thats simply not true. typical liberal entitlement mentality
It's wrong to think that you're entitled to something that somebody, reasonably empowered to do so, told you were going to get, in writing? Can you please explain that logic to me? Apparently somebody else agrees with you too, as you're currently +1 Insightful.
If a liberal mentality means refusing to be screwed over by an employer that can't get it's representatives on the same page with regards your compensation, then I'm happy to be a liberal. I guess conservatives are happy with being compensated at less than the agreed on rate? Or was I simply trolled?
unless he also gives his son one of his 5 "authorization" slots.
Worse, is that if the son has his own account already, I don't believe that he can use both authorizations simultaneously.
If user A has 5 slots open, and user B has 5 slots open, can user B simultaneously use both music from A and B accounts, provided he consumes one slot on each? I don't think so.
I'd like to do this; my wife has music on an account on an iMac, and I have music of my own under my account on the same machine. However, I don't believe we can mix libraries, even on the same machine.
Not to take a "blame the victim" stance here, but did running into a friend's house and begging the friend's parents to call the police never cross this kid's mind?
How about the kidnapper told the victim that his parents hated him and gave him away? Proof was that they failed to come for him--if they wanted him back they would have asked for him back. If he was fed and taken care of, like one does a pet, one could put up with a lot--and I'd guess he put up with a lot, as he wasn't allowed to compare it with normalcy to see how his situation differed.
You may forget how impressionable an eleven-year old is, and what they can be led to believe.
I was excited by that announcement too. However, later both Tivo and NetFlix formally announced the end of cooperation. I think that if you Google for it, or look at at the TivoCommunity forums, you'll find the obit.
Too bad, really. I think Tivo is missing the boat on this, it could be The End of TV as We Know it. The first person to figure out how to integrate the library of the Internet with the viewing pleasure of the TV is going to make billions. I'm not sure Tivo is it, or Apple with their iTV, either. The key is that it has to be open to unrestricted content, and not many makers of commercially viable products are going to be willing or able to endorse that.
I've played a few times for several months at a throw. Every time I quit, I'm not sorry.
The only reason I go back is because all the press makes me start wondering if I'm missing something, so I give it another whirl.
But eventually I get tired of the kill/collect quests, which are really no different from each other except that they're scaled to the level.
OTOH, if Blizzard allowed player building, I'd probably be hooked for life.
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emacs is indeed on OS X; I have it here on 10.4.8. I do have the developer tools installed, perhaps it comes with that.
You make the mistake--and it's a common one--of conflating technological superiority to marketshare.
There are lots of components that go into growth in marketshare; technical ability of the technology is just one. I'm not even sure it's the most important.
If it was, I think we could agree that Windows would be a niche player. However, in spite of well-known, well-documented, even cottage industries to support it's technical limitations, it nevertheless holds 90% of the OS marketshare.
You make some interesting points. OpenSolaris and Solaris 10 is worth watching, and I will. But frankly, to think that Solaris will take over the UNIX world is about as likely as thinking that OS X will take over the. btw, the next version of OS X will have DTrace and ZFS support also. When either can run on 5 year old, obscure hardware, Linux will be in jeopardy. Until then, Linux will hold mindshare, which will lead to marketshare.
I couldn't find numbers in TFA, so it would be interesting to know if the current subjects were more or less likely to stop the administration of shocks before the "lethal" dosage was applied, compared to the original subjects that delivered shocks to a human actor.
Google could care less what browser their customers use.
Right technically, but wrong in spirit. The goal is for Google to have customers in the first place. While Google may not care what their customers use, they do want to keep those customers--and Google can keep customers easier on a non-IE browser than on IE. Simply because Microsoft, a Google competitor, controls IE, and has used it's monopoly to exclude competition in the past. So it follows that Microsoft may well exclude or make it more difficult to access Google from within IE.
This line of thought is exactly why Google used it's incredibly valuable homepage to promote FireFox for awhile: to encourage the use of a browser among it's customers from which they could not be excluded.
