Thanks for the info everyone. Was not aware of that tax. But from what I just read it only applies when making copies of works you already own, correct? I can see how it can help mitigate "some" artists losses due to piracy but it doesn't look like the tax is intended to condone stealing intellectual property.
Is that a joke? Its modded as insightful so I'm guessing not. Please explain to me how paying sales tax on a blank cd somehow makes stealing someone else's intellectual property ok. That's like saying, well I paid for my car so I should be able to drive his. Nice in theory or if you're really drunk, but in no way legal.
So they give people a search engine that highlights results that their privacy policy parser likes and claim that because people tended to click on them they were confirming their interest in privacy while shopping online? You think if google started randomly putting stars next to some of their results that to wouldn't influence click throughs?
Then they say that people were motivated to really shop around to save a buck or two? A couple bucks is no real economic incentive for an adult to do anything beyond clipping a coupon. And further the item they were buying was a VIBRATOR! Drawing parallels between a customer's privacy concerns and purchasing patterns when buying sex toys and say a portable hard drive (last thing I bought online...) is absurd. I believe that people care about two things when shopping online: price and service.
It boggles my mind that stuff like this can garner this kind of attention without everyone calling BS.
I actually think that you could get more information out of the paper than the matrix of colored blocks. You guys seem to be thinking in terms of the colors being used as numbering system (much like binary is a base 2 numbering system, DNA is base 4 and we count in base 10). Your calculations are based on how much info you could cram on a piece of paper using each dot essentially as a bit that could instead have 4 or 5 possible states.
I'm thinking that significantly more information could be gleaned from that piece of paper if the algorithm encoding and decoding it is sophisticated enough to find patterns and relations between the colors and the shapes. Maybe the first chunk of data is based upon the shapes and their relations to each other, the next is based on the colors used, another is based on the color densities, another is based on which colors are in which shapes, etc... A system like that would be very complex for sure, but maybe possible and could explain why you could get more info than a dot per dot "read" of the piece of paper.
Super Smash Brothers and its sequel are without a doubt the most fun I've ever had with my friends in front of a TV. Easy to pick up, near impossible to master and fun every second Smash Brothers kept me and my friends hooked for years and they're not even really gamers! The game has a depth to it that goes unnoticed at first but once you get good the possible tricks are endless. Lobbing a shell at your buddy after your other friend has knocked him up in the air FTW is way more fun than it really should be.
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Talk to a hacker not a designer and JS is not the hacker's weapon of choice. You're barking up the wrong tree.
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Its my experience that good web designers have learned to use the DOM quite well. Granted they started by patching together examples from http://alistapart.com/ to make their CSS more flexible and cross browser, but as it stands today, at least at my company, we differ to the designers for most DOM scripting. We only hire CSS/Standards based designers so that likely contributes to our technicaly savvy design team, but when the C# guys admit that the design kids are better suited to front-end scripting tasks that speaks volumes. So next time you cop out and limit your app for fear of unsolvable x-browser issues remember that 19 year old kids fresh out of design school are pulling it off everyday. On a side note... don't say DHTML... we're in the age of CSS, AJAX and unobtrusive JS... DHTML was the age of .
Sure... the rats "self regulate" their activity because of the possibilty of damage. Please... somebody...show me the same behavior in ever crack and war crack players (I'm guilty of both). If the tendency did exist to self regulate potenatially repetive stress related injuries I'd say that their logs would confirm as much.
We've got tons of human related data.. why aren't we using it instead of rats?
I like the fact that nintendo continues to innovate, and a handheld is one of the most well suited niches for exploration. I have yet to try dual screen touch screen gaming, but in the hands of creative devs I think there are a lot of possibilities. Factor in the wireless support and things just get better. Imagine an FPS where the second screen shows a live map and stats, while the main screen features the action or a multiplayer strategy game where the main screen displays the shared world map and the second screen is where battles take place.
Some people might see these kinds of features as pointless, but I believe anything that adds depth to the gaming experience is more than welcome. We've been dealing with games designed for game pads and single screens for two decades and mixing things up a bit can only contribute to the evolution of gaming.
