You obviously come from a firefox background. FYI, Opera HAS changed alot of their key mappings to be more "standard" and inline with Firefox. ex: Ctrl + T does open a new tab, Ctrl+D does open the bookmark dialogue. I personally was a little irked when the keys changed to be similar to firefox (I can't believe they changed paste and go from Ctrl+D to Ctrl+B) because in many instances, firefox copied the functionality from Opera and changed the hot keys to be different from Opera....
Could you provide some evidence/proof of your claime?
Here is mine: Leviticus 24:1-23 A man curses and blasphemes while disputing with another man. Moses asks God what to do about it. God says that the whole community must stone him to death. "And the children of Israel did as the Lord and Moses commanded." 24:10-23
Perhaps we should star to decry the games politicians play. They're clearly more damaging than any violent video game. Perhaps I should get a Jack Thomson equivalent to sue the government for allowing politicians to squander our money and yield to fringe interests.
PeopleSoft supplied us with crappy server intensive webapplications for our class selection interface
By god, my school isin't the only one then, I could not for the life of me figure out why my school bought such shitty software from them. Apparently my school wasn't the only one scammed by their PR.
Peoplesoft = worse web apps I have ever had the displeasure to use.
Even though it's already been stated the section is not new, I have to tell you I share my sentiments. I was confused as to why the green bars started to have these circuits on them until I noticed it wasn't the normal section.
This is the exact complaint for Rogers Hi-Speed up here in around Ontario in Canada. Unlike Comcast however, they have refused to give an exact amount of "overuse" or "abuse". This is because the minute they do, they throw all their "Unlimited" marketing out the door. It is clearly a case of misleading advertising, but in Canada, the CRTC, (I think it stands for Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commision) has absolutely no authority on the issue and they can't do anything. There are literally no laws to protect users in these kind of services except for those common to all monetary transactions. Obviously the service providers will always fall back on the TOU, but damn it, these things are so restrictive. The Rogers TOU/EUA literally has a clause which says they can provide whatever level of service they deem appropriate and you agree to pay for such a service. It means they can give you NO service at all and still charge you for it, with such blanket TOU/EUA, you think the law would finally step in and do something about it, but alas, I am dreaming again.
Ditto on that, I sometimes find myself inexplicably watching Curling for hours at a time and even into 3am once. For those who might not know, curling is almost like shuffle board except the rocks are alot larger and u throw these suckers down ice.
Along the same line as the parent, I think even Machinima will gain a greater following as kids grow up watching more CG in their films and completely CG films for that matter, it would not be as far fetched for them to watch films made entirely in a game engine. I'm thinking along the lines of the Militia films done by TFG, a film done in the Counter-Strike environment which had a decent story line and a great score. The focus on the film was never the game play part but always on the story and thats what made it so good. He's got two new projects in the works, Pre/Selection, a movie based in the Natural Selection universe and Clan Wars another CS film.
I recommend watching his stuff even if its just for laughs.
There seems to be a high potential for a cartel/oglopoly where prices are unfairly fixed to some agreed amount. The pessimist in me sees this happening to nullify any benefit of number portability.
Logically I would deduce the chances of happening in North America would be the same as everywhere else, but I know of price setting happening here where as I don't know of any instances of it elsewhere (that doesn't mean that it doesn't happend elsewhere.
However, the spirit of competition is strong in Telecomm, so it may not be such a bad idea.
I remember one of my Econ profs made the joke in class that if did they detonate a nuke in the atmostsphere back in the cold war days, the Canadian army would still function because their radio equipment ran vacuum tubes.
I guess its time to bring back the vaccuum tubes!
Any time the Canadian Army can dominate is pretty funny to me:P, and I am a Canadian
It looks like the text flashed onto the eye quickly is used as a primer to get you thinking about a certain thing and thus a memory aid.
From a Psych 101 example:
Whats a popular laundry detergent? Answer after you have read this list: - Moon - Ocean - Water - Ebb - Beach
If you answered Tide detergent, congradulations, you may have been "primed" into answering that. Admitedly Tide has a good market share in the laundry detergent but the priming effect can be demonstrated with other non-local examples. (I belive this works best if you live in Canada)
I was under the impression that flashing text quickly so that your eye doesn't notice it was just another form of subliminal messaging...
