Basically, private property owners like you and me get the shaft when developers decide they can do something more publicly beneificial with our land than we can. Totally nuts.
I just had a great idea:
1. Take a high density populated area in Los Angeles. 2. Use eminent domain to buy huge blocks at below market rates. 3. Build fewer, bigger, more expensive homes on the land. This is for the public good since it will reduce population density associated with crime, et cetera. 4. Profit.
The FMA is different since it's about a lot less money than the line item veto. FMA would keep things the way they are with regard to gay couples getting tax breaks. It makes sense, since the only reason we give tax breaks to married couples is because they (except for infertile couples) are going to produce children who will hopefully grow up to be good taxpayers. Don't believe any of the misinformation, it's all about money. But money is pretty important, so that's okay.
The irony is that only Presidents want the line-item veto. Congress loves the fact that they can sneak in items to benefit themselves. So Congress would never put it into a bill as an attachment. Also, as someone else pointed out, Bill Clinton already tried to get a line item veto, but the Supreme Court shut it down saying that it needs to be a Constitutional Ammendment in order to be Constitutional.
If you read the U.S. Constitution, the President has the authority to sign or veto any bill passed by Congress. It is exactly the President's authority to decide what passes and what does not. Congress has, however, figured out that they can get what they want (e.g., spending Federal money in their state, which will help them win reelection) by attaching it indivisibly to other items that the President wants.
The states will never pass a line-item veto bill, since for the majority of states, they make out like bandits. Their senators won't vote yes on anything unless there is a kickback to their state. So things like farming and steel manufacturing get Federal subsidies. Those would go away if a line-item veto ammendment were to pass.
States like New York and California would definately pass a line item veto, since they send far more Federal tax money to Washington D.C. than the Federal government spends there. However, those states are in the minority. It's a vicious cycle that will only get worse.
I pull ECS crap out of white box machines all the fucking time, probably three or four times more often than the next most common failed motherboard I deal with (Asus, if anyone cares).
Ahh, but your observed failures number high because the failure rate is high or is it because there are so many more ECS boards than other boards?
Why isn't the ACLU challenging the government sponsership of religion in the Guantanamo prisions. Our tax dollars are going to pay for copies of the Koran, prayer rugs, prayer beads, special food for holy days, and other things for the Muslim prisoners. Isn't that a violation of the "Establishment of Religion" clause of the first ammendment?
If you're writing a lot of assembly, you're doing something wrong. Chances are you've also got C code (or other portable code) that did the same thing which at some point you decided to hand-code in assembly for speed.
Also, endian issues are nothing new. If you haven't seen them before, then you haven't been paying attention. They're not too hard to fix.
it's only a matter of time before my own Mac is useless because the newer applications will no longer be compiled for G4. Fsck.
You're worried that your new Mac will one day be obsolete? Bzzt. That's going to happen anyway. There's nothing you can do about it. Anyway, you're going to be buying a new machine in a couple of years anyway.
Running old programs on new machines is what having source code is for.
a) the consoles sell at a loss so people cut em some slack
Not true, except for Microsoft Xbox.
b) nobody has waged a real legal war over it yet.
There have actually been two cases regarding this. There was the Connectix VGS (Virtual Game Station), a Playstation emulator for Mac OS, and Bleem!, another Playstation emulator which existed for PC and Sega Dreamcast. In both cases, courts determined that if you owned a legal copy of a game, it was allowable to use the emulator. Things may have changed with the passage of the DMCA, however.
Cars are totally outside of the company goals for Google (whose stated goal is "to catalogue and index every piece of information on Earth"). And who'd want to deal with UAW?
The high end Minoltas are nice, but Minolta didn't even have a digital SLR until this year (is it even available yet?). I bought my first Canon digital SLR like 3 years ago and it was already a 3rd generation dSLR. A few years ago, for digital SLR's the choices were Nikon or Canon. That was it. Now, there's Pentax, Olympus, Minolta, Sigma, Kodak, and other stuff like the digital rangefinder by Epson (an interesting device, but not really mainstream).
I realize you were making a joke, but RAW isn't a single format. It is a generic term for dozens of different formats, each of which depends on the make and model of digital cameras. Even if you take just Canon, you've got several formats including at least CRW, TIFF (with an extended section containing the raw data), and CR2. Each of these formats supports several camera models which may or may not need to be taken into account when decoding.
