You do realize that the vast majority of Firefly-obsessed geeks had never heard of it until many months after it got canned, yes? I certainly hadn't; I heard about it about a month before Serenity came out.
This has probably been said, but... why is this a bad thing?
So Microsoft wants to shoot themself in the foot by doing yet one more thing obviously bad for the consumer. Meanwhile, they've copywrited this "innovention" - so now any future OS manufacturer can't pull the same trick, without paying Microsoft for the privilege. Hopefully it'll discourage the practice from catching on... I've always fundamentally been a Windows person at heart, cause it's what I'm used to, but who knows: now that Mac OS runs on Intel hardware, maybe I'll switch someday. Here's to hoping Microsoft patents every stupid, DRM-ridden "innovation" they come up with!
You know, some people have computers that don't have BIOSes capable of booting from cds, because their BIOSes are lame. Some people might want to run linux on these computers. This seems like a pretty easy way to do that.
Heck, it's even nicer for those of us who do - why waste a cd if you don't have to?
Yeah, we do - just don't buy it. There're always free alternatives.
Course, I suppose if I really wanted to support the laudable goal, I'd have to stop buying from iTunes, no matter how convenient it is (by which I mean, buying it and then immediately unDRMing it, sometimes still easier than finding a pre-unDRMed illegal copy). That and I just like buying legal music, as long as I can do with it whatever I want.
A cutup is actually a slightly different thing; a mashup involves taking sampled bits of two or more songs, cutting them at the several-measure level, if at all, and splicing them back together. A cutup involves taking sampled bits of generally only a single song, cutting it up at about the millisecond level, and splicing it back together. They rely on similar sorts of tools, and both are about re-setting musical works, but they're not the same.
Course, I'm fine with saying that the term cutup once meant the same as mashup does now; I'd just argue, if so, that the meaning of the original term has shifted somewhat. So many layers of interesting semantics there (see: bastard pop, mix, remix, long mix, cutup, mashup, mash, bootleg, boot, etc. etc.).
Yup - I still have my illegal copy of Partition Magic, that I got many, many years ago. I'm backing that puppy up on everything I have, so as to not lose it, because it's a pretty awesome piece of software. Even if it does tend to break sometimes, on large hard drives (I don't think the people who wrote it actually anticipated many-hundred-gig drives, cause it's got O(terrible) performance).
Here's a brilliant idea: couldn't we find some uberhot chick willing to sacrifice herself for the good of the country by tempting W with a blowjob, so we can impeach him?
Thank you! I recently tried, as an agnostic Jew, to explain this to my not-quite-as-agnostic girlfriend and her Jewish family, as to why my family feels free to celebrate both Hannukah, as a religious holiday, and Christmas as a secular holiday (with Santa Clause as a secular figure, disregarding that he was originally Saint Nicholas). They didn't agree with my opinion; glad someone does.
Well, what about Shael Riley? He's an old veteran over at OCR, and he does nerdcore. In fact, I'm not surprised at all: he's featured in that movie. Now I have to watch it.
Uh... first off, many people would disagree with you about the "crappy show" part. I know I would. Firefly is still the greatest sci-fi tv I've ever seen, and I've seen a fair amount.
Now, I can't tell you whether the game'll be any good until I see it, but I can assure you: most of us Firefly fanboys won't have forgotten about the show in 3 years. We'll have forgotten about this game, sure, but hopefully they'll remind us once they're mostly done, and we'll all get excited about it then. Of course, this means I see no particular reason to get excited about it now, since it just might suck... but yeah. If it gets published, and I hear good things about it, you can bet good money that I'll play it, and tell many other people to play it as well.
Yeah. I looked at that, and I was like... nullity = NaN. The only difference is that nullity = nullify, whereas NaN != NaN. But I find the latter statement is frequently very useful, when using NaN in coding.
To be fair, they stole the "are you sure you want to do that" system right off Ubuntu... cause that was the first thing I figured out how to fix in Ubuntu, the lack of an actual root account. I didn't feel like having to sudo every time I wanted to, for instance, adjust video settings.
I'm a huge music nerd, and I can tell the difference between lossless and 128kbps mp3s... I can't, however, tell the difference between 192kbps and lossless, so that's what I rip music as. Ok, so when I buy from iTunes I'm getting 128kbps audio, and yeah, that's kind of sad. But if they were to start selling lossless for more money, I wouldn't care nearly enough to pay the extra fee. If they started selling it for the same price, well, then I'd buy it and immediately compress it a bit, so as to be able to fit more music on my mp3 player (it's only got 100 gigs!).
