Not only is the sample size small, but the conclusion is flawed based on the experiment. All we know is that 1/3 of the 16 picked the "inferior" sample as sounding better. The other 2/3 could have just gotten lucky. After all, if every single one of the 16 people were stone cold deaf and just had to pick randomly, the headline (based on this logic) would still read "1/2 of People Can't Tell..."
A better methodology would involve making the 16 people listen to a couple dozen different samples so the testers can decide if they do substantially better than 50% at picking the "superior" recordings.
Of course, this analysis doesn't even take into account how "better" is entirely subjective...
Wiring the iPod output directly to the aux inputs on the head unit is by far the best route, but consumers need to do their research before they buy a car and/or an iPod planning on doing this. My wife has a 2005 Corolla with a 6 disc in-dash CD changer, and there is no aux input. I can't replace the head unit because it's all proprietary wiring that is dependent on several other systems. After talking to a few car stereo places, it seems like this is increasingly becoming the norm for auto makers. For us, an FM transmitter was the only feasible option, and not a very good one at that, as we live in DC and it's hard to find a free channel.
Nobody knows. There was an ask/. a while back with a copyright lawyer. Basically, the only thing that's been tested in court is making personal copies of casette tapes for home use purposes. There's no court precedent that buying a DVD gives you a license to own that content in any format. That's not to say it's definitely illegal, but the only legal answer a lawyer will give you right now to your "kid scratched my DVD up" problem is "go buy another one." Fair use rules in the home recording act have only been narrowly interpreted, and they'll remain that way as long as the MPAA doesn't sue individual downloaders.
Commentary in another Slashdot thread mentioned that web-critics have argued that the documentary just isn't very good, showing vulnerabilities that would be prohibitively difficult to exploit in a real election. I haven't seen the documentary myself, but how would you rate the plausability of the hacks discussed in it? Does the documentary express the right concerns?
"I think the core of your question is about giving away Windows licenses for free. We love developers, period. We're also not about to give away Windows client licenses."
Seems that he missed the real core of the question, what's so special about IE that they blocked it from running in Wine?
I've already experienced this pain. At my last programming shop, I was tasked with gathering up all the licensing info for an upcoming USAF Unit inspection. For the most part, we had done a pretty good job of keeping receipts and original CDs/certificates. I figured I could make a good case for proving that we actually had licenses for everything, even though none of those is technically a license. However, we had some software from Borland that we purchased online and downloaded at an annual cost of $15,000. The only things I could produce, in fact the only things we ever received, were burned CDs, a registration key, and some email traffic which was saved as.txt files... not exactly convincing evidence. Of course, all we ever had to do was call Borland and ask them if we had the licenses, and they would have said "sure," but what if their records got corrupted? And how could I appease the management? Just by saying, "trust me," and "call Borland if you don't believe me." It got pretty ugly... luckily I left before the shit hit the fan.
I call bunk on this. Aside from getting the name wrong (John Lydon), I couldn't find any news stories about Johnny Rotten getting detained anywhere for anything, terrorist related or not. Surely someone would have found that newsworthy.
I respectfully disagree. There *IS* something wrong with regulation, and the problems that arise from it are not due to stupidity and greed, but are always going to be there despire the best of intentions and executions. Allow me to explain.
The market has decided that it wants to pay a certain amount of money for dating sites, and at that price they're willing to accept a certain risk of fraud. If people were really clamoring for less risk of fraud, a site could beef up it's fraud protection, charge a bit more, and if it took off, other sites would follow suit.
The regulatory alternative is to force sites to beef up their fraud protection. Now they have to charge more, which isn't what the people want, so less people sign up, which means those who do sign up are less likely to meet the love of their life.
What people really want is for prices to stay the same but fraud protection to increase, which is impossible. So let the market determine how much fraud protection people are *actually*, not theoretically, willing to pay for. They can do it much more quickly and effectively than politicians. In fact, it's already been done.
It's amazing what those crazy scientists can come up with when put under the pressures of high gas prices. Smaller cars!
All that happened in the 70s is that US car makers started making "compact cars" to compete with the "fuel efficient" imports from japan. No new tech... just less weight to drag around.
