While some of them did go to High School together they were certainly "created" by thier manager and thier rich parents. I happend to go to the patocular HS the BSB's came from (shudder) they used to sing Barber Shop in the commons.
They wont need to build another one it seems the glider got left behind on the lasunch pad somehow. This is why the rocket spirialed out of control in the first place.
Today most any piano can be converted to a player piano using similar tech as the lego player. It even uses CD-ROMS for its song data.
I could not find a site but I have also seen full size pianos with sytems like this actually inside the piano and the CD-ROM mounted under the keyboard so that one could accompany a song running from the CD.
Better graphics? Depends if your talking about Xbox or PS2. PS2's getting pretty crappy now...GTA3 on PS2 was a BAD
GTA3 suffered in its graphics because the developers added much more complexity into the environment. The system on top of handling basic graphic processing must handle multiple events on a scale of many city blocks. Rudimentary AI for the street walkers, cars and such. For great 3D graphics look at GT3 which can focus more on the graphics just simply due to the lack in complexity. Granted GT3 is an excellent game but when it comes to the sheer complexity of the software GTA3 is truly innovative.
If you rate a game or platform simply on graphics you could be missing out on a lot, I know plenty of games that have very good graphics and loads of eye candy but the game itself is complete crap. The inverse is also true.
This big of advice in the parent post should be attached as a standard repy for all legal issues brought up on/.
When it comes down to it get real "paid for" legal council. As they will know the ins and outs and now how to handle these things much better than you or I (unless of course, you are a lawyer).
Eninem will put down anyone he can think of. Its part of his style to stick his finger up at everyone. Its not just the music his fans (I myself included) find entertaining but normally the weeks of conterversy his lyrics tend to start.
In his previous album he even sums it up (I can't remember the exact lyrics) by basically saying that he just says shit to get peoples ire and to see what happens.
His current album is so much like the first it's almost identical. I don't know where people are saying he's going off the "formula" its the same folk/rock back beats with the same ephemeral voices taken from many African songs sung in the 1800's. This was Play and it is 18. Everything Was Wrong was different, Animal Rights was different (and crap).
I think his big problem was churning out something so much like the first that no one saw point in buying the same thing twice. Though many of Moby's old albums sold like crap I think that had more to do with the scene more than anything else.
Techno and electroncia just simply have not been mainstream. Play as most likely the first real mainstream techo/electronica album and I think you'll agree while Moby is good its still not representative of the scene like of Paul Okenfield, Sasha and others.
Go into any dance club and you will hear numerous re-mixes of many of his songs as well as many other old electronica DJs that are out there.
For the record I own Play18 and have listened to both many times and find one to be simply a continuation of the other. However I find myself listening to Play more often because the songs still seem to have a bit more life to them. I may not enjoy 18 but being a Moby fan for 10+ years I have come to know him as someone who does not always release excellent music and I think part of his fun and style was his willingness to experiment. I am disappointed that he really didn't do that this time.
I have enjoyed Moby since his first steps onto the scene back in the late 80's. Moby has always been well known for his willingness to experiment. He starts with hard metal and such then tried electronica. Personally I really enjoyed Everything Is Wrong.
Even after getting some more success with electronica (B Sides and others) that he decided to take another stab at metal with Animal Rights, which sucked.
Then he came out with Play, which hit the spot for a lot of people. However as a long time Moby fan I am greatly disappointed that he did not continue his tradition of experimentation and simply went for what he thought was a winning combination. It makes one think, maybe this is what he was trying to do all along.
I would love to see something different fro his next album. If you look at the most long lived recording artists in the nation (Madonna, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, etc) they have managed to stay popular (if not wildly popular, popular enough to remain on the scene) not through the same tried and true methods but by evolving with the tastes of their fans.
Hopefully Moby will learn this.
NOTE: The albums I gave aren't hardy properly chronological and not even a small sample of Mobys work. To date he has released over 10 albums.
This tool provides one better, though some of your data you may wish to just disappear. With this tool you can encrypt files, I can think of many cases where you might wish some points of data to outlive you.
With the encryption routine then you can include a copy of the decryption program and the password sealed in your Will and then you can Will that stuff to whomever may need the data (business partners, spouses, children, channel 9 News, etc.)
This is more a half thought than an actual reply to the parent, however it was bouncing around in my head and thought it would be worth posting.
Note that many stories in the robot series openly admitted that the actual source of the laws was almost impossible to determine.
This was a artifact of the development of the posotronic brain where newer version would be simple overlays of previous designs so that over the years the system become so complex no one man could understand it. Each part and revision became hopelessly dependant on all of the levels below and any attempt to change anything in the lower leves would create massive instability to all the overlapping layers.
