They've alreafy done it. I used to watch a lot of shows on Hulu. It was great for catching up if you missed the beginning of a season, or didn't hear about a show until it had been on for a while. But a few months ago, shows that had always had all episodes available were suddenly cit down to 4or 5. I think you ciuld evem watch all of Arrested Development ( dont't hold me to thst... ), until seasons started disappearing. Now they seem to keep one season up at a time, as if it's some kind of special event when they deign to let you watch another season of a good show they axed early. Now that they've finished wiping out that content, they want to re-offer it like they're doing me a favor?
I'd also like to point out that Eli Stone isthe worst show I've ever seen. From supporting tge anti-vax crowd, to horrible writing andactibg, to its grab-bag of first-season Ally McBeak fantasy shots, it was, in every aspect of its existence, the mostpompous, least creative piece of committee-written tripe I've ever seen.
It wasn't a direct comparison of morality. The argument was that it is not necessarily illegal or immoral for someone to freely copy or distribute something that someone else has made valuable through a large investment of time, money, or effort. The slave example was used, not because copyright is comparably immoral to slavery, but because slavery is such a clearly recognized example that no one could possibly quibble over the actual morality of the thing.
The phonebook example could have been used. Phonebooks are not protected by copyright, in spite of the massive investment of time, money, and work required to produce one. If Joe makes a phonebook, Joe's neighbor, who owns a printing press, can copy and distribute the information in it at will, because it contains compiled data, not creative work. But an argument like this draws fewer eyes, and could cause someone in a phonebook-like business to complain about the example itself. The number of people who think slavery is arguably acceptable is (one hopes) vanishingly small.
Mentions of Nazis and slavery are not always Godwin-esque comparisons of the opposition. They are often a version of the slippery-slope argument trying to catch focus with a bit of shock.
I know the iPhone has an enormous Apple logo on the back, but:
1) It's not and enormous Apple logo on the front
2) Some people think Apple is cool
The Windows logo instantly makes me feel like I'm at work. Seeing it on the front of my phone everytime I pick it up would sap a tiny percentage of the joy from my day everytime I picked the thing up. And why? For branding? They can't just put a stylized picture of a house, or a rounded square ( I've never heard of anyone being confused by the non-specific design on the iPhone's ONLY BUTTON )... a circle... a triangle... Maybe no icon at all!
I want my technology to look like it was sent from an alient future, or dug up from an alien past... with mystic runes and shit.
After Mickey Mouse, the Windows logo is the least mystical goddamn rune on earth.
One might distinguiush between "generally useful" information and and personal information that is only useful to someone interested in taking advantage of yiu as an individual. Government secrets might help the average man vote... trade secret code might help the average porgrammer improve his ownprograms or improve the same code to everyone's benefit. The average personmight even be able to do useful research of some kind using anonymized aggregate data that I'm buried in somewhere. But the specific color of specifically my towels is notgenerally useful... nor my specific phone number, or even my purchasing habits, if they can be tied to me. I can't be extrapolated to a broad class of cases or usage scenarios
They throttled me too : (
And then their local storefronts disappeared, and then they changed their name from something recognizable and google-linked to several vitriolic websites to something that is difficult to search for effectively.
On the bright side, my modem reached Texas before they forcefully renewed my two year "Please Throttle Me" plan.
ClearWire is $40 per month here, with a USB stick for your laptop... Or $30 per month with a netbook-sized modem and a lantern battery in a fanny pack.
I once invented the world's most powerful computer. It contained one PPC processor, one x86 processor, and one ARM, with "Pargon" written between each of them on the schematic.
I don't see why the same approach couldn't work for GPUs in some sort of SLI/Crossfire type of mode.
But apparently it won't get to use PhysX.
In America, first you get the Profit!, then you get the power, THEN you get the women.
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Spoken language is (more or less) punctuated by whitespace. Tone certainly plays a role, but I can (lamentably) understand Ben Stein well, whether he's selling me eye drops, or calling me a latent Nazi.