Chances are though that any student with enough chops to reprogram their MAC address are not going to be the ones with virus ridden boxes. A MAC banning system would work.
Ghost in the Shell was one of the most impressive Animes I have ever seen! If your not yet a fan of anime the original Ghost in the Shell is a hell of a place to start. Heres hoping the sequel will do it justice!
Despite the clear and overwhelming artistic content of Willenium I contest the schools would have been better served with 100,000 blank CDs. Then educators could scour the P2Ps for music with actual educational value and burn them.
This is the auditory equivalent of donating your stick pre-internet stack of Hustlers to the local kindergarten.
I've found myself training some young newbs in the finer points of web dev. I notice that despite my best efforts in explanation I often slip bits of techno jargon in which leave my trainees looking confused and bewildered. Though I hadn't used webmonkey in years (ie. my newb days) I remembered that jargon was either avoided or thoughtfully introduced, something I seemed incapable of doing. So now I create lists of webmonkey articles for my newbs to peruse prior to their hands-on lessons with me. Long story short, webmonkey is a great resource for beginners but a bit dumbed down for the slashdot crowd.
Did you happen to see the Clone Wars mini series on the cartoon network? I saw bits and pieces but one really cool part ended with a giant robotic Jedi with 4 plus sabers completeling destroying a large group of the remaining Jedis. Despite your misgivings in regards to multiple light sabers this little five minute cartoon battle blew the new films away in all their CGI grandeur. I highly recommend checking these;toons out.
I don't see why everyone is taking issue with this whole surfing on lava thing. I always thought that the end of Empire was a little boring you know with that whole epic battle between good and evil both internally and externally and could have seriously benefited by Luke and Darth bungee jumping off the platform and saber fighting while plummeting.
Don't even get me started on how Lucas blew it by not including a snow boarding scene in the Hoth sequence!
Once the best selling album of all time, Pink Floyd's Darkside of the Moon (now 19th), oddly enough has a track called Brain Damage. Its a beautiful song, but taken out of the context of the album it loses much of its impact and becomes more background music than a compelling song in its own right. In fact I would go as far as to say the only song on Darkside of the Moon that really stand on its own is Money. Darkside was so wildly succesful because of the way it functions as an album plain and simple.
Would Sgt. Pepper still be considered the definitive example of rock as Art if you randomly shuffled the tracks? No. A great album is more than the sum of its parts and not just when it comes to "rock operas". That's what most of the current generation of MTV loving shuffle-aholics fail to realize and in so doing deprive themselves of an entire dimension of the listening experience.
Some people claim that music has changed. The album is dead: long live radio, downloads and singles. This is true, but there are glaring exceptions to the rule: Radiohead Kid A, Wilco Yankee Hotel Fox Trot, Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication (great singles even better album as a whole), Beck Seachange... So the album isn't dying just the percentage of people willing to experience it as whole.
You can keep your singles, random shuffles and best of compilations. I'll happily stick to the albums the way they were meant to be experienced.
Why don't they just bio engineer a woodpecker swordfish hybrid and dope it up on meth and roids? It would take that frickin Robot Wars reject any day of the week. That's the solution I would have pitched 'em anyhow.
So you sign up for cable under the guise of an unlimited usage highband with connection and then your threatened for abusing that unlimited service. I think comcast has to break out the old dictionary. I'm pretty sure they don't know what the word abuse means.
What works in a book does not neccesarily work in a movie. Jackson had to flesh out all the characters on a much tighter schedule than a book affords. Most of the nit picks involve attributing dialogue to different characters in the films and after reading most of the list I can absolutely see where Jackson is coming from. Lines that are crucial to the plot are given to the character who would be the most developed and fleshed out by them rather than remaining faithful to the book. Apart from a purist standpoint I see no fault in this.
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How about just a list: Civilization, Fallout, Myst, Baldur's Gate, Tetris, Chess, Video Poker, Scene It, most racing games, Wii Sports, etc...
