Your government owns you. You make a good slave. Carry on then. Oh, and next time you comment on someone else's ideas, maybe you should first learn what they are. That's a freebie for you, brain.
Ok, lets talk about my initial comment then. All of your pseudo-science crackpot theories aside....your entire posting history on Slashdot has been you comment spamming your site. That has nothing to do with your idea and everything to do with the fact that you are a spammer. There's a freebie for YOU, spammer.
My goal isn't to silence you since obviously you're absolutley nuts. My goal is to point out that your entire posting history on Slashdot has been used to spam your site with your crackpot theories that even a freshman energy studies student should be able to discredit.
But you know what...I'm with THEM! And WE'RE coming to get you!!! Lock your doors and cower in your basement. And we have installed cameras in your keyboard, so the only way to prevent us from tracking you is to destroy it and never type again on Slashdot.
At first I thought you were joking...but holy crap, not only are you a comment spammer (disagree? then explain your comment history!) but you seem be ab absolute crackpot. Seriously. You're about as bad as the guy who claimed he was from the future on the BBS's years ago.
No, we love women with huge tits. What?! Its not like we dodge around these things like women do! Least we're honest about the fact that we would be perfectly happy staring at her tits all day.
Seems like you just need to try a better service....like True! Ever since I signed up...err...clicked on a link and started getting charged....I've received tons of winks from lots of hot girls. Its so cute, when I send them a message back they all pretend they never sent me a wink. But I know they're just playing hard to get.
In all seriousness, True is a huge scam as a quick google will reveal. In fact, the only reason it is profitable is that it made money before all the bad reviews came out, and dumped it all into its MASSIVE online advertising budget. I'm seriously wondering how they are not under criminal investigations for fraud at this point. Any class actions against them yet?
I recommend all the geeks here try OkCupid. Its totally free, and your match percentage increases with the number of personality tests you take. And the best part is you can create your own tests for others to take. The one problem with it I encountered is that as I took more and more tests, and my pool of women I would supposedly like narrowed, I got to a point where the women in my area who were "matches" were either not of the sort I am attracted to, had other characteristics I did not want, or were absolutely great looking on paper except for already being in relationships. Seems a lot of non-single types hang out on there. But definitely worth a shot as its free.
I was waiting for someone to mention The Final Cut. Very interesting work from Robin Williams. I have to say the opening scene is very haunting. It shows a boy going to the mirror in the bathroom to do his daily routine, and then he opens and closes the mirror and then he fast forwards several years, and that repeats until he is an old man and you see the gradual change in how he looks etc.
That movie was the first to really cause me, when I saw it for the first time at 21 to really think deeply about the process of aging, and how short life was, and how I wanted to live and how I would reflect back on these moments when I was an old man.
The real reason I wish I could record my life like this is because there are so many times I wish I could record something for later on...but I don't have a recording device, and it would just be a thought or something, and perhaps image and sound. My goal would be to leave kind of a video guide to life with "foot notes" and "annotations" performed ala The Wonder Years as voice over. Letting your children relive your life through your eyes could be a learning experience hithero unforeseen in all of humanity's centuries of child rearing. Yeah, we've had other ways to document our lives and impart our experiences, but nothing on that level.
I also wish I had something like this for all that time when I was a teenager and hated myself and didn't take any pictures of myself or my life etc. Now that I'm more mature I'd love to go back and reflect on all of that and learn from it. And lets just say there's been more than a few times with girls that I wish I had a video camera but knew they'd kill me if I brought one....instant fix there.
but I wish their efforts were concentrated on something more helpful to society.
I REALLY wish people would stop saying things like this everytime a new scientific endeavor is underway. I mean, really, who the hell are you to judge what is more helpful to society? If you don't think people pursuing their OWN goals is helpful, then I HIGHLY recommend you watch James Burke's Connections series from the BBC because it will illustrate exactly how random human technological and societal development has been and what random quirks lead us to where we are now. So I applaud these guys. Who knows what future change this will inspire.
Who knows what type of new eco system could be in the works!
This is actually what I'm really eager to see. Think of how diverse the rainforest is with its different vertical layers...now imagine all of those connected by a tube. It will also be interesting to see which species adapt to lower oxygen areas and what new species develop on something like this. Yes, that would take a lot of time, but so would building the thing.
I'd actually be really concerned about insects screwing up the electrical system by eating cables, etc.
Note that even if you didn't buy Special Forces, you could still pick up (and use) the SF weapons once they are dropped.
And people with the expansion can START and SPAWN with those weapons. A HUGE advantage when you need to spawn with a certain weapon for a certain situation.
You must have downloaded a different version of Opera than I did. My version did not have lots of bookmarks to free pr0n sites or anything else that would make finding it easier than using Google with any other browser.
Yup, and this isn't about the future, this is about the present, where there year currently IS 1984. Couple that with all the fun tracking and advertising technology from Minority report along with pre-crime due to peoples paranoia and fear of LIFE and we're in for a fun show, thats for sure.
