Of course. That's how windows got it's start. Without it, Steve Jobs would never have been able to have invented Napster and we would all be listening to Warrant on transistor radios.
IANAL, but one other factor with NBC is that they took something not normally associated with their product and associated it. For example, an image of an apple is a strong trademark for a company that makes computers, but not for one that sells Apples. If these duck calls sound like ducks (as opposed to something off the wall, like Jon Lovitz saying "quack"), then that is about as generic as you can get for a "duck tour"
...to actually require the developer to deliver a complete, bug free, enjoyable gaming experience BEFORE they ship it instead of sometime in the indefinite future.
1
CO is a very good game, but it's undergoing nearly nightly changes and by the developer's own admission the support for a gamepad controller is only half-baked at the moment.
So no way in hell is the game complete enough to pass the standards of any console game company,
2
let alone Microsoft which has some of the highest standards around.
3
The standard PC philosophy of "just ship it, we'll patch it later" will not fly in the console world, even if the console vendors are open to the kind of ongoing incremental enhancements that MMOGs are known for.
G.
Congratulations, you have just earned 3 irony points. You are 12 away from advancement.
I think it was more like Diablo. You and a friend link up and both go through the game. There was no point at which you were exposed to anyone you didn't already know.
You were lucky to have instant messenger. Back in my day, we were typing on our hand-me down PCs, logged onto Prodigy and waited minutes for typed responses on a bulletin board to return, day in, day out. We praised the day we got our 33.6 modem and signed on to Compuserve.
In case for the humor impaired, I'm riffing on the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.
Back in my day, we had that joke. We couldn't use it to communicate or learn anything new. We just repeated it over and over, in hopes it would ease the mind-numbing boredom...Ah, those were the days.
Wind farms look like tornados on radar --> wind farms and tornados are the same --> wind farms cause tornados
Time to start a panic. Snopes here I come //
For extra credit: Tornados are a weather event --> all major weather changes are caused by global warming --> wind farms cause global warming
Umm...Global warming does not exist (according to Rush Limbaugh) --> Wind farms do not exist. --> People on wind farms do not exist. Ghosts do not exist. --> Non-existent wind farms are haunted (according to Rush Limbaugh).
So, they seem to be implying that robocalls are valid for anything that is protected speech. If that were true, you could set up a robocall that calls people and says "Legalize robocalls".
Calls from political campaigns are considered protected speech
But who knew we'd already granted computers rights?!!
As much as I hate robocalls, I think a prerecorded message is analogous to either a bullhorn or a prerecorded television ad. So, if "vote for me" is protected when a human says it, then it should be when he records it and transmits it electronically.
Part of me is smirking at the idea of some police officer telling Steven Hawking "You have the right to free speech, but that voice thingy you use doesn't"
To get started, all you need is your:
- Name
- SSN/SIN or Personal Identification Number or National Insurance Number and you are ready to start! Good luck!
WTF? A chance to work for $100,000 per year, with no college, and all they need is your social, or some other piece of Identity theft bait?
Is there really anything scientific or technological that we cant do vastly better now that 1906? Its like the captain of the senior football team boasting about stealing lunch money from a 7th grader.
Mousetraps? Yes, we do create vehicles vastly superior to what existed in 1906. Some are gas powered, some are electric, and others use a combination of the two. When you throw in the limitation that we must base some critical aspects of the design on 1906 technology, the difficulty increases.
So an organization that loves to complain, loudly and vocally, about "judicial activism," now wants judges to rescue it from the policies of the Congress of the United States and the unary Executive that they helped to create? Now that's a rich vein of hypocrisy.
Activism: When non policy-making figure disagrees with you.
So I hand the cab driver a chuckey-cheeses token and he says "that's not real currency". Damned activist cabbies!
It doesn't say you can't edit. It just legitimatizes the secrete editing squads who serve their own purposes. All this means is that if you edit and it says something they do not like, no one else will ever see it.
That is pretty much how it works now. It is what separates Wikipedia from the Usenet archives.
