Just because he fails at Biology doesn't make him racist. What bothers me about all of this is not the what was said by the Governor so much as what was said by his campaign manager in response. Accusing the other campaign of "hacking" their website by simply access the information they put there as well as making several other nasty remarks.
It's like if I put a box of stuff I want to get rid of on the curb and put a big sign on the box that says "Free, help yourself" and then later I realize that I accidently left something valuable in there. I dont' get to call the person who took that valuable item a thief becase *I* made a mistake.
No offense, but the article was fairly even-handed. It went after Microsoft as much as Apple. If he went after Apple more, it was for claiming Microsoft copied from them (which they did) while they themselves borrow freely. And also for making fun of Microsoft for only releasing one OS in the last 5 years, while both OS's have had roughly the same level of feature changes in the past 5 years -- Apple has just charged for ugprades 5 times.
It's not as if he tried to pretend that Microsoft wasn't equally guilty of these crimes -- merely slap Apple on the wrist for trying to pretend THEY WEREN'T.
This isn't some frothing at the mouth anti-apple bashing lunatic raving his anti-apple rants just someone tired of Apple pretending that their farts smell like delicious fruit pie. On the one hand, its' a bit silly to be mad at Apple for that -- its' their whole marketting strategy. It's what appeals to the people who buy Apple. On the other hand, it is a bit tiresome.
They're pressed cds, but they have the university logo on them and I'm pretty sure they all have the same cd key with them. I think they do it differently now, and give out actual cds -- but you're not allowed to buy more than one copy of the same piece of software so I've just been figuring It'd have to be on hold until vista came out.
Mine's legit and WGA rejects it. I attend classes at University which pays microsoft 4 million dollars a year and in exchange all of the students get microsoft products for free (the univeristy charges 5 dollars per disc, or you can download them for free ).
I think the real issue here is not that google's alternative is new, it's that it's google. They have no problem allowing small, unknown payment alternatives -- because they are small and unknown. Anything branded Google, however, is just a bit more threatening. . .
You mean when a band puts out a cd with one good song and a pile of crap that cd sales are higher when people are forced to buy the entire cd to get the one worthwhile song than when they can simply buy that song alone.
The real story here is not "Itunes hurts cd sales" its "Itunes promotes better music". The a-la-carte style of music downloading that itunes offers punishes crappy cds for sucking and rewards good ones for being good.
Don't let PETA hear about this one . . . even I think it's a bit much. I understand that sometimes research requires killing animals and that its for the greater good and all, but strangling them seems awfully cruel.
If anyone's interested, the principal described in the article is a special case of something called Foster's rule -- which you can google if interested.
In my opinion, more interesting than the giant species are pgymy species also created by the same effect. Pygmy Mammoths likely survived far longer than their gigantic counterparts before going extinct, as there is evidence of them being alive as recently as 5000 years ago on a few select islands. In fact, if I recall correctly, there is an egyptian painting which many suggest appears to be the pharoah or some lesser ruler recieving one as a gift. My details on this are a bit sketchy, so those genuinely interested should take their queries to google . . .
Some of you may also remember the somewhat controversial discovery of a species of pygmy hominid described as "hobbit-like" that was discussed on Slashdot about a year back -- those fossils were also from a rather isolated island . . .
Saying "DNA of Woolly Mammoth Fully Sequenced" is pretty misleading, the reality is nothing close to that. In fact it's only the mitochondrial DNA which has been sequenced. And while mtDNA is useful for determining when a certain species diverged from another, or whether a certain person shares an ancestor with another, it won't allow for any Jurassic Park typ e scenarios. Mitochondrial DNA doesn't include the vast majority of DNA which actually codes for protiens and such . . .
Do they fix the dreaded VPU crashes in Nefarions room while playing WoW? After one of those VPU crashes, I can't have more than 5 mobs on the screen without my framerate dropping to 5. It's very difficult to play the game when I have to stare at the floor the whole time to avoid crashing.
