I think the lack of resistance found on most modern keyboards is the catalyst.
I get amazed at the number of people I see with poor typing practices, and then they go complaining about wrist pain.
From my many years of piano playing, I got the "correct" technique for playing piano engrained into my brain. The technique seems to work well with keyboard typing too. Get your wrists UP off the table, and curl your fingers so they look like claws. Don't use armrests for your elbows. Your arms should be dangling loose, not resting on anything.
If you need a little help getting your wrist off the ground, move your keyboard to the edge of the desk. That way, you're forced to have your wrists up. You may find that your shoulders will get tired, but as they strengthen up it'll pass.
The broadcasters are also not getting the advertisement money since it is not a registered broadcast.
The TV networks were already paid by the advertisers the day the advertisers got their commercial on TV. It's not as if the advertiser has to pay the network $0.01 for every person who sees his commercial. It's a flat fee to get an ad in a certain time slot.
Sorry to tell you this, but iCrave is retransmitting *everything* the original broadcaster is transmitting.
Yes, that includes advertising.
Under Canadian law, iCrave is allowed to retransmit publicly broadcast signals provided the original content is not modified. And it isn't, so they're doing everything right and by the book.
In fact, they're sending the TV signals to even *more* people than the signal would have ordinarily have reached. So this means more people see the advertisements and the advertisers get more bang for the buck.
Calling this theft might be a bit too strong (and dead wrong).
I get a kick out of everybody on here bashing assembler. "Why don't you use a portable language?" they ask. Well, how are you going to compile a C program on a new chip if there are no C compilers written for it?
Hmmmm... I guess you'll have to write a compiler then. And how do you do that? Use assembly language. Most compilers out there translate source code to assembly then use a native assembler.
why in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and even the 1980s you could send all kinds of trash up there and it would just reach the destination at least somewhat all right?
You mean Apollo 1, Apollo 13, Challenger, and whatnot? Not to mention all of the rockets they *tried* to get into space before the Mercury project?
The UN was created after WWII to prevent WWIII. As such, the best interests of *ALL* nations, not just the US are taken into account.
coercing the U.S. into spending large amounts of our resources to aid the rest of the world
That's complete b*llsh*t. To start, the US owes the UN more money than any other country. I think they haven't paid a cent of the UN dues since the organization was started. And yet, they get a few "perks" out of it. The headquarters are in the US, so all the bureaucratic jobs to to American citizens. And, the US gets a veto power!!!
If you ask me, I'm surprised it's not every country *other* than the US that ignores the UN.
But remember that it works both ways. Your mentioning that having sex was disgusting can be considered discrimination. So I'd be careful and not prejudge.
But just a word of warning: You may have some difficulty persuading any court that your beliefs are justified. They just may say you are wrong and it's case closed. If they were to make amends for any and all minorities, the law would be thrown out the window.
I'm a sexualist, but I have a statuephile friend (it's hard to, seeing that the world is probably at most 1% statuephile), and many statuephile enemies.
I don't really have anything AGAINST statuephiles. I can't say I understand their philosophy at all. And I consider what they do -- abstinence from the intersection of human genitals -- to be absolutely disgusting. I consider sex to be the most glorifying thing in the world. But they have their desires, just as I have mine. So I don't criticize them. I do unto them as I would have them do unto me.
But do I get the same treatment in return? No. Because I prefer preservation rather than destruction, glorification over violation, I'm called a "bad guy", a "freak", "sick", etc. etc. etc. I've even been compared to a rapist! Try figuring that one out... next they'll be comparing Bill Clinton to a good president.
Anyway, just another example of the tyrrany of the majority. Anything that is normal is wrong. Anything that seems strange to them must be sick, twisted, perverted, and evil.
But regardless of how the two sides treat each other, there is one simple fact: SEX IS NECESSARY TO OUR WORLD!!! Sex creates life. Sex can cause accidents. But sex can cause death. Sex can spreads disease which are destroying millions of uneducated people and hundreds of neophobic cultures of this world. Not only practicing statuephiles are affected, the children of a statuephile could have invented a cure for these diseases.