Well, technically, once a person is executed it becomes impossible to "prove" his innocence because no further trial will ever be conducted. It's rather pointless to put a corpse in the defendants chair...
there has never been a case of significant evidence coming to light of an inmates innocence after he had already been executed
There has never been a case of innocence of an executed prisoner, because the process for determining that evidence is abandoned--perhaps it's because it's pointless, and perhaps it's because those that profit (politically) from execution of prisoners have no reason desire to see themselves proven wrong.
Of course there's a reason to put a corpse in the defendant's chair: to verify our methods of investigation so that other innocent victims can be spared.
anyone who doesn't feel HD is a worthwhile upgrade SERIOUSLY needs to get their eyes checked.
I'll be frank: I haven't any more time than casual time looking at HD sets. But, I sure as hell am not going to pay $1000 + toss my old set in the trash so I get better picture. If I cared that much, I'd record everything on my Tivo at "super duper quality", and, well, I don't. I'd rather have more space and less quality, because the visuals don't make that much difference to me. Is Survivor and Meerkat Manor really going to be that much more compelling in HD than it is now? Will the crap that Hollywood pushes out on DVD really be suddenly worth watching?
If I could pay $1000 and get better writing I might well be inclined. As it is, I think I'll wait another 5 years for the prices to be 20% of what they are now, and my current set is closer to the dumpster.
And honestly, if the suits can't charge more for the medium, either on the consumer end or on the advertiser end, and yet it costs them more to broadcast, why should they get behind it? Are they in the business of charity pixel giving? I can appreciate that HD is coming sooner or later. But I'm not going to pay any more for it, and if I was an advertiser I sure as hell wouldn't pay more for it, to reach fewer of my target audience, just so my ads for pizza looked better.
Demonstrate that a pizza ad in HD makes your viewers more likely to buy your pizza and you'll sell more of those FCP systems than you can stock. Until then, it's an upgrade that no one cares about.
Come to think of it, that pretty much goes for every technology company on the face of the planet except Adobe
I think you're forgetting that Adobe has taken them to court (or provided the EU with anti-trust documents? I forget which) over Microsoft attempting to screw PDF in favor of their own doc standard.
PDF is the key to the Adobe kingdom. I don't think they'd take such a threat likely, and I expect to see some fallout between Microsoft and Adobe over it, in fact. Hopefully, including a backing off the "we support Apple but only because we have to" stance that they've had for the last few years.
The only thing I can think of is to understand as much of the issue as we can for ourselves rather than from the media
While ideal, I believe you're setting up an impossible standard. If you are to reject the scientific opinion and perform your own analyses, you have to become an expert in every subject that is important.
For example, you would have to know all there is to know about physics, in order to evaluate the safety of next-genearation nuclear power plants; you have to know all there is to know about climatology in order to evaluate the claims about global warming; and you have to know all there is to know about genetics in order to evaluate the claims about genetic modification of food.
And those are only the top three--really there's science behind much more of your daily life. I don't think that anyone has enough time/interest/smarts to become an expert in every field of concern. And that's precisely why we have "experts" that spend their lifetime distilling such information. I do believe that, while we can verify the quality of the information, we cannot be reasonably expected to make all of these informed decisions on our own, and so, at some level, have to extend trust to the sources that we have verified. And to pursue one field of expertise that is of the most interest to us personally, and on that subject be an expert.
You forgot the WoW plague. I thought that was pretty interesting too. And it was clearly deliberate and difficult to accomplish, so it speaks to how people would prefer to spend their time.
and they sucked. If they had the same kind of beep, too, that would be enough to make me chose a different route all by itself.
Seriously, it appears that you could probably outrun the tracking mechanism, as all of the demonstrators were moving pretty slowly. If you could confine movement, the weapon would probably work better than if you allowed an open space.
Do you think the guy demonstrating surrender insisted on the weapon being unloaded first, or did he trust it? I suppose you could have the AI engineer be the guy doing the surrendering. If he's not willing to stand in front of it fully loaded and trust that it won't go off, I suppose no one would.
