Those really do suck, but at the same time the music didn't seem to be even the same style as the songs. Of course if you pick "reggae" for a Police song it will most likely suck.
Those songs were all written by great writers (well- maybe not the last one- I'm not familiar with his music, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt) so naturally no computer program will recreate their music. The really good stuff can't be matched by even those who have talent. Expecting a computer program to recreate it is stupid.
This software is very far from professional quality. Ok- maybe I can see it replacing the music writers for the latest pop music, but then that is crap too. This is something for people to play around with. Not to make real music with. All these examples do is prove that.
Of course by the time it gets to a jury you are already out all the legal fees, possible jail time after being arrested, bail, and the enjoyment of your neighbors, family, and coworkers all being interviewed by the police to see if you are a pedophile, as well as possible news coverage of the trial.
There have been many cases of "helpful" employees at film development shops turning in people to the police for taking such photos in to be developed. And then those people having their lives turned upside down defending themselves against child pornography charges.
Fix it. He wants to do something on the cheap and look good. But the way he wants to do it is going to fail spectacularly. And when it fails, so will you. If this puts any amount of load on the services it is using, it will get picked up by the service provider. Maybe not today, but it will. And then the accounts will get turned off and possibly your IP addresses blacklisted, and then it all goes away. So give him a better solution. If he is balking at the $2k/month find a cheaper service. There is almost always one. Compare the cheaper solution to the time spent fixing it when the free service cuts you off. Provide examples of free service cutting people off.
And unless you are looking for some very specific information, I would expect someone to provide an RSS feed with something similar that is supposed to be used for this sort of thing.
Then think about people that are afraid of the police. There is a large portion of them. And they are mostly poor and non-white. Not typical Republican voters. Now they have just been told that the people that they are afraid of are going to be scrutinizing them. IF they vote. If they don't vote, then they are safe.
I agree that IDs sound reasonable. Except that not everyone has a drivers license. Or a state-issued ID. Especially the previously mentioned group. There are ways around requiring ID, like tracking voter names and social security numbers. Sure- they can be falsified, but rarely significantly. Think of how many people you would need to participate in that. And keep in mind in that even the people pushing for checking IDs can not provide any instances where they can prove it happened to any significant level. This is just a boogy man they trot out to put in more rules in the way of people that want to vote.
So socialized heathcare is unconstitutional? Is socialized police protection unconstitutional? Socialized fire protection? Socialized public education? Why aren't people complaining about those too? It is ok to have society provide police and firemen to help protect people, but not ok to have society help people be healthy?
So you can be protected from being shot or burnt, but if you are shot or burnt, then you are on your own? How does that work?
Isn't it likely that having an improved baseline (better public safety, better educated public, more healthy public) helps everyone? Doesn't that fit pretty well with "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"? Or should I ask how do we benifit from having a significant portion of the country have no health care?
Why do companies keep collecting every bit of data they can like this? Why does Google need to know the user name of the person watching the videos? Even the IP address is questionable. If they want to track people artificially inflating their views, wouldn't it be simple to keep one day's worth of views by IP address? What value do they get from keeping all the viewing history?
Meanwhile, Viacom gets user names, IP addresses, and the list of every video watched. If they are smart, they will realize this is way better then any survey or Nelson rating they ever get. And they got it nearly for free. You can be certain that other companies will be very interested in this data too. Can they just give Viacom a call and get it? Did the court put any restraints on Viacom sharing this data?
I hope you haven't watched anything on YouTube you don't want to be contacted about. Now excuse me while I go log out of my account. I don't think I've watched anything I don't want shared, but at the same time I would rather not risk having someone else come through and make decisions about me based on my random viewing habits.
That is an interesting point. The idea that a small nuke would not be able to completely destroy a city is not one I had considered. The problem is that it might not "level" a city, but it would cause radiation and likely structure damage to much of it. Plus, can you realistically see anyone wanting to live in that city after a portion of it was destroyed with a small nuke? It might not physically destroy an entire city, but it would certainly psychologically destroy it.
For those of you too gullible to fact check what you read, the GAO reported that no such vandalism occurred, and "the condition of the real property was consistent with what we would expect to encounter when tenants vacate office space after an extended occupancy."
