Ok...c'mon. It's all a matter of common sense. Yeah I'm guilty of saying "five second rule" if I pick something up and eat it, but I'm not ALWAYS going to eat something after I drop it. If I drop a piece of beef jerky by the campfire, I'll probably eat it. If I drop a piece of toast on dining room floor, I'll probably eat it (I tend to keep my floors clean). If I drop a partially melted Hershey's bar outside...I probably won't. Same goes for dropping SPAM on a pile of dogshit. It's common sense folks.
I usually rant on about how rediculous I find these lawsuits and get pissed about how people just can't seem to take accountability for their own actions. "Oh, Billy just shot you? It doesn't matter that I didn't train him proper firearm useage, had one readily available to him, and didn't teach him it's wrong. I'm suing a game company."
However...the part that REALLY scares me is the fact they're suing Sony because that was the console it was on. So when people start suing movie directors and studios for violent movies, does this mean they'll also be able to sue AMC theaters? Unfugginbelievable...
It sounds kinda cool to go ahead and fuel our sun with a giant gas planet, but then the resulting burst of energy would probably decimate all life on our planet. "Oops! Sorry! My bad..."
Then again, it just has ya thinking about "hm, well we could shoot all our nukes or other sources of fuel to the sun to feed it in controllable ammounts." This also rids our planet of them. But like you said...all that time, effort, and energy could be spent on other forms of life preservation and exploration. Sure is fun stuff to think about.
I just see lawsuits left and right with this one. On one hand, you've got Ma and Pa Kettle who know how to turn on their computer, check their email, and play solitaire. All of a suddent they're notified they owe $2.4 billion because their computer was used to take down sixteen major corporations. Do they get to sue the ISP for not filtering? Or do they get to sue the virus programmer if they're caught? Or hell, do I get to sue them because maybe they infected me and my computer infected the corner store. Sure my fine was only $50, but maybe I'll sue them $250,000 for pain and suffering (hey, this is America, we do that). Scary...
What great timing. I was just telling a few people how iTMS already had 10 million paid downloads and how significant that was considering it's only for the Mac, which commands a whopping 5% of the market. I said "just wait 'til it comes out for Windows". I guess we'll find out. This is gonna be big...way big. Time to buy more Apple stock.
Is anyone else having a hard time picturing Bill Gates speeding along in a sports car? I honestly can't picture it. It's almost as bad as the Balmer dance, but about 600 times worse. Even beyond midlife crisis. I want to see pictures.
This is actually a good point. It's not just a coup for Linux vs. Microsoft, but a big "F you" to SCO by saying "yeah, we'll do Linux". I hope more companies realize this and stop halting their Linux work or other companies will start their Linux work and stop fearing SCO's threats. This will be interesting to watch...both MS and SCO.
Ok...you hear a song on the radio. The RIAA and radio execs decide "I Saw the Sign" is popular and play it every ten minutes on almost every station in your listening area. It's popular, it's the execs job to keep pumping it out there so you hear it. Now take a less popular song from say Rob Zombie, Stone Temple Pilots, whoever. These songs aren't getting nearly the same radio play.
Fast forward to your purchasing and downloading decisions. I know I sure wouldn't want to download a song I hear every ten minutes anyway. But man...there's that one song by STP...what is it? Download it. Damn...I'll just buy the CD. It's good and I don't hear all this on the radio.
Granted, there are a million similar and different scenarios, but I can see how the filesharing can stimulate the lesser-known album sales. The well-known don't really need help, do they?
I wonder what the energy associated with these sound waves are. It's got to be rather sizeable, right? I'm too far out of college to remember all my energy equations but still retaining enough to be curious.
In a simplistic level, think of a stereo's tweeter speaker...short soundwaves that just hurt the ears if turned up too high. Then you've got the bass...longer soundwaves that you can feel the "punch". So I wonder what these soundwaves from the black holes are capable of doing. They've got to have some sort of impact on moving objects in space. Anyone care to explain any more about this?