Thank you for beating me to the punch. Unless the student signed something saying they gave them permission to make a copy for commercial use, they are infringing on that student's copyright.
Except when the batteries weren't included, it tended to be that the company making the product did not also make the batteries. Nor did the batteries have a near-zero distribution cost, nor were they developed at the same time the product was and scraped from it to sell as an "addon" at a ridiculous mark-up to Sony's rape vict...err...customers.
No kidding. I posted about this on my blog back on March 19th (sorry for shameless plug, just giving proof of the date). My hope at the time was that this would be developed further into a game with even more evolution, similar (but perhaps not as far-reaching) to Spore. But it looks like it will just be the same game, and they'll try to charge for it, but this is Sony, so no surprise there.
Although honestly I am a bit curious as to how they intend to give gamers a snowballs chance in hell of completing the end levels without an input device as precise as a mouse. I can't even imagine having a shot at the end level with a thumbstick or D-pad.
Right, because your being modded troll shows how on the mark your comment was. The fact about marketing/advertising is that you tend to only hear about it when it pisses people off. There are PLENTY of good examples that people enjoy and appreciate, they just don't make as good of headlines.
Bingo. This is why I have been against micro-transactions in games from the beginning. Its not that the system can't work, its that the companies in the industry are too greedy to let it work successfully. Another part of it is cultural. I know in the east, like Korea, these types of things are kind of expected and well accepted. But in America, we tend to feel that if we purchase something, we own it, and if you want us to pay more for parts of it you're bloody nickle and diming us. And that is indeed how I feel. I even objected to the horse armor even though it was optional. The fact of the matter was that it was something that SHOULD have been included in the game that they quite obviously scraped to sell later.
And ultimately that is the problem with this extremely slippery slope we've been on with extra content for years now. First it started as full fledged expansions, then smaller expansions, then "episodes" and now items. If they CAN scrape the content and sell it later for more, it has been proven they WILL do it. What's next...paying for stats when you roll your character? You want to play with a good character don't you? That'll be 5 bucks more.
And thanks to inflation, you don't have just one product going up in price, suddenly all the micro purchases go up in price.
And the worst part is when buying it gives you an unfair advantage over others. And for those who don't believe this has happened in America yet, I point you to Battlefield 2 and their Special Forces expansion where they let people use those weapons in the regular vanilla game on the ranked servers. And the guns they give have a HUGE advantage.
Also, the most important thing to remember about this story is THIS IS A HIGH SCHOOL! If this were a college, the school might, MIGHT just be able to work a clause into their student contract BEFORE the student registers and starts paying stipulating some use of their copyrighted works for use with this system. However this is for mandatory highschool, this is state mandated and I think they'd have a hard time arguing that the state can force every student to hand over the copyrights to their works.
The school I'm sure will make the ethical argument that if they are not cheating, they should have no reason to object to this service. However the best case these students have (although IANAL) is that this service is profiting from retention of their papers and in fact would not be able to be in business if they were not allowed to keep copies of student papers.
I've seen some people post in this story saying "but they're not DIRECTLY profiting from the student's work". The hell they aren't! Their service 100% relies on the ability to use existing students' work to compare against. How is that not directly profiting? They are incorporating the students' work into their product/service. And the students receive no compensation.
What MIGHT be acceptable is if the students had an option (very important, they should in no way be forced) to sell a license to this service to use their works and were paid an agreed upon annual fee for its use. Yes, it would cost the service an assload of money...as it should if they are profiting from copyrighted works.
Another situation which will happen further down the line with this service I'm sure is when they build up a large enough database, there will inevitably be many papers that are similar. Similar topics, similar data, similar structures, perhaps even similar writing style. That's what happens when you build a writing database and accumulate enough data. Expect the number of false positives to only increase with such a system.
As someone who works in Interactive Advertising (net stuff basically) I call bullshit on those percentages. Not that I'd be shocked that a fraudster would lie to a reporter, but still. The article is worth a read if not for the chuckle you'll get when you read about the old granny running a PTR site, claiming to only take in on average about $75/month to supplement her government aid. Yeah right...These people need to be banned from the net or shot, and I don't have much preference as to the order that happens in.
"It sucks. It sucks BAD. Militaries are the most contemptible organizations on the planet, followed shortly thereafter by police. But they're necessary, at least until we can develop a virus that exlusively kills jackasses."
More like until we develop a method of getting everybody to think the same (not that thats a good thing). You see, you and I assuredly have different views of what a jackass is, and there are plenty of jackasses out there who do not consider themselves as such.
Conflict arises from differing viewpoints, and while there are some general ground rules that most humans can agree upon, unfortunately there will always be those who do not.
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Ok, lets talk about my initial comment then. All of your pseudo-science crackpot theories aside....your entire posting history on Slashdot has been you comment spamming your site. That has nothing to do with your idea and everything to do with the fact that you are a spammer. There's a freebie for YOU, spammer.
But you know what...I'm with THEM! And WE'RE coming to get you!!! Lock your doors and cower in your basement. And we have installed cameras in your keyboard, so the only way to prevent us from tracking you is to destroy it and never type again on Slashdot.
