I suggest not downloading / pirating the media in question. Don't give them any scapegoats, and besides, it shows that you don't have to have the media.
If I understand right, the advertisers are the ones intended to be doing the paying, though with lots of media, both advertisers and the end user pay, which seems to be double charging in some ways. Cable, satellite and magazines have so many ads that the standard stuff probably should be free.
I don't think it will work well that way though. The only one I listen to that has ads is Inside Mac Radio, and I think that is a consession to the fact that the main show is a broadcast, and that those involved need to justify the time it takes to do the work. I don't think the owner of that program would resort to this tracking stuff either.
Maybe you missed the connection that the Space shuttle is a government vehicle, and is not accepting or launching commercial payload? Actually, it's not launching anything right now.
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Therefore US government is saying they have put a foreign corporation (Blackberry LTD) in the critical path of essential government communication.
Actually, given the history, I don't see that as a problem. The Crackberries were supposedly the most effective means of communication between many Federal employees following the 9/11 disaster after many other means of communication had failed or was gridlocked. It was successful enough that they've expanded their purchasing of the devices.
I don't believe for a moment that Microsoft would ever consider being the "savior" of consumer rights. As it is, they too are offering plenty of tools operating around their own DRM so makers can restrict what users can do with what they paid for.
There is a problem of support, a lot of people screwed up their routers and Linksys had been replacing. If they can halve their support costs, using a proprietery firmware could save them money.
From the feature standpoint, the upgraded firmware is very nice, but the hardware isn't all that reliable, and thus not a total replacement for a commercial grade router or a PC with Linux.
With respect to capacitors, I don't think it makes any difference, new or old, one of the cap manufacturers blamed for problems this time had a very solid, long standing track record.
How is that pronounced? I've heard it pronounced as if the "w" isn't there, but I was never taught or heard of a silent 'w' rule for English words or names. Also, I think it is Greenwich, but still seemed to be pronounced as if it was a single short 'e' and not like the long 'e' that I am used to for 'green'.
AMD, on the other hand, uses a P-number which is directly comparable across processor lines and uses an established standard of a 1GHz Athlon Thunderbird = P1000.
Where did this come from? I went to a presentation by an AMD engineer a couple years ago and he did not say it was this way. He said it was a comparison against the clock speed of Intel's prevailing product, that a 3000+ was supposed to be roughly equivalent (on average, based on an average of a large number of benchmarks) to a 3.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4.
Maps like these have been around for ages, but slap them on a LCD projector and have some guy stand in front of front of it to project a cool looking shadow and you have a news story.
Not just any LCD projector. This is 18 megapixel display made possible by an (IMO) impressive projector array.
A permanent static IP, if you mean by public IP for everything would screw up routing, especially if you switch ISPs. What is the problem with getting a domain?
Why does every device you own have to have a publicly accessible IP? I know I wouldn't want my network storage or printers to be publicly accessible, the same would go for my appliances, I'd rather have a single check point so I can restrict that anyway.
Americans already have a word for stylized picture-panel drawings. That word is comics. I see no need to borrow a word to replace what we already have. I see using "manga" on an American comic is simply a lame marketing attempt to latch onto something that's "hip" or "cool", despite being neither, all while diluting a loan word that fans have used to mean "japanese comics" as a short hand to identify what they like, same with "anime". Technically, in Japanese all animation is "anime", just that English-speaking fans have used it as a short hand for "Japanese animation".
Heck, some companies have even resorted to crying racism when they find they can't market non-Japanese products using a Japanese word in non-Japanese lands, which I think is unfortunate. The fact that I like Japanese comics doesn't mean that I think Japanese people are superior, I just happen to like their comics. I don't think Americans or Korean people as inferior, just that most of their comics aren't to my tastes.
Peach Fuzz is nice, but I don't call it manga, there's more to manga than just a drawing style, with Japanese comics, there's a whole different culture involved that simply copying a stereotype generally results in a woefully inferior product.
