This is a fine idea for games that are purely motion based. So, the Wii Sports and Tiger Woods and driving games and such. However, for games that need to interact with the screen, AKA every shooter, adventure, action game, it will not work. The Wii sensor on the TV isn't there to tell the Wii where the controller is. It's there to tell the Wii where the TV is. Without knowing where the television is in relation to the remote, you lose the ability to move the cursor on the screen.
Well, I'd agree that many of those accounts are no longer active. On the other hand, I suspect that all that personal information sitting in those dead accounts is worth quite a bit to some people. Page views is not the only way to make money.
I think that is the point. Debian and the other releases build on what is out there, incorporate other work into their own and release what they make themselves. The GPs objection to Ubuntu is that while they build on what other people have done, they don't release their own contributions back tot he community. No one is sugesting that they are violating the GPL or any other license, but they are perhaps violating the spirit of the community that they depend on for their own wellbeing.
Is it just me, or is everything in that article big and bulky? It's all RAM that's been made faster by adding cooling fins the size of bricks to them and other hardware made for running a server. I realize that all these hardware sites pander to the extreme gaming crowd, but where is the sleek and small?
Instead of the case larger than some bookshelves, where is the one designed to run silent and unnoticed by my TV or under my desk? Instead of the super ram and massive hard drive racks, where is the clever wireless network storage solution that will move media around my house? Instead of the computer case with a big fat LCD screen built into the front, where is the sleek standalone screen that that can wirelessly connect to the server in the basement and display pictures when not in use?
I don't think anyone is surprised to discover that by making everything twice as big, loud and hot you can get the most blazing performance. How about showing me something that impresses me instead?
I think credibility has to be judged on the merits of the article, not the example they used. No matter the device in question, the issue they are raising is one that should be raised and that deserves a degree of discussion. Now, should they try and promote this by using the most obscure examples they can find? Would the points they raise be any more (or less) valid if they had used a 5 year old device that no one had ever heard of for their example?
Actually, the original quote from John A Macdonald described it as a house of "sober second thought". I always loved the implication that the first house wasn't sober. Although, given the history of Canadian politicians and John A Macdonald in particular, this may not be far from the truth.
The problem is that the Wii only has 512 MB internal memory. That isn't very many tracks. So far, Nintendo has been crippling games's ability to either run off of or access information off of additional memory cards, so the obvious solution is out. Really, if they made a minor firmware update to allow the Wii to access Virtual Console and other downloaded content directly off of SD cards, it would simplify a lot of things, from downloaded original games to expansion packs.
"You dont want private corporations to be in control of things like police because it gives them too much power."
I have to ask. You don't think putting a corporation in a position where they can say 'Give us $X or we will let you suffer and/or die' gives them too much power? That couldn't possibly lead to abuse, could it?
Actually, I think the focus on the free shipping is a kind of red herring. The problem is with the final price to the consumer. Take your example of a book that has a list price of $9.99. If Amazon is selling it for $7.49 + standard $2.00 shipping the final price is $9.49, or a 5% discount no problem with that. The courts are counting the shipping charge as part of the price of the book because it is. If you go to a normal book store and buy a book, the price of the shipping is being absorbed there, it is just less transparent.
So, when Amazon drops the shipping, the price is now $7.49. That is way above the 5%. After all, if a brick and mortar store discounted the price of their shipping from all their books, all you would see is the sale price and they would get dinged by the law too. The only difference with the Amazon thing is that they are saying what part of the balance sheet the sale goes under.
"Some sort of tranparent (non toxic!) materials layered in between to form a low-power battery"
I don't know about you, but I strongly object to placing a battery of any form directly on my eyeball. It doesn't take a very high failure rate to make this one a bad idea (eye-dea?).
The crux of the writers strike is that they are not paid a living wage up front. They don't really expect one as the majority of writing positions in the entertainment industry don't lend themselves well to that kind of setup. However, while they are not getting salaries the studios are being dicks about the residuals that are supposed to make up the difference. This makes things hard on the writers. Hence the strike.
