ISPs change-hands so often here, it's hard to keep up. When my ISP spontaneously became Comcast one month, I asked them to send me a new TOS. They said that their TOS was the same as AT&T's, but have refused to provide them. Am I bound to something they won't give me?
Remember when Bookmarks were stored as HTML? And you could view them on any computer or share them on the internet easily, with absolutely zero conversion? Wasnt that simple, sensible, and a generally good way to do things? Why the fuck did everyone stop doing that?
of course if you go to this page and scroll down to "Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo" there is also a link to the pictures, which requires no registration.
I had an intro to programming class once, one of the assignments was to demonstrate random number generation- randomly generate an x,y,and color for a pixel, then draw it. The person sitting behind me started theirs up and it drew a perfect nazi flag, except the background was white and the circle was red, instead of the normal way
Some notes, which the article completely ignores
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- There is no evidence that an Artificial Inteligence created by us would be smarter than us. Thoughts on the singularity aside, the author of this article seems to think that as soon as we create a program which is aware, it will be vastly more intelligent than mere humans: that is very stupid.
- Awareness != Inteligence. Even if the internet spontaneously becomes aware, you have to wonder what it is that it will become aware of. Meaningless energy pulses? The data within those pulses? It is unlikely that any "awareness" which comes spontaneously from our pathetically slow computers would have enough to it in order to have this awareness be able to decode thousands of protocals and decipher the data stored within.
- Inteligence != Ability. Even if an awareness arose or was created which had enough to it to be intelligent- to understand various datas, that doesnt even neccessitate the ability to talk back. Think on this: each neuron in our brain is made to be able to pass signals where they need to go, but no signal "originates" at a neuron. Each takes what it recieves and passes it on, sometimes it gets modified along the way, but in the end its just passing information along- various photons are converted into chemical energy which go through a long journy through the brain until the same mush of chemicals and energy get spit back at the right muscles to form the words "nice tits". Someone can go ahead and stick a server somewhere that, when someone sends it some various photos it replies with "nice tits", but that's as far as it will go. Awareness is basically just that- being aware. You're a passenger on your brain's journy. Soul or no soul, if I stab you in the brain you'll be less active. So even if an AI is hyper-intelligent, it can only kill a baby if we build it a baby-crushing machine. Other than that it would probably be limited to saying "I consider myself to be hyper-intelligent" across a screen.
- The plot of the movie is not neccessarily the only thing going on. In fact, did you know that when they were Saving Private Ryan, they had other long-term goals in mind? Just because the movie "The Matrix" revolves around what ammounts to the maintenance of a reactor, doesnt mean that's the only thing that robots do anywhere. The movie was about people, and people are nothing but an energy source in the movie. If you made a movie about uranium, from the uranium's perspective, you wouldnt bother mentioning Philosophers, or even non-uranium-studying scientists. Yes the robots at the end of AI were practicing archeology. Can we assume, then, that it's all any robot does, all day? No, we can't. We could not have seen more than 20-50 of those guys in those shots, there could be billions elsewhere which dedicate themselves fully to constructing large robotic dildos for use in large robotic porn.
Mexico may/not/ be the best place to go if you enjoy various liberties!
Did you try /before/ they posted pics?
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Here's a clue for you: Al-Jazeera is/not/ on the best server out there. Going there last week the server was already slow- no doubt under heavy load. Posting controversial things drives traffic up. So the server is down. THIS IS NOT NEWS. Hey look, the last thing slashdot linked to is also down. Good job at not understanding the concept of the internet. Kill yourself.
-Less than previous products. -By that logic, taking it out of the box turns it -into something you didnt buy. -This is something which is not currently in use, so I suppose that once they/are/ in use, I will be able to point to the old price as proof, sure.
It's that it's being used. You're paying extra for a device which lets you do less Waah! You're not allowed to do something you want to with something you bought Waah! You can't improve on a product you legally purchased anymore, driving prices up even more Waah!
How'sabout this: You sell a used game at full-price. This is a lot easier to defend in court if it ever comes to that.
Also do this: Buy games from customers at less-than-full price.
Sale price minus Buy price equals rental price.