Actually, around here, yes, we do complain about physical keys. I go to a small tech school, where trust is key (no pun intended, originally). Facilities and Maintenance, in their immense stupidity, tried to force autolocking doors on us, and we complained - many of us do, in fact, keep our doors unlocked most of the time.
But that's a side-issue - the main point is that DRM quite frequently stops not only illegal uses of media, but also legal uses - and it certainly allows for companies to dictate what legal uses are, in ways that I really don't think they should be allowed to.
Well, tone and timbre are - tone is a pitch, timbre is how that pitch sounds. A guitar A#4 sounds much different from a piano A#4 sounds much different from a triangle wave A#4. The A#4 is tone, the instrument defines the timbre.
Of course, tones define the harmony as well... but I can overlook that, and assume "tone" refers to the root notes.
It was definitely a spammy month for me... I have a spam filter with bayesian training. Never had anything to train it on before, though, because I never got any spam to it. I do have pretty darn perfect control over who gets that email (as opposed to my public gmail account, that receives hundreds of spam a week, but that's why it's there). My private email, I've had for, oh, about 6 years, and I've gotten maybe one spam every couple months to it, until just now.
A couple months ago, something found it. Don't know how. Now I'm getting a few spam a day. I can tell it's all from one place so far, though, because I'm only getting vast numbers of copies of the same couple of messages.
Actually, if you just take it completely literally - it does mean you can't take screenshots of your desktop (unless you hide all the icons first)... but it doesn't say anything about making Linux look like Vista, because if you're running Linux, you're probably not running Vista, and it only says you can't share its media while "the software is running".
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I'm pretty sure the answer is actually 42. Falls under the "and everything" clause.
You do realize that the vast majority of Firefly-obsessed geeks had never heard of it until many months after it got canned, yes? I certainly hadn't; I heard about it about a month before Serenity came out.
This has probably been said, but... why is this a bad thing?
So Microsoft wants to shoot themself in the foot by doing yet one more thing obviously bad for the consumer. Meanwhile, they've copywrited this "innovention" - so now any future OS manufacturer can't pull the same trick, without paying Microsoft for the privilege. Hopefully it'll discourage the practice from catching on... I've always fundamentally been a Windows person at heart, cause it's what I'm used to, but who knows: now that Mac OS runs on Intel hardware, maybe I'll switch someday. Here's to hoping Microsoft patents every stupid, DRM-ridden "innovation" they come up with!
Yeah, I hate that. I'm actually only just the slightest bit color blind, but occasionally I find a color puzzle that I'd never figure out on my own.
And don't even get me started on Puzzle Bobble...
What kind of sick shows do you run, that your costumers need to be protected from their parents? Can anyone say child labor laws?
No, but seriously, jokes about the awful typos in your post aside, you're kind of right.
You know, some people have computers that don't have BIOSes capable of booting from cds, because their BIOSes are lame. Some people might want to run linux on these computers. This seems like a pretty easy way to do that.
Heck, it's even nicer for those of us who do - why waste a cd if you don't have to?
Yeah, we do - just don't buy it. There're always free alternatives.
Course, I suppose if I really wanted to support the laudable goal, I'd have to stop buying from iTunes, no matter how convenient it is (by which I mean, buying it and then immediately unDRMing it, sometimes still easier than finding a pre-unDRMed illegal copy). That and I just like buying legal music, as long as I can do with it whatever I want.
A cutup is actually a slightly different thing; a mashup involves taking sampled bits of two or more songs, cutting them at the several-measure level, if at all, and splicing them back together. A cutup involves taking sampled bits of generally only a single song, cutting it up at about the millisecond level, and splicing it back together. They rely on similar sorts of tools, and both are about re-setting musical works, but they're not the same. Course, I'm fine with saying that the term cutup once meant the same as mashup does now; I'd just argue, if so, that the meaning of the original term has shifted somewhat. So many layers of interesting semantics there (see: bastard pop, mix, remix, long mix, cutup, mashup, mash, bootleg, boot, etc. etc.).
Yup - I still have my illegal copy of Partition Magic, that I got many, many years ago. I'm backing that puppy up on everything I have, so as to not lose it, because it's a pretty awesome piece of software. Even if it does tend to break sometimes, on large hard drives (I don't think the people who wrote it actually anticipated many-hundred-gig drives, cause it's got O(terrible) performance).
