Because the rights to listen to a particular song are being transfered to a person for a super-small fee. mp3.com got in trouble because it was sending people copies of its CD instead of their CD and was not transferring rights. I can temporarily sell the right to listen to a track of a CD I own to someone else. Meanwhile I would purchase rights to listen to other songs.
That's what's so fucked up with regional lockouts on games and movies. Corporations are trying to make as much money as possible by not letting me play their product bought more cheaply in another country. Yeah they have other reasons, but if things are going to be fair, there should be no regional lockouts. I'll take a region-free player from Taiwan for $20+shipping please.
If slowing down the audio is enough to escape the fingerprint, this would be preferrable. Slowing down the music would just interpolate the existing audio, instead of removing information which would happen if its sped up. Playback would go through a WinAmp filter and things would sound normal again.
So great graphics are a drawback, but EQ2 and WoW will be forgiven for making you buy a new computer to run them? You'll have to ditch your friends in EQ to play WoW unless you all move at once. You're just assuming WoW will be so amazing it'll be worth switching to, while SWG isn't good enough.
You're assuming the Terminator is infallible. Granted a machine that comes from a future where time travel exists is not likely to be wrong, but I won't concede that possibility.
The people mover at my airport moves at 2 or 3 mph. Why not have a 10 foot section at 2.5 mph, then as that belt ends people step onto another belt at 5 mph? There could be one more belt as well. By all means keep the lights and sirens to make it clear where people HAVE to step, but if people can step on and off one belt, why not step six times and travel three times faster?
Judgement Day doens't have to happen, it just keeps happening at different times. In T3, if John was just a few minutes earlier, Skynet wouldn't have been connected to the military facilities. Once anything gets sent back in time, the future is not set. In T3 they still tried to avert Judgement Day, but they failed. Because of T3, John may know enough, and now that he's in Crystal Palace, may have enough connection with the outside world, to save humanity from the machines. He has to. Skynet isn't aware of T1 and T2 and may send back the T-800 and T-1000. John and the resistance will counter. John now knows a T-800 killed him, so that may not happen.
Skynet wasn't as intelligent at the start. It was also possibly going to have its plug pulled, not at Crystal Palace, but by other unknown means. Perhaps Skynet did the math and felt it was worth loosing half of itself in exchange for nuking 3 billion people and throwing humanity into cataclysmic chaos.
I like what my apartment-mate proposed, that the machines and resistance can only send things so far back in time, perhaps it takes too much energy? Else the past would be littered with Machines and resistance fighters. In T2 Judgement Day should have been in 1997, but Cyberdyne was destroyed, and Judgement Day was delayed. T2 offered the hope that humanity could learn the value of life, but there just isn't enough time to accomplish that before Skynet gets created in different ways. T3 as I think you pointed out, has this destiny things going with John noting he made out with his future wife the day before T2 happened. I'm thinking that's not destiny. In T2's timeline, perhaps John made out and married her. Then the machines sent the T-1000 back and altered the timeline, but there's no reason he couldn't have still met and married her. As a result, she's on the hit list of the T-X in T3. Him meeting her in the vet hospital could just a huge, but not impossibly so, coincidence.
Hopefully because Judgement Day was delayed until 2006(7?) humanity has advanced its technology enough to win against the machines in T4 and T5. I think there ought to be a T4 similar to The Empire Strikes Back or The Two Towers. Then in T5 humanity is victorious. Neither of which actually requires Arnold as he was one of many different looking T-800's designed to fool the guards. The rest of the T-800's didn't have skin at all. Here's hoping for T4 in 2006 filmed concurrently with T5, the latter coming out in 2007.
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Well never friggin mind, all I had to do was read the next comment about the wired.com story to learn what would happen to me. I'd die. But tell me, is it all frequencies of sound that would kill me? Or only lower ones? Could I survive 150Db at 2000Hz? I'm guessing the lower frequencies shake the air in such a way it actually rips tissue apart. Do the higher frequencies do that too? Am I fundamentally not understanding that what Db's are? Is it a measure of energy and the frequency doesn't matter?
