From what we've heard Apple demands not only a one-time sales price from the operators (as most other mobile manufacturers do) but also a part of the monthly fee paid by iphone-customers...Apple on the other side might object to being the only GSM-manufacturer that has to pay a monthly fee.
Yes, it would really suck if the only hardware provider to charge monthly fees to the hardware they provide had to pay royalties on said monthly fees. They are clearly being persecuted for their uniqueness.
I get eyestrain from LCD's. For me, it reminds me of a long day standing on concrete. Most days, it's not really that bad, but it's never as good as standing on turf. When I read a book, with proper lighting, it is never as bad. Like the foot strain analogy, I'm aware that it affect some people more than others. Now, I wouldn't give up the benefits of search and portability to reduce that eyestrain. But if I could reduce eyestrain while keeping those benefits from an electronic device, I'm interested. Even now, I prefer to read from a screen, eyestrain notwithstanding. When the prices are reasonable, I intend to buy an ebook reader.
Comprehension fail. He didn't say he uses hunt-and-peck. He said he doesn't use formal touch-typing technique. Now try to imagine, just for a moment, all the vast possibilities in between those two styles. For instance, I commonly use my index fingers on neighboring keys where they shouldn't go, I rarely use my pinkies for anything but home row, shift, and enter, and I often shift my hand one key left or right, depending on what I'm typing. It's not hunt-and-peck, but it isn't formal touch-typing, either. Oh, and error rates are implied in wpm. Kind of like the adjusted time scores in downhill skiing.
Agreed. I tend to type fairly well (80-100 wpm), even though I only got about 35 wmp in high school. I expect the submitter, like me, uses some portion of touch-typing, and omits a few rules or principles. Not, hunt-and-peck, but not hardcore touch-typing. As far as I'm concerned, this is not a big deal. I'm not writing treatises, novels, or getting paid by LOC. When I have something to type, I usually type much slower, because crafting the document, be it code or English-language communication, takes more than the actual typing time, which puts it firmly in the category of 'good enough'.
People with poor comprehension skills are on my list. The big questions is, can you determine if you're on my list, and how worried does that make you?
Given what I've seen of your comprehension skills, I'll have to clarify. You're on my list, but, like the GPP, I have no interest in killing people on my list.
The problem is simple. If "pretty music" follows an algorithm, one of two logical outcomes are going to occur. There will be a wealth of new, good music which has no direct creative input and will be covered under copyright at best the same way phone books are, or the question of copyright on "handmade" IP versus computer-generated IP will be raised. I don't think either one fills the media industry with glee.
Or to put it another way: Do you prefer your carbon allotrope crystals dug out of old volcanoes by starving people, or do you prefer them to be created using CVD?
Which is also the case for religion. After all, if every Christian (Catholic or Protestant), Muslim, and Jew were actively engaged in physical violence or financial support for said violence against those who disagree with them, we'd have the largest, most well-funded war in the history of humankind. Even without the help of Hindus, Buddhists, and the many other denominationally smaller religions out there. Fortunately, most people with a religious background have better things to with their time (just like everybody else!). Unfortunately, there are far too many people out there, religious or otherwise, who think they have a right to tell other people how to live, such as the poster of the original comment.
I'm trying to imagine how one would make, say, ski jumping safer. Soft fluffy snow on the ground? Because I can see dozens of ways to get yourself killed flying through the air for a couple hundred meters at upwards of 100 km/h. Or we could assume that at a certain level of the game, you'd better know what you're doing or you're going to get hurt.
I personally think I'd have a hard time telling a pill-shaped candy from an actual pill from a web cam video/picture. This could arguably be less than a couple dozen pixels in the entire image, from typically low-res, low-quality cameras.
I'd still leave this in the category of poor judgment, and overreaching their authority, and not poor vision.
Ah, and none of us have ever heard of cam rips of movies. I wonder what kind of special technology they use that only human eyes can see the images on the screen, and if they've already started discussions with the MPAA.
...just because something is protected by the free exercise clause of the 1st amendment to the US Constitution does not mean it is necessarily a fundamental human right which should give rise to an asylum claim. Germany is not subject the the US Constitution.
