Here in the UK charities/ngo's/etc have to disclose their financials in order to continue receiving all the perks (tax exemption for donatees etc). Otherwise you end up with one big money laudering machine (in the government's eyes).
Are you implying that Google is using Firefox to obfuscate its dirty kickbacks from the Red Chinese government? Because if you aren't, I am.
Kidding. I thought the devs only got a kickback if use used a certain preconfigured build and used the search bar. But the article seems to imply that any Google search with any Firefox version goes "cha-ching!"
The sole reason schools require computers is so parents can deduct them on taxes, and poorer students can get financial aid to cover the cost. Any administrator will tell you as much off the record, unless they think you're a spy. They specify a brand and model so they can get a sweetheart deal with the manufacturer, to make it more affordable for the students who need financial aid to buy one, and maybe because they plan to offer on-site hardware support.
If there's dirty dealin' here, it's because the recipient of the contract offered the most to the administrators and not the lowest price to the students for the specifications given. Is there any reason to believe that's going on? I mean, when the write-up said, "Guess who..." my first thought was Dell. Did Lenovo become the Red Menace after all?
Professors who'd prefer you bring your laptop for class are, in my experience, a minority. I've yet to meet one who would affirmatively say to bring one. I can't imagine someone would make you leave lecture if you didn't have it with you.
statistics: D marketing: B pop culture: C pre-algebra: C research methods: F
I know I Hath Been Trolled, but four out of five means 80% of some large survey of dentists (damn those reduced fractions) think... that... chewing sugarless gum is better for your teeth than, well, we're not actually told what.
Furthermore, where do they (MySpace or Wired) get this 57M figure? I mean, maybe there's an account for one in one hundred people ON THE PLANET (and I find that hard to believe)... but how many accounts are sockpuppets, throw-away accounts or accounts obtained for the purpose of spamming other members -- that get used for a couple days, locked out, but then not deleted so MySpace can put up huge numbers like that to look more popular. The profile slandering these kids' high school principal, for example is one of the allegedly 57M users?!?! No!
Kotaku also has a nice deconstruction of the piece on journalism grounds.
I expected to follow that link and get some incomprehensible humanities mush that tries to prove the original article means the exact opposite of what it says, because the subtext of the patriarchal influence that the interloquitor experiences is Hagelian in its existentialism... or some bullshit like that.
No, it's pretty much a straight-up rebuttal. How banal in its bourgoise-logic encased cogitation. How pedestrian!
What I wonder is the exact opposite? When will the time come that cycle time has become so compressed that a manufacturer is developing two consoles simultaneously? One to come out in, say, 2009 and another to come out three or four years later, because delayed-but-incrementally-better-console is sufficiently out-of-sync with what we'd consider to be a console "generation" that you can't get all three or four players on the market and then have an open throwdown... consumers will abandon the wait-and-see attitude and commit early on. And rivals will have to be there with some nominally better system than the one you had for each seemingly out-of-step release, if they want to stay relevant.
I mean, to date, off-generation releases have killed console manufacturers. But I wonder if now the field's so small that they would try an arms-race to get to the last-man standing.
It honestly didn't register as booty to me. I seriously thought it was maybe a chair headrest or some sort of shadow. Now that you say it, I don't know how I feel.
Sorry, I guess when I tried to quit being sarcastic I was really still being sarcastic.
All kinds of stuff goes out of print every day. But the RIAA's already recovered their investment on those guys, but they can still more money to be made and spent on what's in the mass market today. What's the better use of press time and shelf-space: a hundred copies of something you're sure to sell to thirteen-year olds at any Best Buy, or two copies each of fifty older albums you have to retail with a small-time outlet who doesn't do enough business to give you really sweet kickbacks?
Ideally, there'd be room in the market for both, though.
I have several CDs that I couldn't replace easily. Sometimes they go out of print.
See, your problem is that you're buying music produced by unreliable record labels that aren't members of the RIAA. If you listened to high-production value commercial music like the RIAA wants you to have, you could buy replacement copies to your heart's content!
I mean... all the out-of-print CD's I have come from independent labels.:-)
I don't quite follow... Are you saying that computers inherently require proper care and feeding and that we don't abuse and neglect our computers? Or that users operate their computers negligently because they want to care for and feed their computers?
This is how it works when you are an analyst: Make anything sound negative. Either it has too little features, or then it has too many. Never is anything just right, or well done.
