Which has, of course, nothing to do with the fact that a lot of people don't trust America or Americans. It has absolutely no relation with terrorist attacks on US targets all over the place.
If you're suggesting that terrorists target the United States because we've done something to deserve it, I suggest that you go straight to hell.
America is a terrorist target because we are a CONVENIENT SCAPEGOAT. The same way "communists" were fifty years ago. The same way "witches" were a few hundred years ago. The same way Jews have been for two thousand years.
We could change our international policies to do nothing but appease the leaders of all other nations, and there would STILL be some motherfuckers trying to blow our shit up. Do you really think those dirty assholes strapping explosives to themselves have any awareness of which international treaties are being enforced and which are ignored?
As a semi-pro musician, let me join the chorus of people saying "I don't get it" and "Why would anyone want this"?
I don't see what this thing does that couldn't be done with an off-the-shelf PC and a separate MIDI keyboard.
And to be quite honest, the Macintosh still rules the roost in the music market. Obviously this company wasn't going to be able to license a G5 to stick in their contraption, so they really didn't have a choice but to go with an Intel platform. Unfortunately, this choice is going to severely limit their market.
I'd guess '64' refers not to the processor instruction size, or the OS support for such, but rather to the sampling bit-depth of the audio subsystem -- 2^64 discrete levels of amplitude can be rendered (a little excessive if the case; most digital audio is only 2^16 or 2^24 these days, and has a normalization curve applied to it anyway)
Or, perhaps it's the maximum polyphony -- 64 simultaneous sounds can be played at once (this would be kind of low for a pro music workstation, though.)
Or maybe it's just a marketing gimmick. With music hardware, you never know.
If you give out fish and loaves no strings attached, you will help out a lot of needy people -- but you may also end up giving a free meal to an agent of the enemy, who will use the money he saved on food to buy weapons to use against you.
If you give out fish and loaves but place conditions upon who you'll give to -- you only get a meal if you agree to attend church every week -- you may avoid helping the enemy, but you also won't help as many of the legitimately needy. Assuming the enemy doesn't just lie to you and promise to comne to church, then make off with the fishes.
Which of these did Jesus do? Which kind of behavior does the BSD license encourange? Which one is closer to the GPL model?
I don't want to open the door to search engines suddenly being under a bunch of restrictions and the obligation to always provide exactly the right thing.
This ruling applies to advertising, not search engine results. Please do not confuse the issue.
"In Playboy's case, it charged Excite with trademark infringement when it sold banner ads to adult-related sites keyed to the terms "playboy" and "playmate," arguing that it created consumer confusion and diluted its trademarked names."
IANAL, but it doesn't seem to me that Excite deserves the blame. They shouldn't have to be responsible for determining which possible keywords or combinations of keywords represent potential trademark-infringing usage.
IMO it should be the company BUYING that advertising space that needs to keep its nose clean of trademark problems.
She knows nothing about technology, and rather little about business.
Oh, shut up.
You don't get to the top of Hewlett-Packard by knowing "nothing about technology, and rather little about business".
Do I think some of her initiatives are short-sighted and potentially harmful to the company? Yes I do. But I wouldn't deign to state that she is completely unqualified for the position she holds.
Just look at the physical world, good buildings, beautiful structures are around forever./i?
So obsolete buildings are never torn down and rebuilt? I guess all that footage I watched on the Discovery Channel of demolitions experts with their wrecking balls and stretegically placed dynamite was phony.
This is an older story explaining why we have such limitations in our railroad system (found many different places an versions on the internet, but is very true!). [...snip]
One of the places on the internet this story appears is here... and yet it's still "very true"?
would it be worth it if some of those tracks were replaced to support maglevs?
Unless long stretches of the track are straight or near-straight, the trains will never be able to reach their highest speeds. Most existing tracks, originally built for diesel engines hauling freight 100 years ago, are not straight enough. Even Amtrak's Acela trains, capable of impressively high speeds, cannot travel above ~60 mph for much of their routes due to the layout of the tracks they run on
Ladies and gentleman, one way or another we as a species are going to have to band together and figure out how to get off this lovely little rock we call Earth or our species will eventually go bye, bye.
So? When it happens, it happens.
Trying to escape our planet's fate is like trying to box with God, and mankind's arms are far too short.
If you compared NASA's budget from it's inception until 1980 againist the money made by all their advances. The price would be moot.
Why'd you stop at 1980? Did something fundamental change at that point?
With the amount of technological innovation in private industry these days, is there really a need to give NASA funding to develop another ballpoint pen or powdered drink mix?
Mac OS X has been a huge leap backwards in useability compared to the Classic Mas OS as designed by people who cared more about useability than "lickability."
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Which has, of course, nothing to do with the fact that a lot of people don't trust America or Americans. It has absolutely no relation with terrorist attacks on US targets all over the place.
If you're suggesting that terrorists target the United States because we've done something to deserve it, I suggest that you go straight to hell.
America is a terrorist target because we are a CONVENIENT SCAPEGOAT. The same way "communists" were fifty years ago. The same way "witches" were a few hundred years ago. The same way Jews have been for two thousand years.
We could change our international policies to do nothing but appease the leaders of all other nations, and there would STILL be some motherfuckers trying to blow our shit up. Do you really think those dirty assholes strapping explosives to themselves have any awareness of which international treaties are being enforced and which are ignored?
As a semi-pro musician, let me join the chorus of people saying "I don't get it" and "Why would anyone want this"?
I don't see what this thing does that couldn't be done with an off-the-shelf PC and a separate MIDI keyboard.
And to be quite honest, the Macintosh still rules the roost in the music market. Obviously this company wasn't going to be able to license a G5 to stick in their contraption, so they really didn't have a choice but to go with an Intel platform. Unfortunately, this choice is going to severely limit their market.
