Is that the one that comes with the urethral catheter kit?
Since the first three didn't come with the Clockwork Orange style eye-opener kits to make me watch them, I'm pretty sure you can forget any hopes for a catheter. The good news is that the LOTR movies are natural sedatives, so you probably won't even mind. If you're still conscious after 10 minutes that is.
So will the new media revolution be blogged? 'No,' says Anna Marie Cox, author of Wonkette, 'A revolution requires that people leave their house.'"
So does ordering music & movies, taking college courses, talking to people who aren't in your house, viewing the person you're talking to, stealing money, spying, working, researching... oh wait.
I think Ms. Cox has missed the train completely. A revolution may have required that people leave their houses in the past. The fact that that has changed is the revolution.
It should be further noted that said CSS didn't prevent stamping of duplicate discs -- the method preferred by most for-profit pirates.. Nor, from what I've read, will further encryption techniques prevent stamping of duplicates.
Aside from that, most video that has permeated the P2P environment tends to be of mediocre quality, in most cases using DiVX;) or (S)VCD lossy compression. In other words, people are content with mediocre quality when they're not paying for it, and there's no reason to believe that resampling these new high definition media formats won't be a popular method of bypassing content controls.
The reason they have gone after Kazaa and not say... the maker(s) of bit torrent, is that Kazaa was designed from the get go for copyright infringement. Bram Cohen didn't have [blah blah bittorrent something something]
I doubt there is any one reason, and you're assuming they'll never pursue BT in the future. However, a few other reasons BT may not have been the RIAA target of choice may be:
1) BT doesn't profit by selling ads 2) It's more difficult to determine what's being shared (seeded) without knowing the tracker
and there's always..
3) Who the hell gets their music from a torrent? BT sucks for anything other than distribution of things that are in demand by many people right meow (and it's only moderately successful at that). There's far more in the way of software/movie sharing in BT.. not much incentive for the RIAA to get involved.
The point is, it makes economic sense to try to have the largest impact with the least amount of work (dollars) expended. Chasing Kazaa has nothing to do with "illegitimate design," or whatever point you were trying to make, and everything to do with potential or perceived return on their dollar.
Of course it's okay for a foreigner to walk in to a Japanese bar and get beaten within an inch of his life simply because he's not Japanese, right? Japan has some of the most openly racist behavior of any country I've visited, and it's all perfectly legal. (Not necessarily a beating, but the police don't have much sympathy for foreigners in most cases.. they're much too busy ignoring rapes on trains, both staged and otherwise). At least the tourist in the US was shot accidentally.
The point is, innocent people get killed all the time for any number of reasons. If accidental deaths are an argument against legal firearm ownership, then they're an equally good argument against legal vehicle ownership as well.
Every country has problems. Choose the problems that bother you least, and move.
Some people thought you were funny, but I have a feeling you were being serious. This isn't about the hardware that will be installed in mission-critical systems; it's about workstations. NMCI at least, as far as the end user is concerned, is just a set of criteria as to what hardware is used, and what software/network configuration is used. The same crap any moderately sized corporation has in place. There's more to it than that, but that's the jist of it. In no way is this about replacing the proprietary technology used in an F18 or a ship's navigation radar, etc. Not that most of those things are measurably more reliable than Windows, mind you. Building the stuff is only half the contract -- fixing it and/or selling replacement parts is the other half.
Right. God forbid a site promotes products that have been developed by its maintainers. If you're looking for objective reporting, you've come to the wrong place though. But if you hadn't figured that out already, nothing I say is likely to enlighten you.
Not to mention, wouldn't "extremely typical" be an oxymoron?
Seriously though, after reading your post, I remember having the EXACT SAME thoughts about 95. A decade has dulled my memory though. I even remember clicking the Start button, only to see stuff I didn't want to use.. Documents, Settings, Shut Down, and, of course, Programs, with a bunch of sub-menus after it. I remember thinking what a ridiculous way that was to organize my programs. Although, aside from dabbling with 3.1, I'd mainly used AmigaOS before that, so I was used to having my cake and eating it too.
