This isn't the same situation. You'd feel bad if the company went under at least partly because of the direct negative consequences to you from being out of work. When Spirit or Opportunity dies "of natural causes", no human will suffer or be penalized in any way, but they will still feel bad due to their emotional investment in the probe.
Re:Games are getting ridiculous
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Perfect Digital Skin
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· Score: 2, Interesting
There are several different things all being lumped under the category of "lens flare": coronas around lights, artifacts from camera lenses, and the "bloom" effect that's just recently started to appear in games. Coronas and bloom can be seen through human eyes easily, the former in a foggy area and the latter on very bright lights. Also, I don't think the camera lens effect is just "cool", it's also used to mean "really bright", since monitors and TVs have a maximum brightness anyway and the effect is most often applied to the sun.
Fortunately, under a properly managed large OS X installation, there's a good chance the user doesn't actually know the root password. On OS X, it's much more feasible to run as an unprivileged user than it is in Windows.
You're emitting radiation in every direction around you when you use standard wireless gear. If this antenna puts out a relatively tight beam, then the observer would have to actually be in the beam's path to detect it, and that still only reduces your location to anywhere on a line instead of anywhere in an area.
I don't think Sony has more pull than Apple. Apple is running by far the most successful store; if a label wants to get their music online do you think they'll go to the already successful established venture or the me-too project run by one of their direct competitors?
Bear in mind that nobody outside of Apple even knew about Expose until WWDC 2003. If Steve can pull another rabbit like that out of his hat, 10.4 might turn out to be worth it after all.
I believe the expected lifetime of the rovers expired some time ago, and NASA is lucky they are still operational. Then again, NASA seems to have a pretty good track record in this area- Voyager 2 and the Hubble Telescope are both far beyond their projected life spans and are still returning information.
Two pairs of works that are exceptions to the rule:
The original The Thing From Another World and John Carpenter's The Thing. The two movies tell essentially the same story, but they are very different from each other (and indeed the latter is usually classified as a remake or "reimagining" rather than a sequel). This is the current state of sequeling in games, where the sequel has to balance the right amounts of "familiar" and "evolutionary" even if everything about the games is totally different.
The games Marathon 2 and Marathon Infinity, from Bungie. The two games use exactly the same engine, which is rare among game sequels (and which is why I didn't start with Marathon 1), and share a great deal of content, but their experiences are quite different and each can stand on its own merits. This is the current state of sequeling in film- the underlying special effects technology is virtually unchanged between movies, but how it's used differentiates them.
You can deauthorize one of the older computers to allow you to authorize the sixth. Do you really use all 6 regularly? Or burn it to CD and rip it to an unlimited number of computers.
I like how that blog completely ignores the equal and opposite loosening of the noose in the same update- the number of computers that can be authorized simultaneously was raised from 3 to 5.
That must explain why Finding Nemo was one of the best movies of the year. Oh, wait, sorry, I forgot that every single critic on that page is Shilling For Big Media
There's certainly crappy animation and CG out there, but it's not coming from Pixar.
Re:I got one on Ebay using "Buy It Now" for $19.99
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Google could easily put a no-resale or no-transfer clause into the license agreement, and yank the account on those grounds. It would also be an easy argument to make that anyone who receives this gift from an appreciative Google and then turns around and hocks it on Ebay doesn't deserve to be in an exclusive beta anyway (and they're free to sign up later with everyone else when it goes public).
Games aren't going to match Pixar movies until the writing, acting, and animation is up to Pixar's level, and you can't get those from a hardware upgrade.
There was an article recently about how Google constantly understates various statistics about itself to mislead potential competitors. This article also said that the SEC would not allow them to do this once they became a publically traded company.
All that's going to happen is that games are going to start requiring a unique CD key to play the SP campaign as well, periodically authenticating it over the network (which you will be required to leave connected during play). I remember a ruckus over Valve planning to do this with Half-Life 2, but I'm not sure how (or if) it was ever resolved.
Re:We are high.
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The fact that you're posting on/. at all shows you're in the top 1% yourself. Why not sell your own computer and donate the proceeds to charity?
You forgot option #4: Declare that it's not as good as the alternative and go use that alternative. If you're going to base your livelihood on the use of a class of application, you can't settle for second best and you can't wait around for second best to catch up with the leader. Right now there is no reason at all not to use Photoshop in a professional environment unless you have a philosophical objection to commercial software which is more important to you than your salary.
Apple is also trying to prevent people from using stream rippers with iTunes, effectively turning it into a P2P program. This is also why they removed streaming across the Internet in iTunes 4.0.1.
The only way to release a licensed DVD player on Linux would be to make it closed-source and make it comply with the spec enough to pass the licensing process- that means things like obeying the no-skip chapters and the region codes. And it means a large fraction of Linux users wouldn't buy it on general principle, and the amount left over is not a large enough market for anyone to invest in developing such a product.
At the risk of getting flamebait/troll all over my good karma, I think it was unfortunate that the interviewer chose to browbeat Valenti with technical questions and focus on a single side effect of the core issue that Valenti could not be expected to be an expert on (the DVD situation on Linux). Had he stuck to the more general issues, like the fact that the behavior of legally purchased hardware is not entirely under the owner's control, he might have obtained more coherent answers that reveal more about Valenti's position, rather than cheapen the anti-DMCA camp by appearing to indulge in personal attacks.
