Music in particular is very dependent on set and setting. Listening to the same piece of music at night in bed with your eye's closed is very different from the same track in the car on the commute to work. This is of course no function of the music itself, but because your mental state and it's resulting perceptions are different in each situation.
Following the same idea, the testing scenario itself can create a less than ideal context for listening. It is a test; an often more stressful and heightened situation. People want to do well. They also are forced to use other parts of their brain for things like interacting with the testing interface itself. They're maybe in front of a computer screen, or in an unfamiliar place with acoustics that their mind has not grown accustom to. This is not the kind of environment that allows for improved audio perception.
Imagine this technology paired with eye tracking so that where you look in a picture becomes where the focus is. Now run it at 24+ frames per second. Cool stuff.
1. Create sea of regulation preventing competition from entering telecom business. 2. Achieve government-sanctioned monopoly on said services. 3. Screw over users. 4. Prevent users from regulating against being screwed in the name of freedom. 5. Profit
Robert Cringely had an article about Home batteries a while back. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2001/pulpit_20010510_000690.html
His idea was a response to the rolling blackouts California was experiencing in 2001. Power would be cached at night to eliminate peaks in demand.
I'm guessing they don't have a real case so their tactic is to sue all companies at once, and cash in on the few that settle. They risk losing all if they start with just one case and lose it.
2.) The Human Genome Project to sequence *ONE* complete set of DNA for a single human took us 13 years and 3 billion dollars. That's comparable to the Apollo project, to sequence *ONE* example of a complex being's DNA.
This argument is a bit misleading. The rate of gene sequencing progress grew exponentially over time along with advancements in technology.
And since we put the government in place, doesn't that make us the real bad guys?
You are assuming that the will of the majority is also the will of every individual. This is simply not true. I, as an individual, have had no part in the design or corruption of the government, and it would be unjust to group me with "us" simply because I'm an American citizen. The common misconception that "we are the government" sounds nice and all, but it simply isn't true.
Just like what benefits corporations really benefits "us"? Oh, I get it now. ..
I'm not exactly sure what you mean. The DMCA benifits corporations, but it definitely doesn't benifit "us".
Votes get a candidate elected, not money. If enough people became educated about the cancer that is the DMCA it would be thrown out of the books
This is a big misconception(IMO ofcourse) that many people have. You see, we're all brought up to believe in "democracy" and "the will of the people". As if "the people" know what's best. But time has shown that pure democracies don't work. The whims of the majority will always abridge the rights of the minority. I remember one really great post on slashdot that said, democracy is two wolves and a sheep sitting down, and voting on what to have for dinner.
The grim reality is that most people don't think in ideological terms. I remember reading statistics showing that most people are in favor of laws which ignore the first ammendment, such as banning offensive web sites to protect "the children". Most people just want a strong economy from their politicians. They could care less about the injustices that makes our tempers rise.
Alot of slashdot people love to vilify corporate america. Yes, I too despise the RIAA, MPAA, and other such organizations that are willing to trade our freedoms for profit. But I also like going to the root of the problem.
America was designed to be a special kind of democracy that, while ruled by people elected by the majority, protected the rights of the minority. But over the years this has been eroded, and the rights of the individual have been put behind the whims of the people and the powerful. Copyright law is a prime example of this. Mr. big media company "donates" large amounts of money to political candidates so that in return we get laws like the DMCA. Many people complain when corporate america "buys justice", but few mention that government is the entity that has created the flawed system in the first place.
So hoot and holler at the big evil corporations (everybody loves a villain to ralley against), but the real bad guys are government. They're the ones in control.
[I'm preaching to the chour on this next point.] I think a lawyer for the MPAA said it best during hearings against 2600. He said (I may be paraphrasing) "DeCSS is a digital crowbar." And he couldn't have been more right. ALL software including napster, aimster, and DeCSS are just tools like the crowbar. A crowbar can be used by a firefighter to pry open a door to save someones life, or can be used by some thug to steal your car. But this doesn't mean that crowbars should be made illegal. But again the MPAA clouds the issue, and our rights to use the DeCSS tool are taken away.