The concept of positronics in Asimovs' books is nothing like what we consider elections of even today's smartest robots. The concept is based on the design of the human brain and the laws of robotics ingrained instinctually rather than being programmed. Considering all the points and data that must be considered to have such a complex system by today's standards the robot would have to be massive. However with advents such as quantum computing and cybernetics we may realize this level of tech at some point.
The real question is will we be as ethical as Asimov when we can make such machines?
The year was 1986 and the movie was Short Circuit an 80's feel good moving staring Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg and Fisher Stevens. Many somewhat amusing jokes ensue as a new intelligence begins to see the world and the pop-culture around it.
At the same time they attempt to wax philosophical about the definition of intelligence and what constitutes actual "life"
It is the record companies that are at fault, not the compaines that made the protection. No one forced RIAA to use a form of protection that would harm computer systems, they did that on on thier own.
I don't know about the US but this is what they seem to do in Brittan (quoted from here)
In May, Great Britain's Home Office, deciding on the proper compensation for a man who served 11 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, ruled that he was entitled to about $1.1 million, but said he would have to reimburse the prison about $63,000 for 11 years' room and board. Said the outraged Michael O'Brien, 34, who had been freed by a Court of Appeal in 1999: "They don't charge guilty people for bed and board. They only charge innocent people." [BBC News, 5-23-02]
Personally I think they should come up with some way to make those imprisoned charged for thier stay (as long as they are really guilty), if not in whole at lease some part.
One wonders if that might be one of the hidden motivations of RIAA other than simple pirating.
If an artist can easily get worlwide distrubution and play without them. What happens to RIAA. Granted it would take many years. I could see a world where bands are all distrubuted on the net and the only thing we pay for is a live preformance.
Of course this has been discussed to death in the past.
Gee...how quickly our minds change when the tech works against us and not for us.
Think about this, its that mindset that has caused the problems we have today with things such as DeCSS and Adobe Encryption breaker (good ol Dimitri).
We may not like the tech but we have to support its right to use less we erode our own stance on right to use.
What we can fight is how its used.
phrased something like this:
A publishing company may not use copy protection on a medium without proper labeling as to what it entails and what equipment it can be played on (IE can only be played on RIAA approved listening device).
Ridiculous I know, but we can't legislate the tech away, that's dangerous for or own position.
Where are you getting these numbers? I'm sure that the 0.1% for Walmart.com is most likely available from their shareholders packet however the other figures being presented with the word maybe makes me think that these numbers are made up.
Also keep in mind that Wal-Mart also sells PC's in their retail stores so its not just Walmart.COM (the link to Walmart.COM was just to show the pricing I'm sure).
What would really be interesting is to get solid numbers on Wal-Mart's PC sales across the board with breakdowns based on model and software load. I'm not sure how many people would actually buy a PC from Wal-Mart. Games yes, software yes, but I think when it comes to the major home electronics Wal-Mart most likely lags behind those like Best Buy, Fry's, and CompUSA by far. Of course I don't have any numbers so this is just pure conjecture. We will most likely never see such number because breakdowns like that aren't even available in shareholders reports.
Yes, but I did address that by saying that MS does make it rather easy to create worms and viruses.
It's defiantly not an apology for having crappy software; I would be the first to agree that MS churns out a lot of junk. Personally I don't know much about Linux viruses and such, I'm just starting to learn how to play with the distros (discovered I hate RedHat).
I'm not sure if there are hard numbers but I imagine that in an average year there are many more Win viruses released due to the ease of which a system can be broken.
The stupid user argument has a lot of weight though. I use mostly Windows boxes for all my work and even though they are susceptible to attacks like code red and things I follow bugtraq and install any patches and updates. I also run a firewall (hardware, blackice is useless) and I don't open any random emails or download obscure programs from some unknown website. Finally I close my ports there are great Win based tools out there that show you what ports Windows opens and there plenty of support docs on how to close many of them. I have never run virus software (save on my office machine which the IT nazis will come and re-ghost my machine if I take it off). Yet in over 10 years I have only ever contracted 1 virus and that's was anti-CMOS A, which after getting that is what spurred me to take proper pre-cautions.
Basically it comes down to a trade off, you can either spend a little time and research (and maintenance) to safeguard your system properly or you can pay your $50 a year to have McAffe or Symantec do it for you. In the end either method has its pros and cons and in the days of things like Klez there is still no guarantee that you will NEVER get a virus. However as long as you take proper precautions the chances of becoming infected are hardly significant.
doh...looks like I went into a rant mode here, thats what happens when I hear about dumb users and how these viruses are going to destroy the computing world.
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While some of them did go to High School together they were certainly "created" by thier manager and thier rich parents. I happend to go to the patocular HS the BSB's came from (shudder) they used to sing Barber Shop in the commons.
