I think it's pretty impressive that colors like black, orange, and even white have traditionally been used to color dinosaurs in books and museums, and now they're finding that they may in fact be the actual colors. We do see greens a lot, but black and dark orange are very popular dinosaur colors.
For some people, sure, but they could potentially lose a lot of viewers as well. Hulu currently hosts a surprisingly huge amount of anime. This, however, makes sense, since Japanese animation studios tend not to be so uptight about copyright issues and so there are at least 10 streaming versions of every major anime in existence on a site somewhere... Hulu offers a stable, consistently high-quality video in return for 1 minute or two of commercials per episode, so the company can make advertising money out of a demographic that does not usually see commercials. If the amount of commercials goes up, I'd imagine those viewers would just go back to the no-ads versions that are easily found.
You know what? What do you expect the police to do in this position? An actual idiot from Nigeria just set his pants on fire in an attempt to blow up an airplane and the government was criticized since they had "clues" but didn't act on it.
This guy was simply arrested, questioned, and released. I don't see the humor in saying "these airline delays suck, i'm going to commit an act of terrorism and kill thousands of people!" That's the equivalent of saying "these elevators are so fucking slow, i'm gonna blow up the empire state building!" back in 2002. Not funny, just stupid, and the police did their job - question and release.
Wii parts replacing 18,000 dollar medical equipment... PS3s replacing 10,000 dollar supercomputers... clearly the video game industry knows something we don't.
The point of human actors are that they're good at their job - acting (and marketing themselves, in some cases). They are not hired for their face or body as much as their acting ability. There are a lot of people out there who have great faces and bodies but do not end up as superstar actors. If the goal in casting was to have a perfect-looking human, many of our top actors today would not be where they are.
The whole point of avatar was that there were good human actors driving the CG effects.
Well, it seems someone below you has posted a similar question, so it isn't as stupid as I thought. The website link says (there are only 3 or 4 sentences there...):
...can be skimmed off. Afterwards, it can be dropped back into the water and reused hundreds of times.
So the idea is you use it to make contaminated groundwater drinkable, then suck out the concentrated toxins and dispose of it in a better place than drinking water.
This is from a few days ago, but when you're discussing a technical issue that clearly 99.9% of the audience has no knowledge of, there's a difference between talking as if to a fellow surgeon and talking in a way that most people could understand. It isn't a person's job to learn everything in the world, so for such a specialized topic, telling me to go "read a book and learn something" because his discussion was overly technical is missing the point.
Someone who is willing to spend 200-400 dollars on a e-reader is already a heavy reader, practically by definition.
On top of that, I don't know any bookworms who go to amazon to buy books that often. Amazon is more for buying books as a gift or if you have a very specific book in mind. I would much rather go to the bookstore than look through best-selling lists on amazon if I weren't buying e-books.
The issue, I would guess, is that while you managed to get it to run well, there's a decent percentage of macs with hardware that won't work perfectly with Windows 7. Apple not giving official support of Windows 7 means most users probably won't try to install it. If they do try to install it and run into a problem somewhere down the line, Apple tech support will most likely refuse to help since the feature isn't supported yet.
This is absolutely right on the money. A few decades ago, 99% of the population there could never eat their fill.
People do not demand luxuries unless they have basic food and shelter covered. If half your town was starving, who the fuck would care about freedom of speech? Feeding your children comes first; you can call it "greed" if you want, but they're still getting over the fact that most of them can actually eat as much as they want now.
First of all, there's too much of this polarizing on slashdot that I see happen all the time. Yes, it's true that there are a lot of really crappy reality shows and game shows and reality game shows that I have 0 interest in and don't go anywhere near, but there are also some trashy TV shows that are just fun to watch, for whatever reason. I don't have to have "ADD" or "few brain cells" to watch shows on the Discovery channel - what I do in my free time to relax is my business and you don't have any reason or need to judge that.
The problem with this discussion is that the people who like NASA TV the way it is now are very enthusiastic about it and bring on the comments and mod points, whereas the people who find NASA TV to be boring... well, aren't very interested in the discussion.
I don't watch NASA TV because, yeah, it's boring. I don't really have time to sit there for 2 hours and have next to nothing going on. At most I could have it running in the background while I'm doing something else if something exciting is supposed to be happening.
Of course, again, I don't watch NASA TV so I can't really say much on the topic. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be more of a raw feed of everything or more pander to the general public to watch historic events unfolding.
Completely agree with this. A large percentage of college students do smoke pot on a regular basis - this very much includes kids at MIT or Ivy League schools and I'm sure it's not just the failing students that are doing it. I don't think people who do recreational drugs are necessarily "complete morons".
At least, that's what he posted after the fact... it's not like he can say "oh, man that was a total accident, this new privacy setting sux0rz". He can say all he wants but I highly doubt he meant to share 300 pictures of his friends and family to the public.
Also, I don't know about anybody else, but as of right now Mark has a total of 31 pictures I can access, including only one profile picture. This would suggest that some 270+ pictures were hidden recently.
A point the article makes is that Microsoft, as a corporation that has dealt heavily with many things outside of just search, is very much grounded in privacy concerns and legal matters related to it. They are likely to uphold their privacy policy very strictly on their internet services.