Sex creates. The gratuitous sex in societies all over the world today result in millions of unwanted births and a population explosion that is rapidly creating more resources in our world. It can last forever. The statuephiles will eventually see the folly of their ways. But it'll probably be too late. (damn biological clock)
Sex euphorizes. Almost everyone in the world today engages in premarital sex, homosexual sex, or some other kind of sex that violates God's old guidelines, but he changed them some time ago. This has reached ACCEPTABLE levels. You're becoming a world of lost people.
And yet, anyone who doesn't buy into the destructive statuephile paradigm is a "freak." Sex gives. Sex heals. Sex clarifies. Sex compliments.
People are too guided by their over-large god complexes to even think about these things clearly!!! They see sexualists as a threat to their narrow-minded paradigm and immediately say "VILLAIN!!" "FIEND!!" "FREAK!!", then they go out, get drunk, and jerk off all night. All they care about is where their next bible-thumping period is going to be.
THAT is their life. Hollow, empty, just a constant quest for emptiness. That is the life of a statuephile. They refuse to see past their "I'm-better-than-you" morals and look at what they're DOING to the world. They refuse to look at the consequences of their stagnant lifestyles.
All I advocate is HAPPINESS. I envision a world ruled by thousands of happy, nude, teenage girls. It's a dream, but it's fun to think about.
And I'm some kind of monster because of this. Just look at all that's been said about me so far.
It's getting hard to care about the world. The statuephiles will never change. They'll never realize that what we REALLY need to do is band together, find a way to turn make love not war, and make it happen. In the Peace Age, the girls will be happy. The world will be happy.
Now, I know most people reading this are going to read it and say "his philosophy is something I've never heard before, and I don't agree with it, so that means he MUST be crazy." Typical Slashdot attitude. Typical WORLD attitude. We're all tempted to think like that sometimes. You guys in the minority have it easy. But please think about who you're judging.
when technology got the blame for creating nuclear weapons, napalm and other lethal killing devices
I know I'm a bit off topic here, but napalm has been around for almost a thousand years. Except when it was made it was called "greek fire". A bit different, I know, but the same principle. Burning sticky stuff.
On Canterbury Tales, however... I'm not terribly good at reading middle english. I can make out general contexts, but it usually takes twice as long as reading modern english. Any translations to modern english? Probably not on the i-net.
We are still in the infancy of cybernetics. I seriously doubt anything of the complexity of the nervous system can be artificially re-created and implemented in a portable compact model. I'm sorry, but I just don't buy that we can stick electrodes in the exact spot of the brain that controls, say, finger movement. Or more precisely, that controls a single muscle in a finger's muscle group.
I won't buy into this article until I hear about artificial limbs and eyes that work just like real limbs and eyes. Until then, I hold firm in my faith that the nervous system cannot be duplicated with wires.
Pretty much all of the surviving philosophical writings of the ancient Greeks
Alas, but I wish that were true. Try and find Lysistrata, the Sex Play. I have a feeling that it is banned along with a few other "morally suspicious" writings (e.g. Canterbury Tales)
Let's skip the sensationalism and figure out why they included this clause. As the law stands in Canada (and most other Common law countries), a minor *CAN* enter into a contract but is not bound by the terms in the contract. The other party in the contract, however, must fulfill the terms. Ouch. I could go and give you the name of the court case that decided this, but I left my law book at home.
So, Corel probably put this "over 18" clause in to scare away any minors that might be able to take advantage of the EULA. Of course, any minors out there could download the software and not be bound to the EULA since they are not bound to the terms in a contract. Ooooo a paradox! A minor can break the EULA, but to get the software they must be 18, but they can break the EULA, but... yadda yadda.
I don't think the lawyers were being "over-zealous", they were just trying to find a way to prevent a mishap by blowing smoke.