Carjack magnet - Highly doubtful that anyone's going to try to pull a gun on you when you're getting into your old Charger
Actually, the most commonly stolen cars are the most popular Toyotas and Hondas. The reason? They strip them and sell the parts. There are literally thousands of shady car repair shops around Southern California, many of whom will buy stolen parts and sell them to their customers who don't care or don't ask where the parts come from. How many shops are there that service Lambourghinis? How many Lambourghini owners are there who would even buy the stolen parts? Basically, if you could easily steal either an Acura Integra or a Lambourghini Diablo, you would steal the Integra because you could sell the engine, transmission, and just about every part within 24 hours.
Anyway, if you're looking for a car comparison, a better analogy is comparing popular sedans like the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord to the low-end luxury cars such as the BMW 3-series, MB C-class, Lexus IS300, and Acura TL. The low-end luxury sedans are incredibly popular, despite the higher price for "basically the same thing". Still, most people would rather just save money, so they buy the Accords and Camrys.
haven't you learned yet that there's a way around everything?;)
In this case though, the way around might be that you take apart your PSP, desolder the flash rom, use a device programmer to program a new (patched) flash rom, then solder the new flash rom to the board.
That's more work than many people will be willing to do.
So what if Kinesis has a patent? No one else has felt the need or desire to license that technology from Kinesis. Most keyboard producers and keyboard users have felt that normal keyboards and Microsoft Natural style keyboards are "good enough". Kinesis keyboards remain a niche product. But it's not a monopoly since there are alternatives that are good enough for most people.
First of all, bash is not so much a general purpose programming language as it is an interactive shell program with scripting capabilities.
Also, at the time he was talking about (perl 4), bash would probably not have existed (or at least not been common). csh or sh would have been more prevalent.
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I don't believe identity thieves remove your identity when they steal it. You still have it or do you wake up in the morning and wonder who you are.
You're absolutely right. These people should properly be called "Unlicensed Identity Copiers".
Basically, private property owners like you and me get the shaft when developers decide they can do something more publicly beneificial with our land than we can. Totally nuts.
I just had a great idea:
1. Take a high density populated area in Los Angeles.
2. Use eminent domain to buy huge blocks at below market rates.
3. Build fewer, bigger, more expensive homes on the land. This is for the public good since it will reduce population density associated with crime, et cetera.
4. Profit.
You have no idea how little displays, memory, plastic, and batteries cost in large quantities.
What's wrong with the Pentium D chips (dual core P4 w/ EMT64)?
The FMA is different since it's about a lot less money than the line item veto. FMA would keep things the way they are with regard to gay couples getting tax breaks. It makes sense, since the only reason we give tax breaks to married couples is because they (except for infertile couples) are going to produce children who will hopefully grow up to be good taxpayers. Don't believe any of the misinformation, it's all about money. But money is pretty important, so that's okay.
The irony is that only Presidents want the line-item veto. Congress loves the fact that they can sneak in items to benefit themselves. So Congress would never put it into a bill as an attachment. Also, as someone else pointed out, Bill Clinton already tried to get a line item veto, but the Supreme Court shut it down saying that it needs to be a Constitutional Ammendment in order to be Constitutional.
FMA?
If you read the U.S. Constitution, the President has the authority to sign or veto any bill passed by Congress. It is exactly the President's authority to decide what passes and what does not. Congress has, however, figured out that they can get what they want (e.g., spending Federal money in their state, which will help them win reelection) by attaching it indivisibly to other items that the President wants.
The states will never pass a line-item veto bill, since for the majority of states, they make out like bandits. Their senators won't vote yes on anything unless there is a kickback to their state. So things like farming and steel manufacturing get Federal subsidies. Those would go away if a line-item veto ammendment were to pass.
States like New York and California would definately pass a line item veto, since they send far more Federal tax money to Washington D.C. than the Federal government spends there. However, those states are in the minority. It's a vicious cycle that will only get worse.
It would very quickly send a message to congress: "Stop putting stupid attachments into bills."
I pull ECS crap out of white box machines all the fucking time, probably three or four times more often than the next most common failed motherboard I deal with (Asus, if anyone cares).
Ahh, but your observed failures number high because the failure rate is high or is it because there are so many more ECS boards than other boards?
That phrase was cut and pasted verbatim from the linked article.
