For the system to work, players at multiple levels would need to get involved. Broadcasters would need to add identifying watermarks to their broadcast, in cooperation with copyright holders, and both parties would need to register their watermarks with the system
For all you know they have been doing this for the past 10 years.
What I don't get is how this is different than any other car commercial where they do crazy shit with the newest hottest sports car. Like driving 100MPH down twisty country roads, or spinning around mercilessly on flat rainy roads, or doing a little fade-skid to stop at the very end of the commercial. Oh yeah, in tiny print at the bottom they say "Professional driver on closed course." like that makes it OK. If there's one thing car makers do NOT advertise it's how to drive safe. So just put a disclaimer at the bottom "This is really a 30-year-old man dressed up like a 2-year-old, on a closed course" and all will be well...
Why does it need more than a good battery to be practical? Are you saying you couldn't be bothered to plug your car in when you get home at night? Or even at work. Who cares if taxes the electric grid? We can deal with that. Emissions? It's easier to deal with emissions at a few centralized locations than 1,000,000 independent units. As long as it gets the Saudis' cocks out of our asses, I'm all for it. 100%.
The fix will be, "No More Software Players"... eventually. I'm actually pretty surprised they licensed software players to begin with, considering this is the exact same attack vector they used to break the DVD protection.
Good point, but this in itself does not necessarily implicate Dell. There are any number of reasons the laptop could have caught fire, without it being the laptop's fault directly. Or even indirectly.
Yeah. If she had just made a website with some pictures and a line that says "Results of operation, Jan 1 2006, Dr John Sykes." or something I would probably take her side. But her website is pretty blatant in purposely exaggerating her claim and sort of TRYING to defame the guy. I think she definately has the right to post her experience, but does NOT have the right to exaggerate her claim the way she does.
Yeah, and who really cares anyway? Ok, so they got a game to look good on PS3. That's what it's SUPPOSED to do. It's not like people are going to be like, "HOLY CRAP! Now that Oblivion will look good on PS3 I've GOT TO GET ONE!" Wiis are selling because they have something fun to offer. I can play Oblivion on my PC or Xbox360 already. I can't play Wii bowling on my PC with my buddies.
Well, not only that, but it has nothing to do with Windows and Linux. More like, Apache and IIS. You could run Apache on your Windows box, which I'm sure LOTS of people do.
You like Bingo??? HAHAHAHAHA. You LOSER! I'm in the Parcheesi Mafia and my crew would DESTROY you and your little Bingo dweebs ANY TIME, ANY DAY. You and your old-man stink homies will be crying, "B-I-N-G-Oh my god they've got fucking Yahtzee dice! Run!" Yeah, and you'd BETTER run or else we'll have to go Hungry Hungry Hippos on your weak asses. DO. NOT. FUCK. WITH. PARCHEESI. MAFIA. period. Especially on the third thursday of every month when we have our hardcore gangster playdates with the Light Brights. BOOYAH! We get ALL the fly hunnies, yo.
A real bomb is never designed to make itself presentable/noticable.
Now that everyone knows blinking lights != bomb, terrorists will start making bombs with blinking lights, safe in the fact that nobody will suspect it. People also used to assume that terrorists would never try to hijack an airplane with nothing more than box openers. I think a good strategy is "NEVER ASSUME ANYTHING ABOUT YOUR ENEMY"
I like BOTH kinds of music. Country AND western...
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I think a system like this might work if it has a user feedback system, where particular authors get a good reputation by positive feedback. So you know that an implementation is probably good if that author has good ratings. Think about system libraries. Nobody (well, mostly nobody) writes their own implementation of system libs, because they trust (usually) the implementation provided by the OS or the compiler. Why do they trust? Why is a Microsoft routine more trustworthy than S00p3rC0d3r's? Just because those functions have been tested by users over and over again. And they're (usually) well-documented.
Jeezus. Is there any single market that Microsoft WON'T try and get its grubby little hands into? I don't really get why companies like Microsoft need to invade every single market they possibly can for no other reason than "because it's there". They're like some sort of cancer. I wish they would just focus on making their OS and dev tools work. Every time my Visual Studio crashes, or my computer reboots without warning, and I lose productivity, I hate them a little more. Not because they are Microsoft, but because all their effort into trying squeeze every last drop of money out of every possible market takes effort AWAY from them making their other shit work right to begin with. How long have they been making OSes? You'd think that at least THAT would work right by now...
