Is the '$deity' thing written to be religiously non-specific ($deity == Jesus OR Allah OR Shiva OR Buddha OR Krishna, etc.) or is the dollar sign an indication of what kind of Almighty we're talking about?
...and set up the Great Firewall of Britain. Err. The United Firewall Kingdom. The Duchy of Cornfirewall? The sun never sets on the British Firewall? Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday firewall? Robin Hood, setting the walls of the castle on firewall?
The people watching the movie...are the movie. It's reality TV, taken to the next level. How many seats will the fat guy in Row 7 take? The tall guy in Row 4...will the 11-year-old in Row 5 be able to see over his head? What about the teenagers in the back...will they make it to second base? Is the projectionist smoking weed? It's a totally new, totally immersive film experience, connecting with the audience on an entirely new level. It's just like being there. Because, well, you are there.
I saw that episode. It was an interesting experiment, but they deliberately ignored several factors. For instance, they specifically only tested the fuel efficiency at a constant velocity (I think it was 60 mph), and ignored acceleration. Any real-world testing would need to look at a lot of other factors. There's a reason Adam and Jaime's insurance is so high.
I have a better solution. Make me supreme dictator. I'll stay out of the way on most things, appoint people who know what they're doing for other things, and only be corrupt enough to make a decent living. Might make a few declarations myself, but I'll mostly stay in the background. Everybody gets to live in a relatively nice country run by really competent, ethical individuals (I'm not talking about myself, I'm appointing these people, not running anything), and I don't even care if they bitch about me. Plus, women would totally be into me if I were King of America.
You pay for the servers, the bandwidth, and the developers, not to mention the managerial and legal overhead, and make it public without making a profit, and nobody will complain.
For those of us living in the real world, Google's a pretty decent option.
Netlix never "banned" Linux. If you can get it to work with the site, great, they'd be happy for you. The problem comes in with the studios, who demand that Netflix use DRM when a user streams a video on their site. So they use Silverlight's built-in DRM API, which the studios are okay with. The only problem is that Moonlight does not implement Silverlight's DRM scheme. The details are proprietary, and although Novell has asked Microsoft for permission to use their DRM scheme in Moonlight, Microsoft has said "no." They don't want to share it, they definitely don't want it open-sourced (what's the point of an open-source DRM implementation?). This all makes sense from both parties' perspective; the only one really making a stupid mistake is Netflix, for using Silverlight in the first place. (Although I don't know whether their licensing terms played a part in that or not---in any case Flash nowadays has lots of DRM support, and would of course be a viable solution should Netflix decide to switch.)
A paywall is not DRM. If the publication in question required readers to access their articles through a reader application, which would check for a valid license and was necessary to decrypt the encrypted articles served from its site, then it would be using DRM. Restricting outside access to various parts of a site isn't controversial in most cases; plenty of people on Slashdot think that it's a bad business decision to do so (maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong, I could give a fuck), but nobody in their right mind would suggest that a site be forced to serve every bit of content to every user in every case. (Unless you would like me to log in and post this response as "im_thatoneguy")
Okay, that really confuses me. If a British novel is copyrighted in the United States, but publicly available in Australia, what are the legal boundaries? Is it legal to download it in the United States, as long as the uploader is in Australia? If not, then is it legal to purchase a copy of 1984 in Australia (where the copyright holder does not receive any royalties) and then transport it to the United States? ("I read it on the flight, Mr. Customs Agent!")
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If that were the case, then 99.9% of Twitter accounts would be pointless.
(What I'm saying is, I agree.)
Any language that supports the paradigm of "Not Lisp" is certainly worthy of our consideration.
(Just watch, today is the day that all of the Lispers get mod points. There's a reason it's called karma.
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I disagree! I remember having dirty thoughts about Seven of Nine when voyager was airing, and I was born in 1985!
Is the '$deity' thing written to be religiously non-specific ($deity == Jesus OR Allah OR Shiva OR Buddha OR Krishna, etc.) or is the dollar sign an indication of what kind of Almighty we're talking about?
William Firewallace, as played by Mel Gibson, shouting, "FIREWALL!"
...and set up the Great Firewall of Britain. Err. The United Firewall Kingdom. The Duchy of Cornfirewall? The sun never sets on the British Firewall? Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday firewall? Robin Hood, setting the walls of the castle on firewall?