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I suppose when your body starts talking, you better listen before it starts shouting. :)
I get amazed at the number of people I see with poor typing practices, and then they go complaining about wrist pain.
From my many years of piano playing, I got the "correct" technique for playing piano engrained into my brain. The technique seems to work well with keyboard typing too. Get your wrists UP off the table, and curl your fingers so they look like claws. Don't use armrests for your elbows. Your arms should be dangling loose, not resting on anything.
If you need a little help getting your wrist off the ground, move your keyboard to the edge of the desk. That way, you're forced to have your wrists up. You may find that your shoulders will get tired, but as they strengthen up it'll pass.
The TV networks were already paid by the advertisers the day the advertisers got their commercial on TV. It's not as if the advertiser has to pay the network $0.01 for every person who sees his commercial. It's a flat fee to get an ad in a certain time slot.
Yes, that includes advertising.
Under Canadian law, iCrave is allowed to retransmit publicly broadcast signals provided the original content is not modified. And it isn't, so they're doing everything right and by the book.
In fact, they're sending the TV signals to even *more* people than the signal would have ordinarily have reached. So this means more people see the advertisements and the advertisers get more bang for the buck.
Calling this theft might be a bit too strong (and dead wrong).
Hmmmm... I guess you'll have to write a compiler then. And how do you do that? Use assembly language. Most compilers out there translate source code to assembly then use a native assembler.
So assembly isn't dead. It's just hidden.
Ummmm... Mel didn't use assembly, vi *or* a toothpick. He coded in straight binary.
You mean Apollo 1, Apollo 13, Challenger, and whatnot? Not to mention all of the rockets they *tried* to get into space before the Mercury project?
I'll bet it also had something to do with "Bore"-Land
eToys
Closer to $75, actually. A bit on the high-end of the spectrum of game prices, but still cheaper than MS-FS2k
Check out Flightgear.org if you're looking for a flightsim. It's still under development, but it looks pretty promising!
coercing the U.S. into spending large amounts of our resources to aid the rest of the world
That's complete b*llsh*t. To start, the US owes the UN more money than any other country. I think they haven't paid a cent of the UN dues since the organization was started. And yet, they get a few "perks" out of it. The headquarters are in the US, so all the bureaucratic jobs to to American citizens. And, the US gets a veto power!!!
If you ask me, I'm surprised it's not every country *other* than the US that ignores the UN.
IIRC, there's a law somewhere (maybe just a CRTC regulation), that you cannot have any more than 15 minutes worth of advertisement in an hour.
Your post could have been sarcastic, but if it was, I didn't pick it up.
By the way, CTV is not a Toronto network, it's nation-wide.
Okay, try to get from this page to the CIA homepage in 4 clicks.
It's alive therefore it's alive? Do I sense a self-referencing argument? *slap on the wrist*
But remember that it works both ways. Your mentioning that having sex was disgusting can be considered discrimination. So I'd be careful and not prejudge.
But just a word of warning: You may have some difficulty persuading any court that your beliefs are justified. They just may say you are wrong and it's case closed. If they were to make amends for any and all minorities, the law would be thrown out the window.
News for ya, your parents don't share your beliefs. Well, that's just a guess. Unless there was some form of immaculate conception...
Technically, people aren't even allowed to look at themselves in mirrors.
Dear Slashdot,
I'm a sexualist, but I have a statuephile friend (it's hard to, seeing that the world is probably at most 1% statuephile), and many statuephile enemies.
I don't really have anything AGAINST statuephiles. I can't say I understand their philosophy at all. And I consider what they do -- abstinence from the intersection of human genitals -- to be absolutely disgusting. I consider sex to be the most glorifying thing in the world. But they have their desires, just as I have mine. So I don't criticize them. I do unto them as I would have them do unto me.
But do I get the same treatment in return? No. Because I prefer preservation rather than destruction, glorification over violation, I'm called a "bad guy", a "freak", "sick", etc. etc. etc. I've even been compared to a rapist! Try figuring that one out... next they'll be comparing Bill Clinton to a good president.
