No one has done anything like this before. The style of seamless blending of handheld, real documentary, fake news, CCTV (security cam) and live action fluid is tight.
Just because XML is eXtendible, doesn't mean that a particular idea implemented through that extension isn't non-trivial (lots of negations, I know...) and hence, patentable.
This is like saying that sailing and navigating a ship was a known skill at the time of James Cook, so his discovery of New Zealand and Australia aren't really discoveries at all. But in fact, he used a lot of skills and was a talented navigator (often stated as the best of his time) to successfully perform his journeys and draw maps that were used for centuries after!
As one who has and is having experiences with Elsevier, I totally approve and support the above post. I won't go into all the disgusting details, but basically, fuck Elsevier.
...but the Gibson Les Paul has never really been my kind. I did play on one, for a while, and it is nice but not my favorite el. guitar. The Fender Telecaster's simplicity and directness suits me much more.
Rest in peace, Les Paul, and thank you for the music.
I like both the Computer History Museum and the Aromic Testing Museum, so I thought maybe you have a similarly genial recommendation for when I'll be in Washington DC on a conference in October. I won't be able to travel around too much.
DOS required to be shut down, too, if you used SmartDrive (which, IIRC, was active by default at least since MS DOS 5.0, as it improved performance quite a bit). What you had to do was to press CTRL + ALT + DEL before turning off the system, to let SmartDrive write back to disk the dirty blocks in its cache. It would display a short message during the operation, then reboot the computer. This behaviour was recommended in the DOS user's manual.
For Finland, the unemployment rate for last year was 6.7%. I don't know whether it went up or down this year. For the record, this unemployment rate has been fluctuating very widely, for the last 20 years.
This is why psychopaths will always get further than honest people. They are the best at lying (in your face, without blinking, cold-blooded) and best at manipulating people. They are also extremely charismatic. Average people have little chance of topping that. Aspies, with their naivety and honesty (and believing that all the others are just as honest) are toast.
I don't think the Pentagon can win this "arms race" the conventional way. Even if they develop this ordinance, all the Iranians or N. Koreans have to do is add a few meters of armored concrete on top of their existing underground structures. Sure, expensive, but it doesn't compare to the R&D cost to develop a larger ordinance, including guidance and.. well, at a certain size it will become impossible to deliver to destination.
First of all, at the speeds it goes it only replaces bicycles. BUT.. you have to be standing, so it's not good for your knees. Also, because you are static (your legs are not moving, the kne3es aren't flexing), this is worse than walking, considering knee health.
At the same time, it has to be recharged, which a bicycle does not. And finally, it occupies a much broader length than a bicycle. It is also quite a bit heavier. These two facts (need for broader space on the sidewalk, and heavier) makes it more dangerous for other people on the sidewalk.
Basically, I see only cons and no pro to this device.
[undying optimism] Maybe this is just a diversion maneuver, to lull the RIAA into complacence and passivity, while the defense team prepares a cunning and unexpected twist for an appeal which will create a precedent to end all precedents, thus neutering any and all RIAA cases, current and future? It's possible, right? It's just a ruse...?! [/undying optimism]
I have to humbly admit not to know much or nearly anything, about Battlestar Galactica (I don't watch TV shows). Could you tell me if footage of those running cylons can be found on Youtube in some way?
...who is totally, utterly impressed by the sight of this set of mechanical parts actually running? Watching the video I have forgotten that this is all a mass of composite and metal. All those SF movies and animations where robots are depicted as slowly-moving objects have been obsoleted in one instant. If anything, it's time for some rather more terrifying robotic characters.
I use eBay.de most of the time, and a lot of sellers, especially if they have an eBay store, put their phone numbers on the auction page. Who/what is to stop the potential buyer from calling the seller and do just that - make a transaction without eBay?
Maybe Skype would have made things worse? Perhaps, but my impression is, eBay's defense against the above scenario is quite vacuous as it is.
