I don't get the pissing and moaning from my fellow techies on this one.[...]
But this is more like an appliance than a full fledged computer
It's a computer that happens to be a phone and fits in your pocket. Except this model isn't a phone, and doesn't fit in your pocket, so it's just a computer. The emperor is naked!
it most likely does lead to more sales from the pirates front as they can't play the game otherwise.
I seriously doubt this. Pirates are after free stuff. Even ye olde sea pirates were after free stuff. It's not like they'd say "Yarr, we haven't found a spice merchant ship to raid in over a month, lets go legally buy some spices at port and sell them at another port." No, they'd just go raid a small village somewhere.
This type of DRM will cause nothing but loss for Ubisoft. They spent money to make it (or license it), pirates will move elsewhere, and people that would have bought it will be reduced in number because they hear from their friends "It never lets me play!", assuming they didn't hear from their techy friends that "It won't let you play some day".
So let's say they have 3000 people on the terrorist watchlist... They expect security staff to know how each of these people look, their age, and travel histories?
Imagine all of the people you know from highschool, college, former workplaces, etc. I'm certain you've run into them somewhere else before, and even though many years have passed, and you only had a fleeting familiarity with them ("that's the guy in the yearbook next to the hot girl from my physics class"), you still recognized them, at least to a "I know this person" gut feeling. That level can be reached by just reading a book and memorizing some photos. And it's enough to start some further investigation. And if there are actually 12,000 people on the watchlist, you can have 5 agents at the gate, each who has been memorizing an overlapping portion of the watchlist (level A agents know people 1-3000 etc; and gate must have ABCDE agents present), so that when one or two people at the gate see someone that strikes a "he's on the watchlist" memory, they can say "please step over here sir".
Sure, not perfect by a longshot, which is why "please step over here sir" isn't "Everybody Freeze! That man is #3 on the most wanted list, and wanted dead or alive!" BANG BANG! *pause* BANG BANG BANG BANG!
I'm pretty far away in New Zealand, but I look at your constitution and then I look at what your government is dong and I have true respect for those among you whose eyes are open and are fighting to reclaim the freedom you should be entitled to as an American. We don't have anything nearly as powerful to protect our freedoms in the rest of the world
The Constitution, just like GWB said, is "just a piece of paper". It has no power to protect any freedoms at all. It is the people's (and government's) desire to follow the ideas written in the Constitution that has power to protect freedom, but even that is limited. Belief without action is pointless.
fight to keep yours.
Now we get to where freedom is really defended. All too often throughout history, there are examples of freedoms lost because the people were unable to (effectively) fight, usually accomplished by outlawing weaponry for the general populace (swords/spears/bows/crossbows back long ago, guns today). This is why the citizens of the U.S. keep requiring the right to bear arms, even if it's a right that we have to demand be recognized by holding the government at gunpoint. It's not intended to be a right for self-defense against fellow citizens, it's intended to be a right for citizens' defense against a totalitarian ruler. Self-defense is a happy by-product, and violent crime with those same weapons is an unhappy one. But neither by-product should be used in determining whether the right should be taken away from the populace.
why would they search Karttunen's house after arresting the guy he was trying to frame?
The guy being framed probably filed a police report on the theft.
Even if he didn't, the police might have been suspicious by the anonymous delivery, and asked him if he had any enemies. "Well, there's this guy at my wife's work who gives me the evil-eye at her company picnics, and we sometimes see him walking in our neighborhood or when we're out to a restaurant."
And the auto-loading audio. Of course, good luck getting them to sync. Also, animated gifs above a certain size don't open past the first frame on iPhoneOS Safari.
pdfedit and pdfcube with Ubuntu 9.10 also appear to be immune (also tested evince and xpdf). pdfedit should get an honorable mention for clearly showing the commands in the edit fields
Never played it, but I'm betting if you don't spend time tending your crops, they die in real-world time. I used to play a diku-mud fifteen years ago where you were charged "rent" for your equipment on a real-world basis. If you stopped playing for a while, you lost your equipment when your gold ran out. So, I used a HDD syncing bug to my advantage to clone equipment (specifically diamonds) to sell at local shops to get enough gold to last a long while. But I still got addicted because of the "gotta help my 'friends'" aspect.
Well, from film to film he somewhat increased the amount of destruction. How he will ever top 2012 in that regard is unclear to me. But hey, Emmerich is basically making disaster porn... You are not saying that anyone watches that stuff for the storý, are you?
In ID4 2 (ID5?), we take the fight to the aliens' conquered planets. We destroy more than one planet! That's how the devastation increases. In ID6, Humanity destroys the aliens' whole home galaxy. 'Cause we're that cool.