That's aweful. And probably gonna be damn expensive to fix. But looking at the picture, all I can imagine is watching a kitten or something bump up against it, watch it knock over, and have Bob Saget saying something so horrifically annoying that all I want to do is wish I was underneath that thing.
I wonder what's really going on at Barnes and Noble. My roomie is a manager there and she said they were reducing the size of the computer section big time. Now they're dropping eBooks. Is this just an odd coincidence or is B & N moving more toward a "traditional" bookstore and coffeeshop mix (meaning does management think computer related stuff isn't "traditional")? Does anyone know?
I don't want to sound too cynical here, but I just can't seem to get so excited about Motorola working on new innovative technology and continuing on with it. I remember when Motorola phones were the way to go. Even more dramatic an example though is the whole PPC chip. There was once a time the chips they produced for the Macs were just slightly slower than Intel's chips (in terms of MHz...but we all know that doesn't really matter for true performance). But then they seemed to take naps that lasted for years while AMD and Intel kept improving chip speed and performance. Sure...Motorola may be working on this now, but from what we've seen in the past, I wouldn't be surprised to see them resting on their laurels and letting the world pass them by yet again.
We can call it "How To Raise Kids" or "Don't Be an Idiot". Seeing as how games have such a huge influence on society, maybe we can use them to raise responsible adults? Who knows. Next we can have "How To Take Responsibility For Your Actions".
It STILL baffles my mind that these lawsuits can even be filed.
It baffles my mind that kids are running around with guns and don't have the common sense or insight to think "this may be a bad thing".
It would be nice to be able to let a little Social Darwinism to take over, but unfortunately we have 1) too many laws to protect the idiots of society and let them reproduce and 2) too many innocent people would get harmed.
Is there anyone out there who has actually filled up a 20Gb Ipod and would want a 40Gb version?
I know some people out there actually use their iPods as part of their DJ ensemble. Whereas a typical song may only be 3-4 minutes, a decent trance mix may last half an hour or so. Have a trance section in your iPod, a drum and bass section, house, trip-hop, and you'll see that it fills up rather quickly.
Apple was founded by a couple of guys who believed in the power of computing to transform education.
Very good point. Let's think about one of those guys...the Woz. And what has he been doing since he left Apple? He's been heavily involved in education. It's a core value to the founders of Apple, not just "another market to conquer" like some other companies. To me (and maybe I'm biased), I see Apple's interest in education as one of fostering enthusiasm and creativity and free thinking in schools, for stimulating thought. I see Microsoft's move as a way to force the kids to be dependent on MS products and the MS way of doing things.
Ok, so this new alternative may not be as fast as Virtual PC. But you know what really impresses me? Look at how quickly an alternative to this Virtual PC problem was produced. Five years ago, it would have been "eh, it's just Mac. Screw 'em." But the G5 just came out and there's already an alternative to a problem. Perhaps it'll keep Microsoft on their toes. Perhaps other developers will go "damn, we best be writin' some stuff for them too." It's refreshing to see developers rushing to fill the void so quickly.
I agree to a point. The article points out that this system is targeted at business users, not home users. Had it been aimed at the masses at home, I would be in 100% agreement. But it's not. Corporate IT likes their computing systems to be confusing and specialized. It's job security. "But you need me to help install the modem and all the drivers to make this work within our existing environment." But we all know this won't be tolerated by Joe Blow average home user. He's fine with Windows or the Mac.
This is very promising. It takes just one "industry leader" to step up and make that first move, no matter what it is. Now others will take notice and go "hm, well if they can do it, so can we". I wouldn't be surprised if we've got two or three more major suppliers (wait...are there that many left?) following suit. The floodgates have been opened.