Whoa, that page has some crazy background. Reminds me of something out of the 1990s.
Anyway, before all the conspiracy theorist posts pop up, this looks like it's just a post on his personal blog, which includes posts about his beard and other random things. Even if Mozilla was officially endorsing and getting paid for Bing searches, Google already has the same deal so there's no issue there.
Of course, this could just be a member of the Mozilla community jumping at the first chance to get back at Google for making Chrome... hmm...
I don't think he meant that someone stole his serial, I think he meant that a while ago he installed it on a computer, but in trying to reinstall it, possibly on a different computer, EA denied his installation/validation.
I honestly, honestly thought it was spam. In fact, I had just marked it as spam before I came over here and read about it.
Facebook is sending you this notice of a proposed class action settlement that may affect your legal rights as a Facebook member who may have used the Beacon program. This summary notice is being sent to you by Court Order so that you may understand your rights and remedies before the Court considers final approval of the proposed settlement on February 26, 2010.
This is not an advertisement or attorney solicitation.
This is not a settlement in which class members file claims to receive compensation. Under the proposed settlement, Facebook will terminate the Beacon program. In addition, Facebook will provide $9.5 million to establish an independent non-profit foundation that will identify and fund projects and initiatives that promote the cause of online privacy, safety, and security.
For full details on the settlement and further instructions on what to do to opt out of, object to, or otherwise comment upon the proposed settlement, please go to http://www.beaconclasssettlement.com./
Please do not reply to this email.
That was the entirety of the email. No signature, no hello, that was it.
But that's the thing, Pirate Bay or things like LimeWire have been found to be illegal in the way they were operating, since they're trying to make money off the fact that they offer a service to steal things. What helps in their defense is that oftentimes it is very difficult to prevent copyrighted material from leaking on without just complying to DMCA notices automatically.
However, with the DS flash carts, I believe the makers have to go through EXTRA EFFORT in order to enable pirating, and definitely in some cases circumventing anti-piracy checks on a game-to-game basis. In this case, they are not only allowing piracy, but also actively cracking the anti-piracy mechanism. I'm not sure how they got away with it in France (and Spain, too, I heard).
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I think it's pretty impressive that colors like black, orange, and even white have traditionally been used to color dinosaurs in books and museums, and now they're finding that they may in fact be the actual colors. We do see greens a lot, but black and dark orange are very popular dinosaur colors.
For some people, sure, but they could potentially lose a lot of viewers as well. Hulu currently hosts a surprisingly huge amount of anime. This, however, makes sense, since Japanese animation studios tend not to be so uptight about copyright issues and so there are at least 10 streaming versions of every major anime in existence on a site somewhere... Hulu offers a stable, consistently high-quality video in return for 1 minute or two of commercials per episode, so the company can make advertising money out of a demographic that does not usually see commercials. If the amount of commercials goes up, I'd imagine those viewers would just go back to the no-ads versions that are easily found.
You know what? What do you expect the police to do in this position? An actual idiot from Nigeria just set his pants on fire in an attempt to blow up an airplane and the government was criticized since they had "clues" but didn't act on it.
This guy was simply arrested, questioned, and released. I don't see the humor in saying "these airline delays suck, i'm going to commit an act of terrorism and kill thousands of people!" That's the equivalent of saying "these elevators are so fucking slow, i'm gonna blow up the empire state building!" back in 2002. Not funny, just stupid, and the police did their job - question and release.
Wii parts replacing 18,000 dollar medical equipment... PS3s replacing 10,000 dollar supercomputers... clearly the video game industry knows something we don't.
The point of human actors are that they're good at their job - acting (and marketing themselves, in some cases). They are not hired for their face or body as much as their acting ability. There are a lot of people out there who have great faces and bodies but do not end up as superstar actors. If the goal in casting was to have a perfect-looking human, many of our top actors today would not be where they are.
The whole point of avatar was that there were good human actors driving the CG effects.
Well, it seems someone below you has posted a similar question, so it isn't as stupid as I thought.
The website link says (there are only 3 or 4 sentences there...):
...can be skimmed off. Afterwards, it can be dropped back into the water and reused hundreds of times.
So the idea is you use it to make contaminated groundwater drinkable, then suck out the concentrated toxins and dispose of it in a better place than drinking water.
What?
Once the material is full it floats to the surface and the pollutants can be skimmed off.
Last sentence of the summary...
This is from a few days ago, but when you're discussing a technical issue that clearly 99.9% of the audience has no knowledge of, there's a difference between talking as if to a fellow surgeon and talking in a way that most people could understand. It isn't a person's job to learn everything in the world, so for such a specialized topic, telling me to go "read a book and learn something" because his discussion was overly technical is missing the point.
Who modded this informative lol? I didn't learn a thing from this, missed about half the words in there..
Someone who is willing to spend 200-400 dollars on a e-reader is already a heavy reader, practically by definition.
On top of that, I don't know any bookworms who go to amazon to buy books that often. Amazon is more for buying books as a gift or if you have a very specific book in mind. I would much rather go to the bookstore than look through best-selling lists on amazon if I weren't buying e-books.
