By the time your super PC comes out, there'll be a significantly faster console too. There might be Doom 900 for all i care that would make you forget about Doom 3. If you're even luckier than that, the future xbox's disc could hold 999999TB of memory and hold all previous doom incarnations.
This isn't right. I think consumers should be able to find out wtf the artists are trying to say. "Mumbling" singers are the best example of why we need lyrics to their music. And "excuse me, while i kiss this guy" is a prime example.
finally, a public apology. Didn't this happen a while back when some child got in trouble for having a Word document and the line "Harry Potter" was found.
I remember when I was a college freshman in 1998. I noticed several classmates of mine who typed out all their notes on laptops in our computer engineering classes. By the time I graduated, noone used laptops for notetaking and those who used to jumped ship to political science or some art.
Laptops for classtaking are retarded. True geniuses use video cameras with a good zoom.
So they say the flicker is imperceptable to the human eye? How can this be? Will this work only on digital projectors or film projectors? 1 frame out of 24 per second on a film projector can still be seen by the human eye? So how can this be done, I'm curious.
Well this is obvious. Having a huge privacy violator take on other privacy violators is probably the best thing. The DoubleClick guy should know all the tricks of the trade of privacy violations.
Isn't there a major difference between devices that have web/PIM/music/movies/games capabilities? I'm sure in the future there will be Windows CE devices that can do more things than current top of the line PC's, but won't PC's of that time do more things themselves? I think this is just another attempt for MS to garner more interest towards their own devices while acknowledging that the current PC architectures will become obsolete. Isn't it strange that PC's can either run various OS's. Since Windows CE devices must meet MS specs and pay a certain percentage, MS has better control on how PCs should be built.
Okay, major earthquakes every 10,000 years and the last one was 8,000 years ago. I'll bet $100 that all the local news channels will make a big deal out of this with some sensationalist headline and drag it out over a week, then drag it out that we have 2,000 years till the next one, and talk more crap after that.
P.S. I don't have $100, so there's no bet. Hehe
Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo are the most underappreciated works of art in the world. Considering how deep they are and the socioeconomic injustices they portray in this dark, doomed world, people should be ashamed for not recognizing the brilliance of Ozone and Turbo.
Hopefully good software made by independant companies or people won't be blocked. I'd choose mIRC over that IRC client MS made a while back (you know the one with the avatars).
What about programs that college students write for their projects? Do they need some sort of certification? I think this whole deal will kill off rival companies and just furthers that monopoly image.
LCD's are nice but I hate that they have to stick to some native resolution. I'm sure 1024x768 is good right now, but what'll happen when a newer os will require 1600x1200 just to look decent. Bigger LCD's with huge resolutions are great, but using Windows at that res is just unbearable.
What's up with everyone having +5 mods?
What did he do to benefit the country? He kept on swaying back and forth on issues and used vagueness to keep himself scott free. If he's considered the best president because of the economy, you have to realize that a single president can't have that effect. Oh yeah, wasn't the dotcom boom going on around that time? Strangely, the dotbomb happened towards the end of his presidency, thus drastically affecting the economy. Having GWB come in during that time was coincidental.
Best president still and always has been Lincoln. He ended slavery and reunited a split country. Don't use best so loosely, it just kills its meaning.
To clarify things, I think people only purchase the exceptional cds that they discover through downloading. I'm sure there are cds that aren't worth buying but downloaded at a great rate. Almost everyone downloads music and I'd be a liar to say that I don't.
The big problem the RIAA sees is that ALL of the mp3s, oggs, etc. that are downloaded aren't eventually purchased. The RIAA is a business and of course it'll want to get ALL the money it can. It's one of the greediest entities consumers deal with and for that I hope it crumbles.
The truth is people download music so they don't have to buy it. I think that "sampling" excuse is the biggest piece of crap. People buy the really really good stuff. The okay, mediocre, and good music with limited lifespans are the ones that nobody buys after downloading. Think about the excuse porn consumers give...that it's for "education." Not many people publicly admit it's for masturbation, but everyone knows what its for.
And I understand people buy the CDs that they're exposed to via downloading, but considering the amount of awesome music worth buying, I'd say people who abide by the rules are outnumbered.
One more word to the RIAA, if you don't like the situation, change the damn business model.
"It puts a little more power back in the user's hands,"
Here's my solution: Don't do it! Why jump through all these hoops to not look at questionable sites. If you're too young to understand that a website is bad, then you shouldn't be web browsing w/o your parent or guardian in the first place.
So this patent concerns people holding discussions based on an object? WTF? This has got to be a dubious act since they don't relegate the objects to electronic stores and such. Yay, another legal weapon in Bezos arsenol again. Thanks USPTO!
I completely agree. I think it's how you carry yourself through life. But you gotta also admit that luck plays a big role in how you'd be treated. In my high school, we had nerds and such, but bullying was at a minimum. If you're lucky enough to be surrounded by good people, you won't go through much trouble. Well, good luck to the eccentric!
This is different, if you steal something from a store, you steal something from a store. What students are doing right now are trading "copies" of whatever art they are looking for. Although I don't condone illegal file sharing, I think MP3's and similar compressed music files are just copies and not as good as the original. Downloading a song or two shouldn't warrant the same punishment as actually going to a CD store and 5-finger-discounting the item.
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By the time your super PC comes out, there'll be a significantly faster console too. There might be Doom 900 for all i care that would make you forget about Doom 3. If you're even luckier than that, the future xbox's disc could hold 999999TB of memory and hold all previous doom incarnations.
