I used it in the developer preview and it was manageable but obnoxious. The bigger issue for me was that if you clicked near the lower left corner of the screen in something like a full screen game it would still treat it like you hit the "home" button on a tablet or some such device and return you to the application selection page. After a few days of that plus the ever growing sea of tiles I got fed up and modified the registry to disable Metro and get the Start menu back. The Start menu isn't perfect, but it sure beats the one-size-fit all approach of using an interface on a PC designed under the constraints of portable devices.
Patents do not impede innovation they drive it. where would we be had not mp3 been patented? apple would not have invented QuickTime comprssed auipdio and Xiph would not have created ogg vorbis, both of which are better than mp3, because mp3 while not the best would have bend regarded as good enough.
Thank goodness the average person doesn't consider MP3 as good enough and maintains most of their audio collections in Ogg Vorbis format.
In all seriousness, "where would we be" exactly? These examples aren't convincing me that you or anyone else has any clue what developments would or wouldn't have been made had these technologies been patented or not. To imply that patents are required to spur innovation discounts the contribution of the plethora of freely available standards, specifications, and algorithms that spurred the development of modern computing and the Internet itself. I'm not saying there shouldn't be a patent system, just that the examples provided do little to support your claims.
You missed step 3. In his example the not-really-stollen bitcoins are sold for a non-bitcoin currency which is returned to the original entity. It leaves the bitcoin system at that point and thus is not tracked by it.
Pff, base 10 logical? I propose we cut off everyones pinky fingers and transition everything to base-8 which is a nice power of 2. We should also probably be working on speeding up the rotation of the earth so that there are 512 days in a year. Once we do all that we can have exactly; 8 months to a year, 8 weeks to a month, and 8 days to a week.
If I understand correctly this in effect would be giving that user root priviledges. I think his complaint was that an ordinary task like adding a printer required that level of priviledge, not that it was inconvinient to do. It sounded like he wanted to administer his childs laptop without giving them free reign over it.
You could also refuse to be assigned a company owned vehicle by virtue of the requirement that it be tracked. That may impact your ability to continue employment at that company and would thus be a personal sacrifice in the name of defending your own principles. Defending your principles by voicing your opinion and making personal sacrifices is something that I can respect, even if I don't agree with your opinion. Doing so by recklessly interferring with the ability of others to use a legitimate (and in some cases critical) service is neither an approach nor a mindset I have any degree of respect for.
So basically if the author of a work dies, their interests change, or they simply run out of free time you should immediately stop caring about their prior works? Why should my appreciation of a piece of work be dependent on how well the original author appreciates and/or has time to maintain it? There are old Flash games on Newgrounds that I used to play back in college that I like to revisit from time to time. The quality of the games and animations varies widely but I should hardly need to explain to the Slashdot crowd the impact video game nostalgia has on how fondly one remembers even sub-par games. To be clear, I don't really care if people stop making new content in Flash, but I disagree with the assertion that people will totally lose interest in being able to play the old content just because it is no longer maintained.
So your objective to detect if you are being watched is to behave in an unusual way and see if anybody watches you? You might also be interested in purchasing a geiger counter made out of uranium to see if there is anything radioactive near by. If you behave in an obnoxious way in a coffee shop the management has every right to throw you out of their establishment. If instead you stand there, get obstinate, and start reciting the constitution at the top of your lungs and if the management hadn't already called the cops I would kindly recommend that they did. What exactly is your objective? Is there a statement you are trying to make or do you just enjoy wasting law enforcement resources? There are a lot of unfortunate instances of abuses of power in the world but this little joy-ride you have in mind does nothing to expose any such abuses and certainly doesn't do so in a way that will effect any kind of positive change. While you may succeed in re-inforcing your own attitudes, all the public will see is that a person behaving unusually got dragged out of a coffee shop to cool down at the station, not for engaging in the supposedly suspicious activities in but for the subsequent disturbance you'll create in trying to prove a point that will be lost on all the people who just wanted to enjoy their lunch break. Believe it or not, I'm not trying to bash on you. You clearly have the time, the resources, and possibly even the bravery to face down any challenge you put your mind to. I'd only recommend that you put it towards a more productive goal.
I was doing a little reading about the history of asbestos use and I've found that a common response to that seems to be one of three things:
1) A cherry picked example of why the material isn't really that harmful after all.
2) A selectively framed explaination of how much worse off we would be overall if said material were not so economically produced and readily available.
3) Stating that regulations don't work and that therefore we should never even try to regulate anything.
I'm perfectly fine with them censoring the nipples of all mankind, however doing so for womankind is going too far.
We each need to take a long hard look at how these regulations have the ability to touch our personal lives and keep abreast of pertinent legislative measures.
