My mother considers herself allergic to electricity. From what I can tell, it's some kind of photosensitivity coupled with psychosomatic symptoms. She can't stand bright lights or anything that flickers; fluorescent lights or TVs. Anything where you get distinct images of your hand if you wave it in front of you; although I've never seen her test that way.
She's been blind on one eye since childhood. She first started getting symptoms (mostly nausea and fatigue) after a few months of working with the first PCs at her work, text editing on monochrome displays. She's never been diagnosed with any real, known medical condition.
She's currently afraid of about anything more high-tech than a stereo. Which is kind of annoying for me, because I believe she really has some kind of medical condition. Getting tired or getting headaches from working with a monitor with refresh rate less than 70hz is familiar to many of us. Reacting the same way to fluorescent lights isn't too far fetched.
Those who care about Omega-3 vs. whatever fats are not very likely to eat too much fat. People who actually care enough to know anything about different kinds of fat fal into two different groups - those who know what they're doing and eat very well balanced diets and those who try to eat "healthy food" without seeing the big picture. The former group has no problem whatsoever. The latter group gets half the calories they should and less than a tenth of the fat.
I've seen newbies on bodybuilding boards who try to gain weight post their daily meals, adding up to 1000-1200kcal, 80% protein, 18% carbs and less than 2% fat. Marketing hype for "healthy" fat is more likely to help than hinder that kind of person.
For those who eat too much fat now, I doubt this will make any difference. They don't care.
What the major parties wanted was for blogs to be exempt from the normal regulations on financing. With the same regulations in place as for the traditional media, we can avoid the situation where paid bloggers swamp the net with propaganda with no oversight or control.
"Freedom of speech on the Internet" indeed. The point was freedom of money to buy political speech while keeping the money trail secret.
The entire idea of DRM seems to be that you prevent people from passing the file to someone else.
I disagree. The idea is that you do not use the file in ways other than those explicitly allowed by the copyright holder. Distributing it to someone else would be illegal anyway.
This idea assumes that the original customer is a criminal. All DRM treats the customer (the person who has decided to pay for the file) as a criminal.
Disagree again. DRM only prevents me from doing things that are explicitly allowed by law. It does nothing to prevent me from acting illegally, i.e. downloading an illegally distributed version or removing the DRM restrictions using software that is illegal to distribute.
The stated agenda of DRM is flawed, the reality is not. I'm pretty damn certain many of those who have bought iTunes songs have bought the same song on CD. DRM leads to profit.
It's not a question of whose "fault" it was. These aren't kids in a playground. Both providing access and using that access may be crimes. And no, they aren't technically punishing anyone; they're still investigating.
The conclusion is that the copyright owner cartel of Warner-Sony-Universal-EMI wil not allow Apple to sell music in a country where it is legal to crack DRM for format shifting.
Format shifting is legal everywhere. Distributing copyrighted material without permission is illegal everywhere. Any existing DRM can easily be cracked, making legal format shifting easy. This means one customer will only buy the same content once.
The only way for the copyright cartel to prevent the customer from using his music on any player, software or hardware, any time, forever, is to make format shifting de facto illegal. The current way of doing this is a combination of DRM and laws prohibiting cracking of said DRM and distribution of tools and information relevant to cracking DRM. If any part of this chain fails, customers can de facto legally do what they can de jure legally do.
After all, from what I can imagine, this would in fact render DMCA useless in France.
Despite what you may think, US law is not global in nature. Recent IP law "upgrades" are in effect global because the same companies buy the same laws all over the world.
At the low end of the socioeconomic spectrum you have disadvantaged minoritíes. At the really high end you have a fairly international crowd. I bet median income or median wealth in your and GP's neighborhood correlates more strongly with crime statistics than any ethnicity figures you can come up with.
If all Slashdotters pull together and upload at least ten albums each, we can help Sony handle this terrible upload requirement! We're with you, Sony!