Now, I don't think this model would work very well in the game environment. But in their own industry it makes a lot of sense.
I think you are purposefully missing the point. If the prosecutor involved agreed with you, there would be no lawsuit. Since there is, he must not agree with you. And as long as they are treating the torrent files as infringing in and of themselves, you have to admit that there are a lot of them. That is going to make for a lot of charges and a lot of paper.
I have to agree. I mean seriously, the amount of traffic that the Pirate Bay moves is staggering. There are large box stores with a worse selection of media. If anyone was serious about going after them, I'd be shocked if the charges DIDN'T take up a monumental piece of paper. Just listing the details each piece of media involved would take thousands of pages. Frankly, I'm shocked that it is ONLY 4000 pages.
Note, I am not arguing that the lawsuit itself is right or wrong, simply that any serious lawsuit against TPB will, by its very nature, be a big ass stack of accusations.
Blender's UI is really bad. And I have a right to say it. I used Blender for about 3 years back in high School. Did some neat things with it. Went on to University where I became used to Maya, 3DS and Lightwave. After 3 months with any of them I was easily double my productivity with Blender. S, there you go. As someone who really likes the idea of Blender, has experience with Blender and has made the real world comparisons, Blender's UI sucks. Seriously, find a good manual and spend a few months learning something else. At the very least it will give you some useful perspective.
Not to mention that with higher end work, you really do need a package that is going to play nice with all the other programs that you will be importing/exporting to.
Could someone out there give an explanation about why they are not just updating the Bluetooth specs? I know current bluetooth speeds are on the slow side, but that could be fixed. You could have a wireless standard that is already backwards compatible with many cell phones, PDAs and laptops and lots of devices. Instead, we are going to have a bunch of devices trying to fit in 3 wireless standards, at least for a few years. This, bluetooth and Wi-Fi (plus the phone network stuff for cells).
Well, yes and no. Physically, there is no reason that multiple school systems can't be opened. Practically there are some arguments against. The biggest one is the question of what standards the schools are held to. What counts as an 'education'? When someone says they have graduated High School, what does that mean? Does it mean that they have a piece of paper or does it mean that they have attained at least a minimum amount of knowledge in a variety of areas? If anyone that calls themselves a school can set all their own guidelines, then all a graduation becomes is a piece of paper like the ones you can buy from the diploma mills on the internet. And if outside guidelines are going to be imposed on curriculum and testing, then we are back to the original issue and nothing has changed.
Please note, this is very different from having schools provide specialty education. Lots of schools are known for their additional academic programs, or their sports focus, or the amount of technology they integrate. That isn't the same as an educational free-for-all.
You know there is only one way this will end. Within a year of Sweden legalizing file sharing, the MAFIAA with have put enough pressure on all the North American ISPs to block any connection resolving to a Swedish address. Problem solved.
I have to say, getting EU citizenship is looking more appealing all the time.
Her work as a blogger? Simone has been working in the comics industry for almost a decade now and got the job of writing Wonder Woman due to a solid history of writing well crafted, memorable, stories. She has worked for both the major comic companies and a few of the minor ones writing everything from established superhero books to quirky creator-owned stuff. To suggest that she got a high profile job because of her BLOG is kind of insulting to the hard work she has put in over the years.
You say that sarcastically, but there is a big grain of truth. As someone who used to sell laptops, the market has almost no differentiation. Every three months, HP, Dell, Toshiba and the rest release new models in step. You try explaining to someone the difference between three notebooks that all have the same 15" screen, processor, hard drive and RAM. If this thing doesn't sell itself, then no one else will go to the trouble.
Pro has 15 or 17 inch screens and dedicated graphics. Other than that, all the options are the same as far as I know. I got a pro because I was looking for a thin and light 15' with dedicated graphics. The only dedicated 15's Dell or HP had at the time were two inches thick and no battery, so I got the Mac for the hardware. The 3.5 hour battery life doing graphics work or playing video doesn't hurt though.
