Interesting. VW uses this wavelength for its gauge lighting in most of its cars. I always thought it was for looks (as the red/blue combo does look pretty good). Perhaps the blue was chosen to help enhance nighttime alertness as well.
Since you're apparently a traffic/roads engineer, show me the studies that say that the speed limits are incorrect. What's "correct" and what everyone wants to do (which is illegal, by the way) don't have to be the same thing.
I struggle to find myself as being the joke when I've paid £90 for the same player + content they're paying over £300 for.
You'll be singing a different tune when they spent that money just once and can continue to enjoy new releases while you spent that money once AND have to spend the additional money again when you find that you can't buy anything new that will play on your player. And you'll have to either dispose of the thing or figure out how to make it all fit in your TV stand or whatever you use. You're out a fair bit more money in the end than those who couldn't wait and jumped the gun before the war was over.
The fact that you automatically equated "X" with something else seems to me to indicate that you, too, are guilty of using the shorthand -- or at least tolerating others who do. Do you post the same rant when someone uses X to refer to "X Windows"?
I'm disgusted that they didn't. This guy is putting peoples' lives in danger. He should be publicly identified far and wide so that no one will have anything to do with him or with anyone who lives with him. The feds can't seem to do anything to rein him in so maybe being ostracized from society and having pressure put on him and those associated with him by the community will work.
Anyone remember the MySpace case here in St. Louis that hit the major news and how someone did all the detective work and community pressure is doing what law enforcement refuses to?
I'm really surprised that it was necessary to hack the library computer to renew books. Sounds like your local library computers were badly programmed. I have a book that's due on Monday and if I don't finish it by Monday morning, I can legitimately log in and renew the item.
No, he isn't. He's 17. And certainly old enough to understand that what he is doing is wrong and the severity of it. A 13-year-old can understand that.
Obnoxiously this alleged scholarly research is not available for free, so we'll just have to speculate wildly what it says based on the abstract.
I do think it's important to understand how people respond to something as common in today's lives as computer games. It's important to someone; other research might not be important to you, but science isn't always about finding a practical application for everything right away. Science sometimes just asks "why?" or "what if?".
As for being freely accessible, the research wasn't funded by NIH, so its rules requiring publicly-funded-by-US-taxpayers research to be released under Open Access doesn't apply. The paper states that "This study was supported by the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation and European Community NEST project 28765: "The Fun of Gaming: Measuring the Human Experience of Media Enjoyment.""
Fortunately, the trend these days seems to be more toward open access in the past, so have patience, young Padawan...
I can get to the article, because I work at a university. This link may or may not work for you:
I'm not sure it's plagiarism. Isn't that defined as pretending someone else's work is your own? This is a case of someone copying a work without permission (copyright infringement), false claims (wouldn't they be libel?) and a case of perjury because they lied under oath to avoid punishment.
I wasn't aware that speaking against dishonesty, lying, and worse makes you retarded. I seem to recall that anti-RIAA stories have lots of posts blasting the RIAA for lying and suing people that it can't prove are guilty and knowingly using bad evidence in the trials.
This story is blasting somebody for lying and using bad evidence in a trial.
Where's the inconsistency?
And "retarded" isn't defined as "posting something on a message board that I don't agree with". If you want your opinion to be respected, I suggest you find another slur to use.
By using a copyrighted photo without permission, especially to make a profit (though that part isn't necessary for infringement), rather than a legally copyable photo (creative commons license, public domain, royalty-free stock photo, etc), the infringers sure made that photo worth something.
If the photo was that worthless, why did they use it? They chose it because it made their ad look good and professional and hopefully therefore would attract paying clients.
Seems like the photo isn't worthless after all. If it were, a different one would have been used instead.
You are free to think that, but you won't be laughing if you get your wages garnished or property seized and sold to pay a judgment. I don't agree with every law that is on the books myself, but that doesn't mean I'm not bound to obey those laws. If you think it's such a "load of shit", work to get the law changed and become part of the civic process. If you're a US Citizen, please do: not enough people do anything other than complain as it is.
(I personally support copyright and would go after anyone who infringed my copyright, too, but I'm saying I support the idea of disagreeing and going through channels if you're convinced that the law is wrong. What I don't approve of is how the RIAA and MPAA are making a mockery of what copyright was meant to be).
I'm a little confused How is it hypocritical? Copyright law says the author of a work can decide how much freedom to grant users. The GPL does that. It just grants a lot more freedoms to licensors than most licenses do.
It actually is quite a skill. It's an art, just like painting is. It requires technical knowledge, it requires a sense of color and shapes, it requires the ability to use the tools of the trade. One of the marks of a good photographer is how easy they make it look.
Photography is a hobby of mine and while it was pretty easy for me to pick it up and composition came easily to me, but I sometimes forget how not everyone has an innate talent for it. I've tried to teach others some of the techniques and principles I use and sometimes they just can't master it after many months.
It's just like how programming comes easy to some but not to others. I never mastered complex programming, never figured out linked lists, and advanced techniques like that. But to a programmer, it probably seems rather trivial.
