Probally the same malfuction that gets the RIAA to request license fees from the Girlscouts to sing *puff the magic dragon*.
The RIAA does no such thing. Performance royalties for that song are collected by ASCAP on behalf of Pepamar Music Corp. You want to blame somebody, lay them blame on them.
Remember, RIAA = RECORDING Industry Association of America. Unless the Scouts are marketing CDs of their campfire singalongs, the RIAA has no involvement.
Please, people -- KNOW what you're talking about before you post.
Google doesn't tend to do sucky things, and wiping out someone's legitimate email account, even if the thing is in beta, would really suck.
"Legitimate" and "in beta" are mutually exclusive concepts here. Anyone who's using Gmail as their primary and exclusive email account during a beta testing period is just asking for trouble.
If you think of "Vampire Slayer", you are likely thinking of one of five actors who portrayed them. Probably one of two characters (Van Helsing or Buffy).
Not me, I think of Simon Belmont, star of NES's "Castlevania" and "Castlevania II".
If you need to cya then use specs. Otherwise, take them for what they're worth.
In the business world, you must always CYA. Doesn't matter if your customer is the anonymous desktop user, another company, another department in your company, or even your mother. You will get screwed if you leave any opportunity for the customer to do so.
Shit - its no wonder commercial software costs so much.
If your team of 3-8 people can design and develop software that rivals expensive commercial products, by yourselves and without specifications, go to it. You'll make millions.
Meanwhile in the real world, commercial software is generally far too complex to be written by such a small dev team. Larger products NEED larger teams, and larger teams NEED planning and management.
If you could go home and log onto the Maxwell's website and pay to download the concert
1. Maxwell's didn't even have a web presence to speak of until a year or two ago... it, and most smaller music venues, are far from the point of being able to support, or even afford the initial costs of, a true ecommerce infrastructure.
2. If you can download the live show from home at your convenience, why bother going to the club in the first place? Maxwell's wants you to show up and pay admission and buy a few beers and maybe some food, AND buy a copy of the show to take home with you. It wouldn't be good for their bottom line to encourage people to skip the first three and just do the fourth.
The keychain thing is an unnecessary gimmick and won't last.
Agreed. A 128MB key fob is not adequate for storing a full-length live concert. Instead, what if you could sync the music directly to your iPod or similar device? That shouldn't cost anymore than these USB thingees, and would be REALLY COOL.
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." -- Professor Edsger Dijkstra
Okay, now all the professional coders whose first programming experience was in BASIC on a VIC-20, Apple II, or TRS-80, raise your hands... man, there seems to be a lot of us, huh.
Oh yeah and "Goto considered harmful" too, of course.
GOTO is essential -- all processors use it at their lowest levels (it goes by the name JMP in assembly language, though.)
All other types of branching or looping are just syntactic sugar.
I think the point is that I have a "free" DVD player on my Windows box. Came with my DVD drive. It's fully licensed and legal. How come there isn't a Linux player available?
I fail to see how your decision not to buy from TurboLinux is the MPAA's fault.
What is the legal definition of "conspicuous and appropriate" placement, though?
If Java Desktop makes all the usual GPL information available to the user, but you have to navigate to "Menu -> Help -> About -> More Info -> Licensing -> GNU" to get to it, does that fulfill the requirements of the GPL?
This is the crux of the argument. I don't think anyone's arguing that Sun is violating the letter of the license by omitting the license documentation from its distro entirely, but rather that the location Sun has used for it is "not conspicuous enough" for the tastes of some GPL proponents.
Sure, I'd want science and social studies texts to be replenished often, but it's not as though verb conjugation or trigonometry is any different now than it was ten years ago.
The biggest problem I remember from my school days was the sheer monolithicity of textbooks -- even if you only had a 20-page chapter to read for homework, you had to lug a 2,000-page book home each and every time. Multiply that by eight classes per day, five days a week, and your kids are going to be HURTIN'.
Using an emulator to compile moves into a "perfect" run can be amusing, but, by no means, should it be praised, or considered talent, nor should it be recognized or publicly released, because it downplays the mastery of the true speed runs.
