one of the cool things about this new theory is that we will be able to experimentally differentiate between it and the big bang theory within ten years or so.
I like mp3.com too and love discovering all those different artists, yet the site's owned by the same Universal who want to shaft the hell out of us with their discs. Something doesn't seem right here, but I'm stoned if I know what it is. What's the deal?
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*If you remove all the English words from that post, you get...
I just have to know: have any administrators that you know of actually done "format c:/u" thinking it would do something other than wipe their Win partition clean?
...and I'd gladly forego all other features to get it, is the ability to store my messages in my normal file system structure instead of having what amounts to a self-contained file system built into the mail client. If I receive letters at home, I don't file them in a separate filing cabinet reserved for letters only, and I expect the same from my mail client. Eudora almost does what I want (in that I can transfer a whole mailbox to my normal file system hierarchy and still read its contents), but it doesn't go far enough, because 1) unless the mailbox is in the Eudora mail folder, I can't actually store mails in it, and 2) I want any attachments to be stored in the same folder as the mail and for the link to them to still work.
I run my own business, and I want all the documents related a specific customer order to be in the same folder, including e-mails and e-mail attachments. I would have thought that was a simple and intuitive thing to implement, but I haven't yet found a client that does it.
Well, I see it's time to get picky (though not all the way through)...
A Hindu is someone who practises the religion of Hinduism. Hindi is the main official language of India.
Hindi uses the Devanagari script. Like scores of other Indian languages (Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, more...) as well as Tibetan and Khmer, it uses an alphabet derived from the ancient Brahmi alphabet, which, it's true, has many more letters than the latin alphabet due to its combined vowel/consonant variants, but still has a manageable number compared with Chinese or Japanese ideogrammes.
As an aside, Brahmi-related alphabets have an alphabetical order which actually means something: the alphabet is in fact two-dimensional rather than linear and a symbol's position in the grid reflects the tongue and lip positions and/or movements adopted when pronouncing it.
Urdu is fundamentally the same language as Hindi but uses a Perso-Arabic derived script, which means it's not much more complicated to read than English. However, even in its printed form it is very cursive, leading to many combinations of strokes that would probably make machine reading a lot harder.
Well, we all have our opinions but that's something I would certainly not like to happen. I won't start re-igniting all the pros and cons of the EU here. All I'll say is that there are certain of the bigger EU nations who only want to do it their way -- not because it's of any proven benefit but because its their dogma -- and I don't see that dogma going away. The EU is not particularly well known for its pragmatism.
No other nation can match our economic and technological superiority (maybe the European Union will within a few years, but time will tell). Hate to have to tell you this but here in Europe we are not one nation but fifteen nations. Doesn't that make you feel proud?
A car seems to me to be pretty much a dedicated device for getting from A to B. I imagine few people buy cars because it's a great place to use an alarm. If a boiler has an OS in a ROM chip and the boiler gives users a full and rewarding water-heating experience, you're right, they won't cry out for it to be replaceable. Why should they -- the boiler's doing everything they expect it to (I've yet to hear of anyone wanting to browse the web on a boiler). But when people buy personal computers, they expect (or ought to expect) them to do a whole variety of things -- maybe things that no one ehas even thought of yet. Yes, some of these things might be kindly provided by the OS supplier. So what's the OS supplier selling then? A product that turn bits of electrified silicon into a web-browsing home entertainment center (which just happens to be able to do word processing and search for extraterrestrial life if you modify it)? or into the all purpose machine it's supposed to be and which just happens to browse the web and play music?
Think of Windows as _the_ product. Think of Photoshop, Quicken, Acrobat, etc. as "modifications" to that system.
Last I heard, people bought computers to run tasks, not to run operating systems. Which part of the operating system do Photoshop, Quicken, or Acrobat replace? How come Acrobat works on other platforms too?
In other news today, McDonalds and Apple both filed suit against each other in different venus regarding the trademark "Mc" and "Mac." It is McDonald's position that Apple be enjoined from using the trademark "Mac" as it is too similar to McDonalds own trademark "Mc" and that people may confuse Apple products with McDonald's products. Attorneys for McDonalds were especially concerned with the possibilities inherent in the confusion of McDonald's "BIG MAC" and Apple's "MAC PLUS." Said one, "Can you imagine the lawsuit possibilities if a McDonalds customer were to break some teeth biting down on a MAC PLUS?"