No, we love women with huge tits. What?! Its not like we dodge around these things like women do! Least we're honest about the fact that we would be perfectly happy staring at her tits all day.
In all seriousness, True is a huge scam as a quick google will reveal. In fact, the only reason it is profitable is that it made money before all the bad reviews came out, and dumped it all into its MASSIVE online advertising budget. I'm seriously wondering how they are not under criminal investigations for fraud at this point. Any class actions against them yet?
I recommend all the geeks here try OkCupid. Its totally free, and your match percentage increases with the number of personality tests you take. And the best part is you can create your own tests for others to take. The one problem with it I encountered is that as I took more and more tests, and my pool of women I would supposedly like narrowed, I got to a point where the women in my area who were "matches" were either not of the sort I am attracted to, had other characteristics I did not want, or were absolutely great looking on paper except for already being in relationships. Seems a lot of non-single types hang out on there. But definitely worth a shot as its free.
It absolutely is worth getting in a flap about as it is ILLEGAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL. I hope this guy sues the shit out of the TSA and the airport.
That movie was the first to really cause me, when I saw it for the first time at 21 to really think deeply about the process of aging, and how short life was, and how I wanted to live and how I would reflect back on these moments when I was an old man.
The real reason I wish I could record my life like this is because there are so many times I wish I could record something for later on...but I don't have a recording device, and it would just be a thought or something, and perhaps image and sound. My goal would be to leave kind of a video guide to life with "foot notes" and "annotations" performed ala The Wonder Years as voice over. Letting your children relive your life through your eyes could be a learning experience hithero unforeseen in all of humanity's centuries of child rearing. Yeah, we've had other ways to document our lives and impart our experiences, but nothing on that level.
I also wish I had something like this for all that time when I was a teenager and hated myself and didn't take any pictures of myself or my life etc. Now that I'm more mature I'd love to go back and reflect on all of that and learn from it. And lets just say there's been more than a few times with girls that I wish I had a video camera but knew they'd kill me if I brought one....instant fix there.
I REALLY wish people would stop saying things like this everytime a new scientific endeavor is underway. I mean, really, who the hell are you to judge what is more helpful to society? If you don't think people pursuing their OWN goals is helpful, then I HIGHLY recommend you watch James Burke's Connections series from the BBC because it will illustrate exactly how random human technological and societal development has been and what random quirks lead us to where we are now. So I applaud these guys. Who knows what future change this will inspire.
This is actually what I'm really eager to see. Think of how diverse the rainforest is with its different vertical layers...now imagine all of those connected by a tube. It will also be interesting to see which species adapt to lower oxygen areas and what new species develop on something like this. Yes, that would take a lot of time, but so would building the thing.
I'd actually be really concerned about insects screwing up the electrical system by eating cables, etc.
And people with the expansion can START and SPAWN with those weapons. A HUGE advantage when you need to spawn with a certain weapon for a certain situation.
Although honestly I am a bit curious as to how they intend to give gamers a snowballs chance in hell of completing the end levels without an input device as precise as a mouse. I can't even imagine having a shot at the end level with a thumbstick or D-pad.
And ultimately that is the problem with this extremely slippery slope we've been on with extra content for years now. First it started as full fledged expansions, then smaller expansions, then "episodes" and now items. If they CAN scrape the content and sell it later for more, it has been proven they WILL do it. What's next...paying for stats when you roll your character? You want to play with a good character don't you? That'll be 5 bucks more.
And thanks to inflation, you don't have just one product going up in price, suddenly all the micro purchases go up in price.
And the worst part is when buying it gives you an unfair advantage over others. And for those who don't believe this has happened in America yet, I point you to Battlefield 2 and their Special Forces expansion where they let people use those weapons in the regular vanilla game on the ranked servers. And the guns they give have a HUGE advantage.
The school I'm sure will make the ethical argument that if they are not cheating, they should have no reason to object to this service. However the best case these students have (although IANAL) is that this service is profiting from retention of their papers and in fact would not be able to be in business if they were not allowed to keep copies of student papers.
I've seen some people post in this story saying "but they're not DIRECTLY profiting from the student's work". The hell they aren't! Their service 100% relies on the ability to use existing students' work to compare against. How is that not directly profiting? They are incorporating the students' work into their product/service. And the students receive no compensation.
What MIGHT be acceptable is if the students had an option (very important, they should in no way be forced) to sell a license to this service to use their works and were paid an agreed upon annual fee for its use. Yes, it would cost the service an assload of money...as it should if they are profiting from copyrighted works.
Awesome, its been a pain to quote since they screwed up how paragraph break tags worked. Thanks!
More like until we develop a method of getting everybody to think the same (not that thats a good thing). You see, you and I assuredly have different views of what a jackass is, and there are plenty of jackasses out there who do not consider themselves as such.
Conflict arises from differing viewpoints, and while there are some general ground rules that most humans can agree upon, unfortunately there will always be those who do not.