It's worse than that. Even before Fergie, they had Kim Hill. The band has been a quartet for at least 15 years, including basically all of the creative output they're known for by the general public. Fergie's been in BEP for 9 years now. It's not like this is a recent development.
The vast majority of 360 hacks are firmware hacks. It's essentially a change to the dvd drive firmware to tell it not to check if the disc is signed or not.
LCD latency is indeed a problem these days if you're a gamer. They're just now coming out with decent gaming LCDs, and they still cost about 350USD. The problem isn't just response time, it's also a matter of input delay. If you're a gamer the ideal rig is --still-- a corded optical mouse, a CRT, and an ethernet LAN connection. There are finally wireless mice that are good for gaming (Logitech G700, Razer Mamba) but they're in the 100+ USD range. Even then, for some people, they're simply not worth it. Mouse weight is a very personal thing, and even in these higher end mice the battery still makes the unit too heavy for comfortable use. I can't see a ton of gamers lining up for this right now, but it's a cool development that'll be useful (maybe) in 10 years.
What a trite, 20th century concept. Devices are no longer owned. They are leased from the manufacturer for the life of the product, and subject to you following their Terms of Use. Things got a lot easier after they coopted their EULA into the legal system. Welcome to the new world order.
With all tech advances we've seen in our lifetimes it amazes me that people can still have this attitude. Maybe not now, but give it 10 years. The next Steve Wozniak is out there somewhere, reading about this and being inspired. There will be some killer use for this thing that you or I haven't thought of, and I suspect in 20-25 years they'll be as common in houses as refrigerators.
This isn't quite true. I've been doing research for a project I'm working on. It involves scraping a lot of data from the wiki pages for different Congressional districts.
For most states, you can search for, say, "AL 3" and get taken to the page for Alabama's 3rd Congressional District. For California, a good majority of these redirects are taken by state highways. Search "CA 12". It redirects you to California State Route 12 with a link for the District. Compare the two pages. The state route has significantly more substantive data than the Congressional district (who is the largest employer there? what are the cornerstones of the district's economy?). I think it's hard to argue that the state highway is more important or more "popular" or "useful" than an article about the Congressional district, but the simple answer is that there's some guy out there somewhere with a hard-on for California's state highways.
Incidentally, if anyone knows other good sources for more in-depth information on Congressional districts (and I mean all of them), let me know. Most of the places I've seen that release any kind of data are selling it for exorbitant prices.
Actually it'd mean the entire Middle East would want to nuke up, as a deterrent to Iranian aggression. But you don't have to believe me. Read some of the wikileaks State Department cables where Middle Eastern leaders comment on the issue. The King of Bahrain says, for example, that the long term benefits of attacking Iran to destroy its nuclear program outweigh the short term costs. The King of Saudi Arabia urged us to "cut the head off the snake." The president of Egypt isn't crazy about the idea either, because he feels that Iran is a destabilizing influence in the region. That's not to mention the Israelis...
You need to inform yourself a little better than the rose-coloured glasses optimistic propaganda view of international relations. Iran says they want the bomb as a deterrent, and I believe them. They want to deter people from living in Tel Aviv.
Actually it's Theft of Trade Secrets. Not Copyright. Not Trademark. Trade Secrets. That other branch of intellectual property law that doesn't get dusted off and discussed too often, because you're less likely to find it on a torrent tracker. The problem isn't that they've "lost" the information. They haven't. The problem is that that information can represent 50-100 million dollars worth of engineering efforts that the other team will not have to pay for, which damages the competitive environment, fucks with profit margins, and means that a whole slough of automotive engineers will not be employed for a few years. The guy's basically being charged with a crime against the free market.
Whether or not you agree with the system or the conclusion (and I'm not 100% sure I do, but can't put my finger on why), it makes sense in context. It's not like he downloaded some pop single that they're playing ad nauseum on the radio and tv, but which magically becomes illegal if you want to play it on your computer.
Oh really? So you'd rather go back to the halcyon days of J. Edgar Hoover when everybody's rights were respected and no one ever got spied on by the Justice Department?