I understand the philosophical rejection of whitespace as a control, and the argument appeals to a part of myself I have respect deeply, but at the same time, you -can- see it. Space and Tab have ASCII codes, and they are represented in whatever interface you're using by a region of white pixels, the same way an "A" is represented by a region of white pixels interspersed with a specific pattern of black.
If the language occasionally required a couple of spaces in a row before a line of code, and other times required a single tab, the result would certainly be horrific, but as it is, the requirement is both functional, and visually informative.
Sane people use tabs to separate blocks for the purposes of readability, anyway. At that point, curly braces become redundant information.
I've typed "newent" a few times, and that game looks a lot like Sauerbraten to me, but I din't see anything about Sauerbraten or Cube 1/2 in the article or on the game's page...
http://www.sauerbraten.org/
"...So purchasing the same phone from the same provider at a later date can get you better reception."
"Unfortunately that's wrong."
Actually, under certain circumstances, it's possible. GSM phones carry a list of providers, ranked generally according to how much they'll charge your provider if you make a call on their network. It's possible for a provider to be blocked completely, or ranked low enough that your phone will talk to a cheaper tower with a poorer signal. But this information can get outdated, meaning that a cheaper tower with better reception might be ignored based on old settings.
Buying a new phone would probably fix the problem, but a better idea is to call your carrier and let them push the most recent version to you.
A phone should never have -no- reception because of this, as the data is only for picking between multiple towers (unless a certain tower is gouging the hell out of everyone).
Heck, with a strength of just 17 (+3) I can Push or Drag 1,300 pounds, and I'm only fourth level. On the other hand, I'm sure I can't reach freeway speeds once I'm Encumbered.
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They've alreafy done it. I used to watch a lot of shows on Hulu. It was great for catching up if you missed the beginning of a season, or didn't hear about a show until it had been on for a while. But a few months ago, shows that had always had all episodes available were suddenly cit down to 4or 5. I think you ciuld evem watch all of Arrested Development ( dont't hold me to thst... ), until seasons started disappearing. Now they seem to keep one season up at a time, as if it's some kind of special event when they deign to let you watch another season of a good show they axed early. Now that they've finished wiping out that content, they want to re-offer it like they're doing me a favor?
I'd also like to point out that Eli Stone isthe worst show I've ever seen. From supporting tge anti-vax crowd, to horrible writing andactibg, to its grab-bag of first-season Ally McBeak fantasy shots, it was, in every aspect of its existence, the mostpompous, least creative piece of committee-written tripe I've ever seen.
It wasn't a direct comparison of morality. The argument was that it is not necessarily illegal or immoral for someone to freely copy or distribute something that someone else has made valuable through a large investment of time, money, or effort. The slave example was used, not because copyright is comparably immoral to slavery, but because slavery is such a clearly recognized example that no one could possibly quibble over the actual morality of the thing.
The phonebook example could have been used. Phonebooks are not protected by copyright, in spite of the massive investment of time, money, and work required to produce one. If Joe makes a phonebook, Joe's neighbor, who owns a printing press, can copy and distribute the information in it at will, because it contains compiled data, not creative work. But an argument like this draws fewer eyes, and could cause someone in a phonebook-like business to complain about the example itself. The number of people who think slavery is arguably acceptable is (one hopes) vanishingly small.
Mentions of Nazis and slavery are not always Godwin-esque comparisons of the opposition. They are often a version of the slippery-slope argument trying to catch focus with a bit of shock.
I know the iPhone has an enormous Apple logo on the back, but:
1) It's not and enormous Apple logo on the front
2) Some people think Apple is cool
The Windows logo instantly makes me feel like I'm at work. Seeing it on the front of my phone everytime I pick it up would sap a tiny percentage of the joy from my day everytime I picked the thing up. And why? For branding? They can't just put a stylized picture of a house, or a rounded square ( I've never heard of anyone being confused by the non-specific design on the iPhone's ONLY BUTTON )... a circle... a triangle... Maybe no icon at all!
