How is he misinformed? (no hyphen, btw) I've installed probably 30 games in the last year, and I can't remember a single one of them NOT saying "This game requires DirectX version X.X, would you like to install it now?"
Everything uses Direct3D these days. I dare you to name more than 1 or 2 games, and I mean mainstream games that people actually play, that use OpenGL and were released 2002 or later. Come on...I double dog dare you. Prove me wrong.
It's a provision of the DMCA. Weren't you wondering why the thing is so fucking evil? It doesn't just make reverse engineering and circumvention techniques illegal, it allows copyright holders to issue their own investigative subpoenas. Fucked up, huh? Write your congress critter. Bitch about it. Use real snail mail, not email. Email gets a canned response and generally doesn't get read by anyone above the level of intern.
Yep Comcast's TV service sucks too. We gave them a month's chance when they moved in on AT&T's service here in Denver. We had nothing but problems with them the entire month. In fact, when I called to cancel service a week ahead of time, they "mistakenly" killed my internet connection immediately instead of in a week. Then it took their tech support 3 hours (on the phone the whole time!) to get it reconnected. DirecTV and DSL never felt so good.
They're hurting so bad here now, they're practically having to give away service to get customers. They're offering like $400 in service credits if you switch over from satellite.
Most colleges, especially big ones, have several lawyers on retainer. Might as well use em. Even my shitty little school has a couple lawyers on salary. Boston college (though MIT doesn't) even has its own law school. I'm sure no one's tuition is going up over this. I'm glad to see them fighting back against the RIAA's gestapo tactics.
You mean half-life DIDN'T scare the shit out of you? I was 10 times as freaked out playing HL as I was Doom or Doom2. Of course, I was on acid playing HL, so, go figure.
Besides, these games are all about the deathmatch for me. I'm sick of counter strike and planetside is not exactly what I wanted it to be, so I'm highly anticipating another good FPS to hit the market. Hoping the CS guys port it to the HL2 engine when it's released.
Considering DVD+R/+RW touts itself as being "the most compatible format." This is mentioned all over their website, especially in the FAQ. They claim a 95% compatibility rate with all DVD players and drives. Who wants to be the bad guy and tell them they're wrong?
Linux people should be smart enough to test their own drives and post the results to a newsgroup. We Windows users are far too dumb to collaborate or think for ourselves, hence this test.
I'm not sure of the exact logistics of any lawsuit outcome...I would imagine it either gets divided amongst the affiliated labels or it gets stored in the RIAA coffers for political bribe money.
Either way, it's terribly unethical and corrupt. Don't buy CDs anymore if you can help it..at least not from RIAA affiliated labels. Here is a list of all labels and partners associated with the RIAA. It includes not only the big guys but the myriad of little ones that pay homage to their evil masters.
The RIAA is a non-profit (heh) organization that represents the interests of the major recording labels. Basically, it's a single point of attack for anything the major labels need to get done, which includes lobbying and suing mostly.
The people running the RIAA are paid to protect the interests of the oligopoly of the music industry.
Musicians that sign through the RIAA don't own their music. It's work for hire. If you were a photo journalist for Time, guess who would own your photos that got published?
Any artist that releases an album through an RIAA CANNOT choose to give it away or decide on the prices. They have NO control over their art once it leaves the recording studio. (Some would argue they have little control there)
The RIAA respresents the recording studios which DO own the copyrights. Unlike novels, music is considered "work for hire" and the company owns all rights to anything created by the artist while under contract.
Pretty weak huh? Boycott all RIAA affiliated labels and their products. The artists will go elsewhere to make their music.
Cancer is caused by ionizing and ultraviolet radiation. Basically, everything from the UV-spectrum on up. That's the energy required to break chemical bonds and form hydroxyl ions, free radiacals, and other good things known to induce cancerous cell formation. I promise you, their satellites are not emitting waves of this level of energy. Microwaves and radio waves can excite atoms, causing them to accelerate a bit (i.e. heat up) but they will not break even the weakest of chemical bonds that are present in the human body.
The guide has nothing to do with the media company. It's layout is determined by the programming of the cable box. The cable company just feeds it a data steam, it renders it however the manufacturer programmed it to.
