Police don't exist to eliminate crime. That's impossible. Police exist to control crime. I think that's much how it should be too. How would you like to get a speeding ticket everytime you drove faster than the speed limit or jay-walked? If you can get away with it, good for you. It makes a more interesting and dynamic game environment.
I'm sorry I came across as an elitist. That definitely wasn't what I intended. I know the elitists of which you speak, but I am not among them. I like songs by Justin Timberlake and Linkin Park along with Greg Musso and Problem Kid. I don't think pop music is bad music.
Based on what you wrote, it sounds like you "get" it. Judge which music you like based on the sound and the content, not how cool it is or who else likes it. I think the elitists are even worse than the inside-the-box radio fans. This is because they claim to know a lot about music, so they should know better than refusing to listen to whole genres of music. They fail to appreciate pop music for what it is.
But you can't tell me there aren't people out there who think if it's not on radio it's because "it must not be good enough to make it".
Well, in the real world...
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We have authorities to stop this, such as police. Why should the virtual world be any different? Have some avatars be virtual police. Human or machine controlled.
Do you think a major label would turn down a chance to sign another Moby? Hell fucking yes they would turn down a chance to sign "another Moby". They don't need another Moby. Moby is nothing special. They can create an artist out of nothing who has no talent that sells twice as much as Moby. They do it all the time.
Go to Detroit and you can find, in just about any record collector store, early singles and EPs from Seger, Nugent, Romantics, MC5 - music that wasn't on a major label. Sure didn't stop those guys from becoming arms of the machine. Yes, but you have to go to a record collector store to get those. Those certainly aren't being sold at Best Buy. I'll bet those albums didn't sell very well compared to their later sales figures either.
My position is actually that the RIAA exists because there is actually a demand for the service it provides. People don't know what music to like. The service the RIAA provides is to tell them. I'd wager that if the RIAA was abolished, a similar organization would form to take its place.
There is no doubt that music exists outside the RIAA. People who actually like music already know this. They already know how to get music they like. But the majority of people don't really care about music that much. Certainly not enough to spend time researching different genres and artists. It's much easier just to be told what to like. And there's money to made doing the telling, so it's only natural that the RIAA is so big.
Quite simply, Microsoft has not motivation to comply. How does the "research group" expect to keep their method from leaking? It will leak regardless. So Microsoft either makes an official linux bootloader for Xbox or not... Hmm.... tough choice.
First of all N*sync and Christina Aguilera aren't composing their own music. You probably already know this. I take issue, however, with your assertion that the composers of their music are not quality composers. I think they are some of the most talented composers on earth.
Whoa! Hold on a second! Did I just say I like Christina Aguilera's music? No. Not at all. But the composers of much pop music, such as Max Martin, are completely capable of making mousic I like, though they frequently don't.
A lot of pop music composers can make their music sound like anything. That is an incredible talent and they use it making that music which will bring them the most money. Now, not everyone with this talent produces pop music, but the best pop composers could make music that sounds like anything.
If they chose to, I'm sure they could easily make music that you would love the shit out of. They just choose not to because there's less money in it.
Also, just because you don't like N*sync and Christina Aguilera, don't think that you haven't been categorized by some marketing department somewhere. Yes, that's right, someone somewhere knows exactly what you like too.
15 year olds not interested in sex? As far as I'm aware that's approximately the forefront issue in their minds (at least the male ones, which predominantly account for the IT field)
Mozilla is wrong. http://www.slashdot.org/java.net is a valid url. Why should the browser second guess the author? In order to browse to to that url from a link on http://www.slashdot.org/, it would have to be fully qualified.
I always thought Javascript/DHTML would be a great tutorial language for multiple reasons...
2) Java is bloody simple...every class name is like written english, so they're very easy to remember
Java has nothing to do with Javascript. The only thing they have in common is the "Java" in the name. Other than that, they are completely different languages
Everyone thinks they know how to run a business. Microsoft on the other hand, has proved. I would tend to take MS's business plan over yours, since they seem to have a better track record.
I agree. This is definitely worse. As I like to phrase, it doesn't give people "the chance to be innocent." Even if you've done nothing wrong, your profile might lead law enforcement to follow you. This in itself might not be inherently bad, but it skirts dangerously close. There would probably some level of temptation to put too much stock in the profiling info. In extreme cases, it wouldn't (but should) be surprising that a certain profile leads law enforcement to assume guilt on the part of the profilee.