You know those utterly annoying self-made "leave a message after the beep" messages that include some "cute" song etc. I am sure everyone has had a friend or a acquaintance living abroad that was not at home and made such message for the answering machine. It's so infuriating that my attitude is "I'm not leaving a damn to this guy - fuck him and his minutes-long answering message".
Its yet another club that MS can use against the OEMs.
Don't like what MS demands for the desktop? Oops, I guess we can't sell your laptops in the stores anymore.
Promise to ditch linux? Yeah, we can make space for your wares in the stores.
This isn't good news for vendors no matter how you slice it.
Very good analysis. I would add, however, that if MS pushes this strategy too far (and the only way for it to have leverage is to push it too far, if you think of it), they cause HP or some other vendor to go completely Windows-free.
If I lived in a country like Russia (or Canada, Norway, Finland, etc, for that matter), I'd be an enthusiastic supporter of anything that might even possibly tip the balance of the climate towards Global Warming for exactly these sorts of reasons. I mean, if you owned the largest frozen mass of land anywhere, why even care about such a cause?
A massive increase of malaria and other tropical diseases may be one reason to care.
IANAMFB (I am not a Microsoft fan-boy), but I have to admit that so far, it looks like it is at least a bit exciting (especially from the rock-solid RC) Sure it's "exciting", given that Slashdot is hyping Windows 7 with some "News" every two weeks. Or every single week, more like it.
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No one has done anything like this before. The style of seamless blending of handheld, real documentary, fake news, CCTV (security cam) and live action fluid is tight.
Sure. No one.
Just because XML is eXtendible, doesn't mean that a particular idea implemented through that extension isn't non-trivial (lots of negations, I know...) and hence, patentable.
This is like saying that sailing and navigating a ship was a known skill at the time of James Cook, so his discovery of New Zealand and Australia aren't really discoveries at all. But in fact, he used a lot of skills and was a talented navigator (often stated as the best of his time) to successfully perform his journeys and draw maps that were used for centuries after!
As one who has and is having experiences with Elsevier, I totally approve and support the above post. I won't go into all the disgusting details, but basically, fuck Elsevier.
...but the Gibson Les Paul has never really been my kind. I did play on one, for a while, and it is nice but not my favorite el. guitar. The Fender Telecaster's simplicity and directness suits me much more.
Rest in peace, Les Paul, and thank you for the music.
I like both the Computer History Museum and the Aromic Testing Museum, so I thought maybe you have a similarly genial recommendation for when I'll be in Washington DC on a conference in October. I won't be able to travel around too much.
Thanks a lot in advance.
DOS required to be shut down, too, if you used SmartDrive (which, IIRC, was active by default at least since MS DOS 5.0, as it improved performance quite a bit). What you had to do was to press CTRL + ALT + DEL before turning off the system, to let SmartDrive write back to disk the dirty blocks in its cache. It would display a short message during the operation, then reboot the computer. This behaviour was recommended in the DOS user's manual.
And only NOW you tell me!?
For Finland, the unemployment rate for last year was 6.7%. I don't know whether it went up or down this year. For the record, this unemployment rate has been fluctuating very widely, for the last 20 years.
This is why psychopaths will always get further than honest people. They are the best at lying (in your face, without blinking, cold-blooded) and best at manipulating people. They are also extremely charismatic. Average people have little chance of topping that. Aspies, with their naivety and honesty (and believing that all the others are just as honest) are toast.
....it is probably not her own fault that she grew up with such a sense of entitlement.
Her family/school are likely very much to blame though, for not teaching her how the world works.
She should sue them.
You know what? She should. The one who raised the spoiled brat should be the one that bears the consequences.
But it rarely is so.
I don't think the Pentagon can win this "arms race" the conventional way. Even if they develop this ordinance, all the Iranians or N. Koreans have to do is add a few meters of armored concrete on top of their existing underground structures. Sure, expensive, but it doesn't compare to the R&D cost to develop a larger ordinance, including guidance and.. well, at a certain size it will become impossible to deliver to destination.
