My first 3D movie experience was The Last Airbender. I don't think it was the 3D that gave me the headache, but the really bad acting and butchered storyline. And also the 3D. It seemed like 99.5% of the movie was 2D, with only a small handful of brief scenes actually being in 3D, which were done poorly. The Legend of the Guardians trailer was much more interesting that the movie we paid to see, both in content and 3D effects.
This is typical of most large companies. I heard the same thing from a friend who worked at Sun ~5 years ago. It's the same way with HP, according to some of my colleagues. IBM too.
Don't forget religious suppression. The US is a country founded, in large part, on freedom of religion. In China, religion is mostly suppressed. Sure, there are a few, small, state-approved religious organizations. However, the vast majority of what the US has, China won't allow. To some people, that's a bigger issue than freedom of information and speech.
As I understand, this stems from the idea of outsourcing IT. IT outsourcing companies love this, because they can easily compare apples to apples. "Your internal IT dept. charges $30/GB to host and support your files, but we can do all that for $25/GB!" However, many IT needs don't fit into that model very well. Which model you use really depends on your needs, the size of your company, and the department structure.
Even worse, it's always the big companies that could actually afford a to pay for whatever rights necessary that dont, in my experience. Very sloppy business practices...
Big companies are not single, giant, entities. They are many small entities, grouped together into a larger entity, often in name only. Whoever used the image was probably some entry level employee, told by his/her superior to find a photo to use in this ad campaign. That individual at the bottom rung doesn't know much (or anything) about licenses. Just last week, they saw their superior grab a photo from images.google.com and use it in a presentation for their department. It's the same thing, right? We know it's different, but does the plebian? His/her superior assumes that the employee performed due diligence with regard to licensing, approves the image, and after some time and business processes, it bubbles up to a full-fledged ad campaign.
Since we're talking about photos, licenses, and revenue, I have to ask, did the owner of the store in the Wired photo get credit and compensation for the photo, or at least give permission to have the photo taken? To me, he should. If someone took a picture of my car or home, then displayed it prominently in some "artistic" or commercial fashion, I would expect compensation. If it was just one of dozens in the background of a photo, then I wouldn't care, but if it was featured prominently like that Indo-Pak grocer, then I would care. If you got compensation for your photo being used (yes I'm aware that you didn't), then I would demand something from that.
Entering this info into public record wasn't a big problem in the past, because it still required someone to go to a building, search through records, and after hours of searching, find what they wanted. Now, anyone with a little knowledge of computers, and the internet, can search for this information from the comfort of their own home/office/wherever, anywhere in the world, and it takes mere minutes. The laws WERE fine, until they lowered the bar of accessibility.
Any moment, PETA will respond to this with some hilarious condemnation of using the carcasses of dead animals in a way that is disrespectful to the formerly living creature.
Makes a lot of sense, actually - after all, from many hack'n'slash games, it seems like you're already the one keeping local economy going.
Or, more realistically, the one trashing it. Dumping 5x the town's GDP into the local economy all at once, just from all the gold you loot off monsters in those dungeons, would trash the economy. Then again, what is that Uber Sword of Smiting doing in the shopkeep's inventory, in the middle of rural farm country?
Many people associate pirates with freedom, not with theft and murder. It's this fantasized version of pirates that has permeated modern cultures. Have you ever seen the anime One Piece? It's a fantasized story of pirates, who are really just a bunch of people who enjoy being free, and go around fighting injustice. How much actual piracy occurred in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies? Some, yes, but not a lot. Wasn't the tale of Jack Sparrow more about his search for freedom? In the end, he was searching for freedom from mortality. Isn't the desire for privacy really a desire for freedom from some form of oppression?
There are a lot of things that are NSFW that don't contain images. Hate speech is NSFW, or at least it has been for my last three employers, as per their internet use policies. Many filters block sites that contain certain words. I haven't checked out the site, nor do I intend to, so I don't know what kind of content it has, but I can guess that it will still be NSFW.
I once ran up against this problem at an employer when I was using a search engine to help me find a solution to a technical problem. One particular hit appeared to have the answer I was looking for, but since it was a forum where someone posted a racial epithet, it was getting blocked. I asked the net admin to look into it, and that was what he found. He emailed the relevant text to me (sans epithet), and that was that.