A load of crap I tell ya. Are you telling me punk music was always popular? Or swing? Or certain genres of movies? Hell no. Define "popular". Is it by revenue? I believe the gaming industry already makes more than the other two mentioned industries (don't quote me on that, plus I don't have my resources in front of me to point to). That seems pretty popular. I say it's only a matter of time. Soon every household will have at least one game system. That's not popular? The gaming industry will evolve, just as all other industries. Just give it time.
Good thing they can't put the tags on Windows security holes, viruses, and worms. I bet THEN we could run out and not have one for "everything". Oh the humanity...
I wonder what other compounds show the same response. It would be interesting to see if there were a variety, some semi-conductive, some non-conductive, etc. Then could we possibly join them and have only half of the larger compound (yet still a nanostructure) change when put in contact with water? It could act similar to a bimetal strip. I dunno...my brain is thinking of a bazillion different ideas and applications right now. I hope there are some geniuses on here that can answer this and throw out a few more ideas of what could be done.
I agree with this (hell, how can't I? It's been proven) to some degree. It always drives me nuts when I see parents sheilding their kids from every sort of germ and such and fill them full of motrin at the slightest hint of a cold. Let them get sick. Let them build up their immunities. Let the body build resistance to it. It's only gonna happen by playing in the dirt, being outside, experiencing the world. Stop disinfecting the entire house. And as we've seen throughout history (and by some posts here), it's been a common practice to ingest small amounts of poison to build up the tolerance so if you were to ingest a "lethal" dosage for a "normal" person, you'd survive.
However...you are NOT going to catch me smoking cigarettes to "build up" my lungs, or drink gasoline, or take in any other number of highly toxic (and those weren't even "highly toxic") compounds to "get stronger". Yet...scarily enough, some people in society don't bother to use common sense and they'll just be a bunch of lemmings and do stupid shit and start drinking anti-freeze thinking it'll help them in some way.
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Ok...c'mon. It's all a matter of common sense. Yeah I'm guilty of saying "five second rule" if I pick something up and eat it, but I'm not ALWAYS going to eat something after I drop it. If I drop a piece of beef jerky by the campfire, I'll probably eat it. If I drop a piece of toast on dining room floor, I'll probably eat it (I tend to keep my floors clean). If I drop a partially melted Hershey's bar outside...I probably won't. Same goes for dropping SPAM on a pile of dogshit. It's common sense folks.
I usually rant on about how rediculous I find these lawsuits and get pissed about how people just can't seem to take accountability for their own actions. "Oh, Billy just shot you? It doesn't matter that I didn't train him proper firearm useage, had one readily available to him, and didn't teach him it's wrong. I'm suing a game company."
However...the part that REALLY scares me is the fact they're suing Sony because that was the console it was on. So when people start suing movie directors and studios for violent movies, does this mean they'll also be able to sue AMC theaters? Unfugginbelievable...
It sounds kinda cool to go ahead and fuel our sun with a giant gas planet, but then the resulting burst of energy would probably decimate all life on our planet. "Oops! Sorry! My bad..."
Then again, it just has ya thinking about "hm, well we could shoot all our nukes or other sources of fuel to the sun to feed it in controllable ammounts." This also rids our planet of them. But like you said...all that time, effort, and energy could be spent on other forms of life preservation and exploration. Sure is fun stuff to think about.
I just see lawsuits left and right with this one. On one hand, you've got Ma and Pa Kettle who know how to turn on their computer, check their email, and play solitaire. All of a suddent they're notified they owe $2.4 billion because their computer was used to take down sixteen major corporations. Do they get to sue the ISP for not filtering? Or do they get to sue the virus programmer if they're caught? Or hell, do I get to sue them because maybe they infected me and my computer infected the corner store. Sure my fine was only $50, but maybe I'll sue them $250,000 for pain and suffering (hey, this is America, we do that). Scary...
What great timing. I was just telling a few people how iTMS already had 10 million paid downloads and how significant that was considering it's only for the Mac, which commands a whopping 5% of the market. I said "just wait 'til it comes out for Windows". I guess we'll find out. This is gonna be big...way big. Time to buy more Apple stock.