Anyway, just another example of the tyrrany of the majority. Anything that is normal is wrong. Anything that seems strange to them must be sick, twisted, perverted, and evil.
But regardless of how the two sides treat each other, there is one simple fact: SEX IS NECESSARY TO OUR WORLD!!! Sex creates life. Sex can cause accidents. But sex can cause death. Sex can spreads disease which are destroying millions of uneducated people and hundreds of neophobic cultures of this world. Not only practicing statuephiles are affected, the children of a statuephile could have invented a cure for these diseases.
Sex creates. The gratuitous sex in societies all over the world today result in millions of unwanted births and a population explosion that is rapidly creating more resources in our world. It can last forever. The statuephiles will eventually see the folly of their ways. But it'll probably be too late. (damn biological clock)
Sex euphorizes. Almost everyone in the world today engages in premarital sex, homosexual sex, or some other kind of sex that violates God's old guidelines, but he changed them some time ago. This has reached ACCEPTABLE levels. You're becoming a world of lost people.
And yet, anyone who doesn't buy into the destructive statuephile paradigm is a "freak." Sex gives. Sex heals. Sex clarifies. Sex compliments.
People are too guided by their over-large god complexes to even think about these things clearly!!! They see sexualists as a threat to their narrow-minded paradigm and immediately say "VILLAIN!!" "FIEND!!" "FREAK!!", then they go out, get drunk, and jerk off all night. All they care about is where their next bible-thumping period is going to be.
THAT is their life. Hollow, empty, just a constant quest for emptiness. That is the life of a statuephile. They refuse to see past their "I'm-better-than-you" morals and look at what they're DOING to the world. They refuse to look at the consequences of their stagnant lifestyles.
All I advocate is HAPPINESS. I envision a world ruled by thousands of happy, nude, teenage girls. It's a dream, but it's fun to think about.
And I'm some kind of monster because of this. Just look at all that's been said about me so far.
It's getting hard to care about the world. The statuephiles will never change. They'll never realize that what we REALLY need to do is band together, find a way to turn make love not war, and make it happen. In the Peace Age, the girls will be happy. The world will be happy.
Now, I know most people reading this are going to read it and say "his philosophy is something I've never heard before, and I don't agree with it, so that means he MUST be crazy." Typical Slashdot attitude. Typical WORLD attitude. We're all tempted to think like that sometimes. You guys in the minority have it easy. But please think about who you're judging.
I know I'm a bit off topic here, but napalm has been around for almost a thousand years. Except when it was made it was called "greek fire". A bit different, I know, but the same principle. Burning sticky stuff.
On Canterbury Tales, however... I'm not terribly good at reading middle english. I can make out general contexts, but it usually takes twice as long as reading modern english. Any translations to modern english? Probably not on the i-net.
I won't buy into this article until I hear about artificial limbs and eyes that work just like real limbs and eyes. Until then, I hold firm in my faith that the nervous system cannot be duplicated with wires.
Alas, but I wish that were true. Try and find Lysistrata, the Sex Play. I have a feeling that it is banned along with a few other "morally suspicious" writings (e.g. Canterbury Tales)
Let's skip the sensationalism and figure out why they included this clause. As the law stands in Canada (and most other Common law countries), a minor *CAN* enter into a contract but is not bound by the terms in the contract. The other party in the contract, however, must fulfill the terms. Ouch. I could go and give you the name of the court case that decided this, but I left my law book at home.
So, Corel probably put this "over 18" clause in to scare away any minors that might be able to take advantage of the EULA. Of course, any minors out there could download the software and not be bound to the EULA since they are not bound to the terms in a contract. Ooooo a paradox! A minor can break the EULA, but to get the software they must be 18, but they can break the EULA, but... yadda yadda.
I don't think the lawyers were being "over-zealous", they were just trying to find a way to prevent a mishap by blowing smoke.