I want my technology to look like it was sent from an alient future, or dug up from an alien past... with mystic runes and shit.
After Mickey Mouse, the Windows logo is the least mystical goddamn rune on earth.
If you have an ample gaming PC, you should try Dolphin. Wii games really do look much better at 1080p.
You'd think they would have seen it coming.
*rimshot*
Nanobots would have been rational enough for me.
One might distinguiush between "generally useful" information and and personal information that is only useful to someone interested in taking advantage of yiu as an individual. Government secrets might help the average man vote... trade secret code might help the average porgrammer improve his ownprograms or improve the same code to everyone's benefit. The average personmight even be able to do useful research of some kind using anonymized aggregate data that I'm buried in somewhere. But the specific color of specifically my towels is notgenerally useful... nor my specific phone number, or even my purchasing habits, if they can be tied to me. I can't be extrapolated to a broad class of cases or usage scenarios
They throttled me too : ( And then their local storefronts disappeared, and then they changed their name from something recognizable and google-linked to several vitriolic websites to something that is difficult to search for effectively.
On the bright side, my modem reached Texas before they forcefully renewed my two year "Please Throttle Me" plan.
ClearWire is $40 per month here, with a USB stick for your laptop... Or $30 per month with a netbook-sized modem and a lantern battery in a fanny pack.
The iPhone is not quite fast enough : /
But the Slimmerest model exists in only one dimension!
I once invented the world's most powerful computer. It contained one PPC processor, one x86 processor, and one ARM, with "Pargon" written between each of them on the schematic.
I don't see why the same approach couldn't work for GPUs in some sort of SLI/Crossfire type of mode.
But apparently it won't get to use PhysX.
Finally, I can accomplish my lifelong dream of restoring the Zapruder film!
They only paid me to say it once, then they doubled it up on the soundtrack. Cheap bastards
I think you mean "Belsh".
In America, first you get the Profit!, then you get the power, THEN you get the women.
Spoken language is (more or less) punctuated by whitespace. Tone certainly plays a role, but I can (lamentably) understand Ben Stein well, whether he's selling me eye drops, or calling me a latent Nazi.
I understand the philosophical rejection of whitespace as a control, and the argument appeals to a part of myself I have respect deeply, but at the same time, you -can- see it. Space and Tab have ASCII codes, and they are represented in whatever interface you're using by a region of white pixels, the same way an "A" is represented by a region of white pixels interspersed with a specific pattern of black.
If the language occasionally required a couple of spaces in a row before a line of code, and other times required a single tab, the result would certainly be horrific, but as it is, the requirement is both functional, and visually informative.
Sane people use tabs to separate blocks for the purposes of readability, anyway. At that point, curly braces become redundant information.
I've typed "newent" a few times, and that game looks a lot like Sauerbraten to me, but I din't see anything about Sauerbraten or Cube 1/2 in the article or on the game's page... http://www.sauerbraten.org/
"...So purchasing the same phone from the same provider at a later date can get you better reception." "Unfortunately that's wrong." Actually, under certain circumstances, it's possible. GSM phones carry a list of providers, ranked generally according to how much they'll charge your provider if you make a call on their network. It's possible for a provider to be blocked completely, or ranked low enough that your phone will talk to a cheaper tower with a poorer signal. But this information can get outdated, meaning that a cheaper tower with better reception might be ignored based on old settings. Buying a new phone would probably fix the problem, but a better idea is to call your carrier and let them push the most recent version to you. A phone should never have -no- reception because of this, as the data is only for picking between multiple towers (unless a certain tower is gouging the hell out of everyone).
How many members did they see?
Join Cingular, and ditch BellSouth forever! Oh, wait...
Have you forgotten The DeCSS Song?
Splitters!
They should have tried turning it around...
Heck, with a strength of just 17 (+3) I can Push or Drag 1,300 pounds, and I'm only fourth level. On the other hand, I'm sure I can't reach freeway speeds once I'm Encumbered.