Sounds like a great concept. I've always hate the fact that the grunts in most RTS games do stupid things like run right into gunfire, or fail to run away from a tank that drives right over them. There is no way a tank should be able to kill a human when the person sees it coming.
I can't stand the price of music either. That's why I get most of my music on eMusic. There's not a lot of big name bands, so you miss out on quite a bit of music. However, I have no problem filling my monthly quota of 50 songs. In the end, I pay about $4 for a CD worth of songs, or 30 cents a song. I don't mind missing out on the big name bands when it means I'm only paying a small fraction of what most other people pay for music.
I know tons of people. I know people with 20 GB of MP3s who don't own a single CD. I know people with spindle after spindle of burned movies who haven't bought a single DVD in their lives. I also know people who have downloaded tons of stuff but also buy a lot, and I've met people who have tons of bought stuff but don't download anything. And then there's people who are too wrapped up in something else, and don't read, listen to music, or watch movies, at least not unless it's broadcast on TV/Radio. I think that artists giving away their stuff for free, or asking for whatever the consumer thinks is a good price is a good thing, and will help them get noticed more easily. However, don't kid yourself into thinking that everyone will pay. There will always be people who will not pay. But I don't think the artists are losing much from those people anyway.
What is needed is a dual pass phrase encryption application. Enter the legit code and you get access to your data. Enter an alternate and it opens a volume with 'manufactured' information.
That is exactly one of the things you are able to accomplish with TrueCrypt. You can create an encrypted volume, and inside that encrypted volume, create another volume, which is completely indetectable unless you have the correct passphrase.
I rushed off to try it myself. I used to be on a shared hosting service (hostreflex) that had their servers pwned once. Something would go out in the header of every PHP file that would get the browser to run the virus. Luckily my virus scanner blocked it. I'm not sure if anybody's computers got infected, but my site is pretty low traffic anyway. As soon as I found out the problem, I replaced my home page with a plain text file. No more problem. Needless to say I switched hosting companies pretty fast after that.
Drawing is one thing most kids don't really get the chance to do. A lot of parents will give kids crayons and a coloring book and say their kid is doing art. And while those can be great, it doesn't really give the kid a chance to create anything. Give the kid a blank piece of paper, and see what they draw.
There's a lot of things you can learn from video games. I learned how to read a map and follow directions from playing video games. A lot of games also require a fair amount of reading. Carmen Sandiego taught me a lot about geography, history, and many other things. Other games teach about how to spend money, and how to decide which items are most important based on you're current financial situation. Not all video games teach you things, but there's a lot that can be learned if you play the right games.
I got my 18 month old playing video games. Not every day, but once every couple weeks I'll sit her down with the GameCube and Disney Cars. She's smart enough to push the big green button to drive, and steer a little bit, but the driving is completely random, and not controlled in anyway whatsoever. Sometimes she'll just press the start button over and over again to hear the horn beeping. I don't think kids are ever really too young for video games. It's something fun to do, and is probably a lot better for them in the end than watching TV. They shouldn't be playing video games every second of their life, but they shouldn't be watching that much TV either.
That's why you use the PDO functions and stay away from the mysql_ and pgsql_ functions. It lets you code without being tired to any specific database. It lets you run queries against MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, ODBC, SQL Lite, and a few other databases.
And definitely ignore all the tutorials on the web and avoid mysql_ functions. Use PDO. It lets you do paramterized queries which is the actual correct way to guard against sql injection, along with increasing speed. Using PDO will also let you switch to another database without changing every line in your database code. You may still need to tweak some queries, but at least you won't have to change every line of code.
I think this model will work more than most artists recognize. Instead of saying, you have to spend $10-$15 if you want a copy of my album, say, go ahead and download it, and if you like it, send me whatever amount you think is fair. I don't buy a lot of albums that I think are good, simply because I don't think they are worth the amount they charge. I don't download them either, I just go without, plenty of good cheap music out there. If they gave me the option to get a copy for a price that I thought was fair, then I would be giving a lot more money to a lot more bands. I've never spend as much money on music as I do on eMusic, because I feel that I'm actually paying a fair price for the music.
