2) The flames were from the simulated lunar surface that it lit on fire, not the craft itself. If I were them, I wouldn't be too concerned with lighting the surface of the moon on fire...it seems unlikely.
As there's no air on the moon, I'd call that the understatement of the century. Concern over a goblin eating the spacecraft or it disappearing into quantum nothingness might be better founded.
I'm not an eBay suck-up by any means--I just cancelled an auction that got zero bids after four days because the "new" eBay software failed to display two pictures--but I have to disagree with you about PayPay. I had recently was ripped off by a seller (no product shipped), filed a claim by filling out a simple on-line form (less than five minutes) and got a full refund a week later.
Can't complain about that kind of service.
Try after that online form 3 weeks, dozens of emails and about 5 phone calls. Glad it worked for you, but that doesn't mean it always will. It certainly didn't work for me, and in my shoes you wouldn't be fine with it.
With eBay it's always the sellers' fault. Power Sellers have dropped by the thousands, including myself, because of eBay policies. Starting 1.5 to 2 years ago they decided it was time to screw sellers to make buyers happy.
Hahahaha. That's hilarious. Have you ever tried to settle a dispute with a seller as a buyer? The hoops you have to jump through are in my view ridiculous ESPECIALLY when you use Paypal. I closed my Paypal account years ago after I had an issue with an item that had obviously been soiled, broken, repackaged and re-shrink-wrapped. They'd only look into it if i had an expert on the item write a letter on a company letter head, and if I'd just fax that internationally. Yeah for a $28 item which I had already sent back, I'm going to spend time and money finding an expert when there was no expertise required in working out that it was a broken, soiled, repackaged piece of crud. But technically they were honouring their obligation and protecting my purchase. Meanwhile the seller threatened to call in police and lawyers because I left feedback that he claimed was defaming him. (Paypal feedback is a joke). Then he tried to pressure me to use a mediation service that was in my opinion completely biased against me.
Ebay and Paypal make it hard for everyone but Ebay and Paypal. The blame lies elsewhere. They're not fussy about on whom. If you're a crook you can game the system as either buyer or seller. Not to mention the bargains dried up long ago. In fact I stopped buying things on Ebay years ago. I feel like every purchase is a bad gamble.
You just violated my patent "Raising 2 hands in the air simultaneously to emphasise enthusiastic agreement with an idea or motion". Please deposit One hundred million sheckles into my account by midnight or I'll be forced to sue you.
Seriously, neither are very good. Neither allow you to find things quickly. Both make you jump through hoops to get to things (Microsoft Genuine absolutely turned their web site to poop). Both use flash or web 2.0 garbage when a nice simple static web page would suffice. Both are full of condescending marketing rubbish. You might as well be comparing two turd sandwiches. Consider the resources both companies have to throw at the problem.
Think different? Where did you want to be today? Puhlease. I wanted to be on a damned web site that didn't make an infrequent visitor want to commit ritual suicide out of sheer frustration.
Now watch the respective fan boys come to the defense of their favourite pet company and mod this as flamebait even though they KNOW it's true.
Damnit! You people and your "If I take your car, now I have it and you don't" analogies have ruined it for everyone! Now copyright infringement really WILL be theft!
I know you were making a joke but don't you see the irony? Now taking something WITHOUT infringing copyright will be theft, whereas if you do break the DRM it won't.
This could be the stupidest and most disingenuous argument I've encountered all year. I guess I'll never know since the metadata is not at my finger tips. This might be a good argument for getting the metadata right. It isn't a good argument for tossing the virtual books out with the bathwater.
So no I won't get off your lawn. We're better off without scholars who'd rather hoard information. Begone!
They actually created a product that people want to buy. Is that a bad thing? Coupled with the fact that you can still buy the 'unbranded' sets and that they are reducing one-off non-reusable pieces, it's a good thing.
No making a product that people want to buy is not a bad thing. Making people want to buy a product by manipulating and possibly lying via advertising is. So is overcharging based on artificially restricting supply once you've created the demand.
There is a reason. The quality of Lego is legendary, so much that they don't even advertise it any more.
Hahahahahaha. I bet you believe in the Easter Bunny too. Google lego advertising.
