As I type this I can feel the laptop keyboard as each finger hits the bottom of the laptop. i prefer it as it doesn't jar my hands while I type.
Actually, the "hitting bottom" is the very definition of "jarring" w.r.t. keyboards. To translate this to another realm, cycling is much easier on your body than jogging even though your legs make almost identical motions in both activities.
Microsoft is full of developers, developers, developers. Why not just submit some patches that improve blender's performance on Windows?
Because maybe MS' approaching Blender is more about anti-trust than Windows itself? Is Blender used in education at all? Methinks if the recent antitrust brouhaha in Europe over interoperability gains any steam, Microsoft is going to work in advance to keep those charges from propagating to the U.S. Perhaps Blender is the first step since it can also provide a supply of XBox developers and thus cover both of Microsoft's platforms.
The Open XML specification is arguably more implementable than the ODF spec; there are numerous cases in ODF where fairly vital information (cryptography comes to mind) is left up to the implementor, and incompatible versions exist.
Does ODF have a time-limited "Covenant Not To Sue" for patents contained in the spec?
>> "In the short term, this will not win us a lot of friends," he said. >> "In the long term, the consumer wants there to be quality premium-produced content, >> and in order for that to continue to be a viable business, there needs to be significant >> protection around it." > > Yes, the consumer wants quality premium-produced content, and they want to be able to play > it on what they want when they want. And unless that is what they are offering, pirates are > going to take the time to remove any protection around it no matter how significant, and > give it away for free. As long as this their view, they aren't going to have a viable business, > but when it dawns on them that the consumer is ultimately in charge of the situation now, > and network stooges aren't, they will release content in an intelligent manner - so the > consumer can access it when they want, and on what they want.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Microsoft is not talking about you when they talk about "consumers," they're talking about the studios and network stooges who are definitely not "in charge of the situation now." You've got it all turned around wrong.
So, assuming for a moment their story is true and it *is* just negligence, incompetence, and stupidity; it is still FEDERALLY CRIMINAL negligence, incompetence, and stupidity, Right?
First off, only a retard believes their story is true. Nobody has asserted that the emails are in fact lost, only that they "could be." But yes, it is a federal crime to violate the Federal Records Act.
RTFA. Note that nobody ever comes out and says that the emails are in fact lost, except for people who are spinning the story as or to journalists. The government is only ever describing ways in which the emails could have been lost, all the while not supplying the emails themselves. This is because there are laws that would have to be broken in order for these emails to have been lost and it does not appear that Theresa Payton is anxious to be indicted for federal crimes. These statutes have applied to email and electronic records since 1993, so there is no excuse for missing emails, and so the secretive Bush/Cheney administration tries to gum up the works with acts of God with a heapin' helping of "whoops."
I continue to contend that the emails still exist in a known location, but the administration is deseperate not to provide them pursuant to a lawful court order. Ms. Payton should be thrown in the clink for facilitating such contempt of the legal process until such time as she figures out a way to follow the law.
Multi-threaded functionality can be handled in a safe way through event handling. Implementing a semaphore is pretty simple if you need such a thing, but creating true asynchronous applications is actually a better approach.
Pointers to async JS would be nice, since my RSS reader pegs my CPU for minutes at a time while fetching updates to my 100+ feeds. When this happens every 20min you can see where this might become frustrating.
Please, if living conditions were good in the Middle East, there would not be so many youths willing to sacrifice their lives for Allah. What is your brilliant explanation?
While I'm not bank executive, I am going to suspect that a bank will be far more concerned about the security of their ATMs than they about about how much those ATMs cost.
No, banks are concerned with the security of their cash. My ATM has a touchscreen that can be smashed with a rock just like my TV at home, so the bank is only concerned with the security of certain parts of the machine. Voting machines do not contain cash, so that whole aspect of their cost can be ignored.
So what do you think, should (or could) ODF submit to become an IETF standard? It would seem to raise the bar on quality to some degree that OOXML would not be able to match. Does IETF even/do/ file formats?
The best the students can hope for in the long run is to require the RIAA to prove that the IP address and client they have a record of did in fact commit copyright infringement.
I have no problem with this. In fact, I'd love to see the RIAA try to do this, merely for the effect that having actual evidence of copyright infringement would have on these cases.
That said, I will always have sources for free music that the RIAA will never be able to do anything about.
4) The response was with respect to the military only and with terrorist on US territory. Exactly what type of military operation was being performed is currently not known.
Your first sentence here is entirely unfounded, but here's one way to think about the second: if the AUMF can be interpreted as placing the US in a state of war (which Yoo appears to assert), and the NSA is acting in support of the military, what recourse to citizens have against broad-spectrum domestic surveillance? None.