...unless you recommended this company's stock a couple months ago when you got that spot on CNBC, or your investment banking division is getting a huge kickback from them... in which case filing for bankruptcy even means "Buy! Buy! Buy!"
After reading the NYT article, I think a lot of this was over blown. Basically the accusations boil down throwing the word theory after big bang, NASA press releases trying to tie absolutely everything to the presidential vision, and earth sciences taking a hit.
Right. Those are the things that happened. Those things are very bad when you consider that almost all money used in scientific research comes out of the government. Most of the rest is already allocated based on the answer the researcher proposes to provide, instead of the question.
Now, you and me can agree that the Big Bang is a theory, because we know what the word theory means: a causal explanation for why certain observed data are the way they are. Full stop. No... tentative, unproven, free-to-disbelieve.
You know when I learned that? The first day of... high school... enriched... physics class my junior year. A class not even ten percent of students take!
Until that's something we teach on the first day of first grade we're pretty much guaranteed to have a populace that can't effectively govern themselves about science policy. And now, we've got a scientifically illiterate president who makes a point of picking scientifically literate people to be his policy advisors and chief policy implementors.
Wow. You could really screw with Scalia's plain-meaning head by just editing the dictionary so that the words put in the statute books fifty or two hundred years ago come to have the opposite meaning. Talk about unelected, unaccountable people making laws!
I've had classes on statutory interpretation (I'm a law student), and nobody's brought this point up. Probably because it's impractical. And would lead Scalia to horde old dictionaries... But still.
The easy answer is this: some access to google reduces the motivations to overthrow an oppressive regime, and provides not insubstantial support for that regime to continue to function.
I don't really think the Guandong Google Party would be the romanticized first step in an eventual rebellion against the Communist regime in China. But it's a neat thing to speculate about.
Keeping out hardware emulators for DRM... and let's throw more fuel on the Slashdot-causes fire... I could see requiring (by license) the hardware have some means of built-in incompatability with other operating systems... We won't let Windows talk to your PCI card unless your PCI card can recognize Not-Windows Vista and won't talk to Win XP, Linux, MacOS on Intel, et c.
If you're going to drag us into court on antitrust charges, you'll have to take the whole computer industry in with you!
Slashdot Mirror
If a Starfleet Marine Corps exists, then... and I was thinking about the ACU when I said navy.
Are you implying that Google is using Firefox to obfuscate its dirty kickbacks from the Red Chinese government? Because if you aren't, I am.
Kidding. I thought the devs only got a kickback if use used a certain preconfigured build and used the search bar. But the article seems to imply that any Google search with any Firefox version goes "cha-ching!"
Because the Navy dumped their post-cold-war peacetime uniforms for something more sinister when we went to war in Iraq. :-)
He was trying to make a Muppet Movie reference: "Dee flim ist hokey-dookey!"
Or maybe not. But that's all I can think of.
They figured out the real problem isn't pirates... It's ninjas!
The sole reason schools require computers is so parents can deduct them on taxes, and poorer students can get financial aid to cover the cost. Any administrator will tell you as much off the record, unless they think you're a spy. They specify a brand and model so they can get a sweetheart deal with the manufacturer, to make it more affordable for the students who need financial aid to buy one, and maybe because they plan to offer on-site hardware support.
If there's dirty dealin' here, it's because the recipient of the contract offered the most to the administrators and not the lowest price to the students for the specifications given. Is there any reason to believe that's going on? I mean, when the write-up said, "Guess who..." my first thought was Dell. Did Lenovo become the Red Menace after all?
Professors who'd prefer you bring your laptop for class are, in my experience, a minority. I've yet to meet one who would affirmatively say to bring one. I can't imagine someone would make you leave lecture if you didn't have it with you.
statistics: D
marketing: B
pop culture: C
pre-algebra: C
research methods: F
I know I Hath Been Trolled, but four out of five means 80% of some large survey of dentists (damn those reduced fractions) think... that... chewing sugarless gum is better for your teeth than, well, we're not actually told what.
Furthermore, where do they (MySpace or Wired) get this 57M figure? I mean, maybe there's an account for one in one hundred people ON THE PLANET (and I find that hard to believe)... but how many accounts are sockpuppets, throw-away accounts or accounts obtained for the purpose of spamming other members -- that get used for a couple days, locked out, but then not deleted so MySpace can put up huge numbers like that to look more popular. The profile slandering these kids' high school principal, for example is one of the allegedly 57M users?!?! No!