I don't understand how you think that studying intelligence in our closest living relative is a waste of money. Chimps share 98.5% of our DNA with us; the better we understand them, the better we understand ourselves.
I'm surprised at how much hostility there is towards this study. No one is saying "You're (or your kids are) stupider than a chimp!". Instead the point is, Chimps are smarter than we thought. I think the current accepted wisdom is a chimpanzee has the intelligence of a 2-3 year old, but this seems to imply that perhaps they're even a little bit smarter than that.
I hate to say it, but there's a definate kernel of truth in that. I know that I periodically have to close all of my firefox windows and start fresh -- after a day or two they start consuming way more resources than they should be. Once in a while, on a website with a flash banner ad, I'll firefox taking up 35% of my cpu.
First of all, I was incorrect. It was toshiba. It wasn't until hitachi started making 1.8 drives that someone was ABLE To compete with apple. My appologies for that mix up.
Second of all, my point isn't that this was some awful thing that Apple did. This is how business is played. It's not nice and friendly, its down and dirty, and Apple plays the same game as everyone else.
If Microsoft had used their clout to buy up all of Toshibas drive to make a slim mp3 player that took the market by storm, and companies like Apple were uanble to get any 1.8 drives to make players with your collective outrage would know no bounds. You would bitch and moan to no end that Microsoft was not playing fair. While I fully expected my original post to be unfairly moderated down (my karma can take the hit), it surprises me that so many of you could be so hypocritical.
I don't take issue, really, with how Apple condudcts itself, simply with the ultra-unrealistic impression that many of you seem to have about it. Apple is not some peace-loving commune where flower children lovingly hand-craft gadgets for your enjoyment. It's a business and it's run just like every other business.
Everytime they're accused of breaking the rules (as businesses will often do), there's a torrent of people anxious to rush to Apple's defense to tell us why it was "totally ok" for Apple to cheat. It's not ok for ANYONE, no matter how sexy their latest toy may be, to cheat wether it's Microsoft, Apple, or anyone else.
When the ipod first came out they used their buying clout/muscle to ensure they were the only ones able to buy Hitachi's supply of 1.8 inch hard drives. Sure there were other companies that could have made products to compete with the ipod. There's a reason Apple was the only one to put out a small/sleek player when everyone else was still putting out clunky nightmares and its not becuase Apple is the only company to employ competent engineers -- no one else simply had access to Hitachi's hard drives to make it possible.
Legal? Probably, I am not a laywer. Dirty? Hell yeah. That's business. What baffles me is that some of you out there seem to think that Apple is somehow above the fray. That while every other large coorperation will lie, cheat, and steal to get ahead -- Apple is somehow different.
I'm sure I will get moderated down by some of the rabid Apple fanboys out there, but the fact of the matter is that Apple is NOT different. They make some lovely products, but at the end of the day they run their business just like everyone else. If Mac OS had become the dominant platform back in the day instead of Windows, you'd all be talking about Microsoft's superior engineering and decrying Apples anti-competetive tactics.
That's becuase, which you'd know if you read the article, it's head was blown clean off. A big, black, sleek, furry thing 4 legs and a tail is what the picture shows. What else could it be?
At any rate, the guy kept the tail as proof, so its a pretty safe bet the picture isn't some hoax.
Bittorent was released under the MIT license, so pretty much anyone can take it, modify, make their own version (like the one Blizzard patches World of Warcraft with) and basically do as they please so long as they include credit to the original author. So really, anything particularly special that Bittorrent manages to do, can't anyone else just copy it?
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Just because he fails at Biology doesn't make him racist. What bothers me about all of this is not the what was said by the Governor so much as what was said by his campaign manager in response. Accusing the other campaign of "hacking" their website by simply access the information they put there as well as making several other nasty remarks.