*sigh*
Look, if you don't like the concept of emulator-assisted time attack videos, fine, don't download 'em. But who are you to say that such videos shouldn't be "publicly released"? Your opinion is like your asshole.
Personally, I enjoy the hell out of the videos, because they celebrate the elegance of the game designs themselves, even if the humans playing them don't have perfect reflexes.
In terms that you can understand, it's like jerking off to an airbrushed Playboy spread instead of a dingy polaroid of your mom -- you don't care if it's REAL or not, it's the unattainable IDEAL that you're after.
Complaining that timeattacks don't require talent because they're "fake" is a lot like claiming pro wrestling doesn't require talent -- it might seem that way at first, but I bet you'd be crying a different tune if you were ever to try it yourself.
-Poot, working on an NES Strider timeattack (32:35 and dropping)
Micro-auditing is possible if you check your account after voting to make sure the vote you placed was the vote you wanted.
Doesn't address any voting fraud plans that would work by "keeping two sets of books". A compromised system could indicate to the user that their vote was registered for Candidate A, but behind the scenes credit that vote to Candidate B instead. There would be no way of auditing the votes in such a scenario.
Mechanical voting systems are a thing of the past.
Antiquity doesn't prove obsolescence. Until electronic voting has proven more usable than mechanical voting -- and Diebold's follies prove that there's still a long time until that's true -- the older methods are still the best we've got.
Imagine a nice record of your voting history? That would seriously rock.
No thanks, I'd rather not have the government able to find out which candidate I supported in past elections. What would be the upside?
If I wanted a record of my voting history, I'll buy a diary and write down who I voted for each election day.
Well, all of those annoying parts of the constitution that apply to governments, but not to private parties... might apply to them (little things... like... due process maybe?).
If the FCC (a state actor if there ever was one) can still arbitrary levy fines on Howard and Bono (and the companies that give them airtime) for incidents that may have occurred several years ago without due process, what hope do we have that Verisign will ever be held to the proper standards?
A good deal of the albums produced have no theme, no real order, and are just collections of songs.
Have you asked any professional record producers about this, or are you just going based on your own observations?
I'm in a band that's in the process of assembling our demo CD. None of our songs are conceptually or music related to each other, but we're still wringing our hands over what order they should go in on the disc -- there's an ideal "flow" that ought to be found and utilized.
It would be foolish to assume that no one working on a major label CD release is putting that same kind of thought into it.
all the quality TV series come out on DVD these days
If you don't mind waiting a year or more for a show you like to release a DVD, go for it. Myself, I'd rather watch each new episode of a series like 'The Shield' as it airs so I can discuss it with my friends and wonder what will happen next week, rather than wait 10 months and pay $50 for the opportunity to watch the entire season at once.
And that's practically a best-case scenario... The Simpsons, for example, have about a 10-year lag between airing a show on TV and releasing it on DVD. I'll just keep watching my favorite episodes in syndication until they catch up...
Everyone complaining about the 8.3 limitations of the original FAT filesystem, please remember, this was a product that came out in 1981, which ran on a 4.7MHz 8-bit CPU with as little as 16KB of memory, and was used with 160KB floppy disks. Sure, by 2004 design standards the FAT design is poor, but in those days where every bit of performance was necessary, the design compromises are a little easier to understand.
(Also,the IBM execs who bought PC-DOS from Gates & Co. may have been used to the 6-letter limitation of older IBM mainframes, so 8.3 might as well have seemed long enough to them.)
I had to go to one of the public computer labs to get my porn, downloading it sight-unseen and transferring it home 100MB at a time via Zip disk. Lost some really good stuff (good at the time, can you even find porn that's less than 100MB these days?) to Click of Death, more than once.
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Probally the same malfuction that gets the RIAA to request license fees from the Girlscouts to sing *puff the magic dragon*.
The RIAA does no such thing. Performance royalties for that song are collected by ASCAP on behalf of Pepamar Music Corp. You want to blame somebody, lay them blame on them.
Remember, RIAA = RECORDING Industry Association of America. Unless the Scouts are marketing CDs of their campfire singalongs, the RIAA has no involvement.
Please, people -- KNOW what you're talking about before you post.
