I think Terry Gilliam has come up with the best explanation:
It used to be that studio execs were entrepreneurs. Businessmen with vision willing to take risks. These days studios are part of media conglomerates so modern studio execs are middle management, bringing with them the mindset of the middle manager.
Your second statement is correct, but if you have the right unsupported third party plugins installed, Calibre can convert DRM encrusted ebooks. This isn't a gangster movie. Keeping things hush-hush and blatantly lying about it is not going to keep the authorities in the dark and is tacitly admitting wrongdoing. All DRM can be broken, all DRM will be broken and the sooner everybody realizes and accepts this fact the sooner we can move on with our lives.
Let's just play up the cyber=cybersex angle. The word will be gone within a week. That or geeks will forever be linked with sex. Either way works for me.
You mean all those scientists working in the research departments of Shell and Pfizer and Nichia and almost every tech company out there? It's not all engineers you know. And many of the engineers are doing work comparable to that of the scientists.
For the so-called Leader of the Free world, his accomplishments look terribly parochial to me. Gitmo is still open, the administration is on the fence about Egypt, and the US is still occupying two sovereign countries. But some obscure park gets more funding. Woo!
True. He would have kept the discovery to himself otherwise. Still, this story relates to the cracking of lottery tickets so there is some relevance. Perhaps he is so good at statistics that he made millions for shit and giggles.
The future of Apple is at stake. Many Apple employees will lose their livelihood if Jobs doesn't get over himself and quickly appoint a successor with a sane vision for the future. If he doesn't it will mean a return to the Sculley years for Apple. Hurting the feelings of a tyrant who is being kept alive by regular injections of money is a minor point in comparison.
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Next you'll be claiming that the Chinese invented gunpowder, noodles and the compass as well.
I think Terry Gilliam has come up with the best explanation:
It used to be that studio execs were entrepreneurs. Businessmen with vision willing to take risks. These days studios are part of media conglomerates so modern studio execs are middle management, bringing with them the mindset of the middle manager.
Makes sense to me.
Your second statement is correct, but if you have the right unsupported third party plugins installed, Calibre can convert DRM encrusted ebooks. This isn't a gangster movie. Keeping things hush-hush and blatantly lying about it is not going to keep the authorities in the dark and is tacitly admitting wrongdoing. All DRM can be broken, all DRM will be broken and the sooner everybody realizes and accepts this fact the sooner we can move on with our lives.
Sounds like a bad deal for Grooveshark.
You forgot the quotation marks.
Aahhh the statue of limitations. Is that one in the Uffizi gallery or the Louvre?
No purpose? How do you perform body shots without a navel?
You mean at a time when everybody and their dog is trying to get their hands on an IPv6 compatible router? Sounds like an expensive option.
Because it clearly outs analysts who get their marching orders from Redmond.
Sure but who's going to pay to put up that many t-mobile towers?
The weekend is coming up and you must have scored some of those newfangled pre-paid drugs. Lucky bastard.
Yeah! Like a military biotech lab or something.
Let's just play up the cyber=cybersex angle. The word will be gone within a week. That or geeks will forever be linked with sex. Either way works for me.
You mean all those scientists working in the research departments of Shell and Pfizer and Nichia and almost every tech company out there? It's not all engineers you know. And many of the engineers are doing work comparable to that of the scientists.
xkcd 664 springs to mind.
According to Wikipedia:
The largest solar pumped laser is currently being operated by a research faciliy in Uzbekistan. It is a 1 MW NdYAG type laser, operating at 3,000 Degrees C. It is cooled by distilled water.
A megawatt of continuous wave laser power is nothing to be sneered at.
They also gave it to Nelson Mandela, who was head of the ANC, a terrorist organization according to the US.
For the so-called Leader of the Free world, his accomplishments look terribly parochial to me. Gitmo is still open, the administration is on the fence about Egypt, and the US is still occupying two sovereign countries. But some obscure park gets more funding. Woo!
Spoken like a true parapsychologist. More bad science comes out of researchers underestimating statistics than out of all other sources combined.
True. He would have kept the discovery to himself otherwise. Still, this story relates to the cracking of lottery tickets so there is some relevance. Perhaps he is so good at statistics that he made millions for shit and giggles.
Weaksauce. Why not go all the way and do some DIY trepanation?
Of course they are. They show a shocking lack of anatomical knowledge. Now if they were magnetic headbands...
BRB founding company. How does " Magnasmart" sound?
Road rage carries over to discussion forums I see.
The future of Apple is at stake. Many Apple employees will lose their livelihood if Jobs doesn't get over himself and quickly appoint a successor with a sane vision for the future. If he doesn't it will mean a return to the Sculley years for Apple.
Hurting the feelings of a tyrant who is being kept alive by regular injections of money is a minor point in comparison.
Which coincidentally is more or less the position of Russia's president.
Except that interstellar space isn't much of an exploitable environment, being mostly dark and empty.