Is that why the prices are gargantuan compared to other books?
You know what the difference usually is between the fourth and fifth edition of a textbook is? A little bit of reformatting, and a couple extra anecdotes. Yet the professors are told that they need to use the new material and they force it down on the students so that someone who wrote a book 5 years ago gets some income for the next 10 years, or maybe its the publishers, I don't know.
Point is - they set up the used book stores in colleges for a reason, so you could re-use text books. In some fields this has worked well, but in other fields, authors have just started to rehash their books to make money.
In all honesty - education material should not be privatized, their shouldn't be an issue with digital piracy because it should all be made publicly available. Wanting to LEARN shouldn't come with a cost. When I pay money to a college or university its for the professor's time, who is an expert in the field and can answer any questions the textbooks can't. It also covers the upkeep of the infrastructure. The only cost incurred with a textbook should be the ones manufacturing the book.
Education as a money making industry sickens me a little.
While this might cause some people to immediately think, 'glowing tattoos,'
Actually I imagined hooking up a super powerful LED to some nerve endings on the tips of my finger, then using it as a flashlight at any moment by training my brain to trigger the on-off switch like a muscle reaction.
Other immediate reactions included: Finger Mounted Laser pointers Hand turning red when commiting crimes, to deliver the line "You caught me red handed". And holding my breath till my face turns blue.
Program compatibility is the only real problem we have at our work - everything worked fine under XP so we're slow to upgrade.
However - Dell stopped selling us XP's so now we've got about 40 XP's left before we have to jump to 7.
One of the annoyances is that yes: it will work if you set the application to "XP SP3" in the compatibility mode. Problem is, there's about a dozen applications we have here that require it, so that means every time we do a PC set up that needs to be changed each time. We don't have any reliable imaging software that does the licensing properly, but virtualization is on the horizon. On top of that - the Oracle Installation file is right there on the network. And you could normally just run it from the network location, but the install needs to be run in compatibility mode and thats a setting you can't change remotely - so you gotta copy the install files to the local machine, THEN set the compat mode and THEN run it.
All in All, if they simply worked around program compatiblity, that's all I'd need really.
I don't know why they would go and release a whole new version when 7 isn't a flop like Vista. Seriously, the mainstream support for Windows 7 is still for another 4 years and the extended support is 9.
What will be accomplished in Windows 8 that a simple Service Pack couldn't fix - and what UI elements could they possibly offer thats worth upgrading if I've got windows 7?
It's not even an issue with privacy settings though. I just read this part of the summary and went, "uhh, well yeah, duh!"
The researchers said that persons seeing the ad would not know that it had been exclusively aimed at them solely based on their sexuality, nor would they realize that clicking on the ad would reveal to the advertiser, by implication, their sexual preference in addition to other information they might expect to be sent, such as their IP (Internet Protocol) address.
So essentially, if you had been on any site, and you clicked on the advertisement from any website, your IP address would get sent so that you can be redirected from the adserver to the website. (This is how they know the Ads are working, if it was a direct link to the website, the adserver wouldn't be the proper referer). So now the adserver has your IP and will use BY IMPLICATION your sexual preferences. Seriously, this doesn't even DEAL with Facebook.
So the question is whether the ad is being shown to them based on their information - whether Facebook is giving up the information in the first place. Now thats a big doozy. It hasn't been proven, but its highly suspected. I would normally think that Adservers are catering to me based on my IP, but I've had other people use my computer and its shocking how the ads immediately cater to them after starting a facebook session.
Then there's this juicy nugget.
For its part, Facebook 'downplayed the study, saying that the site does not pass any personally identifiable information back to an advertiser
Emphasis mine. Well - no, it's not sending it BACK to the adserver, the adserver hasn't made a request yet. Facebook says to itself "I need to load a page. There's going to be an advertisement here. Hey advertising server, here's who is lookin'" and the Adserver serves up the correct ads.
They announced a new Diablo and a new Starcraft at the same time, then followed it up saying that Starcraft would come first.
