I like living in an era of computing and modern medicine. I don't feel nostaligic for a time when you were likely to die before you hit 40. I think we should probably abolish copyright altogether, but we could at least start by limiting it to 5 years. If the "artist" or creator can't perform their work sufficiently well to compete with others performing it (ie much better) they don't deserve the revenue. The argument that nothing new would be created is pure fud.
Most people can own and operate a camera but will still hire a professional photographer (and mosti will not the cheapest one) to shoot their wedding. Professional photography isn't dead. We haven't had to artificially regulate it. There will always be room for people to be paid to do something well, or at least well as judged by the populace.
Getting into a relationship you better use your head or your life will turn to crap. You've do NOT want to hook up with someone who's self centered and irrational.
But determining if there'll be sparks....forget the science and go with your gut. Most of the people you "should" get along with based on statistical methods and science you will find boring. Many of the people you shouldn't be attracted to will turn you into a horny toad. The trick is to find someone who's good for you, and be good to them back. Oh and by the way those hormones that make the sex great will make any kind of reasoned rational logic go out the window at least for some of your relationship.
I can't ever see myself storing my personal documents, especially financial ones, on some remote server or "cloud". Fuck that. Take your orafice online and stick it.
Huh? Surely you've only strengthened my position. Since Alice and Bob can still spend all or part of their money on anything and everything, allowing resale isn't going to increase the portion of money the industry gets. That's my point. There are good reasons to allow resale, but Alice and Bob spending more on your games isn't one of them.
Care to share any of these better reasons or you just going to continue to attack the poster
No question about it, the poster's reasoning/accounting just doesn't make sense. I didn't call the poster himself names. Perhaps you ought to learn to tell the difference between attacking an argument and attacking a poster.
For the record, the site really isn't too much more than a place were people post random news, and a forum which is dominated by in-fighting, trolling, and a bizarre 'shit-in-his-shoes' meme (it was started after Google started rating us highly as place to get life advice). And yes, it's as much fun as it sounds.
No used: Alice buys Gears of War. Money given to studios - $60
With used: Alice buys Gears of War. Alice sells GoW to Bob. Alice buys GoW2 Money given to studios - $120
Pure rubish. I see you learnt your accounting from RIAA.
1) Not all games come from the same studio. Each company is competing for both Bob and Alice's money. Alice may choose to buy another company's product.
2) It is possible Bob will buy something cheaper from the same company for $30 if he can't afford gears of war, and that Alice will also buy it. Alice spends $60 on Gow and $30 on the second product. Bob just buys the second product. Still $120 spent.
There are good reasons why used game sales should be permitted but your argument isn't one of them.
Am I missing something, or is this just two ordinary webcams that superimpose their images onto one another? Why did it take so long for someone to duct tape 2 cameras together?
You missed something: the marketing hype. No it didn't take this long to do stereographic video.
Total Tech time for resetting a computer less than Ten Minutes(on average).
Yet you ignore the time it took you to create the MSI installs etc. for every app you're regularly using. Though I must say I'm surprised you don't have any apps that don't use MSI or don't allow proper batch configuration.
Yes, I can spend hours trying to remove all the crapware, spyware, virii and trying to fix the computer, and I actually used to do that....or you can stop surfing porn and torrent sites and never get the crapware, spyware and virii. THIS is your real problem. If you can't keep your computer crap free, imaging once a year doesn't protect you from data and identity theft nor will you solve the problem by continually reimaging.
People should reinstall their Windows from scratch at least once a year.
Glad you have the time to waste reinstalling from scratch once a year. Some of us have other things to do with our lives. You go around calling people who don't do this an "idiot" but I'd call anyone who spends several hours once a year on each machine they own an idiot. This is NOT the only way to get decent performance out of windows, even if it is the only way YOU know how to do it.
Actually she is an ex criminal and family court judge presiding over small claims matters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Sheindlin "By 1976, Sheindlin's no-nonsense[2] attitude inspired New York Mayor Ed Koch to appoint her as a judge in criminal court.[2] Four years later, she was promoted to supervising judge in the Manhattan division of the family court.[2] She earned a reputation as a tough judge, notorious for fast decision making and wise-cracking judgments.[3]"
...because that's the only female US Judge I'm familiar with. (Well her at that copy cat from "People's court", but I can never remember her name). If that's representative then your judges are opinionated, pre-judge everything, apply the law in a slipshod way based on wether or not she likes you and wether or not you show her respect. The number of times I've seen her behave in a way that I considered irrational and inequitable is amazing. So this would fit right in!
