The sheer number shows the public believes the existing laws are horribly flawed and won't follow them.
Is it sane logic to begin looking at our laws and just begin striking those that are violated the most, as this somehow means that the laws are inherently flawed? Or, perhaps, does this just show that the cost-benefit analysis of said law (from the perspective of a potential violator) is uneven, with a majority of its weight on the benefit side - meaning that the cost incurred needs to be increased.
I think both of you are missing the real problem here. The whole point of law is to facilitate smooth social interaction and co-exisitence among the citizens of a governed area. Both of you seems to be regarding the law as something sacrosanct and precise. (The first quote seems to suggest that copyright should be abolished based on popular majority, and the second assumes that people must mold their lives the law without question.)
Such an enviroment shuts out any possiblity for compromise or moderation of the law itself. The correct answer to the current problem with copyright law is neither to discard it or to amplify it, but to adapt it so that every citizen has a stake or reason to believe in it, thereby encouring social stability. There must be a middle point where content producers and consumers can, if not be happy, at least be content with their relationship with each other.
To paraphrase an ancient carpenter and fisherman, "The law was made for man, not man made for the law."
No kidding. I somewhat understood the article, but the buzzword count goes off the technobabble meter. It's like a Star Trek writer made the submission or something...
Let's see...
monochromatic beam
relativistic electron
plasma channel
accelerating gradient
GeV per meter
compact staged particle accelerator
next generation petawatt power
TeV scale particle energy
proton beam cancer therapy
Half that stuff sounds like lingo pulled from an audiophile magazine; all it needs is "vacuum tube amplification" to be complete. Either that, or the above list would make for an interesting/. poll... (-;
Which, sadly, was the problem with it. AIFF is a much more flexible lossless storage format that WAV; it's parly decended from Electronic Art's original IFF format on the Amiga, and later helped influence the file formats for QuickTime and MPEG-4. However, only Apple ever used AIFF to any great degree, even though it was supposedly an open spec. Since Apple was during its "beleaguered" period when AIFF was introduced by them, nobody wanted to adopt the same format that Apple was backing.
...I first read about this game a year ago, and developed a mild curiousity about it. I asked about this game a month ago, when I first found out about it's NA release, however, since I wasn't too keen on actually playing it, I never pre-ordered it.
However, I showed up the day after release and asked around, and the store operator remembered asking about it and had a copy held for me at a neighboring store, if I could pick it up within 18 hours. The other store actually had to turn away about 4-5 other buyers before I showed up with only an hour to spare. Moral: be good chums with your video game store staff and they'll help you in a pinch.
That said, I'm glad I got it. I still haven't beated it, despite the game's "short length," since it gets a little frustrating on the later levels. However, this is the happiest game I've ever played, despite the fact that you are ruthlessly wadding people and animals up in a ball to hurl them in the cold recesses of space.
WARNING: Do not play while taking drugs. You won't be able to tell when they wear off...
My biggest complaint is it doesn't do MP3 (only AIFF). I have a portable CD player that does MP3's on CD, which is where I would be transferring this too. I guess I could transcode, but since AM radio already has such poor quality, I'm not sure I would want to do that.
AIFF is a container format, not a compression scheme. The "poor quality" of AM radio is probably why Griffin didn't bother to include a MP3 compressor in the device. Even at full 44.1/16 CD-level sampling, audio data can easily move across USB 1.1. Though I wouldn't be surprised if the stream is only 22.05/16 to save bandwidth.
Converting AIFF to MP3, AAC, or WMV isn't transcoding if the AIFF data is lossless. The only lossy compression scheme that AIFF is spec'ed to support is IMA 4:1, but Griffin isn't likely to use that since the Apple and Microsoft playback implementations of IMA weren't compatible with each other. (Byte order issues, I've read.)
Personally, I'd rather just pay Dr. Demento a couple bucks a month for an... subscription to his program.
So would I, but my understanding is that the trial balloon Brian Hansen floated as part of a survey never materialized into an actual service. XM and the rare streaming radio station that's always overcrowded are the only other options for listening to Dr. D anymore. Most stations that play it over broadcast put it in wonky time slots to keep it away from "impressionable" little minds, and the stations are too far apart to have more than one opportunity a week to catch his show.