Yeah. For maybe $200 you can get a lawyer to send them a letter stating your intent to sue them for making your life SO miserable at work that you HAD to quit. Of course it's bogus, but it would probably make them sweat a little. $200 well spent.
A lot of the farmland in America didn't used to be farmland. It used to be forests and wetlands, VERY crucial ecosystems. Don't be fooled, just because it is farmland and run by farmers (and most of it owned by huge ag corporations) doesn't mean it is being taken care of, and not harming the rest of the ecosystem. Just because you are replacing plants with plants doesn't mean that is best for the surrounding areas, or the climate.
last I heard we don't have a water shortage here on earth.
Actually there IS a huge water shortage in many parts of America, especially in midwest farm areas. Where do they get their water? They divert it from rivers and streams, and in the process affect habitats and ecosystems over a HUGE area downriver.
Unless you are making those fertilizers from biopetro...
Or unless those chemical fertilizers are destroying the soil, increasing erosion. Erosion is another huge problem. There are organic methods to combat erosion, but you can bet that a company like Monsanto isn't going to employ them on their 10,000,000 acre corn-for-diesel fields.
Until someone produces an economical biofuel grown in salt water in the desert, biofuel production is about the worst thing we could do to our environment.
I'm not green or crunchy or a tree-hugger or anything, but I agree with the grandparent. This would be HORRIBLE, not because biodiesel is particularly horrible in itself (despite its particulate emissions), but because the people who would be operating the agriculture side of it are HORRIBLE corporations.
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For the system to work, players at multiple levels would need to get involved. Broadcasters would need to add identifying watermarks to their broadcast, in cooperation with copyright holders, and both parties would need to register their watermarks with the system
For all you know they have been doing this for the past 10 years.
Maybe they have a "Turbo" switch somewhere that will make my PC run even faster!
What I don't get is how this is different than any other car commercial where they do crazy shit with the newest hottest sports car. Like driving 100MPH down twisty country roads, or spinning around mercilessly on flat rainy roads, or doing a little fade-skid to stop at the very end of the commercial. Oh yeah, in tiny print at the bottom they say "Professional driver on closed course." like that makes it OK. If there's one thing car makers do NOT advertise it's how to drive safe. So just put a disclaimer at the bottom "This is really a 30-year-old man dressed up like a 2-year-old, on a closed course" and all will be well...
It's not really so much about the visiting, but the colonizing. They've have 10 billion years to colonize this part of the galaxy.
Why does it need more than a good battery to be practical? Are you saying you couldn't be bothered to plug your car in when you get home at night? Or even at work. Who cares if taxes the electric grid? We can deal with that. Emissions? It's easier to deal with emissions at a few centralized locations than 1,000,000 independent units. As long as it gets the Saudis' cocks out of our asses, I'm all for it. 100%.
But... does it run Linux?
It runs all possible operating systems at once, but once you type a command in the probability wave collapses and you're stuck using AmigaDOS.
I do not see a terribly effective fix for this
The fix will be, "No More Software Players"... eventually. I'm actually pretty surprised they licensed software players to begin with, considering this is the exact same attack vector they used to break the DVD protection.
Good point, but this in itself does not necessarily implicate Dell. There are any number of reasons the laptop could have caught fire, without it being the laptop's fault directly. Or even indirectly.
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I think scenario has much better movie possibilities.
Yeah. If she had just made a website with some pictures and a line that says "Results of operation, Jan 1 2006, Dr John Sykes." or something I would probably take her side. But her website is pretty blatant in purposely exaggerating her claim and sort of TRYING to defame the guy. I think she definately has the right to post her experience, but does NOT have the right to exaggerate her claim the way she does.
That's the best website she could make with $13million in her account???
Yeah, and who really cares anyway? Ok, so they got a game to look good on PS3. That's what it's SUPPOSED to do. It's not like people are going to be like, "HOLY CRAP! Now that Oblivion will look good on PS3 I've GOT TO GET ONE!" Wiis are selling because they have something fun to offer. I can play Oblivion on my PC or Xbox360 already. I can't play Wii bowling on my PC with my buddies.
