If the new X-Com game could snag the Bioware authors who wrote the "Codex" entries for Mass Effect...
Can't wait until we see a new "football of death" weapon. (I have no recollection of what this weapon was actually called - some kind of guided rocket launcher? - just that the projectile looked like a self-guided football and had an impressively large boom.)
That wasn't an entirely bad move on Apple's part - at the time, they were planning on making Java a first class citizen on OS X, with native Cocoa libraries for Java programmers. Unfortunately, that's pretty much all out the window now - Apple's tutorials state that "The Java API for Cocoa is deprecated in Mac OS X version 10.4 and later."
So in other words, Apple definitely did something dumb here, but it's not too hard to see what their motivations were.
Sorry - minor quibble. It's disbarred. The "bar" here refers to a body of people legally recognized as being permitted to practice law - in this case, the Florida Bar.
HL1 takes place in black mesa. I don't think you ever had a traveling part where it faded to black and you cam back "a few hours later" You walked and rode across the entirety of black Mesa yourself.
I see you've managed to suppress your memories of Xen...
a) I would have been very worried about you if you didn't think of "using the remote to control the beams." Because that would be soaked in awesome juice if done right.
b) For the record, it's streams.
c) Regarding the hotel shootup: "I feel so funky."
I think you're a bit off on this one. In the Flickr / Virgin Mobile case, the problem revolves around whether the photo had the appropriate attribution. Copyright over the image was never in question.
In this case, the question is who owns the content of that review. If I post a positive review of something on a site, with a picture of me, do I retain the copyright over my review? And just as importantly, can my image be considered part of the review? If Facebook owns the copyright, and the image of the author is part of the review, I would think that Facebook can sell the use of it to the vendor as they see fit.
Just a followup to my original post: Poll Shows Rise In Number Of Americans Who Want Dems To Be Tougher With Bush On Iraq.
The survey finds that nearly half -- 47% -- say that Dems aren't doing enough to challenge the President over Iraq. That's a seven-point jump from last spring. In contrast, barely one-fifth think Congress has gone "too far." And tellingly, nearly half of independents -- 48% -- want more action from Congress on ending the war, too.
They're idiots if they think the public would side with Bush in that sort of a standoff.
No argument here. I have a suspicion that they've been the minority party so long that they've got some kind of victim mentality.
It seems to me that both the punditocracy and Congress can and often do underestimate just how far to the left the American public really is on significant matters of public policy.
It's occurred to me. I think it's more likely that, though, that it's because they haven't done enough to end the war in Iraq.
In recent approval polls, the current Democratic congress actually did better with Republican respondents than with Democratic respondents. American's opinion of how the war in Iraq is going is virtually completely unified (and negative), and more Americans "strongly disapprove" of GWB than they did of Nixon, just before his impeachment trial began.
If you're a Democrat (disclosure: I am), this state of affairs sucks, because procedural rules of legislation make it very easy to derail bills through votes for cloture and the threat of a filibuster. The minority party has used this power in this Congress more than any other Congress in history, and then turned around and made fun of the majority party for not being able to get anything done.
The last time there was a Congress strongly unified against the President, it was the "Republican revolution", whose stalemate with Clinton wound up shutting down the government. But then, Clinton definitely wound up on the winning side of public opinion. One wonders if memories of that stalemate are giving the Democratic leadership the jitters.
WARNING: IANAL. And you really should talk to one. Nevertheless...
I had a somewhat similar experience a few years ago. A domain that I registered and was using for personal projects attracted the attention of lawyers from Shieldmark, who asserted that I'd registered it in bad faith, and demanded that I turn over ownership of my domain to their client or face an arbitration proceeding according to the rules of ICANN's UDRP process. In Belgium.
In the interest of fairness, I should say that their client did have registered trademarks on the phrase that made up my domain name. On the other hand, their trademark specifically addressed the realm of agricultural products, and... well, let's just say I'm not in the agriculture business.
I sent them a polite letter back saying that while their client had my sympathies, I had registered the domain in good faith, was actively using it, and that if they initialed a UDRP against me, they'd lose. And that was the last I heard of it.
The situation here is different: this guy apparently has no claim on this domain other than the fact that your domain sounds kinda like one of the many he owns. Given that, I'd first talk to a lawyer, then do what I did: write a polite letter suggesting he pound sand.