In another court, Apple lawyers moved to prevent McDonalds from using the "Mc" trademark because it was too similar to Apple's own "Mac" trademark and that customers may confuse the two companies' products. Of particular concern to Apple attorneys was the possible confusion between McDonald's "BIG MAC" and Apple's "MAC PLUS." Said an attorney for Apple, "Can you imagine the damage that might be done if a user were to attempt to load a $750 copy of Pagemaker into a BIG MAC?"
Both Apple and McDonalds refused comment on the other's lawsuits beyond the regret that ours is such a litigious society.
Is there any special reason all these key lengths are always powers of two? Does it have some sort of inherent advantage or is it just people's being geeky?
Give me a break with your "virii". As if it wasn't bad enough using the word instead of "viruses", now you feel you've got to use it in the singular too. If you're so determined to speak geek just call the fucking things "viren" and get it over with.
...with Altavista is that it insists in giving me the friggin home page in French.
OK, OK, I admit I live in France and speak French, so it's not mortal; but Google has a way of turning the French off whereas Altavista doesn't -- or if it does it makes a bloody good job of hiding it.
Lawmakers must choose between public good and corporate good, and since corporations pay for their reelections, they help their donors. The catch is that a bad economy is bad for getting reelected...
I think a big problem with that argument is that often bad_effect_on_the_economy_lag_time >= time_between_elections
The article talks about DMDA but links to something called the "Portable and Networked Audio Device Manufacturers Association" (though it qualifies this latter name with "as it has been temporarily dubbed").
Anyway, assuming we're talking about the same beast in both cases, this passage:
Co-organizer White said the group will take up where SDMI left off on portable devices but that it will work to avoid the mistakes that SDMI made.
The group "isn't a redo of SDMI," said White, who will be the new group's executive director.
Industry observers believe that SDMI grew too large for its structure and had too diverse a membership base to agree on anything. For instance, the group could not reach consensus on a standard framework for digital audio content protection for portable devices.
That was because the record labels held so much power in the group that their concerns about content piracy became the priority, some observers claim. SDMI became inactive shortly after executive director Leonardo Chiariglione left in January 2001.
(bold letters are mine)
This doesn't strike me as a 100% Bad Thing.
First because there is no way a computer can be described as a "portable" nor as a "networked" audio device. Sure it can be used as one, but it would be unreasonable to describe it as such since plenty of computers are neither portable nor networked. Second, they implicitly state that piracy/sucking up to the record companies is not their priority. If you read the rest of the two articles, the accent is by far and away on interoperability.
So if there's really a need for an association to get involved with this sort of thing, this one seems to have as a good a perspective as you could hope for on the matter.
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How about that for a sign that's open to misinterpretation. "Lousy place for littering" might be more understandable.
one of the cool things about this new theory is that we will be able to experimentally differentiate between it and the big bang theory within ten years or so.
Provided the universe lasts that long, of course.
I like mp3.com too and love discovering all those different artists, yet the site's owned by the same Universal who want to shaft the hell out of us with their discs. Something doesn't seem right here, but I'm stoned if I know what it is. What's the deal?
IYRATEWFTPYG*
V DR KDEPCDVB
VDRGPLVDRTVDVBTVVDRMP3DVDOSDLIRCsshWWWcgiTVv4lK
*If you remove all the English words from that post, you get...
I just have to know: have any administrators that you know of actually done "format c: /u" thinking it would do something other than wipe their Win partition clean?
...and I'd gladly forego all other features to get it, is the ability to store my messages in my normal file system structure instead of having what amounts to a self-contained file system built into the mail client. If I receive letters at home, I don't file them in a separate filing cabinet reserved for letters only, and I expect the same from my mail client. Eudora almost does what I want (in that I can transfer a whole mailbox to my normal file system hierarchy and still read its contents), but it doesn't go far enough, because 1) unless the mailbox is in the Eudora mail folder, I can't actually store mails in it, and 2) I want any attachments to be stored in the same folder as the mail and for the link to them to still work.
I run my own business, and I want all the documents related a specific customer order to be in the same folder, including e-mails and e-mail attachments. I would have thought that was a simple and intuitive thing to implement, but I haven't yet found a client that does it.
Well, I see it's time to get picky (though not all the way through)...
A Hindu is someone who practises the religion of Hinduism. Hindi is the main official language of India.
Hindi uses the Devanagari script. Like scores of other Indian languages (Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, more...) as well as Tibetan and Khmer, it uses an alphabet derived from the ancient Brahmi alphabet, which, it's true, has many more letters than the latin alphabet due to its combined vowel/consonant variants, but still has a manageable number compared with Chinese or Japanese ideogrammes.
