there are slight smudges where there used to be signatures. It's not a new case, They just cleaned it. Thus, finding the "old" case is not the issue, this is completely irreversible and the only option is to give some sort of recompensation.
I'm actually part of an operation that recycles used computer equipment, so we see a lot of this sort of thing. Expensive equipment that someone simply used wrongly, assumed it was broken and got rid of it.
Often, the fix is incredibly simple: A replaced power cord. Selecting a default settings option on a monitor. Or even just plugging in the thing someone assumed was broken.
Silliest thing I saw was when someone complained that his 20" 2048x1536@60hz capable CRT monitor was broken, that it just said "OUT OF RANGE".... ended up buying a same size LCD, gave the CRT away. That's what I'm using:P
the claims are rather that people downloading are buying less than they normally would, and that could still be true.
This is indeed part of the original rationale for copyrights. However, this is not how the law actually works, and those who infringed are fined per infraction regardless of how P2P may reasonably have influenced their buying.
Such as in the recent case of the woman with several thousand dollars invested in music, presumably mostly from the RIAA, who got fined for approx. half a million dollars for having 20 songs shared. If she doesn't manage to get the case re-tried, she'll probably have to sell off her music collection to pay for a fraction of the fine.
While I also take offense at this sort of action, I try not to get too worked up about it.
When I buy a game over steam, I do not consider myself to have been buying a service, "renting" the game for an infinite period (unless banned of course), as seems to be such a popular definition for online services related to entertainment content. I consider myself to have the moral right to access the games I buy, and in the case that I am ever locked out I will simply make a new account for buying games, and torrent whatever games I've lost my steam priviliges to. I sincerely hope that those affected by these lockouts do exactly that, though perhaps without making a new account seeing as the service has done them... well, a disservice.
There is one caveat to this view however... online multiplayer games are usually somewhere between bothersome to impossible to play, especially on officially regognized servers, after being locked out.
Why not both? The more directions from which the problem is approached, the more likelyhood some sort of usable knowledge will be gained.
Practice and theory can coexist quite well, each advancing the other. Even if it's discovered that weather control is inefficient and/or hardly possible at all, at least something will have been learned from it.
Societies may have "invented" the notion of religion because religion led to ethics, which led to less killing of their neighbors.
You appear to make the assumption that because religious belief may have been advantageous at some point, that it may still be so.
I disagree with this assumption, and will keep on giving my opinion that religion is a bad idea to those who ask it.
I went to the site just to look at the source. Really, if they insist on people not looking at it, there must be something good in there.
Turns out the coder is just ashamed of his HTML coding skills.
If that was all they wanted to hide, they could have just gone with the JPG format. It would be utterly useless, but at least no one would be able to look at their naughty parts.
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Has Wikipedia Peaked?
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Looking at the history list, almost every edit is undone by someone else. Can the article be improved? Possibly, but the way to do that is not to allow anyone to edit it, then expect someone to put the time into undoing 95% of the edits... that's soul-destroying.
I've seen that done. I've even done it myself. Problem is, much of the reverted content tends to be unencyclopedic, e.g. paragraphs which guide the reader into how to do things, and spelling tends to be argued over a lot, sometimes causing repeat edits without any discussion until both/all involved are already pretty annoyed. I try to be as polite as possible when reverting, especially so when the contributors appear to believe that they've been adding significant content. First edits don't always point to the potential of the editor, so scaring them off isn't a good idea. Sometimes people just have to be nudged into reading some of the helpful tips on how to contribute.
The situation tends to be hard to improve when almost all the edits making the article worse are single edits from logged IPs.
I've had to consistently revert something approaching those 95% you mentioned of all edits done on a particular article, since most are guide-edits/incorrect spelling changes/blatant advertisments/irrelevant/vandalism/etc. done to a largely already complete article. I try to re-write edits when the information they add happens to be useful, despite being badly or clumsily written.
CO2? Don't forget radioactive particles. Coal ash contains trace amounts of the radioactive metals uranium and thorium, along with toxic elements such as cadmium.
Oh please, no one in their right mind will go for a power plant, unless you're a foreign country, going for full-out war, using bomber planes or other type of long-range warfare.
They're well guarded, seeing as they're the obvious target to go for. If you've got a bit of sense you'll go for the powerlines. Miles and miles of unguarded powerlines which it is close to completely impossible to guard against any kind of sabotage, yet takes rather a bit of work to fix again.
If thunderclouds can accelerate radiation energy, how come I never heard of people died in places where there are lots of thuderstorm activities due to radiation overdose? Um, lightning?