Linux users always cite examples like, "select every third file whose name begins with D into a new directory FOOBAR, then select every fourth file from FOOBAR into the original directory translating their name to begin with W." Yes, that's easier to do on a CLI. And no, nobody, EVER, does anything like that. Ever. Stop making contrived moronic examples of how great the CLI is.
I do something very like that several times a day, on Linux. Namely, grid server management. I don't know how I'd manage a grid of many hundreds of servers using Windows, where different servers required different actions.
So I will ask, give us even one example of something that Linux is capable of that Windows is not capable of doing.
If you can manage 1000 server nodes that are headless without having to click anything, on Windows, I'd be interested to know. For an additional exercise: choose a portion of those servers, in a non-contigous grouping, for an action that you want to perform on them that you do not want to perform on the others. Without manually selecting each.
I admit that I am not familiar with Windows to know if this is possible; if it is, I'd be interested to know.
And, oh, btw: I manage that many nodes (and more!) on a daily basis. So this is a real world example.
Is all that work that most people want to do? Hardly. But maybe its better if people have to really want it before they get involved with Linux.
When was the last time you changed your own oil, or changed your own brake pads? Maybe you should know more about how a car works before you're allowed to drive it.
In an answer to your question: yes. Yes that stuff is too hard. You're competing against Windows, which comes preinstalled; so even doing an install from CDs that works perfectly is a detriment. Having to troubleshoot a brand-new install is just a deal breaker.
If you really prefer Linux to be the bastion of geeks and nerds, and not fit for human consumption, that's fine--but don't come crying to me when you don't get application/hardware support, either.
But Linux won't go more mainstream until a major desktop vendor puts together a nice pre-installed distro and has the computers displayed next to the Windows machines at CompUSA and Best Buy.
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Honest question: so why'd the States ratify the amendments, and cede that amount of control?
thats simply not true. typical liberal entitlement mentality
It's wrong to think that you're entitled to something that somebody, reasonably empowered to do so, told you were going to get, in writing? Can you please explain that logic to me? Apparently somebody else agrees with you too, as you're currently +1 Insightful.
If a liberal mentality means refusing to be screwed over by an employer that can't get it's representatives on the same page with regards your compensation, then I'm happy to be a liberal. I guess conservatives are happy with being compensated at less than the agreed on rate? Or was I simply trolled?
unless he also gives his son one of his 5 "authorization" slots.
Worse, is that if the son has his own account already, I don't believe that he can use both authorizations simultaneously.
If user A has 5 slots open, and user B has 5 slots open, can user B simultaneously use both music from A and B accounts, provided he consumes one slot on each? I don't think so.
I'd like to do this; my wife has music on an account on an iMac, and I have music of my own under my account on the same machine. However, I don't believe we can mix libraries, even on the same machine.
Not to take a "blame the victim" stance here, but did running into a friend's house and begging the friend's parents to call the police never cross this kid's mind?
How about the kidnapper told the victim that his parents hated him and gave him away? Proof was that they failed to come for him--if they wanted him back they would have asked for him back. If he was fed and taken care of, like one does a pet, one could put up with a lot--and I'd guess he put up with a lot, as he wasn't allowed to compare it with normalcy to see how his situation differed.
You may forget how impressionable an eleven-year old is, and what they can be led to believe.
I was excited by that announcement too. However, later both Tivo and NetFlix formally announced the end of cooperation. I think that if you Google for it, or look at at the TivoCommunity forums, you'll find the obit.
Too bad, really. I think Tivo is missing the boat on this, it could be The End of TV as We Know it. The first person to figure out how to integrate the library of the Internet with the viewing pleasure of the TV is going to make billions. I'm not sure Tivo is it, or Apple with their iTV, either. The key is that it has to be open to unrestricted content, and not many makers of commercially viable products are going to be willing or able to endorse that.
I've played a few times for several months at a throw. Every time I quit, I'm not sorry. The only reason I go back is because all the press makes me start wondering if I'm missing something, so I give it another whirl. But eventually I get tired of the kill/collect quests, which are really no different from each other except that they're scaled to the level. OTOH, if Blizzard allowed player building, I'd probably be hooked for life.
emacs is indeed on OS X; I have it here on 10.4.8. I do have the developer tools installed, perhaps it comes with that.
