If two theories explain the same data equally well, the simplest is more likely.
Is that really the case? That seems like it's a very hominid-centric assumption. I can't think of any counter examples but it seems very naïve to assume that the nature of the Universe would be simple...? Though, perhaps my understanding is limited.
Well it's VERY difficult to detect relativistic effects at human walking speed but they are still there. So you could create a whole stack of data that supports Newtonian physics over Relativity on that basis, but Relativity, though more complex is a more accurate description of the Universe.
When something doesn't fit your model, more experimentation and experience is needed, and most importantly you may need to do DIFFERENT experiments to determine whether a simpler or more complex theory is more accurate.
No, anyone who tries to blame the user and dismiss real problems is a fanboy. What you're saying is unreasonable. You're defending the indefensible. That makes you a fanboy.
Another damn fanboy in denial. If that list of excuses still means it qualifies for "it just works" in your book, you're dellusional.
And by the way , no you can't create an account without a credit card, not without lying about where you live. The Australian store FORCES you to put in a credit card. I've Googled other solutions, and they all require a US account with a US address.
The only thing more annoying than these flaws are people like you who insist these flaws are my fault or something I shouldn't care about because you say so. Go buy a damned turtle neck.
Or how about all those bestselling books alleging Jesus was gay, or he had a family with kids, or some other ridiculous nonsense....
No. Much more believable is that the son of the creator came down in the form of a man to get persecuted and killed which somehow saves all men from their sin (including original sin which they're at fault for even though they're born with it) and that in memory of this he comes down and inhabits a buscuit and some wine which magically become his body and blood.
You are nothing but an Apple fanboy who'd prefer to blame the customer than acknowledge that your pet company or product might be at fault for something. Nice how you jump on blaming the user and assuming that I'm incompetent knowing nothing about me. You must make a lot of friends with an attitude like yours. To answer your ridiculous accusatory questions:
Q: Why would you feel the need to do that? Are you running out of disk space?
A: Lots of good reasons to move the iTunes library. From a general reorg to moving machines.
Q: Are you running a really old PC? Do you have a lot of crapware installed?
A: iTunes is the "crapware" you speak of. I know how to admin my machine very well. I even know what the iTunes services do. A helper app for intercepting URL launches, and lots of phone home rubbish. I'm a developer and have a good understanding of what is and isn't needed.
Q: Ever hear of backup? There are plenty of third party applications for both Windows and OS X that let you move music from an iPod to your computer but you really should be using a proper backup mechanism.
A: No backup software is foolproof or completely future proof. Relying on it is for fools. Best backup is to store your data somewhere under your own control and separate from OS and settings. Apps like iTunes don't make that easy.
Q: Maybe they made it hard to RMA because of a high incidence of fraud?
A: Please explain why fraud is my problem if I'm not being fraudulent. Are you reallly trying to defend a company shirking their responsibilities under the law? Are you smoking something?
Q: *Sigh* Maybe you should RTFM. You can create smart playlists in iTunes or on the fly on the iPod using the current song to generate a genius playlist.
A: *Sigh* Maybe you should get some people skills and take some classes in basic comprehension. Genius requires a login to generate a playlist. A login in Australia requires giving them your credit card details and agreeing to their store rules.
Q: You might want to get some help for your OCD or accept that plastic does scratch especially if you keep other things in your pocket with your iPhone.
A: I've never had problems keeping other things in my pocket. Even putting my iPod in the case it came with started scratching the housing. Fortunately I've added a home made screen protector so at least the part I read isn't damaged. It makes the whole thing look cheap and stuck together though. I guess you'll defend that too.
Easy solution: boycott. Ask your doctor not to sell you any of those evil capitalistic big pharma drugs (that they developed with billions of dollars from their own hideously immoral profits).
That will show them.
Actually that would still leave you with a whole host of non-patented drugs. Depending on your medical condition you might still be okay. But that's not the point. Boycotts like that don't work. They certainly don't make the drugs cheaper, so they're not much of a solution.
