His point wasn't that Amish are more likely to commit incest. His point was that once it happens they are less likely to do anything about it, and that a 'forgive and forget' mentality cuts both ways.
I'm gonna be coming through neighborhoods robbing houses, just put a card that reads "robots.txt" on your windowsill if you don't want me to break in. Note that "ROBOTS.TXT" is the card for some other burglar, and I won't accept that as an opt-out.
I think he means he has only been following the video game market for the last 7 or 8 years, but he feels qualified to make statements about the entire history of the 'videogame console market'. Personally, I'm just glad people like this play the stock market.
It isn't a civil suit so no harm needs to be done. Commiting fraud by pretending to be someone else, in order to get their phone records, is illegal. What harm is done when some hood smokes weed? There is no standard of 'harm' that has to be met.
I like my sony fontopias (almost anything else sony is crap, but these are awesome, if you don't believe me, read up online). Quasi canal phones that come with 3 differnt sized latex fittings for around 30 bucks. Does a pretty good job of isolating outside noise, which means you can listen to them at lower volumes without losing detail, which your ears will thank you for.
If what you say is true, then they aren't too "cheap" to do these things, because it would be cheaper if they did them and didn't have to send out service techs every time it rains.
"Why would I not be viewing this content fullscreen?" Fullscreen is generally a synonym for '4:3'. I assume you aren't scaling and cropping to fit 800x600 as you said yourself '800x450 [roughly]'. That's all I meant by fullscreen. For example, the game Soul Calibur II on the original Xbox can output to HD in a 4:3 aspect ration, and it indeed would look significantly better at 800x600 than at standard resolution.
I'm just curious, why not headphones? The only people I've ever met who insist on not using headphones do so because they think they have some higher taste in music than everyone else and everyone else should be mesmorized by this taste and worship them as a god.
It is quite clear to me from your post that you are running linux and you are running Google Earth with software GL. Check to see if drivers are available for your on-board chipset--if it is intel they likely are.
My CD drive died within 5 months, and I know 3 friends whose drives died as well (two were early enough to be replaced free of charge). We all had PS2's from the original batch.
"Which I don't mind; I have multiple dvd players anyway, and it makes teh Wii cheaper since they don't have to licence the dvd encryption stuff."
They wouldn't have to, they could just sell DVD functionality on their online store thing. You don't think the XBox DVD dongle/remote really costs $30 do you? That price covers the encryption fees. Sony had to eat that money on every PS2 sold, even if not every consumer would even ever use the thing as a DVD player.
"I have an 600x800 projector and 1080i content downsampled to that device looks MUCH better than DVD's." Please explain how. I'm gonna assume you mean 800x600, a typical DVD is 720 × 480. The most you can get out of a 800x600 projector widescreen is 800x450. Unless you are viewing fullscreen HD content and comparing it with fullscreen DVDs, I don't think the difference is as drastic as you claim. I think you are likely playing the DVDs on a composite output DVD player and comparing it to a computer hooked up with HDMI or RGB.
My thoughts exactly. The article said, "although it does fail to credit XP as being markedly better than its predecessors," and frankly that is just bullshit. It was not markedly better than w2k by any means.
"Ranking will be determined by the attributes that the sellers listed for the product as well as by relevancy"
He might as well have said, "Relevancy will be determined by the amount of relevancy told to us by the sellers, as well as by relevancy." Google's whole thing is pagerank, and I don't think they have come close to duplicating the success of that in anything except hyperlinked documents. Initiatives like this make me feel like Google is just throwing in their lot with all the others, but I guess we'll have to see.
"Microsoft wanted to destroy Netscape on the browser end to make sure most web apps were tied to Windows, while also [releasing internet explorer for mac and unix]." Doesn't make any sense to me.
Then he would have to write well enough that his changes were better than the original prose; otherwise his changes would get rolled back by someone. If he could do it better than the original, why not just use what would have been his changes in his paper?
That really doesn't add up. First to file means I can invent something a week before you, you file it first and get the patent, and then mine can still be used as prior art, thereby making a simple timing issue cause there to be no patent at all? I thought prior art under such a system had some requirements on some things, e.g. the invention had to be previously publically known or disclosed.
From what I played at E3, Wii Sports is just a bucket of parlor tricks. Of course I only played the tennis game, but in that tennis game you can't even control where your characters move. I thought the swinging of the wiimote would emulate a racket, but it isn't like that at all. It is like you swing it, and it presses the hit button. If you twist as you swing, it presses the drop shot button. It isn't like you twist hard and it does a more severe drop shot, it is just gesture recognition. I was completely let down with the whole experience. I hope with time more people can do better with the controller, but I'm seriously doubting it.
When everyone saw the controller they thought of sword games. From seeing how Red Steel has implemented sword play I am extremely depressed. It is about the equivalent of what you would get with a DS sword game (e.g. you literally draw gestures on the screen).
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His point wasn't that Amish are more likely to commit incest. His point was that once it happens they are less likely to do anything about it, and that a 'forgive and forget' mentality cuts both ways.
"This may encourage more people to read the complete work (not part of the argument, but it is a peeve of mine)"
"(umm.. ironically no complaints about Amazon, B&N, Alibris, etc. who provide this exact same functionality on a smaller scale)."
Apparently your pet peeve only applies to other people. Amazon et. al. get permission for the books they scan.