Your comparison isn't really accurate.. you're comparing 30hrs a month to 2hrs a month. Games are subscriptions, movies are, well, pay per view. A comparison to cable would be a little more accurate while still proving your point.
From my experience though, people tend to trade spending money for spending time, and my time is a lot more valuable than an MMORPG requires, or, let's say "urges," you to play. After having played EQ to varying degrees over the past four years, I can definately say that it's not a constructive activity. It doesn't even fuel imagination or problem-solving per se, and has much more in common with gambling than it does with other single or multiplayer games. IE, there is no logical "end," to the game, it's a faux social activity, and it promises rewards while they take your money. Among high-level players, there's a high amount of burnout and dissatisfaction, supposedly because of the poor quality of the "end-game," but in reality it's because they've invested literally months and months (or years and years) of time playing, only to realize they've been chasing shadows.
Unlike the Bourne Identity, which was directed by Doug Liman, Supremacy was directed by Paul Greengrass. Many people disliked Greengrass' interpretation and direction of the Bourne Supremacy. The camera work was shoddy, intentionally, to give it that gritty "you're in the action," feel, which really only resulted in not being able to see what was happening half the time, and/or a feeling of nausea and motion sickness for many people.
Frankly, I'm not really a fan of the implausibility/inaccuracy/damned lies of Robert Ludlum's books, although I have read a few (though none of the Bourne series). I have no problem suspending disbelief, but it gets harder when you mix up or make up new roles for existing institutions. It's typical conspiracy theory, which would be much more interesting if it weren't quite so typical.
At any rate, I'm guessing the "mixed blessing," is that on one hand, we might have good subject matter for a movie, but on the other, Greengrass is likely to thrash it beyond recognition.
I suspect population densities in US and Canada are comparable.
It's actually lower in Canada than the US, (3.1 people per square km vs 29.5 in the US), but I couldn't find any statistics on what percentage of the populations were located in urban/suburban areas. I'd venture a wild guess and say that somewhere in the neighborhood of 50% of Canada is unpopulated. Like the states, you'd expect to find large dense populations on each coast, however I'm fairly certain that middle America is much more populated than middle Canada. Of course, many of these people may also live in cities, so without accurate numbers, it's just hard to argue US vs. Canada population densities. There's no such misgivings about Taiwan and Korea, both of which have extremely dense populations.
The US is usually slower in adopting new technology than developing countries is because we are upgrading while they are just getting started.
That's not really true. We're not even slower at adopting ALL technology, just some. Japan is constantly adopting new technologies and they're not exactly undeveloped. It's not a matter of upgrading vs. installing from scratch, but rather it's the priorities of Americans. In Japan, for example, cell phones and any new feature related to cell phones is widely adopted in a very short amount of time, whereas things like PDAs are largely unsuccessful. In the US, it's exactly the opposite.
The fact is, the US is extremely spread-out when compared to other countries. The US ranks 163rd for population density, with 29.5 people per square km. When you compare that to something like Korea, which ranks 28th (323.3 people per square km), or Taiwan (12th with 625 people per square km), it's not hard to see why it's much easier to get large segments of the population access with a much smaller initial investment.
Granted, it costs proportionally more to upgrade old infrastructure, but that, in and of itself, is not the underlying cause.
Bush and Cheney were both in their 20s, and Laura Bush was under 18. The mistakes of adolescence/early adulthood are hardly indicitave of anything, except perhaps the resilliance of people, and their ability to better themselves. There's a reason insurance rates for young drivers are obscenely high after all. They make mistakes at a statistically significant higher rate than any other segment of the population. All of these incidents happened decades ago. It's difficult to compare the society, culture, and personality of the persons involved to the present.
Images of the earth at 15-m resolution are acquired as often as once every two weeks (e.g. LandSat 7 [nasa.gov]
I wonder if these images could be summed to make very high resolution images (at least, the parts that hadn't moved/changed). I remember reading about a technique to make current film higher resolution by summing a frame with the frames immediately preceeding and following it.
