Why not? Seems like there are plenty of photographs out there which have lasted a lot longer than 25 years.
It's definitely something you've got to research, but there should be some relatively simple way to ensure that the photos last 25 years. That's really not all that long.
Well, if data loss is an issue, then you shouldn't be burying it in the ground for 25 years. You should be keeping redundant backups and keeping the backups updated to the latest in archival technology every few years.
If you just want to make a time capsule, and a relatively short-term one at that, then even a modest printing should be perfectly adequate.
That said, I'd still recommend springing for some nice quality prints just because they are much nicer, and it'll be that much cooler when you open them.
It probably is a wise idea to investigate the inks used, though. Photographs seem to last a while, but I don't know how well printer ink lasts and whether it fades with age.
Seriously, just print them. Unless we somehow evolve new sensory organs in the next 25 years, I suspect that photographs won't be rendered useless through obsolescence. They can always scan them into new digital files afterwards.
No, WoW is just really bad for you. Like anything else, some people are more likely to get addicted to it. Not everyone who drink's an alcoholic, and not everyone who plays MMOs loses their life to them.
Drop the snobbery. All that does is make you look bitter.
Do you really think your D&D character who you've been playing off and on for 30 years since BECMI is so much more legitimate than someone's Tier 6-geared character with thousands of hours of play time? Hint: it's not.
Disclaimer: I play WoW. I have 2 70s, neither of which are geared for raiding (yet...). I also run a weekly D&D game and I started a board game club at my college. So if you want to try and argue I'm not a gamer... Well, go right ahead. I don't need your validation.
The bigger issue here is how they're going to determine which Charlie cards are legit and which aren't. They can't exactly tell someone with, say, $20 on a charlie card that their money's gone.
Someone could easily get a bunch of charlie cards, put random amounts of money between, say, $20 and $25 (random so that there's no clear pattern which cards are faked and which legit) and then sell to people on the street. $5 for a charlie card with at least $20 on it.
Heck, it probably wouldn't be that hard to convince the buyers that it was legit. "Hey man, my niece was staying here last week and put too much money on this card... It's got over $20 on it, I'll give it to you for $5."
I will never understand why the geek community gives Apple a free pass. It seems to me like they're a far more worrisome company than Microsoft and seek not just to embrace DRM, but innovate in the onerous field and extend it to the masses.
I hate DRM but I also think that piracy is unethical.
But the point is, DRM doesn't stop piracy. It simply doesn't. DRM doesn't do anything to piracy at all. There is no reason to use DRM. Using it only hurts your actual paying customers.
What it comes down to is, pirates will pirate regardless of whether there's DRM or not. DRM is only an inconvenience for paying customers.
"Some of them cloak it all with this thin veneer of 'sticking it to the man' and being 'anti-DRM' and 'anti-big corporations.' Despite me giving a free demo, no DRM, innovative games, at reasonable prices with great tech support from a one-man company, the bastards still rip me off and take my stuff anyway."
And I suppose he has proof that people pirating his games are the same people who claimed they only pirate to stick it to the man?
Speaking as someone who plays legitimately, many of those would be very damning to me.
1. You're a 375/375 miner/BS. Your guildie wants some mitrhil armor. Oops, you can't mine mithral! Oh well, let's check the AH. Uh oh, with only a few people in a narrow skill band able to mine it, Mithral's incredibly scarce and stupid expensive!
2. Have you ever played WoW? It's pretty frequent that you've got to travel long distances, and that's why there's an autorun key. At least now I can watch TV or read slashdot on my other monitor while just half-paying attention to make sure I don't miss a turn/fall of a cliff, but that would require constant attention. It also wouldn't stop bots, because they can just check their location and correct.
3. That's just a fucking stupid idea. You should be ashamed for even mentioning it.
4. My main spends her time galavanting around the Outlands, where there's no AH. She sends all her stuff back to a level 1 mule to put on the AH. Thus that level 1 mule usually has hundreds of gold on it, often more than my main, and when I save up the necessary 5000 gold for an epic flying mount, I'd rather not have to make 50 transfers. Also, what the hell is this supposed to fix? It would be trivial to write a script to send an arbitrary amount letters with 100 gp.
