You are just using a computer to predict the outcome.
Calling this cheating is like calling card-counting cheating. Something like cardcounting is not cheating, only the casinos label it as such just like the RIAA/Bush labels things as "war on piracy" and "war on terrorism."
These people are just putting the advantage from the house to themselves. It's not like they are using physically loaded dice or anything. If their minds were fast enough, they might do the same thing w/o a computer.
I don't get this attitude. Casinos don't have a god given right to make money. They leech off the community at large, and in turn, some people try to use their brains and bend the established casino rules in their favor.
I'm not sure about that. I mean, sure, digital is digital is digital. That would be like saying analog is analog is analog, perhaps a little less restrictive.
But you still can't play your CDs directly with your iPod. You have to jump through hoops first.
It be like everyone was buying cassete players, but still buying 8 track tapes and recording them onto cassettes.
Maybe the switch will happen when the CD player is less dominant elsewhere (like stereos) and the media center PC becomes a reality in every home.
If you only use iTunes to sample an artist to see if you want to buy his music, may I suggest Napster? I know it's an evil brand now, but you can play a song 5 times for free - and in this way sample a ton of music without paying:) Who knows, you may even cost them a bit by just leeching - so it's good in a sense!
Yes, but when CDs first came out, did they find that over 80% of people who bought CD players were still buying tapes and not buying CDs?
I'm actually surprised sales aren't higher. People usually want only one track they hear off the radio and can buy that from iTunes for $0.99 instead of an entire CD or an overpriced single CD.
I still don't know why the music industry doesn't sell FLAC (or other CD quality lossless) with no DRM online. It's not like it's going to contribute to P2P as it only takes one ripped CD anyway to make its way online. It probably has nothing to do with P2P fears, but more because the distributors know that the day people only need to buy one DRM-less, play-anywhere track is the day that album sales are die.
And does a degree from an online university count? Or only Ivy League? What about some obscure school in, say, Ethiopia, for instance?
Who does all this checking anyhow? Who pays for it?
And do you realize how political some peer reviewed journals are? If your findings are not in line with the current academic fads, you may not get published. Do we really want to make an internet resource less accessible, not more?
All questions which I don't think have easy answers.
But they ran against these problems when players were $200. And is my mom supposed to buy a second Powerbook (Macbook now I guess)? She sure can't swap drives and lugging an external one defeats the purpose of it in the first place.
The need for a region-free player will grow even less as the broader region coding of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray takes hold.
Do they have region free? I can't imagine a second HD-DVD/Blu-Ray player being cheap for the next few years.
If it's a reputation or moderation system, it might not be bad.
However, experts have also known to be wrong. In the sciences, there are great debates. Einstein turned the world upside down afterall, and none of the previous experts would have had it right. In history, there are debates, and theories that are hotly contested - such as the thought that Egypt didn't have iron tools to make the pyramids, even though iron has been found in the great pyramid insitu (in place).
And different experts have different biases.
How will different viewpoints get across? In the wiki, at least, as an informed user, I can look up the discussions and history of pages. I don't have to depend that the latest page is 100% correct nor do I expect it to me.
It seems to me that any furhter chase for perfection is like chasing a rainbow for that pot of gold.
My most untechnical brother and sister-in-law know. They are smart people, but just not technical geeks.
They know because they learned the hard way through DVDs. He travels a lot and she teaches foreign languages.
My mother knows. Her stupid Powerbooks (and I am sure other notebooks) lock a specific region to her DVD drive after only 5 or 6 changes. It may sound like a lot, but if you are an International traveler, you end up saying "WTF! I have a DVD drive, why can't it read all DVDs?"
I doubt it will matter as much to games though as the people who travel with systems is much less than Notebooks or something. But in the end, I have to ask for the sense of it? Players are not going to play games in languages they don't understand just to get it cheaper. And it pisses off the people who want to buy copies of Japanese games because all it forces them to do is either install a mod chip, or import a system.
If they upgraded resolution, they would have to uprade not just the video card, but also add ram and improve the CPU - all of which would have added to final cost.
I think they are doing the smart thing and sticking with standard resolution for just 1 more generation, unlike Xbox and Sony. By the time the next generation comes rolling around, Nintendo can offer this upgraded resolution very cheaply, due in no small part to Sony/MS massproducing it to a large extent.
if they are related to the actual job. I don't expect a history/language riddle for a programming related job, etcetera - as that won't tell you much.
