Hold on, as an OWNER of one of these flash carts, I have to say Nintendo is pretty justified in trying to stop these things from selling legally. Have you seen or used these flash carts? I would guess about 90-95% of them are used to pirate DS games, while the other 5-10% are used to emulate older games (NES, GBA, etc.) and play media.
There is a card out that purposely does not attempt to play commercial games called the iPlayer card. This flash cart reads music, video, pictures, and so on along with homebrew games. The most popular operating operating system/media player out there is called MoonShell, which does not play commercial games. Honestly, it's pretty trivial to not allow pirating of DS games on these flash carts, but almost all the companies making them are obviously promoting them to play "back-ups".
Well, I'm glad the moderators jumped on the opportunity to spring on one single school, but if you actually LOOK at the site listed (which I've never heard of as a college student), the top schools seem to have pretty much no activity or activity from random people from others schools coming over and posting (about how uppity Harvard, etc. is). Seeing as it's completely anonymous... it's impossible to tell, but it looks like people from these schools have better things to do than look up stupid sites and post on them.
Those are the top 10 looked at WALKTHROUGHS, if you click through their ratings don't sync up with the highest rated items. It is kind of misleading since they are titled "top 10 games". But seriously, not a single one from that list? You wouldn't like Super Mario brothers or at least the Mario and Luigi game? Everybody loved the Mario and Luigi game...
When I personally buy a game, I look at gamefaqs user reviews instead of Metacritic. When looking at the main page of a game on gamefaqs, the first two averaged review numbers are exceptionally useful to me. They seem to give a very strong feel of what the general reaction to a game is - anything under a 7 is probably not worth my money. Also, user reviewers seem to me to play the games more thoroughly than someone who does reviews for a job, and game depth/replayability is a big point for me.
Although, if I think about it, I generally buy games for Nintendo DS - price is pretty uniform and graphics can only get so good. In order to look up the game at all I had to have heard about it from my friends or some sites, so my experience doesn't really contradict his research at all.
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While you may be right, the examples you gave don't necessarily extend well to the ants. An animal looking for its babies would see less than 10 or 20 and reproducing a roll on your drum would involve varied rhythms or beats or whatever, or probably less than 50 hits if you were to reproduce it after hearing it once. The ants, however, are probably taking hundreds or thousands of steps and remembering the exact distance in one go. I cannot imagine a person hearing a roll go for 750 hits and then reproduce it in the same ballpark without counting time or hits (but I'm no drummer). The article described it as a "pedometer" and I think describing it as counting is perfectly valid - being able to distinguish between 1200 and 1300 steps would involve some form of "counting" in my mind, whether in the brain or by some physical mechanism.
Um... what kind of a question is that? 99% of the US population? Oh wait, sorry, I see - you were being "ironic" and "cool" because you don't do what everybody else does. No, yeah, you're right, there's absolutely nothing of value on any television channel anywhere, and probably never has been. While we're at it, let's throw out all our radios and computers.
I'm not really much of an anime fan (as evidenced by my ignorance that NGE stands for Evangelion), although I do watch some, but I guess I was just expecting to see a lot of snotty comments come out of this article (see the "clueless, facebooking, twittering and oh-so-creative metrosexuals" post below).
Well, I'm sure that's exactly the attitude Linux needs to gain market share: bigotry and elitism. Keep it up guys, year of the Linux is coming any day now.
Well, let me just say that I'm glad the first reaction by the linux side is to boil down the immensely diverse and interesting anime culture here to equal hentai tentacle porn. Yup, great start.
Or... they were interviewed via email, and they responded to the question appropriately. Other OS makers aren't the ones giving it attention, it's Computerworld/Wired/etc that want this story to exist. And everybody eats it up, as evidenced here.
The site you gave seems to be like a WikiAnswers for math problems. The site this article is talking about is more of a collaboration tool on unsolved problems that will allow any and all known progress be open to be expanded upon.