Only in the USA do people shout "think of the lawyers!" before considering innovations in technology....;-)
Well that's hilarious considering I'm posting from Australia.
I'm not saying he should be sued, but I am saying that risking doing something so illegal for no good reason is silly. He could easily inform the trucking company that he was tracking the truck and if they don't like it he can go with another.
The long term success rate is bad, not because cosmic rays or fairy dust makes people fat again, but because people stop caring about their weight again, and go back to the same old bad habits that made them fat in the first place.
Please explain why some people don't need to do a damned thing to maintain their weight. Others in the meantime have to keep up super human efforts or you'll ridicule them.
Your argument is fatalistic, you say that since the statistics show that long-term weight loss is so rare, you might as well not even try in the first place. But that way you've just set yourself up for failure again. Long-term weight loss is possible for everyone, but it requires effort and determination not luck to beat the statistics.
Oh I see why I've failed to win lotto all those times. It's because I've been "fatalistic".
What a pure busload of BS. Facing reality isn't "fatalistic" its "realistic". You have no right to expect any fat person to lose weight. Nor do you have any right to judge them if they choose not to, or don't manage to. You're just looking for an excuse to fat bash. Blaming someone for something they have limited control over is stupid. One day an excessive apetitite and a metabolism that won't shift weight will be seen for the diseases they are, instead of just some fatties making excuses for having no self control.
You should be grateful if you don't have a weight problem, and more understanding if you do or have had one.
So everyone that I know that claims to be a fat person that's lost significant weight is full of shit? Every "FFB"(Former Fat Boy) out there is just a shill for the weight loss companies? Nobody can ever keep off their fat?
How many of those people did so 7-10 years ago?
I mean afterall: It's damn near impossible for a fat person to lose weight and keep it off. It's fucking miraculous if they can do more than 10%. What's it matter anyway, they'll just pig out and get fat again later.
I see you understand the concept of sarcasm. now do you understand the concept of a year? Can you count to 10?
You're just deluding yourself man. I can accept that fat people may get back into old habits that get them fat again, just like drug addicts and alcoholics. Using that as an excuse to not even bother quitting though? Should every alcoholic say "fuck it man, I'm just going to relapse anyway"?
Funny that some people need to do NOTHING to maintain their weight, but you're happy to ridicule and berate those that have a struggle on their hands. You could possibly compare it to alcoholism, except that I'd like to see how many alcoholics would last having to drink an exact number of drinks per day and no more. Abstinence from food is not an option.
I'm sorry you don't have either the compassion or empathy to get it, but that's YOUR issue.
I don't fully understand why useful objects in space are discarded into the atmosphere. Isn't it feasible to send them into space, either in an extremely high orbit or just give it enough inertia to keep traveling in open space?
For the same reason that, when you finish playing with a ball, you don't hurl it into space. You drop it. It takes a lot less energy.
To hurl something into space like that you'd need to send up another massive rocket to push it out.
I feel you have also accurately summarized why MythBusters is so popular - it captures the scientific spirit without diluting it in rigor
You should replace the word 'rigor' with 'science'.
The scientific spirit is NOT about labeling anything that doesn't blow up or come to a ridiculous conclusion based on limited data as boring. The wonder is not in the special effects. It's not in wild hand waving. It's not in redneck pseduo-science.
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I like living in an era of computing and modern medicine. I don't feel nostaligic for a time when you were likely to die before you hit 40. I think we should probably abolish copyright altogether, but we could at least start by limiting it to 5 years. If the "artist" or creator can't perform their work sufficiently well to compete with others performing it (ie much better) they don't deserve the revenue. The argument that nothing new would be created is pure fud.
Most people can own and operate a camera but will still hire a professional photographer (and mosti will not the cheapest one) to shoot their wedding. Professional photography isn't dead. We haven't had to artificially regulate it. There will always be room for people to be paid to do something well, or at least well as judged by the populace.
...at least when it comes to attraction.
