Can you please people think of the colorblind children?
On a more serius note, after some time they do that, you can actually say "blue is the new red" and they will starting to ban blue and going for colors less agresive... like red.
Is not that the color is evil purely because of it's wavelength, but _also_ because is asociated that way.
[Anecdotal experiece, blah blah, no facts, blah blah]
I must have watched The Neverending Story like a hundred times, The original Star Wars trilogy over 30 times each one, I know quite a few people that do the same. I don't think that TV reruns are mostly watched by people that haven't seen the movie before, instead I heard comments like "XYZ was on Fox last night, I haven't seen that movie in a long time, it's still pretty awesome".
Anyway, I'm in favor of dropping the budget from the cutscenes, the realistically ambientated environments that get the WOW factor forlike 10 minutes, etc, and destinate it to develop better playstyle, better storylines, etc. I still run Super Metroid or Seiken Densetsu III on the emulator from time to time, I never get bored of those games, even haved multiple 100% runs on Metroid and Having played with all the posible combination of characters in SD3.
You could have posted that as a slashdot entry (with copy of the emails and scans of the legal documents) or something like that for a very cool Streisand effect... before going to jail >.>;
And thats when you start embeding encripted info on alternative files like images, or so.
BTW how do you plan to distinguish between normal raw binary data and encripted data? how do you tell between a legal data of a PNG file and a RAR file containing encripted files? You plan to use the evil bit?
I have the weird feeling that this is a case of a well played advertisement campaing in order to _get_ funds...
1 - Start fundraiser
2 - Stop fundraiser with a controversial topic like white rascism
3 - Start sending apolligies to the mainstream media saying that they are stopping the fundraiser
4 - Watch the cash flow after getting tons of publicity
I wasn't aware that you could _easily_ create collitions of an MD5 hash of a file that still keep some sort of order (like creating a perfectly valid jpeg that dosen't turn to show like noise, but an actual meaningful picture, from a MD5).
Mind to share your algorithm?
Well, considering that musicians get more from live concerts and merchancise rather than CD sales (if they are signed on a major label) (or so I heard) and some writters (like Cory Doctorow) make some good proffit from selling paperback and hardcovers while distributing the whole books in electronic format on a CC licence, I _think_ it can be done.
The enemy of an artist is not piracy, it's obcurity.
You're obviously very passionate about educating people about dissection. Why is that?
Two years ago, I was an active Street Team member of peta2. I was trying to rake up some points in order to trade them in for a shirt, and I got an email saying that anything that I did relating to dissection during the month of October would be double the points. Because of this, I decided to work on getting a dissection choice policy passed at my high school. When I started to research policies and why dissection is bad for the school, students, and animals, it became an obsession of mine. My senior exit project and my junior year were both dedicated to getting a dissection choice policy passed at my high school. I was shocked when I read about how much more educational the alternatives to dissection can be, how much money they can save for the school, and how many lives could be spared; it's shocking to me that schools still use dissection as a part of their science lessons when there are so many humane and equally educational alternatives out there that will also save the school money.
She did it for a shirt anyway, pretty awesome reason if you ask me.
Let's get rid of math next, it's so distressing for the kids to learn it.
Maybe go after history and geography after that, I'll be damned if I didn't have a hard time learning those.
/sarcasm
The point of education is not to try to make the kids feel good, it is to give them the knowledge and skills to not only to survive in a modern world, also to make them able to contribute to the society and the humanity.
Guess what, if you aspire to a job behind a desktop, you're going to need spelling, even if you didn't like it as a kid. (and inbefore "use computers noob", no, a computer spell check does nothing for you if you don't know the right spelling, you'll end up choosing another word from the list that differs from what you wanted to say.)
Sometimes I wonder if we are not directing into another dark ages, or another Roman Empire-like fall, an Orwellian nightmare, etc.
I don't know how acurate it is, but I heard quite a few years ago from someone (I _think_ she was a toastmaster) that a more or less acurate attention span is their age in minutes (e.g. 10 mins when they are 10 years old).
From a non-USA point of view, I think this is a great step for open source solutions, but more for software in general.
It's been know that whatever the US military puts their hands on, that can grow to a great size. The whole Arpanet->Internet analogy may or may not be flawed for this. A lot of innovation comes from military funded projects.
The open source model is a great source (no pun intended) of innovation and combining those two points could lead to a massive step forward.
So instead of making baby cows suffer from lack of milk, PETA wants to make baby humans to suffer because the mother is eigther poor or greedy to sell her milk for dairy products.
I never got why PETA consider animals as higher beings than humans.
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Can you please people think of the colorblind children?
... like red.
On a more serius note, after some time they do that, you can actually say "blue is the new red" and they will starting to ban blue and going for colors less agresive
Is not that the color is evil purely because of it's wavelength, but _also_ because is asociated that way.
How come Mexicans [...] don't get the Moon?
If that's no moon (pun intended), then wtf is in the sky then?
[...] Few people see a movie twice[...]
[Anecdotal experiece, blah blah, no facts, blah blah]
I must have watched The Neverending Story like a hundred times, The original Star Wars trilogy over 30 times each one, I know quite a few people that do the same. I don't think that TV reruns are mostly watched by people that haven't seen the movie before, instead I heard comments like "XYZ was on Fox last night, I haven't seen that movie in a long time, it's still pretty awesome".
