Having known a few professional orchestral musicians in my time, I can tell you that they will be absolutely fucking delighted at having to play with a robot.
I have a copy of 'Beginning Linux Programming' from Wrox. Doesn't say UNIX anywhere. Hey guys, if you want me to testify I'd be happy to fly over. All expenses paid of course.
I flew with Virgin from London to Tokyo about five or six years ago and Linux, specifically Slackware, was being used then for the personal entertainment systems. I found a way of causing my client to restart and passed a happy five minutes watching the boot messages.
My experience in Tokyo a few years ago concurs with yours. On the metro and underground trains a large proportion of passengers were using their phones, either for text or speech, but I was struck just how inconspicuously the phones were being used. Conversations were quiet and ringtones not too loud.
As an avid hater of loud mobile phone users, my belief that the whole mobile phone problem lies with people not the technology, was reinforced.
Which one? There are several (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt_Olympus), although I guess that the Martian one probably isn't calling the lawyers just yet.
First of all, it's a friend of my father-in-law's, not his brother. Secondly, I have never met this chap and have never been in his hotel, although I have seen it. Thirdly, I didn't say where this hotel is. I have no interest in promoting his hotel, nor can anything in my post be taken as such. It was just an example of the IOC's zeal in enforcing its trademark.
The second paragraph was a mild piece of self-indulgence, making the point that whatever charges of plagiarism, copyright theft, etc which can be made against the IOC, it is as nothing compared to the hundreds, possible thousands of lives ruined in Beijing in pursuit of these Olympics.
You make the point in amusing way. The fact of the matter is that if and when this information becomes accessible from a single point, the temptation for governments to make money from it will be irresistible. The argument will go something like: "Well the information is there anyway and what harm could it do to allow limited access from carefully-selected companies"? In the UK, electoral roll information has been available for purchase for many years now, a policy which I find reprehensible. It can only get worse.
A friend of my father-in-law's owned for many years a hotel in France called 'Hotel d'Olympique'. He still owns the hotel but it is no longer called that as he was sent a 'cease and desist'-type letter by the IOC.
FWIW I am not interested in the Beijing Olympics. Any lingering interest in the event has been soured by the appalling way that Chinese citizens have been treated by their government and, by extension, the IOC. No sports event in the world is worth evicting, beating, imprisoning and killing your own citizens for.
Er no, you are completely wrong. eBay has always sided with the buyer at the expense of the seller and these changes further reinforce that bias. The reason for this is simple: the money goes where the buyers go. If you keep the buyers sweet then the sellers have no option but to play by whatever rules eBay sees fit to impose, if they want to access the huge marketplace of buyers which eBay has built up.
"Ok, the actual TFA is maybe 3 times longer that the summary."...and doesn't contain an awful lot more information! I spent a good minute looking for the link to the actual interview. Apart from a video clip there's nothing.
I'm seeing a Coca Cola parallel here. Everyone was happy with normal Coke. Then Coca Cola released the new-fangled Coke which everyone hated. In desperation, Coca Cola released 'Classic Coke' which was the old stuff which people liked.
Expect to see 'XP Classic' being released before long.
BITD when I was an IT support type in a Cambridge University college, the library of that college had a small computer room with around half-a-dozen Macs (this was in the OS 8.x days.) These machines seemed particularly flaky, often requiring PRAM resets, restores and the occasional rebuild. It was only after a while that I learned why these machines were so flaky.
Every power outlet in that room was connected to a kill switch on the wall and come 5pm, when the room closed, yep you guessed it - someone hit the kill switch. Irrespective of whether students were using the machines and irrespective of which particular part of the write cycle the HD head was at.
France was an occupied country for most of WWII. It had been defeated early in the war due to vastly superior German forces overwhelming a vastly inferior French army trying to defend an indefensible border. I don't defend the Vichy Regime and the actions of Petain and others, but I think you need to acquaint yourself with some facts, particularly regarding the Resistance before you go casting around smart little quotes you found in some third-grade 'show-and-tell' book.
"As an aside, where does this stereotype come from that the French always surrender?"
I don't know. Wikipedia confirms my belief that The Simpsons was responsible for its early dissemination (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese-eating_surrender_monkeys) but I can't say whether or not they picked it up from elsewhere.
Here in Europe we tend to think of the Italians as being the surrender merchants. Q. What has one forward gear and six reverse gears? A. An Italian tank. Q. What colours are the Italian national flag? A. White, white and white.
I don't know if it's deserved or not. They did change sides a couple of times during WWII.
I don't hate Americans - I have met many intelligent, thoughtful citizens of your country. Sorry but you'll have to do better than 'Quine'. France has rather more than a 'bunch of Existentialists.'