Or in other words:
The gun is good, the penis is evil.
I do... but she's a gamer. :p
Here's a brilliant idea: couldn't we find some uberhot chick willing to sacrifice herself for the good of the country by tempting W with a blowjob, so we can impeach him?
Thank you! I recently tried, as an agnostic Jew, to explain this to my not-quite-as-agnostic girlfriend and her Jewish family, as to why my family feels free to celebrate both Hannukah, as a religious holiday, and Christmas as a secular holiday (with Santa Clause as a secular figure, disregarding that he was originally Saint Nicholas). They didn't agree with my opinion; glad someone does.
Well, what about Shael Riley? He's an old veteran over at OCR, and he does nerdcore. In fact, I'm not surprised at all: he's featured in that movie. Now I have to watch it.
Uh... first off, many people would disagree with you about the "crappy show" part. I know I would. Firefly is still the greatest sci-fi tv I've ever seen, and I've seen a fair amount.
Now, I can't tell you whether the game'll be any good until I see it, but I can assure you: most of us Firefly fanboys won't have forgotten about the show in 3 years. We'll have forgotten about this game, sure, but hopefully they'll remind us once they're mostly done, and we'll all get excited about it then. Of course, this means I see no particular reason to get excited about it now, since it just might suck... but yeah. If it gets published, and I hear good things about it, you can bet good money that I'll play it, and tell many other people to play it as well.
Yeah. I looked at that, and I was like... nullity = NaN. The only difference is that nullity = nullify, whereas NaN != NaN. But I find the latter statement is frequently very useful, when using NaN in coding.
To be fair, they stole the "are you sure you want to do that" system right off Ubuntu... cause that was the first thing I figured out how to fix in Ubuntu, the lack of an actual root account. I didn't feel like having to sudo every time I wanted to, for instance, adjust video settings.
I'm a huge music nerd, and I can tell the difference between lossless and 128kbps mp3s... I can't, however, tell the difference between 192kbps and lossless, so that's what I rip music as. Ok, so when I buy from iTunes I'm getting 128kbps audio, and yeah, that's kind of sad. But if they were to start selling lossless for more money, I wouldn't care nearly enough to pay the extra fee. If they started selling it for the same price, well, then I'd buy it and immediately compress it a bit, so as to be able to fit more music on my mp3 player (it's only got 100 gigs!).
Actually, around here, yes, we do complain about physical keys. I go to a small tech school, where trust is key (no pun intended, originally). Facilities and Maintenance, in their immense stupidity, tried to force autolocking doors on us, and we complained - many of us do, in fact, keep our doors unlocked most of the time.
But that's a side-issue - the main point is that DRM quite frequently stops not only illegal uses of media, but also legal uses - and it certainly allows for companies to dictate what legal uses are, in ways that I really don't think they should be allowed to.
Samba? What does windows file sharing have to do with it? :p
I've actually heard that relatively rarely. I've heard it, but not that often.
On the other hand, I've heard that but with Zahn instead of Bioware, several dozen times. Also, I've been the one saying it, a few of those times.
Well, tone and timbre are - tone is a pitch, timbre is how that pitch sounds. A guitar A#4 sounds much different from a piano A#4 sounds much different from a triangle wave A#4. The A#4 is tone, the instrument defines the timbre.
Of course, tones define the harmony as well... but I can overlook that, and assume "tone" refers to the root notes.
And I feel fine.
No, really, I do - I quit when school started.
It was definitely a spammy month for me... I have a spam filter with bayesian training. Never had anything to train it on before, though, because I never got any spam to it. I do have pretty darn perfect control over who gets that email (as opposed to my public gmail account, that receives hundreds of spam a week, but that's why it's there). My private email, I've had for, oh, about 6 years, and I've gotten maybe one spam every couple months to it, until just now.
A couple months ago, something found it. Don't know how. Now I'm getting a few spam a day. I can tell it's all from one place so far, though, because I'm only getting vast numbers of copies of the same couple of messages.
Actually, if you just take it completely literally - it does mean you can't take screenshots of your desktop (unless you hide all the icons first)... but it doesn't say anything about making Linux look like Vista, because if you're running Linux, you're probably not running Vista, and it only says you can't share its media while "the software is running".