Given enough time, it has come out. If you seriously think Diablo 3 is going to become Vaporware then I think you're a fool. They may change the DRM scheme if the next 2 Starcrafts don't do well, but I don't see them Cancelling D3 for any reason - it's got even more steam behind it than SC2 had.
The thing is - you can't just set deadlines and assume things to be proper. Valve has gotten a bad rep for being Terrible with it's time estimates. There is the whole internet meme of Valve time. Because of that, large PC Game developers have avoided from announcing release dates until the game is in Beta.
It's not something you can say "Will be done by Christmas" - they obviously just finished fleshing out the last class, so now the whole motion of implementing it is under way, and then you've got scores of beta testing to go through.
And theres no way to appropriate how long a beta will take. Maybe everything will be balanced and working on the first shot - highly unlikely but you never know. Likewise, thousands of players can discover things the programmers never thought would happen and so they have to patch that up. The amount of work that goes into a successful beta is astounding - you can be in Beta for half a year. Meanwhile you're in beta you get a few small new ideas to add and test out. Some will stick, most won't.
It's a gruelling process. Considering they've got those other 2 Starcraft expansions to release before they can really commit more resources to Diablo, it's going to be a while. Would you rather them say December of Next year and then when December of Next year rolls around, it's actually another 2 years down the road? Wouldn't that piss you off more than an update on the dev status, to give you something to look forward too?
This is kind of akin to saying that if I were to drive around my city to create a map of coffee shops and it's my fault that I saw people enjoying their coffee outside due to negligence.
You think 40 dollars for the battle chest is too much? That comes with Both the first and second Diablo, Diablo II's Expansion pack, and strategy guides.
Sometimes I think I should join the army, I mean its basically like an FPS but with better graphics. But what happens if I get lag out there? I'm dead! I also heard there's no respawn points in RL.
How will roads ever get built if no one is going to pay for it?
A private company contracted for building roads?
Can someone come and build a road into my backyard even if I don't want them to? Can I contract someone to build a road straight from my house to Vegas?
Now that the road is built, who owns it? Do I own it? Do I maintain it? Who is responsible for it? If someone gets into an accident on my road, due to poor maintenance, am I responsible? Can I collect the money for maintaining it without actually maintaining it?
This system is full of WORSE scenarios than the one we live in, and would be a legal nightmare. I think what you want is a tax reform where people still pay taxes, but only for the services they wish to use. When you privatize it, you get issues where people take the money and keep it - Like corporations funneling money to avoid taxes, you can't trust whoever built the road to maintain the road, even after paying them to maintain it.
I never said there wasn't - I'm saying that when you cut out those prices, the rest of the movie production can essentially be considered what goes into CG and Stop Motion - as a Director is uniform across both platforms, as with actors (and voice actors) - but everything else is pretty different. Thats why when you cut out the salaries of the people in both types, you get whats left: whats involved with JUST stop motion, and whats involved with JUST CGI, and you can compare the dollars.
Some even say that stop motion is cheaper than computer generated animation
Well yes - that's why when computers were invented we didn't instantly switch to CGI for our movies, it took time to come around - Stop motion has ALWAYS been cheaper.
The problem is: It doesn't look as nice.
Cut out the director's and actors' Salaries from the movies, and guess which one had a higher budget: Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer or Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones.
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Is that why the prices are gargantuan compared to other books?
You know what the difference usually is between the fourth and fifth edition of a textbook is? A little bit of reformatting, and a couple extra anecdotes. Yet the professors are told that they need to use the new material and they force it down on the students so that someone who wrote a book 5 years ago gets some income for the next 10 years, or maybe its the publishers, I don't know.
Point is - they set up the used book stores in colleges for a reason, so you could re-use text books. In some fields this has worked well, but in other fields, authors have just started to rehash their books to make money.