So conduct the exact same experiment with different questions like non-moral financial "could have beens".
"Fred invested all of his money into one stock and got 100% return. Bill invested gradually with dollar cost averaging using a fixed percentage of income and got a 35% return. Whose strategy is more sound?
In Portugal I saw a cute system - if you pass a sensor driving faster than the speed limit, then a traffic signal 200yards/metres down the road turns red for 10 seconds, making you (and again anyone behind you) stop.
In the US, we have a similar system. The lights are timed almost everywhere for 5 mph over the speed limit. ie, if you travel the speed limit, you get stopped several times on the way, but if you go at least +5mph, you get green lights the whole way. In some rare places, there is a small stretch where an extra +5mph (+10mph total) needs to be applied to get the green light (then slow back to just +5mph). This is why police are always driving +5mph, and usually don't pull you over for doing the same unless you're in the +10mph zone.
However, I don't know how likely that scenario is, as you have friends (hopefully) that use Facebook, and they would surely at some point want to discuss something posted to your Facebook account.
Which could be awkward... "You know, you're not supposed to take photos at the clan rallies or tag people. We wear masks for a reason" "Umm... wha??"
In SGI's case, I'd say it's more like "Any company that realizes they can't sell $10k IRIX workstations anymore and decides to base their new business strategy on the moronic idea that they can sell $10k WinNT workstations instead is mere months from going down the crapper".
Hey, our CS profs did their part. We had two of those beasts. Installing Win2k required installing NT4 first, then upgrading because of the HAL, and RedHat would only partially run (I forget the details). They were also using super noisy drives.
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I don't get the pissing and moaning from my fellow techies on this one.[...]
But this is more like an appliance than a full fledged computer
It's a computer that happens to be a phone and fits in your pocket. Except this model isn't a phone, and doesn't fit in your pocket, so it's just a computer. The emperor is naked!
it most likely does lead to more sales from the pirates front as they can't play the game otherwise.
I seriously doubt this. Pirates are after free stuff. Even ye olde sea pirates were after free stuff. It's not like they'd say "Yarr, we haven't found a spice merchant ship to raid in over a month, lets go legally buy some spices at port and sell them at another port." No, they'd just go raid a small village somewhere.
This type of DRM will cause nothing but loss for Ubisoft. They spent money to make it (or license it), pirates will move elsewhere, and people that would have bought it will be reduced in number because they hear from their friends "It never lets me play!", assuming they didn't hear from their techy friends that "It won't let you play some day".
This is typical Apple behavior.
No murders took place.
So let's say they have 3000 people on the terrorist watchlist... They expect security staff to know how each of these people look, their age, and travel histories?
Imagine all of the people you know from highschool, college, former workplaces, etc. I'm certain you've run into them somewhere else before, and even though many years have passed, and you only had a fleeting familiarity with them ("that's the guy in the yearbook next to the hot girl from my physics class"), you still recognized them, at least to a "I know this person" gut feeling. That level can be reached by just reading a book and memorizing some photos. And it's enough to start some further investigation. And if there are actually 12,000 people on the watchlist, you can have 5 agents at the gate, each who has been memorizing an overlapping portion of the watchlist (level A agents know people 1-3000 etc; and gate must have ABCDE agents present), so that when one or two people at the gate see someone that strikes a "he's on the watchlist" memory, they can say "please step over here sir".
Sure, not perfect by a longshot, which is why "please step over here sir" isn't "Everybody Freeze! That man is #3 on the most wanted list, and wanted dead or alive!" BANG BANG! *pause* BANG BANG BANG BANG!
I'm pretty far away in New Zealand, but I look at your constitution and then I look at what your government is dong and I have true respect for those among you whose eyes are open and are fighting to reclaim the freedom you should be entitled to as an American. We don't have anything nearly as powerful to protect our freedoms in the rest of the world
The Constitution, just like GWB said, is "just a piece of paper". It has no power to protect any freedoms at all. It is the people's (and government's) desire to follow the ideas written in the Constitution that has power to protect freedom, but even that is limited. Belief without action is pointless.
fight to keep yours.
Now we get to where freedom is really defended. All too often throughout history, there are examples of freedoms lost because the people were unable to (effectively) fight, usually accomplished by outlawing weaponry for the general populace (swords/spears/bows/crossbows back long ago, guns today). This is why the citizens of the U.S. keep requiring the right to bear arms, even if it's a right that we have to demand be recognized by holding the government at gunpoint. It's not intended to be a right for self-defense against fellow citizens, it's intended to be a right for citizens' defense against a totalitarian ruler. Self-defense is a happy by-product, and violent crime with those same weapons is an unhappy one. But neither by-product should be used in determining whether the right should be taken away from the populace.
why would they search Karttunen's house after arresting the guy he was trying to frame?
