I assume that somehow that includes the massive amount of marketing and huge profits that go to the shareholders, right?
Personally I think this whole argument is bullshit. People in Africa can't pay for the drugs in the first place. It's not as if by letting those countries ignore the patents the pharm corps will lose tons of money. Africa is what? 1, 2% of their total revenue?
Fuck you people's after-the-fact attempts to justify what is essentially murder. They can save people's lives without lifting a god damn finger: just let the countries make the drug for themselves.
Oh, and no more of this bullshit "it doesn't save lives, just prolongs them." Everyone dies. So every act of saving a life could be described as merely prolonging it.
The basic fact of the matter is that some people care more about the right of the drug companies to make massive profits than the right of some poor African to continue living. And that is just repulsive.
Yeah, and you needed to install on that specific drive too. I have two drives: "DVD 1" and "DVD 2" and they are fine, because I was installing in the app folder on my OS X drive(just called "Mac OS X")
So this sucks, but it's really a very specific bug that would've affected only a few users. I can see how Apple would've missed it
You also can just open up the.pkg file, decompress the contents, and install it yourself, if you're so paranoid about a the install script that you in fact are allowed to look at
I think the key thing here is digital storage capacity is increasing so rapidly. I'm not sure how much better digital cameras will get, but I think storage will increase more, faster.
Once you are talking many terabytes of storage on a CD-sized disc, a company like the NY Time could easily have 20 discs, each one with a complete record of every single photo, stored in different locations. Re-back up the old discs every 5 years.
Eventually I think the demand for very permanent stable digital storage will result in it's creation. Something that can last for hundreds of years. I don't see that there would be any technical factors preventing it.
I think a lot of English speakers understand the German word schadenfreude, just because it's such a universal idea, even if we have no English word for it.
saudade seems to be a bit of a different story though, at least what I can tell from google...
OK, well the Jukebox is like $250 MSRP(maybe $220 on the street), and this thing has:
- firewire
- much smaller form factor
- 4x more anti-skip
- much better LCD
So asking for it to be $175 is being a bit unfair.
If legislators hear that their ass is gonna get canned the next time around if they don't vote a certain way on a bill, you'd better believe they're going to vote that way. I find it doubtful any legislator would take a stand "on principle" against people's privacy rights, and risk getting thrown out of office.
All you have to say is "I care about this issue and I vote, and if you pass this, the next time you're up for reelection I will vote for someone who gives a damn about the Bill of Rights"
The real problem with Slashdot is that while a lot of people read it, they're geographically diverse. I think even if every Slashdotter here wrote their reps about this, no one legislator would get a very much mail.
I highly recommend the NASA Watch website, which has a highly informed (and often highly critical) view of NASA and especially Goldin.
He wrote an editorial a couple weeks ago saying that he didn't think Goldin would be replaced any time soon. Well obviously that prediction turned out to be wrong, but I am eagerly awaiting his comments on Goldin's departure.
I think Goldin was seen by a lot of people as a bureaucrat, as someone who was holding NASA back, not advocating for them strongly enough in Congress, and not setting his sights high. The ISS has become a monstrosity that has gobbled up dozens of other scientific missions, and now it looks like barely any science will be possible due to massive cost-overruns and then the slashing of key portions of the station.
My personal hope, at this point almost prayer, is that the new director has the vision and balls to put humans on Mars within the next 20 years. Right now it seems almost impossible that that could happen, but it should have happened already, and I for one am sick of waiting.
Well the government is an instrument of the people, and the only reason corporations are allowed to exist is to server the public good*, so I would say that describing corporations as instruments of the government(which really just means instruments of the people) makes sense.
* = until the Supreme Court decision that decleared that corporations are people under the Constitution, a decision so laughably bad I am just going to ignore it
First let me say this is totally unacceptable. However:
1) The app only starts automatically if you just click on the link. If you option-click(what I usually do when I want to download a file). It doesn't autostart it. When you option-click you are basically telling the browser "save this file to my HD", when you just normally click, you are saying "show me this file"(so like a PDF will download to the HD and then be opened). Still obviously it should not automatically open apps.
2) This is only for Classic apps. The reason this is good is that I usually don't have Classic open(because it sucks). So when I click this, it automatically starts opening Classic(which takes 30-45 seconds). If during that time I just click to stop opening Classic, the program never runs.