"I designed WHAT?!?"
Mine will say, "Take off, eh, hoser!"
Well, not only that, but it has nothing to do with Windows and Linux. More like, Apache and IIS. You could run Apache on your Windows box, which I'm sure LOTS of people do.
You like Bingo??? HAHAHAHAHA. You LOSER! I'm in the Parcheesi Mafia and my crew would DESTROY you and your little Bingo dweebs ANY TIME, ANY DAY. You and your old-man stink homies will be crying, "B-I-N-G-Oh my god they've got fucking Yahtzee dice! Run!" Yeah, and you'd BETTER run or else we'll have to go Hungry Hungry Hippos on your weak asses. DO. NOT. FUCK. WITH. PARCHEESI. MAFIA. period. Especially on the third thursday of every month when we have our hardcore gangster playdates with the Light Brights. BOOYAH! We get ALL the fly hunnies, yo.
A real bomb is never designed to make itself presentable/noticable.
Now that everyone knows blinking lights != bomb, terrorists will start making bombs with blinking lights, safe in the fact that nobody will suspect it. People also used to assume that terrorists would never try to hijack an airplane with nothing more than box openers. I think a good strategy is "NEVER ASSUME ANYTHING ABOUT YOUR ENEMY"
It will succeed, just like Wal-Mart's DVDs-by-mail rental service.
I like BOTH kinds of music. Country AND western...
I think a system like this might work if it has a user feedback system, where particular authors get a good reputation by positive feedback. So you know that an implementation is probably good if that author has good ratings. Think about system libraries. Nobody (well, mostly nobody) writes their own implementation of system libs, because they trust (usually) the implementation provided by the OS or the compiler. Why do they trust? Why is a Microsoft routine more trustworthy than S00p3rC0d3r's? Just because those functions have been tested by users over and over again. And they're (usually) well-documented.
Jeezus. Is there any single market that Microsoft WON'T try and get its grubby little hands into? I don't really get why companies like Microsoft need to invade every single market they possibly can for no other reason than "because it's there". They're like some sort of cancer. I wish they would just focus on making their OS and dev tools work. Every time my Visual Studio crashes, or my computer reboots without warning, and I lose productivity, I hate them a little more. Not because they are Microsoft, but because all their effort into trying squeeze every last drop of money out of every possible market takes effort AWAY from them making their other shit work right to begin with. How long have they been making OSes? You'd think that at least THAT would work right by now...
Maybe my coffee just hasn't kicked in yet...
Yeah. For maybe $200 you can get a lawyer to send them a letter stating your intent to sue them for making your life SO miserable at work that you HAD to quit. Of course it's bogus, but it would probably make them sweat a little. $200 well spent.
I can't wait to eat a bowl of Deathly Hallows. I might even mix in some C3POs if I'm feeling saucy.
A lot of the farmland in America didn't used to be farmland. It used to be forests and wetlands, VERY crucial ecosystems. Don't be fooled, just because it is farmland and run by farmers (and most of it owned by huge ag corporations) doesn't mean it is being taken care of, and not harming the rest of the ecosystem. Just because you are replacing plants with plants doesn't mean that is best for the surrounding areas, or the climate.
last I heard we don't have a water shortage here on earth.
Actually there IS a huge water shortage in many parts of America, especially in midwest farm areas. Where do they get their water? They divert it from rivers and streams, and in the process affect habitats and ecosystems over a HUGE area downriver.
Unless you are making those fertilizers from biopetro...
Or unless those chemical fertilizers are destroying the soil, increasing erosion. Erosion is another huge problem. There are organic methods to combat erosion, but you can bet that a company like Monsanto isn't going to employ them on their 10,000,000 acre corn-for-diesel fields.
Until someone produces an economical biofuel grown in salt water in the desert, biofuel production is about the worst thing we could do to our environment.
I'm not green or crunchy or a tree-hugger or anything, but I agree with the grandparent. This would be HORRIBLE, not because biodiesel is particularly horrible in itself (despite its particulate emissions), but because the people who would be operating the agriculture side of it are HORRIBLE corporations.