As an aside, Brahmi-related alphabets have an alphabetical order which actually means something: the alphabet is in fact two-dimensional rather than linear and a symbol's position in the grid reflects the tongue and lip positions and/or movements adopted when pronouncing it.
Urdu is fundamentally the same language as Hindi but uses a Perso-Arabic derived script, which means it's not much more complicated to read than English. However, even in its printed form it is very cursive, leading to many combinations of strokes that would probably make machine reading a lot harder.
What the hell's this doing here? I was reading slashback when I hit reply :-/
Since everyone seems to be having trouble getting through, here's the Google cache.
Well, we all have our opinions but that's something I would certainly not like to happen. I won't start re-igniting all the pros and cons of the EU here. All I'll say is that there are certain of the bigger EU nations who only want to do it their way -- not because it's of any proven benefit but because its their dogma -- and I don't see that dogma going away. The EU is not particularly well known for its pragmatism.
we have perhaps the second longest-lasting representative republic (the first being Great Britain) in the world
:-)
I think you've skimped a bit on your research there. I'll leave it to you to find the three errors. Good job you said "perhaps"
No other nation can match our economic and technological superiority (maybe the European Union will within a few years, but time will tell).
Hate to have to tell you this but here in Europe we are not one nation but fifteen nations. Doesn't that make you feel proud?
A car seems to me to be pretty much a dedicated device for getting from A to B. I imagine few people buy cars because it's a great place to use an alarm.
If a boiler has an OS in a ROM chip and the boiler gives users a full and rewarding water-heating experience, you're right, they won't cry out for it to be replaceable. Why should they -- the boiler's doing everything they expect it to (I've yet to hear of anyone wanting to browse the web on a boiler).
But when people buy personal computers, they expect (or ought to expect) them to do a whole variety of things -- maybe things that no one ehas even thought of yet. Yes, some of these things might be kindly provided by the OS supplier. So what's the OS supplier selling then? A product that turn bits of electrified silicon into a web-browsing home entertainment center (which just happens to be able to do word processing and search for extraterrestrial life if you modify it)? or into the all purpose machine it's supposed to be and which just happens to browse the web and play music?
I would personally pay a nominal fee per month (say, $19.95) to be able to download high-quality MP3's that are legal and licensed.
I'd pay even more: I'd even go as high as $20.00!
Think of Windows as _the_ product. Think of Photoshop, Quicken, Acrobat, etc. as "modifications" to that system.
Last I heard, people bought computers to run tasks, not to run operating systems. Which part of the operating system do Photoshop, Quicken, or Acrobat replace? How come Acrobat works on other platforms too?
Both Apple and McDonalds refused comment on the other's lawsuits beyond the regret that ours is
such a litigious society.
No shite?
BeOS rocks, I hope this new system has the stability & speed that it's predecessor (sp?) had.
Are you sure you didn't mean "BeOS rocks, I hope this new system has the stability & speed that it's (sp?) predecessor had."
;-)
Is there any special reason all these key lengths are always powers of two? Does it have some sort of inherent advantage or is it just people's being geeky?
*Shut the fuck up and bend over.
Think about this, there is some million ex-Napster/Morpheus etc. users out there who will oppose this bill if only we can reach them.
Trouble is, you may well have to go outside the US to reach most of them.
Give me a break with your "virii". As if it wasn't bad enough using the word instead of "viruses", now you feel you've got to use it in the singular too. If you're so determined to speak geek just call the fucking things "viren" and get it over with.
...with Altavista is that it insists in giving me the friggin home page in French.
OK, OK, I admit I live in France and speak French, so it's not mortal; but Google has a way of turning the French off whereas Altavista doesn't -- or if it does it makes a bloody good job of hiding it.
Lawmakers must choose between public good and corporate good, and since corporations pay for their reelections, they help their donors. The catch is that a bad economy is bad for getting reelected...
I think a big problem with that argument is that often bad_effect_on_the_economy_lag_time >= time_between_elections
Anyway, assuming we're talking about the same beast in both cases, this passage:
(bold letters are mine)
This doesn't strike me as a 100% Bad Thing.
First because there is no way a computer can be described as a "portable" nor as a "networked" audio device. Sure it can be used as one, but it would be unreasonable to describe it as such since plenty of computers are neither portable nor networked.
Second, they implicitly state that piracy/sucking up to the record companies is not their priority. If you read the rest of the two articles, the accent is by far and away on interoperability.
So if there's really a need for an association to get involved with this sort of thing, this one seems to have as a good a perspective as you could hope for on the matter.
Or am I just being naive?