You never know. Someone might create a server emulator. Take Everquest for example. It's a game that is still around today, with new expansions being sold, yet a friend of mine recently told me about a group of people developing a server emulator (www.eqemulator.net). The game servers haven't even been shut down, yet people have been developing their own servers for years.
When I buy a game, I buy the game. I don't buy a license to play the game. I don't buy a piece of the game. I buy the game. This is why I avoid all games that involve microtransactions, limited activations, etc. There is a reason I chose to save my money to purchase my first game console 20 years ago, rather than drop quarters into machines at the arcade down the street. It's also why arcades are dead, despite the video game industry ballooning into what it is today.
If the US didn't have strict privacy laws surrounding such information.
Laws change. For example, children conceived from a sperm donation are fighting to have the right to know who their fathers are. Yet, these donors agreed to donate with the knowledge that the law protects their right to remain completely anonymous.
Except that teenagers are not typically concerned with privacy, or the consequences of their disclosures. Just look at Facebook for an example of this. Or the statistics regarding credit card use, debt, and default, among college students. These kids just don't know that what they are doing could have unforeseen consequences.
Furthermore, as this becomes more common place, it will eventually be seen as the accepted norm, and possibly become mandatory. Just look at the statements by young Mister Zuckerberg, regarding privacy. He believes that it's overrated and that people just don't care about it. So his company took more liberties with the personal information it possesses.
What about full body scanners at airports? You know, the ones that can "see" under clothing? One day it's optional. The next, it's mandatory. Then the systems start storing pictures for evidence in trials. Is this what we want? Where do we draw the line? How do we stop it once it gains momentum?
Science fiction has explored the consequences of genomics for decades. We're seeing many of the predicted changes begin to happen in our society. This is news. We need to think about these things, explore the possible outcomes, and determine if this is what we really want, before the unwanted changes take hold.
The article states the the effect is MOST pronounced when a mouse is defending its home territory. This means that they also had to study the effect when that motivation was absent. If you read the full text paper, and it will tell you more. It's behind a sign in page.
It really depends on what is meant by "fighting." The fight could be similar to high school wrestling matches, or it could be lethal. I'm not well versed in the fighting techniques or habits of mice. The article doesn't go into much detail, and the full text paper is hidden behind a sign in page.
However, cock fights usually result in maiming, and sometimes death. Besides, those are conducted for amusement. Though some may disagree, most would agree it's one thing to harm or kill an animal for a reasonable purpose (research, food, etc.), but it's another to kill for amusement.
Some would pose strong, and well substantiated, arguments that Catholicism isn't Christianity. One such argument may even be the example that you gave.
Except that this is far from the case in LOTRO. You can buy access to things like character slots, unlock the ability to carry more money (5 gold limit is extremely small), and yes, buy some gear. The difference is that the gear is nice, but not nearly as nice as the stuff you get from dungeon instances or raids. Besides, LOTRO doesn't have PVP. It has PVMP, which means that you can either play on the side of the Free Peoples (human/elf/hobbit/dwarf) OR the side of the creeps (warg/uruk/orc/spider). Creeps don't get gear, are always max level, and can't leave the one specific PVMP zone.
On top of all this, having more money than me doesn't mean anything if we're both pay-subscribers. The ceiling that you can pay is $15/month, as it has been for 3 years. You can't spend $50 to get something better than me, who pays $15/month (if I wasn't a lifer). All this does is add a lower-class player to the already existing middle-class (everyone else ATM). It doesn't add a rich-class who can spend wads of cash to be better than someone who only pays $15/month. And again, even if it did, there is no PVP, so the rich-class can't pwn the middle-class.
It's not uncommon. In fact, at my alma mater, the students do the same thing in their IT security class. It's an exercise to show how easy it is to sniff packets, and find passwords for things like email accounts. This is meant to encourage better security. If the students don't know why something is important, they won't care. When I was in grade school, many kids didn't see why algebra was important, so they didn't care, and didn't bother learning the material.
Could we please stop calling it the "Gulf" spill? Oil spills are conventionally named after the company responsible. That would be BP, or Transocean (the company that leased the rig to BP). Additionally, it's not really a "spill," but for lack of a clearly better word (gucher perhaps?), I am willing to accept that. Calling it the "Gulf" spill doesn't put enough responsibility on those who should be bearing it.
