I agree. With a lot of the music I listen to, you can't really separate a song from the album. The album as a whole tells a story. The songs aren't continuous, and you can certainly listen to a single song, but you need the album to at least know what's going on. And I just generally prefer listening to albums. My music varies far too much to put together a playlist of random songs, even from one artist, unless that playlist is the album as they intended. Otherwise your emotions get jerked around with each song change and you feel like you're friggin bipolar. lol.
Of course, if you listen to the latest popular music, I can see why you wouldn't want more than one track of that garbage.
Yea. so do I, but good point. My post was originally going to mention how he is better than me at math, and possibly programming...but then I got carried away on how he is utterly useless overall.
As a younger brother, I strongly disagree. I don't doubt that I would be able to build my own house (might not be pretty, might not be big, but it'd work, and it'd have one hell of a computer system). My brother would hire someone to replace a doorknob. He's better than me at math, and perhaps programming, but he's completely incompetent in anything else. As a result, I have several iPods and other gadgets of his that 'broke'. On average it takes me about 10 minutes to get them running again. And he gets some free tech support for his laptop when I'm in a good mood. Net benefit for both of us I guess. Except my mom always makes me help with the remodeling, because him anywhere near tools of any sort won't end well.
Windows itself makes me go violent. I lost 300GB worth of data a few months ago because the fucking thing decided to format both my hard drives. Oh, and the Kiski School (somewhat local private school) makes me quite violent. Took me twenty fucking minutes to maneuver around their goddamn vans parked incorrectly before I was able to pull out of a parking lot the other day. I was honestly not sure I was safe to be driving after that.
For a while my internet would go out every day at 7:00 PM until around midnight...then sometime during the night it'd go down again and wouldn't come back on until sometime during the day after I had already left. Every time I called their support line it said 'we are currently experiencing problems in your area.....' and all that crap, so I let it go for about a week until I finally decided to talk to the support guy anyways. I told him we had no service and he said 'we're not reporting any outages in your area...' (then why'd the message say you were???). ANYWAYS, took 'em about a month to fix the thing by replacing my modem.
I agree fully. Apple computers blow. iPods aren't bad though. Way overpriced ugly little fucks, but durable as all hell and, of course, they run Linux:)
Key words there: it WOULD be. Because of hospitals and modern medicine, it not nearly as fatal as it would be. Therefore, people who get it can go to the hospital, get their appendix removed, and continue to live and pass on their genes.
Why would we evolve to lose the appendix? Evolution doesn't work that way. It's not causing people to die, so it's gonna stay there. The only way evolution would get rid of it is if people mutated to have no appendix and they were somehow better able to reproduce. Human society being how it is, there isn't much that's gonna make you unable to reproduce. That's probably part of the reason we have so many genetic diseases now - they can be treated, so they don't kill you, so they get passed on.
Dude, I'm subscribed to several newsletters. All are opt-in. I want and read all of them. Yes, I could use RSS, but I have too many RSS feeds already. Without newsletters the important stuff would get lost in the clutter. Besides, email newsletters are quite a bit more convenient. RSS feeds are for things that update several times a day. Newsletters are for things that update a few times a month.
Most Americans, sadly enough, wouldn't care as long as they still had American Idol. It's really quite disturbing when you realize that nobody gives a damn.
Hate to break it to you, but they already completely control the press. It wouldn't be armed troops marching down to the CNN office. It wouldn't be Dictator Bush declaring the CNN could no longer broadcast in the US. They would make sure most people thought there was a completely legitimate reason for it to shut down, which wouldn't be that hard since they pretty much control all the press anyways.
I'm a privacy nut. I'm the kind of guy that has and uses a 47 character semi-random password for everything I don't need to access so often that that becomes a pain in the ass (everything I do need to regularly access I use a 14 character completely random password on.) But even I will say this is bullshit. If she wants her privacy, close the blinds. It's that simple. How is it any different from someone driving down the street and looking in her window? It's not. I actually saw someone freaking out that you could read license plates with the service. COME ON! Drive down the street. You can read the license plate of every car near you. How is it any different if it's posted online?
Get over it, and if you're that concerned about your privacy, get some blinds or something.
Complete bullshit. You cannot and should not expect to be _given_ rights by other people. You must _take_ those rights. In the case of the right to privacy, that means blocking the view of things you don't want seen. Rights do not exist unless they are exercised. And exercising your right to privacy means keeping things private.