Really, the issue is what requires elevated privileges. OS X will prompt you if you're trying to do something like modify a system-wide file (basically, anything that's not in your home directory), or changing your security settings, but that really doesn't happen that often.
Can you give me a couple examples? I don't think I've heard anything about new keyboard shortcuts. I use the expose functionality a ton in OS X, so if there's something similar in Vista I'd be interested in hearing about it.
"Young people aren't choosing computer science majors because they take technology for granted -- it's something to use not something to make a career. "By and large, this generation is very fluent with technology and with a networked world..."
Good. I hate to sound elitist, and god knows that I'm hardly the hottest stuff on the block (I work with a ton of people smarter than I am), but am I the only one who remembers when the CS field was flooded by people whose chief qualifications were Microsoft Word and HTML?
the people who are switching aren't switching because of the quality... they're switching because of the shiny. i work in a college IT department and deal with move-in every year. we have a vendor who offers HP business class machines. the reasons i hear people going for apple is because they're prettier. seriously. i had a girl come in with her apple not knowing how to install office, install the virus protection, or how to even eject a CD. she didn't know a thing about her new computer because she bought it solely for the shine fact.
I used to work in a college IT department, although I was a systems administrator and did relatively little end-user support (and zero student support). In my current job, I work extensively with HP rack servers, some AIX boxes (ew), and do a ton of work with VMware ESX, as well as a lot of other great - but not pretty - technology.
I am typing this response on a MacBook Pro. It's nice that it's shiny. But that's not why I switched, and it's not while I'm still using Macs five years later.
i also want to know what quality? i know at least 3 or 4 people who have apples that have sent them back and forth to apple to get fixed and they just can't get it right. one of them has sent it back and forth 7 times (at $80 a pop on apple's dime... you'd think they would've gotten him a new computer by now). the market share is growing because people value shine, not because of quality.
I'm happy to say that I haven't had that kind of problem with any of my Macs - the only problem I've ever had was when I had to replace a laptop power supply after accidentally kicking out the cable. (Hooray for the arrival of Magsafe adapters!). I can't tell you what to make of your anedoctal data, but I can tell you that in 2004, owners of Apple's desktop hardware were second happiest with their vendor's reliability and service after eMachines owners, and third happiest with regard to laptops.
(Also... you might want to take a look at how HP fared on those charts for consumer-grade hardware. It ain't pretty.)
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If the new X-Com game could snag the Bioware authors who wrote the "Codex" entries for Mass Effect...
Can't wait until we see a new "football of death" weapon. (I have no recollection of what this weapon was actually called - some kind of guided rocket launcher? - just that the projectile looked like a self-guided football and had an impressively large boom.)
"Please move away from the doors." *woow woow. woow woow*
"By your command."
(disclaimer - i'm not an apple or java developer)
That wasn't an entirely bad move on Apple's part - at the time, they were planning on making Java a first class citizen on OS X, with native Cocoa libraries for Java programmers. Unfortunately, that's pretty much all out the window now - Apple's tutorials state that "The Java API for Cocoa is deprecated in Mac OS X version 10.4 and later."
So in other words, Apple definitely did something dumb here, but it's not too hard to see what their motivations were.
Sorry - minor quibble. It's disbarred. The "bar" here refers to a body of people legally recognized as being permitted to practice law - in this case, the Florida Bar.
I see you've managed to suppress your memories of Xen...
a) I would have been very worried about you if you didn't think of "using the remote to control the beams." Because that would be soaked in awesome juice if done right.
b) For the record, it's streams.
c) Regarding the hotel shootup: "I feel so funky."
You're not alone. I'd like to think that I'm at least moderately clued in to technology trends, but I had no idea that GOOG-411 existed either.
(IANAL)
I think you're a bit off on this one. In the Flickr / Virgin Mobile case, the problem revolves around whether the photo had the appropriate attribution. Copyright over the image was never in question.
In this case, the question is who owns the content of that review. If I post a positive review of something on a site, with a picture of me, do I retain the copyright over my review? And just as importantly, can my image be considered part of the review? If Facebook owns the copyright, and the image of the author is part of the review, I would think that Facebook can sell the use of it to the vendor as they see fit.
"I'll trade two Souls for a Good Intention."
"No way. You're trying to snag that Longest Road in Hell bonus from me."