It's like renting out a game with some extra assurance that they'll bring it back. If they dont bring it back, or damage the disc, or anything else that rentals usually have to worry about, you've got the money for a replacement.
Obvious problems, yes. I'm sure there are ways to get around it. For example, a "payment plan" which ammounts to a flat down payment [rental charge] followed by weekly/daily installments [late fees]
While it cannot be said that were we not involved, no conflict would have occured, it can be generally assumed that related events being connected, the attack in question would not have happened without our aid. In that sense, we had a hand in carrying it out.
The point is, we supported them at the time regaurding their policies against Iran. We never supported Stalin regaurding his policies against.. uhh.. russian jews.. Stalin wasnt killing his own people because they were in the same feild-of-fire as an enemy which we were telling him to go after.
There/are/ plenty of reasons to kill Sadam. I really dont see the reason to bring up things we can somehow even be associated with. I'm sure that if we didnt, many people wouldnt be as opposed to this war.
but then we wouldnt be able to have this war as part of our blind flailing against potential threats.
but then we would be taking down someone who is evil instead of doing a 'preemptive strike' which goes against all logic, and we can't have that.
It would be best if our only reasons for attacking were not things he did with the full support of the United States. Stalin killed millions/without/ US input. Saddam killed thousands with US Support. You know, that "gassed his own people" thing?
I'm not saying Sadam is an o-kay guy to be around. nobody is saying that. But if you want to build a case against somebody for murder, it would be best to leave out all the parts where you went out and bought guns and then asked your buddy Saddam if he wanted to join you in a killing spree.
There are plenty of reasons to kill Saddam. There is no reason to bring up things which the US had a hand in carrying out.
"I think that if even 1 video game developer uses any footage like this as a basis for realism in a game, it'll be a sad day."
I wrote more than just this, but it was all redundant explanations about what video games are- it got longer than I wanted this post to be, so I'll summarize: You are a fucking moron.
Is this a dupe, or is this a different technology? The previous story, if I recall, had multiple speakers to focus on a single point. This one seems to have only one. Anyone else remember?
I'm sorry, maybe the fact that what you said is completely untrue is why I claim it to be completely untrue. In fact I have never seen _any_ CD case marked with the "Data Storage" mark. All CDs I just referenced come in cases emblazened with "Compact Disc: Digital Audio" The CDs themselves are usually without the logo, But I have not seen a single CD or case which boasts "Data Storage"
I dont know why you're fighting me on the point that these standard cases which everyone uses regaurdless of content are standard cases which everyone uses regaurdless of content. There are probably errors I've made along the course of this discussion- The logos on CD cases being utterly meaningless is not one of them.
I have personally never had any trouble with ripping things due to copy protection measures, so that's wrong.
For some reason people are reading my "returning a CD for lack of logo is stupid" post as saying "returning a CD which doesnt work is stupid". I have no idea where the fuck that leap comes from. Stop saying it.
Putting my CD in a case doesnt negate the logo. Buying a case which has the logo on it does. A CDR also has the logo in some cases. What does the logo mean in either of those cases? Squat. Nothing at all. That's all I'm saying there.
Are Blizard, Lucasarts, Activision, ID, Monolith, Microsoft, Sierra, and all other software companies, guilty of false advertising because they use the Standard CD case to hold discs which can't be read by your car stereo? No, that's just stupid. So here's the point there: Because these Jewel cases which have the "Compact Disc" logo are used in thousands of products which can't be read using a standard stereo, the logo does NOT mean that it can. Because plenty of artists simply would rather not dirty up their disc art, inserts, and non-standard cases, with a meaningless logo, a lack of logo is also no indication that it/wont/ work.
So I stand by it: Rejecting CDs because they dont have a logo is stupid. Because of such, the logo in general is stupid.
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What do people do for things which they believe are right? They support them. What do people do for things which they believe are wrong? They don't support them.
I didnt say "Believe it's right!", I said "Act like it's right."
There is no logic in supporting something you disagree with, Can Be no logic in doing so.
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ISPs change-hands so often here, it's hard to keep up. When my ISP spontaneously became Comcast one month, I asked them to send me a new TOS. They said that their TOS was the same as AT&T's, but have refused to provide them. Am I bound to something they won't give me?
