If the music industry succeeds in stopping file sharing of music recordings, they will end up shrinking their industry much more
Maybe they don't want to succeed in stopping file sharing. Maybe this is the new cash cow, suing people and then settling for ridiculous amounts of money, using underpaid non-attorneys to mill through the cases to keep costs down. Sue just enough people to make sure that other people buy their CDs and make a tidy sum off the settlements, while the file sharing networks serve as free advertising.
I fail to see where the corruption lies. For some reason, left-wingers expect the current administration to pick cabinet/judicial nominees and miscellaneous representatives that don't meet the administration's expectations. You'll get your turn as soon as you win the presidency.
So the administration picked representatives for this meeting that didn't donate to Kerry's campaign. So what? If I were President, I wouldn't pick people for this committee that went against my political beliefs either, and a very easy way to independently confirm where their beliefs lie is to see where their money went in the last election.
That is true. Nikon has provided software which functions as a means of bypassing an encryption scheme which protects copyrighted works to which they don't hold the copyright (the copyright belongs to the photographer). Seems like anybody who has taken a picture with one of these cameras would have standing to bring a DMCA complaint against Nikon.
This isn't about picture quality. It's about phasing out spectrum-hogging analog signals in favor of digital signals so the FCC can reclaim most of the spectrum currently used for analog TV. The increase in picture quality is just a sugar coating to help everyone else go along with it.
In most US markets, a digital signal is simulcast with the old analog signal. The point of the article is that eventually (possibly as early as the end of 2006), broadcasters will be ordered to pull the plug on their analog broadcasts so the FCC can reclaim the spectrum for other uses.
According to a commercial for a widget you can use to jumpstart your car through the cigarette lighter, the volt is a unit of energy. Said the commercial:
Your normal car battery only has 12 volts of energy [person places multimeter leads on car battery, and the readout says 12 volts]. But the {insert product name here} has 48 volts of energy!
Another classic was the commercial for the ion-producing air filter that said their product filtered dust out of the air because it was electrostatically charged... like a magnet!
Finally, there are commercials on TV now for a flashlight that you can shake to charge, using a solenoid inside the flashlight to convert your mechanical energy into electrical energy. During the commercial, they actually put the integral form of Faraday's Induction Law on the screen. Though they used the most cumbersome form of the equation they could find, they were actually correct. I was impressed!
For example, C has break, continue, and the closing squiggles of for and while statements.
But all of those statements are used in the context of some logical block, and in some sense "operate" on that block. GOTO is/does not - in C/C++, at least, the only restriction is that you must GOTO a label that's in scope at the time.
"High" level languages makes programmers not as aware as they should be when they're moving a different value into the instruction pointer,
High level languages also relieve the programmer of the need of thinking about things like stack frames, heap management, and register usage. A programmer should in a general sense understand how these things work, but there doesn't need to be a constant awareness of those factors, because the compiler is designed to take care of them instead. Programmers working on hardcore optimization might have an interest in those low-level details, but a good optimizing compiler will take care of most of that before the programmer even starts to think about optimization.
The point in my original comment was that, in assembler, not using JMP reminds one of, "You can't get very far in life without saying 'is'". But the last time I've needed a GOTO was when I was a teenager naively programming in BASIC on my old C-64.
Why would you need to exchange your early-received copy for another identical copy? If a person has a guilty conscience, they can do just as well by not installing Tiger until the official release date.
It's likely that the OP'er works for or attends an institution which has a site license for Forrester's content, and so they were able to read the article for free. It probably didn't even occur to them that other people wouldn't be able to access the article. The same thing happens when people link to scientific journals in their/. submissions.
This is an outrageously good deal for them and they have no incentive to fix the system, at least not until the amount of fraudulent loans is more than the money saved by not implementing a secure system.
I have trouble believing that this hasn't happened yet. I'm guessing that there are institutional "prisoner's dilemma" issues here preventing this from happening - no one corporation wants to absorb the cost of fixing the system when everybody gets to reap the benefits, so nobody does anything. This is exactly the sort of system that benefits from having an arbitrator (i.e., the government) require the industry to correct itself.
