Who modded this funny? It's probably true! And I couldn't agree more. Human beings have no business operating something as dangerous as a car, and the sooner we end that silliness the better.
... what can be done to prevent and/or lessen such disasters in the future?
The US ratifying the Kyoto protocol would be a good start. Hopefully this disaster will provide incentive (as if that should be needed) for the US to finally join the rest of the world in really trying to combat this problem.
... What I object to is when a digital object is DRM-encumbered in such a way that it is more restricted than it's physical counterpart - like CDs that won't play in certain computers, or DVDs that cannot be played in a country other than that which they are purchased in.
And do you imagine these DRM-ed audio books will play on a Mac? Or on Linux? Do you think you can listen to them in your car? You would be able to do any of these things with an audiobook's "physical counterpart", which is just a bunch of audio CD's or cassette's.
... The idea is to extend the traditional data model for files/folders and scraps of metadata into object-oriented patterns that the entire system can use (and hopefully reuse). Sort of like an object manager for the filesystem.
My brother took a copy of his Black Adder DVDs back with him to China in Xvid+Vorbis format (to save damaging the originals).
6 months later I buy a pirate copy in Mexico to show to a friend because I don't have *my* originals with me, and it was the same files (or at least, the same checksum when I checked with him). Also on the disk was a vorbis codec and instructions about how to install it... and how to rip new media with it to best effect.
If you encode the exact same files (ripping a DVD is much more precise than ripping a CD; the video is just files on the DVD) with the exact same codec and the exact same settings (which could easiliy happen if you use some kind of well-known tool to do it), the results will also be exactly the same and hence have the same checksum. Doesn't mean that they were actually your brother's files.
You know, I just finished watching the DVD release of the second season of "24". You know, the season in which a nuclear bomb is detonated on US soil and at first everyone thinks it was planted by Islamic terrorists from "the Middle-East".
I remember thinking, while watching all those secret meetings with people plotting and scheming to make it look like a bunch of Middle-Eastern countries had planted the bomb, that however far-fetched it all looked and no matter how over-the-top and unrealistic a Hollywood plot-line it was, this must all have really happened in some White House or Pentagon backroom with regards to the war in Iraq. How fucking scary is that?!
It disturbs me greatly to think that American politics these days have apparently sunk to the worst level Hollywood producers can come up with, for real.
Mission: We will serve our customers with (1) top-quality service, (2) good advice and (3) fair business practices.
No weasel words, no paradigms--shifting or otherwise--and no nonsense. What we mean by these terms is spelled out in our values statement (which I won't reproduce here.)
You're a commercial enterprise in a capitalist society. Your first priority is therefore almost by definition to make profit. Why is that not in your mission statement?
Reading the patent below, I must wonder if those who give out patents get lost in the gobbely-gook of the descriptions not to see that it seems to fail the basic requirements of a patent:
You want to know who leads the world in spam output; its the wealthy EU countries followed very closely by Japan-Korea and the US.
Can I just point out that Europe is not one country!!!. I get a bit tired sometimes of all these comparisons (mainly by Americans) of the US or other countries with Europe, as if they are comparable entities...
not desktops... so this could be as little as 1 machine per business...
someone slap the editors with a cluestick please...
Why? What's inaccurate about the article? It doesn't say anything about what percentage of the computers in those companies run Linux, does it? If you were making assumptions then that isn't the editors' fault. The persons who modded you "insightful" are the ones who should be slapped with a cluestick...
Like the GPS system (also US taxpayer financed in the billions and used by the world without gratitude or financial consideration), if people in other countries or Americans don't like the US govt administering it, go build your own.
Because of course with the existing DVD technology it isn't possible to create annoying intros. Plus, all Java is good for is creating annoying intros.
Wow, that's dumbest remark I've read in a long, long time.
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Who modded this funny? It's probably true! And I couldn't agree more. Human beings have no business operating something as dangerous as a car, and the sooner we end that silliness the better.
The US ratifying the Kyoto protocol would be a good start. Hopefully this disaster will provide incentive (as if that should be needed) for the US to finally join the rest of the world in really trying to combat this problem.
And do you imagine these DRM-ed audio books will play on a Mac? Or on Linux? Do you think you can listen to them in your car? You would be able to do any of these things with an audiobook's "physical counterpart", which is just a bunch of audio CD's or cassette's.
