Look, there are tons of programs out there that can detect motion in images, and I'm sure that one is great. And I'll be the first to admit that organizations don't always spend their money as well as they could... but I do think that this system is just a bit more advanced than that. It needs to be pretty accurate. You can't afford to miss anything, and you can't really afford false positives either. Detecting non-motion in a pool is one thing, but not everyone who's in trouble just stops moving. Granted, it's easier for the lifegaurds to see someone who's thrashing around, but to make this sort of system effective you need to allow for people who are moving around as well.
I've experienced this too. I use Firefox exclusively because I can't live without tabbed browsing, but it's definitely got some issues that need to be worked out. If it's left open for too long, it starts to gobble memory like crazy and my whole system slows down.
I also have problems with popups. When I first started using Firefox, the popup blocking was great, but now it seems to be doing the exact opposite of what I want it to do - it doesn't block automatic popups (the kind I don't want), and it (sometimes) does block pop-ups from links I've clicked on.
Furthermore, whenever a new window opens in Firefox (popup, or if I accidently click "Open link in new window") the browser stops responding for about a minute. It'll open the new window and work fine, it just takes a really damn long time, and I can't doing anything else during that time. It's pretty annoying.
And then sometimes it just crashes out of nowhere. Firefox definitely has some stability issues. I suppose it could be one of the extensions I'm using, but I've only got 4 on here, they're fairly well known, and I keep them up to date, so that doesn't make sense... blah. I can't wait until these kinks are worked out, because then Firefox will be perfect.
Amen. Even if you're in a region that gets releases "early," you're still going to be waiting several months after the movie is out of theatres... why? They don't seem to be in much of a rush to provide us with content. I understand that it takes time to design and produce a good DVD, but sometimes it seems like they spend more time putting together the DVD than the film itself!
I know of another Halo 2 egg - it's a bit of a PITA, but well worth it. In the Earth level, just after you drive the tank over the bridge, you have to make a banshee follow you through the tunnel and out into the next open area. You cannot board the banshee before you enter the tunnel, because you won't be able to fly in, and you can't board it while in the tunnel because it will explode. Also, you can't let the banshee stray too far from you or it will disappear when you move through a loading zone.
If you manage to fly it all the way through the tunnel and board it, you can fly it up above the building with the two wraiths out front, and floating in the air you'll find what appears to be a covenant plasma rifle. However, when you shoot it, it fires plasma blasts like those of the Scarab... it totally annihiliates anything within 20 feet of where you shoot it. It's pretty cool.
You can probably find more detailed instructions on how to get it somewhere else...
More or less, but I didn't bother to list every single reason I don't use iTMS now because I don't think anyone would care. For instance, iTMS doesn't carry a lot of the stuff I listen to since it's not as popular.
But yes, I'll absolutely use P2P with a clear conscience. If I like the music enough, I'll usually buy it, if not, I'll probably delete it. Oh, and iTMS is far from what I'd consider the ideal music distribution solution. Hopefully if enough consumers continue to show that they're dissatisfied with RIAA bullshit by using P2P, we'll get something better in the future.
The foremost one. Seems obvious enough to me. I won't pretend I've never saved the wrong image in Photoshop, but having "Save" under the "File" menu should be a given.
Nice one;)
But I'm sure you'll admit that the "average Windows user" doesn't know what it means to compile a program, let alone how to do it. You almost never have to compile anything on Windows, and especially not the kind of programs Uncle Bob or Aunt Mary want to use. But if you put them down in front of a *n?x box and tell them they're going to have to compile the app before they can listen to their music (for example, Fedora Core didn't come with an MP3 player, last time I checked. It had a version of XMMS, but the MP3 functionality had been stripped out for some reason, so I had to recompile it), they're going to be running back to Windows faster than you can say "gcc."
It's a great idea......which is precisely why Nintendo won't do it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no Sony fan, but I can't remember the last time Nintendo did something I'd really consider "smart" or "innovative."
Where are my mod points when I need them? This is a good point.
Frankly, no DRM is much better than any DRM... especially considering most DRM can be circumvented very easily. But I can see how not using DRM would be frightening for an independant artist. You're potentially giving away all your work, and you've got no income from albums, etc.