Is anyone else having a hard time picturing Bill Gates speeding along in a sports car? I honestly can't picture it. It's almost as bad as the Balmer dance, but about 600 times worse. Even beyond midlife crisis. I want to see pictures.
This is actually a good point. It's not just a coup for Linux vs. Microsoft, but a big "F you" to SCO by saying "yeah, we'll do Linux". I hope more companies realize this and stop halting their Linux work or other companies will start their Linux work and stop fearing SCO's threats. This will be interesting to watch...both MS and SCO.
Ok...you hear a song on the radio. The RIAA and radio execs decide "I Saw the Sign" is popular and play it every ten minutes on almost every station in your listening area. It's popular, it's the execs job to keep pumping it out there so you hear it. Now take a less popular song from say Rob Zombie, Stone Temple Pilots, whoever. These songs aren't getting nearly the same radio play.
Fast forward to your purchasing and downloading decisions. I know I sure wouldn't want to download a song I hear every ten minutes anyway. But man...there's that one song by STP...what is it? Download it. Damn...I'll just buy the CD. It's good and I don't hear all this on the radio.
Granted, there are a million similar and different scenarios, but I can see how the filesharing can stimulate the lesser-known album sales. The well-known don't really need help, do they?
I wonder what the energy associated with these sound waves are. It's got to be rather sizeable, right? I'm too far out of college to remember all my energy equations but still retaining enough to be curious.
In a simplistic level, think of a stereo's tweeter speaker...short soundwaves that just hurt the ears if turned up too high. Then you've got the bass...longer soundwaves that you can feel the "punch". So I wonder what these soundwaves from the black holes are capable of doing. They've got to have some sort of impact on moving objects in space. Anyone care to explain any more about this?
It's only a matter of time before someone sits on the scanner with their pants down.
"Honey, does this make my ass look big?"
That's aweful. And probably gonna be damn expensive to fix. But looking at the picture, all I can imagine is watching a kitten or something bump up against it, watch it knock over, and have Bob Saget saying something so horrifically annoying that all I want to do is wish I was underneath that thing.
I wonder what's really going on at Barnes and Noble. My roomie is a manager there and she said they were reducing the size of the computer section big time. Now they're dropping eBooks. Is this just an odd coincidence or is B & N moving more toward a "traditional" bookstore and coffeeshop mix (meaning does management think computer related stuff isn't "traditional")? Does anyone know?
I don't want to sound too cynical here, but I just can't seem to get so excited about Motorola working on new innovative technology and continuing on with it. I remember when Motorola phones were the way to go. Even more dramatic an example though is the whole PPC chip. There was once a time the chips they produced for the Macs were just slightly slower than Intel's chips (in terms of MHz...but we all know that doesn't really matter for true performance). But then they seemed to take naps that lasted for years while AMD and Intel kept improving chip speed and performance. Sure...Motorola may be working on this now, but from what we've seen in the past, I wouldn't be surprised to see them resting on their laurels and letting the world pass them by yet again.
We can call it "How To Raise Kids" or "Don't Be an Idiot". Seeing as how games have such a huge influence on society, maybe we can use them to raise responsible adults? Who knows. Next we can have "How To Take Responsibility For Your Actions".
It STILL baffles my mind that these lawsuits can even be filed.
It baffles my mind that kids are running around with guns and don't have the common sense or insight to think "this may be a bad thing".
It would be nice to be able to let a little Social Darwinism to take over, but unfortunately we have 1) too many laws to protect the idiots of society and let them reproduce and 2) too many innocent people would get harmed.
Is there anyone out there who has actually filled up a 20Gb Ipod and would want a 40Gb version?
