wow, im sorry to hear that but even you have to admit that you are on the statistically short end of the stick here. It is fairly unusual for anyone not involved in AIDS care to know that many people with HIV.
There are plenty of reasons to use nylon ropes but its not the best for every application. Certainly for climbing it is superior. Its strength to weight ratio is fantastic. but frankly, when it comes to tying a knot I would take hemp fiber rope over just about anything else. Its hold on in these knots is fantastic compared to cotton or even nylon ropes.
Sure, when it comes to hanging off a cliff I will always take the nylon climbing rope, but for may applications hemp (or manila these days) rope is the right tool for the job. Never mind that for non life and death applications it is the much cheaper option.
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Well as long as it has no impact on any media other than the HD-DVDs and BlueRay DVDs I guess I really dont care that much about how many hoops they have to jump through. Its a shame that both Apple and MS have to do this but clearly consumers are going to want support for these formats.
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yea... I agree... I just find it funny that people take this same argument against apple and their DRM.
I am a bit concerned however, about the level of DRM in vista. Its not just the basics of implementing something like DeCSS (and making sure a system level debugger isnt installed) but it goes further (as I understand it) to lock down the whole multi-media system from end to end. Now I understand this, because one could intercept the data from the HD-DVD and use it but it does seem a little more extreme than what is necessary to stop casual piracy. I wonder how much of this is a requirement of the format and how much MS did on their own to get in with the content producers. It will be intersting to look at apples implantation and see if their protections are more like the ones in the Apple DVD player or like the ones in vista.
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I dont know... its not like MS couldn't have just said no to the DRM. So HD-DVDs and Blue-Ray disks wont play on windows its not like everyone is going to go out and get a mac just to play those disks.
People give apple a hard time about the DRM thing saying they could just say no to the studios... MS could do the same thing. That said, I certainly understand why both of them have chosen to go along with DRM.
large building generally sway back and forth so you wouldn't even need the birds to generate power there. It seems like you could use this to harness a large amount of the waste energy we produce.
you are required to obey your teachers at school thats for sure. You have to be there by law (unless you go to a private school) and you are not allowed to be disruptive. I agree with all of this and I have no problem with it... but I really dont think that applies to off campus activites. posting stuff on myspace about how your schools administration sucks or holding a "bong-hits-for-jesus" poster off school ground should probably not apply.
Im not so sure about the parents thing... I mean, they can punish you (with limits) but can they really make you be a Christian or not be a pagan (these are beliefs, not really controllable) can they honestly make you go to church under force of law? they could take away your privileges to use their TV or internet or send you to bed without supper but I don't know that they have the legal right to force you to go to church (or anywhere for that matter)... I'm kind of curious now.
Functionally of course they really do have this power because they can legally make a kids life most miserable if the kid doesn't listen to them... but if a kid was truly determined, what powers would the parents have.
Im not sure I agree that minors shouldn't get "adult rights." sure there are some things that they do not get. The right to vote, to drink, to drive ect... but should they lack freedom of speech? what about religion? assembly?
I dont know... I don't see anything in the constitution that implies that these rights should be restricted to adults. One could make the argument that the right to bear arms does not apply to minors due to the militia clause but I'm not so sure about the others.
What was the age of majority back when the constitution was framed anyway? if it was younger than 18 I think you have to take that into account when you consider the founding fathers intent.
while this is true it is also true that firearms are not allowed on school property in any district that I know of and there are highschool students who have a licence to carry, they just have to be over 18 (maybe 17 in some states) and still in highschool. I knew people who fell into this category.
what right does Utah have to dictate the contents of a web site not hosted in Utah or owned/operated by someone in utah?
I dont think this means that any ad company will have to do much of anything unless they are located in utah (or are accepting ads from utah).
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I agree with you on that, but on the other hand its a great way to scroll through a huge list of artists and songs without taking my finger off the control.
Its a trade off. I do kind of wish there was a better way to get the fine adjustment I would like but I haven't seen an overall better design anywhere else.
plenty of shops run avid systems on macs. Admitedly a lot of the large scale newsroom stuff is currently only on windows but all of that is fairly new. Stand alone editors (as used in TV show and movie editing) can be done just as easily on an avid PC as an avid mac.
Im not sure exactly what the breakdown is right now out in the field but these things are just fine for running Media composer and editing up your latest blockbuster movie (although I'm not sure if these actual machines have yet been certified by avid)
while there are some longterm impacts on your credit (and I really don't know much about the rest of bankruptcy law) most students don't actually own anything so there would be little to seize.
why would I want to carry several batteries around with me for less music in a more complex form factor.
until they lick the battery thing I don't think you will see this having a big impact on the high end of MP3 player sales. you might see it impacting the sales of small flash players like the shuffle, but since many people seem to use those for working out the extra small form factor might even keep players like that around for a while.