What frightens me more is how many more institutions *aren't* warning their employees/students/clients/members? And how many of those aren't issuing warnings because they don't yet know there's anything to warn about?
As someone who is in the midst of earning a Ph.D., I agree completely with the parent post. My work involves simulation of biological systems on a fairly abstract level, which is academically very interesting, but practically not very... um... practical. Even if I weren't planning to stay in academia, I wouldn't expect to get out into the industry and head up a major project. Put me in research, the more esoteric, the better - but of course, the only place that happens anymore since the dot-com crash is academia.
Today, Asian farmers are making the profits from character and item sales.
Actually, the Asians involved (usually Chinese) make a normal working wage from their farming work. The head honchos are frequently from other countries (US, Canada, etc.).
I challenge the old "it will ruin the game!" argument, with the simple fact that this sales activity has been going on for several years now.
Talk to the many, many people who left Lineage 2 or FFXI for WoW due to the rampant unchecked item farming. It's not merely the out-of-game transactions that cause the problem (though it does cause problems - inexperienced players at the helm of experienced characters can result in party wipes for unsuspecting fellow players, for one example; and unwitting buyers who purchase characters with severe reputation issues on a server are another example). The real problem is the sheer scope of the efforts made by the item/cash farmers, and the impact that a full-fledged industry has on a microcosmic playerbase. These games aren't designed to be leveraged in this way, so when someone(s) does leverage them by camping the same mobs 24/7 to the detriment of normal (even hardcore) players, it causes a significant CS issue. Additionally, the behavior of gold farmers has been demonstrated to be destructive to the game economy, causing rampant inflation. In at least one case in WoW, a known gold farming team bought out every item in the Auction House and re-auctioned them at astronomical levels, ruining the economy for casual gamers who suddenly can't augment their gear with new gear within their purchasing capacity, and damaging the economy for hardcore gamers who find themselves paying insane prices to outfit their alts.
This isn't sour grapes, and Mark Jacobs raises a legitimate and important concern. It's a wonder he hasn't said something earlier, though. SOE has always been eager to exploit their game for a quick buck. They have on numerous occasions changed their original tune on a variety of CS issues so that they could charge money for it (character name changes, transferring characters from one server to another, transferring characters from one account to another), and they also have taken an incredible step by running the first pay-to-play MMOG to include some form of advertising/branding in their game with the/pizza command (AO doesn't count, since the ads are served to those who choose to play for free).
Corsair also sells good stuff, and they have pretty good support (just in case you do get a bad stick) for a product that's generally treated like a commodity rather than a retail good.
The alternative is merging a server that has a self-imposed rotation policy with one that doesn't have such a policy. The chaos resulting from that situation far outweighs that required to fit the guilds from two servers onto one list. Besides, the reason for the merges in the first place is a sharply-declining population, so the assumption being made here is that (especially with instancing) on the merged server, it'll result in a full, but not necessarily overburdened, rotation list.
In case you're not aware, the "Byrd" in "Byrd Amendment" refers to the venerable Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, a very, very pro-labor Democrat whose primary interest in the law was to provide support to the coal companies from the southern reaches of his home state, as well as some steel workers in the northern portions of West Virginia (though most steelworkers in that area are actually in Pittsburgh).
Ohio still has large remnants of old labor-intensive commodity-based industries, such as steel and rubber, in the large cities like Cleveland and Akron, and so it's not surprising that Ohio would benefit from such a law.
Note, however, that another AOL employee discovered the "bad seed"'s misdeeds and prevented him from actually meeting the girl IRL. If AOL is responsible for the one employee's misdeeds, doesn't it get any credit for another employee's positive preventative actions?
In other news, people who arrive at the stark realization that they're going to be losers on welfare and in debt for the rest of their lives are suing corporations with deep pockets instead of getting real jobs.
I know a guy who used to be able to beat everyone up through Bald Bull in Mike Tyson's Punch Out with his back turned to the screen. That was a long time ago, but he can still beat King Hippo that way without getting hit, even though he hasn't practiced in a long time.
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If the music industry succeeds in stopping file sharing of music recordings, they will end up shrinking their industry much more
Maybe they don't want to succeed in stopping file sharing. Maybe this is the new cash cow, suing people and then settling for ridiculous amounts of money, using underpaid non-attorneys to mill through the cases to keep costs down. Sue just enough people to make sure that other people buy their CDs and make a tidy sum off the settlements, while the file sharing networks serve as free advertising.
