I appreciate your willingness to vote for Ron Paul, I support him too. It doesn't help though when you say "He's Doomed." He's not. There is a chance for him to get on the Ballot. Naysaying doesn't help.
Somebody actually gets it... I'm very pleased to see that a record label recognizes this and acknowledges it publicly. It shows they're not all buffoons.
On a radio show called "This American Life", the host Ira Glass interviewed a couple of Astronauts which revealed that most astronauts haven't been in space, and many aren't even scheduled for a flight. So if you enjoy meetings and lots of paperwork, sign up. Yes it gives you a chance to get into space (better than us normal ground-dwellers), but frankly, this isn't the dream that most want it to be.
Photonic Laser Thruster... perfect. Sounds like it came right out of a pulp Sci-Fi Serial.
"Sir!"
"What is it Smith?"
"The Photonic Thruster, it's out of power! We're dead in the water!"
Languages are what you make of them. Some are going to have certain strengths, and certain weaknesses, but at the end of the day, it's more how you code, than how the compiler goes about doing it's job.
I think, as you say though, this may be a death knell to the way the RIAA currently operates it's legal talons. If the RIAA gets slapped in court once or twice more for a big enough sum they may realize that they can't bully their way around the legal system so easily. This means that fewer people who are innocent will be accused/ have to deal with the grief and frustration of court against bullies.
As for those who just want to download anything they want when they want, this is going to remain against the law. Breaking DRM is going to remain against the law. Frankly, your downloading music isn't helping the situation.
Excluding Apple from the deal is the easiest way to insure failure and thus qualify DRM-free music selling as unprofitable. Selling DRM free music through someone who doesn't have the market strength that Apple does simply means that fewer potential pirates with even be exposed to DRM free versions of the songs.
If I didn't think it was just for pure spite, I would say that excluding Apple is a calculated move for the sake of saving face, if not their absurd business model.
As a mac user, I remember the days of the MUG, the Mac User Group. We were a strange collection of people all with the fiery zeal for the Macintosh. We met together because it wasn't uncommon to be the only Mac user at school, at work, sometimes at home. There wasn't anyone to associate with who felt how we felt. We were the advocates for the Mac, we supported each other, we traded software, we helped each other out.
The internet came along, and for a brief time, the MUGs represented themselves online. It was a great way to distribute software, arrange meetings, etc. The MUGs didn't seem to make it though. It just made more sense to people that they all come together of their own accord. And several Mac sites made that possible.
Sometime around 2000 or 2001, people who were part of the online Mac Advocacy group received a letter from Guy Kawasaki who led the group, saying that Advocacy of the Mac wasn't really necessary, that the mac had made it and wasn't going to die away. I think that was really the end of the MUG. No longer was the Mac a dying machine, nor Apple a dying company. The need to group together was gone, and over the past 5 years or so the platform has become robust enough that you're not hard pressed to find a Mac user around.
If you've read this far, you likely wonder what my point is. I didn't even know there were LUGs to be honest. I imagine they were as invisible to me as MUGs were to the populace back in the day. The internet, in it's current form solves all the problems that UGs were used for. Support, both technical and social, and demonstration.
It's a little bit like the World Fair, back in the 19th and 20th centuries. Everyone got together to show off inventions, ideas, and concepts. When telecommunications took off, there stopped being a reason to hold the Fair.
My Wife's mother suffers from severe anxiety when driving. She has all kinds of (In my opinion) unreasonable fears. I can see some value in this for her, but I wouldn't want to eliminate all of her fear. I wouldn't want her to turn into some madwoman stunt driver out on the freeway. This is a tricky thing, and I frankly hope that we don't end up with a marketable "fear killer".
Part this has to do with rules that come with being in Government. There are limits to the value/cost of an item that you can give someone like the President.
looking at and object while in motion and interacting with it are two different things. I agree that using a computer on a desk while walking on a treadmill would be significantly easier to use than using a computer moving on a separate platform from you while you were moving would be. That said however, most people (myself included) I think would have difficulty maintaining movement (walking) while trying to utilize a computer. You either slow down in your walking to focus on the computer, or you focus on your walking and less on accomplishing your tasks. (A previous poster mentioned walking and chewing gum.)