The last thing you want on your cruise ship is a firefight with tourists getting caught in the crossfire.
In this case, an unarmed ship got fired upon and was struck with an RPG, it was too late, passengers were already endangered. I don't think this is sufficient justification to simply let the criminals have their way.
And honestly piracy isn't exactly a safe job. I know everyone likes to think "the bad guys" are cowards at heart, but if you're a desperate criminal who makes a living with his AK-47 you're probably expecting to run into resistance occasionally, so it's not like this would scare you off.
I don't know if that's true. I would think the fact that every private cruise ship is a) basically unarmed and b) is a floating wealth barge filled with wussy people basically attracts flies.
The problem is that the style of American "manga" is generally a stereotypical view of manga drawing styles. Sure, a lot of manga do follow the stereotype, alot don't. Besides, my understanding of the meaning of manga as a loan word in English always coincided with the origin, it doesn't make much sense to me to use a foreign loan word to describe a domestic product which there already exists a perfectly fine word - comic.
The flaws are where the interesting stuff lies, but then, what happens here is that they are effectively asking that children to be taught "there are flaws in the theory, therefore it's total bunk and can not possibly be true".
Also, it is working from a warped definition of theory, the Dover statement said something to the effect that because it is a theory, it's not true. The problem with that statement is that a theory might be true, might not be true or partially true and partially false. Waving it off as "just a theory" is pretty dangerous especially because they replace it with something that has far less backing from evidence, as well as substituting a much greater unknown, that being, "who is the designer?". Then that generally leads into the metaphysical or supernatural, which is not science.
There is a current trend where schools think they have authority outside of school hours/property. As a parent I feel that it is NONE of the schools buisness what my child does outside of school period.
In general principle, I do agree. I think a pretty clear exception to your statement would be school sponsored events, such as sports, band, field trips and such.
I personally had thought that cruise ships in contested areas would want to carry a very small contingent of military personell that would take the fight to pirates. I would think that a few stories about high-seas pirate ships being sunk by an RPG or two would probably help deter further incidents.
I'm not sure if puting the PCIe bus on a chip is a good idea for a general purpose CPU, but then, I've been wrong about stuff like this. I didn't think that puting a memory bus on a general purpose CPU was a good idea either, but apparently, it worked out pretty well.
I think the Alpha EV8 was supposed to have a built-in network interface, I don't know what sort of network interface it was supposed to be though, if it was Gigabit ethernet, 10Gig ethernet or just a generic processor network. Projects are underway to put network on other CPUs, the PASemi project is supposed to be one.
I have multiple computers, and I did buy a Mac this year. I am not getting rid of my Windows computers yet. In terms of ease of learning and ease of maintainance, OS X is certainly better than Windows. That said, I don't like the text editing conventions and other things in OS X. For one, I really like using "home" and "end" to get to the start and end of a line. Command-arrow isn't as good, two keys instead of one, IMO, and if I fall back to my "Windows mode", I suddenly lose my locatin in a document by going to the beginning and end of a document. If I wanted that, I would have no problem with command-home or command-end, which is safer, IMO. It is a lot of other little things here and there that just irritate me.
I don't like the Unix conventions of Linux that much either, many of them are throwbacks to 84 key keyboards, thus effectively ignoring the extra 20+ keys on the keyboard.
On the flip side, I had an English teacher in high school that went to Catholic schools and had never heard of evolution until she went to college. She said that she was completely caught off guard.
Why would you care about any of these in the context of home usage?
I don't think it makes sense either. Portable video is good for many down-time situations away from home, just about anything short of operating a vehicle. Waiting for a ride, riding subways, busses, airplanes and so on.
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I suggest not downloading / pirating the media in question. Don't give them any scapegoats, and besides, it shows that you don't have to have the media.
If I understand right, the advertisers are the ones intended to be doing the paying, though with lots of media, both advertisers and the end user pay, which seems to be double charging in some ways. Cable, satellite and magazines have so many ads that the standard stuff probably should be free.