In all honesty - education material should not be privatized, their shouldn't be an issue with digital piracy because it should all be made publicly available. Wanting to LEARN shouldn't come with a cost. When I pay money to a college or university its for the professor's time, who is an expert in the field and can answer any questions the textbooks can't. It also covers the upkeep of the infrastructure. The only cost incurred with a textbook should be the ones manufacturing the book.
Education as a money making industry sickens me a little.
Robotics can now be flexible, is basically the idea.
Oh - I didn't actually think these ideas through, these were my "immediate thoughts" when they said implantable LED.
Well I grew up on System Shock - so that isn't a surprise.
While this might cause some people to immediately think, 'glowing tattoos,'
Actually I imagined hooking up a super powerful LED to some nerve endings on the tips of my finger, then using it as a flashlight at any moment by training my brain to trigger the on-off switch like a muscle reaction.
Other immediate reactions included:
Finger Mounted Laser pointers
Hand turning red when commiting crimes, to deliver the line "You caught me red handed".
And holding my breath till my face turns blue.
Looks like bees are the new buzzword.
Mozilla should make a kitchen recipe sorter instead.
Who would their target audience be? It always seems to be that the more you use a computer - the worse you are at cooking.
Or is it just me?
Program compatibility is the only real problem we have at our work - everything worked fine under XP so we're slow to upgrade.
However - Dell stopped selling us XP's so now we've got about 40 XP's left before we have to jump to 7.
One of the annoyances is that yes: it will work if you set the application to "XP SP3" in the compatibility mode. Problem is, there's about a dozen applications we have here that require it, so that means every time we do a PC set up that needs to be changed each time. We don't have any reliable imaging software that does the licensing properly, but virtualization is on the horizon. On top of that - the Oracle Installation file is right there on the network. And you could normally just run it from the network location, but the install needs to be run in compatibility mode and thats a setting you can't change remotely - so you gotta copy the install files to the local machine, THEN set the compat mode and THEN run it.
All in All, if they simply worked around program compatiblity, that's all I'd need really.
I don't know why they would go and release a whole new version when 7 isn't a flop like Vista. Seriously, the mainstream support for Windows 7 is still for another 4 years and the extended support is 9.
What will be accomplished in Windows 8 that a simple Service Pack couldn't fix - and what UI elements could they possibly offer thats worth upgrading if I've got windows 7?
It's not even an issue with privacy settings though. I just read this part of the summary and went, "uhh, well yeah, duh!"
The researchers said that persons seeing the ad would not know that it had been exclusively aimed at them solely based on their sexuality, nor would they realize that clicking on the ad would reveal to the advertiser, by implication, their sexual preference in addition to other information they might expect to be sent, such as their IP (Internet Protocol) address.
So essentially, if you had been on any site, and you clicked on the advertisement from any website, your IP address would get sent so that you can be redirected from the adserver to the website. (This is how they know the Ads are working, if it was a direct link to the website, the adserver wouldn't be the proper referer). So now the adserver has your IP and will use BY IMPLICATION your sexual preferences. Seriously, this doesn't even DEAL with Facebook.
So the question is whether the ad is being shown to them based on their information - whether Facebook is giving up the information in the first place. Now thats a big doozy. It hasn't been proven, but its highly suspected. I would normally think that Adservers are catering to me based on my IP, but I've had other people use my computer and its shocking how the ads immediately cater to them after starting a facebook session.
Then there's this juicy nugget.
For its part, Facebook 'downplayed the study, saying that the site does not pass any personally identifiable information back to an advertiser
Emphasis mine. Well - no, it's not sending it BACK to the adserver, the adserver hasn't made a request yet. Facebook says to itself "I need to load a page. There's going to be an advertisement here. Hey advertising server, here's who is lookin'" and the Adserver serves up the correct ads.
Devil's in the details, right?
They announced a new Diablo and a new Starcraft at the same time, then followed it up saying that Starcraft would come first.
Given enough time, it has come out. If you seriously think Diablo 3 is going to become Vaporware then I think you're a fool. They may change the DRM scheme if the next 2 Starcrafts don't do well, but I don't see them Cancelling D3 for any reason - it's got even more steam behind it than SC2 had.
