Photo id is a totally different issue than a non-expiring license for a skill you can *lose*. Who the hell thinks it's a good idea that the same license you get at 16 implies you still possess the capability to operate a motor vehicle at 60?
(Yes, I support mandatory road tests for relicensure, and at a very minimum want to see states requiring eyesight tests every other renewal - every 6 to 10 years, in other words.)
Most postal offices in the US provide free notary services for passport applications. Sucks to be Canadian, eh?
Also, if you work for a company of reasonable size, ask around - I'll bet you one of your co-workers is a notary public, which makes them acceptable as a guarantor. I know my office has several, simply because it was cheaper to get a few people certified as notaries than it was to pass all our legal documentation through a notary service.
Broadcast law is flaky, to be sure, and definitely stupid, but it is *not* a good example of speech control. It's more akin to "fire in a theater" rules.
Where did they live that their driver's license doesn't have an expiration date? I've never once seen a DL that didn't expire, including working door at bars in college towns, where you see quite a few different IDs (both real *and* imaginary!).
The power vacuum won't last long enough, given the current slower upgrade cycle, for people to do much switching before internal pressure forces the EU to compromise with MS.
Yeah, Photoshop runs on OS X. I've run it on OS X. It's nice. Illustrator too. Adobe does a good job, generally, in terms of providing usable products on the Mac.
Graphic design is a relatively small, although vocal, market. There's a lot more to think about that that; ask yourself again - if these apps *are* available on other platforms, why haven't people switched to those other platforms, if MS is so abusive/bad/expensive/whatever?
The likelihood of EU businesses switching is lower than the likelihood of EU businesses doing their best to persuade the EU to change the ruling.
Beta is an excuse for some things, but that would be like saying "Here's this fun game to play with... but you can't actually start the game, you can only get to the menus."
Honestly, were MS to pull out of the EU, I expect that most EU companies would go on using MS software, unsupported, for a while, thinking that MS would come back in, that some compromise would be reached. FOSS would not benefit much in the short term. Grey market copies of Windows would be used to supply white box retailers. Major, multi-national computer companies would be pressured by MS ("Sell without Windows in the EU, pay full Windows price *everywhere*") into avoiding the EU market, the same way they've been pressured into not offering alternative OSes in the past. Europe would actually suffer some pretty severe downsides during the transition to FOSS, and let's face it - FOSS applications are not usable at this point. There is not an acceptable professional tool for graphic design, for CAD, etc. The closest FOSS has come is with the office suite; OpenOffice is quite usable. But all the niche products, all the custom apps - MS has the power to make those very difficult to use.
So yes, I do think MS could make this threat, and I do think the EU would have to take it seriously. FOSS is not the end-all, be-all of computing, and it is unlikely to ever be.
The problem is, MS doesn't view it as 25 billion in profit. They genuinely think that by opening up their source, they make *all* of their profit, worldwide, vulnerable. If they think it'll lose them the US and Japan to stay in Europe, they will *absolutely* walk away from the EU.
Oh, come on. It's always fun when the audio gear gets stolen and the con ends with "The police are outside and would like you to leave, no more than 4 at a time, with your hands clearly visible."
Automotive systems *already* commonly handle 90-140 amp loads just for electric power steering systems. This is in production vehicles. Headlamps draw pretty well too, especially xenons during strike. I wouldn't be too worried about handling 10x the current in a system designed to be a large portion of what is, today, the engine/transmission.
Unless you punch into an internal layer on a multi-layer board (usually this requires the board to be a 6 layer or greater board, as internals on 4 layer boards are usually power/ground planes) and sever something there. Then you're fucked.
They've been at it since 1996, and induct 4 per year (2 living, 2 dead). So she was inducted after a grand total of 16 other people. Which other people?
Isaac Asimov. Alfred Bester. James Blish. Edgar Rice Burroughs. John Campbell, Jr. Hal Clement. Hugo Gernsback. Heinlein. Damon Knight. Fritz Leiber. Abraham Merritt. C.L. Moore (a woman). Eric Russell. Theodore Sturgeon. A.E. Van Vogt. Jules Verne. H.G. Wells. Donald Wollheim.
And if you look at the competition, Shelley was up against some tough competition. Was Frankenstein historically important to the development of sci-fi? Absolutely. But was Shelley more important than people like Asimov, Heinlein, Campbell? I'd even argue that inducting her before PKD was doing a huge disservice to the genre. Gender-friendliness is nice, but when you're talking about the best of the best, there's no shame in acknowledging that *due to historical and cultural reasons*, the majority of those are men. Going out of your way to induct a woman just because she's a woman makes a mockery of both the idea of an award, and of the body of work of the individual so "honored".
(Oh, yeah. LeGuin was inducted in 2001, Andre Norton in 1997, and CL Moore in 98. FOAD with your accusations of gender bias, please.)
TeX is the standard for creation, but most people in academia (or at least, the scientific/engineering side of academia) share their documents as.ps or.pdf.
