Some people have sent a message to Steam's support and they have "cleared" the account so that they could enter a new North America CD Key. Additionally, people have been getting their money back from certain Thai sellers. Here's the http://www.fatwallet.com/t/74/772041link to FatWallet thread.
although the offer of copious amounts of downloadable content for Rock Band is tempting and easy to get excited about, it should be taken with a big, big big big grain of salt.
I have a Sony Ericsson w710i which has a pedometer (step counter). It's pretty accurate and I actually enjoy checking how many steps I've taken during the week/month or the average number of steps a day. It also helps get a rough distance between two places.
My mother runs a small business (lodging) in Texas. I was telling her one day about the RIAA's latest legal tactics and she told me about some letters and phone calls that she had received asking if she played music in the front lobby. She thinks it was ASCAP but isn't sure, but also said that other businesses (targeting the hotel industry) in the area had also been hassled. If she was playing the music in the front lobby (can't remember if it was any music or certain music), she was supposed to pay licensing fees to their organization.
I'm going to go ahead and give this article an F and ask for the last ten minutes of my life back.
The first thing about this summary that caught me was that it was tagged "science" and it was from "socialcomputingmagazine.com"
I then searched for links or references to journal articles or studies. Finding none, I assumed that this was just a "pop" article.
It seems to me that an article shouldn't be tagged as "science" when it's just an article from a "pop-sounding" website that doesn't have any references to any journal articles and doesn't contain any of these words/matches: science, study, studies, research, journal, APA, APS, or the name of a research institution.
So I saved ten minutes by not reading the article. (then lost those 10 minutes by reading your post and replying to it)
I read the quote in your post, "If enough people do it..." and I thought that was a very funny line. Then I read your post and I thought for sure that you had just been mistaken about his tone. Then I read the original post and unfortunately, I can't tell if he meant for it to be funny or not. Had he only used that one line, he would have gotten a +5 funny for sure.
I meant to go on to say that this is a reason that warranties (especially extended warranties) have little value. For all of these electronic products, if they decide to fail right at first, they're likely covered under a manufacturer warranty (that was "free").
If they decide not to fail at first and fail later, then here's what's happening: you either now have a product that is barely worth the hassle of returning because instead of getting a new item that's almost guaranteed to work (based on the percentage of brand new electronics that don't fail) you will receive a refurbished product. A refurb is one that someone else returned, and then the reconditioning team spent half an hour "fixing."
I'm pissed because I recently returned a hard drive that would have infrequent read errors (but in a server RAID situation) only to receive a hard drive that had frequent read errors.
HTTP taking over P2P? Pff...I knew that was false because I haven't heard of any great new pr0n websites that could overtake my torrent (pun intended) of P2P pr0n.
I very much agree with you about needing a well defined difficulty curve in video games. I also like how "political" video games are becoming more prevalent.
I too had an idea for a political video game, but it was about Virginia Tech and gun laws
Basically, you are supposed to play as the shooter (there's already a dinky flash game out there like that)
but the kicker is, before you begin, you're supposed to select the "difficulty" of the game
All "difficulties" would try to include realistic damage (headshots and center mass shots result in deaths, while other shots would be wounds...this would be important in the implementation)
Basically, you have to start out playing on "easy" mode which would mean that students are banned from taking guns on campus.
So basically you'd be free to run around without opposition until the police arrived
Medium difficulty would still have guns banned from campus, but students would be more aware about protecting themselves. In this case, more would carry mace and be more resourceful about barring doors and escaping. (I never worked out all the details).
The last "hard" difficulty would have have no law banning guns from campus and several students would be carrying weapons.
So you're supposed to play through and see how many students you end up killing on each level of difficulty. The thought was you'd find that you are likely to be stopped by other students (or at least held off until the police arrive) and not be able to kill as many people without having the gun restrictions on campus.
I have an Areca Arc-1210 card that can do RAID 5 with 4 disks. If one disk fails, am I able to keep working with the other 3 disks while rebuilding the 4th with a new drive. In other words, even if I didn't replace the 4th drive and simple took it out of the computer/array, the OS and everything would still be functioning--though it's recommended to replace the drive asap. So if I were to do RAID 6 (I'd have to use the 8 drive controller, arc-1220) then I could have two drives fail and the RAID array would still be working.