Perhaps you would enjoy "cheaper" therapies like all of the pseudo-scientific crap out there? After all, it's not like it takes millions of dollars to get a drug from research labs, through animal and human trials, and undergo FDA scrutiny to MAYBE become profitable.
Why are you posting anon?
The protocols in place are clearly doing more harm than good and should be changed so it doesn't cost so much.
I call BS on your BS. I use iTunes and I like a couple of things about it, but it has its problems.
- Have you ever tried moving music in your library? Have fun cleaning up the invalid entries.
- In Windows there's all sorts of resource hogging software - services and helpers running ALL the time, regardless of if I'm using iTunes
- Ever tried to recover music back from your iPod? You use to be able to do that once upon a time, but they decided that there was too much potential for piracy
- My clickwheel has never quite worked right on my iPod. I should have had that fixed under warranty early on, but who knows how long I owuldn't have had my iPod for and what sort of cost/hassles I'd have gone through to RMA. Apple was making it VERY hard to RMA at one point here in Australia. The local consumer body had to step in.
- The click wheel interface sucks for large collections of music. Searching for a song on the iPod can be a pain.
- They make you jump through hoops to use certain features like Genius. In some countries you, like Australia you have to create an iTunes account and supply your credit card. When you "turn off" or don't enable Genius it still gets in the way
- Damn iPod screens attract scratches like moths to a flame. Keep some brasso handy.
How many would give up a safe and comfortable lifestyle and a good education, for themselves and their families, for the sake of religious self-righteousness?
You're being naive. The extremists strap explosives to themselves and push the button. They mistreat the girls and women in their own families in every way possible including their own children. Up to and including forced marriages, stonings and honour killings.
You see when you have "faith" instead of being guided by reason, all bets are off. It's not just Islam.
Before you start declaring a CURE!!! look at the number of test subjects. Preventing death in five monkeys is not exactly a cure.
It was for those 5 monkeys. Yes it does not mean it would be 100% effective in 20,000 monkeys or 1 human but it's a hell of a start. But you're right about the story summary being sensationalist. What do you expect here though?
Find a game with good modding potential, and show them what they can do. The early ID games were where I started my programming, with simple scripts. Once you learn you can change things, the next thing is creating new things.
This approach has the advantage that if a kid's more interested in modding the 3d graphics, 2d artwork or music that may also catch their interest. So if the kid's not interested in being a coder this still has the potential to set him on a path to excercising his mind - perhaps just fo hobby, perhaps as the start of something bigger.
Yes and no. Some decisions (what to eat) children just aren't mature enough to make.
This is the problem with modern society. We give kids no personal responsibility, declare that they are too immature to make decisions early, fail to teach them how to make good choices, then wonder why they go stupid at 18 or 21 or whatever arbitrary age we decide they are suddenly adults.
You need to be teaching children to take care of themselves and that includes nutrition. Sure a little guidance is needed. "You can't always have icecream for dessert even if it tastes nice, because you'll get fat and unhealthy and feel like shit". What you've said is so absurd you might as well tell me a teenager is not mature enough to decide when to go to the toilet.
Regardless of the math, it is not just to try to hold someone responsible for more than their share of the infringement. It should not be worth even 10s of dollars to share something let alone hundreds, thousands or millions. There are graver threats to society and this kind of punishment is disproportionate.
It's a simple matter of economics. When people who commit a crime are only rarely caught, then the punishment has to be extreme in order to act as a deterrent.
Well since we're throwing porpotionality and justice out the window, maybe they should just behead them instead? Or perhaps their whole family.
If the punishment for a crime isn't proportional or people aren't given a chance to defend themself and the enforcement is weak, the punishment becomes an incentive not a deterent. "Might as well do the crime if I might do the time anyway".
...for stealing a loaf of bread when they were starving.
Yes, not wanting to pay $20 for a CD is exactly the same thing as starving.
Excuse me but isn't that exactly what I said?
...CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY...
Having to file for personal bankruptcy does qualify as having a crime against humanity committed against you.