There's always Bomberman Generation for the Gamecube, if you want a modernized bomberman. It isn't as good as Super Bomberman, in my opinion, but it is definitively a Bomberman game.
Motorola doesn't have much experience with releasing consumer products that people lust for...
I don't know. They did pretty well with car radios, televisions, and then later on the cell phone (a Motorola invention), then the StarTAC, and now the Razr.
Apple does alright too, but Motorola has a pretty good track record with making stuff people want to buy.
Also, what kind of crack are you smoking?
This is precisely why Apple usually announces hardware and sells it the very same day.
Apple is infamous for announcing a product they know they won't be selling/shipping for months.
I don't know. The last one I had claimed I was pressing the wrong button no matter what I did. Not cleaning the apartment is definitely a button. Not making dinner, button. Making the wrong thing for dinner, button. Making any dinner, button. Saying she's not fat, button. Saying she is fat, button. Not saying anything, she says I'm pressing the wrong button.
Hell, I don't think there was anything I *could* do that she wouldn't say it was one of her wrong buttons.
Well, except that. Didn't *say* much of anything when I pressed that button.
I don't know; I don't really consider IM to be an application (I consider it a utility - utilities generally don't benefit, applications generally do.) If you wanted a definition for the difference (beyond "I know it when I see it"), I think it has to be that one is designed to do a single thing well (utility), while the other is designed to do many things in a single way (application). IM is designed to talk to other people. When you start to get into doing conferencing, desktop sharing, etc, etc., you're pushing IM beyond utility into application, and you start to require more context.
I do agree - *requiring* contextual menu usage is poor design. Requiring contextual menu usage for efficient use of an application at a high level is not. I think that applications should be designed such that a novice doesn't need contextual menus, but such that an expert can be more efficient through their use.
(And personally, having gotten used to gestures and context in my web browser, I can't use a browser without those features for anything more than a quick check of the weather. I find myself doing right-clickhold drag left whenever I want to go back, and then I swear at the computer when IE pops up a stupid contextual menu, and it's all downhill from there.)
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Photo id is a totally different issue than a non-expiring license for a skill you can *lose*. Who the hell thinks it's a good idea that the same license you get at 16 implies you still possess the capability to operate a motor vehicle at 60?
(Yes, I support mandatory road tests for relicensure, and at a very minimum want to see states requiring eyesight tests every other renewal - every 6 to 10 years, in other words.)
Most postal offices in the US provide free notary services for passport applications. Sucks to be Canadian, eh?
Also, if you work for a company of reasonable size, ask around - I'll bet you one of your co-workers is a notary public, which makes them acceptable as a guarantor. I know my office has several, simply because it was cheaper to get a few people certified as notaries than it was to pass all our legal documentation through a notary service.
Speech != access.
Broadcast law is flaky, to be sure, and definitely stupid, but it is *not* a good example of speech control. It's more akin to "fire in a theater" rules.
Where did they live that their driver's license doesn't have an expiration date? I've never once seen a DL that didn't expire, including working door at bars in college towns, where you see quite a few different IDs (both real *and* imaginary!).
The power vacuum won't last long enough, given the current slower upgrade cycle, for people to do much switching before internal pressure forces the EU to compromise with MS.
Yeah, Photoshop runs on OS X. I've run it on OS X. It's nice. Illustrator too. Adobe does a good job, generally, in terms of providing usable products on the Mac.
Graphic design is a relatively small, although vocal, market. There's a lot more to think about that that; ask yourself again - if these apps *are* available on other platforms, why haven't people switched to those other platforms, if MS is so abusive/bad/expensive/whatever?
The likelihood of EU businesses switching is lower than the likelihood of EU businesses doing their best to persuade the EU to change the ruling.
IT IS A MAP! MAPS HAVE SCALES!
Beta is an excuse for some things, but that would be like saying "Here's this fun game to play with... but you can't actually start the game, you can only get to the menus."
Honestly, were MS to pull out of the EU, I expect that most EU companies would go on using MS software, unsupported, for a while, thinking that MS would come back in, that some compromise would be reached. FOSS would not benefit much in the short term. Grey market copies of Windows would be used to supply white box retailers. Major, multi-national computer companies would be pressured by MS ("Sell without Windows in the EU, pay full Windows price *everywhere*") into avoiding the EU market, the same way they've been pressured into not offering alternative OSes in the past. Europe would actually suffer some pretty severe downsides during the transition to FOSS, and let's face it - FOSS applications are not usable at this point. There is not an acceptable professional tool for graphic design, for CAD, etc. The closest FOSS has come is with the office suite; OpenOffice is quite usable. But all the niche products, all the custom apps - MS has the power to make those very difficult to use.
So yes, I do think MS could make this threat, and I do think the EU would have to take it seriously. FOSS is not the end-all, be-all of computing, and it is unlikely to ever be.
