This just looks like a land grab to me. I haven't taken the time to actually look it up, but I suspect the area covered by the Apollo 11-17 landings is actually pretty large. If we declare it a national park, we keep other countries from claiming it for themselves. It's real estate investment with no money down!
I agree completely. When my wife and I were leave the drive-in Saturday night, I said "The problem is that when anything is possible, nothing is impressive."
I hadn't used Windows Vista or 7. My work PC ran Ubuntu, because it was simply faster than Windows and worked better. But Ubuntu no longer supports my old laptop, so I switched to Windows 8 in the release candidate stage and bought a copy when it was finalized. It runs clean and fast, with no problems.
I'll admit I never use the start screen. When I log in, I just smack Enter once and it's gone. At work there are only about five applications I use, and they're all pinned to my taskbar. When I want something else, I just hit the windows key and start typing. What the heck is everybody complaining about?
I'm the conductor of three different orchestras. Ever wonder why we play so much Beethoven, and so little Philip Glass? It's not because we hate new music. Rather, it's because the attendant fees are so high.
For example. I recently had to reprogram a concert featuring orchestral jazz music. I had a 20 minute spot to fill, so I contacted a rather famous living composer I know and asked if he had a piece he'd like for us to play. Well, it turned out that he doesn't even have copies of the parts for his own music. We had to pay $400 to rent the parts from his publisher. We also had to pay an additional $300 to BMI (ASCAP's little brother) for the performance rights. That's all on top of the $800 we paid this year in user fees just to have the right to pay the additional $300 for performance rights to one piece. So the total cost for this one piece: $1500. Total cost to play Beethoven instead, $150.
And on top of all that -- BMI has been stalking one of our orchestras, demanding they pay their membership fees in advance for next season, even though those fees are in "negotiation." BMI "promises" they'll refund the difference if the nationally negotiated fees are reduced. (Fat Chance.)
BMI and ASCAP are both starting to resort to extortionist tactics.
It seems odd to me that nobody's mentioned the great products from iGo. When you get a new phone, you buy a new tip for the charger. And you can add a splitter to charge multiple devices simultaneously. I keep one iGo in the car, and another in the home, for charging my cell, my wife's cell, my palm pilot, and our iPods.
Where do bills like this come from? Surely, anybody who actually uses and understands these websites would never propose such a thing. Is there some massive, lobbying corporation out there who stands to gain a fortune by the blocking of web 2.0? (Maybe Microsoft Encarta is behind this!!!!) Or is this just a pathetic case of "won't somebody please think of the children?"
Hurley said: 'We didn't want to build a system that was motivated by monetary reward. We wanted to really build a true community around video.'
And they're not interested in a "true community" anymore?
Pfft -- I checked out some other sites before that were offering money. I kept my videos on YouTube because I didn't want to monetize my own work!
So... will they pay me retroactively for my 60,000 views?
meaning that if you want access to the cast iTunes library, you have to buy an iPod."
I don't know if the summary is confused, or the article... but you do not need to buy an iPod to use the iTunes store! There's absolutely nothing stopping you from purchasing and downloading music with iTunes for use on your computer.
GM officials stressed that development of the battery pack is critical to the concept vehicle reaching showrooms, and the technology likely won't be available until 2010 or 2012.
[blockquote]Week of Oracle Database Bugs" project during the first week of December. The researcher abruptly canceled the project shortly after the initial announcement, without offering any explanation.[/blockquote]
A few years ago, I worked for a corporation to transfer their database into Oracle. Having worked on the project for nine months, I can't possibly see how anybody could have limited themselves to just 7 bugs.
But it seems the summary is surmising the researcher was paid off... I doubt Apple would succumb to such blackmail. If they can find 31 real problems in OS X, then good! Let's tighten things up!
But if it's more "proof of concept viruses" for the mac, then I'll call FUD FUD FUD.
IANAL, so this is why I'm asking: Is this a good candidate for the Freedom of Information Act? It might take years to get anything from them, but wouldn't that be better than nothing?
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This just looks like a land grab to me. I haven't taken the time to actually look it up, but I suspect the area covered by the Apollo 11-17 landings is actually pretty large. If we declare it a national park, we keep other countries from claiming it for themselves. It's real estate investment with no money down!