The parts are manufactured to tolerances comparable with precision machinery.
You mean like a cheap watch? This isn't the 1800s. Precision machinery isn't so special. The fact that some unbranded companies take cost cutting to the extreme doesn't mean that it's so expensive that you can't do it right and have your product sell cheaper. This is no different to camera companies overcharging for lenses and accessories. Sure good product should cost more but not something 2-3x the price.
I have encountered exactly 1 bad piece in 10000$ MSRP worth of Lego (and they replaced when I e-mailed the customer service).
Right so you've spent $10k on lego and I'm suppose to take you seriously? Either it's gotten so expensive that you only have 10 or so sets at $1k each or you've got quite a habit going there. I think it's safe to say they won you over long ago and that you're not exactly unbiased.
Now, you may argue that "the user" should have control over what code their phone executes. And in the case of Slashdotters, you're probably right. But normal, non-savvy users don't understand technical warnings. They don't comprehend that executing a tiny bit of malicious code can hand their entire computer over to an attacker, and that there may be no way to undo the damage. They should not be put in a position where they can they can screw up their system with a tap of a "yes" button, for the same reason that cars should not have a "disable emissions controls, gain ten horsepower" switch and skyscrapers should not have a shiny red button that says "collapse building."
No, actually it's more like saying scissors and knives shouldn't have sharp edges, and that cars shouldn't have accelerator pedals because in both cases it can lead to death or injury. In the case of a car the carnage you can cause unintentionally is so great that you require a license which is only granted when you learn how to drive properly (which is a more advanced skill than using a knife). In the case of scissors and knives there is a risk of injury but you're less likely to kill and maim lots of people and it's left to your parents to teach you the basic skill.
So you could argue that users need to be licensed and should prove they can use their device to no great harm, or more sanely you can argue that since they're most likely to only hurt themselves and not critically. So the skill should be taught at home or at school. Trying to use a phone or computer when you don't understand just doesn't work. It's not that kind of device. In any case if people can learn to text and IM it's an issue of laziness and neglect that they don't bother to learn how to secure their device. It's not brain surgery.
Apple's alternative - locking down the phone - is all about serving Apple's purposes and has nothing to do with the user's needs.
So they've managed to stay in business by the power of marketing and the irrationality that people display when buying for kids. Have you seen what a lego set costs these days? It's no wonder cheap rip offs that don't even work as well are getting a slice of the action.
The big 'advantage' of text message conversations is that they SEEM less intrusive. You APPEAR to have a conversation with someone whithout stopping what you are doing. Thing is, its complete bullshit. I used to watch TV/movies with my wife while she text messaged her friends. She thought it was 'good' because she didn't have to pause for 5-10 minutes to have a conversation. But it drove me fucking nuts with the little alerts going off and her constant clicking away on her phone. And it turns out that despite the fact that she thought she could do both at once, she ended up missing half the show.
Pausing it for 10 minutes, and just having a conversation works far better. Point is: texting is more disruptive and rude to the people you are with than takign the occasional phone call. Being completely interrupted once in a while for a couple minutes is better than being half ignored for 40 minute stretches.
What you're not understanding here is that your wife didn't just have one conversation. She probably had at least 4 or 5 on the go. Sure she could have stopped and had a 2-10 minute conversation for each, but you wouldn't even get to the movie. She can pause her texting at any time. She can text on the toilet and no one is any the wiser.
Ironically what you need to do is communicate with your wife and ask for some quality uninterupted time. Unless she's on call get her to turn off the phone. Take the home phone off the hook if you can. If she doesn't get the message, maybe you can text her;-)
Look at your average baby boomer: They usually have less than 5 friends, most of them are coworkers, and if they are married their spouse provides most of the social interaction they're going to get. And they rot away watching TV or with hobbies like gardening.