You make the mistake--and it's a common one--of conflating technological superiority to marketshare.
There are lots of components that go into growth in marketshare; technical ability of the technology is just one. I'm not even sure it's the most important.
If it was, I think we could agree that Windows would be a niche player. However, in spite of well-known, well-documented, even cottage industries to support it's technical limitations, it nevertheless holds 90% of the OS marketshare.
You make some interesting points. OpenSolaris and Solaris 10 is worth watching, and I will. But frankly, to think that Solaris will take over the UNIX world is about as likely as thinking that OS X will take over the. btw, the next version of OS X will have DTrace and ZFS support also. When either can run on 5 year old, obscure hardware, Linux will be in jeopardy. Until then, Linux will hold mindshare, which will lead to marketshare.
I couldn't find numbers in TFA, so it would be interesting to know if the current subjects were more or less likely to stop the administration of shocks before the "lethal" dosage was applied, compared to the original subjects that delivered shocks to a human actor.
Google could care less what browser their customers use.
Right technically, but wrong in spirit. The goal is for Google to have customers in the first place. While Google may not care what their customers use, they do want to keep those customers--and Google can keep customers easier on a non-IE browser than on IE. Simply because Microsoft, a Google competitor, controls IE, and has used it's monopoly to exclude competition in the past. So it follows that Microsoft may well exclude or make it more difficult to access Google from within IE.
This line of thought is exactly why Google used it's incredibly valuable homepage to promote FireFox for awhile: to encourage the use of a browser among it's customers from which they could not be excluded.
Uh, bit potential? What, are you kidding?
I think it's more likely you're trying for a +5 Informative on complete bs. Looks like you've failed, sucker.
Pray tell, what's the "bit potential" of this post?
When Google learns how to smoke you in PageRank, I hope your "clients" sue you. Cause then they'll of a sudden be back on page 30.
Well, technically, once a person is executed it becomes impossible to "prove" his innocence because no further trial will ever be conducted. It's rather pointless to put a corpse in the defendants chair...
there has never been a case of significant evidence coming to light of an inmates innocence after he had already been executed
There has never been a case of innocence of an executed prisoner, because the process for determining that evidence is abandoned--perhaps it's because it's pointless, and perhaps it's because those that profit (politically) from execution of prisoners have no reason desire to see themselves proven wrong.
Of course there's a reason to put a corpse in the defendant's chair: to verify our methods of investigation so that other innocent victims can be spared.
Not that it would matter for consumers that listen to the typical tizz and boom being produced today.
I think you answered your own question. Why would consumers demand better sound recording, when the most popular music wouldn't take advantage of it?
anyone who doesn't feel HD is a worthwhile upgrade SERIOUSLY needs to get their eyes checked.
I'll be frank: I haven't any more time than casual time looking at HD sets. But, I sure as hell am not going to pay $1000 + toss my old set in the trash so I get better picture. If I cared that much, I'd record everything on my Tivo at "super duper quality", and, well, I don't. I'd rather have more space and less quality, because the visuals don't make that much difference to me. Is Survivor and Meerkat Manor really going to be that much more compelling in HD than it is now? Will the crap that Hollywood pushes out on DVD really be suddenly worth watching?
If I could pay $1000 and get better writing I might well be inclined. As it is, I think I'll wait another 5 years for the prices to be 20% of what they are now, and my current set is closer to the dumpster.
And honestly, if the suits can't charge more for the medium, either on the consumer end or on the advertiser end, and yet it costs them more to broadcast, why should they get behind it? Are they in the business of charity pixel giving? I can appreciate that HD is coming sooner or later. But I'm not going to pay any more for it, and if I was an advertiser I sure as hell wouldn't pay more for it, to reach fewer of my target audience, just so my ads for pizza looked better.
Demonstrate that a pizza ad in HD makes your viewers more likely to buy your pizza and you'll sell more of those FCP systems than you can stock. Until then, it's an upgrade that no one cares about.
