Somewhere I still have a few hard drives that have charts on the case where the manufacturer's QC would write the bad sectors it shipped with in pen. But they stopped doing that for some reason.
That's because there are so many R/W errors on modern high-density drives, as well as a bad sectors, that the entire back of the box would be that charts.
What you've written matches a good amount of the extra-Slashdot and extra-mainstream writings I've come across.
People tend only to look at the bad bits of a bill, and ignore the rest. The discussion about changes to bills, earmarks, etc. has come up time and again, and I think if they were eliminated the government would look function a little better.
Preferencing doesn't really factor into IRV, because it completely disregards any other votes with the exception of your current #1.
Preferential ranked voting (like for Most Valuable Player in most US sports) can be gamed pretty easily, however.
Someone else get into specifics, I'm lazy today.
Avoiding that means confronting the truth that the ride shareholders got in the 80s and 90s is over. They need to become a mature company, like Coca Cola, with popular, reliable selling products, that rewards shareholders with regular and generous dividends rather than explosive stock growth, and which tinkers with new products that fall mostly within its area of expertise. What Microsoft is doing in, say the entertainment world is like Coke trying to use its soft drink power to become a dominant player in the fast food restaurant field and sports arenas.
Didn't Pepsi do that with Yum! brands? They were successful with Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, & KFC because they leveraged what they knew about distribution from their work with soda.
And it didn't hurt that their sodas are in all those restaurants.
Yes, but when you upload something to YouTube, you transfer your copyright to them. I know a few people who film and refuse to use YouTube for this reason.
Thank you for pointing this out. Google does face additional liability if most videos are copyrighted material, and Viacom would likely be vindicated.
That said, there's no reason to request usernames, IP addresses, etc., unless they were to go after the individual viewers. If they requested the IP/username for those who uploaded the protected works, however, that would make some sense.
*smack*
CMYK support in GIMP has been lacking for quite some time. I work on a weekly paper, and we couldn't function without CMYK support, plus InDesign is far better than Scribus.
I was wondering when someone was going to bring up the bootlegger argument.
That said, there are still ways around bootleggers. A simple CD-Key should defeat anyone attempting online play. Also, securing distribution channels (such as presses and mastering facilities) would help prevent early leakers.
Personally, I've bought games that don't include copy protection for that reason. Company of Heroes, Dawn of War: Dark Crusade, GalCiv II, SoaSE, etc., have all been added to my collection through legal means. Each one of these relies on a CD-Key with some type of online check.
Out of everything I've seen, though, CoH does it best now. If you have an online connection, a valid CD-Key will let you play without the disc in the drive. Offline, a disc is required.
I can say that this went spectacularly well. One of my friends pirated the pilot of "Californication," and loved it so much that she actually had her roommate order Showtime to see new episodes.
Since Showtime doesn't have ads, and instead relies on subscribers, they could easily stream their content online, either with an accompanying ad alongside, or with no ads for subscribers. I'd like to see what they manage.
Check your 360. I have a similar setup, but I have a 1680x1050 LCD. Typically, I run mine at 1380x768, but for BioShock I ran it at 1024x768 to get the vertical space back. You may have set your 360 to display in letterboxed mode, or your LCD could be adjusting to a widescreen resolution. AFAIK, BioShock doesn't have its own widescreen setting.
SOME art galleries let you take cameras in, but by no means all of them. The few that do are typically publicly funded galleries (i.e.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City does, this I know firsthand), and allow you to take pictures as long as you do not use the flash.
However, the security guards will be watching you closely, and will try to drive you to the gift shop to buy a $4.00 postcard of the thing you just photographed.;)
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I second your point on the AC-120. That really is a great sequence, especially since the people you're protecting you were just controlling.
Call of Duty isn't about thinking, it's about an intense experience. And that's all.
An interesting point, but not only do MMORPGs last forever, but they also take time away from other games. If you only have one or two hours a day to play a game, and you play an MMO, you no longer need to buy other games.
Sadly, my first thought on reading the perp's name was what person was going to make that rather tasteless joke. That tore NYC apart, and people definitely don't like talking about it, much less joking about it.
It's my understanding that the settlement notice isn't legally binding and acts also as a C&D. It alerts you that you've done something wrong and gives you a clear impetus to stop and revise your means. What I don't understand is how one can actually receive such a statement in a John Doe suit, and therefore know their current standing.
Also, the only thing that needs to be served is the actual lawsuit. Usually sending a C&D or settlement notice isn't binding, like I mentioned above, but if you revise your ways or otherwise comply and a suit is still filed, the suit can be challenged as being in bad faith (i.e.: you made all the proper actions to avoid such a suit and at this point it's obvious the plaintiff just wants the court date).
