But we are evolving towards a race that is resistant to contraceptives, and evolving away from shyness. We're also slowly eliminating those genes responsible for bad driving. If predictions about bird flu turn out to be true, we'll evolve improved resistance to flu. Civilisation has simply changed the survival traits.
Indeed. I have a Star Trek mystery dinner party game. Requires 4 men and 4 women. Where are you going to get 4 female trekkies? Are there 4 female trekkies?
With agorophobia so it doesn't get upset about being stuck in a cage all day? And maybe some sort of reverse hypochodria so it's constantly in denial about whatever weird illness we gave it.
Yeah, and what about Magic the Gathering. What if I can just by a load of cards? And how about professional sports? What if I buy some expensive players for my team? How about if rather than make my band's popularity spread by word of mouth, I hire a PR company to tell loads of people about us?
I thought the way they worked was by vapourising water and using the steam to drive turbines. So we're getting fresh water out of the other end anyway.
It's a joke! Geez - Not all Americans are fat couch potatoes, not all French are surrender monkeys, not all Germans are hyper efficient control freaks. Not all Irishmen are idiots. But you get some funny jokes if you assume they are.
The right to select who governs you is not an intrinsic right. It is granted. The right to authors to have a monopoly on their works is granted by the government. The right to claim compensation for harm done is granted by the law. Even right of way at a pedestrian crossing isn't an intrinsic right.
Okay... Lets say I make a guess about something five times in a row. I'm wrong all five times. How highly would you rate my chance of being right the sixth time?
No. Rain causes people to carry umberellas. This is application of Occam's razor. Is it more likely that violent games cause violence, or that violent people are drawn to violent games? The former is more likely, but the latter is quite plausible, which means we should not discount the former, but we should investigate further to determine which case is true.
The evidence suggests that a little more research is needed, but it's probably not a good idea to assume as a matter of faith that there violennt games don't cause violence.
Indeed. The high correlation between death and jumping off tall buildings does not imply that jumping off tall buildings causes death, any more than it implies imminent death causes people to jump off tall buildings.
AllOfmp3 is legal in Russia. They pay a royalty for each copy sold under licence from Russia's intellectual property rights organisation - ROMS, (the Russian Organization for Multimedia and digital Systems), which distributes the money to the artists. ROMS has explicitely said it's legal. There's no loophole.
I am sure apple could be convinced to throw out DRM.
But iTunes is tied to the iPod. Selling songs on iTunes convinces demand for the iPod, and sellign the iPod increased demand for iTunes. Wjhy would they want to give that away?
They could sell mp3s quite safely, or any format that allows arbitrary metadata (I'm assuming mp3 does). Simply store a unique ID with each file. Log the purchaser for each copy. If a lot of their files start turning up, take action against them (e.g. Warn them. Bar them from the online store). Most people only need a small deterrent. Actually. most people need no deterrent at all.
This can easily be removed, but so can Apple's DRM (through digital in/out or via a CD). But I'm making the assumption that most people are instead going to simply not bother sharing. Or more to the point, the extra sales gained through people buying mp3s will be greater than the amount of sales lost through piracy.
So, what do you think happened? Someone faked videos of two planes crashing into the WTC, then set off some explosives in the building to demolish it? If so, why?
and why -- to this day -- there is no video readily available of the Pentagon "attack."
A logical, non consipracy reason is simply that people visiting New York are quite likely to have video cameras since it's a major tourist destination. People visiting the Pentagon are likely not to have video cameras since it's a military installation
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But we are evolving towards a race that is resistant to contraceptives, and evolving away from shyness. We're also slowly eliminating those genes responsible for bad driving. If predictions about bird flu turn out to be true, we'll evolve improved resistance to flu. Civilisation has simply changed the survival traits.
Indeed. I have a Star Trek mystery dinner party game. Requires 4 men and 4 women. Where are you going to get 4 female trekkies? Are there 4 female trekkies?
With agorophobia so it doesn't get upset about being stuck in a cage all day? And maybe some sort of reverse hypochodria so it's constantly in denial about whatever weird illness we gave it.