That said, there is so many variables what makes a good/valuable employee that basing a hiring decision solely on one riddle can be silly.
But it's not going to affect IT any. I have the impression that some companies have always been a bit silly in this area, and some companies always had their feet on the ground and don't go for the latest fad/nonsense.
I remember that in 2003, several newspaper articles proclaimed that Graphology was going to be the next greatest thing in hiring.
It's not a rant, it's being realistic and not viewing things as good/bad (do you still play with GI Joes?) but what this step actually means in context of MS's strategy. They are not "moving" toward a better relationship. Read the other comments, if the patents were actually worth anything legally, they wouldn't give it out so freely.
Um, wasn't Microsoft in the group of companies that was pushing Software Patents abroad (EU)?
Why should we praise them for simply promising not to enforce a small subset of their software patents when they are trying to push the whole evilness of that system about?
It seems like they are taking a mile, and giving back a foot.
Settle? I think settlement is like between 3-5k in most cases. Enough for the RIAA to make an example out of you, but not enough so that you are completely backed into a corner and fight to the (financial)death.
I'll disagree. I think Terminator 3 should have used Edward Furlong or someone who looked like him, because the guy who played this pre-established character just didn't fit. The character was also badly written, we got a emo 90's guy wuss in place of someone who was supposed to be trained by his mom to be a leader/general, someone who lived through T2, and all around survivor.
That about killed the movie.
That, and the general trend in the last ten years to make any of Arnold's movies into Hollywood Schlock. Starring in a major role, he hasn't made anything decent since T2.
You know, a letter fitting these circumstances passed through my spam filter the other day.....
I wonder how many suckers will be hooked by it just because they heard something to that effect in the news?
Dear ****,
RE: CONSIDER MY CONDITION
I presume this letter will come to you as a suprise,but as things unfold, we will know each other better. I will start by introducing myself to you, I am Mrs. Mercy Obaseki, the wife of Chief Jackson Gaius Obaseki, the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) I am very sure that you will be of a good assistance after carefully reading my letter.
For many years of marriage now between me and my husband, I have not given birth, and this has really troubled my husband. This is as a result of so much respect attached to local Tradition Culture and Custom in their community. And now my husband is dead, In short to be sincere and honest with you, with the present situation of things now, I am being threatened daily by my husband family to get me out from the house. My husband parents and brothers are not left out in this matter. This situation has really affected me psychologically, most of the time I am in the church to pray and rest myself, because there is no room for rest in my own home again.
As I am writing to you now, I am no longer assured of a matrimonial home, hence I seek for your urgent assistance and help me out, which I know will go a long way in getting me settled down finally. I want to use this opportunity, since my husband family is trying to abandon me because of childlessness, to move this amount of (US$22M) million us dollars into your custody for safe keeping, pending my arrival in your country. Be informed that this said amount was given to my husband as gratification from some foreign oil companies he helped in securing Allocation for the Drilling of Crude Oil in Nigeria.
As a civil servant then, he does not want to be exposed, so he gave me this money to keep in my personal account, this was when the going was okay between us, so that he can exonerate himself from the eyes of Government security operatives and the civil service commission (CSC) which is the body that scrutinizes the activities of all civil servants in Nigeria as checks and balances for official misconduct.
Please i need your urgent assistance because my husband family are trying to take all I and my husband has labored for and throw me out of the house, please don't let this happen to me come and save me out of this troubles and I will be forever be grateful to you. To be sincere and honest with you, this money is never connected with drugs, money laundry, firearms and looting, which I believe might put fears in you and consequently withdrawing your help for security reasons. Hence the source of this said money is clean and clear.
This money was deposited in my personal Domiciliary Account and I have discussed with the bank manager who is very close to me, my intention to transfer the money out of Nigeria and he promise to render to me all the assistance I needed to transfer the money out of Nigeria. All I need now is for you to send me your full name; home contact address, occupation, tel/fax numbers and bank account information, to enable my lawyer apply for foreign exchange at the Federal Ministry of Finance with your name as the beneficiary of the fund.
This is how my bank has planned it, to avoid any suspicion from our apex bank. Is rest assured that this transaction is 100% risk free, As soon as I receive your response and your willingness to help as regards to this I will furnish you on the next line of action to take immediately. Note, as soon as the money is successfully transferred into your account, I will start coming to meet you in your country. I Promise to compensate you very well at the successful end, this is the guarantee I am giving you from my heart of heart.