Interesting... I wonder, how much of the electrical discharge is actually released as photons? And what exactly is the process by which they harm the things they strike, so to speak... ? For some reason, I've never actually considered the process by which lightning makes light.
it was pretty cool to be able to reformat the "drive" in a few seconds.
Indeed it is, I've seen a friend of mine who has a consumer hardware DDR SDRAM-based ramdisk do so. When he first mentioned his idea, reasoning that it would improve his performance by putting his windows swap file on it, I thought it would be be completely unneccessary, and that simply adding more ram would be quite sufficient, as in theory windows doesn't use swap unless ram is full enough that not all of the programs can be stuffed in there.
Turns out I was wrong, as Windows and/or programs written for Windows tend to use swap even if there is quite enough space on ram, and not just because of the 4GB memory limit due to addressing concerns in 32-bit Windows.
While having a drive that can max it's sata/150 connection practically instantly is nice, the ramdisk wins out by having the very low, and equal across all sectors latency distinctive of ram. Too bad the things cost something over a hundred bucks, and that's without the ram, which I don't happen to have lying around.
Re:Do you also own a cat with a diamond collar?
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For anyone with an IQ above 130, public school is an undeniable waste of time.
I have to disagree with you on that. For me it was not a waste of time. It was actively harmful.
I got extremely good grades about the first six years of elementary, degrading after that, going into mediocrity and failure later on. You see, I never learned discipline because I wasn't given assignments that challenged me early on.
This is also due to a lack of drive on my part, but the school system is also to blame as they never thought I might need a different kind of help. When I started getting mediocre grades, I was described as a "bright, promising student who needs to live up to his potential." I kept completing the occasional assignment which I happened to have an interest in in a competent manner, prompting more of that kind of comment.
I've largely failed to live up to this supposed potential.
a single ion carries an enormous number of unionized molecules with it.
Oh. So you need unionized molecules to produce a decent amount of work then? I sure hope this new movement can overcome all the inertia preventing it. Otherwise the situation will become quite heated.
Good as in the opposite of evil, or as in good at something?
I would neither call that particular corporate entity very moral, nor would I call its primary products very good on the whole. The former sentiment is backed by repeated anti-competetive behavior and self-serving lies, the latter is frequently shown by the existence of superior products on the market.
How are my views fundamentalist, might I ask?
Ok, yes, they do know what they are doing, and they're very good at selling their products. I must concede that. But it does not change my view of the company as a whole.
I'm not rationalizing anything when I say that copyright infringement is not stealing. You may argue that it is not good for the whole to have too much of it, and you have done so well. But even if it is considered a bad thing, it is not the same act as that of stealing.
When you steal, you remove someones access to their belongings. When you infringe on a copyright, you deprive them of potential income (at least in some of the cases, as there are many ways to infringe), and may in the big picture be degrading the availability of quality artistic products.
It is true that the existence of any one work of art (or copyrightable work, depending on personal definition of "art") changes very little. But do you truly wish to argue that it is thus OK to put in place a system of copyright not intended to encourage new works?
I like having the freedom to do new things with old concepts, but I also happen to appreciate having art be made at a higher rate. I'm not sure that copyright in any form provides a good incentive for that, but I can't say I like your arguement.
Even though you appear to have mostly been joking, you've hit on a bit of truth.
Easter is a heathen celebration of fertility (as demonstrated by the large amounts of eggs and the ever-symbolic rapidly-breeding rodent) taken over by Christianity. Christmas happens to be celebrated on the Winter Solstice, even though the time of Jesus' birth is a somewhat murky matter.
In some nations, despite being overtly christian, they still call the Winter Solstice celebration by its traditional name, Yule, or variations thereof.
IANAL, but as stated in the video, fair use isn't a right, it's a legally defensible position, which the video itself is supposed to occupy. The use of short segments of copyrighted material for purposes of commentary and comedy is categorized as fair use. I'm pretty sure the video is a comedic commentary, and it also only uses short segments.
Seeing as how you like GoW and PoP, I'm surprised not to see Devil May Cry on that list. You should try those, nr. 1 and 3 are great, though you might want to skip nr. 2.
They they boast some very intense gameplay, though the combat tends to be somewhat overly stylized.
Christianity's god is actually named, originally spelled YHWH, it is now variably pronounced, the one I typically use is Yahweh, though others exist, such as Jehovah or Yaoweh.
It was originally taboo to pronounce the name out loud, it was only allowed to be written, AFAIK. The titles of "God" and "Lord" are continuations of this taboo, though the original reason is lost on many.
