I listen to Don and Mike which runs from 12-4 for me. Due to interference from my work environment I can't listen to the program via AM radio. I also can't listen via internet because the admins have blocked streams in general.
So I have a job on my computer that records the line input source to mp3 files and listen to them the next day. Frankly this sounds like something the RIAA would object to.
My girlfriend downloaded a legal DRMed copy of a song recently so she could learn it for a karaoke party. She asked me to fill a CD with it so she could play it on her way to work.
Not knowing how many times she could copy it (she didn't know when I asked) I opened windows media player, created a playlist that filled the CD and clicked 'burn to CD'. The program began happily converting the tracks to the CD format until it reached the burn limit at which point I got an error message.
Here's the kicker:
I hadn't actually burned _anything_ - it just converted the format for the burn. When I adjusted the playlist, I couldn't burn anything. It had already marked all 10 burns that she paid for as done. DRM is _great_.:\
I ran a line out from the sound card out into the mic input and recorded an mp3 for her with a command line utility I have, then burned that to CD instead, but what a pain in the ass.
If this article is accurate, is anyone else worried that maybe we've got the wrong guy in the seat of power in the white house? His record on the environment isn't exactly what we'd need to get out of this mess.
The problem here is incentive. The upper muckety mucks don't get in trouble here for anything except the failure to complete their project on time. "Bugs in the game? No Problem. I delivered it on time." As long as there's enough hype around the game, people buy it. Only later do they discover it's riddled with bugs.
I work in a semiconductor manufacturing environment. If you put a bug in software for any reason, it amounts to a big problem that affects the bottom line.
We're encouraged to work around 45 hours a week. If we put in more, that's great - but no one gives you any grief for failing to work long weeks when a project is late. If it's late, it's late. If it stops the factory because we pushed to hard on it, we're not likely to work for the company much longer.
I stopped reading game hype years ago and have been the better for it. I read the consolidated game reviews over at Blue's News daily. Never buy a game that doesn't get a consistent collection of good reviews from the reviewers.
I've been happier about game playing ever since.:)
Apples and Oranges maybe, but it sort of highlights the problem with the first two movies. Lucas is trying to tell us everything through dialog instead of allowing the movie to show us what's going on. The cartoon shows Lucas what he's stopped doing.
Examples: "Master, look: destroyers." (two destroyer droids rumble down the trade federation ship, as if we couldn't see them) "It's a standoff. Let's go."
We're not that dumb, George. We could figure all of this out. Bad exposition. A teacher friend of mine uses this sequence as an example of how a story should not be told.
This may suprise you, but getting older means that your eyes, hands and coordination begin to go downhill. _That's_ why my grandparents didn't play games. At somepoint your body doesn't want to play anymore... game over.
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I listen to Don and Mike which runs from 12-4 for me. Due to interference from my work environment I can't listen to the program via AM radio. I also can't listen via internet because the admins have blocked streams in general.
So I have a job on my computer that records the line input source to mp3 files and listen to them the next day. Frankly this sounds like something the RIAA would object to.
"I've earned the right to fail, which means making what I think are really great movies that no one wants to see."
Does this bother anyone else? If _no one_ wants to watch the movie, how can it be said to be great? Who cares if he thinks it's great?
I've seen people with really bad ideas who insist that they're great. It doesn't make them right.
My girlfriend downloaded a legal DRMed copy of a song recently so she could learn it for a karaoke party. She asked me to fill a CD with it so she could play it on her way to work.
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Not knowing how many times she could copy it (she didn't know when I asked) I opened windows media player, created a playlist that filled the CD and clicked 'burn to CD'. The program began happily converting the tracks to the CD format until it reached the burn limit at which point I got an error message.
Here's the kicker:
I hadn't actually burned _anything_ - it just converted the format for the burn. When I adjusted the playlist, I couldn't burn anything. It had already marked all 10 burns that she paid for as done. DRM is _great_.
I ran a line out from the sound card out into the mic input and recorded an mp3 for her with a command line utility I have, then burned that to CD instead, but what a pain in the ass.
Now they want to charge her more money... omg.
If this article is accurate, is anyone else worried that maybe we've got the wrong guy in the seat of power in the white house? His record on the environment isn't exactly what we'd need to get out of this mess.
Hey DNF could really take forever! An actual lifetime achievement award?
The problem here is incentive. The upper muckety mucks don't get in trouble here for anything except the failure to complete their project on time. "Bugs in the game? No Problem. I delivered it on time." As long as there's enough hype around the game, people buy it. Only later do they discover it's riddled with bugs.
I work in a semiconductor manufacturing environment. If you put a bug in software for any reason, it amounts to a big problem that affects the bottom line.
We're encouraged to work around 45 hours a week. If we put in more, that's great - but no one gives you any grief for failing to work long weeks when a project is late. If it's late, it's late. If it stops the factory because we pushed to hard on it, we're not likely to work for the company much longer.
For those of us that can see it, it's still a farce.
:)
Only big corporations and large republican contributors actually have access to the president. All others - "access denied."
I stopped reading game hype years ago and have been the better for it. I read the consolidated game reviews over at Blue's News daily. Never buy a game that doesn't get a consistent collection of good reviews from the reviewers.
:)
I've been happier about game playing ever since.
"Greeting Starfighter, you have been recruited by Star League against the forces of Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada."
Another piece of old data I can't delete out of my head.
I'm not sure if it was a 'couple hundred million' people or a 'couple hundred million' pocketbooks. :)
Apples and Oranges maybe, but it sort of highlights the problem with the first two movies. Lucas is trying to tell us everything through dialog instead of allowing the movie to show us what's going on. The cartoon shows Lucas what he's stopped doing.
Examples:
"Master, look: destroyers." (two destroyer droids rumble down the trade federation ship, as if we couldn't see them)
"It's a standoff. Let's go."
We're not that dumb, George. We could figure all of this out. Bad exposition. A teacher friend of mine uses this sequence as an example of how a story should not be told.
This may suprise you, but getting older means that your eyes, hands and coordination begin to go downhill. _That's_ why my grandparents didn't play games. At somepoint your body doesn't want to play anymore... game over.
How's Obi-Wan gonna tell him to use the force when someone cuts him off on the highway? :)
"The universe is on Orion's belt."