This device is a built-in tuner that can communicate with the computer it's hooked up to. Audio Hijack would require a radio attached to audio-in, and Hijack wouldn't be able to tune a channel or shut the radio off when not in use.
Since my iMac doesn't have an audio-in, and my only radio's an analog tuner, this thing appears to be right up my alley. I hope... (the price hike's bummer though.)
Mostly historical reasons, this product had most of it's buzz a year or so ago in the Mac blogspace. Also, the company has mostly focused it's marketing and products to Macs in particular. I've added a comment with some more info about the device below, since the radioSHARK page got/.'ed quickly.
The only other category that this would have fit under was the general "Index," but my submission seemed too much like an ad to me to warrant the front page. (Yes, I've been hanging around kuro5hin too long...)
...though it is a bit expensive ($70) come to think of it. I still plan on getting one, however. My iMac doesn't have an audio-in, and this device appears to send the recorded data over USB. I don't have cable, so I never got a TiVo, but now I can experience something similar. Staying up late for the Funny Five wrecks my return to work on Monday mornings.
I might start listening to more NPR too, since I've had bad luck listening to their Internet broadcasts. I better curb my enthusiasm, I'm starting to sound like a Griffon shill...
Wow, I'm batting 3 for 3 on getting accepted submissions, anybody have a longer streak?
Best case scenario: a week before the new Star Wars opens
Even assuming that Brooks can do the film low budget to get it green-lighted quickly, is it even possible to produced a mass-marketable motion picture in just 8 months? Even indie flukes like Blair Witch took time to gain momentum during production, and there's still the editing, distribution and merchandising infrastructure that must be deployed. That is where the real money from the movie is made, you know.
I just don't see this happening, especially since the material being parodied doesn't lend itself to a low budget. You just have to have enough SFX to make it look like a sci-fi flick, after all...
That said, I would like to see the follow-up to the "instant cassette" gag; that one got dated real quick, didn't it?
Emphasis on the "historically". I've never heard that spoken once in my life, knowing it best only from historical fiction.
I have, but then I've lived in Illinois, Ohio, South Carolina, Georgia and even Cuba. I've probably seen more regional inertia in cultural matters than most people.
A lot of parents use their religion as a guiding factor in naming their offspring. And especially in some religions, it's encouraged to change your name when you switch faiths. For example, Cassius Clay becoming Mohammad Ali, or Steven "Cat Stevens" Georgiou becoming Yusuf Islam...
You deserve a mod-up, but since I don't have points, I'll just reply instead to draw attention...
The Mixed Mode Manager came in with System 7.2, which was not really an "early" mac OS - sort of middling.
7.1.2, IIRC. The time it took Apple to reach that from the 128k was about 6-7 years, while the time it took Apple to reach end of the Classic line was closer to ten. From most user's standpoint, System 7 was an "early" Mac OS. (My first Mac ran 7.0.1, but could run 6.0.5, to give an idea of my history here.) Apple quickly gunned through 7 "major" revs (all released for free!) early on, then slowed to only 3-4 revs late in the OS life cycle.
It's interesting, but there is a parallel here with OS X. Apple quickly gunned through 4 major revs (with the first being free), but has announced that Tiger will slow the curve down. I wouldn't be surprised that either Tiger or 10.5 will go down in history as the "System 7" of the OS X legacy.
UPPs weren't "weird", they were in fact a very elegant and inspired piece of design
To most PC developers, "elegant" is "weird." (-;
The notion that a "pointer" wasn't implemented as an memory address, but as a data structure, was a strange thing at that time. (Now-a-days, we just call them "references" and no longer treat memory addresses as something "safe" to work with.) Despite having an easier to grok assembler language, this complication made it harder to write low-level code on the Mac, cementing the need to use a language like C to write all Mac software afterwards. Also, the heavy dependacy on macros in the "Universal Interfaces" to hide UPPs made continued support for Pascal as a application development language difficult.
The file was probably made available as a.hqx simply because its intended use is to be downloaded and used in Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Freehand, Quark, or other design tool. Making it an.hqx file has the virtue of making it go to your hard drive, not perhaps a browser window.