He isn't missing the point. She doesn't mind reuse when she is making money off of it. The other books that came out about Harry Potter just drove interest in the series she was writing. But now the series is over.
She has stated as part of this lawsuit that she was planning on making her own Harry Potter lexicon and feels this will cut into her profits.
Not exactly correct. Harry Potter exists on the pages of the books that were written. And the lexicon is summing up everything written about Harry Potter. Just as unauthorized books have been written about other copyrighted material and been completely legal. The lexicon is about Harry Potter and the world he inhabits as was written. Not a new story about him, or making up additional things. The second would be using characters without permission in a new story. The first is explaining what was written. If this activity was not legal, then anything criticizing Star Wars would be a copyright infringement.
She will make up things out of whole clothe for her lexicon- there is no doubt about that. She couldn't stop herself from telling stories about the characters after that last book came out, so there is no reason to think that her lexicon would not have entirely new material. Now if the lexicon in he lawsuit had entirely new material, then it could be copyright infringement because the guy would be trying to add his own original material into her world. But he isn't. It is just listing out what she already has published.
Have you seen some of the Nerf mods? There are some that look realistic-ish. The article said that one was painted black, so I can how a modified gun might look realistic from a distance. Doesn't change this from being an over-reaction for the other Nerf guns, but I can see it in the one circumstance.
I haven't read the article and I'm far from an P2P or IP routing expert, but wouldn't it be possible to make a best guess on proximity based on pinging the peers available, counting the hops to each one and the time to each one to estimate which ones are closest, and then focus on sharing with those?
Statistically, there are not very many suicide bombers. Just a few makes more than enough impact.
As for recruiting, the USA has been demonized by terrorist groups, and unfortunately the US has given lots of recruiting ammunition with Iraq and the problems there. Combine that with a lack of communication of all sides of the issues, a large uneducated population, and a fundamentalist religious group that makes fighting and dying "holy", and there is little chance of the terrorist groups running out of recruits.
How does the kid learn it is a mistake if there are no consequences?
Mistake + no consequences = Got away with it- let's do it again.
I would suggest that some of the legal and administrative actions taken are a bit extreme, but at the same time I haven't been in that situation on either side.
It is a chicken or the egg situation. Many of the laws were written by lawyers- either the politicians themselves, those that work for them, or the lobbyists that wanted the law.
Just out of curiosity, have you ever worked a factory job alongside people that got paid $30 an hour? I have, and sure- there is some plain grunt work in there, but for a lot of the people, it is a skilled job. No- not a "I went to college and know a lot" job. A "I can do this for 8 hours or more a day and not lose an arm or leg, and can make sure the product won't fall apart after it leaves me" job. Factory work can be dangerous, and getting bored or distracted can be dangerous for others down the line. Do you want someone making minimum wage with maybe a week of experience installing the safety features on your car? Or the brakes of the car that is going to be driving behind you on the road?
Wow. How did this get modded up? Are there so few people on this site that know their basic scientific processes? This is high school stuff!
I can easily explain why your opinion of flight is different from Newton's laws of gravity- empirical evidence. Reproducible experimentation proves Newton's laws. If you have similar evidence proving your theory of flight out of a 5th floor and the experiments that anyone can perform proving them, then we can start talking about the validity of your scientific opinion.
Grease: movie adoptation of a musical that inspired multiple movies and stage revivals over decades, has sold strong for decades in multiple video and audio formats, nominated for multiple awards including an Oscar. According to IMDB, cost approximately $6M. Grossed $181M in the US for the 20th anniversary re-release, with $93M in rentals.
Children of Men: a movie adoptation of a book. No sequels to the book or movie. Nominated for many more awards (though in the interest of fairness, there are many, many more award organizations in 2006 than there were in 1978, and even more categories of Oscars), and won some of them. According to IMDB, cost $76M. Grossed $36M in the US. No rental figures.
Empirically, Children of Men wins on the number of nominations and awards, but Grease wins every other aspect. And the fact that more people have enjoyed Grease would seem to point to that being the more enjoyable film. I realize that opens the argument to how to define "better" but then that starts to get very nitpicky. No one would argue that the direction or visuals for Grease were better then Children of Men, or that Grease had a deeper story. But at the same time no one would argue that Children of Men has had the same timeless, wide-ranging appeal of Grease.