Getting into a relationship you better use your head or your life will turn to crap. You've do NOT want to hook up with someone who's self centered and irrational.
But determining if there'll be sparks....forget the science and go with your gut. Most of the people you "should" get along with based on statistical methods and science you will find boring. Many of the people you shouldn't be attracted to will turn you into a horny toad. The trick is to find someone who's good for you, and be good to them back. Oh and by the way those hormones that make the sex great will make any kind of reasoned rational logic go out the window at least for some of your relationship.
...priceless.
For everything else, there's Microsoft.
I can't ever see myself storing my personal documents, especially financial ones, on some remote server or "cloud". Fuck that. Take your orafice online and stick it.
Huh? Surely you've only strengthened my position. Since Alice and Bob can still spend all or part of their money on anything and everything, allowing resale isn't going to increase the portion of money the industry gets. That's my point. There are good reasons to allow resale, but Alice and Bob spending more on your games isn't one of them.
Care to share any of these better reasons or you just going to continue to attack the poster
No question about it, the poster's reasoning/accounting just doesn't make sense. I didn't call the poster himself names. Perhaps you ought to learn to tell the difference between attacking an argument and attacking a poster.
For the record, the site really isn't too much more than a place were people post random news, and a forum which is dominated by in-fighting, trolling, and a bizarre 'shit-in-his-shoes' meme (it was started after Google started rating us highly as place to get life advice). And yes, it's as much fun as it sounds.
So doesn't that mean it violates /. IP?
Alice has $90.
Bob has $30.
No used:
Alice buys Gears of War.
Money given to studios - $60
With used:
Alice buys Gears of War.
Alice sells GoW to Bob.
Alice buys GoW2
Money given to studios - $120
Pure rubish. I see you learnt your accounting from RIAA.
1) Not all games come from the same studio. Each company is competing for both Bob and Alice's money. Alice may choose to buy another company's product.
2) It is possible Bob will buy something cheaper from the same company for $30 if he can't afford gears of war, and that Alice will also buy it. Alice spends $60 on Gow and $30 on the second product. Bob just buys the second product. Still $120 spent.
There are good reasons why used game sales should be permitted but your argument isn't one of them.
You might want to pick up a newspaper more than once a year. A female US judge is the #1 news story in just about all of them for the last week.
Not every non-US citizen wants to read US newspapers. Thanks.
Am I missing something, or is this just two ordinary webcams that superimpose their images onto one another? Why did it take so long for someone to duct tape 2 cameras together?
You missed something: the marketing hype. No it didn't take this long to do stereographic video.
Total Tech time for resetting a computer less than Ten Minutes(on average).
Yet you ignore the time it took you to create the MSI installs etc. for every app you're regularly using. Though I must say I'm surprised you don't have any apps that don't use MSI or don't allow proper batch configuration.
Yes, I can spend hours trying to remove all the crapware, spyware, virii and trying to fix the computer, and I actually used to do that. ...or you can stop surfing porn and torrent sites and never get the crapware, spyware and virii. THIS is your real problem. If you can't keep your computer crap free, imaging once a year doesn't protect you from data and identity theft nor will you solve the problem by continually reimaging.
People should reinstall their Windows from scratch at least once a year.
Glad you have the time to waste reinstalling from scratch once a year. Some of us have other things to do with our lives. You go around calling people who don't do this an "idiot" but I'd call anyone who spends several hours once a year on each machine they own an idiot. This is NOT the only way to get decent performance out of windows, even if it is the only way YOU know how to do it.
How do you say "you're doing it wrong" in their local language?
"Please hold while we bring up your account"
Meh. What's 23 quadrillion dollars really worth these days?
A government bailout and a golden paracute for the execs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjh13hxehl4
You can get any answer you want out of a survey.
Actually she is an ex criminal and family court judge presiding over small claims matters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Sheindlin
"By 1976, Sheindlin's no-nonsense[2] attitude inspired New York Mayor Ed Koch to appoint her as a judge in criminal court.[2] Four years later, she was promoted to supervising judge in the Manhattan division of the family court.[2] She earned a reputation as a tough judge, notorious for fast decision making and wise-cracking judgments.[3]"
...because that's the only female US Judge I'm familiar with. (Well her at that copy cat from "People's court", but I can never remember her name). If that's representative then your judges are opinionated, pre-judge everything, apply the law in a slipshod way based on wether or not she likes you and wether or not you show her respect. The number of times I've seen her behave in a way that I considered irrational and inequitable is amazing. So this would fit right in!