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I'm serious here, why would I die from the volume? If I wore earplugs with airport-tarmack-quality ear muffs, with a (Imagine a motorcycle helmet with an inch thick plexiglass view-area, the entire thing designed to muffle sound, with insulation that goes quite snugly up against the neck, and is cut in half. To wear it, the two halves are placed around the head and clamped together from the outside.), what would the sound do to my body? Would my brains still scramble? I know the military has a weapon, though its at lower frequencies than 74Hz designed to shake up peoples' guts.
Ahhhrrrrggg. Its too late for me. You can read more here at my blog. I had to replace my power supply just a month ago. I paid $75 with shipping and tax for a Zalman ZM300A-APF which is high on the list you linked to. There's nothing custom about it, unless you mean how its fan speed is thermo-controlled. At least its silent relative to my Noise Control Silverado. I could have paid half of what I did...
I have a Noise Control Silverado on my 1.2GHz Athlon. That cooler generates only 38Db in quiet mode, which I'm using, and its STILL more noisy than I would like. My machine is 1 meter away from me and when I'm not listening to music, I want silence. I want to fall asleep without noting how loud the computer sounds 2 meters away. Sure plenty of people are used to sleeping with their jet engine on, but I'm not and I don't intend to get used to it.
The next step in my quest for quiet is adding sound absorbing material the the inside of the case. I've been considering vinyl matting used as walkway in buildings. It looks and weighs like rubber gasket material available in 1 foot wide rolls at the hardware store. It does have ridges on one side, but its much cheaper, about $17 for a square yard instead of $5 a square foot for the gasket rubber.
how much for a decent projector? $2000? the bulbs cost about 400 and have to be replaced every year. no thank you. This rig is much cheaper, and has superior horizontal resolution.
besides, bending would take two hands right? yeah I'm too lazy to read the article. I figure by the time a computer with any decent complexity is smaller than a 5 or 10-pack of gum, almost all the space will be for the battery, and input will be external, from my voice or from a laptop/kiosk/laser-drawn-keyboard. Possibly all done wirelessly.
if you'd included this paragraph with your original comment you probably wouldn't have been modded troll, however incorrect that mod may be. just backing up your words with examples does plenty to deflect troll or flamebait mods. of course the fact that your follow-up mod was modded a troll means someone is after you, or just fucking with you.
What the heck is meant by saying Pressplay has bee offering subscriptions for three years? As it currently exists, Pressplay has only been around for perhaps one year? The consumer reviews of its music service came out last year.
Birth rates seem to go down as a population becomes more educated. I'm not sure your idea would do anything besides produce more uneducated people than there are today. Having children is not economically beneficial to the parents unless the child is unpaid labor on the farm. I think most people would continue to have children and educate them at home or private schools. In the third world there is not nearly as much government support for children as there is in the first world. Schools are extremely poor. That the parents have to do the educating doesn't stop people from multiplying like crazy. Or would you punish parents who didn't educate their kids until they're 18? Fines won't work because if the parents had money they'd educate the kids. Toss the parents in jail and the kid will hate the government and still not get an education.
Currently Japan and one or more European nations are experiencing negative birthrates. The rest of Europe will join that within ten or twenty years. The USA would follow Europe if it weren't for Hispanic immigration and birth rates.
I think around 2030 the following may happen.
A shortage of grain and water in the third world will force governments to address their population as the cause. Once governments are forced to confront the effects of overpopulation in the open, the global birth rate will change over about twenty years. Media campaigns to have fewer children will start. Having more than three or four children will result in higher taxes. Families with a flock in tow will openly face disapproval everywhere they go. It will take about twenty years for the third world nations to adopt the same laws and guidelines. Later the guidelines will change to two children.
Europe and Japan will be the first examples of shrinking populations. Immigration will not be increased to those countries because the immigrants will burden the system more than adding to it. The third world will appeal to the UN for loans and assistance but may not receive much because the few corporations left will want to keep their growth as long as possible. The first world will already be suffering from local recessions because Gerber couldn't appease shareholders and had to lay off thousands who then didn't buy as much from Gap.
