A new analogy for DRM just struck me- it's like body armour that offers almost 100% protection against small arms fire, but is so heavy bulky that you can't move off the spot while wearing.
Well okay here's a scenario where a particular colour of individual would be killed off more rapidly: moths.
There is a well documented example of evolution in action where a moth with dappled black/white wings evolved over a number of years years to become a moth with much darker, gray wings. It turned out that because of industrialisation in the town where the change was observed the trunks of a particular species of tree in that town had become much darker in colour, going from dappled to sooty grey.
This tree was home to this particular colour of moth, and when the tree color changed, the lightest coloured invividuals were picked off by birds more easily. The darker coloured moths of the species survived more often, and passed on their slightly darker colours to the next generation, where again the lightest moths were predated more easily.
The best explanation for the mechanism of evolution that I can come up with is this:
Each species has a certain amount of variation in it's characteristics : some member are maybe stronger, taller, shorter, faster swimmers, have stronger jaws, have webbed toes, or have longer beaks / stubbier beaks than the other members of the species. If the variation in that individual means that they have more babies that then grow up and have more babies than the others (either by being avoiding being killed, eating more food or impressing the ladies with their l33t displays) then that individual's characteristics become more dominant within the species by being passed on through their genes. They are fitter and therefore survive and have more babies than the other members of the species.
Gazelles evolve to run faster because the slowest ones get killed.
Lions evolve to run faster and become more stealthy because the purple, slow ones all starved
Wading birds evolved that way because longer beaks mean being able to get at those sneaky-assed molluscs
Homo sapians evolved because they were smarter than other species and used tools, agriculture, communal living and (surprisingly) dogs.
Pff that's nothing, I had one whose brand of keyboard didn't even match the brand of mouse. Now THAT is lousy. How are you supposed to get any work done with *that* kind of obvious mismatch staring you in the face
In my own self whoredom, I was thinking of doing a series of very short (maybe 30 second) sketches that would be posted to Youtube/ Google video , featuring a character I produced for a project back in Uni. I'd tag it with my multimedia design company's logo and website address in order to attract business.
Here's a pic of my character , I'd add a couple of more guys like him and start to come up with some scripts. I was thinking of making JimBob (the guy in the pic) really clean cut, and having two other toys who get him into trouble...... or maybe it'd be him and a female toy talking about 'relationship' stuff, and try and make.... anyway I think it could be funny. It'd also be nice to get ad. revenue from a venture like that:D
Excuse the fuck out of me, but when the vehicle you are travelling in hits a solid object (like another vehicle) then most of your momentum remains until *you* manage to hit something solid. If you're a passenger in the back of a car, then that solid object is likely to be the person in the seat in front of you. If you're in the front and it's a side impact, then there's a 50% chance that you're going to slam into the driver at most of the speed your vehicle was travelling at. The results are never pretty.
It's bloody minded ignorance like this that makes the roads a more dangerous place. I don't mean this unkindly, but I just hope you get a harmless scare that is bad enough, or see an accident victim cut up bad enough to make you wear your belt. You sure as hell aren't going to listen to reason.
Don't steal the ladder, just take it down, set it over the other side of the yard with a note attached saying that the TOS for that particular ladder mean that it must only be used for scaffolding access, and not for roofing jobs.
Oh..... oh God no. No one mention that fucking bullshit, it makes me want to puke all over the floor when I'm reminded that they do that on ads. When I'm watching TV, I usually skip the ads using my philips PVR, but when the ads do start, the volume goes through the roof. I wouldn't complain, but they're acutally limiting the dynamic range and therefore the quality of the audio in the movie/tv show/news broadcast that they send out. Digital quality my hole./goes for a lie down.
RTFA and try and grasp the concept better than the idiot who posted this article; the only service that gets charged here is your own JaJa account - the site phones your landline and your friend's landline using VoIP credit in YOUR account (a lot like skypeout), and your landlines get connected together.
This is a good service, and not worthy of an amateurish slashdot post like this.
This not a completely worthless service- in fact I think it's quite clever- certainly too clever for the writer of this article to grasp. This service allows international calls to be made for the price of two local rate calls. Sounds pretty fucking good to me.
I just used the service to connect my Irish landline here to my parent's phone at home in N.Ireland, and it worked perfectly; whatever rate the two calls cost (local calls are free in the UK at certain times), it's certainly cheaper than the 40 cents a minute I'd normally pay for such a call.
It's a tricky concept to grasp, but if people 'get' it, then this service is of at leas *some* value for the time being.
Funny , seeing the headline I thought the price might be YOUR IMMORTAL SOUL, cheques addressed to Beelzebub, but having read the article, $1m seems quite reasonable:)
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A new analogy for DRM just struck me- it's like body armour that offers almost 100% protection against small arms fire, but is so heavy bulky that you can't move off the spot while wearing.
;)
All it takes is someone with an RPG
Well okay here's a scenario where a particular colour of individual would be killed off more rapidly: moths.
There is a well documented example of evolution in action where a moth with dappled black/white wings evolved over a number of years years to become a moth with much darker, gray wings. It turned out that because of industrialisation in the town where the change was observed the trunks of a particular species of tree in that town had become much darker in colour, going from dappled to sooty grey.
