While I agree with you that many people who get AIDS/HIV suffer from a lack of self-control as well as being very bad gamblers (risk vs. reward), the problem in Africa is especially tricky because rape is so prominent over there what with all the crazy guerilla-war-fare-take-all-the-women-and-rape-all- the-horses stuff going on.
I'm confused. What's wrong with the icons? At first I thought it was funny that the mouse was pointing to the computer icon and the email hint was up, but then realized you don't see the mouse and the email icon on the panel is right there so that's probably where the mouse pointer is. So what's wrong with the icons?
If your music purchases don't withstand the test of time, you have crappy taste in music.
Which is exactly why buying CDs is stupid. A lot of music is fluffy filler type crap. I'm not talking about the latest trendy stuff. Personally I think a lot of the Beatles stuff is really good, but I had a friend who had all/nearly all of their albums. I listened to some and found that the stuff that wasn't played on the radio was pretty much junk, not all of it, but a good portion of it. Now my music tastes are different than yours maybe, but the only albums I have found where I liked every song have been Nirvana's Nevermind and Weezer's blue album.
So, if the music doesn't stand the test of time, or even isn't tolerable to listent to at any time, why should I buy it? That's where iTunes comes in. I buy only the songs I want and immediately burn and rip them. No DRM, no crappy songs. If you have CDs, maybe you don't have DRM (maybe), but certainly you have songs that aren't going to be classics, and that is independent of whether you like AC/DC or Ashley Simpson.
Deliberate errors surely would not count, but in the case of music, changing a measures for the bass line would qualify. However, the copyright would only apply to the new work, not the old. The problem is that finding the old work becomes difficult and we are left with only the new work which has a copyright notice on the front. That is where Project Gutenberg comes in. They find works with a clear Title Page which has a copyright notice that has obviously expired and then they publish it in the public domain forever keeping that work there.
For example, right now I am reading the Icewind Dale Trilogy. There are publishing mistakes of missing or wrong punctuation and sometimes even misspelled, missing, or wrong words are present. Those are obviously publishing mistakes and fixing those would not qualify as copyrightable. However, if Salvatore were to see the mistakes, and rather than just fix them, replace the entire sentence/paragraph with something new, then those new sentences/paragraphs would qualify as being copyrightable. The problem is that the publisher puts a new copyright notice on the entire work, and rightly so I think. Not because of legalities, but because it would be ridiculous to be reading a book and suddenly see (begin new copyright)...blah blah blah...(end new copyright). But that does leave it difficult to know what is the copyrighted material and what is not.
Here's something that somewhat goes along with what he's saying, but it's different in slightly subtle ways.
The sheet music may very well be copyrighted due to small, even minor, variations that the publisher put in it. Not so much the formatting, though I suspect in some more extreme cases (i.e., not just changing the font and page width) that the new work could be copyrighted. So all that needs to happen is that a publisher get a hold of Bach's original work, or at least some old copy of it, change a few notes, and they could then copyright that. That's why organizations like Project Gutenberg are so important.
What!? You want all those new fancy animations AND you want a color depth of more than 256 shades of gray?! And pray tell, what kind of supercomputer do you expect to run such a thing?
Let me get this straight. You bought games solely due to game-play mechanics curiosity, and then want to create a game with totally new and audacious ideas and awe?
I can see why you would want to see what others have done, to see what works and what doesn't. But how does that give you brand new ideas. At worst you would create something that followed what not to do, at best you would create something that took all the good ideas and combined them into something really cool. But in neither of those cases would you be creating something new. Totally the opposite. You would create something that would be perfect for factory mass-marketism.
Always?! So like 10 years is always. Oh wait, Nintendo's only been third since the Xbox, which debuted in late 2001. And it wasn't third the whole time either. You have a very strange idea of what "always" means.
wouldn't that mean your in-game characters get to vote for representatives?
Depends on the outcome of the invasion/revolution. If the IRS comes in with a bunch of level 15 accountants, I am sure the WoW player base can successfully repel that invasion. But once they start dropping down their level 60 auditors things could get messy, especially if they're riding their FBI mounts.
Perhaps we would be able to settle the whole affair non-violently and set up a republic where we would be able to vote, but I suspect it would be a winner take all kind of thing.
I think they are more than welcome to tax my virtual money. Of course, they aren't the government in that virtual world and that would be considered an invasion. So the virtual people could join sides and start a war. That might be a fun expansion for WoW! It'll be like the Yuuzhan Vong invasion in Star Wars. We all thought the Burning Legion were the real baddies, but little did we know these other creatures from an entirely different galaxy were waiting for the stability of the world to get rocked and then they come swooping in with their W-2 and W-4 forms. Then all carnage breaks loose as our heroes find their powers have no effect on Worksheet B of the 1040A!
