My father took me to see Alies when I was pretty young (8 IIRC). It was rated R. I specifically remember the ticket booth guy w/wide eyes when I was going in there. My mother was undescribable.
I played plenty of video games when I was a kid. Never thought twice if they were violent or not.
As I got older I was not interested in getting games for their "gore". If I enjoyed a game, then I played it. It wasn't b/c it was gory.
I have GTA3. I was 22 when I got it. It was a good game overall but I wasn't thrilled w/it either. I much preferred Gran Turismo and Madden...
So, exposed at an early age left me w/killing tendencies and horrid mental scaring.
Really, it did.
I will fight my S.O. to the death if she argues this w/our children...
Just my worthless.02
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Correct. Attendance policies do nothing for helping you learn what you already know. If I am in a course where there are three exams and 5 papers I expect that if I do X grade on each, I should get the average of those grades... There is no acceptable argument that other people in the class should get a higher grade b/c they were in attendance. If I did the work that was asked and got a grade on it, that's the grade I should recieve in the class. Why do professors (I am only experienced in the US) feel that attendance is necessary for sucess? I would really appreciate a response from a prof about this. Please, if you respond, do not give the "if you were here, you absorbed more". I want to know why a student cannot take the class, do the assignments and exams and get that grade. What is so supposedly important about classroom settings?
I just want a cell phone network where frequent call drops, long wait times, and low signal strength are common.
I live 15 miles from the city center of Minneapolis. I get a call dropped between 5 and 10 mins every day (granted I use it during peak times) but I don't see why this should happen.
While I believe what India is doing is a Good Thing, I just want a Good Thing to happen here in the US for cell phone service.
I use the cell phone for very little other than the "free" LD after 9 and on weekends.
Let's make the service better here in the US before we start saying that we want more bandwith.
how about putting it in a public place where they are normally torn, damaged, or completely destroyed?
The fact that the pages do not tear like normal books (phonebooks come to mind) would be a great alternative to their current state where most pages are missing.
Not everyone has a wireless Internet connected iPaq on the road.
not all of us can afford the high costs of DSL. I personally have never been happier than I have been w/cable (ATTBI sucks only a little, RR was great).
768k/128k is entirely too slow and too expensive. Not all of us have the $50 chip in offer.
I run servers, I have mutliple NAT'd computers, and I use an AP for my laptops.
No complaints from ATTBI. Just don't do anything stupid (like hack your modem cfg file) and you are fine.
well now that we have courses at major universities all about weblogging we may have a seperate part of our job description set aside just for weblogging!
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if $250 isn't going to break the bank, buy a Windows system and use it for Windows only. There is absolutely no valid reason for emulating under Linux if you have $250 to spend. You are going to get a lot more out of your money that way.
Anyway, the MPAA went after individual users on ATTBI and ATTBI responded by shutting those people off for TOS violations. Basically, don't share files and they can't really catch you.
There was a quote in the article, something like "it's software that allows you to request a file and download it, that's all it does". It's not illegal to do that, we have been using programs to req. files and download them for years (BBSs, FTP, etc).
Asking for the source to the software to find out "how it works" is non-sense. They know perfectly well how it works. It's P2P just like any other sharing program these days.
I'm sorry that people abuse the software. That's not the fault of the programmers or the 5% of the Kazaa userbase (a large number no doubt) that use it for legitimate reasons.
Go after those people that are sharing the stuff. If you can't find them, I'm sorry. That's not Kazaa's problem.
Audiophiles (most of the live taping trend in Dead, Phish, SCI, etc) are VERY serious about the quality of their recordings.
I actually prefer a AUD (audience) taped show than an SBD b/c of the crowd noise. I like to hear the reaction (especially if I hadn't been there) of the people listening to the show. It's amazing to hear what the Grateful Dead or String Cheese does to people. You hear them in their best.
SBD's are PERFECT copies of the show. No noise, etc. They are copied to DAT and then piped through usually SoundForge then to CDR. Many SHN versions of shows have a great lineage: SBD>DAT>SoundForge>CDR.
Don't talk about things you don't know about, please.
you're retarded. You NEVER did more than a 1-1 trade. If you didn't have a SBD to trade back, you did a B&P (blanks and postage) trade or joined a vine (tape starts at one person and goes along down the list of people who then make their own copy from the master and pass it along -- doesn't increase generations that way).
Now that we have fast connections and CD burners there is no longer a need to trade. Large FTPs are setup to do the serving for several "seeds" of good quality shows. People get them and burn them. If they see fit, they burn and send out for trades/B&P to those that are on 56k or are too lazy/uninformed to get it from etree.
I don't think it is a smart business move. I am even MORE inclined not to attend one of their concerts b/c of this.