It's like if I put a box of stuff I want to get rid of on the curb and put a big sign on the box that says "Free, help yourself" and then later I realize that I accidently left something valuable in there. I dont' get to call the person who took that valuable item a thief becase *I* made a mistake.
No offense, but the article was fairly even-handed. It went after Microsoft as much as Apple. If he went after Apple more, it was for claiming Microsoft copied from them (which they did) while they themselves borrow freely. And also for making fun of Microsoft for only releasing one OS in the last 5 years, while both OS's have had roughly the same level of feature changes in the past 5 years -- Apple has just charged for ugprades 5 times.
It's not as if he tried to pretend that Microsoft wasn't equally guilty of these crimes -- merely slap Apple on the wrist for trying to pretend THEY WEREN'T.
This isn't some frothing at the mouth anti-apple bashing lunatic raving his anti-apple rants just someone tired of Apple pretending that their farts smell like delicious fruit pie. On the one hand, its' a bit silly to be mad at Apple for that -- its' their whole marketting strategy. It's what appeals to the people who buy Apple. On the other hand, it is a bit tiresome.
They're pressed cds, but they have the university logo on them and I'm pretty sure they all have the same cd key with them. I think they do it differently now, and give out actual cds -- but you're not allowed to buy more than one copy of the same piece of software so I've just been figuring It'd have to be on hold until vista came out.
Mine's legit and WGA rejects it. I attend classes at University which pays microsoft 4 million dollars a year and in exchange all of the students get microsoft products for free (the univeristy charges 5 dollars per disc, or you can download them for free ).
I think the real issue here is not that google's alternative is new, it's that it's google. They have no problem allowing small, unknown payment alternatives -- because they are small and unknown. Anything branded Google, however, is just a bit more threatening. . .
By the way, when are they going to patrol the Canadian Border?
You mean when a band puts out a cd with one good song and a pile of crap that cd sales are higher when people are forced to buy the entire cd to get the one worthwhile song than when they can simply buy that song alone.
The real story here is not "Itunes hurts cd sales" its "Itunes promotes better music". The a-la-carte style of music downloading that itunes offers punishes crappy cds for sucking and rewards good ones for being good.
Just buy a microphone and unmute it. Then you'll get all that lovely background noise while you listen . . .
Don't let PETA hear about this one . . . even I think it's a bit much. I understand that sometimes research requires killing animals and that its for the greater good and all, but strangling them seems awfully cruel.
Obviously we have to slashdot it. Why is there no link in the story?
Here: for those too lazy to type it out
Grokster.com
If anyone's interested, the principal described in the article is a special case of something called Foster's rule -- which you can google if interested.
In my opinion, more interesting than the giant species are pgymy species also created by the same effect. Pygmy Mammoths likely survived far longer than their gigantic counterparts before going extinct, as there is evidence of them being alive as recently as 5000 years ago on a few select islands. In fact, if I recall correctly, there is an egyptian painting which many suggest appears to be the pharoah or some lesser ruler recieving one as a gift. My details on this are a bit sketchy, so those genuinely interested should take their queries to google . . .
Some of you may also remember the somewhat controversial discovery of a species of pygmy hominid described as "hobbit-like" that was discussed on Slashdot about a year back -- those fossils were also from a rather isolated island . . .
Saying "DNA of Woolly Mammoth Fully Sequenced" is pretty misleading, the reality is nothing close to that. In fact it's only the mitochondrial DNA which has been sequenced. And while mtDNA is useful for determining when a certain species diverged from another, or whether a certain person shares an ancestor with another, it won't allow for any Jurassic Park typ e scenarios. Mitochondrial DNA doesn't include the vast majority of DNA which actually codes for protiens and such . . .
Do they fix the dreaded VPU crashes in Nefarions room while playing WoW? After one of those VPU crashes, I can't have more than 5 mobs on the screen without my framerate dropping to 5. It's very difficult to play the game when I have to stare at the floor the whole time to avoid crashing.
