If we aren't there to appreciate it implies that we 1) are there and/or 2) appreciate it.
Which begs the question: "If we aren't there and the universe is left without a single sentient species, would it be capable of giving a crap?"
Sometimes it doesn't make any sense to sell/buy...
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Everybody assumes that the very name "Unix" has value, but, like autographs collectors specializing in French Existentialist writers, it would have value only to them.
It makes sense to put the ownership up in a trust holding where it can't ever be used in this kind of gambit again and I suspect that a foundation will be set up for that purpose.
UMG to try to force Apple to keep FairPlay locked onto ANY music that is also available directly from UMG without any copy protection.
The unfair business laws are written for precisely thus purpose. UMG are looking at lawsuits the moment that this happens.
Apple can finally wave DRM goodbye (its going to allow Apple to keep their players going without having to increase their processing for another year or so, and you know what that'll mean to the bottom line.:-)
Look for an attempt at a "default re-election" for a third term under the guise of fighting terrorism and screw the constitution (which will be suspended under the guise of "a national emergency" after the NEXT attack by Al Queda, which I figure should happen next September or October, just in time to screw up the elections.)
The memory of father of statistical sampling is revered in Japan because he led them out of the 'schlock' era into the "Toyota" era.
China has not quite made the leap, but once they realize it, and the why of it, look for the rapid criminalization of what is fundamentally a criminal activity: IP theft.
That won't happen until enough people have died from using substandard crap though. Sad but inevitable. Specially as the Chinese don't really value life as we did. (Since Iraq, all bets are off. We're riding on our own coat-tails, and sadly, we're not quite making it.)
You sit around the office, and, after terrorizing the staff, snapping some bra straps to get some outraged growls from the old bidies, and making chains out of paper clips, you get bored and start making prank phone calls.
But they have to look like they are billable calls.
The winner of this week's calls is "Boss... I think we've got a case of infringement here..."
You're answer tells me that you are a total ignoramous.
What do you think bankruptcy means?
That you can just get back in your car (oh, that's been repo'ed,) and drive home (sorry, that's been sold out from under you for committing the one sin America does not forgive; being broke,) sit on your couch and watch TV? (sorry, that got sold at a garage sale to empty the place, your house was going on the block.)
Enjoy life in your new luxury cardboard box condominium; you [expletive deleted] and just to make you feel better as a person, remember, you're dying of some horrible and probably excruciatingly painful disease.
And best to you and your family as you take up your new residence below the rail-road trestle.
What an IGNORANT and ILL THOUGHT-OUT response.
Health care insurance is what we SHOULD be paying our taxes for, not blowing shit up and making sure that the rest of the world WANTS us dead.
I don't think we should be subsidizing unhealthy habits (like peanut butter and banana sandwiches after a whole rack of Kansas City ribs, [in my best Elvis imitation "Thank you, thank you very much":-])
That said, the determination of risky behavior becomes a problem.
If someone has a risk factor for something s/he has no control over, like coming from a family with a lot of cancer deaths, (or multiple sclerosis, or lupus, or polycystic kidneys, or ALS, or...)
Mind its better than the current insurance situation where they just don't pay.
Right off the bat, they refuse the expense. You have to prove that they owe you anything. Ever read your policy? Not the one you signed, the one that they mention that they can change at any time, the one that's in effect when you ate the trichinosis special.
You have to get pre-authorization for an ambulance ride (Like, you're supposed to know that the meal at this restaurant is going to give you food poisoning? But the place has [had] three stars!)
Health insurance for profit is the biggest sham you're dying from. (But America doesn't care about its citizens.)
I see every damn day, I am definitely more worried about something NOT being intelligent enough to carry out its job than I am worried about it being too intelligent to do mine.
While Moore's law is fine for the sheer number of components on a chip, its totally crap when it comes to predicting anything about what those components do.
I wish it were otherwise but I don't see anything on the horizon that's going to improve the situation.
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God damn it, I was hoping to sell my vote for a couple of bucks but now, I realize that some script kiddy is going to screw me out of even that little compensation.
Why bother even going.
So they tally way more votes that voters... Hwo gives a fuck?
It would take a revolution to make a noise in the media and you know Fox news would never run the story unless we were offering to give them video of Britney's bald head going down on the choef electoral officer.
be exposed to everything gradually (rather than at 18 when they're just going to rebel against their 'rents who kept them shielded [read pig-ignorant] and REALLY going to get in trouble because of their inexperience.)