I find your thinking that was my premise to show a marked lack of reading comprehension. It was a dig at conservatives, the same way 90 percent of this thread's comments are a dig at liberals. See the end of my post: let's all get our jokes in, because this article (and the study findings) are garbage.
I'm sorry, but if we were all going to stop caring about civil liberties and human rights the first time we ran into an asshole, we'd have stopped being liberals the first time we met a conservative. What I find far more likely from your "age or experience" qualification is that some liberals get a degree of success in life, or get old enough to have accumulated some wealth, and they begin covering their own asses. This is alternately called human nature or selling out, depending on whether you're the one doing it or not. Also add in the fact that older people tend to become less zealous about their ideology. Consider phrases like, "Not as young as I used to be," or "too old to fight."
Anyway, you and I both know this research is bullshit, so let's all get our jokes in. These pukes needed a splashy tag line so they could justify their funding, and they came up with "the liberal gene." This gene doesn't determine your political views any more than one gene determines whether or not you'll be smart. We're not even sure if there's a "gay" gene, and now these guys are so sure they've found a "supports gay marriage" gene? This stuff cheapens science.
You don't even need the FDA to take charge to make this happen. It's not like the government regulated the USB spec, after all. All you need is a consortium of major medical equipment manufacturers to get together to agree on a standard.
Except you do. If you're talking about new medical equipment, it has to be approved by the FDA. There have to be exhaustive trials with each tube, a battery of tests showing that the color tinting will not leach out of the line when exposed to any one or two of a million different medications, and clinical trials to determine the incidence of allergic reactions to the tinting dye. It would could billions of hojillions of dollars and take ten years, and what we have already works. You're fighting decades of inertia for not much statistical gain. All of this is why a pair of disposable plastic forceps costs 1000 dollars when you get your hospital bill.
I'm not sure how a foreign citizen who released documents on servers hosted in Sweden did that could possibly be a violation of the US Code. It's nice that you're so adamant about fighting to protect the "freedoms" of a country where justice apparently means being raped in prison. I moved out of America, and let me tell you how much more clearly I see through the bullshit from the outside. The rest of the world are rolling their eyes at you.
I don't think it's hypocritical to point out that someone is being a dick by accusing someone of lying over something as trivial as misstating what electronics store they went to. Who cares if the rest of the world knows about it? We're talking about the OP, not the whole world.
Or he's a Canadian who went to The Source and still thinks it's owned by Circuit City? Do you always assume malice in others, or does it just make you feel better about yourself to point out when other people are wrong?
That nature is hardly applicable to software, literature, film, or design.
Seriously? Every time there is a successful program/book/movie/whatever of Type X, look how many knockoffs spring up. Look at all the Twilight ripoffs on bookstore shelves, even sporting similar covers. There's essentially a "teenage girl vampire love story" section at Chapters now. Look at the recent resurgence of zombie stories (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, etc.) probably spurred by Max Brooks's World War Z and Zombie Survival Guide. Look how many crappy fantasy knockoffs of Lord of the Rings there are. Look at how movies of a certain type tend to run in trends with Hollywood constantly rehashing the last success to death. Count the iPhone, iPad, iShit, whatever, knockoffs. And I notice you didn't even bother to mention music, because it is so obviously driven by trend-driven consumption that we have genres to help easily categorize which trends people prefer consuming.
Fashion has very little IP protection, and they must innovate like crazy, and yet they still have trends with identifiable roots in older designs that sort of preserve a heritage (like saying you can hear that a guitarist's style is influenced by Carlos Santana, or SRV, or Jimi) but things like film, literature, and music have stringent IP protection and they are doing very very little innovating. Does anyone seriously believe anymore that draconian copyright laws are not stifling innovation?
Both fashion and music have very strong retro trends occasionally where they dig through the old stuff out back and give it another day in the sun with subtle modern variations. I hadn't really thought about it before seeing this (very excellent) talk, but music and fashion actually have more in common than I would have thought.
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It's worse than that. Even before Fergie, they had Kim Hill. The band has been a quartet for at least 15 years, including basically all of the creative output they're known for by the general public. Fergie's been in BEP for 9 years now. It's not like this is a recent development.
