Do you have a Bachellor of Engineering? If not, you're not an engineer. Even that can't make you a practicing engineer, because of liscencing.
For the sake of all those programmers out there, I'd hope they say "no", because I seem to remember engineers having to be liscensed in Texas, which generally requires a few years of work in the field and then passing a test (generally on ethics).
As a side note, Microsoft was successfully sued for calling people MCSEs "engineers" in Canada, and get fined heavily every time they do it again.
As the article said, there have been many inventions in history that were merely stumbled upon without "figuring out" why they worked.
Yeah, they may have invented a battery over 2000 years ago, but that doesn't mean that they figured out electricity.
Mind you, they just might have. There's no real way to know if it was dumb luck or not, short of finding a few tablets with the principles of electromagnetism written on them or somesuch.
They've banned him several times, and he keeps getting around it. There are ways around every type of block.
And note, blocking the entire IP range isn't really a viable option, because who knows how many customers they have from that ISP, especially if they're in the same locale as that ISP. That, and he can just change ISPs. Go with a National ISP. That'd really cut into their customers I expect. It's a pest control company, not a techie site. Imagine the number of AOL users.
They've also indicated that they've spent considerable time trying to deal with this with the "polite pr approach".
Some people just cannot be dealt with through reasonable means.
I don't know about the remastering thing, but they wouldn't be able to legally reproduce the entire album, as there's one song who's initial release was in the late 90s, and the copyright on it is probably dated from when it was found.
Also there were several songs on there from the 60s.
Frankly, the presentation of the article itself brings its validity into question.
But even if the results are correct, I don't think they'd be valid under common circumstances. Mainly, BACKGROUND NOISE. Unless you're listening to music in a soundproof room, I doubt this applies.
They released games under the "Silicon & Synapse" name.
Such games as Lost Vikings, Rock & Roll Racing, and Blackthorne.
Lost Vikings was rather popular, and Rock & Roll Racing practically has a cult following and the SNES cartridge is damned near impossible to find (at least around here).
Also to be fair, it took me awhile to realize that they were the same company.
Blizzard North was also an independant company doing console games, I just can't remember what games they made.
It's just so much easier to play multiplayer games at someone's house that way.
Yeah, you can play mutliplayer over networks and the internet, but it's just not the same as sitting down with some friends in the same room and playing a game. How many PC games can let you all sit down at the same system and play the same game at the same time? Not many.
Yeah, there are more reasons for consoles doing well, but from what I can see, other people have brought them up.
Every school provided, on-campus internet service I've ever seen comes with a nice little clause in the user agreement.
That clause?
They hold the right to shut down any service that isn't used for educational purposes.
It might not be the same everywhere, but I wouldn't be suprised if there is that clause in any agreement you have to make to use the campus internet access.
Before you go complaining about this "censorship", remember, you agreed to their terms about it being for academic use.
I just hope there aren't any fanatics in the crowd. There's a fine line between supporting your cause and driving others away from it, and there are people out there that can't see that line.
At worst, I hope the more sensible people shout down the fanatics that are on the same side.
I don't mean local chain outlets, I mean local stores and rental places.
I go to a local place that'll rent 2 games for 7 days for $12 CDN. You can exchange games part way through the week, too. It is actually part of a chain, but it's a game store chain, not a rental store chain.
My favorite group of maps were the 6 extra deathmatch maps in Quake 1. When I came up with the idea to include extra maps into Quake 1, only for deathmatch, the guys here at first thought it would be a waste of time. I really pushed for getting them in and I'm glad I did. Those 6 maps were played more by our fans than the entire rest of the game.
I'll say they were played more... I'm pretty sure they were all remade for Quake 2 (if not all then most were - I can't quite remember, it's been awhile) and subsequently got played more than the maps that came with Q2, and several of them have shown up in Deathmatch Classic for Half-Life...
This is very much a grass roots candidate. She'll be running against VERY deep pockets since she's up against one of Hollywood's bigboys.
Getting the geeks out to vote isn't enough on it's own, she has to capture some of the popular vote. If she makes even a decent showing without winning, it might just send a message to Washington.
I don't expect she'll win. But if she does better than expected, it'll help get more people involved in future elections. Maybe at the next one, we'll see a larger number of candidates standing up against Hollywood.
Ask them about their programming "style". I know I've worked with other programmers who are on the same skill level as myself, but have fundamentally different approaches that just did not work well with mine.
Even though a wide array of viewpoints can be important, similar mindsets can go a long way to a team working well together and opposing styles can kill productivity.
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I believe the intent for this is more for software than music or video.
Consider this the logical evolution of the hardware dongle that 3DS Max once did, and possibly still does.
That though the types of crimes change, people STILL go into hiding in Mexico! It is truely a country without boundaries, at least when it comes to what type of criminal hides there.
As I recall, each speed increase turns out more frisbees than the last. 10x burns less reliably than 8x, etc.
Not to mention that CD-RW drives DO have a theoretical maximum number of CDs they can burn before they're worn out to the point of turning out NOTHING but frisbees...
Given those 2 points in mind, then what's the point for most people? I'm sure small software or music studios might be able to make use of it (probably cheaper, or at least easier than having their CDs pressed, especially for small runs), but I can't really see it being that practical for the home user very often (yet), especially since I have yet to see a CD-R rated for more than 24x, with most being 16x and the Plextor at least (apparantly) won't let you burn at a higher speed than the CD-R(W) is rated for.
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But not in Canada, at least.
Do you have a Bachellor of Engineering? If not, you're not an engineer. Even that can't make you a practicing engineer, because of liscencing.
For the sake of all those programmers out there, I'd hope they say "no", because I seem to remember engineers having to be liscensed in Texas, which generally requires a few years of work in the field and then passing a test (generally on ethics).
