IANAL, but isn't there something in the law about how it's illegal to use items for uses outside their specifications? I believe that it originally stems from personal injury litigations, because people would injur themselves using items in functions they weren't meant for, or using them improperly. Couldn't the same thing apply here? Nintendo software is meant solely to operate on a nintendo system. By downloading it to your computer, you are utilizing the cartrige or disc in a manner not originally intended. I wouldn't think fair use would apply since if a cartrige breaks, you'd have a hard time proving that your intention is to bust out the soldering iron, debug the cartrige, fix it, and then download it back to the cartrige. So I think that if you are attempting to use the software in a fashion not intended by the product specifications, fair use and backups wouldn't necessarily apply.
Maybe I'm missing something, but what who has anything to gain by covering this up?? Where's the conspiracy? So Yellowstone might have a volcano in it. If you aren't sure, go look for yourself. It's still open. The reason nobody knows anything about it is that there's nothing to know about it. The article says that everything they moniter leads them to believe that nothing is wrong, and the reason they don't release any other information is because they don't moniter every possible aspect of the park. It's only a conspiracy when they're intentionally trying to keep information from you.
The disagreement is about MLB not using real to broadcast the preseason games, which Real believes is part of their contract. This kind of debate is something jocks can provide us the most insight on, on whether preseason is real baseball or not, on a technical and a meaningful level (Does the preseason really matter of affect how the regular season will go?)
This will help small software businesses lower their costs of production. My family has a business where we sell software, but where it's not practical for us to use mass production because we have to make 1000 copies minimum, since our market is so small. It's easier and cheaper for us to simply burn DVD's everytime an order comes in and print the labels ourselves, and then shrink wrap it. So this will be a real benefit to us and potentially other small business too.
Don't mention the war....
With appologies to John Cleese
In all seriousness, most colleges now have mandatory socialization and team building built into their carriculum for technical majors like engineering and computer science. My university makes you take specific courses in professional development so that you get the basics of team structure and motivation and what not. My brother at Carnagie Mellon says that for computer science majors to graduate, for their freshman year they have to accumulate a certain number of socialization points, which they earn for things like going to movies and even for showering.
I feel compelled to comment on how everyone bitches about Greedo shooting first. If you read "Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina", you find that Greedo isn't a bounty hunter, but just some kid who was tricked into trying to bring Solo in for his bounty, because the guys who tricked Greedo were actually hired to kill Greedo, so they worked it so they get Greedo to try and take Solo down, and he does their job for them. So Greedo shooting first and missing makes perfect sense for some teenage bounty hunter wanna be who was set up for this job he wasn't suited for at all.
Follow my lead-
Go to www.real.com
Click the big yellow bar that says "Download Realplayer"
On the left side of the page will be the information that says how to buy the $20 version of realplayer plus, and on the right side it says very plainly "Here is the free version." Maybe you're getting confused because it comes with a trial period of the premium services. But I found it in about 10 seconds, which included download time, so I don't get why people are getting so frustrated looking for it.
Your attitude is one of prejudice and stereotype. You assume that every lawyer and doctor is filthy stinking rich because their profession is garunteed to make tons of money. That's like saying everyone who majored in economics in college is now a wall street hot shot, or every engineering major has a dozen patents to his name. The truth of the matter is that you have your rich and your poor professionals in any field, and it is simply ignorant to make uninformed presumptions like that. As a med student, let me fill you in on the lives that doctors live. After doing an undergraduate degree, you apply to medical school. The average debt of med school graduates is about 91K for public schools and 123K for private schools (http://www.amsa.org/meded/studentdebt.cfm). This is on top of any debt you have from undergraduate. Then, once you graduate medical school, you do your residency. The length of this residency can go from 4 - 7 years depending on which speciality you go into. Family practice has a shorter residency while surgery has a longer one. During this time, you get paid squat; 40K if you're lucky. Enough to live on in theory but at this point you're potentially 200K in debt already, and you aren't making nearly enough to pay this off during residency, so all most people can do is to just get a forebearance and let it accumulate interest. Compound this with the fact that you graduate medical school at age 26 if you're a traditional student who started straight out of college (a good percantage have a few years between undergrad and med school), so you could easily be married and have a family develop during your residency so there's another drain on your salary. Once you finish your residency, your salary goes up, but it's not instant money. Primary care physicians (internists, family doctors, etc) are on the low end of pay, though they typically have shorter residencies. Specialities like cardiac surgery have more salary, but insanely long residencies (surgical specialities have a long residency followed by fellowship and more crap then you want to deal with). Because the financial security of medicine is so much less than it used to be in the 60's and 70's, you have more people going into specialities than primary care becaus the money is better there, leading to increasingly critical shortages in many fields. So medicine is not a money tree that you can shake. Doctors, lawers, and yes even pro athletes are not rolling in dough. Not ever athlete gets the noteriety as A-Rod. There are many NHL players who barely peak the 100K mark, and major league soccer players are lucky to even get that high.
