A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling
by Mark Twain
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped
to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer
be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained
would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2
might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the
same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with
"i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear
with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12
or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi
ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz
ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud
hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
My workplace is one of the many that has a "No camera phone" policy (thankfully not enforced). It really doesn't make any sense. There was a good Dilbert strip that sums it up pretty well.
"A Gamers' Manifesto" that/. mentioned recently discussed this. I don't agree with all the things the "Manifesto" said were wrong with games, but on this I do agree.
Patents. Did you know there's a patent held by some microscopic software company on spherical camera controls in realtime 3D, and they're starting to level lawsuits against EVERYONE? Did you ever wonder what happened to force feedback, controllers that push your hands around so you can feel the action in the game as well as see it (we're talking real force feedback, not controllers that vibrate like pagers)? Somebody has a patent, that's what. Did you know you can't have mini-games during a loading screen because of patent law?
No one has said having PGP installed on his computer was a crime. It was merely ruled that it was relevent evidence in the case of the crime he was accused of commiting (child pornography).
This is not like saying "Your door has locks, so you must be a criminal." This is more like saying "You have been accused of murder, and a gun was found in your house." Having a gun in your house is not a crime - nor is having PGP installed on a computer a crime. But the court decided that having PGP installed on his computer was relevent evidence, just like finding a gun in a suspected murderers house would be evidence.
What I suppose is interesting about this is that the final product will be open and available for others to use. Free from copyright, so to speak. It seems like a nice idea, much like Creative Commons, but it doesn't seem like some really huge step forward in any respect.
Sorry for the double reply, but this is a common misconception that I forgot to mention in my other post. Open Source does not mean free from copyright. Many Open Source licenses have stipulations on what you are required to do in order the use the licensed material in a certain way - for example, the GPL states that if you make any derivitive works, those derivitive works must also be licensed under the GPL. It is only because the material licensed under the GPL is protected by copyright that the GPL can make this stipulation. If the material was not protected by copyright (in the public domain), then anyone could use it in any way they wanted, without abiding by any stipulations of any license agreement.
So make a fork. If you disagree with the direction something is going, and that something is Open Source, you can take what you do like, and leave what you don't. If you're the original creator, and you don't want people doing that, then don't use a Open Source license. Since these people are using an Open Source license, I doubt they would mind if you made a fork of their movie.
I can't find any details on a plot or anything. I did find on their site that the script has not yet been written. Have they even decided what the movie is going to be about?
The only thing that suffers in Mainstream music. But that market could only go down anyways. It was already fully inflated.
That's the big thing. Not only is it fully inflated, I would say it's over-inflated, and due to pop. Everyone has there own opinions, and I'm sure a lot of people actually do like "mainstream" music, but IMO "mainstream" music owes its popularity more to the record labels strangleholds on distribution than to consumers honest opinions on the quality of the music.
The thing is, I think the RIAA is scared way more than they should be of P2P. They were just as scared of radio, and audio cassette tapes. Neither one killed their market. I don't think P2P will either, in the long run. Affect it, yes, but record labels will probably still be signing contracts with musicians 50, 100 years from now. Probably even longer.
Another example of this is effect is anime fansubs. It's the free fansubs that create a market for a show; if there's enough of a market, the anime will hopefully get licensed, and will be profitable. If an anime is licensed, but hasn't been fansubbed, chances are it will have a much smaller market & not be as profitable.
RFID in and of itself is not good or evil. It is a tool, and like any other tool can be used or abused; it is how it is used that is good or evil. I would say that this is a good use.
My main point is that those parents who are most likely to purchase a V-chip are those that are making an active, honest effort to be a good parent; and IMO that's by far the most important aspect of being a good parent.
Well, to put it otherwise, I'm not concerned with _good_ parents. Those will be good parents even with a V chip or whatever. Who knows, maybe they'll even get some good use out of it.
True, but the converse is also true. A V-chip won't make a bad parent any worse; they're already a bad parent. The jerks I described are unlikely to even purchase a V-chip. If they're not willing to spend their time parenting, why would they be willing to spend their money to buy an aid for parenting?
But I'm more concerned with the dark-grey case who haven't as much completely given up, but rather given up on even trying to do it _well_. The kind that's just doing the absolute minimum that allows them to say with a straight face that they've done their duty, or at least tried. In some cases it doesn't even take much for that straight case.
Such a chip has the potential to allow those to spend even less time with the kid. Whereas previously they might have _occasionally_ felt an urge to see wth the kid is playing, and maybe put up a token fuss about it, now they can just install a chip and never think about it again.
I don't believe there is any grey area in this matter. Anyone who does "the absolute minimum" like you describe is no better than someone who does nothing; they're only lying to themselves. If they aren't going to do a good job with a V-chip, I think it highly unlikely that they would do a better job without one.
Parents who want to ignore their children don't need the excuse of "I have the V-chip" to do so; I (sadly) know a few parents who prefer to spend their time watching the TV or playing golf or at their business than parenting their children. Some of them are just jerks who don't care to spend time parenting their children, and they wouldn't care to spend money of a V-chip either.