For instance, I have the same DirecTV service and programming as relatives in other states, but they have receivers made by different manufacturers than I do. Our channel guides are all different, as are the features on the box. Mine has games and search features and such, as well as a mini-preview screen while I'm in the guide...theirs just shows the guide and plays the audio.
Remember, your cable box doesn't say "Time Warner" (At least mine didnt when I had TW) it says "Motorola" or "Samsung" or something.
It's only a criminal offense above a certain dollar amount. ($1000?)
Researching even one IP address, getting the user name and eventually the address take time, money, and resources. It's not cost effective for them to do this. Do you think they can just call an ISP out of the blue and say "Hi, we're the RIAA, we need the user info for IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, thanks." Most ISPs will tell them to go screw if they don't have a court order. (Those take time and money too, btw)
You're absolutely right...there is no good reason for ink to cost what it does. I've heard from several friends of mine that have worked for Lexmark and HP out here in Colorado that their printing divisions are ink companies first and printer companies second.
Here is a somewhat amusing comparison on the per gallon cost of various liquids. It's not very statistically accurate as it doesn't take into account bulk discounts and stuff, but it is roughly accurate and quite amusing. Ink is 7th on the list, below things like mercury, scorpion venom, and LSD, but above things like GHB, human blood, and penicillin.
(8) Broom-closet sized apartments that cost thousands of dollars a month (9) Elbow-to-elbow people in almost any public place, all the time (10) Haughty disdain for Americans by most of the older population (11) Expect to work 12 hour days if you get a job there. Be ostracized and frowned upon if you don't. (if not fired outright)
I think the point is that the RIAA would be hard pressed to go after individual users for one single file. If they search for different titles, chances are pretty good they'll get the next one from someone else.
Space considerations maybe? Or maybe it's too difficult to design a robot arm that can 1) lift things 2) drill things 3)screw things in or out and 4) recognize if there's a problem outside of the scope of the visual recognition system.
The computer may be providing cues to the operator, but the operator would still need to be a competent mechanic. This just gives him the ability to be a subject matter expert in real time. Think of it as yourself learning a new piece of network hardware or software app without having to RTFM because the manual is interactively streaming to you as you use the app. (And I don't mean clippy!)
When a star becomes a neutron star, it loses its outer layer of plasma, hot gasses,etc. It becomes a much smaller ball of compressed atoms. (From the force of gravity overcoming repulsive forces between electrons and nucluei) I seem to remember being told by my physics prof. that a teaspoon of neutron star matter would have a mass pretty close to that of the entire earth (!!!)
So the angular momentum remains the same, but because the star has such a smaller diamter (hecnce lower rotational inertia....a function of the square of the radius) the angular speed must increase proportionally to conserve momentum.
If you really want to do the math and figure out how fast the surface is rotating, here's a dumb fast equation:
0.5*mass of star*angular velocity^2 = 2/5*mass of star*radius of star^2
mass cancels out, saving you the trouble of looking it up. The radius is about 5-10 km (I think...IANAAP - I Am Not An Astro Physicist) for a typical neutron star. Solve for velocity.
Unsolicited mail is not spam. Unsolicited bulk commercial email is spam.
Regardless, if you're a business owner or salesman and you want to sell something, a phone call or appointment will probably get you farther than an email.
But in the case of Premier, they're not bundling free apps that compete with it. Your average home user is the target for iMovie, and your average home user isn't going to shell out the veritable fortune that Adobe is asking for it's products, in this case Premier. Professionals use programs like Premier, and its professionals that are using FCP over Premier because it's a better application. I don't know the cost of FCP, but I'm betting it aint cheap either, and certainly not free.
Maybe some of their bundled software other than iMovie is hedging out competition, but in this case, it sure is NOT. Premier is a crummy application, and Apple knew they needed something spiffy to keep Mac-centric a/v users interested in Macs.
I don't think a personally written message destined for one recipient is considered spam, it's just salesmanship. The problem isn't with individuals mailing other folks based on some sort of market research or indication that they might be interested (i.e. from your example above) the problem is with people hawking their wares by sending out millions of emails to randomly harvested addresses.
I don't think even OUR shitty justice system could mess this one up.
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How is he misinformed? (no hyphen, btw) I've installed probably 30 games in the last year, and I can't remember a single one of them NOT saying "This game requires DirectX version X.X, would you like to install it now?"
