When I had to get family of raccoons out of my attic I played Brujeria, Melt Banana and John Zorn's Naked City for an entire night. That did the trick.
My wife works in the public schools. I learned one thing from her. Parents claim they want schools with touch academics. However, they also wants their kids to get a 4.0, or very close to it and go apeshit when it doesn't happen. So when a school does crack down and start to grade accurately to touch academic standards, the parents go ballistic. These parents start harassing the teacher, the principal, the administrators, and the school board.
So it's no shock that these kids, of which very little was ever demanded or expected of them, should suddenly find themselves failing college once the gloves come off.
"I use the tilde because it's needed for me to type the "enye" key"
Thanks for pointing that out. I did not know that the tilde key could be used to accent letters. I thought of it more in terms of a logical symbol used in programming.
As I said previously, programming is also the reason we're still stuck with the otherwise useless tilde key. (Other than for entering "god" mode in Doom, of course.)
I'm thinking maybe programmers should get their own specialized keyboard.
I have absolutely no doubt that it serves a useful function. But so would a special "save" key. So would a special "print" key (and not the useless print screen key.) So would an "order a pizza and have it delivered key." My point is that for the vast majority of users, the caps lock key is not widely used and causes more problems than solutions.
And as I've already said, if you use a caps lock key, simply buy that sort of keyboard/laptop and you're good to go.
BTW, on a completely different point, other than to get "god mode" in Doom, why the frick do we have a tilde key? Maybe programmers should get their own keyboard.
If there is a market for having a caps lock key (there are still plenty of AOLers out there) someone will continue building laptops for that market. Don't get your panties in a bunch. You'll still be able to write your rants in all caps well into the future.
Because I learned how to type on an actual manual typewriter, I've learned to use the shift key for such tasks. Maybe that's why the caps lock key is still around. It's all you young whipper-snappers and your electronic input devices.
And while I admit that using the caps lock key for inputting the occasional series of all caps is easier, its so rare that I would do that, that the occasional and rare advantage does not make up for the annoying disadvantages to me.
As I said, if you spend a lot of time inputting long series of all caps, you can always buy a keyboard for that task.
The only people I know who use the Caps Lock Key are AOLers. Anyone who needs a Caps Lock Key for legitimate technical reasons can buy a specialized keyboard for that purpose. That's no reason for the key to be inflicted on the rest of us.
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Yeah, because we all know how completely difficult it is to connect a DVI to HDMI cable and an 1/8" cable from your computer to your TV.
Of course someone will say, "Most people don't keep their PCs near their TVs."
If people were willing to spend $600 on a PS3 that sits in their living room, I don't see why they can't spend a few hundred for a PC. Heck, if you subtract the $100 "special adapter" from the price of the PC, you can get one real cheap.
Of course someone else will say, "Who wants a noisy PC in their living room?" And to that I'll say, "Have you ever been in the same room with an Xbox 360?" Mine is much more noisy than my PC by a wide margin.
Compared to the 90s, I think retail desktop PCs are pretty quite nowadays. (Of course I built mine myself.)
As someone else pointed out, all of the USB drives use the same encryption key. SySS engineers discovered that through the Windows program. Now they can simply use that encryption key to bypass the encryption.
To me this would be like discovering that all Master Locks used the exact same key. So the validity of the lock would not have been compromised, but it would certainly be quite easy to bypass any protection it offers by using one of the widely availability other keys.
I have to admit, I have never seen Demolition Man. Maybe it's good, but somehow I doubt it.
Ask yourself this, is any Bullock movie a movie you "love"? One of those movies you want your kids to love when they grow up? One of those movies you're dying to buy on Blu-ray? At best Bullock movies are "watchable," "ok," or "not that bad." But never great. Yet, she makes a boat load of money. I don't get how such mediocrity can be sustained for so long.
Why are adults so critical of kids movies? Of course they're simple and stupid, but such movies were not made for you. Unless you are under the age of 8. Alvin & the Chipmunks was a movie for young kids... and to even analogize it with an adult movie such as the Avatar is moronic.
A more analogous slam would have been The Blind Side. I can't for the life of me figure out why people consistently pay to see Sandra Bullock movies. Sure, she's hot. But her movies are also consistently crap. Look at her list of movies here. There's not even one worth watching. But yet they always make money.
I think you intended to respond to the parent comment, not to mine. You didn't answer my question at all. But you answered the parent's question perfectly.
While I hate to argue with someone who agrees with me, I completely disagree.
