Concerts are the analogy to movie theaters, but it becomes difficult for musicians to reach out to so many people at the same time. Some thing that may work for movies does not necessarily work for music. What troubles me is that lots of people point out the problems with the music industry's business model, but I never see them suggest any alternatives. I wish to live forever, but because I see no possible alternative to death, I try to not complain about death, and just live life.
In real life, a reputation follows a person. No one will invest in Madoff anymore. In the game, a reputation follows the username. If the game does not allow username changes, then being dishonest would adversely affect the cheater's game play, which means cheating/punishment is _a part of_ the game. People probably were no longer willing to play with Ridic anymore. In games like Counter-Strike, if a person does not cover you in one round, then you remember the name, and no longer trust him to cover you in the next round. It may not seem to be as big of a deal in Counter-Strike because almost everything resets in the next round, but nothing resets in Eve and people lost hard-earned money. So in summary, in Ridic's case, the cheater lost even if he did not get banned, because no one would be willing to play with him again.
What if someone driving in front of a cyclist slows down to 5 mph and the cyclist has no way of passing. Is the cyclist going to just follow at 5 mph and excuse the driver? Will the cyclist not feel even a little tiny bit of frustration?
Well, why don't cyclists pedal faster then? If it's a 35 mph road, go 35 mph, and no one will bother you. Many of us don't think of motorcycles as a burden, as we think of bikes. Then again, your sentence, "So, I really have no sympathy for them, and they're such a nuisance that I'm in favor of making it illegal for them to drive ANYWHERE except on the freeways." can be seen as pro-cyclists and anti-cyclists that I think you might be trying to be sarcastic, especially with the caps. I have no clue what you're trying to do here. Have a nice long weekend!
Steam for CounterStrike and Half-Life could have it all worked out. It's convenient because you can play on any computer without a CD, while you can't sell the game because it is tied to your Steam account. I think the CD key can be tied to only one Steam account.
Haha, oops, yeah you're right. My sarcasm meter perked up too quickly. "They were also unbelievably unaware of one of the worst bombing raids of the war so far! They slept soundly through it all in their van". Only to miss the "only to awake to the devistation the next morning!"
Making copies of the song is very cheap; all the cost is in the production. Problem with newspapers is that they can't copyright the news. We "discovered" this "idea of what happened yesterday" first, so therefore, if you want to learn about it, you must buy our newspaper. Capitalism:(. One possible life saver for most of the newspapers is the local news, ie the new sheriff in town. But as people start living in the internet more, they may even stop caring about who the new sheriff is.
NMOS passes a "strong" 0V very well, but passes a "weak" high. This means that it takes longer for NMOS to reach the full value of Vdd, leading to clock trouble. This is why PMOS is on top and NMOS are on the bottom in CMOS logic. By making IOCHRDY signal an active high, I believe this means it becomes difficult to turn the IOCHRDY active, so the logic is slower.
If you have a laptop, then you can get an external keyboard and put it to the left of the laptop's keyboard. You'll have two keyboards, so you can angle them to the correct ergonomic angle. This is not an ideal fix, because the left and right keyboards would be far from each other, and it would be offcenter if you use your laptop's screen, as opposed to an external monitor. However, you do get the comfortable angle for your hands, as well as TY, GH, and NM keys on both the left and right side.
If you do not count the biology vs. religion debate, it is difficult to find bias in the hard sciences. Facts are facts and there is no reason why anyone would have a disputed yet irrefutable idea. Maybe science foundations can set up a program that rewards editors whose articles become featured.
For some reason, when I look at my fingerprints, I think of tree rings. When we were little fetuses still growing fingers, perhaps there was something about how the skin extends itself that causes an oscillation pattern. This would explain why all the ridges curve along the tip of the finger. There are a few major forms of fingerprints that are caused randomly, which may be explained by the environment the hand area was in when the fingers were formed. Maybe whorls are formed when a side of the developing finger was rubbing against something. Arches seem to be the most natural shape, just skin pushing itself out.
It would actually be more than 6 billion because you'll have to account for all the people that lived at least after 1954, when the previous occurrence happened. How you thought about the probability is very interesting. Instead of treating it as the proportion of the earth surface that is covered with a human body part, you calculated the probability in relation to the number of people actually hit. I think this is sort of like changing a function from the time domain to the frequency domain. Same function, but different way of looking at it. Very nice.