You're right - Americans are. And so when a group of people came before an American judge and said, "We believe our rights are being violated, so we want to move here," the judge said, "Based on our laws and our constitution, I agree. Come on in." It will be more interesting when Muslims from France make the same claim...
P.S. Also, if you're going to enshrine "human rights" in your constitution, you should extend them to all humans in your domain, not just citizens. Otherwise, admit the truth and call them "citizens' rights".
detailed research into the melting point of diamond found it behaves like water during melting and freezing -- with its solid form floating on the liquid
I only point this out because you would be surprised at how many human beings don't know this...
And then they go make movies. "Blow the ice cap!" I was just stunned when they said that. Even Wile E. Coyote knew better than to leave the helium balloons attached to his anvils.
Interesting idea, but how would you guarantee the refund? Sounds like this needs an administering body to hold the funds in trust. Also, it only works for writers who can live on other assets or income whilst writing their first book.
And how would this be different from just about every other author out there?
Violations of these behaviors and evolved protocols can really upset us. For example, a scene in Terminator II shows the evil robot of the movie (which can take anyone's form that it kills) has earlier (unknown to the audience) taken over the form of a woman talking on the phone to her son. The audience senses something is wrong, the dog is barking hectically outside and the woman is trying suspiciously to milk the son for information on his location. She gets the name of the dog wrong. It's only then that we know she's the killer robot. Right after the call ends, we find the robot also killed the husband of the woman while casually talking on the phone. Think about that. Someone who can chat on the phone without even a trace of emotion or extertion while killing a person at the same time.
Wow, way to totally butcher the movie. First, the evil robot doesn't need to kill a person - it's just more convenient. Next, unknown to the audience? It's clearly portrayed in the movies that dogs always freak out about the robots - the barking is a clue. And killing people without emotion? It's a robot! It does everything without emotion! What anything in that has to do with the uncanny valley is also in doubt because much of the time the "robot" is portrayed by humans, with fleeting, obvious, CG in between. I think you might be mistaking sympathizing with the good guys and fear/animus/revulsion towards the bad guy with the uncanny valley.
One of these days, when I have enough time before a plane flight, I'm going to follow the letter of the rules while showing off (in a non-threatening manner) how easily they can be worked around: by attempting to cook a full four-course meal onboard a plane during the flight from my coach seat;)
And the likely response from the TSA would be to make cooking a meal on the plane by non-airline staff a criminal offense.
As someone noted above, the military force in this particular situation was private and not governmental, however it was essentially the private armies of the British East and West India Companies that were responsible for most of the horrors of colonization by the British (I've never been too clear on the situation with the Spanish insofar as to whether or not they were regular military or not).
While that may be true for a good many locales, the atrocities committed in the United States were pretty much done by the homegrown Americans. Keep in mind that many of the colonies started there were private endeavors. Now, Canada was very much in control of the British Empire, even though there were both the Hudson Bay Company and the Northwest Company. And while atrocities were committed against the natives in Canada, we didn't engage in outright war or genocide with them. Not that I'm proud of how natives were handled in Canada - "a little less evil than the other guys" isn't much of a slogan in my opinion.
...it is, after all, a dead human being she'll be working on.
So...it's just a piece of rotting tissue. Why are we worried about respecting it again? Yes, I sign my donor card. No, I don't care what happens to the parts they can't use - I won't be using them. Yes, I can see why preparing the body to look surprised just might upset the bereaved. And yes, I can see taking some consideration with the cadaver out of respect for the bereaved. But if they want to act out a scene from Weekend at Bernie's in the mortuary, I really don't care.
So, it's like finding a whole class of levers and rods that allow your car to do things when you were expecting that buttons and switches did all of the work.
So what you're really saying is it's like finding out that the latest MP3-playing, 8-speaker stereo-containing car has an 8-track hidden under the spare tire.
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From what we've heard Apple demands not only a one-time sales price from the operators (as most other mobile manufacturers do) but also a part of the monthly fee paid by iphone-customers...Apple on the other side might object to being the only GSM-manufacturer that has to pay a monthly fee.
Yes, it would really suck if the only hardware provider to charge monthly fees to the hardware they provide had to pay royalties on said monthly fees. They are clearly being persecuted for their uniqueness.
