There are certain arguments that no one ever wins. Examples of such arguments are: Religion, Politics, Sexuality and the Infallibility of Cowboy Neal.
If you have a religious zealot who thinks what he is doing is "God's work", I doubt anyone would be successful convincing him otherwise.
Apply that same logic to the Church of Scientology. Here we have nutjobs who believe that space aliens are the cause of all the problems in the world today. If people are believing such nonsense, what else are they capable of believing?
This coming down on Scientology thing for doing business as usual won't stop their practices. It will just drive it underground in Belgium or spur international outrage over those "poor Belgian Scientologists".
Does that mean that if you were to drive one of these cars across state lines, you would be in violation of some DOT code? Or if one wanted to drive across state lines, would they have to have their sensors/PCM calibrated to fit the requirements of the destination state? If either of these is true, someone must think the buyers of these vehicles are cute... because they want to screw them.
Where is the BBC, CNN or any major news site... If major news outlets started reporting news, how will I ever find out what [insert drunk party whore celeb name here] did when they went on a bender last night? Think about the children.
Why not integrate.odt into MS Office? It seems like Microsoft is just throwing its weight around when this is not a battle/war that they necessarily need to fight. Wouldn't it be cheaper than bribes to incorporate existing standards into new products?
At least our bias is transparent. That's the reason I don't trust the media. Their bias is obvious, yet they don't come out and say it like we do here on/.. Linux users on/.: here to represent!
The Tablet PC is just plain awesome. If they can get the money to do such a thing, so be it.
But the "Locker" thing... I've seen plenty of solutions like this. All have either received negative or lukewarm reviews by students (including me). WebCT and Blackboard are the only two I can think of off-hand.
Really, what it comes down to is that whatever content is posted on these portals (calling a spade a spade) is owned by the school district. If teachers and students post their work on the portal, the school owns it. I don't suppose people plan on putting any personal work on there.
Dude! You're taking this way too seriously! As a guy who had a pilot's license at one time, I know that not even the most sophisticated PC-based flight sims can compare to the real thing. You just have to look at it for what it is: a cool toy.
What they're doing isn't strategic. It's reactionary. Even a business student would tell you that is good for the short-term, but it's more like a bandaid. It's not good for the long-term survival of the business.
It sounds as if the record industry is upping the rates for people they know they can get it out of. I would draw a parallel between this and colleges upping tuition to current students.
Last night I read an interesting article in the New York Times that centered around Producing Guru Rick Reuben: for whom I have tremendous respect. In amongst the 10 pages typed is what he deems to be an effective model to bring the recording industry back: charge everyone a subscription fee.
I'm not too fond of a model where the user only owns a subscription and the record companies have 100% control over the content. But Reuben is right, if only in principal. The only way the recording industry can sustain itself over the long term is to change its way of doing business.
You know, that's one of Mac's strong points. I'm not a fanboy by any means; but I have never had a problem with hardware not working during or after upgrading OS's on a Mac.
My experience with Linux has been to throw darts at a wall as to whether my devices would work or not during/after installation. I suppose that's a factor of my dumb ass not doing research into what kernels support which hardware and are available in which distro.But who wants to go through all that fuss? Isn't the beginning of user-friendliness how everything should work right out of the box?
You can't exactly expect someone who isn't Roddenberry to be Roddenberry. Abrams will have his 5 minutes of fame here; but I really don't see his movie being a box office hit. Maybe it will have a strong opening day due to nostalgia; but other than that, it will flop if he's really changing things. I have over a year to tie the noose. Who else wants to be in the lynch mob?
I don't think they're going to stop suing people altogether. I think that the class action suits will serve to severely stunt the growth of their ever-mounting kills but it won't stop them. The MAFIAA may have to resort to more, dare I say, legal means of investigation.
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Yes but do they know it's criminal or are they ignoring that because they're doing "the good work"?
There are certain arguments that no one ever wins. Examples of such arguments are: Religion, Politics, Sexuality and the Infallibility of Cowboy Neal.
