It's not like Mars is within walking distance now. Even with this pass-by, it would still be a very lengthy journey for a person to take. Too long for any technology we have now to support.
And by the way, once they get there - they'll have to come back (since we don't have any way of setting up a permanent settlement) so they'd have to do that without the benefit of this close pass.
Humans can be trained to crave food in response to abstract prompts just like Pavlov's dogs, reveals new research.
Maybe I'm out of touch - but at what point was it even questioned whether or not conditioned response worked on humans? Sure we've got a lot more going on that might "override" the stimulus, but conditioned response just seems to be one of those very primitive reactions that would still be with us.
If you find that all the other songs on the album are crap, chances are the whole album (including the song you want) is crap.
What a load of crap this is. It is quite possible for a mediocre band to produce a song that is good.
What you are saying is basically: You go to a restaurant where you have a favorite meal that you really like a lot. You decide to try something different on the menu and you don't like that meal at all. Your argument is that the meal you normally get must be no good. That is such a logical error I can't believe you got modded up.
Here is a list: a) 00000010
Here's another: b) 00000000
Here's another: c) 11011110
While it can be argued that overall "a" is not a good source of ones, it would be false to say that it doesn't contain ANY ones. Yes, overall, "c" is a much better source of ones.
C is the artist that produces really good work. They may have a song or two that doesn't resonate, but overall, they provide a consistent quality that makes it worth it to get everything.
It doesn't mean that if you have the ability to get that single 'one' out of the A list that you need to pass on it because it is surrounded by zeroes.
For one thing, you cant burn the tracks to CD at all
Yes you can. Track burning is done through the "Copy to CD" feature in windows media player. Though with the DRM, each song has a limit to how many times it can be burned (total)... not as flexible as iTunes burn as many times as you want (as long as you shuffle the playlist). Though, I imagine for most people, one burn is all they need.
Why do I need Internet Explorer instead of Netscape or another browser? Your browser must be Internet Explorer. (See Minimum System Requirements.) If you browse the site with Netscape you cannot purchase and download music. The reason is that your music files are wrapped in DRM encryption, which is unencrypted by the license that you download when you download the music file. The license download requires and Active-X control which is only compatible with Internet Explorer. Without it you cannot download your license and your music stays encrypted and unusable.
It's a new service. If they get enough requests, they may (doubtful) spend the time (money) necessary to support other browsers too. Though, with the windows media DRM, it looks like you'd be out of luck with Linux anyway. Though I was ticked that I couldn't use Windows Moz/Firebird, but it's their choice.
The "Against Us" email automatically get forwarded to Ashcroft.
Why bother with the web-form at all?
In a couple years (if they all get their wishes) any email you send will end up in their hands anyway, so there'll be no real need to send mail directly to them.
That's what contracts between you and that company are for. You specify in the contract what rights they have with the work you provide, anything outside of that and they can be sued for damages.
In your example, if another person independently came up with the same method went to use it on his jobs (without even knowing about you) he'd be infringing on your patent and could be sued. That example has NOTHING to do with you protecting your work from companies with which you do business.
Sounds like you're looking for the goverment to protect you from your own poorly-written contracts.
American corporations have thrived on innovative ideas and new business methods, without owning them, for two centuries.
It didn't say that companies in general have done business for two centuries... it was specifically speaking about American history, which only goes back (formally) a little over 225 years.
How many people know what 'horsepower' really is? Doesn't stop them from buying cars.
Tech lingo (from any industry/profession) goes above the head of most people. It just means that maybe companies need to spend time explaining what the benefits of a device are... and not spend so much time praising the specs. Leave the specs there for the informed consumer, but don't expect that someone like my mom will really know what the heck to make of a computer with more gigahertz, but a slower front-side-bus.
I've seen some digital camera makers try to sort out the megapixel confusion by explaining what the size picture you can print (with acceptable quality) will be. That helps to make it accessible to people who don't know a pixel from a hole in the ground. "With this camera, I can do 8x10 pictures, with that one, I can do 5x7 pics." I'd want to know all the specs, but for most people, they just need to know if it does what they want it to do, they don't care what happens behind the scenes to get there.
Actually, that's the basic reason why I do play games like Donkey Kong.
It's nice to be able to load up something like Donkey Kong or Dig Dug and play for 15 minutes as a diversion. On the other hand, to pull up any of the newer MMORPGs or FPS games and you'd better have a couple hours to spare.
Not what you're asking for... but you should also pick yourself up an SIO2PC cable. It acts as a connector between your Atari and a PC. Running software on the PC like APE (Atari Peripheral Emulator) allows you to save and load disk images from the PC as if they were real disks on the Atari.