Exactly what you think it does. Sociopathy isn't some neato keen disorder that might help you make 8 or 9 figures a year with no consequences, sociopathy is literally doing whatever the fuck you want without regards for how it affects other people, except in so much as how you think those effects might affect you. Do you really think being a CEO would stop a sociopath from murdering someone if he thought it would help him and he could get away with it?
Javascript was my first programming language. It's something everyone's got simple access to, it's very forgiving (though it does set you up for some bad habits), and it's very simple to make GUIs and interact with the user.
Speaking as a 23 year old who's largely self-taught in programming...
Find out what he'd like to do, give him direction if he doesn't know. I find the greatest hurdle to learning, for me at least, is lack of ideas. Often, I end up programming the same thing first in new environments and languages: a dice roller. It's sort of my "Hello World." That said, while it's a good way to just get something done, it doesn't help me learn much. I learn best when I try to tackle something that's just beyond my level of expertise-- too far beyond, and I just can't do it. Too easy and I'm not learning anything.
Just as an example, say he was interested in writing a program for his favorite game. The first thing I'd suggest to him is working on a functional GUI using the tools of an IDE. There's really nothing quite so satisfying as a really nice GUI; a command line app is often more functional, depending on your needs, but it's just not as satisfying.
Next, you might suggest that he learn some of the I/O tools and add save/load functionality to his program, using simple text files. After that, you could show him some more interesting techniques for saving, like serialization or XML.
Another example: Teach him how to use a database. Start off with a simple database with a couple of tables, maybe a list of customers and a list of items. Then start introducing normalization, joins, etc.
You misunderstand me, the man Harvey Dent was interrogating didn't resemble Cillian Murphy to me, though as I said I could well be wrong. I've got a terrible mind for faces.
Frankly, no. As the Joker said, he's a man of his word, and that's a very central point to the character and his shenanigans. He'll make you jump through some horrible, inhuman hoops to survive BUT you know that, if you play his game, you'll actually survive.
Scenes like that one would lose all meaning if there was any doubt that what he said was true, because then it would be too easy to say "Oh, we'll probably die anyways, might as well keep our humanity."
That wasn't his true nature, though (also, I don't think that was Scarecrow, though I could be wrong. I thought it was just some random punk the Joker recruited).
Remember, until it got burnt, his coin was double-headed, so when he said "Heads I don't shoot you, tails I do," it was a total bluff and he never would have actually shot the guy.
While you're correct in that they could both be legitimate, justice is not about vengeance, and vengeance isn't justice. Killing a murderer doesn't bring back his victim.
As Gandhi notes, an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
But what is the purpose of our legal system? If it is vengeance, then you're correct: remorse doesn't matter.
If, on the other hand, it is to reform perpetrators, make them ready to live in society, and try to ensure they don't lapse into recidivism, then remorse matters quite a great deal.
(Hint: In theory, if not so much in practice, the correct answer is the second paragraph)
Sorry, dude, but I have little more respect for the textbook industry than I do for the RIAA. What respect the textbook industry gains in actually being useful and requiring lots of work and quality, they quickly lose due to their policies of exorbitantly-overpriced books and pushing new editions which are changed just enough to make old editions obsolete. Add in the fact that the textbook manufacturers have a pseudo-monopoly (do you know any professors who give students their choice in textbooks from any available? me neither).
So the bottom line is that the difference between the RIAA and the textbook industry is that I can choose not to listen to the RIAA's crap. I can't choose not to use textbooks from publishers I don't like.
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Why not? Seems like there are plenty of photographs out there which have lasted a lot longer than 25 years.
It's definitely something you've got to research, but there should be some relatively simple way to ensure that the photos last 25 years. That's really not all that long.
Well, if data loss is an issue, then you shouldn't be burying it in the ground for 25 years. You should be keeping redundant backups and keeping the backups updated to the latest in archival technology every few years.