If we really wanted to, I'm sure there're plenty of anemic little 3 or 4 cylinder european and japanese cars we could import and bring our national fuel economy up 15 MPGs. But nobody wants to buy a 2000 pound 2 seater that takes 15 seconds to get to 60 MPH. Even if gas were to double in price, I think the smallest the average citizen is willing to go is a Honda Civic.
So, what the heck would I talk about with people? All their favorite conversational topics are non-starters with me (sex, right-wing politics, sports, television). I talk about my work and their eyes glaze over. I mention anime and they give me this "yeah, ok, great" look. As if their sitcoms were adult fare... We have nothing in common.
I hear this a lot from nerds, and the answer often surprises them. Ask questions. If someone really wants to hear about your job or you hobbies, they'll ask. If they don't ask, don't tell them. Instead, ask them what they do, and what their hobbies are. You can have hours and hours of conversation simply by asking a series of questions. For example... "Have you taken any vacations recently?" will usually yield a positive response... then you can ask them where they went, what was it like. It may not be interesting, but it chances are it will be entertaining and you'll learn something. And people love talking about themselves. Give it a shot.
It should be noted that the same coolers have been available from Zalman for some time. That they're now packaged from the factory with this cards should hardly be newsworthy.
275 fps for a p4 3.0 seemed a little bit low, so I jumped over to Anandtech to see what they're used to getting. This link shows that the newest p4 (3.2) running on an nforce2 board with a radeon 9700 (not the 9800 used in the apple comparo) gets over 400 fps at the same resolution. Seems like a significant discrepancy.
The confusion over this issue has been bothering me ever since the story broke several months ago.
XBOX mod chips ARE NOT ILLEGAL! They never have been! I just bought one last week. The mod chip is nothing more than a regular PC bios chip with some circuitry to override the on-board bios. The bios that I downloaded from IRC and flashed to my mod chip IS illegal. It's just a slightly modified version of the COPYRIGHTED xbox bios. Now, you can argue about the legality of copyright law, but this has nothing to do with the DMCA.
Moving onto the case in question, this guy was selling mod chips with the modified (illegal) bios already installed. Big mistake. If he had been selling blank modchips like the rest of the world, he would have been fine.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go play my pirated copy of DOA: Beach Volleyball...
the ACLU sued my high school the year after i left because our district policy was to cancel school if 20% of the students weren't going to be there. it just so happened that the high school was 20% jewish that year, so they closed school on rash hashana and yom kippur. The ACLU thought that was unfair to the goyim who wanted to go to class.
if we give our support to the ACLU when they pick a good fight, and ignore them when they pick a stupid one, they might eventually figure it all out.
i used to work at a computer recycler in columbus called "raven tech." i'm sure there's something similar in your area. they take just about anything that remotely resembles a computer, and then break it down. somebody comes and collects the cases for scrap, all the cards are melted down for the gold leads and other metals, and the old processors apparently contain about $3 worth of gold. they even cut up ribbon cables for the gold in the connectors. they won't give you any money for your old stuff, but they'll take it off your hands for you.
what i want is a 7 foot wide screen that takes up a whole wall. no need for high resolutions, half-dollar-sized pixels are fine. then i could sit on the other side of my room and play unreal. sweet.
naturally, i feel that the school was wrong, but the situation isn't all that one-sided.
the AP article said the school is about one percent black. assuming the school is 500 children (the size of all the elementary schools in my area), then there are 5 black kids, which generally isn't enough to form a support group. if a school is 20% black, then all the kids can live in their own black culture, but with only 5 kids, they pretty much have to do everything that the white kids do. now they're walking through their gym and they see a very well planned experiment that shows that they are not liked by kids their age. ouch.
if they had a bunch of other blacks to fall back on, it would be better, but that's gotta hurt.
is this movie even targetted to teenage boys? a bunch of actors in their late 20s depicting people in their late 20s, two of whom are getting married... sounds like a 20-something target audience to me. teenage boys generally don't care about old people getting married.
furthermore, why did jon katz tackle such a challenging movie review? did anyone actually expect this movie to be good? did any of the ACTUAL movie critics give it a good review? no?!? why do we need another crappy review, then?
is how they think this will somehow whet the appetite of child porn addicts.
it's gonna end up being like drinking in college. so long as you're under 21, you'll drink like mad just because you can. once it's legal, it loses its appeal.
if anything, i think actually seeing some child porn would help most sickos fill their appetite for child porn.