This makes for better backups (as you can fit a lot of disk images on 1 CD... and 5.25 floppies aren't as easy to come by these days)
Also: It doesn't include the pinouts... but there's some interesting stuff about how the Atari stores info on the tape in the book De Re Atari
I certainly hope someone at that company has the balls to say Nemesis sucked because we made it suck, and shop for a decent script for a new movie.
Viacom exec 1: Nemesis sucked because we made it suck. Viacom exec 2: Nemesis sucked? But everybody thought the script was so good when we used it for Wrath of Khan. Viacom exec 1: You're right. Maybe we went too far back. Rick Berman... too far back. Hey, that gives me an idea. Maybe in the next movie we could send the crew back in time to save some whales or something. No, been done. Monkeys! Yes. That'd be new and fresh.
One difference would be in how it affects the initial sale price.
It could be argued that if a product has a resale value later on, it can justify a larger initial sale price.
For example (I'm making up numbers): If game X has a future resale value of $10 You pay $25 for it, knowing that you're only out $15 years later when you decide to get rid of it. However, if you know full well that this game will be made available for download later for free, you might not be willing to pay $25 for it, but instead, maybe only $15 or $20... knowing that there really isn't a large resale value.
So, even though the publisher doesn't get any of the resale money, lingering value for games can affect their initial sales price. Allowing ROMs could undercut that value.
Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where the kids wouldn't do anything around the house (yard work)... but then when the family went to the fair/museum/something Bart wanted to go into the Virtual Yardwork Simulator (VR).
If it's sufficient to run on a server, where you have dozens of people using it at the same time, it's sufficient to run on a desktop.
If you're running the same thing, yes. But server apps tend to basically just be limited to text processing (HTML, XML), socket access, and DB access.
Desktop apps require GUI functionality, and the non-native feel, combined with early, slow AWT/Swing implementations gave users a bad first impression of Java applications on the desktop.
Also, as the parent to my original post points out, a lot of people got it in their heads that Java was a language for "stupid web animations" and it also tainted people's feelings about it.
Though I would argue that the reason Java isn't on the desktop is due to a history of poor performance. Those points may be less relevant now with 2ghz processors, but there is a lingering belief that Java is slow. (works great as a server development language, though)
Follow the links to his papers on usability and you end up at his site.
On that site, he sets his links as bold, with no decoration, and the same color as the rest of the body text. Though, some subheaders are also bold (but not links). Therefore, you can't always tell that links are links, and some things that aren't you think might be.
This isn't exactly the type of thing you like to see inside of a paper explaining how to make usability better by keeping things familiar for the user.
Yet if you buy a parcel of land with no intention of using it, but instead to let it appreciate in value and sell it later... nobody will care. The ICANN example only really is different as there's the gray area involving domain names and trademarks.
In this case (patents) the problem isn't people who patent something but not develop it. It's in being able to get overly broad patents to begin with. If somebody gets a patent on something that *could* be reduced to practice (very specifically) and doesn't produce it themselves (because of time or budget) they still should be able to benefit as the inventor. However, if somebody just tries to stake claims by patenting things with no real (clear) idea how to ever reduce them to practice (and hoping somebody else will come along to finish their job) then that is something to take issue with.
I used to drink a lot of soda (Mt. Dew, Coke, Pepsi) myself. About 6 years ago, I decided to give it up for a month just to see if I had any caffeine withdrawal. I didn't give up chocolate (so I still got some caffiene) but I didn't really notice anything.
At the end of the month, I figured there really wasn't any point in starting up again as I could save calories so I've never started again. All I drink now is water and milk (and occasional fruit juice).
Side note: if you do go the water route - restaurants are annoying. There seems to be a belief that if you ask for water it is because you are 1) not really thirsty or 2) cheap. Either way they bring you out about a thimble sized glass. That annoys me because I drink a lot when I eat. If they're so worried, then charge for water, I drink it because I want it, not because I'm trying to save a dollar on my meal.
nothing more than about a 90MHz Pentium with 2GB of disk
You want to run OpenOffice.org (or current KDE or Gnome) on a 90Mhz pentium . That would be a good school distro. Start the computer when the child enters kindergarten, it will be up and ready sometime around graduation.
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It's not like Mars is within walking distance now. Even with this pass-by, it would still be a very lengthy journey for a person to take. Too long for any technology we have now to support.
And by the way, once they get there - they'll have to come back (since we don't have any way of setting up a permanent settlement) so they'd have to do that without the benefit of this close pass.
a = 1 + 4 would yield a = '14'. Irritating.
