Uh what? You prosecute whoever set up the drug lab. If that's the owner of the land, fine. If the owner of the land didn't know, how does it make any sense to prosecute? Of course, it's a bit more complicated than "knowing"- people browse past JB all the time, not clicking it but seeing thumbnails.. is that possession? We need clearer laws on this to catch the pedophiles and keep everyone else out of jail.
case where you can't help but think "this can't be right".. making certain types of information illegal to possess just doesn't make practical sense in the context of the Internet, no matter how morally objectionable we find it.
Except the graphics kind of look like crap. If it's going to run at 16fps it better look a LOT better than traditional optimized rendering. But.. well, they're very low-res screenshots and the texture detail is Quake III at best. I kind of raised my eyebrows at a few of those ET:QW shots; the environments seem very sparsely populated by anything except solid geometry and the near-solid white skies reminded me of Halo 1.
Yeah, I don't know why the xkcd folks think they can just get away with this.. you can't just drive out to a random spot; that's called trespassing unless it just happens to be on public land.
Yes but they're just bits. Of course if a customer has access to a product (via bittorrent even) then they have a right to access it as they see fit. They're copying data around! Yes there was expense in arranging those bits but there's nothing special about them; it's just a gigantic binary number. You can at least understand the "oh COME on" and "give me a break"s coming from the digg crowd when the AACS LA claimed that 09F9 was a number illegal to possess. What about the ridiculous concept of an illegal prime? So is it that much of a stretch to extend that to copyright infringement?
You have a computer. Because it's a machine, it performs a task. The task that it performs, because it is a programmable computer, isn't set in the factory; it's set by the user and is not inherent in the chip. The machine will perform a specific task depending on which pins are active on the chip. By trying different combinations of active pins, you can get the computer to perform tasks in sequence and achieve larger goals. So how absurd does it sound to suggest an illegal combination of electrical signals? When you reduce it to that level, the level of an illegal number, or an illegal sequence of instructions, it sounds preposterous! Of course you can make the same argument for murder- how is it wrong to move a metal object through the space occupied by a human neck? It's just like any other space except currently occupied by flesh. That argument wouldn't hold up in court, but the the thing is it really does apply to computers. There's really nothing at all going on except bits flipping back and forth. This is a machine.
Exactly. If the Supreme Court feels this way about patents, then, "reasonably", they'll feel the same way about copyright. Now we wait for copyright to reach the supreme court.
This argument would suggest that a game like say Portal, which doesn't have an online gameplay component should always be free. There's more to steam services than matchmaking, like unlimited distribution at high speeds and steamcommunity/achievements.
just as consumers are entitled to pick their products and services based on what pricing they think is fair That's exactly my point; the most fair price for the consumer is free, and unless the product is an actual service that costs actual money that pirates can't possibly come up with (instead of just secret data that costs nothing to copy), the consumer will get it from pirates.
I don't feel for the publishers at all. Their software is an infinite good.. it doesn't make sense to charge for copies when it costs a penny to press a disk and costs a hundredth of that to offer it for download. Copying is non-destructive and game publishers lose nothing if someone downloads a game instead of going outside. Charge for matchmaking like Steam does. Provide an actual service instead of trying to keep a certain sequence of bytes a secret and hand it out selectively. That's just as offensive as 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.
Am I the only one here who's watched Ghost in the Shell S.A.C.? The internet doesn't make you stupider it just breaks down the walls of individualism. With increasing communication, humanity's thinking as a whole begins to move in the same direction.. minds develop exposed to essentially the same information and the same experiences, and so they develop identically and everyone starts to think alike. You have to turn to little sentimental items just to maintain your identity and keep from melting into the hivemind.
Search within those results.. who modded you up?! If you search your history for "forums" and then wanted to search those for "THE TEDDYBEAR THREAD" then -gasp- search for "forums THE TEDDYBEAR THREAD"
That's ridiculous! You start typing the URL, while glancing up to see if it's going to suggest an autocompletion. If it doesn't, then you just keep typing the full URL and shrug your shoulders.. maybe it's been more than 6 days or whatever the default is for keeping history. But if you start typing in the middle of the URL and it doesn't suggest anything, then you have to start all over, or hit Home.
Yes, a seamless FF2 to FF3 is exactly what I'm looking for. Javascript is slooowww in FF2, so slow that I really can't go back because it's noticable. But with FF3 I'm stuck with this funky awesomebar, a screwy theme (for Vista/Server 08), and all sorts of weird changes like the new unified History/Bookmarks organizer. Why can't they just optimize the heck out of the existing codebase, implement new and faster technologies on the backend, and leave the interface alone? Come on, if people want all sorts of crazy URL tracking capabilities, maybe they should use a less lightweight browser like Seamonkey or Opera..
I'm really annoyed by the new popup history/bookmars panel. Having the history open in the sidebar by default was fantastic and if you used "Sort by Last Visited" (which you should) then you can type in kittens or whatever and find it, just like the guy did with the 'awesome bar' in the demo.
New features like the AWESOME BAR? Sounds like an absolutely ridiculous failed candy bar name. Also nice vista basic theme- come on, Aero with transparency disabled is just as fast and not as OS/2.
I doubt it's collated from hundreds of stills. I bet someone just took a shot of the statues, took a shot farther out and lined it up so it smoothly tweens, mapped that onto a postage stamp, mapped that onto a letter.. and then just animate it digitally. All you need is to run a 2D graphics engine and use stretching to make the illusion of Z-axis motion (I didn't try it -no silverlight- but I bet there's no parallax). All the transitions seamlessly handled by image processing. Not 2 gigabytes of high-res shots taken at sllliightly different distances.
