A new crop of one-use batteries full of heavy metals unleashed on a world that's generally too irresponsible to have any systematic method of dealing with them -- just what we need! (Yes, I know that there are some places, notably Japan, that do a good job of handling batteries... but that isn't the Good Ol' US of A.)
We haven't suffered any terrorist attacks since 9/11?? Do you mean, we, the "free world"? There are a lot of dead people in Spain and Bali and Iraq and all over from terrorists -- including lots of dead Americans.
Do you mean, we, the United States of America? Did you forget about the anthrax attacks -- just like the government did when it became clear it was THEIR anthrax?
Generally, major terrorist attacks on US soil seem to occur about once a decade. So this government is not doing at all well with two...
Stop sarcastically saying "Bush regime." You've never experienced life in a REAL regime or seen what one does.
The definition of regime is "a system of managing government; a form of government." So what is a "REAL" regime?
(PS: There are over a hundred thousand people dead in the last three years because of the current government -- that's pretty impressive, even by tinpot dictator standards...)
You should be more polite, particularly when you are wrong.
Many sites use mixed case, particularly for URL rewriting: for example if you shop at the Apple store you'll get nasty URLs like http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A ppleStore.woa/71308/wo/IV5iL5wnsHhR23ec6ZU1PK3jWIo/0.0.11.1.0.6.21.1.3.1.1.0.0.1.0 where the case is significant.
> The majority of arrests were of the bicycle brigade which WAS blocking streets and making it difficult for many old and infirm people to get home.
Sorry, liar -- the vast majority of people were arrested during the convention itself, not during the Critical Mass parade. By the way, Critical Mass does the same thing one Friday EACH MONTH -- the police have encouraged them.
> Our old subway system doesn't have elevators in most stations, so people who can't use stairs are stuck riding the bus or taking taxis. Is it fair to force some old lady to sit in a bus for an hour because some communist students can't figure out how to persuade people in more rational fahions than blocking streets?
Hey, liar, Critical Mass has nothing to do with the subway -- they rode a group of bicycles through the streets.
> The other arrests occurred after police officers were attacked, one of whom is going to be seriously fucked up for the rest of his life.
Got any evidence for this, liar?
I saw video of the undercover cop -- who deliberately rode his bicycle into a crowd of people and started beating on them without identifying himself.
> None of those protestors would have been arrested if they stopped the violence and informed police who the criminal was.
Sorry, liar, you are so wrong.
http://www.2600.com/rnc2004/
They arrested ANYONE who was in a given block. People were NOT BREAKING ANY LAW were arrested. I saw an old woman who was doing NOTHING wrong get punched in the face by a cop.
Question -- if they were legally arresting people -- why didn't they tell them what they were charged with? Why didn't they let them call lawyers for over 24 hours?
> Another non-NY resident talking about shit he doesn't know about.
I've lived here for 20 years.
You might be a "New York City resident" but you are a bare-faced liar and I call you on it.
> Further, I can tell you that the vast majority of protestors were not city residents.
I live in New York City and that's the most ridiculous crap I've ever read. Many of my friend were arrested. Dozens if not hundreds of people I know were there. Dozens of New York City organizations representing thousands of people were there.
One of my friends were held (for well over 24 hours) with a family of French tourists who had made the terrible mistake of stepping out of their hotel while the police were rounding them up.
They were, apparently, very upset because they didn't speak English well and of course the police would not tell them what they were charged with -- or attempt to communicate with them in any way!
For some reason people think that the Republican National Convention somehow trumps the Constitution. I personally don't get it.
Yes, I did read the article. Of course. Yes, I did attempt to read the patents, with I believe some success. I also read the Groklaw page with great interest.
IANAL but it appears as if any program that does any sort of ORB transaction -- or perhaps even requests a protected service from the kernel -- is at risk because of this decision.
More generally, there's "no other way to do it". IAStillNAL but I've been writing programs for 25 years now and the need to request a software service from a central program with greater privileges is inevitable -- there's basically "only one way to do it".
Such things should simply not be patentable -- like the round steering wheel. It's not defensible morally and I have no idea how they managed to defend this legally -- except for the fact that the courts must be utterly ignorant of software engineering.
Quicksort is O(n log n) for "almost all" input data... it was one of the first n log n sorts, that's why it's called quicksort.
The rest of your argument is fine.
This has to do with a much greater thing, dude: our language structure. I believe in indo-european languages, it has always been "subject , action, object".
Not true, in German the verb at the end of the sentence appears.
I *have* a perfectly good laptop but that's not what I want to use -- too large, too unreliable, too expensive, too fragile. I want a dedicated unit that I can just plug in and press record that takes very little space and that won't ever crash.
In my smallest setup, a laptop would be the largest component, particularly since you can't stack things on top of it.
What I really want is a portable digital audio disk recorder with digital inputs that records uncompressed (WAV) format. I'm currently using a portable CD recorder to record my live shows but it's *heavy* and I have to change disks after an hour and change and thus lose some material.
