That's awfully convenient... for pretty much everyone but the students who need to browse through the stacks to do their research.
The ability to browse is the reason I still go to bookstores and libraries, even though almost every book you'd ever want is available online.
If you're browsing through stacks still, in this day and age, you're doing it wrong. In a world of databases and search functions, it's much more efficient to browse electronically, and request all the books you think are worth investigating. A well written search function, including related books (users who requested this book also requested X) would be much more useful than each individual having to manually perform the same search that 5,10,100 other people might have done.
Has Google actually released a statement regarding this? My thought is that the only "crime" Google are doing is disallowing you from getting access Anonymously to the movie. Google makes money on knowing what you are doing/watching. A rooted device would lead to the ability of getting the movies without them knowing who you are. I suspect (I'm not super tech savvy) that the non-rooted device is tied into your user profile/billing system, so it can be traced that Mr Joe Bloggs watched Movie Y. Now they can use this data to work out what kind of advertising they can target at you.
Anyone who buys into some Google service, expecting that they won't be monitored for advertising purposes really needs to cash in their geek card. Rooted device not only goes against Big Content, but also defeats the purpose of it being a Google product.
I wonder if Apple has lived in such a sterile environment that its 'immune system' hasn't had a chance to develop. Are there likely to be a significan number of flaws that have never been found, simply because nobody ever looked for them before. Is the explosion they refer to, in fact the fear that once people really try to find an exploit, there are plenty there to pick from. It has been seen in pwn2own that safari does not hold up to a determined attack.
Is IE (now) a more secure browser simply because it has had every virus possible and survived?
I play WoW. I've raided with a whole lot of people. There are 2 examples of people who were in my guild
1) A healer who never said a word, turned up for every raid and did a great job. 2) A dps who never said a word, turned up to almost every raid and did a great job
Which do you think had Aspergers?
Can't tell? Well neither could I. It actually took over a year before I ever found out that someone had AS. It never came across in the game playing or team playing ability.
I'm quite certain that someone with AS would be able to get on fine in a system where good (team) play is rewarded with reduced tariff. Like another poster says, this is aimed at penalising the people who go out of the way to disrupt a game, or make 0 effort to further the goals of a team based game.
No, the placebo pill has no antibiotic within, so simply feeding the bacteria sugar would do more harm than good.
What is interesting, however, is that this proves that homoeopathy works. When the sugar pill, combined with the _memory_ of an antibiotic is administered, the combination of extremely low dosage, magic water AND the sugar provides unparalleled healing potential.
Do you think that children volunteer to be in child porn? I'm not American, and I'm not a major expert on child porn, so I don't know how one could link kidnapped (or born into sicko families) children with 'Defending Our Nation Against Internal and External Threats". Perhaps it's more of an FBI thing.
As for piracy, well piracy is theft, and with use of the net, that involved a compromised boarder, as the 1's and 0's are being transmitted out of the country. Last I heard, DHS were ALL about protecting their boarders.
To me this does sound more like FBI stuff, but I don't see why anyone who deems they want to tackle theft and kidnapping should be stopped from doing so. As long as they go about it in the right fashion though, which clearly didn't happen here.
Of course there are going to be bad video game movies. There's enough bad normal movies to provide an expectable base % of required good movies to make a genre worthwhile.
You can see that there are a good selection of bad movies in there, but there are a few that scored surprisingly high on rotten tomatoes despite being a very narrow genre, where I'd consider anything with close to 30% or above to have a 'critical acclaim' mark if it was a more mainstream movie.
There are also some that I, being a geek, outright disagree with (Hitman 14%, Max Payne 16%, Doom 19%) which while never going to win an Oscar are far more enjoyable for some easy watching that many of the dire movies that are not videogame related. How did The Transporter manage to get 53% on rotten tomatoes, while Hitman only 14%? How different are the 2 movies? It would seem that being made from a videogame has somehow immediately made these movies score a lot less that other similar calibre movies.
What bothers me is that they don't look at the number of people speeding through certain areas and then compare that the number of accidents caused in those areas where the root cause was speeding. If they found out that people are speeding in the area and NOT causing accidents, it's possible that the speed limit is set too low. But yes, it seems that most areas are only interested in making money through speeding tickets.
I once got a ticket for going 74km/h in a temporary 60 km/h area (road construction) where construction had been completed weeks before and the temporary restriction had been 'neglected' to be removed. Thankfully I was able to argue my case in a letter and the ticket was dropped, but certainly the authorities are more interested in keeping traffic slower than necessary for the sake of earning money.
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Why do you think the rapture has been delayed 5 months? Even God is waiting for this to be released.
That's awfully convenient... for pretty much everyone but the students who need to browse through the stacks to do their research.
The ability to browse is the reason I still go to bookstores and libraries, even though almost every book you'd ever want is available online.
If you're browsing through stacks still, in this day and age, you're doing it wrong. In a world of databases and search functions, it's much more efficient to browse electronically, and request all the books you think are worth investigating. A well written search function, including related books (users who requested this book also requested X) would be much more useful than each individual having to manually perform the same search that 5,10,100 other people might have done.