AIDS is a wild card to me. If AIDS continues to ravage Africa, overpopulation may take much longer to happen there. If free condoms are distributed in the name of preventing AIDS, the birth rate could drop immediately. If science beats AIDS, overpopulation will continue as I suggested above.
If AIDS delays global overpopulation, Europe and Japan may have time to figure out how to manage a shrinking economy and prevent global economic meltdown.
I'm quite confident the global population will eventually peak and hopefully fall. There are finite resources and finite space on Earth. Hopefully before billions face water rationing and food handouts, people will stop procreating past one child per person, so a husband and wife would have two. I'm well aware billions may currently face rationing and handouts, but I'm talking about a much larger percentage of the entire population. As for people who have more than two kids and can afford to, they are still irresponsible as far as the future health of the planet is concerned.
When the population peaks and possibly falls, expect housing prices to stop rising in many areas. Expect many suburbs to become ghost towns or the new ghettos as people will finally be able to live closer to jobs. Though this might not happen. I think that since the stock market is based on growth, if the global market contracts, I think trillions of dollars may be lost as the global economy contracts. A global recession results, and things go to hell in a handbasket. Anyone have any thoughs?
My theory is that the agents can only move at extreme speed when doing simplistic moves such as dodging bullets while standing still, or pummeling Neo into a subway wall. They are not smart enough to always move insanely fast. Neo can pull swords off a wall with the force, or fly. Neo is not powerful enough to always fight insanely fast, or prevent one of the twins from closing a door, because the twin is using a lot of effort to close that door. Neo sees the matrix, and can penetrate its constructs, but not without concentrating, like when Trinity is shot or flying into Agent Smith.
The discs are protected by a case. This means the disc can be thinner and thus weigh less. It is 60mm vs. the Gamecube's 80mm. All this means the discs will take very little energy to spin. As for bumping, I expect Sony's expertise in reducing shocks from their discmans will apply very well here. If Sony is smart, an unannouced feature of the PSP will use the Memory Stick port to play ATRAC audio. Syncing with USB 2.0 to a computer will quickly fill the Stick.
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Because the rights to listen to a particular song are being transfered to a person for a super-small fee. mp3.com got in trouble because it was sending people copies of its CD instead of their CD and was not transferring rights. I can temporarily sell the right to listen to a track of a CD I own to someone else. Meanwhile I would purchase rights to listen to other songs.
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Please give your advice anyway.
That's what's so fucked up with regional lockouts on games and movies. Corporations are trying to make as much money as possible by not letting me play their product bought more cheaply in another country. Yeah they have other reasons, but if things are going to be fair, there should be no regional lockouts. I'll take a region-free player from Taiwan for $20+shipping please.
If slowing down the audio is enough to escape the fingerprint, this would be preferrable. Slowing down the music would just interpolate the existing audio, instead of removing information which would happen if its sped up. Playback would go through a WinAmp filter and things would sound normal again.
So great graphics are a drawback, but EQ2 and WoW will be forgiven for making you buy a new computer to run them? You'll have to ditch your friends in EQ to play WoW unless you all move at once. You're just assuming WoW will be so amazing it'll be worth switching to, while SWG isn't good enough.
You're assuming the Terminator is infallible. Granted a machine that comes from a future where time travel exists is not likely to be wrong, but I won't concede that possibility.
The people mover at my airport moves at 2 or 3 mph. Why not have a 10 foot section at 2.5 mph, then as that belt ends people step onto another belt at 5 mph? There could be one more belt as well. By all means keep the lights and sirens to make it clear where people HAVE to step, but if people can step on and off one belt, why not step six times and travel three times faster?
Judgement Day doens't have to happen, it just keeps happening at different times. In T3, if John was just a few minutes earlier, Skynet wouldn't have been connected to the military facilities. Once anything gets sent back in time, the future is not set. In T3 they still tried to avert Judgement Day, but they failed. Because of T3, John may know enough, and now that he's in Crystal Palace, may have enough connection with the outside world, to save humanity from the machines. He has to. Skynet isn't aware of T1 and T2 and may send back the T-800 and T-1000. John and the resistance will counter. John now knows a T-800 killed him, so that may not happen.