There are lots of little things that also impressed me. The design of the power brick (which sounds silly until you have used it) and the little remote that comes with them. Even the power indicator LEDs on the battery. The hardware price was in line with other stuff I was seeing. And there is a nice benefit that I hadn't realized when I bought it. I had one of the fans die after 8 months. Found a Mac authorized dealer four blocks from me, walked it in and they swapped it out. I picked it up the next day. Much nicer than past repairs through Dell:)
As someone who 'made the switch' a few months ago, I have to warn you about the worst part. I switched to a MacBook because I liked the hardware for the price and was originally planning on mostly running XP. Ended up liking OSX. And I can't tell ANYONE.
The second you say you like your Mac, people ask you if you are one of 'those people'. If you tell someone you are really happy with your new Toshiba laptop they think about it. If you say the same things about a Mac it must be because you are a fanatic.
As someone who got a mac for the hardware, it's unbelievably annoying.
And all that also ignores the realities of the location. Hydro, tidal and wave all have the prerequisite of large bodies of water. Wind needs a location with a reliable breeze. Solar power isn't particularly efficient in many areas that suffer from lots of cloud cover and rain, or long winter months.
I think on of the biggest problems with the environmental movement (or at least their PR) is that they seem more than happy to pursue perfect solutions at the expense of good solutions.
Who said anything about life needing sodium? The only real assumption going on is that life is more likely to occur in a liquid environment. Up until now, they signs have been that there was a liquid environment present, and as such it was a good place to look for life. Better than the alternatives at least. Now, the new research calls into question the existence of the large body of liquid that was thought to exist. So, if there is no liquid, the chances of life existing are lower and the reason for priority missions goes away.
Actually, I doubt that many of the politicians DO know that. How many congressmen or senators do you think have time (not ot mention inclination) to lurk on Boing Boing or slashdot? How many have ever swung by PirateBay to grab something not available at their local box store? haw many watch John Stewart four times a week?
I am sure that many of the people that provide their information and shape their policies know this, but I also doubt they are telling.
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This is a fine idea for games that are purely motion based. So, the Wii Sports and Tiger Woods and driving games and such. However, for games that need to interact with the screen, AKA every shooter, adventure, action game, it will not work. The Wii sensor on the TV isn't there to tell the Wii where the controller is. It's there to tell the Wii where the TV is. Without knowing where the television is in relation to the remote, you lose the ability to move the cursor on the screen.
Well, I'd agree that many of those accounts are no longer active. On the other hand, I suspect that all that personal information sitting in those dead accounts is worth quite a bit to some people. Page views is not the only way to make money.
I think that is the point. Debian and the other releases build on what is out there, incorporate other work into their own and release what they make themselves. The GPs objection to Ubuntu is that while they build on what other people have done, they don't release their own contributions back tot he community. No one is sugesting that they are violating the GPL or any other license, but they are perhaps violating the spirit of the community that they depend on for their own wellbeing.
Is it just me, or is everything in that article big and bulky? It's all RAM that's been made faster by adding cooling fins the size of bricks to them and other hardware made for running a server. I realize that all these hardware sites pander to the extreme gaming crowd, but where is the sleek and small?
Instead of the case larger than some bookshelves, where is the one designed to run silent and unnoticed by my TV or under my desk? Instead of the super ram and massive hard drive racks, where is the clever wireless network storage solution that will move media around my house? Instead of the computer case with a big fat LCD screen built into the front, where is the sleek standalone screen that that can wirelessly connect to the server in the basement and display pictures when not in use?
I don't think anyone is surprised to discover that by making everything twice as big, loud and hot you can get the most blazing performance. How about showing me something that impresses me instead?
I think credibility has to be judged on the merits of the article, not the example they used. No matter the device in question, the issue they are raising is one that should be raised and that deserves a degree of discussion. Now, should they try and promote this by using the most obscure examples they can find? Would the points they raise be any more (or less) valid if they had used a 5 year old device that no one had ever heard of for their example?
Actually, the original quote from John A Macdonald described it as a house of "sober second thought". I always loved the implication that the first house wasn't sober. Although, given the history of Canadian politicians and John A Macdonald in particular, this may not be far from the truth.