That was quite a bit later on, if I remember around the first apperance and (thank god) shortly after dissaperance of Wario.
They wont need to build another one it seems the glider got left behind on the lasunch pad somehow. This is why the rocket spirialed out of control in the first place.
Already done. Though it has a 4k price tag.
Today most any piano can be converted to a player piano using similar tech as the lego player. It even uses CD-ROMS for its song data.
I could not find a site but I have also seen full size pianos with sytems like this actually inside the piano and the CD-ROM mounted under the keyboard so that one could accompany a song running from the CD.
a cheat for Quake taht will let you hear through walls and move without making a sound.
Better graphics? Depends if your talking about Xbox or PS2. PS2's getting pretty crappy now...GTA3 on PS2 was a BAD
GTA3 suffered in its graphics because the developers added much more complexity into the environment. The system on top of handling basic graphic processing must handle multiple events on a scale of many city blocks. Rudimentary AI for the street walkers, cars and such. For great 3D graphics look at GT3 which can focus more on the graphics just simply due to the lack in complexity. Granted GT3 is an excellent game but when it comes to the sheer complexity of the software GTA3 is truly innovative.
If you rate a game or platform simply on graphics you could be missing out on a lot, I know plenty of games that have very good graphics and loads of eye candy but the game itself is complete crap. The inverse is also true.
Folks,
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This big of advice in the parent post should be attached as a standard repy for all legal issues brought up on
When it comes down to it get real "paid for" legal council. As they will know the ins and outs and now how to handle these things much better than you or I (unless of course, you are a lawyer).
Eninem will put down anyone he can think of. Its part of his style to stick his finger up at everyone. Its not just the music his fans (I myself included) find entertaining but normally the weeks of conterversy his lyrics tend to start.
In his previous album he even sums it up (I can't remember the exact lyrics) by basically saying that he just says shit to get peoples ire and to see what happens.
His current album is so much like the first it's almost identical. I don't know where people are saying he's going off the "formula" its the same folk/rock back beats with the same ephemeral voices taken from many African songs sung in the 1800's. This was Play and it is 18. Everything Was Wrong was different, Animal Rights was different (and crap).
I think his big problem was churning out something so much like the first that no one saw point in buying the same thing twice. Though many of Moby's old albums sold like crap I think that had more to do with the scene more than anything else.
Techno and electroncia just simply have not been mainstream. Play as most likely the first real mainstream techo/electronica album and I think you'll agree while Moby is good its still not representative of the scene like of Paul Okenfield, Sasha and others.
Go into any dance club and you will hear numerous re-mixes of many of his songs as well as many other old electronica DJs that are out there.
For the record I own Play 18 and have listened to both many times and find one to be simply a continuation of the other. However I find myself listening to Play more often because the songs still seem to have a bit more life to them. I may not enjoy 18 but being a Moby fan for 10+ years I have come to know him as someone who does not always release excellent music and I think part of his fun and style was his willingness to experiment. I am disappointed that he really didn't do that this time.
Your not the only one,
I have enjoyed Moby since his first steps onto the scene back in the late 80's. Moby has always been well known for his willingness to experiment. He starts with hard metal and such then tried electronica. Personally I really enjoyed Everything Is Wrong.
Even after getting some more success with electronica (B Sides and others) that he decided to take another stab at metal with Animal Rights, which sucked.
Then he came out with Play, which hit the spot for a lot of people. However as a long time Moby fan I am greatly disappointed that he did not continue his tradition of experimentation and simply went for what he thought was a winning combination. It makes one think, maybe this is what he was trying to do all along.
I would love to see something different fro his next album. If you look at the most long lived recording artists in the nation (Madonna, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, etc) they have managed to stay popular (if not wildly popular, popular enough to remain on the scene) not through the same tried and true methods but by evolving with the tastes of their fans.
Hopefully Moby will learn this.
NOTE: The albums I gave aren't hardy properly chronological and not even a small sample of Mobys work. To date he has released over 10 albums.
This tool provides one better, though some of your data you may wish to just disappear. With this tool you can encrypt files, I can think of many cases where you might wish some points of data to outlive you.
With the encryption routine then you can include a copy of the decryption program and the password sealed in your Will and then you can Will that stuff to whomever may need the data (business partners, spouses, children, channel 9 News, etc.)
Some of us have data that is not just porn.
Makes me feel old, I wonder if theres ever been a /. poll on the age of its members.
This is more a half thought than an actual reply to the parent, however it was bouncing around in my head and thought it would be worth posting.
Note that many stories in the robot series openly admitted that the actual source of the laws was almost impossible to determine.
This was a artifact of the development of the posotronic brain where newer version would be simple overlays of previous designs so that over the years the system become so complex no one man could understand it. Each part and revision became hopelessly dependant on all of the levels below and any attempt to change anything in the lower leves would create massive instability to all the overlapping layers.