Siphoning is the act of using a tube with different levels of pressure at each end to transfer a liquid from one end to the other. Using atmospheric pressure or different elevations is just one method of siphoning.
The greater level of water pressure at the bottom will push the oil (mixed with water) up to the lower level of pressure at the top of the box/tube contraption, where it will be whisked away in a controlled fashion (rather than dispersing into the Gulf).
It's much like sucking water out of a glass with a straw. The greater pressure from the water at the bottom of the glass pushes the water up the straw to the lower level of pressure inside your mouth. This is also siphoning.
We worry about nuclear plants going Chernobyl, but how much do we worry about that chemical refinery 20 miles away? If it had an uncontrolled fire, it could spew toxic chemicals into the air that would be about as disastrous as fallout. It's like worrying about a plane crash when you drive like a maniac.
Yet we still need oil, so we'll keep pumping. Greeks protest and riot when they realize they are going to have to start paying for their entitlement programs, and we complain when we need to pay more for gas. Well, we can't have it both ways. If we want to live 25 miles from where we work, we're going to have to pay for it. If we don't pay for it at the pump, then we'll have to pay for it when a shared resource, like the ocean, is destroyed.
I'm still a supporter of offshore drilling. Ask me again in a year, when this whole episode has concluded (or not), and I may change my mind.
The USPS is an agency of the US government, while email is just an agreed upon standard and service provided by private entities. Snail mail is handled by USPS (government) employees from the the time the sender gives it to the USPS, until the USPS gives it to the recipient. Email is handled by multiple servers, routing packets from one point to another, which are (almost entirely) owned by private entities.
In the case of international snail mail, the laws that apply to the USPS only apply while it is within their control. Once it's handed off to the postal service of another country, it's out of US jurisdiction.
I may be mistaken, but I think that other postal companies, like UPS and FedEx don't fall under the same set of laws as the USPS. So in theory, mail fraud wouldn't apply to something sent via UPS. Then again IANAL, so this part is just an educated guess.
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My first 3D movie experience was The Last Airbender. I don't think it was the 3D that gave me the headache, but the really bad acting and butchered storyline. And also the 3D. It seemed like 99.5% of the movie was 2D, with only a small handful of brief scenes actually being in 3D, which were done poorly. The Legend of the Guardians trailer was much more interesting that the movie we paid to see, both in content and 3D effects.
This is typical of most large companies. I heard the same thing from a friend who worked at Sun ~5 years ago. It's the same way with HP, according to some of my colleagues. IBM too.
Don't forget religious suppression. The US is a country founded, in large part, on freedom of religion. In China, religion is mostly suppressed. Sure, there are a few, small, state-approved religious organizations. However, the vast majority of what the US has, China won't allow. To some people, that's a bigger issue than freedom of information and speech.
As I understand, this stems from the idea of outsourcing IT. IT outsourcing companies love this, because they can easily compare apples to apples. "Your internal IT dept. charges $30/GB to host and support your files, but we can do all that for $25/GB!" However, many IT needs don't fit into that model very well. Which model you use really depends on your needs, the size of your company, and the department structure.
Even worse, it's always the big companies that could actually afford a to pay for whatever rights necessary that dont, in my experience. Very sloppy business practices...
Big companies are not single, giant, entities. They are many small entities, grouped together into a larger entity, often in name only. Whoever used the image was probably some entry level employee, told by his/her superior to find a photo to use in this ad campaign. That individual at the bottom rung doesn't know much (or anything) about licenses. Just last week, they saw their superior grab a photo from images.google.com and use it in a presentation for their department. It's the same thing, right? We know it's different, but does the plebian? His/her superior assumes that the employee performed due diligence with regard to licensing, approves the image, and after some time and business processes, it bubbles up to a full-fledged ad campaign.
Since we're talking about photos, licenses, and revenue, I have to ask, did the owner of the store in the Wired photo get credit and compensation for the photo, or at least give permission to have the photo taken? To me, he should. If someone took a picture of my car or home, then displayed it prominently in some "artistic" or commercial fashion, I would expect compensation. If it was just one of dozens in the background of a photo, then I wouldn't care, but if it was featured prominently like that Indo-Pak grocer, then I would care. If you got compensation for your photo being used (yes I'm aware that you didn't), then I would demand something from that.
