Ah, While I do not disagree that the disease exists. I think that it could be the case. What I am skeptical is that it occured to MJ. The reason why I am skeptical is I think MJ is deeply distrubed in the mind. Look at him with his plastic surgeries and his straightening of this hair. I am sure that the disease does not affect nose shape and curly hair. Maybe he does have the disease and that caused him to want to be white. But he went nuts by doing everything to appear white and this is where I say he needs some serious mental help.
Lets say another person happens to buy the product. Say Aunt Mable. Well Aunt Mable decides to run the product and I happen to look over her shoulder. Can I still reverse engineer?
She is running the programming and looking at it. But she does not work for me. I am actually not running the program, just watching. And because the computer is not mine and I did not install the program am I bound?
While you might have a point with the critque. It is being a bit harsh. Sure enough race is not a skin colour. But you have to admit that he has some serious mental issues.
Consider this way. If I was white and decided to run around with black makeup all over my body all the time and it was obvious that I was white, what would you say? Honestly what would you say? You would say I am nut and totally politically incorrect. You might even say I am insulting the black race or something like that. I think that is what people have an issue with when it comes to Micheal Jackson and not his skin colour.
I think that is the best way of putting his status. I remember when I was in highschool in the eighties people said "Oh look how good and pure he is". Pure nut I thought back then and still now.
BUT and this is the question I have. How do you go from a nice dark shade of skin to a white skin. And I do mean this seriously because I am baffled. I keep thinking acid, etc, but it seems so painful.
Maybe this will bring back artists in the old way. You know, you play at the local bars, then at local events, etc. And with each play you get bigger and more popular. All the while getting a following.
What is bad with girl bands, boy bands, Brittany type artists is that the initial step is missing. They clump together a bunch of no talents and then throw them on the stage to perform like circus acts. And they do this with new acts every year. This way the no-talents will not get too pushy with the labels. And the labels can keep the profits up because they can give a "once in a lifetime" offer for stardom!
And there you highlight the problem. The big five music industry only want to sell, sell, at the expense of the original intent.
I see it here in Europe when they do star talent search. What do they look for? A voice, looks and dance ability. Gee whiz when did music become voice looks and dance ability? I always thought music was the ability of the artist to create something that we enjoy listening to. And if the show is good, well more power to you.
The other problem with people like Brittany Spears is that those are the people where we "steal" music in the form of napster. With talent though, most people I know will actually buy the content since they think they are actually getting value.
Are the competing desktops competing or just copying each other? Innovation breeds from when somebody decides to do things differently. LINUS did that with LINUX in that he created an OS developed by the masses, with some new OS concepts. Ok not that many but a few. What is truly different between GNOME and KDE other than a few API's and themes? Not much. They are all clones of each other.
OH MY GAD! A desktop that I can acutally use. A desktop where I do not have to be a LINUX guru to figure out how to change the font or keyboard settings.
OK, I am being sarcastic, but I think the point is that LINUX looks COOOOOOLLLLLL!!!
Have you also forgotten the fact that in Germany computer users tend to be more rabid? And that people in Germany tend to do things for the principle, which may or may not be practical (BTW I should know I am German). Add that to the fact that many in Germany consider Microsoft as monopoly and you have a principle, which attracts users. Also do realize that 5% is about the same number of people who vote for the Greens, Communists and FDP (Liberals). And none of these parties are mainstream.
I do not think it is a silly game. What is silly is to start an application from KDE in GNOME or Vice-Versa and have an entirely different look.
The problem with this strategy is that in a digital era even 97% still means total failure.
I wonder if this is not just a ploy to find out who the bad apples of the bunch are. Maybe the record industry knows this is futile battle and hence wants to combat it somehow.
I even wonder if downloading previews are a bad idea. Consider the following. The record industry makes tons of money with new releases. Likewise with the fashion industry, where being first with a trend is where you make money. Now if the reviewers take that income away the record industry can make no money.
So maybe as an informal truce people should stay away from downloading the new material, wait a few weeks and either buy or "look".
I think what people are mixing up is that 5.6 G's vertically like in military aircraft is fine. The problem is that roller coasters exert sideways G's and that is what a human body cannot cope with. That is a proven fact. (I saw it on the science channel). And lets please remember a military aircraft pilot is not a person on a roller coaster. A pilot is in good shape, healty. Whereas people on roller coasters tend to not be in the same shape.
Fair enough that C# has been turned over to the ECMA standards. But so was DHTML, Kerberos, CORBA, OODBMS, SQL, PASCAL, etc. And where did all that end up? Tons of systems that are not compatible.