Ack! My link disappeared. Here.
No argument here. I have a suspicion that they've been the minority party so long that they've got some kind of victim mentality.
It seems to me that both the punditocracy and Congress can and often do underestimate just how far to the left the American public really is on significant matters of public policy.
It's occurred to me. I think it's more likely that, though, that it's because they haven't done enough to end the war in Iraq.
In recent approval polls, the current Democratic congress actually did better with Republican respondents than with Democratic respondents. American's opinion of how the war in Iraq is going is virtually completely unified (and negative), and more Americans "strongly disapprove" of GWB than they did of Nixon, just before his impeachment trial began.
If you're a Democrat (disclosure: I am), this state of affairs sucks, because procedural rules of legislation make it very easy to derail bills through votes for cloture and the threat of a filibuster. The minority party has used this power in this Congress more than any other Congress in history, and then turned around and made fun of the majority party for not being able to get anything done.
The last time there was a Congress strongly unified against the President, it was the "Republican revolution", whose stalemate with Clinton wound up shutting down the government. But then, Clinton definitely wound up on the winning side of public opinion. One wonders if memories of that stalemate are giving the Democratic leadership the jitters.
Heh. Just be careful how you go implementing that, or you could wind up with problems like these.
Don't be a hater. The power of TIME CUBE compels you!
WARNING: IANAL. And you really should talk to one. Nevertheless...
I had a somewhat similar experience a few years ago. A domain that I registered and was using for personal projects attracted the attention of lawyers from Shieldmark, who asserted that I'd registered it in bad faith, and demanded that I turn over ownership of my domain to their client or face an arbitration proceeding according to the rules of ICANN's UDRP process. In Belgium.
In the interest of fairness, I should say that their client did have registered trademarks on the phrase that made up my domain name. On the other hand, their trademark specifically addressed the realm of agricultural products, and... well, let's just say I'm not in the agriculture business.
I sent them a polite letter back saying that while their client had my sympathies, I had registered the domain in good faith, was actively using it, and that if they initialed a UDRP against me, they'd lose. And that was the last I heard of it.
The situation here is different: this guy apparently has no claim on this domain other than the fact that your domain sounds kinda like one of the many he owns. Given that, I'd first talk to a lawyer, then do what I did: write a polite letter suggesting he pound sand.
Holy crap, I had totally suppressed my knowledge of that comic until you just brought it up.
Now I'm going to feel all ishy again.
True. It also rules everything around me.
Really, the issue is what requires elevated privileges. OS X will prompt you if you're trying to do something like modify a system-wide file (basically, anything that's not in your home directory), or changing your security settings, but that really doesn't happen that often.
Works for me...
Can you give me a couple examples? I don't think I've heard anything about new keyboard shortcuts. I use the expose functionality a ton in OS X, so if there's something similar in Vista I'd be interested in hearing about it.
I believe the correct usage in that case would be, "We will pimp out your networking gear," etc.
Alternatively, one could use "trick out," "style," or "smack that bitch up."
Werd.
That does sorta sound like the plot to a bad cartoon, actually.
"Sir... it's bad."
"What?"
"It's General Rapacious, sir. He has the Silverlight."
"Sweet mother of God."
Good. I hate to sound elitist, and god knows that I'm hardly the hottest stuff on the block (I work with a ton of people smarter than I am), but am I the only one who remembers when the CS field was flooded by people whose chief qualifications were Microsoft Word and HTML?
I used to work in a college IT department, although I was a systems administrator and did relatively little end-user support (and zero student support). In my current job, I work extensively with HP rack servers, some AIX boxes (ew), and do a ton of work with VMware ESX, as well as a lot of other great - but not pretty - technology.
I am typing this response on a MacBook Pro. It's nice that it's shiny. But that's not why I switched, and it's not while I'm still using Macs five years later.
I'm happy to say that I haven't had that kind of problem with any of my Macs - the only problem I've ever had was when I had to replace a laptop power supply after accidentally kicking out the cable. (Hooray for the arrival of Magsafe adapters!). I can't tell you what to make of your anedoctal data, but I can tell you that in 2004, owners of Apple's desktop hardware were second happiest with their vendor's reliability and service after eMachines owners, and third happiest with regard to laptops.
(Also... you might want to take a look at how HP fared on those charts for consumer-grade hardware. It ain't pretty.)