The big issue here is that it DOES work in Linux; they forcibly prevent it from being viewed. The GP's talk about offering.ogg streams/downloads as well is a completely different topic.
You can count the number of neurons vs glia all day long, but at the end of the day dolphins seem to have MUCH better results than goldfish. Just because a certain feature normally has a certain result doesn't mean you can rewrite reality when it doesn't!
If the word "intelligence" was defined as a certain ratio of neurons to glia, he'd have a point. Of course, "intelligence" wouldn't matter so much, because it would only matter in certain situations. Much like "clock speed".
I also don't see how the "jumping out of the bowl/over the net" even deserves a mention...unless we now have a way of interviewing dolphins and goldfish.
"So, what this amounts to is some police officer saying... "they'll get a nice new replacement anyway, why bother tracking the crooks, it's only one laptop"."
One of the first things I learned in primary school was that most people in places of authority don't care about dispensing justice unless the incident directly affects them. They'll always rationalize their way out of having to do anything. If you want anything done, you have to call them out in front of a crowd so it makes them look like an asshole if they try to ignore you.
You'd also end up with many more dead cops, and much more sympathy for those criminals. If the penalty for dealing pot or prostitution was death or life in prison, I for one would offer safe haven and protection to pot dealers and prostitutes.
It WAS a Matrix game. Gibson used the term to refer to the "Internet" in his novels, which Shadowrun is based on. If I recall correctly, both the SNES and the Genesis games used the term as well and included "hacking" missions. The movie was named after it, and many characters in the movie were based on popular cyberpunk characters. It couldn't be much more obvious unless they'd called Trinity "Molly".;)
I've been trying to find the Genesis version at flea markets and used game stores around here for a while, without much success. The only person that had it wanted as much as the game probably cost when it was new.
I felt it was a lot better than the SNES version, which was incredibly linear. The Genesis version let you free-roam for the most part, in both "the Matrix" and the streets of Seattle, and complete the missions when you wanted. I figure that I looked at it the same way kids look at San Andreas today.
It also made the first Gibson novel I read (when I was thirteen or so) all the more entertaining. "Wait a second, Black ICE, Chiba City, Runs...I know this!"
Because the government of Cameroon is not Cameroon.
This isn't just an attempt to grab cash; that's a side effect. This is to hamper the ability of opposition parties to use the Internet as a voice. The government in Cameroon controls the TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers tightly; they don't want the Internet to be any different.
The current government in Cameroon isn't representative of the country by a long shot.
The money's probably going to go towards hunting down secessionists, bringing charges of libel against journalists from opposition parties, and solid gold hubcaps.
It's too bad that none of that is likely to trickle down.
From what I understand, the government there controls (well, attempts to) the broadcast channels pretty damn strictly, and voicing an opposition political opinion is generally called "libel" and involves jail time. Hoarding the TLD isn't a surprising move for them.
No, they typo-squatted ".com", in the same way that "goggle.com" and the like typo-squatted "google.com". Domain-squatting is something else entirely, and involves registering the actual target address and sitting on it, then trying to sell it for an increased sum.
The way I see it, each party is as bad as the other. One's just better at it than the other one. Both try to exploit human characteristics in order to gain and hold power.
"Look at these poor people being oppressed! If you let us do X, thereby strengthening our power, we'll help them!" "You're being oppressed! If you let us do X, thereby strengthening our power, we'll help you!"
Variations on these lines have been used by both the Left and the Right for decades. They've probably been used for millenia, whenever there has been a political divide. The "oppressed people that need saving" are generally actually being oppressed, but the result is always more power for the government, in the form of increased taxes, more spy powers, or laws that serve their ends.
I wonder how hard it would be for Slashdot/OSTG to host a tracker for large, article-related files like this. I don't think it would require a lot of funding to run, and it would certainly help with convention presentation videos.
This for areas that are relatively stable and are in the process of developing, not famine-stricken and war-torn territories. People in Brazil, Thailand, and Argentina aren't exactly killing each other and starving in the streets.
The deaths resulting from someone using a human shield are the fault of the group USING THEM AS A SHIELD. Of course the other side is going to value the lives of their own people more.
Seriously though, this is the kind of rhetoric I would expect from someone who watches Faux News or who lives under Israeli wartime press censorship. I have personally seen no documentary evidence of any of the charges made in the above post. It is easy to rationalize atrocity when it supports your own worldview. I'm sure the Germans under Hitler were equally facile in their ability to justify the murder of millions of Jews and other minorities. In a nutshell, what the above poster is saying is that "they deserved to die." Tell that to the shades of the folks who died in the death camps. A pox on your house.
You just managed to Godwin the discussion without even being relevant. Congrats. The poster didn't say that the civilians "deserved to die"; he said that it's foolish to blame Israel for the deaths instead of Hezbollah.
Comparing the Holocaust to the attacks on Lebanon doesn't make any sense (unless you believe the Jews were trying to destroy Germany?), because Lebanon is definitely trying to destroy Israel.
If he's willfully harboring criminals that regularly raid a neighbor's house, and has a weapons arsenal stashed in his basement, then YES. In fact, it would be okay even without the advance warning...All that does is give them a chance to get away.