Google doesn't tend to do sucky things, and wiping out someone's legitimate email account, even if the thing is in beta, would really suck.
"Legitimate" and "in beta" are mutually exclusive concepts here. Anyone who's using Gmail as their primary and exclusive email account during a beta testing period is just asking for trouble.
If you think of "Vampire Slayer", you are likely thinking of one of five actors who portrayed them. Probably one of two characters (Van Helsing or Buffy).
Not me, I think of Simon Belmont, star of NES's "Castlevania" and "Castlevania II".
I just out-geeked you! 1-UP!
Non-linear video editing and audio compression just isn't going to happen on a 12 Mhz 286.
No, but I seem to remember Amiga users of that era being able to do that stuff...
If you need to cya then use specs. Otherwise, take them for what they're worth.
In the business world, you must always CYA. Doesn't matter if your customer is the anonymous desktop user, another company, another department in your company, or even your mother. You will get screwed if you leave any opportunity for the customer to do so.
Shit - its no wonder commercial software costs so much.
If your team of 3-8 people can design and develop software that rivals expensive commercial products, by yourselves and without specifications, go to it. You'll make millions.
Meanwhile in the real world, commercial software is generally far too complex to be written by such a small dev team. Larger products NEED larger teams, and larger teams NEED planning and management.
Cool running, Fast, Silent
I picked the first and the third. I just leave my computer off all the time.
It is not meaningful to use dB in this situation, where you take out one noise source after the other.
Or rather, if you use measurments in decibels, you have to use the correct mathematics.
5 dB + 7.5 dB != 12.5 dB.
Headphones are nice, but they don't provide quite as much noise reduction as rupturing your own eardrums with an X-acto knife.
If you could go home and log onto the Maxwell's website and pay to download the concert
1. Maxwell's didn't even have a web presence to speak of until a year or two ago... it, and most smaller music venues, are far from the point of being able to support, or even afford the initial costs of, a true ecommerce infrastructure.
2. If you can download the live show from home at your convenience, why bother going to the club in the first place? Maxwell's wants you to show up and pay admission and buy a few beers and maybe some food, AND buy a copy of the show to take home with you. It wouldn't be good for their bottom line to encourage people to skip the first three and just do the fourth.
The keychain thing is an unnecessary gimmick and won't last.
Agreed. A 128MB key fob is not adequate for storing a full-length live concert. Instead, what if you could sync the music directly to your iPod or similar device? That shouldn't cost anymore than these USB thingees, and would be REALLY COOL.
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." -- Professor Edsger Dijkstra
Okay, now all the professional coders whose first programming experience was in BASIC on a VIC-20, Apple II, or TRS-80, raise your hands... man, there seems to be a lot of us, huh.
Oh yeah and "Goto considered harmful" too, of course.
GOTO is essential -- all processors use it at their lowest levels (it goes by the name JMP in assembly language, though.)
All other types of branching or looping are just syntactic sugar.
1 PRINT "FUCK YOU"
?
SYNTAX ERROR
I think the point is that I have a "free" DVD player on my Windows box. Came with my DVD drive. It's fully licensed and legal. How come there isn't a Linux player available?
I fail to see how your decision not to buy from TurboLinux is the MPAA's fault.
Seven burns down from Ten on tracks you already own.
You don't "own" the music. You are licensing it from the copyright holders, who DO own it.
What is the legal definition of "conspicuous and appropriate" placement, though?
If Java Desktop makes all the usual GPL information available to the user, but you have to navigate to "Menu -> Help -> About -> More Info -> Licensing -> GNU" to get to it, does that fulfill the requirements of the GPL?
This is the crux of the argument. I don't think anyone's arguing that Sun is violating the letter of the license by omitting the license documentation from its distro entirely, but rather that the location Sun has used for it is "not conspicuous enough" for the tastes of some GPL proponents.
Java is uhhhh.... not a standard.
I would say it actually IS, considering how it's been widely adopted by the industry steering group known as "De Facto"...
What's so bad about old textbooks?
Sure, I'd want science and social studies texts to be replenished often, but it's not as though verb conjugation or trigonometry is any different now than it was ten years ago.
