and Apple has demonstrated more than once that it is willing to completely abandon users with hardware only a couple of years old.
Bzzt! Mac OS 9 is supported on any Apple made Powermac, first released 8 years ago. G3 hardware (5 years old) is still supported and runs OSX.
Because Apple completely abandons it's platforms every few years, and thus it will be impossible for them to upgrade their software.
See above.... You might not be able to run Quartz Extreme if you don't have a new enuf vid card (you need 32 megs, deal with it) and it does suck that you can play DVD's, but thats not "completely abandoning" the hardware.
This is true for the moment, but it is very quickly becoming untrue.
Not that quick. Loki was the only company that I can think of that was prolific and dedicated to main stream software (games) and they went out of business.
Again, kids will learn whatever you put in front of them.
Kids don't like shit software anymore than the rest of us do.
There are a few die-hards still using Macs in education, and they're generally only used for teaching Photoshop.
Yeah, thats why Apple goes back and forth with Dell as being the leading supplier of computers to schools.....
Apparently you didn't read Wolverine long enough to find he had real claws that just happened to be covered by adamantium.
That was just a retroactive change in continuity. Before the Fatal Attractions series, Wolverines claws were implants from Department H when they fortified his skeleton with adamatium. After Fatal Attractions they were suddenly "bone claws that he was born with" so he'd still have them even w/o the adamantium.
Comic books pull this shit periodically....like with Magneto. He's jewish, refers to himself as jewish, a great deal of holocast references (Chris Claremont did some actual research on it) pin him as being jewish, but in an issue of Uncanny X-Men (I think) he's suddenly refered to as a gypsy.
What I should also have said is how it can work pretty well to have a combo of gvt and private industry for space....kind of like how the defense department operates. DOD say "we want a plane that has x range and x payload" and let Boieng and Lockheed (sp) fight it out to produce the best plane.
The problem with the assumption that private industry can do any task better than the government is that private industries are about making money first and everything else is a distant second.
NASA is about space exploration, not about making money. If there was no NASA and everything was left to private companies, there would be no Mars Pathfinder, no Hubble teliscope and no Moon landings because they don't make any money. We'd just be launching satellites and have Bill Gates pay to go up to orbit the earth.
The other problem with leaving it to industry is all the time and resources wasted on duplicate efforts. Look at the plethora of differnt standards for Bluetooth, HDTV and recordable DVD formats as an example.
Not that government is always the solution, but neither is it always the problem.
Yeah, trademark wise, I see your point. If he lets fans use things like Lightsabres in non-parodies it might make it harder in a trademark case, like when some medical company called their device a Lightsabre.
Now all we gotta do is wait till 2072 when Star Wars actually goes into the public domain, unless Disney keeps getting copyright extended indefinetly.:)
If Lucas acquiesced in the creation of these, then he would be yielding his copyright into the public domain.
No he wouldn't. Its trademarks that you have to defend or lose. All Lucas has to do is not sue the film makers in question, but that doesn't mean that Star Wars goes into the public domain.
Thing that you have to keep in mind though is that both our President and Vice President were big oil men. If they were actually serious about reducing our dependancy on foriegn oil they'd be pushing for higher fuel efficiency and smaller cars (which would save far more oil than we would get from ANWAR), but they aren't.
On one hand, I agree that obtaining music without paying for it just because the technology to do so is available is theft.
That is copyright infringement, not theft. Theft is taking something tangible you do not own without permission. Copyright infringement is copying something intagible you don't have the rights to without persmission.
i.e. theft is walking into Wal-Mart and walking out with an audio cd without paying for it. That cd is something tangible, something that cost money to make and ship and most importantly, now it can't be sold to someone else. If I get mp3 copies of the same album from my friend that cd is still on the store shelf and can be sold to someone else. Total loss to the store/record company: zero.
Copyright infringement is of course illegal but it is not stealing. Stealing is stealing, copyright infringement is copyright infringement.
Why would you spend millions of dollars developing ICBM's when for a few thousand you could rent a hellicopter, plop a nuke in it and detonate it DC instead.
My roomie had to mess with the config file a bit (he's running Debian testing), but now we're up from 800/200 d/u to full T1 speed. Just took a few minutes.
I doubt that very much. Quake 3 uses the same online authentication system used by Half-Life; each cd comes with a key and only one copy of that key can play online at any one time. That is a very powerful incentive NOT to "share" the game and your key with others that you just spent $50 on (prolly under $20 now).
How much control should a web site have over the user's browser? As much as the user gives it, of course! Now, even in brain-dead browsers like IE there are zones, where you can simply say "If i don't know this domain, don't give it full control."
