And how exactly do you know that? And whose comment are you talking about anyway?
Clearly the Prisoners Dilema has some relevance to the problem, since the person most likely to know who a spammer is is another spammer who has been trading/selling lists with them.
Is it possible to play the normal versions of the movies on the special edition DVDs?
It would be convenient to be able to compare the theatrical release with the extended version without having to buy both editions. Of course given that they'd love to sell two copies of the movie to every person it's probably a vain hope.
I don't know about the humor content, but i think value of reposting of the image pending alteration would depend on the kind of alterations.
If it was just a capitulatory type of change, then i agree, just no reposting it at all would be a stronger moral statement.
However reformating the art into a statement against the perpetrators of its original removal as suggested above is a perfectly valid response i believe.
"Your attitude will lead to art that makes fun of you," is just as good as "your attitude will lead to no art."
As multiple other people have pointed out before this, because a large percentage of the people who buy the product will forget to send in the rebate form. Nobody forgets to pay the sale price instead of the full price at the cash register.
I totally agree, The FTC has to have some kind of limit on how many complaints are needed before they take action against someone, and 46,000 isn't that large a number when you're talking about a country with 300 million people in it.
The FTC taking action against Microsoft or Disney because 100 people sent email to the FTC might sound funny, but you wouldn't be laughing when your or a friend's small buisness got shut down because some joker thought it would be funny or a neighbor was annoyed and a single email was enough to get the FTC moving.
Still a cheat, but a fairly minor one. It seems like it was the small really finely balanced things that were screwing up most of the time. The muffler is pretty large and stable, so not very likely to go off course, and it seems like the only reason they did the cut was because it was physically impossible to fit everything on the set at once. If they'd decided to have the cut at one of the incredibly failure prone points i'd think it was more of a foul play.
From what it says in the article it sounds like the muffler isn't entirely CG. They just didn't have enough room in at location to set the whole thing up at once, so they did some CG to connect then ending of the first half with the begining of the second half, ie when the muffler is rolling. I suspect that the muffler itself is real.
I've only skimmed through so far, but it seems the "cookie-cutter" plan is, eat less calories than you burn.
Hate to tell you this, but that's true for everyone.
Of course i have no idea how many calories you burn a day. Your friend clearly burns calories faster than you, so he gets to eat more. Tough luck. Just because the numbers change however doesn't mean that idea isn't sound.
A heavy weight can make a bridge collapse. An elephant can crush a footbridge, but the Golden Gate Bridge wouldn't even notice. Doesn't mean that a heavy enough weight can't make the Golden Gate fall apart.
(Just a note for the paranoid, i am of course not promoting acts of terrorism involving collapsing the Golden Gate Bridge by herding several thousand elephants across it at once =)
The 3d ones just aren't very much fun in my opinion. Maybe my brain isn't just equiped to handle the math, but i can do an okay job of estimating angles and speeds int he 2D version, and even sometimes do a semi-competent job of judging in the wind factor.
However i've had massive problems with every 3D version i've tried. Not only is my first guess almost always rather off because of the complications of the third dimension, but adjusting the shot takes a long time as well. It just takes way too long and isn't as much fun.
Of course hopefully the toy tanks wouldn't take so long to render, and it would be really easy to multi-thread and have them all shooting at once:)
So basically these are people that came up with cool ideas but were too lazy or too poor a writer to write a Sci-Fi story about them.
No, judging by the examples given, these are people that read existing science fiction stories and then nominated the cool gadgets in them as their own ideas.
Rejuvination devices, controlling the weather, space hotels, never heard of _those_ anywhere else =P
How well does the emulation work? If there's any emulator for PC that emulates all the SNES games (or whichever kind) in existance, i've yet to hear about it. And does it have enough processing power to run the non-native code without any slowdown or such?
I'm also curious if Nintendo is going to try to kill this thing. Although I'm sure Nintendo is making a profit off of GameBoys, I'm also sure they make most of their profits from the games themselves, so logically they'd have a reason to look the other way if this encouraged more people to buy gameboy games. However since when has logic ever raised it's head in legal/piracy issues?
Breaking stone (ie. meteor) to several pieces does not help. Every piece still causes damages. And damages are not smaller when stone is splitted to several pieces.
(after all that meteor exploded)
Depends on when the meteor is broken up and how much you break it up.
If this particular meteor had broken up before it hit the atmosphere, most of the pieces would probably have burned up, and certainly would have caused a lot less damaged even if they'd gotten through. The more surface area something has the faster it will burn up, and one thousand smaller rocks totaling one ton have a _lot_ more surface area than a single one ton rock.
Is there a longer delay on actual posts than rejections? I submited this about 8am and had it rejected a few hours before this showed up =P
Anyways, it's curious that they say the meteor was the size of a Volkswagen bug when it _exploded_. Do they not know how big it was before it entered the atmosphere? Or do they think not that much of it burned up before it exploded?
