There are many artists who awnt this kind of protection for their music. They are stuggling to make ends meet and tak to fans who tell them they burned copies of their cd's and gave them to all their friends. These bands are on INDEPENDANT labels
i see your 5 artists and raise you 5000 who benefit by having their music shared. and i'm not being retorical either, i can start my list if you want to start yours. i myself had a band in high school, and we loved that people were getting our music on audiogalaxy.
fact is, bands make _much_ more money from concert sales that record sales, and sharing music has a huge impact on that.
but that's the same thing with the napster/audiogalaxy/kazaa/etc lawsuits. the companies themselves werent breaking the law, they're just allowing users to break the law. and they still got shut down.
not only that, but to fully utilize the entire resolution, it would have to completely fill your field of vision. that would probably require straping the screen to your face.
all too often they make a big production out of something that could have been disproven from simple logic.
that's true, but sometimes it's the results of those seemingly-predictable myths that are the most interesting, like when they get completely unexpected results. it's not very often, but when it does happen, in can be mind-boggling.
i read the same thing, but thought it meant they were sentencing people to become programmers.
"I sentence you to clean up this source code... Comments?! You expect comments?! This is maximum security, buddy, you dont get comments here. Maybe next time you think twice before stealing that cookie."
from what i remember, the machine has to learn your brain mappings, basically, in the beginning. you are asked to pretend you're moving your arm, and the machine tries to find what parts of your brain are firing, then ties those parts to the act of moving your arm.
so, no, theres no one-size-fits-all, it has to be individually tailored.
the article makes it sound like something changed recently, when i dont think it did.
"Until recently Linux desktop applications were not ready for consumption by the general public because"... However projects such as GNOME have introduced new guidelines to ensure consistency across common desktop operations, he said.
when exactly was this quote taken? what is he talking about, am i missing something?
granted, i havent used Ubutuntu, but i used Red Hat, SuSE, and Fedora as a desktop for a few years, and all were very easy to install and use.
IMHO, linux has been ready for the desktop for years, but the world just isnt ready for linux.
imagine what that would do for the spam/malware industry. instead of just providing you links to websites you dont want to visit, it will drive you to a store you dont want to go to.
i dont think that's right. i dont know the math exactly, but i dont think 2 objects can be moving apart faster than the speed of light (unless space itself is expanding).
there's no difference between 2 objects moving in opposite directions and only 1 moving and the other standing still. if that were true, it would be the same as if one object stood still and the other moved at 160% the speed of light, which is impossible.
remember, as you move, time itself changes (relative to whatever object youre moving relative to). the faster you move, the slower time gets. that's the reason you cant break the speed of light, because at that speed time stands still.
13.7 billion years is the best guess at the age of the universe now. that light arriving at us now is depicting the galaxies as they were 13 billion years ago, very close to the big bang.
i believe that around 380,000 years ago is the earliest we'll be able to observe, because before then, the universe was so hot that it was opaque, and no light escaped without being abosorbed by other particles.
i've thought about that too. it is pretty interesting.
if true, then our/their time would have to be reversed. the big bang would be at the collapse/creation of the black hole, so any black hole that exists now would mean that right now is actually before their big bang. and since matter continues to fall into a black hole after it collapses, that would mean that some matter actually comes out of the singularity before the big bang.
it could also mean that our universe is inside another, larger universe.
most of the list is pretty accurate, but i have some problems with a few:
8. Games look better
wrong. i dont think we need to debate this one.
9. Controllers are more comfortable
generally yes, but for certain games theres no (afaik) decent want to play them on a console, and most of the good console controllers have a PC equivalent (but there's usually a delay between when a console with a new controller is released and when an equivalent comes out on pc).
4. Lots of console exclusives
granted, but there's also quite a bit of PC exclusives. and many of the genre-defining games were exlusive to/first on the PC.
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but when i submitted it last month, NOBODY LISTENED.
i see your 5 artists and raise you 5000 who benefit by having their music shared. and i'm not being retorical either, i can start my list if you want to start yours. i myself had a band in high school, and we loved that people were getting our music on audiogalaxy.
fact is, bands make _much_ more money from concert sales that record sales, and sharing music has a huge impact on that.
but that's the same thing with the napster/audiogalaxy/kazaa/etc lawsuits. the companies themselves werent breaking the law, they're just allowing users to break the law. and they still got shut down.
i was thinking the same thing.
not only that, but to fully utilize the entire resolution, it would have to completely fill your field of vision. that would probably require straping the screen to your face.
yeah, i was talking about a different article. i figured it worked the same way.
i read the same thing, but thought it meant they were sentencing people to become programmers.
"I sentence you to clean up this source code... Comments?! You expect comments?! This is maximum security, buddy, you dont get comments here. Maybe next time you think twice before stealing that cookie."
from what i remember, the machine has to learn your brain mappings, basically, in the beginning. you are asked to pretend you're moving your arm, and the machine tries to find what parts of your brain are firing, then ties those parts to the act of moving your arm.
so, no, theres no one-size-fits-all, it has to be individually tailored.
MIT's Technology Review had a similar article in july.
the have videos (.MOV) of a patient controlling a computer cursor and a prosthetic hand
when exactly was this quote taken? what is he talking about, am i missing something?
granted, i havent used Ubutuntu, but i used Red Hat, SuSE, and Fedora as a desktop for a few years, and all were very easy to install and use.
IMHO, linux has been ready for the desktop for years, but the world just isnt ready for linux.
imagine what that would do for the spam/malware industry. instead of just providing you links to websites you dont want to visit, it will drive you to a store you dont want to go to.
i dont think that's right. i dont know the math exactly, but i dont think 2 objects can be moving apart faster than the speed of light (unless space itself is expanding).
there's no difference between 2 objects moving in opposite directions and only 1 moving and the other standing still. if that were true, it would be the same as if one object stood still and the other moved at 160% the speed of light, which is impossible.
remember, as you move, time itself changes (relative to whatever object youre moving relative to). the faster you move, the slower time gets. that's the reason you cant break the speed of light, because at that speed time stands still.
actually, i think because of the expansion of the universe, it was probably less than 13 billion years ago, but i'm not sure how much less.
13.7 billion years is the best guess at the age of the universe now. that light arriving at us now is depicting the galaxies as they were 13 billion years ago, very close to the big bang.
i believe that around 380,000 years ago is the earliest we'll be able to observe, because before then, the universe was so hot that it was opaque, and no light escaped without being abosorbed by other particles.
these books are actually banned? this lists sounds more like a list of required-reading books than banned books.
put Anarchist Cookbook on there. i dare you.
i've thought about that too. it is pretty interesting.
if true, then our/their time would have to be reversed. the big bang would be at the collapse/creation of the black hole, so any black hole that exists now would mean that right now is actually before their big bang. and since matter continues to fall into a black hole after it collapses, that would mean that some matter actually comes out of the singularity before the big bang.
it could also mean that our universe is inside another, larger universe.
didnt they say the same thing when some scientists were trying to create a mini- big bang in the lab? well, the universe appears to be unaffected...
it'd be interesting to see what happens the first time this thing goes off. how would people react? would they trust it?
even if i programmed it myself, i dont know if i'd trust it enough to risk mass panic by notifying others.
and it looks like FairUse4WM 1.2, which cracks the patch, was released on Sept 2nd. 5 days. your turn, MS.
that's no match for my paradox-absorbing crumple zones