If the IT people don't care, why then the students should?
To keep others from getting access to their SSNs?
I know I had a definite issue with having others not take appropriate measures to keep my SSN private while I was in college. One of my professors insisted on posting grades on the wall outside the classroom with grades listed by social security number. By law (I think it's law...either that or school policy), they can't do that unless you sign a paper saying that they can, which I would never sign. The problem was that the teachers rarely check to see who signed the paper. So I had to complain over and over again. Some times it's a real pain in the ass to keep your SSN private...
I am, however, not advocating illegally breaking into computer systems to point out flaws. The mature thing to do would be to point out the flaws privately to the school's administration or IT staff, and if they ignored the notice, then I would make public the fact that they ignored the notice of the flaws (without exploiting them, or publicly pointing out exactly what the flaws are, which I believe is illegal).
Meanwhile you're dreaming if you think RIAA will let anyone sell unprotected mp3s, and just about nobody wants giant-sized.wavs.
it seems worthwhile to point out that there are several lossless audio compression formats. I use Monkey's Audio all the time. Here's a comparison of some:
Yes Pro Tools would certainly count as "damn good", and also happens to be in the price-range that I said "costs more than many computers". Other "damn good" interfaces come from Apogee, MOTU, and plenty of others.
I love it when people who don't have any idea what they're talking about claim things like this. On-board audio is "decent for the average user", not "damn good". "Damn good" audio costs more than many computers.
...Google seems to be down a lot lately? Like right now, I can't seem to get to it...what's with that?
Re:Sony still focusing on the wrong things
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Perhaps, but some would say that games are an art form. The game console is a carrier of that art. "Focusing on the right things" could be defined as focusing on things that advance the art form. Art is certainly influenced by money, but making money is not necessarily the goal of art.
Yes, many people would say that the idea is to make money. I don't disagree with that. However, the fact that many highly skilled game developers work long hours for little pay seems to hint at the fact that there might be something other than money that is important to games. Of course, the fact that many game companies exploit their workers tells us that they don't agree. While any business exists primarily to make money, people tend to expect a bit more than a money-making agenda in businesses. Look at the rampant/. hatred of Microsoft, or the love for Google, a company the professes not to be evil. Both companies have made an extraordinary amount of money, but one did it in a way that garnered resentment, the other, devotion.
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Popularity might equal sales, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they're focusing on the "right things"...depending on your perspective. To a business-oriented person, popularity equals sales equals focusing on the right thing. However, to many, focusing on the right things would mean focusing on developing quality games with good gameplay, or rather, ensuring that games released for their system are of high quality with good gameplay. One way to sustain sales, especially over an extended period of time, is to develop a quality system with quality games, but this clearly is not the only way, nor is it the easiest way. Another way could be to have a vast array of crappy games to give the impression that quantity is more important than quality.
To be clear, I'm not saying that Sony does not focus on the right things, I'm just saying that the PS2's popular doesn't necessarily mean that Sony designed it well. I happen to think that it is designed well, but that's not the point.
To take an example from another medium, Jessica Simpson is popular, but musically, she's uninteresting. She generates sales just fine, but to me, anyone investing in her is focusing on the wrong things.
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I feel that the PSP continues Sony's trend of focusing on the wrong things when designing a game console.
Yes, because Sony was *so* off base with the PS2...
Not that I agree or disagree with the original statement, but popularity does not necessarily equal quality.
Re:Anarchy isn't crime or destruction
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Using the hardware for something new and creative that the designers never thought of is anarchy in action.
Really? Taking apart a PSP will result in the dissolution of any governing political authority? That's fascinating. It's not "anarchy in action" at all. "Subversion in action", maybe, but even that is a bit tenuous given that there aren't really any rules against taking it apart--it merely voids the warranty.
I can't believe Sony isn't advertising this feature more, and/or developing it much quicker. For me, $250 is way too much to spend on a portable gaming system, since I rarely take public transportation anywhere, and I don't usually have times where I'm sitting somewhere with nothing else to do, but if it can get me on the web as well, then $250 doesn't sound all that bad...
I think that's related to Gestalt psychology...we have a difficult time remembering large groups of discrete things, so we look for patterns as a way of grouping things into smaller memerable chunks...In other words, it's easier to remember 11110000 than it is to remember 10110101 because the pattern is eaiser to spot.
I have several FireWire peripherals and will probably spend the extra $20 getting the FireWire cable when I get my next iPod (hopefully soon). But it's a luxury, because I have USB 2.0 anyway.
Out of curiosity, why bother? If you already have USB2.0, and the standards are of similar speed, why spend the $20 on a firewire cable? Or, for that matter, why spend $20 on a firewire cable when you can get one for $9 at the Target?