The vast majority of 360 hacks are firmware hacks. It's essentially a change to the dvd drive firmware to tell it not to check if the disc is signed or not.
LCD latency is indeed a problem these days if you're a gamer. They're just now coming out with decent gaming LCDs, and they still cost about 350USD. The problem isn't just response time, it's also a matter of input delay. If you're a gamer the ideal rig is --still-- a corded optical mouse, a CRT, and an ethernet LAN connection. There are finally wireless mice that are good for gaming (Logitech G700, Razer Mamba) but they're in the 100+ USD range. Even then, for some people, they're simply not worth it. Mouse weight is a very personal thing, and even in these higher end mice the battery still makes the unit too heavy for comfortable use. I can't see a ton of gamers lining up for this right now, but it's a cool development that'll be useful (maybe) in 10 years.
a device you own
What a trite, 20th century concept. Devices are no longer owned. They are leased from the manufacturer for the life of the product, and subject to you following their Terms of Use. Things got a lot easier after they coopted their EULA into the legal system. Welcome to the new world order.
With all tech advances we've seen in our lifetimes it amazes me that people can still have this attitude. Maybe not now, but give it 10 years. The next Steve Wozniak is out there somewhere, reading about this and being inspired. There will be some killer use for this thing that you or I haven't thought of, and I suspect in 20-25 years they'll be as common in houses as refrigerators.
OR they used a different definition of average.
Maybe you should read the Wikipedia article about averages.
This isn't quite true. I've been doing research for a project I'm working on. It involves scraping a lot of data from the wiki pages for different Congressional districts.
For most states, you can search for, say, "AL 3" and get taken to the page for Alabama's 3rd Congressional District. For California, a good majority of these redirects are taken by state highways. Search "CA 12". It redirects you to California State Route 12 with a link for the District. Compare the two pages. The state route has significantly more substantive data than the Congressional district (who is the largest employer there? what are the cornerstones of the district's economy?). I think it's hard to argue that the state highway is more important or more "popular" or "useful" than an article about the Congressional district, but the simple answer is that there's some guy out there somewhere with a hard-on for California's state highways.
Incidentally, if anyone knows other good sources for more in-depth information on Congressional districts (and I mean all of them), let me know. Most of the places I've seen that release any kind of data are selling it for exorbitant prices.
Actually it'd mean the entire Middle East would want to nuke up, as a deterrent to Iranian aggression. But you don't have to believe me. Read some of the wikileaks State Department cables where Middle Eastern leaders comment on the issue. The King of Bahrain says, for example, that the long term benefits of attacking Iran to destroy its nuclear program outweigh the short term costs. The King of Saudi Arabia urged us to "cut the head off the snake." The president of Egypt isn't crazy about the idea either, because he feels that Iran is a destabilizing influence in the region. That's not to mention the Israelis...
You need to inform yourself a little better than the rose-coloured glasses optimistic propaganda view of international relations. Iran says they want the bomb as a deterrent, and I believe them. They want to deter people from living in Tel Aviv.
Actually it's Theft of Trade Secrets. Not Copyright. Not Trademark. Trade Secrets. That other branch of intellectual property law that doesn't get dusted off and discussed too often, because you're less likely to find it on a torrent tracker. The problem isn't that they've "lost" the information. They haven't. The problem is that that information can represent 50-100 million dollars worth of engineering efforts that the other team will not have to pay for, which damages the competitive environment, fucks with profit margins, and means that a whole slough of automotive engineers will not be employed for a few years. The guy's basically being charged with a crime against the free market.
Whether or not you agree with the system or the conclusion (and I'm not 100% sure I do, but can't put my finger on why), it makes sense in context. It's not like he downloaded some pop single that they're playing ad nauseum on the radio and tv, but which magically becomes illegal if you want to play it on your computer.
So your counterargument is that Ford sucked 20 years ago? My head hurts.
Oh really? So you'd rather go back to the halcyon days of J. Edgar Hoover when everybody's rights were respected and no one ever got spied on by the Justice Department?
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Troll and Flamebait moderations? Seriously? Editors don't read the articles, and mods don't read the comments...