I would have thought that the explosion would have had to have occured relatively low in the atmosphere, after a fair portion of the burning up stage was over, or the smaller post-explosion pieces would have burned up completly themselves.
"Without a Clue" is a very funny Sherlock Holmes movie in which Watson is the real brains and Sherlock Holmes is a (not too bright) actor he hired to play the part of the detective.
"Into the Woods" is a musical that ranges from hilarious to depressing, and has very good and catchy music.
"The Abyss" a great and thoughtfull science fiction adventure aboard an underwater mining rig.
"Undercover Blues" is another humerous one, about a couple with a newborn baby on vacation in New Orleans. They're actually government agents on maternity leave, and get drawn into investigating a crime in the area.
I've been told that one of the earlier C&C games replaced the blood with green stuff for the German release because of this issue. You were supposedly fighting cyborgs.
What idiot on a corporate IT team would overclock a CPU? Not many worth their paycheck, that's for sure. At least not while it has any value on the books.
You're not making any sense, they're trying to promote the anti-overclocking technology as a _selling_ point, especially to big corporations. They know that most big corps wouldn't overclock the CPU, and they're reasuring them that a third party won't secretly overclock the CPU and then sell it to them.
As the previous poster pointed out, they're marketing to the group they expect to make the most from. They know there are people who like to overclock their CPUs, but that number is fairly small compared to the number of CPUs they sell to corporations, who want assurance of quality.
That would make almost _everything_ a grey area. Rocks are a grey area, oxygen is a grey area, water is a grey area. Physical things should rarely if ever fall into a grey area. The way i've usually heard the terms used, it's used to describe actions or purposes.
Chaining yourself to a tree to prevent logging is in a grey area (illegal action in the name of a "just" cause.) Chains are not a grey area, and chainsaws are not a grey area.
If Sony actually delays till 2006 and Nintendo actually does make it out by 2005 (when piling hardware release predictions on top of rumors about hardware release predictions, nothing is certain) then it might give Nintendo the chance to gain the same lead Sony has gained in the last two generations. Along with the dinky mini-DVDs and the lack of a second "Z" button on the controllers, their constant lateness has been one of my biggest criticisms about Nintendo.
Many consider port scanning a gray area, as it's often used by various hackers to find vulnerabilies that can be exploited.
This sounds like the claims made by the RIAA and MPAA and others when they got the DMCA created. "Some of it could be used by some people to do something illegal, therefore we should make it all illegal." Clearly, as this program itself demonstrates, there are legitimate uses for port scanning, so i fail to see why the technique itself should be considred a "grey area."
Laws are made by the people. If 93% of the people think this is right, maybe the laws should be changed.
RTFA. Just to be nitpicky, the number you're looking for is 91%. "US downloaders feel that file trading activities are benign. Only 9% thought that file trading was wrong." However, that's out of US downloaders, which earlier they stated to be "almost one-fifth of the US population over 12."
Needless to say i would expect to see some correlation between people who choose to download music and people who think it's morally okay to do so. It's possible that the other 4/5ths of the population all think d/ling music is horribly wrong. Admitedly that's not too likely, but at least a fair number of them may think so, enough to counterbalance the 91% of downloaders who think it's okay. Your statement is like saying that 95% of muggers polled thought that beating people up to take their money was okay, so perhaps it should be made legal.
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Clearly the Prisoners Dilema has some relevance to the problem, since the person most likely to know who a spammer is is another spammer who has been trading/selling lists with them.
It would be convenient to be able to compare the theatrical release with the extended version without having to buy both editions. Of course given that they'd love to sell two copies of the movie to every person it's probably a vain hope.
If it was just a capitulatory type of change, then i agree, just no reposting it at all would be a stronger moral statement.
However reformating the art into a statement against the perpetrators of its original removal as suggested above is a perfectly valid response i believe.
"Your attitude will lead to art that makes fun of you," is just as good as "your attitude will lead to no art."
What? You wanted it moved somewhere other than 15km down the earth's orbital path? You should have specified that in the original problem!
Then we submit their email addresses to the mailing list at the eMarketersAmerica site and any other spam wesite we can find :)
As multiple other people have pointed out before this, because a large percentage of the people who buy the product will forget to send in the rebate form. Nobody forgets to pay the sale price instead of the full price at the cash register.
The FTC taking action against Microsoft or Disney because 100 people sent email to the FTC might sound funny, but you wouldn't be laughing when your or a friend's small buisness got shut down because some joker thought it would be funny or a neighbor was annoyed and a single email was enough to get the FTC moving.
Still a cheat, but a fairly minor one. It seems like it was the small really finely balanced things that were screwing up most of the time. The muffler is pretty large and stable, so not very likely to go off course, and it seems like the only reason they did the cut was because it was physically impossible to fit everything on the set at once. If they'd decided to have the cut at one of the incredibly failure prone points i'd think it was more of a foul play.