Ideally, if that was the primary reason, Apple could have used either MacBinary (.bin) or a disk image (.dmg) to pull that feat off without out the text encoding overhead.
That said, you're probably right. Some web browsers and servers just don't grok.bin and.dmg files correctly, but almost anything on the Mac knows about.hqx. Which is a shame, this legacy format should have died a quick, painful death long ago; it hurts the platform's public perception since most naive PCs server admins think of.hqx as the Mac equivalent of.zip, when that designation belongs to the StuffIt.sit format. As a result, some PCs admins think Macs are inefficient since this makes Mac files stored on servers twice as big as they should be.
The.hqx inertia can probably be traced to the old "Info Mac" archives that used to be stored at sumex-aim.stanford.edu. This had the same significance to Mac users during the pre-web era as TuCows does for post-web PC users. Their submission system was FTP and e-mail based, and they used the HQX format to combine a "digest" summary of the file with the HQX encoding for ease of linking and posting updates to USENET. Ah, those were the days...
Pinball machines are not that complicated and they are built mostly from off the shelf parts; solenoids and such. Anything not off the shelf is really easy to build.
Then you disagree with most machine operators who ran these things in arcades. (I know, I've met some of them.)
Pinball died not due to waning popularity, but operator hostility. Compared with the solid state nature and simple mechanics of even physically intensive games like DDR, pinball machines required a great deal of maintenance to fix parts that constantly broke due to abuse and wear. (I remember the complaints of many operators who had to deal with the troll heads of Medival Madness, as an example.) The only place locally that still has pins, Gameworks, fails to keep them maintained. Each machine has a dozen or so switches that are always broken. (And this is in a Chicago suburb, no less! The home of modern pinball!) Just because most of the parts are "off the shelf" doesn't mean that it's easy to fix a machine if most of those parts are broken at the same time.
They are the same chip architecture isn't that the same instruction set, why can't they just dump it onto the chip?
AFAIK, part of the problem is endian-swapping. The Mac and PC versions of the graphics cards have slightly different firmware and driver configurations that account for this. If a emulated PC application is running on a Mac, the graphics commands and texture info will be generated as little endian data with memory accesses assuming x86/Windows conventions. This will be different from what the OS X graphics drivers are expecting, which want big endian data and PPC-style memory accesses.
Even if the GPU is always running in little-endian mode regardless of the CPU's byte order, the communication pipeline between the original x86 app and the final OS X driver communication will possibly involve a redundant little-to-big-to-little endian swap. (Especially if this swap actually is occuring in hardware via a bridge chip or clever bus wiring or something. This is just outside my scope of expertise.) In other words, to get maximum performance, the VPC host must take on some of the responsibilities that are normally handled by OS X graphics drivers.
needs to just release a version of windows for the mac that can run as a.app if they want to have real compatibility, but then you'd still have to have a VM for the other x86 applications.
This sounds a little like what Apple did during the 68k/PPC transition. Apple wrote an emulation system that allowed Apple to port parts of the OS to PPC at their leisure, while the rest of the OS and legacy apps ran through the emulator. My understanding was that an early PC-on-Mac emulation package (SoftWindows?) tried to do something similar.
The problem with this approach is, since the legacy code is naive about the real hardware it is running on, all the "intelligence" of the coexistence of the two ISAs must be handled in the native code. Early Mac OS's used a "Mixed Mode Manager" as well as a weird "Universal Procedure Pointer" structure to handle context switches and memory accesses. This foundation hung around even after the OS and all current apps were ported to PPC completely, adding unneeded cruft to OS 9. They were finally removed during the transition to OS X and Carbon.
If Microsoft were to try this, VPC users would only get improvements at maybe the UI level, since there is a snowball's chance in Hell that any of the Windows developers would go through the same experience that Mac developers did to support "fat" binaries. This limits speed improvement, since much hardcore processing functionality would still be in x86-land and would require context switches between PPC and x86 on a regular basis.
...losing 200+ pinball machines all at once, with only some of the case art being salvagable, is a terrible, terrible thing. With the game format almost extinct, restoring these things is going to be a pain, if not impossible.