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Honestly, does no one RTFA?
there are slight smudges where there used to be signatures. It's not a new case, They just cleaned it. Thus, finding the "old" case is not the issue, this is completely irreversible and the only option is to give some sort of recompensation.
Too true.
.... ended up buying a same size LCD, gave the CRT away. That's what I'm using :P
I'm actually part of an operation that recycles used computer equipment, so we see a lot of this sort of thing. Expensive equipment that someone simply used wrongly, assumed it was broken and got rid of it.
Often, the fix is incredibly simple: A replaced power cord. Selecting a default settings option on a monitor. Or even just plugging in the thing someone assumed was broken.
Silliest thing I saw was when someone complained that his 20" 2048x1536@60hz capable CRT monitor was broken, that it just said "OUT OF RANGE"
the claims are rather that people downloading are buying less than they normally would, and that could still be true.
This is indeed part of the original rationale for copyrights. However, this is not how the law actually works, and those who infringed are fined per infraction regardless of how P2P may reasonably have influenced their buying.
Such as in the recent case of the woman with several thousand dollars invested in music, presumably mostly from the RIAA, who got fined for approx. half a million dollars for having 20 songs shared. If she doesn't manage to get the case re-tried, she'll probably have to sell off her music collection to pay for a fraction of the fine.
While I also take offense at this sort of action, I try not to get too worked up about it.
When I buy a game over steam, I do not consider myself to have been buying a service, "renting" the game for an infinite period (unless banned of course), as seems to be such a popular definition for online services related to entertainment content. I consider myself to have the moral right to access the games I buy, and in the case that I am ever locked out I will simply make a new account for buying games, and torrent whatever games I've lost my steam priviliges to. I sincerely hope that those affected by these lockouts do exactly that, though perhaps without making a new account seeing as the service has done them... well, a disservice.
There is one caveat to this view however... online multiplayer games are usually somewhere between bothersome to impossible to play, especially on officially regognized servers, after being locked out.
Why not both? The more directions from which the problem is approached, the more likelyhood some sort of usable knowledge will be gained.
Practice and theory can coexist quite well, each advancing the other. Even if it's discovered that weather control is inefficient and/or hardly possible at all, at least something will have been learned from it.
You must be new here...
Societies may have "invented" the notion of religion because religion led to ethics, which led to less killing of their neighbors. You appear to make the assumption that because religious belief may have been advantageous at some point, that it may still be so. I disagree with this assumption, and will keep on giving my opinion that religion is a bad idea to those who ask it.
I went to the site just to look at the source. Really, if they insist on people not looking at it, there must be something good in there.
Turns out the coder is just ashamed of his HTML coding skills.
If that was all they wanted to hide, they could have just gone with the JPG format. It would be utterly useless, but at least no one would be able to look at their naughty parts.
I've seen that done. I've even done it myself. Problem is, much of the reverted content tends to be unencyclopedic, e.g. paragraphs which guide the reader into how to do things, and spelling tends to be argued over a lot, sometimes causing repeat edits without any discussion until both/all involved are already pretty annoyed. I try to be as polite as possible when reverting, especially so when the contributors appear to believe that they've been adding significant content. First edits don't always point to the potential of the editor, so scaring them off isn't a good idea. Sometimes people just have to be nudged into reading some of the helpful tips on how to contribute.
The situation tends to be hard to improve when almost all the edits making the article worse are single edits from logged IPs.
I've had to consistently revert something approaching those 95% you mentioned of all edits done on a particular article, since most are guide-edits/incorrect spelling changes/blatant advertisments/irrelevant/vandalism/etc. done to a largely already complete article. I try to re-write edits when the information they add happens to be useful, despite being badly or clumsily written.
CO2? Don't forget radioactive particles. Coal ash contains trace amounts of the radioactive metals uranium and thorium, along with toxic elements such as cadmium.
Oh please, no one in their right mind will go for a power plant, unless you're a foreign country, going for full-out war, using bomber planes or other type of long-range warfare.
They're well guarded, seeing as they're the obvious target to go for. If you've got a bit of sense you'll go for the powerlines. Miles and miles of unguarded powerlines which it is close to completely impossible to guard against any kind of sabotage, yet takes rather a bit of work to fix again.
If thunderclouds can accelerate radiation energy, how come I never heard of people died in places where there are lots of thuderstorm activities due to radiation overdose?
Um, lightning?
Interesting... I wonder, how much of the electrical discharge is actually released as photons? And what exactly is the process by which they harm the things they strike, so to speak... ? For some reason, I've never actually considered the process by which lightning makes light.
it was pretty cool to be able to reformat the "drive" in a few seconds.