Thanks for your apology and explanation. Rare here on slashdot these days. Much appreciated.
Only in the USA do people shout "think of the lawyers!" before considering innovations in technology.... ;-)
Well that's hilarious considering I'm posting from Australia.
I'm not saying he should be sued, but I am saying that risking doing something so illegal for no good reason is silly. He could easily inform the trucking company that he was tracking the truck and if they don't like it he can go with another.
The long term success rate is bad, not because cosmic rays or fairy dust makes people fat again, but because people stop caring about their weight again, and go back to the same old bad habits that made them fat in the first place.
Please explain why some people don't need to do a damned thing to maintain their weight. Others in the meantime have to keep up super human efforts or you'll ridicule them.
Your argument is fatalistic, you say that since the statistics show that long-term weight loss is so rare, you might as well not even try in the first place. But that way you've just set yourself up for failure again. Long-term weight loss is possible for everyone, but it requires effort and determination not luck to beat the statistics.
Oh I see why I've failed to win lotto all those times. It's because I've been "fatalistic".
What a pure busload of BS. Facing reality isn't "fatalistic" its "realistic". You have no right to expect any fat person to lose weight. Nor do you have any right to judge them if they choose not to, or don't manage to. You're just looking for an excuse to fat bash. Blaming someone for something they have limited control over is stupid. One day an excessive apetitite and a metabolism that won't shift weight will be seen for the diseases they are, instead of just some fatties making excuses for having no self control.
You should be grateful if you don't have a weight problem, and more understanding if you do or have had one.
So everyone that I know that claims to be a fat person that's lost significant weight is full of shit? Every "FFB"(Former Fat Boy) out there is just a shill for the weight loss companies? Nobody can ever keep off their fat?
How many of those people did so 7-10 years ago?
I mean afterall: It's damn near impossible for a fat person to lose weight and keep it off. It's fucking miraculous if they can do more than 10%. What's it matter anyway, they'll just pig out and get fat again later.
I see you understand the concept of sarcasm. now do you understand the concept of a year? Can you count to 10?
You're just deluding yourself man. I can accept that fat people may get back into old habits that get them fat again, just like drug addicts and alcoholics. Using that as an excuse to not even bother quitting though? Should every alcoholic say "fuck it man, I'm just going to relapse anyway"?
Funny that some people need to do NOTHING to maintain their weight, but you're happy to ridicule and berate those that have a struggle on their hands. You could possibly compare it to alcoholism, except that I'd like to see how many alcoholics would last having to drink an exact number of drinks per day and no more. Abstinence from food is not an option.
I'm sorry you don't have either the compassion or empathy to get it, but that's YOUR issue.
Ahh... yes.
And Cheney had a valid warrant for every single act of spying he did.
But a bunch of college kids don't have the handy excuse, nor the political clout to keep themselves out of prison over a silly stunt.
I don't fully understand why useful objects in space are discarded into the atmosphere. Isn't it feasible to send them into space, either in an extremely high orbit or just give it enough inertia to keep traveling in open space?
For the same reason that, when you finish playing with a ball, you don't hurl it into space. You drop it. It takes a lot less energy.
To hurl something into space like that you'd need to send up another massive rocket to push it out.
I thought you needed a warrant or at least a private investigator's license to track people by GPS without their knowledge.
You forgot the part about politely asking data thieves not to look at the cat.
I feel you have also accurately summarized why MythBusters is so popular - it captures the scientific spirit without diluting it in rigor
You should replace the word 'rigor' with 'science'.
The scientific spirit is NOT about labeling anything that doesn't blow up or come to a ridiculous conclusion based on limited data as boring. The wonder is not in the special effects. It's not in wild hand waving. It's not in redneck pseduo-science.
He even coined the term "sooky action at a distance"
You mean spooky action at a distance, but congrats on the Freudian.
I think sooky action at a distance was an idea well established by sailing officer's wives in the 1500s. Einstein was a bit late for that.