"French companies were involved in illegal oil deals with Saddam - in violation of UN treaties - and was one of the primary reasons the French" - Well the US never sold anything to Saddam did they? Like arms for instance when Iran was considered a much greater threat?
"The French are adamantly opposed to allowing any "English" words to become used in French conversation and thus insist on creating 'proper' French words to avoid the inclusion of non-French words into daily use" - This depends on who you mean by 'the French'. I didn't RTFA but it's likely to be another pronouncement by L'Academie Francaise whose job it is (surprise surprise) to protect and promote the French language. Not exactly Kristallnacht, is it?
"Thousands and thousands of non-French servicemen gave their lives to help France fight for it's independence after being quickly taken over by the Nazis - when the latest war started in Iraq, how did young French people show their "support" for all of those dead servicemen? By painting swastikas on their tombs and overturning their headstones." - Yes and thousands and thousands of French servicemen gave their lives fighting the Nazis in WWII and the Germans in WWI. Many thousands, including women and children also perished in the underground resistance during WWII. Don't tar the whole country on the basis of a few disaffected pseudo-Nazi youths. Fer chrissakes, they paint swastikas on graves in Israel. It proves nothing. And please remember that the French were there in both wars from the start - they didn't saunter in reluctantly after a few years and claim all the credit, unlike a certain North American country I can think of.
I'll tell you why the Americans hate the French - it's because the French have history and culture, philosophy and art. They have a cuisine which is based on rather more than saturated fat and corn syrup. They don't roll over and beg whenever the US clicks its colonial fingers (how I wish the UK were the same). And the French themselves are attractive, intelligent, reliable, honourable people. That's why the Americans hate them.
Increasingly I load up/. and wonder if I accidentally loaded the Ars Technica bookmark instead. If I want Jacqui Chenq-esque fluff articles, picking over every tedious detail of Apple and it's soap-opera-like existence with breathless wonderment then I'll go to Ars. But I don't want that. Please don't let/. become another victim of the Apple Fanboi virus.
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Having known a few professional orchestral musicians in my time, I can tell you that they will be absolutely fucking delighted at having to play with a robot.
I have a copy of 'Beginning Linux Programming' from Wrox. Doesn't say UNIX anywhere. Hey guys, if you want me to testify I'd be happy to fly over. All expenses paid of course.
I see that two-thirds of the lawyers' names are 'Grubman' and 'Payne'. Sort of sums them up really.
...and 'unique' cannot have degrees. Either something is unique or it is not.
So, "Two Totally Unique Star Systems" contains two syntactical errors in the first three words. Class.
I flew with Virgin from London to Tokyo about five or six years ago and Linux, specifically Slackware, was being used then for the personal entertainment systems. I found a way of causing my client to restart and passed a happy five minutes watching the boot messages.
My experience in Tokyo a few years ago concurs with yours. On the metro and underground trains a large proportion of passengers were using their phones, either for text or speech, but I was struck just how inconspicuously the phones were being used. Conversations were quiet and ringtones not too loud.
As an avid hater of loud mobile phone users, my belief that the whole mobile phone problem lies with people not the technology, was reinforced.
Which one? There are several (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt_Olympus), although I guess that the Martian one probably isn't calling the lawyers just yet.
What a strange comment.
First of all, it's a friend of my father-in-law's, not his brother. Secondly, I have never met this chap and have never been in his hotel, although I have seen it. Thirdly, I didn't say where this hotel is. I have no interest in promoting his hotel, nor can anything in my post be taken as such. It was just an example of the IOC's zeal in enforcing its trademark.
The second paragraph was a mild piece of self-indulgence, making the point that whatever charges of plagiarism, copyright theft, etc which can be made against the IOC, it is as nothing compared to the hundreds, possible thousands of lives ruined in Beijing in pursuit of these Olympics.
You make the point in amusing way. The fact of the matter is that if and when this information becomes accessible from a single point, the temptation for governments to make money from it will be irresistible. The argument will go something like: "Well the information is there anyway and what harm could it do to allow limited access from carefully-selected companies"? In the UK, electoral roll information has been available for purchase for many years now, a policy which I find reprehensible. It can only get worse.
A friend of my father-in-law's owned for many years a hotel in France called 'Hotel d'Olympique'. He still owns the hotel but it is no longer called that as he was sent a 'cease and desist'-type letter by the IOC.
FWIW I am not interested in the Beijing Olympics. Any lingering interest in the event has been soured by the appalling way that Chinese citizens have been treated by their government and, by extension, the IOC. No sports event in the world is worth evicting, beating, imprisoning and killing your own citizens for.