There is no conclusive evidence that cell phone radiation does harm as has been stated. First I'll start by clearing up a common misconception about "radiation." When hearing "radiation" most people think of the bad stuff that we've been taught to stay away from (the stuff that comes out of nuclear reactors and a-bombs). Well, electromagnetic radiation comes in many different forms from radio frequency waves to visible light to microwaves to x-rays to gamma rays etc... The radiation that we really need to be worried about is any type of ionizing radiation. What I mean by ionizing radiation is any wave (or particle) that have enough energy to penetrate your skin cells and and have enough energy to knock electrons off of atoms (making them ions--hence "ionizing radiation").
Gamma wave radiation is the highest energy radiation can easily knock electrons off atoms. Additionally, the two other forms of ionizing radiation that's concerning is beta radiation (high energy electrons), and alpha radiation (high energy out helium nuclei (just the protons and neutrons, no electrons)). Now, x-rays can also be ionizing radiation and they are particularly dangerous as well.
Ionizing radiation is able to split DNA in your cell and change it, causing a cancerous/tumorous cell to form. The new cell may be able to replicate and since it is not a normal cell, there's a good chance it will replicate at a greater rate than normal cells.
Microwave radiation though is in the non-ionizing spectrum (it is lower frequency and thus lower energy). It can not split cell DNA to cause cancer. Though there may be a way that it can cause cancer than I'm unaware of. All electromagnetic radiation can cause heating of materials. Microwave ovens use a very high intensity source of microwave radiation to heat your food (or anything that can absorb 2.4ghz radiation). Now, this large amount of heat can make cancer-causing materials in plastics to drip into your food (so don't cover your food with plastic wrap). But cell phones, they have a very small intensity compared to the mw-oven so that they do not cause very much heating at all.
Perhaps the small heating by cell phones does actually cause some kind of harm to us, but that's very doubtful because we are constantly bombarded with many, many forms of electromagnetic radiation all the time.
Hopefully this was informative as that was the intention.
He should make a religion that is devoted to the destruction of Scientology. I wonder what benefits he would encounter by being a religion. It seems that you shouldn't have any more rights being a religion vs being an individual, but for some reason, realistically I don't think that is the case. A religion threatening another religion is nothing new. (It's a stupid law, and he shouldn't have to go through the hoops I mentioned to have to get around it, but none-the-less it may be a way.)
Say we had a robot that could actually think (or close to it, maybe)
It's arm blows off. For what reason would it interpret that as the sensation we call "pain"?
If my arm blew off, I would be screaming in pain. Then I would think of the pain of losing my arm for the rest of my life. And maybe of how much surgery I'm about to go through to fix this problem and how much pain there is going to be involved in that.
The robot on the other hand, when it's arm blows off, it just thinks "I can't use that arm anymore to sense the world around me. Until that arm is reattached, I will have to use my other sensing mechanisms (other arms/legs, antennae, cameras, etc...)."
Just because the robot loses most of its legs and starts dragging itself along doesn't mean it's feeling pain, it means it is functioning normally (but not optimally).
Ok, my last thought is going to be another hypothetical; let's say the robot is programmed so that it could respond to certain inputs with what looks like emotions of pain. It's arm blows off and then it starts screaming, and suppose it's going to think about going back to the lab to have limbs reattached in "surgery" and what not. That "pain" can be turned off at anytime. Heck, you don't even have to hit the power switch, all there needs to be is a small bug in the program that throws it back into the non-painful state. In any case, the robot's pain can be turned off (reset, whatever).
Those are my thoughts, am I missing anything?
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Who fucks with a slashdot nerd with a 3550 index, anyway?
Slashdot Mirror
Some people have sent a message to Steam's support and they have "cleared" the account so that they could enter a new North America CD Key. Additionally, people have been getting their money back from certain Thai sellers. Here's the http://www.fatwallet.com/t/74/772041link to FatWallet thread.
Flamebait? Really?
Was that not funny?
Sarcasm doesn't translate well in text for some. I suppose that's why people often use "/sarcasm" at the end of their post.