Yes, I just found this out too. If you use Snapz Pro(on Mac, I'm sure there are similar PC products), you might be able to capture the audio/video. Not sure what kind of quality you'd get though.
Just open it up and delete the extra tracks. I haven't finished downloading it yet, so I'm not sure what the tracks are. It might be audio/video/flash, in which case you just delete the flash, or there might be a bunch of tracks, in which case you need to play around to see which are necessary. Once you save the extracted movie file, convert.
use Quicktime. You can export to MPEG or some other standard formats, after which I assume you could get it into whatever you want. It'd take a while though.
Remember, everyone bitches about Quicktime, but us Mac users love it. WMP for Mac sucks and there's no OS X version. Same for Real. DivX on Mac is a joke(though a new Quicktime component for OS X shows promise). Sorenson 3 is close to DivX quality if you encode right, and it plays great on a Mac, unlike those other formats.
On a normal keyboard, I usually leave one hand on the keyboard at all times when using the mouse. This hand can hit all the modifier keys(control, option, commands, shift - on a Mac), for when pressing those keys is necessary in what you're doing with the mouse.
With this keyboard it's designed so the modifier keys are split between both hands. So when your right hand goes to the mouse, it becomes difficult to hit the modifier keys with the left.
Also, say what you want about flat keyboards, but being able to rest your hands on the desk or wrist pad is nice. Do you really want to be holding your arms up in the air for hours on end while typing?
MacSatellite X 1.2(audiogalaxy client) works just fine for me. MacSat X 1.3 doesn't seem to work for anyone, so I'm not exactly sure why it was released...
gnutella is awful. edonkey is nice, too bad the Mac client sucks and has no GUI
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Uhhh...80% "administrative"?
I assume that somehow that includes the massive amount of marketing and huge profits that go to the shareholders, right?
Personally I think this whole argument is bullshit. People in Africa can't pay for the drugs in the first place. It's not as if by letting those countries ignore the patents the pharm corps will lose tons of money. Africa is what? 1, 2% of their total revenue?
Fuck you people's after-the-fact attempts to justify what is essentially murder. They can save people's lives without lifting a god damn finger: just let the countries make the drug for themselves.
Oh, and no more of this bullshit "it doesn't save lives, just prolongs them." Everyone dies. So every act of saving a life could be described as merely prolonging it.
The basic fact of the matter is that some people care more about the right of the drug companies to make massive profits than the right of some poor African to continue living. And that is just repulsive.
Most Republicans aren't big on antitrust legislation at all, because it interferes with a big corporation's right to run unmolested.
How does a corporation have a right to do anything? I thought the Constitution gave rights to human beings, not massive immortal legal-entities.
Yeah, and you needed to install on that specific drive too. I have two drives: "DVD 1" and "DVD 2" and they are fine, because I was installing in the app folder on my OS X drive(just called "Mac OS X")
So this sucks, but it's really a very specific bug that would've affected only a few users. I can see how Apple would've missed it
You also can just open up the .pkg file, decompress the contents, and install it yourself, if you're so paranoid about a the install script that you in fact are allowed to look at
Anyone with a = 4 digit UID is OK in my book...
I think you mean NIMH or Li batteries. clearly NiCd ones do...
I think the key thing here is digital storage capacity is increasing so rapidly. I'm not sure how much better digital cameras will get, but I think storage will increase more, faster.
Once you are talking many terabytes of storage on a CD-sized disc, a company like the NY Time could easily have 20 discs, each one with a complete record of every single photo, stored in different locations. Re-back up the old discs every 5 years.
Eventually I think the demand for very permanent stable digital storage will result in it's creation. Something that can last for hundreds of years. I don't see that there would be any technical factors preventing it.
try playing Myth & Myth II
That's not what happens, and I find Myth II to be a much more enjoyable game than anything from Blizzard.
I think a lot of English speakers understand the German word schadenfreude, just because it's such a universal idea, even if we have no English word for it.
saudade seems to be a bit of a different story though, at least what I can tell from google...
Yeah, and this is significantly better than the Jukebox.
OK, well the Jukebox is like $250 MSRP(maybe $220 on the street), and this thing has:
- firewire
- much smaller form factor
- 4x more anti-skip
- much better LCD
So asking for it to be $175 is being a bit unfair.
You guys were all singing the praises of the Nomad Jukebox when it debuted at $700...
