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Anyone else get the feeling that FOX suits finally realized the Simpsons are starting to show their age. I say the best possible outcome from this would if that show is finally allowed to rest in peace and we can all enjoy the great episodes in reruns/DVD instead of having to see it dragged on for yet another season against the wishes of the creators.
i think the real problem is the article itself. you cant compare two different levels of quality and then say the the one with a higher level consumes more CPU because of DRM. I assume since some work is being done, that the DRM does consume some power but is it really as significant as the article makes it out to be? I don't know, but the article is BS.
except the orignial copy of the music is not the same as the CD copy. the CD copy didnt just materilize, someone had to put some effort into cleaning the music and producing the new copy. For all intents and purposes, its not the same music anymore. If he said i'd like my old stuff in the same quality just moved to the new media, it would be one thing, but he is asking for more than media, he is asking for the new content.
you paid a licence to the DVD not HDDVD there is obviously a difference in quality. By your logic, if someone has original beatles records, they deserve upgrades to new media perpetually forever.
am i the only one who sees the transition to HDDVD as being unnecessary? VHS was a standard for much longer and when the transition to DVD did come, there was a clear difference between the two both in quality and level of technology. HDDVD and BluRay seem to me like things which are being forced on us by cotent and hardware companies. I guess like CDs they will eventually be popular, but i dont see it happening any time soon.
"Bill Clinton helped launch the company behind the engine, which is also backed by the Chinese Government. "
that pretty much eliminates it from my book. As bad as google is, i don't my search engine directly controlled by the Chinese Communist party AND Bill Clinton. I imagine searching for Tianamen wont get you much compared to Google since it never happened...
"Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals. ~Kurt Vonnegut Jr. So, if we use that number system and there are an infinite number of numbers (both densely and ascending), aren't we using an infinite number of their inventions?"
Considering "arabic" numerals came from the hindus in south asia, i think Kurt Vonnegut Jr is an idiot.
Opera has nokia, sony ericsson, samsung, motarola. sharp etc. Opera will do fine as long as people want to browse on their cell phones and PDAs. Part of the reason why the free version of opera NO LONGER has ads is that they have alternative revenue streams.
yay! now my fantasy world is firmly grounded in reality! we can now also have republican guilds fighting democratic guilds, nazi guilds killing jewish guilds (on sight)! Lets not forget the Al-queda horde of saudi players! this will make exciting stuff! how far will blizzard allow this to go? are we going to allow all types of special interest groups? is it limited to sexuality or can we include politics and religion?
I think this is the last straw. No more wow for me. Its not a fantasy wolrd to escape to anymore
go look at the original page where the challenge is posted. TFA is just that a FA. It was written by some idiot who didnt read the actual challenge and wrote an article trying to be as ambigious as possible. It was 6 hours and not 30 minutes as the article calims (though, with a shell i've gotten root in a couple of minutes on some macs)
people set up ssh accounts on the machine and they were supposed to rm -rf the thing and no one has.
if you look on the page people can remotely add accounts to the server in order to get shell access VIA THE FUCKING WEB PAGE
And frankly, especially if they've only got a degree from MIT, which seems to be heavy on theory, and light on the practical, low-levl, extremely efficient coding experience required for games.
I am going to assume we are talking about an EECS degree from MIT. Are you kidding? MIT, stanford , caltech degrees do carry a lot of weight and simply having a degree from a more prominent university WILL give you a higher salary. While my degree is not from MIT (its from another big school in boston), can tell you I have seen people with the same job getting different offers based on school.
Something Awful would be a good way to describe a game that has2 minute unskippable silent movie sequences of the characters eating pizza every time you pause.
" It diverts huge amounts of investment from the private sector to do so."
Actaully I agree with you for the most part. I'm thinking of scientific research in general terms here. As far as i know, NASA does not do everything in house, it diverts enourmous mounts of work to the private sector. For example, consider the moonlanders were made by Grumman not NASA. They were working for NASA. So your point about money going to NASA vs the private sector is not valid since there is no clear distinction between the two.
You candy bar analogy is also not valid. I would consider it more like me asking you to invest money in my company and doing a PR campaign to show what you get back for that money ie make a good product and advertise it so that more people will throw money at you.
Or, this is one more example of the wonderful technology that comes out of space research and something NASA should make more prominent. Going to space is not just about exploring the stars, it is investing in scientific research that has a very wide array of potential uses far beyond that.
NASA should really have a PR campaign highlighting everything we take fro granted that came from space research.
