Not just veterans. Civilian service was acceptable to confer citizenship as well.
And he's not advocating political authority should be force: He is making an observation that political authority IS force.
Why do you pay your taxes? Because if you don't, guys with guns will probably put you in jail, sooner or later.
So, again: Heinlein didn't outline a military dictatorship. He outlined a democracy where anybody could become a citizen and vote (or not! He went out of his way to specify that non-citizens were not stigmatized), but they had to serve in order to vote.
I think you're insane. Musicmatch is one of the worst packages I've ever seen. The interface is hideous, it breaks if you look at it crosswise...it's just EWW.
I was pissed that iTunes rearranged all my MP3's...until I discovered smart playlists. Now I don't care if a given track is stored on Mars...I can still play it.
You're saying the iPod sucks because it doesn't have features that are not important to you. I'm saying that the features that are important to you are (demonstrably) not important to iPod owners.
You can want whatever features you want. Nobody's telling you you ought to buy an iPod. I wouldn't put up with anything with an inferior (IMO) interface, regardless of its feature set.
iPods aren't shitty because they're popular. Your MP3 player is not shitty because it's not as popular. Quality and popularity are orthogonal.
The killer feature of iTunes and the iPod is the music database, and the smart playlist functionality. I haven't given a moment's thought to my MP3's file system structure in a year.
It wasn't something I thought I was missing until I understood it. Now, managing the contents of an MP3 player on a file by file or folder by folder basis seems like writing on wet clay with a pointy stick.
What don't you like about iTunes? I'm curious. I mean, you don't have to use the iTMS (I don't) and just because it's made by the same company as the player doesn't mean it sucks.
If "providing healthy working conditions" means that it's "harder for them to compete", then I think the government should ABSOLUTELY make it harder for them to compete.
I think it'd be better to replace "healthy" with "legal" in my first sentence. That'd be a bit more accurate.
I worked for Origin in Austin testing Wing Commander IV. We crunched for almost seven months straight. I did a short stint on the phones, and went back into another crunch project (Abuse). Another short stint on the phones, then back to WC4 Mac, and then WC4 PSX. Those last two projects were managed MUCH more sanely, and the crunch time was only on an as-needed basis, rather than a week-in week-out thing.
So EA shouldn't have to follow the law, because gosh! Economics is complicated! Good thing they've got Larry Probst, who's 100x smarter than their programmers, to guide their steps...
I'm so thrilled that you know how to consult a standard atmosphere table. Do you want a cookie?
The speed of sound has no technical significance whatsoever without knowing the temperature of the surrounding air, which is closely correlated with altitude. The speed of sound at sea level on a "standard day" is totally irrelevant to an aircraft travelling at 35,000ft.
Every airliner you've ever been in uses Mach number as its primary gauge of airspeed. Mach number is calculated based on the LOCAL speed of sound, not on the standard-day sea level values.
I've got an "election system" run by Frick and Frack, a congress populated with people who think I'm not good enough to have civil rights (although they disagree about which set they want to take away) and a President who thinks that he is bringing the Second Coming of Jesus.
In a word, I DO think it's just that bad. I DO think that we just leased a big ass new handbasket to go to Hell in on Nov. 2. I want to get off this planet and start another experiment in democracy, because we have learned all we can from this one, and it no longer belongs to us.
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I didn't know it was self aware, but I think iTunes is for managing and cataloging my collection. It's just way too useful.
I've been shopping for a good id3 tagger for years. None of them work as well as iTunes.
What does "allowed" mean?
You think there is something called "international law" that nations have to follow, right? How quaint.
Not just veterans. Civilian service was acceptable to confer citizenship as well.
And he's not advocating political authority should be force: He is making an observation that political authority IS force.
Why do you pay your taxes? Because if you don't, guys with guns will probably put you in jail, sooner or later.
So, again: Heinlein didn't outline a military dictatorship. He outlined a democracy where anybody could become a citizen and vote (or not! He went out of his way to specify that non-citizens were not stigmatized), but they had to serve in order to vote.
Makes a lot of sense to me.
Vendor lock in.
By Apple.
I mean, anything's possible, but I'm holding out for the dinosaurs attacking San Francisco.
I love my Powerbook, but it would be a freakin' MIRACLE if Apple ever has more than 10% marketshare.
What the hell are you talking about?
No.
The iTunes Music Store sells DRMed songs that can be played in iTunes.
The iTunes application itself applies zero DRM to anything ever.
Windows has UI standards? Who knew? Has anybody told Microsoft?
This will cure what ails you.
