Oh, sure, I know what he meant. I just think it's lame to use that repetition to "drive his point home". Plus, it's agressive and insulting. Sure, whoever the other person was might have done it first, but escalating the argument like that rarely solves anything.
But it refers to the EULA. Have you read that? I havent, but then again, I'm not the one making flippant remarks at people I don't know on the internets.
It seems like anyone who has settled out of court with RIAA doesn't really have much of a leg to stand on in this case. I mean, if a person settles out of court and doesn't get a court's decision, then the person hasn't actually been told that they've done something wrong. So basically, by settling out of court, they just paid some extortion money, which is not Kazaa's fault.
OK, whatever. The settlement might involve the person admitting or conceding something that would make Kazaa somehow liable, but it seems pretty unreasonable for people who pirate music to sue the avenue through which they got the music. Imagine if murderers successfully sued gun manufacturers for providing them with the means to commit a crime. Well, that's already happened, except it was the victim's families suing, but that case didn't actually go anywhere, did it?
I mean, at some point there has to be some personal responsibility, doesn't there?
Yeah, I'm not talking about quotas at all. They probably do get paid the same, but in a small town, it's quite likely that a 20% increase in speeding ticket revenue will buy the officers a new fridge in the breakroom, or more toys to play with in the cars or something. It's more than just salary.
Yeah, seriously. If you have a 20 minute drive, and it takes you 22 minutes instead, so what? Besides, if traffic is that thick, your regulating traffic in one place can help prevent a traffic jam further up the road. Particle mechanics can be fun when you're one of the particles.
Yeah? 66 in a 65 is cruisin' for a bruisin', eh? It's called science and math, and it works.
Sorry, that was very obtuse. What I meant to say was:
Yes, I agree that speeding is dangerous because the driver has less reaction time to perceived threats and impediments. Here's how that problem can be mitigated.
1. Pay better attention. People who pay attention and are more alert are able to react more quickly than people who are relaxed or fiddling with their music, etc. Thus, they will be able to avoid problems on the road more quickly than drivers who are relaxed. It seems like there's a minimum reaction time that simply can't be crossed, but for people who are screwing off behind the wheel, simply getting rid of the distractions is easy, where someone who already pays a lot of attention likely cannot reduce their reaction time without a lot of effort.
2. Expand the radius from your car at which you perceive a threat or impediment. Obviously, when you drive faster, you have less time to react. In this case, you need to pay closer attention to things that are farther away. This is difficult, of course, as the further your threshhold of impediments, the more impediments there are likely to be at one time. It goes without saying that if you're in a situation where you can't handle having to pay that much attention to that many things, then you need to slow down.
If speed limits were fair, and not just revenue generators, then the speed limit would be set so that the threshhold of safety for most drivers would be such that dangers on the road could be adequately avoided, but many people, including me, would argue that the police have gotten used to making a certain amount of money from speeding tickets and some are not exactly willing to see that amount drop.
Well, the situation gets really interesting when the cop sees you take a picture of him and uses unlawful force to confiscate your equipment and break it, or to go into your phone and delete the picture before you can send it. Don't believe it could happen? I've got personal experience on that one.
I just listened to the Science Friday podcast with D.T. Max, who did a lot of investigations on Fatal Familial Insomnia, which sounds like it would be pretty devastating. Basically, one of the proteins mutates into a prion, which seems to convince other instances of the protein in the body to mutate as well. Eventually, the victim is totally unable to sleep and dies from exhaustion after 9 months or so.
The bitch of it is, the disease doesn't strike until the victim is in their 50's or so, making it pretty likely that the victim will have reproduced, which, according to that Wikipedia article, makes the offspring about 50% likely to catch whatever gene makes that happen. A lot of really terrible genetically transmitted diseases kill their victim at younger ages, so there's less of a chance that the victim has passed the disease on to their children, because they're less likely to have children at that age. But this thing lies dormant until later in life, which is why the one Italian family has such a family hstory of it. They keep on passing it on to their children.
What does it mean to you when you say that, "they need to arrest him"? Do you mean to say that anytime anyone ever breaks a law, that they need to be arrested?
Ever not come to a complete and full stop when at a stop sign?
Also, I too believe that he was trying to leave the library when the cops showed up, i.e., not trespassing. Do you think that it went down differently?
