Well, here's a great tip next time you're on a dare, or in a thai or mexican restaurant: Keep a piece of candy nearby.
Ergo Thai Iced Tea, which apropos to other replies contains both sweet and dairy. This is similar to a role played by Lassis in Indian food. South- and Southeastern Asian foods are some of the spiciest and it's no coincidence that there are common sweet/dairy drinks that go along with them.
do you think the RIAA understands that their tactics are but a finger in a dike? Do they honestly believe that their efforts have made any significant dent in file sharing of copyrighted material? And if not, then why do they persist?...Is there a provision in copyright law that requires that one to actively defend their copyrights in order to keep them?
Historically the members of the RIAA cartel have had complete control over the distribution of all music. P2P/Filesharing threatens that control, so they are trying to stall adoption until they can figure out how to deal with it by suing those who participate in alternative distribution mechanisms. Make no mistake, they are suing people for voting with their feet. So far, the cartel members' adaptation has amounted more to lobbying than finding new business models, but at the core it's all about them wanting all of the money that you are paying for music and not sharing it with any dumb kids and their dotcom protocols. None of this bad press matters as long as they wind up with all of the control.
You're thinking of trademarks. Copyright law requires no such diligence.
Stop attacking Bush, and start looking at the machine!
Of course the tools were there, as all tools always are (a hammer does not make a murder-machine). While there are plenty of people in law enforcement who just love to kick ass but are restricted by laws, are you disputing that Cheney (and Bush by extension) has removed the leash?
Your entire "banana republic" paragraph is a straw-man, so we can ignore that, except for one part:
instead, the best lesson to learn is that the government is the problem,
If this is so, does it make sense to elect people who agree? It makes no sense to have people in government who want to tear it apart. I'm not sure what you mean by "deconstruct," but I'm pretty sure it's the wrong word to use there.
Look at the facts. What Democrats opposed passage of the full 9/11 commission recommendations - essentially turn the USA into a police state. What Democrat has offered to repeal USA PATRIOT? What Democrat has volunteered to narrow the scope of CIA and FBI?
I see, so we're supposed to stop blaming Bush and start blaming those ineffectual Democrats. Way to move the ball forward, Mr. Talking Points With Your Selective Use Of Facts.
Several, and original Game Boy cartridges work in the latest DS Lites. The Game Boy platform is not a good example to use since it's the most popular video game system ever and has been completely backwards compatible.
Fine with me, but I live in the Bahamas, rail is likely a no go for us...
You may be interested to hear of the "boat," which is an invention even older than the train! As some people even refer to boat travel as "the railway of the sea," you might want to look into this fine mode of transportation.
Sounds like a fanboy was pissed he couldn't get Leopard back in July.
The first question I had as I read the summary was, "what, did Vista make some huge sales gains while I haven't been looking?" Vista is everywhere now!
If only Apple hadn't screwed up, we'd be eating teh awsum for every meal!
Super-massive black holes like what exist at the center of a galaxy don't have a well understood origin, but it is supposed that if a black hole is created in a region of space with a...
Isn't it funny how we don't even capitalize "black hole?" I'll bet anybody that in 500 years people are going to read our words and tell each other, "...they believed in these things called 'Black Holes!'" It'll be like the flat earth days.
A standards committee is not designed as a battlezone; it's run under the assumption that its members, while they may disagree on the technical details, all want to agree a standard - otherwise, why would they be there?
This assumes that Microsoft and their ilk are using the same definition of "standards."
The ones in their space program are especially tetchy about taking ANY blame whatsoever
I don't know what company you work for, but this is pretty much all developers in my experience. Heck, not even devs, just most people in general. Maybe it's just a way of finding a weakest link, the people or person least confident of their work, but it ain't just the Russkies.
Really, i don't get it. I was reading slashdot someday in the morning when user registration was announced. I created an account and now i have a fairly low uid. So, wow, but still, whats so special about it?
It's a historical tradition from the olden days of UNIX. I'm sure to this day there are still university students who want low uids for their shell accounts and will cadge and barter with the SAs in order to trade down.
Not everyone is willing to stand by the wayside and allow MS to get away with this. I personally am working with an attorney to begin a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for their recent "intrusion".