The problem is that the Wii only has 512 MB internal memory. That isn't very many tracks. So far, Nintendo has been crippling games's ability to either run off of or access information off of additional memory cards, so the obvious solution is out. Really, if they made a minor firmware update to allow the Wii to access Virtual Console and other downloaded content directly off of SD cards, it would simplify a lot of things, from downloaded original games to expansion packs.
"You dont want private corporations to be in control of things like police because it gives them too much power."
I have to ask. You don't think putting a corporation in a position where they can say 'Give us $X or we will let you suffer and/or die' gives them too much power? That couldn't possibly lead to abuse, could it?
Actually, I think the focus on the free shipping is a kind of red herring. The problem is with the final price to the consumer. Take your example of a book that has a list price of $9.99. If Amazon is selling it for $7.49 + standard $2.00 shipping the final price is $9.49, or a 5% discount no problem with that. The courts are counting the shipping charge as part of the price of the book because it is. If you go to a normal book store and buy a book, the price of the shipping is being absorbed there, it is just less transparent.
So, when Amazon drops the shipping, the price is now $7.49. That is way above the 5%. After all, if a brick and mortar store discounted the price of their shipping from all their books, all you would see is the sale price and they would get dinged by the law too. The only difference with the Amazon thing is that they are saying what part of the balance sheet the sale goes under.
"Some sort of tranparent (non toxic!) materials layered in between to form a low-power battery"
I don't know about you, but I strongly object to placing a battery of any form directly on my eyeball. It doesn't take a very high failure rate to make this one a bad idea (eye-dea?).
The crux of the writers strike is that they are not paid a living wage up front. They don't really expect one as the majority of writing positions in the entertainment industry don't lend themselves well to that kind of setup. However, while they are not getting salaries the studios are being dicks about the residuals that are supposed to make up the difference. This makes things hard on the writers. Hence the strike.
Now, I don't think this model would work very well in the game environment. But in their own industry it makes a lot of sense.
I think you are purposefully missing the point. If the prosecutor involved agreed with you, there would be no lawsuit. Since there is, he must not agree with you. And as long as they are treating the torrent files as infringing in and of themselves, you have to admit that there are a lot of them. That is going to make for a lot of charges and a lot of paper.
I have to agree. I mean seriously, the amount of traffic that the Pirate Bay moves is staggering. There are large box stores with a worse selection of media. If anyone was serious about going after them, I'd be shocked if the charges DIDN'T take up a monumental piece of paper. Just listing the details each piece of media involved would take thousands of pages. Frankly, I'm shocked that it is ONLY 4000 pages.
Note, I am not arguing that the lawsuit itself is right or wrong, simply that any serious lawsuit against TPB will, by its very nature, be a big ass stack of accusations.
Blender's UI is really bad. And I have a right to say it. I used Blender for about 3 years back in high School. Did some neat things with it. Went on to University where I became used to Maya, 3DS and Lightwave. After 3 months with any of them I was easily double my productivity with Blender. S, there you go. As someone who really likes the idea of Blender, has experience with Blender and has made the real world comparisons, Blender's UI sucks. Seriously, find a good manual and spend a few months learning something else. At the very least it will give you some useful perspective.
Not to mention that with higher end work, you really do need a package that is going to play nice with all the other programs that you will be importing/exporting to.
Could someone out there give an explanation about why they are not just updating the Bluetooth specs? I know current bluetooth speeds are on the slow side, but that could be fixed.
You could have a wireless standard that is already backwards compatible with many cell phones, PDAs and laptops and lots of devices. Instead, we are going to have a bunch of devices trying to fit in 3 wireless standards, at least for a few years. This, bluetooth and Wi-Fi (plus the phone network stuff for cells).