Ruining someone's life such that they can't hold certain jobs etc. over a piece of entertainment is certainly a crime against humanity. I haven't had to file for bankruptcy but then I don't pirate things. Doesn't mean I agree with the tactics used.
If a person can't innocently infringe because there is information out there that the material is copyrighted, it should follow that an artist (or distributor) should expect that somewhere out there is a person who will pirate the material and not pay. So why don't they just drop the case and accept that people pirate music? What you think you've got a monopoly on being unreasonable?
On what planet is any amount of personal infringment OF ENTERTAINMENT worth thousands of dollars? When I was a school kid in Australia we were taught about the attrocious and unreasonble practice of sending starving people to a prison half away around the world for stealing a loaf of bread when they were starving. Well I grant you no one ever died of not having a crappy RIAA song to listen to, but it seems we're trying to bring back the most unreasoanble and disproportionate punishments possible. What next? Should people be summarily executed for backing up a CD? Just how far is this shit going to go? And these CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY keep getting pushed onto the whole world through trade and other agreements. As a reasonable person, how the hell am I suppose to feel any kind of sympathy for people who would push such laws?
I agree, we should take the facts and be thankful.
Oh thank you sir. I'm so greatful sir. Only sir do you think sir that you might find it in your heart sir to not lock up my own genome sir? I was hoping that we who share the genome sir would be able to use it to fight disease sir along with all those other drugs sir that you filed for first sir but you see sir if you lock it up sir many of us will die sir. May I lick your boot now sir?
But seriously, WHY should I be thankful to companies who are behaving badly and manipulating the law so as to maximise their own profits despite the death and suffering it causes, just because they released some small subset of the data? Are you mad? If I am mugged and beaten up should I be thankful that my attacker only laid the boot in 4 times instead of 5?
All this has the feel of a silly little boys club in a primary school so I thought I'd contribute something in the same vein. My suggestions for what SC stands for:
Slashdot Mirror
If two theories explain the same data equally well, the simplest is more likely.
Is that really the case? That seems like it's a very hominid-centric assumption. I can't think of any counter examples but it seems very naïve to assume that the nature of the Universe would be simple...? Though, perhaps my understanding is limited.
Well it's VERY difficult to detect relativistic effects at human walking speed but they are still there. So you could create a whole stack of data that supports Newtonian physics over Relativity on that basis, but Relativity, though more complex is a more accurate description of the Universe.
When something doesn't fit your model, more experimentation and experience is needed, and most importantly you may need to do DIFFERENT experiments to determine whether a simpler or more complex theory is more accurate.
Yes, anyone who disagrees with you is a fanboy.
No, anyone who tries to blame the user and dismiss real problems is a fanboy. What you're saying is unreasonable. You're defending the indefensible. That makes you a fanboy.
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264 going once, going twice? Do we have 270???
I guess it doesn't matter, because I bet those girls that would date these students if only they had a car live just one mile further away...
Another damn fanboy in denial. If that list of excuses still means it qualifies for "it just works" in your book, you're dellusional.
And by the way , no you can't create an account without a credit card, not without lying about where you live. The Australian store FORCES you to put in a credit card. I've Googled other solutions, and they all require a US account with a US address.
The only thing more annoying than these flaws are people like you who insist these flaws are my fault or something I shouldn't care about because you say so. Go buy a damned turtle neck.
Or how about all those bestselling books alleging Jesus was gay, or he had a family with kids, or some other ridiculous nonsense....
No. Much more believable is that the son of the creator came down in the form of a man to get persecuted and killed which somehow saves all men from their sin (including original sin which they're at fault for even though they're born with it) and that in memory of this he comes down and inhabits a buscuit and some wine which magically become his body and blood.
You are nothing but an Apple fanboy who'd prefer to blame the customer than acknowledge that your pet company or product might be at fault for something. Nice how you jump on blaming the user and assuming that I'm incompetent knowing nothing about me. You must make a lot of friends with an attitude like yours. To answer your ridiculous accusatory questions:
Q: Why would you feel the need to do that? Are you running out of disk space?