It seemed a lot more precise in Minority Report. And just cooler all around.
The only similarity this seems to have to TiVO is that it records things. Let's take a look at the features... Scheduled recording... nope Replay during recording... nope Play lagged behind recording... nope Manual record/play/stop action... yes
It appears to be functionally equivalent to a $40 boombox w/ cassette recorder, only for 4x the price and no speakers.
WHAT A DEAL!!! SIGN ME UP FOR ONE. NO WAIT. MAKE IT 100!!!!
Furthermore, java applets will run on the JVM just like they will in any other browser. The fact that the browser is also running on the JVM is not relevant.
I don't think this example has anything to do with ethics. What your professor was advocating was just a way of approaching a job which to me, sounds neither right nor wrong.
For example an unethical behavior might be agreeing to do the proposed activity without intending to do it.
The root of "volunteering" is voluntary. That means it is one's own choice to do it or not. Strictly optional. How could *not* volunteering be unethical? One could easily volunteer oneself into a black hole of unending projects. Not volunteering for projects you don't have time for is just common sense.
Please. I easily have more than 15 GB of legal MP3s, most of which are on my 20GB Archos. For someone who is serious about music, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a market for >100GB MP3 players.
And I do listen to all my music. I have diverse tastes, and it might be a while before I listen to one particular song again, but I do eventually listen to all the music.
Granted my music consuming habits are probably not representative of the general public, but then I think most people use MP3 players for listening to the current MTV and radio rotation playlist they downloaded off P2P, which would indeed amount to less than 1GB.
But what is the simplex algorithm? Or at least, what problem does it solve? I've never heard of it before, and the linked description is either not describing what the algorithm actually does or is too dense for me to understand.
The idea of an algorithm that is used on all kinds of major networks, but no one knows why it works sounds rather intriguing, but can anyone offer any background?
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Or maybe they have, and would still rather be alive.
But seriously, how would you know?
Police don't exist to eliminate crime. That's impossible. Police exist to control crime. I think that's much how it should be too. How would you like to get a speeding ticket everytime you drove faster than the speed limit or jay-walked? If you can get away with it, good for you. It makes a more interesting and dynamic game environment.
I'm sorry I came across as an elitist. That definitely wasn't what I intended. I know the elitists of which you speak, but I am not among them. I like songs by Justin Timberlake and Linkin Park along with Greg Musso and Problem Kid. I don't think pop music is bad music.
Based on what you wrote, it sounds like you "get" it. Judge which music you like based on the sound and the content, not how cool it is or who else likes it. I think the elitists are even worse than the inside-the-box radio fans. This is because they claim to know a lot about music, so they should know better than refusing to listen to whole genres of music. They fail to appreciate pop music for what it is.
But you can't tell me there aren't people out there who think if it's not on radio it's because "it must not be good enough to make it".
We have authorities to stop this, such as police. Why should the virtual world be any different? Have some avatars be virtual police. Human or machine controlled.
Do you think a major label would turn down a chance to sign another Moby?
Hell fucking yes they would turn down a chance to sign "another Moby". They don't need another Moby. Moby is nothing special. They can create an artist out of nothing who has no talent that sells twice as much as Moby. They do it all the time.
Go to Detroit and you can find, in just about any record collector store, early singles and EPs from Seger, Nugent, Romantics, MC5 - music that wasn't on a major label. Sure didn't stop those guys from becoming arms of the machine.
Yes, but you have to go to a record collector store to get those. Those certainly aren't being sold at Best Buy. I'll bet those albums didn't sell very well compared to their later sales figures either.
My position is actually that the RIAA exists because there is actually a demand for the service it provides. People don't know what music to like. The service the RIAA provides is to tell them. I'd wager that if the RIAA was abolished, a similar organization would form to take its place.
There is no doubt that music exists outside the RIAA. People who actually like music already know this. They already know how to get music they like. But the majority of people don't really care about music that much. Certainly not enough to spend time researching different genres and artists. It's much easier just to be told what to like. And there's money to made doing the telling, so it's only natural that the RIAA is so big.
People realized it didn't matter.
(Hint: Try print preview)
I could have sworn it's always been this way. How do you know they had hifi genre streams before?
Quite simply, Microsoft has not motivation to comply. How does the "research group" expect to keep their method from leaking? It will leak regardless. So Microsoft either makes an official linux bootloader for Xbox or not... Hmm.... tough choice.