I was thinking the same thing, but it's really quite simple. You just require all drivers to insure their cars, just like we do now. Keep the responsibility on the "driver." If your car fk's up, your company pays the damages. In this case, they would also pay for your own injuries or whatever. In fact, rates would probably go down because the frequency of accidents would be lower, and you wouldn't get your premiums raised when you had an accident, because it's not your fault.
Surely other forms of transportation have insurance? What happens when a plane crashes? Or a train derails? These events are fairly infrequent, just as accidents with automated vehicles would be, which still makes it profitable to provide insurance.
Speeding becomes a thing of the past for most people (yes, someone will "hack the system") but that'll likely be beyond the purvey of most people.
Personally, that's the only hangup I have over the thing. I like to speed, and sometimes I need to speed. I don't swerve between small gaps, cut people off, change lanes without looking/signaling, or any range of far more risky behaviors.
Speeding arguments aside, the reality is that speed limits would likely be raised for autonomous vehicles, simply because of the enormously faster reaction time and the fact that computers don't get distracted.
Speeds should improve overall, even in low-speed limit zones, such as construction zones. If cars were responsible for merging when a lane was closed, for example, you'd be less likely to experience as much of a disturbance from people a) not letting other people in front of them, and b) trying to avoid merging until the last possible second. Not to mention, no more rubbernecking.
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Is that the one that comes with the urethral catheter kit?
Since the first three didn't come with the Clockwork Orange style eye-opener kits to make me watch them, I'm pretty sure you can forget any hopes for a catheter. The good news is that the LOTR movies are natural sedatives, so you probably won't even mind. If you're still conscious after 10 minutes that is.
Funny, our son will be 5 1/2 months old by the time we have our LOTR party
I couldn't sworn you were going to say, "Funny, our son wil be 5 1/2 months old by the time we get through watching this trilogy."
The Extended Edition will add an additional 50 minutes to the film, bring the total for the Extended trilogy to 11 hours and 20 minutes.
Only 11h20m? Wasn't the neverending ending for ROTK longer than that by itself?
So will the new media revolution be blogged? 'No,' says Anna Marie Cox, author of Wonkette, 'A revolution requires that people leave their house.'"
So does ordering music & movies, taking college courses, talking to people who aren't in your house, viewing the person you're talking to, stealing money, spying, working, researching... oh wait.
I think Ms. Cox has missed the train completely. A revolution may have required that people leave their houses in the past. The fact that that has changed is the revolution.
It should be further noted that said CSS didn't prevent stamping of duplicate discs -- the method preferred by most for-profit pirates.. Nor, from what I've read, will further encryption techniques prevent stamping of duplicates.
Aside from that, most video that has permeated the P2P environment tends to be of mediocre quality, in most cases using DiVX;) or (S)VCD lossy compression. In other words, people are content with mediocre quality when they're not paying for it, and there's no reason to believe that resampling these new high definition media formats won't be a popular method of bypassing content controls.
Plus they're still usually cheaper.
Only for the mid-low end. When you move to the high end and server chips, you'll see a reverse in the trend -- cheaper Intel chips.
The reason they have gone after Kazaa and not say... the maker(s) of bit torrent, is that Kazaa was designed from the get go for copyright infringement. Bram Cohen didn't have [blah blah bittorrent something something]
I doubt there is any one reason, and you're assuming they'll never pursue BT in the future. However, a few other reasons BT may not have been the RIAA target of choice may be:
1) BT doesn't profit by selling ads
2) It's more difficult to determine what's being shared (seeded) without knowing the tracker
and there's always..
3) Who the hell gets their music from a torrent? BT sucks for anything other than distribution of things that are in demand by many people right meow (and it's only moderately successful at that). There's far more in the way of software/movie sharing in BT.. not much incentive for the RIAA to get involved.
The point is, it makes economic sense to try to have the largest impact with the least amount of work (dollars) expended. Chasing Kazaa has nothing to do with "illegitimate design," or whatever point you were trying to make, and everything to do with potential or perceived return on their dollar.
Finally a 60 mpg car that can go 90 mph and look cool at the same time!!