I get eyestrain from LCD's. For me, it reminds me of a long day standing on concrete. Most days, it's not really that bad, but it's never as good as standing on turf. When I read a book, with proper lighting, it is never as bad. Like the foot strain analogy, I'm aware that it affect some people more than others.
Now, I wouldn't give up the benefits of search and portability to reduce that eyestrain. But if I could reduce eyestrain while keeping those benefits from an electronic device, I'm interested. Even now, I prefer to read from a screen, eyestrain notwithstanding. When the prices are reasonable, I intend to buy an ebook reader.
The dad was an idiot, though. I don't see him recovering.
Yes, sadly idiocy is quite difficult to recover from. More so that idiocy can be fatal to those who don't suffer from it.
Comprehension fail. He didn't say he uses hunt-and-peck. He said he doesn't use formal touch-typing technique. Now try to imagine, just for a moment, all the vast possibilities in between those two styles.
For instance, I commonly use my index fingers on neighboring keys where they shouldn't go, I rarely use my pinkies for anything but home row, shift, and enter, and I often shift my hand one key left or right, depending on what I'm typing. It's not hunt-and-peck, but it isn't formal touch-typing, either.
Oh, and error rates are implied in wpm. Kind of like the adjusted time scores in downhill skiing.
Agreed. I tend to type fairly well (80-100 wpm), even though I only got about 35 wmp in high school. I expect the submitter, like me, uses some portion of touch-typing, and omits a few rules or principles. Not, hunt-and-peck, but not hardcore touch-typing. As far as I'm concerned, this is not a big deal. I'm not writing treatises, novels, or getting paid by LOC. When I have something to type, I usually type much slower, because crafting the document, be it code or English-language communication, takes more than the actual typing time, which puts it firmly in the category of 'good enough'.
People with poor comprehension skills are on my list. The big questions is, can you determine if you're on my list, and how worried does that make you?
Given what I've seen of your comprehension skills, I'll have to clarify. You're on my list, but, like the GPP, I have no interest in killing people on my list.
We probably shit outside the caves. Most of the time.
You're gonna need Milla Jovovich's hand first. Got that "handy"?
The good news is, that's a solvable problem. ;)
The problem is simple. If "pretty music" follows an algorithm, one of two logical outcomes are going to occur. There will be a wealth of new, good music which has no direct creative input and will be covered under copyright at best the same way phone books are, or the question of copyright on "handmade" IP versus computer-generated IP will be raised. I don't think either one fills the media industry with glee.
Or to put it another way: Do you prefer your carbon allotrope crystals dug out of old volcanoes by starving people, or do you prefer them to be created using CVD?
Which is also the case for religion. After all, if every Christian (Catholic or Protestant), Muslim, and Jew were actively engaged in physical violence or financial support for said violence against those who disagree with them, we'd have the largest, most well-funded war in the history of humankind. Even without the help of Hindus, Buddhists, and the many other denominationally smaller religions out there.
Fortunately, most people with a religious background have better things to with their time (just like everybody else!). Unfortunately, there are far too many people out there, religious or otherwise, who think they have a right to tell other people how to live, such as the poster of the original comment.
I'm trying to imagine how one would make, say, ski jumping safer. Soft fluffy snow on the ground? Because I can see dozens of ways to get yourself killed flying through the air for a couple hundred meters at upwards of 100 km/h.
Or we could assume that at a certain level of the game, you'd better know what you're doing or you're going to get hurt.
I personally think I'd have a hard time telling a pill-shaped candy from an actual pill from a web cam video/picture. This could arguably be less than a couple dozen pixels in the entire image, from typically low-res, low-quality cameras.
I'd still leave this in the category of poor judgment, and overreaching their authority, and not poor vision.
...so you're saying Google hasn't taken over yet? Or just that Apple will never be evil? ;-)
Ah, and none of us have ever heard of cam rips of movies. I wonder what kind of special technology they use that only human eyes can see the images on the screen, and if they've already started discussions with the MPAA.
"And to think, all I needed was the blood of a young boy."
...just because something is protected by the free exercise clause of the 1st amendment to the US Constitution does not mean it is necessarily a fundamental human right which should give rise to an asylum claim. Germany is not subject the the US Constitution.