Er no, you are completely wrong. eBay has always sided with the buyer at the expense of the seller and these changes further reinforce that bias. The reason for this is simple: the money goes where the buyers go. If you keep the buyers sweet then the sellers have no option but to play by whatever rules eBay sees fit to impose, if they want to access the huge marketplace of buyers which eBay has built up.
"Ok, the actual TFA is maybe 3 times longer that the summary." ...and doesn't contain an awful lot more information! I spent a good minute looking for the link to the actual interview. Apart from a video clip there's nothing.
"You have 20 seconds to comply..."
Would anyone be interested in my new range of custom shop lead-lined cars?
I'm seeing a Coca Cola parallel here. Everyone was happy with normal Coke. Then Coca Cola released the new-fangled Coke which everyone hated. In desperation, Coca Cola released 'Classic Coke' which was the old stuff which people liked.
Expect to see 'XP Classic' being released before long.
BITD when I was an IT support type in a Cambridge University college, the library of that college had a small computer room with around half-a-dozen Macs (this was in the OS 8.x days.) These machines seemed particularly flaky, often requiring PRAM resets, restores and the occasional rebuild. It was only after a while that I learned why these machines were so flaky.
Every power outlet in that room was connected to a kill switch on the wall and come 5pm, when the room closed, yep you guessed it - someone hit the kill switch. Irrespective of whether students were using the machines and irrespective of which particular part of the write cycle the HD head was at.
Or a new low-fat, buttermilk-based emulsified chemical 'I can't believe it's not butter'-type spread.
France was an occupied country for most of WWII. It had been defeated early in the war due to vastly superior German forces overwhelming a vastly inferior French army trying to defend an indefensible border. I don't defend the Vichy Regime and the actions of Petain and others, but I think you need to acquaint yourself with some facts, particularly regarding the Resistance before you go casting around smart little quotes you found in some third-grade 'show-and-tell' book.
Jesus, what are you Canadian or something?
"As an aside, where does this stereotype come from that the French always surrender?"
I don't know. Wikipedia confirms my belief that The Simpsons was responsible for its early dissemination (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese-eating_surrender_monkeys) but I can't say whether or not they picked it up from elsewhere.
Here in Europe we tend to think of the Italians as being the surrender merchants.
Q. What has one forward gear and six reverse gears?
A. An Italian tank.
Q. What colours are the Italian national flag?
A. White, white and white.
I don't know if it's deserved or not. They did change sides a couple of times during WWII.
I don't hate Americans - I have met many intelligent, thoughtful citizens of your country. Sorry but you'll have to do better than 'Quine'. France has rather more than a 'bunch of Existentialists.'
OK, I can't let these pass:
"French companies were involved in illegal oil deals with Saddam - in violation of UN treaties - and was one of the primary reasons the French"
- Well the US never sold anything to Saddam did they? Like arms for instance when Iran was considered a much greater threat?
"The French are adamantly opposed to allowing any "English" words to become used in French conversation and thus insist on creating 'proper' French words to avoid the inclusion of non-French words into daily use"
- This depends on who you mean by 'the French'. I didn't RTFA but it's likely to be another pronouncement by L'Academie Francaise whose job it is (surprise surprise) to protect and promote the French language. Not exactly Kristallnacht, is it?
"Thousands and thousands of non-French servicemen gave their lives to help France fight for it's independence after being quickly taken over by the Nazis - when the latest war started in Iraq, how did young French people show their "support" for all of those dead servicemen? By painting swastikas on their tombs and overturning their headstones."
- Yes and thousands and thousands of French servicemen gave their lives fighting the Nazis in WWII and the Germans in WWI. Many thousands, including women and children also perished in the underground resistance during WWII. Don't tar the whole country on the basis of a few disaffected pseudo-Nazi youths. Fer chrissakes, they paint swastikas on graves in Israel. It proves nothing. And please remember that the French were there in both wars from the start - they didn't saunter in reluctantly after a few years and claim all the credit, unlike a certain North American country I can think of.
I'll tell you why the Americans hate the French - it's because the French have history and culture, philosophy and art. They have a cuisine which is based on rather more than saturated fat and corn syrup. They don't roll over and beg whenever the US clicks its colonial fingers (how I wish the UK were the same). And the French themselves are attractive, intelligent, reliable, honourable people. That's why the Americans hate them.
Increasingly I load up /. and wonder if I accidentally loaded the Ars Technica bookmark instead. If I want Jacqui Chenq-esque fluff articles, picking over every tedious detail of Apple and it's soap-opera-like existence with breathless wonderment then I'll go to Ars. But I don't want that. Please don't let /. become another victim of the Apple Fanboi virus.
Well a basic room has six surfaces so perhaps you've got a good idea there. I'd patent it if I were you, before I do!
...because Seattle is the home of Microsoft. There's a certain irony in this story.