I'd rather call them transparently corrupt.
I fail to see where the corruption lies. For some reason, left-wingers expect the current administration to pick cabinet/judicial nominees and miscellaneous representatives that don't meet the administration's expectations. You'll get your turn as soon as you win the presidency.
So the administration picked representatives for this meeting that didn't donate to Kerry's campaign. So what? If I were President, I wouldn't pick people for this committee that went against my political beliefs either, and a very easy way to independently confirm where their beliefs lie is to see where their money went in the last election.
That is true. Nikon has provided software which functions as a means of bypassing an encryption scheme which protects copyrighted works to which they don't hold the copyright (the copyright belongs to the photographer). Seems like anybody who has taken a picture with one of these cameras would have standing to bring a DMCA complaint against Nikon.
Guess that knife cuts both ways, eh?
This isn't about picture quality. It's about phasing out spectrum-hogging analog signals in favor of digital signals so the FCC can reclaim most of the spectrum currently used for analog TV. The increase in picture quality is just a sugar coating to help everyone else go along with it.
In most US markets, a digital signal is simulcast with the old analog signal. The point of the article is that eventually (possibly as early as the end of 2006), broadcasters will be ordered to pull the plug on their analog broadcasts so the FCC can reclaim the spectrum for other uses.
Now that's insidious. I congratulate you ;)
According to a commercial for a widget you can use to jumpstart your car through the cigarette lighter, the volt is a unit of energy. Said the commercial:
Your normal car battery only has 12 volts of energy [person places multimeter leads on car battery, and the readout says 12 volts]. But the {insert product name here} has 48 volts of energy!
Another classic was the commercial for the ion-producing air filter that said their product filtered dust out of the air because it was electrostatically charged... like a magnet!
Finally, there are commercials on TV now for a flashlight that you can shake to charge, using a solenoid inside the flashlight to convert your mechanical energy into electrical energy. During the commercial, they actually put the integral form of Faraday's Induction Law on the screen. Though they used the most cumbersome form of the equation they could find, they were actually correct. I was impressed!
For example, C has break, continue, and the closing squiggles of for and while statements.
But all of those statements are used in the context of some logical block, and in some sense "operate" on that block. GOTO is/does not - in C/C++, at least, the only restriction is that you must GOTO a label that's in scope at the time.
"High" level languages makes programmers not as aware as they should be when they're moving a different value into the instruction pointer,
High level languages also relieve the programmer of the need of thinking about things like stack frames, heap management, and register usage. A programmer should in a general sense understand how these things work, but there doesn't need to be a constant awareness of those factors, because the compiler is designed to take care of them instead. Programmers working on hardcore optimization might have an interest in those low-level details, but a good optimizing compiler will take care of most of that before the programmer even starts to think about optimization.
The point in my original comment was that, in assembler, not using JMP reminds one of, "You can't get very far in life without saying 'is'". But the last time I've needed a GOTO was when I was a teenager naively programming in BASIC on my old C-64.
Why would you need to exchange your early-received copy for another identical copy? If a person has a guilty conscience, they can do just as well by not installing Tiger until the official release date.
Last I checked, assembler wasn't a high-level language.
It's likely that the OP'er works for or attends an institution which has a site license for Forrester's content, and so they were able to read the article for free. It probably didn't even occur to them that other people wouldn't be able to access the article. The same thing happens when people link to scientific journals in their /. submissions.
This is an outrageously good deal for them and they have no incentive to fix the system, at least not until the amount of fraudulent loans is more than the money saved by not implementing a secure system.
I have trouble believing that this hasn't happened yet. I'm guessing that there are institutional "prisoner's dilemma" issues here preventing this from happening - no one corporation wants to absorb the cost of fixing the system when everybody gets to reap the benefits, so nobody does anything. This is exactly the sort of system that benefits from having an arbitrator (i.e., the government) require the industry to correct itself.
What frightens me more is how many more institutions *aren't* warning their employees/students/clients/members? And how many of those aren't issuing warnings because they don't yet know there's anything to warn about?
