If the website owner feels it is necessary to use ads to support the cost of being on the internet, then the least they can do is avoid the flash "Bonk the _____ and get a ______" ads. If they aren't willing to do that then whether they like it or not I'm blocking their ads.
I go to websites primarily for content, and if thats disrupted by advertisement then I'm not getting what I went there for.
So basically this is NetNanny for TV and it's "censorship?"
Churches, schools, rec centers, libraries, etc have been applying this kind of technology ever since the internet got popular, I don't see what the big deal is. If you want to watch porn go home, don't do it at your church, right?
(a) if there are things that you find tedious (e.g. marking) or difficult (e.g. sketches, if you aren't a good artist)
You can also simulate real-world experiments so that the students can get an idea of how something works without having to set up a demo. Here is a website full of flash animations that helped me a lot when I took physics for the first time in college.
It's surprising how similar this administration is to Reagan's. I've been reading Noam Chomsky books just a little at a time because some of the things I learn make me physically ill.
Bush touts the media as having a liberal bias. In reality the media is strongly conservative, Fox news, rather than being the conservative voice, is just outright fascist, and most people still believe everything they hear on their particular brand of news. Expect very little protest as this most recent step in the massive defecation on our rights probably won't make a sub note in the evening news.
If not for the internet, you probably wouldn't have even heard about this.
I know a guy that went to her high school. He was expelled and served with terrorism charges when a rocket demonstration went bad and set a field on fire. School officials claimed he was trying to burn the school down?
With schools like that, Oklahoma can't lose! I laud her for her devotion to science, because I know exactly what kind of barriers and punishments there are for that kind of devotion here. Until that changes, girls and boys like her will continue to be extremely rare.
You will always have that file unless all your digital media has been confiscated upon "return".
Which is pretty easy with DRM, right?
On a less legal level, any of the stuff you buy online can be "found" online anyway.
Granted, it does seem to be that interfaces that are easier to learn and a bit slower, but they don't have to be much slower at all. Think if you kept all the keyboard shortcuts in Blender but added a decent intuitive interface. Or even if you added another mode that was easier.
For example, let's say we make every modelling command accessible from a menu that pops up when you hit, oh, let's say the space bar. Furthermore, let us suppose there is a menu at the bottom of the screen containing more obscure or less used items such as remove doubles, spin/extrude, and etc...
OTOH, I doubt you've ever heard anyone say Blender is intuitive.
Yes I have, and it was intuitive for me as soon as I glanced at a page listing all of the common commands. It was the first 3d app I tried and so I didn't have any pre-conceived notions of how it was supposed to work. S for scale, g for grab, etc. No one has seen it to be so terrible that they created a brand X clone so far, so it must not be that terrible.
If an artist has no prior experience with 3D modelling and picks up Silo3D, runs through a couple tutorials, he'll be a pro. It's not because the interface is dumbed down - the interface is cleaned up and made -intuitive-.
You might love your easy interface right now but later on think of how much time you'd save if it were less "intuitive" and more efficient. Blender's interface thrives in efficiency, otherwise it would have been ditched a long time ago. It was made as an in-house tool for an animation studio by an animator, that says it all to me.
On a side note, I've heard your same argument for other programs such as 3DS and Maya. What isn't intuitive for you isn't like that for everyone, apparently.
Another downside of forced changes is 3,000 calls to the IT Help Desk when it happens (though our systems have just started forcing changes and it's only a couple of times a year).
A better analogy would be, Coke making most of the fridges, so they should be banned from providing free cans of coke when you buy one. Or they have to allow Rola Cola to advertise inside them.
Yes, but imagine that the cans are glued inside limiting the amount of space and cooling resources for other cans. THAT is my problem.
Let's face it: programmers want to program, they don't want to do their laundry.
Being in a CS class in college, this really hits home.
Runaway tornados? I think not..
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Sounds like an interesting idea for a renewable energy source, but what happens if one of these tornadoes gets away?
They would dissipate quickly, not having the proper weather conditions to support a tornado. It's not like these things pop up sporadically, even after living in Oklahoma for 21 years I've never actually seen one.
It finally happened. Someone described literary and arts programming as useless beef. (Personally, I find no beef worthless. It is all tasty to me, but I guess some have forgotten they have canines.) I guess it was inevitable that the arts and history programming would become relegated to fringe interests. I mean, no one watches Biography or Modern Marvels anymore. History Channel, anyone?
The History and Discovery channels are very popular and I watch them all the time. It's pretty much ALL I watch on TV, ever, when I do rarely watch it. If they weren't very popular I would pay to watch them. I described programs I'm not interested in as useless beef - just because someone else used the example of art and literary programs you assume I consider them so too. Not the case.
I don't want to pay for the other 500 channels I don't watch and don't care about - Surgery, underwater basket weaving, The Learning (and home redecorating) channel, etc.