It's called having a family. See how much you feel like going out to a bar or club spontaneously at 3 in the morning when you haven't had a decent night's sleep in 6 months due to screaming babies, are never quite caught up on chores despite doing little else every evening and going to bed late, are busy ferrying kids to their various sports on your days off. Meanwhile your body isn't what it use to be - it's no longer fun to be up at 3am because you've got that enormous sleep debt. If you do it a couple of nights in a row the next day is hell where all you look forward to is going to bed. By the way, all your friends are in the same boat because everyone has kids in roughly that same 15 year slot between 25-40 so suddenly it's not hard to lose contact with a friend that lives 20 mins away. As for time for making new friends, unless you get along really well with a neighbour, forget about it! If you do find time for yourself you feel guilty because you haven't had a chance to spend quality family time. You schedule your holidays around family commitments. Mind you this is if everything is going well!
I have 1 child - a 1 year old. He's taken most of the year just to get his sleeping sorted out. I still find time for SOME of my hobbies but dear Spagetti monster I'd like to find an opportunity to go fly my r/c planes sometime soon. (Managed to get out once last month and the weather wasn't right. C'est la vie). Gardening may be popular because it's an immediate hobby. Just step out into the back yard and you're good to go. It's not my bag. A good immediate hobby for me is photography - just grab a camera and find something of interest to photograph (including the family). Nothing wrong with someone else enjoying a hobby just because you find it boring. In fact there's a good dose of irony in complaining over people not understanding your "texting generation" when you're perfectly happy to have a dig at someone for gardening (pun intended).
I'm 34, so not THAT old. I agree that there are a lot of older people who do not understand the technology, but there are also youner people who don't (yet) understand what it's like to be older.
Do you have a point? Or did you just use the mention of the term "Pagerank" to come in here and randomly slag off Google?
Apparently the point - that pagerank stinks and is not something I want to pay attention to if used to rank food - was too subtle for you. I don't know if you're a Google employee or just a run of the mill sock puppet but I did not go into a tirade about Google teh company so stop trolling.
Pagerank is one of the most overblown "algorithms" ever. The way people talk about it you'd think it ranks up there with Fourier analysis or orbit determination. Pagerank is little more than a popularity contest - American Idol phone voting on steroids. If you need a general idea of what's going on, searching on Google's okay. If you want more substance better go for a specialist search engine.
Applying this to food I expect McDonalds to be ranked very high and fine dining to be ranked as rubbish.
Yeah go on mod me as troll, because *sarcasm* a rational person couldn't possible hold this opinion...
What's funny is that the people who say "learn to play a real guitar" usually don't actually know how to play a real guitar. I play a real guitar. I've spent a considerable amount of money on guitars and stacks and pedals over the years. I even did my part for aspiring guitarists by putting a bunch of tabs up on OLGA back in the mid 90s.
I still love playing Rock Band with my wife.
I played all sorts of intruments in a garage band in highschool in the late 80s and early 90s. Loved it. Band fell apart in a nasty way as many do (even with the cliche of the lead guitarist's girlfriend splitting the band up). Fond memories though.
My wife bought guitar hero world tour for me last weekend for our anniversary. I've got a lot of respect for the drum kit. It's fantastic - about 60% of what you'd expect from "real" electronic drums. But the guitar just pisses me off. The skills on the guitar just don't transfer. I would much rather spend my time learning to play riffs and chords on the real thing.
Sony has a lot of employees, and a lot of them come here, and some get mod points. Any time I mention Sony's XCP rootkit I get modded troll or flamebait. But notice the system worked -- the Sony shill was out modded by better mods, and it's a 5 informative now.
Only trouble is the Sony employees can come back 6 days later when no one else is modding. Plenty of times I've mentioned an issue with an Apple product or service and have been reamed days later.
Everybody and their dog rips musicians off, and it's a damned shame. The record lables rip of their artists, the bars rip off your local guys who play live, etc. It's disgusting.
Oh please. Just because an artist spends a night or a week and pens a song doesn't mean they're entitled to a cut of everything that ever comes from other people's work using that song. I swear if IP law were invented before the wheel and fire we'd still be living in fucking caves.
The artist ought to be compensated properly for their work - the hours or days or weeks spent writing the song. Nothing more. There's nothing so special about them that means they are entitled to keep getting paid even if they're not working.
About the most negative thing I think of when I learn someone I know is switching to biking is, "Gee, watch out for all the idiots in cars who are trying to kill you!"
