SDMI's ultimate failure lies in one simple fact: if the majority wants something so bad that they would lie, cheat, steal, die, and even kill for it, and there's a company using security measures to prevent the majority from acquiring that certain something, then the majority will do everything in its power to break the security measures.
One other bone I have to pick with the SDMI is the intent spelled out in the acronym definition: Secure Digital Music Initiative. Secure for whom? Not us, the consumers, the people who listen to the music, the people who pay for the music with our hard-earned money. The SDMI is primarily intended to "secure" the invidious royalties of the big record companies. Each MP3 file out there (FTP, Napster, Gnutella, etc.) represents a virtual voice opposed to the SDMI. The roar of opposition is deafening; however, the music companies have torn out their ears, much like Oedipus did his eyeballs. They can't handle the truth: music is no longer a per-unit commodity. It is attempting to evolve into a free medium for the people to enjoy without shelling out X amount of dollars to pay the Sony tax. One example of this is Smashing Pumpkins; you won't find their newest album in stores, it's on MP3 at their site. I look forward to other high profile artists doing the same, for the age of "ConGlom-O Music, Incorporated" has ended.
Damn, that's how it was before I changed it and posted. I knew that the extra "in flight" would get me in trouble. I only wanted to point out that the airplane wasn't sitting idle on the ground.
Also, think of it: If an airplane is in flight, and the pilot suddenly dies, what gets lost? Direction. Control. Focus. And, potentially, the lives of innocent passengers. This is the parallel which I intended to convey.
Seriously, the only pieces of code you might possibly want to use in an office suite are the auto-formatting tools (and maybe some GUI widgets that might catch your eye). And where else would you use them? They are useless in a different program type (well, maybe not the widgets, but then you'd get yourself into a patent battle and would have to retaliate somehow).
It's not a good idea to salvage parts from a moped to put into your hot-rod. So why salvage code from a word processor for that next big project of yours?
Besides, email sometimes gets bungled up during a spell check (not in winword, though; damn M$ trying to alienate the language once again), and "email" looks too much like the name of a process.
However, I won't protest the use of "Email" in the Slashdot site; it goes along with "userlogin" and "emailpasswd"; these just add to that abbreviated, concise, nerdy feel of Slashdot that we all have enjoyed (well, at least the legitimate Slashdot users).
Never give the average consumer an airplane; he or she is bound to crash it. This thing, if actually manufactured en masse, would be an air traffic controller's nightmare, and might even spawn the concept of aerospace pollution.
...they tend to go after the large-scale counterfeiters, not kids with a cracked copy of Photoshop.
In related news, Photoshop 6.0 is already being warezed. It was released only a few weeks ago, and its warez size is about 230 MB. This seems to contradict the "lower piracy rate" that the software companies are touting right now.
Seriously, it's getting to the point where I'm starting to wonder if Hanes will start putting an EULA in its underwear. Okay, maybe that's a little too drastic, but you see my point.
HERE I AM WITH the HANDS FULLY to BLOOD AND carry IN ME a BITING RAGE YOU SAID YOU WANTED the body OF ME AND I GAVE YOU ALL STRAIGHT LINES LIKE an ANIMAL
Both of the engines translated the title as "Shelter Gate Seven", as I expected, synonyms are necessary. However, there's another weird quirk to the two:
Original:
HIER STEHE ICH MIT DEN HÄNDEN VOLL BLUT
UND TRAGE IN MIR EINE BEISSENDE WUT
DU SAGTEST DU WOLLTEST DEN KORPER VON MIR
UND ICH GAB DIR ALLES GERAD WIE EIN TIER
Babelfish:
HERE I AM WITH THE HANDS FULLY TO BLOOD
AND STRETCHER IN ME A BITING RAGE
YOU SAID YOU WANTED THE KORPER OF ME
AND I GAVE YOU ALL GERAD LIKE AN ANIMAL
Systran translated it the exact same way. However, at least I can partially understand the song.
However, in June of last year I did go to an Allman Brothers Band concert at the Tweeter Center (the center for the performing arts formerly known as Great Woods). Despite the No Smoking ordinance, there were people toking up everywhere (there were two 14-year olds with a bong to my left; a thirtysomething guy in front of them looked back and hollered, "You guys came prepared, man!!"). When I saw a t-shirt flying in the air, I started laughing hysterically. My parents were there (hey, they bought the tickets), and they gave me a weird look. During "Rambling Man", everyone stood up and sang along; I got lost at about the second verse.
Running around in your future home with a rocket launcher is always the best. Of course, you could always add a bot and hunt for him within your house. "Hey! That's my good china you're shooting up!"
Regardless, just remember that 8 map units equals one foot. You have 8192x8192x8192 units to play around with (1024 feet, or 0.193939393939393939 miles), so you could recreate the entire neighborhood!