This tree was home to this particular colour of moth, and when the tree color changed, the lightest coloured invividuals were picked off by birds more easily. The darker coloured moths of the species survived more often, and passed on their slightly darker colours to the next generation, where again the lightest moths were predated more easily.
The best explanation for the mechanism of evolution that I can come up with is this:
Each species has a certain amount of variation in it's characteristics : some member are maybe stronger, taller, shorter, faster swimmers, have stronger jaws, have webbed toes, or have longer beaks / stubbier beaks than the other members of the species. If the variation in that individual means that they have more babies that then grow up and have more babies than the others (either by being avoiding being killed, eating more food or impressing the ladies with their l33t displays) then that individual's characteristics become more dominant within the species by being passed on through their genes. They are fitter and therefore survive and have more babies than the other members of the species.
Gazelles evolve to run faster because the slowest ones get killed. Lions evolve to run faster and become more stealthy because the purple, slow ones all starved Wading birds evolved that way because longer beaks mean being able to get at those sneaky-assed molluscs Homo sapians evolved because they were smarter than other species and used tools, agriculture, communal living and (surprisingly) dogs.
Iranians, been taking classes, wants to drop one on their asses.
Pff that's nothing, I had one whose brand of keyboard didn't even match the brand of mouse. Now THAT is lousy. How are you supposed to get any work done with *that* kind of obvious mismatch staring you in the face
Diebold? Calling something 'inaccurate and unfair'?
The irony is enough to cause some kind of brain anneurism, doncha think?
Reportedly the researchers showed the system a picture of a Death Star, and it correctly tagged the image with 'thatsnomoon'.
The system has clearly been let crawl the web for far too long.
Sig Gaelige? Ca bhfuil tu??? (Gaillimh anseo)
That's just slinging mud at people who want to blur the meaning!!!
/head asplodes
Or is it?
Maybe the coffee house has WiFi :D
News at 11?
What, like the neverending story? Hmm, it wasn't that long.
How about War and Peace?
Um, perhaps the shortages are a sign that demand for Lego is on the up? I read the headline as good-but-could-be-better news.
Catholics do that all over the world.... see All Saint's Day and All Souls' Day
In my own self whoredom, I was thinking of doing a series of very short (maybe 30 second) sketches that would be posted to Youtube/ Google video , featuring a character I produced for a project back in Uni. I'd tag it with my multimedia design company's logo and website address in order to attract business.
.... anyway I think it could be funny. It'd also be nice to get ad. revenue from a venture like that :D
Here's a pic of my character , I'd add a couple of more guys like him and start to come up with some scripts. I was thinking of making JimBob (the guy in the pic) really clean cut, and having two other toys who get him into trouble...... or maybe it'd be him and a female toy talking about 'relationship' stuff, and try and make
Doubleplusungood :|
Excuse the fuck out of me, but when the vehicle you are travelling in hits a solid object (like another vehicle) then most of your momentum remains until *you* manage to hit something solid. If you're a passenger in the back of a car, then that solid object is likely to be the person in the seat in front of you. If you're in the front and it's a side impact, then there's a 50% chance that you're going to slam into the driver at most of the speed your vehicle was travelling at. The results are never pretty.
It's bloody minded ignorance like this that makes the roads a more dangerous place. I don't mean this unkindly, but I just hope you get a harmless scare that is bad enough, or see an accident victim cut up bad enough to make you wear your belt. You sure as hell aren't going to listen to reason.
Don't steal the ladder, just take it down, set it over the other side of the yard with a note attached saying that the TOS for that particular ladder mean that it must only be used for scaffolding access, and not for roofing jobs.
Oh..... oh God no. No one mention that fucking bullshit, it makes me want to puke all over the floor when I'm reminded that they do that on ads. When I'm watching TV, I usually skip the ads using my philips PVR, but when the ads do start, the volume goes through the roof. I wouldn't complain, but they're acutally limiting the dynamic range and therefore the quality of the audio in the movie/tv show/news broadcast that they send out. Digital quality my hole. /goes for a lie down.
RTFA and try and grasp the concept better than the idiot who posted this article; the only service that gets charged here is your own JaJa account - the site phones your landline and your friend's landline using VoIP credit in YOUR account (a lot like skypeout), and your landlines get connected together.
This is a good service, and not worthy of an amateurish slashdot post like this.
This not a completely worthless service- in fact I think it's quite clever- certainly too clever for the writer of this article to grasp. This service allows international calls to be made for the price of two local rate calls. Sounds pretty fucking good to me.
I just used the service to connect my Irish landline here to my parent's phone at home in N.Ireland, and it worked perfectly; whatever rate the two calls cost (local calls are free in the UK at certain times), it's certainly cheaper than the 40 cents a minute I'd normally pay for such a call.
It's a tricky concept to grasp, but if people 'get' it, then this service is of at leas *some* value for the time being.
/genetically modified
How long before we can expect genetically milk and honey-producing cows? (or, indeed, cow overlords)
C'mon I want this to put on my cereal!
Hey, it's never too late now, is it?
Funny , seeing the headline I thought the price might be YOUR IMMORTAL SOUL, cheques addressed to Beelzebub, but having read the article, $1m seems quite reasonable :)