i wonder how people will express opinions in public in a country that does not encourage that. In all likelihood, chinese blogs will be like chinese discussion groups, censored. Until the communist government is overthrown the only chinese that will be blogging are the diaspora and those in HK and the Republic of China.
"Then, if Wal-Mart says: no NC-17 movies, etc., on our branded service, fine. So long as the people who are interested in it can still get it under the NetFlix name, I don't care if Wal-Mart wants to filter their product."
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clearly you haven't lived in the US long enough to understand the country. Go to any big university in the US and you will see tons of non americans but you will also see tons of white and asian americans. you are making a broad (and ignorant) generalization about all americans wanting their kids to be an athlete.
As for political agenda, can you show me a country that does not press its political agenda on school kids? you see it the most in "History" class. But i can also show you an indian ICSC physics book that has a problem about how it is not possible drill a hole through the earth and drop and atom bomb in the US because of the way gravity works.
no, there is are three reasons why the US will remain at the forefront. First is obviously private money and the second is national defense research. If i recall the US spends more on defense than the next 14 countries combined. That is not all science research, but tons of it is.
The third and most important reason is the same reason why it has been on top for so long: immigrants.
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clearly you were not here in the 90's tech boom when being a geek was actually quite cool. remember that? then there was the crash and fewer people started going to CS. When the bio tech industry has its boom (and you know is coming) then everyone will be interested in that. Before us there was a whole generation obsessed with space. It comes and goes. Notice how the US still dominates tech research and everyone comes to the Us becasue that is where the money is. The fact that the gov spends so much on research should show how important it is seen to be.
the ipod linux implementation can't really play oggs, it just tries to (badly) . As for xiph thing, i didnt know about it as i like most other people dont follow the ogg scene. Ogg really is an obscure format used by a niche for various political reasons instead of main stream alternatives which work perfectly fine (AAC, MP3 etc )
seriously, who uses Ogg why would they bother? Is there any financial benefit from it?
Also, if it supports ogg in itunes, then they would need to support it on the ipod which is not possible because of that wonderful floating point issue.
" but I am just as annoyed by prozelytising Hindu"
You're kidding right? can you show me this. Conversion to hinduism is blasphemy, it is forbidden. The only person who can be a hindu is the child of a hindu mother and father.
right, the US uses landmines in only one place the DMZ in korea. i wonder why you didn't attack china, india, north korea in your rant? does it matter that they have more landmines or that they use them freely? nope they are socialist states and therefore beyond criticism.
no what we really need are GPL comics.. slashdot shoudl not promote free as in beer comics we need open source comics! if not GPL release it under the LGP that would make the comics much faster and more efficient.
but you have to agree that like atheism it is promoted like a religion. There was a recent Atheist-secular rallay in my city where the speaker talked like he was a missionary devoted to showing everyone the true path.
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yeah thats one of the trade offs after a revolution. Its either political opinions or praadise. i mean who could argue with that.
i wonder how people will express opinions in public in a country that does not encourage that. In all likelihood, chinese blogs will be like chinese discussion groups, censored. Until the communist government is overthrown the only chinese that will be blogging are the diaspora and those in HK and the Republic of China.
"Then, if Wal-Mart says: no NC-17 movies, etc., on our branded service, fine. So long as the people who are interested in it can still get it under the NetFlix name, I don't care if Wal-Mart wants to filter their product."
I dont think you can get porn on netflix anyway
"2) A certain religious group might object to the "crescent" shaped design and might get their panties in a knot."
he he i can just see the Playstation riots in Afganistan and Gaza.
itunes exclusives
as apple pointed out long long ago..
and as a young lady in the 4th season of enterprise.
man that sounds bad, good thing i use Linux
clearly you haven't lived in the US long enough to understand the country. Go to any big university in the US and you will see tons of non americans but you will also see tons of white and asian americans. you are making a broad (and ignorant) generalization about all americans wanting their kids to be an athlete.
As for political agenda, can you show me a country that does not press its political agenda on school kids? you see it the most in "History" class. But i can also show you an indian ICSC physics book that has a problem about how it is not possible drill a hole through the earth and drop and atom bomb in the US because of the way gravity works.
no, there is are three reasons why the US will remain at the forefront. First is obviously private money and the second is national defense research. If i recall the US spends more on defense than the next 14 countries combined. That is not all science research, but tons of it is.
The third and most important reason is the same reason why it has been on top for so long: immigrants.
clearly you were not here in the 90's tech boom when being a geek was actually quite cool. remember that? then there was the crash and fewer people started going to CS. When the bio tech industry has its boom (and you know is coming) then everyone will be interested in that. Before us there was a whole generation obsessed with space. It comes and goes. Notice how the US still dominates tech research and everyone comes to the Us becasue that is where the money is. The fact that the gov spends so much on research should show how important it is seen to be.
sick? poor? no home? no food? doesn't matter get this magical computer and fix all your problems.
"Apple does own the DRM scheme they apply on top of it."
no, Apple does not own fairplay, Veridsc does.
like pocket pc killed of palm?
the ipod linux implementation can't really play oggs, it just tries to (badly) . As for xiph thing, i didnt know about it as i like most other people dont follow the ogg scene.
Ogg really is an obscure format used by a niche for various political reasons instead of main stream alternatives which work perfectly fine (AAC, MP3 etc )
on top of movie trailers on the left hand side of the ITMS, it says music videos. You can watch whole videos there.
Rio Karma and Ipod arent the same device. Look at the linux ipod that pays OGG and you see how god awful the playback is.
seriously, who uses Ogg why would they bother? Is there any financial benefit from it?
Also, if it supports ogg in itunes, then they would need to support it on the ipod which is not possible because of that wonderful floating point issue.
WHY? no, seriously, why another format? AAC and MP3 work fine.
" but I am just as annoyed by prozelytising Hindu"
You're kidding right? can you show me this. Conversion to hinduism is blasphemy, it is forbidden. The only person who can be a hindu is the child of a hindu mother and father.
right, the US uses landmines in only one place the DMZ in korea. i wonder why you didn't attack china, india, north korea in your rant? does it matter that they have more landmines or that they use them freely? nope they are socialist states and therefore beyond criticism.
no what we really need are GPL comics.. slashdot shoudl not promote free as in beer comics we need open source comics! if not GPL release it under the LGP that would make the comics much faster and more efficient.
i like how you ducked the issue of tibet, changed the topic to landmines and then turned it into an anti-bush rant.
im glad you agree with my original post.
but you have to agree that like atheism it is promoted like a religion. There was a recent Atheist-secular rallay in my city where the speaker talked like he was a missionary devoted to showing everyone the true path.
right, look at my sig, I have a passport and am in a foriegn country right now (the US). Have you seen commnism first hand? have you seen tibet today?