I seriously doubt this with sell well. Not only is it expensive, but if you've ever tried to do anything on a laptop while moving from one room to another you know that the human body doesn't stabilize itself between bottom and top. If the bottom is moving, the top is too, and trying to do things that require some degree of non-movement, like typing for instance, would be difficult. Additionally, who's going to use this desk?
Does it get moved around the office all day to whoever wants a go? Do you expect someone to use it all day? Even the most fit people aren't going to be interested in standing up all day for a desk job. As it goes, it's just impractical.
They've got the right box, but they're thinking too far outside it. Personally, I would encourage activity at the office through things like frisbee during a break.
I had a discussion about this with my Boss. What it really comes down to is Money. Cable and DSL are available across the street at the residential homes, but amazingly not available at our office. Why? Because more money can be squeezed out of a business than out of a residential unit. Most residences would opt for the slower, cheaper version, but a business needs access all the time. The company doling out both has an opportunity (and often a monopoly) and can make more money.
The Title is poorly assembled. "LED Forty years Older Than Thought" implies literally that the LED(noun- subject) is(verb) Forty years older(modifier) than thought(noun- indirect object)
A better constructed Title would have been: "LED forty years older than previously thought." This forces 'thought' to be a past-tense verb, rather than an indirect-object.
I've been doing an awful lot of close-reading and examining word structure recently for a class. Guess a little too much!
This is just part of a greater buildup that has been going on for quite some time. DRM is coming, it will continue to come stronger and stronger. Apple is a major player. In the music market, it is the major player. Microsoft, Sony, and a few other along with Apple are trying get themselves in the top. FairPlay is close right now, but I expect at some point that it will be opened up. That will happen after Apple has won out the DRM battle.
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"Kinder" as "nicer" or "kinder" as in "garten"?
I appreciate your willingness to vote for Ron Paul, I support him too. It doesn't help though when you say "He's Doomed." He's not. There is a chance for him to get on the Ballot. Naysaying doesn't help.
I went to high School with Brad, and I developed the first Mac version of the LJ client. It's crazy to see where it's gone.
Somebody actually gets it... I'm very pleased to see that a record label recognizes this and acknowledges it publicly. It shows they're not all buffoons.
It is hexagonally shaped and clocks in at a little less than 200 Lbs.
When you're talking about weight, the proper phrase is "Weighs in", not "clocks in"...
Steve is going to drop the price next month. It'll be $200 less than the original price, so... -$71
On a radio show called "This American Life", the host Ira Glass interviewed a couple of Astronauts which revealed that most astronauts haven't been in space, and many aren't even scheduled for a flight. So if you enjoy meetings and lots of paperwork, sign up. Yes it gives you a chance to get into space (better than us normal ground-dwellers), but frankly, this isn't the dream that most want it to be.
Photonic Laser Thruster... perfect. Sounds like it came right out of a pulp Sci-Fi Serial. "Sir!" "What is it Smith?" "The Photonic Thruster, it's out of power! We're dead in the water!"
Languages are what you make of them. Some are going to have certain strengths, and certain weaknesses, but at the end of the day, it's more how you code, than how the compiler goes about doing it's job.
I think, as you say though, this may be a death knell to the way the RIAA currently operates it's legal talons. If the RIAA gets slapped in court once or twice more for a big enough sum they may realize that they can't bully their way around the legal system so easily. This means that fewer people who are innocent will be accused/ have to deal with the grief and frustration of court against bullies.
As for those who just want to download anything they want when they want, this is going to remain against the law. Breaking DRM is going to remain against the law. Frankly, your downloading music isn't helping the situation.
Excluding Apple from the deal is the easiest way to insure failure and thus qualify DRM-free music selling as unprofitable. Selling DRM free music through someone who doesn't have the market strength that Apple does simply means that fewer potential pirates with even be exposed to DRM free versions of the songs. If I didn't think it was just for pure spite, I would say that excluding Apple is a calculated move for the sake of saving face, if not their absurd business model.
As a mac user, I remember the days of the MUG, the Mac User Group. We were a strange collection of people all with the fiery zeal for the Macintosh. We met together because it wasn't uncommon to be the only Mac user at school, at work, sometimes at home. There wasn't anyone to associate with who felt how we felt. We were the advocates for the Mac, we supported each other, we traded software, we helped each other out.