But by all means, paint anonymous people as the undesirables of the world. If it makes you feel any better.
Ok. I have absolutely no problem judging people by a hard-earned reputation, or by the attempt to hide their reputation. There may one day be old anonymous spirituals such as "oh, lordy, prevent the thing that happened, which I want no one to know about for fear that it may identify me", or "when the anon-edits come back online (I will post 'Obama is a pussy')"...
o Who is a "trusted" editor?
o What is the qualification process for earning "trust"?
This sounds like a bad slippery slope argument. Their current editors could make one final edit, and lock all the articles, anyway, if they wanted to do something evil.
o And the Big Question(tm) - Will the qualification process work quickly enough to match the growth in new biographic articles?
If the last one turns out to be "no" there will be a fairly sharp drop off in new articles. This strikes me as quickly becoming one of those "seemed like a good idea at the time" moments.
It depends on how high they want to set the bar. they could set it at the "if it isn't obviously propaganda or BS, then it goes up", and have an incredible turn-around for all but the most obscure up-and-coming people.
Slashdot Mirror
Very good. The judges also would have accepted:
Of course. That's how windows got it's start. Without it, Steve Jobs would never have been able to have invented Napster and we would all be listening to Warrant on transistor radios.
IANAL, but one other factor with NBC is that they took something not normally associated with their product and associated it. For example, an image of an apple is a strong trademark for a company that makes computers, but not for one that sells Apples. If these duck calls sound like ducks (as opposed to something off the wall, like Jon Lovitz saying "quack"), then that is about as generic as you can get for a "duck tour"
...to actually require the developer to deliver a complete, bug free, enjoyable gaming experience BEFORE they ship it instead of sometime in the indefinite future.
1
CO is a very good game, but it's undergoing nearly nightly changes and by the developer's own admission the support for a gamepad controller is only half-baked at the moment.
So no way in hell is the game complete enough to pass the standards of any console game company,
2
let alone Microsoft which has some of the highest standards around.
3
The standard PC philosophy of "just ship it, we'll patch it later" will not fly in the console world, even if the console vendors are open to the kind of ongoing incremental enhancements that MMOGs are known for.
G.
Congratulations, you have just earned 3 irony points. You are 12 away from advancement.
I think it was more like Diablo. You and a friend link up and both go through the game. There was no point at which you were exposed to anyone you didn't already know.
You were lucky to have instant messenger. Back in my day, we were typing on our hand-me down PCs, logged onto Prodigy and waited minutes for typed responses on a bulletin board to return, day in, day out. We praised the day we got our 33.6 modem and signed on to Compuserve.
In case for the humor impaired, I'm riffing on the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.
Back in my day, we had that joke. We couldn't use it to communicate or learn anything new. We just repeated it over and over, in hopes it would ease the mind-numbing boredom...Ah, those were the days.
He may have also observed that if you do not hold tightly while unscrewing the cracker, it can break my windshield....or his windshield, I mean.
Was your doctor the scarecrow?
Wind farms look like tornados on radar --> wind farms and tornados are the same --> wind farms cause tornados
Time to start a panic. Snopes here I come /
/
For extra credit:
Tornados are a weather event --> all major weather changes are caused by global warming --> wind farms cause global warming
Umm...Global warming does not exist (according to Rush Limbaugh) --> Wind farms do not exist. --> People on wind farms do not exist.
Ghosts do not exist. --> Non-existent wind farms are haunted (according to Rush Limbaugh).
browser="lynx";begin_comment="Now starting ";echo $begin_comment $browser; `$browser`;end_comment="terminated";echo $browser $terminated;
Crap! That should have read:
browser="lynx";begin_comment="Now starting ";echo $begin_comment $browser; `$browser`;end_comment="terminated";echo $browser $end_comment;
Maybe this twitter guy is better at this than I am.
That's not a web browser! *This* is a web browser:
lynx
(And yes, it runs on Linux...)
Too simple. Try this:
browser="lynx";begin_comment="Now starting ";echo $begin_comment $browser; `$browser`;end_comment="terminated";echo $browser $terminated;
All in one line of code. Now, that is some l33t coding skills, yo!