Thanks for the info everyone. Was not aware of that tax. But from what I just read it only applies when making copies of works you already own, correct? I can see how it can help mitigate "some" artists losses due to piracy but it doesn't look like the tax is intended to condone stealing intellectual property.
Is that a joke? Its modded as insightful so I'm guessing not. Please explain to me how paying sales tax on a blank cd somehow makes stealing someone else's intellectual property ok. That's like saying, well I paid for my car so I should be able to drive his. Nice in theory or if you're really drunk, but in no way legal.
So they give people a search engine that highlights results that their privacy policy parser likes and claim that because people tended to click on them they were confirming their interest in privacy while shopping online? You think if google started randomly putting stars next to some of their results that to wouldn't influence click throughs?
Then they say that people were motivated to really shop around to save a buck or two? A couple bucks is no real economic incentive for an adult to do anything beyond clipping a coupon. And further the item they were buying was a VIBRATOR! Drawing parallels between a customer's privacy concerns and purchasing patterns when buying sex toys and say a portable hard drive (last thing I bought online...) is absurd. I believe that people care about two things when shopping online: price and service.
It boggles my mind that stuff like this can garner this kind of attention without everyone calling BS.
I actually think that you could get more information out of the paper than the matrix of colored blocks. You guys seem to be thinking in terms of the colors being used as numbering system (much like binary is a base 2 numbering system, DNA is base 4 and we count in base 10). Your calculations are based on how much info you could cram on a piece of paper using each dot essentially as a bit that could instead have 4 or 5 possible states. I'm thinking that significantly more information could be gleaned from that piece of paper if the algorithm encoding and decoding it is sophisticated enough to find patterns and relations between the colors and the shapes. Maybe the first chunk of data is based upon the shapes and their relations to each other, the next is based on the colors used, another is based on the color densities, another is based on which colors are in which shapes, etc... A system like that would be very complex for sure, but maybe possible and could explain why you could get more info than a dot per dot "read" of the piece of paper.
Super Smash Brothers and its sequel are without a doubt the most fun I've ever had with my friends in front of a TV. Easy to pick up, near impossible to master and fun every second Smash Brothers kept me and my friends hooked for years and they're not even really gamers! The game has a depth to it that goes unnoticed at first but once you get good the possible tricks are endless. Lobbing a shell at your buddy after your other friend has knocked him up in the air FTW is way more fun than it really should be.
Talk to a hacker not a designer and JS is not the hacker's weapon of choice. You're barking up the wrong tree.
Its my experience that good web designers have learned to use the DOM quite well. Granted they started by patching together examples from http://alistapart.com/ to make their CSS more flexible and cross browser, but as it stands today, at least at my company, we differ to the designers for most DOM scripting. We only hire CSS/Standards based designers so that likely contributes to our technicaly savvy design team, but when the C# guys admit that the design kids are better suited to front-end scripting tasks that speaks volumes. So next time you cop out and limit your app for fear of unsolvable x-browser issues remember that 19 year old kids fresh out of design school are pulling it off everyday. On a side note... don't say DHTML... we're in the age of CSS, AJAX and unobtrusive JS... DHTML was the age of .
Sure... the rats "self regulate" their activity because of the possibilty of damage. Please... somebody...show me the same behavior in ever crack and war crack players (I'm guilty of both). If the tendency did exist to self regulate potenatially repetive stress related injuries I'd say that their logs would confirm as much. We've got tons of human related data.. why aren't we using it instead of rats?
I wouldn't have to hide it!
Does this mean I'm allowed to drink on the job today?
I like the fact that nintendo continues to innovate, and a handheld is one of the most well suited niches for exploration. I have yet to try dual screen touch screen gaming, but in the hands of creative devs I think there are a lot of possibilities. Factor in the wireless support and things just get better. Imagine an FPS where the second screen shows a live map and stats, while the main screen features the action or a multiplayer strategy game where the main screen displays the shared world map and the second screen is where battles take place. Some people might see these kinds of features as pointless, but I believe anything that adds depth to the gaming experience is more than welcome. We've been dealing with games designed for game pads and single screens for two decades and mixing things up a bit can only contribute to the evolution of gaming.
