When the first CD was done, she announced the time as 2:36.18. Gabriel immediately objected saying that they timed it at over four minutes. The apparently-amused judge said that the jurors could figure out the time for themselves. The second CD ripped in 2:17.71 according to the defendant's timing (I timed the second demonstration in 2:18.97). Gabriel again objected, saying that he had it at three-and-a-half minutes.
My theory is that one lawyer is 'spinning' the truth alot faster than the other. Therefor resulting in the major difference in elapsed time.
Sony probably thinks that is stealing too. They are contacting the politicians they own right now to create a law making it illegal not to buy their products.
I'm sorry, but I think this is complete and utter bullshit!
By telling people to just buy Vista, you are only allowing Microsoft's hold on the software industry to continue. This is all about free choice, and I for one am glad that there are people out there who are keeping an eye on these things and pointing them out to Dell and its customers.
I don't care if it's an oversight by Dell, or part of a major conspiracy by Microsoft against Linux or whatever. The point is that this gives Microsoft an unfair advantage over other OS providers and it must be dealt with.
Sorry about the rant, but I'm tired of people saying "Just buy Vista!". If you want Vista, fine! But if you don't want it, you shouldn't have to buy it. It's that simple!
The point where your argument fails is in shipping unwanted material off the Earth and into space. How are you going to do this for gasses? Solid and liquid materials have never really been a problem to get rid off, you bury them deep enough and throw some concrete over it and you're done... That's how we've been taking care of most of our nuclear waste for a long time. The problem lies with gasses, it's not that easy to get rid of them.
I suppose we could move factories that pollute into space, but yet again I say that this will not happen overnight...
But yet again I have to point out that colonizing space isn't gonna happen anytime soon, it's a very slow process and I just don't see how this elevator will help. It's not going to be cheaper to put stuff into space, on the contrary, they'll have so much debt to pay off that they'll have to charge insane prices! Just look into what is going on with the tunnel between France and Britain, the company that controls the tunnel has never made a profit and isn't going to anytime soon. In fact, ever since the tunnel opened I've heared nothing but talk of possible bankruptcy.
Oh, I don't disagree, but how exactly how you going to make everyone on Earth rich enough to become educated enough to reduce population growth?
And how are you going to solve the issue of all these now rich and educated people wanting access to materials that are in limited supply?
That's what expansion into space buys you.
Look, the solution to overpopulation, poverty and environmental problems isn't going to come from falling from space! (Well, perhaps a large enough meteor could fix it, but that's a final resort thingy) And neither will it be fixed by launching things/people into space, the stuff/people you move will just be replaced. We, humanity, are going to have to learn to exercise some constraint. Otherwise we can invent, mine, colonize,... whatever we want, the problems aren't going to go away!
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for these kind of scientific projects as they can be extremely positive in helping us cope with the issues that lie ahead of us. But at this moment, an elevator into space isn't gonna help us one bit, on the contrary! It'll just be an incentive to keep our consume-all mentality going. And with the way governments all around the world currently work, do you really think any of the new materials will reach the poor?
No, I firmly believe that we should get our act together first before venturing forth into space, and that we should not blindly believe it's gonna fix all or any of our problems!
For starters, we have an increasing population on Earth.
Ok, and where will you send people? There is nothing out there where people can live... Space stations, off-world settlements,... are distant future dreams at the moment. As much as I hate to say it (and I do hate it), humanity is just not up to the task yet!
There's thousands of Near Earth Asteroids which contain hundreds of times more metal than the entire crust of the Earth is believed to hold
You're going to build an elevator to bring stuff down? Seems like gravity does a pretty good job at it already according to me... A controlled descent of small enough packages seems alot cheaper/easier/faster/safer to me. We're already doing it all the time... And before we start building ways of getting it down, don't you think some time should be spent on thinking of a way of getting it off the asteroids/moon/... and bringing it to Earth first? I think this is the hard part, not how you bring it down...
An elevator into space can indeed have advantages, but I just don't see any at the moment, not in the immediate or even somewhat further future.