I don't think it will work well that way though. The only one I listen to that has ads is Inside Mac Radio, and I think that is a consession to the fact that the main show is a broadcast, and that those involved need to justify the time it takes to do the work. I don't think the owner of that program would resort to this tracking stuff either.
Maybe you missed the connection that the Space shuttle is a government vehicle, and is not accepting or launching commercial payload? Actually, it's not launching anything right now.
Therefore US government is saying they have put a foreign corporation (Blackberry LTD) in the critical path of essential government communication.
Actually, given the history, I don't see that as a problem. The Crackberries were supposedly the most effective means of communication between many Federal employees following the 9/11 disaster after many other means of communication had failed or was gridlocked. It was successful enough that they've expanded their purchasing of the devices.
I don't believe for a moment that Microsoft would ever consider being the "savior" of consumer rights. As it is, they too are offering plenty of tools operating around their own DRM so makers can restrict what users can do with what they paid for.
There is a problem of support, a lot of people screwed up their routers and Linksys had been replacing. If they can halve their support costs, using a proprietery firmware could save them money.
From the feature standpoint, the upgraded firmware is very nice, but the hardware isn't all that reliable, and thus not a total replacement for a commercial grade router or a PC with Linux.
With respect to capacitors, I don't think it makes any difference, new or old, one of the cap manufacturers blamed for problems this time had a very solid, long standing track record.
Grenwich
How is that pronounced? I've heard it pronounced as if the "w" isn't there, but I was never taught or heard of a silent 'w' rule for English words or names. Also, I think it is Greenwich, but still seemed to be pronounced as if it was a single short 'e' and not like the long 'e' that I am used to for 'green'.
AMD, on the other hand, uses a P-number which is directly comparable across processor lines and uses an established standard of a 1GHz Athlon Thunderbird = P1000.
Where did this come from? I went to a presentation by an AMD engineer a couple years ago and he did not say it was this way. He said it was a comparison against the clock speed of Intel's prevailing product, that a 3000+ was supposed to be roughly equivalent (on average, based on an average of a large number of benchmarks) to a 3.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4.
Maps like these have been around for ages, but slap them on a LCD projector and have some guy stand in front of front of it to project a cool looking shadow and you have a news story.
Not just any LCD projector. This is 18 megapixel display made possible by an (IMO) impressive projector array.
A permanent static IP, if you mean by public IP for everything would screw up routing, especially if you switch ISPs. What is the problem with getting a domain?
Why does every device you own have to have a publicly accessible IP? I know I wouldn't want my network storage or printers to be publicly accessible, the same would go for my appliances, I'd rather have a single check point so I can restrict that anyway.
Advocating, promoting, etc. of violence isn't protected speech.
If it ain't American it ain't rock-and-roll?
Americans already have a word for stylized picture-panel drawings. That word is comics. I see no need to borrow a word to replace what we already have. I see using "manga" on an American comic is simply a lame marketing attempt to latch onto something that's "hip" or "cool", despite being neither, all while diluting a loan word that fans have used to mean "japanese comics" as a short hand to identify what they like, same with "anime". Technically, in Japanese all animation is "anime", just that English-speaking fans have used it as a short hand for "Japanese animation".
Heck, some companies have even resorted to crying racism when they find they can't market non-Japanese products using a Japanese word in non-Japanese lands, which I think is unfortunate. The fact that I like Japanese comics doesn't mean that I think Japanese people are superior, I just happen to like their comics. I don't think Americans or Korean people as inferior, just that most of their comics aren't to my tastes.
Peach Fuzz is nice, but I don't call it manga, there's more to manga than just a drawing style, with Japanese comics, there's a whole different culture involved that simply copying a stereotype generally results in a woefully inferior product.
The last thing you want on your cruise ship is a firefight with tourists getting caught in the crossfire.