But they really damn loved it when it finally did just work :)
From what it says in the article it sounds like the muffler isn't entirely CG. They just didn't have enough room in at location to set the whole thing up at once, so they did some CG to connect then ending of the first half with the begining of the second half, ie when the muffler is rolling. I suspect that the muffler itself is real.
Hate to tell you this, but that's true for everyone.
Of course i have no idea how many calories you burn a day. Your friend clearly burns calories faster than you, so he gets to eat more. Tough luck. Just because the numbers change however doesn't mean that idea isn't sound.
A heavy weight can make a bridge collapse. An elephant can crush a footbridge, but the Golden Gate Bridge wouldn't even notice. Doesn't mean that a heavy enough weight can't make the Golden Gate fall apart.
(Just a note for the paranoid, i am of course not promoting acts of terrorism involving collapsing the Golden Gate Bridge by herding several thousand elephants across it at once =)
However i've had massive problems with every 3D version i've tried. Not only is my first guess almost always rather off because of the complications of the third dimension, but adjusting the shot takes a long time as well. It just takes way too long and isn't as much fun.
Of course hopefully the toy tanks wouldn't take so long to render, and it would be really easy to multi-thread and have them all shooting at once :)
No, judging by the examples given, these are people that read existing science fiction stories and then nominated the cool gadgets in them as their own ideas.
Rejuvination devices, controlling the weather, space hotels, never heard of _those_ anywhere else =P
I'm also curious if Nintendo is going to try to kill this thing. Although I'm sure Nintendo is making a profit off of GameBoys, I'm also sure they make most of their profits from the games themselves, so logically they'd have a reason to look the other way if this encouraged more people to buy gameboy games. However since when has logic ever raised it's head in legal/piracy issues?
(after all that meteor exploded)
Depends on when the meteor is broken up and how much you break it up.
If this particular meteor had broken up before it hit the atmosphere, most of the pieces would probably have burned up, and certainly would have caused a lot less damaged even if they'd gotten through. The more surface area something has the faster it will burn up, and one thousand smaller rocks totaling one ton have a _lot_ more surface area than a single one ton rock.
What, you mean like how Umm Qasr was captured, and then Umm Qasr was captured, and then Umm Qasr was captured, no really this time!?
When are facts facts?
Anyways, it's curious that they say the meteor was the size of a Volkswagen bug when it _exploded_. Do they not know how big it was before it entered the atmosphere? Or do they think not that much of it burned up before it exploded?
I would have thought that the explosion would have had to have occured relatively low in the atmosphere, after a fair portion of the burning up stage was over, or the smaller post-explosion pieces would have burned up completly themselves.
"Into the Woods" is a musical that ranges from hilarious to depressing, and has very good and catchy music.
"The Abyss" a great and thoughtfull science fiction adventure aboard an underwater mining rig.
"Undercover Blues" is another humerous one, about a couple with a newborn baby on vacation in New Orleans. They're actually government agents on maternity leave, and get drawn into investigating a crime in the area.
I've been told that one of the earlier C&C games replaced the blood with green stuff for the German release because of this issue. You were supposedly fighting cyborgs.
You're not making any sense, they're trying to promote the anti-overclocking technology as a _selling_ point, especially to big corporations. They know that most big corps wouldn't overclock the CPU, and they're reasuring them that a third party won't secretly overclock the CPU and then sell it to them.
As the previous poster pointed out, they're marketing to the group they expect to make the most from. They know there are people who like to overclock their CPUs, but that number is fairly small compared to the number of CPUs they sell to corporations, who want assurance of quality.
Strange, as far as I can remember, Gore never claimed to have invented anything.
Chaining yourself to a tree to prevent logging is in a grey area (illegal action in the name of a "just" cause.) Chains are not a grey area, and chainsaws are not a grey area.
If Sony actually delays till 2006 and Nintendo actually does make it out by 2005 (when piling hardware release predictions on top of rumors about hardware release predictions, nothing is certain) then it might give Nintendo the chance to gain the same lead Sony has gained in the last two generations. Along with the dinky mini-DVDs and the lack of a second "Z" button on the controllers, their constant lateness has been one of my biggest criticisms about Nintendo.
This sounds like the claims made by the RIAA and MPAA and others when they got the DMCA created. "Some of it could be used by some people to do something illegal, therefore we should make it all illegal." Clearly, as this program itself demonstrates, there are legitimate uses for port scanning, so i fail to see why the technique itself should be considred a "grey area."
RTFA. Just to be nitpicky, the number you're looking for is 91%. "US downloaders feel that file trading activities are benign. Only 9% thought that file trading was wrong." However, that's out of US downloaders, which earlier they stated to be "almost one-fifth of the US population over 12."
Needless to say i would expect to see some correlation between people who choose to download music and people who think it's morally okay to do so. It's possible that the other 4/5ths of the population all think d/ling music is horribly wrong. Admitedly that's not too likely, but at least a fair number of them may think so, enough to counterbalance the 91% of downloaders who think it's okay. Your statement is like saying that 95% of muggers polled thought that beating people up to take their money was okay, so perhaps it should be made legal.