting is located. Google could probably do something like this with their system where the estimated location of your IP is just another factor in selecting the correct add to show.
Several years ago I was looking for a local place to take ballroom dancing lessons. I had to resort to the phonebook because there was absolutely nothing online of use to me that I could find. If I had seen an online add for a local studio they would have been a huge step closer to having me as a customer.
So basically you agree with me. You may own your property only so long as you continue to pay a government for it.
There is no option to take your property and provide for your own defense and such. I'm also fairly sure that if you owned land bordering another country and tried to sell it to that neighboring country you'd get in some trouble. So in reality you do not own any piece of land that is already claimed by a nation. And in all likelyhood if new land were created somewhere and you were the first to stake a claim on it you'd be absorbed by some nation and ordered to pay your taxes. Sealand is the only "nation" I'm aware of that managed to come even close to pulling off something like that.
Exactly. I'm a bit suprised there isn't an open sourced repository of maps out there already. We could then just make an app to tell you where you are on that map for most every GPS enabled device.
Actually you own that house only so long as you pay the appropriate taxes and maintain the property according to local ordincances. The healthiest way to look at any real estate is that you are constantly renting it from the government. And regardless this is a completely invalid arguement in copyright matters because someone can not in a mater of seconds or even hours create an exact duplicate of your house for a few cents worth of electricity.
You would own the copyrights for that movie. Copyrights are an artificial grant from the government designed to foster and encourage creation of new media to enrich our culture as it eventually enters the Public Domain. The laws regarding the terms of Copyrights have become to out of whack with the general publics desire that those laws are no longer respected by a huge proportion of of the public. Somewhere there's a quote about laws that no one respects being worthless.
The people making those justifications disagree with the terms of copyright law as it exists today. It is entirely possible that even with more reasonable terms they would not respect the law. But the law does not currently allow a distinction between violating a copyright on something created 50 years ago and a movie that hasn't even hit theatre's yet, so while you are breaking this set of laws you might as well go whole hog.
According to the Wikipedia page for Ben and Jerry's their cap was actually 1:7 and they managed to keep it for a long while until they were already rather succesful and looking for a new CEO.
If it includes phone, cable and internet with ridiculous bandwidth that's pretty reasonable. It's certainly cheaper than the combination of my old phone, cheap Direct TV package, and DSL package were.
I'm going to have to agree with you that sex is indeed a lot of fun and can go on for hours. But in all honesty there is a limit to ones stamina. And that's why I love video games, movies, books and TV. Between sex and all those things there is never an excuse to be bored... when I am not at work. Driving in a tight cornering car with some decent acceleration is one of those things I've always loved, but it's too expensive for me to partake of currently.
That is correct. But most of those places were previously obtaining the food they needed. The underlying reasons they can not obtain that food now is usually economic, political or both. Zimbabwe is a good example, they were at one point in recent history considered the "Bread Basket" of affrica. The combination of political changes and a few years of draught has left the country unable to feed it's own people let alone export food.