If we accept that the 1st amendment is a 107 fair use of copyrighted materials, we're acknowledging that the 1st amendment, heck, the entire bill of rights is subject to copyright law. Does that may any freaking sense? That copyright law has higher priority under the law than the bill of rights? And god forbid that 107 is ever struck down.
It clearly should be the other way around. Copyright law should should be subject to our bill of rights. In other words, it simply does not matter whether copyright contains the 107 exception, the 1st amendment should always trump copyright. And any copyright holder who feels otherwise should have the burden to show what it should not in his or her particular instance.
Remember, 107 is not a right, it is merely a defense. The burden is on the alleged infringer to make a showing of fair use. Like I said, when it comes to our bill of rights, that's completely fricken backwards. Anyone wishing to limit someone's first amendment right should have the burden, not the other way around.
Who in the frick will keep track of all these transactions?!
I'm imagining yet another collection society which will collect transaction fees for each resale. Of course the society will keep a portion for itself, to cover costs and salaries, right?
A mandatory system will need to be setup for the reselling of art pieces. So it will be a felony for any Canadian to sell or buy art outside the system.
Small time artists will not be paid out what is collected by the society, in the same way that small time song writers are not paid. They will be told that in order to collect they must become famous artists first. Defeating the entire purpose of the law in the first place: to protect small time artists.
And of course it will be only a matter of time before schools, hotels, and individuals will be sued by the collection society for displaying art without paying. The burden will be on the accused to prove that they are in fact paid up. Police powers will have to be given to the society so it can send agents into homes and businesses to ensure compliance. A telephone hotline will be setup so that employees can rat out their bosses for hanging art without an approved society license.
"Misrepresenting another's work as your own is a breach of creative ethics"
That's complete BS! There is no trademark violation here. The guy made a came similar to another game. Which is the exact same thing John Carmack did with Commander Keen. Eventually Carmack created the FPS and there have been countless imitators ever since. That's what happens in creative fields.
And exactly where do these "ethics" come from if they do not come from the law or from your subjective feelings?
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The government, 'nuff said.
When I had to get family of raccoons out of my attic I played Brujeria, Melt Banana and John Zorn's Naked City for an entire night. That did the trick.
My wife works in the public schools. I learned one thing from her. Parents claim they want schools with touch academics. However, they also wants their kids to get a 4.0, or very close to it and go apeshit when it doesn't happen. So when a school does crack down and start to grade accurately to touch academic standards, the parents go ballistic. These parents start harassing the teacher, the principal, the administrators, and the school board.
So it's no shock that these kids, of which very little was ever demanded or expected of them, should suddenly find themselves failing college once the gloves come off.
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"I use the tilde because it's needed for me to type the "enye" key"
Thanks for pointing that out. I did not know that the tilde key could be used to accent letters. I thought of it more in terms of a logical symbol used in programming.
As I said previously, programming is also the reason we're still stuck with the otherwise useless tilde key. (Other than for entering "god" mode in Doom, of course.)
I'm thinking maybe programmers should get their own specialized keyboard.
"Is there something specific about AOL you mention, or just AOLlers perogatively?"
The latter, of course.
You should post a video on youtube of your wife typing, I'd love to watch it.
"Honestly, CAPS LOCK has a useful function."
I have absolutely no doubt that it serves a useful function. But so would a special "save" key. So would a special "print" key (and not the useless print screen key.) So would an "order a pizza and have it delivered key." My point is that for the vast majority of users, the caps lock key is not widely used and causes more problems than solutions.
And as I've already said, if you use a caps lock key, simply buy that sort of keyboard/laptop and you're good to go.
BTW, on a completely different point, other than to get "god mode" in Doom, why the frick do we have a tilde key? Maybe programmers should get their own keyboard.
"And install it into the laptop's chassis how?"
If there is a market for having a caps lock key (there are still plenty of AOLers out there) someone will continue building laptops for that market. Don't get your panties in a bunch. You'll still be able to write your rants in all caps well into the future.
Because I learned how to type on an actual manual typewriter, I've learned to use the shift key for such tasks. Maybe that's why the caps lock key is still around. It's all you young whipper-snappers and your electronic input devices.
And while I admit that using the caps lock key for inputting the occasional series of all caps is easier, its so rare that I would do that, that the occasional and rare advantage does not make up for the annoying disadvantages to me.
As I said, if you spend a lot of time inputting long series of all caps, you can always buy a keyboard for that task.
The only people I know who use the Caps Lock Key are AOLers. Anyone who needs a Caps Lock Key for legitimate technical reasons can buy a specialized keyboard for that purpose. That's no reason for the key to be inflicted on the rest of us.
