This is shaping up to be a pretty interesting hacking game. I wonder if we could get some sort of network involved to make it into a true spectator sport, and not just the barbs fired off after each round?
I didn't think thumb drives came until later. I thought it was RW CDs/DVDs that brought the end of the floppy, though, they were not nearly as simple to use as floppy disks, hence the need for thumb drives.
Yea, I was thinking along the lines as well. Parrot and crow families tend to be very intelligent. I find it hard to believe the Anole is smarter than them. Of course, I am sure some of those would look at the Anole as a tasty morsel, and would win, anyhow.
I have a friend that had staples in here, after a surgery. Another doctor had an MRI done not long after that, and my friend, and the doctor at that point, discovered the staples. It was VERY unpleasant.
Ok, I have more than one. Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail... but Gmail is what I use as my email box. I have had it since I got an invite early on. I have had it longer than any ISP I have ever used. I DO own a few domains, but don't actually use them for email explicitly. From time to time. So, I could get around restrictions, but, if they don't let me use Gmail or maybe Hotmail, I won't use their service. I have yet to find any service online that was SO pressing, that I would work at getting another email address for them.
I completely agree. Gmail IS my email address. Stop me from using it, and I don't have another. Oh, I use qwest... and I think I have a hotmail address through them? Morons.
I have used your argument before, on these discussions. I completely agree. Imperial is superior for real world uses. Metric is superior for math, science, and standard conversion. It is all about convince.
This seems a little excessive to me. They recognized the problem, and took care of it, fairly quick. They didn't realize they had a problem on launch. It seems to MY eyes, that Google TRIES to do the right thing. Unlike Facebook, that does the wrong thing, until OVERWHELMING complaints roll things back. The privacy issues caused by the Buzz launch seemed to not big a big deal, except for a few outliers.
Honestly, I have been completely passed by, because I don't have a degree. Having a degree in the IT field helps a lot. I have 16 years experience so that gives me MAJOR advantages over those just coming out of college. I am going to school now, part time to get my degree. When I get out, I will have over 20 years experience AND an IT degree. It is kind of the best of both worlds. I also know of at least one guy that is a very brilliant programmer that almost got let go from a company that was reorganizing, just because he didn't have a degree. A LOT of his co-workers lobbied to keep him on.
A degree gives you upwards mobility. That is pretty much it. It also lets you get your foot in the door. Everything else in the middle is up to who YOU are.
He was there, legitimately. So, that argument doesn't have merit in this case. He mis-represented what his ULTIMATE goal was, but he went to the school, represented what he was going to do correctly, and followed through. It is what he did with the video AFTER, that is getting him in trouble. I am pretty sure that you can stand off of school grounds, and take pictures of kids playing. Now... someone will MOST LIKELY call the cops on you, quickly, but from my understanding, those kinds of actions are NOT illegal.
Generally, model releases are needed for pay. You can take a picture of anyone, as long as they do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy. A school is a public place, hence no real expectation for privacy. He just can't make money, directly, off of it. At least, that is how I have read the statutes to be.
They guy made a crude joke. WAY too many people have gone WAY overboard on this. Our society is being put into a straight jacket. Humor has ALWAYS had more wiggle room, than most other forms of speech. But, the way too important people are even stifling humor. It is really pathetic.
I am going to college and getting an IT Management degree with an emphasis in development. I am getting a minor in Marketing, and will go on for a Master's in Business Administration. I will have been in IT between workstation, server, and network admin as well as web development for 20 years or more when I get my degree. I am trying to get myself in a position to be able to interface well with developers and pitch the cool stuff to upper management to get buy in. I should have the business credentials to get management's respect, while having the knowledge of the tech side to be a valuable interface between the two sides. At least, that is my vision, at this point.:-)
It's free, and I don't need a FULL version of office. It works great. I don't know why you have to apply the hate to Works. It does a passable job for what it is intended to do. Most of the bloat, doesn't. I tried to use Google Docs, but found my connection at school wasn't reliable enough. So, Works + Dropbox lets me have access to my notes everywhere, and backs them up on the fly.
I used to run gaming fan sites. When your passion is something, and you put a lot of hours into that passion, getting crap for it, gets old fast. When I used to run gaming websites, the forums would grow and be great, and at a certain point, the community would finally grow and blossom on its own. At that point, I would assign forum moderators. That gave me a level of abstraction that I didn't have to keep current, and could do the news and write articles. If there was something questionable the moderators would let me know to check it out.
Personal attacks really are draining. Everyone has finite resources. Squandering yours reading inflammatory posts is very counter-productive.
DAMN... yea, that's hard core.:-) Though, I think the % of income argument can be made against photography in general, especially when you move up to GOOD glass.