Skynet wasn't as intelligent at the start. It was also possibly going to have its plug pulled, not at Crystal Palace, but by other unknown means. Perhaps Skynet did the math and felt it was worth loosing half of itself in exchange for nuking 3 billion people and throwing humanity into cataclysmic chaos.
I like what my apartment-mate proposed, that the machines and resistance can only send things so far back in time, perhaps it takes too much energy? Else the past would be littered with Machines and resistance fighters. In T2 Judgement Day should have been in 1997, but Cyberdyne was destroyed, and Judgement Day was delayed. T2 offered the hope that humanity could learn the value of life, but there just isn't enough time to accomplish that before Skynet gets created in different ways. T3 as I think you pointed out, has this destiny things going with John noting he made out with his future wife the day before T2 happened. I'm thinking that's not destiny. In T2's timeline, perhaps John made out and married her. Then the machines sent the T-1000 back and altered the timeline, but there's no reason he couldn't have still met and married her. As a result, she's on the hit list of the T-X in T3. Him meeting her in the vet hospital could just a huge, but not impossibly so, coincidence.
Hopefully because Judgement Day was delayed until 2006(7?) humanity has advanced its technology enough to win against the machines in T4 and T5. I think there ought to be a T4 similar to The Empire Strikes Back or The Two Towers. Then in T5 humanity is victorious. Neither of which actually requires Arnold as he was one of many different looking T-800's designed to fool the guards. The rest of the T-800's didn't have skin at all.
Here's hoping for T4 in 2006 filmed concurrently with T5, the latter coming out in 2007.
Well never friggin mind, all I had to do was read the next comment about the wired.com story to learn what would happen to me. I'd die. But tell me, is it all frequencies of sound that would kill me? Or only lower ones? Could I survive 150Db at 2000Hz? I'm guessing the lower frequencies shake the air in such a way it actually rips tissue apart. Do the higher frequencies do that too? Am I fundamentally not understanding that what Db's are? Is it a measure of energy and the frequency doesn't matter?
I'm serious here, why would I die from the volume? If I wore earplugs with airport-tarmack-quality ear muffs, with a (Imagine a motorcycle helmet with an inch thick plexiglass view-area, the entire thing designed to muffle sound, with insulation that goes quite snugly up against the neck, and is cut in half. To wear it, the two halves are placed around the head and clamped together from the outside.), what would the sound do to my body? Would my brains still scramble? I know the military has a weapon, though its at lower frequencies than 74Hz designed to shake up peoples' guts.
Ahhhrrrrggg. Its too late for me. You can read more here at my blog. I had to replace my power supply just a month ago. I paid $75 with shipping and tax for a Zalman ZM300A-APF which is high on the list you linked to. There's nothing custom about it, unless you mean how its fan speed is thermo-controlled. At least its silent relative to my Noise Control Silverado. I could have paid half of what I did...
I have a Noise Control Silverado on my 1.2GHz Athlon. That cooler generates only 38Db in quiet mode, which I'm using, and its STILL more noisy than I would like. My machine is 1 meter away from me and when I'm not listening to music, I want silence. I want to fall asleep without noting how loud the computer sounds 2 meters away. Sure plenty of people are used to sleeping with their jet engine on, but I'm not and I don't intend to get used to it.
The next step in my quest for quiet is adding sound absorbing material the the inside of the case. I've been considering vinyl matting used as walkway in buildings. It looks and weighs like rubber gasket material available in 1 foot wide rolls at the hardware store. It does have ridges on one side, but its much cheaper, about $17 for a square yard instead of $5 a square foot for the gasket rubber.
how much for a decent projector? $2000? the bulbs cost about 400 and have to be replaced every year. no thank you. This rig is much cheaper, and has superior horizontal resolution.
besides, bending would take two hands right? yeah I'm too lazy to read the article. I figure by the time a computer with any decent complexity is smaller than a 5 or 10-pack of gum, almost all the space will be for the battery, and input will be external, from my voice or from a laptop/kiosk/laser-drawn-keyboard. Possibly all done wirelessly.
or if cell phones can guess what I'm saying as I thumb-type words, why do I need to bend the phone?
if you'd included this paragraph with your original comment you probably wouldn't have been modded troll, however incorrect that mod may be. just backing up your words with examples does plenty to deflect troll or flamebait mods. of course the fact that your follow-up mod was modded a troll means someone is after you, or just fucking with you.
you must burn it with fireburner or nero because that is a cd image
What the heck is meant by saying Pressplay has bee offering subscriptions for three years? As it currently exists, Pressplay has only been around for perhaps one year? The consumer reviews of its music service came out last year.
