To make a point of the many contradictions existing between the old and new testaments is to miss the point: There's supposed to be a lot that's different in the messianic era of postjudaic tradition.
It boils down to a simple theology:
1. God creates free will
2. Creation abuses free will, God upset
3. God sends messianic figure to equalize cosmic scales of crime and punishment
Traditional Judaism takes place in #2 where God's not too happy, Christianity is #3 where He's settled down.
I've been trying to figure it out for weeks, and I haven't seen an actual quote from J Allard addressing it -- Yes, we know PlaysForSure hardware will NotPlayForSure music from the Zune store, but will Zune, despite this misleading headline, play PlaysForSure content?
If not, Leo Laporte's soundbyte from late in the summer about the Zune being "self-clobbering" will be right on the mark.
...this pretty much counts as the nuclear option in South Korea's war on cyberbullies. Sure, it should certainly annihilate the target, online bullying, along with legitimate criticism of the government, corporate and civil corruption whistleblowers, and, heck, probably even cybering rooms. It's a huge step backward for free Korean society.
On the plus side, I'm not quite so hopelessly envious of their median residential bandwidth anymore...
As more ripped-looking male elves have not tilted the highly female-favored Night Elf and Blood Elf populations, Blizzard is now announcing a visual change to the female elf models and textures, adding a perceived 60 pounds of body weight.
Players have quickly labeled this the "sexy-nerf."
I think there's a popular hope out there that perhaps this delay is brought about by uncertainty on Blizzard's part regarding the new UI restriction. Do a Google search for "WoW UI nerf" and you'll find huge, endless threads in which about five sixths of people (and about 95% of healers) rail against new restrictions in the scripting system that will break numerous existing addons, requiring raiding healers to multiply their mouse mileage during raids by orders of magnitude.
Now I'm a casual player (10 months and counting to 60...), so this doesn't affect me that severely, but I'm still playing a priest. While I was uncertain whether I'd ever get into raiding before...I think would clinch it.
Which would you prefer, mandatory backdoors at every point in the network where you never know if you're being watched, or a solution where, upon repeated e-mails with attached executables masquerading as the same nudie pics, you can kind of guess that you're probably being watched?
We cannot entirely trust Kim Jong-il to simply use nukes as a negotiation strategy, he may actually use them (and claim that somehow he was provoked).
Unless North Korea were to make its claim of provocation in the ten minutes between its launch and the impact of the retaliatory strike, how would anyone ever hear such a claim?
Google hasn't really promoted the brand of any previous acquisitions, such as Writely... Seems to me they've mostly just ditched an acquisition's brand name and assimilated its tech.
This then poses an interesting brand question: YouTube has, oh, about 10^4 times more brand equity than anything else Google has snapped up before, so how would we see this branded? Google YouTube? Google Video Powered by YouTube? YouTube powered by Google?
Everyone who buys content from, e.g., iTunes, knows exactly what the restrictions are.
Um, no. Most people I know who buy music from iTMS have no idea that just because their music plays on their iPod, it doesn't mean it will play on third-party devices. All but one of them just haven't run headlong into the problem yet.
Unless DVD Jon has a political, ulterior motive here, it seems incredibly counterproductive to the cause of user freedom to try and get more businesses onboard with the iTunes DRM. To do so is to ignore the real societal issue of DRM.
If you look at the Japanese market, you'll find that both Honda and Sony are making little androids already and they are not just doing that for fun. They are doing that because they seriously believe that they can sell millions of these things into the domestic market...
Unfortunately, the current state of robotics is, in terms of cost-effectiveness, about where computers were circa 1955. For example, Honda's "little android," the Asimo (at least according to Wikipedia) still costs about $1 million per unit to produce, and still can't even hold the door for you.
When they've come down about in price by about a factor of 10^3 and can actually hold a door open, the robot future will have arrived. It happened for computers and will happen for robots--it'll just take awhile.
...he'll roll over easy for this. I mean, if he's glad to pay $2-$4.00 for a little snippet of some crappy song to represent each one of the entries in his phonebook, that only annoys other people and can't even be transfered to his next phone, what will piss him off?
Everyone here seems to have already subscribed to this implied notion that a DAP, by definition, can only decrypt DRM of a single standard.
But think about it rationally--Why should Zune's firmware necessarily be so limited? Your computer can obviously run multiple DRMed players, so what evidence do we have that Zune's embedded OS won't be able to select from multiple encryption standards as easily as any DAP selects the appropriate codec to read an MP3 or WMA?
If simple people are forced to vote, they'll undoubtedly vote for whoever had the better campaign advertisements. Compulsory voting = even more private money-dependent campaigns. End of story.
Zune doesn't have to be revolutionary to succeed (which is good for MS, 'cause it isn't).
All it needs is to integrate a little better with the MS media household than Apple's product does. And that, I'm sure, it will do.
Aside from having de facto market share in the desktop OS market, MS has two things going for Zune: XP/Vista Media Center, and Xbox 360. If Zune is seen as an extension of these, and not as some vain attack on the iPod, I think it stands to do quite well among the users who have already invested in other elements of the MS-based media system.
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To make a point of the many contradictions existing between the old and new testaments is to miss the point: There's supposed to be a lot that's different in the messianic era of postjudaic tradition.