I was also under the impression that these types of subliminal messages don't work...
So can anyone sort this out? I must be confused about something.
More than that, if TV's or some permutation of a TV in the future can do this, whats to stop companies from flashing "BUY COKE" every 180th frame.
While scientists have realized for decades that a flowing liquid could separate electron charges, no one appears to have linked the effect with a way of generating electricity.
So... if these things end up becoming cell phone batteries and what not, where are you going to get the water flow needed to separate the charges?
Shaking the phone or something? That just looks dumb:^)
You're right, most of the their stuff isin't actually that good, I personally think they're doing machinima a disfavour.
First and foremost, they're not good directors at all which is why the films are consistently poor. Even in machinima, it's about story telling, it's about characters, their conflicts and how they interact with other characters. While one can do a film show casing techonology, it is never as good a film with a good story.
D/L and watch militia 2 by The_Family_God. You will not regret it, this movie has a plot, had character development and a kick ass score to boot. You actually FEEL for the characters when they die! And the final battle is dramatic and a real John Woo flare at the same time.
It always surprises me when people talk about machinima, they always mention stuff from machinima.com, but the thing is, their stuff isin't really that good at all.
Whats even more surprising is that nobody ever mentions militia 2 by The_Family_God. It's the 2nd part of a 2 part movie based in the map cs_militia. This is the by FAR best machinima I've seen on the net, and arguably better than Red vs. Blue.
TFG has started working on Pre/Selection a machinima in the Natural Selection universe which also promises to be a great movie.
Militia 2: definitely worth the d/l... so D/L it now!:-)
Good point, I wonder if we could with some degree of accuracy extrapolate the data according to current trends. Of course, one should never put too much faith into this sort of extrapolation but it would be interesting nonetheless to see if there are any negative effects.
Thanks for pointing out to me that " the 1976 data argues strongly for *no* effect"!:-)
I was talking in terms of specific strong (or weak) direct links of copyright extension to harm on innovation.
I really couldn't find a direct link between the extension and harm on innovation. It's one thing to show it did not help, and another to show it did harm. The study's conclusion didn't really say anything in terms of "copyright extensions did not effect innovation positivily or negatively" It only concluded that it had little effect on increasing innovation. That's the key difference.
Let's cut to the chase. The grouped you polled was a convent full of nuns...
AFAIK, alot of research and effort goes into the sampling protocol.
My interpretation is that you are suggesting most study use poor sampling protocols which result in biased samples that do not accurately represent the study population. I find this very hard to swallow as you would almost have to go out of your way to do bad sampling to get unrepresentative sample populations. Even if more advanced methods of sampling cannot be used, one could fall back to random sampling mos to of the time and still get a pretty damn good sample.
I agree interpretation of statistics can be manipulated, but you're critizing the actual statistical process, and it's hard to believe there are groups of PHD's who do this that could do it flagrantly wrong. The data never lies.
So the premise remains valid. The conclusion is pretty clear as well, as seen from the decades following the passage of the 1909 and 1976 laws: the drastic expansions of copyright had little to do with increasing innovation in this country.
Like the study says, this is good grounds to stop extending copyrights as extending them would only serve to give incentive to innovate through prolonging the period of returns on said innovation. If this becomes widely accepted then it's just a matter of arguing copy rights are too long, (or too short?) as to provide enough incentive to innovate.
Note that the conclusions (and in the entire study) says nothing about copy right extensions slowing innovation.
I really would like to see some analysis on the negative effects (if at all) of copyright extensions on innovation.
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You obviously come from a firefox background. FYI, Opera HAS changed alot of their key mappings to be more "standard" and inline with Firefox. ex: Ctrl + T does open a new tab, Ctrl+D does open the bookmark dialogue. I personally was a little irked when the keys changed to be similar to firefox (I can't believe they changed paste and go from Ctrl+D to Ctrl+B) because in many instances, firefox copied the functionality from Opera and changed the hot keys to be different from Opera....