Quoting costs for a car that hansn't broken 70k miles isnt very convincing though. You dont run into the real costs of the car until you run up the miles more. Real service and parts failure has yet to hit your car. My passats cost per mile is probably not much higher than yours at that point, no mechanical failures, same oil changes, new tires and some more gas admittedly (it is a full sized sedan after all but still makes about 32mpg highway). The real cost is keeping your car on the road.
Nothing personal against your pirus... the same would hold true of any car. If you were spending more than that on your car in the first 70k miles that would be pretty damning.
I would be more than willing to be a hummer will go 300k miles. The first owner might have ditched it by then, getting it out of suburbia but I wouldnt be surprised if someone was driving it. There was a guy in my old neighborhood who drove an old military truck... no idea why, but there are people out there who will drive anything and have their reasons for doing so.
As an asside How many pirus (pirri?) are there on the road with over 100,000 miles? are you sure that the batteries will still be functional when the car reaches that mark (or maybe the 150,000 mile mark?)
I believe that an internal combustion vehicle can go 300k Ive seen it done, but I'm not currently convinced that a hybrid can do that. Thats a lot of cycles on those batteries. I'm not saying that I know for a fact that they will fail but I would argue that the jury might still be out.
If you tube simply provided an off line converter for people to convert there files to the proper format for you tube before uploading them would they suddenly be off the hook since they are not the ones doing the conversion?
lets say you had a bunch of objects and you wanted to display them in variable order (lets say the contents a folder in this case, listed by name, size and modification date. the user can switch around what the view is sorted by. If you had a multiply linked list you could have the same objects linked together in 3 different ways using different pointers and you could switch between the views without sorting your list.
OK, so that example is kind of contrived but I'm sure there are other situations in which one might use this. Still... this is not original. I would be amazed if nobody had ever used something like this before.
well, im no lawyer so I cant really argue law, but this doesn't seem to pass the common sense test to me. I mean if you published an E-book (all text), and I made an ascii copy of the content of that book would that really be a derivative work?
If/. types would learn the business skills necessary to run a business (and I mean the MBA level skills), then THEY could do the job better.
If everyone in your IT department went out and got MBAs you wouldn't be able to afford them. Managing is the job of the IT manager (and you should be paying him a butt load). You cant afford to have everyone in your IT department having business credentials like your CIO.
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wow, im sorry to hear that but even you have to admit that you are on the statistically short end of the stick here. It is fairly unusual for anyone not involved in AIDS care to know that many people with HIV.
Still, im sorry for you losses.
There are plenty of reasons to use nylon ropes but its not the best for every application. Certainly for climbing it is superior. Its strength to weight ratio is fantastic. but frankly, when it comes to tying a knot I would take hemp fiber rope over just about anything else. Its hold on in these knots is fantastic compared to cotton or even nylon ropes.
Sure, when it comes to hanging off a cliff I will always take the nylon climbing rope, but for may applications hemp (or manila these days) rope is the right tool for the job. Never mind that for non life and death applications it is the much cheaper option.
Well as long as it has no impact on any media other than the HD-DVDs and BlueRay DVDs I guess I really dont care that much about how many hoops they have to jump through. Its a shame that both Apple and MS have to do this but clearly consumers are going to want support for these formats.
yea... I agree... I just find it funny that people take this same argument against apple and their DRM.
I am a bit concerned however, about the level of DRM in vista. Its not just the basics of implementing something like DeCSS (and making sure a system level debugger isnt installed) but it goes further (as I understand it) to lock down the whole multi-media system from end to end. Now I understand this, because one could intercept the data from the HD-DVD and use it but it does seem a little more extreme than what is necessary to stop casual piracy. I wonder how much of this is a requirement of the format and how much MS did on their own to get in with the content producers. It will be intersting to look at apples implantation and see if their protections are more like the ones in the Apple DVD player or like the ones in vista.
I dont know... its not like MS couldn't have just said no to the DRM. So HD-DVDs and Blue-Ray disks wont play on windows its not like everyone is going to go out and get a mac just to play those disks.
People give apple a hard time about the DRM thing saying they could just say no to the studios... MS could do the same thing. That said, I certainly understand why both of them have chosen to go along with DRM.
large building generally sway back and forth so you wouldn't even need the birds to generate power there. It seems like you could use this to harness a large amount of the waste energy we produce.
you are required to obey your teachers at school thats for sure. You have to be there by law (unless you go to a private school) and you are not allowed to be disruptive. I agree with all of this and I have no problem with it... but I really dont think that applies to off campus activites. posting stuff on myspace about how your schools administration sucks or holding a "bong-hits-for-jesus" poster off school ground should probably not apply.
Im not so sure about the parents thing... I mean, they can punish you (with limits) but can they really make you be a Christian or not be a pagan (these are beliefs, not really controllable) can they honestly make you go to church under force of law? they could take away your privileges to use their TV or internet or send you to bed without supper but I don't know that they have the legal right to force you to go to church (or anywhere for that matter)... I'm kind of curious now.
