"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" --Epicurus
> So, it becomes time-consuming for her to open each file alongside the final-result file to see if it's 'too perfect.'"
How is it that she's grading these? One would assume the grade depends on similarity to the target image or the layers embedded in the file [1] which should be dependent on comparing the student file against the master.
Or is it yet another "Best try" scheme? "You tried, Timmy, so I give you an 'A'".
[1] Does Photoshop embed the history inside the file? It's been awhile since I've worked with it.
Oddly enough, your car's VIN tag doesn't call your state DMV every 90 days, nor does it provide clues as to the location of your car if it did.
I get the 'only dishonest people need to worry' concept, I really do. The thing is, this is in large part a privacy invasion. You'd be surprised what someone can learn about you from something as simple as 'a computer running Win7 with an OEM key assigned to > reported from ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'
"Using the new technology, music labels and bands will be able to send updates to the music files – with tour dates, interviews or updates to social networking pages – while illegally-downloaded files remain static. "
It seems to me that an unspoken option to the above is that not only can content be added, it can also be removed or changed. Imagine having an 'Enhanced' MP3 with explicit language that you've paid for. Two weeks later, some parents' group sues the record publisher over the content of the track. The very next time you listen to the track, the original language has been replaced by a reference to warm puppies.
The problem is, a significant percentage of the music-buying public would have to disappear in a very short span of time for the advertisers to notice, let alone pull out. Voting with your wallet is a valiant ideal, but the reality is that the vast majority of music buyers *arent* reading./, they're reading TMZ (et al).
To paraphrase the troll,
The market is the root node of the money supply.
The customer is just a very small part of the market.
The phone is targeted for emerging markets, where people don't like to tie themselves into monthly contracts, and with little value proposition presents little interest to US wireless operators.
The wireless operators won't tell you this - for obvious reasons - but you're absolutely NOT required to purchase your phone from them. The bottom line is that you can aquire an unlocked, factory-direct phone from places like eXpansys. After that, simply call the carrier to do an ESN swap or in the case of GSM place the SIM in the new phone.
The trick, of course, is knowing the technology your carrier supports. I don't expect that to be an issue for this crowd.
Your honor, we at the RIAA should have final say over the uses our licensed content are put to. To allow the end user to transfer the content that WE placed into THEIR hands to another medium is simply not fair, I repeat, not fair not fairnot fairnot fairnotfairnotfairnotfairnotfairNOTFAIRWAAAAAAAAAA A... *looks around* *ahem* not fair use. </riaa>
We are currently on a large recruitment drive and our targets are very ambitious.
You have jobs for all these people, right? Or will you be keeping the bulk "on file"?
This has been my experience, and it sucks.
And given this, it may be interesting to note that just about all other major browsers render compliant to standards, despite having frequent release schedules.
I've been busted on more than once while watching the show with criticisms that you're just 'boys with their toys'. Personally, I think you go to great lengths to show just why we shouldn't 'do this at home'.
The InterActual player has absolutely nothing to do with the DVD's content, other than to allow otherwise software-deprived windows users to view the disk. An InterActual DVD is just like any other css-disabled disk.
Spyware? Maybe. Annoying? Definately.
MPlayer, Ogle, Xine, all should work as long as they're built against libdvdcss or similar.
If this garbage happens to pass as law, here's what I propose.
Set up a script that: 1) googles for a random dictionary-derived word 2) requests every link in the result set, randomly 3) lather, rinse, repeat.
They want data? Let's give them data. But let's make that data useless to analyze and difficult to search through.
I'm by no means 'soft on child porn', to paraphrase the article, but a freedom lost in the name of justice is still a freedom lost. ANY freedom lost just opens the door to more losses.
Distributor, regardless of any of these other (rather sparse) comments, I'd like to thank you for your efforts. I, who previously laughed at MMORPG players, got sucked right in and now it's sucking up every bit of my free time. *grin*
That being said, I'd like to agree with someone who posted upthread. I'd like to see at the very least an x86 Linux version, if not an OSX version.
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"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?"
--Epicurus
Cold and snowy, with occasional flurries of flying pigs.
> So, it becomes time-consuming for her to open each file alongside the final-result file to see if it's 'too perfect.'"
How is it that she's grading these? One would assume the grade depends on similarity to the target image or the layers embedded in the file [1] which should be dependent on comparing the student file against the master.
Or is it yet another "Best try" scheme? "You tried, Timmy, so I give you an 'A'".
[1] Does Photoshop embed the history inside the file? It's been awhile since I've worked with it.
Considering all the tweets and pictures emitted while on-set have been deleted, I would be surprised if the episode ever made the light of day.
Oddly enough, your car's VIN tag doesn't call your state DMV every 90 days, nor does it provide clues as to the location of your car if it did.