The Grateful Dead were one of the most successul bands w/o major album releases nor high ticket costs. They let you listen to them in their best setting (live) for free.
w/AT&T Broadband (in some markets currently) in more markets as of Jan 1st (here in Minneapolis) you are going to have to upgrade to Digital in order to get HBO. They want to stop the pirates. That's they only way to do it.
Thus, if I want to watch the "last" season of the Sopranos, I am going to have to get them off Kazaa. HBO, blame and sue AT&T, not me.
If approved by the FCC, the roughly two-thirds of U.S. households that subscribe to cable-TV services would be able to enjoy digital pictures over high-definition sets without shelling out more money, as some consumers do now, for set-top boxes to read the signals.
Great, so I don't have to pay for the box. I still have to pay for the service. More channels of little or no worthwhile content and a fancy menuing system (yes, nice, but worth triple the cost... no).
I'm really annoyed w/recent changes in the cable system moving premium channels to digital only. I don't think that cable systems should be allowed to do that. That's DOUBLE charging for HBO. Although w/the recent "slips" by the censors (Cher anyone?) maybe regular-old cable will end up carrying much the same content as HBO... We can always hope.
Not only that, but how does the DMCA have any right to step over into Russia? Regardless of whether or not it was found to have cracked any eBooks, who are these people to say that Russian businesses fall under the DMCA?
from the article, "they are making a war-chest" by going after smaller companies first, adding to their supposed $65 million in cash, then going after larger content providers such as AOL TW.
Of course most people are going to get owned b/c the $1500 is far less than lawyer fees... AOL will just tell them to bug off unless of course the "war-chest" grows to astronomical proportions.
The arguement that these patents were filed before the office "knew what to do w/them" are ridiculous. I seriously hope they have a better protection scheme than that.
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My father took me to see Alies when I was pretty young (8 IIRC). It was rated R. I specifically remember the ticket booth guy w/wide eyes when I was going in there. My mother was undescribable.
I played plenty of video games when I was a kid. Never thought twice if they were violent or not.
As I got older I was not interested in getting games for their "gore". If I enjoyed a game, then I played it. It wasn't b/c it was gory.
I have GTA3. I was 22 when I got it. It was a good game overall but I wasn't thrilled w/it either. I much preferred Gran Turismo and Madden...
So, exposed at an early age left me w/killing tendencies and horrid mental scaring.
Really, it did.
I will fight my S.O. to the death if she argues this w/our children...
Just my worthless
Correct. Attendance policies do nothing for helping you learn what you already know. If I am in a course where there are three exams and 5 papers I expect that if I do X grade on each, I should get the average of those grades... There is no acceptable argument that other people in the class should get a higher grade b/c they were in attendance. If I did the work that was asked and got a grade on it, that's the grade I should recieve in the class. Why do professors (I am only experienced in the US) feel that attendance is necessary for sucess? I would really appreciate a response from a prof about this.
Please, if you respond, do not give the "if you were here, you absorbed more". I want to know why a student cannot take the class, do the assignments and exams and get that grade. What is so supposedly important about classroom settings?
TIA.
the site has 18,497 visits (at this time today) since 1997. Watch that # double.
you obviously can't read.
He's talking about how it doesn't matter to him if the US ever upgrades BANDWITH on cell phone service.
He wants quality service before worrying about how fast data is xferred.
I just want a cell phone network where frequent call drops, long wait times, and low signal strength are common.
I live 15 miles from the city center of Minneapolis. I get a call dropped between 5 and 10 mins every day (granted I use it during peak times) but I don't see why this should happen.
While I believe what India is doing is a Good Thing, I just want a Good Thing to happen here in the US for cell phone service.
I use the cell phone for very little other than the "free" LD after 9 and on weekends.
Let's make the service better here in the US before we start saying that we want more bandwith.
how about putting it in a public place where they are normally torn, damaged, or completely destroyed?
The fact that the pages do not tear like normal books (phonebooks come to mind) would be a great alternative to their current state where most pages are missing.
Not everyone has a wireless Internet connected iPaq on the road.
not all of us can afford the high costs of DSL. I personally have never been happier than I have been w/cable (ATTBI sucks only a little, RR was great).
768k/128k is entirely too slow and too expensive. Not all of us have the $50 chip in offer.
I run servers, I have mutliple NAT'd computers, and I use an AP for my laptops.
No complaints from ATTBI. Just don't do anything stupid (like hack your modem cfg file) and you are fine.
he notes this. His point is that we are trying to move people away from Windows by making Linux more like Windows.
so a $1500 machine running UPS shipping software is going to seem like it is running so much faster than a celeron?
Whatever.
well now that we have courses at major universities all about weblogging we may have a seperate part of our job description set aside just for weblogging!
if $250 isn't going to break the bank, buy a Windows system and use it for Windows only. There is absolutely no valid reason for emulating under Linux if you have $250 to spend. You are going to get a lot more out of your money that way.
why wouldn't you use DOSEmu which is far better at running DOS games than BOCHS?
yeah, the Subj is a bad one, I know.