$150 for a concert? Wow, you have lots of money to throw around. I've been to a few $50 shows, and there were great fun. However, I've never had more fun than I have at $15 shows in a local bar or small concert hall. You get much closer to the band, and it feels a lot more personal. Plus there's plenty of smaller bands who make really good music. And they really get into it also. I never understood why seeing anybody in concert would be worth $150.
If you're using VB.Net, it can be a lot better than PHP. First the.Net framework is a lot more easier to user than the 80,000 functions all under the same namespace of PHP. I also like that it's strongly typed, and compiled, but that's just personal preference. VB.Net is basically C# with different syntax. Also, Visual Studio is much better than any IDE I've ever seen for PHP. VB.Net isn't perfect, but I personally find it quite a bit easier to work in than PHP.
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I don't get why people like books so much more than TV or movies. I've read some pretty good books in my day, but I wouldn't say that in general books are any better than movies. Books can end up being a big waste of time. Think about this, you pick up a book and decide to read it. You get half way through, because some books take a while to get good, and decide that finally, it's a terrible book and isn't going to get any better. You've just spent probably 10 hours of reading time, and now all you have to show for it, is being halfway done a really bad book. Personally, I'd rather just spend free time watching a movie, or listening to some music. I read a book once in a while, but I don't really see what all the fuss is about.
Since when is 70 Channels basic cable. Up here in Canada, you can get basic cable, but it only has 30 channels. 70 channels is the extended plan which usually includes the digital cable, where you get all the time shifted plus a bunch of other channels. Basic cable costs around $25, while extended cable costs $50.
I know a few people who watch the majority of their TV on DVD. If you like the show, it's not much trouble to spend $50 (yes, some cost more) on a season. Mind you they still have cable, but don't use it that much, and when they do, it's usually stuff they've recorded on the PVR. I think that in the next 10 years, we'll move away from broadcast TV into an on-demand or watch-on-DVD type model. Personally I like it a lot more. There will still be some things that make sense to broadcast, like news, or sports games, but your average tv series won't need to be broadcast.
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Sounds like a great concept. I've always hate the fact that the grunts in most RTS games do stupid things like run right into gunfire, or fail to run away from a tank that drives right over them. There is no way a tank should be able to kill a human when the person sees it coming.
I can't stand the price of music either. That's why I get most of my music on eMusic. There's not a lot of big name bands, so you miss out on quite a bit of music. However, I have no problem filling my monthly quota of 50 songs. In the end, I pay about $4 for a CD worth of songs, or 30 cents a song. I don't mind missing out on the big name bands when it means I'm only paying a small fraction of what most other people pay for music.
Wow, that game looks pretty good. I'll definitely be downloading that tonight.
I know tons of people. I know people with 20 GB of MP3s who don't own a single CD. I know people with spindle after spindle of burned movies who haven't bought a single DVD in their lives. I also know people who have downloaded tons of stuff but also buy a lot, and I've met people who have tons of bought stuff but don't download anything. And then there's people who are too wrapped up in something else, and don't read, listen to music, or watch movies, at least not unless it's broadcast on TV/Radio. I think that artists giving away their stuff for free, or asking for whatever the consumer thinks is a good price is a good thing, and will help them get noticed more easily. However, don't kid yourself into thinking that everyone will pay. There will always be people who will not pay. But I don't think the artists are losing much from those people anyway.
Yeah, go with UPS. The $100 laptop which now costs $200, is actually going to cost $300 once you account for shipping costs.
That's rubber hose cryptography for you.
I rushed off to try it myself. I used to be on a shared hosting service (hostreflex) that had their servers pwned once. Something would go out in the header of every PHP file that would get the browser to run the virus. Luckily my virus scanner blocked it. I'm not sure if anybody's computers got infected, but my site is pretty low traffic anyway. As soon as I found out the problem, I replaced my home page with a plain text file. No more problem. Needless to say I switched hosting companies pretty fast after that.
Drawing is one thing most kids don't really get the chance to do. A lot of parents will give kids crayons and a coloring book and say their kid is doing art. And while those can be great, it doesn't really give the kid a chance to create anything. Give the kid a blank piece of paper, and see what they draw.