Oh the insanity! Will someone please think of the virtual people!?!?!
So an old vulnerability that was already known in IE6 shows up in IE7 and we're not supposed to be worried? There is this concept called credibility. It relates to someone's trustability. Not that Microsoft had a lot of it before, but when there new fangled browser that is so much more secure still contains a vulnerability from 6 months ago, IE7 starts with a default of ZERO credibility.
The Earth won't be consumed by the sun. The sun will lose some of it's gravitational effect on the earth and the earth will drift away. So even though the sun will expand to a size large enough to cover Earth's present orbit, the earth will be further away by then. Not that it will be a pleasant place to live what with the extremely high temperatures and solar winds.
Also, do a search for the Canis Major Dwarf, and you'll see that the Milky Way already has another galaxy inside of it.
The age of religious-controlled nations dominating information is coming to a close.
The age of chinese-controlled nations dominating information has just begun.
Note: The number of people claiming we're all going to be speaking Chinese in twenty years or so is getting ridiculous. I guess they haven't realized English IS the international language.
You don't have to look so far away. The Milky Way is not all that quiet seeing as how we have a galaxy passing right through us right now as well. The Canis Major Dwarf is closer to Earth the center of the Milky Way.
But then you would be wrong. Artisits have nothing to do with these pictures. Several images are taken in different spectrums which are grayscale versions of those pictures. Then the grayscale is put into red, green, or blue only color and three of them combined to make one picture. False color yes, because the spectrums the grayscale pictures are taken are not necessarily red, green and blue, but artists have nothing to do with it. Sometimes they choose color spectrums to enhance, sometimes to make it look natural, but artists never touch these images.
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I don't know but I'm unstoppable in Bombing Run on Bifrost in UT2003. It has to be UT2k3. UT2k4 slows the teleporter down way too much.
While I agree with you that many people who get AIDS/HIV suffer from a lack of self-control as well as being very bad gamblers (risk vs. reward), the problem in Africa is especially tricky because rape is so prominent over there what with all the crazy guerilla-war-fare-take-all-the-women-and-rape-all- the-horses stuff going on.
For that matter what about Ubuntu 6.10 which comes with it preinstalled?
I'm confused. What's wrong with the icons? At first I thought it was funny that the mouse was pointing to the computer icon and the email hint was up, but then realized you don't see the mouse and the email icon on the panel is right there so that's probably where the mouse pointer is. So what's wrong with the icons?
If your music purchases don't withstand the test of time, you have crappy taste in music.
Which is exactly why buying CDs is stupid. A lot of music is fluffy filler type crap. I'm not talking about the latest trendy stuff. Personally I think a lot of the Beatles stuff is really good, but I had a friend who had all/nearly all of their albums. I listened to some and found that the stuff that wasn't played on the radio was pretty much junk, not all of it, but a good portion of it. Now my music tastes are different than yours maybe, but the only albums I have found where I liked every song have been Nirvana's Nevermind and Weezer's blue album.
So, if the music doesn't stand the test of time, or even isn't tolerable to listent to at any time, why should I buy it? That's where iTunes comes in. I buy only the songs I want and immediately burn and rip them. No DRM, no crappy songs. If you have CDs, maybe you don't have DRM (maybe), but certainly you have songs that aren't going to be classics, and that is independent of whether you like AC/DC or Ashley Simpson.
Deliberate errors surely would not count, but in the case of music, changing a measures for the bass line would qualify. However, the copyright would only apply to the new work, not the old. The problem is that finding the old work becomes difficult and we are left with only the new work which has a copyright notice on the front. That is where Project Gutenberg comes in. They find works with a clear Title Page which has a copyright notice that has obviously expired and then they publish it in the public domain forever keeping that work there.
For example, right now I am reading the Icewind Dale Trilogy. There are publishing mistakes of missing or wrong punctuation and sometimes even misspelled, missing, or wrong words are present. Those are obviously publishing mistakes and fixing those would not qualify as copyrightable. However, if Salvatore were to see the mistakes, and rather than just fix them, replace the entire sentence/paragraph with something new, then those new sentences/paragraphs would qualify as being copyrightable. The problem is that the publisher puts a new copyright notice on the entire work, and rightly so I think. Not because of legalities, but because it would be ridiculous to be reading a book and suddenly see (begin new copyright)...blah blah blah...(end new copyright). But that does leave it difficult to know what is the copyrighted material and what is not.