Huh.. I guess it changes into it's "cool looking" shape at 90MPH? And they say there's no excuse for speeding.
Of course it's okay for a foreigner to walk in to a Japanese bar and get beaten within an inch of his life simply because he's not Japanese, right? Japan has some of the most openly racist behavior of any country I've visited, and it's all perfectly legal. (Not necessarily a beating, but the police don't have much sympathy for foreigners in most cases.. they're much too busy ignoring rapes on trains, both staged and otherwise). At least the tourist in the US was shot accidentally.
The point is, innocent people get killed all the time for any number of reasons. If accidental deaths are an argument against legal firearm ownership, then they're an equally good argument against legal vehicle ownership as well.
Every country has problems. Choose the problems that bother you least, and move.
Some people thought you were funny, but I have a feeling you were being serious. This isn't about the hardware that will be installed in mission-critical systems; it's about workstations. NMCI at least, as far as the end user is concerned, is just a set of criteria as to what hardware is used, and what software/network configuration is used. The same crap any moderately sized corporation has in place. There's more to it than that, but that's the jist of it. In no way is this about replacing the proprietary technology used in an F18 or a ship's navigation radar, etc. Not that most of those things are measurably more reliable than Windows, mind you. Building the stuff is only half the contract -- fixing it and/or selling replacement parts is the other half.
Right. God forbid a site promotes products that have been developed by its maintainers. If you're looking for objective reporting, you've come to the wrong place though. But if you hadn't figured that out already, nothing I say is likely to enlighten you.
How do you know your mom is "extremely typical."
Not to mention, wouldn't "extremely typical" be an oxymoron?
Seriously though, after reading your post, I remember having the EXACT SAME thoughts about 95. A decade has dulled my memory though. I even remember clicking the Start button, only to see stuff I didn't want to use.. Documents, Settings, Shut Down, and, of course, Programs, with a bunch of sub-menus after it. I remember thinking what a ridiculous way that was to organize my programs. Although, aside from dabbling with 3.1, I'd mainly used AmigaOS before that, so I was used to having my cake and eating it too.
Your comparison isn't really accurate.. you're comparing 30hrs a month to 2hrs a month. Games are subscriptions, movies are, well, pay per view. A comparison to cable would be a little more accurate while still proving your point.
From my experience though, people tend to trade spending money for spending time, and my time is a lot more valuable than an MMORPG requires, or, let's say "urges," you to play. After having played EQ to varying degrees over the past four years, I can definately say that it's not a constructive activity. It doesn't even fuel imagination or problem-solving per se, and has much more in common with gambling than it does with other single or multiplayer games. IE, there is no logical "end," to the game, it's a faux social activity, and it promises rewards while they take your money. Among high-level players, there's a high amount of burnout and dissatisfaction, supposedly because of the poor quality of the "end-game," but in reality it's because they've invested literally months and months (or years and years) of time playing, only to realize they've been chasing shadows.
Games are cool, but they're not computing.
Exactly!! One is an excercise in eliciting the desired results from a machine with an arbitrary yet strictly defined set of rules, and the other is...
I would have to say that LOTR is an easier project than Watchmen, given the time and budget to do LOTR properly (which Jackson had).
And given the time and budget he had, you'd have thought he might have actually managed to do it properly.
Anyway, I've got to get back to watching the ending of the third movie. I thought it was over, but it seems not. Ok now it's.. no wait..
Unlike the Bourne Identity, which was directed by Doug Liman, Supremacy was directed by Paul Greengrass. Many people disliked Greengrass' interpretation and direction of the Bourne Supremacy. The camera work was shoddy, intentionally, to give it that gritty "you're in the action," feel, which really only resulted in not being able to see what was happening half the time, and/or a feeling of nausea and motion sickness for many people.
Frankly, I'm not really a fan of the implausibility/inaccuracy/damned lies of Robert Ludlum's books, although I have read a few (though none of the Bourne series). I have no problem suspending disbelief, but it gets harder when you mix up or make up new roles for existing institutions. It's typical conspiracy theory, which would be much more interesting if it weren't quite so typical.