There's a lot of things you can learn from video games. I learned how to read a map and follow directions from playing video games. A lot of games also require a fair amount of reading. Carmen Sandiego taught me a lot about geography, history, and many other things. Other games teach about how to spend money, and how to decide which items are most important based on you're current financial situation. Not all video games teach you things, but there's a lot that can be learned if you play the right games.
I got my 18 month old playing video games. Not every day, but once every couple weeks I'll sit her down with the GameCube and Disney Cars. She's smart enough to push the big green button to drive, and steer a little bit, but the driving is completely random, and not controlled in anyway whatsoever. Sometimes she'll just press the start button over and over again to hear the horn beeping. I don't think kids are ever really too young for video games. It's something fun to do, and is probably a lot better for them in the end than watching TV. They shouldn't be playing video games every second of their life, but they shouldn't be watching that much TV either.
What? No Wii Version? Nothing like beating a hooker by actually swinging the controller.
What's wrong with not working overtime?
That's why you use the PDO functions and stay away from the mysql_ and pgsql_ functions. It lets you code without being tired to any specific database. It lets you run queries against MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, ODBC, SQL Lite, and a few other databases.
And definitely ignore all the tutorials on the web and avoid mysql_ functions. Use PDO. It lets you do paramterized queries which is the actual correct way to guard against sql injection, along with increasing speed. Using PDO will also let you switch to another database without changing every line in your database code. You may still need to tweak some queries, but at least you won't have to change every line of code.
That's not really a fair comparison. Books have been around for thousands of years. Movies have only been around for about 100.
I think this model will work more than most artists recognize. Instead of saying, you have to spend $10-$15 if you want a copy of my album, say, go ahead and download it, and if you like it, send me whatever amount you think is fair. I don't buy a lot of albums that I think are good, simply because I don't think they are worth the amount they charge. I don't download them either, I just go without, plenty of good cheap music out there. If they gave me the option to get a copy for a price that I thought was fair, then I would be giving a lot more money to a lot more bands. I've never spend as much money on music as I do on eMusic, because I feel that I'm actually paying a fair price for the music.
$150 for a concert? Wow, you have lots of money to throw around. I've been to a few $50 shows, and there were great fun. However, I've never had more fun than I have at $15 shows in a local bar or small concert hall. You get much closer to the band, and it feels a lot more personal. Plus there's plenty of smaller bands who make really good music. And they really get into it also. I never understood why seeing anybody in concert would be worth $150.
And you only need to do it once. And then you can pass the recorded file on to the rest of the world.
If you're using VB.Net, it can be a lot better than PHP. First the .Net framework is a lot more easier to user than the 80,000 functions all under the same namespace of PHP. I also like that it's strongly typed, and compiled, but that's just personal preference. VB.Net is basically C# with different syntax. Also, Visual Studio is much better than any IDE I've ever seen for PHP. VB.Net isn't perfect, but I personally find it quite a bit easier to work in than PHP.
I don't get why people like books so much more than TV or movies. I've read some pretty good books in my day, but I wouldn't say that in general books are any better than movies. Books can end up being a big waste of time. Think about this, you pick up a book and decide to read it. You get half way through, because some books take a while to get good, and decide that finally, it's a terrible book and isn't going to get any better. You've just spent probably 10 hours of reading time, and now all you have to show for it, is being halfway done a really bad book. Personally, I'd rather just spend free time watching a movie, or listening to some music. I read a book once in a while, but I don't really see what all the fuss is about.
Since when is 70 Channels basic cable. Up here in Canada, you can get basic cable, but it only has 30 channels. 70 channels is the extended plan which usually includes the digital cable, where you get all the time shifted plus a bunch of other channels. Basic cable costs around $25, while extended cable costs $50.
I know a few people who watch the majority of their TV on DVD. If you like the show, it's not much trouble to spend $50 (yes, some cost more) on a season. Mind you they still have cable, but don't use it that much, and when they do, it's usually stuff they've recorded on the PVR. I think that in the next 10 years, we'll move away from broadcast TV into an on-demand or watch-on-DVD type model. Personally I like it a lot more. There will still be some things that make sense to broadcast, like news, or sports games, but your average tv series won't need to be broadcast.
Have you ever tried snowboarding? It's actually quite easy to pick up. Most people I know pick it up way faster than skiing.
I think you've been watching too much JPod.