Oh, and people are only complaining because it's Google. I seem to recall Microsoft releasing the exact same service several months ago, and nobody said a thing.
1. Get a massive amount of people to encrypt files using the names of artists, albums, songs, or videos published by the RIAA/MPAA. 2. Inundate them both with cease-and-desist orders. 3. If they don't (and they won't), file some class-action lawsuits. 4. Profit!!!
Well, sure, but then he has no reputation, which is still worse than a good one. Benefits of that are even greater in online games than real life, since that's all you have to go by. Plus you can't really get benifits of joining groups when you're making a new identity every day.
Still damages your in-game reputation, just like it would damage your real-life reputation. As the GP said, someone won't smack you in the face in real life normally. They'll just get pissed, make fun of you, avoid you, and tell other people about it, causing them to do the same. Basically, kill social interaction. How is that NOT possible in a virtual world?
Uhm...if there's nobody left alive to innovate I'm pretty sure there won't be any new drugs either. Since when are the drug cos that desperate for money? I mean, seriously, they mark up the prices so much that a significant portion of the population of wealthy nations can't even afford the damn things. I realize it takes money to research this crap, but I'm pretty sure their CEOs and whatever are getting paid a hell of a lot more than they need too. There are people that would research drugs out there for free on their own time if the government would let them. A few thousand bucks less to the industry that practically owns america is no great loss.
Not while ISPs like Comcast get away with charging $60 to remove the 'you may not run a server' clause from their TOS. (I actually did call them to see how much that would cost. $40 a month for what I have, $100 a month for the EXACT SAME SERVICE but with servers allowed.)
I'm in a garage band. No one listens to our music really. But we have 2 albums out. Could I, like, get some internet radio station to play one of our songs then sue the RIAA for taking our royalties? lol
Of course. They say it'll run windoze, and the price doulbes. Gee, wonder where that $75 is going. I'm betting anything that isn't going straight to M$ is going to getting better hardware so that the bloated spyware called Vista will actually run on it.
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I agree. With a lot of the music I listen to, you can't really separate a song from the album. The album as a whole tells a story. The songs aren't continuous, and you can certainly listen to a single song, but you need the album to at least know what's going on.
And I just generally prefer listening to albums. My music varies far too much to put together a playlist of random songs, even from one artist, unless that playlist is the album as they intended. Otherwise your emotions get jerked around with each song change and you feel like you're friggin bipolar. lol.
Of course, if you listen to the latest popular music, I can see why you wouldn't want more than one track of that garbage.
...it is if it's proprietary, which is all most people have experience with.
Yea. so do I, but good point.
My post was originally going to mention how he is better than me at math, and possibly programming...but then I got carried away on how he is utterly useless overall.
As a younger brother, I strongly disagree. I don't doubt that I would be able to build my own house (might not be pretty, might not be big, but it'd work, and it'd have one hell of a computer system). My brother would hire someone to replace a doorknob. He's better than me at math, and perhaps programming, but he's completely incompetent in anything else. As a result, I have several iPods and other gadgets of his that 'broke'. On average it takes me about 10 minutes to get them running again. And he gets some free tech support for his laptop when I'm in a good mood. Net benefit for both of us I guess. Except my mom always makes me help with the remodeling, because him anywhere near tools of any sort won't end well.
Windows itself makes me go violent. I lost 300GB worth of data a few months ago because the fucking thing decided to format both my hard drives.
Oh, and the Kiski School (somewhat local private school) makes me quite violent. Took me twenty fucking minutes to maneuver around their goddamn vans parked incorrectly before I was able to pull out of a parking lot the other day. I was honestly not sure I was safe to be driving after that.
For a while my internet would go out every day at 7:00 PM until around midnight...then sometime during the night it'd go down again and wouldn't come back on until sometime during the day after I had already left. Every time I called their support line it said 'we are currently experiencing problems in your area.....' and all that crap, so I let it go for about a week until I finally decided to talk to the support guy anyways. I told him we had no service and he said 'we're not reporting any outages in your area...' (then why'd the message say you were???). ANYWAYS, took 'em about a month to fix the thing by replacing my modem.
I agree fully. Apple computers blow. iPods aren't bad though. Way overpriced ugly little fucks, but durable as all hell and, of course, they run Linux :)
Key words there: it WOULD be. Because of hospitals and modern medicine, it not nearly as fatal as it would be. Therefore, people who get it can go to the hospital, get their appendix removed, and continue to live and pass on their genes.