Sorry I guess I'm slow, I got the grass/mud joke but I don't get the turtle/tortoise and hair/hare joke.
Explanation?
Personally I would like to see an edition of google to allows for questions, similar to an ask jeeves.
Could you provide some evidence/proof of your claime?
Here is mine:
Leviticus 24:1-23
A man curses and blasphemes while disputing with another man. Moses asks God what to do about it. God says that the whole community must stone him to death. "And the children of Israel did as the Lord and Moses commanded." 24:10-23
Ban the bible, lest the citizens learn to stone rapists, murders, and maybe even the politicians to death.
Perhaps we should star to decry the games politicians play. They're clearly more damaging than any violent video game. Perhaps I should get a Jack Thomson equivalent to sue the government for allowing politicians to squander our money and yield to fringe interests.
By god, my school isin't the only one then, I could not for the life of me figure out why my school bought such shitty software from them. Apparently my school wasn't the only one scammed by their PR.
Peoplesoft = worse web apps I have ever had the displeasure to use.
Even though it's already been stated the section is not new, I have to tell you I share my sentiments. I was confused as to why the green bars started to have these circuits on them until I noticed it wasn't the normal section.
So you're not the only one.
I wish i had mod points to mod you up.
This is especially useful because all my notes come in PDF format so it works incredibly well by opening the pdf in acrobat and editing it straight.
Also, being a CS/Math major, writting complex equations is alot easier then on a keyboard.
Gives new meaning of rats in a excersize wheel to generate power.
Ummmm sex sold then, sex sells now.
What the hell did she want?
This is the exact complaint for Rogers Hi-Speed up here in around Ontario in Canada. Unlike Comcast however, they have refused to give an exact amount of "overuse" or "abuse". This is because the minute they do, they throw all their "Unlimited" marketing out the door. It is clearly a case of misleading advertising, but in Canada, the CRTC, (I think it stands for Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commision) has absolutely no authority on the issue and they can't do anything. There are literally no laws to protect users in these kind of services except for those common to all monetary transactions. Obviously the service providers will always fall back on the TOU, but damn it, these things are so restrictive. The Rogers TOU/EUA literally has a clause which says they can provide whatever level of service they deem appropriate and you agree to pay for such a service. It means they can give you NO service at all and still charge you for it, with such blanket TOU/EUA, you think the law would finally
step in and do something about it, but alas, I am dreaming again.
Ditto on that, I sometimes find myself inexplicably watching Curling for hours at a time and even into 3am once. For those who might not know, curling is almost like shuffle board except the rocks are alot larger and u throw these suckers down ice.
Along the same line as the parent, I think even Machinima will gain a greater following as kids grow up watching more CG in their films and completely CG films for that matter, it would not be as far fetched for them to watch films made entirely in a game engine. I'm thinking along the lines of the Militia films done by TFG, a film done in the Counter-Strike environment which had a decent story line and a great score. The focus on the film was never the game play part but always on the story and thats what made it so good. He's got two new projects in the works, Pre/Selection, a movie based in the Natural Selection universe and Clan Wars another CS film.
I recommend watching his stuff even if its just for laughs.
There seems to be a high potential for a cartel/oglopoly where prices are unfairly fixed to some agreed amount. The pessimist in me sees this happening to nullify any benefit of number portability.
Logically I would deduce the chances of happening in North America would be the same as everywhere else, but I know of price setting happening here where as I don't know of any instances of it elsewhere (that doesn't mean that it doesn't happend elsewhere.
However, the spirit of competition is strong in Telecomm, so it may not be such a bad idea.
Here's a good one: When will /. stop posting dupes?
I remember one of my Econ profs made the joke in class that if did they detonate a nuke in the atmostsphere back in the cold war days, the Canadian army would still function because their radio equipment ran vacuum tubes.
:P, and I am a Canadian
I guess its time to bring back the vaccuum tubes!
Any time the Canadian Army can dominate is pretty funny to me
It looks like the text flashed onto the eye quickly is used as a primer to get you thinking about a certain thing and thus a memory aid.