This is the biggest hunk of crap since Mullah Omar's edict against music.
In fact, the theater should have been blown up as a tool of the Great Satan and of the godless west.
Mullah Omar would have had her shot in the head with a Kalashnikov in an ex-school-playground. (There are no secular schools allowed in the Califate, only Madrassa.)
Different strokes for different folks is all I'm saying here.
But the RIAA and MPAA would be up a fucking creek, wouldn't they.
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and I don't thinnk ANYBODY has the balls to open their fucking eyes.
The various **AAs will cling onto their methods because that's all their capable of thinking up.
I seriously doubt that they'll come up with a single original thought on their own. (They have done so in over a hundred years.)
I had to maintain some software that was running on a aging 370 mainframe. The 370 was emulating a 360 which was emulating a 1401.
It was pension and payroll software and it was legally blessed.
It was such a frigging song and dance trying to get anything done that it was cheaper and faster for the company to emulate their butts off rather than trying to go through the management and the unions and the employees.
But I did learn about optimizing instruction fetches by scattering the compiled code around the circumference of a magnetic drum so that the drum would have rotated around beneath the read head in time for the next instruction.
Try and tell that to the young people of today, and they wont believe you, eh Obadiah?
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I am appalled at the games being played by EVERYBODY in the telecom business.
What? Did someone hang a sign on my back saying "Ass rape me"?
If we aren't there to appreciate it implies that we 1) are there and/or 2) appreciate it.
Which begs the question: "If we aren't there and the universe is left without a single sentient species, would it be capable of giving a crap?"
Everybody assumes that the very name "Unix" has value, but, like autographs collectors specializing in French Existentialist writers, it would have value only to them.
It makes sense to put the ownership up in a trust holding where it can't ever be used in this kind of gambit again and I suspect that a foundation will be set up for that purpose.
UMG to try to force Apple to keep FairPlay locked onto ANY music that is also available directly from UMG without any copy protection.
:-)
The unfair business laws are written for precisely thus purpose. UMG are looking at lawsuits the moment that this happens.
Apple can finally wave DRM goodbye (its going to allow Apple to keep their players going without having to increase their processing for another year or so, and you know what that'll mean to the bottom line.
labor and demand a higher salary.
But that is China's situation and is rapidly becoming the case in the west.
But the way the politics are playing out here...
Look for an attempt at a "default re-election" for a third term under the guise of fighting terrorism and screw the constitution (which will be suspended under the guise of "a national emergency" after the NEXT attack by Al Queda, which I figure should happen next September or October, just in time to screw up the elections.)
The memory of father of statistical sampling is revered in Japan because he led them out of the 'schlock' era into the "Toyota" era.
China has not quite made the leap, but once they realize it, and the why of it, look for the rapid criminalization of what is fundamentally a criminal activity: IP theft.
That won't happen until enough people have died from using substandard crap though. Sad but inevitable. Specially as the Chinese don't really value life as we did. (Since Iraq, all bets are off. We're riding on our own coat-tails, and sadly, we're not quite making it.)
So your beratement of the poor schmuck is not quite correct (though it is well deserved.)
without my knowledge of who, what or where, just by going to work everyday.
1. Set up a surveillance society,
2. Watch everybody all the time,
3. ???
4. Profit
Steps 1 & 2 are already happening whether we want them to or not. Its a done deal.
But the greedy little prick wants to patent it too.
God I wish I had balls that big.
You sit around the office, and, after terrorizing the staff, snapping some bra straps to get some outraged growls from the old bidies, and making chains out of paper clips, you get bored and start making prank phone calls.
But they have to look like they are billable calls.
The winner of this week's calls is "Boss... I think we've got a case of infringement here..."
You're answer tells me that you are a total ignoramous.
What do you think bankruptcy means?
That you can just get back in your car (oh, that's been repo'ed,) and drive home (sorry, that's been sold out from under you for committing the one sin America does not forgive; being broke,) sit on your couch and watch TV? (sorry, that got sold at a garage sale to empty the place, your house was going on the block.)
Enjoy life in your new luxury cardboard box condominium; you [expletive deleted] and just to make you feel better as a person, remember, you're dying of some horrible and probably excruciatingly painful disease.
And best to you and your family as you take up your new residence below the rail-road trestle.
What an IGNORANT and ILL THOUGHT-OUT response.
Health care insurance is what we SHOULD be paying our taxes for, not blowing shit up and making sure that the rest of the world WANTS us dead.