The internet came along, and for a brief time, the MUGs represented themselves online. It was a great way to distribute software, arrange meetings, etc. The MUGs didn't seem to make it though. It just made more sense to people that they all come together of their own accord. And several Mac sites made that possible.
Sometime around 2000 or 2001, people who were part of the online Mac Advocacy group received a letter from Guy Kawasaki who led the group, saying that Advocacy of the Mac wasn't really necessary, that the mac had made it and wasn't going to die away. I think that was really the end of the MUG. No longer was the Mac a dying machine, nor Apple a dying company. The need to group together was gone, and over the past 5 years or so the platform has become robust enough that you're not hard pressed to find a Mac user around.
If you've read this far, you likely wonder what my point is. I didn't even know there were LUGs to be honest. I imagine they were as invisible to me as MUGs were to the populace back in the day. The internet, in it's current form solves all the problems that UGs were used for. Support, both technical and social, and demonstration.
It's a little bit like the World Fair, back in the 19th and 20th centuries. Everyone got together to show off inventions, ideas, and concepts. When telecommunications took off, there stopped being a reason to hold the Fair.
to the old Apple blog "As the Apple Turns"
My Wife's mother suffers from severe anxiety when driving. She has all kinds of (In my opinion) unreasonable fears. I can see some value in this for her, but I wouldn't want to eliminate all of her fear. I wouldn't want her to turn into some madwoman stunt driver out on the freeway. This is a tricky thing, and I frankly hope that we don't end up with a marketable "fear killer".
Part this has to do with rules that come with being in Government. There are limits to the value/cost of an item that you can give someone like the President.
I'm going to patent a method for accomplishing tasks on a computing device.
looking at and object while in motion and interacting with it are two different things. I agree that using a computer on a desk while walking on a treadmill would be significantly easier to use than using a computer moving on a separate platform from you while you were moving would be. That said however, most people (myself included) I think would have difficulty maintaining movement (walking) while trying to utilize a computer. You either slow down in your walking to focus on the computer, or you focus on your walking and less on accomplishing your tasks. (A previous poster mentioned walking and chewing gum.)
I seriously doubt this with sell well. Not only is it expensive, but if you've ever tried to do anything on a laptop while moving from one room to another you know that the human body doesn't stabilize itself between bottom and top. If the bottom is moving, the top is too, and trying to do things that require some degree of non-movement, like typing for instance, would be difficult. Additionally, who's going to use this desk? Does it get moved around the office all day to whoever wants a go? Do you expect someone to use it all day? Even the most fit people aren't going to be interested in standing up all day for a desk job. As it goes, it's just impractical. They've got the right box, but they're thinking too far outside it. Personally, I would encourage activity at the office through things like frisbee during a break.
He's absolutely Biased, he admits it too. I interviewed him for some schoolwork a bit back. He typically does make some good points though.
I had a discussion about this with my Boss. What it really comes down to is Money. Cable and DSL are available across the street at the residential homes, but amazingly not available at our office. Why? Because more money can be squeezed out of a business than out of a residential unit. Most residences would opt for the slower, cheaper version, but a business needs access all the time. The company doling out both has an opportunity (and often a monopoly) and can make more money.
The Title is poorly assembled.
"LED Forty years Older Than Thought" implies literally that the LED(noun- subject) is(verb) Forty years older(modifier) than thought(noun- indirect object)
A better constructed Title would have been:
"LED forty years older than previously thought." This forces 'thought' to be a past-tense verb, rather than an indirect-object.
I've been doing an awful lot of close-reading and examining word structure recently for a class. Guess a little too much!
I misread the title. I thought that it was saying that LEDs were the age of 'thought' + 40...
This is just part of a greater buildup that has been going on for quite some time. DRM is coming, it will continue to come stronger and stronger. Apple is a major player. In the music market, it is the major player. Microsoft, Sony, and a few other along with Apple are trying get themselves in the top. FairPlay is close right now, but I expect at some point that it will be opened up. That will happen after Apple has won out the DRM battle.