- Not multiple stations
- It's not that they can't, they just dont want to
- The article isnt much longer than this post, so you can read it yourself.
Remember when Bookmarks were stored as HTML? And you could view them on any computer or share them on the internet easily, with absolutely zero conversion?
Wasnt that simple, sensible, and a generally good way to do things?
Why the fuck did everyone stop doing that?
of course if you go to this page and scroll down to "Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo" there is also a link to the pictures, which requires no registration.
Go fuck yourself.
You have no idea what you are talking about, just shut up.
I had an intro to programming class once, one of the assignments was to demonstrate random number generation- randomly generate an x,y,and color for a pixel, then draw it.
The person sitting behind me started theirs up and it drew a perfect nazi flag, except the background was white and the circle was red, instead of the normal way
- There is no evidence that an Artificial Inteligence created by us would be smarter than us. Thoughts on the singularity aside, the author of this article seems to think that as soon as we create a program which is aware, it will be vastly more intelligent than mere humans: that is very stupid.
- Awareness != Inteligence. Even if the internet spontaneously becomes aware, you have to wonder what it is that it will become aware of. Meaningless energy pulses? The data within those pulses? It is unlikely that any "awareness" which comes spontaneously from our pathetically slow computers would have enough to it in order to have this awareness be able to decode thousands of protocals and decipher the data stored within.
- Inteligence != Ability. Even if an awareness arose or was created which had enough to it to be intelligent- to understand various datas, that doesnt even neccessitate the ability to talk back. Think on this: each neuron in our brain is made to be able to pass signals where they need to go, but no signal "originates" at a neuron. Each takes what it recieves and passes it on, sometimes it gets modified along the way, but in the end its just passing information along- various photons are converted into chemical energy which go through a long journy through the brain until the same mush of chemicals and energy get spit back at the right muscles to form the words "nice tits". Someone can go ahead and stick a server somewhere that, when someone sends it some various photos it replies with "nice tits", but that's as far as it will go. Awareness is basically just that- being aware. You're a passenger on your brain's journy. Soul or no soul, if I stab you in the brain you'll be less active. So even if an AI is hyper-intelligent, it can only kill a baby if we build it a baby-crushing machine. Other than that it would probably be limited to saying "I consider myself to be hyper-intelligent" across a screen.
- The plot of the movie is not neccessarily the only thing going on. In fact, did you know that when they were Saving Private Ryan, they had other long-term goals in mind? Just because the movie "The Matrix" revolves around what ammounts to the maintenance of a reactor, doesnt mean that's the only thing that robots do anywhere. The movie was about people, and people are nothing but an energy source in the movie. If you made a movie about uranium, from the uranium's perspective, you wouldnt bother mentioning Philosophers, or even non-uranium-studying scientists.
Yes the robots at the end of AI were practicing archeology. Can we assume, then, that it's all any robot does, all day? No, we can't. We could not have seen more than 20-50 of those guys in those shots, there could be billions elsewhere which dedicate themselves fully to constructing large robotic dildos for use in large robotic porn.
GO AWAY!
Mexico may /not/ be the best place to go if you enjoy various liberties!
Here's a clue for you: Al-Jazeera is /not/ on the best server out there. Going there last week the server was already slow- no doubt under heavy load. Posting controversial things drives traffic up. So the server is down. THIS IS NOT NEWS.
Hey look, the last thing slashdot linked to is also down. Good job at not understanding the concept of the internet. Kill yourself.
-Less than previous products. /are/ in use, I will be able to point to the old price as proof, sure.
-By that logic, taking it out of the box turns it -into something you didnt buy.
-This is something which is not currently in use, so I suppose that once they
It's that it's being used.
You're paying extra for a device which lets you do less Waah!
You're not allowed to do something you want to with something you bought Waah!
You can't improve on a product you legally purchased anymore, driving prices up even more Waah!
How'sabout this:
You sell a used game at full-price. This is a lot easier to defend in court if it ever comes to that.
Also do this:
Buy games from customers at less-than-full price.
Sale price minus Buy price equals rental price.
It's like renting out a game with some extra assurance that they'll bring it back.
If they dont bring it back, or damage the disc, or anything else that rentals usually have to worry about, you've got the money for a replacement.