Thanks to an Anonymous Coward, we can now see a brighter future. Turning the RIAA's "vs. John Does" strategy against the industry, you are the one who has finally come up with the idea of "John Does vs. Microsoft." Genius!
Sanctions do work when you can enforce them, but I'm guessing they'll be impossible to enforce with China due to its vast export economy and huge number of trading partners.
Not to mention the enforcers being stabbed in the back by ignint Americans who only think of sanctions in terms of Dick Cheney's talking points.
Because it's a disincentive to do the right thing in the first place.
Are you sure about that? If they're making so much money by violating the GPL, then they have that much more to lose when it turns out they have to give the source away and people can replicate their entire company with a download.
Something tells me the ongoing prejudice against Perl has a lot to do with organizations (or devs, or management) taking up the latest and greatest technologies such as those being disputed in this branch. All languages are going to have their quirks, but there is a simple performance tradeoff for enduring the idiosyncrasies of Perl. Nothing matches mod_perl for performance yet, besides C itself. Java? No. RoR? No. Python? No. While all of the language alternatives in this thread may all have modernizing advantages over Perl, its hackish OOP and its questionable maintainability, many of the criticisms are based on intellectualizing the problems involved. Many times it is just that someone thinks their pet language is better for arbitrary reasons. They were taught it in school, there's a universal force that draws everything to pure Computer Science ideals, there's money in them thar buzzwords, etc.
Non-technical reasons very much outweight technical reasons to choose one language over the other.
I think the GP's point was "what is to stop the RIAA continuing to sent out nastygrams demanding money or we'll sue?"
The risks of having to pay all costs (which include negative publicity), being sanctioned for bringing frivolous lawsuits, and having additional judgements narrowing the **AA's target area.
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Well, here's a great tip next time you're on a dare, or in a thai or mexican restaurant: Keep a piece of candy nearby.
Ergo Thai Iced Tea, which apropos to other replies contains both sweet and dairy. This is similar to a role played by Lassis in Indian food. South- and Southeastern Asian foods are some of the spiciest and it's no coincidence that there are common sweet/dairy drinks that go along with them.
WTF!?! Facebook is worth of 15 billion dollars? I thought paying more than a billion for Youtube was dumb.
Read it again. The only number in the entire story that is not invented out of thin air is "$240million."
Stop attacking Bush, and start looking at the machine!
Of course the tools were there, as all tools always are (a hammer does not make a murder-machine). While there are plenty of people in law enforcement who just love to kick ass but are restricted by laws, are you disputing that Cheney (and Bush by extension) has removed the leash?
Your entire "banana republic" paragraph is a straw-man, so we can ignore that, except for one part:
instead, the best lesson to learn is that the government is the problem,
If this is so, does it make sense to elect people who agree? It makes no sense to have people in government who want to tear it apart. I'm not sure what you mean by "deconstruct," but I'm pretty sure it's the wrong word to use there.
Look at the facts. What Democrats opposed passage of the full 9/11 commission recommendations - essentially turn the USA into a police state. What Democrat has offered to repeal USA PATRIOT? What Democrat has volunteered to narrow the scope of CIA and FBI?
I see, so we're supposed to stop blaming Bush and start blaming those ineffectual Democrats. Way to move the ball forward, Mr. Talking Points With Your Selective Use Of Facts.
That sounds dumb - I mean, how would the boat stay on the rails? Duh?
Silly, they're overhead!
...has been completely backwards compatible.
Oops, it seems the DS Lite cannot play original Game Boy or Game Boy Color games due to a lack of Z80 processor.
How many Gameboy models were there?
Several, and original Game Boy cartridges work in the latest DS Lites. The Game Boy platform is not a good example to use since it's the most popular video game system ever and has been completely backwards compatible.
Fine with me, but I live in the Bahamas, rail is likely a no go for us...
You may be interested to hear of the "boat," which is an invention even older than the train! As some people even refer to boat travel as "the railway of the sea," you might want to look into this fine mode of transportation.
Sounds like a fanboy was pissed he couldn't get Leopard back in July.