I don't think we should be subsidizing unhealthy habits (like peanut butter and banana sandwiches after a whole rack of Kansas City ribs, [in my best Elvis imitation "Thank you, thank you very much" :-])
...)
That said, the determination of risky behavior becomes a problem.
If someone has a risk factor for something s/he has no control over, like coming from a family with a lot of cancer deaths, (or multiple sclerosis, or lupus, or polycystic kidneys, or ALS, or
Mind its better than the current insurance situation where they just don't pay.
Right off the bat, they refuse the expense. You have to prove that they owe you anything. Ever read your policy? Not the one you signed, the one that they mention that they can change at any time, the one that's in effect when you ate the trichinosis special.
You have to get pre-authorization for an ambulance ride (Like, you're supposed to know that the meal at this restaurant is going to give you food poisoning? But the place has [had] three stars!)
Health insurance for profit is the biggest sham you're dying from. (But America doesn't care about its citizens.)
I see every damn day, I am definitely more worried about something NOT being intelligent enough to carry out its job than I am worried about it being too intelligent to do mine.
While Moore's law is fine for the sheer number of components on a chip, its totally crap when it comes to predicting anything about what those components do.
I wish it were otherwise but I don't see anything on the horizon that's going to improve the situation.
squashed?
And what does every Linux web server come with?
RIGHT...
God damn it, I was hoping to sell my vote for a couple of bucks but now, I realize that some script kiddy is going to screw me out of even that little compensation.
Why bother even going.
So they tally way more votes that voters... Hwo gives a fuck?
It would take a revolution to make a noise in the media and you know Fox news would never run the story unless we were offering to give them video of Britney's bald head going down on the choef electoral officer.
up fine.
Where are you planning to have a CRITICAL MASS of voters?
I think I would give your voting booth a wide berth.
I can just imagine the reporters covering the explosion. (Well some of them will be doing it from afar and claiming a victory for Al Queda.)
"Pedro Sanchez" nominated and elected to the Federal Gummint.
Do you realize how many favors he would have owed me?
I would have been able to sleep with ALL of his sisters AND his mother AT THE SAME TIME.
Aw squat...
I'm getting a lot more accomplished without it.
End of story (speaking on which, try a book. You can put it down and pick it up again later.)
be exposed to everything gradually (rather than at 18 when they're just going to rebel against their 'rents who kept them shielded [read pig-ignorant] and REALLY going to get in trouble because of their inexperience.)
This is the biggest hunk of crap since Mullah Omar's edict against music.
she should not even have been in the theater.
In fact, the theater should have been blown up as a tool of the Great Satan and of the godless west.
Mullah Omar would have had her shot in the head with a Kalashnikov in an ex-school-playground. (There are no secular schools allowed in the Califate, only Madrassa.)
Different strokes for different folks is all I'm saying here.
But the RIAA and MPAA would be up a fucking creek, wouldn't they.
and I don't thinnk ANYBODY has the balls to open their fucking eyes.
The various **AAs will cling onto their methods because that's all their capable of thinking up.
I seriously doubt that they'll come up with a single original thought on their own. (They have done so in over a hundred years.)
If you believe anything that comes out of his cloaca, I've got a bridge to sell you...
Once again, Dvorak doesn't know what is happening or what people are doing with the Web.
I have never met anyone as consistently wrong as Dvorak.
How he hangs onto his job is beyond me.
Then again, I think anything he would actually write for is probably Rupert Murdoch style fish wrapper.
Yeah, John C. tell me again how Apple should be chopped up and sold off to enhance share-holder value.
You stupid cunt. Blinkered, Phillistine pig ignoramous.
Apple sleep functionality is not the problem, its Ubuntu's.
Apple's don't ship with Ubuntu so how could it possibly be Apple's fault?
The logs are permanent, unalterable and accessible to your forensic team.
Just cycle them between the burners and make sure that they get unmounted and stored safely.
I had to maintain some software that was running on a aging 370 mainframe. The 370 was emulating a 360 which was emulating a 1401.
It was pension and payroll software and it was legally blessed.
It was such a frigging song and dance trying to get anything done that it was cheaper and faster for the company to emulate their butts off rather than trying to go through the management and the unions and the employees.
But I did learn about optimizing instruction fetches by scattering the compiled code around the circumference of a magnetic drum so that the drum would have rotated around beneath the read head in time for the next instruction.
Try and tell that to the young people of today, and they wont believe you, eh Obadiah?