Just because it is standard, does not make it a working standard. Case in point is ODBC, which is not a "REAL" standard, but yet exists everywhere and works.
Again, I am not saying C# is bad, I like C#. But C# is like Delphi, both are based on standards, but totally incompatible with the real standard. This does not take away from the usefulness of the language, simply the fact that Java will work across platforms and C# not.
Java and C# are not the same thing. Seriously. C# is pushed by MS. Sure there is Mono, but you cannot actually build a real application with it. With Java I can build a real application from either Sun, IBM, Kafee, or other JVM's. And the Java from IBM is the same from Sun. However, Mono.NET is not Microsoft.NET. Mono.NET uses GTK# for its UI, whereas MS.NET uses Windows.Forms.
I am not saying that C# or.NET is a bad thing. I actually like C# and things it is a great language. But C# is like VB which is like Delphi. Great environments and languages pushed by a single vendor. Java is like C++, which can be had from multiple vendors.
I think with this photgrapher there is a missing of expectations issue. Artists are creative people and some pieces are really good. But the problem with artists is that the vast majority makes no money. To become a famous artist it is not just skill, but luck, timing, etc. So as a result artists have to get real paying jobs. Problem is that those artists consider even their paying work as works of art. A moment to capture.
But the people hiring the artist considers the moment only pictures to share and remember. They do not consider the work as art. Sure these people are "bohemian" in the eyes of the artist, but they people DO NOT CARE.
So when the people ask for high res images and the photopgraher scoffs there is an obvious missing purpose of the endevaour. Who will win in the end? The customer because they will get pissed and bad mouth the photographer. And other photographers that consider taking wedding pictures solely as a job will get more work.
And this is where I would even consider that this technology never be implemented. I read someplace else that airlines may do a blanket ban on all electronic devices if UWB does conflict with airplanes. Imagine how boring those long flights will be now!
Here in Europe I have to pay for bandwidth. And so long as I do not run anything like Gnutella I have no bandwidth problems. I can share with Kazza and no problems. But the moment I share with GNUTella, my bandwidth shot through the roof. I kept it running a week and have never started it again.
I watch this talk show called TvTotal, which is hosted by a guy called Stephan Rabb. Since in Germany there is an election he did a series on "First voter check". Basically in the first voter check he tested the "intelligence" or lack of the first voters. Folks, ignorance is not specific to Americans. Some people were REALLY DUMB! For example they asked the people to place where countries were in Europe, with the boundaries drawn in. And hardly anybody got it right. They kept putting the capital of Germany, Berlin near Paris.
So I think we Europeans and we North American's should come to the conclusion that idiots exist everywhere and nobody has an exclusive contract on them!
Oh come on... Germany has had DSL for a few years now. Ask my brother who lives near Regensburg in the country side. He has been waffling between AOL and T-Online DSL to get better rates.
Dude, do you REALLY think only American's know how to use NAT? Because, you know people could actually be SHARING a computer in Europe? And in Europe the PC penetration is lower than in the US.
About the higher precentage in Europe than the US is actually very logical. Let me explain. In North America we have a house in Quebec that is about 10 clicks outside the range of DSL. How long have we been waiting for DSL? Years and we are still waiting.
But in Europe DSL is becoming as common as GSM, meaning even if you live in the country you will get DSL. And once you have DSL the Internet is actually fun and interesting. Also DSL is mucho easier and cheaper than ISDN or a modem in Europe.
My point is that in North America the spreading of broadband has been halted and people who were shafted in the country are still shafted. And this is bad because the only expanison left in North America is the country side where many people do live.
That is exactly what I was thinking. I have highspeed, but coming from Europe sometimes things happen with the bits and bytes coming across the ocean. EVEN video rentals are two to three days before you need to return it.
Multi-threading is NOT more efficient that multi-process. That is a blanket statement and my reply is as well. Linus did something smart in that he considered a process and thread one and the same. However, the upside is that whena Linux "thread" dies it does not kill off the "process". MS does this too when it uses Apartments, etc. In fact COM+ is an exact mirror of the Linux process, thread strategy.
Ok so how is this free? because guess what folks, most of Europe does this as well. The only difference is that Egypt has a monopoly on the local telephone system.