Litigation is the only way to enforce the high prices they charge for each song. The average person can either 1) pay for the song and get in no trouble or 2) torrent the song and possibly get into big trouble. Equilibrium is when the two choices are equally attractive. When the "big trouble" has the price tag of hundreds of thousands of dollars, you know something is problematic in the balance. It is like a tiny pebble trying to balance a huge boulder on a see-saw, the pebble has to be so unreasonably far from the fulcrum. If only the music companies can price the songs at around 10 cents each, then the see-saw would be more reasonable, ie, the pebble can become larger so it can get closer towards the fulcrum. Personally, I see individual songs as a small, almost throwaway value of a dime.
Reminds me of: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this"; "Then don't do that". Uptime is almost meaningless and shouldn't be used as a measure of stability. 1) If I leave my computer on and not touch it, chances are it will stay on for a long time. 2) I assume you browse, game, run Matlab, etc. often so if one such things do not work or break the game, you would have fixed the problem a long time ago. Say Starcraft causes a BSOD, so you find a hack to fix it. Now, every time you run Starcraft, it no longer causes a BSOD. 3) Instead, a better measure of stability is how everything works right after you install the OS, when you are doing things that have potential to cause the OS to crash, such as installing updates, installing software, etc.
Something interesting to point out is that Apple makes their own hardware so the only outside support Apple really needs is on the software side. 1) At the very least, Linux's 1% is compared with Microsoft's ~89%, not that large of a change in perspective, but it looks a little better. 2) There is more to just making sure Linux works on some random piece of hardware. Lots of games don't work on Apple so people must buy Windows as well and install boot camp on it. There must be both hardware and software support for Linux. The current selection of FOSS is enough for a lot of people, but it would definitely be the year of the Linux when notable games such as Crysis get launched in Linux.
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Concerts are the analogy to movie theaters, but it becomes difficult for musicians to reach out to so many people at the same time. Some thing that may work for movies does not necessarily work for music. What troubles me is that lots of people point out the problems with the music industry's business model, but I never see them suggest any alternatives. I wish to live forever, but because I see no possible alternative to death, I try to not complain about death, and just live life.
Freedom from Britain _and_ Freedom from work yesterday!
In real life, a reputation follows a person. No one will invest in Madoff anymore. In the game, a reputation follows the username. If the game does not allow username changes, then being dishonest would adversely affect the cheater's game play, which means cheating/punishment is _a part of_ the game. People probably were no longer willing to play with Ridic anymore. In games like Counter-Strike, if a person does not cover you in one round, then you remember the name, and no longer trust him to cover you in the next round. It may not seem to be as big of a deal in Counter-Strike because almost everything resets in the next round, but nothing resets in Eve and people lost hard-earned money. So in summary, in Ridic's case, the cheater lost even if he did not get banned, because no one would be willing to play with him again.
It's July 4. I'm going to watch fireworks today, so Slashdot posted something about fireworks.
What if someone driving in front of a cyclist slows down to 5 mph and the cyclist has no way of passing. Is the cyclist going to just follow at 5 mph and excuse the driver? Will the cyclist not feel even a little tiny bit of frustration?
Well, why don't cyclists pedal faster then? If it's a 35 mph road, go 35 mph, and no one will bother you. Many of us don't think of motorcycles as a burden, as we think of bikes. Then again, your sentence, "So, I really have no sympathy for them, and they're such a nuisance that I'm in favor of making it illegal for them to drive ANYWHERE except on the freeways." can be seen as pro-cyclists and anti-cyclists that I think you might be trying to be sarcastic, especially with the caps. I have no clue what you're trying to do here. Have a nice long weekend!
Steam for CounterStrike and Half-Life could have it all worked out. It's convenient because you can play on any computer without a CD, while you can't sell the game because it is tied to your Steam account. I think the CD key can be tied to only one Steam account.
Haha, excellent catch.
Haha, oops, yeah you're right. My sarcasm meter perked up too quickly. "They were also unbelievably unaware of one of the worst bombing raids of the war so far! They slept soundly through it all in their van". Only to miss the "only to awake to the devistation the next morning!"
Wikipedia says it happened. You really should choose a better source than a forum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Blitz There is some pictures too on the page.