In its own way, it's as bad as if one of the Smithsonian buildings or a Science & Industry museum was destroyed. There's a great deal of technological and popular cultural history that's been lost due to Ivan The Terrible. Ugh.
Now I drive myself places. My only video game time is at home, where I've got a 65" TV...
There's your problem... you lost much of your free time to commuting to work and watching Cable/Satellite/DVDs.
As for me, I have yet to buy a portable GameBoy, but with my 1 1/2 hour daily commute via passenger train, I may have the perfect excuse. (And business travellers who are frequent fliers also have the "free time" for portable systems.)
Well, thats simply because 'pork' and 'beef' are words that describe the meat of hogs and cattle... 'Pig' and 'cow' are the whole animals.
Some linguists don't believe that was originally the case. I only have a Straight Dope cite handy, but "pig" and "pork" supposedly meant the same thing in the middle ages. Pig was of Anglo-Saxon decent, and pork was French. During one of France's political occupations of the British Isles, the native Anglo-Saxon language was percieved by French noblility as "crude" while French was considered proper fit speech. This lead to the introduction of connotations between the two word types; it was only in recent times that connotation became denotation, futher cementing Westerners' cognitive dissonance between food and its sources.
it's not "partisan" to say he's a liar. It's a statement of fact.
I think you missed the point of my critique. One important skill useful in wielding political influence is "tact." You want your adversaries to agree with your suggestions by making them think they'll derive just as much benefit as your side by the change in policy.
By flagrantly saying that only Democrats will benefit from cell phone polling, it only gives the Republicans incentive to drag their heels and oppose it. This is just like how convervatives oppose using statistical analysis and sampling in the Census to discover and compensate for undercounted demographics, since they believe that it will unduly benefit liberals. (For example, counting homeless and other non-address bearing citizens.)
The people who say they want to vote for Bush are generally in the older age brackets, and they don't have as much trouble with the lies told by Bush and his people.
Now, while I agree that Bush has told some whoppers in the White House, pointing out this non-sequitur in an article that's supposed to be about bad polling methods really undermines his message. If he hopes to get better youth representation in future polls, the writer has best not look like a partisan shill while he's trying to influence the pollsters into changing their methods. He may as well have just wrote down a Dean-esque "YEARGH!" in print... his advice is going to be ignored as if he did so.
Here [in China?] chicken (and other animals) is often eaten with minimal processing - not deboned, still recognizable as a chicken, so such abuse would often cause noticeable and unsightly bruising or even broken bones, reducing the value.
A good point. I've always wondered why chicken in Oriental dishes seemed different in presentation than Western dishes. (Even though they would come from the same sources here in the States.) Chefs of Chinese or Indian food would more likely start with a whole chicken, rather than something processed.
I've noticed that in China and India, the "outdoor market" is still a popular venue for shopping. (Though I might be working off a stereotype here.) Even the Western equivalent of the Butcher Shop and the Farmer's Market is fading away, as supermarkets and restaraunts continue to distance consumers away from food preparation.
Making it common to treat food like fuel is a bad idea. It makes it easier for many evils to occur.
Agreed. Just imagine if we USians start looking at food with same political lens as we look at oil. (-;
I'm surprised how many people are dangerously allergic to peanuts in the US.
I really liked that article you tried to link to; I used to live south of Toledo where the article was first published. If any of the conjecture in that is true, I anticipate are really nasty political fallout, since most of those trends were established in the name of "good health" by those here sometimes known as "Nutrition Nazis." We USians take what we eat way too seriously, while we continue to distance ourselves from the reality of it.
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Such an enviroment shuts out any possiblity for compromise or moderation of the law itself. The correct answer to the current problem with copyright law is neither to discard it or to amplify it, but to adapt it so that every citizen has a stake or reason to believe in it, thereby encouring social stability. There must be a middle point where content producers and consumers can, if not be happy, at least be content with their relationship with each other.
To paraphrase an ancient carpenter and fisherman, "The law was made for man, not man made for the law."
No kidding. I somewhat understood the article, but the buzzword count goes off the technobabble meter. It's like a Star Trek writer made the submission or something...
Let's see...