Anyway, the MPAA went after individual users on ATTBI and ATTBI responded by shutting those people off for TOS violations. Basically, don't share files and they can't really catch you.
There was a quote in the article, something like "it's software that allows you to request a file and download it, that's all it does". It's not illegal to do that, we have been using programs to req. files and download them for years (BBSs, FTP, etc).
Asking for the source to the software to find out "how it works" is non-sense. They know perfectly well how it works. It's P2P just like any other sharing program these days.
I'm sorry that people abuse the software. That's not the fault of the programmers or the 5% of the Kazaa userbase (a large number no doubt) that use it for legitimate reasons.
Go after those people that are sharing the stuff. If you can't find them, I'm sorry. That's not Kazaa's problem.
Audiophiles (most of the live taping trend in Dead, Phish, SCI, etc) are VERY serious about the quality of their recordings.
I actually prefer a AUD (audience) taped show than an SBD b/c of the crowd noise. I like to hear the reaction (especially if I hadn't been there) of the people listening to the show. It's amazing to hear what the Grateful Dead or String Cheese does to people. You hear them in their best.
SBD's are PERFECT copies of the show. No noise, etc. They are copied to DAT and then piped through usually SoundForge then to CDR. Many SHN versions of shows have a great lineage: SBD>DAT>SoundForge>CDR.
Don't talk about things you don't know about, please.
you're retarded. You NEVER did more than a 1-1 trade. If you didn't have a SBD to trade back, you did a B&P (blanks and postage) trade or joined a vine (tape starts at one person and goes along down the list of people who then make their own copy from the master and pass it along -- doesn't increase generations that way).
Now that we have fast connections and CD burners there is no longer a need to trade. Large FTPs are setup to do the serving for several "seeds" of good quality shows. People get them and burn them. If they see fit, they burn and send out for trades/B&P to those that are on 56k or are too lazy/uninformed to get it from etree.
I don't think it is a smart business move. I am even MORE inclined not to attend one of their concerts b/c of this.
The Grateful Dead were one of the most successul bands w/o major album releases nor high ticket costs. They let you listen to them in their best setting (live) for free.
I don't agree w/what Phish did...
w/AT&T Broadband (in some markets currently) in more markets as of Jan 1st (here in Minneapolis) you are going to have to upgrade to Digital in order to get HBO. They want to stop the pirates. That's they only way to do it.
Thus, if I want to watch the "last" season of the Sopranos, I am going to have to get them off Kazaa. HBO, blame and sue AT&T, not me.
If approved by the FCC, the roughly two-thirds of U.S. households that subscribe to cable-TV services would be able to enjoy digital pictures over high-definition sets without shelling out more money, as some consumers do now, for set-top boxes to read the signals.
Great, so I don't have to pay for the box. I still have to pay for the service. More channels of little or no worthwhile content and a fancy menuing system (yes, nice, but worth triple the cost... no).
I'm really annoyed w/recent changes in the cable system moving premium channels to digital only. I don't think that cable systems should be allowed to do that. That's DOUBLE charging for HBO. Although w/the recent "slips" by the censors (Cher anyone?) maybe regular-old cable will end up carrying much the same content as HBO... We can always hope.
Not only that, but how does the DMCA have any right to step over into Russia? Regardless of whether or not it was found
to have cracked any eBooks, who are these people to say that Russian businesses fall under the DMCA?
from the article, "they are making a war-chest" by going after smaller companies first, adding to their supposed $65 million in cash, then going after larger content providers such as AOL TW.
Of course most people are going to get owned b/c the $1500 is far less than lawyer fees... AOL will just tell them to bug off unless of course the "war-chest" grows to astronomical proportions.
The arguement that these patents were filed before the office "knew what to do w/them" are ridiculous. I seriously hope they have a better protection scheme than that.
yup. Don't install the software...
Don't agree to their EULA and you are fine.
also along those lines... Typically pornography isn't intentionally, directly, marketed towards children. Alcohol and tobacco is.
AI really wasn't *his* movie to begin w/. It definitly was a Kubrik film.
I am actually currently watching the Taken marathon. I don't think it is his greatest work but it is definitly good. Entertaining for sure.
I guess I will be able to draw better conclusions once it's over. Currently they are in the early 80's (1980).
I think you guys look for way too much.
working in an academic setting is profit. It's called a job. Research is work and you make profit from it.
I meant students in college know how to fudge and the professors don't have the time to read deeply into everything...
sadly, neither do the professors for the most part. They have too much to do and too little time to do it.
People know how to bend the rules and make it seem valid. These principles carry on (apparently) into the rest of their careers.