As a side note, Microsoft was successfully sued for calling people MCSEs "engineers" in Canada, and get fined heavily every time they do it again.
As the article said, there have been many inventions in history that were merely stumbled upon without "figuring out" why they worked.
Yeah, they may have invented a battery over 2000 years ago, but that doesn't mean that they figured out electricity.
Mind you, they just might have. There's no real way to know if it was dumb luck or not, short of finding a few tablets with the principles of electromagnetism written on them or somesuch.
They did ban him, several times, and he kept evading it.
The only matter of speech in this is if they were allowed to ask him to leave, and do the virtual equivalent of having him escorted out (banned).
After that, it's virtual trespassing.
They've banned him several times, and he keeps getting around it. There are ways around every type of block.
And note, blocking the entire IP range isn't really a viable option, because who knows how many customers they have from that ISP, especially if they're in the same locale as that ISP. That, and he can just change ISPs. Go with a National ISP. That'd really cut into their customers I expect. It's a pest control company, not a techie site. Imagine the number of AOL users.
They've also indicated that they've spent considerable time trying to deal with this with the "polite pr approach".
Some people just cannot be dealt with through reasonable means.
I don't know about the remastering thing, but they wouldn't be able to legally reproduce the entire album, as there's one song who's initial release was in the late 90s, and the copyright on it is probably dated from when it was found.
Also there were several songs on there from the 60s.
And lo, the circle begins again....
Frankly, the presentation of the article itself brings its validity into question.
But even if the results are correct, I don't think they'd be valid under common circumstances. Mainly, BACKGROUND NOISE. Unless you're listening to music in a soundproof room, I doubt this applies.
He actually mentions Ogg in such a way as to suggests that as far as this study goes, they're the same thing.
They released games under the "Silicon & Synapse" name.
Such games as Lost Vikings, Rock & Roll Racing, and Blackthorne.
Lost Vikings was rather popular, and Rock & Roll Racing practically has a cult following and the SNES cartridge is damned near impossible to find (at least around here).
Also to be fair, it took me awhile to realize that they were the same company.
Blizzard North was also an independant company doing console games, I just can't remember what games they made.
It's just so much easier to play multiplayer games at someone's house that way.
Yeah, you can play mutliplayer over networks and the internet, but it's just not the same as sitting down with some friends in the same room and playing a game. How many PC games can let you all sit down at the same system and play the same game at the same time? Not many.
Yeah, there are more reasons for consoles doing well, but from what I can see, other people have brought them up.
For the record, Blizzard STARTED on consoles, and had a loyal fan following before they moved to the PC.
Er.... BMG, not BMI.
:)
Okay, 2 letters, they screwed up one.
Still an easy mistake
Well, to be fair, the article also links to a previous one that is about the same thing from BMI, not EMI.
That, along with 1 letter difference, makes it an easy mistake to make.
I can see the PR department at EMI kicking into high gear now...
I wonder if that CS Rep would like some salt for their foot?
Every school provided, on-campus internet service I've ever seen comes with a nice little clause in the user agreement.
That clause?
They hold the right to shut down any service that isn't used for educational purposes.
It might not be the same everywhere, but I wouldn't be suprised if there is that clause in any agreement you have to make to use the campus internet access.
Before you go complaining about this "censorship", remember, you agreed to their terms about it being for academic use.
Baning an entire domain is the lazy way out.
A lazy but otherwise good Op is almost as bad as a regular bad Op.
I just hope there aren't any fanatics in the crowd. There's a fine line between supporting your cause and driving others away from it, and there are people out there that can't see that line.
At worst, I hope the more sensible people shout down the fanatics that are on the same side.
I don't mean local chain outlets, I mean local stores and rental places.
I go to a local place that'll rent 2 games for 7 days for $12 CDN. You can exchange games part way through the week, too. It is actually part of a chain, but it's a game store chain, not a rental store chain.
For those to lazy to read the links, it has to run under Red Hat Linux 7.3.
As far as language, there doesn't seem to be any requirement.
Don't just do that.
If you have the time, volunteer!
This is very much a grass roots candidate. She'll be running against VERY deep pockets since she's up against one of Hollywood's bigboys.
Getting the geeks out to vote isn't enough on it's own, she has to capture some of the popular vote. If she makes even a decent showing without winning, it might just send a message to Washington.
I don't expect she'll win. But if she does better than expected, it'll help get more people involved in future elections. Maybe at the next one, we'll see a larger number of candidates standing up against Hollywood.
Ask them about their programming "style". I know I've worked with other programmers who are on the same skill level as myself, but have fundamentally different approaches that just did not work well with mine.
Even though a wide array of viewpoints can be important, similar mindsets can go a long way to a team working well together and opposing styles can kill productivity.
I believe the intent for this is more for software than music or video.
Consider this the logical evolution of the hardware dongle that 3DS Max once did, and possibly still does.
That though the types of crimes change, people STILL go into hiding in Mexico! It is truely a country without boundaries, at least when it comes to what type of criminal hides there.
As I recall, each speed increase turns out more frisbees than the last. 10x burns less reliably than 8x, etc.
Not to mention that CD-RW drives DO have a theoretical maximum number of CDs they can burn before they're worn out to the point of turning out NOTHING but frisbees...
Given those 2 points in mind, then what's the point for most people? I'm sure small software or music studios might be able to make use of it (probably cheaper, or at least easier than having their CDs pressed, especially for small runs), but I can't really see it being that practical for the home user very often (yet), especially since I have yet to see a CD-R rated for more than 24x, with most being 16x and the Plextor at least (apparantly) won't let you burn at a higher speed than the CD-R(W) is rated for.