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The only question is why they replaced "dog" with the snootier "canine," but the sentences parses just the same. /Buzz Killington
Not only is the sample size small, but the conclusion is flawed based on the experiment. All we know is that 1/3 of the 16 picked the "inferior" sample as sounding better. The other 2/3 could have just gotten lucky. After all, if every single one of the 16 people were stone cold deaf and just had to pick randomly, the headline (based on this logic) would still read "1/2 of People Can't Tell..."
A better methodology would involve making the 16 people listen to a couple dozen different samples so the testers can decide if they do substantially better than 50% at picking the "superior" recordings.
Of course, this analysis doesn't even take into account how "better" is entirely subjective...
Spiders don't swallow prey whole.
Well sure, not EARTH spiders.
For real. My usual example of this is sex. Most people's sweaty, contorted faces don't look anything close to a smile.
The concourse is still there, with all the shops you described, albeit on the 1st level and not open to the public.
Wiring the iPod output directly to the aux inputs on the head unit is by far the best route, but consumers need to do their research before they buy a car and/or an iPod planning on doing this. My wife has a 2005 Corolla with a 6 disc in-dash CD changer, and there is no aux input. I can't replace the head unit because it's all proprietary wiring that is dependent on several other systems. After talking to a few car stereo places, it seems like this is increasingly becoming the norm for auto makers. For us, an FM transmitter was the only feasible option, and not a very good one at that, as we live in DC and it's hard to find a free channel.
Nobody knows. There was an ask /. a while back with a copyright lawyer. Basically, the only thing that's been tested in court is making personal copies of casette tapes for home use purposes. There's no court precedent that buying a DVD gives you a license to own that content in any format. That's not to say it's definitely illegal, but the only legal answer a lawyer will give you right now to your "kid scratched my DVD up" problem is "go buy another one." Fair use rules in the home recording act have only been narrowly interpreted, and they'll remain that way as long as the MPAA doesn't sue individual downloaders.
Commentary in another Slashdot thread mentioned that web-critics have argued that the documentary just isn't very good, showing vulnerabilities that would be prohibitively difficult to exploit in a real election. I haven't seen the documentary myself, but how would you rate the plausability of the hacks discussed in it? Does the documentary express the right concerns?
"I think the core of your question is about giving away Windows licenses for free. We love developers, period. We're also not about to give away Windows client licenses."
Seems that he missed the real core of the question, what's so special about IE that they blocked it from running in Wine?
I've already experienced this pain. At my last programming shop, I was tasked with gathering up all the licensing info for an upcoming USAF Unit inspection. For the most part, we had done a pretty good job of keeping receipts and original CDs/certificates. I figured I could make a good case for proving that we actually had licenses for everything, even though none of those is technically a license. However, we had some software from Borland that we purchased online and downloaded at an annual cost of $15,000. The only things I could produce, in fact the only things we ever received, were burned CDs, a registration key, and some email traffic which was saved as .txt files... not exactly convincing evidence. Of course, all we ever had to do was call Borland and ask them if we had the licenses, and they would have said "sure," but what if their records got corrupted? And how could I appease the management? Just by saying, "trust me," and "call Borland if you don't believe me." It got pretty ugly... luckily I left before the shit hit the fan.
I call bunk on this. Aside from getting the name wrong (John Lydon), I couldn't find any news stories about Johnny Rotten getting detained anywhere for anything, terrorist related or not. Surely someone would have found that newsworthy.
I respectfully disagree. There *IS* something wrong with regulation, and the problems that arise from it are not due to stupidity and greed, but are always going to be there despire the best of intentions and executions. Allow me to explain.
The market has decided that it wants to pay a certain amount of money for dating sites, and at that price they're willing to accept a certain risk of fraud. If people were really clamoring for less risk of fraud, a site could beef up it's fraud protection, charge a bit more, and if it took off, other sites would follow suit.
The regulatory alternative is to force sites to beef up their fraud protection. Now they have to charge more, which isn't what the people want, so less people sign up, which means those who do sign up are less likely to meet the love of their life.
What people really want is for prices to stay the same but fraud protection to increase, which is impossible. So let the market determine how much fraud protection people are *actually*, not theoretically, willing to pay for. They can do it much more quickly and effectively than politicians. In fact, it's already been done.
