It'll take just one serious error/mallicious report/misidentification to be cause for libel and bring a suit that takes this site right out of commission.
Buy a dual-format player and let others "argue" about which format is better.
This "format war" is no different from SACD v. DVD-Audio, and surprise: there are plenty of dual-format players to choose from. Home entertainment competition is intense: more than one manufacturer will certainly support both high def video formats as well.
Gozmodo: It's sort of a big deal that Apple sued Think Secret, for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the question as to whether a blog or 'non-major website' has the same rights to protect sources that any other publishing outlet does....Our take is pretty simple: fuck 'em all--every last company....If anyone wants a place to post career-jeopardizing information, we've got no problem running it...
Sigh. Way to work against yourself. If the blog/web-publishing community wants to be respected and legally viewed as "journalists" then they need to act like journalists. IMHO, it's attitudes like these that will make that fight impossible.
A Financial Times article on "music labels" in "talks with online retailers" and their specifics consist of "has angered Steve Jobs" and no mention of the other umpteen online music retailers?
IMHO, this is a non-story meant to encourage some longs to sell post-split. MM's are so predictable.
So, it's bookilicious?
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Exultant is the second part of his Destiny's Children series (no Beyonce jokes, please).
Write your code so that it's readable (to you, now and always) and understandable (to others if it's not just yours). Really, you're not going to gain anything trying to beat the compiler these days. After your project is done, then profile: chances are your bottlenecks will be much larger in scope than whether (!ptr) of faster than (ptr == NULL).
Interestingly, an article in the Washington Post (can't find it now) mentioned that one particularly old tribe of fisherman also fled, but only after the waters receded (the ultra "low tide" effect that occurs before the tsunami hits). Apparently, folk stories passed generation-to-generation included references to ancestors who experienced tsunami. Armed with this cultural folklore, they fled while others gawked at the strange sight of the sea leaving the shore.
Although this project isn't strictly "wrapped around" (pardon the pun) Berners-Lee's semantic web, but rather an external semantic "space" defined by a conceptual foundation and then refined by users in the inteface, it still fails to address to metatag/metdata problem, namely:
1) The metadata sink. Creating an "mSpace" around classical composers is one thing. Doing the same on "quantum mechanics and philosophy" is another. As you broaden the concept, you have to depend on a more-refined framework of contextual and categorical distinctions. Eventually, you may be creating more metadata than data.
2) The metadata reflection problem. Metadata, in that it is not the data itself, cannot possibly reflect every notion, category of thought or context -- many of those things depend on the user's own interaction with the data (e.g. what you find "funny" I may find "dumb."). And, as often mentioned, metadata may in fact be missing, ouright misleading or incomplete.
IMHO, though metadata projects such as these are intriguing, the true "holy grail" of classifying data is understanding context. Thus, why worry about metadata when you have the data write there in front of you? Even a statistical anaysis of word/phrase frequency over say, 100 pages returned by Google on "quantum mechanics and philosophy" can yield concepts and connections without any metadata creation/foundation at all (i.e. the user analyzing the key words/phrases can make those connections on his/her own).
Clearly I'm biased, as I work on software for OS X that does just this, but still, I honestly believe that creating more data, just to describe what is an increasingly massive corpus (the web), is the wrong solution to the "understanding" problem.
The only thing that Richard Clark [sic] ever did was approve flights for members of Osama bin LAden's family in the US out of the US and into Saudi Arabia shortly after the attacks.
Clarke's memo to Condoleezza Rice dated January 25, 2001 shows quite plainly that Clarke was urgently asking the White House to start moving on al Qaeda eight months before 9/11. Now that it has been declassified, you can see the actual memo here. [PDF link]
That doesn't look like "BS" to me. In fact, it suggests that "his record" shows a true concern in getting the Bush administration up to speed on what he felt was a huge threat. In the memo, he says "We urgently need such a Principals level review..." Rice finally held his requested meeting on September 4, 2001.
I was on the road (eight hour trip) in December and had to respond to an important email, but I had no idea when it would arrive. I was having an ulcer just thinking about when I'd get a chance to reply.