He might well be right, but I'd be more inclined to believe it from someone who doesn't have a corporate interest in picking data points to fit the line he would like to draw.
Nobody is asking you to "believe" anything. Bias does not change facts, and it is a fallacy to suggest that he should be a perfectly impartial critic if he is to be taken seriously. If he makes observations of deficiencies in the format they are just as valid as if they were made by Bill Gates himself.
Write your own language... it's certainly more educational.
Yes, then put it at the center of a company's product while you gloat and chuckle over the significant support burden that the lowly sysadmins have to deal with while it falls over repeatedly and often. Not that I didn't work for a company that did this or anything...
Either ESPN (or whoever) lowers their prices to be competitive, or understands that for that kind of pricing, they'll have less orders.
There is a situation you have failed to consider: the cable providers are actually paying ESPN to carry their channels for the privilege of making money off the advertising on those channels. This is the stumbling block for a la carte: Comcast needs all of their customers to take these channels to defray the fees they pay to carry them, that's why ESPN is always in the basic packages.
That's where journalist integrity comes in. The interviewer is responsible for knowing what questions should be asked. If she isn't allowed to ask those questions, then she should refuse to interview him.
Call me an idealist, but journalistic integrity demands that the reporter follow up answers with questions about those answers. Answers which she could not have known when she started the interview. None of this touches on how an interviewer is supposed to find out what questions they are "allowed" to ask, but that's such a perverse take on journalism that I'd rather just leave it alone.
It isn't, it's just dumb. Answer this: what is the percentage of newspaper and encyclopedia users who make edits to those publications? I'm guessing it's not more than 1%, but maybe someone has some hard numbers.
If the US Government hadn't been shitting on Iraq for the last two decades, maybe those folks wouldn't be so angry in the first place. Then again, maybe someone would have detonated the WTC anyway just to instigate this mess
LOL, a conflation of Iraq and terrorism par excellence!
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As I type this I can feel the laptop keyboard as each finger hits the bottom of the laptop. i prefer it as it doesn't jar my hands while I type.
Actually, the "hitting bottom" is the very definition of "jarring" w.r.t. keyboards. To translate this to another realm, cycling is much easier on your body than jogging even though your legs make almost identical motions in both activities.
Microsoft is full of developers, developers, developers. Why not just submit some patches that improve blender's performance on Windows?
Because maybe MS' approaching Blender is more about anti-trust than Windows itself? Is Blender used in education at all? Methinks if the recent antitrust brouhaha in Europe over interoperability gains any steam, Microsoft is going to work in advance to keep those charges from propagating to the U.S. Perhaps Blender is the first step since it can also provide a supply of XBox developers and thus cover both of Microsoft's platforms.
The Open XML specification is arguably more implementable than the ODF spec; there are numerous cases in ODF where fairly vital information (cryptography comes to mind) is left up to the implementor, and incompatible versions exist.
Does ODF have a time-limited "Covenant Not To Sue" for patents contained in the spec?
>> "In the short term, this will not win us a lot of friends," he said.
>> "In the long term, the consumer wants there to be quality premium-produced content,
>> and in order for that to continue to be a viable business, there needs to be significant
>> protection around it."
>
> Yes, the consumer wants quality premium-produced content, and they want to be able to play
> it on what they want when they want. And unless that is what they are offering, pirates are
> going to take the time to remove any protection around it no matter how significant, and
> give it away for free. As long as this their view, they aren't going to have a viable business,
> but when it dawns on them that the consumer is ultimately in charge of the situation now,
> and network stooges aren't, they will release content in an intelligent manner - so the
> consumer can access it when they want, and on what they want.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Microsoft is not talking about you when they talk about "consumers," they're talking about the studios and network stooges who are definitely not "in charge of the situation now." You've got it all turned around wrong.
Salt Lake City?!
Get a rope.
So, assuming for a moment their story is true and it *is* just negligence, incompetence, and stupidity; it is still FEDERALLY CRIMINAL negligence, incompetence, and stupidity, Right?
First off, only a retard believes their story is true. Nobody has asserted that the emails are in fact lost, only that they "could be." But yes, it is a federal crime to violate the Federal Records Act.
I find that plausible, but care to cite a source?
RTFA. Note that nobody ever comes out and says that the emails are in fact lost, except for people who are spinning the story as or to journalists. The government is only ever describing ways in which the emails could have been lost, all the while not supplying the emails themselves. This is because there are laws that would have to be broken in order for these emails to have been lost and it does not appear that Theresa Payton is anxious to be indicted for federal crimes. These statutes have applied to email and electronic records since 1993, so there is no excuse for missing emails, and so the secretive Bush/Cheney administration tries to gum up the works with acts of God with a heapin' helping of "whoops."