I'm not even gonna question whether it is possible/feasible/... I only want to know "Why?".
Why would you want to build an elevator into space? What do you put on the end of the elevator? An amusement park? With hookers and blackjack?
Just because it can be done, doesn't mean you have to do it... There are alot more important and much more useful projects money could be put into IMHO!
A collar with explosives that will detonate under certain circumstances is my preferred way of tagging employees!
Taking a longer break than is allowed? *KA-BOOM*
Missed a deadline? *KA-BOOM*
...
You cannot find a better motivator than this! It's well worth the cleaning crew expenses due to people exploding regularly. And if you tag them too, the workplace never stays filthy for too long!
The **AA have already sent notices to reveal the people who are going to accessing one or more of the 900 access points. They're gonna sue every single one of them for possible future copyright violations.
I think it is a great idea to be able to wirelessly transfer data from devices such as cameras. But I think it's the wrong approach to equip the memeory cards they use with wifi. The devices themselves should have wifi capabilities, and I do see this coming in the near future. Equipping memory cards with wifi is a nice way of making existing devices wifi capable but it's not something which will be usefull in the future as more devices become wifi enabled.
... this woman will get some retribution for the many months of hell she went through. It really wouldn't be fair if the RIAA didn't have to pay up for this!
but even the best gameplay can't overcome graphics which looks a couple of years old...
It's people like you that are turning the game industry into the movie industry, where a good story isn't important anymore. The movie just needs alot of fancy special effects!
IMHO semantics don't work on a global scale, it does work if you only check trusted sources. If everyone can create data and place semantics on it, it becomes useless. You can't trust everyone to place correct semantics on it, either they don't have the knowledge to place correct semantics on data, or they maliciously place the wrong semantics on it.
This all fits in perfectly with Microsoft's new company strategy, getting rid of them annoying developers and start hiring more lawyers! Why bother making better products than your competitors, if you can just sue them out of existence?
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My theory is that one lawyer is 'spinning' the truth alot faster than the other. Therefor resulting in the major difference in elapsed time.
Sony probably thinks that is stealing too. They are contacting the politicians they own right now to create a law making it illegal not to buy their products.
Yea, but since when does prior art matter when giving out patents?
I'm sorry, but I think this is complete and utter bullshit!
By telling people to just buy Vista, you are only allowing Microsoft's hold on the software industry to continue. This is all about free choice, and I for one am glad that there are people out there who are keeping an eye on these things and pointing them out to Dell and its customers.
I don't care if it's an oversight by Dell, or part of a major conspiracy by Microsoft against Linux or whatever. The point is that this gives Microsoft an unfair advantage over other OS providers and it must be dealt with.
Sorry about the rant, but I'm tired of people saying "Just buy Vista!". If you want Vista, fine! But if you don't want it, you shouldn't have to buy it. It's that simple!
Just put a tin foil hat over your computer!
The point where your argument fails is in shipping unwanted material off the Earth and into space. How are you going to do this for gasses? Solid and liquid materials have never really been a problem to get rid off, you bury them deep enough and throw some concrete over it and you're done... That's how we've been taking care of most of our nuclear waste for a long time. The problem lies with gasses, it's not that easy to get rid of them.
I suppose we could move factories that pollute into space, but yet again I say that this will not happen overnight...
But yet again I have to point out that colonizing space isn't gonna happen anytime soon, it's a very slow process and I just don't see how this elevator will help. It's not going to be cheaper to put stuff into space, on the contrary, they'll have so much debt to pay off that they'll have to charge insane prices! Just look into what is going on with the tunnel between France and Britain, the company that controls the tunnel has never made a profit and isn't going to anytime soon. In fact, ever since the tunnel opened I've heared nothing but talk of possible bankruptcy.
How can it go wrong with a name like that?
