This would be really useful at our college.. we have course materials online, grades, etc. It cuts down on a lot of wasted resources (time, paper, etc). I can't help but wonder if eBooks gain more popularity, what kinds of implications DRM, etc will have at libraries and colleges. If even CDs can now contain EULA's, it seems a little scary to think what could be done with eBooks. Hopefully, though, I am just being way too paranoid.
You mean, those who ask questions don't know the answers?;) If I had said "Making copies of copyrighted videos is not fair use", that would be different, though.. Thanks for the link.
9th mix? You sure? DDR MAX2 (7th mix) is the latest, and MAX 3 isnt due out for a while, I think..
Yeah, we get screwed in the US in terms of domestic DDR machines.. it mostly boils down to song licensing issues.. they can't afford to licence the songs in America 'cause there's not as large a following.. if they did licence all the songs that are in the Japanese version, the domestic machine would end up being more expensive than the import.. and why buy domestic when there's a more popular, cheaper import?
It's kinda boring.. I got the idea from a font when I was like 13.. it kinda stuck. Zapf is taken in most places, so this is what I gots. Zapf is a cool last name, though.
Nah, there's no super megamix of DDR.:) There's 2nd mix, 3rd, 4th, 5th, then you have DDR MAX and DDR MAX 2. There's a couple others, but those are the main ones.
Does that number store name, address, DOB, etc. though? (I am not aware if it does or doesn't..)
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That's actually something I've been thinking about.. the idea I finally came up with after brainstorming it a bit is that you would need two coordinate systems, one in pixels, and one in some other unit system of your choosing. You could then specify a button as 5 units by 1 unit, and set the screen to be 64 units by 48 units or something. This would allow you to a) change the size of the workspace independent of the screen resolution and b) change the screen resolution independant of the workspace size. Of course, you would probably need some safeguard to make sure you didn't have a workspace that was much larger than your current resolution could handle, which might result in unreadable text, etc... Back to your original point though, I definately second the notion it's high time for some vector-based interfaces.
See the parent to my comment, and it will make sense... it's tongue in cheek.;)
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Quit reading slashdot. It's saturday. Ever wonder why the ladies aren't exactly flocking to you? It's because you're the kind of guy that posts to slashdot on saturday.
Why not hop up off your fat, sweaty ass and see what's going on outdoors? Go to a bar or something. Meet women. Live a little, you fucking loser.
Heh.. you completely missed the point. I know what software you used for exactly the same reason you know that Mac users think it gives them 'street cred'. In other words, you don't know. And I much prefer BeOS to Mac OS X, for the record, but that doesnt make OS X a bad system. I use neither, though, I use Debian.
Now that's not true. Copyright gives incentive to author's and other generator's of copy rightable material a financial incentive to produce them, and in theory it should improve the public commons in future.
My apologies.. I should have been more careful how I worded that. They do benefit the consumer, I just meant most consumers do not go out and personally use copyright or patent law for their personal benefit.
I agree, the RedHat trademark deserves to be protected. RedHat is not just the Linux distribution. When you buy a RedHat product, you are also buying documentation, support, and assurances that your copy of RedHat is the same one everyone else gets (the CDs on eBay could be modified in ways that the standard RedHat distribution was not).
Patents were designed to guarantee a limited monopoly on an idea. This is very important- say you are a small inventor, with this great new idea. You go and start trying to sell it, and 3 major corporations rip off your idea, and you get pretty much no return on it. What do you do next time? Just keep the idea to yourself, it's not worth it. So patent laws promote innovation in the marketplace. Not to say they haven't gotten completely out of hand, but the purpose they were designed for is still important. Also, with regards to both patent and copyright, you are right, for the consumer, these laws have neglegable benefit. But many individuals are also producers, so these laws are important for them.
Making a phone call from Pittsburgh to New York while both parties are coasting down I-70 in Illinois wasn't my idea of a smart move. I'd be more inclined to run into them to get their attention; it would have cost the same.
I guess this falls under "Everything I needed to know about driving I learned from Gran Turismo"...
I really don't think they care what you do to your phone- it's yours to do what you like. I think what they do care is how you present yourself to the cellular network (the IMEI number). To do that, it happens to involve changing the phone, but I don't think the phone is the real issue here- it's the network.
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I think I will mount one of these in my office.. you know.. just in case I want to beat the crap out of someone. Now that is a rubber band gun. ;)
D'oh.. I just got the joke.. nevermind.
..? It's not an 'or else' thing. It's an 'I can't believe nobody's modded this up yet' thing.