The biggest problem I remember from my school days was the sheer monolithicity of textbooks -- even if you only had a 20-page chapter to read for homework, you had to lug a 2,000-page book home each and every time. Multiply that by eight classes per day, five days a week, and your kids are going to be HURTIN'.
Using an emulator to compile moves into a "perfect" run can be amusing, but, by no means, should it be praised, or considered talent, nor should it be recognized or publicly released, because it downplays the mastery of the true speed runs.
*sigh*
Look, if you don't like the concept of emulator-assisted time attack videos, fine, don't download 'em. But who are you to say that such videos shouldn't be "publicly released"? Your opinion is like your asshole.
Personally, I enjoy the hell out of the videos, because they celebrate the elegance of the game designs themselves, even if the humans playing them don't have perfect reflexes.
In terms that you can understand, it's like jerking off to an airbrushed Playboy spread instead of a dingy polaroid of your mom -- you don't care if it's REAL or not, it's the unattainable IDEAL that you're after.
Complaining that timeattacks don't require talent because they're "fake" is a lot like claiming pro wrestling doesn't require talent -- it might seem that way at first, but I bet you'd be crying a different tune if you were ever to try it yourself.
-Poot, working on an NES Strider timeattack (32:35 and dropping)
Micro-auditing is possible if you check your account after voting to make sure the vote you placed was the vote you wanted.
Doesn't address any voting fraud plans that would work by "keeping two sets of books". A compromised system could indicate to the user that their vote was registered for Candidate A, but behind the scenes credit that vote to Candidate B instead. There would be no way of auditing the votes in such a scenario.
Mechanical voting systems are a thing of the past.
Antiquity doesn't prove obsolescence. Until electronic voting has proven more usable than mechanical voting -- and Diebold's follies prove that there's still a long time until that's true -- the older methods are still the best we've got.
Imagine a nice record of your voting history? That would seriously rock.
No thanks, I'd rather not have the government able to find out which candidate I supported in past elections. What would be the upside?
If I wanted a record of my voting history, I'll buy a diary and write down who I voted for each election day.
Well, all of those annoying parts of the constitution that apply to governments, but not to private parties... might apply to them (little things... like... due process maybe?).
If the FCC (a state actor if there ever was one) can still arbitrary levy fines on Howard and Bono (and the companies that give them airtime) for incidents that may have occurred several years ago without due process, what hope do we have that Verisign will ever be held to the proper standards?
A good deal of the albums produced have no theme, no real order, and are just collections of songs.
Have you asked any professional record producers about this, or are you just going based on your own observations?
I'm in a band that's in the process of assembling our demo CD. None of our songs are conceptually or music related to each other, but we're still wringing our hands over what order they should go in on the disc -- there's an ideal "flow" that ought to be found and utilized.
It would be foolish to assume that no one working on a major label CD release is putting that same kind of thought into it.
The side effect is that I dont live in quite the same world as everyone else
And you consider this a good thing?
all the quality TV series come out on DVD these days
If you don't mind waiting a year or more for a show you like to release a DVD, go for it. Myself, I'd rather watch each new episode of a series like 'The Shield' as it airs so I can discuss it with my friends and wonder what will happen next week, rather than wait 10 months and pay $50 for the opportunity to watch the entire season at once.
And that's practically a best-case scenario... The Simpsons, for example, have about a 10-year lag between airing a show on TV and releasing it on DVD. I'll just keep watching my favorite episodes in syndication until they catch up...
Everyone complaining about the 8.3 limitations of the original FAT filesystem, please remember, this was a product that came out in 1981, which ran on a 4.7MHz 8-bit CPU with as little as 16KB of memory, and was used with 160KB floppy disks. Sure, by 2004 design standards the FAT design is poor, but in those days where every bit of performance was necessary, the design compromises are a little easier to understand.
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You had Usenet access in your dorm room? Luxury.
I had to go to one of the public computer labs to get my porn, downloading it sight-unseen and transferring it home 100MB at a time via Zip disk. Lost some really good stuff (good at the time, can you even find porn that's less than 100MB these days?) to Click of Death, more than once.