What's wrong with 8 year olds playing Grand Theft Auto? Great game. Honestly, anyone that talks about GTA as if it's some horrific soul destroying thing, has never played it. There are many darker games out there. I was playing stuff like Mortal Kombat when I was 9. You could rip your opponents head off, with their spine still dangling and dripping blood. You could rip out their still beating heart. To this day, I've never actually tried to do either of those things for real.
What if the parents are too lazy to be parents, and so just buy any game their kid wants? I'm not trying to make a moral judgement here, I just think it's silly to equate a good parent with one that will buy stuff.
It's incredibly easy for anyone to get anything these days without buying it. If the parent won't buy it, the kid can torrent it. I can just imagine the lobbying now: Lazy parents encourage piracy! Kill them all (and their kids!).
Irony much? There are scientific and unscientific minds on both sides of the fence in all these big public "debates". Assuming that you are correct while decrying all research into any ideas you don't agree with is the complete antithesis of science.
Sure we invest in wind farms and tidal generators. I work for a company that has designed and is building a tidal turbine, and I've heard talk about wind energy projects. I still think it's important to continue with nuclear as well. I'm glad that our government doesn't seem as dumb and panicky as certain others.
I doubt the print command has changed much in all those versions.
I don't know what the submitter means when he says you can't do much with scripting languages though. There are libraries out there for everything these days. You could write a networked OpenGL game in a scripting language if you really wanted to.
You might as well say "let's just put 128GB of RAM in this netbook so that it doesn't need a page file, and a 1024GB SSD just for kicks". It's a nice idea, but it would be rather expensive and impractical to do so at this point in time. In 10 years, sure, but not right now. We need to make use of what we have. Even if we were able to download an uncompressed HD movie in 2 seconds flat, there would still be applications where streaming technology would prove useful.
Think of old games compared to modern day open world games. Increases in RAM alone allows larger map sizes, but being able to dynamically stream levels into RAM allows virtually unlimited map sizes.
It's always good to have more processing power, RAM or bandwidth, but it's a pretty short sighted approach to solving problems.
All it takes is for someone to go over to someone else's house and watch a movie from a Bluray (which the MAFIAA is trying to sell) or pirated 1080p x264 Matroska file, and suddenly the streaming user doesn't want their streaming service anymore.
Wut? I have a blu-ray player. I have blu-rays. I also am happy with DVDs and SD streaming for some films. Depends on the film, and the price of streaming vs the price of buying.
What good reason is there to stream recorded media in real time? It is not live-as-it-happens. It's like buying a film movie frame by frame and watching it as you receive the frames from the store. Makes absolutely no sense.
What if you want to watch a movie without waiting 30 minutes for the download to complete first?
Ambivalent means you both love and loathe them:P I think they make generally quite competent products, but they do overcharge, especially for extra storage (which I'm sure is the reason they never include SD card support in their gadgets).
That's the kind of attitude that ensures you won't:p it's the kind of attitude that led to me not doing my final year project in fact, then it turned out if I'd just asked they would have switched me to the project I wanted since the guy who got the project I wanted switched to something else. I was rather pissed off.
I was thinking of figures from the phone market, but as someone else pointed out, the iPod Touch skews the figures well into iOS territory (unless whoever made up the figure you're referring to didn't include stuff like the Archos and all the cheap chinese tablets/phones out there).
Oh, and as others have pointed out.. there's not really an effective way to prove that someone wasn't actually the original ripper of a file.. so even allowing the RIAA access to scan files doesn't seem that useful. Anything that's out in a public torrent file is obviously breaking copyright, but a single person using online storage for their own files is an entirely different matter.
Since it's Google I imagine they'd do it more along the lines of how they do things with YouTube. Allow takedown requests and give people a few strikes. Best to check first of course. Maybe they just won't allow snooping in the accounts at all.
I've done exactly the same things as the submitter, but if I wanted to use these services, I'd just upload it all and let google tell me if anything infringes. I'd say 99% of my music is stuff I have the CD for, and there are a few albums where I just downloaded because I couldn't be arsed ripping, or waiting for delivery after buying the CD.
For the naptster stuff, just check for anything that has a godawful bitrate. For the downloaded stuff, the file names will probably be very different to whatever he uses when ripping himself.. so he just needs to find a media player that can sort by bitrate, and list filenames (it will be fairly easy to just scan quickly down the list and check for any block of files that stands out, assuming he downloads albums at a time and not just lots of individual tracks..).
Yep. Everything I've seen recently says that there are more Android devices out there than iOS (though iPhones are the most successful handset type), so I don't see how 1000 Android users is a higher percentage users than 4000 iOS users..
Oh yeah, forgot about portal. Doesn't help that she doesn't really talk. I also think this story is a heap of crap. The Wii era seems to have opened up gaming to a much wider audience, in terms of both age and gender.
The user could just put the name of the website into the email. That will make it easy for someone to figure out their password scheme if they always use the same format of websitename-mypassword, but if they use it only for sites which store hashes, then it's going to be extremely unlikely that anyone will crack their passwords through pure brute force..
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Facebook should be shut down for prior art. I'm pretty sure sites like deviantArt and Bebo did it first.
Did you just hear a kind of whooshing sound?