LCD panels can never be photographed perfectly. Take a look at the screenshots of DOOMD (DOOM for the Digita OS cameras); all of those shots were taken with a camera, so there's plenty of glare and not enough light from the screen. For this reason, companies have to insert a rendering (or a screendump) from the product and superimpose it over the screen.
DVDs should look great on this. However, due to the fact that it is a flat panel, you can only use the native resolution (or a resolution that is 1/x as big, where x is an integer) without having the image either warped or anti-aliased, or even mangled by lopsided pixel sizing. It's like using 640x480 fullscreen on a laptop that has a 1024x768 screen; the output is either sized down, anti-aliased, or pixel-mangled (this pixel is 1x1, that one is 2x1, that one is 1x2, that one is 2x2!)
Yeah, but you still have your heart set on it, Rob.
Personally, I hate flat panels and Trinitron(TM) monitors. Flat panels can only handle its native resolution or a smaller one that's 1/x as big (where x is an integer). Trinitron(TM) monitors always have that dark horizontal line across the screen, about 1/4 of the way up from the bottom. Also, Sony makes a buttload of cash every time a manufacturer uses the word "Trinitron(TM)" on their monitor. This dark line often gets in the way in full-screen applications, and it is a downright nuisance in graphics applications. I like Trinitron(TM) on television sets, but it's just too useless on computer monitors.
So, what's left for me to like? A good old, spherical CRT. I have my heart set on a 19" model with a.23 inch dot pitch (up to 1920x1440!). That should ease my eyes, as right now I have a 15" monitor on 1024x768.
Try Bud Dry(TM). (obvious OT, but on to something on-topic!)
I find that whenever I ask myself why the universe exists, or when I think about how incredibly small we are in relation to the rest of the universe, I start to get dizzy. It's like trying to find the last digit of Pi (isn't that how Spock fried a computer on a Star Trek episode once?). You feel like your head will explode.
So, in closing, don't wonder why we exist. Just be grateful that we do exist.
I didn't know, so that's why I put in "Or something similar?" And sure enough, someone answered that legitimately. You of all people should respect the sharing of knowledge; your ridicule indicates your closed-mindedness.
Both of them got at least $1 million so far. It isn't known how much was soft money given to each party, but it's clear that Microsoft is the true "Billionaire for Bush or Gore" (as opposed to the the satirical one).
So that's how they're doing the new addresses. I do like the colon in place of the period: easier to type (well, sort of). Trouble is, Verizon probably won't upgrade until they must (two years after the universal acceptance and worldwide upgrade to IPv6), and I'm having problems with them disconnecting me in the middle of Counter-Strike, as well as their login server crashing constantly. Looks like I'll need to storm the substation at night and flog the regional admins.
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FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
WAR IS PEACE
Yes, from the book 1984. SDMI is attempting to legitimize these three maxims of Big Brother. It is our job to point out BB's hypocrisy.
So is it 3-alarm, 4-alarm, or 5 alarm? Any jalapeños? And don't forget the milk and bread; gotta offset the acid in there!
One other bone I have to pick with the SDMI is the intent spelled out in the acronym definition: Secure Digital Music Initiative. Secure for whom? Not us, the consumers, the people who listen to the music, the people who pay for the music with our hard-earned money. The SDMI is primarily intended to "secure" the invidious royalties of the big record companies. Each MP3 file out there (FTP, Napster, Gnutella, etc.) represents a virtual voice opposed to the SDMI. The roar of opposition is deafening; however, the music companies have torn out their ears, much like Oedipus did his eyeballs. They can't handle the truth: music is no longer a per-unit commodity. It is attempting to evolve into a free medium for the people to enjoy without shelling out X amount of dollars to pay the Sony tax. One example of this is Smashing Pumpkins; you won't find their newest album in stores, it's on MP3 at their site. I look forward to other high profile artists doing the same, for the age of "ConGlom-O Music, Incorporated" has ended.
Also, think of it: If an airplane is in flight, and the pilot suddenly dies, what gets lost? Direction. Control. Focus. And, potentially, the lives of innocent passengers. This is the parallel which I intended to convey.
...how a 16-vehicle disaster looks in three dimensions.
It's not a good idea to salvage parts from a moped to put into your hot-rod. So why salvage code from a word processor for that next big project of yours?
A piece of software without a coherent purpose is like an airplane in flight without a pilot.
And, the current one:
However, I won't protest the use of "Email" in the Slashdot site; it goes along with "userlogin" and "emailpasswd"; these just add to that abbreviated, concise, nerdy feel of Slashdot that we all have enjoyed (well, at least the legitimate Slashdot users).
Never give the average consumer an airplane; he or she is bound to crash it. This thing, if actually manufactured en masse, would be an air traffic controller's nightmare, and might even spawn the concept of aerospace pollution.