As long as the aliens aren't Christians, killing them in copious numbers is ok. Says so in the Bible.
I believe that is a "Rock" of salt.
I have a Sony Ericsson w710i which has a pedometer (step counter). It's pretty accurate and I actually enjoy checking how many steps I've taken during the week/month or the average number of steps a day. It also helps get a rough distance between two places.
It doesn't do any other fitness things really.
Just thought I'd let people know about it.
My mother runs a small business (lodging) in Texas. I was telling her one day about the RIAA's latest legal tactics and she told me about some letters and phone calls that she had received asking if she played music in the front lobby. She thinks it was ASCAP but isn't sure, but also said that other businesses (targeting the hotel industry) in the area had also been hassled. If she was playing the music in the front lobby (can't remember if it was any music or certain music), she was supposed to pay licensing fees to their organization.
This was long, long ago--perhaps 25-30 years ago.
At about this point, in my profession, we would say, "you sir, have been pwned."
http://www.zentrack.net/
The first thing about this summary that caught me was that it was tagged "science" and it was from "socialcomputingmagazine.com"
I then searched for links or references to journal articles or studies. Finding none, I assumed that this was just a "pop" article.
It seems to me that an article shouldn't be tagged as "science" when it's just an article from a "pop-sounding" website that doesn't have any references to any journal articles and doesn't contain any of these words/matches: science, study, studies, research, journal, APA, APS, or the name of a research institution.
So I saved ten minutes by not reading the article. (then lost those 10 minutes by reading your post and replying to it)
That and a BluRay case has shit coming out its cracks.
I read the quote in your post, "If enough people do it..." and I thought that was a very funny line. Then I read your post and I thought for sure that you had just been mistaken about his tone. Then I read the original post and unfortunately, I can't tell if he meant for it to be funny or not. Had he only used that one line, he would have gotten a +5 funny for sure.
I meant to go on to say that this is a reason that warranties (especially extended warranties) have little value. For all of these electronic products, if they decide to fail right at first, they're likely covered under a manufacturer warranty (that was "free").
If they decide not to fail at first and fail later, then here's what's happening: you either now have a product that is barely worth the hassle of returning because instead of getting a new item that's almost guaranteed to work (based on the percentage of brand new electronics that don't fail) you will receive a refurbished product. A refurb is one that someone else returned, and then the reconditioning team spent half an hour "fixing."
I'm pissed because I recently returned a hard drive that would have infrequent read errors (but in a server RAID situation) only to receive a hard drive that had frequent read errors.
He's not getting a brand new 360 each time he sends them back. He's getting a refurb at best.
HTTP taking over P2P? Pff...I knew that was false because I haven't heard of any great new pr0n websites that could overtake my torrent (pun intended) of P2P pr0n.
I very much agree with you about needing a well defined difficulty curve in video games. I also like how "political" video games are becoming more prevalent.
I too had an idea for a political video game, but it was about Virginia Tech and gun laws Basically, you are supposed to play as the shooter (there's already a dinky flash game out there like that) but the kicker is, before you begin, you're supposed to select the "difficulty" of the game
All "difficulties" would try to include realistic damage (headshots and center mass shots result in deaths, while other shots would be wounds...this would be important in the implementation)
Basically, you have to start out playing on "easy" mode which would mean that students are banned from taking guns on campus. So basically you'd be free to run around without opposition until the police arrived
Medium difficulty would still have guns banned from campus, but students would be more aware about protecting themselves. In this case, more would carry mace and be more resourceful about barring doors and escaping. (I never worked out all the details).
The last "hard" difficulty would have have no law banning guns from campus and several students would be carrying weapons.
So you're supposed to play through and see how many students you end up killing on each level of difficulty. The thought was you'd find that you are likely to be stopped by other students (or at least held off until the police arrive) and not be able to kill as many people without having the gun restrictions on campus.
For the love of jebus, let us build stuff with lego blocks! Let me build my own house!
...but it's a pain in the ass to find the drivers for it.