So when I had to stop for gas in VA I spied a Panera in a strip mall ( I had never heard of them before, but the huge "WiFi access" sign in the window caught my eye): took out my laptop, checked my email, wrote my reply and sent it from the strip mall parking lot.
In other news, the parents of a Rocky Wallace, who was battered by a paddle-weilding maniac, are suing Atari, Nolan Bushnell and Steve Jobs. Asked to comment, Mr. Jobs said "Hey I'm innocent. Woz wrote Breakout, not me."
Just to expand on your point: a number of violent crimes (assault, battery) are committed by drunk people, especially domestic crimes (spousal and child abuse).
"Alcohol is associated with a substantial proportion of human violence, and perpetrators are often under the influence of alcohol." -- Eighth Special Report to the U.S. Congress on Alcohol and Health
So, it's no secret that alcohol can be abused to the detriment of society. But, the counterargument is this: most people who consume alcohol commit no crimes at all. Thus, alcohol does not cause violence, it simply makes violent people more violent.
This applies equally to movies, video games, rock/rap music and other targets of these self-proclaimed "moralists."
This kid was already violent. And mort importantly: one out of millions does not prove causation between GTA and violence.
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P.S. If I drag a hard drive to the trash, does it eject? That would be impressive. :)
If the hard drive is unmountable (i.e. not the drive from which OS X is booted), then yes, it actually does unmount when you drag its icon the trash!
It'll take just one serious error/mallicious report/misidentification to be cause for libel and bring a suit that takes this site right out of commission.
C'mon, get with the program: Millipede was announced 23 years ago.
Everyone knows inTaligent people don't make puns.
Couldn't this just be an expansion of their desktop software for managing TIVO content from your PC?
For example, here is their Max OS X version.
"Oh well, there's 6% fewer women that I won't be able not to date."
Buy a dual-format player and let others "argue" about which format is better.
This "format war" is no different from SACD v. DVD-Audio, and surprise: there are plenty of dual-format players to choose from. Home entertainment competition is intense: more than one manufacturer will certainly support both high def video formats as well.
Gozmodo:
It's sort of a big deal that Apple sued Think Secret, for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the question as to whether a blog or 'non-major website' has the same rights to protect sources that any other publishing outlet does....Our take is pretty simple: fuck 'em all--every last company....If anyone wants a place to post career-jeopardizing information, we've got no problem running it...
Sigh. Way to work against yourself. If the blog/web-publishing community wants to be respected and legally viewed as "journalists" then they need to act like journalists. IMHO, it's attitudes like these that will make that fight impossible.
Plenty of actual Mac developers would.
Wozniak does.
Woz is even contributing to the poor boy's legal fund.
No, you're thining of another case: three gentlemen who leaked a Tiger dev seed onto BitTorrent. This has nothing to do with this ThinkSecret case.
saddino writes "Steven Levy at Newsweek is reporting that Slashdot seems to favor certain stories for dupes. Is Slashdot receiving kickbacks to promote certain companies? Slashdot denies it, of course, and Levy had the good sense to ask a mathematician and a cryptographer who explained it's probably just humans finding patterns where there are none."
...is backing away from the iPod? Quick! Someone call CNet!
Sorry, color me suspicious.
A Financial Times article on "music labels" in "talks with online retailers" and their specifics consist of "has angered Steve Jobs" and no mention of the other umpteen online music retailers?
IMHO, this is a non-story meant to encourage some longs to sell post-split. MM's are so predictable.
Exultant is the second part of his Destiny's Children series (no Beyonce jokes, please).
Oops.
Write your code so that it's readable (to you, now and always) and understandable (to others if it's not just yours). Really, you're not going to gain anything trying to beat the compiler these days. After your project is done, then profile: chances are your bottlenecks will be much larger in scope than whether (!ptr) of faster than (ptr == NULL).
Concentrate and ask again.