7.50 per album? I've got an upstream that will save you a cool 10k/day! Hang in there, if we can get 100k Slashdotters to help out, you'll be saving a billion dollars per day!!
That things were bad before the war does not mean the war changed things for the better. I remember looking up life expectancy figures before the war to see if there was any significant difference between Iraq and neighboring Syria and Iran. Life expectancy in Iraq was around two years lower. After reading your post, I checked again.
Accoring to the CIA, the war made no difference; Iraq- 68.7 years, Iran - 69.96, Syria - 70.3.
According to the BBC, "Life expectancy: 57 years (men), 60 years (women) (UN)", or a full ten years lower than the CIA claims. The BBC website claims the UN as source; I haven't checked the UN website.
If you look at it from a game designer's perspective, "Tough luck, play another game" is bad compared to "Fine, buy your gold". Something is lacking for those who pay cash to advance faster. Perhaps there could be separate fast-advancement servers?
The level 10 boars part seems just odd to me. It takes about two evenings (maybe six-eight hours) to get get to level 10 for a completely new player. That can't be enough time for someone to get frustrated, yet be so obsessed with the game he wants to buy gold. Also, although you can waste all your gold on equipment in low levels, what you buy becomes outdated within hours. And the highest amount you can reasonably spend on a lvl 10 outfit is far less than five gold, let alone the 500 in the article.
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I'd give them my comments but they are copyrighted.
Yeah. People would just copy them on the Internet.
They wrote a LOTR book?
Sweden: Blonde-haired, blue-eyed horny assistants in bikinis
Norway: Blonde-bearded, blue-eyed horned assistants in viking helmets
My mother considers herself allergic to electricity. From what I can tell, it's some kind of photosensitivity coupled with psychosomatic symptoms. She can't stand bright lights or anything that flickers; fluorescent lights or TVs. Anything where you get distinct images of your hand if you wave it in front of you; although I've never seen her test that way.
She's been blind on one eye since childhood. She first started getting symptoms (mostly nausea and fatigue) after a few months of working with the first PCs at her work, text editing on monochrome displays. She's never been diagnosed with any real, known medical condition.
She's currently afraid of about anything more high-tech than a stereo. Which is kind of annoying for me, because I believe she really has some kind of medical condition. Getting tired or getting headaches from working with a monitor with refresh rate less than 70hz is familiar to many of us. Reacting the same way to fluorescent lights isn't too far fetched.
If an HDMI cable enables a movie disc to disable my TV, it's a very pricey cable.
Those who care about Omega-3 vs. whatever fats are not very likely to eat too much fat. People who actually care enough to know anything about different kinds of fat fal into two different groups - those who know what they're doing and eat very well balanced diets and those who try to eat "healthy food" without seeing the big picture. The former group has no problem whatsoever. The latter group gets half the calories they should and less than a tenth of the fat.
I've seen newbies on bodybuilding boards who try to gain weight post their daily meals, adding up to 1000-1200kcal, 80% protein, 18% carbs and less than 2% fat. Marketing hype for "healthy" fat is more likely to help than hinder that kind of person.
For those who eat too much fat now, I doubt this will make any difference. They don't care.
What the major parties wanted was for blogs to be exempt from the normal regulations on financing. With the same regulations in place as for the traditional media, we can avoid the situation where paid bloggers swamp the net with propaganda with no oversight or control.
"Freedom of speech on the Internet" indeed. The point was freedom of money to buy political speech while keeping the money trail secret.
Copies here and here.
...and in a chilling twist of irony, the firewall of my employer blocked that site :(
"The apostrophe in it's marks a contraction of it is or it has. The possessive its has no apostrophe."
Damn, I wrote someting sarcastic about security through obscurity before I read your post. I even had mod points :(
Mod parent insightful, someone.
Yes, because security through obscurity works and is the only security that works.
/sarcasm
The entire idea of DRM seems to be that you prevent people from passing the file to someone else.
I disagree. The idea is that you do not use the file in ways other than those explicitly allowed by the copyright holder. Distributing it to someone else would be illegal anyway.