Making copies of the song is very cheap; all the cost is in the production. Problem with newspapers is that they can't copyright the news. We "discovered" this "idea of what happened yesterday" first, so therefore, if you want to learn about it, you must buy our newspaper. Capitalism :(. One possible life saver for most of the newspapers is the local news, ie the new sheriff in town. But as people start living in the internet more, they may even stop caring about who the new sheriff is.
NMOS passes a "strong" 0V very well, but passes a "weak" high. This means that it takes longer for NMOS to reach the full value of Vdd, leading to clock trouble. This is why PMOS is on top and NMOS are on the bottom in CMOS logic. By making IOCHRDY signal an active high, I believe this means it becomes difficult to turn the IOCHRDY active, so the logic is slower.
If you have a laptop, then you can get an external keyboard and put it to the left of the laptop's keyboard. You'll have two keyboards, so you can angle them to the correct ergonomic angle. This is not an ideal fix, because the left and right keyboards would be far from each other, and it would be offcenter if you use your laptop's screen, as opposed to an external monitor. However, you do get the comfortable angle for your hands, as well as TY, GH, and NM keys on both the left and right side.
If you do not count the biology vs. religion debate, it is difficult to find bias in the hard sciences. Facts are facts and there is no reason why anyone would have a disputed yet irrefutable idea. Maybe science foundations can set up a program that rewards editors whose articles become featured.
For some reason, when I look at my fingerprints, I think of tree rings. When we were little fetuses still growing fingers, perhaps there was something about how the skin extends itself that causes an oscillation pattern. This would explain why all the ridges curve along the tip of the finger. There are a few major forms of fingerprints that are caused randomly, which may be explained by the environment the hand area was in when the fingers were formed. Maybe whorls are formed when a side of the developing finger was rubbing against something. Arches seem to be the most natural shape, just skin pushing itself out.
If a service is so resilient that it takes a highly unlikely lightning strike for it to go down, then the service is good.
It would actually be more than 6 billion because you'll have to account for all the people that lived at least after 1954, when the previous occurrence happened. How you thought about the probability is very interesting. Instead of treating it as the proportion of the earth surface that is covered with a human body part, you calculated the probability in relation to the number of people actually hit. I think this is sort of like changing a function from the time domain to the frequency domain. Same function, but different way of looking at it. Very nice.
Litigation is the only way to enforce the high prices they charge for each song. The average person can either 1) pay for the song and get in no trouble or 2) torrent the song and possibly get into big trouble. Equilibrium is when the two choices are equally attractive. When the "big trouble" has the price tag of hundreds of thousands of dollars, you know something is problematic in the balance. It is like a tiny pebble trying to balance a huge boulder on a see-saw, the pebble has to be so unreasonably far from the fulcrum. If only the music companies can price the songs at around 10 cents each, then the see-saw would be more reasonable, ie, the pebble can become larger so it can get closer towards the fulcrum. Personally, I see individual songs as a small, almost throwaway value of a dime.
I thought after World War II, Japan wasn't allowed to have a military anymore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_military
So for 150 years, some families pass down their apartment in the ghetto generation after generation?
Or just change your name whenever something bad about you appears on Google.
Reminds me of: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this"; "Then don't do that". Uptime is almost meaningless and shouldn't be used as a measure of stability. 1) If I leave my computer on and not touch it, chances are it will stay on for a long time. 2) I assume you browse, game, run Matlab, etc. often so if one such things do not work or break the game, you would have fixed the problem a long time ago. Say Starcraft causes a BSOD, so you find a hack to fix it. Now, every time you run Starcraft, it no longer causes a BSOD. 3) Instead, a better measure of stability is how everything works right after you install the OS, when you are doing things that have potential to cause the OS to crash, such as installing updates, installing software, etc.
It happens?
Excellent idea. Problem is, the post in question was made by an AC.
Something interesting to point out is that Apple makes their own hardware so the only outside support Apple really needs is on the software side. 1) At the very least, Linux's 1% is compared with Microsoft's ~89%, not that large of a change in perspective, but it looks a little better. 2) There is more to just making sure Linux works on some random piece of hardware. Lots of games don't work on Apple so people must buy Windows as well and install boot camp on it. There must be both hardware and software support for Linux. The current selection of FOSS is enough for a lot of people, but it would definitely be the year of the Linux when notable games such as Crysis get launched in Linux.