Well, for all its shortcomings (and it's got a lot), RealNetworks is a business and they have every right to try and sell their product for money. Thus, they are entitled to push their premium product while not exactly emphasizing the free player.
IANAD, but I am an EMT, so I do have a little insight into the protection that those in the medical field need against potential lawsuits. First off, people expect perfection from doctors in even the most impossible instances. Despite what George Clooney and "ER" would have you believe, you do not always save the patient (I won't even get into how many thorachotomies they perform on that show). However, people do not understand the concept of "Not being able to do something". Doctors are human, not Gods. There are many lawsuits that are brought against physicians that are frivalous in most respects, but juries find infavor of the plantiff. There are many cases of pregnant women who come into ER's because they are 3 months premature in labor. The woman is a crack abuser and she's drunk at the time of labor, and she's had no pre-natal care. When the baby is born with birth defects, do you think the woman or juries care about any of this when making multi million dollar rulings in favor of the mother? The answer is no. It's things like this that make malpractice insurance so high for specialities like OB/GYN that there is now a national shortage of OB's who are willing to practice with the system we have. Kings County hospital recently had their cardiac surgery unit suspended because they had a 10% mortality rate. I recently interviewed there for med school and asked about this, and I was told that it's because they didn't selectively choose their patients. Most hospitals around the country will not treat heart patients who do not have a good chance of surviving because it will lead to lower hospital ratings. King's County made a choice and had a unit suspended for it because they tried to give people a chance. So I don't think that physicians are totally out of line when they try to take every precaution they can so that they might be able to continue practicing.
They know that everyone who gets a copy of this software won't always have a business license, but if they do catch someone like that, they'll have a reason to prosecute them, because they are in violation of this policy. It's the same reason they have a line on tax returns where you enter all the embezzled money you got that year. So that if you don't enter it, and you're caught, they have you on tax evasion charges.
Hollywood is more smoke and mirrors than anyone really realizes. Look how young they were able to make Ian McDiarmid look to play Palpatine in the new star wars movies. And how young they made Goldie Hawn look when she played Imhotep in The Mummy movies.
Does it have to do with the type of information??
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The Memory Masters
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These guys are remarkable, no doubt about that. But the main reason that they are able to have such phenomenal memories is that they can easily come up with quick and easy pheunomics so they can remember things like orders of cards, long poems, and so on; things they are basically familiar with. I would be interested to see how well they could look at a series of chineese characters and were told to memorize 100 of them and then write them down. I would presume that to anyone who doesn't know chineese, it would be like just looking at a picture and then trying to copy the lines, something that you really can't put a pneunomic too.
Just because a company pays a spam tax doesn't mean they can force you to download it and read it, it just means they're paying a fee for the privlidge of sending it. Comparing it to normal junk snail mail, advertisers still pay to send that to you, but there's nothing stopping you from hiring a guy to sort your mail for you and throw out all the junk mail before giving it to you. It's the same deal here, you're just hiring your ISP to deliver the extra service of sorting your E-Mail before delivering it too you. Thus, spammers lose the incentive of sending Spam that they're paying money for but is being blocked without anyone seeing it. The only problem would arise with government run ISP's, where the spammers would be paying the government to not deliver their messages. But I see that as similar to the taxation of cigarettes. The govt can put a tax on cigs and then dictate where they can and can't be used.
I disagree. The voyager probes had a huge budget and had a long development time, back before this "faster, cheaper, better" philosophy came to be. The result, two probes were launched, both of which made it to jupiter, and one of them made it all the way out to Neptune. And that was 30 years ago. Now, we can't even hit Mars all that reliably.
Greedo wasn't a bounty hunter. If you read the book "Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina" he was just a kid who was set up to try and bring Solo in by some people who knew that Han would kill him. There's a back story about Greedo's race about how they the refugees scattered across the galaxy because their planet was conquered. The conquering race then hires mercinaries to find and kill the remaining survivors. They found young and impressionable Greedo, and convinced him to bring Solo in, thus having Han kill him, and they get their bounty.