Yeah, and what about Magic the Gathering. What if I can just by a load of cards? And how about professional sports? What if I buy some expensive players for my team? How about if rather than make my band's popularity spread by word of mouth, I hire a PR company to tell loads of people about us?
I thought the way they worked was by vapourising water and using the steam to drive turbines. So we're getting fresh water out of the other end anyway.
That may be the case.
I'll let you know when I meet a non drunk Scotsman.
It's a joke! Geez - Not all Americans are fat couch potatoes, not all French are surrender monkeys, not all Germans are hyper efficient control freaks. Not all Irishmen are idiots. But you get some funny jokes if you assume they are.
Yeah. It's a hack. Typical microsoft:)
Bill Gates full name converted to ASCII and summed.
Comes to 663. Assuming you use capitals and ignore the space.
The extra 3 comes from him being Bill Gates the third. So you add 3. No doubt that will be fixed in MS ASCII v2.0
The right to select who governs you is not an intrinsic right. It is granted. The right to authors to have a monopoly on their works is granted by the government. The right to claim compensation for harm done is granted by the law. Even right of way at a pedestrian crossing isn't an intrinsic right.
Okay... Lets say I make a guess about something five times in a row. I'm wrong all five times. How highly would you rate my chance of being right the sixth time?
You have no right to control how they run their business via the government.
Erm... What gives you that idea? I thought a representative democracy gave people that right. Maybe I'm mistaken.
Are you saying that an underclocked Pentium D isn't faster than a multiprocessor AMD system running at a higher clockspeed!?
No. Rain causes people to carry umberellas. This is application of Occam's razor. Is it more likely that violent games cause violence, or that violent people are drawn to violent games? The former is more likely, but the latter is quite plausible, which means we should not discount the former, but we should investigate further to determine which case is true.
The evidence suggests that a little more research is needed, but it's probably not a good idea to assume as a matter of faith that there violennt games don't cause violence.
Indeed. The high correlation between death and jumping off tall buildings does not imply that jumping off tall buildings causes death, any more than it implies imminent death causes people to jump off tall buildings.
What tasks, required at university, do we expect a modern PC to do that a 5 year old laptop would be unable to do?
AllOfmp3 is legal in Russia. They pay a royalty for each copy sold under licence from Russia's intellectual property rights organisation - ROMS, (the Russian Organization for Multimedia and digital Systems), which distributes the money to the artists. ROMS has explicitely said it's legal. There's no loophole.
I am sure apple could be convinced to throw out DRM.
But iTunes is tied to the iPod. Selling songs on iTunes convinces demand for the iPod, and sellign the iPod increased demand for iTunes. Wjhy would they want to give that away?
Yes, but in three years, the laptop will be so old and out of date, they'll have to purchase a new one.
Why should this be the case though. At the moment, it does a specific job. It will be able to exactly the same job, just as well in 3 years.
The Russian retailer All of MP3 has the best model IMHO -- select the quality you want and pay by the MB.
I'd like to see statisitcs on how many mp3s on file sharing sites come from here. It's likely theat they have distinguishing characteristics.
They could sell mp3s quite safely, or any format that allows arbitrary metadata (I'm assuming mp3 does). Simply store a unique ID with each file. Log the purchaser for each copy. If a lot of their files start turning up, take action against them (e.g. Warn them. Bar them from the online store). Most people only need a small deterrent. Actually. most people need no deterrent at all.
This can easily be removed, but so can Apple's DRM (through digital in/out or via a CD). But I'm making the assumption that most people are instead going to simply not bother sharing. Or more to the point, the extra sales gained through people buying mp3s will be greater than the amount of sales lost through piracy.
Erm, quite...
What!?
You can't copy the songs to an iPod. At least not without jumping through hoops.
So, what do you think happened? Someone faked videos of two planes crashing into the WTC, then set off some explosives in the building to demolish it? If so, why?
and why -- to this day -- there is no video readily available of the Pentagon "attack."
A logical, non consipracy reason is simply that people visiting New York are quite likely to have video cameras since it's a major tourist destination. People visiting the Pentagon are likely not to have video cameras since it's a military installation