This isn't right. I think consumers should be able to find out wtf the artists are trying to say. "Mumbling" singers are the best example of why we need lyrics to their music. And "excuse me, while i kiss this guy" is a prime example.
finally, a public apology. Didn't this happen a while back when some child got in trouble for having a Word document and the line "Harry Potter" was found.
I remember when I was a college freshman in 1998. I noticed several classmates of mine who typed out all their notes on laptops in our computer engineering classes. By the time I graduated, noone used laptops for notetaking and those who used to jumped ship to political science or some art.
Laptops for classtaking are retarded. True geniuses use video cameras with a good zoom.
I guess this can kill off email in Europe. This is absurd. Any email can be considered unsolicited.
People are mad at me when I enact the game.
Out of curiosity, can Morpheus and Grokster use SPAM laws since the RIAA sent out a mass amount of unwanted messages with negative connotations?
u'RE 1/\/ d33p d00 d00 no 435 no youssa in deep doo doo!
So they say the flicker is imperceptable to the human eye? How can this be? Will this work only on digital projectors or film projectors? 1 frame out of 24 per second on a film projector can still be seen by the human eye? So how can this be done, I'm curious.
kinda spooky how many people where thinking the same thing at the same time...
Well this is obvious. Having a huge privacy violator take on other privacy violators is probably the best thing. The DoubleClick guy should know all the tricks of the trade of privacy violations.
Isn't there a major difference between devices that have web/PIM/music/movies/games capabilities? I'm sure in the future there will be Windows CE devices that can do more things than current top of the line PC's, but won't PC's of that time do more things themselves? I think this is just another attempt for MS to garner more interest towards their own devices while acknowledging that the current PC architectures will become obsolete. Isn't it strange that PC's can either run various OS's. Since Windows CE devices must meet MS specs and pay a certain percentage, MS has better control on how PCs should be built.
Okay, major earthquakes every 10,000 years and the last one was 8,000 years ago. I'll bet $100 that all the local news channels will make a big deal out of this with some sensationalist headline and drag it out over a week, then drag it out that we have 2,000 years till the next one, and talk more crap after that. P.S. I don't have $100, so there's no bet. Hehe
Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo are the most underappreciated works of art in the world. Considering how deep they are and the socioeconomic injustices they portray in this dark, doomed world, people should be ashamed for not recognizing the brilliance of Ozone and Turbo.
Hopefully good software made by independant companies or people won't be blocked. I'd choose mIRC over that IRC client MS made a while back (you know the one with the avatars). What about programs that college students write for their projects? Do they need some sort of certification? I think this whole deal will kill off rival companies and just furthers that monopoly image.
LCD's are nice but I hate that they have to stick to some native resolution. I'm sure 1024x768 is good right now, but what'll happen when a newer os will require 1600x1200 just to look decent. Bigger LCD's with huge resolutions are great, but using Windows at that res is just unbearable. What's up with everyone having +5 mods?
What did he do to benefit the country? He kept on swaying back and forth on issues and used vagueness to keep himself scott free. If he's considered the best president because of the economy, you have to realize that a single president can't have that effect. Oh yeah, wasn't the dotcom boom going on around that time? Strangely, the dotbomb happened towards the end of his presidency, thus drastically affecting the economy. Having GWB come in during that time was coincidental. Best president still and always has been Lincoln. He ended slavery and reunited a split country. Don't use best so loosely, it just kills its meaning.
To clarify things, I think people only purchase the exceptional cds that they discover through downloading. I'm sure there are cds that aren't worth buying but downloaded at a great rate. Almost everyone downloads music and I'd be a liar to say that I don't. The big problem the RIAA sees is that ALL of the mp3s, oggs, etc. that are downloaded aren't eventually purchased. The RIAA is a business and of course it'll want to get ALL the money it can. It's one of the greediest entities consumers deal with and for that I hope it crumbles.
The truth is people download music so they don't have to buy it. I think that "sampling" excuse is the biggest piece of crap. People buy the really really good stuff. The okay, mediocre, and good music with limited lifespans are the ones that nobody buys after downloading. Think about the excuse porn consumers give...that it's for "education." Not many people publicly admit it's for masturbation, but everyone knows what its for.
And I understand people buy the CDs that they're exposed to via downloading, but considering the amount of awesome music worth buying, I'd say people who abide by the rules are outnumbered.
One more word to the RIAA, if you don't like the situation, change the damn business model.
"It puts a little more power back in the user's hands,"
Here's my solution: Don't do it!
Why jump through all these hoops to not look at questionable sites. If you're too young to understand that a website is bad, then you shouldn't be web browsing w/o your parent or guardian in the first place.
Patents aren't technically evil. It's just the way they're used.
Just another scheme for nerds to show how they can be popular using algorithms and such. What a waste of time.
So this patent concerns people holding discussions based on an object? WTF? This has got to be a dubious act since they don't relegate the objects to electronic stores and such. Yay, another legal weapon in Bezos arsenol again. Thanks USPTO!
I completely agree. I think it's how you carry yourself through life. But you gotta also admit that luck plays a big role in how you'd be treated. In my high school, we had nerds and such, but bullying was at a minimum. If you're lucky enough to be surrounded by good people, you won't go through much trouble. Well, good luck to the eccentric!
This is different, if you steal something from a store, you steal something from a store. What students are doing right now are trading "copies" of whatever art they are looking for. Although I don't condone illegal file sharing, I think MP3's and similar compressed music files are just copies and not as good as the original. Downloading a song or two shouldn't warrant the same punishment as actually going to a CD store and 5-finger-discounting the item.