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Anyone else get the feeling that FOX suits finally realized the Simpsons are starting to show their age. I say the best possible outcome from this would if that show is finally allowed to rest in peace and we can all enjoy the great episodes in reruns/DVD instead of having to see it dragged on for yet another season against the wishes of the creators.
i think the real problem is the article itself. you cant compare two different levels of quality and then say the the one with a higher level consumes more CPU because of DRM. I assume since some work is being done, that the DRM does consume some power but is it really as significant as the article makes it out to be? I don't know, but the article is BS.
except the orignial copy of the music is not the same as the CD copy. the CD copy didnt just materilize, someone had to put some effort into cleaning the music and producing the new copy. For all intents and purposes, its not the same music anymore. If he said i'd like my old stuff in the same quality just moved to the new media, it would be one thing, but he is asking for more than media, he is asking for the new content.
you paid a licence to the DVD not HDDVD there is obviously a difference in quality. By your logic, if someone has original beatles records, they deserve upgrades to new media perpetually forever.
am i the only one who sees the transition to HDDVD as being unnecessary? VHS was a standard for much longer and when the transition to DVD did come, there was a clear difference between the two both in quality and level of technology. HDDVD and BluRay seem to me like things which are being forced on us by cotent and hardware companies. I guess like CDs they will eventually be popular, but i dont see it happening any time soon.
no no it will be "matrix stuff" today!
thats not as good as mainichi daily news.
"Bill Clinton helped launch the company behind the engine, which is also backed by the Chinese Government. "
that pretty much eliminates it from my book. As bad as google is, i don't my search engine directly controlled by the Chinese Communist party AND Bill Clinton. I imagine searching for Tianamen wont get you much compared to Google since it never happened...
"Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
~Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
So, if we use that number system and there are an infinite number of numbers (both densely and ascending), aren't we using an infinite number of their inventions?"
Considering "arabic" numerals came from the hindus in south asia, i think Kurt Vonnegut Jr is an idiot.
Since you don't know how to google, you can download the source like this:n k WebKit
svn checkout svn://anonsvn.opensource.apple.com/svn/webkit/tru
you can also grab the latest nightly build of Safari here: http://nightly.webkit.org/
(look at the icon and download it if you don't believe me)
http://webkit.opendarwin.org/ has more info.
Opera has nokia, sony ericsson, samsung, motarola. sharp etc. Opera will do fine as long as people want to browse on their cell phones and PDAs. Part of the reason why the free version of opera NO LONGER has ads is that they have alternative revenue streams.
yay! now my fantasy world is firmly grounded in reality! we can now also have republican guilds fighting democratic guilds, nazi guilds killing jewish guilds (on sight)! Lets not forget the Al-queda horde of saudi players! this will make exciting stuff! how far will blizzard allow this to go? are we going to allow all types of special interest groups? is it limited to sexuality or can we include politics and religion?
I think this is the last straw. No more wow for me. Its not a fantasy wolrd to escape to anymore
go look at the original page where the challenge is posted. TFA is just that a FA. It was written by some idiot who didnt read the actual challenge and wrote an article trying to be as ambigious as possible. It was 6 hours and not 30 minutes as the article calims (though, with a shell i've gotten root in a couple of minutes on some macs)
people set up ssh accounts on the machine and they were supposed to rm -rf the thing and no one has.
if you look on the page people can remotely add accounts to the server in order to get shell access VIA THE FUCKING WEB PAGE
is he a new editor on slashdot and why is he cout of control?
how many local privilege elevation exploits exist, why am I not surprised. They should have mentioned it was NOT a remote exploit
could it be that it was "cut" intentinally for exactly that headline
now that's good shit!
I'm more interested in finding out about the Nextgen-ness of console names. The naming process, of the Xbox 2 err xbox 360, that's what interests me!
And frankly, especially if they've only got a degree from MIT, which seems to be heavy on theory, and light on the practical, low-levl, extremely efficient coding experience required for games.
I am going to assume we are talking about an EECS degree from MIT. Are you kidding? MIT, stanford , caltech degrees do carry a lot of weight and simply having a degree from a more prominent university WILL give you a higher salary. While my degree is not from MIT (its from another big school in boston), can tell you I have seen people with the same job getting different offers based on school.
but that is not an mp3 player that is a DVR/portable media player. you said there were better mp3 players and i was wondering what did a better job.
"*hint* You can buy a better mp3 player for less money than the iPod."
care to name a few? have you used an ipod?
Something Awful would be a good way to describe a game that has2 minute unskippable silent movie sequences of the characters eating pizza every time you pause.
" It diverts huge amounts of investment from the private sector to do so."
Actaully I agree with you for the most part. I'm thinking of scientific research in general terms here. As far as i know, NASA does not do everything in house, it diverts enourmous mounts of work to the private sector. For example, consider the moonlanders were made by Grumman not NASA. They were working for NASA. So your point about money going to NASA vs the private sector is not valid since there is no clear distinction between the two.
You candy bar analogy is also not valid. I would consider it more like me asking you to invest money in my company and doing a PR campaign to show what you get back for that money ie make a good product and advertise it so that more people will throw money at you.
Or, this is one more example of the wonderful technology that comes out of space research and something NASA should make more prominent. Going to space is not just about exploring the stars, it is investing in scientific research that has a very wide array of potential uses far beyond that.
NASA should really have a PR campaign highlighting everything we take fro granted that came from space research.
Any other Japanese and English speakers out there find Mainichi Daily news to be a little redundant? :-p