A: Lots of good reasons to move the iTunes library. From a general reorg to moving machines.
Q: Are you running a really old PC? Do you have a lot of crapware installed?
A: iTunes is the "crapware" you speak of. I know how to admin my machine very well. I even know what the iTunes services do. A helper app for intercepting URL launches, and lots of phone home rubbish. I'm a developer and have a good understanding of what is and isn't needed.
Q: Ever hear of backup? There are plenty of third party applications for both Windows and OS X that let you move music from an iPod to your computer but you really should be using a proper backup mechanism.
A: No backup software is foolproof or completely future proof. Relying on it is for fools. Best backup is to store your data somewhere under your own control and separate from OS and settings. Apps like iTunes don't make that easy.
Q: Maybe they made it hard to RMA because of a high incidence of fraud?
A: Please explain why fraud is my problem if I'm not being fraudulent. Are you reallly trying to defend a company shirking their responsibilities under the law? Are you smoking something?
Q: *Sigh* Maybe you should RTFM. You can create smart playlists in iTunes or on the fly on the iPod using the current song to generate a genius playlist.
A: *Sigh* Maybe you should get some people skills and take some classes in basic comprehension. Genius requires a login to generate a playlist. A login in Australia requires giving them your credit card details and agreeing to their store rules.
Q: You might want to get some help for your OCD or accept that plastic does scratch especially if you keep other things in your pocket with your iPhone.
A: I've never had problems keeping other things in my pocket. Even putting my iPod in the case it came with started scratching the housing. Fortunately I've added a home made screen protector so at least the part I read isn't damaged. It makes the whole thing look cheap and stuck together though. I guess you'll defend that too.
Now go fly a kite.
Easy solution: boycott. Ask your doctor not to sell you any of those evil capitalistic big pharma drugs (that they developed with billions of dollars from their own hideously immoral profits).
That will show them.
Actually that would still leave you with a whole host of non-patented drugs. Depending on your medical condition you might still be okay. But that's not the point. Boycotts like that don't work. They certainly don't make the drugs cheaper, so they're not much of a solution.
Perhaps you would enjoy "cheaper" therapies like all of the pseudo-scientific crap out there? After all, it's not like it takes millions of dollars to get a drug from research labs, through animal and human trials, and undergo FDA scrutiny to MAYBE become profitable.
Why are you posting anon?
The protocols in place are clearly doing more harm than good and should be changed so it doesn't cost so much.
Are you a troll or just unable to see the world in anything other than black and white?
You should take a look at your own words there...
I call bullshit on this one.
I call BS on your BS. I use iTunes and I like a couple of things about it, but it has its problems.
- Have you ever tried moving music in your library? Have fun cleaning up the invalid entries.
- In Windows there's all sorts of resource hogging software - services and helpers running ALL the time, regardless of if I'm using iTunes
- Ever tried to recover music back from your iPod? You use to be able to do that once upon a time, but they decided that there was too much potential for piracy
- My clickwheel has never quite worked right on my iPod. I should have had that fixed under warranty early on, but who knows how long I owuldn't have had my iPod for and what sort of cost/hassles I'd have gone through to RMA. Apple was making it VERY hard to RMA at one point here in Australia. The local consumer body had to step in.
- The click wheel interface sucks for large collections of music. Searching for a song on the iPod can be a pain.
- They make you jump through hoops to use certain features like Genius. In some countries you, like Australia you have to create an iTunes account and supply your credit card. When you "turn off" or don't enable Genius it still gets in the way
- Damn iPod screens attract scratches like moths to a flame. Keep some brasso handy.
Before you start declaring a CURE!!! look at the number of test subjects. Preventing death in five monkeys is not exactly a cure.
It was for those 5 monkeys. Yes it does not mean it would be 100% effective in 20,000 monkeys or 1 human but it's a hell of a start. But you're right about the story summary being sensationalist. What do you expect here though?
Find a game with good modding potential, and show them what they can do. The early ID games were where I started my programming, with simple scripts. Once you learn you can change things, the next thing is creating new things.