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Ah, While I do not disagree that the disease exists. I think that it could be the case. What I am skeptical is that it occured to MJ. The reason why I am skeptical is I think MJ is deeply distrubed in the mind. Look at him with his plastic surgeries and his straightening of this hair. I am sure that the disease does not affect nose shape and curly hair. Maybe he does have the disease and that caused him to want to be white. But he went nuts by doing everything to appear white and this is where I say he needs some serious mental help.
Lets say another person happens to buy the product. Say Aunt Mable. Well Aunt Mable decides to run the product and I happen to look over her shoulder. Can I still reverse engineer?
She is running the programming and looking at it. But she does not work for me. I am actually not running the program, just watching. And because the computer is not mine and I did not install the program am I bound?
Is it really sincere since when I browse the website using Mozilla the menu seems to screw up on me. But yet when I use IE it works fine...
While you might have a point with the critque. It is being a bit harsh. Sure enough race is not a skin colour. But you have to admit that he has some serious mental issues.
Consider this way. If I was white and decided to run around with black makeup all over my body all the time and it was obvious that I was white, what would you say? Honestly what would you say? You would say I am nut and totally politically incorrect. You might even say I am insulting the black race or something like that. I think that is what people have an issue with when it comes to Micheal Jackson and not his skin colour.
I think that is the best way of putting his status. I remember when I was in highschool in the eighties people said "Oh look how good and pure he is". Pure nut I thought back then and still now.
BUT and this is the question I have. How do you go from a nice dark shade of skin to a white skin. And I do mean this seriously because I am baffled. I keep thinking acid, etc, but it seems so painful.
Maybe this will bring back artists in the old way. You know, you play at the local bars, then at local events, etc. And with each play you get bigger and more popular. All the while getting a following.
What is bad with girl bands, boy bands, Brittany type artists is that the initial step is missing. They clump together a bunch of no talents and then throw them on the stage to perform like circus acts. And they do this with new acts every year. This way the no-talents will not get too pushy with the labels. And the labels can keep the profits up because they can give a "once in a lifetime" offer for stardom!
And there you highlight the problem. The big five music industry only want to sell, sell, at the expense of the original intent.
I see it here in Europe when they do star talent search. What do they look for? A voice, looks and dance ability. Gee whiz when did music become voice looks and dance ability? I always thought music was the ability of the artist to create something that we enjoy listening to. And if the show is good, well more power to you.
The other problem with people like Brittany Spears is that those are the people where we "steal" music in the form of napster. With talent though, most people I know will actually buy the content since they think they are actually getting value.
Are the competing desktops competing or just copying each other? Innovation breeds from when somebody decides to do things differently. LINUS did that with LINUX in that he created an OS developed by the masses, with some new OS concepts. Ok not that many but a few. What is truly different between GNOME and KDE other than a few API's and themes? Not much. They are all clones of each other.
OH MY GAD! A desktop that I can acutally use. A desktop where I do not have to be a LINUX guru to figure out how to change the font or keyboard settings.
OK, I am being sarcastic, but I think the point is that LINUX looks COOOOOOLLLLLL!!!
Have you also forgotten the fact that in Germany computer users tend to be more rabid? And that people in Germany tend to do things for the principle, which may or may not be practical (BTW I should know I am German). Add that to the fact that many in Germany consider Microsoft as monopoly and you have a principle, which attracts users. Also do realize that 5% is about the same number of people who vote for the Greens, Communists and FDP (Liberals). And none of these parties are mainstream.
I do not think it is a silly game. What is silly is to start an application from KDE in GNOME or Vice-Versa and have an entirely different look.
The problem with this strategy is that in a digital era even 97% still means total failure.
I wonder if this is not just a ploy to find out who the bad apples of the bunch are. Maybe the record industry knows this is futile battle and hence wants to combat it somehow.
I even wonder if downloading previews are a bad idea. Consider the following. The record industry makes tons of money with new releases. Likewise with the fashion industry, where being first with a trend is where you make money. Now if the reviewers take that income away the record industry can make no money.
So maybe as an informal truce people should stay away from downloading the new material, wait a few weeks and either buy or "look".
Yes I do and ODBC works on Solaris, and Linux. And my C code on each platform does work.
I think what people are mixing up is that 5.6 G's vertically like in military aircraft is fine. The problem is that roller coasters exert sideways G's and that is what a human body cannot cope with. That is a proven fact. (I saw it on the science channel). And lets please remember a military aircraft pilot is not a person on a roller coaster. A pilot is in good shape, healty. Whereas people on roller coasters tend to not be in the same shape.