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This isn't the same situation. You'd feel bad if the company went under at least partly because of the direct negative consequences to you from being out of work. When Spirit or Opportunity dies "of natural causes", no human will suffer or be penalized in any way, but they will still feel bad due to their emotional investment in the probe.
There are several different things all being lumped under the category of "lens flare": coronas around lights, artifacts from camera lenses, and the "bloom" effect that's just recently started to appear in games. Coronas and bloom can be seen through human eyes easily, the former in a foggy area and the latter on very bright lights. Also, I don't think the camera lens effect is just "cool", it's also used to mean "really bright", since monitors and TVs have a maximum brightness anyway and the effect is most often applied to the sun.
Fortunately, under a properly managed large OS X installation, there's a good chance the user doesn't actually know the root password. On OS X, it's much more feasible to run as an unprivileged user than it is in Windows.
You're emitting radiation in every direction around you when you use standard wireless gear. If this antenna puts out a relatively tight beam, then the observer would have to actually be in the beam's path to detect it, and that still only reduces your location to anywhere on a line instead of anywhere in an area.
I don't think Sony has more pull than Apple. Apple is running by far the most successful store; if a label wants to get their music online do you think they'll go to the already successful established venture or the me-too project run by one of their direct competitors?
Apple has an enormous chunk of the MP3 player market, and the iPod isn't compatible with Sony's store.
Bear in mind that nobody outside of Apple even knew about Expose until WWDC 2003. If Steve can pull another rabbit like that out of his hat, 10.4 might turn out to be worth it after all.
I believe the expected lifetime of the rovers expired some time ago, and NASA is lucky they are still operational. Then again, NASA seems to have a pretty good track record in this area- Voyager 2 and the Hubble Telescope are both far beyond their projected life spans and are still returning information.
You can deauthorize one of the older computers to allow you to authorize the sixth. Do you really use all 6 regularly? Or burn it to CD and rip it to an unlimited number of computers.
I like how that blog completely ignores the equal and opposite loosening of the noose in the same update- the number of computers that can be authorized simultaneously was raised from 3 to 5.
That must explain why Finding Nemo was one of the best movies of the year. Oh, wait, sorry, I forgot that every single critic on that page is Shilling For Big Media
There's certainly crappy animation and CG out there, but it's not coming from Pixar.
Google could easily put a no-resale or no-transfer clause into the license agreement, and yank the account on those grounds. It would also be an easy argument to make that anyone who receives this gift from an appreciative Google and then turns around and hocks it on Ebay doesn't deserve to be in an exclusive beta anyway (and they're free to sign up later with everyone else when it goes public).
Games aren't going to match Pixar movies until the writing, acting, and animation is up to Pixar's level, and you can't get those from a hardware upgrade.
There was an article recently about how Google constantly understates various statistics about itself to mislead potential competitors. This article also said that the SEC would not allow them to do this once they became a publically traded company.
All that's going to happen is that games are going to start requiring a unique CD key to play the SP campaign as well, periodically authenticating it over the network (which you will be required to leave connected during play). I remember a ruckus over Valve planning to do this with Half-Life 2, but I'm not sure how (or if) it was ever resolved.
The fact that you're posting on /. at all shows you're in the top 1% yourself. Why not sell your own computer and donate the proceeds to charity?
I hope instead that we see something like a better-coded variant of Welchia, which infect, patch, spread, and then delete itself or go dormant.
You forgot option #4: Declare that it's not as good as the alternative and go use that alternative. If you're going to base your livelihood on the use of a class of application, you can't settle for second best and you can't wait around for second best to catch up with the leader. Right now there is no reason at all not to use Photoshop in a professional environment unless you have a philosophical objection to commercial software which is more important to you than your salary.
You forgot the best feature of the pepsi section: a HUGE FUCKING ARROW that pointed to the free song counter when you redeemed a song.
Apple is also trying to prevent people from using stream rippers with iTunes, effectively turning it into a P2P program. This is also why they removed streaming across the Internet in iTunes 4.0.1.
There's a way to access the iTunes store from Windows right here.
No it hasn't. That's not stuff that matters.
The only way to release a licensed DVD player on Linux would be to make it closed-source and make it comply with the spec enough to pass the licensing process- that means things like obeying the no-skip chapters and the region codes. And it means a large fraction of Linux users wouldn't buy it on general principle, and the amount left over is not a large enough market for anyone to invest in developing such a product.
At the risk of getting flamebait/troll all over my good karma, I think it was unfortunate that the interviewer chose to browbeat Valenti with technical questions and focus on a single side effect of the core issue that Valenti could not be expected to be an expert on (the DVD situation on Linux). Had he stuck to the more general issues, like the fact that the behavior of legally purchased hardware is not entirely under the owner's control, he might have obtained more coherent answers that reveal more about Valenti's position, rather than cheapen the anti-DMCA camp by appearing to indulge in personal attacks.