Here's something that somewhat goes along with what he's saying, but it's different in slightly subtle ways.
The sheet music may very well be copyrighted due to small, even minor, variations that the publisher put in it. Not so much the formatting, though I suspect in some more extreme cases (i.e., not just changing the font and page width) that the new work could be copyrighted. So all that needs to happen is that a publisher get a hold of Bach's original work, or at least some old copy of it, change a few notes, and they could then copyright that. That's why organizations like Project Gutenberg are so important.
Oh yeah! You're the bigger doo-doo head!
Because of how the Hubble Telescope works, it would do a very crummy job of imaging Earth.
It's not cancer! It's the early stages of the rats turning into humans!
Oh the humanity!
More web environments would be nice (PHP, Perl, Ruby on Rails).
Maybe this is the wrong place to ask this, but how does Python compare to those others in terms of web development?
What!? You want all those new fancy animations AND you want a color depth of more than 256 shades of gray?! And pray tell, what kind of supercomputer do you expect to run such a thing?
So Gartner says that Apple should get out of hardware and now Microsoft wants in? I don't get it either.
Let me get this straight. You bought games solely due to game-play mechanics curiosity, and then want to create a game with totally new and audacious ideas and awe?
I can see why you would want to see what others have done, to see what works and what doesn't. But how does that give you brand new ideas. At worst you would create something that followed what not to do, at best you would create something that took all the good ideas and combined them into something really cool. But in neither of those cases would you be creating something new. Totally the opposite. You would create something that would be perfect for factory mass-marketism.
If all your customers did then where are the used games coming from? Or did one person buy it new and that one copy keeps getting circulated?
The saying has kind of always gone...
Always?! So like 10 years is always. Oh wait, Nintendo's only been third since the Xbox, which debuted in late 2001. And it wasn't third the whole time either. You have a very strange idea of what "always" means.
wouldn't that mean your in-game characters get to vote for representatives?
Depends on the outcome of the invasion/revolution. If the IRS comes in with a bunch of level 15 accountants, I am sure the WoW player base can successfully repel that invasion. But once they start dropping down their level 60 auditors things could get messy, especially if they're riding their FBI mounts.
Perhaps we would be able to settle the whole affair non-violently and set up a republic where we would be able to vote, but I suspect it would be a winner take all kind of thing.
I think they are more than welcome to tax my virtual money. Of course, they aren't the government in that virtual world and that would be considered an invasion. So the virtual people could join sides and start a war. That might be a fun expansion for WoW! It'll be like the Yuuzhan Vong invasion in Star Wars. We all thought the Burning Legion were the real baddies, but little did we know these other creatures from an entirely different galaxy were waiting for the stability of the world to get rocked and then they come swooping in with their W-2 and W-4 forms. Then all carnage breaks loose as our heroes find their powers have no effect on Worksheet B of the 1040A!
Oh the insanity! Will someone please think of the virtual people!?!?!
So an old vulnerability that was already known in IE6 shows up in IE7 and we're not supposed to be worried? There is this concept called credibility. It relates to someone's trustability. Not that Microsoft had a lot of it before, but when there new fangled browser that is so much more secure still contains a vulnerability from 6 months ago, IE7 starts with a default of ZERO credibility.
The Earth won't be consumed by the sun. The sun will lose some of it's gravitational effect on the earth and the earth will drift away. So even though the sun will expand to a size large enough to cover Earth's present orbit, the earth will be further away by then. Not that it will be a pleasant place to live what with the extremely high temperatures and solar winds.
Also, do a search for the Canis Major Dwarf, and you'll see that the Milky Way already has another galaxy inside of it.
Baby steps. You start with baby steps.
The age of religious-controlled nations dominating information is coming to a close.
The age of chinese-controlled nations dominating information has just begun.
Note: The number of people claiming we're all going to be speaking Chinese in twenty years or so is getting ridiculous. I guess they haven't realized English IS the international language.
If this helps to slow (or even stop) the widespread use misuse of flash, I'm all for it.
You don't have to look so far away. The Milky Way is not all that quiet seeing as how we have a galaxy passing right through us right now as well. The Canis Major Dwarf is closer to Earth the center of the Milky Way.
But then you would be wrong. Artisits have nothing to do with these pictures. Several images are taken in different spectrums which are grayscale versions of those pictures. Then the grayscale is put into red, green, or blue only color and three of them combined to make one picture. False color yes, because the spectrums the grayscale pictures are taken are not necessarily red, green and blue, but artists have nothing to do with it. Sometimes they choose color spectrums to enhance, sometimes to make it look natural, but artists never touch these images.