Everything uses Direct3D these days. I dare you to name more than 1 or 2 games, and I mean mainstream games that people actually play, that use OpenGL and were released 2002 or later. Come on...I double dog dare you. Prove me wrong.
It's a provision of the DMCA. Weren't you wondering why the thing is so fucking evil? It doesn't just make reverse engineering and circumvention techniques illegal, it allows copyright holders to issue their own investigative subpoenas. Fucked up, huh? Write your congress critter. Bitch about it. Use real snail mail, not email. Email gets a canned response and generally doesn't get read by anyone above the level of intern.
Yep Comcast's TV service sucks too. We gave them a month's chance when they moved in on AT&T's service here in Denver. We had nothing but problems with them the entire month. In fact, when I called to cancel service a week ahead of time, they "mistakenly" killed my internet connection immediately instead of in a week. Then it took their tech support 3 hours (on the phone the whole time!) to get it reconnected. DirecTV and DSL never felt so good.
They're hurting so bad here now, they're practically having to give away service to get customers. They're offering like $400 in service credits if you switch over from satellite.
Most colleges, especially big ones, have several lawyers on retainer. Might as well use em. Even my shitty little school has a couple lawyers on salary. Boston college (though MIT doesn't) even has its own law school. I'm sure no one's tuition is going up over this. I'm glad to see them fighting back against the RIAA's gestapo tactics.
You mean half-life DIDN'T scare the shit out of you? I was 10 times as freaked out playing HL as I was Doom or Doom2. Of course, I was on acid playing HL, so, go figure.
Besides, these games are all about the deathmatch for me. I'm sick of counter strike and planetside is not exactly what I wanted it to be, so I'm highly anticipating another good FPS to hit the market. Hoping the CS guys port it to the HL2 engine when it's released.
Considering DVD+R/+RW touts itself as being "the most compatible format." This is mentioned all over their website, especially in the FAQ. They claim a 95% compatibility rate with all DVD players and drives. Who wants to be the bad guy and tell them they're wrong?
Linux people should be smart enough to test their own drives and post the results to a newsgroup. We Windows users are far too dumb to collaborate or think for ourselves, hence this test.
Yeah, no shit! We use the French word for all the crap they invented:
Croissant, ermm...well...that's all I can think of. But we don't call it "Moon bread" or anything. Another reason we are better than France!
I'm not sure of the exact logistics of any lawsuit outcome...I would imagine it either gets divided amongst the affiliated labels or it gets stored in the RIAA coffers for political bribe money.
Either way, it's terribly unethical and corrupt. Don't buy CDs anymore if you can help it..at least not from RIAA affiliated labels. Here is a list of all labels and partners associated with the RIAA. It includes not only the big guys but the myriad of little ones that pay homage to their evil masters.
The RIAA is a non-profit (heh) organization that represents the interests of the major recording labels. Basically, it's a single point of attack for anything the major labels need to get done, which includes lobbying and suing mostly.
The people running the RIAA are paid to protect the interests of the oligopoly of the music industry.
Musicians that sign through the RIAA don't own their music. It's work for hire. If you were a photo journalist for Time, guess who would own your photos that got published?
Any artist that releases an album through an RIAA CANNOT choose to give it away or decide on the prices. They have NO control over their art once it leaves the recording studio. (Some would argue they have little control there)
The RIAA respresents the recording studios which DO own the copyrights. Unlike novels, music is considered "work for hire" and the company owns all rights to anything created by the artist while under contract.
Pretty weak huh? Boycott all RIAA affiliated labels and their products. The artists will go elsewhere to make their music.
Cancer is caused by ionizing and ultraviolet radiation. Basically, everything from the UV-spectrum on up. That's the energy required to break chemical bonds and form hydroxyl ions, free radiacals, and other good things known to induce cancerous cell formation. I promise you, their satellites are not emitting waves of this level of energy. Microwaves and radio waves can excite atoms, causing them to accelerate a bit (i.e. heat up) but they will not break even the weakest of chemical bonds that are present in the human body.
The guide has nothing to do with the media company. It's layout is determined by the programming of the cable box. The cable company just feeds it a data steam, it renders it however the manufacturer programmed it to.
