I would have to say "don't"... but that's a little negative.
You will probably be able to make a little bit of money out of this, if I couldn't fix a problem with my computer then paying £20 might be ok for it if it took an hour, so thats about $35. That seems pretty fair because for the most part the stuff you'll be dealing with will be pretty easy. Take USB and (dare I say it) floppy disks with useful software on it, a liveCD would be usefull.
One thing that I would think would sell well is offering to set up people's new computers, I think my mum has paid for that (because for some reason she doesn't like me going on her computer... I think she's affraid of me breaking it and then forcing her to use linux). Always try and think about what sort of thing your mum would be interested in as a service if getting a new computer or a system fault - that's about what your aiming at (appologies if your parents are old school H4x0rz who would fix this stuff manually with a hex editor) - but you get the idea.
Sorry if I rambled but some of it might be useful advice
I played resident evil 4 on easy mode (and have done about 4 times through) and it was very enjoyable, it had pretty clear goals and was all fairly smooth sailing. I don't think I got stuck for too much time on anything. It's still one of my favourite games. I tried playing it on the harder mode, but it just seemed like it would all be up hill work, so I gave up pretty quickly... I like a lot of playablilty but don't want to spend my free time smashing my head into a wall
you have a point, but maybe the shock here is because in the UK universities we have a different culture... Most of the lecture notes (or at least the overheads) are online for free, I had a lecturer last year who made audio recordings of all of his lectures and they were available for free in the department undergraduate office - I guess I would just expect this now.
Its interesting that charities aren't subject to this, I worked for the Royal National Institute of the Blind in the UK and we were told that ringing someone on a TPS list (It's basically a do not call list) could result in a £5000 fine for the charity, despite the fact that we bought the numbers from a third party and had no effective way of knowing thier validity.
I did once get someone who claimed to be on this list but i don't think they followed through with any action because of it, which was lucky I suppose
I would also just like to say that people should be nice when people ring them, or at least just put the phone down... is there really a need for personal insults or shouting/swearing? And as someone said if you say "don't call me ever again" then that'll stop that company forver (so long as they are reputable.
I doubt this is costing them customers, people who have ipods and who use iTunes (on the whole) don't care or don't know about DRM, probably because "It'll never affect me" or some other such notion.... Then it does. And they'll buy their music again, maybe complain, but probably not enough to do anything about it.
If you really cared about DRM to the point that it would make you not use the service you'd probably be using a different service which doesn't have it.
I must disagree, the/. system is actually working pretty well. If you say something which is needlessly offensive you will be modded flaimbait, the same would go if you're trying to start a flame war with comments like "GNOME smells of cheese and suX!!11!". If you make some "GNAA!!!!!" type posts, that'll be a troll. If you say something which is completely off topic, it gets modded as such. Both of these things mean that modding becomes pretty much a true/false kind of thing, which meta modding can comfirm. It also stops being seeing it as a default and makes the best shine out...
Possitive modding is a little more shakey with "informative/interesting/insightful" all meaning pretty much the same thing in most people's mind, but that's not too much of a problem.
Group think can cause issues, but in reality there is such a wide range of modders it is often avoided (you can see some pro-MS or anti-Apple comments come through)... although the system isn't perfect I guess group think at least only makes content that most would want to see if they come here.
It is also interesting to note that most people do care about karma and do like to get modded +5, maybe the wiki system would work in a similar way - where people will care.
thats what I thought, although as far as I knew the Wii can't do HD, so I don't know why you'd do this... I'm just hoping you can plug it into the ariel or a scart like every other ninry console I've had. I hope this isn't the start of a trend.
Although it isn't essential for the Wii. (It isn't essential for the PS3 but the reason for the high price is because of the HD capabilities of the Blu-ray disks)
I too share your admiration of the fantastic work which was done there.
One of the worst things Churchil did was not allowing the continuation of this project and continual research in the field. As an English man and a Conservative I feel thats been one of our worst own goals... Silicon Vally could have been in Kent (or, even better, Grimsby!). But then again we did something similar to Babage and his difference engine.
Still, it's nice to see what some of the greatest people in the world at the time did in their field, even if it does bring up old regrets...
interesting point and for the most part right, although I think your examples viz MS and Ninty are a little off. The DS is tied to the Wii, it wouldn't be good for either if one failed, there will be link-ups etc. and MS can't risk windows - no matter what MS seems to do windows keeps going strong, there are thousands of viruses they keep shafting people over patches/WGA etc... and still on top!