I get the 'only dishonest people need to worry' concept, I really do. The thing is, this is in large part a privacy invasion. You'd be surprised what someone can learn about you from something as simple as 'a computer running Win7 with an OEM key assigned to > reported from ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'
This is just one more reason for me not to use windows.
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Microsoft free for over five years.
'texting' will be the death of the English language as we've known it.
Or to put it another way:
Quick! Get those generators hooked up to Twain, Hemingway, and Shakespeare! When they start spinning, we'll have all the energy we need.
"Using the new technology, music labels and bands will be able to send updates to the music files – with tour dates, interviews or updates to social networking pages – while illegally-downloaded files remain static. "
It seems to me that an unspoken option to the above is that not only can content be added, it can also be removed or changed. Imagine having an 'Enhanced' MP3 with explicit language that you've paid for. Two weeks later, some parents' group sues the record publisher over the content of the track. The very next time you listen to the track, the original language has been replaced by a reference to warm puppies.
I'll take my music unchangable, thank you.
The problem is, a significant percentage of the music-buying public would have to disappear in a very short span of time for the advertisers to notice, let alone pull out. Voting with your wallet is a valiant ideal, but the reality is that the vast majority of music buyers *arent* reading ./, they're reading TMZ (et al).
To paraphrase the troll,
The market is the root node of the money supply.
The customer is just a very small part of the market.
"Suppose the DHS decides it wants a permanent archive of who was where, when?"
Suppose they already have?
Personally, I'm a big fan of WinOstracism.
BitTorrent and whatever CD-Burning app comes with the computer.
For prepping whatever Linux boot cd that will eventually wipe the machine.
Satire. Sarcasm. Irony. Sense of Humor. Look them up in a dictionary.
As a Liberal and yes, even a Libertarian -- I found the post damn funny.
Just a small note.
The phone is targeted for emerging markets, where people don't like to tie themselves into monthly contracts, and with little value proposition presents little interest to US wireless operators.
The wireless operators won't tell you this - for obvious reasons - but you're absolutely NOT required to purchase your phone from them. The bottom line is that you can aquire an unlocked, factory-direct phone from places like eXpansys. After that, simply call the carrier to do an ESN swap or in the case of GSM place the SIM in the new phone.
The trick, of course, is knowing the technology your carrier supports. I don't expect that to be an issue for this crowd.
I wasn't aware of him before you mentioned it.
Now I have to go brillo my brain.
Thanks. Thanks a lot.
Artemis is also a small lunar impact crater located in the Mare Imbrium region of the moon.
NEVER ever name a spacecraft after something resulting after a crash...
Your honor, we at the RIAA should have final say over the uses our licensed content are put to. To allow the end user to transfer the content that WE placed into THEIR hands to another medium is simply not fair, I repeat, not fair not fairnot fairnot fairnotfairnotfairnotfairnotfairNOTFAIRWAAAAAAAAA
</riaa>
We are currently on a large recruitment drive and our targets are very ambitious. You have jobs for all these people, right? Or will you be keeping the bulk "on file"? This has been my experience, and it sucks.
And given this, it may be interesting to note that just about all other major browsers render compliant to standards, despite having frequent release schedules.
Can MS say the same?
I've been busted on more than once while watching the show with criticisms that you're just 'boys with their toys'. Personally, I think you go to great lengths to show just why we shouldn't 'do this at home'.
How would you respond?
The InterActual player has absolutely nothing to do with the DVD's content, other than to allow otherwise software-deprived windows users to view the disk. An InterActual DVD is just like any other css-disabled disk.
Spyware? Maybe. Annoying? Definately.
MPlayer, Ogle, Xine, all should work as long as they're built against libdvdcss or similar.
If this garbage happens to pass as law, here's what I propose.
Set up a script that:
1) googles for a random dictionary-derived word
2) requests every link in the result set, randomly
3) lather, rinse, repeat.
They want data? Let's give them data. But let's make that data useless to analyze and difficult to search through.
I'm by no means 'soft on child porn', to paraphrase the article, but a freedom lost in the name of justice is still a freedom lost. ANY freedom lost just opens the door to more losses.
that in the footseteps of the U.S.A. - P.A.T.R.I.O.T act that this is F.E.C.A.Legislation?
Distributor, regardless of any of these other (rather sparse) comments, I'd like to thank you for your efforts. I, who previously laughed at MMORPG players, got sucked right in and now it's sucking up every bit of my free time. *grin*
That being said, I'd like to agree with someone who posted upthread. I'd like to see at the very least an x86 Linux version, if not an OSX version.
For any given US corporation, it would be a mistake to assuume the answer to this question is anything but yes.