The thing is - you can't just set deadlines and assume things to be proper. Valve has gotten a bad rep for being Terrible with it's time estimates. There is the whole internet meme of Valve time. Because of that, large PC Game developers have avoided from announcing release dates until the game is in Beta.
It's not something you can say "Will be done by Christmas" - they obviously just finished fleshing out the last class, so now the whole motion of implementing it is under way, and then you've got scores of beta testing to go through.
And theres no way to appropriate how long a beta will take. Maybe everything will be balanced and working on the first shot - highly unlikely but you never know. Likewise, thousands of players can discover things the programmers never thought would happen and so they have to patch that up. The amount of work that goes into a successful beta is astounding - you can be in Beta for half a year. Meanwhile you're in beta you get a few small new ideas to add and test out. Some will stick, most won't.
It's a gruelling process. Considering they've got those other 2 Starcraft expansions to release before they can really commit more resources to Diablo, it's going to be a while. Would you rather them say December of Next year and then when December of Next year rolls around, it's actually another 2 years down the road? Wouldn't that piss you off more than an update on the dev status, to give you something to look forward too?
Can you name an instance where the "General Perception" DOESN'T at least relate to verifiable facts?
They announce the final class and some details regarding it and you don't think it isn't news - but you'd think the release date WOULD be news?
Are you a fan of the series or not?
So let me rephrase, you think 40 dollars is too much for Both Diablo 1 and 2 and the Expansion?
This is kind of akin to saying that if I were to drive around my city to create a map of coffee shops and it's my fault that I saw people enjoying their coffee outside due to negligence.
You think 40 dollars for the battle chest is too much? That comes with Both the first and second Diablo, Diablo II's Expansion pack, and strategy guides.
Well those were back in the 8 bit days when the database couldn't hold more than 256 employees at once. They had some wiggle room, but not much.
Sometimes I think I should join the army, I mean its basically like an FPS but with better graphics. But what happens if I get lag out there? I'm dead! I also heard there's no respawn points in RL.
Is it true that in Orange County you either live next to a celebrity or on a beach?
I know, I kind of looked at the headline and went...
Why would it anyone think that?
I should submit an article on why Canada won't be exporting snow.
Well then, I shouldn't have an online bank account because that information WILL become public and the money WILL get stolen.
Likewise I should not use email, it's all public.
How will roads ever get built if no one is going to pay for it?
A private company contracted for building roads?
Can someone come and build a road into my backyard even if I don't want them to? Can I contract someone to build a road straight from my house to Vegas?
Now that the road is built, who owns it? Do I own it? Do I maintain it? Who is responsible for it? If someone gets into an accident on my road, due to poor maintenance, am I responsible? Can I collect the money for maintaining it without actually maintaining it?
This system is full of WORSE scenarios than the one we live in, and would be a legal nightmare. I think what you want is a tax reform where people still pay taxes, but only for the services they wish to use. When you privatize it, you get issues where people take the money and keep it - Like corporations funneling money to avoid taxes, you can't trust whoever built the road to maintain the road, even after paying them to maintain it.
How do you plan on composing all your snaps into a film ready format?
Thats what the computer does. (Which is entirely what they're talking about)
I never said there wasn't - I'm saying that when you cut out those prices, the rest of the movie production can essentially be considered what goes into CG and Stop Motion - as a Director is uniform across both platforms, as with actors (and voice actors) - but everything else is pretty different. Thats why when you cut out the salaries of the people in both types, you get whats left: whats involved with JUST stop motion, and whats involved with JUST CGI, and you can compare the dollars.
Some even say that stop motion is cheaper than computer generated animation
Well yes - that's why when computers were invented we didn't instantly switch to CGI for our movies, it took time to come around - Stop motion has ALWAYS been cheaper.
The problem is: It doesn't look as nice.
Cut out the director's and actors' Salaries from the movies, and guess which one had a higher budget: Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer or Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones.