Thanks for the pointer. If someone can convince me to finally take up swimming as a hobby those things sure will be useful. Seeing sharp for two meters is better than seeing sharp for 10 cm.
Getting a DDR clone and a dance mat also helps. Unless of course you live above the ground floor and can't jump around in your flat without someone yelling at you to stop. One problem with DDR is that the mental component is just simple pattern recognition, pattern learning and quick reaction so if you can't shut down your brain you will inevitably think about (not) thinking about DDR, which tends to fuck up the score...
I wish they'd manufacture those at -10.5. If I wanted goggles that noticably impact my sight I'd probably have to get prescription goggles for 200 bucks a glass...
But once I got to calculus there were many math concepts that simply seemed foreign and unlearnable to me, and for some reason I keep looking back to that math class taught in french and think that's where it all went wrong, although if I was able to visualize the math concept, I'd do just fine. It's once I have to start transforming pure equations and intuiting in a linguistic sense that I start to get in trouble.
I have the very same problem (which is why I have to redo the goddamn Math II course this semester): I can do most math stuff without problems, but once it comes to polynomials and related stuff my mental process hits a brick wall. In school I used to have a B in math. Then polynomials were introduced (must have been around the ninth grade) and I immediately dropped to a regular E. In the last semester of school we went from polynomial-based stuff to stochastics. I went back to a B. Unfortunately the last semester's grades didn't count against the final report card...
My health insurance paid for an IQ test when I was about fifteen. It turned out that I had an overall score of 124 but also a deficiency in some area, which would have to be determined with another examination. Once the exact deficiency would have been determined I would have been able to work around it or train that area. Of course the insurance decided that while they cover IQ tests they don't cover anything that might actually help people so now I'm stuck knowing that I have or had some kind of deficiency but not what kind of deficiency it is/was or how it affects me.
The point of the story: I think that it's probably not the stuff you didn't learn that threw you off track but rather some kind of mental block.
Bundle a special version of Virtual PC and a free copy of Windows XP (specially modified to run in the stripped down VPC) with the system as an optional "classic environment" and drop most compatiblity code from the main OS. Give people access to the development libraries a couple months beforehand so they can rewrite their apps to be compatible with the new API.
Yes, I'd essentially just do what Apple did. Because it worked. Say about Classic what you want, it did its work.
I'm just wondering... Would it be possible to reverse-engineer the Minidisc storage medium and make a homebrew MD MP3 player that just treats the disc itself as a generic storage medium? Maybe one could try to interface to parts from a commercial MD player (ie. remove most of the elctronics and put in your own PCB)...
Seriously, I think that the Minidisc as a storage medium is quite cool. It's just everything else about it that had to be replaced.
I know someone who does this. He's mainly a Win user, but occasionally needs *nix apps. For him Linux-in-a-box is a better choice than multiboot since he can just pop the VM open, do his work and close it without leaving his default environment (after all, he does do his regular stuff like mail under Windows). He doesn't try to be a power user and he has not had many unexplicable system failures, so he's quite happy with Windows.
Although this is only until I can talk him into a Mac, of course.;)
That's like saying that since a movie is shown on HBO, that there is nothing harmful to the movie maker when the fans never buy the DVD, but just make a digital copy off of digital cable TV.
There is nothing harmful to the movie maker when the fans never buy the DVD, but just make a digital copy off of digital cable TV. When the company licensed the movie to the TV station they did so knowing that people would make copies (and accounting for it). The customers' right to make copies of what's on TV has been cemented in Sony v. Betamax. What do you think why TV only gets the movies about a year after the DVD came out? Beause DVD sales are already low enough that the TV airing only makes an insignificant dent.
Besides, at least in my country there is a levy on all recording equipment and media which compensates for exactly this. So yes, it is not harmful for the content creator at all because I have already paid them.
You're not sticking it to the man, but rather sticking it to the very people who are getting fucked over by The Man.
I am. Because the levy reimburses mainly the artists and not the labels. At least in Germany.
I'm still waiting for an alternative system to come into existance going on seven years after people started saying that Napster would give birth to one based on viral marketting and internet sales. Guess what? It hasn't happened.
There are many alternative systems. Not in mainstream music, mind you, but some bands even manage to get along while offering one third of their stuff for free download. Independent artist have sold their stuff themselves in the past and they will continue to do so. The internet is making life much easier for them - in 1990 I would hardly know about an independent band from Sweden, but today they have constant word-of-mouth advertisement all over the planet.
The best that we can hope for is to change the middleman's behavior the way that the antitrust trial forced Microsoft to stop pointing a knife at OEMs' throats.
That's pretty bleak, givn the fact that DoJ vs. Microsoft changed pretty much nothing.
Just don't expect the content creators to accept a world in which they are forced to rely on good will and honest behavior.
I expect them to offer me something I'd actually buy. iTunes is an example of a service I'd actually use (I don't due to them only supporting payment via credit card and prepaid cards but not direct debit; maybe I'll give those cards a try, though), because it doesn't unnecessarily impede me. Removing the DRM is easy and the program does not take any actions against it. So I buy the stuff essentially unencumbered (ignoring the minor quality loss from recompresing the stuff).
Any kind of DRM that actually tries to be serious will not cut it for me. Either it's trivial to circumvent or I consider the file/medium broken.
Simply taking content you want because it is not sold at prices and DRM terms of your liking is wrong, and dangerous, because the next generation might grow up thinking that that rule applies to jewelry, cars, electronics and other physical property.
#include <slipperyslope.h>
I think there's no need to further comment this quote.
When questioned about Apple's Slashdot strategy, Steve Jobs answered: "Well, the switch to Intel generated some pretty good responses. We'll probably switch to AMD's 64 bit processors by October and then back to PowerPC in 2007. That should give us the general image of being completely batshit loco, which directly translates into -1, Flamebait and +5, Funny. You see, we're not focusing on Flamebait alone. This work is fucking boring and we really need a good laugh once in a while."
Another steady source of unwarranted criticism has been the iPod product line. "We have teamed up with Sony to create the iPod Phono, a pocket-sized gramopone that only plays Sony's patented trade secret Universal Record Disks, which are essentially one-inch records, only more expensive. The fanboys will be all over it - and so will be the Slashdot crowd."
Rumors about Apple planning to switch back to Internet Explorer have not been confirmed yet, but analyst A. Coward is confident: "they finally found out that microsoft is better than everyting including my penis"
Concerning standards and overall quality, IE5/Mac still beats the living crap out of IE6/Win. I'm not sure whether IE7/Win wil finally surpass it. Actually I would have liked Microsoft to just port Tasman (IE/Mac's rendering engine) to Windows for IE7 and build from that instead of sticking with Trident (IE/Win's rendering engine).
To be honest, I don't do much more, except for the fact that I occasionally pester the people around me with details they probably don't want to know. And I have signed up with the FFII to be informed of every interesting petition so I can sign it. (Come to think of it, I have to read up on the results for the "European of the Year" award.)
It is obvious: The next iPod will have to run Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, be a video phone, have a resolution of 3200×2400 on a 2" screen, support 7-band GPRS, UMTS, FireWire, USB, Bluetooth, WiMAX, SCSI, ADSL2, SkyDSL, Fibre Channel, ATM, IPv6, FLAC, Bink and Theora and has to be the reborn Phantom or else Apple will die.
According to my translation software the story has something to do with Knuth selling Microsoft TeX. I didn't know Microsoft had their own version of TeX...
Completely uncalled-for assumption that this whole thread is the USA's fault and that European users would have posted more insightful comments, flamed with more style, defeated software patents, cured cancer or all of the above.
Yeah, but I haven't played the game in ages (mostly due to problems with both Windows and Cedega). Piecing together one side of the story was enough work for one post.
Of course I would appreciate it if someone posted alternative stances on Morrowind's story.
One of the reasons why I consider splash screens a GUI design flaw. If the window caption and GUI is not enough to tell people which program they just started the problem probably doesn't lie within the program.
It is necessary that this style stays available, even though it's not normally active. Then the Slashdotter extension needs to get it as an option. This needs to stay for the sheer WTF value when you switch the style to pink. Especially when you do it with (or rather to?) someone else's Fx profile.
To be frank. This is one reason why I have no pity for %90 of AIDS patients. Sure, there are some ligit cases, like getting stabbed with somthing that has AIDS on it. But still, the best way to protect yourself from AIDS is to stop sleeping around. Find your mate, and stay with that one mate for the rest of your life. And never worry about AIDS.
The best way to pretect yourself from AIDS is not to be African. Do you have an ide on how many people down there are infected? From birth? It's a frickin' epidemic. And yes, I do think that the people down there who had no choice in becoming infected (like the comparatively high number of rape victims or the children of infeced parents) make up more than ten percent of the world's AIDS infected.
You could argue that God hates Africa. I wouldn't. I wouldn't touch that kind of argument with a ten foot pole artfully crafted from five two foot poles. Then again I would never dare to assume any of God's intentions, so this might or might not apply to you.
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks for the pointer. If someone can convince me to finally take up swimming as a hobby those things sure will be useful. Seeing sharp for two meters is better than seeing sharp for 10 cm.
It all depends on whether you want the compresson to be lossless...
Getting a DDR clone and a dance mat also helps. Unless of course you live above the ground floor and can't jump around in your flat without someone yelling at you to stop. One problem with DDR is that the mental component is just simple pattern recognition, pattern learning and quick reaction so if you can't shut down your brain you will inevitably think about (not) thinking about DDR, which tends to fuck up the score...
Heh, silly indeed. Now, honestly, what does have the Queen's Bishop have to do with football and where the hell's the goalie?
I wish they'd manufacture those at -10.5. If I wanted goggles that noticably impact my sight I'd probably have to get prescription goggles for 200 bucks a glass...
But once I got to calculus there were many math concepts that simply seemed foreign and unlearnable to me, and for some reason I keep looking back to that math class taught in french and think that's where it all went wrong, although if I was able to visualize the math concept, I'd do just fine. It's once I have to start transforming pure equations and intuiting in a linguistic sense that I start to get in trouble.
I have the very same problem (which is why I have to redo the goddamn Math II course this semester): I can do most math stuff without problems, but once it comes to polynomials and related stuff my mental process hits a brick wall. In school I used to have a B in math. Then polynomials were introduced (must have been around the ninth grade) and I immediately dropped to a regular E. In the last semester of school we went from polynomial-based stuff to stochastics. I went back to a B. Unfortunately the last semester's grades didn't count against the final report card...
My health insurance paid for an IQ test when I was about fifteen. It turned out that I had an overall score of 124 but also a deficiency in some area, which would have to be determined with another examination. Once the exact deficiency would have been determined I would have been able to work around it or train that area. Of course the insurance decided that while they cover IQ tests they don't cover anything that might actually help people so now I'm stuck knowing that I have or had some kind of deficiency but not what kind of deficiency it is/was or how it affects me.
The point of the story: I think that it's probably not the stuff you didn't learn that threw you off track but rather some kind of mental block.
What would you do if you were Gates?
Bundle a special version of Virtual PC and a free copy of Windows XP (specially modified to run in the stripped down VPC) with the system as an optional "classic environment" and drop most compatiblity code from the main OS. Give people access to the development libraries a couple months beforehand so they can rewrite their apps to be compatible with the new API.
Yes, I'd essentially just do what Apple did. Because it worked. Say about Classic what you want, it did its work.
I'm just wondering... Would it be possible to reverse-engineer the Minidisc storage medium and make a homebrew MD MP3 player that just treats the disc itself as a generic storage medium? Maybe one could try to interface to parts from a commercial MD player (ie. remove most of the elctronics and put in your own PCB)...
Seriously, I think that the Minidisc as a storage medium is quite cool. It's just everything else about it that had to be replaced.
Okay, we don't hate you as long as you're not visiting. But that's nothing personal, we're just not very good at this hospitality thing.
I know someone who does this. He's mainly a Win user, but occasionally needs *nix apps. For him Linux-in-a-box is a better choice than multiboot since he can just pop the VM open, do his work and close it without leaving his default environment (after all, he does do his regular stuff like mail under Windows). He doesn't try to be a power user and he has not had many unexplicable system failures, so he's quite happy with Windows.
;)
Although this is only until I can talk him into a Mac, of course.
That's like saying that since a movie is shown on HBO, that there is nothing harmful to the movie maker when the fans never buy the DVD, but just make a digital copy off of digital cable TV.
There is nothing harmful to the movie maker when the fans never buy the DVD, but just make a digital copy off of digital cable TV. When the company licensed the movie to the TV station they did so knowing that people would make copies (and accounting for it). The customers' right to make copies of what's on TV has been cemented in Sony v. Betamax. What do you think why TV only gets the movies about a year after the DVD came out? Beause DVD sales are already low enough that the TV airing only makes an insignificant dent.
Besides, at least in my country there is a levy on all recording equipment and media which compensates for exactly this. So yes, it is not harmful for the content creator at all because I have already paid them.
You're not sticking it to the man, but rather sticking it to the very people who are getting fucked over by The Man.
I am. Because the levy reimburses mainly the artists and not the labels. At least in Germany.
I'm still waiting for an alternative system to come into existance going on seven years after people started saying that Napster would give birth to one based on viral marketting and internet sales. Guess what? It hasn't happened.
There are many alternative systems. Not in mainstream music, mind you, but some bands even manage to get along while offering one third of their stuff for free download. Independent artist have sold their stuff themselves in the past and they will continue to do so. The internet is making life much easier for them - in 1990 I would hardly know about an independent band from Sweden, but today they have constant word-of-mouth advertisement all over the planet.
The best that we can hope for is to change the middleman's behavior the way that the antitrust trial forced Microsoft to stop pointing a knife at OEMs' throats.
That's pretty bleak, givn the fact that DoJ vs. Microsoft changed pretty much nothing.
Just don't expect the content creators to accept a world in which they are forced to rely on good will and honest behavior.
I expect them to offer me something I'd actually buy. iTunes is an example of a service I'd actually use (I don't due to them only supporting payment via credit card and prepaid cards but not direct debit; maybe I'll give those cards a try, though), because it doesn't unnecessarily impede me. Removing the DRM is easy and the program does not take any actions against it. So I buy the stuff essentially unencumbered (ignoring the minor quality loss from recompresing the stuff).
Any kind of DRM that actually tries to be serious will not cut it for me. Either it's trivial to circumvent or I consider the file/medium broken.
Simply taking content you want because it is not sold at prices and DRM terms of your liking is wrong, and dangerous, because the next generation might grow up thinking that that rule applies to jewelry, cars, electronics and other physical property.
#include <slipperyslope.h>
I think there's no need to further comment this quote.
Where's the problem? Everyone knows that all politics involve the USA. Especially those that have nothing to do with it whatsoever.
When questioned about Apple's Slashdot strategy, Steve Jobs answered: "Well, the switch to Intel generated some pretty good responses. We'll probably switch to AMD's 64 bit processors by October and then back to PowerPC in 2007. That should give us the general image of being completely batshit loco, which directly translates into -1, Flamebait and +5, Funny. You see, we're not focusing on Flamebait alone. This work is fucking boring and we really need a good laugh once in a while."
Another steady source of unwarranted criticism has been the iPod product line. "We have teamed up with Sony to create the iPod Phono, a pocket-sized gramopone that only plays Sony's patented trade secret Universal Record Disks, which are essentially one-inch records, only more expensive. The fanboys will be all over it - and so will be the Slashdot crowd."
Rumors about Apple planning to switch back to Internet Explorer have not been confirmed yet, but analyst A. Coward is confident: "they finally found out that microsoft is better than everyting including my penis"
Concerning standards and overall quality, IE5/Mac still beats the living crap out of IE6/Win. I'm not sure whether IE7/Win wil finally surpass it. Actually I would have liked Microsoft to just port Tasman (IE/Mac's rendering engine) to Windows for IE7 and build from that instead of sticking with Trident (IE/Win's rendering engine).
First: I salute you. (I only signed a petition)
To be honest, I don't do much more, except for the fact that I occasionally pester the people around me with details they probably don't want to know. And I have signed up with the FFII to be informed of every interesting petition so I can sign it. (Come to think of it, I have to read up on the results for the "European of the Year" award.)
It is obvious: The next iPod will have to run Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, be a video phone, have a resolution of 3200×2400 on a 2" screen, support 7-band GPRS, UMTS, FireWire, USB, Bluetooth, WiMAX, SCSI, ADSL2, SkyDSL, Fibre Channel, ATM, IPv6, FLAC, Bink and Theora and has to be the reborn Phantom or else Apple will die.
According to my translation software the story has something to do with Knuth selling Microsoft TeX. I didn't know Microsoft had their own version of TeX...
Completely uncalled-for assumption that this whole thread is the USA's fault and that European users would have posted more insightful comments, flamed with more style, defeated software patents, cured cancer or all of the above.
Yeah, but I haven't played the game in ages (mostly due to problems with both Windows and Cedega). Piecing together one side of the story was enough work for one post.
Of course I would appreciate it if someone posted alternative stances on Morrowind's story.
Phh. Unicorns. Unless the're pink and invisible they're just walking meat. With a horn.
One of the reasons why I consider splash screens a GUI design flaw. If the window caption and GUI is not enough to tell people which program they just started the problem probably doesn't lie within the program.
ASL?
23, f, jetting around the world. Here's my homepage.
It is necessary that this style stays available, even though it's not normally active. Then the Slashdotter extension needs to get it as an option. This needs to stay for the sheer WTF value when you switch the style to pink. Especially when you do it with (or rather to?) someone else's Fx profile.
Karma be damned, that was on Insightful post.
To be frank. This is one reason why I have no pity for %90 of AIDS patients. Sure, there are some ligit cases, like getting stabbed with somthing that has AIDS on it. But still, the best way to protect yourself from AIDS is to stop sleeping around. Find your mate, and stay with that one mate for the rest of your life. And never worry about AIDS.
The best way to pretect yourself from AIDS is not to be African. Do you have an ide on how many people down there are infected? From birth? It's a frickin' epidemic. And yes, I do think that the people down there who had no choice in becoming infected (like the comparatively high number of rape victims or the children of infeced parents) make up more than ten percent of the world's AIDS infected.
You could argue that God hates Africa. I wouldn't. I wouldn't touch that kind of argument with a ten foot pole artfully crafted from five two foot poles. Then again I would never dare to assume any of God's intentions, so this might or might not apply to you.