As always, IANAL (but I am going to be going to law school in September, eventually into a consumer-rights position O:-).
Believe it or not, this is part of a larger effort to collect royalties from all radio. Terrestrial radio is next.
That little tidbit comes from NPR about 3 weeks ago.
The interest in The Sopranos comes from the way that it examines the human psyche, and that it examines what is naturally a very interesting character. Imagine a reality show focusing on John Gati Jr.'s psychotherapy sessions. That's what The Sopranos was.
If you're in Manhattan, you should be able to get Seton Hall Pirate Radio (not that kind of pirate radio, Seton Hall's mascot is a pirate). I can get it fine, the frequency is 89.5 FM. And it's much better than any station in NYC.
All religious personnel are directed to utilize the doubleplusgood resources of minitrue to remove all history of the v1.0 past. v2.0 was always right and always will be right.
I'm going to argue your point about removing history of "v1.0" (Old Testament). You can't just say "Oh, here's Jesus, here's what he said," and take every word literally. The Bible was written by quite a few people over thousands of years, and, in my opinion, the fact that it's as cohesive as it is says something to its basis in historical fact. Also, what is in the New Testament is targeted at specific groups. Matthew, Mark, and John spoke to the Hebrews, so you must know what that group had as a prior teaching to understand why Jesus may or may not have been successful in reaching them.
Interesting fact: There are 3 creation stories in the Bible (2 in Genesis, 1 in the Gospel of John). All of them contradict each other. And, as a practicing Catholic, I'm more than willing to admit this.
The reason that Scientology is considered a cult is because they hide what their beliefs are. They don't want just anyone going and looking at their most sacred texts. However, most "accepted," mainstream religions will share their source texts with anyone who asks.
Except that much of the Old Testament (which includes the book of Numbers) is considered outdated by the New Testament in Christianity. How many times did Jesus (not Moses) tell anyone to kill someone else? I've read the four gospels, and none of them come close to saying that. Granted, there may be more gospels, or the entire thing could be a hoax, but I'm going to work with what I can.
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Somewhere I still have a few hard drives that have charts on the case where the manufacturer's QC would write the bad sectors it shipped with in pen. But they stopped doing that for some reason.
That's because there are so many R/W errors on modern high-density drives, as well as a bad sectors, that the entire back of the box would be that charts.
What you've written matches a good amount of the extra-Slashdot and extra-mainstream writings I've come across.
People tend only to look at the bad bits of a bill, and ignore the rest. The discussion about changes to bills, earmarks, etc. has come up time and again, and I think if they were eliminated the government would look function a little better.
I wish I had mod points to give you.
B:TL had drug use, just like Fallout 3. You could juice players up with steroids.
Preferencing doesn't really factor into IRV, because it completely disregards any other votes with the exception of your current #1. Preferential ranked voting (like for Most Valuable Player in most US sports) can be gamed pretty easily, however. Someone else get into specifics, I'm lazy today.
Avoiding that means confronting the truth that the ride shareholders got in the 80s and 90s is over. They need to become a mature company, like Coca Cola, with popular, reliable selling products, that rewards shareholders with regular and generous dividends rather than explosive stock growth, and which tinkers with new products that fall mostly within its area of expertise. What Microsoft is doing in, say the entertainment world is like Coke trying to use its soft drink power to become a dominant player in the fast food restaurant field and sports arenas.
Didn't Pepsi do that with Yum! brands? They were successful with Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, & KFC because they leveraged what they knew about distribution from their work with soda.
And it didn't hurt that their sodas are in all those restaurants.
Yes, but when you upload something to YouTube, you transfer your copyright to them. I know a few people who film and refuse to use YouTube for this reason.
Thank you for pointing this out. Google does face additional liability if most videos are copyrighted material, and Viacom would likely be vindicated. That said, there's no reason to request usernames, IP addresses, etc., unless they were to go after the individual viewers. If they requested the IP/username for those who uploaded the protected works, however, that would make some sense.
*smack* CMYK support in GIMP has been lacking for quite some time. I work on a weekly paper, and we couldn't function without CMYK support, plus InDesign is far better than Scribus.
Lenovo isn't a spinoff of IBM. Lenovo is an independent Chinese company that outright purchased the ThinkPad/mobile division from IBM.
I was wondering when someone was going to bring up the bootlegger argument.
That said, there are still ways around bootleggers. A simple CD-Key should defeat anyone attempting online play. Also, securing distribution channels (such as presses and mastering facilities) would help prevent early leakers.