"or include redundancies like 'action', '3D adventure' and 'platformer."
how are these redundant and under what deffinition of redundant? The don't seem to contain useless words, nor are they no longer needed - because they refer to something specific and can be useful to know. Mario 64 was 3d adventure, New SMB was platformer. Action can be a little harder to define but I think people understand it when they hear it
interestingly I just read (from a book on useless facts) that the average life-span was 36 years in ancient Rome, who are also mentioned in TFA. Hardly something we would wish to go back to. And lets not forget that using the logic of the article we could just change a few words round and have
"At a moment where many people wonder if the use of human sacrifice will appease the Gods, it's good to know that it has been widely used for a very long time"
I think Blu-ray will lose out in the format war, I don't have too much to base that on and really it could go either way with a bit of luck for each side. More importantly I don't think that the new formats will take off in a huge way; don't get me wrong they will replace DVD but I don't think it'll be as quick or as revolutionary as the VHS > DVD move... they could both lose out when you look at hoe much they've ploughed into this.
Looking at how badly the PS3 is looking like it'll be I'd say the Blu-ray should be the least of their worries; the DS sells over 100,000 units a week in Japan, the PS3 launch will be 100,000 units - so it won't be on top in its first week - it won't even beat the DS (I don't know how the 360 or Wii will be doing, but quite probably better than the DS is now).
I've heard other people talking about the possibility of the whole of Sony being undermined by this, i know I'd be selling my stock now;)
This at first sounded like a good idea, but who would really use it? They mention in the article that you could probably find the information online for free anyway. But I think more importantly is the fact that if you really need primary sources from these periods (I will when I go back to uni in october for one of my courses) you would almost certainly have access to them already, through your institutions archives etc... still, I suppose it's good for people who are at a uni without such an expansive archive
in England it would be, here it blongs to the person who originally owned it until it is collected by the bin men, then it is owned by the council. I've seen on CSI them saying that the cops can take it... something about being discraded - it might work the same way for any citizen. Although CSI is about the depth of my knowledge on your laws (perfect for/.)
I know some people are trying to say that this is better for people, but I still think it will be very bad for Sony.
If you drop $600 (or over £400 here) on a PS3 it will be because you really want the most amazing graphics and Blu-ray (which is pretty much all they seem to be marketing on at the moment... because its a blu-ray player). I doubt that many people who don't have a HDTV would get a PS3 because I can't really distinguish its advantages over the 360 other than offering a blu-ray player and maybe slightly better graphics.
But wait! when you get it home you find out it doesn't work like you were told/thought it would... some people might buy the cable - if I bought a PS3 it would be going back the next day
actually I had never thought of that line of interpretation, and I wouldn't put it past them to try, although if they did would it not have massive effects on other areas... just thinking about it they argued that when people used a system called CHAPS then the money was created anew so I suppose this might be able to be argued that way... if they did do it it might open up more piracy because of the law being a bit of a delicate balence and with anything new you can get new loop-holes...
If I'm rambling its because its really dark and I'm tired
I agree with your feelings on this but my fears go further... say me and my girlfriend really anjoy whips/strangling/beating each other, both being over 18 shouldn't we have a right to do that in our own homes, and video it if we want?* I don't want to be told that what consenting adults do is as bad as child rape... this is idiocy of the highest order.
*For the record I suppose I should say that we are not into that stuff...
I would say it is legal in the UK because of a rather obscure law from the 80s (yay, another thing to thank our beloved Maggie for!) but if you read http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_1988004 8_en_3.htm#mdiv22 and consider the phrase "otherwise for his private and domestic use" then I'm not sure if you could think of a way of looking at it which wouldn't make it legal...
Although as a side point about it's legality in Russia, which will ultimately have the biggest impact on how it operates, I think it might become illegal on sept. 1st, which would be bad... best spend the balance now and wait it out... it might be ok;)
come now, this has nothing to do with "stealing" from artists, this has everything to do with people wanting to be able to use what they have bought in what they consider to be a fair way (which I would say is me being able to put it onto every computer/player I own so that I can listen to it where ever I decide). It also has a lot to do with me wanting to be able to buy music in a format which suits me best and in a quality which I choose.
I would also disagree with the tone of your post which seems to suggest that you think that the artists get the lions share, or even a reasonable amount of the money which is paid for a song/album - which simply isn't true.
Finally I would say that as far as I am aware artists can get money from allofmp3 is they register with ROMS (although this might be wrong... someone will have to say either way...)
I hate to sound like a troll but why do you use iTunes when you have these problems and say yourself that the fix is time consuming?
I want a legal system, so I use allofmp3 (because it is legal in my country (the UK)), but isn't there any alternatives for you to iTunes without DRM at all?
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I would have to say "don't"... but that's a little negative.
You will probably be able to make a little bit of money out of this, if I couldn't fix a problem with my computer then paying £20 might be ok for it if it took an hour, so thats about $35. That seems pretty fair because for the most part the stuff you'll be dealing with will be pretty easy. Take USB and (dare I say it) floppy disks with useful software on it, a liveCD would be usefull.