256 gradients? I thought with a 16bit capture that number was... well, a LOT higher. I have read that the technical specs of digital have surpassed film a couple of years ago. The ONE thing that I know film can do better, is star-trail shots. Digital sensors warm up over time, and can't take REALLY extended shots.
(There is software to simulate it, but it is not really, the real thing)
I think the concept of WikiLeaks is good... when they leak information that is just detrimental to the government without a real reason... it is petulance. I think that a site like this HAS to have some kind of standards. Assange is out to just hurt the US, nothing else. The site has done good, and I hope this new site continues to do so, as well. The problem, is Assange has overstepped his bounds. When you get people killed with leaks like this... you have screwed up.
I know Canada has a similar law. I would be HARD PRESSED to have the same view, if I was already being charged for each blank CD/DVD... assuming that I would be downloading and loading them up with movies/music. If I am being charged for it anyway, might as well use it. I am completely with you there.
As for stealing... I disagree. Different basic views there. We won't see eye to eye on that.:-) You are stealing the time that goes into producing it. Not exactly the final product... but it is splitting hairs.
As for the $2000-3000 pure profit... again, I disagree. It is a matter of investment. You ARE probably right, that a movie that pays for itself is good, but a movie has to pay for itself, and it's cousins that all failed. I am sure that studios do everything they can to remain profitable, but not every movie is a success. Some are a HUGE bomb. The BIG earners, are the ones that float the money for the ones that bomb horribly. Also, movies are an investment, and if you don't see a certain return on investment (ROI) your money can be placed elsewhere with a better ROI. That is more simple economics.
It is more about doing things legally. Yes, I could torrent the shows I want to watch, but I would rather royalties go back to the studios that brought the shows to me, so they can go back and make more of that show. If you steal the shows you love, you kind of shoot yourself in the foot.
In the end, all you truly have, is your mind. Who you are, who you were, and who you will be, is all in your mind. Cancer kills the body... Alzhiemer's kills who you are, and who you could be, destroying your memory of who you were...
I agree, other diseases, such as cancer do not put as much fear into me, as much as Alzhiemer's.
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This is shaping up to be a pretty interesting hacking game. I wonder if we could get some sort of network involved to make it into a true spectator sport, and not just the barbs fired off after each round?
I didn't think thumb drives came until later. I thought it was RW CDs/DVDs that brought the end of the floppy, though, they were not nearly as simple to use as floppy disks, hence the need for thumb drives.
Yea, I was thinking along the lines as well. Parrot and crow families tend to be very intelligent. I find it hard to believe the Anole is smarter than them. Of course, I am sure some of those would look at the Anole as a tasty morsel, and would win, anyhow.
I have a friend that had staples in here, after a surgery. Another doctor had an MRI done not long after that, and my friend, and the doctor at that point, discovered the staples. It was VERY unpleasant.
Ok, I have more than one. Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail... but Gmail is what I use as my email box. I have had it since I got an invite early on. I have had it longer than any ISP I have ever used. I DO own a few domains, but don't actually use them for email explicitly. From time to time. So, I could get around restrictions, but, if they don't let me use Gmail or maybe Hotmail, I won't use their service. I have yet to find any service online that was SO pressing, that I would work at getting another email address for them.
I completely agree. Gmail IS my email address. Stop me from using it, and I don't have another. Oh, I use qwest... and I think I have a hotmail address through them? Morons.
I have used your argument before, on these discussions. I completely agree. Imperial is superior for real world uses. Metric is superior for math, science, and standard conversion. It is all about convince.
This seems a little excessive to me. They recognized the problem, and took care of it, fairly quick. They didn't realize they had a problem on launch. It seems to MY eyes, that Google TRIES to do the right thing. Unlike Facebook, that does the wrong thing, until OVERWHELMING complaints roll things back. The privacy issues caused by the Buzz launch seemed to not big a big deal, except for a few outliers.
I don't know about 10 years... but I don't think you are far off the mark. :-(
Honestly, I have been completely passed by, because I don't have a degree. Having a degree in the IT field helps a lot. I have 16 years experience so that gives me MAJOR advantages over those just coming out of college. I am going to school now, part time to get my degree. When I get out, I will have over 20 years experience AND an IT degree. It is kind of the best of both worlds. I also know of at least one guy that is a very brilliant programmer that almost got let go from a company that was reorganizing, just because he didn't have a degree. A LOT of his co-workers lobbied to keep him on.
A degree gives you upwards mobility. That is pretty much it. It also lets you get your foot in the door. Everything else in the middle is up to who YOU are.