It's amazing what those crazy scientists can come up with when put under the pressures of high gas prices. Smaller cars!
All that happened in the 70s is that US car makers started making "compact cars" to compete with the "fuel efficient" imports from japan. No new tech... just less weight to drag around.
If we really wanted to, I'm sure there're plenty of anemic little 3 or 4 cylinder european and japanese cars we could import and bring our national fuel economy up 15 MPGs. But nobody wants to buy a 2000 pound 2 seater that takes 15 seconds to get to 60 MPH. Even if gas were to double in price, I think the smallest the average citizen is willing to go is a Honda Civic.
So, what the heck would I talk about with people? All their favorite conversational topics are non-starters with me (sex, right-wing politics, sports, television). I talk about my work and their eyes glaze over. I mention anime and they give me this "yeah, ok, great" look. As if their sitcoms were adult fare... We have nothing in common.
I hear this a lot from nerds, and the answer often surprises them. Ask questions. If someone really wants to hear about your job or you hobbies, they'll ask. If they don't ask, don't tell them. Instead, ask them what they do, and what their hobbies are. You can have hours and hours of conversation simply by asking a series of questions. For example... "Have you taken any vacations recently?" will usually yield a positive response... then you can ask them where they went, what was it like. It may not be interesting, but it chances are it will be entertaining and you'll learn something. And people love talking about themselves. Give it a shot.
It should be noted that the same coolers have been available from Zalman for some time. That they're now packaged from the factory with this cards should hardly be newsworthy.
275 fps for a p4 3.0 seemed a little bit low, so I jumped over to Anandtech to see what they're used to getting. This link shows that the newest p4 (3.2) running on an nforce2 board with a radeon 9700 (not the 9800 used in the apple comparo) gets over 400 fps at the same resolution. Seems like a significant discrepancy.
XBOX mod chips ARE NOT ILLEGAL! They never have been! I just bought one last week. The mod chip is nothing more than a regular PC bios chip with some circuitry to override the on-board bios. The bios that I downloaded from IRC and flashed to my mod chip IS illegal. It's just a slightly modified version of the COPYRIGHTED xbox bios. Now, you can argue about the legality of copyright law, but this has nothing to do with the DMCA.
Moving onto the case in question, this guy was selling mod chips with the modified (illegal) bios already installed. Big mistake. If he had been selling blank modchips like the rest of the world, he would have been fine.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go play my pirated copy of DOA: Beach Volleyball...
if we give our support to the ACLU when they pick a good fight, and ignore them when they pick a stupid one, they might eventually figure it all out.
i used to work at a computer recycler in columbus called "raven tech." i'm sure there's something similar in your area. they take just about anything that remotely resembles a computer, and then break it down. somebody comes and collects the cases for scrap, all the cards are melted down for the gold leads and other metals, and the old processors apparently contain about $3 worth of gold. they even cut up ribbon cables for the gold in the connectors. they won't give you any money for your old stuff, but they'll take it off your hands for you.
what i want is a 7 foot wide screen that takes up a whole wall. no need for high resolutions, half-dollar-sized pixels are fine. then i could sit on the other side of my room and play unreal. sweet.
the AP article said the school is about one percent black. assuming the school is 500 children (the size of all the elementary schools in my area), then there are 5 black kids, which generally isn't enough to form a support group. if a school is 20% black, then all the kids can live in their own black culture, but with only 5 kids, they pretty much have to do everything that the white kids do. now they're walking through their gym and they see a very well planned experiment that shows that they are not liked by kids their age. ouch.
if they had a bunch of other blacks to fall back on, it would be better, but that's gotta hurt.
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is this movie even targetted to teenage boys? a bunch of actors in their late 20s depicting people in their late 20s, two of whom are getting married... sounds like a 20-something target audience to me. teenage boys generally don't care about old people getting married. furthermore, why did jon katz tackle such a challenging movie review? did anyone actually expect this movie to be good? did any of the ACTUAL movie critics give it a good review? no?!? why do we need another crappy review, then?
is how they think this will somehow whet the appetite of child porn addicts. it's gonna end up being like drinking in college. so long as you're under 21, you'll drink like mad just because you can. once it's legal, it loses its appeal. if anything, i think actually seeing some child porn would help most sickos fill their appetite for child porn.