As someone who is in the midst of earning a Ph.D., I agree completely with the parent post. My work involves simulation of biological systems on a fairly abstract level, which is academically very interesting, but practically not very... um... practical. Even if I weren't planning to stay in academia, I wouldn't expect to get out into the industry and head up a major project. Put me in research, the more esoteric, the better - but of course, the only place that happens anymore since the dot-com crash is academia.
So where do you draw the line between tipping an officer for doing you a "favor" and bribing him to do you a "favor"?
You don't.
Today, Asian farmers are making the profits from character and item sales.
/pizza command (AO doesn't count, since the ads are served to those who choose to play for free).
Actually, the Asians involved (usually Chinese) make a normal working wage from their farming work. The head honchos are frequently from other countries (US, Canada, etc.).
I challenge the old "it will ruin the game!" argument, with the simple fact that this sales activity has been going on for several years now.
Talk to the many, many people who left Lineage 2 or FFXI for WoW due to the rampant unchecked item farming. It's not merely the out-of-game transactions that cause the problem (though it does cause problems - inexperienced players at the helm of experienced characters can result in party wipes for unsuspecting fellow players, for one example; and unwitting buyers who purchase characters with severe reputation issues on a server are another example). The real problem is the sheer scope of the efforts made by the item/cash farmers, and the impact that a full-fledged industry has on a microcosmic playerbase. These games aren't designed to be leveraged in this way, so when someone(s) does leverage them by camping the same mobs 24/7 to the detriment of normal (even hardcore) players, it causes a significant CS issue. Additionally, the behavior of gold farmers has been demonstrated to be destructive to the game economy, causing rampant inflation. In at least one case in WoW, a known gold farming team bought out every item in the Auction House and re-auctioned them at astronomical levels, ruining the economy for casual gamers who suddenly can't augment their gear with new gear within their purchasing capacity, and damaging the economy for hardcore gamers who find themselves paying insane prices to outfit their alts.
This isn't sour grapes, and Mark Jacobs raises a legitimate and important concern. It's a wonder he hasn't said something earlier, though. SOE has always been eager to exploit their game for a quick buck. They have on numerous occasions changed their original tune on a variety of CS issues so that they could charge money for it (character name changes, transferring characters from one server to another, transferring characters from one account to another), and they also have taken an incredible step by running the first pay-to-play MMOG to include some form of advertising/branding in their game with the
Or they can spend time shopping in the on-board duty-free shop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip
Corsair also sells good stuff, and they have pretty good support (just in case you do get a bad stick) for a product that's generally treated like a commodity rather than a retail good.
The alternative is merging a server that has a self-imposed rotation policy with one that doesn't have such a policy. The chaos resulting from that situation far outweighs that required to fit the guilds from two servers onto one list. Besides, the reason for the merges in the first place is a sharply-declining population, so the assumption being made here is that (especially with instancing) on the merged server, it'll result in a full, but not necessarily overburdened, rotation list.
In case you're not aware, the "Byrd" in "Byrd Amendment" refers to the venerable Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, a very, very pro-labor Democrat whose primary interest in the law was to provide support to the coal companies from the southern reaches of his home state, as well as some steel workers in the northern portions of West Virginia (though most steelworkers in that area are actually in Pittsburgh).
Ohio still has large remnants of old labor-intensive commodity-based industries, such as steel and rubber, in the large cities like Cleveland and Akron, and so it's not surprising that Ohio would benefit from such a law.
Note, however, that another AOL employee discovered the "bad seed"'s misdeeds and prevented him from actually meeting the girl IRL. If AOL is responsible for the one employee's misdeeds, doesn't it get any credit for another employee's positive preventative actions?
In other news, people who arrive at the stark realization that they're going to be losers on welfare and in debt for the rest of their lives are suing corporations with deep pockets instead of getting real jobs.
I don't know another collective which is more prone to critizising colleages than musicians.
What about Slashdot posters?
I know a guy who used to be able to beat everyone up through Bald Bull in Mike Tyson's Punch Out with his back turned to the screen. That was a long time ago, but he can still beat King Hippo that way without getting hit, even though he hasn't practiced in a long time.