Check it out. I'm in Atlanta, and the supply here, according to that database is going to be totally bananas. The one Toys R Us on North Point Pkwy. in Roswell, GA is going to have 80 to sell for its launch event, and then 80 more on Monday, according to the two helpful employees that I talked to. And there's a Walmart, a Best Buy, a Target, and two EB Games' within 3 miles of that store, each with 25-60 of their own. And then, there's a Walmart, two Targets, a Best Buy, and two more EB Games stores within 3 miles of my house. This, honestly, isn't going to be difficult, and I fully expect to buy one at midnight, Sunday morning.
But only because Sony didn't have anything up their sleeve. And it may be nothing but serendipity that Sony maneuvered themselves into this position. If there was no HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray format war going on, maybe Sony goes with the one HD solution and it costs the same amount as the 360, at which point people dive on the PS3 because of marginal cost of hardware benefits that 1 extra year of tech development buys you, and because the PS2 had so much more 3rd party support initially than the Xbox. Or maybe they eschew HD media altogether and their product comes in cheaper, and people dive on it because it's cheaper than the 360.
Anyway, that's an interesting way to think of things. Maybe Sony's dependence on the PS2's market share making the PS3 on its own, and using that to prop up it's horse in the HD optical media race will be their downfall. But who am I kidding, that won't be the case. I think when there's ample supply after they finally get their hardware production issues sorted out, people will buy the hell out of it. And if 3rd party developers are willing to learn to get the hang out of the cell processor and GPU for more than just higher rez textures and higher poly models, and get around to making a badass physics engine with IK out the ass and such, then the PS3 will do spectacularly. As it is, I can't see that happening for quite a while. And I think that once the PS3 gets into its renaissance phase, the prices will have come down enough to justify that.
As it stands now, there are innovative games and experiences right now (well, on Sunday) on the Wii. I mean, just look at how stupid the graphics look in the baseball game in Wii sports. But god damnit, I'm going to play that thing for about 5 hours a day for the next 6 months. And I'm going to love it! (I think.) I've convinced myself that I'm going to get a great experience for not very much money out of my Wii. And, if it delivers, that will bring me much more pleasure and happiness than any failed launch or any sad looking fanboy that has to come to terms with an expensive system that shot for the moon but came up short.
Yeah, I for one have been genetically predisposed to the idea that things happen when you "press buttons". That 20 years of playing baseball and having to catch, swing a bat, and throw a ball was really antithetical to the way I thought things should have worked.
Most people I know are only going to get the second controller if they feel like it. Most of my friends who aren't going to get a Wii are going to buy their own controller with 'chuk for themselves so they can take it places where a Wii will be played, e.g., when the Wii launch party happens, on some boring-ass Saturday night, etc.
People seem ot like the idea of having their own personal controllers to play on, and college kids' houses where 4 or 5 friends live together and split rent and utilities already are probably going to have 4 or 5 controllers handy, where someone buys the system, and the others get their own controllers.
Usually, that's only the case if there's a severability clause, which means that a portion that is declared unenforceable is struck from the contract, and the rest remains in place. Not that a well written contract wouldn't take into account the possibility of that happening, it's just that the thing has to be in there for severability to be a part of the contract.
It's generally pretty difficult to return opened media these days. You'd probably have to make a big stink out of it at Best Buy to get the yellow shirt to approve it.
Yeah, PowerDVD and WinDVD both can too, but who really wants to have to pop open a VOB file to watch a movie? I mean, that's what auto play and menus are for, for christ's sake.
No, it's just that whatever software that plays the DVD movie only looks at the IFO. So if the IFO is 0 bytes, then the software things there's no movie, regardless of how many VOB files are there. I guess you could say that smart software would look in multiple places for it or fall back on just playing all titles and chapters in order. But that would mean that standards are worthless, sonce the DVD standard tells you to make your software such that it reads the table of contents from the IFO file.
Maybe they want you to start buying BluRay and HD-DVD versions instead, because CSS, now like 9 years old has been cracked to bejeezus and back for years.
Maybe sharepoint search? Sharepoint is more or less their enterprise document management software, and it comes with a search module that's serviceable.
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Especially since that guy cut his ears off and gouged out his eyes. He'll never be able to find out now. Except maybe by braille articles in Newsweek.
Oh, sure, I know what he meant. I just think it's lame to use that repetition to "drive his point home". Plus, it's agressive and insulting. Sure, whoever the other person was might have done it first, but escalating the argument like that rarely solves anything.