I have an Areca Arc-1210 card that can do RAID 5 with 4 disks. If one disk fails, am I able to keep working with the other 3 disks while rebuilding the 4th with a new drive. In other words, even if I didn't replace the 4th drive and simple took it out of the computer/array, the OS and everything would still be functioning--though it's recommended to replace the drive asap. So if I were to do RAID 6 (I'd have to use the 8 drive controller, arc-1220) then I could have two drives fail and the RAID array would still be working.
"Um, sir, do you bank at Bank of America?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Is your password 'Snoopy67'?"
"No. It's the same as my luggage: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5."
There is no conclusive evidence that cell phone radiation does harm as has been stated. First I'll start by clearing up a common misconception about "radiation." When hearing "radiation" most people think of the bad stuff that we've been taught to stay away from (the stuff that comes out of nuclear reactors and a-bombs). Well, electromagnetic radiation comes in many different forms from radio frequency waves to visible light to microwaves to x-rays to gamma rays etc... The radiation that we really need to be worried about is any type of ionizing radiation. What I mean by ionizing radiation is any wave (or particle) that have enough energy to penetrate your skin cells and and have enough energy to knock electrons off of atoms (making them ions--hence "ionizing radiation"). Gamma wave radiation is the highest energy radiation can easily knock electrons off atoms. Additionally, the two other forms of ionizing radiation that's concerning is beta radiation (high energy electrons), and alpha radiation (high energy out helium nuclei (just the protons and neutrons, no electrons)). Now, x-rays can also be ionizing radiation and they are particularly dangerous as well. Ionizing radiation is able to split DNA in your cell and change it, causing a cancerous/tumorous cell to form. The new cell may be able to replicate and since it is not a normal cell, there's a good chance it will replicate at a greater rate than normal cells. Microwave radiation though is in the non-ionizing spectrum (it is lower frequency and thus lower energy). It can not split cell DNA to cause cancer. Though there may be a way that it can cause cancer than I'm unaware of. All electromagnetic radiation can cause heating of materials. Microwave ovens use a very high intensity source of microwave radiation to heat your food (or anything that can absorb 2.4ghz radiation). Now, this large amount of heat can make cancer-causing materials in plastics to drip into your food (so don't cover your food with plastic wrap). But cell phones, they have a very small intensity compared to the mw-oven so that they do not cause very much heating at all. Perhaps the small heating by cell phones does actually cause some kind of harm to us, but that's very doubtful because we are constantly bombarded with many, many forms of electromagnetic radiation all the time. Hopefully this was informative as that was the intention.
They're both the same if you look at them on paperwise
He should make a religion that is devoted to the destruction of Scientology. I wonder what benefits he would encounter by being a religion. It seems that you shouldn't have any more rights being a religion vs being an individual, but for some reason, realistically I don't think that is the case. A religion threatening another religion is nothing new. (It's a stupid law, and he shouldn't have to go through the hoops I mentioned to have to get around it, but none-the-less it may be a way.)
Say we had a robot that could actually think (or close to it, maybe)
It's arm blows off. For what reason would it interpret that as the sensation we call "pain"?
If my arm blew off, I would be screaming in pain. Then I would think of the pain of losing my arm for the rest of my life. And maybe of how much surgery I'm about to go through to fix this problem and how much pain there is going to be involved in that.
The robot on the other hand, when it's arm blows off, it just thinks "I can't use that arm anymore to sense the world around me. Until that arm is reattached, I will have to use my other sensing mechanisms (other arms/legs, antennae, cameras, etc...)."
Just because the robot loses most of its legs and starts dragging itself along doesn't mean it's feeling pain, it means it is functioning normally (but not optimally).
Ok, my last thought is going to be another hypothetical; let's say the robot is programmed so that it could respond to certain inputs with what looks like emotions of pain. It's arm blows off and then it starts screaming, and suppose it's going to think about going back to the lab to have limbs reattached in "surgery" and what not. That "pain" can be turned off at anytime. Heck, you don't even have to hit the power switch, all there needs to be is a small bug in the program that throws it back into the non-painful state. In any case, the robot's pain can be turned off (reset, whatever).
Those are my thoughts, am I missing anything?
Who fucks with a slashdot nerd with a 3550 index, anyway?
And Dell exponentially expanded when it went to the Internet. I think someone owes Al Gore a thank you. *cough* Michael *cough*