Quicksilver is one sweet app launcher. Give it a whirl.
You like Musicmatch but don't like iTunes?
I think you're insane. Musicmatch is one of the worst packages I've ever seen. The interface is hideous, it breaks if you look at it crosswise...it's just EWW.
I was pissed that iTunes rearranged all my MP3's...until I discovered smart playlists. Now I don't care if a given track is stored on Mars...I can still play it.
If you sell millions of computers, and have thousands of unhappy customers, you still have millions of satisfied customers.
If you have data to show that Apple's customer satisfaction and build quality are lower than other manufacturers', I'd love to see it.
Note: They haven't been painting powerbooks for a number of years. Mine is silver anodized aluminum.
You're making the wrong correlation.
You're saying the iPod sucks because it doesn't have features that are not important to you. I'm saying that the features that are important to you are (demonstrably) not important to iPod owners.
You can want whatever features you want. Nobody's telling you you ought to buy an iPod. I wouldn't put up with anything with an inferior (IMO) interface, regardless of its feature set.
iPods aren't shitty because they're popular. Your MP3 player is not shitty because it's not as popular. Quality and popularity are orthogonal.
The killer feature of iTunes and the iPod is the music database, and the smart playlist functionality. I haven't given a moment's thought to my MP3's file system structure in a year.
It wasn't something I thought I was missing until I understood it. Now, managing the contents of an MP3 player on a file by file or folder by folder basis seems like writing on wet clay with a pointy stick.
What don't you like about iTunes? I'm curious. I mean, you don't have to use the iTMS (I don't) and just because it's made by the same company as the player doesn't mean it sucks.
Your Neuros is also the size of a lunchbox. My iPod fits in my watch pocket.
There are other players that are more feature compliant than the iPod. I still wouldn't buy any of them.
It's obviously not a big issue to all the people who bought iPods.
You do know that lots of people have bought iPods, right?
Dumb people are entitled to use the things they purchase too.
I reject the license agreement on its face.
Everybody says that Heinlein was advocating Fascism, but I simply don't see it.
Why do you think that?
If "providing healthy working conditions" means that it's "harder for them to compete", then I think the government should ABSOLUTELY make it harder for them to compete.
I think it'd be better to replace "healthy" with "legal" in my first sentence. That'd be a bit more accurate.
Weeks? Hah! Try YEARS.
I worked for Origin in Austin testing Wing Commander IV. We crunched for almost seven months straight. I did a short stint on the phones, and went back into another crunch project (Abuse). Another short stint on the phones, then back to WC4 Mac, and then WC4 PSX. Those last two projects were managed MUCH more sanely, and the crunch time was only on an as-needed basis, rather than a week-in week-out thing.
It's gotten far, far worse since I worked there.
So EA shouldn't have to follow the law, because gosh! Economics is complicated! Good thing they've got Larry Probst, who's 100x smarter than their programmers, to guide their steps...
I'm so thrilled that you know how to consult a standard atmosphere table. Do you want a cookie?
The speed of sound has no technical significance whatsoever without knowing the temperature of the surrounding air, which is closely correlated with altitude. The speed of sound at sea level on a "standard day" is totally irrelevant to an aircraft travelling at 35,000ft.
Every airliner you've ever been in uses Mach number as its primary gauge of airspeed. Mach number is calculated based on the LOCAL speed of sound, not on the standard-day sea level values.
So. Again. You are wrong. HAND.
Yep. Porn //made// him gay. There's no way he would have learned he was gay, except for porn on the Internet.
I don't know what I was thinking. Those evil homos must be stopped from recruiting The Faithful over the Internet.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammo.
The world is definitely getting warmer. What is not clear to me is whether we can do anything about it.
Of course that's not true. It's also not true that "reducing greenhouse gas emissions is more important than anything else".
If we agree on those two statements, we can have a dialog about where the line should be drawn. If we don't, we can't.
I've got an "election system" run by Frick and Frack, a congress populated with people who think I'm not good enough to have civil rights (although they disagree about which set they want to take away) and a President who thinks that he is bringing the Second Coming of Jesus.
In a word, I DO think it's just that bad. I DO think that we just leased a big ass new handbasket to go to Hell in on Nov. 2. I want to get off this planet and start another experiment in democracy, because we have learned all we can from this one, and it no longer belongs to us.
That paperclip would have been able to tell you that you don't need an apostrophe when you are using "it" as a possessive.
And for the people who DO know how to use pivot tables (I know only enough to be dangerous) they are huge time savers.
But hey...you don't use them, so probably nobody does.