Half that stuff sounds like lingo pulled from an audiophile magazine; all it needs is "vacuum tube amplification" to be complete. Either that, or the above list would make for an interesting /. poll... (-;
I've kind of thought that too. I'd hate to see the size of the tube of Oxy needed to get the swelling down.
I wonder if dematology metaphors and analogies for the Earth's crust are popular with Gaians and other New Age types?
Which, sadly, was the problem with it. AIFF is a much more flexible lossless storage format that WAV; it's parly decended from Electronic Art's original IFF format on the Amiga, and later helped influence the file formats for QuickTime and MPEG-4. However, only Apple ever used AIFF to any great degree, even though it was supposedly an open spec. Since Apple was during its "beleaguered" period when AIFF was introduced by them, nobody wanted to adopt the same format that Apple was backing.
However, I showed up the day after release and asked around, and the store operator remembered asking about it and had a copy held for me at a neighboring store, if I could pick it up within 18 hours. The other store actually had to turn away about 4-5 other buyers before I showed up with only an hour to spare. Moral: be good chums with your video game store staff and they'll help you in a pinch.
That said, I'm glad I got it. I still haven't beated it, despite the game's "short length," since it gets a little frustrating on the later levels. However, this is the happiest game I've ever played, despite the fact that you are ruthlessly wadding people and animals up in a ball to hurl them in the cold recesses of space.
WARNING: Do not play while taking drugs. You won't be able to tell when they wear off...
AIFF is a container format, not a compression scheme. The "poor quality" of AM radio is probably why Griffin didn't bother to include a MP3 compressor in the device. Even at full 44.1/16 CD-level sampling, audio data can easily move across USB 1.1. Though I wouldn't be surprised if the stream is only 22.05/16 to save bandwidth.
Converting AIFF to MP3, AAC, or WMV isn't transcoding if the AIFF data is lossless. The only lossy compression scheme that AIFF is spec'ed to support is IMA 4:1, but Griffin isn't likely to use that since the Apple and Microsoft playback implementations of IMA weren't compatible with each other. (Byte order issues, I've read.)
So would I, but my understanding is that the trial balloon Brian Hansen floated as part of a survey never materialized into an actual service. XM and the rare streaming radio station that's always overcrowded are the only other options for listening to Dr. D anymore. Most stations that play it over broadcast put it in wonky time slots to keep it away from "impressionable" little minds, and the stations are too far apart to have more than one opportunity a week to catch his show.
Since my iMac doesn't have an audio-in, and my only radio's an analog tuner, this thing appears to be right up my alley. I hope... (the price hike's bummer though.)
Mostly historical reasons, this product had most of it's buzz a year or so ago in the Mac blogspace. Also, the company has mostly focused it's marketing and products to Macs in particular. I've added a comment with some more info about the device below, since the radioSHARK page got /.'ed quickly.
The only other category that this would have fit under was the general "Index," but my submission seemed too much like an ad to me to warrant the front page. (Yes, I've been hanging around kuro5hin too long...)
I might start listening to more NPR too, since I've had bad luck listening to their Internet broadcasts. I better curb my enthusiasm, I'm starting to sound like a Griffon shill...
Wow, I'm batting 3 for 3 on getting accepted submissions, anybody have a longer streak?
Even assuming that Brooks can do the film low budget to get it green-lighted quickly, is it even possible to produced a mass-marketable motion picture in just 8 months? Even indie flukes like Blair Witch took time to gain momentum during production, and there's still the editing, distribution and merchandising infrastructure that must be deployed. That is where the real money from the movie is made, you know.
I just don't see this happening, especially since the material being parodied doesn't lend itself to a low budget. You just have to have enough SFX to make it look like a sci-fi flick, after all...
That said, I would like to see the follow-up to the "instant cassette" gag; that one got dated real quick, didn't it?
Which is a musical based on the songs of ABBA.
Yes, that ABBA. What were they thinking?
I have, but then I've lived in Illinois, Ohio, South Carolina, Georgia and even Cuba. I've probably seen more regional inertia in cultural matters than most people.
A lot of parents use their religion as a guiding factor in naming their offspring. And especially in some religions, it's encouraged to change your name when you switch faiths. For example, Cassius Clay becoming Mohammad Ali, or Steven "Cat Stevens" Georgiou becoming Yusuf Islam...