Well, yes and no. Physically, there is no reason that multiple school systems can't be opened. Practically there are some arguments against. The biggest one is the question of what standards the schools are held to. What counts as an 'education'? When someone says they have graduated High School, what does that mean? Does it mean that they have a piece of paper or does it mean that they have attained at least a minimum amount of knowledge in a variety of areas? If anyone that calls themselves a school can set all their own guidelines, then all a graduation becomes is a piece of paper like the ones you can buy from the diploma mills on the internet. And if outside guidelines are going to be imposed on curriculum and testing, then we are back to the original issue and nothing has changed.
Please note, this is very different from having schools provide specialty education. Lots of schools are known for their additional academic programs, or their sports focus, or the amount of technology they integrate. That isn't the same as an educational free-for-all.
You know there is only one way this will end. Within a year of Sweden legalizing file sharing, the MAFIAA with have put enough pressure on all the North American ISPs to block any connection resolving to a Swedish address. Problem solved.
I have to say, getting EU citizenship is looking more appealing all the time.
Her work as a blogger? Simone has been working in the comics industry for almost a decade now and got the job of writing Wonder Woman due to a solid history of writing well crafted, memorable, stories. She has worked for both the major comic companies and a few of the minor ones writing everything from established superhero books to quirky creator-owned stuff. To suggest that she got a high profile job because of her BLOG is kind of insulting to the hard work she has put in over the years.
You say that sarcastically, but there is a big grain of truth. As someone who used to sell laptops, the market has almost no differentiation. Every three months, HP, Dell, Toshiba and the rest release new models in step. You try explaining to someone the difference between three notebooks that all have the same 15" screen, processor, hard drive and RAM. If this thing doesn't sell itself, then no one else will go to the trouble.
Well, the point of the article is that these things are working after 4 days in a row with almost no sunlight. Sounds reasonably robust to me.
Pro has 15 or 17 inch screens and dedicated graphics. Other than that, all the options are the same as far as I know. I got a pro because I was looking for a thin and light 15' with dedicated graphics. The only dedicated 15's Dell or HP had at the time were two inches thick and no battery, so I got the Mac for the hardware. The 3.5 hour battery life doing graphics work or playing video doesn't hurt though.
:)
There are lots of little things that also impressed me. The design of the power brick (which sounds silly until you have used it) and the little remote that comes with them. Even the power indicator LEDs on the battery. The hardware price was in line with other stuff I was seeing. And there is a nice benefit that I hadn't realized when I bought it. I had one of the fans die after 8 months. Found a Mac authorized dealer four blocks from me, walked it in and they swapped it out. I picked it up the next day. Much nicer than past repairs through Dell
Very happy with my choice.
As someone who 'made the switch' a few months ago, I have to warn you about the worst part. I switched to a MacBook because I liked the hardware for the price and was originally planning on mostly running XP. Ended up liking OSX. And I can't tell ANYONE.
The second you say you like your Mac, people ask you if you are one of 'those people'. If you tell someone you are really happy with your new Toshiba laptop they think about it. If you say the same things about a Mac it must be because you are a fanatic.
As someone who got a mac for the hardware, it's unbelievably annoying.
And all that also ignores the realities of the location. Hydro, tidal and wave all have the prerequisite of large bodies of water. Wind needs a location with a reliable breeze. Solar power isn't particularly efficient in many areas that suffer from lots of cloud cover and rain, or long winter months.
I think on of the biggest problems with the environmental movement (or at least their PR) is that they seem more than happy to pursue perfect solutions at the expense of good solutions.
Who said anything about life needing sodium? The only real assumption going on is that life is more likely to occur in a liquid environment. Up until now, they signs have been that there was a liquid environment present, and as such it was a good place to look for life. Better than the alternatives at least. Now, the new research calls into question the existence of the large body of liquid that was thought to exist. So, if there is no liquid, the chances of life existing are lower and the reason for priority missions goes away.
Actually, I doubt that many of the politicians DO know that. How many congressmen or senators do you think have time (not ot mention inclination) to lurk on Boing Boing or slashdot? How many have ever swung by PirateBay to grab something not available at their local box store? haw many watch John Stewart four times a week?
I am sure that many of the people that provide their information and shape their policies know this, but I also doubt they are telling.