He was there, legitimately. So, that argument doesn't have merit in this case. He mis-represented what his ULTIMATE goal was, but he went to the school, represented what he was going to do correctly, and followed through. It is what he did with the video AFTER, that is getting him in trouble. I am pretty sure that you can stand off of school grounds, and take pictures of kids playing. Now... someone will MOST LIKELY call the cops on you, quickly, but from my understanding, those kinds of actions are NOT illegal.
Generally, model releases are needed for pay. You can take a picture of anyone, as long as they do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy. A school is a public place, hence no real expectation for privacy. He just can't make money, directly, off of it. At least, that is how I have read the statutes to be.
They guy made a crude joke. WAY too many people have gone WAY overboard on this. Our society is being put into a straight jacket. Humor has ALWAYS had more wiggle room, than most other forms of speech. But, the way too important people are even stifling humor. It is really pathetic.
I am going to college and getting an IT Management degree with an emphasis in development. I am getting a minor in Marketing, and will go on for a Master's in Business Administration. I will have been in IT between workstation, server, and network admin as well as web development for 20 years or more when I get my degree. I am trying to get myself in a position to be able to interface well with developers and pitch the cool stuff to upper management to get buy in. I should have the business credentials to get management's respect, while having the knowledge of the tech side to be a valuable interface between the two sides. At least, that is my vision, at this point. :-)
I use works on my netbook.
It's free, and I don't need a FULL version of office. It works great. I don't know why you have to apply the hate to Works. It does a passable job for what it is intended to do. Most of the bloat, doesn't. I tried to use Google Docs, but found my connection at school wasn't reliable enough. So, Works + Dropbox lets me have access to my notes everywhere, and backs them up on the fly.
I used to run gaming fan sites. When your passion is something, and you put a lot of hours into that passion, getting crap for it, gets old fast. When I used to run gaming websites, the forums would grow and be great, and at a certain point, the community would finally grow and blossom on its own. At that point, I would assign forum moderators. That gave me a level of abstraction that I didn't have to keep current, and could do the news and write articles. If there was something questionable the moderators would let me know to check it out.
Personal attacks really are draining. Everyone has finite resources. Squandering yours reading inflammatory posts is very counter-productive.
This is an old fight. One that has seen the console players trounced time and time again. Quake 3 anyone?
DAMN... yea, that's hard core. :-) Though, I think the % of income argument can be made against photography in general, especially when you move up to GOOD glass.
256 gradients? I thought with a 16bit capture that number was... well, a LOT higher. I have read that the technical specs of digital have surpassed film a couple of years ago. The ONE thing that I know film can do better, is star-trail shots. Digital sensors warm up over time, and can't take REALLY extended shots.
(There is software to simulate it, but it is not really, the real thing)
I think the concept of WikiLeaks is good... when they leak information that is just detrimental to the government without a real reason... it is petulance. I think that a site like this HAS to have some kind of standards. Assange is out to just hurt the US, nothing else. The site has done good, and I hope this new site continues to do so, as well. The problem, is Assange has overstepped his bounds. When you get people killed with leaks like this... you have screwed up.
You know, good hardware, and Google has more say in the OS... I am all over this phone. My Vibrant just went up for sale.
You have not heard of Foundem because the MAN (Google in this case) keeps them DOWN. No other reason.
RIP Desqview/X. I remember running it, and loving it. I was able to get a few other friends to try it, too. I agree with you on this.
I know Canada has a similar law. I would be HARD PRESSED to have the same view, if I was already being charged for each blank CD/DVD... assuming that I would be downloading and loading them up with movies/music. If I am being charged for it anyway, might as well use it. I am completely with you there.
As for stealing... I disagree. Different basic views there. We won't see eye to eye on that. :-) You are stealing the time that goes into producing it. Not exactly the final product... but it is splitting hairs.
As for the $2000-3000 pure profit... again, I disagree. It is a matter of investment. You ARE probably right, that a movie that pays for itself is good, but a movie has to pay for itself, and it's cousins that all failed. I am sure that studios do everything they can to remain profitable, but not every movie is a success. Some are a HUGE bomb. The BIG earners, are the ones that float the money for the ones that bomb horribly. Also, movies are an investment, and if you don't see a certain return on investment (ROI) your money can be placed elsewhere with a better ROI. That is more simple economics.
It is more about doing things legally. Yes, I could torrent the shows I want to watch, but I would rather royalties go back to the studios that brought the shows to me, so they can go back and make more of that show. If you steal the shows you love, you kind of shoot yourself in the foot.
In the end, all you truly have, is your mind. Who you are, who you were, and who you will be, is all in your mind. Cancer kills the body... Alzhiemer's kills who you are, and who you could be, destroying your memory of who you were...
I agree, other diseases, such as cancer do not put as much fear into me, as much as Alzhiemer's.