Indeed it is, I've seen a friend of mine who has a consumer hardware DDR SDRAM-based ramdisk do so. When he first mentioned his idea, reasoning that it would improve his performance by putting his windows swap file on it, I thought it would be be completely unneccessary, and that simply adding more ram would be quite sufficient, as in theory windows doesn't use swap unless ram is full enough that not all of the programs can be stuffed in there.
Turns out I was wrong, as Windows and/or programs written for Windows tend to use swap even if there is quite enough space on ram, and not just because of the 4GB memory limit due to addressing concerns in 32-bit Windows.
While having a drive that can max it's sata/150 connection practically instantly is nice, the ramdisk wins out by having the very low, and equal across all sectors latency distinctive of ram. Too bad the things cost something over a hundred bucks, and that's without the ram, which I don't happen to have lying around.
For anyone with an IQ above 130, public school is an undeniable waste of time. I have to disagree with you on that. For me it was not a waste of time. It was actively harmful. I got extremely good grades about the first six years of elementary, degrading after that, going into mediocrity and failure later on. You see, I never learned discipline because I wasn't given assignments that challenged me early on. This is also due to a lack of drive on my part, but the school system is also to blame as they never thought I might need a different kind of help. When I started getting mediocre grades, I was described as a "bright, promising student who needs to live up to his potential." I kept completing the occasional assignment which I happened to have an interest in in a competent manner, prompting more of that kind of comment. I've largely failed to live up to this supposed potential.
a single ion carries an enormous number of unionized molecules with it.
Oh. So you need unionized molecules to produce a decent amount of work then? I sure hope this new movement can overcome all the inertia preventing it. Otherwise the situation will become quite heated.
Good as in the opposite of evil, or as in good at something?
I would neither call that particular corporate entity very moral, nor would I call its primary products very good on the whole. The former sentiment is backed by repeated anti-competetive behavior and self-serving lies, the latter is frequently shown by the existence of superior products on the market.
How are my views fundamentalist, might I ask?
Ok, yes, they do know what they are doing, and they're very good at selling their products. I must concede that. But it does not change my view of the company as a whole.
I'm not rationalizing anything when I say that copyright infringement is not stealing. You may argue that it is not good for the whole to have too much of it, and you have done so well. But even if it is considered a bad thing, it is not the same act as that of stealing.
When you steal, you remove someones access to their belongings. When you infringe on a copyright, you deprive them of potential income (at least in some of the cases, as there are many ways to infringe), and may in the big picture be degrading the availability of quality artistic products.
fake sunglasses? So they don't actually block light-rays, but let them through like a normal plate of glass? How novel!
Very clever, those Mexicans.
It is true that the existence of any one work of art (or copyrightable work, depending on personal definition of "art") changes very little. But do you truly wish to argue that it is thus OK to put in place a system of copyright not intended to encourage new works?
I like having the freedom to do new things with old concepts, but I also happen to appreciate having art be made at a higher rate. I'm not sure that copyright in any form provides a good incentive for that, but I can't say I like your arguement.
Even though you appear to have mostly been joking, you've hit on a bit of truth.
Easter is a heathen celebration of fertility (as demonstrated by the large amounts of eggs and the ever-symbolic rapidly-breeding rodent) taken over by Christianity. Christmas happens to be celebrated on the Winter Solstice, even though the time of Jesus' birth is a somewhat murky matter.
In some nations, despite being overtly christian, they still call the Winter Solstice celebration by its traditional name, Yule, or variations thereof.
IANAL, but as stated in the video, fair use isn't a right, it's a legally defensible position, which the video itself is supposed to occupy. The use of short segments of copyrighted material for purposes of commentary and comedy is categorized as fair use. I'm pretty sure the video is a comedic commentary, and it also only uses short segments.
Indeed you are right that this should not be news. Sadly, however, it is to some of these corporations. That's the entire point of the operation.
Seeing as how you like GoW and PoP, I'm surprised not to see Devil May Cry on that list. You should try those, nr. 1 and 3 are great, though you might want to skip nr. 2.
They they boast some very intense gameplay, though the combat tends to be somewhat overly stylized.
Christianity's god is actually named, originally spelled YHWH, it is now variably pronounced, the one I typically use is Yahweh, though others exist, such as Jehovah or Yaoweh.
It was originally taboo to pronounce the name out loud, it was only allowed to be written, AFAIK. The titles of "God" and "Lord" are continuations of this taboo, though the original reason is lost on many.
According to what you're saying, it sounds like you were escrow-spamming. Would you care to clarify?