You gave an excellent example, but unfortunately it argues against your point. Both Halo and Children of Men are excellent examples of their genre. But compared to the wider audience of all the genres they are relatively niche examples. Grease and Mario are examples that have enjoyed far more success, despite their relative simplicity.
You are right. There have never been FPS games or RTS games like ones on the PS3.
Come on.
And I believe the rate of game purchase, but at the same time will point out that the PS3 has huge 3rd party contributors while the Wii does not. I would even bet that the rate of new games is probably close to 3 to 1 for PS3 to Wii. That should be changing next year as more games are released for the Wii after the developers realized they missed the boat on the popularity of it.
Two different games, but people are still playing the original Super Mario Brothers games that are nearly 20 years old. Because they are fun. Do you see people playing Halo 3 in 20 years?
I bought into the idea of the Wii being a "passing fad" for a little while. After all everyone was saying it, and the fact that Nintendo didn't have some huge ramped up production set to crank the consoles out like candy seems to imply they were not sold on it either.
Now, a year after launch and the consoles are still selling off the store shelves in hours. I know some fads can be long, but a year? If it was a fad, and everyone got bored with it quickly, wouldn't there be a huge used market for them? I know they can be found on eBay and everywhere else, but not in huge quantities that a fad would imply.
I think that a lot of the "hardcore" gamers don't like the changes in gameplay that the Wii has. It isn't familiar to them, or they are offended that there are not more twitch FPS or RTS games for the Wii so it "obviously" isn't geared towards them. Instead people that were turned off by the twitch games are picking it up and enjoying it.
So it might be a fad for people that camp out overnight to get the latest and greatest consoles, but it is a hit with people that want to have some fun with a game and not just have the latest game to beat, or who want to play who has the bigger... frame rate.
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Those really do suck, but at the same time the music didn't seem to be even the same style as the songs. Of course if you pick "reggae" for a Police song it will most likely suck.
Those songs were all written by great writers (well- maybe not the last one- I'm not familiar with his music, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt) so naturally no computer program will recreate their music. The really good stuff can't be matched by even those who have talent. Expecting a computer program to recreate it is stupid.
This software is very far from professional quality. Ok- maybe I can see it replacing the music writers for the latest pop music, but then that is crap too. This is something for people to play around with. Not to make real music with. All these examples do is prove that.
Of course by the time it gets to a jury you are already out all the legal fees, possible jail time after being arrested, bail, and the enjoyment of your neighbors, family, and coworkers all being interviewed by the police to see if you are a pedophile, as well as possible news coverage of the trial.
There have been many cases of "helpful" employees at film development shops turning in people to the police for taking such photos in to be developed. And then those people having their lives turned upside down defending themselves against child pornography charges.
Fix it. He wants to do something on the cheap and look good. But the way he wants to do it is going to fail spectacularly. And when it fails, so will you. If this puts any amount of load on the services it is using, it will get picked up by the service provider. Maybe not today, but it will. And then the accounts will get turned off and possibly your IP addresses blacklisted, and then it all goes away. So give him a better solution. If he is balking at the $2k/month find a cheaper service. There is almost always one. Compare the cheaper solution to the time spent fixing it when the free service cuts you off. Provide examples of free service cutting people off.
And unless you are looking for some very specific information, I would expect someone to provide an RSS feed with something similar that is supposed to be used for this sort of thing.
That's the problem- it sounds reasonable.
Then think about people that are afraid of the police. There is a large portion of them. And they are mostly poor and non-white. Not typical Republican voters. Now they have just been told that the people that they are afraid of are going to be scrutinizing them. IF they vote. If they don't vote, then they are safe.
I agree that IDs sound reasonable. Except that not everyone has a drivers license. Or a state-issued ID. Especially the previously mentioned group. There are ways around requiring ID, like tracking voter names and social security numbers. Sure- they can be falsified, but rarely significantly. Think of how many people you would need to participate in that. And keep in mind in that even the people pushing for checking IDs can not provide any instances where they can prove it happened to any significant level. This is just a boogy man they trot out to put in more rules in the way of people that want to vote.