The issue I see with this is how do you dish out credit for something like this? If 20 different people solve varying amounts of a problem and then one last person pieces everything together, who solved the problem? Or will we move away from "Smith's Proof" into "Proof of May 2009" by a list of 90 people? I always thought that part of the fun of solving impossible math problems was to take the glory at the end of the day... but, then again, I'm not a mathematician.
Uh... I have heard that at some MIT fraternities, they do something similar to this by documenting old problem sets, but I've never really seen this happen, especially not to the degree that you're describing it. I don't know anybody that hangs onto their old problem sets or exams for other people at my college. I would believe that maybe my school (or my group of friends) is just an exception, if there are some people who would be willing to support your story with similar stories from their schools.
Here, Discovery Channel did an article focusing on Scientific Match and another company doing the same thing that talks more about the science behind it. But, like the Komo News article, it points out that it's not very likely to work with such a small sample size of both people and genes.
No, the idea behind this company is that people tend to be attracted to people who have different immune system and proteins from them, something that apparently we can tell by smell. The biological reason for this is that our children will be healthier, literally, and everything is just a side-effect from our bodies.
I'm sorry but this is just incredibly stupid. Are you telling me they purposely put GPL code into their code with the express intent of being caught?! Or that they wasted I don't know how many billions of dollars and took bad PR on Vista so that they could wow the world with Windows 7?! Then we have the troll-moderators going down the list looking for anything anti-Microsoft in the discussion to mod up. Lovely, you guys really do a lot for Slashdot's continued reputation.
If you make a few music/movie downloads and they catch you, the first thing they do is send a letter to your ISP giving a warning to you. So yes, you would just delete it and apologize.
And yes, like the other person said, Microsoft isn't going around suing people for downloading music, movies, or pirated copies of Windows.
Besides, there was a whole article a few days ago about how GPL violations happen very frequently and that politely pointing it out usually solves the problem. It was an accident, not an "accident", and it's been fixed so get over it.
Well everybody's hating on this guy's post, so I'll back him up. I find that the CD's I usually buy at Staples for cheap don't last more than 5 years, either. They start getting little corroded black dots on them or something and lose data.
While this is interesting and possibly useful, it seems to me there's nothing stopping Google from turning around and doing the exact same thing. Wolfram is unaffiliated with either party as far as I know and certainly wouldn't mind getting exposure on the bigger of the two search engines as well.
And hey, I already do multiplication and find constants in my Google search box, it might be nice to do integrals and whatnot as well! In the meantime, if I have a specific enough question I'll just go directly to Wolfram's site to ask.
No, apparently Microsoft hands out two kinds of bans (I do not own an xbox). If you do something really crazy they'll ban your actual live account, including all your achievements and whatnot (very painful). Banning only your console is considered a "soft" ban and you get to keep all your points and achievements and all that. So I think people would prefer the second type of ban over the first. It's not a matter of them trying to keep subscription fees.
But shouldn't a committee, a congress or cabinet if you will, be even brighter than just an individual? Yet, they still made a stupid decision.
So... what you're saying is, the people in charge should be smarter than an average person, because that's just, you know, common sense. But, smarter people tend to ACTUALLY be stupider, so the people in charge should be less educated! But the people in charge have to be more educated, because they're in charge! But people who are more educated are stu - *head asplodes*.
No, I mean in those cases you're CELEBRATING or HONORING something. We have Thanksgiving Day parades for Thanksgiving and parades for veterans to honor their sacrifice and accomplishments. It's not that he hates gay people (or at least, nothing in his post seems to indicate that), it's just that gay pride parades are celebrating the fact that they're gay. It's not that the parades are what's preventing them from being a normal part of the society, it's the fact that society has driven them to have to even hold these parades over something that shouldn't be a big deal (depending on your viewpoint, of course).
Of course, he did say "we are so special" when describing the parades and I'm guessing that's probably what ticked you off.
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Hold on, as an OWNER of one of these flash carts, I have to say Nintendo is pretty justified in trying to stop these things from selling legally. Have you seen or used these flash carts? I would guess about 90-95% of them are used to pirate DS games, while the other 5-10% are used to emulate older games (NES, GBA, etc.) and play media.