Obvious problems, yes. I'm sure there are ways to get around it. For example, a "payment plan" which ammounts to a flat down payment [rental charge] followed by weekly/daily installments [late fees]
If you own it, you can rent it. Isnt that how it works?
May he rest in peace.
Almost word-for-word what I keep hearing about Stephen King.
While it cannot be said that were we not involved, no conflict would have occured, it can be generally assumed that related events being connected, the attack in question would not have happened without our aid. In that sense, we had a hand in carrying it out.
/are/ plenty of reasons to kill Sadam. I really dont see the reason to bring up things we can somehow even be associated with. I'm sure that if we didnt, many people wouldnt be as opposed to this war.
The point is, we supported them at the time regaurding their policies against Iran. We never supported Stalin regaurding his policies against.. uhh.. russian jews.. Stalin wasnt killing his own people because they were in the same feild-of-fire as an enemy which we were telling him to go after.
There
but then we wouldnt be able to have this war as part of our blind flailing against potential threats.
but then we would be taking down someone who is evil instead of doing a 'preemptive strike' which goes against all logic, and we can't have that.
It would be best if our only reasons for attacking were not things he did with the full support of the United States. Stalin killed millions /without/ US input. Saddam killed thousands with US Support. You know, that "gassed his own people" thing?
I'm not saying Sadam is an o-kay guy to be around. nobody is saying that.
But if you want to build a case against somebody for murder, it would be best to leave out all the parts where you went out and bought guns and then asked your buddy Saddam if he wanted to join you in a killing spree.
There are plenty of reasons to kill Saddam. There is no reason to bring up things which the US had a hand in carrying out.
Fortunatly there is a meta-moderation system in place. Yay!
Anyone who takes internet nicknames and/or sigs seriously enough to comment on them is an idiot.
I'm left handed, you moron.
"I think that if even 1 video game developer uses any footage like this as a basis for realism in a game, it'll be a sad day."
I wrote more than just this, but it was all redundant explanations about what video games are- it got longer than I wanted this post to be, so I'll summarize:
You are a fucking moron.
Is this a dupe, or is this a different technology? The previous story, if I recall, had multiple speakers to focus on a single point. This one seems to have only one. Anyone else remember?
I'm sorry, maybe the fact that what you said is completely untrue is why I claim it to be completely untrue. In fact I have never seen _any_ CD case marked with the "Data Storage" mark. All CDs I just referenced come in cases emblazened with "Compact Disc: Digital Audio"
The CDs themselves are usually without the logo, But I have not seen a single CD or case which boasts "Data Storage"
I dont know why you're fighting me on the point that these standard cases which everyone uses regaurdless of content are standard cases which everyone uses regaurdless of content. There are probably errors I've made along the course of this discussion- The logos on CD cases being utterly meaningless is not one of them.
I have personally never had any trouble with ripping things due to copy protection measures, so that's wrong.
/wont/ work.
For some reason people are reading my "returning a CD for lack of logo is stupid" post as saying "returning a CD which doesnt work is stupid". I have no idea where the fuck that leap comes from. Stop saying it.
Putting my CD in a case doesnt negate the logo. Buying a case which has the logo on it does. A CDR also has the logo in some cases. What does the logo mean in either of those cases? Squat. Nothing at all. That's all I'm saying there.
Are Blizard, Lucasarts, Activision, ID, Monolith, Microsoft, Sierra, and all other software companies, guilty of false advertising because they use the Standard CD case to hold discs which can't be read by your car stereo? No, that's just stupid. So here's the point there:
Because these Jewel cases which have the "Compact Disc" logo are used in thousands of products which can't be read using a standard stereo, the logo does NOT mean that it can. Because plenty of artists simply would rather not dirty up their disc art, inserts, and non-standard cases, with a meaningless logo, a lack of logo is also no indication that it
So I stand by it: Rejecting CDs because they dont have a logo is stupid. Because of such, the logo in general is stupid.
What do people do for things which they believe are right? They support them.
What do people do for things which they believe are wrong? They don't support them.
I didnt say "Believe it's right!", I said "Act like it's right."
There is no logic in supporting something you disagree with, Can Be no logic in doing so.