The high school graduation rates for the Netherlands and the UK are 60-70%, differing between age groups. The rate for the US is 85-89%. If your standards are higher, of course your graduates are going to have higher IQs on average.
Now, I think having higher standards is a good thing (the "no child left behind" crap in the US annoys me to no end), but don't take statistics out of context.
"She blames the computer I built, calling it 'a piece of crap', yet it works flawlessly once I start using her old computer after she has upgraded. "
I'm guessing your sister is a preteen or teenager, but this isn't a bad idea even if she's an adult.
Stop building her computers if that's her attitude, and explain to your her and your parents why. Chances are, she's doing something that's causing the problems or she just wants a newer computer. Let her spend some cash and wrestle with Dell tech support.
"The fact that he owns it isn't a defense as to why downloading it is okay."
He may not be using it as one, but it certainly is a valid defense. What's the difference between downloading a second copy or copying his original DVD (other than the first one being quicker)? The copyright owner isn't being deprived of a sale, or a "potential sale", in any way.
Before someone bitches at the parent post for using the "copyright infringement isn't theft" line, I'll point out that the difference matters in this case.
"Also - just because you own a particular brand of car stereo doesn't mean you can go out and steal it too. He had the DVD, he should have converted it from his pre-existing copy."
If you already have a copy of the movie, there is NO WAY the copyright owner can claim a loss from your downloading it. Even by their twisted "you're buying a license to watch the content" logic, you're in the clear. All you're doing is using a different method to back it up.
"Anyway, just thought I might point out that it works on real machines just as well as, or in some cases even better than, on a virtual machine."
You've had much better luck than me. I've tried it on several older physical machines (Mendocino and Coppermine stuff, as well as an Athlon) and it hasn't worked yet...Either it craps out during the installation or it blackscreens when I try to boot it. I try again with new versions or different hardware occasionally, because most of the time (that is, every time I found someone with the same problem on the ReactOS forums) the issue is with drivers.
The only difference I can think of is (possibly) that the censored versions shown on TV are approved by the owners of the film. That's not the argument they're using, though, if the article's telling the whole story.
"Their objective... is to stop the infringement because of its irreparable injury to the creative artistic expression in the copyrighted movies," the judge wrote. "There is a public interest in providing such protection."
And from the DGA President:
"Audiences can now be assured that the films they buy or rent are the vision of the filmmakers who made them and not the arbitrary choices of a third-party editor."
These are supposed to show the reason behind the decision. Following the logic of the first, censorship of any sort of art would be copyright infringement. The second quote isn't even relevant. The company clearly states that the DVDs are edited; that's the whole point of someone trading an unedited one for their version!
If the company is doing something else that's infringing, I could understand the suit, but that's not what the suers are talking about.
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The big issue here is that it DOES work in Linux; they forcibly prevent it from being viewed. The GP's talk about offering .ogg streams/downloads as well is a completely different topic.
You can count the number of neurons vs glia all day long, but at the end of the day dolphins seem to have MUCH better results than goldfish. Just because a certain feature normally has a certain result doesn't mean you can rewrite reality when it doesn't!
If the word "intelligence" was defined as a certain ratio of neurons to glia, he'd have a point. Of course, "intelligence" wouldn't matter so much, because it would only matter in certain situations. Much like "clock speed".
I also don't see how the "jumping out of the bowl/over the net" even deserves a mention...unless we now have a way of interviewing dolphins and goldfish.
"So, what this amounts to is some police officer saying ... "they'll get a nice new replacement anyway, why bother tracking the crooks, it's only one laptop"."
One of the first things I learned in primary school was that most people in places of authority don't care about dispensing justice unless the incident directly affects them. They'll always rationalize their way out of having to do anything. If you want anything done, you have to call them out in front of a crowd so it makes them look like an asshole if they try to ignore you.
You'd also end up with many more dead cops, and much more sympathy for those criminals. If the penalty for dealing pot or prostitution was death or life in prison, I for one would offer safe haven and protection to pot dealers and prostitutes.
It WAS a Matrix game. Gibson used the term to refer to the "Internet" in his novels, which Shadowrun is based on. If I recall correctly, both the SNES and the Genesis games used the term as well and included "hacking" missions. The movie was named after it, and many characters in the movie were based on popular cyberpunk characters. It couldn't be much more obvious unless they'd called Trinity "Molly". ;)
I've been trying to find the Genesis version at flea markets and used game stores around here for a while, without much success. The only person that had it wanted as much as the game probably cost when it was new.
I felt it was a lot better than the SNES version, which was incredibly linear. The Genesis version let you free-roam for the most part, in both "the Matrix" and the streets of Seattle, and complete the missions when you wanted. I figure that I looked at it the same way kids look at San Andreas today.
It also made the first Gibson novel I read (when I was thirteen or so) all the more entertaining. "Wait a second, Black ICE, Chiba City, Runs...I know this!"
Because the government of Cameroon is not Cameroon.
This isn't just an attempt to grab cash; that's a side effect. This is to hamper the ability of opposition parties to use the Internet as a voice. The government in Cameroon controls the TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers tightly; they don't want the Internet to be any different.