There is a card out that purposely does not attempt to play commercial games called the iPlayer card. This flash cart reads music, video, pictures, and so on along with homebrew games. The most popular operating operating system/media player out there is called MoonShell, which does not play commercial games. Honestly, it's pretty trivial to not allow pirating of DS games on these flash carts, but almost all the companies making them are obviously promoting them to play "back-ups".
Well, I'm glad the moderators jumped on the opportunity to spring on one single school, but if you actually LOOK at the site listed (which I've never heard of as a college student), the top schools seem to have pretty much no activity or activity from random people from others schools coming over and posting (about how uppity Harvard, etc. is). Seeing as it's completely anonymous... it's impossible to tell, but it looks like people from these schools have better things to do than look up stupid sites and post on them.
Those are the top 10 looked at WALKTHROUGHS, if you click through their ratings don't sync up with the highest rated items. It is kind of misleading since they are titled "top 10 games". But seriously, not a single one from that list? You wouldn't like Super Mario brothers or at least the Mario and Luigi game? Everybody loved the Mario and Luigi game...
When I personally buy a game, I look at gamefaqs user reviews instead of Metacritic. When looking at the main page of a game on gamefaqs, the first two averaged review numbers are exceptionally useful to me. They seem to give a very strong feel of what the general reaction to a game is - anything under a 7 is probably not worth my money. Also, user reviewers seem to me to play the games more thoroughly than someone who does reviews for a job, and game depth/replayability is a big point for me. Although, if I think about it, I generally buy games for Nintendo DS - price is pretty uniform and graphics can only get so good. In order to look up the game at all I had to have heard about it from my friends or some sites, so my experience doesn't really contradict his research at all.
While you may be right, the examples you gave don't necessarily extend well to the ants. An animal looking for its babies would see less than 10 or 20 and reproducing a roll on your drum would involve varied rhythms or beats or whatever, or probably less than 50 hits if you were to reproduce it after hearing it once. The ants, however, are probably taking hundreds or thousands of steps and remembering the exact distance in one go. I cannot imagine a person hearing a roll go for 750 hits and then reproduce it in the same ballpark without counting time or hits (but I'm no drummer). The article described it as a "pedometer" and I think describing it as counting is perfectly valid - being able to distinguish between 1200 and 1300 steps would involve some form of "counting" in my mind, whether in the brain or by some physical mechanism.
Um... what kind of a question is that? 99% of the US population? Oh wait, sorry, I see - you were being "ironic" and "cool" because you don't do what everybody else does. No, yeah, you're right, there's absolutely nothing of value on any television channel anywhere, and probably never has been. While we're at it, let's throw out all our radios and computers.
In the mean time there's a greater likelihood I'll chance across something that is actually valuable to me, or a funny Geico ad :)
So... what happens in the nice time? Hey, if you're going to make terrible puns about typos your posts are fair game ;)
I'm not really much of an anime fan (as evidenced by my ignorance that NGE stands for Evangelion), although I do watch some, but I guess I was just expecting to see a lot of snotty comments come out of this article (see the "clueless, facebooking, twittering and oh-so-creative metrosexuals" post below).
Well, I'm sure that's exactly the attitude Linux needs to gain market share: bigotry and elitism. Keep it up guys, year of the Linux is coming any day now.
Well, let me just say that I'm glad the first reaction by the linux side is to boil down the immensely diverse and interesting anime culture here to equal hentai tentacle porn. Yup, great start.
Or... they were interviewed via email, and they responded to the question appropriately. Other OS makers aren't the ones giving it attention, it's Computerworld/Wired/etc that want this story to exist. And everybody eats it up, as evidenced here.
The site you gave seems to be like a WikiAnswers for math problems. The site this article is talking about is more of a collaboration tool on unsolved problems that will allow any and all known progress be open to be expanded upon.