I always had an idea along these lines that perhaps a device could be made that fits into normal airplane windows and could turn solar energy into electricity to power laptops or recharge other devices. With planes flying above the cloudline, planes are awash with loads of sunlight. Plus with plenty of downtime on planes, it could be good for recharging phones and PDA's, espically since they can't be used on planes anyway.
Your job post graduation may not be very tech inclined or as exciting as you might imagine. A friend of mine is in Air Force ROTC, majoring in Aeronautical Engineering. He's a senior and he just recently got his "divisional" assignment (I don't remember what the exact term was) which was Space and Missiles. He said that people who get this assignment are typically split 20% into space which is the cool stuff like design satelite defence networks and things like that. However, 80% of the people assigned to this division are put in missiles, which means they spend their 5 year payback comittment sitting in a missile silo in backwater Colorado waiting for the president to say the word to nuke some other country. Other divisions are better, some are worse, but just keep in mind that the military can give you a bitch job and you can't do anything about it since you're military.
Not necessarily. You could restrict the biometric identification to just one chromosome or one sequence of DNA. In modrn DNA tests, they only look at certain sequences and those are sufficient to make a positive identification. The same could be applied to this. Thus, if you feel one sequence has been compromised, you can switch your password to a different sequence of DNA in your chromosomes.
This has the potential to go the wrong way...
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Star Wreck Trailer
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· Score: 1, Interesting
Despite all the blah blah blah, Star Trek sucks BS that floats around the internet, you still can't take away from the fact that Gene Roddenbery's creation has been one of the biggest impacts to Science Fiction and that it's wildly popular. Satire is one thing, but I hope this project isn't some pathetic rip off of Star Trek that just makes lame shots at some of the stereotypical Star Trek elements. Spaceballs was a great movie, because though it was based off of Star Wars, it had an identity of its own, and all the satire was done in passing rather than being the primary focal point. I hope this is how this project works, rather than just being 90 minutes of "Look, the holoroom is malfunctioning, that's funny because that happens a lot in Star Trek. Uh oh, Counciler Ithica said something obvious, that's funny too".
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IANAL, but isn't there something in the law about how it's illegal to use items for uses outside their specifications? I believe that it originally stems from personal injury litigations, because people would injur themselves using items in functions they weren't meant for, or using them improperly. Couldn't the same thing apply here? Nintendo software is meant solely to operate on a nintendo system. By downloading it to your computer, you are utilizing the cartrige or disc in a manner not originally intended. I wouldn't think fair use would apply since if a cartrige breaks, you'd have a hard time proving that your intention is to bust out the soldering iron, debug the cartrige, fix it, and then download it back to the cartrige. So I think that if you are attempting to use the software in a fashion not intended by the product specifications, fair use and backups wouldn't necessarily apply.
Yeah, then can dance, but they can only do The Robot. Why couldn't these guys be in Japan? I'd like to see them on the DDR machines.
Maybe I'm missing something, but what who has anything to gain by covering this up?? Where's the conspiracy? So Yellowstone might have a volcano in it. If you aren't sure, go look for yourself. It's still open. The reason nobody knows anything about it is that there's nothing to know about it. The article says that everything they moniter leads them to believe that nothing is wrong, and the reason they don't release any other information is because they don't moniter every possible aspect of the park. It's only a conspiracy when they're intentionally trying to keep information from you.
The disagreement is about MLB not using real to broadcast the preseason games, which Real believes is part of their contract. This kind of debate is something jocks can provide us the most insight on, on whether preseason is real baseball or not, on a technical and a meaningful level (Does the preseason really matter of affect how the regular season will go?)
This will help small software businesses lower their costs of production. My family has a business where we sell software, but where it's not practical for us to use mass production because we have to make 1000 copies minimum, since our market is so small. It's easier and cheaper for us to simply burn DVD's everytime an order comes in and print the labels ourselves, and then shrink wrap it. So this will be a real benefit to us and potentially other small business too.
Don't mention the war.... With appologies to John Cleese In all seriousness, most colleges now have mandatory socialization and team building built into their carriculum for technical majors like engineering and computer science. My university makes you take specific courses in professional development so that you get the basics of team structure and motivation and what not. My brother at Carnagie Mellon says that for computer science majors to graduate, for their freshman year they have to accumulate a certain number of socialization points, which they earn for things like going to movies and even for showering.