Thanks, I needed that!
Yeah, because we all know how completely difficult it is to connect a DVI to HDMI cable and an 1/8" cable from your computer to your TV.
Of course someone will say, "Most people don't keep their PCs near their TVs."
If people were willing to spend $600 on a PS3 that sits in their living room, I don't see why they can't spend a few hundred for a PC. Heck, if you subtract the $100 "special adapter" from the price of the PC, you can get one real cheap.
Of course someone else will say, "Who wants a noisy PC in their living room?" And to that I'll say, "Have you ever been in the same room with an Xbox 360?" Mine is much more noisy than my PC by a wide margin.
Compared to the 90s, I think retail desktop PCs are pretty quite nowadays. (Of course I built mine myself.)
Oh fucking god that was funny!
As someone else pointed out, all of the USB drives use the same encryption key. SySS engineers discovered that through the Windows program. Now they can simply use that encryption key to bypass the encryption.
To me this would be like discovering that all Master Locks used the exact same key. So the validity of the lock would not have been compromised, but it would certainly be quite easy to bypass any protection it offers by using one of the widely availability other keys.
I was going to say nearly the same thing. The encryption was not cracked, merely bypassed.
I have to admit, I have never seen Demolition Man. Maybe it's good, but somehow I doubt it.
Ask yourself this, is any Bullock movie a movie you "love"? One of those movies you want your kids to love when they grow up? One of those movies you're dying to buy on Blu-ray? At best Bullock movies are "watchable," "ok," or "not that bad." But never great. Yet, she makes a boat load of money. I don't get how such mediocrity can be sustained for so long.
Why are adults so critical of kids movies? Of course they're simple and stupid, but such movies were not made for you. Unless you are under the age of 8. Alvin & the Chipmunks was a movie for young kids... and to even analogize it with an adult movie such as the Avatar is moronic.
A more analogous slam would have been The Blind Side. I can't for the life of me figure out why people consistently pay to see Sandra Bullock movies. Sure, she's hot. But her movies are also consistently crap. Look at her list of movies here. There's not even one worth watching. But yet they always make money.
"The answer to your question..."
I think you intended to respond to the parent comment, not to mine. You didn't answer my question at all. But you answered the parent's question perfectly.
While I hate to argue with someone who agrees with me, I completely disagree.
If we accept that the 1st amendment is a 107 fair use of copyrighted materials, we're acknowledging that the 1st amendment, heck, the entire bill of rights is subject to copyright law. Does that may any freaking sense? That copyright law has higher priority under the law than the bill of rights? And god forbid that 107 is ever struck down.
It clearly should be the other way around. Copyright law should should be subject to our bill of rights. In other words, it simply does not matter whether copyright contains the 107 exception, the 1st amendment should always trump copyright. And any copyright holder who feels otherwise should have the burden to show what it should not in his or her particular instance.
Remember, 107 is not a right, it is merely a defense. The burden is on the alleged infringer to make a showing of fair use. Like I said, when it comes to our bill of rights, that's completely fricken backwards. Anyone wishing to limit someone's first amendment right should have the burden, not the other way around.
Or even if it could be copyrighted, how that copyright could trump anyone's first amendment rights to comment on a matter of national concern.
Who in the frick will keep track of all these transactions?!
I'm imagining yet another collection society which will collect transaction fees for each resale. Of course the society will keep a portion for itself, to cover costs and salaries, right?
A mandatory system will need to be setup for the reselling of art pieces. So it will be a felony for any Canadian to sell or buy art outside the system.
Small time artists will not be paid out what is collected by the society, in the same way that small time song writers are not paid. They will be told that in order to collect they must become famous artists first. Defeating the entire purpose of the law in the first place: to protect small time artists.
And of course it will be only a matter of time before schools, hotels, and individuals will be sued by the collection society for displaying art without paying. The burden will be on the accused to prove that they are in fact paid up. Police powers will have to be given to the society so it can send agents into homes and businesses to ensure compliance. A telephone hotline will be setup so that employees can rat out their bosses for hanging art without an approved society license.
"Misrepresenting another's work as your own is a breach of creative ethics"
That's complete BS! There is no trademark violation here. The guy made a came similar to another game. Which is the exact same thing John Carmack did with Commander Keen. Eventually Carmack created the FPS and there have been countless imitators ever since. That's what happens in creative fields.
And exactly where do these "ethics" come from if they do not come from the law or from your subjective feelings?
Do you even know what plagiarism means? If the code was plagiarized, copied without citation, it was infringement. If not, there is no plagiarism.