Your forgetting that while it needs a keyboard an monitor for a human to interact with it and set it up it can most certainly run headless and without periferals once it is set up. Sure you need a normal computing setup to get it programmed but once it is set up you can put it into whatever embedded envirnment you are using it and and not have all the extra bulk that you would have if you were using an eeePC etc.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.
-banksy
Part of the confusion comes from Hasbro themselves. Here is the auto response I got back when I email their customer service about the litigation. As you can see in the bolded section they are intentionall framing this as equivallent to the RIAA action which makes it very easy for someone to miss the point where the never direct invoke copywrite but merely refer to 'infringement'.
We understand your passion for the SCRABBLE brand. In fact, we have been hard at work creating a variety of great new ways to enjoy SCRABBLE, from the classic board game, to playing in the digital space on the iPod, iPhone, pogo.com online game site, and now, social networking on Facebook.
Some people have asked us why we couldn't coexist with Scrabulous, and compete head-to-head. In the toy and game business, we have many legitimate competitors, and we welcome healthy competition as our industry strives to provide the best entertainment value for consumers everywhere. Scrabulous did not represent legitimate competition. Scrabulous was an infringement, it was unlawful, and we took the necessary action, similar to what the recording industry did when kids were posting music to illegal sites and allowing their friends to copy the music for free.
As you know, Hasbro filed suit on July 24 to protect our intellectual property rights. However, in deference to SCRABBLE fans like you, we waited to take this action until we had an authentic alternative to offer players. We know that many of you are closely scrutinizing the new SCRABBLE application developed by Electronic Arts. Please note that this application remains in a beta stage on Facebook, and both EA and Hasbro are monitoring feedback from fans, which will help us as we continue to improve the experience leading up to the official launch scheduled for the first half of August.
In closing, we want you to know that SCRABBLE is a very important game and brand for Hasbro. We value the passion of our fans, and we promise that we will continue to innovate in providing the best SCRABBLE experiences possible.
"And even if I did, that still wouldn't demonstrate that evolution is the origin of life."
It really bothers me when people confuse and conflate evolution, biological change over time with abiogenesis, the origin of life. Every time I read about these creationist campaigns in schools you hear the creationists talking about "where life came from" despite the fact that evolution never makes any claims about the origin of life. Scientifically there doesn't seem to be much consensus on the origin of life and if it is a topic in the classroom I don't really have a problem with a theistic POV being presented alongside scientific hypotheses, but that should have no bearing on the teaching of evolution.
This may surprise you but you have to register an account to get mod points. I can't even imagine what things would look like if AC's could moderate... *shudders*
No, the real issue that everyone is ignoring has nothing to do with audio quality or loss of it. The problem with these "analog hole" solutions is TIME loss. Seriously, if it's reading from the sound card it has to play each and every file, and for any reasonably sized music collection that will take a lot of time. Even with the added step of going from unDRMed WMAs to MP3s, FairUse4WM is infinitely faster because you can do everything in batches. This is a nice proof of concept, but if you really have a WMA music collection FairUse4WM is the only practical solution.
While I have not verified this myself I was informed by my professor who uses turnitin for his course that your own work will not be run against itself. In my case he was refering to a situation where we would be submitting our papers to both the lecture for the professor, and to discussion sections for our GAs. As long as the student registered for both classes properly, as the same user, there shouldn't be a problem.
From an IGN article on the Wii "In practice, regardless of game, you'll be able to play with either device in either hand. Miyamoto actually expects kids who've never played a game before to hold the remote in their left hand and the nunchuck in their right hand."
It is also possible that the dominant hand used will be stored systemwide with the sensetivity setting attatched to each controller
From wii.nintendo.com: "The Specs: Wii boasts 512 megabytes of internal flash memory, two USB 2.0 ports and built-in Wi-Fi capability."
Bluetooth will be nice for the people who want to use wii for more serious, in depth web browsing, but for most people it should be enough to hook up a usb keyboard to enter in, and bookmark, the few sites that they frequent (or import their bookmarks over the wifi) and just use the wiimote to point and click their way around. Opera on the PC already has incredible mouse guesture support, so I can only hope that on the Wii version will support a similar interface. If I want to read or write large amounts of text online or research something on google I will go to my computer, this isn't what opera for the wii is really about. opera on the Wii will make it easy to bookmark your favorite sites letting you, for instance, check for the latest penny-arcade without having to get up. This casual point and click kind of web browsing is what nintendo is trying to achieve, they are not trying to take the place of the computer for serious, typing intensive, internet use.
But Nintendo is now ambiguous. In the NES days there was only one Nintendo. Now you could mean a Wii, a Gamecube, a GBA, a DS, etc. Did you miss the announcements that wii will play gamecube games from the disks, and that you will be able to download and play N64, NES, SNES, and other nintendo games through emulation. The wii is not just a next generation console, it is a Nintendo. I think that people going back to using 'play nintendo' fits perfectly since on the wii they could mean they were going to play red steel or super mario bros 3.
it kind of defeats the purpose of getting a Mac.