In related news, Photoshop 6.0 is already being warezed. It was released only a few weeks ago, and its warez size is about 230 MB. This seems to contradict the "lower piracy rate" that the software companies are touting right now.
Seriously, it's getting to the point where I'm starting to wonder if Hanes will start putting an EULA in its underwear. Okay, maybe that's a little too drastic, but you see my point.
There's probably some other errors. Oh well.
I just copied and pasted from the Wumpscut lyrics page (I provided the link). Everything was in caps.
Both of the engines translated the title as "Shelter Gate Seven", as I expected, synonyms are necessary. However, there's another weird quirk to the two:
Original:
HIER STEHE ICH MIT DEN HÄNDEN VOLL BLUT
UND TRAGE IN MIR EINE BEISSENDE WUT
DU SAGTEST DU WOLLTEST DEN KORPER VON MIR
UND ICH GAB DIR ALLES GERAD WIE EIN TIER
Babelfish:
HERE I AM WITH THE HANDS FULLY TO BLOOD
AND STRETCHER IN ME A BITING RAGE
YOU SAID YOU WANTED THE KORPER OF ME
AND I GAVE YOU ALL GERAD LIKE AN ANIMAL
Systran translated it the exact same way. However, at least I can partially understand the song.
Suspended Animation: The condition which arises when your Windoze 9X box freezes while attempting to animate your 3DSMAX project.
However, in June of last year I did go to an Allman Brothers Band concert at the Tweeter Center (the center for the performing arts formerly known as Great Woods). Despite the No Smoking ordinance, there were people toking up everywhere (there were two 14-year olds with a bong to my left; a thirtysomething guy in front of them looked back and hollered, "You guys came prepared, man!!"). When I saw a t-shirt flying in the air, I started laughing hysterically. My parents were there (hey, they bought the tickets), and they gave me a weird look. During "Rambling Man", everyone stood up and sang along; I got lost at about the second verse.
Regardless, just remember that 8 map units equals one foot. You have 8192x8192x8192 units to play around with (1024 feet, or 0.193939393939393939 miles), so you could recreate the entire neighborhood!
LCD panels can never be photographed perfectly. Take a look at the screenshots of DOOMD (DOOM for the Digita OS cameras); all of those shots were taken with a camera, so there's plenty of glare and not enough light from the screen. For this reason, companies have to insert a rendering (or a screendump) from the product and superimpose it over the screen.
DVDs should look great on this. However, due to the fact that it is a flat panel, you can only use the native resolution (or a resolution that is 1/x as big, where x is an integer) without having the image either warped or anti-aliased, or even mangled by lopsided pixel sizing. It's like using 640x480 fullscreen on a laptop that has a 1024x768 screen; the output is either sized down, anti-aliased, or pixel-mangled (this pixel is 1x1, that one is 2x1, that one is 1x2, that one is 2x2!)
Yeah, but you still have your heart set on it, Rob.
Personally, I hate flat panels and Trinitron(TM) monitors. Flat panels can only handle its native resolution or a smaller one that's 1/x as big (where x is an integer). Trinitron(TM) monitors always have that dark horizontal line across the screen, about 1/4 of the way up from the bottom. Also, Sony makes a buttload of cash every time a manufacturer uses the word "Trinitron(TM)" on their monitor. This dark line often gets in the way in full-screen applications, and it is a downright nuisance in graphics applications. I like Trinitron(TM) on television sets, but it's just too useless on computer monitors.
So, what's left for me to like? A good old, spherical CRT. I have my heart set on a 19" model with a .23 inch dot pitch (up to 1920x1440!). That should ease my eyes, as right now I have a 15" monitor on 1024x768.
I just saw it released for the Dreamcast. I wonder if the DC edition will have the same problems as the N64 edition, or if they fixed it.
I find that whenever I ask myself why the universe exists, or when I think about how incredibly small we are in relation to the rest of the universe, I start to get dizzy. It's like trying to find the last digit of Pi (isn't that how Spock fried a computer on a Star Trek episode once?). You feel like your head will explode.
So, in closing, don't wonder why we exist. Just be grateful that we do exist.
I didn't know, so that's why I put in "Or something similar?" And sure enough, someone answered that legitimately. You of all people should respect the sharing of knowledge; your ridicule indicates your closed-mindedness.
Both of them got at least $1 million so far. It isn't known how much was soft money given to each party, but it's clear that Microsoft is the true "Billionaire for Bush or Gore" (as opposed to the the satirical one).
So that's how they're doing the new addresses. I do like the colon in place of the period: easier to type (well, sort of). Trouble is, Verizon probably won't upgrade until they must (two years after the universal acceptance and worldwide upgrade to IPv6), and I'm having problems with them disconnecting me in the middle of Counter-Strike, as well as their login server crashing constantly. Looks like I'll need to storm the substation at night and flog the regional admins.