That said, is there no way to create your own Apple DRM'd songs? None at all? Do most independant artists rely on DRM, or are they more reliant on a small group of dedicated fans who will pay for the music to support the band?
Add me to the ranks of people who are no doubt turned off from using the iTunes music store because of this. I've been considering it for a long time, but if they're going to be increasing prices for new songs, count me out. I don't listen to much "popular" music anyway, but on the ocassion that I do want a new song, I'm not going to pay a dollar and a half for it.
Looks like I'll be sticking for P2P. And, despite what the RIAA says, I tend to buy the album if I really like it.
How many serious web developers make static HTML pages for all of their content these days? Just put your formatting code in your index file and let it control your other pages. Simple way to allow for easy style changes without having to learn CSS.
I'm not saying you shouldn't use CSS for certain things - it's definitely useful for easily customizing <H> tags and blockquotes... but having to learn a whole new language just to make things more uniform? It's ridiculous. Do it with your favorite (preferably server-side) scripting language; that's something that a serious web developer should know anyway.
Linux has a long way to go before it'll be ready for the desktop. Sometimes it can take up to and including an hour just to install something because you have to go looking for its dependencies. I know this isn't really a problem with Linux itself, but with that and several other things taken into consideration, I don' think Linux is ready for the average user yet.
I agree totally. PHP is easy to learn if you're a programmer, but it's not the kind of thing a non-programmer can learn in an afternoon.
My girlfriend is very smart and knows HTML. I tried teaching her PHP and it took days before she could do actually do anything with it. Okay, so I'm not the best teacher, but speaking from experience, PHP definitely isn't that easy.
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They're too busy being litigious assholes.
It was on MetaFilter several days ago... it's an ongoing thing though, so Slashdot isn't really "behind" on this one.
I know it's popular to make fun of the editors around here, 'cause they don't always do the best job, but no, that sentence makes perfect sense.
Look, there are tons of programs out there that can detect motion in images, and I'm sure that one is great. And I'll be the first to admit that organizations don't always spend their money as well as they could... but I do think that this system is just a bit more advanced than that. It needs to be pretty accurate. You can't afford to miss anything, and you can't really afford false positives either. Detecting non-motion in a pool is one thing, but not everyone who's in trouble just stops moving. Granted, it's easier for the lifegaurds to see someone who's thrashing around, but to make this sort of system effective you need to allow for people who are moving around as well.
I've experienced this too. I use Firefox exclusively because I can't live without tabbed browsing, but it's definitely got some issues that need to be worked out. If it's left open for too long, it starts to gobble memory like crazy and my whole system slows down.
I also have problems with popups. When I first started using Firefox, the popup blocking was great, but now it seems to be doing the exact opposite of what I want it to do - it doesn't block automatic popups (the kind I don't want), and it (sometimes) does block pop-ups from links I've clicked on.
Furthermore, whenever a new window opens in Firefox (popup, or if I accidently click "Open link in new window") the browser stops responding for about a minute. It'll open the new window and work fine, it just takes a really damn long time, and I can't doing anything else during that time. It's pretty annoying.
And then sometimes it just crashes out of nowhere. Firefox definitely has some stability issues. I suppose it could be one of the extensions I'm using, but I've only got 4 on here, they're fairly well known, and I keep them up to date, so that doesn't make sense... blah. I can't wait until these kinks are worked out, because then Firefox will be perfect.
Er, what's your point? IE was hardly the first web browser.
That site has to be a joke... right?
Amen. Even if you're in a region that gets releases "early," you're still going to be waiting several months after the movie is out of theatres... why? They don't seem to be in much of a rush to provide us with content. I understand that it takes time to design and produce a good DVD, but sometimes it seems like they spend more time putting together the DVD than the film itself!
We have several different sizes. The biggest is 4 litres.
I know of another Halo 2 egg - it's a bit of a PITA, but well worth it. In the Earth level, just after you drive the tank over the bridge, you have to make a banshee follow you through the tunnel and out into the next open area. You cannot board the banshee before you enter the tunnel, because you won't be able to fly in, and you can't board it while in the tunnel because it will explode. Also, you can't let the banshee stray too far from you or it will disappear when you move through a loading zone.