Entering this info into public record wasn't a big problem in the past, because it still required someone to go to a building, search through records, and after hours of searching, find what they wanted. Now, anyone with a little knowledge of computers, and the internet, can search for this information from the comfort of their own home/office/wherever, anywhere in the world, and it takes mere minutes. The laws WERE fine, until they lowered the bar of accessibility.
Any moment, PETA will respond to this with some hilarious condemnation of using the carcasses of dead animals in a way that is disrespectful to the formerly living creature.
Makes a lot of sense, actually - after all, from many hack'n'slash games, it seems like you're already the one keeping local economy going.
Or, more realistically, the one trashing it. Dumping 5x the town's GDP into the local economy all at once, just from all the gold you loot off monsters in those dungeons, would trash the economy. Then again, what is that Uber Sword of Smiting doing in the shopkeep's inventory, in the middle of rural farm country?
Many people associate pirates with freedom, not with theft and murder. It's this fantasized version of pirates that has permeated modern cultures. Have you ever seen the anime One Piece? It's a fantasized story of pirates, who are really just a bunch of people who enjoy being free, and go around fighting injustice. How much actual piracy occurred in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies? Some, yes, but not a lot. Wasn't the tale of Jack Sparrow more about his search for freedom? In the end, he was searching for freedom from mortality. Isn't the desire for privacy really a desire for freedom from some form of oppression?
There are a lot of things that are NSFW that don't contain images. Hate speech is NSFW, or at least it has been for my last three employers, as per their internet use policies. Many filters block sites that contain certain words. I haven't checked out the site, nor do I intend to, so I don't know what kind of content it has, but I can guess that it will still be NSFW.
I once ran up against this problem at an employer when I was using a search engine to help me find a solution to a technical problem. One particular hit appeared to have the answer I was looking for, but since it was a forum where someone posted a racial epithet, it was getting blocked. I asked the net admin to look into it, and that was what he found. He emailed the relevant text to me (sans epithet), and that was that.
You never know. Someone might create a server emulator. Take Everquest for example. It's a game that is still around today, with new expansions being sold, yet a friend of mine recently told me about a group of people developing a server emulator (www.eqemulator.net). The game servers haven't even been shut down, yet people have been developing their own servers for years.
When I buy a game, I buy the game. I don't buy a license to play the game. I don't buy a piece of the game. I buy the game. This is why I avoid all games that involve microtransactions, limited activations, etc. There is a reason I chose to save my money to purchase my first game console 20 years ago, rather than drop quarters into machines at the arcade down the street. It's also why arcades are dead, despite the video game industry ballooning into what it is today.
If the US didn't have strict privacy laws surrounding such information.
Laws change. For example, children conceived from a sperm donation are fighting to have the right to know who their fathers are. Yet, these donors agreed to donate with the knowledge that the law protects their right to remain completely anonymous.
Except that teenagers are not typically concerned with privacy, or the consequences of their disclosures. Just look at Facebook for an example of this. Or the statistics regarding credit card use, debt, and default, among college students. These kids just don't know that what they are doing could have unforeseen consequences.
Furthermore, as this becomes more common place, it will eventually be seen as the accepted norm, and possibly become mandatory. Just look at the statements by young Mister Zuckerberg, regarding privacy. He believes that it's overrated and that people just don't care about it. So his company took more liberties with the personal information it possesses.
What about full body scanners at airports? You know, the ones that can "see" under clothing? One day it's optional. The next, it's mandatory. Then the systems start storing pictures for evidence in trials. Is this what we want? Where do we draw the line? How do we stop it once it gains momentum?
Science fiction has explored the consequences of genomics for decades. We're seeing many of the predicted changes begin to happen in our society. This is news. We need to think about these things, explore the possible outcomes, and determine if this is what we really want, before the unwanted changes take hold.
The article states the the effect is MOST pronounced when a mouse is defending its home territory. This means that they also had to study the effect when that motivation was absent. If you read the full text paper, and it will tell you more. It's behind a sign in page.
It really depends on what is meant by "fighting." The fight could be similar to high school wrestling matches, or it could be lethal. I'm not well versed in the fighting techniques or habits of mice. The article doesn't go into much detail, and the full text paper is hidden behind a sign in page.