One thing that I would think would sell well is offering to set up people's new computers, I think my mum has paid for that (because for some reason she doesn't like me going on her computer... I think she's affraid of me breaking it and then forcing her to use linux). Always try and think about what sort of thing your mum would be interested in as a service if getting a new computer or a system fault - that's about what your aiming at (appologies if your parents are old school H4x0rz who would fix this stuff manually with a hex editor) - but you get the idea.
Sorry if I rambled but some of it might be useful advice
I played resident evil 4 on easy mode (and have done about 4 times through) and it was very enjoyable, it had pretty clear goals and was all fairly smooth sailing. I don't think I got stuck for too much time on anything. It's still one of my favourite games. I tried playing it on the harder mode, but it just seemed like it would all be up hill work, so I gave up pretty quickly... I like a lot of playablilty but don't want to spend my free time smashing my head into a wall
you have a point, but maybe the shock here is because in the UK universities we have a different culture... Most of the lecture notes (or at least the overheads) are online for free, I had a lecturer last year who made audio recordings of all of his lectures and they were available for free in the department undergraduate office - I guess I would just expect this now.
Its interesting that charities aren't subject to this, I worked for the Royal National Institute of the Blind in the UK and we were told that ringing someone on a TPS list (It's basically a do not call list) could result in a £5000 fine for the charity, despite the fact that we bought the numbers from a third party and had no effective way of knowing thier validity.
I did once get someone who claimed to be on this list but i don't think they followed through with any action because of it, which was lucky I suppose
I would also just like to say that people should be nice when people ring them, or at least just put the phone down... is there really a need for personal insults or shouting/swearing? And as someone said if you say "don't call me ever again" then that'll stop that company forver (so long as they are reputable.
you forgot to mention the easy way of doing it, ie. unscrew it and change the flash card, it would probably be quicker
this is just a chance for all of us to say how much we hate sony, from this he can see the level of indoctrination into his anti-sony ways...
I doubt this is costing them customers, people who have ipods and who use iTunes (on the whole) don't care or don't know about DRM, probably because "It'll never affect me" or some other such notion.... Then it does. And they'll buy their music again, maybe complain, but probably not enough to do anything about it.
If you really cared about DRM to the point that it would make you not use the service you'd probably be using a different service which doesn't have it.
I must disagree, the /. system is actually working pretty well. If you say something which is needlessly offensive you will be modded flaimbait, the same would go if you're trying to start a flame war with comments like "GNOME smells of cheese and suX!!11!". If you make some "GNAA!!!!!" type posts, that'll be a troll. If you say something which is completely off topic, it gets modded as such. Both of these things mean that modding becomes pretty much a true/false kind of thing, which meta modding can comfirm. It also stops being seeing it as a default and makes the best shine out...
Possitive modding is a little more shakey with "informative/interesting/insightful" all meaning pretty much the same thing in most people's mind, but that's not too much of a problem.
Group think can cause issues, but in reality there is such a wide range of modders it is often avoided (you can see some pro-MS or anti-Apple comments come through)... although the system isn't perfect I guess group think at least only makes content that most would want to see if they come here.
It is also interesting to note that most people do care about karma and do like to get modded +5, maybe the wiki system would work in a similar way - where people will care.
thats what I thought, although as far as I knew the Wii can't do HD, so I don't know why you'd do this... I'm just hoping you can plug it into the ariel or a scart like every other ninry console I've had. I hope this isn't the start of a trend.
Although it isn't essential for the Wii. (It isn't essential for the PS3 but the reason for the high price is because of the HD capabilities of the Blu-ray disks)
I too share your admiration of the fantastic work which was done there.
One of the worst things Churchil did was not allowing the continuation of this project and continual research in the field. As an English man and a Conservative I feel thats been one of our worst own goals... Silicon Vally could have been in Kent (or, even better, Grimsby!). But then again we did something similar to Babage and his difference engine.
Still, it's nice to see what some of the greatest people in the world at the time did in their field, even if it does bring up old regrets...
interesting point and for the most part right, although I think your examples viz MS and Ninty are a little off. The DS is tied to the Wii, it wouldn't be good for either if one failed, there will be link-ups etc. and MS can't risk windows - no matter what MS seems to do windows keeps going strong, there are thousands of viruses they keep shafting people over patches/WGA etc... and still on top!
but that's just life!