Has Google actually released a statement regarding this? My thought is that the only "crime" Google are doing is disallowing you from getting access Anonymously to the movie. Google makes money on knowing what you are doing/watching. A rooted device would lead to the ability of getting the movies without them knowing who you are. I suspect (I'm not super tech savvy) that the non-rooted device is tied into your user profile/billing system, so it can be traced that Mr Joe Bloggs watched Movie Y. Now they can use this data to work out what kind of advertising they can target at you.
Anyone who buys into some Google service, expecting that they won't be monitored for advertising purposes really needs to cash in their geek card. Rooted device not only goes against Big Content, but also defeats the purpose of it being a Google product.
It would also neatly dice the cat, as it's own weight rests on mono-molecular wire.
If the hand turned out to be possessed, then they need to discuss safe ways of disabling/removing it before it does any lasting damage.
I wonder if Apple has lived in such a sterile environment that its 'immune system' hasn't had a chance to develop. Are there likely to be a significan number of flaws that have never been found, simply because nobody ever looked for them before. Is the explosion they refer to, in fact the fear that once people really try to find an exploit, there are plenty there to pick from. It has been seen in pwn2own that safari does not hold up to a determined attack.
Is IE (now) a more secure browser simply because it has had every virus possible and survived?
Is it only masturbation or do sex and masturbation work equally well?
You make it sound like the average /. reader has a choice.
I play WoW. I've raided with a whole lot of people. There are 2 examples of people who were in my guild
1) A healer who never said a word, turned up for every raid and did a great job.
2) A dps who never said a word, turned up to almost every raid and did a great job
Which do you think had Aspergers?
Can't tell? Well neither could I. It actually took over a year before I ever found out that someone had AS. It never came across in the game playing or team playing ability.
I'm quite certain that someone with AS would be able to get on fine in a system where good (team) play is rewarded with reduced tariff. Like another poster says, this is aimed at penalising the people who go out of the way to disrupt a game, or make 0 effort to further the goals of a team based game.
No, the placebo pill has no antibiotic within, so simply feeding the bacteria sugar would do more harm than good.
What is interesting, however, is that this proves that homoeopathy works. When the sugar pill, combined with the _memory_ of an antibiotic is administered, the combination of extremely low dosage, magic water AND the sugar provides unparalleled healing potential.
Definitely got the better deal in that bargain.
I tried asking for you, but they remain mulishly silent
You are on My Lawn. You can see the following exits: [Off]
What ever happened to this high falutin philosophy of theirs!
Sincierly,
MAFIAA
The game could have been 25% better.
Why do you think they grow so many oranges?
Playing Devil's Advocate here:
Do you think that children volunteer to be in child porn? I'm not American, and I'm not a major expert on child porn, so I don't know how one could link kidnapped (or born into sicko families) children with 'Defending Our Nation Against Internal and External Threats". Perhaps it's more of an FBI thing.
As for piracy, well piracy is theft, and with use of the net, that involved a compromised boarder, as the 1's and 0's are being transmitted out of the country. Last I heard, DHS were ALL about protecting their boarders.
To me this does sound more like FBI stuff, but I don't see why anyone who deems they want to tackle theft and kidnapping should be stopped from doing so. As long as they go about it in the right fashion though, which clearly didn't happen here.
If it was Anonymous, then the data would be up on Piratebay already.
Of course there are going to be bad video game movies. There's enough bad normal movies to provide an expectable base % of required good movies to make a genre worthwhile.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_video_games#International
You can see that there are a good selection of bad movies in there, but there are a few that scored surprisingly high on rotten tomatoes despite being a very narrow genre, where I'd consider anything with close to 30% or above to have a 'critical acclaim' mark if it was a more mainstream movie.
There are also some that I, being a geek, outright disagree with (Hitman 14%, Max Payne 16%, Doom 19%) which while never going to win an Oscar are far more enjoyable for some easy watching that many of the dire movies that are not videogame related. How did The Transporter manage to get 53% on rotten tomatoes, while Hitman only 14%? How different are the 2 movies? It would seem that being made from a videogame has somehow immediately made these movies score a lot less that other similar calibre movies.
You should have posted Anonymously then.
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The inventor likely has a 4 digit (or less) UID
Why did it take people so long to figure this out?
Simply dropping an "I" completely hid this in plain sight.
I invoke Rule 34
What bothers me is that they don't look at the number of people speeding through certain areas and then compare that the number of accidents caused in those areas where the root cause was speeding. If they found out that people are speeding in the area and NOT causing accidents, it's possible that the speed limit is set too low. But yes, it seems that most areas are only interested in making money through speeding tickets.
I once got a ticket for going 74km/h in a temporary 60 km/h area (road construction) where construction had been completed weeks before and the temporary restriction had been 'neglected' to be removed. Thankfully I was able to argue my case in a letter and the ticket was dropped, but certainly the authorities are more interested in keeping traffic slower than necessary for the sake of earning money.
I think we should use the simplest and purest form of measurement: Binary
Weight: 1, It has weight; 0, It's weightless
Length: 1, It has length; 0, It doesn't
Time: 1, It happened; 0, It didn't
Even this should be comprehensible to Americans.