If you have a religious zealot who thinks what he is doing is "God's work", I doubt anyone would be successful convincing him otherwise.
Apply that same logic to the Church of Scientology. Here we have nutjobs who believe that space aliens are the cause of all the problems in the world today. If people are believing such nonsense, what else are they capable of believing?
This coming down on Scientology thing for doing business as usual won't stop their practices. It will just drive it underground in Belgium or spur international outrage over those "poor Belgian Scientologists".
Does that mean that if you were to drive one of these cars across state lines, you would be in violation of some DOT code? Or if one wanted to drive across state lines, would they have to have their sensors/PCM calibrated to fit the requirements of the destination state? If either of these is true, someone must think the buyers of these vehicles are cute... because they want to screw them.
Yes it is. The name Disk Operating System should be a dead givaway. Of course, you know how the names lie. lol
Why not integrate .odt into MS Office? It seems like Microsoft is just throwing its weight around when this is not a battle/war that they necessarily need to fight. Wouldn't it be cheaper than bribes to incorporate existing standards into new products?
As long as ZFS is a feature of Open Solaris, count me in!
At least our bias is transparent. That's the reason I don't trust the media. Their bias is obvious, yet they don't come out and say it like we do here on /.. Linux users on /.: here to represent!
Have you RTFA? It's 10 pages! There's a lot to digest!
I could swear I plugged this article three days ago here for different reasons.
OH MY GOD! I felt like I was actually there!
The Tablet PC is just plain awesome. If they can get the money to do such a thing, so be it.
But the "Locker" thing... I've seen plenty of solutions like this. All have either received negative or lukewarm reviews by students (including me). WebCT and Blackboard are the only two I can think of off-hand.
Really, what it comes down to is that whatever content is posted on these portals (calling a spade a spade) is owned by the school district. If teachers and students post their work on the portal, the school owns it. I don't suppose people plan on putting any personal work on there.
Dude! You're taking this way too seriously! As a guy who had a pilot's license at one time, I know that not even the most sophisticated PC-based flight sims can compare to the real thing. You just have to look at it for what it is: a cool toy.
The rovers' solar cells must recharge Energizer batteries. They keep on going and going...
What they're doing isn't strategic. It's reactionary. Even a business student would tell you that is good for the short-term, but it's more like a bandaid. It's not good for the long-term survival of the business.
It sounds as if the record industry is upping the rates for people they know they can get it out of. I would draw a parallel between this and colleges upping tuition to current students.
Last night I read an interesting article in the New York Times that centered around Producing Guru Rick Reuben: for whom I have tremendous respect. In amongst the 10 pages typed is what he deems to be an effective model to bring the recording industry back: charge everyone a subscription fee.
I'm not too fond of a model where the user only owns a subscription and the record companies have 100% control over the content. But Reuben is right, if only in principal. The only way the recording industry can sustain itself over the long term is to change its way of doing business.
So you're saying the comparison is Apples to oranges?
That is freaking AWESOME!
You know, that's one of Mac's strong points. I'm not a fanboy by any means; but I have never had a problem with hardware not working during or after upgrading OS's on a Mac.
My experience with Linux has been to throw darts at a wall as to whether my devices would work or not during/after installation. I suppose that's a factor of my dumb ass not doing research into what kernels support which hardware and are available in which distro.But who wants to go through all that fuss? Isn't the beginning of user-friendliness how everything should work right out of the box?
Why wait that long? DAWN!
And his good buddy Ben Folds on keyboard.
You can't exactly expect someone who isn't Roddenberry to be Roddenberry. Abrams will have his 5 minutes of fame here; but I really don't see his movie being a box office hit. Maybe it will have a strong opening day due to nostalgia; but other than that, it will flop if he's really changing things. I have over a year to tie the noose. Who else wants to be in the lynch mob?
I don't think they're going to stop suing people altogether. I think that the class action suits will serve to severely stunt the growth of their ever-mounting kills but it won't stop them. The MAFIAA may have to resort to more, dare I say, legal means of investigation.
I feel disenfranchised. They will be hearing from my attorney. (Just Kidding)