But it refers to the EULA. Have you read that? I havent, but then again, I'm not the one making flippant remarks at people I don't know on the internets.
Hmm...
It seems like anyone who has settled out of court with RIAA doesn't really have much of a leg to stand on in this case. I mean, if a person settles out of court and doesn't get a court's decision, then the person hasn't actually been told that they've done something wrong. So basically, by settling out of court, they just paid some extortion money, which is not Kazaa's fault.
OK, whatever. The settlement might involve the person admitting or conceding something that would make Kazaa somehow liable, but it seems pretty unreasonable for people who pirate music to sue the avenue through which they got the music. Imagine if murderers successfully sued gun manufacturers for providing them with the means to commit a crime. Well, that's already happened, except it was the victim's families suing, but that case didn't actually go anywhere, did it?
I mean, at some point there has to be some personal responsibility, doesn't there?
All? All? Every?
What do you mean?
Yeah, I'm not talking about quotas at all. They probably do get paid the same, but in a small town, it's quite likely that a 20% increase in speeding ticket revenue will buy the officers a new fridge in the breakroom, or more toys to play with in the cars or something. It's more than just salary.
Yeah, seriously. If you have a 20 minute drive, and it takes you 22 minutes instead, so what? Besides, if traffic is that thick, your regulating traffic in one place can help prevent a traffic jam further up the road. Particle mechanics can be fun when you're one of the particles.
Don't use the 3 second rule. Use the 'shitload' or 'whole fucking lot' rule instead.
Leave space like civil engineers use more beams and supports. Way overdo it, and let all the careless or crazy drivers be the ones to cause accidents.
Yeah? 66 in a 65 is cruisin' for a bruisin', eh? It's called science and math, and it works.
Sorry, that was very obtuse. What I meant to say was:
Yes, I agree that speeding is dangerous because the driver has less reaction time to perceived threats and impediments. Here's how that problem can be mitigated.
1. Pay better attention. People who pay attention and are more alert are able to react more quickly than people who are relaxed or fiddling with their music, etc. Thus, they will be able to avoid problems on the road more quickly than drivers who are relaxed. It seems like there's a minimum reaction time that simply can't be crossed, but for people who are screwing off behind the wheel, simply getting rid of the distractions is easy, where someone who already pays a lot of attention likely cannot reduce their reaction time without a lot of effort.
2. Expand the radius from your car at which you perceive a threat or impediment. Obviously, when you drive faster, you have less time to react. In this case, you need to pay closer attention to things that are farther away. This is difficult, of course, as the further your threshhold of impediments, the more impediments there are likely to be at one time. It goes without saying that if you're in a situation where you can't handle having to pay that much attention to that many things, then you need to slow down.
If speed limits were fair, and not just revenue generators, then the speed limit would be set so that the threshhold of safety for most drivers would be such that dangers on the road could be adequately avoided, but many people, including me, would argue that the police have gotten used to making a certain amount of money from speeding tickets and some are not exactly willing to see that amount drop.
Well, the situation gets really interesting when the cop sees you take a picture of him and uses unlawful force to confiscate your equipment and break it, or to go into your phone and delete the picture before you can send it. Don't believe it could happen? I've got personal experience on that one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomn ia
I just listened to the Science Friday podcast with D.T. Max, who did a lot of investigations on Fatal Familial Insomnia, which sounds like it would be pretty devastating. Basically, one of the proteins mutates into a prion, which seems to convince other instances of the protein in the body to mutate as well. Eventually, the victim is totally unable to sleep and dies from exhaustion after 9 months or so.
The bitch of it is, the disease doesn't strike until the victim is in their 50's or so, making it pretty likely that the victim will have reproduced, which, according to that Wikipedia article, makes the offspring about 50% likely to catch whatever gene makes that happen. A lot of really terrible genetically transmitted diseases kill their victim at younger ages, so there's less of a chance that the victim has passed the disease on to their children, because they're less likely to have children at that age. But this thing lies dormant until later in life, which is why the one Italian family has such a family hstory of it. They keep on passing it on to their children.
What does it mean to you when you say that, "they need to arrest him"? Do you mean to say that anytime anyone ever breaks a law, that they need to be arrested?
Ever not come to a complete and full stop when at a stop sign?
Also, I too believe that he was trying to leave the library when the cops showed up, i.e., not trespassing. Do you think that it went down differently?
because paying money and getting the dvd isn't the same as paying money and getting bits on an ipod. duh. deal with it.