Good photographers can make quite a bit of money per photo even though you might think you could pick up a camera and take the shot yourself. Programmers are paid far more than I make because not everyone can do that either.
I find 70 to 170 to 270 (briefly) then whatever exit I need to be simpler. But I guess it depends on where you are going. The friend I have in Florissant lives off 67/Lindbergh, though, and I nearly never wander to that part of town for anything else. In fact the friend works such weird hours I haven't seen him in a very long time. I really do need to visit him when it gets warmer.
I can see that when I do get to Australia (sometime in the next year or two) to visit a friend there, I really need to have studied a driver's manual before going, because without yellow lines on the roads I'm going to be very confused at first about what all the markings mean.
Your ideal dual-release idea would have instead continued stifling choice for many years. You'll still be able to get movies in your choice of SD or HD for a long time, so no need to throw out your DVD player, but this either-or universe of this format vs. that format for HD releases had to stop. It was holding up adoption of HD, and why should we continue to have TVs capable of hi-res stuck with crappy upscaled SD (yes, I can tell the difference quite easily even on a 32" TV) for the foreseeable future because of a stupid corporate shouting match?
It was time for it to end. Those of us who don't want to be stuck in the 1960s (TV hasn't markedly improved since the introduction of color in the late 60s) are ready to move on. Your choice to stay there, but I'm moving right along.
Because people who just want to watch hi-def movies (and I can definitely tell the difference on my TV between upscaled SD and true HD) don't care which is "better". I sure didn't. If HD-DVD had won I would have bought an HD-DVD player. But once it became apparent that Blu-Ray had won, I went out and bought a Blu-Ray player and I have Blu-Ray movies on their way from amazon right now.
Why is Blu-Ray inferior? If "inferior" means "where all the movies are going", then I guess inferior it'll have to be. But the people who just want to use hi-def disks for storage are a minority. A vocal one, apparently, but a minority.
The best medium in the world that has nothing that most people want to use it for is of little use, after all.
And I don't see why one or the other is inferior or superior over the other, either. This is not a request to inundate me with tech specs or whining about how your pet format won or lost, though, like every other blog post on the net seems to be.
Blu-Ray won. People, just deal with it. Did people whine this much when VHS won out, too?
I get them to work by setting extensions.checkCompatibility to false.
A few still refuse to work, but most do.
Now, can someone tell me how to keep my bookmarks always sorted by name? The two extensions I know of that do this job ignore my "don't check compatibility" instructions and still refuse to show up in the menus.
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Interesting. VW uses this wavelength for its gauge lighting in most of its cars. I always thought it was for looks (as the red/blue combo does look pretty good). Perhaps the blue was chosen to help enhance nighttime alertness as well.
Since you're apparently a traffic/roads engineer, show me the studies that say that the speed limits are incorrect. What's "correct" and what everyone wants to do (which is illegal, by the way) don't have to be the same thing.
*hides* Uhm. I'm not here. Really.
I think I hear an echo in here.
You'll be singing a different tune when they spent that money just once and can continue to enjoy new releases while you spent that money once AND have to spend the additional money again when you find that you can't buy anything new that will play on your player. And you'll have to either dispose of the thing or figure out how to make it all fit in your TV stand or whatever you use. You're out a fair bit more money in the end than those who couldn't wait and jumped the gun before the war was over.
Actually, the site sent me to a "sign up to be emailed when there's a demo" link so there's nothing to actually download right now.
*ahem*
And no, I'm not posting my photo.
The fact that you automatically equated "X" with something else seems to me to indicate that you, too, are guilty of using the shorthand -- or at least tolerating others who do. Do you post the same rant when someone uses X to refer to "X Windows"?
I'm disgusted that they didn't. This guy is putting peoples' lives in danger. He should be publicly identified far and wide so that no one will have anything to do with him or with anyone who lives with him. The feds can't seem to do anything to rein him in so maybe being ostracized from society and having pressure put on him and those associated with him by the community will work.
Anyone remember the MySpace case here in St. Louis that hit the major news and how someone did all the detective work and community pressure is doing what law enforcement refuses to?
I'm really surprised that it was necessary to hack the library computer to renew books. Sounds like your local library computers were badly programmed. I have a book that's due on Monday and if I don't finish it by Monday morning, I can legitimately log in and renew the item.
No, he isn't. He's 17. And certainly old enough to understand that what he is doing is wrong and the severity of it. A 13-year-old can understand that.
Sounds a lot like Battlefield 2.
As for being freely accessible, the research wasn't funded by NIH, so its rules requiring publicly-funded-by-US-taxpayers research to be released under Open Access doesn't apply. The paper states that "This study was supported by the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation and European Community NEST project 28765: "The Fun of Gaming: Measuring the Human Experience of Media Enjoyment.""
Fortunately, the trend these days seems to be more toward open access in the past, so have patience, young Padawan...