Personally, I've bought games that don't include copy protection for that reason. Company of Heroes, Dawn of War: Dark Crusade, GalCiv II, SoaSE, etc., have all been added to my collection through legal means. Each one of these relies on a CD-Key with some type of online check.
Out of everything I've seen, though, CoH does it best now. If you have an online connection, a valid CD-Key will let you play without the disc in the drive. Offline, a disc is required.
... except that Ryerson is in Toronto, Canada. Not the US.
I almost choked with laughter because I'm eating a sandwich called the "Tony Soprano" from Vito's Deli (Hoboken, NJ).
I can say that this went spectacularly well. One of my friends pirated the pilot of "Californication," and loved it so much that she actually had her roommate order Showtime to see new episodes.
Since Showtime doesn't have ads, and instead relies on subscribers, they could easily stream their content online, either with an accompanying ad alongside, or with no ads for subscribers. I'd like to see what they manage.
Check your 360. I have a similar setup, but I have a 1680x1050 LCD. Typically, I run mine at 1380x768, but for BioShock I ran it at 1024x768 to get the vertical space back. You may have set your 360 to display in letterboxed mode, or your LCD could be adjusting to a widescreen resolution. AFAIK, BioShock doesn't have its own widescreen setting.
The hex-based games sound intriguing (and laptop-friendly).
Can you give a few examples?
SOME art galleries let you take cameras in, but by no means all of them. The few that do are typically publicly funded galleries (i.e.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City does, this I know firsthand), and allow you to take pictures as long as you do not use the flash.
;)
However, the security guards will be watching you closely, and will try to drive you to the gift shop to buy a $4.00 postcard of the thing you just photographed.
I second your point on the AC-120. That really is a great sequence, especially since the people you're protecting you were just controlling.
Call of Duty isn't about thinking, it's about an intense experience. And that's all.
An interesting point, but not only do MMORPGs last forever, but they also take time away from other games. If you only have one or two hours a day to play a game, and you play an MMO, you no longer need to buy other games.
Sadly, my first thought on reading the perp's name was what person was going to make that rather tasteless joke. That tore NYC apart, and people definitely don't like talking about it, much less joking about it.
It's my understanding that the settlement notice isn't legally binding and acts also as a C&D. It alerts you that you've done something wrong and gives you a clear impetus to stop and revise your means. What I don't understand is how one can actually receive such a statement in a John Doe suit, and therefore know their current standing.
Also, the only thing that needs to be served is the actual lawsuit. Usually sending a C&D or settlement notice isn't binding, like I mentioned above, but if you revise your ways or otherwise comply and a suit is still filed, the suit can be challenged as being in bad faith (i.e.: you made all the proper actions to avoid such a suit and at this point it's obvious the plaintiff just wants the court date).
As always, IANAL (but I am going to be going to law school in September, eventually into a consumer-rights position O:-).
Believe it or not, this is part of a larger effort to collect royalties from all radio. Terrestrial radio is next. That little tidbit comes from NPR about 3 weeks ago.
The interest in The Sopranos comes from the way that it examines the human psyche, and that it examines what is naturally a very interesting character. Imagine a reality show focusing on John Gati Jr.'s psychotherapy sessions. That's what The Sopranos was.
If you're in Manhattan, you should be able to get Seton Hall Pirate Radio (not that kind of pirate radio, Seton Hall's mascot is a pirate). I can get it fine, the frequency is 89.5 FM. And it's much better than any station in NYC.
I'm going to argue your point about removing history of "v1.0" (Old Testament). You can't just say "Oh, here's Jesus, here's what he said," and take every word literally. The Bible was written by quite a few people over thousands of years, and, in my opinion, the fact that it's as cohesive as it is says something to its basis in historical fact. Also, what is in the New Testament is targeted at specific groups. Matthew, Mark, and John spoke to the Hebrews, so you must know what that group had as a prior teaching to understand why Jesus may or may not have been successful in reaching them.
Interesting fact: There are 3 creation stories in the Bible (2 in Genesis, 1 in the Gospel of John). All of them contradict each other. And, as a practicing Catholic, I'm more than willing to admit this.
The reason that Scientology is considered a cult is because they hide what their beliefs are. They don't want just anyone going and looking at their most sacred texts. However, most "accepted," mainstream religions will share their source texts with anyone who asks.
Except that much of the Old Testament (which includes the book of Numbers) is considered outdated by the New Testament in Christianity. How many times did Jesus (not Moses) tell anyone to kill someone else? I've read the four gospels, and none of them come close to saying that. Granted, there may be more gospels, or the entire thing could be a hoax, but I'm going to work with what I can.