Where (what browser) do you see that behaviour?
With a straight assignment:
a = 1 + 4;
'a' should yield 5.
If 'a' already contains string data and you append to it:
a = "";
a+= 1;
a+= 4;
then you'll end up with "14"
Though, if you do:
a = "";
a+= 1+4;
you'll end up with "5" because the numeric operation takes precedence over the assignment.
Not sure if all browsers will behave this way, but the Moz/Firebird js console bears this out.
Maybe I'm out of touch - but at what point was it even questioned whether or not conditioned response worked on humans? Sure we've got a lot more going on that might "override" the stimulus, but conditioned response just seems to be one of those very primitive reactions that would still be with us.
they own the rights to the console.. shouldn't they have say over who made games for it.
They wanted those rights
Your examples:
... neither was made by Atari. You can't exactly blame Atari for 3rd party games, can you.
Texax Chainsaw Massacre
Custer's Revenge
Once it was thought that this would involve ... entropy reversal during the crunch phase
I'm kind of voting for this one. If it starts soon enough, it would get me out of having to clean (organize) the garage myself.
Go anti-entropy! Woohoo.
If you find that all the other songs on the album are crap, chances are the whole album (including the song you want) is crap.
What a load of crap this is. It is quite possible for a mediocre band to produce a song that is good.
What you are saying is basically:
You go to a restaurant where you have a favorite meal that you really like a lot. You decide to try something different on the menu and you don't like that meal at all. Your argument is that the meal you normally get must be no good. That is such a logical error I can't believe you got modded up.
Here is a list:
a) 00000010
Here's another:
b) 00000000
Here's another:
c) 11011110
While it can be argued that overall "a" is not a good source of ones, it would be false to say that it doesn't contain ANY ones. Yes, overall, "c" is a much better source of ones.
C is the artist that produces really good work. They may have a song or two that doesn't resonate, but overall, they provide a consistent quality that makes it worth it to get everything.
It doesn't mean that if you have the ability to get that single 'one' out of the A list that you need to pass on it because it is surrounded by zeroes.
For one thing, you cant burn the tracks to CD at all
... not as flexible as iTunes burn as many times as you want (as long as you shuffle the playlist). Though, I imagine for most people, one burn is all they need.
Yes you can. Track burning is done through the "Copy to CD" feature in windows media player. Though with the DRM, each song has a limit to how many times it can be burned (total)
It's a new service. If they get enough requests, they may (doubtful) spend the time (money) necessary to support other browsers too. Though, with the windows media DRM, it looks like you'd be out of luck with Linux anyway. Though I was ticked that I couldn't use Windows Moz/Firebird, but it's their choice.
The "Against Us" email automatically get forwarded to Ashcroft.
Why bother with the web-form at all?
In a couple years (if they all get their wishes) any email you send will end up in their hands anyway, so there'll be no real need to send mail directly to them.
That's what contracts between you and that company are for. You specify in the contract what rights they have with the work you provide, anything outside of that and they can be sued for damages.
In your example, if another person independently came up with the same method went to use it on his jobs (without even knowing about you) he'd be infringing on your patent and could be sued. That example has NOTHING to do with you protecting your work from companies with which you do business.
Sounds like you're looking for the goverment to protect you from your own poorly-written contracts.
Because the quote was:
... it was specifically speaking about American history, which only goes back (formally) a little over 225 years.
American corporations have thrived on innovative ideas and new business methods, without owning them, for two centuries.
It didn't say that companies in general have done business for two centuries
Nothing to take any notice with here.
How many people know what 'horsepower' really is? Doesn't stop them from buying cars.
... and not spend so much time praising the specs. Leave the specs there for the informed consumer, but don't expect that someone like my mom will really know what the heck to make of a computer with more gigahertz, but a slower front-side-bus.
Tech lingo (from any industry/profession) goes above the head of most people. It just means that maybe companies need to spend time explaining what the benefits of a device are
I've seen some digital camera makers try to sort out the megapixel confusion by explaining what the size picture you can print (with acceptable quality) will be. That helps to make it accessible to people who don't know a pixel from a hole in the ground. "With this camera, I can do 8x10 pictures, with that one, I can do 5x7 pics." I'd want to know all the specs, but for most people, they just need to know if it does what they want it to do, they don't care what happens behind the scenes to get there.
Actually, that's the basic reason why I do play games like Donkey Kong.
It's nice to be able to load up something like Donkey Kong or Dig Dug and play for 15 minutes as a diversion. On the other hand, to pull up any of the newer MMORPGs or FPS games and you'd better have a couple hours to spare.