However, cock fights usually result in maiming, and sometimes death. Besides, those are conducted for amusement. Though some may disagree, most would agree it's one thing to harm or kill an animal for a reasonable purpose (research, food, etc.), but it's another to kill for amusement.
Some would pose strong, and well substantiated, arguments that Catholicism isn't Christianity. One such argument may even be the example that you gave.
Except that this is far from the case in LOTRO. You can buy access to things like character slots, unlock the ability to carry more money (5 gold limit is extremely small), and yes, buy some gear. The difference is that the gear is nice, but not nearly as nice as the stuff you get from dungeon instances or raids. Besides, LOTRO doesn't have PVP. It has PVMP, which means that you can either play on the side of the Free Peoples (human/elf/hobbit/dwarf) OR the side of the creeps (warg/uruk/orc/spider). Creeps don't get gear, are always max level, and can't leave the one specific PVMP zone.
On top of all this, having more money than me doesn't mean anything if we're both pay-subscribers. The ceiling that you can pay is $15/month, as it has been for 3 years. You can't spend $50 to get something better than me, who pays $15/month (if I wasn't a lifer). All this does is add a lower-class player to the already existing middle-class (everyone else ATM). It doesn't add a rich-class who can spend wads of cash to be better than someone who only pays $15/month. And again, even if it did, there is no PVP, so the rich-class can't pwn the middle-class.
Is that a FMA reference?
It's not uncommon. In fact, at my alma mater, the students do the same thing in their IT security class. It's an exercise to show how easy it is to sniff packets, and find passwords for things like email accounts. This is meant to encourage better security. If the students don't know why something is important, they won't care. When I was in grade school, many kids didn't see why algebra was important, so they didn't care, and didn't bother learning the material.
Could we please stop calling it the "Gulf" spill? Oil spills are conventionally named after the company responsible. That would be BP, or Transocean (the company that leased the rig to BP). Additionally, it's not really a "spill," but for lack of a clearly better word (gucher perhaps?), I am willing to accept that. Calling it the "Gulf" spill doesn't put enough responsibility on those who should be bearing it.
Yes, really.
Siphoning is the act of using a tube with different levels of pressure at each end to transfer a liquid from one end to the other. Using atmospheric pressure or different elevations is just one method of siphoning.
The greater level of water pressure at the bottom will push the oil (mixed with water) up to the lower level of pressure at the top of the box/tube contraption, where it will be whisked away in a controlled fashion (rather than dispersing into the Gulf).
It's much like sucking water out of a glass with a straw. The greater pressure from the water at the bottom of the glass pushes the water up the straw to the lower level of pressure inside your mouth. This is also siphoning.
1 mile = 5280 feet, for those who never memorized it, or don't ever work with imeprial units.
We worry about nuclear plants going Chernobyl, but how much do we worry about that chemical refinery 20 miles away? If it had an uncontrolled fire, it could spew toxic chemicals into the air that would be about as disastrous as fallout. It's like worrying about a plane crash when you drive like a maniac.
Yet we still need oil, so we'll keep pumping. Greeks protest and riot when they realize they are going to have to start paying for their entitlement programs, and we complain when we need to pay more for gas. Well, we can't have it both ways. If we want to live 25 miles from where we work, we're going to have to pay for it. If we don't pay for it at the pump, then we'll have to pay for it when a shared resource, like the ocean, is destroyed.
I'm still a supporter of offshore drilling. Ask me again in a year, when this whole episode has concluded (or not), and I may change my mind.
The USPS is an agency of the US government, while email is just an agreed upon standard and service provided by private entities. Snail mail is handled by USPS (government) employees from the the time the sender gives it to the USPS, until the USPS gives it to the recipient. Email is handled by multiple servers, routing packets from one point to another, which are (almost entirely) owned by private entities.
In the case of international snail mail, the laws that apply to the USPS only apply while it is within their control. Once it's handed off to the postal service of another country, it's out of US jurisdiction.
I may be mistaken, but I think that other postal companies, like UPS and FedEx don't fall under the same set of laws as the USPS. So in theory, mail fraud wouldn't apply to something sent via UPS. Then again IANAL, so this part is just an educated guess.