Or they simply cater to a much less mainstream taste, such as literary or arts programs. Just because something isn't to your taste (or mine) doesn't make it "useless beef".
Actually, if it isn't to my taste and I'm paying for it, it's useless beef. Let the people with fringe interests pay for it.
Sequels of good selling games practically guarantee sales, which would be great for MS right now since they want badly to dominate the market. Superior sales will drive up the number of game makers and investors for the platform and help them beat Sony, though it sucks for those of us who like original games..
It's offtopic because the topic is not, "it doesn't matter how retarded your post is; as long as it's first, it will win you karma."
Oh, pardon me. Next time I'll be sure to wait three or four minutes for the ASCII porn and "FP?" by anonymous cowards to show up and THEN post my retarded idea.
The ocean was exactly what I was thinking - I had read about a guy who is experimenting with pumping deep (cold) ocean water to pull heat from the atmosphere and create electricity.
Effectively the Earth is keeping the heat, but as long as the water stays at a low vapor pressure, you don't lose at all. Deep ocean water could easily rise a few dozen degrees without replacing the atmospheric water mined in the end.
Of course, practically this idea is useless. There's no way to deploy it on a wide enough scale to make a dent in global warming, so I was mostly just putting it out there for jokes.
I'm scratching my head as to why that's offtopic..
Before sperm donations could be paid for, the men working at the clinics would often donate their own sperm in order for there to be enough supply of sperm, because demand was so great and there simply wasn't enough unafilliated men donating to meet the demand there was for sperm.
Were they really trying to meet market demand or was that huge supply of free pr0n just too irresistable in the pre-internet age?
Why is everyone referring to this as digital rights management? This isn't here to stop you from illegally downloading podcasts, but to monitor when and for how long you listen to them. That would be spyware.
I know a couple of professors at my university like that. They both started college at age 14 and had Ph.D.s by age 22. One is in the Chemistry dept. and the other in my (ELEN) dept.
Ironically, I've only had the chem professor in class so I'll comment on him. He was very childlike and enthusiastic about life and science in general. Some classmates of mine had met his daughter, who said he doesn't function in the real world very well. It's little things like money management and interacting with, say, a fast food clerk. I thought the guy was a blast to talk to because he was so childlike, hardly like it was a deficit in his personality, but I've always regarded the typical "maturing" process as a mostly losing proposition.
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If the website owner feels it is necessary to use ads to support the cost of being on the internet, then the least they can do is avoid the flash "Bonk the _____ and get a ______" ads. If they aren't willing to do that then whether they like it or not I'm blocking their ads.
I go to websites primarily for content, and if thats disrupted by advertisement then I'm not getting what I went there for.
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So basically this is NetNanny for TV and it's "censorship?"
Churches, schools, rec centers, libraries, etc have been applying this kind of technology ever since the internet got popular, I don't see what the big deal is. If you want to watch porn go home, don't do it at your church, right?
(a) if there are things that you find tedious (e.g. marking) or difficult (e.g. sketches, if you aren't a good artist)
You can also simulate real-world experiments so that the students can get an idea of how something works without having to set up a demo. Here is a website full of flash animations that helped me a lot when I took physics for the first time in college.
It's surprising how similar this administration is to Reagan's. I've been reading Noam Chomsky books just a little at a time because some of the things I learn make me physically ill.
Bush touts the media as having a liberal bias. In reality the media is strongly conservative, Fox news, rather than being the conservative voice, is just outright fascist, and most people still believe everything they hear on their particular brand of news. Expect very little protest as this most recent step in the massive defecation on our rights probably won't make a sub note in the evening news.
If not for the internet, you probably wouldn't have even heard about this.
I know a guy that went to her high school. He was expelled and served with terrorism charges when a rocket demonstration went bad and set a field on fire. School officials claimed he was trying to burn the school down?
With schools like that, Oklahoma can't lose! I laud her for her devotion to science, because I know exactly what kind of barriers and punishments there are for that kind of devotion here. Until that changes, girls and boys like her will continue to be extremely rare.
As I recall.. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/ 08/139206
You will always have that file unless all your digital media has been confiscated upon "return". Which is pretty easy with DRM, right? On a less legal level, any of the stuff you buy online can be "found" online anyway.
Granted, it does seem to be that interfaces that are easier to learn and a bit slower, but they don't have to be much slower at all. Think if you kept all the keyboard shortcuts in Blender but added a decent intuitive interface. Or even if you added another mode that was easier.
For example, let's say we make every modelling command accessible from a menu that pops up when you hit, oh, let's say the space bar. Furthermore, let us suppose there is a menu at the bottom of the screen containing more obscure or less used items such as remove doubles, spin/extrude, and etc...
OTOH, I doubt you've ever heard anyone say Blender is intuitive.