I feel compelled to comment on how everyone bitches about Greedo shooting first. If you read "Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina", you find that Greedo isn't a bounty hunter, but just some kid who was tricked into trying to bring Solo in for his bounty, because the guys who tricked Greedo were actually hired to kill Greedo, so they worked it so they get Greedo to try and take Solo down, and he does their job for them. So Greedo shooting first and missing makes perfect sense for some teenage bounty hunter wanna be who was set up for this job he wasn't suited for at all.
Follow my lead- Go to www.real.com Click the big yellow bar that says "Download Realplayer" On the left side of the page will be the information that says how to buy the $20 version of realplayer plus, and on the right side it says very plainly "Here is the free version." Maybe you're getting confused because it comes with a trial period of the premium services. But I found it in about 10 seconds, which included download time, so I don't get why people are getting so frustrated looking for it.
Your attitude is one of prejudice and stereotype. You assume that every lawyer and doctor is filthy stinking rich because their profession is garunteed to make tons of money. That's like saying everyone who majored in economics in college is now a wall street hot shot, or every engineering major has a dozen patents to his name. The truth of the matter is that you have your rich and your poor professionals in any field, and it is simply ignorant to make uninformed presumptions like that. As a med student, let me fill you in on the lives that doctors live. After doing an undergraduate degree, you apply to medical school. The average debt of med school graduates is about 91K for public schools and 123K for private schools (http://www.amsa.org/meded/studentdebt.cfm). This is on top of any debt you have from undergraduate. Then, once you graduate medical school, you do your residency. The length of this residency can go from 4 - 7 years depending on which speciality you go into. Family practice has a shorter residency while surgery has a longer one. During this time, you get paid squat; 40K if you're lucky. Enough to live on in theory but at this point you're potentially 200K in debt already, and you aren't making nearly enough to pay this off during residency, so all most people can do is to just get a forebearance and let it accumulate interest. Compound this with the fact that you graduate medical school at age 26 if you're a traditional student who started straight out of college (a good percantage have a few years between undergrad and med school), so you could easily be married and have a family develop during your residency so there's another drain on your salary. Once you finish your residency, your salary goes up, but it's not instant money. Primary care physicians (internists, family doctors, etc) are on the low end of pay, though they typically have shorter residencies. Specialities like cardiac surgery have more salary, but insanely long residencies (surgical specialities have a long residency followed by fellowship and more crap then you want to deal with). Because the financial security of medicine is so much less than it used to be in the 60's and 70's, you have more people going into specialities than primary care becaus the money is better there, leading to increasingly critical shortages in many fields. So medicine is not a money tree that you can shake. Doctors, lawers, and yes even pro athletes are not rolling in dough. Not ever athlete gets the noteriety as A-Rod. There are many NHL players who barely peak the 100K mark, and major league soccer players are lucky to even get that high.
Well, for all its shortcomings (and it's got a lot), RealNetworks is a business and they have every right to try and sell their product for money. Thus, they are entitled to push their premium product while not exactly emphasizing the free player.
IANAD, but I am an EMT, so I do have a little insight into the protection that those in the medical field need against potential lawsuits. First off, people expect perfection from doctors in even the most impossible instances. Despite what George Clooney and "ER" would have you believe, you do not always save the patient (I won't even get into how many thorachotomies they perform on that show). However, people do not understand the concept of "Not being able to do something". Doctors are human, not Gods. There are many lawsuits that are brought against physicians that are frivalous in most respects, but juries find infavor of the plantiff. There are many cases of pregnant women who come into ER's because they are 3 months premature in labor. The woman is a crack abuser and she's drunk at the time of labor, and she's had no pre-natal care. When the baby is born with birth defects, do you think the woman or juries care about any of this when making multi million dollar rulings in favor of the mother? The answer is no. It's things like this that make malpractice insurance so high for specialities like OB/GYN that there is now a national shortage of OB's who are willing to practice with the system we have. Kings County hospital recently had their cardiac surgery unit suspended because they had a 10% mortality rate. I recently interviewed there for med school and asked about this, and I was told that it's because they didn't selectively choose their patients. Most hospitals around the country will not treat heart patients who do not have a good chance of surviving because it will lead to lower hospital ratings. King's County made a choice and had a unit suspended for it because they tried to give people a chance. So I don't think that physicians are totally out of line when they try to take every precaution they can so that they might be able to continue practicing.
They know that everyone who gets a copy of this software won't always have a business license, but if they do catch someone like that, they'll have a reason to prosecute them, because they are in violation of this policy. It's the same reason they have a line on tax returns where you enter all the embezzled money you got that year. So that if you don't enter it, and you're caught, they have you on tax evasion charges.