If legislators hear that their ass is gonna get canned the next time around if they don't vote a certain way on a bill, you'd better believe they're going to vote that way. I find it doubtful any legislator would take a stand "on principle" against people's privacy rights, and risk getting thrown out of office.
All you have to say is "I care about this issue and I vote, and if you pass this, the next time you're up for reelection I will vote for someone who gives a damn about the Bill of Rights"
The real problem with Slashdot is that while a lot of people read it, they're geographically diverse. I think even if every Slashdotter here wrote their reps about this, no one legislator would get a very much mail.
michael is a fuckup
I highly recommend the NASA Watch website, which has a highly informed (and often highly critical) view of NASA and especially Goldin.
He wrote an editorial a couple weeks ago saying that he didn't think Goldin would be replaced any time soon. Well obviously that prediction turned out to be wrong, but I am eagerly awaiting his comments on Goldin's departure.
I think Goldin was seen by a lot of people as a bureaucrat, as someone who was holding NASA back, not advocating for them strongly enough in Congress, and not setting his sights high. The ISS has become a monstrosity that has gobbled up dozens of other scientific missions, and now it looks like barely any science will be possible due to massive cost-overruns and then the slashing of key portions of the station.
My personal hope, at this point almost prayer, is that the new director has the vision and balls to put humans on Mars within the next 20 years. Right now it seems almost impossible that that could happen, but it should have happened already, and I for one am sick of waiting.
Well the government is an instrument of the people, and the only reason corporations are allowed to exist is to server the public good*, so I would say that describing corporations as instruments of the government(which really just means instruments of the people) makes sense.
* = until the Supreme Court decision that decleared that corporations are people under the Constitution, a decision so laughably bad I am just going to ignore it
What does he do, just keep peddling until he crashes into something and dies?
BTW, isn't it possible that by being heavy and aerodynamic, this bike lets you go faster than other bikes, but takes more energy to do it?
First let me say this is totally unacceptable. However:
1) The app only starts automatically if you just click on the link. If you option-click(what I usually do when I want to download a file). It doesn't autostart it. When you option-click you are basically telling the browser "save this file to my HD", when you just normally click, you are saying "show me this file"(so like a PDF will download to the HD and then be opened). Still obviously it should not automatically open apps.
2) This is only for Classic apps. The reason this is good is that I usually don't have Classic open(because it sucks). So when I click this, it automatically starts opening Classic(which takes 30-45 seconds). If during that time I just click to stop opening Classic, the program never runs.
Then how come at the end the guy with the Klingon mask falls, and the real klingon is like "This is not klingon blood - look it's Admiral Cartright!"
?
I believe Fire is GPL
Yes, I just found this out too. If you use Snapz Pro(on Mac, I'm sure there are similar PC products), you might be able to capture the audio/video. Not sure what kind of quality you'd get though.
Just open it up and delete the extra tracks. I haven't finished downloading it yet, so I'm not sure what the tracks are. It might be audio/video/flash, in which case you just delete the flash, or there might be a bunch of tracks, in which case you need to play around to see which are necessary. Once you save the extracted movie file, convert.
use Quicktime. You can export to MPEG or some other standard formats, after which I assume you could get it into whatever you want. It'd take a while though.
Remember, everyone bitches about Quicktime, but us Mac users love it. WMP for Mac sucks and there's no OS X version. Same for Real. DivX on Mac is a joke(though a new Quicktime component for OS X shows promise). Sorenson 3 is close to DivX quality if you encode right, and it plays great on a Mac, unlike those other formats.
On a normal keyboard, I usually leave one hand on the keyboard at all times when using the mouse. This hand can hit all the modifier keys(control, option, commands, shift - on a Mac), for when pressing those keys is necessary in what you're doing with the mouse.
With this keyboard it's designed so the modifier keys are split between both hands. So when your right hand goes to the mouse, it becomes difficult to hit the modifier keys with the left.
Also, say what you want about flat keyboards, but being able to rest your hands on the desk or wrist pad is nice. Do you really want to be holding your arms up in the air for hours on end while typing?
MacSatellite X 1.2(audiogalaxy client) works just fine for me. MacSat X 1.3 doesn't seem to work for anyone, so I'm not exactly sure why it was released...
gnutella is awful. edonkey is nice, too bad the Mac client sucks and has no GUI