Yeah that's a really positive attitude there. I don't know many motorists that are actually TRYING to kill anyone. There may be careless motorists, but homicidal not so much, and even the careless ones realise that if they did kill someone they'd be in a world of trouble. (unfortunately they think they're invincible).
If you're going to lecture someone on having a bad attitude you might want to check your own.
Forgive me but some of the richest artists are putting up token opposition just doesn't impress me. Fo rall I know behind closed doors they're patting the record execs on the back for pushing this legislation through. These are after all people who make their living as much by promoting themselves as celebrities as by making music. Forgive me if I am therefore skeptical.
Why not GoMummy or GoBaby? All I know about this company is that I've seen people complain and that some of their ads are risque, but I still chuckle every time I see the name. "GoDaddy unlimited hosting" sounds like an all night party for old bong smoking pot bellied losers.
Learn some physics. The laser is coherent and isn't as per 1/r^2 - which is why you can shine a torch (non-coherent) only a few handred meters but can bounce a laser off a mirror on the moon.
Yes, by providing even less incentive for people to actually study anything;) To quote a friend of mine: A masters in Google and a doctorate in speed reading.
The Internet in its current form does very little in the way of actually working on problems, and doing analysis. Sure there are tools like Wolfram Alpha that'll do a bit of math (even some calculus) but they are still the exception. What the Internet will do is provide less incentive for rote memorisation where Internet access is reliable and practical. In practical terms the sorts of things that will be memorised will change. No one will be interested in memorising a periodic table when you can look up the elements. However a doctor is still going to want to know how to do surgery without resorting to Google. Likewise we're some way off lawyers actually googling in court, or plumbers looking up new procedures online as they go.
It's not a bad thing and its necessary for progress. There is too much information for any one person to memorise all but a select handful of specialised fields.
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2) The flames were from the simulated lunar surface that it lit on fire, not the craft itself. If I were them, I wouldn't be too concerned with lighting the surface of the moon on fire...it seems unlikely.
As there's no air on the moon, I'd call that the understatement of the century. Concern over a goblin eating the spacecraft or it disappearing into quantum nothingness might be better founded.
I'm not an eBay suck-up by any means--I just cancelled an auction that got zero bids after four days because the "new" eBay software failed to display two pictures--but I have to disagree with you about PayPay. I had recently was ripped off by a seller (no product shipped), filed a claim by filling out a simple on-line form (less than five minutes) and got a full refund a week later.
Can't complain about that kind of service.
Try after that online form 3 weeks, dozens of emails and about 5 phone calls. Glad it worked for you, but that doesn't mean it always will. It certainly didn't work for me, and in my shoes you wouldn't be fine with it.
With eBay it's always the sellers' fault. Power Sellers have dropped by the thousands, including myself, because of eBay policies. Starting 1.5 to 2 years ago they decided it was time to screw sellers to make buyers happy.
Hahahaha. That's hilarious. Have you ever tried to settle a dispute with a seller as a buyer? The hoops you have to jump through are in my view ridiculous ESPECIALLY when you use Paypal. I closed my Paypal account years ago after I had an issue with an item that had obviously been soiled, broken, repackaged and re-shrink-wrapped. They'd only look into it if i had an expert on the item write a letter on a company letter head, and if I'd just fax that internationally. Yeah for a $28 item which I had already sent back, I'm going to spend time and money finding an expert when there was no expertise required in working out that it was a broken, soiled, repackaged piece of crud. But technically they were honouring their obligation and protecting my purchase. Meanwhile the seller threatened to call in police and lawyers because I left feedback that he claimed was defaming him. (Paypal feedback is a joke). Then he tried to pressure me to use a mediation service that was in my opinion completely biased against me.
Ebay and Paypal make it hard for everyone but Ebay and Paypal. The blame lies elsewhere. They're not fussy about on whom. If you're a crook you can game the system as either buyer or seller. Not to mention the bargains dried up long ago. In fact I stopped buying things on Ebay years ago. I feel like every purchase is a bad gamble.
I've got both hands in the air.
You just violated my patent "Raising 2 hands in the air simultaneously to emphasise enthusiastic agreement with an idea or motion". Please deposit One hundred million sheckles into my account by midnight or I'll be forced to sue you.