I know some people out there actually use their iPods as part of their DJ ensemble. Whereas a typical song may only be 3-4 minutes, a decent trance mix may last half an hour or so. Have a trance section in your iPod, a drum and bass section, house, trip-hop, and you'll see that it fills up rather quickly.
Apple was founded by a couple of guys who believed in the power of computing to transform education.
Very good point. Let's think about one of those guys...the Woz. And what has he been doing since he left Apple? He's been heavily involved in education. It's a core value to the founders of Apple, not just "another market to conquer" like some other companies. To me (and maybe I'm biased), I see Apple's interest in education as one of fostering enthusiasm and creativity and free thinking in schools, for stimulating thought. I see Microsoft's move as a way to force the kids to be dependent on MS products and the MS way of doing things.
Ok, so this new alternative may not be as fast as Virtual PC. But you know what really impresses me? Look at how quickly an alternative to this Virtual PC problem was produced. Five years ago, it would have been "eh, it's just Mac. Screw 'em." But the G5 just came out and there's already an alternative to a problem. Perhaps it'll keep Microsoft on their toes. Perhaps other developers will go "damn, we best be writin' some stuff for them too." It's refreshing to see developers rushing to fill the void so quickly.
I agree to a point. The article points out that this system is targeted at business users, not home users. Had it been aimed at the masses at home, I would be in 100% agreement. But it's not. Corporate IT likes their computing systems to be confusing and specialized. It's job security. "But you need me to help install the modem and all the drivers to make this work within our existing environment." But we all know this won't be tolerated by Joe Blow average home user. He's fine with Windows or the Mac.
This is very promising. It takes just one "industry leader" to step up and make that first move, no matter what it is. Now others will take notice and go "hm, well if they can do it, so can we". I wouldn't be surprised if we've got two or three more major suppliers (wait...are there that many left?) following suit. The floodgates have been opened.
MacFoxes...
Now THAT was a fun game...
A load of crap I tell ya. Are you telling me punk music was always popular? Or swing? Or certain genres of movies? Hell no. Define "popular". Is it by revenue? I believe the gaming industry already makes more than the other two mentioned industries (don't quote me on that, plus I don't have my resources in front of me to point to). That seems pretty popular. I say it's only a matter of time. Soon every household will have at least one game system. That's not popular? The gaming industry will evolve, just as all other industries. Just give it time.
Good thing they can't put the tags on Windows security holes, viruses, and worms. I bet THEN we could run out and not have one for "everything". Oh the humanity...
I wonder what other compounds show the same response. It would be interesting to see if there were a variety, some semi-conductive, some non-conductive, etc. Then could we possibly join them and have only half of the larger compound (yet still a nanostructure) change when put in contact with water? It could act similar to a bimetal strip. I dunno...my brain is thinking of a bazillion different ideas and applications right now. I hope there are some geniuses on here that can answer this and throw out a few more ideas of what could be done.
"This lawsuit is a publicity stunt that has no merit," an RIAA representative said.
Does anyone else find this very ironic? Meanwhile we've got the RIAA suing college students and anyone else they can...
I agree with this (hell, how can't I? It's been proven) to some degree. It always drives me nuts when I see parents sheilding their kids from every sort of germ and such and fill them full of motrin at the slightest hint of a cold. Let them get sick. Let them build up their immunities. Let the body build resistance to it. It's only gonna happen by playing in the dirt, being outside, experiencing the world. Stop disinfecting the entire house. And as we've seen throughout history (and by some posts here), it's been a common practice to ingest small amounts of poison to build up the tolerance so if you were to ingest a "lethal" dosage for a "normal" person, you'd survive.
However...you are NOT going to catch me smoking cigarettes to "build up" my lungs, or drink gasoline, or take in any other number of highly toxic (and those weren't even "highly toxic") compounds to "get stronger". Yet...scarily enough, some people in society don't bother to use common sense and they'll just be a bunch of lemmings and do stupid shit and start drinking anti-freeze thinking it'll help them in some way.