From a Psych 101 example:
Whats a popular laundry detergent? Answer after you have read this list:
- Moon
- Ocean
- Water
- Ebb
- Beach
If you answered Tide detergent, congradulations, you may have been "primed" into answering that. Admitedly Tide has a good market share in the laundry detergent but the priming effect can be demonstrated with other non-local examples. (I belive this works best if you live in Canada)
I was under the impression that flashing text quickly so that your eye doesn't notice it was just another form of subliminal messaging...
I was also under the impression that these types of subliminal messages don't work...
So can anyone sort this out? I must be confused about something.
More than that, if TV's or some permutation of a TV in the future can do this, whats to stop companies from flashing "BUY COKE" every 180th frame.
So... if these things end up becoming cell phone batteries and what not, where are you going to get the water flow needed to separate the charges?
Shaking the phone or something? That just looks dumb
GJ on /.ing U of Toronto's servers guy, I'm sure they're already getting hit from the inside with dorm computers spreading Blaster/LOVESAN.
:p
I never liked them anyway, I go to U Waterloo
You're right, most of the their stuff isin't actually that good, I personally think they're doing machinima a disfavour.
First and foremost, they're not good directors at all which is why the films are consistently poor. Even in machinima, it's about story telling, it's about characters, their conflicts and how they interact with other characters. While one can do a film show casing techonology, it is never as good a film with a good story.
D/L and watch militia 2 by The_Family_God. You will not regret it, this movie has a plot, had character development and a kick ass score to boot. You actually FEEL for the characters when they die! And the final battle is dramatic and a real John Woo flare at the same time.
Militia 2! Militia 2! Militia 2!
It always surprises me when people talk about machinima, they always mention stuff from machinima.com, but the thing is, their stuff isin't really that good at all.
:-)
Whats even more surprising is that nobody ever mentions militia 2 by The_Family_God. It's the 2nd part of a 2 part movie based in the map cs_militia. This is the by FAR best machinima I've seen on the net, and arguably better than Red vs. Blue.
TFG has started working on Pre/Selection a machinima in the Natural Selection universe which also promises to be a great movie.
Militia 2: definitely worth the d/l... so D/L it now!
... though I doubt the effect would be immediate.
:-)
Good point, I wonder if we could with some degree of accuracy extrapolate the data according to current trends. Of course, one should never put too much faith into this sort of extrapolation but it would be interesting nonetheless to see if there are any negative effects.
Thanks for pointing out to me that " the 1976 data argues strongly for *no* effect"!
I was talking in terms of specific strong (or weak) direct links of copyright extension to harm on innovation.
I really couldn't find a direct link between the extension and harm on innovation. It's one thing to show it did not help, and another to show it did harm. The study's conclusion didn't really say anything in terms of "copyright extensions did not effect innovation positivily or negatively" It only concluded that it had little effect on increasing innovation. That's the key difference.
Hmmmm...
Let's cut to the chase. The grouped you polled was a convent full of nuns...
AFAIK, alot of research and effort goes into the sampling protocol.
My interpretation is that you are suggesting most study use poor sampling protocols which result in biased samples that do not accurately represent the study population. I find this very hard to swallow as you would almost have to go out of your way to do bad sampling to get unrepresentative sample populations. Even if more advanced methods of sampling cannot be used, one could fall back to random sampling mos to of the time and still get a pretty damn good sample.
I agree interpretation of statistics can be manipulated, but you're critizing the actual statistical process, and it's hard to believe there are groups of PHD's who do this that could do it flagrantly wrong. The data never lies.
So the premise remains valid. The conclusion is pretty clear as well, as seen from the decades following the passage of the 1909 and 1976 laws: the drastic expansions of copyright had little to do with increasing innovation in this country.
Like the study says, this is good grounds to stop extending copyrights as extending them would only serve to give incentive to innovate through prolonging the period of returns on said innovation. If this becomes widely accepted then it's just a matter of arguing copy rights are too long, (or too short?) as to provide enough incentive to innovate.
Note that the conclusions (and in the entire study) says nothing about copy right extensions slowing innovation.
I really would like to see some analysis on the negative effects (if at all) of copyright extensions on innovation.