You deserve a mod-up, but since I don't have points, I'll just reply instead to draw attention...
The Mixed Mode Manager came in with System 7.2, which was not really an "early" mac OS - sort of middling.
7.1.2, IIRC. The time it took Apple to reach that from the 128k was about 6-7 years, while the time it took Apple to reach end of the Classic line was closer to ten. From most user's standpoint, System 7 was an "early" Mac OS. (My first Mac ran 7.0.1, but could run 6.0.5, to give an idea of my history here.) Apple quickly gunned through 7 "major" revs (all released for free!) early on, then slowed to only 3-4 revs late in the OS life cycle.
It's interesting, but there is a parallel here with OS X. Apple quickly gunned through 4 major revs (with the first being free), but has announced that Tiger will slow the curve down. I wouldn't be surprised that either Tiger or 10.5 will go down in history as the "System 7" of the OS X legacy.
UPPs weren't "weird", they were in fact a very elegant and inspired piece of design
To most PC developers, "elegant" is "weird." (-;
The notion that a "pointer" wasn't implemented as an memory address, but as a data structure, was a strange thing at that time. (Now-a-days, we just call them "references" and no longer treat memory addresses as something "safe" to work with.) Despite having an easier to grok assembler language, this complication made it harder to write low-level code on the Mac, cementing the need to use a language like C to write all Mac software afterwards. Also, the heavy dependacy on macros in the "Universal Interfaces" to hide UPPs made continued support for Pascal as a application development language difficult.
Ideally, if that was the primary reason, Apple could have used either MacBinary (.bin) or a disk image (.dmg) to pull that feat off without out the text encoding overhead.
That said, you're probably right. Some web browsers and servers just don't grok .bin and .dmg files correctly, but almost anything on the Mac knows about .hqx. Which is a shame, this legacy format should have died a quick, painful death long ago; it hurts the platform's public perception since most naive PCs server admins think of .hqx as the Mac equivalent of .zip, when that designation belongs to the StuffIt .sit format. As a result, some PCs admins think Macs are inefficient since this makes Mac files stored on servers twice as big as they should be.
The .hqx inertia can probably be traced to the old "Info Mac" archives that used to be stored at sumex-aim.stanford.edu. This had the same significance to Mac users during the pre-web era as TuCows does for post-web PC users. Their submission system was FTP and e-mail based, and they used the HQX format to combine a "digest" summary of the file with the HQX encoding for ease of linking and posting updates to USENET. Ah, those were the days...
I'm guessing from your e-mail address that you have the standard "personal, then optional middle, then family" name structure most Americans do.
Even if yours wasn't "John," your first name is historically known as your Christian name, while your last name is sometimes known as a "surname."
Then you disagree with most machine operators who ran these things in arcades. (I know, I've met some of them.)
Pinball died not due to waning popularity, but operator hostility. Compared with the solid state nature and simple mechanics of even physically intensive games like DDR, pinball machines required a great deal of maintenance to fix parts that constantly broke due to abuse and wear. (I remember the complaints of many operators who had to deal with the troll heads of Medival Madness, as an example.) The only place locally that still has pins, Gameworks, fails to keep them maintained. Each machine has a dozen or so switches that are always broken. (And this is in a Chicago suburb, no less! The home of modern pinball!) Just because most of the parts are "off the shelf" doesn't mean that it's easy to fix a machine if most of those parts are broken at the same time.
AFAIK, part of the problem is endian-swapping. The Mac and PC versions of the graphics cards have slightly different firmware and driver configurations that account for this. If a emulated PC application is running on a Mac, the graphics commands and texture info will be generated as little endian data with memory accesses assuming x86/Windows conventions. This will be different from what the OS X graphics drivers are expecting, which want big endian data and PPC-style memory accesses.
Even if the GPU is always running in little-endian mode regardless of the CPU's byte order, the communication pipeline between the original x86 app and the final OS X driver communication will possibly involve a redundant little-to-big-to-little endian swap. (Especially if this swap actually is occuring in hardware via a bridge chip or clever bus wiring or something. This is just outside my scope of expertise.) In other words, to get maximum performance, the VPC host must take on some of the responsibilities that are normally handled by OS X graphics drivers.