I agree completely. When my wife and I were leave the drive-in Saturday night, I said "The problem is that when anything is possible, nothing is impressive."
Fair enough.
I hadn't used Windows Vista or 7. My work PC ran Ubuntu, because it was simply faster than Windows and worked better. But Ubuntu no longer supports my old laptop, so I switched to Windows 8 in the release candidate stage and bought a copy when it was finalized. It runs clean and fast, with no problems. I'll admit I never use the start screen. When I log in, I just smack Enter once and it's gone. At work there are only about five applications I use, and they're all pinned to my taskbar. When I want something else, I just hit the windows key and start typing. What the heck is everybody complaining about?
I'm the conductor of three different orchestras. Ever wonder why we play so much Beethoven, and so little Philip Glass? It's not because we hate new music. Rather, it's because the attendant fees are so high.
For example. I recently had to reprogram a concert featuring orchestral jazz music. I had a 20 minute spot to fill, so I contacted a rather famous living composer I know and asked if he had a piece he'd like for us to play. Well, it turned out that he doesn't even have copies of the parts for his own music. We had to pay $400 to rent the parts from his publisher. We also had to pay an additional $300 to BMI (ASCAP's little brother) for the performance rights. That's all on top of the $800 we paid this year in user fees just to have the right to pay the additional $300 for performance rights to one piece. So the total cost for this one piece: $1500. Total cost to play Beethoven instead, $150.
And on top of all that -- BMI has been stalking one of our orchestras, demanding they pay their membership fees in advance for next season, even though those fees are in "negotiation." BMI "promises" they'll refund the difference if the nationally negotiated fees are reduced. (Fat Chance.)
BMI and ASCAP are both starting to resort to extortionist tactics.
It seems odd to me that nobody's mentioned the great products from iGo. When you get a new phone, you buy a new tip for the charger. And you can add a splitter to charge multiple devices simultaneously. I keep one iGo in the car, and another in the home, for charging my cell, my wife's cell, my palm pilot, and our iPods.
The Honda Insight got over 70 MPG, but nobody bought it. (Or at least, very few Americans -- too small -- too unusual looking)
Yes! It adds the extraordinary possibly of contextual ads!
If you downloaded the software, you are in violation of the DMCA
Where do bills like this come from? Surely, anybody who actually uses and understands these websites would never propose such a thing. Is there some massive, lobbying corporation out there who stands to gain a fortune by the blocking of web 2.0? (Maybe Microsoft Encarta is behind this!!!!) Or is this just a pathetic case of "won't somebody please think of the children?"
I sincerely doubt that Master Pogue "wrote" the whole book. I suspect that Pogue is becoming a bit of a brand name... next next O'Reilly, perhaps.
Yay! 20GB! Now I have space for all my friends' phone numbers! Well... both of them.
Oh goody -- now I can finally store all my phone numbers!
What's a floppy disk?
Yup - I suspect that Adobe is really just trying to insulate themselves from Windows encroaching on their territory.
And they're not interested in a "true community" anymore?
Pfft -- I checked out some other sites before that were offering money. I kept my videos on YouTube because I didn't want to monetize my own work!
So... will they pay me retroactively for my 60,000 views?
I haven't yet finished downloading and watching the pilots, but the Science Investigators weighs in at 508 MB! That loses a few points on my scale...
Call me in 3 to 5 years.
People, ANYTHING you do on the internet is not private -- ever!
A few years ago, I worked for a corporation to transfer their database into Oracle. Having worked on the project for nine months, I can't possibly see how anybody could have limited themselves to just 7 bugs.
But it seems the summary is surmising the researcher was paid off... I doubt Apple would succumb to such blackmail. If they can find 31 real problems in OS X, then good! Let's tighten things up!
But if it's more "proof of concept viruses" for the mac, then I'll call FUD FUD FUD.
You like me! You really like me!
Airlines and pilots need to have licenses and permits.
So what's the big hassle here?
IANAL, so this is why I'm asking: Is this a good candidate for the Freedom of Information Act? It might take years to get anything from them, but wouldn't that be better than nothing?
I hate Microsoft because I've used their products.