Not what you're asking for ... but you should also pick yourself up an SIO2PC cable. It acts as a connector between your Atari and a PC. Running software on the PC like APE (Atari Peripheral Emulator) allows you to save and load disk images from the PC as if they were real disks on the Atari.
... and 5.25 floppies aren't as easy to come by these days)
... but there's some interesting stuff about how the Atari stores info on the tape in the book De Re Atari
This makes for better backups (as you can fit a lot of disk images on 1 CD
Also:
It doesn't include the pinouts
I certainly hope someone at that company has the balls to say Nemesis sucked because we made it suck, and shop for a decent script for a new movie.
Viacom exec 1: Nemesis sucked because we made it suck.
Viacom exec 2: Nemesis sucked? But everybody thought the script was so good when we used it for Wrath of Khan.
Viacom exec 1: You're right. Maybe we went too far back.
Rick Berman
One difference would be in how it affects the initial sale price.
... knowing that there really isn't a large resale value.
It could be argued that if a product has a resale value later on, it can justify a larger initial sale price.
For example (I'm making up numbers):
If game X has a future resale value of $10
You pay $25 for it, knowing that you're only out $15 years later when you decide to get rid of it.
However, if you know full well that this game will be made available for download later for free, you might not be willing to pay $25 for it, but instead, maybe only $15 or $20
So, even though the publisher doesn't get any of the resale money, lingering value for games can affect their initial sales price. Allowing ROMs could undercut that value.
Still not free, but if you're paying $700 for Vegas then you're paying too much.
You can get Vegas 4 from SafeHarbor for $399 - or $499 if you want it bundled with their new DVD authoring app.
Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where the kids wouldn't do anything around the house (yard work) ... but then when the family went to the fair/museum/something Bart wanted to go into the Virtual Yardwork Simulator (VR).
If it's sufficient to run on a server, where you have dozens of people using it at the same time, it's sufficient to run on a desktop.
If you're running the same thing, yes. But server apps tend to basically just be limited to text processing (HTML, XML), socket access, and DB access.
Desktop apps require GUI functionality, and the non-native feel, combined with early, slow AWT/Swing implementations gave users a bad first impression of Java applications on the desktop.
Also, as the parent to my original post points out, a lot of people got it in their heads that Java was a language for "stupid web animations" and it also tainted people's feelings about it.
"Java on the desktop" doesn't mean applets.
It means using Java to write full applications.
Though I would argue that the reason Java isn't on the desktop is due to a history of poor performance. Those points may be less relevant now with 2ghz processors, but there is a lingering belief that Java is slow. (works great as a server development language, though)
Follow the links to his papers on usability and you end up at his site.
On that site, he sets his links as bold, with no decoration, and the same color as the rest of the body text. Though, some subheaders are also bold (but not links). Therefore, you can't always tell that links are links, and some things that aren't you think might be.
This isn't exactly the type of thing you like to see inside of a paper explaining how to make usability better by keeping things familiar for the user.
Yet if you buy a parcel of land with no intention of using it, but instead to let it appreciate in value and sell it later ... nobody will care. The ICANN example only really is different as there's the gray area involving domain names and trademarks.
In this case (patents) the problem isn't people who patent something but not develop it. It's in being able to get overly broad patents to begin with. If somebody gets a patent on something that *could* be reduced to practice (very specifically) and doesn't produce it themselves (because of time or budget) they still should be able to benefit as the inventor. However, if somebody just tries to stake claims by patenting things with no real (clear) idea how to ever reduce them to practice (and hoping somebody else will come along to finish their job) then that is something to take issue with.
I used to drink a lot of soda (Mt. Dew, Coke, Pepsi) myself. About 6 years ago, I decided to give it up for a month just to see if I had any caffeine withdrawal. I didn't give up chocolate (so I still got some caffiene) but I didn't really notice anything.
At the end of the month, I figured there really wasn't any point in starting up again as I could save calories so I've never started again. All I drink now is water and milk (and occasional fruit juice).
Side note: if you do go the water route - restaurants are annoying. There seems to be a belief that if you ask for water it is because you are 1) not really thirsty or 2) cheap. Either way they bring you out about a thimble sized glass. That annoys me because I drink a lot when I eat. If they're so worried, then charge for water, I drink it because I want it, not because I'm trying to save a dollar on my meal.
nothing more than about a 90MHz Pentium with 2GB of disk
You want to run OpenOffice.org (or current KDE or Gnome) on a 90Mhz pentium . That would be a good school distro. Start the computer when the child enters kindergarten, it will be up and ready sometime around graduation.