Ah, like the Workplace Shell, only ten years later?
If only they'd have had you on the design team! The thought must never even have entered their minds...
Congratulations on your first post ever being modded Informative straight away!
Tony Vivaldi: What is this, Benedict? First you're my friend, now you turn a 360 on me!
Benedict: 180, you stupid, spaghetti-slurping cretin, 180! If I did a 360, I'd go completely around and end up back where I started!
Tony Vivaldi: What?
Benedict: Trust me! [shoots him]
You misspelled "politician".
My brother took a copy of his Black Adder DVDs back with him to China in Xvid+Vorbis format (to save damaging the originals).
6 months later I buy a pirate copy in Mexico to show to a friend because I don't have *my* originals with me, and it was the same files (or at least, the same checksum when I checked with him). Also on the disk was a vorbis codec and instructions about how to install it... and how to rip new media with it to best effect.
If you encode the exact same files (ripping a DVD is much more precise than ripping a CD; the video is just files on the DVD) with the exact same codec and the exact same settings (which could easiliy happen if you use some kind of well-known tool to do it), the results will also be exactly the same and hence have the same checksum. Doesn't mean that they were actually your brother's files.
You know, I just finished watching the DVD release of the second season of "24". You know, the season in which a nuclear bomb is detonated on US soil and at first everyone thinks it was planted by Islamic terrorists from "the Middle-East".
I remember thinking, while watching all those secret meetings with people plotting and scheming to make it look like a bunch of Middle-Eastern countries had planted the bomb, that however far-fetched it all looked and no matter how over-the-top and unrealistic a Hollywood plot-line it was, this must all have really happened in some White House or Pentagon backroom with regards to the war in Iraq. How fucking scary is that?!
It disturbs me greatly to think that American politics these days have apparently sunk to the worst level Hollywood producers can come up with, for real.
How sad is it that one can't even tell whether you were being serious or sarcastic...
Benson hedges huh? Been spending much time in East Germany? ;-)
Visiting the site makes my konqueror crash.
Is that the site's fault, or Konqueror's?
So, just dont base any canadian Google in Canada and Just keep google in U.S
Yeah, 'cause the US would never pass draconian laws like this...
Right?
Right?
<crickets chirping>
Mission: We will serve our customers with (1) top-quality service, (2) good advice and (3) fair business practices.
No weasel words, no paradigms--shifting or otherwise--and no nonsense. What we mean by these terms is spelled out in our values statement (which I won't reproduce here.)
You're a commercial enterprise in a capitalist society. Your first priority is therefore almost by definition to make profit. Why is that not in your mission statement?
Reading the patent below, I must wonder if those who give out patents get lost in the gobbely-gook of the descriptions not to see that it seems to fail the basic requirements of a patent:
You're new here, aren't you?
You want to know who leads the world in spam output; its the wealthy EU countries followed very closely by Japan-Korea and the US.
Can I just point out that Europe is not one country!!! . I get a bit tired sometimes of all these comparisons (mainly by Americans) of the US or other countries with Europe, as if they are comparable entities...
not desktops... so this could be as little as 1 machine per business...
someone slap the editors with a cluestick please...
Why? What's inaccurate about the article? It doesn't say anything about what percentage of the computers in those companies run Linux, does it? If you were making assumptions then that isn't the editors' fault. The persons who modded you "insightful" are the ones who should be slapped with a cluestick...
Was anybody else wondering why swedish furniture companies were giving out awards when they first read the headline?
Actually, I wondered why a well-known Java IDE was giving out awards...
Like the GPS system (also US taxpayer financed in the billions and used by the world without gratitude or financial consideration), if people in other countries or Americans don't like the US govt administering it, go build your own.
Got ya
.Next stop, annoying Flash intros.
Because of course with the existing DVD technology it isn't possible to create annoying intros. Plus, all Java is good for is creating annoying intros.
Wow, that's dumbest remark I've read in a long, long time.
Hey, IBM is Mr. Blue! Microsoft is Mr. Pink!
I thought that was Norton?
as the time goes, the tv will probably become less and less social activity...
When was watching TV ever a social activity?!
http://www.emusic.com/
http://www.magnatunes.com/
Not working so far...