Repeat after me, the purpose of getting a mac is OS X. The most important detail of this bootloader that I've noticed is that it won't prompt you everytime you start your mac, you have to hold down option at startup. If you just turn on your computer, it boots to OS X. You only get the option, of windows if you ask for it. This seems like a good way to give people the functionality of windows when they absolutely need it, but continues to slowly ween them away from it and get more comfortable in OS X.
Go to settings>Clicker>Off. Problem solved. Seriously though, I bet if you could scroll through the menu without being too obvious you could even fool people into thinking you were taking readings, too bad he didn't make the knob control the clickwheel.
I've only used facebook for a couple of months, so perhaps I have simply not encountered this spam you're talking about. My impression, however, was that you could only create a facebook account if you had a valid.edu email address at a real college. That, to me seemed like the real revolutionary aspect of facebook, that it guaranteed that everyone was really a college student, or was at least part of that college community. There may be some workaround that these spammers are using to create new email accounts or something, but that's the college's problem, not facebook's.
Damn, I always thought it stood for "This Place Sucks." At least that was the impression I got from this video I guess real life is less funny than the Superfriends.
I agree with you that knowing how to restrict your searches is a very good thing, however since google now has a blog search it should be possible to run two parallel searches for the same terms and then exclude the blog hits that match the google hits.
Unsafe Search does something like this with google's safe search so I would assume something similar could be made using their blog search. But, since I don't have the programming knowledge to make such a thing I will leave that to another enterprising slashdotter.
I don't know about you but I would crap my pants if opened the door and saw a giant overweight penguin
or to quote Linus:
"Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had."
More seriously, while I'm not saying Microsoft going after virus writers etc. after they've done the damage is a bad thing, perhaps if they focused more energy on preventing them in the first place it wouldn't be as much of a problem.
You linking to a story on Boing Boing reminded me of something that caught my attention on there a couple of days ago. The Post shows two almost identical pictures of people carrying bags of items taken from stores. The difference is that the picture of a black person with a bag has a caption says they were "looting", the caption of the picture of the white person with a bag says they "found" the items.
Are these people grabbing new TVs, or are they grabbing bread?
This is such an important distinction, and it needs to be made. Now I'm not saying there aren't people who are stealing TVs but, what good is a TV when you have no electricity, when you have no house to put the TV in because your house has been destroyed? Why steal a TV when you have to carry it through so much water that the electronics in it will be ruined?
This is not a typical looting situation.
It's a twisted state of things when you have to choose between starving to death or being shot on sight for "looting" from a store whose entire inventory has been damaged so much that it will never be sold.
I wish I had points to mod you up as you seem to be the only person linking to trafficpowersucks.com. I took some time to look at the site and it makes a very good case for them sucking, much more so than any other whateversucks.com that I've seen.
This is important because negative speech is only libel if it is untrue. The email section especially makes it clear that these people have conned many many people, and makes me confident (I haven't read the actual comments) that whatever was posted about them is not libel but truthful criticism
This thread from yesterday about sending names to Pluto has some gems. Or if you want more options that are less funny and more believable try the Fantasy name generator
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Your forgetting that while it needs a keyboard an monitor for a human to interact with it and set it up it can most certainly run headless and without periferals once it is set up. Sure you need a normal computing setup to get it programmed but once it is set up you can put it into whatever embedded envirnment you are using it and and not have all the extra bulk that you would have if you were using an eeePC etc.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs. -banksy
"And even if I did, that still wouldn't demonstrate that evolution is the origin of life."
It really bothers me when people confuse and conflate evolution, biological change over time with abiogenesis, the origin of life. Every time I read about these creationist campaigns in schools you hear the creationists talking about "where life came from" despite the fact that evolution never makes any claims about the origin of life. Scientifically there doesn't seem to be much consensus on the origin of life and if it is a topic in the classroom I don't really have a problem with a theistic POV being presented alongside scientific hypotheses, but that should have no bearing on the teaching of evolution.
Maybe it's pointless because we are all already linux users.
"You say there's no shortage of sunlight"
Where have I heard that before?
This may surprise you but you have to register an account to get mod points. I can't even imagine what things would look like if AC's could moderate... *shudders*
No, the real issue that everyone is ignoring has nothing to do with audio quality or loss of it. The problem with these "analog hole" solutions is TIME loss. Seriously, if it's reading from the sound card it has to play each and every file, and for any reasonably sized music collection that will take a lot of time. Even with the added step of going from unDRMed WMAs to MP3s, FairUse4WM is infinitely faster because you can do everything in batches. This is a nice proof of concept, but if you really have a WMA music collection FairUse4WM is the only practical solution.
While I have not verified this myself I was informed by my professor who uses turnitin for his course that your own work will not be run against itself. In my case he was refering to a situation where we would be submitting our papers to both the lecture for the professor, and to discussion sections for our GAs. As long as the student registered for both classes properly, as the same user, there shouldn't be a problem.