I shoudn't have to do that. I can go download an addblocker or a different browser, but my grandma isn't going to be able to do that.
but it is the user, by choosing the software, that is giving the site, explicitly, this freedom.
The hell I am. Nobody "chooses" to give these sites the right to launch porn pop ups as fast as you close them, or maximize the browser or anything else. This sites just take it.
It's not uncommon knowledge that the US has a large chemical weapons stockpile. But all the article that you're linking to talks about is the problem of safely destroying this stockpile, not about exporting it.
About the torture equipment: the sarcastic saying of "well if its printed on the Internet then it must be true!" also applies to print.
That is a good point but we still need to be carefull in writing the legislation so that its not abused. Its fine if the FBI wants to invesigate a student in a dorm for trading pedophilia, but not if they wiretap the whole place "in case he uses a friends computer" and bust other guys for pot or mp3's or whatever.
Just because some brain dead policy comes from our government, doesn't mean that many people (inside or outside) the goverment support it.
If the US has such strong ties to peace treaties, how come they are now reneging on unarguably the most important; the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missle Treaty?
"They" is mostly President Bush. Missle defense was probably going to die in the Democrat controlled Senate, but it looks like opposition is giving way in the name of "national security". Why a group of terrorists would spend millions and millions of dollars developing a nuclear bomb and an intercontinental ballisic missle is beyond me when a $3 box cutter will get you a 747 to fly into a skyscraper........
I mean come on, shouldn't the justice department be able to tap the computer traffic and cell phone calls of a known criminal, with a judge's permission?
They can already do that (long before DMCA). Its call a warrant.
Only its not with hacking/cracking, but with trafficing or possesing drugs. You could concievably rape or shoot someone in the head and get out of prison sooner than someone busted for running heroin. I find that pretty disgusting too.
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and Apple has demonstrated more than once that it is willing to completely abandon users with hardware only a couple of years old.
Bzzt! Mac OS 9 is supported on any Apple made Powermac, first released 8 years ago. G3 hardware (5 years old) is still supported and runs OSX.
Because Apple completely abandons it's platforms every few years, and thus it will be impossible for them to upgrade their software.
See above.... You might not be able to run Quartz Extreme if you don't have a new enuf vid card (you need 32 megs, deal with it) and it does suck that you can play DVD's, but thats not "completely abandoning" the hardware.
This is true for the moment, but it is very quickly becoming untrue.
Not that quick. Loki was the only company that I can think of that was prolific and dedicated to main stream software (games) and they went out of business.
Again, kids will learn whatever you put in front of them.
Kids don't like shit software anymore than the rest of us do.
There are a few die-hards still using Macs in education, and they're generally only used for teaching Photoshop.
Yeah, thats why Apple goes back and forth with Dell as being the leading supplier of computers to schools.....
Apparently you didn't read Wolverine long enough to find he had real claws that just happened to be covered by adamantium.
:P
That was just a retroactive change in continuity. Before the Fatal Attractions series, Wolverines claws were implants from Department H when they fortified his skeleton with adamatium. After Fatal Attractions they were suddenly "bone claws that he was born with" so he'd still have them even w/o the adamantium.
Comic books pull this shit periodically....like with Magneto. He's jewish, refers to himself as jewish, a great deal of holocast references (Chris Claremont did some actual research on it) pin him as being jewish, but in an issue of Uncanny X-Men (I think) he's suddenly refered to as a gypsy.
Look whos the amature now.
What I should also have said is how it can work pretty well to have a combo of gvt and private industry for space....kind of like how the defense department operates. DOD say "we want a plane that has x range and x payload" and let Boieng and Lockheed (sp) fight it out to produce the best plane.
The problem with the assumption that private industry can do any task better than the government is that private industries are about making money first and everything else is a distant second.
NASA is about space exploration, not about making money. If there was no NASA and everything was left to private companies, there would be no Mars Pathfinder, no Hubble teliscope and no Moon landings because they don't make any money. We'd just be launching satellites and have Bill Gates pay to go up to orbit the earth.
The other problem with leaving it to industry is all the time and resources wasted on duplicate efforts. Look at the plethora of differnt standards for Bluetooth, HDTV and recordable DVD formats as an example.
Not that government is always the solution, but neither is it always the problem.
Yeah, trademark wise, I see your point. If he lets fans use things like Lightsabres in non-parodies it might make it harder in a trademark case, like when some medical company called their device a Lightsabre.
:)
Now all we gotta do is wait till 2072 when Star Wars actually goes into the public domain, unless Disney keeps getting copyright extended indefinetly.