First of all, at the speeds it goes it only replaces bicycles. BUT.. you have to be standing, so it's not good for your knees. Also, because you are static (your legs are not moving, the kne3es aren't flexing), this is worse than walking, considering knee health.
At the same time, it has to be recharged, which a bicycle does not. And finally, it occupies a much broader length than a bicycle. It is also quite a bit heavier. These two facts (need for broader space on the sidewalk, and heavier) makes it more dangerous for other people on the sidewalk.
Basically, I see only cons and no pro to this device.
[undying optimism] Maybe this is just a diversion maneuver, to lull the RIAA into complacence and passivity, while the defense team prepares a cunning and unexpected twist for an appeal which will create a precedent to end all precedents, thus neutering any and all RIAA cases, current and future? It's possible, right? It's just a ruse...?! [/undying optimism]
It seems to me that when that question was asked, all of the defense lawyers should have levitated out of their seats screaming "Objection!"
Levitated? More like violently propelled, as if sitting on a rocket-powered ejection seat.
This is a disaster.
I have to humbly admit not to know much or nearly anything, about Battlestar Galactica (I don't watch TV shows). Could you tell me if footage of those running cylons can be found on Youtube in some way?
Probably a drop in enrollments.
...who is totally, utterly impressed by the sight of this set of mechanical parts actually running? Watching the video I have forgotten that this is all a mass of composite and metal. All those SF movies and animations where robots are depicted as slowly-moving objects have been obsoleted in one instant. If anything, it's time for some rather more terrifying robotic characters.
I use eBay.de most of the time, and a lot of sellers, especially if they have an eBay store, put their phone numbers on the auction page. Who/what is to stop the potential buyer from calling the seller and do just that - make a transaction without eBay?
Maybe Skype would have made things worse? Perhaps, but my impression is, eBay's defense against the above scenario is quite vacuous as it is.
The point isn't to rob Microsoft. The point is to not pay for something you are not going to use.
Quite right. Robbing MS is just the added, sweet, bonus.
Anyhow, I am going to at least try this, because the netbook in the submission is exactly what I was looking at buying.
You know those utterly annoying self-made "leave a message after the beep" messages that include some "cute" song etc. I am sure everyone has had a friend or a acquaintance living abroad that was not at home and made such message for the answering machine. It's so infuriating that my attitude is "I'm not leaving a damn to this guy - fuck him and his minutes-long answering message".
It is here:
Its yet another club that MS can use against the OEMs.
Don't like what MS demands for the desktop? Oops, I guess we can't sell your laptops in the stores anymore.
Promise to ditch linux? Yeah, we can make space for your wares in the stores.
This isn't good news for vendors no matter how you slice it.
Very good analysis. I would add, however, that if MS pushes this strategy too far (and the only way for it to have leverage is to push it too far, if you think of it), they cause HP or some other vendor to go completely Windows-free.
This sounds like another good reason to switch to BSD. Strike two linux!
(FWIW strike one is linux's sound architecture)
Wow. I couldn't agree more, on both points.
If I lived in a country like Russia (or Canada, Norway, Finland, etc, for that matter), I'd be an enthusiastic supporter of anything that might even possibly tip the balance of the climate towards Global Warming for exactly these sorts of reasons. I mean, if you owned the largest frozen mass of land anywhere, why even care about such a cause?
A massive increase of malaria and other tropical diseases may be one reason to care.
IANAMFB (I am not a Microsoft fan-boy), but I have to admit that so far, it looks like it is at least a bit exciting (especially from the rock-solid RC)
Sure it's "exciting", given that Slashdot is hyping Windows 7 with some "News" every two weeks. Or every single week, more like it.
We'll eat your eggs by the spoonful, with Vodka. And your very DNA will be used as a fluorescent dye.
(I admit, I stole the idea for the joke from Louis CK. Genius comedian, that guy.)