This would be really useful at our college.. we have course materials online, grades, etc. It cuts down on a lot of wasted resources (time, paper, etc). I can't help but wonder if eBooks gain more popularity, what kinds of implications DRM, etc will have at libraries and colleges. If even CDs can now contain EULA's, it seems a little scary to think what could be done with eBooks. Hopefully, though, I am just being way too paranoid.
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You mean, those who ask questions don't know the answers? ;) If I had said "Making copies of copyrighted videos is not fair use", that would be different, though.. Thanks for the link.
Oh, come on, SOMEONE's got to mod this up as funny...
OK, that makes more sense. Thanks.
How is making copies of copyrighted videos fair use?
9th mix? You sure? DDR MAX2 (7th mix) is the latest, and MAX 3 isnt due out for a while, I think..
Yeah, we get screwed in the US in terms of domestic DDR machines.. it mostly boils down to song licensing issues.. they can't afford to licence the songs in America 'cause there's not as large a following.. if they did licence all the songs that are in the Japanese version, the domestic machine would end up being more expensive than the import.. and why buy domestic when there's a more popular, cheaper import?
It's kinda boring.. I got the idea from a font when I was like 13.. it kinda stuck. Zapf is taken in most places, so this is what I gots. Zapf is a cool last name, though.
Nah, there's no super megamix of DDR. :) There's 2nd mix, 3rd, 4th, 5th, then you have DDR MAX and DDR MAX 2. There's a couple others, but those are the main ones.
Where can I get a copy of 2600?
Does that number store name, address, DOB, etc. though? (I am not aware if it does or doesn't..)
That's actually something I've been thinking about.. the idea I finally came up with after brainstorming it a bit is that you would need two coordinate systems, one in pixels, and one in some other unit system of your choosing. You could then specify a button as 5 units by 1 unit, and set the screen to be 64 units by 48 units or something. This would allow you to a) change the size of the workspace independent of the screen resolution and b) change the screen resolution independant of the workspace size. Of course, you would probably need some safeguard to make sure you didn't have a workspace that was much larger than your current resolution could handle, which might result in unreadable text, etc... Back to your original point though, I definately second the notion it's high time for some vector-based interfaces.
See the parent to my comment, and it will make sense... it's tongue in cheek. ;)
Quit reading slashdot. It's saturday. Ever wonder why the ladies aren't exactly flocking to you? It's because you're the kind of guy that posts to slashdot on saturday. Why not hop up off your fat, sweaty ass and see what's going on outdoors? Go to a bar or something. Meet women. Live a little, you fucking loser.
Heh.. you completely missed the point. I know what software you used for exactly the same reason you know that Mac users think it gives them 'street cred'. In other words, you don't know. And I much prefer BeOS to Mac OS X, for the record, but that doesnt make OS X a bad system. I use neither, though, I use Debian.
I love how people who have never even tried OS X talk shit about the people who use it.
Now that's not true. Copyright gives incentive to author's and other generator's of copy rightable material a financial incentive to produce them, and in theory it should improve the public commons in future.
My apologies.. I should have been more careful how I worded that. They do benefit the consumer, I just meant most consumers do not go out and personally use copyright or patent law for their personal benefit.
I agree, the RedHat trademark deserves to be protected. RedHat is not just the Linux distribution. When you buy a RedHat product, you are also buying documentation, support, and assurances that your copy of RedHat is the same one everyone else gets (the CDs on eBay could be modified in ways that the standard RedHat distribution was not).
Um... before you let your ego get out of check, maybe you should consider who is wrong...
Patents were designed to guarantee a limited monopoly on an idea. This is very important- say you are a small inventor, with this great new idea. You go and start trying to sell it, and 3 major corporations rip off your idea, and you get pretty much no return on it. What do you do next time? Just keep the idea to yourself, it's not worth it. So patent laws promote innovation in the marketplace. Not to say they haven't gotten completely out of hand, but the purpose they were designed for is still important. Also, with regards to both patent and copyright, you are right, for the consumer, these laws have neglegable benefit. But many individuals are also producers, so these laws are important for them.
Here, this comic may help...
Making a phone call from Pittsburgh to New York while both parties are coasting down I-70 in Illinois wasn't my idea of a smart move. I'd be more inclined to run into them to get their attention; it would have cost the same.
I guess this falls under "Everything I needed to know about driving I learned from Gran Turismo"...
I really don't think they care what you do to your phone- it's yours to do what you like. I think what they do care is how you present yourself to the cellular network (the IMEI number). To do that, it happens to involve changing the phone, but I don't think the phone is the real issue here- it's the network.