- Searches should work
- Fancy graphics and design only on front page. Simple, elegant and above all functional elsewhere
- Less patronising advertising and marketing material
- Less road blocks like WGA
- Easier way to provide feedback to the webmaster
Seriously, neither are very good. Neither allow you to find things quickly. Both make you jump through hoops to get to things (Microsoft Genuine absolutely turned their web site to poop). Both use flash or web 2.0 garbage when a nice simple static web page would suffice. Both are full of condescending marketing rubbish. You might as well be comparing two turd sandwiches. Consider the resources both companies have to throw at the problem.
Think different? Where did you want to be today? Puhlease. I wanted to be on a damned web site that didn't make an infrequent visitor want to commit ritual suicide out of sheer frustration.
Now watch the respective fan boys come to the defense of their favourite pet company and mod this as flamebait even though they KNOW it's true.
Damnit! You people and your "If I take your car, now I have it and you don't" analogies have ruined it for everyone! Now copyright infringement really WILL be theft!
I know you were making a joke but don't you see the irony? Now taking something WITHOUT infringing copyright will be theft, whereas if you do break the DRM it won't.
This could be the stupidest and most disingenuous argument I've encountered all year. I guess I'll never know since the metadata is not at my finger tips. This might be a good argument for getting the metadata right. It isn't a good argument for tossing the virtual books out with the bathwater.
So no I won't get off your lawn. We're better off without scholars who'd rather hoard information. Begone!
They actually created a product that people want to buy. Is that a bad thing? Coupled with the fact that you can still buy the 'unbranded' sets and that they are reducing one-off non-reusable pieces, it's a good thing.
No making a product that people want to buy is not a bad thing. Making people want to buy a product by manipulating and possibly lying via advertising is. So is overcharging based on artificially restricting supply once you've created the demand.
There is a reason. The quality of Lego is legendary, so much that they don't even advertise it any more.
Hahahahahaha. I bet you believe in the Easter Bunny too. Google lego advertising.
The parts are manufactured to tolerances comparable with precision machinery.
You mean like a cheap watch? This isn't the 1800s. Precision machinery isn't so special. The fact that some unbranded companies take cost cutting to the extreme doesn't mean that it's so expensive that you can't do it right and have your product sell cheaper. This is no different to camera companies overcharging for lenses and accessories. Sure good product should cost more but not something 2-3x the price.
I have encountered exactly 1 bad piece in 10000$ MSRP worth of Lego (and they replaced when I e-mailed the customer service).
Right so you've spent $10k on lego and I'm suppose to take you seriously? Either it's gotten so expensive that you only have 10 or so sets at $1k each or you've got quite a habit going there. I think it's safe to say they won you over long ago and that you're not exactly unbiased.
Now, you may argue that "the user" should have control over what code their phone executes. And in the case of Slashdotters, you're probably right. But normal, non-savvy users don't understand technical warnings. They don't comprehend that executing a tiny bit of malicious code can hand their entire computer over to an attacker, and that there may be no way to undo the damage. They should not be put in a position where they can they can screw up their system with a tap of a "yes" button, for the same reason that cars should not have a "disable emissions controls, gain ten horsepower" switch and skyscrapers should not have a shiny red button that says "collapse building."
No, actually it's more like saying scissors and knives shouldn't have sharp edges, and that cars shouldn't have accelerator pedals because in both cases it can lead to death or injury. In the case of a car the carnage you can cause unintentionally is so great that you require a license which is only granted when you learn how to drive properly (which is a more advanced skill than using a knife). In the case of scissors and knives there is a risk of injury but you're less likely to kill and maim lots of people and it's left to your parents to teach you the basic skill.
So you could argue that users need to be licensed and should prove they can use their device to no great harm, or more sanely you can argue that since they're most likely to only hurt themselves and not critically. So the skill should be taught at home or at school. Trying to use a phone or computer when you don't understand just doesn't work. It's not that kind of device. In any case if people can learn to text and IM it's an issue of laziness and neglect that they don't bother to learn how to secure their device. It's not brain surgery.
Apple's alternative - locking down the phone - is all about serving Apple's purposes and has nothing to do with the user's needs.