I'd have left it as a Zen rock garden. Sentient beings seem like an amusing hobby till you realize how boring and superfluous they are given that perfect omniscience means that you'd already know every action they would ever perform. Granted I suppose the rocks in the garden are no less predictable but hey, that's just me. I'm sure there are other gods that would get off on other kinks.
Sacrifice Spidersilk Cape: Enchanted creature can block flying until end of turn. You may sacrifice a spider you control to return Spidersilk Cape to your hand instead of moving it to the graveyard.
It seemed a shame that an object of such beauty was ultimately betrayed by its utility.
And when artifical wombs are developed we won't need women either. Since humanity is composed of men and women (or some superposition of the two states) humanity itself will become obsolete and we wont need humans any more! How's that for eliminating extraneous terms!
As long as I'm not pressured to harass 'friends' for 15 each of: landing gear tires, runway lights, hula girl dolls, and pineapples to unlock a special limited edition plane decorated to a Hawaiian theme then I'm fine with that payment model. I played (and actually enjoyed) Zynga games for nearly a year and never paid a single cent to Zynga. I instead opted to ocassionaly click on some of their little advertisement games that awarded you small amounts of their in-game cash and managed to get some of the more expensive rewards that way. What I eventually got sick of was the requisite Facebook wall spamfest that forced you to pollute your wall with endless item requests to make any substantial progress in the games. I wound up quitting both Facebook and Zynga cold turkey.
I suspect you could, it is just beyond our current understanding of the human body. Human emotions are just another system in our bodies that obey rules just like any other. This much is evident by our ability (albeit crude) to stimulate some of these responses via chemical means or by direct brain stimulation. There are a lot of reasons I would opt NOT to replace my body with a synthetic one but in the realm of speculative science, lack of emotions is not one of them.
This. Also, I've seen no less than three hard-drives that began failing a few weeks out of the box. In another instance I sent back a defective video card that was still under warranty. The replacement that was sent to me had a cooling fan that wouldn't spin due to large solder blobs shorting out power connector not to mention a surface mount capacitor that was mounted about 45 degrees out of alignment. Even if we assume that new equipment is perfect, computer hardware is not very tolerant to damage and certainly not self-repairing in the way the human body is. Add to all this we still don't know what type of system would be required to emulate a human being so it is quite a stretch to compare maintenence of modern systems to maintaining a human body. Another thing to consider is that if you think nuclear bombs / solar flares are scary now, just wait until you exist as a computer simulation and can be wiped out by an EMP. Lastly, I don't much care for the prospect of being built out of parts made in China let alone the motives of the software developers... even if it is open source.
Chuck E. Cheese is apparently very popular; games, pizza, fun times. Something about the age-group of the clientele and the general ambiance put me off buying the monthly subscription though. To each his own.
Does anyone know if they separate RP and non-RP servers? But yea, I'm largely staying away based on how ravenous the fan base is. In WoW if I made some off comment about some detail in the lore I'd invariably cross paths with some red-shirt-guy who could bash me on the head with his comprehensive knowledge from past-games, books, card-games you name it. When Rift came out I felt like I had a fighting chance to discuss the story since it occured in a fresh new universe. With anything Star Wars I'd sooner shut my mouth than risk trying to discuss plot details with someone who owns every plastic figurine and counts themselves as a Jedi in real life. Perhaps the feeling is mutual...
It's paranoia if you have no rational basis to back up the fear. If lacking objective evidence you wager on a strong feeling that evil is afoot and that your paranoia will be validated you are still employing no better a means of seeking truth than others who would make similar wagers and be wrong. Don't get me wrong, it is good to be cautious and good to be skeptical but there is a difference between vigilance and crying foul without evidence. Legislation was passed to permit the purchase of these drones provided they not be armed. If they arm them they've broken the law, and if they try to change the law then we need to speak up. Those who would seek to subvert liberty only benefit when the masses are jumping at shadows.
This. A drone in this capacity is just a remote controlled aircraft with a camera on it. The only difference between this and a police helicopter is where the pilot sits. Post an article on Slashdot about 'hacker' tools getting scrutiny and nearly every commenter will cry (and have my sympathy) about all the legitimate defensive things such tools can be used for. Post an article on Slashdot about drones and nearly every commenter will cry about how this will only lead to a distopian society similar to some movie or video game. Heck, most private citizens could learn to fly an ultralight aircraft and get about as good a view, all without a warrant. Drones, like many technologies, can be abused but leaning on slipperly-slope arguments without providing evidence of actual abuse just reeks of tin-foil-hat paranoia.
