Facebook notifies you in your mini-feed whenever you are tagged, and also emails you if you set it up to do so (as I do). I've untagged photos of myself before. Unless someone were to place these photos on, say, flickr, where I have no presence, I can control when I am tagged.
In the information-rich anarchy of the web, privacy is a dying hope. Anywhere you can be seen in public can be recorded, labelled, stored, distributed, and more. It's possible to hide, but it's getting harder.
I meant it doesn't "have DRM" in the sense that it applies it to everything, or that is can even GENERATE DRM'd tracks. It can merely play DRM-locked files. I overstated the point.
So you're claiming that Japanese RPGs are actually Adventure-RPGs, which exist to tell a story with freedom to explore and interact, backed up with stat-building and combat? As opposed to the classic freeform RPG, which presents a world for a player-defined character to explore, interact, and make decisions in, or the traditional adventure game which presents a world for a pre-defined character to explore, interact and develop in, with the only notable player interaction being choices of dialogue and use of items at key locations. A middle-ground between the (mostly dead) Adventure genre and the (highly popular) RPG genre.
jRPGs and aRPGs have their strengths and weaknesses. I certainly think they have a lot of lifespan in them yet, and that devs certainly should beware MMOGs. Vast social games and persistent worlds just can't provide the story and single-player game can, just like the single-player game can't provide the teamwork and the longevity of the online game.
iTunes doesn't have DRM in it. The iTunes music store does. iTunes is just an MP3 playing piece of software that CONNECTS to a service that sells "DRM-piece of shit" music, SHOULD YOU ALLOW/CHOOSE IT TO. Yes, the iPod requires you to use iTunes to put the music on it. How is this different from Sony's godawful players, and so many more? So many require their own proprietary software to allow you to download music from your PC onto the player. If you hate that, then get a player that doesn't deal in that crap. It doesn't change the fact that the iTunes program, which plays normal MP3s, can transfer those normal MP3s, without re-encoding, onto the iPod, still as normal MP3s.
As far as I can tell, they use the data to generate trend information, work on localisation, and generally find out where they need to focus the 80% of their 80/20 time.
As long as I know what data they're storing, I have no problem with them keeping my data for up to two years. Maybe I'll regret that two years from now, but it's very unlikely.
"According to Will Shortz, the modern Sudoku was most likely designed anonymously by Howard Garns, a 74-year-old retired architect and freelance puzzle constructor, and first published in 1979 by Dell Magazines as Number Place."
And reading the page, the concept goes back much further. Sudoku's just the name - programming a Sudoku-styled game (a Number Place generator, say) would've been harder 10 years ago, but the game certainly existed. The example stands fine.
Yes, but they behaved as stat-boosted standard units with recolours ('cept Kerry, but she's special) and didn't have inventories, levelling, ability to be "reborn", or any of the other elements that made Heroes stand out in WC3. I quite enjoyed WC3's system, but Warcraft is not Starcraft.
I will use Google and Wikipedia before asking stupid questions. I will use Google and Wikipedia before asking stupid questions. I will use Google and Wikipedia before asking stupid questions.
I think the simplest way to address the problem of choosing that "one" would be to make it a volunteer/pay system. Obviously, the pay would have to be capped to prevent it leading to exploitation of the poor, but the key idea is that those interested in advancing medicine without the knowledge to advance it themselves can put themselves into a position to help.
I think the most ideal compensation would be flexible - guaranteed insurance cover against negative side-effects! If you come out of it fine with little/no recovery time, a minor compensation. If you become infected or are otherwise temporarily disabled by the procedure, a major compensation (ideally enough to undo the damage).
This way, since no insurer or medical firm is willing to take the cost of something highly likely to be dangerous, no experiments of a notably dangerous variety can be performed. However, those with minor side-effects that are moderately undoable, but still require human testing, will go ahead.
There are flaws in this plan still, obviously benefit fraud from people claiming to be negatively affected when perfectly healthy, and unforeseen risks, and corruption in both the medical profession and insurance companies - but human testing is something that's practically required with such difficult cases. I suspect that these computer models will continue improvement to the point that they can account for at least 9/10 if not 99/100 cases, but like the GP post said, nature tends to surprise...
That's a completely different technology - you're talking about object identification. They're just using pattern-recognition (ie. hashing frames and comparing the hashes) and dedicating a CPU or two on the video server to it. It just means videos will go through a validation procedure prior to being fully uploaded. They'll probably just look at whatever keywords you provide, see if they match any in a blacklist (ie. Family Guy, Fox, Simpsons, whatever copyrighted videos), and then use the same flagging system on top of that they've always used.
Yes. They're trying to build hearing aids that use some kind of sonic location (determining sound origin) in combination with this eye-watching technology: when someone is looking at you and talking, they probably intend for you to hear it. Hence, it adjusts sound amplification accordingly.