Look, the solution to overpopulation, poverty and environmental problems isn't going to come from falling from space! (Well, perhaps a large enough meteor could fix it, but that's a final resort thingy) And neither will it be fixed by launching things/people into space, the stuff/people you move will just be replaced. We, humanity, are going to have to learn to exercise some constraint. Otherwise we can invent, mine, colonize,
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for these kind of scientific projects as they can be extremely positive in helping us cope with the issues that lie ahead of us. But at this moment, an elevator into space isn't gonna help us one bit, on the contrary! It'll just be an incentive to keep our consume-all mentality going. And with the way governments all around the world currently work, do you really think any of the new materials will reach the poor?
No, I firmly believe that we should get our act together first before venturing forth into space, and that we should not blindly believe it's gonna fix all or any of our problems!
Look, I don't blame you.
... are distant future dreams at the moment. As much as I hate to say it (and I do hate it), humanity is just not up to the task yet!
Wow, and this on slashdot!
For starters, we have an increasing population on Earth.
Ok, and where will you send people? There is nothing out there where people can live... Space stations, off-world settlements,
There's thousands of Near Earth Asteroids which contain hundreds of times more metal than the entire crust of the Earth is believed to hold
You're going to build an elevator to bring stuff down? Seems like gravity does a pretty good job at it already according to me... A controlled descent of small enough packages seems alot cheaper/easier/faster/safer to me. We're already doing it all the time... And before we start building ways of getting it down, don't you think some time should be spent on thinking of a way of getting it off the asteroids/moon/... and bringing it to Earth first? I think this is the hard part, not how you bring it down...
An elevator into space can indeed have advantages, but I just don't see any at the moment, not in the immediate or even somewhat further future.
I'm not even gonna question whether it is possible/feasible/... I only want to know "Why?".
Why would you want to build an elevator into space? What do you put on the end of the elevator? An amusement park? With hookers and blackjack?
Just because it can be done, doesn't mean you have to do it... There are alot more important and much more useful projects money could be put into IMHO!
A collar with explosives that will detonate under certain circumstances is my preferred way of tagging employees!
...
Taking a longer break than is allowed? *KA-BOOM*
Missed a deadline? *KA-BOOM*
You cannot find a better motivator than this! It's well worth the cleaning crew expenses due to people exploding regularly. And if you tag them too, the workplace never stays filthy for too long!
We've not seen a single showing of ID theft or harm
Read as:
We all stand around here with our eyes closed and our hands over our ears shouting BLABLABLABLABLA.......
Ignorance is bliss!
The **AA have already sent notices to reveal the people who are going to accessing one or more of the 900 access points. They're gonna sue every single one of them for possible future copyright violations.
'I don't do e-mail. I'm a very low-tech person.'"
No, those crafty Defense Secretaries!
I think it is a great idea to be able to wirelessly transfer data from devices such as cameras. But I think it's the wrong approach to equip the memeory cards they use with wifi. The devices themselves should have wifi capabilities, and I do see this coming in the near future. Equipping memory cards with wifi is a nice way of making existing devices wifi capable but it's not something which will be usefull in the future as more devices become wifi enabled.
Got any old powerpoint presentations lying around somewhere?
... this woman will get some retribution for the many months of hell she went through. It really wouldn't be fair if the RIAA didn't have to pay up for this!
but i dont have the studies to back this up.
No problem, just make up some statistics, 45% of all people do that!
but even the best gameplay can't overcome graphics which looks a couple of years old...
It's people like you that are turning the game industry into the movie industry, where a good story isn't important anymore. The movie just needs alot of fancy special effects!
I feel sad now...
Tilt the screen at a different angle!
IMHO semantics don't work on a global scale, it does work if you only check trusted sources. If everyone can create data and place semantics on it, it becomes useless. You can't trust everyone to place correct semantics on it, either they don't have the knowledge to place correct semantics on data, or they maliciously place the wrong semantics on it.
This all fits in perfectly with Microsoft's new company strategy, getting rid of them annoying developers and start hiring more lawyers! Why bother making better products than your competitors, if you can just sue them out of existence?
this whole mess would come to a screaming halt
But, where would we go for a good laugh then?
Yea, I'm definitely tempted to write them a little thank you note!