The guy being framed probably filed a police report on the theft.
Even if he didn't, the police might have been suspicious by the anonymous delivery, and asked him if he had any enemies. "Well, there's this guy at my wife's work who gives me the evil-eye at her company picnics, and we sometimes see him walking in our neighborhood or when we're out to a restaurant."
Anyone else accidentally read the title as "US Changes How Air Travelers Are Screwed"? Hurray for context-induced mental spelling correction!
You probably never had a 486-120. For its time, it was a SCREAMER :-)
No joke. I had to live in an apartment next door to one.
And the auto-loading audio. Of course, good luck getting them to sync. Also, animated gifs above a certain size don't open past the first frame on iPhoneOS Safari.
Peri Fleisher made them do it after six grueling years of legal battles. They are saving face and saying "We wanted to change our name"
I love Gnome, but is looks so outdated these days...
All the cool UIs have buttons on the left. Someone should do that for Gnome.
Evince on Microsoft Windows(R) now includes support for printing, PostScript and comics.
Now I know it's April 1st.
The "paywall" is an http auth? Why use a paywall for an April Fools joke? Oh, so you only have to fake the summary. Brilliant!
pdfedit and pdfcube with Ubuntu 9.10 also appear to be immune (also tested evince and xpdf). pdfedit should get an honorable mention for clearly showing the commands in the edit fields
Never played it, but I'm betting if you don't spend time tending your crops, they die in real-world time. I used to play a diku-mud fifteen years ago where you were charged "rent" for your equipment on a real-world basis. If you stopped playing for a while, you lost your equipment when your gold ran out. So, I used a HDD syncing bug to my advantage to clone equipment (specifically diamonds) to sell at local shops to get enough gold to last a long while. But I still got addicted because of the "gotta help my 'friends'" aspect.
Well, from film to film he somewhat increased the amount of destruction. How he will ever top 2012 in that regard is unclear to me. But hey, Emmerich is basically making disaster porn... You are not saying that anyone watches that stuff for the storý, are you?
In ID4 2 (ID5?), we take the fight to the aliens' conquered planets. We destroy more than one planet! That's how the devastation increases. In ID6, Humanity destroys the aliens' whole home galaxy. 'Cause we're that cool.
So conduct the exact same experiment with different questions like non-moral financial "could have beens".
"Fred invested all of his money into one stock and got 100% return. Bill invested gradually with dollar cost averaging using a fixed percentage of income and got a 35% return. Whose strategy is more sound?
you seem to think that North America = USA + Canada = the entire world
Did your silly Canadian schools teach you differently? Repent of your ways or be sent to Mexico!
In Portugal I saw a cute system - if you pass a sensor driving faster than the speed limit, then a traffic signal 200yards/metres down the road turns red for 10 seconds, making you (and again anyone behind you) stop.
In the US, we have a similar system. The lights are timed almost everywhere for 5 mph over the speed limit. ie, if you travel the speed limit, you get stopped several times on the way, but if you go at least +5mph, you get green lights the whole way. In some rare places, there is a small stretch where an extra +5mph (+10mph total) needs to be applied to get the green light (then slow back to just +5mph). This is why police are always driving +5mph, and usually don't pull you over for doing the same unless you're in the +10mph zone.
Sweat.
volunteers were more likely to judge actions solely on the basis of whether they caused harm -- not whether they were morally wrong in themselves
Short of a Doctorate of Philosophy in Ethics, what's the difference?
He's going to need a powerful moongate to get there.
Will the advertisements also notice the look of purest hate in my eyes as they try to foist their crap on me for the thousandth time? I hope so.
User #9624609 is squinting with more interest every time we repeat the ads. Send him five more.
However, I don't know how likely that scenario is, as you have friends (hopefully) that use Facebook, and they would surely at some point want to discuss something posted to your Facebook account.
Which could be awkward... "You know, you're not supposed to take photos at the clan rallies or tag people. We wear masks for a reason" "Umm... wha??"
In SGI's case, I'd say it's more like "Any company that realizes they can't sell $10k IRIX workstations anymore and decides to base their new business strategy on the moronic idea that they can sell $10k WinNT workstations instead is mere months from going down the crapper".
Hey, our CS profs did their part. We had two of those beasts. Installing Win2k required installing NT4 first, then upgrading because of the HAL, and RedHat would only partially run (I forget the details). They were also using super noisy drives.