You're right - Americans are. And so when a group of people came before an American judge and said, "We believe our rights are being violated, so we want to move here," the judge said, "Based on our laws and our constitution, I agree. Come on in."
It will be more interesting when Muslims from France make the same claim...
P.S. Also, if you're going to enshrine "human rights" in your constitution, you should extend them to all humans in your domain, not just citizens. Otherwise, admit the truth and call them "citizens' rights".
detailed research into the melting point of diamond found it behaves like water during melting and freezing -- with its solid form floating on the liquid
I only point this out because you would be surprised at how many human beings don't know this...
And then they go make movies. "Blow the ice cap!" I was just stunned when they said that. Even Wile E. Coyote knew better than to leave the helium balloons attached to his anvils.
Interesting idea, but how would you guarantee the refund? Sounds like this needs an administering body to hold the funds in trust. Also, it only works for writers who can live on other assets or income whilst writing their first book.
And how would this be different from just about every other author out there?
Violations of these behaviors and evolved protocols can really upset us. For example, a scene in Terminator II shows the evil robot of the movie (which can take anyone's form that it kills) has earlier (unknown to the audience) taken over the form of a woman talking on the phone to her son. The audience senses something is wrong, the dog is barking hectically outside and the woman is trying suspiciously to milk the son for information on his location. She gets the name of the dog wrong. It's only then that we know she's the killer robot. Right after the call ends, we find the robot also killed the husband of the woman while casually talking on the phone. Think about that. Someone who can chat on the phone without even a trace of emotion or extertion while killing a person at the same time.
Wow, way to totally butcher the movie. First, the evil robot doesn't need to kill a person - it's just more convenient. Next, unknown to the audience? It's clearly portrayed in the movies that dogs always freak out about the robots - the barking is a clue. And killing people without emotion? It's a robot! It does everything without emotion!
What anything in that has to do with the uncanny valley is also in doubt because much of the time the "robot" is portrayed by humans, with fleeting, obvious, CG in between. I think you might be mistaking sympathizing with the good guys and fear/animus/revulsion towards the bad guy with the uncanny valley.
* According to believers, a set I'm not a member of so I really should stop talking about their business...
No no, that's quite all right - non-believers defending the consistency of our behaviour gives us religious types more time to burn witches. ;-)
I was thinking more on the lines of: Good news! Our civilization is so ready for bigger brains!
One of these days, when I have enough time before a plane flight, I'm going to follow the letter of the rules while showing off (in a non-threatening manner) how easily they can be worked around: by attempting to cook a full four-course meal onboard a plane during the flight from my coach seat ;)
And the likely response from the TSA would be to make cooking a meal on the plane by non-airline staff a criminal offense.
As someone noted above, the military force in this particular situation was private and not governmental, however it was essentially the private armies of the British East and West India Companies that were responsible for most of the horrors of colonization by the British (I've never been too clear on the situation with the Spanish insofar as to whether or not they were regular military or not).
While that may be true for a good many locales, the atrocities committed in the United States were pretty much done by the homegrown Americans. Keep in mind that many of the colonies started there were private endeavors.
Now, Canada was very much in control of the British Empire, even though there were both the Hudson Bay Company and the Northwest Company. And while atrocities were committed against the natives in Canada, we didn't engage in outright war or genocide with them. Not that I'm proud of how natives were handled in Canada - "a little less evil than the other guys" isn't much of a slogan in my opinion.
...it is, after all, a dead human being she'll be working on.
So...it's just a piece of rotting tissue. Why are we worried about respecting it again?
Yes, I sign my donor card. No, I don't care what happens to the parts they can't use - I won't be using them. Yes, I can see why preparing the body to look surprised just might upset the bereaved. And yes, I can see taking some consideration with the cadaver out of respect for the bereaved. But if they want to act out a scene from Weekend at Bernie's in the mortuary, I really don't care.
So, it's like finding a whole class of levers and rods that allow your car to do things when you were expecting that buttons and switches did all of the work.
So what you're really saying is it's like finding out that the latest MP3-playing, 8-speaker stereo-containing car has an 8-track hidden under the spare tire.
...yay?