First of all N*sync and Christina Aguilera aren't composing their own music. You probably already know this. I take issue, however, with your assertion that the composers of their music are not quality composers. I think they are some of the most talented composers on earth.
Whoa! Hold on a second! Did I just say I like Christina Aguilera's music? No. Not at all. But the composers of much pop music, such as Max Martin, are completely capable of making mousic I like, though they frequently don't.
A lot of pop music composers can make their music sound like anything. That is an incredible talent and they use it making that music which will bring them the most money. Now, not everyone with this talent produces pop music, but the best pop composers could make music that sounds like anything.
If they chose to, I'm sure they could easily make music that you would love the shit out of. They just choose not to because there's less money in it.
Also, just because you don't like N*sync and Christina Aguilera, don't think that you haven't been categorized by some marketing department somewhere. Yes, that's right, someone somewhere knows exactly what you like too.
15 year olds not interested in sex? As far as I'm aware that's approximately the forefront issue in their minds (at least the male ones, which predominantly account for the IT field)
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Mozilla is wrong. http://www.slashdot.org/java.net is a valid url. Why should the browser second guess the author? In order to browse to to that url from a link on http://www.slashdot.org/, it would have to be fully qualified.
*Wrong!*
Yeah, the atkins diet, because it's totally *not* bullshit!
Maybe you should read more about it.
I always thought Javascript/DHTML would be a great tutorial language for multiple reasons...
2) Java is bloody simple...every class name is like written english, so they're very easy to remember
Java has nothing to do with Javascript. The only thing they have in common is the "Java" in the name. Other than that, they are completely different languages
My bad. I missesd that detail, but my general point still stands, which you seem to agree with :)
Most of the people I know that use TiVO (not many) use it to skip commercials.
Well, good thing you're here to tell them.
Everyone thinks they know how to run a business. Microsoft on the other hand, has proved. I would tend to take MS's business plan over yours, since they seem to have a better track record.
If by health problems you mean my 20 page term paper, and by cause you mean solve then YES, emphatically.
I agree. This is definitely worse. As I like to phrase, it doesn't give people "the chance to be innocent." Even if you've done nothing wrong, your profile might lead law enforcement to follow you. This in itself might not be inherently bad, but it skirts dangerously close. There would probably some level of temptation to put too much stock in the profiling info. In extreme cases, it wouldn't (but should) be surprising that a certain profile leads law enforcement to assume guilt on the part of the profilee.
It seemed a lot more precise in Minority Report. And just cooler all around.
When it was called Minority Report
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
Also, you neglected to mention, SO CAN I! I'm looking at the story early!
(Ooh, look at the color of that title bar)
The only similarity this seems to have to TiVO is that it records things. Let's take a look at the features...
Scheduled recording... nope
Replay during recording... nope
Play lagged behind recording... nope
Manual record/play/stop action... yes
It appears to be functionally equivalent to a $40 boombox w/ cassette recorder, only for 4x the price and no speakers.
WHAT A DEAL!!! SIGN ME UP FOR ONE. NO WAIT. MAKE IT 100!!!!
Furthermore, java applets will run on the JVM just like they will in any other browser. The fact that the browser is also running on the JVM is not relevant.
I don't think this example has anything to do with ethics. What your professor was advocating was just a way of approaching a job which to me, sounds neither right nor wrong.
For example an unethical behavior might be agreeing to do the proposed activity without intending to do it.
The root of "volunteering" is voluntary. That means it is one's own choice to do it or not. Strictly optional. How could *not* volunteering be unethical? One could easily volunteer oneself into a black hole of unending projects. Not volunteering for projects you don't have time for is just common sense.
Please. I easily have more than 15 GB of legal MP3s, most of which are on my 20GB Archos. For someone who is serious about music, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a market for >100GB MP3 players.
And I do listen to all my music. I have diverse tastes, and it might be a while before I listen to one particular song again, but I do eventually listen to all the music.
Granted my music consuming habits are probably not representative of the general public, but then I think most people use MP3 players for listening to the current MTV and radio rotation playlist they downloaded off P2P, which would indeed amount to less than 1GB.
But what is the simplex algorithm? Or at least, what problem does it solve? I've never heard of it before, and the linked description is either not describing what the algorithm actually does or is too dense for me to understand.
The idea of an algorithm that is used on all kinds of major networks, but no one knows why it works sounds rather intriguing, but can anyone offer any background?
Thanks in advance.