If you just want to make a time capsule, and a relatively short-term one at that, then even a modest printing should be perfectly adequate.
That said, I'd still recommend springing for some nice quality prints just because they are much nicer, and it'll be that much cooler when you open them.
It probably is a wise idea to investigate the inks used, though. Photographs seem to last a while, but I don't know how well printer ink lasts and whether it fades with age.
Seriously, just print them. Unless we somehow evolve new sensory organs in the next 25 years, I suspect that photographs won't be rendered useless through obsolescence. They can always scan them into new digital files afterwards.
WoW is just really bad for you.
No, WoW is just really bad for you. Like anything else, some people are more likely to get addicted to it. Not everyone who drink's an alcoholic, and not everyone who plays MMOs loses their life to them.
Drop the snobbery. All that does is make you look bitter.
Do you really think your D&D character who you've been playing off and on for 30 years since BECMI is so much more legitimate than someone's Tier 6-geared character with thousands of hours of play time? Hint: it's not.
Disclaimer: I play WoW. I have 2 70s, neither of which are geared for raiding (yet...). I also run a weekly D&D game and I started a board game club at my college. So if you want to try and argue I'm not a gamer... Well, go right ahead. I don't need your validation.
Oh, and my penis is HUGE (in Japan).
The bigger issue here is how they're going to determine which Charlie cards are legit and which aren't. They can't exactly tell someone with, say, $20 on a charlie card that their money's gone.
Someone could easily get a bunch of charlie cards, put random amounts of money between, say, $20 and $25 (random so that there's no clear pattern which cards are faked and which legit) and then sell to people on the street. $5 for a charlie card with at least $20 on it.
Heck, it probably wouldn't be that hard to convince the buyers that it was legit. "Hey man, my niece was staying here last week and put too much money on this card... It's got over $20 on it, I'll give it to you for $5."
I will never understand why the geek community gives Apple a free pass. It seems to me like they're a far more worrisome company than Microsoft and seek not just to embrace DRM, but innovate in the onerous field and extend it to the masses.
Somebody wake me up when a computer can reliably beat a human at Candy Land.
I hate DRM but I also think that piracy is unethical.
But the point is, DRM doesn't stop piracy. It simply doesn't. DRM doesn't do anything to piracy at all. There is no reason to use DRM. Using it only hurts your actual paying customers.
What it comes down to is, pirates will pirate regardless of whether there's DRM or not. DRM is only an inconvenience for paying customers.
"Some of them cloak it all with this thin veneer of 'sticking it to the man' and being 'anti-DRM' and 'anti-big corporations.' Despite me giving a free demo, no DRM, innovative games, at reasonable prices with great tech support from a one-man company, the bastards still rip me off and take my stuff anyway."
And I suppose he has proof that people pirating his games are the same people who claimed they only pirate to stick it to the man?
Speaking as someone who plays legitimately, many of those would be very damning to me.
1. You're a 375/375 miner/BS. Your guildie wants some mitrhil armor. Oops, you can't mine mithral! Oh well, let's check the AH. Uh oh, with only a few people in a narrow skill band able to mine it, Mithral's incredibly scarce and stupid expensive!
2. Have you ever played WoW? It's pretty frequent that you've got to travel long distances, and that's why there's an autorun key. At least now I can watch TV or read slashdot on my other monitor while just half-paying attention to make sure I don't miss a turn/fall of a cliff, but that would require constant attention. It also wouldn't stop bots, because they can just check their location and correct.
3. That's just a fucking stupid idea. You should be ashamed for even mentioning it.
4. My main spends her time galavanting around the Outlands, where there's no AH. She sends all her stuff back to a level 1 mule to put on the AH. Thus that level 1 mule usually has hundreds of gold on it, often more than my main, and when I save up the necessary 5000 gold for an epic flying mount, I'd rather not have to make 50 transfers. Also, what the hell is this supposed to fix? It would be trivial to write a script to send an arbitrary amount letters with 100 gp.