It boils down to a simple theology:
1. God creates free will
2. Creation abuses free will, God upset
3. God sends messianic figure to equalize cosmic scales of crime and punishment
Traditional Judaism takes place in #2 where God's not too happy, Christianity is #3 where He's settled down.
The idea that the possessors of 50% of the world's wealth pay 50% of its taxes sounds to me like the highly optimistic view of a populist idealist.
I'd love to be proven wrong, but I find it hard to believe the global tax burden actually falls so evenly.
And so has Blender.
Maybe they could shift it into the now-deprecated (post-Zune) "ForSure" brandspace with the gentle-or-ominous name of "GenuineForSure"?
...a part of your body, just by chance, has a coincidental resonant frequency?
Only one institution in this world could possibly outweigh porn in terms of sheer volume...
Bureaucracy!
I think you'd agree the art in the Zune installer is pretty edgy!
I've been trying to figure it out for weeks, and I haven't seen an actual quote from J Allard addressing it -- Yes, we know PlaysForSure hardware will NotPlayForSure music from the Zune store, but will Zune, despite this misleading headline, play PlaysForSure content?
If not, Leo Laporte's soundbyte from late in the summer about the Zune being "self-clobbering" will be right on the mark.
...this pretty much counts as the nuclear option in South Korea's war on cyberbullies. Sure, it should certainly annihilate the target, online bullying, along with legitimate criticism of the government, corporate and civil corruption whistleblowers, and, heck, probably even cybering rooms. It's a huge step backward for free Korean society.
On the plus side, I'm not quite so hopelessly envious of their median residential bandwidth anymore...
"Hey, dude, where y'at?" "Fifth and State." "'K, it's in my TomTom. See ya soon."
February 12, 2007
As more ripped-looking male elves have not tilted the highly female-favored Night Elf and Blood Elf populations, Blizzard is now announcing a visual change to the female elf models and textures, adding a perceived 60 pounds of body weight.
Players have quickly labeled this the "sexy-nerf."
I think there's a popular hope out there that perhaps this delay is brought about by uncertainty on Blizzard's part regarding the new UI restriction. Do a Google search for "WoW UI nerf" and you'll find huge, endless threads in which about five sixths of people (and about 95% of healers) rail against new restrictions in the scripting system that will break numerous existing addons, requiring raiding healers to multiply their mouse mileage during raids by orders of magnitude. Now I'm a casual player (10 months and counting to 60...), so this doesn't affect me that severely, but I'm still playing a priest. While I was uncertain whether I'd ever get into raiding before...I think would clinch it.
They want to see 100 hours of gameplay? Now we'll have a legal precedent for more jumping puzzles!
Which would you prefer, mandatory backdoors at every point in the network where you never know if you're being watched, or a solution where, upon repeated e-mails with attached executables masquerading as the same nudie pics, you can kind of guess that you're probably being watched?
Google hasn't really promoted the brand of any previous acquisitions, such as Writely... Seems to me they've mostly just ditched an acquisition's brand name and assimilated its tech.
This then poses an interesting brand question: YouTube has, oh, about 10^4 times more brand equity than anything else Google has snapped up before, so how would we see this branded? Google YouTube? Google Video Powered by YouTube? YouTube powered by Google?
Unless DVD Jon has a political, ulterior motive here, it seems incredibly counterproductive to the cause of user freedom to try and get more businesses onboard with the iTunes DRM. To do so is to ignore the real societal issue of DRM.
Unfortunately, the current state of robotics is, in terms of cost-effectiveness, about where computers were circa 1955. For example, Honda's "little android," the Asimo (at least according to Wikipedia) still costs about $1 million per unit to produce, and still can't even hold the door for you.
When they've come down about in price by about a factor of 10^3 and can actually hold a door open, the robot future will have arrived. It happened for computers and will happen for robots--it'll just take awhile.
...he'll roll over easy for this. I mean, if he's glad to pay $2-$4.00 for a little snippet of some crappy song to represent each one of the entries in his phonebook, that only annoys other people and can't even be transfered to his next phone, what will piss him off?
Everyone here seems to have already subscribed to this implied notion that a DAP, by definition, can only decrypt DRM of a single standard.
But think about it rationally--Why should Zune's firmware necessarily be so limited? Your computer can obviously run multiple DRMed players, so what evidence do we have that Zune's embedded OS won't be able to select from multiple encryption standards as easily as any DAP selects the appropriate codec to read an MP3 or WMA?
If simple people are forced to vote, they'll undoubtedly vote for whoever had the better campaign advertisements. Compulsory voting = even more private money-dependent campaigns. End of story.
I find the choice of headline for this article a bit curious. Rather than call Ive a "design wizard," he's called a "design magician."
A wizard is one who bends mysterious forces to his will. A magician is someone who creates illusions of this through the art of distraction.
Is this title secretly alleging that Ive's design portfolio consists more of triumphs of form than of function?
It's one of context.
Zune doesn't have to be revolutionary to succeed (which is good for MS, 'cause it isn't).
All it needs is to integrate a little better with the MS media household than Apple's product does. And that, I'm sure, it will do.
Aside from having de facto market share in the desktop OS market, MS has two things going for Zune: XP/Vista Media Center, and Xbox 360. If Zune is seen as an extension of these, and not as some vain attack on the iPod, I think it stands to do quite well among the users who have already invested in other elements of the MS-based media system.
The principal holds a lunch meeting, and runs out on stage shouting,
"EDUCATORS! EDUCATORS! EDUCATORS!"