Please don't use genetic % as a comparator. Normally someone will attempt to deconstruct your argument with the 60% banana reply. Essentially, we can't do a tight link between genetics and intelligence, especially not when talking in percentage terms.
Sometimes moderators think something is particularly humourous (or are just plain overzealous on groupthink) so they mod Insightful instead of Funny, as Funny does not grant a karma bonus.
SL has a number of technical flaws. Your character is a physical object within the game world, and therefore physical objects can interact with you. By clever construction of physical objects and scripted events, one can "trap" another player's avatar. By combining this with sexual graphics, you can "rape" someone. This is also possible by giving someone an item, and telling them to wear it, when it is not in fact the hat or shoes or eyepatch or gun or WHATEVER you think it is, but a similar item to before; another flaw in the system means that once you are sitting on or wearing (either way, voluntarily attached to) you no longer need to grant permission for things like animations, additional render-and-attach combos, or anything less than transfer of virtual currency.
Thus, virtual rape can easily perpetuated. A particularly graphic assault, especially against an identified and/or known avatar, would be more damaging than say, posting Goatse, as not only you are subjected to this display, but all other users in the immediate area are subject to this as well. Combined with sounds for guaranteed attention, and the value of your account identity (say, "Anshe Chung" or "Prokofy Neva" - two usernames with a lot of community knowledge), and you have yourself a legitimate reason for calling it "rape". You can't "just log off" - that's their cultural and business identity within the world, as well as their effective contact address! The damage done is permanent, albeit on a much smaller scale than the physical crime of rape.
I saw Supes at IMAX in London. The glasses were fine over my normal glasses. Admittedly, the 3D was somewhat unimpressive, but so was the rest of the movie in my opinion.
Europe. The PlayStation brand, unlike Nintendo and XBox products, have a real strong presence in Europe. PS3 wasn't launched here 'til only last month... it hasn't even been out here for a month yet. So while Wii did launch two days after the PS3 in America, PS3 was the last to join this time.
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Facebook notifies you in your mini-feed whenever you are tagged, and also emails you if you set it up to do so (as I do).
I've untagged photos of myself before. Unless someone were to place these photos on, say, flickr, where I have no presence, I can control when I am tagged.
In the information-rich anarchy of the web, privacy is a dying hope. Anywhere you can be seen in public can be recorded, labelled, stored, distributed, and more. It's possible to hide, but it's getting harder.
and Bridget.
I meant it doesn't "have DRM" in the sense that it applies it to everything, or that is can even GENERATE DRM'd tracks. It can merely play DRM-locked files. I overstated the point.
So you're claiming that Japanese RPGs are actually Adventure-RPGs, which exist to tell a story with freedom to explore and interact, backed up with stat-building and combat?
As opposed to the classic freeform RPG, which presents a world for a player-defined character to explore, interact, and make decisions in, or the traditional adventure game which presents a world for a pre-defined character to explore, interact and develop in, with the only notable player interaction being choices of dialogue and use of items at key locations.
A middle-ground between the (mostly dead) Adventure genre and the (highly popular) RPG genre.
jRPGs and aRPGs have their strengths and weaknesses. I certainly think they have a lot of lifespan in them yet, and that devs certainly should beware MMOGs. Vast social games and persistent worlds just can't provide the story and single-player game can, just like the single-player game can't provide the teamwork and the longevity of the online game.
iTunes doesn't have DRM in it. The iTunes music store does. iTunes is just an MP3 playing piece of software that CONNECTS to a service that sells "DRM-piece of shit" music, SHOULD YOU ALLOW/CHOOSE IT TO.
Yes, the iPod requires you to use iTunes to put the music on it. How is this different from Sony's godawful players, and so many more? So many require their own proprietary software to allow you to download music from your PC onto the player. If you hate that, then get a player that doesn't deal in that crap. It doesn't change the fact that the iTunes program, which plays normal MP3s, can transfer those normal MP3s, without re-encoding, onto the iPod, still as normal MP3s.
NO DRM, UNLESS YOU'RE STUPID ENOUGH TO BUY IT.
Fair use isn't a right, even in the US. It's a legally defensible position, nothing more.
As far as I can tell, they use the data to generate trend information, work on localisation, and generally find out where they need to focus the 80% of their 80/20 time.
As long as I know what data they're storing, I have no problem with them keeping my data for up to two years. Maybe I'll regret that two years from now, but it's very unlikely.
I am going into my BIOS and manually changing that string right now.
-hides Steven Hawking's gun, innocently-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku#History
"According to Will Shortz, the modern Sudoku was most likely designed anonymously by Howard Garns, a 74-year-old retired architect and freelance puzzle constructor, and first published in 1979 by Dell Magazines as Number Place."
And reading the page, the concept goes back much further. Sudoku's just the name - programming a Sudoku-styled game (a Number Place generator, say) would've been harder 10 years ago, but the game certainly existed. The example stands fine.
