The medium *is* the message.
That said, given, as others have pointed out, that there isn't a whole lot of difference between 'announcing it on the state website' and 'tweeting it,' I fail to see the uproar. In fact, I kind of like tweets, as they offer at least the possibility of direct communication, rather than the AG's remarks being filtered through the protocol office, then the media relations office, then the reporter, then the editor.
Nah, in Canada, it took on that meaning when the Western Alliance hijacked the Progressive Conservatives, and formed the Conservative Party of Canada. The old PCs wern't all that bad, really.
I'll second this. If you're asking *anybody* but your users, and whoever pays for it, and in that order, about which software to use, you're doing it wrong.
No. Why have multiple competing codecs? Standardization isn't automatically a bad thing. Or would you prefer needing to go to a Ford gas station to gas up your Ford vehicle, due to slight incompatibilities in gas types between major manufacturers?
If there's something h.264 is missing that is required for 'internet video,' point it out. It would be far better to have it then included in the h.624 standard than to not have it at all.
Hell, look at the problems with h.264 *container* incompatibilities.
Well, for starters, if you do as you suggest, you get 'I can't play that video on Linux, as it's in quicktime.' or 'You need to download codec pack 1.245.231.v.2010, but make sure you don't get 1.245.232.v.2010. Unless you have an ATI video card, in which case you need to download the source, run this diff file, then compile. Unless you're also using an AMD proc, in which case disable this compiler flag or you'll get weird sync issues.
Also, like they said, everybody and their dog has.264 acceleration these days, so you can be reasonably sure your video will play on an iphone as well as a quad-core.
Kind of like computers tend to go from the 'one big processor' model to the 'lots of subprocessors' model and right back, or parallel to serial right back to parallel, formats tend to go from 'lots of little specialized ones for specific uses and targets' to 'one true format' and right back.
Sure do. But on the gripping hand, what with a dearth of good, old-fashioned simulators (like MW, Heavy Gear, Jane's F-15, and the like) what's the point? I hadn't used either of them for years and years.
No, can't say I have met that many. But on the other hand, how many of them are acting in an official capacity in a court proceeding?
In this case, the fact that he's a CCIE is very relevent, so it's made mention of. I fail to see ego. Or, more accurately, I fail to see unwarrented, inappropriate ego.
As for competence... well, Childs gave different passwords to these same managers the week before when he wasn't getting fired, so he clearly didn't have THAT many reservations about handing them over. The juror actually referred to that quite specifically if you read the article, saying that was what convinced him that Childs was not really worried about password security but about causing problems (my words there, not the jurors.)
Though, to be fair, a week before the time he didn't give passwords, the manager wasn't on a speakerphone conference call with a bunch of other people in the room.
He's not being egotistical, he's pointing out that he's got the chops to be talking about this from several different angles. Or do you think that a doctor, called in to provide testimony about a medical matter, is egotistical to list his various suffixes?
When I was reading his initial accounts, my thinking went something like 'Who is this guy to be...oh, he's a CCIE. At least he's not talking out of his ass.'
Well, wouldn't you? It gets awfully metaphysical. I've got the Ultimate Watchment blu-ray thingy, which includes TotBF. I don't know that they're splitting up that price.
Besides, isn't merch and spinoffs usually counted in with the rest of the franchise?
Oh, you crazy kids today. Come back and talk to me when you fondly remember creating customized config.sys and autoexec.bat files to squeeze that last few kb of RAM so that Wing Commander 2's voice files would play. Or trying to decide if, when playing X-Wing, you'd rather have slightly slower frame rates, or laser blasts that had a different shade of orange in the center. Or running a TSR that emulates EGA on your Hercules monochrome. (to this day, I remember playing Life or Death on a Hercules Monochrome rig and calling it the Vulcan Edition.) Or plugging a loadfast cart into your C64 and pointing a fan at the floppy drive for those times when you're 18 hours into Pool of Radiance and you're going to be pissed if the damn thing overheats and wigs out. Or trying to figure out why your Atari 2600 adaptor suddenly decided not to talk to your Coleco Vision.
And I'm not even *that* old. Am I?