I don't understand this;
"or include redundancies like 'action', '3D adventure' and 'platformer."
how are these redundant and under what deffinition of redundant? The don't seem to contain useless words, nor are they no longer needed - because they refer to something specific and can be useful to know. Mario 64 was 3d adventure, New SMB was platformer. Action can be a little harder to define but I think people understand it when they hear it
interestingly I just read (from a book on useless facts) that the average life-span was 36 years in ancient Rome, who are also mentioned in TFA. Hardly something we would wish to go back to. And lets not forget that using the logic of the article we could just change a few words round and have
"At a moment where many people wonder if the use of human sacrifice will appease the Gods, it's good to know that it has been widely used for a very long time"
I think Blu-ray will lose out in the format war, I don't have too much to base that on and really it could go either way with a bit of luck for each side. More importantly I don't think that the new formats will take off in a huge way; don't get me wrong they will replace DVD but I don't think it'll be as quick or as revolutionary as the VHS > DVD move... they could both lose out when you look at hoe much they've ploughed into this.
;)
Looking at how badly the PS3 is looking like it'll be I'd say the Blu-ray should be the least of their worries; the DS sells over 100,000 units a week in Japan, the PS3 launch will be 100,000 units - so it won't be on top in its first week - it won't even beat the DS (I don't know how the 360 or Wii will be doing, but quite probably better than the DS is now).
I've heard other people talking about the possibility of the whole of Sony being undermined by this, i know I'd be selling my stock now
This at first sounded like a good idea, but who would really use it? They mention in the article that you could probably find the information online for free anyway. But I think more importantly is the fact that if you really need primary sources from these periods (I will when I go back to uni in october for one of my courses) you would almost certainly have access to them already, through your institutions archives etc... still, I suppose it's good for people who are at a uni without such an expansive archive
in England it would be, here it blongs to the person who originally owned it until it is collected by the bin men, then it is owned by the council. I've seen on CSI them saying that the cops can take it... something about being discraded - it might work the same way for any citizen. Although CSI is about the depth of my knowledge on your laws (perfect for /.)
I know some people are trying to say that this is better for people, but I still think it will be very bad for Sony.
If you drop $600 (or over £400 here) on a PS3 it will be because you really want the most amazing graphics and Blu-ray (which is pretty much all they seem to be marketing on at the moment... because its a blu-ray player). I doubt that many people who don't have a HDTV would get a PS3 because I can't really distinguish its advantages over the 360 other than offering a blu-ray player and maybe slightly better graphics.
But wait! when you get it home you find out it doesn't work like you were told/thought it would... some people might buy the cable - if I bought a PS3 it would be going back the next day
they failed in their objectives pretty completely there...
I could go on to make jokes about an IE core, but that might be tacky (besides you'll have them in a moment anyway...)
actually I had never thought of that line of interpretation, and I wouldn't put it past them to try, although if they did would it not have massive effects on other areas... just thinking about it they argued that when people used a system called CHAPS then the money was created anew so I suppose this might be able to be argued that way... if they did do it it might open up more piracy because of the law being a bit of a delicate balence and with anything new you can get new loop-holes...
If I'm rambling its because its really dark and I'm tired
I agree with your feelings on this but my fears go further... say me and my girlfriend really anjoy whips/strangling/beating each other, both being over 18 shouldn't we have a right to do that in our own homes, and video it if we want?* I don't want to be told that what consenting adults do is as bad as child rape... this is idiocy of the highest order.
*For the record I suppose I should say that we are not into that stuff...
I would say it is legal in the UK because of a rather obscure law from the 80s (yay, another thing to thank our beloved Maggie for!) but if you read http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_1988004 8_en_3.htm#mdiv22 and consider the phrase "otherwise for his private and domestic use" then I'm not sure if you could think of a way of looking at it which wouldn't make it legal...
;)
Although as a side point about it's legality in Russia, which will ultimately have the biggest impact on how it operates, I think it might become illegal on sept. 1st, which would be bad... best spend the balance now and wait it out... it might be ok
come now, this has nothing to do with "stealing" from artists, this has everything to do with people wanting to be able to use what they have bought in what they consider to be a fair way (which I would say is me being able to put it onto every computer/player I own so that I can listen to it where ever I decide). It also has a lot to do with me wanting to be able to buy music in a format which suits me best and in a quality which I choose.
I would also disagree with the tone of your post which seems to suggest that you think that the artists get the lions share, or even a reasonable amount of the money which is paid for a song/album - which simply isn't true.
Finally I would say that as far as I am aware artists can get money from allofmp3 is they register with ROMS (although this might be wrong... someone will have to say either way...)
I hate to sound like a troll but why do you use iTunes when you have these problems and say yourself that the fix is time consuming?
I want a legal system, so I use allofmp3 (because it is legal in my country (the UK)), but isn't there any alternatives for you to iTunes without DRM at all?
You sir are right. Does it matter if other people don't use it so long as us that do, and are willing to learn can do and be free doing so.
Linux has to stay free.
"Pretty soon any debate with Microsoft over security can be ended in one round when Apple stands up, says 'launchd', and sits back down"
I would have though "(almost) no viruses" would have done the trick since OSX came out...
Or, we don't effectively force everyone to run as super user all the time - if you prefer