Anyway, I'm in favor of dropping the budget from the cutscenes, the realistically ambientated environments that get the WOW factor forlike 10 minutes, etc, and destinate it to develop better playstyle, better storylines, etc. I still run Super Metroid or Seiken Densetsu III on the emulator from time to time, I never get bored of those games, even haved multiple 100% runs on Metroid and Having played with all the posible combination of characters in SD3.
Why people respond rhetorical questions with more rhetorical questions? This is a rhetorical question, don't bother replying.
[...] perhaps humans are "evolving" and each time we do we're compared with the final form (only god knows what that is).
I think that would give a new meaning to be "made into God's image".
You could have posted that as a slashdot entry (with copy of the emails and scans of the legal documents) or something like that for a very cool Streisand effect... before going to jail >.>;
Considering that I can publish a book about driving trucks without having actually drived one...
In soviet russia, cars make analogies about you.
"Pretty girls are like cars that need a lot of oil."
I'm pretty sure he reads/posts in slashdot.
And thats when you start embeding encripted info on alternative files like images, or so. BTW how do you plan to distinguish between normal raw binary data and encripted data? how do you tell between a legal data of a PNG file and a RAR file containing encripted files? You plan to use the evil bit?
I have the weird feeling that this is a case of a well played advertisement campaing in order to _get_ funds...
1 - Start fundraiser
2 - Stop fundraiser with a controversial topic like white rascism
3 - Start sending apolligies to the mainstream media saying that they are stopping the fundraiser
4 - Watch the cash flow after getting tons of publicity
Do i need to put a (???) and (Proffit)?
You forgot the hairdressers and the lawyers.
I wasn't aware that you could _easily_ create collitions of an MD5 hash of a file that still keep some sort of order (like creating a perfectly valid jpeg that dosen't turn to show like noise, but an actual meaningful picture, from a MD5). Mind to share your algorithm?
Well, considering that musicians get more from live concerts and merchancise rather than CD sales (if they are signed on a major label) (or so I heard) and some writters (like Cory Doctorow) make some good proffit from selling paperback and hardcovers while distributing the whole books in electronic format on a CC licence, I _think_ it can be done.
The enemy of an artist is not piracy, it's obcurity.
You're obviously very passionate about educating people about dissection. Why is that?
Two years ago, I was an active Street Team member of peta2. I was trying to rake up some points in order to trade them in for a shirt, and I got an email saying that anything that I did relating to dissection during the month of October would be double the points. Because of this, I decided to work on getting a dissection choice policy passed at my high school. When I started to research policies and why dissection is bad for the school, students, and animals, it became an obsession of mine. My senior exit project and my junior year were both dedicated to getting a dissection choice policy passed at my high school. I was shocked when I read about how much more educational the alternatives to dissection can be, how much money they can save for the school, and how many lives could be spared; it's shocking to me that schools still use dissection as a part of their science lessons when there are so many humane and equally educational alternatives out there that will also save the school money.
She did it for a shirt anyway, pretty awesome reason if you ask me.
Readed the article in the link... funny thing is that I wrote a couple months ago a blog post about that (in spanish of cource).
I just think I'm missing something...
Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics
Let's get rid of math next, it's so distressing for the kids to learn it.
Maybe go after history and geography after that, I'll be damned if I didn't have a hard time learning those.
/sarcasm
The point of education is not to try to make the kids feel good, it is to give them the knowledge and skills to not only to survive in a modern world, also to make them able to contribute to the society and the humanity.
Guess what, if you aspire to a job behind a desktop, you're going to need spelling, even if you didn't like it as a kid. (and inbefore "use computers noob", no, a computer spell check does nothing for you if you don't know the right spelling, you'll end up choosing another word from the list that differs from what you wanted to say.)
Sometimes I wonder if we are not directing into another dark ages, or another Roman Empire-like fall, an Orwellian nightmare, etc.
(btw, english is not my first language)
I don't know how acurate it is, but I heard quite a few years ago from someone (I _think_ she was a toastmaster) that a more or less acurate attention span is their age in minutes (e.g. 10 mins when they are 10 years old).
Open source != Free (as in "free beer") licenses
From a non-USA point of view, I think this is a great step for open source solutions, but more for software in general.
It's been know that whatever the US military puts their hands on, that can grow to a great size. The whole Arpanet->Internet analogy may or may not be flawed for this. A lot of innovation comes from military funded projects.
The open source model is a great source (no pun intended) of innovation and combining those two points could lead to a massive step forward.
/PersonalOpinion
The Minitrue of course!
Wait... that was the Oceania one... I guess Eastasia have one of those too.
So instead of making baby cows suffer from lack of milk, PETA wants to make baby humans to suffer because the mother is eigther poor or greedy to sell her milk for dairy products.
I never got why PETA consider animals as higher beings than humans.
Lets save the cows! screw the humans! /sarcasm
Enlighten me:
http://files.ea.com/downloads/commerce/eula/en/eula.pdf
Where's the part that says about installing 3rd party anty-piracy software or some stuff like that?
I's from Little Brother from Cory Doctorow, great read btw.
I think that the "Don't Trust anyone over 30" is the quote you refering to.
I hate to admit it, but $RANDOMLUSER does have a point, I would have liked to know this at least yesterday.
Well, at least I had the time to write a blog post already (in spanish btw, link).
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