In this case, an unarmed ship got fired upon and was struck with an RPG, it was too late, passengers were already endangered. I don't think this is sufficient justification to simply let the criminals have their way.
And honestly piracy isn't exactly a safe job. I know everyone likes to think "the bad guys" are cowards at heart, but if you're a desperate criminal who makes a living with his AK-47 you're probably expecting to run into resistance occasionally, so it's not like this would scare you off.
I don't know if that's true. I would think the fact that every private cruise ship is a) basically unarmed and b) is a floating wealth barge filled with wussy people basically attracts flies.
The problem is that the style of American "manga" is generally a stereotypical view of manga drawing styles. Sure, a lot of manga do follow the stereotype, alot don't. Besides, my understanding of the meaning of manga as a loan word in English always coincided with the origin, it doesn't make much sense to me to use a foreign loan word to describe a domestic product which there already exists a perfectly fine word - comic.
The flaws are where the interesting stuff lies, but then, what happens here is that they are effectively asking that children to be taught "there are flaws in the theory, therefore it's total bunk and can not possibly be true".
Also, it is working from a warped definition of theory, the Dover statement said something to the effect that because it is a theory, it's not true. The problem with that statement is that a theory might be true, might not be true or partially true and partially false. Waving it off as "just a theory" is pretty dangerous especially because they replace it with something that has far less backing from evidence, as well as substituting a much greater unknown, that being, "who is the designer?". Then that generally leads into the metaphysical or supernatural, which is not science.
There is a current trend where schools think they have authority outside of school hours/property. As a parent I feel that it is NONE of the schools buisness what my child does outside of school period.
In general principle, I do agree. I think a pretty clear exception to your statement would be school sponsored events, such as sports, band, field trips and such.
I personally had thought that cruise ships in contested areas would want to carry a very small contingent of military personell that would take the fight to pirates. I would think that a few stories about high-seas pirate ships being sunk by an RPG or two would probably help deter further incidents.
I'm not sure if puting the PCIe bus on a chip is a good idea for a general purpose CPU, but then, I've been wrong about stuff like this. I didn't think that puting a memory bus on a general purpose CPU was a good idea either, but apparently, it worked out pretty well.
I think the Alpha EV8 was supposed to have a built-in network interface, I don't know what sort of network interface it was supposed to be though, if it was Gigabit ethernet, 10Gig ethernet or just a generic processor network. Projects are underway to put network on other CPUs, the PASemi project is supposed to be one.
Yeah, that's pretty Goofy!
I have multiple computers, and I did buy a Mac this year. I am not getting rid of my Windows computers yet. In terms of ease of learning and ease of maintainance, OS X is certainly better than Windows. That said, I don't like the text editing conventions and other things in OS X. For one, I really like using "home" and "end" to get to the start and end of a line. Command-arrow isn't as good, two keys instead of one, IMO, and if I fall back to my "Windows mode", I suddenly lose my locatin in a document by going to the beginning and end of a document. If I wanted that, I would have no problem with command-home or command-end, which is safer, IMO. It is a lot of other little things here and there that just irritate me.
I don't like the Unix conventions of Linux that much either, many of them are throwbacks to 84 key keyboards, thus effectively ignoring the extra 20+ keys on the keyboard.
I don't understand the claim of overinflated profits if MS will likely be bleeding for a good while.
That said, I'd say just don't buy this if they are going to toy with the buyers like this.
On the flip side, I had an English teacher in high school that went to Catholic schools and had never heard of evolution until she went to college. She said that she was completely caught off guard.
Why would you care about any of these in the context of home usage?
I don't think it makes sense either. Portable video is good for many down-time situations away from home, just about anything short of operating a vehicle. Waiting for a ride, riding subways, busses, airplanes and so on.
Of course, taking a book along is less costly.
Is Zonk using ScuttleMonkey's account, or do they channel each other when they rubber-stamp their approval on story submissions?