What's wrong with 8 year olds playing Grand Theft Auto? Great game. Honestly, anyone that talks about GTA as if it's some horrific soul destroying thing, has never played it. There are many darker games out there. I was playing stuff like Mortal Kombat when I was 9. You could rip your opponents head off, with their spine still dangling and dripping blood. You could rip out their still beating heart. To this day, I've never actually tried to do either of those things for real.
What if the parents are too lazy to be parents, and so just buy any game their kid wants? I'm not trying to make a moral judgement here, I just think it's silly to equate a good parent with one that will buy stuff.
It's incredibly easy for anyone to get anything these days without buying it. If the parent won't buy it, the kid can torrent it. I can just imagine the lobbying now: Lazy parents encourage piracy! Kill them all (and their kids!).
Irony much? There are scientific and unscientific minds on both sides of the fence in all these big public "debates". Assuming that you are correct while decrying all research into any ideas you don't agree with is the complete antithesis of science.
Pah, like he said, you lack imagination! If we build giant funnels over the beaches, we can catch all the rain and use it for hydro power generation!
Sure we invest in wind farms and tidal generators. I work for a company that has designed and is building a tidal turbine, and I've heard talk about wind energy projects. I still think it's important to continue with nuclear as well. I'm glad that our government doesn't seem as dumb and panicky as certain others.
I doubt the print command has changed much in all those versions.
I don't know what the submitter means when he says you can't do much with scripting languages though. There are libraries out there for everything these days. You could write a networked OpenGL game in a scripting language if you really wanted to.
You might as well say "let's just put 128GB of RAM in this netbook so that it doesn't need a page file, and a 1024GB SSD just for kicks". It's a nice idea, but it would be rather expensive and impractical to do so at this point in time. In 10 years, sure, but not right now. We need to make use of what we have. Even if we were able to download an uncompressed HD movie in 2 seconds flat, there would still be applications where streaming technology would prove useful.
Think of old games compared to modern day open world games. Increases in RAM alone allows larger map sizes, but being able to dynamically stream levels into RAM allows virtually unlimited map sizes.
It's always good to have more processing power, RAM or bandwidth, but it's a pretty short sighted approach to solving problems.
All it takes is for someone to go over to someone else's house and watch a movie from a Bluray (which the MAFIAA is trying to sell) or pirated 1080p x264 Matroska file, and suddenly the streaming user doesn't want their streaming service anymore.
Wut? I have a blu-ray player. I have blu-rays. I also am happy with DVDs and SD streaming for some films. Depends on the film, and the price of streaming vs the price of buying.
What good reason is there to stream recorded media in real time? It is not live-as-it-happens. It's like buying a film movie frame by frame and watching it as you receive the frames from the store. Makes absolutely no sense.
What if you want to watch a movie without waiting 30 minutes for the download to complete first?
Ambivalent means you both love and loathe them :P I think they make generally quite competent products, but they do overcharge, especially for extra storage (which I'm sure is the reason they never include SD card support in their gadgets).
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That's the kind of attitude that ensures you won't :p it's the kind of attitude that led to me not doing my final year project in fact, then it turned out if I'd just asked they would have switched me to the project I wanted since the guy who got the project I wanted switched to something else. I was rather pissed off.
I was thinking of figures from the phone market, but as someone else pointed out, the iPod Touch skews the figures well into iOS territory (unless whoever made up the figure you're referring to didn't include stuff like the Archos and all the cheap chinese tablets/phones out there).
Oh, and as others have pointed out.. there's not really an effective way to prove that someone wasn't actually the original ripper of a file.. so even allowing the RIAA access to scan files doesn't seem that useful. Anything that's out in a public torrent file is obviously breaking copyright, but a single person using online storage for their own files is an entirely different matter.
Since it's Google I imagine they'd do it more along the lines of how they do things with YouTube. Allow takedown requests and give people a few strikes. Best to check first of course. Maybe they just won't allow snooping in the accounts at all.
That depends what you're looking for in your relationship with your avatar I suppose.
Then all you have to do is rip in an unusual bit-rate or file format and you get around the MD5 checks.
I've done exactly the same things as the submitter, but if I wanted to use these services, I'd just upload it all and let google tell me if anything infringes. I'd say 99% of my music is stuff I have the CD for, and there are a few albums where I just downloaded because I couldn't be arsed ripping, or waiting for delivery after buying the CD.
For the naptster stuff, just check for anything that has a godawful bitrate. For the downloaded stuff, the file names will probably be very different to whatever he uses when ripping himself.. so he just needs to find a media player that can sort by bitrate, and list filenames (it will be fairly easy to just scan quickly down the list and check for any block of files that stands out, assuming he downloads albums at a time and not just lots of individual tracks..).
Yep. Everything I've seen recently says that there are more Android devices out there than iOS (though iPhones are the most successful handset type), so I don't see how 1000 Android users is a higher percentage users than 4000 iOS users..
Oh yeah, forgot about portal. Doesn't help that she doesn't really talk. I also think this story is a heap of crap. The Wii era seems to have opened up gaming to a much wider audience, in terms of both age and gender.
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The user could just put the name of the website into the email. That will make it easy for someone to figure out their password scheme if they always use the same format of websitename-mypassword, but if they use it only for sites which store hashes, then it's going to be extremely unlikely that anyone will crack their passwords through pure brute force..