So they've managed to stay in business by the power of marketing and the irrationality that people display when buying for kids. Have you seen what a lego set costs these days? It's no wonder cheap rip offs that don't even work as well are getting a slice of the action.
The big 'advantage' of text message conversations is that they SEEM less intrusive. You APPEAR to have a conversation with someone whithout stopping what you are doing. Thing is, its complete bullshit. I used to watch TV/movies with my wife while she text messaged her friends. She thought it was 'good' because she didn't have to pause for 5-10 minutes to have a conversation. But it drove me fucking nuts with the little alerts going off and her constant clicking away on her phone. And it turns out that despite the fact that she thought she could do both at once, she ended up missing half the show.
Pausing it for 10 minutes, and just having a conversation works far better. Point is: texting is more disruptive and rude to the people you are with than takign the occasional phone call. Being completely interrupted once in a while for a couple minutes is better than being half ignored for 40 minute stretches.
What you're not understanding here is that your wife didn't just have one conversation. She probably had at least 4 or 5 on the go. Sure she could have stopped and had a 2-10 minute conversation for each, but you wouldn't even get to the movie. She can pause her texting at any time. She can text on the toilet and no one is any the wiser.
Ironically what you need to do is communicate with your wife and ask for some quality uninterupted time. Unless she's on call get her to turn off the phone. Take the home phone off the hook if you can. If she doesn't get the message, maybe you can text her ;-)
Look at your average baby boomer: They usually have less than 5 friends, most of them are coworkers, and if they are married their spouse provides most of the social interaction they're going to get. And they rot away watching TV or with hobbies like gardening.
It's called having a family. See how much you feel like going out to a bar or club spontaneously at 3 in the morning when you haven't had a decent night's sleep in 6 months due to screaming babies, are never quite caught up on chores despite doing little else every evening and going to bed late, are busy ferrying kids to their various sports on your days off. Meanwhile your body isn't what it use to be - it's no longer fun to be up at 3am because you've got that enormous sleep debt. If you do it a couple of nights in a row the next day is hell where all you look forward to is going to bed. By the way, all your friends are in the same boat because everyone has kids in roughly that same 15 year slot between 25-40 so suddenly it's not hard to lose contact with a friend that lives 20 mins away. As for time for making new friends, unless you get along really well with a neighbour, forget about it! If you do find time for yourself you feel guilty because you haven't had a chance to spend quality family time. You schedule your holidays around family commitments. Mind you this is if everything is going well!
I have 1 child - a 1 year old. He's taken most of the year just to get his sleeping sorted out. I still find time for SOME of my hobbies but dear Spagetti monster I'd like to find an opportunity to go fly my r/c planes sometime soon. (Managed to get out once last month and the weather wasn't right. C'est la vie). Gardening may be popular because it's an immediate hobby. Just step out into the back yard and you're good to go. It's not my bag. A good immediate hobby for me is photography - just grab a camera and find something of interest to photograph (including the family). Nothing wrong with someone else enjoying a hobby just because you find it boring. In fact there's a good dose of irony in complaining over people not understanding your "texting generation" when you're perfectly happy to have a dig at someone for gardening (pun intended).
I'm 34, so not THAT old. I agree that there are a lot of older people who do not understand the technology, but there are also youner people who don't (yet) understand what it's like to be older.
I'm sorry, butchery of the english language DOES make someone dumb.
Well then we're ALL dumb, because we don't speak Shakespearean English.
No, no all night parties, but shooing stray kids off the lawn can get a bit noisy.
At first I misread that as shooting!
Do you have a point? Or did you just use the mention of the term "Pagerank" to come in here and randomly slag off Google?
Apparently the point - that pagerank stinks and is not something I want to pay attention to if used to rank food - was too subtle for you. I don't know if you're a Google employee or just a run of the mill sock puppet but I did not go into a tirade about Google teh company so stop trolling.
Pagerank is one of the most overblown "algorithms" ever. The way people talk about it you'd think it ranks up there with Fourier analysis or orbit determination. Pagerank is little more than a popularity contest - American Idol phone voting on steroids. If you need a general idea of what's going on, searching on Google's okay. If you want more substance better go for a specialist search engine.