Functionally of course they really do have this power because they can legally make a kids life most miserable if the kid doesn't listen to them... but if a kid was truly determined, what powers would the parents have.
Im not sure I agree that minors shouldn't get "adult rights." sure there are some things that they do not get. The right to vote, to drink, to drive ect... but should they lack freedom of speech? what about religion? assembly?
I dont know... I don't see anything in the constitution that implies that these rights should be restricted to adults. One could make the argument that the right to bear arms does not apply to minors due to the militia clause but I'm not so sure about the others.
What was the age of majority back when the constitution was framed anyway? if it was younger than 18 I think you have to take that into account when you consider the founding fathers intent.
while this is true it is also true that firearms are not allowed on school property in any district that I know of and there are highschool students who have a licence to carry, they just have to be over 18 (maybe 17 in some states) and still in highschool. I knew people who fell into this category.
what right does Utah have to dictate the contents of a web site not hosted in Utah or owned/operated by someone in utah?
I dont think this means that any ad company will have to do much of anything unless they are located in utah (or are accepting ads from utah).
I agree with you on that, but on the other hand its a great way to scroll through a huge list of artists and songs without taking my finger off the control.
Its a trade off. I do kind of wish there was a better way to get the fine adjustment I would like but I haven't seen an overall better design anywhere else.
thats impossible even for an 8 core machine.
please stop spreading this misinformation.
plenty of shops run avid systems on macs. Admitedly a lot of the large scale newsroom stuff is currently only on windows but all of that is fairly new. Stand alone editors (as used in TV show and movie editing) can be done just as easily on an avid PC as an avid mac.
Im not sure exactly what the breakdown is right now out in the field but these things are just fine for running Media composer and editing up your latest blockbuster movie (although I'm not sure if these actual machines have yet been certified by avid)
If I recall correctly, it turned out that it took longer for the brain to switch back than it did to switch over in the first place.
2 grand for an unlimited card? was that a balance limit or a single transaction limit?
that seems totally absurd to me. I had a higher credit limit than that on my Master Card when I first got it.
while there are some longterm impacts on your credit (and I really don't know much about the rest of bankruptcy law) most students don't actually own anything so there would be little to seize.
why would I want to carry several batteries around with me for less music in a more complex form factor.
until they lick the battery thing I don't think you will see this having a big impact on the high end of MP3 player sales. you might see it impacting the sales of small flash players like the shuffle, but since many people seem to use those for working out the extra small form factor might even keep players like that around for a while.
So then why doesn't it confirm that the user is an administrator?
It comes up only when you go to do something that requires administrative privileges.
Its a far cry from what is going on in vista. The two aren't even similar really.
Quoting costs for a car that hansn't broken 70k miles isnt very convincing though. You dont run into the real costs of the car until you run up the miles more. Real service and parts failure has yet to hit your car. My passats cost per mile is probably not much higher than yours at that point, no mechanical failures, same oil changes, new tires and some more gas admittedly (it is a full sized sedan after all but still makes about 32mpg highway). The real cost is keeping your car on the road.
Nothing personal against your pirus... the same would hold true of any car. If you were spending more than that on your car in the first 70k miles that would be pretty damning.
I would be more than willing to be a hummer will go 300k miles. The first owner might have ditched it by then, getting it out of suburbia but I wouldnt be surprised if someone was driving it. There was a guy in my old neighborhood who drove an old military truck... no idea why, but there are people out there who will drive anything and have their reasons for doing so.
As an asside How many pirus (pirri?) are there on the road with over 100,000 miles? are you sure that the batteries will still be functional when the car reaches that mark (or maybe the 150,000 mile mark?)
I believe that an internal combustion vehicle can go 300k Ive seen it done, but I'm not currently convinced that a hybrid can do that. Thats a lot of cycles on those batteries. I'm not saying that I know for a fact that they will fail but I would argue that the jury might still be out.
A further thought occurs.
If you tube simply provided an off line converter for people to convert there files to the proper format for you tube before uploading them would they suddenly be off the hook since they are not the ones doing the conversion?
lets say you had a bunch of objects and you wanted to display them in variable order (lets say the contents a folder in this case, listed by name, size and modification date. the user can switch around what the view is sorted by. If you had a multiply linked list you could have the same objects linked together in 3 different ways using different pointers and you could switch between the views without sorting your list.
OK, so that example is kind of contrived but I'm sure there are other situations in which one might use this. Still... this is not original. I would be amazed if nobody had ever used something like this before.
well, im no lawyer so I cant really argue law, but this doesn't seem to pass the common sense test to me. I mean if you published an E-book (all text), and I made an ascii copy of the content of that book would that really be a derivative work?
Still, thanks for the link, interesting reading.
If /. types would learn the business skills necessary to run a business (and I mean the MBA level skills), then THEY could do the job better.
If everyone in your IT department went out and got MBAs you wouldn't be able to afford them. Managing is the job of the IT manager (and you should be paying him a butt load). You cant afford to have everyone in your IT department having business credentials like your CIO.