I continue to contend that the emails still exist in a known location, but the administration is deseperate not to provide them pursuant to a lawful court order. Ms. Payton should be thrown in the clink for facilitating such contempt of the legal process until such time as she figures out a way to follow the law.
Multi-threaded functionality can be handled in a safe way through event handling. Implementing a semaphore is pretty simple if you need such a thing, but creating true asynchronous applications is actually a better approach.
Pointers to async JS would be nice, since my RSS reader pegs my CPU for minutes at a time while fetching updates to my 100+ feeds. When this happens every 20min you can see where this might become frustrating.
Please, if living conditions were good in the Middle East, there would not be so many youths willing to sacrifice their lives for Allah. What is your brilliant explanation?
Oil and Israel.
While I'm not bank executive, I am going to suspect that a bank will be far more concerned about the security of their ATMs than they about about how much those ATMs cost.
No, banks are concerned with the security of their cash. My ATM has a touchscreen that can be smashed with a rock just like my TV at home, so the bank is only concerned with the security of certain parts of the machine. Voting machines do not contain cash, so that whole aspect of their cost can be ignored.
...So basically they hate us because we have more.
Seriously, do you get your information from Newsweek?
So what do you think, should (or could) ODF submit to become an IETF standard? It would seem to raise the bar on quality to some degree that OOXML would not be able to match. Does IETF even /do/ file formats?
Withdrawing OOOXML is not the only option... In theory, OOOXML could be turned into a reasonable standard so that is the other option. In theory.
"In theory, practice is closer to theory than it is in practice."
Let's see 'em: ytmnd, *chan, worth1000, etc. Let the people laugh!
Fine, replace the line with "CSRF rocks" (pronouncing the acronym as "sea surf").
The best the students can hope for in the long run is to require the RIAA to prove that the IP address and client they have a record of did in fact commit copyright infringement.
I have no problem with this. In fact, I'd love to see the RIAA try to do this, merely for the effect that having actual evidence of copyright infringement would have on these cases.
That said, I will always have sources for free music that the RIAA will never be able to do anything about.
The US military is not trained for, and does not WANT to conduct, military operations on US soil against US citizens.
I am under the impression that the military is trained to do whatever they are ordered to do.
4) The response was with respect to the military only and with terrorist on US territory. Exactly what type of military operation was being performed is currently not known.
Your first sentence here is entirely unfounded, but here's one way to think about the second: if the AUMF can be interpreted as placing the US in a state of war (which Yoo appears to assert), and the NSA is acting in support of the military, what recourse to citizens have against broad-spectrum domestic surveillance? None.
You forgot the part about the FCC investigation.
He might well be right, but I'd be more inclined to believe it from someone who doesn't have a corporate interest in picking data points to fit the line he would like to draw.
Nobody is asking you to "believe" anything. Bias does not change facts, and it is a fallacy to suggest that he should be a perfectly impartial critic if he is to be taken seriously. If he makes observations of deficiencies in the format they are just as valid as if they were made by Bill Gates himself.
Write your own language... it's certainly more educational.
Yes, then put it at the center of a company's product while you gloat and chuckle over the significant support burden that the lowly sysadmins have to deal with while it falls over repeatedly and often. Not that I didn't work for a company that did this or anything...
Either ESPN (or whoever) lowers their prices to be competitive, or understands that for that kind of pricing, they'll have less orders.
There is a situation you have failed to consider: the cable providers are actually paying ESPN to carry their channels for the privilege of making money off the advertising on those channels. This is the stumbling block for a la carte: Comcast needs all of their customers to take these channels to defray the fees they pay to carry them, that's why ESPN is always in the basic packages.
That's where journalist integrity comes in. The interviewer is responsible for knowing what questions should be asked. If she isn't allowed to ask those questions, then she should refuse to interview him.
Call me an idealist, but journalistic integrity demands that the reporter follow up answers with questions about those answers. Answers which she could not have known when she started the interview. None of this touches on how an interviewer is supposed to find out what questions they are "allowed" to ask, but that's such a perverse take on journalism that I'd rather just leave it alone.
Wtf. Why is this 'secret elitism' ?
It isn't, it's just dumb. Answer this: what is the percentage of newspaper and encyclopedia users who make edits to those publications? I'm guessing it's not more than 1%, but maybe someone has some hard numbers.
If the US Government hadn't been shitting on Iraq for the last two decades, maybe those folks wouldn't be so angry in the first place. Then again, maybe someone would have detonated the WTC anyway just to instigate this mess
LOL, a conflation of Iraq and terrorism par excellence!