The concept of positronics in Asimovs' books is nothing like what we consider elections of even today's smartest robots. The concept is based on the design of the human brain and the laws of robotics ingrained instinctually rather than being programmed. Considering all the points and data that must be considered to have such a complex system by today's standards the robot would have to be massive. However with advents such as quantum computing and cybernetics we may realize this level of tech at some point.
The real question is will we be as ethical as Asimov when we can make such machines?
Time for some karma:
For those who didn't get it:
The year was 1986 and the movie was Short Circuit an 80's feel good moving staring Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg and Fisher Stevens. Many somewhat amusing jokes ensue as a new intelligence begins to see the world and the pop-culture around it.
At the same time they attempt to wax philosophical about the definition of intelligence and what constitutes actual "life"
and if you really know Verity you know that it will create its own erros you don't have to feed it bad commands.
Just sit back and watch the collection become like so much swiss cheese.
It is the record companies that are at fault, not the compaines that made the protection. No one forced RIAA to use a form of protection that would harm computer systems, they did that on on thier own.
ROFL
/.ing of your own.
Your site crashes IE browsers, or maybe your getting a
Personally I think they should come up with some way to make those imprisoned charged for thier stay (as long as they are really guilty), if not in whole at lease some part.
One wonders if that might be one of the hidden motivations of RIAA other than simple pirating.
If an artist can easily get worlwide distrubution and play without them. What happens to RIAA. Granted it would take many years. I could see a world where bands are all distrubuted on the net and the only thing we pay for is a live preformance.
Of course this has been discussed to death in the past.
Gee...how quickly our minds change when the tech works against us and not for us.
Think about this, its that mindset that has caused the problems we have today with things such as DeCSS and Adobe Encryption breaker (good ol Dimitri).
We may not like the tech but we have to support its right to use less we erode our own stance on right to use.
What we can fight is how its used.
phrased something like this:
A publishing company may not use copy protection on a medium without proper labeling as to what it entails and what equipment it can be played on (IE can only be played on RIAA approved listening device).
Ridiculous I know, but we can't legislate the tech away, that's dangerous for or own position.
ROFL, thanks for making me soak my screen with soda.
/. but not for me.
It may be too subtle for most of
Gotta admit though, not bad for doing something you enjoy, and with all this publicity he may just make a little more this year.
I think I might just buy one, I wonder how long the light lasts.
Where are you getting these numbers? I'm sure that the 0.1% for Walmart.com is most likely available from their shareholders packet however the other figures being presented with the word maybe makes me think that these numbers are made up.
Also keep in mind that Wal-Mart also sells PC's in their retail stores so its not just Walmart.COM (the link to Walmart.COM was just to show the pricing I'm sure).
What would really be interesting is to get solid numbers on Wal-Mart's PC sales across the board with breakdowns based on model and software load. I'm not sure how many people would actually buy a PC from Wal-Mart. Games yes, software yes, but I think when it comes to the major home electronics Wal-Mart most likely lags behind those like Best Buy, Fry's, and CompUSA by far. Of course I don't have any numbers so this is just pure conjecture. We will most likely never see such number because breakdowns like that aren't even available in shareholders reports.
Yes, but I did address that by saying that MS does make it rather easy to create worms and viruses.
It's defiantly not an apology for having crappy software; I would be the first to agree that MS churns out a lot of junk. Personally I don't know much about Linux viruses and such, I'm just starting to learn how to play with the distros (discovered I hate RedHat).
I'm not sure if there are hard numbers but I imagine that in an average year there are many more Win viruses released due to the ease of which a system can be broken.
The stupid user argument has a lot of weight though. I use mostly Windows boxes for all my work and even though they are susceptible to attacks like code red and things I follow bugtraq and install any patches and updates. I also run a firewall (hardware, blackice is useless) and I don't open any random emails or download obscure programs from some unknown website. Finally I close my ports there are great Win based tools out there that show you what ports Windows opens and there plenty of support docs on how to close many of them. I have never run virus software (save on my office machine which the IT nazis will come and re-ghost my machine if I take it off). Yet in over 10 years I have only ever contracted 1 virus and that's was anti-CMOS A, which after getting that is what spurred me to take proper pre-cautions.
Basically it comes down to a trade off, you can either spend a little time and research (and maintenance) to safeguard your system properly or you can pay your $50 a year to have McAffe or Symantec do it for you. In the end either method has its pros and cons and in the days of things like Klez there is still no guarantee that you will NEVER get a virus. However as long as you take proper precautions the chances of becoming infected are hardly significant.
doh...looks like I went into a rant mode here, thats what happens when I hear about dumb users and how these viruses are going to destroy the computing world.