The problem is, MS doesn't view it as 25 billion in profit. They genuinely think that by opening up their source, they make *all* of their profit, worldwide, vulnerable. If they think it'll lose them the US and Japan to stay in Europe, they will *absolutely* walk away from the EU.
How about one that doesn't cost $1800 Canadian?
Oh, come on. It's always fun when the audio gear gets stolen and the con ends with "The police are outside and would like you to leave, no more than 4 at a time, with your hands clearly visible."
If you'd been living with this pain in all the diodes down your left side for the last hundred million years, you'd want to kill a human too.
Because there's only ever been one other, and because you suck?
Automotive systems *already* commonly handle 90-140 amp loads just for electric power steering systems. This is in production vehicles. Headlamps draw pretty well too, especially xenons during strike. I wouldn't be too worried about handling 10x the current in a system designed to be a large portion of what is, today, the engine/transmission.
Unless you punch into an internal layer on a multi-layer board (usually this requires the board to be a 6 layer or greater board, as internals on 4 layer boards are usually power/ground planes) and sever something there. Then you're fucked.
At which point they will beat you until you reconsider your glibness. And probably a little bit more, just because you were a smartass.
They've been at it since 1996, and induct 4 per year (2 living, 2 dead). So she was inducted after a grand total of 16 other people. Which other people?
Isaac Asimov. Alfred Bester. James Blish. Edgar Rice Burroughs. John Campbell, Jr. Hal Clement. Hugo Gernsback. Heinlein. Damon Knight. Fritz Leiber. Abraham Merritt. C.L. Moore (a woman). Eric Russell. Theodore Sturgeon. A.E. Van Vogt. Jules Verne. H.G. Wells. Donald Wollheim.
And if you look at the competition, Shelley was up against some tough competition. Was Frankenstein historically important to the development of sci-fi? Absolutely. But was Shelley more important than people like Asimov, Heinlein, Campbell? I'd even argue that inducting her before PKD was doing a huge disservice to the genre. Gender-friendliness is nice, but when you're talking about the best of the best, there's no shame in acknowledging that *due to historical and cultural reasons*, the majority of those are men. Going out of your way to induct a woman just because she's a woman makes a mockery of both the idea of an award, and of the body of work of the individual so "honored".
(Oh, yeah. LeGuin was inducted in 2001, Andre Norton in 1997, and CL Moore in 98. FOAD with your accusations of gender bias, please.)
TeX is the standard for creation, but most people in academia (or at least, the scientific/engineering side of academia) share their documents as .ps or .pdf.
No... the Genesis creation myth is a 6 day myth. Don't confuse the time spent creating the heavens and earth with the duration of the creation myth.
Hey, I don't need a fictional being to go away. That'd be like hoping that Star Trek: Enterprise ceased to exist.
Oh, wait! The chances of God existing are roughly as good as the chances of Enterprise NOT GETTING CANCELED! I GET TO CELEBRATE TWICE!
There's always Bomberman Generation for the Gamecube, if you want a modernized bomberman. It isn't as good as Super Bomberman, in my opinion, but it is definitively a Bomberman game.
Nextel *sucks* in Chicago. Switch off to one of the GSM providers, it's a lot more usable around here.
Motorola doesn't have much experience with releasing consumer products that people lust for...
I don't know. They did pretty well with car radios, televisions, and then later on the cell phone (a Motorola invention), then the StarTAC, and now the Razr.
Apple does alright too, but Motorola has a pretty good track record with making stuff people want to buy.
Also, what kind of crack are you smoking?
This is precisely why Apple usually announces hardware and sells it the very same day.
Apple is infamous for announcing a product they know they won't be selling/shipping for months.
I don't know. The last one I had claimed I was pressing the wrong button no matter what I did. Not cleaning the apartment is definitely a button. Not making dinner, button. Making the wrong thing for dinner, button. Making any dinner, button. Saying she's not fat, button. Saying she is fat, button. Not saying anything, she says I'm pressing the wrong button.
Hell, I don't think there was anything I *could* do that she wouldn't say it was one of her wrong buttons.
Well, except that. Didn't *say* much of anything when I pressed that button.
I don't know; I don't really consider IM to be an application (I consider it a utility - utilities generally don't benefit, applications generally do.) If you wanted a definition for the difference (beyond "I know it when I see it"), I think it has to be that one is designed to do a single thing well (utility), while the other is designed to do many things in a single way (application). IM is designed to talk to other people. When you start to get into doing conferencing, desktop sharing, etc, etc., you're pushing IM beyond utility into application, and you start to require more context.
I do agree - *requiring* contextual menu usage is poor design. Requiring contextual menu usage for efficient use of an application at a high level is not. I think that applications should be designed such that a novice doesn't need contextual menus, but such that an expert can be more efficient through their use.
(And personally, having gotten used to gestures and context in my web browser, I can't use a browser without those features for anything more than a quick check of the weather. I find myself doing right-clickhold drag left whenever I want to go back, and then I swear at the computer when IE pops up a stupid contextual menu, and it's all downhill from there.)