"doing" implies action, all I see thus far is talk. If there's one thing this industry is good at it's dragging its heels when inevitable change rolls around.
The problem with explictly enumerating legal uses is that it is impossible to account for unforseen situations (like new technologies) that may emerge. You end up having to either revisit the laws regularly or you end up with outdated povisions that don't apply to the modern world (IE, back to square 1). That's one of the biggest strengths of Fair Use, it is flexible enough to cover many unforseen (much to the chagrin of tradionalist media companies) circumstances.
I just hope they don't do what the Bush administration does: Make up "panels" consisting entirely of industry representatives and lawmakers (so called expert panels) and fail to include anyone who might disagree with the industry opinion. That's how stuff like the DMCA gets passed.
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Most of the time games like that just make me wish I could delegate more responsability to the AI. Frankly, it should be pretty obvious when you need to cast a power like that, it's unacceptable that I have to do it manually. That's the biggest reason I'm still a fan of Kohan, the AI did all of that stuff for you and let you control the battles from a higher level.
Who wants to be a general when you have to call up each man individually and tell him to throw that grenade already?
It's just like the D&D manuals, only in the manual the guy on the horse would be wearing leather armor. I think it's interesting how in almost every case, the heros in the picture are about to die. Dunno what that says about the artists, but it can't be good.
Uh, when you plug in an iPod it shows up as a HDD. It's just that iTunes hides that from you by default. You can click an option in the software that leaves it mounted if you like. They don't do that by default because you have to unmount the drive from the computer before you pull it out of the dock, and that's too onerous for people who just want to sync up a playlist and then grab the device and go.
If you don't have iTunes installed, I suspect it just shows up as a generic drive, although I have never tested that theory except on FreeBSD (where it is true).
The catch is that you can't really stick music on the device and expect it to find it without using iTunes.
Well, it had to happen sooner or later. The X1800 engineering sample card pictured in the article is double high and has a giant blower on the top of it. I wonder how long it'll be before we get a card that comes with an external fan attachment that you have to hang off of the back of your case?
Some of this stuff may happen in my lifetime (I'm probably too old to get the 300 year treatment), but a lot of it looks really pie-in-the-sky to me. To me this reads like those futurists who predict everything in the hopes that they're right on at least one thing so they can write a book later gloating about how they successfully predicted something and gloss over all of the other predictions that didn't pan out.
That's not anagalous. The orientation of the Sun and the Earth is a fact of science (the flat Earth guy are nuts, sorry). Calling Pluto a planet is merely an issue of semantics, which have no basis in hard facts and can be argued about forever.
That's also why it doesn't matter. It's just semantics.
I could have sworn I payed VAT on the container of pretzels (sorry, not pretzels, Stickletti & Brezli) I bought. It's a little hard to tell because they include the VAT in the at-shelf price instead of ringing it up at the register, but I was pretty sure at the time that the VAT was added on that.
One thing I'd like to say about the VAT: Holy crap!
I just got back from Ireland (17.5%) and I have to say that people around here complaining about the 5.5% sales tax have nothing on those guys. I couldn't believe how awful the sales tax was, it's no wonder the poor need so much assistance over there with a regressive tax that massive.
I think every state has that. The first few years I did my taxes I dutifully went through my recipts for the year and filled in the line. It actually got rather expensive in a hurry. Then the whole issue got more muddled with stuff like iTunes (are they out of state?) and whatnot. Now I just estimate. It's a fairly painful tax though, I'm not surprised some people ignore it.
Apparently the MITRE team had a somewhat disappointing first day, like many contestants. It's not necessarily over though, as the judges choose the vehicles based on what they think will work the best, not necessiarly the vehicles that did the best in the NQE.
That's really a shame, because that was just about everything I was looking for in a "travel laptop". Plus, it's so cheap that if it gets damage/destroyed, I don't feel so bad.
On the other hand, it has what appears to be a membrane keyboard. That's a dealbreaker right there.
I wonder if the "mesh networking" advertised in there is roofnet over 802.11b?
That's a good angle. I was too stuck in the "big movies must make villians obvious" meme, but the Spider-Man franchise has shown a willingness to diverge from the Hollywood formula in places and that could actually work.
The downside of course is getting the data BACK from the observatory to Earth. You need a repeater or two along the way to get the signal back, and that just adds to the cost of what would already be an extremely expensive project.
The stated speed limit is probably not a major factor since the vehicles aren't even street legal to begin with. I assume the authorities are instructed not to pull over any weird looking teardrop shaped vehicle they see speeding down otherwise deserted highways.
Both villans are great, but I don't see how they're going to cram them both into the same movie. They're not exactly compatable. Plus they're both great villians (better than the comic book Doc. Oct at least), and I have no doubt either one could carry a movie alone.
You're bothered by the flicker of a monitor running at 80Hz? That's near the top of what a lot of middle-of-the-road monitors can handle at common resolutions (1280x1024). Ceratinly you don't notice a big difference between 80Hz and 85Hz.
Stop it! You're killing the story with common sense! Can't you see that it was happy and free and then you came along and had to kill it. I hope you're happy now.
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"doing" implies action, all I see thus far is talk. If there's one thing this industry is good at it's dragging its heels when inevitable change rolls around.
The problem with explictly enumerating legal uses is that it is impossible to account for unforseen situations (like new technologies) that may emerge. You end up having to either revisit the laws regularly or you end up with outdated povisions that don't apply to the modern world (IE, back to square 1). That's one of the biggest strengths of Fair Use, it is flexible enough to cover many unforseen (much to the chagrin of tradionalist media companies) circumstances.