This approach has the advantage that if a kid's more interested in modding the 3d graphics, 2d artwork or music that may also catch their interest. So if the kid's not interested in being a coder this still has the potential to set him on a path to excercising his mind - perhaps just fo hobby, perhaps as the start of something bigger.
In the end it will make it to the screen because everyone, absolutely everyone, wants this.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity to derail good work. This very real power eclipses the fictional magic of any ring.
I was looking forward to seeing Mr. Craig shoot some guns, drive some fast cars, and flirt with some girls.
Teaches me not to read the subject line first. For a moment I was wondering what version of the hobbit you were referring to!!!!
Regardless of the math, it is not just to try to hold someone responsible for more than their share of the infringement. It should not be worth even 10s of dollars to share something let alone hundreds, thousands or millions. There are graver threats to society and this kind of punishment is disproportionate.
Oh, you expect me to read the entire post before complaining about it? I don't think so, I mean, this is the internet after all.
If you won't even read what you're trying to object to, you're an asshole regardless of the medium.
It's a simple matter of economics. When people who commit a crime are only rarely caught, then the punishment has to be extreme in order to act as a deterrent.
Well since we're throwing porpotionality and justice out the window, maybe they should just behead them instead? Or perhaps their whole family.
If the punishment for a crime isn't proportional or people aren't given a chance to defend themself and the enforcement is weak, the punishment becomes an incentive not a deterent. "Might as well do the crime if I might do the time anyway".
...for stealing a loaf of bread when they were starving.
Yes, not wanting to pay $20 for a CD is exactly the same thing as starving.
Excuse me but isn't that exactly what I said?
...CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY...
Having to file for personal bankruptcy does qualify as having a crime against humanity committed against you.
Ruining someone's life such that they can't hold certain jobs etc. over a piece of entertainment is certainly a crime against humanity. I haven't had to file for bankruptcy but then I don't pirate things. Doesn't mean I agree with the tactics used.
When a patch goes wrong or breaks something you'll have to do more work to figure out whose patch just broke your machine.
If a person can't innocently infringe because there is information out there that the material is copyrighted, it should follow that an artist (or distributor) should expect that somewhere out there is a person who will pirate the material and not pay. So why don't they just drop the case and accept that people pirate music? What you think you've got a monopoly on being unreasonable?
On what planet is any amount of personal infringment OF ENTERTAINMENT worth thousands of dollars? When I was a school kid in Australia we were taught about the attrocious and unreasonble practice of sending starving people to a prison half away around the world for stealing a loaf of bread when they were starving. Well I grant you no one ever died of not having a crappy RIAA song to listen to, but it seems we're trying to bring back the most unreasoanble and disproportionate punishments possible. What next? Should people be summarily executed for backing up a CD? Just how far is this shit going to go? And these CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY keep getting pushed onto the whole world through trade and other agreements. As a reasonable person, how the hell am I suppose to feel any kind of sympathy for people who would push such laws?
It's like solving a problem by making it worse.
The technical term is "Wallstreeting".
As in "Hey did you read about Tiger Woods Wallstreeting his marriage the other day?" or "Damn! I'm Wallstreeted".
I agree, we should take the facts and be thankful.
Oh thank you sir. I'm so greatful sir. Only sir do you think sir that you might find it in your heart sir to not lock up my own genome sir? I was hoping that we who share the genome sir would be able to use it to fight disease sir along with all those other drugs sir that you filed for first sir but you see sir if you lock it up sir many of us will die sir. May I lick your boot now sir?
But seriously, WHY should I be thankful to companies who are behaving badly and manipulating the law so as to maximise their own profits despite the death and suffering it causes, just because they released some small subset of the data? Are you mad? If I am mugged and beaten up should I be thankful that my attacker only laid the boot in 4 times instead of 5?
All this has the feel of a silly little boys club in a primary school so I thought I'd contribute something in the same vein. My suggestions for what SC stands for:
Silly Crap
Stupid Crap
Softer Constipation
Soggy Cranberries
Super Crunchy