So socialized heathcare is unconstitutional? Is socialized police protection unconstitutional? Socialized fire protection? Socialized public education? Why aren't people complaining about those too? It is ok to have society provide police and firemen to help protect people, but not ok to have society help people be healthy?
So you can be protected from being shot or burnt, but if you are shot or burnt, then you are on your own? How does that work?
Isn't it likely that having an improved baseline (better public safety, better educated public, more healthy public) helps everyone? Doesn't that fit pretty well with "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"? Or should I ask how do we benifit from having a significant portion of the country have no health care?
Why do companies keep collecting every bit of data they can like this? Why does Google need to know the user name of the person watching the videos? Even the IP address is questionable. If they want to track people artificially inflating their views, wouldn't it be simple to keep one day's worth of views by IP address? What value do they get from keeping all the viewing history?
Meanwhile, Viacom gets user names, IP addresses, and the list of every video watched. If they are smart, they will realize this is way better then any survey or Nelson rating they ever get. And they got it nearly for free. You can be certain that other companies will be very interested in this data too. Can they just give Viacom a call and get it? Did the court put any restraints on Viacom sharing this data?
I hope you haven't watched anything on YouTube you don't want to be contacted about. Now excuse me while I go log out of my account. I don't think I've watched anything I don't want shared, but at the same time I would rather not risk having someone else come through and make decisions about me based on my random viewing habits.
That is an interesting point. The idea that a small nuke would not be able to completely destroy a city is not one I had considered. The problem is that it might not "level" a city, but it would cause radiation and likely structure damage to much of it. Plus, can you realistically see anyone wanting to live in that city after a portion of it was destroyed with a small nuke? It might not physically destroy an entire city, but it would certainly psychologically destroy it.
You are aware that the vast majority of people that molest underage boys are men that identify as straight, don't you?
By your logic, the scout troops would be safer camping with an out gay man.
Yes. Those boys will continue to be virgins. Continuing in the tradition of their fathers, and their father's fathers.
For those of you too gullible to fact check what you read, the GAO reported that no such vandalism occurred, and "the condition of the real property was consistent with what we would expect to encounter when tenants vacate office space after an extended occupancy."
http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/05/23/vandals/print.html
But it is a very catchy story. One that people have swallowed even years later.
He isn't missing the point. She doesn't mind reuse when she is making money off of it. The other books that came out about Harry Potter just drove interest in the series she was writing. But now the series is over.
She has stated as part of this lawsuit that she was planning on making her own Harry Potter lexicon and feels this will cut into her profits.
Not exactly correct. Harry Potter exists on the pages of the books that were written. And the lexicon is summing up everything written about Harry Potter. Just as unauthorized books have been written about other copyrighted material and been completely legal. The lexicon is about Harry Potter and the world he inhabits as was written. Not a new story about him, or making up additional things. The second would be using characters without permission in a new story. The first is explaining what was written. If this activity was not legal, then anything criticizing Star Wars would be a copyright infringement.
She will make up things out of whole clothe for her lexicon- there is no doubt about that. She couldn't stop herself from telling stories about the characters after that last book came out, so there is no reason to think that her lexicon would not have entirely new material. Now if the lexicon in he lawsuit had entirely new material, then it could be copyright infringement because the guy would be trying to add his own original material into her world. But he isn't. It is just listing out what she already has published.
Have you seen some of the Nerf mods? There are some that look realistic-ish. The article said that one was painted black, so I can how a modified gun might look realistic from a distance. Doesn't change this from being an over-reaction for the other Nerf guns, but I can see it in the one circumstance.
I haven't read the article and I'm far from an P2P or IP routing expert, but wouldn't it be possible to make a best guess on proximity based on pinging the peers available, counting the hops to each one and the time to each one to estimate which ones are closest, and then focus on sharing with those?
A person requires a lot of work to be convinced to end their life. They require a decent sized support group to reinforce the message.
The description above is not too much more involved then Mythbusters gets each week.
Statistically, there are not very many suicide bombers. Just a few makes more than enough impact.
As for recruiting, the USA has been demonized by terrorist groups, and unfortunately the US has given lots of recruiting ammunition with Iraq and the problems there. Combine that with a lack of communication of all sides of the issues, a large uneducated population, and a fundamentalist religious group that makes fighting and dying "holy", and there is little chance of the terrorist groups running out of recruits.