I saw this on the BBC this morning and looked around CNN, the New York Times site, and the other usual suspects in vain for any word of this. Surely this has some importance to people in the United States, since we'll be paying for it in our taxes?
But for some reason, the mainstream media in the US has chosen to simply roll over and play dead for the government. Remember all the play given to that boring and irrelevant Lewinsky case? But the fact that the government lied to get us into a war, the fact that the government has marked the enquiry on what went wrong on 9/11 as classified, crucial things involving life and death for thousands of Americans, have barely been mentioned here in the US.
You wonder whether the Republican Party doesn't simply have thousands of incriminating photographs in a file somewhere...
Eclipse is the first development system I've used in over 20 years of programming that's an improvement over emacs and make/ant... and what an improvement... it has changed my life!
Seamless integration with CVS, automatic refactoring tools, incremental compilation, full integration of unit testing, plug-ins, etc, etc... you owe it to yourself to try this fantastic open-source tool./t
Another factor, IMO, is the seeming death of the theme album. I ask this question with all honesty: is there anything from the 90's and later that is equivalent to Sgt. Pepper, Abbey Road, The Wall, and Bat Out of Hell? I'm open to expand my contemporary music tastes here -- let the titles fly.
Depends. There haven't been a lot of strong lyrical albums like these for quite a while -- people don't seem to actually sing songs much anymore, music with singers has become a formalized activity with no risk and therefore no value.
And the music world has been fractured -- it seems unlikely that there will be albums like Sgt. Pepper's which had profound effects on a really wide demographic.
But there have been some outstanding albums in the 80s and 90s that will pass the test of time -- you can never be sure but I'd certainly imagine they'd include work from intelligent, conceptually strong, emotional, and widely appealing artists like The Orb and Bjork (she's uneven but Vespertine is a tour de force that people will still be listening to in twenty years just like people listen to Kate Bush now) and perhaps even a few brilliant weirdos like the Butthole Surfers (who have had profound effects on more than a few people!)
I'd also add -- it's a lot harder now since most of the music that has ever been made since the dawn of time is easily available to your casual listener in a Western country. As a guitarist, you have to compete with Django Reinhardt and Jimi Hendrix as well as your contemporaries. The people who will be remembered will be the ones who made a definitive statement, who both opened and closed a new branch of music like Hendrix did. But it gets harder to do this with every new day, so your chance of making a "classic" album become less and less. Imagine a few thousand years of this in our future, where even today we have technology that can let you make practically any sound that you can conceive of -- think of how hard it will be to make any sort of original contribution to music.
Too bad for you, posterity. But at least you'll have Bach and Hendrix still to keep you company.
The article says "The 15-inch screen is all of 1.4 millimeters thick -- about the size of two quarters back-to-back," but a SINGLE quarter is 1.75mm, so says the U.S. Mint.
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A new crop of one-use batteries full of heavy metals unleashed on a world that's generally too irresponsible to have any systematic method of dealing with them -- just what we need! (Yes, I know that there are some places, notably Japan, that do a good job of handling batteries... but that isn't the Good Ol' US of A.)
We haven't suffered any terrorist attacks since 9/11?? Do you mean, we, the "free world"? There are a lot of dead people in Spain and Bali and Iraq and all over from terrorists -- including lots of dead Americans.
Do you mean, we, the United States of America? Did you forget about the anthrax attacks -- just like the government did when it became clear it was THEIR anthrax?
Generally, major terrorist attacks on US soil seem to occur about once a decade. So this government is not doing at all well with two...
Stop sarcastically saying "Bush regime." You've never experienced life in a REAL regime or seen what one does.
The definition of regime is "a system of managing government; a form of government." So what is a "REAL" regime?
(PS: There are over a hundred thousand people dead in the last three years because of the current government -- that's pretty impressive, even by tinpot dictator standards...)
You should be more polite, particularly when you are wrong.
Many sites use mixed case, particularly for URL rewriting: for example if you shop at the Apple store you'll get nasty URLs like http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/
where the case is significant.
have they learned nothing from the collapse of the record industry?
Wow, benzapp, you are full of lies!
> The majority of arrests were of the bicycle brigade which WAS blocking streets and making it difficult for many old and infirm people to get home.
Sorry, liar -- the vast majority of people were arrested during the convention itself, not during the Critical Mass parade. By the way, Critical Mass does the same thing one Friday EACH MONTH -- the police have encouraged them.
> Our old subway system doesn't have elevators in most stations, so people who can't use stairs are stuck riding the bus or taking taxis. Is it fair to force some old lady to sit in a bus for an hour because some communist students can't figure out how to persuade people in more rational fahions than blocking streets?
Hey, liar, Critical Mass has nothing to do with the subway -- they rode a group of bicycles through the streets.
> The other arrests occurred after police officers were attacked, one of whom is going to be seriously fucked up for the rest of his life.
Got any evidence for this, liar?