Chances are though that any student with enough chops to reprogram their MAC address are not going to be the ones with virus ridden boxes. A MAC banning system would work.
Ghost in the Shell was one of the most impressive Animes I have ever seen! If your not yet a fan of anime the original Ghost in the Shell is a hell of a place to start. Heres hoping the sequel will do it justice!
Meant to say sticky pre-internet stack of Hustlers... damned inabililty to typde properly.
Despite the clear and overwhelming artistic content of Willenium I contest the schools would have been better served with 100,000 blank CDs. Then educators could scour the P2Ps for music with actual educational value and burn them. This is the auditory equivalent of donating your stick pre-internet stack of Hustlers to the local kindergarten.
I've found myself training some young newbs in the finer points of web dev. I notice that despite my best efforts in explanation I often slip bits of techno jargon in which leave my trainees looking confused and bewildered. Though I hadn't used webmonkey in years (ie. my newb days) I remembered that jargon was either avoided or thoughtfully introduced, something I seemed incapable of doing. So now I create lists of webmonkey articles for my newbs to peruse prior to their hands-on lessons with me. Long story short, webmonkey is a great resource for beginners but a bit dumbed down for the slashdot crowd.
Did you happen to see the Clone Wars mini series on the cartoon network? I saw bits and pieces but one really cool part ended with a giant robotic Jedi with 4 plus sabers completeling destroying a large group of the remaining Jedis. Despite your misgivings in regards to multiple light sabers this little five minute cartoon battle blew the new films away in all their CGI grandeur. I highly recommend checking these ;toons out.
I don't see why everyone is taking issue with this whole surfing on lava thing. I always thought that the end of Empire was a little boring you know with that whole epic battle between good and evil both internally and externally and could have seriously benefited by Luke and Darth bungee jumping off the platform and saber fighting while plummeting. Don't even get me started on how Lucas blew it by not including a snow boarding scene in the Hoth sequence!
Once the best selling album of all time, Pink Floyd's Darkside of the Moon (now 19th), oddly enough has a track called Brain Damage. Its a beautiful song, but taken out of the context of the album it loses much of its impact and becomes more background music than a compelling song in its own right. In fact I would go as far as to say the only song on Darkside of the Moon that really stand on its own is Money. Darkside was so wildly succesful because of the way it functions as an album plain and simple. Would Sgt. Pepper still be considered the definitive example of rock as Art if you randomly shuffled the tracks? No. A great album is more than the sum of its parts and not just when it comes to "rock operas". That's what most of the current generation of MTV loving shuffle-aholics fail to realize and in so doing deprive themselves of an entire dimension of the listening experience. Some people claim that music has changed. The album is dead: long live radio, downloads and singles. This is true, but there are glaring exceptions to the rule: Radiohead Kid A, Wilco Yankee Hotel Fox Trot, Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication (great singles even better album as a whole), Beck Seachange... So the album isn't dying just the percentage of people willing to experience it as whole. You can keep your singles, random shuffles and best of compilations. I'll happily stick to the albums the way they were meant to be experienced.
Why don't they just bio engineer a woodpecker swordfish hybrid and dope it up on meth and roids? It would take that frickin Robot Wars reject any day of the week. That's the solution I would have pitched 'em anyhow.
If the government started patching all the exploits inherint to the system what would all the lawyers and accountants do?
So you sign up for cable under the guise of an unlimited usage highband with connection and then your threatened for abusing that unlimited service. I think comcast has to break out the old dictionary. I'm pretty sure they don't know what the word abuse means.
What works in a book does not neccesarily work in a movie. Jackson had to flesh out all the characters on a much tighter schedule than a book affords. Most of the nit picks involve attributing dialogue to different characters in the films and after reading most of the list I can absolutely see where Jackson is coming from. Lines that are crucial to the plot are given to the character who would be the most developed and fleshed out by them rather than remaining faithful to the book. Apart from a purist standpoint I see no fault in this.