"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" they say and looking at the classic portraits created over the years I can pretty much say that the idea of what is beautiful is cultural, and evolving. Although one could argue with the pervasive American Culture spreading across the globe that our current standards of attractiveness are actually starting to coincide.
The closest I have ever seen science come to defining beauty was through symmetry.
Call me a troll, but I'm going to call this junk science.
I used to play HALO: Combat Edition on a LAN Party, it too, required a unique CD Key from everybody who joined the game.
I think the bottom line here is the revenue stream that they are hoping to generate. I absolutely detest the Pay-to-Play model. They will charge through the nose for the game, and then charge to play it as a group.
This is not about the Gamer's experience, rather their bottom line.
NYT is not the only ones doing this:
http://www.thestar.com/article/533435
"Prime Minister Stephen Harper was made aware of the kidnapping, which occurred two days before last month's election, almost immediately but honoured requests by the CBC, on the advice of security experts, that any attention or media coverage of such kidnappings escalates the incident, and often leads to dire results. "
Melissa Fung, a CBC reporter was held for awhile in Afghanistan, and they too decided to protect their reporter. This is all fine and dandy, but lets get serious here, whenever someone is kidnapped and it make the news the bad guys have what they want: PUBLICITY
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Report after the fact if you must, but lets think of the kidnapees!
This means that if you buy it in the States, it will be cheaper.
Each Euro is worth US$ 1.40 right now, so should be 40% off or so for those who can order it online with someone who can ship it up.
Actually, any "real" experts will sit this one out. It's like guys who talk about all the sex they have had - usually it's in inverse proportion.
Any pros will just read these and laugh.
A couple of years ago I was testing network collaboration software in a high security environment. We were using Win 2k3 Server which shutdown the application due to a complex security tree. The solution? Log in all users as local administrators! It worked of course. Fast forward to the following year, 2k3 again shutdown our apps, and guess what the solution was? You got it - local admin access to all of the users. I know it's pretty easy for the users, but for the security guys it was bizarre to say the least.
All kidding aside, my first HD was 105 Mb. I was the envy of my peers, a 386sx-25 from Radio Shack! Honestly, I didn't know I should be embarrassed at the time!
I was living with my brother for a couple of years, and we were sharing a DSL connection. Routers will still expensive, so I converted an old P2 board which had 1G, and two NICs, and an old Floppy Drive into a Coyote Router. It worked like a charm, although the ISP refused to support it at all!
I installed slackware 3.5 off the CD in the summer of '98. I had an 486dx-33, it took all night to compile a kernel. I had just become a Unix admin and had a choice between SCO UnixWare or Linux. The choice was easy. I had the Queue Linux Bible, and was able to write the scripts for the external modem, and within the week I had not only a graphic desktop, but internet access as well!
Within a year I switched to SuSE, stuck with them until fairly recently, when I started to cast around for a new distro.
For now I settled on Mint. Everything just worked, I still like fiddling, but sometime's its nice that things work out of the box.
Actually, he didn't imply anything. Just that his budget for launching Canadian Satellites was cut by the "Overlords", prompting him to go work for Saddam, anyone who knows the story suspects Mossad, but who knows for sure?
The bottom line is education. But, I do not think that "Most people" would choose linux right now. Perhaps a lot will, but I think it's like space travel, once we get the regular joes up in space, then more people will think about it. Once we get regular folks using Linux, more people will actually be exposed to it, and perhaps be willing to try it. And that is what the first gen of netbooks gave us. However, MS really saw what was happening, and used XP to stop the bleeding. They may not innovate much, but they really can react well once they start getting hammered!
OK, so I'm running Mint 6 KDE. When I click on my menu, select "Internet" I get the following choices:
3D Planet Viewer
Google Earth
Bit Torrent Client
KTorrent
Download Manager
Kget
etc......
This is no worse than Windows, and in fact I can find the programs I want to run easier, I can remember a time when I installed some arcane named app on a windows box, and chose not to let the installer put the numerous shortcuts on the desktop and taskbar, then had a hell of a time finding it in the menu, because I failed to pay sufficent attention to the install process.
Actually easy, just grab the cheapest phone on the shelf, get the cheapest plan for one year, and then modify it. I started with Rogers a couple of years ago, with a Motorola L6i, and now have a E71 that I bought full price. I found a data package 6G for cheap on a special. They will add anything in for you. Of course, you can always grab a cheap pay as you go, drop the sim into whatever phone you want and presto......unlocked gsm phones are the way to go.
As a matter of fact they did.
However, now if you go to the getting started webpage, it welcomes you as an new owner of a development phone.