The issue, I would guess, is that while you managed to get it to run well, there's a decent percentage of macs with hardware that won't work perfectly with Windows 7. Apple not giving official support of Windows 7 means most users probably won't try to install it. If they do try to install it and run into a problem somewhere down the line, Apple tech support will most likely refuse to help since the feature isn't supported yet.
This is absolutely right on the money. A few decades ago, 99% of the population there could never eat their fill.
People do not demand luxuries unless they have basic food and shelter covered. If half your town was starving, who the fuck would care about freedom of speech? Feeding your children comes first; you can call it "greed" if you want, but they're still getting over the fact that most of them can actually eat as much as they want now.
This is more truth than flamebait...
First of all, there's too much of this polarizing on slashdot that I see happen all the time. Yes, it's true that there are a lot of really crappy reality shows and game shows and reality game shows that I have 0 interest in and don't go anywhere near, but there are also some trashy TV shows that are just fun to watch, for whatever reason. I don't have to have "ADD" or "few brain cells" to watch shows on the Discovery channel - what I do in my free time to relax is my business and you don't have any reason or need to judge that.
The problem with this discussion is that the people who like NASA TV the way it is now are very enthusiastic about it and bring on the comments and mod points, whereas the people who find NASA TV to be boring... well, aren't very interested in the discussion.
I don't watch NASA TV because, yeah, it's boring. I don't really have time to sit there for 2 hours and have next to nothing going on. At most I could have it running in the background while I'm doing something else if something exciting is supposed to be happening.
Of course, again, I don't watch NASA TV so I can't really say much on the topic. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be more of a raw feed of everything or more pander to the general public to watch historic events unfolding.
Completely agree with this. A large percentage of college students do smoke pot on a regular basis - this very much includes kids at MIT or Ivy League schools and I'm sure it's not just the failing students that are doing it. I don't think people who do recreational drugs are necessarily "complete morons".
(usually of the clubbing type)...
???
I know people on slashdot don't get out much, but presuming that everyone who does are mindless zombies is a bit much, don't you think?
At least, that's what he posted after the fact... it's not like he can say "oh, man that was a total accident, this new privacy setting sux0rz". He can say all he wants but I highly doubt he meant to share 300 pictures of his friends and family to the public.
Also, I don't know about anybody else, but as of right now Mark has a total of 31 pictures I can access, including only one profile picture. This would suggest that some 270+ pictures were hidden recently.
A point the article makes is that Microsoft, as a corporation that has dealt heavily with many things outside of just search, is very much grounded in privacy concerns and legal matters related to it. They are likely to uphold their privacy policy very strictly on their internet services.
Whoa, that page has some crazy background. Reminds me of something out of the 1990s.
Anyway, before all the conspiracy theorist posts pop up, this looks like it's just a post on his personal blog, which includes posts about his beard and other random things. Even if Mozilla was officially endorsing and getting paid for Bing searches, Google already has the same deal so there's no issue there.
Of course, this could just be a member of the Mozilla community jumping at the first chance to get back at Google for making Chrome... hmm...
I don't think he meant that someone stole his serial, I think he meant that a while ago he installed it on a computer, but in trying to reinstall it, possibly on a different computer, EA denied his installation/validation.
Yes, because MySpace buying a site and transferring it over to them is great justification to start illegally pirating music.
Is your music taste some kind of weird obscure music that's actually easier to find on torrents than on youtube or one of the 20 other music sites?
I honestly, honestly thought it was spam. In fact, I had just marked it as spam before I came over here and read about it.
Facebook is sending you this notice of a proposed class action settlement that may affect your legal rights as a Facebook member who may have used the Beacon program. This summary notice is being sent to you by Court Order so that you may understand your rights and remedies before the Court considers final approval of the proposed settlement on February 26, 2010.
This is not an advertisement or attorney solicitation.
This is not a settlement in which class members file claims to receive compensation. Under the proposed settlement, Facebook will terminate the Beacon program. In addition, Facebook will provide $9.5 million to establish an independent non-profit foundation that will identify and fund projects and initiatives that promote the cause of online privacy, safety, and security.
For full details on the settlement and further instructions on what to do to opt out of, object to, or otherwise comment upon the proposed settlement, please go to http://www.beaconclasssettlement.com./
Please do not reply to this email.
That was the entirety of the email. No signature, no hello, that was it.
Well it doesn't make sense either way. If it's an irc command, he didn't need to put "/rightwing" at the end.
In ailnlv's defense, you opened with "/rightwing" which is confusing as hell.
But that's the thing, Pirate Bay or things like LimeWire have been found to be illegal in the way they were operating, since they're trying to make money off the fact that they offer a service to steal things. What helps in their defense is that oftentimes it is very difficult to prevent copyrighted material from leaking on without just complying to DMCA notices automatically.
However, with the DS flash carts, I believe the makers have to go through EXTRA EFFORT in order to enable pirating, and definitely in some cases circumventing anti-piracy checks on a game-to-game basis. In this case, they are not only allowing piracy, but also actively cracking the anti-piracy mechanism. I'm not sure how they got away with it in France (and Spain, too, I heard).