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Uh what? You prosecute whoever set up the drug lab. If that's the owner of the land, fine. If the owner of the land didn't know, how does it make any sense to prosecute? Of course, it's a bit more complicated than "knowing"- people browse past JB all the time, not clicking it but seeing thumbnails.. is that possession? We need clearer laws on this to catch the pedophiles and keep everyone else out of jail.
The captchas are often amazingly apropos.
Why don't you try writing your submissions intelligently and professionally?
case where you can't help but think "this can't be right".. making certain types of information illegal to possess just doesn't make practical sense in the context of the Internet, no matter how morally objectionable we find it.
yah the code for a lot of the final product has been available for years.
Except the graphics kind of look like crap. If it's going to run at 16fps it better look a LOT better than traditional optimized rendering. But.. well, they're very low-res screenshots and the texture detail is Quake III at best. I kind of raised my eyebrows at a few of those ET:QW shots; the environments seem very sparsely populated by anything except solid geometry and the near-solid white skies reminded me of Halo 1.
Yeah, I don't know why the xkcd folks think they can just get away with this.. you can't just drive out to a random spot; that's called trespassing unless it just happens to be on public land.
Open CL sounds really promising too-- it's very simple and way beyond anything nvidia has out.
Yeah.
He famously hated the idea of spooky action at a distance, and never accepted QM. He certainly didn't advocate it.
Yes but they're just bits. Of course if a customer has access to a product (via bittorrent even) then they have a right to access it as they see fit. They're copying data around! Yes there was expense in arranging those bits but there's nothing special about them; it's just a gigantic binary number. You can at least understand the "oh COME on" and "give me a break"s coming from the digg crowd when the AACS LA claimed that 09F9 was a number illegal to possess. What about the ridiculous concept of an illegal prime? So is it that much of a stretch to extend that to copyright infringement?
You have a computer. Because it's a machine, it performs a task. The task that it performs, because it is a programmable computer, isn't set in the factory; it's set by the user and is not inherent in the chip. The machine will perform a specific task depending on which pins are active on the chip. By trying different combinations of active pins, you can get the computer to perform tasks in sequence and achieve larger goals. So how absurd does it sound to suggest an illegal combination of electrical signals? When you reduce it to that level, the level of an illegal number, or an illegal sequence of instructions, it sounds preposterous! Of course you can make the same argument for murder- how is it wrong to move a metal object through the space occupied by a human neck? It's just like any other space except currently occupied by flesh. That argument wouldn't hold up in court, but the the thing is it really does apply to computers. There's really nothing at all going on except bits flipping back and forth. This is a machine.
Exactly. If the Supreme Court feels this way about patents, then, "reasonably", they'll feel the same way about copyright. Now we wait for copyright to reach the supreme court.
I don't feel for the publishers at all. Their software is an infinite good.. it doesn't make sense to charge for copies when it costs a penny to press a disk and costs a hundredth of that to offer it for download. Copying is non-destructive and game publishers lose nothing if someone downloads a game instead of going outside. Charge for matchmaking like Steam does. Provide an actual service instead of trying to keep a certain sequence of bytes a secret and hand it out selectively. That's just as offensive as 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.
Am I the only one here who's watched Ghost in the Shell S.A.C.? The internet doesn't make you stupider it just breaks down the walls of individualism. With increasing communication, humanity's thinking as a whole begins to move in the same direction.. minds develop exposed to essentially the same information and the same experiences, and so they develop identically and everyone starts to think alike. You have to turn to little sentimental items just to maintain your identity and keep from melting into the hivemind.
Quick, make it play tic tac toe against itself.
They're probably the only tech company who still uses it anyway. Or if they're not they should be. Let MS have it.
Search within those results.. who modded you up?! If you search your history for "forums" and then wanted to search those for "THE TEDDYBEAR THREAD" then -gasp- search for "forums THE TEDDYBEAR THREAD"
That's ridiculous! You start typing the URL, while glancing up to see if it's going to suggest an autocompletion. If it doesn't, then you just keep typing the full URL and shrug your shoulders.. maybe it's been more than 6 days or whatever the default is for keeping history. But if you start typing in the middle of the URL and it doesn't suggest anything, then you have to start all over, or hit Home.
Yes, a seamless FF2 to FF3 is exactly what I'm looking for. Javascript is slooowww in FF2, so slow that I really can't go back because it's noticable. But with FF3 I'm stuck with this funky awesomebar, a screwy theme (for Vista/Server 08), and all sorts of weird changes like the new unified History/Bookmarks organizer. Why can't they just optimize the heck out of the existing codebase, implement new and faster technologies on the backend, and leave the interface alone? Come on, if people want all sorts of crazy URL tracking capabilities, maybe they should use a less lightweight browser like Seamonkey or Opera..
You'll love it- I guarantee it.
I'm really annoyed by the new popup history/bookmars panel. Having the history open in the sidebar by default was fantastic and if you used "Sort by Last Visited" (which you should) then you can type in kittens or whatever and find it, just like the guy did with the 'awesome bar' in the demo.
New features like the AWESOME BAR? Sounds like an absolutely ridiculous failed candy bar name. Also nice vista basic theme- come on, Aero with transparency disabled is just as fast and not as OS/2.
I doubt it's collated from hundreds of stills. I bet someone just took a shot of the statues, took a shot farther out and lined it up so it smoothly tweens, mapped that onto a postage stamp, mapped that onto a letter.. and then just animate it digitally. All you need is to run a 2D graphics engine and use stretching to make the illusion of Z-axis motion (I didn't try it -no silverlight- but I bet there's no parallax). All the transitions seamlessly handled by image processing. Not 2 gigabytes of high-res shots taken at sllliightly different distances.
You mean the makes-actual-sense mentality?
What does this have to do with the word extreme?