Be informed according to my bank manager, this transaction
TV has not really been all that great about progress until this decade. Before that, it seems to me the only MAJOR upgrade from the original TV in terms of picture was mainly from b/w->color, and then perhaps digital cable/satellite. I welcome more rapid progress.
But yeah, they should clarify resolution with the same numbers used in computer monitor displays, such as 1280x960. 480p, EDTV, 540p, etcetera does not tell me much and isn't intuitive. But anyone can see 1280x960 is better than 640x480 which is better than 320x240.
I still believe the next standard will first have to see hardware acceptance on the level of the lowly PC, not TVs. Mostly pushed as a need to have a higher capacity backup standard than the single layer 4.7GB DVD-R to save data on and possibly more capacity to deliver PC games on (though they can always stream the extra data over the internet....).
I don't think the adopters are there in quantity to push either standard into common acceptance beyond a laserdisc level.
Either that, or perhaps movies will be downloaded for the next revolution. Afterall, they haven't been able to supplant the music CD as the prefered hardcopy method yet.
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Hm, if people think Gentoo is hard, I wonder what they think of a distro like LFS?
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Doesn't Microsoft already have shared source with select partners?
+1 funny - think about it^_^
You are just using a computer to predict the outcome.
Calling this cheating is like calling card-counting cheating. Something like cardcounting is not cheating, only the casinos label it as such just like the RIAA/Bush labels things as "war on piracy" and "war on terrorism."
These people are just putting the advantage from the house to themselves. It's not like they are using physically loaded dice or anything. If their minds were fast enough, they might do the same thing w/o a computer.
I don't get this attitude. Casinos don't have a god given right to make money. They leech off the community at large, and in turn, some people try to use their brains and bend the established casino rules in their favor.
I'm not sure about that. I mean, sure, digital is digital is digital. That would be like saying analog is analog is analog, perhaps a little less restrictive.
But you still can't play your CDs directly with your iPod. You have to jump through hoops first.
It be like everyone was buying cassete players, but still buying 8 track tapes and recording them onto cassettes.
Maybe the switch will happen when the CD player is less dominant elsewhere (like stereos) and the media center PC becomes a reality in every home.
If you only use iTunes to sample an artist to see if you want to buy his music, may I suggest Napster? I know it's an evil brand now, but you can play a song 5 times for free - and in this way sample a ton of music without paying:) Who knows, you may even cost them a bit by just leeching - so it's good in a sense!
Yes, but when CDs first came out, did they find that over 80% of people who bought CD players were still buying tapes and not buying CDs?
I'm actually surprised sales aren't higher. People usually want only one track they hear off the radio and can buy that from iTunes for $0.99 instead of an entire CD or an overpriced single CD.
I still don't know why the music industry doesn't sell FLAC (or other CD quality lossless) with no DRM online. It's not like it's going to contribute to P2P as it only takes one ripped CD anyway to make its way online. It probably has nothing to do with P2P fears, but more because the distributors know that the day people only need to buy one DRM-less, play-anywhere track is the day that album sales are die.
I would think so. Even my ancient 1996ish P266 Compaq laptop works without a battery when connected to the power.
And does a degree from an online university count? Or only Ivy League? What about some obscure school in, say, Ethiopia, for instance?
Who does all this checking anyhow? Who pays for it?
And do you realize how political some peer reviewed journals are? If your findings are not in line with the current academic fads, you may not get published. Do we really want to make an internet resource less accessible, not more?
All questions which I don't think have easy answers.
Actually, you'd say something:
Sie sind neu hier, oder? "You are new here, no?"
"Sie mussen neu hier sein" sounds like a babelfish literal translation of "You must be new here." It doesn't really work in German or at least for me.
As for being a stickler, bad German just hurts my eye/ears for some reason. Mark Twain be damned^_^
But they ran against these problems when players were $200. And is my mom supposed to buy a second Powerbook (Macbook now I guess)? She sure can't swap drives and lugging an external one defeats the purpose of it in the first place.
Do they have region free? I can't imagine a second HD-DVD/Blu-Ray player being cheap for the next few years.
Especially when it's "Sprechen Sie Deutsch?"
Unless you really meant "Sprachen Sie Deutsch?" - Did you speak german (at one time)?
If it's a reputation or moderation system, it might not be bad.
However, experts have also known to be wrong. In the sciences, there are great debates. Einstein turned the world upside down afterall, and none of the previous experts would have had it right. In history, there are debates, and theories that are hotly contested - such as the thought that Egypt didn't have iron tools to make the pyramids, even though iron has been found in the great pyramid insitu (in place).