I'd guess '64' refers not to the processor instruction size, or the OS support for such, but rather to the sampling bit-depth of the audio subsystem -- 2^64 discrete levels of amplitude can be rendered (a little excessive if the case; most digital audio is only 2^16 or 2^24 these days, and has a normalization curve applied to it anyway)
Or, perhaps it's the maximum polyphony -- 64 simultaneous sounds can be played at once (this would be kind of low for a pro music workstation, though.)
Or maybe it's just a marketing gimmick. With music hardware, you never know.
If you give out fish and loaves no strings attached, you will help out a lot of needy people -- but you may also end up giving a free meal to an agent of the enemy, who will use the money he saved on food to buy weapons to use against you.
If you give out fish and loaves but place conditions upon who you'll give to -- you only get a meal if you agree to attend church every week -- you may avoid helping the enemy, but you also won't help as many of the legitimately needy. Assuming the enemy doesn't just lie to you and promise to comne to church, then make off with the fishes.
Which of these did Jesus do? Which kind of behavior does the BSD license encourange? Which one is closer to the GPL model?
I see any efforts and -contributions I end up making to [BSD] as a waste, since there's no one stopping M$ from apropriating my efforts.
So you're more concerned with hurting Microsoft than you are with helping anyone? That's a rather sad philosophy to have.
I don't want to open the door to search engines suddenly being under a bunch of restrictions and the obligation to always provide exactly the right thing.
This ruling applies to advertising, not search engine results. Please do not confuse the issue.
"In Playboy's case, it charged Excite with trademark infringement when it sold banner ads to adult-related sites keyed to the terms "playboy" and "playmate," arguing that it created consumer confusion and diluted its trademarked names."
IANAL, but it doesn't seem to me that Excite deserves the blame. They shouldn't have to be responsible for determining which possible keywords or combinations of keywords represent potential trademark-infringing usage.
IMO it should be the company BUYING that advertising space that needs to keep its nose clean of trademark problems.
If the non-Playboy site has a clearly differnet name, and there's no reasonable possibility of confusion?
I searched for the term "playboy" and this site came up. Isn't that a reasonable enough possibility of confusion?
We should go to Mars just because we can. Not because it might make economic sense or serve some social/exploratory benefits.
You should hit yourself in the face repeatedly with a brick. Because you can.
She knows nothing about technology, and rather little about business.
Oh, shut up.
You don't get to the top of Hewlett-Packard by knowing "nothing about technology, and rather little about business".
Do I think some of her initiatives are short-sighted and potentially harmful to the company? Yes I do. But I wouldn't deign to state that she is completely unqualified for the position she holds.
Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs -> Set Program Access and Defaults -> Non-Microsoft
I don't think Microsoft is adequetly doing their job.
I don't think they're at 100% yet, but they're moving in the right direction.
Are you adequately doing YOUR job to keep your system(s) secure? It's a shared responsibility.
That is crap, Im the sysadmin, I want to make sure that the system is updated NOW.
Exactly what kind of patches are you applying that it makes a difference whether it's applied now, or 15 minutes from now?
In the future, code written for windows will be written in .Net by default, and buffer overflows will pretty much go away.
In newly-written code, sure. But I bet it'll be at least 10 years before you'll be able to run a Windows desktop with NO legacy code on it.
MS is working on code signing at every level of the system. This means no more boot viruses, no more trojans.
Unless the trojans find a way to sign themselves as valid code. Think someone will eventually find a way to do that?
Those who are interested in this story may also be entertained by this week's "Bob the Angry Flower" cartoon:
Dalek Shell
Just look at the physical world, good buildings, beautiful structures are around forever./i?
So obsolete buildings are never torn down and rebuilt? I guess all that footage I watched on the Discovery Channel of demolitions experts with their wrecking balls and stretegically placed dynamite was phony.
This is an older story explaining why we have such limitations in our railroad system (found many different places an versions on the internet, but is very true!). [...snip]
One of the places on the internet this story appears is here... and yet it's still "very true"?
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would it be worth it if some of those tracks were replaced to support maglevs?
Unless long stretches of the track are straight or near-straight, the trains will never be able to reach their highest speeds. Most existing tracks, originally built for diesel engines hauling freight 100 years ago, are not straight enough. Even Amtrak's Acela trains, capable of impressively high speeds, cannot travel above ~60 mph for much of their routes due to the layout of the tracks they run on
The original Iwo Jima photo by Joe Rosenthal was faked the day after the victory.
I wouldn't exactly call a planned re-staging to be "faked", myself. It's not like the flagpole was Photoshopped in after the fact.
Then again, I'm not a photojournalist, and can't claim to speak for the ethics of such.
here comes the best thing to help that along
The best thing to help the Star Trek dream along would be FUNDING.
You can't run a space mission on lip service.
Ladies and gentleman, one way or another we as a species are going to have to band together and figure out how to get off this lovely little rock we call Earth or our species will eventually go bye, bye.
So? When it happens, it happens.
Trying to escape our planet's fate is like trying to box with God, and mankind's arms are far too short.
If you compared NASA's budget from it's inception until 1980 againist the money made by all their advances. The price would be moot.
Why'd you stop at 1980? Did something fundamental change at that point?
With the amount of technological innovation in private industry these days, is there really a need to give NASA funding to develop another ballpoint pen or powdered drink mix?
Mac OS X has been a huge leap backwards in useability compared to the Classic Mas OS as designed by people who cared more about useability than "lickability."
On the other hand, command line.
The only safe option is to not turn over information you don't want the government to have to anyone, for any reason.
Not to be glib, but... if you don't trust the government, then why the hell do you still live here?