blocks all incoming e-mail containing the letter P." Makes me glad I don't use it,
Wow, I'm impressed by the moral strength -- to make the decision of going through a life without the letter p, and hold on to it -- but I gotta ask, Cow Boy: Why?
What can you possibly hope to prove that E. V. Wright hasn't already in Gadsby (the book without an e)?
Last week we had an 18-month-old iBook's battery exchanged, under Apple extended warranty. (Glad we took it...) It had started to systematically go flat in about 20 minutes (of watching a dvd).
The catch is... it was (and is) still running 10.2.3. For us, that upgrade seemed to have triggered the problem.
Wild conjecture: Suppose you were Apple, and had long planned to
include tabbed browsing. (As in, you actually hired the guy who put
it into Mozilla, and then went on to do it again in Chimera.)
You could either include it right away -- and have all of us whiners
concentrate the whining on something ELSE...
...OR, you could save it for later -- and then masterfully demonstrate
how well attuned you are to user feedback!
A young idea is a beautiful and a fragile thing. Attack people, not ideas.
This sig promotes ad hominem argumentation over rational discussion. (Indeed the latter requires relentlessly criticizing ideas; only if they survive attacks are they strong enough. Science consists of trying to prove our theories wrong.)
So, I take it that I should now attack you instead of rationally criticizing your moronic sig?;-)
In systems where many people are free to choose between many options, a small subset of the whole will get a disproportionate amount of traffic (or attention, or income)
...which is probably also the reason for the unparalleled cultural uniformity of this country. (Everywhere the same fast food, same identical hotel rooms, same car shapes, same music, "choice" between 120 identical trash TV channels, same Starbucks "coffee", same news, same OS,...)
"The new law against "Unlawful use of encryption" would establish prison terms for anyone who "knowingly and willfully uses encryption technology to conceal any incriminating communication".
Inter-jurisdictional searches would become allowed in case of "suspected financing of terrorist organizations, attacks on critical infrastructure, or computer crime."
Note this is an OR, not AND... So operating a computer would be, by itself, an aggravating circumstance on par with terrorism and attcking critical infrastructure. Happy day!
Techies, professors conclude, must act more like psychoanalysts; they must learn to "appreciate the difference between what people say and what they mean."
Ouch. This guy has no idea what he's getting into. Before he knows it, he might actually get what he asked for.
Scalable Utility Vehicles? Now that would be nice. From pickup in redneck country to italian cabrio on Route 1, to big white limo as you enter NYC. Yum!
as a web developer I produce my sites on OS X, test them on XP and host them on Linux boxes so in my opinion all the OSes have something good to offer.
Great plan, you just found XP's future niche: crash testing!
Doesn't Linux run on both PowerPC and Intel hardware? Then why doesn't some enterprising individual go put together some various benchmarks comparing the two on this type of level playing field?
Because, I believe, enterprising individuals know it wouldn't be that level a playing field. Linux for PPC is a younger, less mature, and relatively resource-starved "minority" Linux platform. For instance, gcc itself produces less optimized executables for PPC -- although we're slowly getting there, with the integration of Apple's enhancements.
This is true across the board, BTW. Believe me, some of the installation headaches that were ironed out long ago on x86 (like configuring X11) are still more of a hurdle on PPC Linux. And when you run into such trouble, specific docs & howtos are harder to come by for PPC; and... etc., etc. You get the idea.
Wait a second. I thought that the proported reason the extension was to bring the US inline with the European Copyright laws. At least that was the justification the Supreme Court used...
This is part of the propaganda, but of course it's false. (I doubt it's in the supremes' opinion.)
The French reduced the term to 50 years (for books, films, music) in 1985, and so far as I understand this has been adopted across Europe. (In any event, the healthy industry of independant reissues which this decision spun also flourishes in Spain, Austria, the UK,...)
Of course as the limit now approaches the beginnings of the LP era, the RIAA is starting to call this piracy.
It should also be undestood that "Copyrights" (or "Author's rights" as they call them) have a different meaning over there. For one thing they belong to the author forever -- publishing companies cannot buy them as part of their contracts.
(The day they can be bought is probably the day we'll hear a clamor to extend them in order to "protect the artists":-)
"Many commentaries"... The sad truth is that there has been extremely little media coverage of this event.
Lessig in his blog sounds almost like there's nothing to be done. But I think there is, in fact, a lot -- just maybe not in the USA. The real battlefront is in Europe now, where a shortened copyright term of 50 years has held up since 1985. Is it in danger? This is tied with the bigger question of whether Europeans allow Bruxelles to become a business lobbying turf just like Washington.
No good reason from the customers' POV. A very good reason for the distributors, given that there is a formalised system for repeat showings of TV programms
Right. But I'm thinking also about the stuff that simply doesn't get here now(*), and could if it became a matter of only adding a subtitled or dubbed track.
(*) If you believe that what gets programmed in movie theatres or on TV here is the result of pure unadulterated supply & demand forces, think again...)
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Their "model of iraqi WMD dynamics" is eagerly awaited.
What can you possibly hope to prove that E. V. Wright hasn't already in Gadsby (the book without an e)?
Have you tried automake? (autotut, autobook)
The catch is... it was (and is) still running 10.2.3. For us, that upgrade seemed to have triggered the problem.
Right -- no question about that!
From January 9:
bug 56061 - about:about: RFE to display a clickable list of all the supported about:*
So, I take it that I should now attack you instead of rationally criticizing your moronic sig? ;-)
"Stars" aka "lowest common denominator".
SecurityFocus also has an interesting write-up;
Note this is an OR, not AND... So operating a computer would be, by itself, an aggravating circumstance on par with terrorism and attcking critical infrastructure. Happy day!jeremy lives here
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Scalable Utility Vehicles? Now that would be nice. From pickup in redneck country to italian cabrio on Route 1, to big white limo as you enter NYC. Yum!
Thanks. Your post fills a much-needed gap in the discussion.
This is true across the board, BTW. Believe me, some of the installation headaches that were ironed out long ago on x86 (like configuring X11) are still more of a hurdle on PPC Linux. And when you run into such trouble, specific docs & howtos are harder to come by for PPC; and... etc., etc. You get the idea.
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The French reduced the term to 50 years (for books, films, music) in 1985, and so far as I understand this has been adopted across Europe. (In any event, the healthy industry of independant reissues which this decision spun also flourishes in Spain, Austria, the UK,...)
Of course as the limit now approaches the beginnings of the LP era, the RIAA is starting to call this piracy.
It should also be undestood that "Copyrights" (or "Author's rights" as they call them) have a different meaning over there. For one thing they belong to the author forever -- publishing companies cannot buy them as part of their contracts.
(The day they can be bought is probably the day we'll hear a clamor to extend them in order to "protect the artists" :-)
Lessig in his blog sounds almost like there's nothing to be done. But I think there is, in fact, a lot -- just maybe not in the USA. The real battlefront is in Europe now, where a shortened copyright term of 50 years has held up since 1985. Is it in danger? This is tied with the bigger question of whether Europeans allow Bruxelles to become a business lobbying turf just like Washington.
Step 0: Profit! .NET
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Step 3:
Then we'll finally have enough .dots in the middle of all sentences that nobody knows where anything starts or ends.
(*) If you believe that what gets programmed in movie theatres or on TV here is the result of pure unadulterated supply & demand forces, think again...)