This sounds a little like what Apple did during the 68k/PPC transition. Apple wrote an emulation system that allowed Apple to port parts of the OS to PPC at their leisure, while the rest of the OS and legacy apps ran through the emulator. My understanding was that an early PC-on-Mac emulation package (SoftWindows?) tried to do something similar.
The problem with this approach is, since the legacy code is naive about the real hardware it is running on, all the "intelligence" of the coexistence of the two ISAs must be handled in the native code. Early Mac OS's used a "Mixed Mode Manager" as well as a weird "Universal Procedure Pointer" structure to handle context switches and memory accesses. This foundation hung around even after the OS and all current apps were ported to PPC completely, adding unneeded cruft to OS 9. They were finally removed during the transition to OS X and Carbon.
If Microsoft were to try this, VPC users would only get improvements at maybe the UI level, since there is a snowball's chance in Hell that any of the Windows developers would go through the same experience that Mac developers did to support "fat" binaries. This limits speed improvement, since much hardcore processing functionality would still be in x86-land and would require context switches between PPC and x86 on a regular basis.
In its own way, it's as bad as if one of the Smithsonian buildings or a Science & Industry museum was destroyed. There's a great deal of technological and popular cultural history that's been lost due to Ivan The Terrible. Ugh.
There's your problem... you lost much of your free time to commuting to work and watching Cable/Satellite/DVDs.
As for me, I have yet to buy a portable GameBoy, but with my 1 1/2 hour daily commute via passenger train, I may have the perfect excuse. (And business travellers who are frequent fliers also have the "free time" for portable systems.)
Some linguists don't believe that was originally the case. I only have a Straight Dope cite handy, but "pig" and "pork" supposedly meant the same thing in the middle ages. Pig was of Anglo-Saxon decent, and pork was French. During one of France's political occupations of the British Isles, the native Anglo-Saxon language was percieved by French noblility as "crude" while French was considered proper fit speech. This lead to the introduction of connotations between the two word types; it was only in recent times that connotation became denotation, futher cementing Westerners' cognitive dissonance between food and its sources.
I think you missed the point of my critique. One important skill useful in wielding political influence is "tact." You want your adversaries to agree with your suggestions by making them think they'll derive just as much benefit as your side by the change in policy.
By flagrantly saying that only Democrats will benefit from cell phone polling, it only gives the Republicans incentive to drag their heels and oppose it. This is just like how convervatives oppose using statistical analysis and sampling in the Census to discover and compensate for undercounted demographics, since they believe that it will unduly benefit liberals. (For example, counting homeless and other non-address bearing citizens.)
Now, while I agree that Bush has told some whoppers in the White House, pointing out this non-sequitur in an article that's supposed to be about bad polling methods really undermines his message. If he hopes to get better youth representation in future polls, the writer has best not look like a partisan shill while he's trying to influence the pollsters into changing their methods. He may as well have just wrote down a Dean-esque "YEARGH!" in print... his advice is going to be ignored as if he did so.
A good point. I've always wondered why chicken in Oriental dishes seemed different in presentation than Western dishes. (Even though they would come from the same sources here in the States.) Chefs of Chinese or Indian food would more likely start with a whole chicken, rather than something processed.
I've noticed that in China and India, the "outdoor market" is still a popular venue for shopping. (Though I might be working off a stereotype here.) Even the Western equivalent of the Butcher Shop and the Farmer's Market is fading away, as supermarkets and restaraunts continue to distance consumers away from food preparation.
Making it common to treat food like fuel is a bad idea. It makes it easier for many evils to occur.
Agreed. Just imagine if we USians start looking at food with same political lens as we look at oil. (-;
I'm surprised how many people are dangerously allergic to peanuts in the US.
I really liked that article you tried to link to; I used to live south of Toledo where the article was first published. If any of the conjecture in that is true, I anticipate are really nasty political fallout, since most of those trends were established in the name of "good health" by those here sometimes known as "Nutrition Nazis." We USians take what we eat way too seriously, while we continue to distance ourselves from the reality of it.