So, they seem to be implying that robocalls are valid for anything that is protected speech. If that were true, you could set up a robocall that calls people and says "Legalize robocalls".
Calls from political campaigns are considered protected speech
But who knew we'd already granted computers rights?!!
As much as I hate robocalls, I think a prerecorded message is analogous to either a bullhorn or a prerecorded television ad. So, if "vote for me" is protected when a human says it, then it should be when he records it and transmits it electronically.
Part of me is smirking at the idea of some police officer telling Steven Hawking "You have the right to free speech, but that voice thingy you use doesn't"
And don't forget low-budget!
For the record I am bipolar (Manic Depressive in old terminology).
So does that mean you're only smart 50% of the time? Sorry, I had to say it.
(From the "apply now" link on http://www.iqor.com/. Emphasis mine)
To get started, all you need is your:
- Name
- SSN/SIN or Personal Identification Number or National Insurance Number
and you are ready to start!
Good luck!
WTF? A chance to work for $100,000 per year, with no college, and all they need is your social, or some other piece of Identity theft bait?
Is there really anything scientific or technological that we cant do vastly better now that 1906? Its like the captain of the senior football team boasting about stealing lunch money from a 7th grader.
Mousetraps? Yes, we do create vehicles vastly superior to what existed in 1906. Some are gas powered, some are electric, and others use a combination of the two. When you throw in the limitation that we must base some critical aspects of the design on 1906 technology, the difficulty increases.
So what if the name of the song is "THAT'S STEALING!". Sales will skyrocket for that band.
Jane's Addiction?
That's still no reason to falsely accuse someone.
Agreed, why not just instruct people to point and scream "witch!".
It would be too confusing. That's also the standard procedure when meeting Nancy Pelosi.
What's the ranking of the question "How do I get rid of the Awsomebar" on various forums?
Pretty high, I bet.
What is the ranking of "Who the hell thought awsomebar was a good name"?
Maybe you don't want your wife and kids to have porn urls popping up on the browser
Maybe if you're married & have children you shouldn't be looking at porn, then you wouldn't have that problem...
But it's worth the extra hassle!
So an organization that loves to complain, loudly and vocally, about "judicial activism," now wants judges to rescue it from the policies of the Congress of the United States and the unary Executive that they helped to create? Now that's a rich vein of hypocrisy.
Activism: When non policy-making figure disagrees with you.
So I hand the cab driver a chuckey-cheeses token and he says "that's not real currency". Damned activist cabbies!
It doesn't say you can't edit. It just legitimatizes the secrete editing squads who serve their own purposes. All this means is that if you edit and it says something they do not like, no one else will ever see it.
That is pretty much how it works now. It is what separates Wikipedia from the Usenet archives.
But by all means, paint anonymous people as the undesirables of the world. If it makes you feel any better.
Ok. I have absolutely no problem judging people by a hard-earned reputation, or by the attempt to hide their reputation. There may one day be old anonymous spirituals such as "oh, lordy, prevent the thing that happened, which I want no one to know about for fear that it may identify me", or "when the anon-edits come back online (I will post 'Obama is a pussy')"...
I am skeptical, however.
Peer review works fine, if all peers are equal.
I think that would be "mob review". The problem with that is that you are putting facts up for a vote, and a well-crafted lie can win most elections.
o Who is a "trusted" editor?
o What is the qualification process for earning "trust"?
This sounds like a bad slippery slope argument. Their current editors could make one final edit, and lock all the articles, anyway, if they wanted to do something evil.
o And the Big Question(tm) - Will the qualification process work quickly enough to match the growth in new biographic articles?
If the last one turns out to be "no" there will be a fairly sharp drop off in new articles. This strikes me as quickly becoming one of those "seemed like a good idea at the time" moments.
It depends on how high they want to set the bar. they could set it at the "if it isn't obviously propaganda or BS, then it goes up", and have an incredible turn-around for all but the most obscure up-and-coming people.