Come to think of it, that pretty much goes for every technology company on the face of the planet except Adobe
I think you're forgetting that Adobe has taken them to court (or provided the EU with anti-trust documents? I forget which) over Microsoft attempting to screw PDF in favor of their own doc standard.
PDF is the key to the Adobe kingdom. I don't think they'd take such a threat likely, and I expect to see some fallout between Microsoft and Adobe over it, in fact. Hopefully, including a backing off the "we support Apple but only because we have to" stance that they've had for the last few years.
The only thing I can think of is to understand as much of the issue as we can for ourselves rather than from the media
While ideal, I believe you're setting up an impossible standard. If you are to reject the scientific opinion and perform your own analyses, you have to become an expert in every subject that is important.
For example, you would have to know all there is to know about physics, in order to evaluate the safety of next-genearation nuclear power plants; you have to know all there is to know about climatology in order to evaluate the claims about global warming; and you have to know all there is to know about genetics in order to evaluate the claims about genetic modification of food.
And those are only the top three--really there's science behind much more of your daily life. I don't think that anyone has enough time/interest/smarts to become an expert in every field of concern. And that's precisely why we have "experts" that spend their lifetime distilling such information. I do believe that, while we can verify the quality of the information, we cannot be reasonably expected to make all of these informed decisions on our own, and so, at some level, have to extend trust to the sources that we have verified. And to pursue one field of expertise that is of the most interest to us personally, and on that subject be an expert.
You forgot the WoW plague. I thought that was pretty interesting too. And it was clearly deliberate and difficult to accomplish, so it speaks to how people would prefer to spend their time.
After all, they only support Windows on this title and don't have plans to provide support to other OS platforms.
Well, they've supported Mac OS X since the beginning of the title. So it's really just that they've excluded Linux.
and they sucked. If they had the same kind of beep, too, that would be enough to make me chose a different route all by itself.
Seriously, it appears that you could probably outrun the tracking mechanism, as all of the demonstrators were moving pretty slowly. If you could confine movement, the weapon would probably work better than if you allowed an open space.
Do you think the guy demonstrating surrender insisted on the weapon being unloaded first, or did he trust it? I suppose you could have the AI engineer be the guy doing the surrendering. If he's not willing to stand in front of it fully loaded and trust that it won't go off, I suppose no one would.
Linux users always cite examples like, "select every third file whose name begins with D into a new directory FOOBAR, then select every fourth file from FOOBAR into the original directory translating their name to begin with W." Yes, that's easier to do on a CLI. And no, nobody, EVER, does anything like that. Ever. Stop making contrived moronic examples of how great the CLI is.
I do something very like that several times a day, on Linux. Namely, grid server management. I don't know how I'd manage a grid of many hundreds of servers using Windows, where different servers required different actions.
So I will ask, give us even one example of something that Linux is capable of that Windows is not capable of doing.
If you can manage 1000 server nodes that are headless without having to click anything, on Windows, I'd be interested to know. For an additional exercise: choose a portion of those servers, in a non-contigous grouping, for an action that you want to perform on them that you do not want to perform on the others. Without manually selecting each.
I admit that I am not familiar with Windows to know if this is possible; if it is, I'd be interested to know.
And, oh, btw: I manage that many nodes (and more!) on a daily basis. So this is a real world example.
Is all that work that most people want to do? Hardly. But maybe its better if people have to really want it before they get involved with Linux.
When was the last time you changed your own oil, or changed your own brake pads? Maybe you should know more about how a car works before you're allowed to drive it.
In an answer to your question: yes. Yes that stuff is too hard. You're competing against Windows, which comes preinstalled; so even doing an install from CDs that works perfectly is a detriment. Having to troubleshoot a brand-new install is just a deal breaker.
If you really prefer Linux to be the bastion of geeks and nerds, and not fit for human consumption, that's fine--but don't come crying to me when you don't get application/hardware support, either.
But Linux won't go more mainstream until a major desktop vendor puts together a nice pre-installed distro and has the computers displayed next to the Windows machines at CompUSA and Best Buy.
They did that; it's called "Apple".
A neutral paladin? Is that the bs test?