That's exactly my point. There's absolutely nothing that would cause us to evolve to not have them.
Why would we evolve to lose the appendix? Evolution doesn't work that way. It's not causing people to die, so it's gonna stay there. The only way evolution would get rid of it is if people mutated to have no appendix and they were somehow better able to reproduce. Human society being how it is, there isn't much that's gonna make you unable to reproduce. That's probably part of the reason we have so many genetic diseases now - they can be treated, so they don't kill you, so they get passed on.
Dude, I'm subscribed to several newsletters. All are opt-in. I want and read all of them. Yes, I could use RSS, but I have too many RSS feeds already. Without newsletters the important stuff would get lost in the clutter. Besides, email newsletters are quite a bit more convenient. RSS feeds are for things that update several times a day. Newsletters are for things that update a few times a month.
Most Americans, sadly enough, wouldn't care as long as they still had American Idol.
It's really quite disturbing when you realize that nobody gives a damn.
Hate to break it to you, but they already completely control the press. It wouldn't be armed troops marching down to the CNN office. It wouldn't be Dictator Bush declaring the CNN could no longer broadcast in the US. They would make sure most people thought there was a completely legitimate reason for it to shut down, which wouldn't be that hard since they pretty much control all the press anyways.
I'm a privacy nut. I'm the kind of guy that has and uses a 47 character semi-random password for everything I don't need to access so often that that becomes a pain in the ass (everything I do need to regularly access I use a 14 character completely random password on.)
But even I will say this is bullshit.
If she wants her privacy, close the blinds. It's that simple. How is it any different from someone driving down the street and looking in her window? It's not.
I actually saw someone freaking out that you could read license plates with the service. COME ON! Drive down the street. You can read the license plate of every car near you. How is it any different if it's posted online?
Get over it, and if you're that concerned about your privacy, get some blinds or something.
Complete bullshit. You cannot and should not expect to be _given_ rights by other people. You must _take_ those rights. In the case of the right to privacy, that means blocking the view of things you don't want seen. Rights do not exist unless they are exercised. And exercising your right to privacy means keeping things private.
Oh, and people are only complaining because it's Google. I seem to recall Microsoft releasing the exact same service several months ago, and nobody said a thing.
Who cares about Mac?
What about Linux?
I do believe they've just admitted to copyright infringement, did they not?
Didn't apple already do this?
Wow, you don't know anything, do you? God hasn't created the universe yet. He just wants us to think he did!
No missing steps!!!
1. Get a massive amount of people to encrypt files using the names of artists, albums, songs, or videos published by the RIAA/MPAA.
2. Inundate them both with cease-and-desist orders.
3. If they don't (and they won't), file some class-action lawsuits.
4. Profit!!!
Well, sure, but then he has no reputation, which is still worse than a good one. Benefits of that are even greater in online games than real life, since that's all you have to go by. Plus you can't really get benifits of joining groups when you're making a new identity every day.
Still damages your in-game reputation, just like it would damage your real-life reputation. As the GP said, someone won't smack you in the face in real life normally. They'll just get pissed, make fun of you, avoid you, and tell other people about it, causing them to do the same. Basically, kill social interaction. How is that NOT possible in a virtual world?
Uhm...if there's nobody left alive to innovate I'm pretty sure there won't be any new drugs either.
Since when are the drug cos that desperate for money? I mean, seriously, they mark up the prices so much that a significant portion of the population of wealthy nations can't even afford the damn things. I realize it takes money to research this crap, but I'm pretty sure their CEOs and whatever are getting paid a hell of a lot more than they need too. There are people that would research drugs out there for free on their own time if the government would let them. A few thousand bucks less to the industry that practically owns america is no great loss.
Not while ISPs like Comcast get away with charging $60 to remove the 'you may not run a server' clause from their TOS. (I actually did call them to see how much that would cost. $40 a month for what I have, $100 a month for the EXACT SAME SERVICE but with servers allowed.)
I'm in a garage band. No one listens to our music really. But we have 2 albums out. Could I, like, get some internet radio station to play one of our songs then sue the RIAA for taking our royalties? lol
Of course. They say it'll run windoze, and the price doulbes. Gee, wonder where that $75 is going. I'm betting anything that isn't going straight to M$ is going to getting better hardware so that the bloated spyware called Vista will actually run on it.