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I used it in the developer preview and it was manageable but obnoxious. The bigger issue for me was that if you clicked near the lower left corner of the screen in something like a full screen game it would still treat it like you hit the "home" button on a tablet or some such device and return you to the application selection page. After a few days of that plus the ever growing sea of tiles I got fed up and modified the registry to disable Metro and get the Start menu back. The Start menu isn't perfect, but it sure beats the one-size-fit all approach of using an interface on a PC designed under the constraints of portable devices.
Patents do not impede innovation they drive it. where would we be had not mp3 been patented? apple would not have invented QuickTime comprssed auipdio and Xiph would not have created ogg vorbis, both of which are better than mp3, because mp3 while not the best would have bend regarded as good enough.
Thank goodness the average person doesn't consider MP3 as good enough and maintains most of their audio collections in Ogg Vorbis format.
In all seriousness, "where would we be" exactly? These examples aren't convincing me that you or anyone else has any clue what developments would or wouldn't have been made had these technologies been patented or not. To imply that patents are required to spur innovation discounts the contribution of the plethora of freely available standards, specifications, and algorithms that spurred the development of modern computing and the Internet itself. I'm not saying there shouldn't be a patent system, just that the examples provided do little to support your claims.
You missed step 3. In his example the not-really-stollen bitcoins are sold for a non-bitcoin currency which is returned to the original entity. It leaves the bitcoin system at that point and thus is not tracked by it.
Pff, base 10 logical? I propose we cut off everyones pinky fingers and transition everything to base-8 which is a nice power of 2. We should also probably be working on speeding up the rotation of the earth so that there are 512 days in a year. Once we do all that we can have exactly; 8 months to a year, 8 weeks to a month, and 8 days to a week.
If I understand correctly this in effect would be giving that user root priviledges. I think his complaint was that an ordinary task like adding a printer required that level of priviledge, not that it was inconvinient to do. It sounded like he wanted to administer his childs laptop without giving them free reign over it.
You could also refuse to be assigned a company owned vehicle by virtue of the requirement that it be tracked. That may impact your ability to continue employment at that company and would thus be a personal sacrifice in the name of defending your own principles. Defending your principles by voicing your opinion and making personal sacrifices is something that I can respect, even if I don't agree with your opinion. Doing so by recklessly interferring with the ability of others to use a legitimate (and in some cases critical) service is neither an approach nor a mindset I have any degree of respect for.
But why hide it? It was listed in the benefits package.
So basically if the author of a work dies, their interests change, or they simply run out of free time you should immediately stop caring about their prior works? Why should my appreciation of a piece of work be dependent on how well the original author appreciates and/or has time to maintain it? There are old Flash games on Newgrounds that I used to play back in college that I like to revisit from time to time. The quality of the games and animations varies widely but I should hardly need to explain to the Slashdot crowd the impact video game nostalgia has on how fondly one remembers even sub-par games. To be clear, I don't really care if people stop making new content in Flash, but I disagree with the assertion that people will totally lose interest in being able to play the old content just because it is no longer maintained.
4) Were affected by a recent factory recall on defective birth control products.
So your objective to detect if you are being watched is to behave in an unusual way and see if anybody watches you? You might also be interested in purchasing a geiger counter made out of uranium to see if there is anything radioactive near by. If you behave in an obnoxious way in a coffee shop the management has every right to throw you out of their establishment. If instead you stand there, get obstinate, and start reciting the constitution at the top of your lungs and if the management hadn't already called the cops I would kindly recommend that they did. What exactly is your objective? Is there a statement you are trying to make or do you just enjoy wasting law enforcement resources? There are a lot of unfortunate instances of abuses of power in the world but this little joy-ride you have in mind does nothing to expose any such abuses and certainly doesn't do so in a way that will effect any kind of positive change. While you may succeed in re-inforcing your own attitudes, all the public will see is that a person behaving unusually got dragged out of a coffee shop to cool down at the station, not for engaging in the supposedly suspicious activities in but for the subsequent disturbance you'll create in trying to prove a point that will be lost on all the people who just wanted to enjoy their lunch break. Believe it or not, I'm not trying to bash on you. You clearly have the time, the resources, and possibly even the bravery to face down any challenge you put your mind to. I'd only recommend that you put it towards a more productive goal.
I was doing a little reading about the history of asbestos use and I've found that a common response to that seems to be one of three things:
1) A cherry picked example of why the material isn't really that harmful after all.
2) A selectively framed explaination of how much worse off we would be overall if said material were not so economically produced and readily available.
3) Stating that regulations don't work and that therefore we should never even try to regulate anything.
They already sell that medication in convinient 6 packs.
I'm perfectly fine with them censoring the nipples of all mankind, however doing so for womankind is going too far.
We each need to take a long hard look at how these regulations have the ability to touch our personal lives and keep abreast of pertinent legislative measures.
How's that now? It's not a real card (unless by blind luck), I just had fond memories of playing MTG and was musing on what kind of card it would be.
