But I would bet that having the music on the cd is less important than having the cd itself.
I think so. Witness the Milli Vanilli thing. When people found out that it was two fat guys doing the singing they burned their records. Did the music suddenly sound different?
To a cat, falling from 5 feet may "feel" like 2 seconds, where we actually measured 1 second.
And they determined this how? Did the cat say "No way man, that was two seconds."? And even if the cat could somehow communicate it, he'd still say it was one second, because that's what one second would feel like to him.
If you witness/measure less gravitational force in a system, you can conclude at least one of three things
Actually my wife found a handy little dial on the bottom of her scale that lets her reduce the apparent mass at will. It's especially effective after parties the night before.
Think about the potential this has for revolutionizing small part manufacturing.
I think an anti-gravity machine might have a more profound impact on society than producing better spare parts.
This reminds me of an informal talk Richard Feynman was giving to an audience of laymen. One audience member, while lounging on his bean-bag chair, suggested to Feynman that he should invent an anti-gravity machine. When Feynman started to explain the difficulties this guy interrupted by explaining why it would be really good to have something like that, as if the only reason no one had invented it yet was because they (except of course for the bean-bag visionary) hadn't thought of how useful it would be.
And, just like Google, Slashdot caved in [slashdot.org] like the little sissies they are.
When it comes to protecting something important to us we're almost all sissies. Some of the smartest decision in life involve a concession or retreat of some sort. Life isn't like the movies, where in the end the hero gets rewarded for standing up for principle. Instead, you tend to wind up broken and regretful. Life is a long, long game, and it's tough to get to the other end without falling into the traps along the way. An easy way to fall prey to those traps is to make decisions based on pride and ego.
This is exactly what the article is talking about: a change in the physical nature of the thumb or, in other words, a physical mutation.
It is not a mutation in the thumb - it is a "mutation" in the use of the thumb. This is no more a genetic mutation than saying a juggler mutates his hands when he learns to juggle.
A little kid can't just start catching a ball naturally. It takes a while for it to click.
And here in Costa Rica, where soccer is the national sport and nobody plays baseball, even the teenagers and adults can't catch anything. Toss something to a Tico and nine times out of ten it goes ricocheting off his hand.
I am in the process of writing some copy protection...All I hear is that the key is "use polynomials!
Forget all that. Just do something simple. Serials only affect the casual users, and for casual users the simplest code is just as opaque as the most complex. Spend your time on making the program better.
Once you have given a legitimate, non-expired key the software will work forever.
For sufficiently small values of forever. For nearly every piece of shareware I've registered I've eventually used a circulated code for one reason or another. Yes, I could be better organized about it, but with enough moves, computer changes, and disk failures, keys get lost. This gets compounded by the (somewhat embarrassing) fact that I can't always remember which ones I've paid for and which I haven't.
Ambrosia's been around a long time, and will probably be around for a while longer, but if they go away then not only do you have have been organized enough to save your registration number, but you also have to have been prescient enough to note the date, and know enough to set your clock back when re-entering the code.
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That's right. And you don't know fear until you've seen a mob of angry guys in fluffy white hats coming at you.
Yeah right. You can't fool us, you Lincoln-ite.
I think so. Witness the Milli Vanilli thing. When people found out that it was two fat guys doing the singing they burned their records. Did the music suddenly sound different?
I'll bet you hate it when people play songs out of order, too.
Yes, it happens every autumb.
Well, yeah. They did ask for people's opinions, after all.
For basic physics, The Cartoon Guide To Physics is excellent. Seriously.
And they determined this how? Did the cat say "No way man, that was two seconds."? And even if the cat could somehow communicate it, he'd still say it was one second, because that's what one second would feel like to him.
Actually my wife found a handy little dial on the bottom of her scale that lets her reduce the apparent mass at will. It's especially effective after parties the night before.
I think an anti-gravity machine might have a more profound impact on society than producing better spare parts.
This reminds me of an informal talk Richard Feynman was giving to an audience of laymen. One audience member, while lounging on his bean-bag chair, suggested to Feynman that he should invent an anti-gravity machine. When Feynman started to explain the difficulties this guy interrupted by explaining why it would be really good to have something like that, as if the only reason no one had invented it yet was because they (except of course for the bean-bag visionary) hadn't thought of how useful it would be.
When it comes to protecting something important to us we're almost all sissies. Some of the smartest decision in life involve a concession or retreat of some sort. Life isn't like the movies, where in the end the hero gets rewarded for standing up for principle. Instead, you tend to wind up broken and regretful. Life is a long, long game, and it's tough to get to the other end without falling into the traps along the way. An easy way to fall prey to those traps is to make decisions based on pride and ego.
It is not a mutation in the thumb - it is a "mutation" in the use of the thumb. This is no more a genetic mutation than saying a juggler mutates his hands when he learns to juggle.
I'll bet you get to be employee of the month a lot, too.
Unless you're talking about doing something with toothpaste, that's gleaned , not "gleemed."
In other words, security through obscurity, and we all know how good that idea is...
And I suppose you write ten as 1 in base ten, too.
Well yeah. Otherwise how would it get started?
From the author's site:
And here in Costa Rica, where soccer is the national sport and nobody plays baseball, even the teenagers and adults can't catch anything. Toss something to a Tico and nine times out of ten it goes ricocheting off his hand.
Forget all that. Just do something simple. Serials only affect the casual users, and for casual users the simplest code is just as opaque as the most complex. Spend your time on making the program better.
I'm guessing people would tend to wait for someone else to pay.
Well, duh. The shareware can be downloaded anywhere. It's the serials that get copied.
There was a Mac shareware guy who died way back when and his parents released everything. Can't think of his name though.
For sufficiently small values of forever. For nearly every piece of shareware I've registered I've eventually used a circulated code for one reason or another. Yes, I could be better organized about it, but with enough moves, computer changes, and disk failures, keys get lost. This gets compounded by the (somewhat embarrassing) fact that I can't always remember which ones I've paid for and which I haven't.
Ambrosia's been around a long time, and will probably be around for a while longer, but if they go away then not only do you have have been organized enough to save your registration number, but you also have to have been prescient enough to note the date, and know enough to set your clock back when re-entering the code.
Given that this is Slashdot, it probably will say "forcably."