Hollywood is more smoke and mirrors than anyone really realizes. Look how young they were able to make Ian McDiarmid look to play Palpatine in the new star wars movies. And how young they made Goldie Hawn look when she played Imhotep in The Mummy movies.
These guys are remarkable, no doubt about that. But the main reason that they are able to have such phenomenal memories is that they can easily come up with quick and easy pheunomics so they can remember things like orders of cards, long poems, and so on; things they are basically familiar with. I would be interested to see how well they could look at a series of chineese characters and were told to memorize 100 of them and then write them down. I would presume that to anyone who doesn't know chineese, it would be like just looking at a picture and then trying to copy the lines, something that you really can't put a pneunomic too.
It stinks!!
Most spam I get these days aren't even text messages. They're just images that load from another website.
Just because a company pays a spam tax doesn't mean they can force you to download it and read it, it just means they're paying a fee for the privlidge of sending it. Comparing it to normal junk snail mail, advertisers still pay to send that to you, but there's nothing stopping you from hiring a guy to sort your mail for you and throw out all the junk mail before giving it to you. It's the same deal here, you're just hiring your ISP to deliver the extra service of sorting your E-Mail before delivering it too you. Thus, spammers lose the incentive of sending Spam that they're paying money for but is being blocked without anyone seeing it. The only problem would arise with government run ISP's, where the spammers would be paying the government to not deliver their messages. But I see that as similar to the taxation of cigarettes. The govt can put a tax on cigs and then dictate where they can and can't be used.
I disagree. The voyager probes had a huge budget and had a long development time, back before this "faster, cheaper, better" philosophy came to be. The result, two probes were launched, both of which made it to jupiter, and one of them made it all the way out to Neptune. And that was 30 years ago. Now, we can't even hit Mars all that reliably.
Greedo wasn't a bounty hunter. If you read the book "Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina" he was just a kid who was set up to try and bring Solo in by some people who knew that Han would kill him. There's a back story about Greedo's race about how they the refugees scattered across the galaxy because their planet was conquered. The conquering race then hires mercinaries to find and kill the remaining survivors. They found young and impressionable Greedo, and convinced him to bring Solo in, thus having Han kill him, and they get their bounty.
I always had an idea along these lines that perhaps a device could be made that fits into normal airplane windows and could turn solar energy into electricity to power laptops or recharge other devices. With planes flying above the cloudline, planes are awash with loads of sunlight. Plus with plenty of downtime on planes, it could be good for recharging phones and PDA's, espically since they can't be used on planes anyway.
Your job post graduation may not be very tech inclined or as exciting as you might imagine. A friend of mine is in Air Force ROTC, majoring in Aeronautical Engineering. He's a senior and he just recently got his "divisional" assignment (I don't remember what the exact term was) which was Space and Missiles. He said that people who get this assignment are typically split 20% into space which is the cool stuff like design satelite defence networks and things like that. However, 80% of the people assigned to this division are put in missiles, which means they spend their 5 year payback comittment sitting in a missile silo in backwater Colorado waiting for the president to say the word to nuke some other country. Other divisions are better, some are worse, but just keep in mind that the military can give you a bitch job and you can't do anything about it since you're military.
In other related news, Hell is reporting sub zero temperatures in the outer levels, with snowball fight breaking out within the city of Dis.
I've been pouring coffee on my frosted flakes for years. What else are you going to do when you're out of milk? :-)
Not necessarily. You could restrict the biometric identification to just one chromosome or one sequence of DNA. In modrn DNA tests, they only look at certain sequences and those are sufficient to make a positive identification. The same could be applied to this. Thus, if you feel one sequence has been compromised, you can switch your password to a different sequence of DNA in your chromosomes.
Despite all the blah blah blah, Star Trek sucks BS that floats around the internet, you still can't take away from the fact that Gene Roddenbery's creation has been one of the biggest impacts to Science Fiction and that it's wildly popular. Satire is one thing, but I hope this project isn't some pathetic rip off of Star Trek that just makes lame shots at some of the stereotypical Star Trek elements. Spaceballs was a great movie, because though it was based off of Star Wars, it had an identity of its own, and all the satire was done in passing rather than being the primary focal point. I hope this is how this project works, rather than just being 90 minutes of "Look, the holoroom is malfunctioning, that's funny because that happens a lot in Star Trek. Uh oh, Counciler Ithica said something obvious, that's funny too".