Applying this to food I expect McDonalds to be ranked very high and fine dining to be ranked as rubbish.
Yeah go on mod me as troll, because *sarcasm* a rational person couldn't possible hold this opinion...
What's funny is that the people who say "learn to play a real guitar" usually don't actually know how to play a real guitar. I play a real guitar. I've spent a considerable amount of money on guitars and stacks and pedals over the years. I even did my part for aspiring guitarists by putting a bunch of tabs up on OLGA back in the mid 90s.
I still love playing Rock Band with my wife.
I played all sorts of intruments in a garage band in highschool in the late 80s and early 90s. Loved it. Band fell apart in a nasty way as many do (even with the cliche of the lead guitarist's girlfriend splitting the band up). Fond memories though.
My wife bought guitar hero world tour for me last weekend for our anniversary. I've got a lot of respect for the drum kit. It's fantastic - about 60% of what you'd expect from "real" electronic drums. But the guitar just pisses me off. The skills on the guitar just don't transfer. I would much rather spend my time learning to play riffs and chords on the real thing.
Sony has a lot of employees, and a lot of them come here, and some get mod points. Any time I mention Sony's XCP rootkit I get modded troll or flamebait. But notice the system worked -- the Sony shill was out modded by better mods, and it's a 5 informative now.
Only trouble is the Sony employees can come back 6 days later when no one else is modding. Plenty of times I've mentioned an issue with an Apple product or service and have been reamed days later.
Everybody and their dog rips musicians off, and it's a damned shame. The record lables rip of their artists, the bars rip off your local guys who play live, etc. It's disgusting.
Oh please. Just because an artist spends a night or a week and pens a song doesn't mean they're entitled to a cut of everything that ever comes from other people's work using that song. I swear if IP law were invented before the wheel and fire we'd still be living in fucking caves.
The artist ought to be compensated properly for their work - the hours or days or weeks spent writing the song. Nothing more. There's nothing so special about them that means they are entitled to keep getting paid even if they're not working.
n contrast to the Linux roll-out party, which is free but takes place under an overpass and is hosted by homeless people.
[Relax, it's just a joke. Linux is my main OS.] ...but I bet you're not homeless.
About the most negative thing I think of when I learn someone I know is switching to biking is, "Gee, watch out for all the idiots in cars who are trying to kill you!"
Yeah that's a really positive attitude there. I don't know many motorists that are actually TRYING to kill anyone. There may be careless motorists, but homicidal not so much, and even the careless ones realise that if they did kill someone they'd be in a world of trouble. (unfortunately they think they're invincible).
If you're going to lecture someone on having a bad attitude you might want to check your own.
Forgive me but some of the richest artists are putting up token opposition just doesn't impress me. Fo rall I know behind closed doors they're patting the record execs on the back for pushing this legislation through. These are after all people who make their living as much by promoting themselves as celebrities as by making music. Forgive me if I am therefore skeptical.
Why not GoMummy or GoBaby? All I know about this company is that I've seen people complain and that some of their ads are risque, but I still chuckle every time I see the name. "GoDaddy unlimited hosting" sounds like an all night party for old bong smoking pot bellied losers.
Not quite -- see 1/r^2.
Learn some physics. The laser is coherent and isn't as per 1/r^2 - which is why you can shine a torch (non-coherent) only a few handred meters but can bounce a laser off a mirror on the moon.
Yes, by providing even less incentive for people to actually study anything ;) To quote a friend of mine: A masters in Google and a doctorate in speed reading.
The Internet in its current form does very little in the way of actually working on problems, and doing analysis. Sure there are tools like Wolfram Alpha that'll do a bit of math (even some calculus) but they are still the exception. What the Internet will do is provide less incentive for rote memorisation where Internet access is reliable and practical. In practical terms the sorts of things that will be memorised will change. No one will be interested in memorising a periodic table when you can look up the elements. However a doctor is still going to want to know how to do surgery without resorting to Google. Likewise we're some way off lawyers actually googling in court, or plumbers looking up new procedures online as they go.
It's not a bad thing and its necessary for progress. There is too much information for any one person to memorise all but a select handful of specialised fields.