This idea assumes that the original customer is a criminal. All DRM treats the customer (the person who has decided to pay for the file) as a criminal.
Disagree again. DRM only prevents me from doing things that are explicitly allowed by law. It does nothing to prevent me from acting illegally, i.e. downloading an illegally distributed version or removing the DRM restrictions using software that is illegal to distribute.
The stated agenda of DRM is flawed, the reality is not. I'm pretty damn certain many of those who have bought iTunes songs have bought the same song on CD. DRM leads to profit.
Hey, I finish first because I'm _better_!
Hope this link works
It's not a question of whose "fault" it was. These aren't kids in a playground. Both providing access and using that access may be crimes. And no, they aren't technically punishing anyone; they're still investigating.
The conclusion is that the copyright owner cartel of Warner-Sony-Universal-EMI wil not allow Apple to sell music in a country where it is legal to crack DRM for format shifting.
Format shifting is legal everywhere. Distributing copyrighted material without permission is illegal everywhere. Any existing DRM can easily be cracked, making legal format shifting easy. This means one customer will only buy the same content once.
The only way for the copyright cartel to prevent the customer from using his music on any player, software or hardware, any time, forever, is to make format shifting de facto illegal. The current way of doing this is a combination of DRM and laws prohibiting cracking of said DRM and distribution of tools and information relevant to cracking DRM. If any part of this chain fails, customers can de facto legally do what they can de jure legally do.
After all, from what I can imagine, this would in fact render DMCA useless in France.
Despite what you may think, US law is not global in nature. Recent IP law "upgrades" are in effect global because the same companies buy the same laws all over the world.
At the low end of the socioeconomic spectrum you have disadvantaged minoritíes. At the really high end you have a fairly international crowd. I bet median income or median wealth in your and GP's neighborhood correlates more strongly with crime statistics than any ethnicity figures you can come up with.
If all Slashdotters pull together and upload at least ten albums each, we can help Sony handle this terrible upload requirement! We're with you, Sony!
7.50 per album? I've got an upstream that will save you a cool 10k/day! Hang in there, if we can get 100k Slashdotters to help out, you'll be saving a billion dollars per day!!
That things were bad before the war does not mean the war changed things for the better. I remember looking up life expectancy figures before the war to see if there was any significant difference between Iraq and neighboring Syria and Iran. Life expectancy in Iraq was around two years lower. After reading your post, I checked again.
Accoring to the CIA, the war made no difference; Iraq- 68.7 years, Iran - 69.96, Syria - 70.3.
According to the BBC, "Life expectancy: 57 years (men), 60 years (women) (UN)", or a full ten years lower than the CIA claims. The BBC website claims the UN as source; I haven't checked the UN website.
Score: Saddam 2 years - USA 12 years?
If you look at it from a game designer's perspective, "Tough luck, play another game" is bad compared to "Fine, buy your gold". Something is lacking for those who pay cash to advance faster. Perhaps there could be separate fast-advancement servers?
The level 10 boars part seems just odd to me. It takes about two evenings (maybe six-eight hours) to get get to level 10 for a completely new player. That can't be enough time for someone to get frustrated, yet be so obsessed with the game he wants to buy gold. Also, although you can waste all your gold on equipment in low levels, what you buy becomes outdated within hours. And the highest amount you can reasonably spend on a lvl 10 outfit is far less than five gold, let alone the 500 in the article.
It works fine in Helsinki, Finland. The bikes are just bad enough that no one would seriously consider stealing one, but they still beat walking.
It didn't work out in Turku, Finland. They all eventually ended up in the river.
Around 550 Swedish buses run on methane. CH4 is known as biogas when it's taken from "natural sources" such as manure (human or otherwise).
We also have the same kind of buses for local traffic in Finnish cities; although I'm not sure how much of the fuel is from renewable biogas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogas
Sniffing just smells the bits, snorting inhales some of them.