Check it out. I'm in Atlanta, and the supply here, according to that database is going to be totally bananas. The one Toys R Us on North Point Pkwy. in Roswell, GA is going to have 80 to sell for its launch event, and then 80 more on Monday, according to the two helpful employees that I talked to. And there's a Walmart, a Best Buy, a Target, and two EB Games' within 3 miles of that store, each with 25-60 of their own. And then, there's a Walmart, two Targets, a Best Buy, and two more EB Games stores within 3 miles of my house. This, honestly, isn't going to be difficult, and I fully expect to buy one at midnight, Sunday morning.
But only because Sony didn't have anything up their sleeve. And it may be nothing but serendipity that Sony maneuvered themselves into this position. If there was no HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray format war going on, maybe Sony goes with the one HD solution and it costs the same amount as the 360, at which point people dive on the PS3 because of marginal cost of hardware benefits that 1 extra year of tech development buys you, and because the PS2 had so much more 3rd party support initially than the Xbox. Or maybe they eschew HD media altogether and their product comes in cheaper, and people dive on it because it's cheaper than the 360.
Anyway, that's an interesting way to think of things. Maybe Sony's dependence on the PS2's market share making the PS3 on its own, and using that to prop up it's horse in the HD optical media race will be their downfall. But who am I kidding, that won't be the case. I think when there's ample supply after they finally get their hardware production issues sorted out, people will buy the hell out of it. And if 3rd party developers are willing to learn to get the hang out of the cell processor and GPU for more than just higher rez textures and higher poly models, and get around to making a badass physics engine with IK out the ass and such, then the PS3 will do spectacularly. As it is, I can't see that happening for quite a while. And I think that once the PS3 gets into its renaissance phase, the prices will have come down enough to justify that.
As it stands now, there are innovative games and experiences right now (well, on Sunday) on the Wii. I mean, just look at how stupid the graphics look in the baseball game in Wii sports. But god damnit, I'm going to play that thing for about 5 hours a day for the next 6 months. And I'm going to love it! (I think.) I've convinced myself that I'm going to get a great experience for not very much money out of my Wii. And, if it delivers, that will bring me much more pleasure and happiness than any failed launch or any sad looking fanboy that has to come to terms with an expensive system that shot for the moon but came up short.
Yeah, I for one have been genetically predisposed to the idea that things happen when you "press buttons". That 20 years of playing baseball and having to catch, swing a bat, and throw a ball was really antithetical to the way I thought things should have worked.
Man, that Stephen Hawking guy has it made.
Most people I know are only going to get the second controller if they feel like it. Most of my friends who aren't going to get a Wii are going to buy their own controller with 'chuk for themselves so they can take it places where a Wii will be played, e.g., when the Wii launch party happens, on some boring-ass Saturday night, etc.
People seem ot like the idea of having their own personal controllers to play on, and college kids' houses where 4 or 5 friends live together and split rent and utilities already are probably going to have 4 or 5 controllers handy, where someone buys the system, and the others get their own controllers.
Usually, that's only the case if there's a severability clause, which means that a portion that is declared unenforceable is struck from the contract, and the rest remains in place. Not that a well written contract wouldn't take into account the possibility of that happening, it's just that the thing has to be in there for severability to be a part of the contract.
True, I guess I'm just used to my DVD Shrink discs and ISOs.
It's generally pretty difficult to return opened media these days. You'd probably have to make a big stink out of it at Best Buy to get the yellow shirt to approve it.
Yeah, PowerDVD and WinDVD both can too, but who really wants to have to pop open a VOB file to watch a movie? I mean, that's what auto play and menus are for, for christ's sake.
No, it's just that whatever software that plays the DVD movie only looks at the IFO. So if the IFO is 0 bytes, then the software things there's no movie, regardless of how many VOB files are there. I guess you could say that smart software would look in multiple places for it or fall back on just playing all titles and chapters in order. But that would mean that standards are worthless, sonce the DVD standard tells you to make your software such that it reads the table of contents from the IFO file.
Maybe they want you to start buying BluRay and HD-DVD versions instead, because CSS, now like 9 years old has been cracked to bejeezus and back for years.
Better late than never. SSSS stands for Super Secret Shithead Service.
Maybe sharepoint search? Sharepoint is more or less their enterprise document management software, and it comes with a search module that's serviceable.