I don't understand how you think that studying intelligence in our closest living relative is a waste of money. Chimps share 98.5% of our DNA with us; the better we understand them, the better we understand ourselves.
I'm surprised at how much hostility there is towards this study. No one is saying "You're (or your kids are) stupider than a chimp!". Instead the point is, Chimps are smarter than we thought. I think the current accepted wisdom is a chimpanzee has the intelligence of a 2-3 year old, but this seems to imply that perhaps they're even a little bit smarter than that.
Enjoy your upcomign visit from the Department of Homeland security . . .
I hate to say it, but there's a definate kernel of truth in that. I know that I periodically have to close all of my firefox windows and start fresh -- after a day or two they start consuming way more resources than they should be. Once in a while, on a website with a flash banner ad, I'll firefox taking up 35% of my cpu.
. . . are Xena and Buffy considered *SCIENCE* fiction? Bizzaro, no doubt.
Virii isn't the plural of virus? Next you'll try to tell me that "boxen" isn't plural of "box".
First of all, I was incorrect. It was toshiba. It wasn't until hitachi started making 1.8 drives that someone was ABLE To compete with apple. My appologies for that mix up.
Second of all, my point isn't that this was some awful thing that Apple did. This is how business is played. It's not nice and friendly, its down and dirty, and Apple plays the same game as everyone else.
If Microsoft had used their clout to buy up all of Toshibas drive to make a slim mp3 player that took the market by storm, and companies like Apple were uanble to get any 1.8 drives to make players with your collective outrage would know no bounds. You would bitch and moan to no end that Microsoft was not playing fair. While I fully expected my original post to be unfairly moderated down (my karma can take the hit), it surprises me that so many of you could be so hypocritical.
I don't take issue, really, with how Apple condudcts itself, simply with the ultra-unrealistic impression that many of you seem to have about it. Apple is not some peace-loving commune where flower children lovingly hand-craft gadgets for your enjoyment. It's a business and it's run just like every other business.
Everytime they're accused of breaking the rules (as businesses will often do), there's a torrent of people anxious to rush to Apple's defense to tell us why it was "totally ok" for Apple to cheat. It's not ok for ANYONE, no matter how sexy their latest toy may be, to cheat wether it's Microsoft, Apple, or anyone else.
When the ipod first came out they used their buying clout/muscle to ensure they were the only ones able to buy Hitachi's supply of 1.8 inch hard drives. Sure there were other companies that could have made products to compete with the ipod. There's a reason Apple was the only one to put out a small/sleek player when everyone else was still putting out clunky nightmares and its not becuase Apple is the only company to employ competent engineers -- no one else simply had access to Hitachi's hard drives to make it possible.
Legal? Probably, I am not a laywer. Dirty? Hell yeah. That's business. What baffles me is that some of you out there seem to think that Apple is somehow above the fray. That while every other large coorperation will lie, cheat, and steal to get ahead -- Apple is somehow different.
I'm sure I will get moderated down by some of the rabid Apple fanboys out there, but the fact of the matter is that Apple is NOT different. They make some lovely products, but at the end of the day they run their business just like everyone else. If Mac OS had become the dominant platform back in the day instead of Windows, you'd all be talking about Microsoft's superior engineering and decrying Apples anti-competetive tactics.
No, no. If its on Slashdot it must be true! They never make mistakes.
That's becuase, which you'd know if you read the article, it's head was blown clean off. A big, black, sleek, furry thing 4 legs and a tail is what the picture shows. What else could it be?
At any rate, the guy kept the tail as proof, so its a pretty safe bet the picture isn't some hoax.
So then it's really just about the content and not so much the distribution method.
Bittorent was released under the MIT license, so pretty much anyone can take it, modify, make their own version (like the one Blizzard patches World of Warcraft with) and basically do as they please so long as they include credit to the original author. So really, anything particularly special that Bittorrent manages to do, can't anyone else just copy it?