Parent: I'm surprised you found someone that's willing to sit there that long and listen to someone drone on about it...
...a retired history teacher...
GP:
Yes, but they behaved as stat-boosted standard units with recolours ('cept Kerry, but she's special) and didn't have inventories, levelling, ability to be "reborn", or any of the other elements that made Heroes stand out in WC3.
I quite enjoyed WC3's system, but Warcraft is not Starcraft.
"The legal basis for the MAD is the MAD Law of 1990-12-20[1], as amended by Article 8 of the law of 2005-04-22"
It seems some Wikipedia editors have a sense of humour after all...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse
I will use Google and Wikipedia before asking stupid questions.
I will use Google and Wikipedia before asking stupid questions.
I will use Google and Wikipedia before asking stupid questions.
I think the simplest way to address the problem of choosing that "one" would be to make it a volunteer/pay system. Obviously, the pay would have to be capped to prevent it leading to exploitation of the poor, but the key idea is that those interested in advancing medicine without the knowledge to advance it themselves can put themselves into a position to help.
I think the most ideal compensation would be flexible - guaranteed insurance cover against negative side-effects! If you come out of it fine with little/no recovery time, a minor compensation. If you become infected or are otherwise temporarily disabled by the procedure, a major compensation (ideally enough to undo the damage).
This way, since no insurer or medical firm is willing to take the cost of something highly likely to be dangerous, no experiments of a notably dangerous variety can be performed. However, those with minor side-effects that are moderately undoable, but still require human testing, will go ahead.
There are flaws in this plan still, obviously benefit fraud from people claiming to be negatively affected when perfectly healthy, and unforeseen risks, and corruption in both the medical profession and insurance companies - but human testing is something that's practically required with such difficult cases. I suspect that these computer models will continue improvement to the point that they can account for at least 9/10 if not 99/100 cases, but like the GP post said, nature tends to surprise...
http://www.google.com/search?q=1200F+in+C
1200 degrees Fahrenheit = 648.888889 degrees Celsius
That's a completely different technology - you're talking about object identification. They're just using pattern-recognition (ie. hashing frames and comparing the hashes) and dedicating a CPU or two on the video server to it. It just means videos will go through a validation procedure prior to being fully uploaded. They'll probably just look at whatever keywords you provide, see if they match any in a blacklist (ie. Family Guy, Fox, Simpsons, whatever copyrighted videos), and then use the same flagging system on top of that they've always used.
http://persona.mechafetus.com/visualnovel/omgwtfot l.txt
Yes.
They're trying to build hearing aids that use some kind of sonic location (determining sound origin) in combination with this eye-watching technology: when someone is looking at you and talking, they probably intend for you to hear it. Hence, it adjusts sound amplification accordingly.
Please don't use genetic % as a comparator. Normally someone will attempt to deconstruct your argument with the 60% banana reply.
Essentially, we can't do a tight link between genetics and intelligence, especially not when talking in percentage terms.
I have mod points (or at least did for this page until I posted this), and couldn't find -1, clueless. You keep your karma for now.
Sometimes moderators think something is particularly humourous (or are just plain overzealous on groupthink) so they mod Insightful instead of Funny, as Funny does not grant a karma bonus.
SL has a number of technical flaws. Your character is a physical object within the game world, and therefore physical objects can interact with you. By clever construction of physical objects and scripted events, one can "trap" another player's avatar. By combining this with sexual graphics, you can "rape" someone. This is also possible by giving someone an item, and telling them to wear it, when it is not in fact the hat or shoes or eyepatch or gun or WHATEVER you think it is, but a similar item to before; another flaw in the system means that once you are sitting on or wearing (either way, voluntarily attached to) you no longer need to grant permission for things like animations, additional render-and-attach combos, or anything less than transfer of virtual currency.
Thus, virtual rape can easily perpetuated. A particularly graphic assault, especially against an identified and/or known avatar, would be more damaging than say, posting Goatse, as not only you are subjected to this display, but all other users in the immediate area are subject to this as well. Combined with sounds for guaranteed attention, and the value of your account identity (say, "Anshe Chung" or "Prokofy Neva" - two usernames with a lot of community knowledge), and you have yourself a legitimate reason for calling it "rape". You can't "just log off" - that's their cultural and business identity within the world, as well as their effective contact address! The damage done is permanent, albeit on a much smaller scale than the physical crime of rape.
I saw Supes at IMAX in London. The glasses were fine over my normal glasses. Admittedly, the 3D was somewhat unimpressive, but so was the rest of the movie in my opinion.
Europe. The PlayStation brand, unlike Nintendo and XBox products, have a real strong presence in Europe. PS3 wasn't launched here 'til only last month... it hasn't even been out here for a month yet. So while Wii did launch two days after the PS3 in America, PS3 was the last to join this time.