I can get to the article, because I work at a university. This link may or may not work for you:
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I'm not sure it's plagiarism. Isn't that defined as pretending someone else's work is your own? This is a case of someone copying a work without permission (copyright infringement), false claims (wouldn't they be libel?) and a case of perjury because they lied under oath to avoid punishment.
I wasn't aware that speaking against dishonesty, lying, and worse makes you retarded. I seem to recall that anti-RIAA stories have lots of posts blasting the RIAA for lying and suing people that it can't prove are guilty and knowingly using bad evidence in the trials.
This story is blasting somebody for lying and using bad evidence in a trial.
Where's the inconsistency?
And "retarded" isn't defined as "posting something on a message board that I don't agree with". If you want your opinion to be respected, I suggest you find another slur to use.
By using a copyrighted photo without permission, especially to make a profit (though that part isn't necessary for infringement), rather than a legally copyable photo (creative commons license, public domain, royalty-free stock photo, etc), the infringers sure made that photo worth something.
If the photo was that worthless, why did they use it? They chose it because it made their ad look good and professional and hopefully therefore would attract paying clients.
Seems like the photo isn't worthless after all. If it were, a different one would have been used instead.
You are free to think that, but you won't be laughing if you get your wages garnished or property seized and sold to pay a judgment. I don't agree with every law that is on the books myself, but that doesn't mean I'm not bound to obey those laws. If you think it's such a "load of shit", work to get the law changed and become part of the civic process. If you're a US Citizen, please do: not enough people do anything other than complain as it is.
(I personally support copyright and would go after anyone who infringed my copyright, too, but I'm saying I support the idea of disagreeing and going through channels if you're convinced that the law is wrong. What I don't approve of is how the RIAA and MPAA are making a mockery of what copyright was meant to be).
I'm a little confused How is it hypocritical? Copyright law says the author of a work can decide how much freedom to grant users. The GPL does that. It just grants a lot more freedoms to licensors than most licenses do.
It actually is quite a skill. It's an art, just like painting is. It requires technical knowledge, it requires a sense of color and shapes, it requires the ability to use the tools of the trade. One of the marks of a good photographer is how easy they make it look.
Photography is a hobby of mine and while it was pretty easy for me to pick it up and composition came easily to me, but I sometimes forget how not everyone has an innate talent for it. I've tried to teach others some of the techniques and principles I use and sometimes they just can't master it after many months.
It's just like how programming comes easy to some but not to others. I never mastered complex programming, never figured out linked lists, and advanced techniques like that. But to a programmer, it probably seems rather trivial.
Good photographers can make quite a bit of money per photo even though you might think you could pick up a camera and take the shot yourself. Programmers are paid far more than I make because not everyone can do that either.
I find 70 to 170 to 270 (briefly) then whatever exit I need to be simpler. But I guess it depends on where you are going. The friend I have in Florissant lives off 67/Lindbergh, though, and I nearly never wander to that part of town for anything else. In fact the friend works such weird hours I haven't seen him in a very long time. I really do need to visit him when it gets warmer.
I can see that when I do get to Australia (sometime in the next year or two) to visit a friend there, I really need to have studied a driver's manual before going, because without yellow lines on the roads I'm going to be very confused at first about what all the markings mean.
Don't you carry spares with you all the time, like I do? :p
(damn prenatal rubella, I really am hearing impaired)
Your ideal dual-release idea would have instead continued stifling choice for many years. You'll still be able to get movies in your choice of SD or HD for a long time, so no need to throw out your DVD player, but this either-or universe of this format vs. that format for HD releases had to stop. It was holding up adoption of HD, and why should we continue to have TVs capable of hi-res stuck with crappy upscaled SD (yes, I can tell the difference quite easily even on a 32" TV) for the foreseeable future because of a stupid corporate shouting match?
It was time for it to end. Those of us who don't want to be stuck in the 1960s (TV hasn't markedly improved since the introduction of color in the late 60s) are ready to move on. Your choice to stay there, but I'm moving right along.
Because people who just want to watch hi-def movies (and I can definitely tell the difference on my TV between upscaled SD and true HD) don't care which is "better". I sure didn't. If HD-DVD had won I would have bought an HD-DVD player. But once it became apparent that Blu-Ray had won, I went out and bought a Blu-Ray player and I have Blu-Ray movies on their way from amazon right now.
Why is Blu-Ray inferior? If "inferior" means "where all the movies are going", then I guess inferior it'll have to be. But the people who just want to use hi-def disks for storage are a minority. A vocal one, apparently, but a minority.
The best medium in the world that has nothing that most people want to use it for is of little use, after all.
And I don't see why one or the other is inferior or superior over the other, either. This is not a request to inundate me with tech specs or whining about how your pet format won or lost, though, like every other blog post on the net seems to be.
Blu-Ray won. People, just deal with it. Did people whine this much when VHS won out, too?
I get them to work by setting extensions.checkCompatibility to false.
A few still refuse to work, but most do.
Now, can someone tell me how to keep my bookmarks always sorted by name? The two extensions I know of that do this job ignore my "don't check compatibility" instructions and still refuse to show up in the menus.
I have. And people got modded up for saying it, too.