And different experts have different biases.
How will different viewpoints get across? In the wiki, at least, as an informed user, I can look up the discussions and history of pages. I don't have to depend that the latest page is 100% correct nor do I expect it to me.
It seems to me that any furhter chase for perfection is like chasing a rainbow for that pot of gold.
My most untechnical brother and sister-in-law know. They are smart people, but just not technical geeks.
They know because they learned the hard way through DVDs. He travels a lot and she teaches foreign languages.
My mother knows. Her stupid Powerbooks (and I am sure other notebooks) lock a specific region to her DVD drive after only 5 or 6 changes. It may sound like a lot, but if you are an International traveler, you end up saying "WTF! I have a DVD drive, why can't it read all DVDs?"
I doubt it will matter as much to games though as the people who travel with systems is much less than Notebooks or something. But in the end, I have to ask for the sense of it? Players are not going to play games in languages they don't understand just to get it cheaper. And it pisses off the people who want to buy copies of Japanese games because all it forces them to do is either install a mod chip, or import a system.
Region locking sucks for a lot of people.
If they upgraded resolution, they would have to uprade not just the video card, but also add ram and improve the CPU - all of which would have added to final cost.
I think they are doing the smart thing and sticking with standard resolution for just 1 more generation, unlike Xbox and Sony. By the time the next generation comes rolling around, Nintendo can offer this upgraded resolution very cheaply, due in no small part to Sony/MS massproducing it to a large extent.
I thought they were brothers. Must have been the matching red hair.
To my surprise, they're not.
if they are related to the actual job. I don't expect a history/language riddle for a programming related job, etcetera - as that won't tell you much.
That said, there is so many variables what makes a good/valuable employee that basing a hiring decision solely on one riddle can be silly.
But it's not going to affect IT any. I have the impression that some companies have always been a bit silly in this area, and some companies always had their feet on the ground and don't go for the latest fad/nonsense.
I remember that in 2003, several newspaper articles proclaimed that Graphology was going to be the next greatest thing in hiring.
It's not a rant, it's being realistic and not viewing things as good/bad (do you still play with GI Joes?) but what this step actually means in context of MS's strategy. They are not "moving" toward a better relationship. Read the other comments, if the patents were actually worth anything legally, they wouldn't give it out so freely.
Um, wasn't Microsoft in the group of companies that was pushing Software Patents abroad (EU)?
Why should we praise them for simply promising not to enforce a small subset of their software patents when they are trying to push the whole evilness of that system about?
It seems like they are taking a mile, and giving back a foot.
Well, when you look up into the skies, you see flocks of pigs flying.
Other than that, it's pretty much like this place.
Settle? I think settlement is like between 3-5k in most cases. Enough for the RIAA to make an example out of you, but not enough so that you are completely backed into a corner and fight to the (financial)death.
I'll disagree. I think Terminator 3 should have used Edward Furlong or someone who looked like him, because the guy who played this pre-established character just didn't fit. The character was also badly written, we got a emo 90's guy wuss in place of someone who was supposed to be trained by his mom to be a leader/general, someone who lived through T2, and all around survivor.
That about killed the movie.
That, and the general trend in the last ten years to make any of Arnold's movies into Hollywood Schlock. Starring in a major role, he hasn't made anything decent since T2.
I wonder how many suckers will be hooked by it just because they heard something to that effect in the news?
I can agree with you to a point.
TV has not really been all that great about progress until this decade. Before that, it seems to me the only MAJOR upgrade from the original TV in terms of picture was mainly from b/w->color, and then perhaps digital cable/satellite. I welcome more rapid progress.
But yeah, they should clarify resolution with the same numbers used in computer monitor displays, such as 1280x960. 480p, EDTV, 540p, etcetera does not tell me much and isn't intuitive. But anyone can see 1280x960 is better than 640x480 which is better than 320x240.
I still believe the next standard will first have to see hardware acceptance on the level of the lowly PC, not TVs. Mostly pushed as a need to have a higher capacity backup standard than the single layer 4.7GB DVD-R to save data on and possibly more capacity to deliver PC games on (though they can always stream the extra data over the internet....).
I don't think the adopters are there in quantity to push either standard into common acceptance beyond a laserdisc level.
Either that, or perhaps movies will be downloaded for the next revolution. Afterall, they haven't been able to supplant the music CD as the prefered hardcopy method yet.