If Lucas acquiesced in the creation of these, then he would be yielding his copyright into the public domain.
No he wouldn't. Its trademarks that you have to defend or lose. All Lucas has to do is not sue the film makers in question, but that doesn't mean that Star Wars goes into the public domain.
Course, I stopped giving a shit about 4 seasons ago.
Thing that you have to keep in mind though is that both our President and Vice President were big oil men. If they were actually serious about reducing our dependancy on foriegn oil they'd be pushing for higher fuel efficiency and smaller cars (which would save far more oil than we would get from ANWAR), but they aren't.
As oil men their answer is to drill for more oil.
On one hand, I agree that obtaining music without paying for it just because the technology to do so is available is theft.
That is copyright infringement, not theft. Theft is taking something tangible you do not own without permission. Copyright infringement is copying something intagible you don't have the rights to without persmission.
i.e. theft is walking into Wal-Mart and walking out with an audio cd without paying for it. That cd is something tangible, something that cost money to make and ship and most importantly, now it can't be sold to someone else. If I get mp3 copies of the same album from my friend that cd is still on the store shelf and can be sold to someone else. Total loss to the store/record company: zero.
Copyright infringement is of course illegal but it is not stealing. Stealing is stealing, copyright infringement is copyright infringement.
I'd take you more seriously if women weren't every bit as sexist, crass and immature as men are.
This comment is plain ridiculous (not +2 insightful) !
There is nothing in this spec that Samba has not already implemented.
That may be just wonderful for the current spec, but what about future specs? Duh!
Why would you spend millions of dollars developing ICBM's when for a few thousand you could rent a hellicopter, plop a nuke in it and detonate it DC instead.
hey dude....if for some reason you check back here, i fixed my email address.....
oh, and thanks for the info :)
My roomie had to mess with the config file a bit (he's running Debian testing), but now we're up from 800/200 d/u to full T1 speed. Just took a few minutes.
Quake 3 was a big victim of piracy
I doubt that very much. Quake 3 uses the same online authentication system used by Half-Life; each cd comes with a key and only one copy of that key can play online at any one time. That is a very powerful incentive NOT to "share" the game and your key with others that you just spent $50 on (prolly under $20 now).
How much control should a web site have over the user's browser? As much as the user gives it, of course! Now, even in brain-dead browsers like IE there are zones, where you can simply say "If i don't know this domain, don't give it full control."
I shoudn't have to do that. I can go download an addblocker or a different browser, but my grandma isn't going to be able to do that.
but it is the user, by choosing the software, that is giving the site, explicitly, this freedom.
The hell I am. Nobody "chooses" to give these sites the right to launch porn pop ups as fast as you close them, or maximize the browser or anything else. This sites just take it.
Linux kernel code doesn't make it a piece of cake for someone to modify your computer or browser without your consent. Internet Explorer does.
It's not uncommon knowledge that the US has a large chemical weapons stockpile. But all the article that you're linking to talks about is the problem of safely destroying this stockpile, not about exporting it.
About the torture equipment: the sarcastic saying of "well if its printed on the Internet then it must be true!" also applies to print.
That is a good point but we still need to be carefull in writing the legislation so that its not abused. Its fine if the FBI wants to invesigate a student in a dorm for trading pedophilia, but not if they wiretap the whole place "in case he uses a friends computer" and bust other guys for pot or mp3's or whatever.
The full-page adds aren't for EVERY story, only a few of them. And I would rather click on one extra link than close a pop-up window.
I don't see what the big fuss is, MSNBC has been doing this for quite some time.
Just because some brain dead policy comes from our government, doesn't mean that many people (inside or outside) the goverment support it.
If the US has such strong ties to peace treaties, how come they are now reneging on unarguably the most important; the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missle Treaty?
"They" is mostly President Bush. Missle defense was probably going to die in the Democrat controlled Senate, but it looks like opposition is giving way in the name of "national security". Why a group of terrorists would spend millions and millions of dollars developing a nuclear bomb and an intercontinental ballisic missle is beyond me when a $3 box cutter will get you a 747 to fly into a skyscraper........
chemical weapons, torture equipment
What kind of chemical weapons and who exactly are we selling them to? Even more so on the "torture equipment"?
Either come up with some hard data to back up your statements, or you're just trolling. Put up or shut up.
I mean come on, shouldn't the justice department be able to tap the computer traffic and cell phone calls of a known criminal, with a judge's permission?
They can already do that (long before DMCA). Its call a warrant.
Only its not with hacking/cracking, but with trafficing or possesing drugs. You could concievably rape or shoot someone in the head and get out of prison sooner than someone busted for running heroin. I find that pretty disgusting too.