Anybody got any better names for it?
It's a blank journal and you have to write it yourself.
The people watching the movie...are the movie. It's reality TV, taken to the next level. How many seats will the fat guy in Row 7 take? The tall guy in Row 4...will the 11-year-old in Row 5 be able to see over his head? What about the teenagers in the back...will they make it to second base? Is the projectionist smoking weed? It's a totally new, totally immersive film experience, connecting with the audience on an entirely new level. It's just like being there. Because, well, you are there.
So, it's the exception that disproves the rule?
I think colloquialism has stormed the ivory tower here.
I saw that episode. It was an interesting experiment, but they deliberately ignored several factors. For instance, they specifically only tested the fuel efficiency at a constant velocity (I think it was 60 mph), and ignored acceleration. Any real-world testing would need to look at a lot of other factors. There's a reason Adam and Jaime's insurance is so high.
You would have stayed inside and waited for the snow to melt, because Texans don't know how to drive in the snow?
*applause*
I'll admit it:
=> != >= => >= != => >= => != >=
You don't need a glyph for "=>" for instance. Anyone who knows what = and > mean individually can discern the meaning.
=> != >=
The thing is, as far as I'm concerned as a Westerner, the existence of a phonetic Japanese alphabet eliminates the need, or desire, for kanji.
I have a better solution. Make me supreme dictator. I'll stay out of the way on most things, appoint people who know what they're doing for other things, and only be corrupt enough to make a decent living. Might make a few declarations myself, but I'll mostly stay in the background. Everybody gets to live in a relatively nice country run by really competent, ethical individuals (I'm not talking about myself, I'm appointing these people, not running anything), and I don't even care if they bitch about me. Plus, women would totally be into me if I were King of America.
Traditional ads, no. Astroturfing, I'm sure I've been fooled at some point. But it's hardly fair to blame search engines for that.
You pay for the servers, the bandwidth, and the developers, not to mention the managerial and legal overhead, and make it public without making a profit, and nobody will complain.
For those of us living in the real world, Google's a pretty decent option.
You'd be wrong. Sort of.
Netlix never "banned" Linux. If you can get it to work with the site, great, they'd be happy for you. The problem comes in with the studios, who demand that Netflix use DRM when a user streams a video on their site. So they use Silverlight's built-in DRM API, which the studios are okay with. The only problem is that Moonlight does not implement Silverlight's DRM scheme. The details are proprietary, and although Novell has asked Microsoft for permission to use their DRM scheme in Moonlight, Microsoft has said "no." They don't want to share it, they definitely don't want it open-sourced (what's the point of an open-source DRM implementation?). This all makes sense from both parties' perspective; the only one really making a stupid mistake is Netflix, for using Silverlight in the first place. (Although I don't know whether their licensing terms played a part in that or not---in any case Flash nowadays has lots of DRM support, and would of course be a viable solution should Netflix decide to switch.)
They use Silverlight. They use it on the Mac. I am assuming that Microsoft is basically shouting at them to drop it and switch to Flash.
Which really doesn't mean anything for Windows or Mac users, but does mean that Linux users may be able to use Netflix streaming sometime soon.
A paywall is not DRM. If the publication in question required readers to access their articles through a reader application, which would check for a valid license and was necessary to decrypt the encrypted articles served from its site, then it would be using DRM. Restricting outside access to various parts of a site isn't controversial in most cases; plenty of people on Slashdot think that it's a bad business decision to do so (maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong, I could give a fuck), but nobody in their right mind would suggest that a site be forced to serve every bit of content to every user in every case. (Unless you would like me to log in and post this response as "im_thatoneguy")
Here.
Terribly summary, by the way.
I'm a Chorme OS developer, you insensitive clod!
We're talking about private schools. Maybe they need to justify tuition hikes.
Okay, that really confuses me. If a British novel is copyrighted in the United States, but publicly available in Australia, what are the legal boundaries? Is it legal to download it in the United States, as long as the uploader is in Australia? If not, then is it legal to purchase a copy of 1984 in Australia (where the copyright holder does not receive any royalties) and then transport it to the United States? ("I read it on the flight, Mr. Customs Agent!")
Yo dawg, I heard you like file-sharing, so I put a file-sharer in your file-sharer so you can file-share your file-sharing.