From an IGN article on the Wii "In practice, regardless of game, you'll be able to play with either device in either hand. Miyamoto actually expects kids who've never played a game before to hold the remote in their left hand and the nunchuck in their right hand."
It is also possible that the dominant hand used will be stored systemwide with the sensetivity setting attatched to each controller
Bluetooth will be nice for the people who want to use wii for more serious, in depth web browsing, but for most people it should be enough to hook up a usb keyboard to enter in, and bookmark, the few sites that they frequent (or import their bookmarks over the wifi) and just use the wiimote to point and click their way around. Opera on the PC already has incredible mouse guesture support, so I can only hope that on the Wii version will support a similar interface. If I want to read or write large amounts of text online or research something on google I will go to my computer, this isn't what opera for the wii is really about. opera on the Wii will make it easy to bookmark your favorite sites letting you, for instance, check for the latest penny-arcade without having to get up. This casual point and click kind of web browsing is what nintendo is trying to achieve, they are not trying to take the place of the computer for serious, typing intensive, internet use.
But Nintendo is now ambiguous. In the NES days there was only one Nintendo. Now you could mean a Wii, a Gamecube, a GBA, a DS, etc.
Did you miss the announcements that wii will play gamecube games from the disks, and that you will be able to download and play N64, NES, SNES, and other nintendo games through emulation. The wii is not just a next generation console, it is a Nintendo. I think that people going back to using 'play nintendo' fits perfectly since on the wii they could mean they were going to play red steel or super mario bros 3.
it kind of defeats the purpose of getting a Mac.
Repeat after me, the purpose of getting a mac is OS X. The most important detail of this bootloader that I've noticed is that it won't prompt you everytime you start your mac, you have to hold down option at startup. If you just turn on your computer, it boots to OS X. You only get the option, of windows if you ask for it. This seems like a good way to give people the functionality of windows when they absolutely need it, but continues to slowly ween them away from it and get more comfortable in OS X.
Go to settings>Clicker>Off. Problem solved.
Seriously though, I bet if you could scroll through the menu without being too obvious you could even fool people into thinking you were taking readings, too bad he didn't make the knob control the clickwheel.
Maybe they left him out because someone called Nordic beat him at the CES Try to beat Fatal1ty contest.
The metal backs and white faces on iPods isn't there 'to scratch and make them unique', it's there to make the iPod look like a bathtub, silly.
I've only used facebook for a couple of months, so perhaps I have simply not encountered this spam you're talking about. My impression, however, was that you could only create a facebook account if you had a valid .edu email address at a real college. That, to me seemed like the real revolutionary aspect of facebook, that it guaranteed that everyone was really a college student, or was at least part of that college community. There may be some workaround that these spammers are using to create new email accounts or something, but that's the college's problem, not facebook's.
Damn, I always thought it stood for "This Place Sucks." At least that was the impression I got from this video I guess real life is less funny than the Superfriends.
I agree with you that knowing how to restrict your searches is a very good thing, however since google now has a blog search it should be possible to run two parallel searches for the same terms and then exclude the blog hits that match the google hits. Unsafe Search does something like this with google's safe search so I would assume something similar could be made using their blog search. But, since I don't have the programming knowledge to make such a thing I will leave that to another enterprising slashdotter.
or to quote Linus:
"Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had."
More seriously, while I'm not saying Microsoft going after virus writers etc. after they've done the damage is a bad thing, perhaps if they focused more energy on preventing them in the first place it wouldn't be as much of a problem.
Unlike a name like Lindows, which people would never confuse with Windows.
You linking to a story on Boing Boing reminded me of something that caught my attention on there a couple of days ago. The Post shows two almost identical pictures of people carrying bags of items taken from stores. The difference is that the picture of a black person with a bag has a caption says they were "looting", the caption of the picture of the white person with a bag says they "found" the items.
Are these people grabbing new TVs, or are they grabbing bread?
This is such an important distinction, and it needs to be made. Now I'm not saying there aren't people who are stealing TVs but, what good is a TV when you have no electricity, when you have no house to put the TV in because your house has been destroyed? Why steal a TV when you have to carry it through so much water that the electronics in it will be ruined?
This is not a typical looting situation.
It's a twisted state of things when you have to choose between starving to death or being shot on sight for "looting" from a store whose entire inventory has been damaged so much that it will never be sold.
I wish I had points to mod you up as you seem to be the only person linking to trafficpowersucks.com. I took some time to look at the site and it makes a very good case for them sucking, much more so than any other whateversucks.com that I've seen.
This is important because negative speech is only libel if it is untrue. The email section especially makes it clear that these people have conned many many people, and makes me confident (I haven't read the actual comments) that whatever was posted about them is not libel but truthful criticism
This thread from yesterday about sending names to Pluto has some gems. Or if you want more options that are less funny and more believable try the Fantasy name generator