I plunked down my cash and got one of the first batch of available phones. It did not work well at all. Its been over a year, and it still is not my primary phone. I have tried most of the distro's and Qtopia seemed to be the best. Android is ok, easy to install, however, the version Koolu put in really needs a keyboard. So, I will continue to watch the state, and hope, but until it is stable I will continue with my Nokia e71.
Dave
I think we are in heated agreement here. I kinda lost the train of thought through the posts.
How about this? If it is streamed, and I use a utility to capture, an save a copy onto my media, then this could be construed as the same as sneaking a camera into a movie theatre/live performance.....resulting in the same sort of penalties.
Therefore, intent on the content provider is key here. Based on this, the intent of the downloader/receiver can be assumed.
the file was sent for a one-time listen, not for multiple playbacks
in order to play the file a second time, you have to do the transfer again
thus, it's a performance, not a distribution
In areas of the law like this, the courts are perfectly happy to perform a gap-filling, federal common law role in determining matters of law.
OK, I'll bite. I would expect my Lawyer to say that once I had the file, I could play it as many times as possible as it was saved in my email, ftp directory, etc. I would not have to transfer it again in order to play it again. Therefore it is a distribution, not a performance. I could accept the above Judge's statements, only if the mp3 was only resident in RAM. Once I save it to a more permanent storage (HD, USB stick...) all bets are off.
OK, so I just don't get this. Are you saying that the only way you can have a secret ballot is using an electronic system?
Now, I have worked in IT for years, I LOVE technology, however for this, low tech is the way to go. Secret ballots on paper. I'm Canadian and don't see what the fuss is about. You mark the ballot with an 'X', put it in a box, and later it's counted. You have scrutineers who can reject it based on agreed upon convention. Any system can be hacked, but if it is all based on 1s and 0s, then it can be difficult to trace.
-my $.02
Maybe they'd wind up saving, if not making, some money in a few years. Perhaps give Darl a store to manage...
Heh.:)
Point being, with a market cap of only $3mil, SCO and anything they have/own are basically chump change for a real corporation. So, if the judges (have) let this happen, then, and I hate to even think of it, we'll see this zombie keep stumbling forward...
Well, he would most likely figure he now owned the rights to McD's and sue them for copyright infringment!
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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" they say and looking at the classic portraits created over the years I can pretty much say that the idea of what is beautiful is cultural, and evolving. Although one could argue with the pervasive American Culture spreading across the globe that our current standards of attractiveness are actually starting to coincide.
The closest I have ever seen science come to defining beauty was through symmetry.
Call me a troll, but I'm going to call this junk science.
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How many carriers are under 500,000 in the states?
I'm thinking they thought long and hard on that number, and made sure they came up with a promise that will not affect their overal sales.
I think the bottom line here is the revenue stream that they are hoping to generate. I absolutely detest the Pay-to-Play model. They will charge through the nose for the game, and then charge to play it as a group.
This is not about the Gamer's experience, rather their bottom line.
I can only hope that their gamble fails.
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I really need a cool signature
NYT is not the only ones doing this: http://www.thestar.com/article/533435 "Prime Minister Stephen Harper was made aware of the kidnapping, which occurred two days before last month's election, almost immediately but honoured requests by the CBC, on the advice of security experts, that any attention or media coverage of such kidnappings escalates the incident, and often leads to dire results. " Melissa Fung, a CBC reporter was held for awhile in Afghanistan, and they too decided to protect their reporter. This is all fine and dandy, but lets get serious here, whenever someone is kidnapped and it make the news the bad guys have what they want: PUBLICITY What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Report after the fact if you must, but lets think of the kidnapees!
This means that if you buy it in the States, it will be cheaper. Each Euro is worth US$ 1.40 right now, so should be 40% off or so for those who can order it online with someone who can ship it up.
Actually, any "real" experts will sit this one out. It's like guys who talk about all the sex they have had - usually it's in inverse proportion. Any pros will just read these and laugh.
A couple of years ago I was testing network collaboration software in a high security environment. We were using Win 2k3 Server which shutdown the application due to a complex security tree. The solution? Log in all users as local administrators! It worked of course. Fast forward to the following year, 2k3 again shutdown our apps, and guess what the solution was? You got it - local admin access to all of the users. I know it's pretty easy for the users, but for the security guys it was bizarre to say the least.
what about the comfy chair?
How about The Tragically Hip?, wait a sec, we will keep them and you can have Celine. Please!
All kidding aside, my first HD was 105 Mb. I was the envy of my peers, a 386sx-25 from Radio Shack! Honestly, I didn't know I should be embarrassed at the time!