Now to post this in my Livejournal! :-)
Meatloaf and mashed potatoes, eh?
I expected to follow that link and get some incomprehensible humanities mush that tries to prove the original article means the exact opposite of what it says, because the subtext of the patriarchal influence that the interloquitor experiences is Hagelian in its existentialism... or some bullshit like that.
No, it's pretty much a straight-up rebuttal. How banal in its bourgoise-logic encased cogitation. How pedestrian!
What I wonder is the exact opposite? When will the time come that cycle time has become so compressed that a manufacturer is developing two consoles simultaneously? One to come out in, say, 2009 and another to come out three or four years later, because delayed-but-incrementally-better-console is sufficiently out-of-sync with what we'd consider to be a console "generation" that you can't get all three or four players on the market and then have an open throwdown... consumers will abandon the wait-and-see attitude and commit early on. And rivals will have to be there with some nominally better system than the one you had for each seemingly out-of-step release, if they want to stay relevant.
I mean, to date, off-generation releases have killed console manufacturers. But I wonder if now the field's so small that they would try an arms-race to get to the last-man standing.
And if not... Hooray! Mature oligopoly!
It honestly didn't register as booty to me. I seriously thought it was maybe a chair headrest or some sort of shadow. Now that you say it, I don't know how I feel.
Gamasutra's updated the page: the turbolift screen is there, along with a television still shown for reference.
Sorry, I guess when I tried to quit being sarcastic I was really still being sarcastic.
All kinds of stuff goes out of print every day. But the RIAA's already recovered their investment on those guys, but they can still more money to be made and spent on what's in the mass market today. What's the better use of press time and shelf-space: a hundred copies of something you're sure to sell to thirteen-year olds at any Best Buy, or two copies each of fifty older albums you have to retail with a small-time outlet who doesn't do enough business to give you really sweet kickbacks?
Ideally, there'd be room in the market for both, though.
See, your problem is that you're buying music produced by unreliable record labels that aren't members of the RIAA. If you listened to high-production value commercial music like the RIAA wants you to have, you could buy replacement copies to your heart's content!
I mean... all the out-of-print CD's I have come from independent labels. :-)
There isn't an article on wax bullets. At least not at the moment, at the link you provided.
Shrug.
I don't quite follow... Are you saying that computers inherently require proper care and feeding and that we don't abuse and neglect our computers? Or that users operate their computers negligently because they want to care for and feed their computers?
You forgot the most important part:
...unless you recommended this company's stock a couple months ago when you got that spot on CNBC, or your investment banking division is getting a huge kickback from them... in which case filing for bankruptcy even means "Buy! Buy! Buy!"
Right. Those are the things that happened. Those things are very bad when you consider that almost all money used in scientific research comes out of the government. Most of the rest is already allocated based on the answer the researcher proposes to provide, instead of the question.
Now, you and me can agree that the Big Bang is a theory, because we know what the word theory means: a causal explanation for why certain observed data are the way they are. Full stop. No... tentative, unproven, free-to-disbelieve.
You know when I learned that? The first day of... high school... enriched... physics class my junior year. A class not even ten percent of students take!
Until that's something we teach on the first day of first grade we're pretty much guaranteed to have a populace that can't effectively govern themselves about science policy. And now, we've got a scientifically illiterate president who makes a point of picking scientifically literate people to be his policy advisors and chief policy implementors.
Hey! That's not a link to The Onion!
Trusted news source my ass!
Who or what is "J6P"?
Wow. You could really screw with Scalia's plain-meaning head by just editing the dictionary so that the words put in the statute books fifty or two hundred years ago come to have the opposite meaning. Talk about unelected, unaccountable people making laws!
I've had classes on statutory interpretation (I'm a law student), and nobody's brought this point up. Probably because it's impractical. And would lead Scalia to horde old dictionaries... But still.
I don't really think the Guandong Google Party would be the romanticized first step in an eventual rebellion against the Communist regime in China. But it's a neat thing to speculate about.
Keeping out hardware emulators for DRM... and let's throw more fuel on the Slashdot-causes fire... I could see requiring (by license) the hardware have some means of built-in incompatability with other operating systems... We won't let Windows talk to your PCI card unless your PCI card can recognize Not-Windows Vista and won't talk to Win XP, Linux, MacOS on Intel, et c.
If you're going to drag us into court on antitrust charges, you'll have to take the whole computer industry in with you!
Curse you for stealing my joke!