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Have your application link to a web form with the following fields:
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Reproduction Steps
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Expected Result
Clearly explain the fields with examples.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzToNo7A-94
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dddAi8FF3F4
Music in particular is very dependent on set and setting. Listening to the same piece of music at night in bed with your eye's closed is very different from the same track in the car on the commute to work. This is of course no function of the music itself, but because your mental state and it's resulting perceptions are different in each situation.
Following the same idea, the testing scenario itself can create a less than ideal context for listening. It is a test; an often more stressful and heightened situation. People want to do well. They also are forced to use other parts of their brain for things like interacting with the testing interface itself. They're maybe in front of a computer screen, or in an unfamiliar place with acoustics that their mind has not grown accustom to. This is not the kind of environment that allows for improved audio perception.
Imagine this technology paired with eye tracking so that where you look in a picture becomes where the focus is. Now run it at 24+ frames per second. Cool stuff.
It's not a possibility anymore, it's a certainty.
It's not a certainty. With 77 million accounts, a certain number of PSN users are going to be the victim of fraud every day anyway.
Regardless, I just had new card numbers reissued.
See http://www.dyndns.org for getting around dynamic IPs from your ISP.
You have zero experience with the Move, and completely false information about first party publishing.
Please mod troll down.
1. Create sea of regulation preventing competition from entering telecom business.
2. Achieve government-sanctioned monopoly on said services.
3. Screw over users.
4. Prevent users from regulating against being screwed in the name of freedom.
5. Profit
Robert Cringely had an article about Home batteries a while back. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2001/pulpit_20010510_000690.html His idea was a response to the rolling blackouts California was experiencing in 2001. Power would be cached at night to eliminate peaks in demand.
Bring your phone and 2 extra batteries. Problem solved.
I'm guessing they don't have a real case so their tactic is to sue all companies at once, and cash in on the few that settle. They risk losing all if they start with just one case and lose it.
And since we put the government in place, doesn't that make us the real bad guys?
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You are assuming that the will of the majority is also the will of every individual. This is simply not true. I, as an individual, have had no part in the design or corruption of the government, and it would be unjust to group me with "us" simply because I'm an American citizen. The common misconception that "we are the government" sounds nice and all, but it simply isn't true.
Just like what benefits corporations really benefits "us"? Oh, I get it now. .
I'm not exactly sure what you mean. The DMCA benifits corporations, but it definitely doesn't benifit "us".
Votes get a candidate elected, not money. If enough people became educated about the cancer that is the DMCA it would be thrown out of the books This is a big misconception(IMO ofcourse) that many people have. You see, we're all brought up to believe in "democracy" and "the will of the people". As if "the people" know what's best. But time has shown that pure democracies don't work. The whims of the majority will always abridge the rights of the minority. I remember one really great post on slashdot that said, democracy is two wolves and a sheep sitting down, and voting on what to have for dinner. The grim reality is that most people don't think in ideological terms. I remember reading statistics showing that most people are in favor of laws which ignore the first ammendment, such as banning offensive web sites to protect "the children". Most people just want a strong economy from their politicians. They could care less about the injustices that makes our tempers rise.
Alot of slashdot people love to vilify corporate america. Yes, I too despise the RIAA, MPAA, and other such organizations that are willing to trade our freedoms for profit. But I also like going to the root of the problem.
America was designed to be a special kind of democracy that, while ruled by people elected by the majority, protected the rights of the minority. But over the years this has been eroded, and the rights of the individual have been put behind the whims of the people and the powerful. Copyright law is a prime example of this. Mr. big media company "donates" large amounts of money to political candidates so that in return we get laws like the DMCA. Many people complain when corporate america "buys justice", but few mention that government is the entity that has created the flawed system in the first place.
So hoot and holler at the big evil corporations (everybody loves a villain to ralley against), but the real bad guys are government. They're the ones in control.
[I'm preaching to the chour on this next point.] I think a lawyer for the MPAA said it best during hearings against 2600. He said (I may be paraphrasing) "DeCSS is a digital crowbar." And he couldn't have been more right. ALL software including napster, aimster, and DeCSS are just tools like the crowbar. A crowbar can be used by a firefighter to pry open a door to save someones life, or can be used by some thug to steal your car. But this doesn't mean that crowbars should be made illegal. But again the MPAA clouds the issue, and our rights to use the DeCSS tool are taken away.
To avoid detection the NSA could simply have a "fishing" boat accidentally break the cable at the same time they're tapping into the fiber.