It seems like a number of people are confusing the point of 4'33". The performer is not the person on the stage. The performer is the audience, and the audience is the performer. The performance is the audience's reaction to being subjected to 4'33" of silence. If I remember correctly, the very first performance of this piece created quite a stir. The random events in 4'33" are not derived from some process that Cage wrote out beforehand, they are the result of unwitting audience members being shocked by silence. Silence is redefined as the absense of intended sounds.
I just use a laser printer. The toner is comparatively cheap, it lasts darn near forever, and on the rare occasion that I need something printed in color, I can just send it to the Kinkos, and get a better looking print for probably the same amount it would cost me per page with an inkjet...I used to have an inkjet, but got tired of spending $60 every other month on ink. Now I buy toner once a year or so.
That said, I suspect the US Government has the greatest number and probably the highest percentage of unmotivated, uninterested employees of any organization I have encountered.
Hydrogen Bombs use a fission bomb as a detonator. Thus, plutonium and/or Uranium is still necessary to construct one.
true. I'd mod you up if I had any mod points...kinda scary to think of a bomb whose detonator is the second largest type of bomb in existence.
Is anybody else less than surprised that this happened in Alabama, and that Fox News is the one reporting that it's the evil video game? This is just a thought, but maybe if the kid didn't have a gun, he wouldn't have shot the people.
Would you be happy buying a 12-pack at the corner store, but having to sacrifice one can/bottle to some guy at the exit door for no apparent reason?
that's a bit of a faulty analogy, given that the movie industry isn't actually losing any DVDs that they pressed, just theoretical sales. As always, these figures assume that someone would in fact purchase a DVD if they weren't able to get it for free. Which makes no sense. I don't copy DVDs, but I don't really buy them either. I rent them, which costs the movie industry money in lost sales, as well, according to that sort of logic. Which, of course, isn't true, because if I couldn't rent the movie, I probably just wouldn't watch it.
Interestingly, if RedHat is worried that CentOS is becoming too popular, they couldn't have done anything worse than to create a situation where CentOS was mentioned on/. Up until now, I didn't even know there was a CentOS Linux...
He probably forgot to install the little things that raise the motherboard up away from the metal case...he was likely shorting the mobo out on the case...
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If the IT people don't care, why then the students should?
To keep others from getting access to their SSNs?
I know I had a definite issue with having others not take appropriate measures to keep my SSN private while I was in college. One of my professors insisted on posting grades on the wall outside the classroom with grades listed by social security number. By law (I think it's law...either that or school policy), they can't do that unless you sign a paper saying that they can, which I would never sign. The problem was that the teachers rarely check to see who signed the paper. So I had to complain over and over again. Some times it's a real pain in the ass to keep your SSN private...
I am, however, not advocating illegally breaking into computer systems to point out flaws. The mature thing to do would be to point out the flaws privately to the school's administration or IT staff, and if they ignored the notice, then I would make public the fact that they ignored the notice of the flaws (without exploiting them, or publicly pointing out exactly what the flaws are, which I believe is illegal).
Meanwhile you're dreaming if you think RIAA will let anyone sell unprotected mp3s, and just about nobody wants giant-sized .wavs.
it seems worthwhile to point out that there are several lossless audio compression formats. I use Monkey's Audio all the time. Here's a comparison of some:
http://members.home.nl/w.speek/comparison.htm
Would Pro Tools count as "damn good"?
Yes Pro Tools would certainly count as "damn good", and also happens to be in the price-range that I said "costs more than many computers". Other "damn good" interfaces come from Apogee, MOTU, and plenty of others.
On-board audio is damn good these days.
I love it when people who don't have any idea what they're talking about claim things like this. On-board audio is "decent for the average user", not "damn good". "Damn good" audio costs more than many computers.
they can get the novel warm glow of saying that the tech "originated" at Microsoft.
...just before being purchased by Microsoft.
To transcribe a recording, I use these magical little things called my "ears", and to play it back I use "hands".
typical American house takeing at least six months to complete,
"Taking"
...Google seems to be down a lot lately? Like right now, I can't seem to get to it...what's with that?
Perhaps, but some would say that games are an art form. The game console is a carrier of that art. "Focusing on the right things" could be defined as focusing on things that advance the art form. Art is certainly influenced by money, but making money is not necessarily the goal of art.
/. hatred of Microsoft, or the love for Google, a company the professes not to be evil. Both companies have made an extraordinary amount of money, but one did it in a way that garnered resentment, the other, devotion.