I'd have left it as a Zen rock garden. Sentient beings seem like an amusing hobby till you realize how boring and superfluous they are given that perfect omniscience means that you'd already know every action they would ever perform. Granted I suppose the rocks in the garden are no less predictable but hey, that's just me. I'm sure there are other gods that would get off on other kinks.
Spidersilk Cape (1 forest)
Enchant Creature
Sacrifice Spidersilk Cape: Enchanted creature can block flying until end of turn. You may sacrifice a spider you control to return Spidersilk Cape to your hand instead of moving it to the graveyard.
It seemed a shame that an object of such beauty was ultimately betrayed by its utility.
+1 Why do I never seem to have mod points when I actually care to use them.
And when artifical wombs are developed we won't need women either. Since humanity is composed of men and women (or some superposition of the two states) humanity itself will become obsolete and we wont need humans any more! How's that for eliminating extraneous terms!
As long as I'm not pressured to harass 'friends' for 15 each of: landing gear tires, runway lights, hula girl dolls, and pineapples to unlock a special limited edition plane decorated to a Hawaiian theme then I'm fine with that payment model. I played (and actually enjoyed) Zynga games for nearly a year and never paid a single cent to Zynga. I instead opted to ocassionaly click on some of their little advertisement games that awarded you small amounts of their in-game cash and managed to get some of the more expensive rewards that way. What I eventually got sick of was the requisite Facebook wall spamfest that forced you to pollute your wall with endless item requests to make any substantial progress in the games. I wound up quitting both Facebook and Zynga cold turkey.
I suspect you could, it is just beyond our current understanding of the human body. Human emotions are just another system in our bodies that obey rules just like any other. This much is evident by our ability (albeit crude) to stimulate some of these responses via chemical means or by direct brain stimulation. There are a lot of reasons I would opt NOT to replace my body with a synthetic one but in the realm of speculative science, lack of emotions is not one of them.
This. Also, I've seen no less than three hard-drives that began failing a few weeks out of the box. In another instance I sent back a defective video card that was still under warranty. The replacement that was sent to me had a cooling fan that wouldn't spin due to large solder blobs shorting out power connector not to mention a surface mount capacitor that was mounted about 45 degrees out of alignment. Even if we assume that new equipment is perfect, computer hardware is not very tolerant to damage and certainly not self-repairing in the way the human body is. Add to all this we still don't know what type of system would be required to emulate a human being so it is quite a stretch to compare maintenence of modern systems to maintaining a human body. Another thing to consider is that if you think nuclear bombs / solar flares are scary now, just wait until you exist as a computer simulation and can be wiped out by an EMP. Lastly, I don't much care for the prospect of being built out of parts made in China let alone the motives of the software developers... even if it is open source.
Chuck E. Cheese is apparently very popular; games, pizza, fun times. Something about the age-group of the clientele and the general ambiance put me off buying the monthly subscription though. To each his own.
Does anyone know if they separate RP and non-RP servers? But yea, I'm largely staying away based on how ravenous the fan base is. In WoW if I made some off comment about some detail in the lore I'd invariably cross paths with some red-shirt-guy who could bash me on the head with his comprehensive knowledge from past-games, books, card-games you name it. When Rift came out I felt like I had a fighting chance to discuss the story since it occured in a fresh new universe. With anything Star Wars I'd sooner shut my mouth than risk trying to discuss plot details with someone who owns every plastic figurine and counts themselves as a Jedi in real life. Perhaps the feeling is mutual...
It's paranoia if you have no rational basis to back up the fear. If lacking objective evidence you wager on a strong feeling that evil is afoot and that your paranoia will be validated you are still employing no better a means of seeking truth than others who would make similar wagers and be wrong. Don't get me wrong, it is good to be cautious and good to be skeptical but there is a difference between vigilance and crying foul without evidence. Legislation was passed to permit the purchase of these drones provided they not be armed. If they arm them they've broken the law, and if they try to change the law then we need to speak up. Those who would seek to subvert liberty only benefit when the masses are jumping at shadows.
This. A drone in this capacity is just a remote controlled aircraft with a camera on it. The only difference between this and a police helicopter is where the pilot sits. Post an article on Slashdot about 'hacker' tools getting scrutiny and nearly every commenter will cry (and have my sympathy) about all the legitimate defensive things such tools can be used for. Post an article on Slashdot about drones and nearly every commenter will cry about how this will only lead to a distopian society similar to some movie or video game. Heck, most private citizens could learn to fly an ultralight aircraft and get about as good a view, all without a warrant. Drones, like many technologies, can be abused but leaning on slipperly-slope arguments without providing evidence of actual abuse just reeks of tin-foil-hat paranoia.