Let me know how that works out for you.
Exactly what you think it does. Sociopathy isn't some neato keen disorder that might help you make 8 or 9 figures a year with no consequences, sociopathy is literally doing whatever the fuck you want without regards for how it affects other people, except in so much as how you think those effects might affect you. Do you really think being a CEO would stop a sociopath from murdering someone if he thought it would help him and he could get away with it?
Javascript was my first programming language. It's something everyone's got simple access to, it's very forgiving (though it does set you up for some bad habits), and it's very simple to make GUIs and interact with the user.
Speaking as a 23 year old who's largely self-taught in programming...
Find out what he'd like to do, give him direction if he doesn't know. I find the greatest hurdle to learning, for me at least, is lack of ideas. Often, I end up programming the same thing first in new environments and languages: a dice roller. It's sort of my "Hello World." That said, while it's a good way to just get something done, it doesn't help me learn much. I learn best when I try to tackle something that's just beyond my level of expertise-- too far beyond, and I just can't do it. Too easy and I'm not learning anything.
Just as an example, say he was interested in writing a program for his favorite game. The first thing I'd suggest to him is working on a functional GUI using the tools of an IDE. There's really nothing quite so satisfying as a really nice GUI; a command line app is often more functional, depending on your needs, but it's just not as satisfying.
Next, you might suggest that he learn some of the I/O tools and add save/load functionality to his program, using simple text files. After that, you could show him some more interesting techniques for saving, like serialization or XML.
Another example: Teach him how to use a database. Start off with a simple database with a couple of tables, maybe a list of customers and a list of items. Then start introducing normalization, joins, etc.
Ah, thanks. I couldn't make out what Bats said other than "An Arkham inmate blah blah blah"
You misunderstand me, the man Harvey Dent was interrogating didn't resemble Cillian Murphy to me, though as I said I could well be wrong. I've got a terrible mind for faces.
Frankly, no. As the Joker said, he's a man of his word, and that's a very central point to the character and his shenanigans. He'll make you jump through some horrible, inhuman hoops to survive BUT you know that, if you play his game, you'll actually survive.
Scenes like that one would lose all meaning if there was any doubt that what he said was true, because then it would be too easy to say "Oh, we'll probably die anyways, might as well keep our humanity."
That wasn't his true nature, though (also, I don't think that was Scarecrow, though I could be wrong. I thought it was just some random punk the Joker recruited).
Remember, until it got burnt, his coin was double-headed, so when he said "Heads I don't shoot you, tails I do," it was a total bluff and he never would have actually shot the guy.
While you're correct in that they could both be legitimate, justice is not about vengeance, and vengeance isn't justice. Killing a murderer doesn't bring back his victim.
As Gandhi notes, an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
But what is the purpose of our legal system? If it is vengeance, then you're correct: remorse doesn't matter.
If, on the other hand, it is to reform perpetrators, make them ready to live in society, and try to ensure they don't lapse into recidivism, then remorse matters quite a great deal.
(Hint: In theory, if not so much in practice, the correct answer is the second paragraph)
One of George Carlin's bits went...
Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal? Why is it illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?
And whenever I heard that bit, I'd always think about selling votes as a counter argument.
RIP Carlin.
And chimpanzees don't get termites, spit-covered sticks do.
Technology is as much a part of humanity as wings are of birds.
Sorry, dude, but I have little more respect for the textbook industry than I do for the RIAA. What respect the textbook industry gains in actually being useful and requiring lots of work and quality, they quickly lose due to their policies of exorbitantly-overpriced books and pushing new editions which are changed just enough to make old editions obsolete. Add in the fact that the textbook manufacturers have a pseudo-monopoly (do you know any professors who give students their choice in textbooks from any available? me neither).
So the bottom line is that the difference between the RIAA and the textbook industry is that I can choose not to listen to the RIAA's crap. I can't choose not to use textbooks from publishers I don't like.
Yes. That's the joke. Congratulations on seeing it. Here, have a cookie.