Fair enough that C# has been turned over to the ECMA standards. But so was DHTML, Kerberos, CORBA, OODBMS, SQL, PASCAL, etc. And where did all that end up? Tons of systems that are not compatible.
Just because it is standard, does not make it a working standard. Case in point is ODBC, which is not a "REAL" standard, but yet exists everywhere and works.
Again, I am not saying C# is bad, I like C#. But C# is like Delphi, both are based on standards, but totally incompatible with the real standard. This does not take away from the usefulness of the language, simply the fact that Java will work across platforms and C# not.
Java and C# are not the same thing. Seriously. C# is pushed by MS. Sure there is Mono, but you cannot actually build a real application with it. With Java I can build a real application from either Sun, IBM, Kafee, or other JVM's. And the Java from IBM is the same from Sun. However, Mono.NET is not Microsoft.NET. Mono.NET uses GTK# for its UI, whereas MS.NET uses Windows.Forms.
.NET is a bad thing. I actually like C# and things it is a great language. But C# is like VB which is like Delphi. Great environments and languages pushed by a single vendor. Java is like C++, which can be had from multiple vendors.
I am not saying that C# or
I think with this photgrapher there is a missing of expectations issue. Artists are creative people and some pieces are really good. But the problem with artists is that the vast majority makes no money. To become a famous artist it is not just skill, but luck, timing, etc. So as a result artists have to get real paying jobs. Problem is that those artists consider even their paying work as works of art. A moment to capture.
But the people hiring the artist considers the moment only pictures to share and remember. They do not consider the work as art. Sure these people are "bohemian" in the eyes of the artist, but they people DO NOT CARE.
So when the people ask for high res images and the photopgraher scoffs there is an obvious missing purpose of the endevaour. Who will win in the end? The customer because they will get pissed and bad mouth the photographer. And other photographers that consider taking wedding pictures solely as a job will get more work.
And this is where I would even consider that this technology never be implemented. I read someplace else that airlines may do a blanket ban on all electronic devices if UWB does conflict with airplanes. Imagine how boring those long flights will be now!
Here in Europe I have to pay for bandwidth. And so long as I do not run anything like Gnutella I have no bandwidth problems. I can share with Kazza and no problems. But the moment I share with GNUTella, my bandwidth shot through the roof. I kept it running a week and have never started it again.
I watch this talk show called TvTotal, which is hosted by a guy called Stephan Rabb. Since in Germany there is an election he did a series on "First voter check". Basically in the first voter check he tested the "intelligence" or lack of the first voters. Folks, ignorance is not specific to Americans. Some people were REALLY DUMB! For example they asked the people to place where countries were in Europe, with the boundaries drawn in. And hardly anybody got it right. They kept putting the capital of Germany, Berlin near Paris.
So I think we Europeans and we North American's should come to the conclusion that idiots exist everywhere and nobody has an exclusive contract on them!
Oh come on... Germany has had DSL for a few years now. Ask my brother who lives near Regensburg in the country side. He has been waffling between AOL and T-Online DSL to get better rates.
Dude, do you REALLY think only American's know how to use NAT? Because, you know people could actually be SHARING a computer in Europe? And in Europe the PC penetration is lower than in the US.
About the higher precentage in Europe than the US is actually very logical. Let me explain. In North America we have a house in Quebec that is about 10 clicks outside the range of DSL. How long have we been waiting for DSL? Years and we are still waiting.
But in Europe DSL is becoming as common as GSM, meaning even if you live in the country you will get DSL. And once you have DSL the Internet is actually fun and interesting. Also DSL is mucho easier and cheaper than ISDN or a modem in Europe.
My point is that in North America the spreading of broadband has been halted and people who were shafted in the country are still shafted. And this is bad because the only expanison left in North America is the country side where many people do live.
That is exactly what I was thinking. I have highspeed, but coming from Europe sometimes things happen with the bits and bytes coming across the ocean. EVEN video rentals are two to three days before you need to return it.
24 hours is simply too short.
Multi-threading is NOT more efficient that multi-process. That is a blanket statement and my reply is as well. Linus did something smart in that he considered a process and thread one and the same. However, the upside is that whena Linux "thread" dies it does not kill off the "process". MS does this too when it uses Apartments, etc. In fact COM+ is an exact mirror of the Linux process, thread strategy.
Sorry, but the API change is quite dramatic. Not to say that it is bad. I like the API change, it makes things more consistent and cleaner.
Ok so how is this free? because guess what folks, most of Europe does this as well. The only difference is that Egypt has a monopoly on the local telephone system.