Interestingly, an article in the Washington Post (can't find it now) mentioned that one particularly old tribe of fisherman also fled, but only after the waters receded (the ultra "low tide" effect that occurs before the tsunami hits). Apparently, folk stories passed generation-to-generation included references to ancestors who experienced tsunami. Armed with this cultural folklore, they fled while others gawked at the strange sight of the sea leaving the shore.
shit at blindingly fast speeds. Ex-cellent.
Although this project isn't strictly "wrapped around" (pardon the pun) Berners-Lee's semantic web, but rather an external semantic "space" defined by a conceptual foundation and then refined by users in the inteface, it still fails to address to metatag/metdata problem, namely:
1) The metadata sink. Creating an "mSpace" around classical composers is one thing. Doing the same on "quantum mechanics and philosophy" is another. As you broaden the concept, you have to depend on a more-refined framework of contextual and categorical distinctions. Eventually, you may be creating more metadata than data.
2) The metadata reflection problem. Metadata, in that it is not the data itself, cannot possibly reflect every notion, category of thought or context -- many of those things depend on the user's own interaction with the data (e.g. what you find "funny" I may find "dumb."). And, as often mentioned, metadata may in fact be missing, ouright misleading or incomplete.
IMHO, though metadata projects such as these are intriguing, the true "holy grail" of classifying data is understanding context. Thus, why worry about metadata when you have the data write there in front of you? Even a statistical anaysis of word/phrase frequency over say, 100 pages returned by Google on "quantum mechanics and philosophy" can yield concepts and connections without any metadata creation/foundation at all (i.e. the user analyzing the key words/phrases can make those connections on his/her own).
Clearly I'm biased, as I work on software for OS X that does just this, but still, I honestly believe that creating more data, just to describe what is an increasingly massive corpus (the web), is the wrong solution to the "understanding" problem.
The only thing that Richard Clark [sic] ever did was approve flights for members of Osama bin LAden's family in the US out of the US and into Saudi Arabia shortly after the attacks.
Clarke's memo to Condoleezza Rice dated January 25, 2001 shows quite plainly that Clarke was urgently asking the White House to start moving on al Qaeda eight months before 9/11. Now that it has been declassified, you can see the actual memo here. [PDF link]
That doesn't look like "BS" to me. In fact, it suggests that "his record" shows a true concern in getting the Bush administration up to speed on what he felt was a huge threat. In the memo, he says "We urgently need such a Principals level review..." Rice finally held his requested meeting on September 4, 2001.
So what's the "only thing" he ever did, again?
I was on the road (eight hour trip) in December and had to respond to an important email, but I had no idea when it would arrive. I was having an ulcer just thinking about when I'd get a chance to reply.
So when I had to stop for gas in VA I spied a Panera in a strip mall ( I had never heard of them before, but the huge "WiFi access" sign in the window caught my eye): took out my laptop, checked my email, wrote my reply and sent it from the strip mall parking lot.
I owe those guys one.
SCO who?
darl console Feb 13 22:09
boies ttyp1 Feb 17 11:38
In other news, the parents of a Rocky Wallace, who was battered by a paddle-weilding maniac, are suing Atari, Nolan Bushnell and Steve Jobs. Asked to comment, Mr. Jobs said "Hey I'm innocent. Woz wrote Breakout, not me."
Just to expand on your point: a number of violent crimes (assault, battery) are committed by drunk people, especially domestic crimes (spousal and child abuse).
"Alcohol is associated with a substantial proportion of human violence, and perpetrators are often under the influence of alcohol." -- Eighth Special Report to the U.S. Congress on Alcohol and Health
So, it's no secret that alcohol can be abused to the detriment of society. But, the counterargument is this: most people who consume alcohol commit no crimes at all. Thus, alcohol does not cause violence, it simply makes violent people more violent.
This applies equally to movies, video games, rock/rap music and other targets of these self-proclaimed "moralists."
This kid was already violent. And mort importantly: one out of millions does not prove causation between GTA and violence.
Careful, he'll just call the cops from work and say "My clone has broken into my house...please arrest him."
Wired: Student Clones