Why isn't the ACLU challenging the government sponsership of religion in the Guantanamo prisions. Our tax dollars are going to pay for copies of the Koran, prayer rugs, prayer beads, special food for holy days, and other things for the Muslim prisoners. Isn't that a violation of the "Establishment of Religion" clause of the first ammendment?
If you're writing a lot of assembly, you're doing something wrong. Chances are you've also got C code (or other portable code) that did the same thing which at some point you decided to hand-code in assembly for speed.
Also, endian issues are nothing new. If you haven't seen them before, then you haven't been paying attention. They're not too hard to fix.
it's only a matter of time before my own Mac is useless because the newer applications will no longer be compiled for G4. Fsck.
You're worried that your new Mac will one day be obsolete? Bzzt. That's going to happen anyway. There's nothing you can do about it. Anyway, you're going to be buying a new machine in a couple of years anyway.
Running old programs on new machines is what having source code is for.
a) the consoles sell at a loss so people cut em some slack
Not true, except for Microsoft Xbox.
b) nobody has waged a real legal war over it yet.
There have actually been two cases regarding this. There was the Connectix VGS (Virtual Game Station), a Playstation emulator for Mac OS, and Bleem!, another Playstation emulator which existed for PC and Sega Dreamcast. In both cases, courts determined that if you owned a legal copy of a game, it was allowable to use the emulator. Things may have changed with the passage of the DMCA, however.
Cars are totally outside of the company goals for Google (whose stated goal is "to catalogue and index every piece of information on Earth"). And who'd want to deal with UAW?
The high end Minoltas are nice, but Minolta didn't even have a digital SLR until this year (is it even available yet?). I bought my first Canon digital SLR like 3 years ago and it was already a 3rd generation dSLR. A few years ago, for digital SLR's the choices were Nikon or Canon. That was it. Now, there's Pentax, Olympus, Minolta, Sigma, Kodak, and other stuff like the digital rangefinder by Epson (an interesting device, but not really mainstream).
Which format will this archive be covering?
I realize you were making a joke, but RAW isn't a single format. It is a generic term for dozens of different formats, each of which depends on the make and model of digital cameras. Even if you take just Canon, you've got several formats including at least CRW, TIFF (with an extended section containing the raw data), and CR2. Each of these formats supports several camera models which may or may not need to be taken into account when decoding.
They probably mean without significant speed decrease from the version that runs on Photoshop CS2 on Windows XP on the same x86 processor.
3.2 GHz CPUs to Microsoft for the Xbox 360, which will almost certainly ship before Thanksgiving.
That will be Thanksgiving 2006, if they are on time.
Carjack magnet - Highly doubtful that anyone's going to try to pull a gun on you when you're getting into your old Charger
Actually, the most commonly stolen cars are the most popular Toyotas and Hondas. The reason? They strip them and sell the parts. There are literally thousands of shady car repair shops around Southern California, many of whom will buy stolen parts and sell them to their customers who don't care or don't ask where the parts come from. How many shops are there that service Lambourghinis? How many Lambourghini owners are there who would even buy the stolen parts? Basically, if you could easily steal either an Acura Integra or a Lambourghini Diablo, you would steal the Integra because you could sell the engine, transmission, and just about every part within 24 hours.
Anyway, if you're looking for a car comparison, a better analogy is comparing popular sedans like the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord to the low-end luxury cars such as the BMW 3-series, MB C-class, Lexus IS300, and Acura TL. The low-end luxury sedans are incredibly popular, despite the higher price for "basically the same thing". Still, most people would rather just save money, so they buy the Accords and Camrys.
haven't you learned yet that there's a way around everything? ;)
In this case though, the way around might be that you take apart your PSP, desolder the flash rom, use a device programmer to program a new (patched) flash rom, then solder the new flash rom to the board.
That's more work than many people will be willing to do.
seriously.
So what if Kinesis has a patent? No one else has felt the need or desire to license that technology from Kinesis. Most keyboard producers and keyboard users have felt that normal keyboards and Microsoft Natural style keyboards are "good enough". Kinesis keyboards remain a niche product. But it's not a monopoly since there are alternatives that are good enough for most people.
First of all, bash is not so much a general purpose programming language as it is an interactive shell program with scripting capabilities.
Also, at the time he was talking about (perl 4), bash would probably not have existed (or at least not been common). csh or sh would have been more prevalent.