I also seem to recall that a few days later, after working with the SAN manufacturer, they got most of the data back. The real lesson that was taken away was 'Don't go saying 'all is lost' the same day you have the problem; say 'there's a problem, we're working on it.' Then go work on it.
I'll also point out that if MS isn't allowed to say 'we're no longer offering the service, so feel free to stop giving us $50/year,' you're not allowed to say 'I'm no longer offering you $50/year, so feel free to stop giving me the service.'
Your post should be modded down to flamebait. Moral relativism is the philosophical tenet that there is no universal, absolute standard by which all humans and their actions can be judged. Period.
Which is, interestingly, what the Catholic Church preaches. Well, more specifically, what it practices. If they truly believed in moral absolutism, they'd have turned over each and every priest who is suspected of child molestation to the civil authority, OR they would shield each and every suspected child molester, regardless of religious status, from prosecution (or persecution, in this case.)
'Moral Relativism' is usually simply used as 'they're different from us, and therefore wrong.'
Folks, we are never going to leave our solar system and zip around the universe in spaceships. There will never be a Star Trek, Deep Space Nine, Star Wars, Solaris, Dune, Battlestar Galactica, Pandorum, or, sadly, Firefly.
Mr. Marconi, you will *never* be able to send one of these preposterous 'wireless messages' through the air from North America to Europe. Everybody knows a message takes weeks to make the passage on a stout steamer.
Mssers. Wright, why do you persist in this quixotic quest to create a flying machine? Everybody knows that if God intened Man to fly, He'd have given us wings!
There is no such thing as 'impossible.' Only 'you're doing it wrong.'
Wouldn't that be 'it's better to be on the ground, wishing you were in the air, rather than in the air, noting with dismay that you're about to be on, then in, the ground?
Who cares if a 15 year old OS doesn't work? At that point, we might as well be wondering if there's an IPv6 Trumpet Winsock available.
Now, in the 'truth is stranger than fiction' category, Trumpet Winsock 5 is available for 95/98/NT4, and does, in fact, have IPv6 compatibility.
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The medium *is* the message. That said, given, as others have pointed out, that there isn't a whole lot of difference between 'announcing it on the state website' and 'tweeting it,' I fail to see the uproar. In fact, I kind of like tweets, as they offer at least the possibility of direct communication, rather than the AG's remarks being filtered through the protocol office, then the media relations office, then the reporter, then the editor.
Rock Band has been on the iPhone for quite a while now, anyway.
Nah, in Canada, it took on that meaning when the Western Alliance hijacked the Progressive Conservatives, and formed the Conservative Party of Canada. The old PCs wern't all that bad, really.
Truly, it wouldn't surprise me a bit if, somewhere in the instruction manual, it does indeed say 'for external use only.'
I'm still waiting for somebody to do a remake of Omega, the game where you program AI tanks. MindRover doesn't count.
Prototypes always cost more than mass market production runs.
Yes, you can. Failing to provide a token when a token is required should result in no access, not in full or near-full, or even partial, access.
Mean Streets with RealSound comes to mind. 'What's up, Tex?'
I'll second this. If you're asking *anybody* but your users, and whoever pays for it, and in that order, about which software to use, you're doing it wrong.
The Canadian version can be rephrased as 'your right to throw a punch ends where my nose begins.'
No. Why have multiple competing codecs? Standardization isn't automatically a bad thing. Or would you prefer needing to go to a Ford gas station to gas up your Ford vehicle, due to slight incompatibilities in gas types between major manufacturers?
If there's something h.264 is missing that is required for 'internet video,' point it out. It would be far better to have it then included in the h.624 standard than to not have it at all.
Hell, look at the problems with h.264 *container* incompatibilities.
Well, for starters, if you do as you suggest, you get 'I can't play that video on Linux, as it's in quicktime.' or 'You need to download codec pack 1.245.231.v.2010, but make sure you don't get 1.245.232.v.2010. Unless you have an ATI video card, in which case you need to download the source, run this diff file, then compile. Unless you're also using an AMD proc, in which case disable this compiler flag or you'll get weird sync issues.