I was living with my brother for a couple of years, and we were sharing a DSL connection. Routers will still expensive, so I converted an old P2 board which had 1G, and two NICs, and an old Floppy Drive into a Coyote Router. It worked like a charm, although the ISP refused to support it at all!
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I installed slackware 3.5 off the CD in the summer of '98. I had an 486dx-33, it took all night to compile a kernel. I had just become a Unix admin and had a choice between SCO UnixWare or Linux. The choice was easy. I had the Queue Linux Bible, and was able to write the scripts for the external modem, and within the week I had not only a graphic desktop, but internet access as well!
Within a year I switched to SuSE, stuck with them until fairly recently, when I started to cast around for a new distro.
For now I settled on Mint. Everything just worked, I still like fiddling, but sometime's its nice that things work out of the box.
Don't need no silly signature
Actually, he didn't imply anything. Just that his budget for launching Canadian Satellites was cut by the "Overlords", prompting him to go work for Saddam, anyone who knows the story suspects Mossad, but who knows for sure?
The bottom line is education. But, I do not think that "Most people" would choose linux right now. Perhaps a lot will, but I think it's like space travel, once we get the regular joes up in space, then more people will think about it. Once we get regular folks using Linux, more people will actually be exposed to it, and perhaps be willing to try it. And that is what the first gen of netbooks gave us. However, MS really saw what was happening, and used XP to stop the bleeding. They may not innovate much, but they really can react well once they start getting hammered!
3D Planet Viewer
Google Earth
Bit Torrent Client
KTorrent
Download Manager
Kget
etc......
This is no worse than Windows, and in fact I can find the programs I want to run easier, I can remember a time when I installed some arcane named app on a windows box, and chose not to let the installer put the numerous shortcuts on the desktop and taskbar, then had a hell of a time finding it in the menu, because I failed to pay sufficent attention to the install process.
Actually easy, just grab the cheapest phone on the shelf, get the cheapest plan for one year, and then modify it. I started with Rogers a couple of years ago, with a Motorola L6i, and now have a E71 that I bought full price. I found a data package 6G for cheap on a special. They will add anything in for you. Of course, you can always grab a cheap pay as you go, drop the sim into whatever phone you want and presto......unlocked gsm phones are the way to go.
As a matter of fact they did. However, now if you go to the getting started webpage, it welcomes you as an new owner of a development phone. I plunked down my cash and got one of the first batch of available phones. It did not work well at all. Its been over a year, and it still is not my primary phone. I have tried most of the distro's and Qtopia seemed to be the best. Android is ok, easy to install, however, the version Koolu put in really needs a keyboard. So, I will continue to watch the state, and hope, but until it is stable I will continue with my Nokia e71. Dave
I think we are in heated agreement here. I kinda lost the train of thought through the posts. How about this? If it is streamed, and I use a utility to capture, an save a copy onto my media, then this could be construed as the same as sneaking a camera into a movie theatre/live performance.....resulting in the same sort of penalties. Therefore, intent on the content provider is key here. Based on this, the intent of the downloader/receiver can be assumed.
This is NOT a newsgroup flameware!
So I would expect the judge to say
In areas of the law like this, the courts are perfectly happy to perform a gap-filling, federal common law role in determining matters of law.
OK, I'll bite. I would expect my Lawyer to say that once I had the file, I could play it as many times as possible as it was saved in my email, ftp directory, etc. I would not have to transfer it again in order to play it again. Therefore it is a distribution, not a performance. I could accept the above Judge's statements, only if the mp3 was only resident in RAM. Once I save it to a more permanent storage (HD, USB stick...) all bets are off.
OK, so I just don't get this. Are you saying that the only way you can have a secret ballot is using an electronic system? Now, I have worked in IT for years, I LOVE technology, however for this, low tech is the way to go. Secret ballots on paper. I'm Canadian and don't see what the fuss is about. You mark the ballot with an 'X', put it in a box, and later it's counted. You have scrutineers who can reject it based on agreed upon convention. Any system can be hacked, but if it is all based on 1s and 0s, then it can be difficult to trace. -my $.02
Maybe they'd wind up saving, if not making, some money in a few years. Perhaps give Darl a store to manage...
Heh. :)
Point being, with a market cap of only $3mil, SCO and anything they have/own are basically chump change for a real corporation. So, if the judges (have) let this happen, then, and I hate to even think of it, we'll see this zombie keep stumbling forward...
Well, he would most likely figure he now owned the rights to McD's and sue them for copyright infringment!