Librarians make money, and yet they are allowed to do just such a search, and even return to you a photocopied page.
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I'm gonna be coming through neighborhoods robbing houses, just put a card that reads "robots.txt" on your windowsill if you don't want me to break in. Note that "ROBOTS.TXT" is the card for some other burglar, and I won't accept that as an opt-out.
I think he means he has only been following the video game market for the last 7 or 8 years, but he feels qualified to make statements about the entire history of the 'videogame console market'. Personally, I'm just glad people like this play the stock market.
It isn't a civil suit so no harm needs to be done. Commiting fraud by pretending to be someone else, in order to get their phone records, is illegal. What harm is done when some hood smokes weed? There is no standard of 'harm' that has to be met.
I like my sony fontopias (almost anything else sony is crap, but these are awesome, if you don't believe me, read up online). Quasi canal phones that come with 3 differnt sized latex fittings for around 30 bucks. Does a pretty good job of isolating outside noise, which means you can listen to them at lower volumes without losing detail, which your ears will thank you for.
If what you say is true, then they aren't too "cheap" to do these things, because it would be cheaper if they did them and didn't have to send out service techs every time it rains.
"Why would I not be viewing this content fullscreen?" Fullscreen is generally a synonym for '4:3'. I assume you aren't scaling and cropping to fit 800x600 as you said yourself '800x450 [roughly]'. That's all I meant by fullscreen. For example, the game Soul Calibur II on the original Xbox can output to HD in a 4:3 aspect ration, and it indeed would look significantly better at 800x600 than at standard resolution.
I'm just curious, why not headphones? The only people I've ever met who insist on not using headphones do so because they think they have some higher taste in music than everyone else and everyone else should be mesmorized by this taste and worship them as a god.
Since when is 45 minutes a 4.5gig movie? Or did you not read the parent at all. Jesus christ.
Church may not directly do so, but indirectly, they sell fancy clothes. Church is a veritable fashion show I tells ya.
Imagine you could use a laser pointer on your TV as a mouse. That is basically what the Wii is. All the motion sensing stuff is very marginal.
I unconditionafathomabally don't listen to anyone who uses the term acceptionally.
It is quite clear to me from your post that you are running linux and you are running Google Earth with software GL. Check to see if drivers are available for your on-board chipset--if it is intel they likely are.
My CD drive died within 5 months, and I know 3 friends whose drives died as well (two were early enough to be replaced free of charge). We all had PS2's from the original batch.
"Which I don't mind; I have multiple dvd players anyway, and it makes teh Wii cheaper since they don't have to licence the dvd encryption stuff."
They wouldn't have to, they could just sell DVD functionality on their online store thing. You don't think the XBox DVD dongle/remote really costs $30 do you? That price covers the encryption fees. Sony had to eat that money on every PS2 sold, even if not every consumer would even ever use the thing as a DVD player.
"I have an 600x800 projector and 1080i content downsampled to that device looks MUCH better than DVD's."
Please explain how. I'm gonna assume you mean 800x600, a typical DVD is 720 × 480. The most you can get out of a 800x600 projector widescreen is 800x450. Unless you are viewing fullscreen HD content and comparing it with fullscreen DVDs, I don't think the difference is as drastic as you claim. I think you are likely playing the DVDs on a composite output DVD player and comparing it to a computer hooked up with HDMI or RGB.
My thoughts exactly. The article said, "although it does fail to credit XP as being markedly better than its predecessors," and frankly that is just bullshit. It was not markedly better than w2k by any means.
"Ranking will be determined by the attributes that the sellers listed for the product as well as by relevancy"
He might as well have said, "Relevancy will be determined by the amount of relevancy told to us by the sellers, as well as by relevancy." Google's whole thing is pagerank, and I don't think they have come close to duplicating the success of that in anything except hyperlinked documents. Initiatives like this make me feel like Google is just throwing in their lot with all the others, but I guess we'll have to see.
"Microsoft wanted to destroy Netscape on the browser end to make sure most web apps were tied to Windows, while also [releasing internet explorer for mac and unix]." Doesn't make any sense to me.
Then he would have to write well enough that his changes were better than the original prose; otherwise his changes would get rolled back by someone. If he could do it better than the original, why not just use what would have been his changes in his paper?
That really doesn't add up. First to file means I can invent something a week before you, you file it first and get the patent, and then mine can still be used as prior art, thereby making a simple timing issue cause there to be no patent at all? I thought prior art under such a system had some requirements on some things, e.g. the invention had to be previously publically known or disclosed.
From what I played at E3, Wii Sports is just a bucket of parlor tricks. Of course I only played the tennis game, but in that tennis game you can't even control where your characters move. I thought the swinging of the wiimote would emulate a racket, but it isn't like that at all. It is like you swing it, and it presses the hit button. If you twist as you swing, it presses the drop shot button. It isn't like you twist hard and it does a more severe drop shot, it is just gesture recognition. I was completely let down with the whole experience. I hope with time more people can do better with the controller, but I'm seriously doubting it.
When everyone saw the controller they thought of sword games. From seeing how Red Steel has implemented sword play I am extremely depressed. It is about the equivalent of what you would get with a DS sword game (e.g. you literally draw gestures on the screen).
"StarFox got worse and worse with every release"
I a huge fan of Starfox on SNES, but even I agree it was before its time. Starfox definitely got drastically better when it came out on the N64.