If you manage to fly it all the way through the tunnel and board it, you can fly it up above the building with the two wraiths out front, and floating in the air you'll find what appears to be a covenant plasma rifle. However, when you shoot it, it fires plasma blasts like those of the Scarab... it totally annihiliates anything within 20 feet of where you shoot it. It's pretty cool.
You can probably find more detailed instructions on how to get it somewhere else...
VGCats has a comic about this. It's pretty funy... and now I finally understand it! (I've never been a fan of Blizzard games.)
That's funny, because it's on my WM2003SE PocketPC right now. Guess where I got it from? Macromedia. Guess how much I payed for it? Nothing.
I think I'll uninstall it, though. It's buggy as hell.
And yet gun makers cannot be sued when their products are used in crimes, despite the fact that guns have no use other than shooting people? Sigh.
More or less, but I didn't bother to list every single reason I don't use iTMS now because I don't think anyone would care. For instance, iTMS doesn't carry a lot of the stuff I listen to since it's not as popular.
But yes, I'll absolutely use P2P with a clear conscience. If I like the music enough, I'll usually buy it, if not, I'll probably delete it. Oh, and iTMS is far from what I'd consider the ideal music distribution solution. Hopefully if enough consumers continue to show that they're dissatisfied with RIAA bullshit by using P2P, we'll get something better in the future.
The foremost one. Seems obvious enough to me. I won't pretend I've never saved the wrong image in Photoshop, but having "Save" under the "File" menu should be a given.
Nice one ;)
But I'm sure you'll admit that the "average Windows user" doesn't know what it means to compile a program, let alone how to do it. You almost never have to compile anything on Windows, and especially not the kind of programs Uncle Bob or Aunt Mary want to use. But if you put them down in front of a *n?x box and tell them they're going to have to compile the app before they can listen to their music (for example, Fedora Core didn't come with an MP3 player, last time I checked. It had a version of XMMS, but the MP3 functionality had been stripped out for some reason, so I had to recompile it), they're going to be running back to Windows faster than you can say "gcc."
It's a great idea... ...which is precisely why Nintendo won't do it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no Sony fan, but I can't remember the last time Nintendo did something I'd really consider "smart" or "innovative."
Where are my mod points when I need them? This is a good point.
Frankly, no DRM is much better than any DRM... especially considering most DRM can be circumvented very easily. But I can see how not using DRM would be frightening for an independant artist. You're potentially giving away all your work, and you've got no income from albums, etc.
That said, is there no way to create your own Apple DRM'd songs? None at all? Do most independant artists rely on DRM, or are they more reliant on a small group of dedicated fans who will pay for the music to support the band?
Add me to the ranks of people who are no doubt turned off from using the iTunes music store because of this. I've been considering it for a long time, but if they're going to be increasing prices for new songs, count me out. I don't listen to much "popular" music anyway, but on the ocassion that I do want a new song, I'm not going to pay a dollar and a half for it.
Looks like I'll be sticking for P2P. And, despite what the RIAA says, I tend to buy the album if I really like it.
When was the last time you had to compile a driver for Windows?
There's an 'i' in "win" =P
How many serious web developers make static HTML pages for all of their content these days? Just put your formatting code in your index file and let it control your other pages. Simple way to allow for easy style changes without having to learn CSS.
I'm not saying you shouldn't use CSS for certain things - it's definitely useful for easily customizing <H> tags and blockquotes... but having to learn a whole new language just to make things more uniform? It's ridiculous. Do it with your favorite (preferably server-side) scripting language; that's something that a serious web developer should know anyway.
Linux has a long way to go before it'll be ready for the desktop. Sometimes it can take up to and including an hour just to install something because you have to go looking for its dependencies. I know this isn't really a problem with Linux itself, but with that and several other things taken into consideration, I don' think Linux is ready for the average user yet.
I agree totally. PHP is easy to learn if you're a programmer, but it's not the kind of thing a non-programmer can learn in an afternoon.
My girlfriend is very smart and knows HTML. I tried teaching her PHP and it took days before she could do actually do anything with it. Okay, so I'm not the best teacher, but speaking from experience, PHP definitely isn't that easy.
Thank you. That is the most wholly true thing I have heard all week.