Yes, many people would say that the idea is to make money. I don't disagree with that. However, the fact that many highly skilled game developers work long hours for little pay seems to hint at the fact that there might be something other than money that is important to games. Of course, the fact that many game companies exploit their workers tells us that they don't agree. While any business exists primarily to make money, people tend to expect a bit more than a money-making agenda in businesses. Look at the rampant
Popularity might equal sales, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they're focusing on the "right things"...depending on your perspective. To a business-oriented person, popularity equals sales equals focusing on the right thing. However, to many, focusing on the right things would mean focusing on developing quality games with good gameplay, or rather, ensuring that games released for their system are of high quality with good gameplay. One way to sustain sales, especially over an extended period of time, is to develop a quality system with quality games, but this clearly is not the only way, nor is it the easiest way. Another way could be to have a vast array of crappy games to give the impression that quantity is more important than quality.
To be clear, I'm not saying that Sony does not focus on the right things, I'm just saying that the PS2's popular doesn't necessarily mean that Sony designed it well. I happen to think that it is designed well, but that's not the point.
To take an example from another medium, Jessica Simpson is popular, but musically, she's uninteresting. She generates sales just fine, but to me, anyone investing in her is focusing on the wrong things.
I feel that the PSP continues Sony's trend of focusing on the wrong things when designing a game console.
Yes, because Sony was *so* off base with the PS2...
Not that I agree or disagree with the original statement, but popularity does not necessarily equal quality.
Using the hardware for something new and creative that the designers never thought of is anarchy in action.
Really? Taking apart a PSP will result in the dissolution of any governing political authority? That's fascinating. It's not "anarchy in action" at all. "Subversion in action", maybe, but even that is a bit tenuous given that there aren't really any rules against taking it apart--it merely voids the warranty.
I can't believe Sony isn't advertising this feature more, and/or developing it much quicker. For me, $250 is way too much to spend on a portable gaming system, since I rarely take public transportation anywhere, and I don't usually have times where I'm sitting somewhere with nothing else to do, but if it can get me on the web as well, then $250 doesn't sound all that bad...
I think that's related to Gestalt psychology...we have a difficult time remembering large groups of discrete things, so we look for patterns as a way of grouping things into smaller memerable chunks...In other words, it's easier to remember 11110000 than it is to remember 10110101 because the pattern is eaiser to spot.
I have several FireWire peripherals and will probably spend the extra $20 getting the FireWire cable when I get my next iPod (hopefully soon). But it's a luxury, because I have USB 2.0 anyway.
Out of curiosity, why bother? If you already have USB2.0, and the standards are of similar speed, why spend the $20 on a firewire cable? Or, for that matter, why spend $20 on a firewire cable when you can get one for $9 at the Target?
It seems like a number of people are confusing the point of 4'33". The performer is not the person on the stage. The performer is the audience, and the audience is the performer. The performance is the audience's reaction to being subjected to 4'33" of silence. If I remember correctly, the very first performance of this piece created quite a stir. The random events in 4'33" are not derived from some process that Cage wrote out beforehand, they are the result of unwitting audience members being shocked by silence. Silence is redefined as the absense of intended sounds.
I just use a laser printer. The toner is comparatively cheap, it lasts darn near forever, and on the rare occasion that I need something printed in color, I can just send it to the Kinkos, and get a better looking print for probably the same amount it would cost me per page with an inkjet...I used to have an inkjet, but got tired of spending $60 every other month on ink. Now I buy toner once a year or so.
That said, I suspect the US Government has the greatest number and probably the highest percentage of unmotivated, uninterested employees of any organization I have encountered.
What about the WalMart?
Hydrogen Bombs use a fission bomb as a detonator. Thus, plutonium and/or Uranium is still necessary to construct one. true. I'd mod you up if I had any mod points...kinda scary to think of a bomb whose detonator is the second largest type of bomb in existence.
Is anybody else less than surprised that this happened in Alabama, and that Fox News is the one reporting that it's the evil video game? This is just a thought, but maybe if the kid didn't have a gun, he wouldn't have shot the people.
"Macromedia" != "Macrovision"
Would you be happy buying a 12-pack at the corner store, but having to sacrifice one can/bottle to some guy at the exit door for no apparent reason?
that's a bit of a faulty analogy, given that the movie industry isn't actually losing any DVDs that they pressed, just theoretical sales. As always, these figures assume that someone would in fact purchase a DVD if they weren't able to get it for free. Which makes no sense. I don't copy DVDs, but I don't really buy them either. I rent them, which costs the movie industry money in lost sales, as well, according to that sort of logic. Which, of course, isn't true, because if I couldn't rent the movie, I probably just wouldn't watch it.
Then it disappeared, and now it's on a subpage that you have to dig for, and the search totally stinks.
Say what you will about the quality of Google Groups, but the link is still on the homepage...I know because I just looked.
Interestingly, if RedHat is worried that CentOS is becoming too popular, they couldn't have done anything worse than to create a situation where CentOS was mentioned on /.
Up until now, I didn't even know there was a CentOS Linux...
He probably forgot to install the little things that raise the motherboard up away from the metal case...he was likely shorting the mobo out on the case...