The first question I had as I read the summary was, "what, did Vista make some huge sales gains while I haven't been looking?" Vista is everywhere now!
If only Apple hadn't screwed up, we'd be eating teh awsum for every meal!
Super-massive black holes like what exist at the center of a galaxy don't have a well understood origin, but it is supposed that if a black hole is created in a region of space with a...
Isn't it funny how we don't even capitalize "black hole?" I'll bet anybody that in 500 years people are going to read our words and tell each other, "...they believed in these things called 'Black Holes!'" It'll be like the flat earth days.
A standards committee is not designed as a battlezone; it's run under the assumption that its members, while they may disagree on the technical details, all want to agree a standard - otherwise, why would they be there?
This assumes that Microsoft and their ilk are using the same definition of "standards."
The ones in their space program are especially tetchy about taking ANY blame whatsoever
I don't know what company you work for, but this is pretty much all developers in my experience. Heck, not even devs, just most people in general. Maybe it's just a way of finding a weakest link, the people or person least confident of their work, but it ain't just the Russkies.
Really, i don't get it. I was reading slashdot someday in the morning when user registration was announced. I created an account and now i have a fairly low uid. So, wow, but still, whats so special about it?
It's a historical tradition from the olden days of UNIX. I'm sure to this day there are still university students who want low uids for their shell accounts and will cadge and barter with the SAs in order to trade down.
Not everyone is willing to stand by the wayside and allow MS to get away with this. I personally am working with an attorney to begin a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for their recent "intrusion".
Thanks to an Anonymous Coward, we can now see a brighter future. Turning the RIAA's "vs. John Does" strategy against the industry, you are the one who has finally come up with the idea of "John Does vs. Microsoft." Genius!
It seems to be more like some cult film that people can dress up to and lip synch with than a gritty vision of the future. What's your take on it?
All of Paul Verhoeven's English language movies have been vicious mockeries of American political and consumer society.
Well then how about canceling your service? Surely you can figure out a way to get their attention.
All we need is for the empire to think there is a rebel base here, and they will send the death star to blow up Earth.
We have decoys.
If a hospital employee relates false information on the blog or to the blogger, then that employee would be the defamer, and not the blogger.
The hospital may be running a gambit to get the identity of the blogger so they can subpoena them for the submitter's identity. Backtracking the leak.
Sanctions do work when you can enforce them, but I'm guessing they'll be impossible to enforce with China due to its vast export economy and huge number of trading partners.
Not to mention the enforcers being stabbed in the back by ignint Americans who only think of sanctions in terms of Dick Cheney's talking points.
I'm sure you're a hit with the ladies with that attitude, but you completely misconstrue my post. The point is that excusivity is a profit center.
Nintendo could have made more money if they'd judged the supply/demand correctly.
They're still making money. Come back when the numbers turn south.
Because it's a disincentive to do the right thing in the first place.
Are you sure about that? If they're making so much money by violating the GPL, then they have that much more to lose when it turns out they have to give the source away and people can replicate their entire company with a download.
I smell synergy.
I don't know about that, I couldn't find any key stakeholders in TFA.
Something tells me the ongoing prejudice against Perl has a lot to do with organizations (or devs, or management) taking up the latest and greatest technologies such as those being disputed in this branch. All languages are going to have their quirks, but there is a simple performance tradeoff for enduring the idiosyncrasies of Perl. Nothing matches mod_perl for performance yet, besides C itself. Java? No. RoR? No. Python? No. While all of the language alternatives in this thread may all have modernizing advantages over Perl, its hackish OOP and its questionable maintainability, many of the criticisms are based on intellectualizing the problems involved. Many times it is just that someone thinks their pet language is better for arbitrary reasons. They were taught it in school, there's a universal force that draws everything to pure Computer Science ideals, there's money in them thar buzzwords, etc.
Non-technical reasons very much outweight technical reasons to choose one language over the other.
I think the GP's point was "what is to stop the RIAA continuing to sent out nastygrams demanding money or we'll sue?"
The risks of having to pay all costs (which include negative publicity), being sanctioned for bringing frivolous lawsuits, and having additional judgements narrowing the **AA's target area.