The current government in Cameroon isn't representative of the country by a long shot.
The money's probably going to go towards hunting down secessionists, bringing charges of libel against journalists from opposition parties, and solid gold hubcaps.
It's too bad that none of that is likely to trickle down.
From what I understand, the government there controls (well, attempts to) the broadcast channels pretty damn strictly, and voicing an opposition political opinion is generally called "libel" and involves jail time. Hoarding the TLD isn't a surprising move for them.
No, they typo-squatted ".com", in the same way that "goggle.com" and the like typo-squatted "google.com". Domain-squatting is something else entirely, and involves registering the actual target address and sitting on it, then trying to sell it for an increased sum.
.com by domain-squatting .cm.
They typo-squatted
The way I see it, each party is as bad as the other. One's just better at it than the other one. Both try to exploit human characteristics in order to gain and hold power.
"Look at these poor people being oppressed! If you let us do X, thereby strengthening our power, we'll help them!"
"You're being oppressed! If you let us do X, thereby strengthening our power, we'll help you!"
Variations on these lines have been used by both the Left and the Right for decades. They've probably been used for millenia, whenever there has been a political divide. The "oppressed people that need saving" are generally actually being oppressed, but the result is always more power for the government, in the form of increased taxes, more spy powers, or laws that serve their ends.
Bingo. It's a campfire with no soldiers around it, designed to make one's forces look much more numerous than they are.
Of course, if they make it look too stupid, it just reflects badly upon their side...
Parodies are fair use.
This may be an asshole thing to do, but I'm pretty sure it's not illegal in any way.
I wonder how hard it would be for Slashdot/OSTG to host a tracker for large, article-related files like this. I don't think it would require a lot of funding to run, and it would certainly help with convention presentation videos.
This for areas that are relatively stable and are in the process of developing, not famine-stricken and war-torn territories. People in Brazil, Thailand, and Argentina aren't exactly killing each other and starving in the streets.
You just managed to Godwin the discussion without even being relevant. Congrats. The poster didn't say that the civilians "deserved to die"; he said that it's foolish to blame Israel for the deaths instead of Hezbollah.
Comparing the Holocaust to the attacks on Lebanon doesn't make any sense (unless you believe the Jews were trying to destroy Germany?), because Lebanon is definitely trying to destroy Israel.
If he's willfully harboring criminals that regularly raid a neighbor's house, and has a weapons arsenal stashed in his basement, then YES. In fact, it would be okay even without the advance warning...All that does is give them a chance to get away.
I'm looking at the Education at a Glance study from 2005. (XLS warning)
The high school graduation rates for the Netherlands and the UK are 60-70%, differing between age groups. The rate for the US is 85-89%. If your standards are higher, of course your graduates are going to have higher IQs on average.
Now, I think having higher standards is a good thing (the "no child left behind" crap in the US annoys me to no end), but don't take statistics out of context.
"She blames the computer I built, calling it 'a piece of crap', yet it works flawlessly once I start using her old computer after she has upgraded. "
I'm guessing your sister is a preteen or teenager, but this isn't a bad idea even if she's an adult.
Stop building her computers if that's her attitude, and explain to your her and your parents why. Chances are, she's doing something that's causing the problems or she just wants a newer computer. Let her spend some cash and wrestle with Dell tech support.
You can get denied things for having no credit history, not just for having bad credit. Deciding not to get a credit card isn't irresponsible.
"The fact that he owns it isn't a defense as to why downloading it is okay."
He may not be using it as one, but it certainly is a valid defense. What's the difference between downloading a second copy or copying his original DVD (other than the first one being quicker)? The copyright owner isn't being deprived of a sale, or a "potential sale", in any way.
Before someone bitches at the parent post for using the "copyright infringement isn't theft" line, I'll point out that the difference matters in this case.
"Also - just because you own a particular brand of car stereo doesn't mean you can go out and steal it too. He had the DVD, he should have converted it from his pre-existing copy."
If you already have a copy of the movie, there is NO WAY the copyright owner can claim a loss from your downloading it. Even by their twisted "you're buying a license to watch the content" logic, you're in the clear. All you're doing is using a different method to back it up.
"Anyway, just thought I might point out that it works on real machines just as well as, or in some cases even better than, on a virtual machine."
You've had much better luck than me. I've tried it on several older physical machines (Mendocino and Coppermine stuff, as well as an Athlon) and it hasn't worked yet...Either it craps out during the installation or it blackscreens when I try to boot it. I try again with new versions or different hardware occasionally, because most of the time (that is, every time I found someone with the same problem on the ReactOS forums) the issue is with drivers.
The only difference I can think of is (possibly) that the censored versions shown on TV are approved by the owners of the film. That's not the argument they're using, though, if the article's telling the whole story.
And from the DGA President:
These are supposed to show the reason behind the decision. Following the logic of the first, censorship of any sort of art would be copyright infringement. The second quote isn't even relevant. The company clearly states that the DVDs are edited; that's the whole point of someone trading an unedited one for their version!
If the company is doing something else that's infringing, I could understand the suit, but that's not what the suers are talking about.