Actually, there are more banking companies today than there have been in the past -- despite all the predictions to the contrary. Turns out there is quite a market for so-called 'community banks'; a lot of people like doing business with them. And starting a bank, particularly under a state charter, is pretty easy to do.
If it came down to it, I'd start one. Coming up with funding is almost never a problem because just about the only thing that can prevent a fractional-reserve bank from making a profit is criminal mismanagement. Basically, it's just one hell of a business model.
Doesn't stop him from being a kick-ass coder, or rocket builder.
He mainly works on the control systems, but then you'd know that if you actually went to the site and read about it. I check the updates every week, it's fun to watch.
Remember this, because it's important. The DMCA introduced a new copyright to the producer of a digital phonogram, one which determines where and when it can be accessed (this appies to digital only, not analog). Thus, even if Napster had wanted to, they couldn't have cut a single binding deal with a major label artist to distribute anything other than live performances or tunes produced after a given band's recording contract had expired. The label's have a lock-down on everything else.
What I'm banking on to break the impasse is the fact that the bands have to pay back the record companies, and some interprising band is going to claim that that makes them the producer and sue.
You know who used to have that job? The U.S. Supreme Court.
Seriously, one of my professors at the University of Texas, Scot Powe, clerked for William O. Douglas. At that time lawsuits about what was and was not obscene were being filed individually, and the justices (or their clerks) had to watch each one to write a brief on it for the decision.
Powe said the best part was walking out of one particularly bland showing with Thurgood Marshall, who turned to him and said, 'I think we need to send that one over to the FTC for false advertising.'
Tinkertronics in Austin is great. It's like walking into a Radio Shack circa 1978, or browsing the old Heathkit catalog. Building Heathkit stuff with my dad was some of the best times I had as a kid. Plus he was a phone man and so the house was filled with serious equipment and more bell wire than one child should be allowed to have. It was great.
I was actually talking about the re-releases of Episodes 4, 5 and 6.
I'm of two minds about them. The additions which were more than 3 seconds I could do without, i.e. the Jabba-Han scene. It wasn't too bad, but I didn't really feel it added much. (I have a mental block preventing me from addressing the Greedo-fires-first issue.) The extra sub-3-second bits they added to the dog fight scenes I felt flowed well and added to the visual tension, although you could tell they were different from the original dog fight scenes. I don't remember the difference breaking the continuity from scene to scene or disrupting the immersion. Then again, I don't own the rereleases, so I've only seen those extra scenes once.
The other thing to remember is that it's not a smooth two-degree increase everywhere, it's an average increase of two degrees.
When you take a complex system such as the atmosphere and dump a bunch of energy into it (by restricting the ability of that system to lose energy) what do think happens? It appears that the whorls get bigger, the temperature gradients get more extreme. As the article states, there are parts of Antarctica that are getting colder. Global warming does NOT just mean that things get warmer. It means that the system has more energy in it.
Surpluses are a good thing if you have an enourmous debt to service, allowing you to retire it sooner, saving taxpayer money over the long haul.
Of course, you have to ask who we're paying this interest to. There are two main buyers of U.S. Treasury issues - Japanese banks, and various classes of American enterprise. Of course, the Americans get taxed on the interest, so some of it comes back. However, if you cut taxes at the same time you increase your debt, your borrowing has the incidental effect of being a wealth-transfer mechanism from the people who pay the taxes to the people who buy the bonds. Most economists will agree that in our case, the flow is from the whole of the taxpayers to the rich taxpayers. Whether this is a good thing or not depends on which economic theories you subscribe to, but that's what happens.
Who are you, dude? You've just done something I've never seen before. You apologized for making a mistake on Slashdot. Most people don't have the balls to do that.
Republican controlled House and Senate passed the DMCA, Democratic president signed it.
But nice try, troll.
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Michael Dell is a good example. Steve Jobs would be even better.
Why? Because he is CEO of Apple and CEO of Pixar. He would speak with serious clout if he spoke out publicly on our side.
jobs@apple.com or sjobs@apple.com -- I can't remember off the top of my head. Any Apple employee can look it up in the directory, though. Perhaps one of them will post it.
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Perl 6 will give you the big knob.
That's as funny as it gets.
One nit: The V-1 wasn't a rocket. It was an unmanned airplane loaded with explosives. Hence the nickname 'buzzbomb'.
Are you trying to argue that Microsoft is really just engaging in civil disobedience against an unjust law?
If so, good for them. Now they get to experience the part where they accept the punishment and gain sympathy for their cause.
If not, then the law's the law and they have to follow it. dura lex sed lex
Actually, there are more banking companies today than there have been in the past -- despite all the predictions to the contrary. Turns out there is quite a market for so-called 'community banks'; a lot of people like doing business with them. And starting a bank, particularly under a state charter, is pretty easy to do.
If it came down to it, I'd start one. Coming up with funding is almost never a problem because just about the only thing that can prevent a fractional-reserve bank from making a profit is criminal mismanagement. Basically, it's just one hell of a business model.
Come, brothers, we shall burn the heretic!!!