At any rate, I'm guessing the "mixed blessing," is that on one hand, we might have good subject matter for a movie, but on the other, Greengrass is likely to thrash it beyond recognition.
I suspect population densities in US and Canada are comparable.
It's actually lower in Canada than the US, (3.1 people per square km vs 29.5 in the US), but I couldn't find any statistics on what percentage of the populations were located in urban/suburban areas. I'd venture a wild guess and say that somewhere in the neighborhood of 50% of Canada is unpopulated. Like the states, you'd expect to find large dense populations on each coast, however I'm fairly certain that middle America is much more populated than middle Canada. Of course, many of these people may also live in cities, so without accurate numbers, it's just hard to argue US vs. Canada population densities. There's no such misgivings about Taiwan and Korea, both of which have extremely dense populations.
The US is usually slower in adopting new technology than developing countries is because we are upgrading while they are just getting started.
That's not really true. We're not even slower at adopting ALL technology, just some. Japan is constantly adopting new technologies and they're not exactly undeveloped. It's not a matter of upgrading vs. installing from scratch, but rather it's the priorities of Americans. In Japan, for example, cell phones and any new feature related to cell phones is widely adopted in a very short amount of time, whereas things like PDAs are largely unsuccessful. In the US, it's exactly the opposite.
The fact is, the US is extremely spread-out when compared to other countries. The US ranks 163rd for population density, with 29.5 people per square km. When you compare that to something like Korea, which ranks 28th (323.3 people per square km), or Taiwan (12th with 625 people per square km), it's not hard to see why it's much easier to get large segments of the population access with a much smaller initial investment.
Granted, it costs proportionally more to upgrade old infrastructure, but that, in and of itself, is not the underlying cause.
Not to mention gynecologists...
K-RAD!! Anything about drugs is just fkin cool by definition!!!!1111 PMG
Drugs are like roller coasters. Exciting the first time, but nothing new.. get over it.
Bush and Cheney were both in their 20s, and Laura Bush was under 18. The mistakes of adolescence/early adulthood are hardly indicitave of anything, except perhaps the resilliance of people, and their ability to better themselves. There's a reason insurance rates for young drivers are obscenely high after all. They make mistakes at a statistically significant higher rate than any other segment of the population. All of these incidents happened decades ago. It's difficult to compare the society, culture, and personality of the persons involved to the present.
Images of the earth at 15-m resolution are acquired as often as once every two weeks (e.g. LandSat 7 [nasa.gov]
I wonder if these images could be summed to make very high resolution images (at least, the parts that hadn't moved/changed). I remember reading about a technique to make current film higher resolution by summing a frame with the frames immediately preceeding and following it.
Swerve.
Even a small child is likely to do a shitload of damage to your Mini.
I was thinking the same thing, but it's really quite simple. You just require all drivers to insure their cars, just like we do now. Keep the responsibility on the "driver." If your car fk's up, your company pays the damages. In this case, they would also pay for your own injuries or whatever. In fact, rates would probably go down because the frequency of accidents would be lower, and you wouldn't get your premiums raised when you had an accident, because it's not your fault.
Surely other forms of transportation have insurance? What happens when a plane crashes? Or a train derails? These events are fairly infrequent, just as accidents with automated vehicles would be, which still makes it profitable to provide insurance.
Speeding becomes a thing of the past for most people (yes, someone will "hack the system") but that'll likely be beyond the purvey of most people.
Personally, that's the only hangup I have over the thing. I like to speed, and sometimes I need to speed. I don't swerve between small gaps, cut people off, change lanes without looking/signaling, or any range of far more risky behaviors.
Speeding arguments aside, the reality is that speed limits would likely be raised for autonomous vehicles, simply because of the enormously faster reaction time and the fact that computers don't get distracted.
Speeds should improve overall, even in low-speed limit zones, such as construction zones. If cars were responsible for merging when a lane was closed, for example, you'd be less likely to experience as much of a disturbance from people a) not letting other people in front of them, and b) trying to avoid merging until the last possible second. Not to mention, no more rubbernecking.