Birth rates seem to go down as a population becomes more educated. I'm not sure your idea would do anything besides produce more uneducated people than there are today. Having children is not economically beneficial to the parents unless the child is unpaid labor on the farm. I think most people would continue to have children and educate them at home or private schools. In the third world there is not nearly as much government support for children as there is in the first world. Schools are extremely poor. That the parents have to do the educating doesn't stop people from multiplying like crazy. Or would you punish parents who didn't educate their kids until they're 18? Fines won't work because if the parents had money they'd educate the kids. Toss the parents in jail and the kid will hate the government and still not get an education.
Currently Japan and one or more European nations are experiencing negative birthrates. The rest of Europe will join that within ten or twenty years. The USA would follow Europe if it weren't for Hispanic immigration and birth rates.
I think around 2030 the following may happen.
A shortage of grain and water in the third world will force governments to address their population as the cause. Once governments are forced to confront the effects of overpopulation in the open, the global birth rate will change over about twenty years. Media campaigns to have fewer children will start. Having more than three or four children will result in higher taxes. Families with a flock in tow will openly face disapproval everywhere they go. It will take about twenty years for the third world nations to adopt the same laws and guidelines. Later the guidelines will change to two children.
Europe and Japan will be the first examples of shrinking populations. Immigration will not be increased to those countries because the immigrants will burden the system more than adding to it. The third world will appeal to the UN for loans and assistance but may not receive much because the few corporations left will want to keep their growth as long as possible. The first world will already be suffering from local recessions because Gerber couldn't appease shareholders and had to lay off thousands who then didn't buy as much from Gap.
AIDS is a wild card to me. If AIDS continues to ravage Africa, overpopulation may take much longer to happen there. If free condoms are distributed in the name of preventing AIDS, the birth rate could drop immediately. If science beats AIDS, overpopulation will continue as I suggested above.
If AIDS delays global overpopulation, Europe and Japan may have time to figure out how to manage a shrinking economy and prevent global economic meltdown.
I'm quite confident the global population will eventually peak and hopefully fall. There are finite resources and finite space on Earth. Hopefully before billions face water rationing and food handouts, people will stop procreating past one child per person, so a husband and wife would have two. I'm well aware billions may currently face rationing and handouts, but I'm talking about a much larger percentage of the entire population. As for people who have more than two kids and can afford to, they are still irresponsible as far as the future health of the planet is concerned.
When the population peaks and possibly falls, expect housing prices to stop rising in many areas. Expect many suburbs to become ghost towns or the new ghettos as people will finally be able to live closer to jobs. Though this might not happen. I think that since the stock market is based on growth, if the global market contracts, I think trillions of dollars may be lost as the global economy contracts. A global recession results, and things go to hell in a handbasket. Anyone have any thoughs?
My theory is that the agents can only move at extreme speed when doing simplistic moves such as dodging bullets while standing still, or pummeling Neo into a subway wall. They are not smart enough to always move insanely fast. Neo can pull swords off a wall with the force, or fly. Neo is not powerful enough to always fight insanely fast, or prevent one of the twins from closing a door, because the twin is using a lot of effort to close that door. Neo sees the matrix, and can penetrate its constructs, but not without concentrating, like when Trinity is shot or flying into Agent Smith.
The discs are protected by a case. This means the disc can be thinner and thus weigh less. It is 60mm vs. the Gamecube's 80mm. All this means the discs will take very little energy to spin. As for bumping, I expect Sony's expertise in reducing shocks from their discmans will apply very well here. If Sony is smart, an unannouced feature of the PSP will use the Memory Stick port to play ATRAC audio. Syncing with USB 2.0 to a computer will quickly fill the Stick.