Also, like they said, everybody and their dog has .264 acceleration these days, so you can be reasonably sure your video will play on an iphone as well as a quad-core.
Kind of like computers tend to go from the 'one big processor' model to the 'lots of subprocessors' model and right back, or parallel to serial right back to parallel, formats tend to go from 'lots of little specialized ones for specific uses and targets' to 'one true format' and right back.
Sure do. But on the gripping hand, what with a dearth of good, old-fashioned simulators (like MW, Heavy Gear, Jane's F-15, and the like) what's the point? I hadn't used either of them for years and years.
No, can't say I have met that many. But on the other hand, how many of them are acting in an official capacity in a court proceeding?
In this case, the fact that he's a CCIE is very relevent, so it's made mention of. I fail to see ego. Or, more accurately, I fail to see unwarrented, inappropriate ego.
Though, to be fair, a week before the time he didn't give passwords, the manager wasn't on a speakerphone conference call with a bunch of other people in the room.
He's not being egotistical, he's pointing out that he's got the chops to be talking about this from several different angles. Or do you think that a doctor, called in to provide testimony about a medical matter, is egotistical to list his various suffixes?
When I was reading his initial accounts, my thinking went something like 'Who is this guy to be...oh, he's a CCIE. At least he's not talking out of his ass.'
Well, wouldn't you? It gets awfully metaphysical. I've got the Ultimate Watchment blu-ray thingy, which includes TotBF. I don't know that they're splitting up that price.
Besides, isn't merch and spinoffs usually counted in with the rest of the franchise?
Not bad at all, Halo Legends is, in fact, out on DVD and Blu Ray, and wait for it. The book sales are all good, too.
Oh, you crazy kids today. Come back and talk to me when you fondly remember creating customized config.sys and autoexec.bat files to squeeze that last few kb of RAM so that Wing Commander 2's voice files would play. Or trying to decide if, when playing X-Wing, you'd rather have slightly slower frame rates, or laser blasts that had a different shade of orange in the center. Or running a TSR that emulates EGA on your Hercules monochrome. (to this day, I remember playing Life or Death on a Hercules Monochrome rig and calling it the Vulcan Edition.) Or plugging a loadfast cart into your C64 and pointing a fan at the floppy drive for those times when you're 18 hours into Pool of Radiance and you're going to be pissed if the damn thing overheats and wigs out. Or trying to figure out why your Atari 2600 adaptor suddenly decided not to talk to your Coleco Vision. And I'm not even *that* old. Am I?
I also seem to recall that a few days later, after working with the SAN manufacturer, they got most of the data back. The real lesson that was taken away was 'Don't go saying 'all is lost' the same day you have the problem; say 'there's a problem, we're working on it.' Then go work on it.
I'll also point out that if MS isn't allowed to say 'we're no longer offering the service, so feel free to stop giving us $50/year,' you're not allowed to say 'I'm no longer offering you $50/year, so feel free to stop giving me the service.'
Which is, interestingly, what the Catholic Church preaches. Well, more specifically, what it practices. If they truly believed in moral absolutism, they'd have turned over each and every priest who is suspected of child molestation to the civil authority, OR they would shield each and every suspected child molester, regardless of religious status, from prosecution (or persecution, in this case.)
'Moral Relativism' is usually simply used as 'they're different from us, and therefore wrong.'
Mr. Marconi, you will *never* be able to send one of these preposterous 'wireless messages' through the air from North America to Europe. Everybody knows a message takes weeks to make the passage on a stout steamer. Mssers. Wright, why do you persist in this quixotic quest to create a flying machine? Everybody knows that if God intened Man to fly, He'd have given us wings! There is no such thing as 'impossible.' Only 'you're doing it wrong.'
Wouldn't that be 'it's better to be on the ground, wishing you were in the air, rather than in the air, noting with dismay that you're about to be on, then in, the ground?
Who cares if a 15 year old OS doesn't work? At that point, we might as well be wondering if there's an IPv6 Trumpet Winsock available. Now, in the 'truth is stranger than fiction' category, Trumpet Winsock 5 is available for 95/98/NT4, and does, in fact, have IPv6 compatibility.