Yes I have, and it was intuitive for me as soon as I glanced at a page listing all of the common commands. It was the first 3d app I tried and so I didn't have any pre-conceived notions of how it was supposed to work. S for scale, g for grab, etc. No one has seen it to be so terrible that they created a brand X clone so far, so it must not be that terrible.
If an artist has no prior experience with 3D modelling and picks up Silo3D, runs through a couple tutorials, he'll be a pro. It's not because the interface is dumbed down - the interface is cleaned up and made -intuitive-.
You might love your easy interface right now but later on think of how much time you'd save if it were less "intuitive" and more efficient. Blender's interface thrives in efficiency, otherwise it would have been ditched a long time ago. It was made as an in-house tool for an animation studio by an animator, that says it all to me.
On a side note, I've heard your same argument for other programs such as 3DS and Maya. What isn't intuitive for you isn't like that for everyone, apparently.
Another downside of forced changes is 3,000 calls to the IT Help Desk when it happens (though our systems have just started forcing changes and it's only a couple of times a year).
A better analogy would be, Coke making most of the fridges, so they should be banned from providing free cans of coke when you buy one. Or they have to allow Rola Cola to advertise inside them.
Yes, but imagine that the cans are glued inside limiting the amount of space and cooling resources for other cans. THAT is my problem.
I think my favorite was:
Let's face it: programmers want to program, they don't want to do their laundry.
Being in a CS class in college, this really hits home.
Sounds like an interesting idea for a renewable energy source, but what happens if one of these tornadoes gets away?
They would dissipate quickly, not having the proper weather conditions to support a tornado. It's not like these things pop up sporadically, even after living in Oklahoma for 21 years I've never actually seen one.
It finally happened. Someone described literary and arts programming as useless beef. (Personally, I find no beef worthless. It is all tasty to me, but I guess some have forgotten they have canines.) I guess it was inevitable that the arts and history programming would become relegated to fringe interests. I mean, no one watches Biography or Modern Marvels anymore. History Channel, anyone?
The History and Discovery channels are very popular and I watch them all the time. It's pretty much ALL I watch on TV, ever, when I do rarely watch it. If they weren't very popular I would pay to watch them. I described programs I'm not interested in as useless beef - just because someone else used the example of art and literary programs you assume I consider them so too. Not the case.
I don't want to pay for the other 500 channels I don't watch and don't care about - Surgery, underwater basket weaving, The Learning (and home redecorating) channel, etc.
Or they simply cater to a much less mainstream taste, such as literary or arts programs. Just because something isn't to your taste (or mine) doesn't make it "useless beef".
Actually, if it isn't to my taste and I'm paying for it, it's useless beef. Let the people with fringe interests pay for it.
They believe that a la carte pricing would make it too expensive to offer less-popular channels that presently are bundled with popular channels.
Of course, nevermind that the channels that are "less-popular" are probably useless beef anyway.
Sequels of good selling games practically guarantee sales, which would be great for MS right now since they want badly to dominate the market. Superior sales will drive up the number of game makers and investors for the platform and help them beat Sony, though it sucks for those of us who like original games..
It's offtopic because the topic is not, "it doesn't matter how retarded your post is; as long as it's first, it will win you karma."
Oh, pardon me. Next time I'll be sure to wait three or four minutes for the ASCII porn and "FP?" by anonymous cowards to show up and THEN post my retarded idea.
The ocean was exactly what I was thinking - I had read about a guy who is experimenting with pumping deep (cold) ocean water to pull heat from the atmosphere and create electricity.
Effectively the Earth is keeping the heat, but as long as the water stays at a low vapor pressure, you don't lose at all. Deep ocean water could easily rise a few dozen degrees without replacing the atmospheric water mined in the end.
Of course, practically this idea is useless. There's no way to deploy it on a wide enough scale to make a dent in global warming, so I was mostly just putting it out there for jokes.
I'm scratching my head as to why that's offtopic..
Before sperm donations could be paid for, the men working at the clinics would often donate their own sperm in order for there to be enough supply of sperm, because demand was so great and there simply wasn't enough unafilliated men donating to meet the demand there was for sperm.
Were they really trying to meet market demand or was that huge supply of free pr0n just too irresistable in the pre-internet age?
So why not start mining the atmosphere for water? We're running out of clean water anyway.
Why is everyone referring to this as digital rights management? This isn't here to stop you from illegally downloading podcasts, but to monitor when and for how long you listen to them. That would be spyware.
I know a couple of professors at my university like that. They both started college at age 14 and had Ph.D.s by age 22. One is in the Chemistry dept. and the other in my (ELEN) dept.
Ironically, I've only had the chem professor in class so I'll comment on him. He was very childlike and enthusiastic about life and science in general. Some classmates of mine had met his daughter, who said he doesn't function in the real world very well. It's little things like money management and interacting with, say, a fast food clerk. I thought the guy was a blast to talk to because he was so childlike, hardly like it was a deficit in his personality, but I've always regarded the typical "maturing" process as a mostly losing proposition.