He could have been excused for his ignorance; after all, he might not have been born when these came out the first time.
But... any geek born since that time would have the curiosity to search google for the answer, rather than complaining about not understanding.
That, in a nutshell, is the difference between a geek and normal person.
Thank you, God, for making me a geek.
Chris,
Is that $8-$10 figure for burned or glass-mastered discs?
Why do my mod points always expire 12 hours before something like this gets posted?
Also, I like the Fruedian typo.
John Carmack has no degrees at all.
Doesn't stop him from being a kick-ass coder, or rocket builder.
He mainly works on the control systems, but then you'd know that if you actually went to the site and read about it. I check the updates every week, it's fun to watch.
Remember this, because it's important. The DMCA introduced a new copyright to the producer of a digital phonogram, one which determines where and when it can be accessed (this appies to digital only, not analog). Thus, even if Napster had wanted to, they couldn't have cut a single binding deal with a major label artist to distribute anything other than live performances or tunes produced after a given band's recording contract had expired. The label's have a lock-down on everything else.
What I'm banking on to break the impasse is the fact that the bands have to pay back the record companies, and some interprising band is going to claim that that makes them the producer and sue.
Then the shit hits the fan
I haven't subscribed yet, and I currently have mod points. I'm going to subscribe, though, as the end of the month rolls around.
How does the Supreme Court's decision that the government can't outlaw virtual kiddie porn support your argument?
You know who used to have that job? The U.S. Supreme Court.
Seriously, one of my professors at the University of Texas, Scot Powe, clerked for William O. Douglas. At that time lawsuits about what was and was not obscene were being filed individually, and the justices (or their clerks) had to watch each one to write a brief on it for the decision.
Powe said the best part was walking out of one particularly bland showing with Thurgood Marshall, who turned to him and said, 'I think we need to send that one over to the FTC for false advertising.'
Tinkertronics in Austin is great. It's like walking into a Radio Shack circa 1978, or browsing the old Heathkit catalog. Building Heathkit stuff with my dad was some of the best times I had as a kid. Plus he was a phone man and so the house was filled with serious equipment and more bell wire than one child should be allowed to have. It was great.
OS X is based on Mach 3.0
See?
I was actually talking about the re-releases of Episodes 4, 5 and 6.
I'm of two minds about them. The additions which were more than 3 seconds I could do without, i.e. the Jabba-Han scene. It wasn't too bad, but I didn't really feel it added much. (I have a mental block preventing me from addressing the Greedo-fires-first issue.) The extra sub-3-second bits they added to the dog fight scenes I felt flowed well and added to the visual tension, although you could tell they were different from the original dog fight scenes. I don't remember the difference breaking the continuity from scene to scene or disrupting the immersion. Then again, I don't own the rereleases, so I've only seen those extra scenes once.
That's because we expect the extended version to be better than the original, which was sadly not the case with Star Wars.
Exactly.
The other thing to remember is that it's not a smooth two-degree increase everywhere, it's an average increase of two degrees.
When you take a complex system such as the atmosphere and dump a bunch of energy into it (by restricting the ability of that system to lose energy) what do think happens? It appears that the whorls get bigger, the temperature gradients get more extreme. As the article states, there are parts of Antarctica that are getting colder. Global warming does NOT just mean that things get warmer. It means that the system has more energy in it.
Yeah, but it's not the energy release, it's the insanely short half-lived isotopes that get created that are the main problem with nukes.
It's the radiation, not the blast radius.
Surpluses are a good thing if you have an enourmous debt to service, allowing you to retire it sooner, saving taxpayer money over the long haul.
Of course, you have to ask who we're paying this interest to. There are two main buyers of U.S. Treasury issues - Japanese banks, and various classes of American enterprise. Of course, the Americans get taxed on the interest, so some of it comes back. However, if you cut taxes at the same time you increase your debt, your borrowing has the incidental effect of being a wealth-transfer mechanism from the people who pay the taxes to the people who buy the bonds. Most economists will agree that in our case, the flow is from the whole of the taxpayers to the rich taxpayers. Whether this is a good thing or not depends on which economic theories you subscribe to, but that's what happens.
Holy Shit.
Who are you, dude? You've just done something I've never seen before. You apologized for making a mistake on Slashdot. Most people don't have the balls to do that.
I'm impressed.
I thought I'd seen it all.
Republican controlled House and Senate passed the DMCA, Democratic president signed it.
But nice try, troll.
Michael Dell is a good example. Steve Jobs would be even better.
Why? Because he is CEO of Apple and CEO of Pixar. He would speak with serious clout if he spoke out publicly on our side.
jobs@apple.com or sjobs@apple.com -- I can't remember off the top of my head. Any Apple employee can look it up in the directory, though. Perhaps one of them will post it.
P.S. I used to visit macosrumors everyday, then they posted a link to this new site "Slashdot"... 1997?
/. That's how I ended up here.
It was January 1998. BlackLightMedia - parent company of MOSR - used to do ad sales for
Remember Kathleen, 'never ask a geek why, just nod slowly and back away.'
Congratulations, Rob.