No one is saying a V-chip is meant to replace a parent, you seem to think that's what people intend to use it as. A V-chip is meant as a tool to assist parents in their role of parenting. You don't think it's effective as such, fine, no one will make you use it. But there are people who think it is. And claiming that those who make use of a V-chip are coping out of parenting is untrue; you may think they're doing a bad job at it, but they are making an effort towards parenting.
Everytime I see articles like this, there's a plethora of comments along the lines of "Gee, why don't the parents just, I dunno, do some parenting!"
Guess what? This is a form of parenting. Whether it's an effective, or good method of parenting is debatable, but a parent who uses software like this is making an effort at raising their child to be what they consider to be a good moral person. Your opinion of what a good moral person is may differ; and the methods they choose to try to promote their morals may not be as effective as they think, but they are making an effort.
Heh, for me the "Won't give you this:" in the corner, where it shows you what it thinks you most need, and therefore is NOT going to give you, is the taunting. I actually missed that it was "WON'T give you this" at first, and was thinking it was the more traditional "next block." Messed me up.
You can tell I'm a nerd when my first thought when reading this isn't the Woody Allen movie, but instead is all of the many sci-fi stories that use chemically induced hibernation to aid in long-distance space travel.
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A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling
by Mark Twain
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped
to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer
be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained
would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2
might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the
same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with
"i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear
with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12
or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi
ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz
ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud
hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
1MiB != 1024KB, but 1MiB == 1024KiB. The wikipedia article is pretty good at explaining this.
The servers this type of card is meant for are not going for ~300-400 dollars. Closer to ~3000-4000 dollars, likely more.
My workplace is one of the many that has a "No camera phone" policy (thankfully not enforced). It really doesn't make any sense. There was a good Dilbert strip that sums it up pretty well.
No one has said having PGP installed on his computer was a crime. It was merely ruled that it was relevent evidence in the case of the crime he was accused of commiting (child pornography).
This is not like saying "Your door has locks, so you must be a criminal." This is more like saying "You have been accused of murder, and a gun was found in your house." Having a gun in your house is not a crime - nor is having PGP installed on a computer a crime. But the court decided that having PGP installed on his computer was relevent evidence, just like finding a gun in a suspected murderers house would be evidence.
Good lord, I hope it's more coherent than those stories tend to be....
So make a fork. If you disagree with the direction something is going, and that something is Open Source, you can take what you do like, and leave what you don't. If you're the original creator, and you don't want people doing that, then don't use a Open Source license. Since these people are using an Open Source license, I doubt they would mind if you made a fork of their movie.
I can't find any details on a plot or anything. I did find on their site that the script has not yet been written. Have they even decided what the movie is going to be about?
According to the Wikipedia article, "About 130 million carats (26,000 kg) of diamonds are mined annually."
The thing is, I think the RIAA is scared way more than they should be of P2P. They were just as scared of radio, and audio cassette tapes. Neither one killed their market. I don't think P2P will either, in the long run. Affect it, yes, but record labels will probably still be signing contracts with musicians 50, 100 years from now. Probably even longer.
Another example of this is effect is anime fansubs. It's the free fansubs that create a market for a show; if there's enough of a market, the anime will hopefully get licensed, and will be profitable. If an anime is licensed, but hasn't been fansubbed, chances are it will have a much smaller market & not be as profitable.
I needed it off to go to my Uncle Obi-Wan's funeral. He didn't catch it at first.
RFID in and of itself is not good or evil. It is a tool, and like any other tool can be used or abused; it is how it is used that is good or evil. I would say that this is a good use.
My main point is that those parents who are most likely to purchase a V-chip are those that are making an active, honest effort to be a good parent; and IMO that's by far the most important aspect of being a good parent.
Parents who want to ignore their children don't need the excuse of "I have the V-chip" to do so; I (sadly) know a few parents who prefer to spend their time watching the TV or playing golf or at their business than parenting their children. Some of them are just jerks who don't care to spend time parenting their children, and they wouldn't care to spend money of a V-chip either.
No one is saying a V-chip is meant to replace a parent, you seem to think that's what people intend to use it as. A V-chip is meant as a tool to assist parents in their role of parenting. You don't think it's effective as such, fine, no one will make you use it. But there are people who think it is. And claiming that those who make use of a V-chip are coping out of parenting is untrue; you may think they're doing a bad job at it, but they are making an effort towards parenting.
Everytime I see articles like this, there's a plethora of comments along the lines of "Gee, why don't the parents just, I dunno, do some parenting!"
Guess what? This is a form of parenting. Whether it's an effective, or good method of parenting is debatable, but a parent who uses software like this is making an effort at raising their child to be what they consider to be a good moral person. Your opinion of what a good moral person is may differ; and the methods they choose to try to promote their morals may not be as effective as they think, but they are making an effort.
Heh, for me the "Won't give you this:" in the corner, where it shows you what it thinks you most need, and therefore is NOT going to give you, is the taunting. I actually missed that it was "WON'T give you this" at first, and was thinking it was the more traditional "next block." Messed me up.
There's a decent chance you could get it to run under cygwin fairly easily.
You can tell I'm a nerd when my first thought when reading this isn't the Woody Allen movie, but instead is all of the many sci-fi stories that use chemically induced hibernation to aid in long-distance space travel.
Heh, I just copied & pasted the fortune cookie. I would have said Round Trip Time, too.