For instance, I have the same DirecTV service and programming as relatives in other states, but they have receivers made by different manufacturers than I do. Our channel guides are all different, as are the features on the box. Mine has games and search features and such, as well as a mini-preview screen while I'm in the guide...theirs just shows the guide and plays the audio.
Remember, your cable box doesn't say "Time Warner" (At least mine didnt when I had TW) it says "Motorola" or "Samsung" or something.
Wasn't that to the government and not to the RIAA though?
If not, that's pretty fucked up.
It's only a criminal offense above a certain dollar amount. ($1000?)
Researching even one IP address, getting the user name and eventually the address take time, money, and resources. It's not cost effective for them to do this. Do you think they can just call an ISP out of the blue and say "Hi, we're the RIAA, we need the user info for IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, thanks." Most ISPs will tell them to go screw if they don't have a court order. (Those take time and money too, btw)
You're absolutely right...there is no good reason for ink to cost what it does. I've heard from several friends of mine that have worked for Lexmark and HP out here in Colorado that their printing divisions are ink companies first and printer companies second.
Here is a somewhat amusing comparison on the per gallon cost of various liquids. It's not very statistically accurate as it doesn't take into account bulk discounts and stuff, but it is roughly accurate and quite amusing. Ink is 7th on the list, below things like mercury, scorpion venom, and LSD, but above things like GHB, human blood, and penicillin.
(8) Broom-closet sized apartments that cost thousands of dollars a month
(9) Elbow-to-elbow people in almost any public place, all the time
(10) Haughty disdain for Americans by most of the older population
(11) Expect to work 12 hour days if you get a job there. Be ostracized and frowned upon if you don't. (if not fired outright)
Did you still want to sign up?
I think the point is that the RIAA would be hard pressed to go after individual users for one single file. If they search for different titles, chances are pretty good they'll get the next one from someone else.
Space considerations maybe? Or maybe it's too difficult to design a robot arm that can 1) lift things 2) drill things 3)screw things in or out and 4) recognize if there's a problem outside of the scope of the visual recognition system.
The computer may be providing cues to the operator, but the operator would still need to be a competent mechanic. This just gives him the ability to be a subject matter expert in real time. Think of it as yourself learning a new piece of network hardware or software app without having to RTFM because the manual is interactively streaming to you as you use the app. (And I don't mean clippy!)
When a star becomes a neutron star, it loses its outer layer of plasma, hot gasses ,etc. It becomes a much smaller ball of compressed atoms. (From the force of gravity overcoming repulsive forces between electrons and nucluei) I seem to remember being told by my physics prof. that a teaspoon of neutron star matter would have a mass pretty close to that of the entire earth (!!!)
So the angular momentum remains the same, but because the star has such a smaller diamter (hecnce lower rotational inertia....a function of the square of the radius) the angular speed must increase proportionally to conserve momentum.
If you really want to do the math and figure out how fast the surface is rotating, here's a dumb fast equation:
0.5*mass of star*angular velocity^2 = 2/5*mass of star*radius of star^2
mass cancels out, saving you the trouble of looking it up. The radius is about 5-10 km (I think...IANAAP - I Am Not An Astro Physicist) for a typical neutron star. Solve for velocity.
This might be what you're looking for.
Unsolicited mail is not spam. Unsolicited bulk commercial email is spam.
Regardless, if you're a business owner or salesman and you want to sell something, a phone call or appointment will probably get you farther than an email.
But in the case of Premier, they're not bundling free apps that compete with it. Your average home user is the target for iMovie, and your average home user isn't going to shell out the veritable fortune that Adobe is asking for it's products, in this case Premier. Professionals use programs like Premier, and its professionals that are using FCP over Premier because it's a better application. I don't know the cost of FCP, but I'm betting it aint cheap either, and certainly not free.
Maybe some of their bundled software other than iMovie is hedging out competition, but in this case, it sure is NOT. Premier is a crummy application, and Apple knew they needed something spiffy to keep Mac-centric a/v users interested in Macs.
I don't think a personally written message destined for one recipient is considered spam, it's just salesmanship. The problem isn't with individuals mailing other folks based on some sort of market research or indication that they might be interested (i.e. from your example above) the problem is with people hawking their wares by sending out millions of emails to randomly harvested addresses.
I don't think even OUR shitty justice system could mess this one up.