How does the kid learn it is a mistake if there are no consequences?
Mistake + no consequences = Got away with it- let's do it again.
I would suggest that some of the legal and administrative actions taken are a bit extreme, but at the same time I haven't been in that situation on either side.
It is a chicken or the egg situation. Many of the laws were written by lawyers- either the politicians themselves, those that work for them, or the lobbyists that wanted the law.
Just out of curiosity, have you ever worked a factory job alongside people that got paid $30 an hour? I have, and sure- there is some plain grunt work in there, but for a lot of the people, it is a skilled job. No- not a "I went to college and know a lot" job. A "I can do this for 8 hours or more a day and not lose an arm or leg, and can make sure the product won't fall apart after it leaves me" job. Factory work can be dangerous, and getting bored or distracted can be dangerous for others down the line. Do you want someone making minimum wage with maybe a week of experience installing the safety features on your car? Or the brakes of the car that is going to be driving behind you on the road?
Wow. How did this get modded up? Are there so few people on this site that know their basic scientific processes? This is high school stuff!
I can easily explain why your opinion of flight is different from Newton's laws of gravity- empirical evidence. Reproducible experimentation proves Newton's laws. If you have similar evidence proving your theory of flight out of a 5th floor and the experiments that anyone can perform proving them, then we can start talking about the validity of your scientific opinion.
Hmm... let's see.
Grease: movie adoptation of a musical that inspired multiple movies and stage revivals over decades, has sold strong for decades in multiple video and audio formats, nominated for multiple awards including an Oscar. According to IMDB, cost approximately $6M. Grossed $181M in the US for the 20th anniversary re-release, with $93M in rentals.
Children of Men: a movie adoptation of a book. No sequels to the book or movie. Nominated for many more awards (though in the interest of fairness, there are many, many more award organizations in 2006 than there were in 1978, and even more categories of Oscars), and won some of them. According to IMDB, cost $76M. Grossed $36M in the US. No rental figures.
Empirically, Children of Men wins on the number of nominations and awards, but Grease wins every other aspect. And the fact that more people have enjoyed Grease would seem to point to that being the more enjoyable film. I realize that opens the argument to how to define "better" but then that starts to get very nitpicky. No one would argue that the direction or visuals for Grease were better then Children of Men, or that Grease had a deeper story. But at the same time no one would argue that Children of Men has had the same timeless, wide-ranging appeal of Grease.
You gave an excellent example, but unfortunately it argues against your point. Both Halo and Children of Men are excellent examples of their genre. But compared to the wider audience of all the genres they are relatively niche examples. Grease and Mario are examples that have enjoyed far more success, despite their relative simplicity.
You are right. There have never been FPS games or RTS games like ones on the PS3.
Come on.
And I believe the rate of game purchase, but at the same time will point out that the PS3 has huge 3rd party contributors while the Wii does not. I would even bet that the rate of new games is probably close to 3 to 1 for PS3 to Wii. That should be changing next year as more games are released for the Wii after the developers realized they missed the boat on the popularity of it.
Two different games, but people are still playing the original Super Mario Brothers games that are nearly 20 years old. Because they are fun. Do you see people playing Halo 3 in 20 years?
That is what makes a better game.
I bought into the idea of the Wii being a "passing fad" for a little while. After all everyone was saying it, and the fact that Nintendo didn't have some huge ramped up production set to crank the consoles out like candy seems to imply they were not sold on it either.
Now, a year after launch and the consoles are still selling off the store shelves in hours. I know some fads can be long, but a year? If it was a fad, and everyone got bored with it quickly, wouldn't there be a huge used market for them? I know they can be found on eBay and everywhere else, but not in huge quantities that a fad would imply.
I think that a lot of the "hardcore" gamers don't like the changes in gameplay that the Wii has. It isn't familiar to them, or they are offended that there are not more twitch FPS or RTS games for the Wii so it "obviously" isn't geared towards them. Instead people that were turned off by the twitch games are picking it up and enjoying it.
So it might be a fad for people that camp out overnight to get the latest and greatest consoles, but it is a hit with people that want to have some fun with a game and not just have the latest game to beat, or who want to play who has the bigger... frame rate.