I find your thinking that was my premise to show a marked lack of reading comprehension. It was a dig at conservatives, the same way 90 percent of this thread's comments are a dig at liberals. See the end of my post: let's all get our jokes in, because this article (and the study findings) are garbage.
I'm sorry, but if we were all going to stop caring about civil liberties and human rights the first time we ran into an asshole, we'd have stopped being liberals the first time we met a conservative. What I find far more likely from your "age or experience" qualification is that some liberals get a degree of success in life, or get old enough to have accumulated some wealth, and they begin covering their own asses. This is alternately called human nature or selling out, depending on whether you're the one doing it or not. Also add in the fact that older people tend to become less zealous about their ideology. Consider phrases like, "Not as young as I used to be," or "too old to fight."
Anyway, you and I both know this research is bullshit, so let's all get our jokes in. These pukes needed a splashy tag line so they could justify their funding, and they came up with "the liberal gene." This gene doesn't determine your political views any more than one gene determines whether or not you'll be smart. We're not even sure if there's a "gay" gene, and now these guys are so sure they've found a "supports gay marriage" gene? This stuff cheapens science.
You don't even need the FDA to take charge to make this happen. It's not like the government regulated the USB spec, after all. All you need is a consortium of major medical equipment manufacturers to get together to agree on a standard.
Except you do. If you're talking about new medical equipment, it has to be approved by the FDA. There have to be exhaustive trials with each tube, a battery of tests showing that the color tinting will not leach out of the line when exposed to any one or two of a million different medications, and clinical trials to determine the incidence of allergic reactions to the tinting dye. It would could billions of hojillions of dollars and take ten years, and what we have already works. You're fighting decades of inertia for not much statistical gain. All of this is why a pair of disposable plastic forceps costs 1000 dollars when you get your hospital bill.
I'm not sure how a foreign citizen who released documents on servers hosted in Sweden did that could possibly be a violation of the US Code. It's nice that you're so adamant about fighting to protect the "freedoms" of a country where justice apparently means being raped in prison. I moved out of America, and let me tell you how much more clearly I see through the bullshit from the outside. The rest of the world are rolling their eyes at you.
Actually it'd be Governors-General. Pedant gland indeed!
I don't think it's hypocritical to point out that someone is being a dick by accusing someone of lying over something as trivial as misstating what electronics store they went to. Who cares if the rest of the world knows about it? We're talking about the OP, not the whole world.
Or he's a Canadian who went to The Source and still thinks it's owned by Circuit City? Do you always assume malice in others, or does it just make you feel better about yourself to point out when other people are wrong?
The only people happy about the BP oil spill are Toyota. Why were we mad at them again?
No surprise, the editors put the wrong link in the article. All three links link to last year's article. Here is the new article.
That nature is hardly applicable to software, literature, film, or design.
Seriously? Every time there is a successful program/book/movie/whatever of Type X, look how many knockoffs spring up. Look at all the Twilight ripoffs on bookstore shelves, even sporting similar covers. There's essentially a "teenage girl vampire love story" section at Chapters now. Look at the recent resurgence of zombie stories (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, etc.) probably spurred by Max Brooks's World War Z and Zombie Survival Guide. Look how many crappy fantasy knockoffs of Lord of the Rings there are. Look at how movies of a certain type tend to run in trends with Hollywood constantly rehashing the last success to death. Count the iPhone, iPad, iShit, whatever, knockoffs. And I notice you didn't even bother to mention music, because it is so obviously driven by trend-driven consumption that we have genres to help easily categorize which trends people prefer consuming.
Fashion has very little IP protection, and they must innovate like crazy, and yet they still have trends with identifiable roots in older designs that sort of preserve a heritage (like saying you can hear that a guitarist's style is influenced by Carlos Santana, or SRV, or Jimi) but things like film, literature, and music have stringent IP protection and they are doing very very little innovating. Does anyone seriously believe anymore that draconian copyright laws are not stifling innovation?
Both fashion and music have very strong retro trends occasionally where they dig through the old stuff out back and give it another day in the sun with subtle modern variations. I hadn't really thought about it before seeing this (very excellent) talk, but music and fashion actually have more in common than I would have thought.
The article Slashdot carried about that was posted on some random guy's blog.