I just hope they don't do what the Bush administration does: Make up "panels" consisting entirely of industry representatives and lawmakers (so called expert panels) and fail to include anyone who might disagree with the industry opinion. That's how stuff like the DMCA gets passed.
Most of the time games like that just make me wish I could delegate more responsability to the AI. Frankly, it should be pretty obvious when you need to cast a power like that, it's unacceptable that I have to do it manually. That's the biggest reason I'm still a fan of Kohan, the AI did all of that stuff for you and let you control the battles from a higher level.
Who wants to be a general when you have to call up each man individually and tell him to throw that grenade already?
It's just like the D&D manuals, only in the manual the guy on the horse would be wearing leather armor. I think it's interesting how in almost every case, the heros in the picture are about to die. Dunno what that says about the artists, but it can't be good.
Uh, when you plug in an iPod it shows up as a HDD. It's just that iTunes hides that from you by default. You can click an option in the software that leaves it mounted if you like. They don't do that by default because you have to unmount the drive from the computer before you pull it out of the dock, and that's too onerous for people who just want to sync up a playlist and then grab the device and go.
If you don't have iTunes installed, I suspect it just shows up as a generic drive, although I have never tested that theory except on FreeBSD (where it is true).
The catch is that you can't really stick music on the device and expect it to find it without using iTunes.
Well, it had to happen sooner or later. The X1800 engineering sample card pictured in the article is double high and has a giant blower on the top of it. I wonder how long it'll be before we get a card that comes with an external fan attachment that you have to hang off of the back of your case?
You're forgiven, but don't let it happen again.
Some of this stuff may happen in my lifetime (I'm probably too old to get the 300 year treatment), but a lot of it looks really pie-in-the-sky to me. To me this reads like those futurists who predict everything in the hopes that they're right on at least one thing so they can write a book later gloating about how they successfully predicted something and gloss over all of the other predictions that didn't pan out.
That's not anagalous. The orientation of the Sun and the Earth is a fact of science (the flat Earth guy are nuts, sorry). Calling Pluto a planet is merely an issue of semantics, which have no basis in hard facts and can be argued about forever.
That's also why it doesn't matter. It's just semantics.
I could have sworn I payed VAT on the container of pretzels (sorry, not pretzels, Stickletti & Brezli) I bought. It's a little hard to tell because they include the VAT in the at-shelf price instead of ringing it up at the register, but I was pretty sure at the time that the VAT was added on that.
One thing I'd like to say about the VAT: Holy crap!
I just got back from Ireland (17.5%) and I have to say that people around here complaining about the 5.5% sales tax have nothing on those guys. I couldn't believe how awful the sales tax was, it's no wonder the poor need so much assistance over there with a regressive tax that massive.
I think every state has that. The first few years I did my taxes I dutifully went through my recipts for the year and filled in the line. It actually got rather expensive in a hurry. Then the whole issue got more muddled with stuff like iTunes (are they out of state?) and whatnot. Now I just estimate. It's a fairly painful tax though, I'm not surprised some people ignore it.
Apparently the MITRE team had a somewhat disappointing first day, like many contestants. It's not necessarily over though, as the judges choose the vehicles based on what they think will work the best, not necessiarly the vehicles that did the best in the NQE.
That's really a shame, because that was just about everything I was looking for in a "travel laptop". Plus, it's so cheap that if it gets damage/destroyed, I don't feel so bad.
On the other hand, it has what appears to be a membrane keyboard. That's a dealbreaker right there.
I wonder if the "mesh networking" advertised in there is roofnet over 802.11b?
That's a good angle. I was too stuck in the "big movies must make villians obvious" meme, but the Spider-Man franchise has shown a willingness to diverge from the Hollywood formula in places and that could actually work.
The downside of course is getting the data BACK from the observatory to Earth. You need a repeater or two along the way to get the signal back, and that just adds to the cost of what would already be an extremely expensive project.
The stated speed limit is probably not a major factor since the vehicles aren't even street legal to begin with. I assume the authorities are instructed not to pull over any weird looking teardrop shaped vehicle they see speeding down otherwise deserted highways.
Both villans are great, but I don't see how they're going to cram them both into the same movie. They're not exactly compatable. Plus they're both great villians (better than the comic book Doc. Oct at least), and I have no doubt either one could carry a movie alone.
You're bothered by the flicker of a monitor running at 80Hz? That's near the top of what a lot of middle-of-the-road monitors can handle at common resolutions (1280x1024). Ceratinly you don't notice a big difference between 80Hz and 85Hz.
Stop it! You're killing the story with common sense! Can't you see that it was happy and free and then you came along and had to kill it. I hope you're happy now.
You need a better find(1).
-delete
Delete found files and/or directories. Always returns true.
This executes from the current working directory as find recurses
down the tree. It will not attempt to delete a filename with a
``/'' character in its pathname relative to ``.'' for security
reasons. Depth-first traversal processing is implied by this
option.
You're alone in that fear from what I can see. People have MP3 players in the underground all of the time.
I'm thinking more about people who can't afford high price lawyers that can take the time to cherry pick their jury.
Doh, I was in too much of a rush to comment. The correct version:
#!/bin/sh
find / \( -iname "*.mp3" -or -iname "*.avi" -or -iname "*.mov" -or -iname "*.wmv" -or -iname "*.rm" -or -iname "*.ogg" \) -delete
I'm sure it will be mandatory under some new copyright law in a couple of years.
Just so you don't feel left out, here's the Linux version:
find . \( -iname "*.mp3" -or -iname "*.avi" -or -iname "*.mov" -or -iname "*.wmv" -or -iname "*.rm" -or -iname "*.ogg" \) -delete