I saw video of the undercover cop -- who deliberately rode his bicycle into a crowd of people and started beating on them without identifying himself.
> None of those protestors would have been arrested if they stopped the violence and informed police who the criminal was.
Sorry, liar, you are so wrong.
http://www.2600.com/rnc2004/
They arrested ANYONE who was in a given block. People were NOT BREAKING ANY LAW were arrested. I saw an old woman who was doing NOTHING wrong get punched in the face by a cop.
Question -- if they were legally arresting people -- why didn't they tell them what they were charged with? Why didn't they let them call lawyers for over 24 hours?
> Another non-NY resident talking about shit he doesn't know about.
I've lived here for 20 years.
You might be a "New York City resident" but you are a bare-faced liar and I call you on it.
> Further, I can tell you that the vast majority of protestors were not city residents.
I live in New York City and that's the most ridiculous crap I've ever read. Many of my friend were arrested. Dozens if not hundreds of people I know were there. Dozens of New York City organizations representing thousands of people were there.
One of my friends were held (for well over 24 hours) with a family of French tourists who had made the terrible mistake of stepping out of their hotel while the police were rounding them up.
They were, apparently, very upset because they didn't speak English well and of course the police would not tell them what they were charged with -- or attempt to communicate with them in any way!
For some reason people think that the Republican National Convention somehow trumps the Constitution. I personally don't get it.
No doubt. I avoid doing business with criminals in general as a matter of course.
However, if everyone did this, if no one did business with them, then it'd be the end of the company.
Yes, I did read the article. Of course. Yes, I did attempt to read the patents, with I believe some success. I also read the Groklaw page with great interest.
IANAL but it appears as if any program that does any sort of ORB transaction -- or perhaps even requests a protected service from the kernel -- is at risk because of this decision.
More generally, there's "no other way to do it". IAStillNAL but I've been writing programs for 25 years now and the need to request a software service from a central program with greater privileges is inevitable -- there's basically "only one way to do it".
Such things should simply not be patentable -- like the round steering wheel. It's not defensible morally and I have no idea how they managed to defend this legally -- except for the fact that the courts must be utterly ignorant of software engineering.
Their contact form
I told them that I'd never buy another Kodak product again as long as I live... and I'm dead serious about it.
Too much text!
Quicksort is O(n log n) for "almost all" input data... it was one of the first n log n sorts, that's why it's called quicksort.
The rest of your argument is fine.
at that point I throw away my ethernet cables.
Not true, in German the verb at the end of the sentence appears.
In my smallest setup, a laptop would be the largest component, particularly since you can't stack things on top of it.
Anyone got any ideas?
But for some reason, the mainstream media in the US has chosen to simply roll over and play dead for the government. Remember all the play given to that boring and irrelevant Lewinsky case? But the fact that the government lied to get us into a war, the fact that the government has marked the enquiry on what went wrong on 9/11 as classified, crucial things involving life and death for thousands of Americans, have barely been mentioned here in the US.
You wonder whether the Republican Party doesn't simply have thousands of incriminating photographs in a file somewhere...
Apple will have to crack down on these "meta-clone" boxes.
and what will it do to the lifespan of the LED?
Seamless integration with CVS, automatic refactoring tools, incremental compilation, full integration of unit testing, plug-ins, etc, etc... you owe it to yourself to try this fantastic open-source tool. /t
Depends. There haven't been a lot of strong lyrical albums like these for quite a while -- people don't seem to actually sing songs much anymore, music with singers has become a formalized activity with no risk and therefore no value.
And the music world has been fractured -- it seems unlikely that there will be albums like Sgt. Pepper's which had profound effects on a really wide demographic.
But there have been some outstanding albums in the 80s and 90s that will pass the test of time -- you can never be sure but I'd certainly imagine they'd include work from intelligent, conceptually strong, emotional, and widely appealing artists like The Orb and Bjork (she's uneven but Vespertine is a tour de force that people will still be listening to in twenty years just like people listen to Kate Bush now) and perhaps even a few brilliant weirdos like the Butthole Surfers (who have had profound effects on more than a few people!)
I'd also add -- it's a lot harder now since most of the music that has ever been made since the dawn of time is easily available to your casual listener in a Western country. As a guitarist, you have to compete with Django Reinhardt and Jimi Hendrix as well as your contemporaries. The people who will be remembered will be the ones who made a definitive statement, who both opened and closed a new branch of music like Hendrix did. But it gets harder to do this with every new day, so your chance of making a "classic" album become less and less. Imagine a few thousand years of this in our future, where even today we have technology that can let you make practically any sound that you can conceive of -- think of how hard it will be to make any sort of original contribution to music.
Too bad for you, posterity. But at least you'll have Bach and Hendrix still to keep you company.
The article says "The 15-inch screen is all of 1.4 millimeters thick -- about the size of two quarters back-to-back," but a SINGLE quarter is 1.75mm, so says the U.S. Mint.
that's hardly a business model, now is it?
transporters and communicators?
this is getting scary!