The issue I see with this is how do you dish out credit for something like this? If 20 different people solve varying amounts of a problem and then one last person pieces everything together, who solved the problem? Or will we move away from "Smith's Proof" into "Proof of May 2009" by a list of 90 people? I always thought that part of the fun of solving impossible math problems was to take the glory at the end of the day... but, then again, I'm not a mathematician.
Uh... I have heard that at some MIT fraternities, they do something similar to this by documenting old problem sets, but I've never really seen this happen, especially not to the degree that you're describing it. I don't know anybody that hangs onto their old problem sets or exams for other people at my college. I would believe that maybe my school (or my group of friends) is just an exception, if there are some people who would be willing to support your story with similar stories from their schools.
Here, Discovery Channel did an article focusing on Scientific Match and another company doing the same thing that talks more about the science behind it. But, like the Komo News article, it points out that it's not very likely to work with such a small sample size of both people and genes.
No, the idea behind this company is that people tend to be attracted to people who have different immune system and proteins from them, something that apparently we can tell by smell. The biological reason for this is that our children will be healthier, literally, and everything is just a side-effect from our bodies.
I'm sorry but this is just incredibly stupid. Are you telling me they purposely put GPL code into their code with the express intent of being caught?! Or that they wasted I don't know how many billions of dollars and took bad PR on Vista so that they could wow the world with Windows 7?! Then we have the troll-moderators going down the list looking for anything anti-Microsoft in the discussion to mod up. Lovely, you guys really do a lot for Slashdot's continued reputation.
If you make a few music/movie downloads and they catch you, the first thing they do is send a letter to your ISP giving a warning to you. So yes, you would just delete it and apologize.
And yes, like the other person said, Microsoft isn't going around suing people for downloading music, movies, or pirated copies of Windows.
Besides, there was a whole article a few days ago about how GPL violations happen very frequently and that politely pointing it out usually solves the problem. It was an accident, not an "accident", and it's been fixed so get over it.
Haha, whatever. Guy refers to anybody, dude! At least for me. Or, the other guy's answer.
Well everybody's hating on this guy's post, so I'll back him up. I find that the CD's I usually buy at Staples for cheap don't last more than 5 years, either. They start getting little corroded black dots on them or something and lose data.
While this is interesting and possibly useful, it seems to me there's nothing stopping Google from turning around and doing the exact same thing. Wolfram is unaffiliated with either party as far as I know and certainly wouldn't mind getting exposure on the bigger of the two search engines as well.
And hey, I already do multiplication and find constants in my Google search box, it might be nice to do integrals and whatnot as well! In the meantime, if I have a specific enough question I'll just go directly to Wolfram's site to ask.
No, apparently Microsoft hands out two kinds of bans (I do not own an xbox). If you do something really crazy they'll ban your actual live account, including all your achievements and whatnot (very painful). Banning only your console is considered a "soft" ban and you get to keep all your points and achievements and all that. So I think people would prefer the second type of ban over the first. It's not a matter of them trying to keep subscription fees.
But shouldn't a committee, a congress or cabinet if you will, be even brighter than just an individual? Yet, they still made a stupid decision.
So... what you're saying is, the people in charge should be smarter than an average person, because that's just, you know, common sense. But, smarter people tend to ACTUALLY be stupider, so the people in charge should be less educated! But the people in charge have to be more educated, because they're in charge! But people who are more educated are stu - *head asplodes*.
(Psst... it was a joke. Nice uid, though.)
No, I mean in those cases you're CELEBRATING or HONORING something. We have Thanksgiving Day parades for Thanksgiving and parades for veterans to honor their sacrifice and accomplishments. It's not that he hates gay people (or at least, nothing in his post seems to indicate that), it's just that gay pride parades are celebrating the fact that they're gay. It's not that the parades are what's preventing them from being a normal part of the society, it's the fact that society has driven them to have to even hold these parades over something that shouldn't be a big deal (depending on your viewpoint, of course).
Of course, he did say "we are so special" when describing the parades and I'm guessing that's probably what ticked you off.
Huh? Did you speak broken German or English? Confused...