"Supreme executive power should derive from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony."
Oops, wrong quote. "...from the barrel of a gun", right?
ROFL, very droll:)
getting back to the earlier point:
"Without doubt, they are a sovereign nation (check the history of Sealand if you don't believe me)." You are not a sovereign nation just because you say so. The only way you can get nation status is if you are officially recognized by other nations. Period. This has been proven in history time and again, and labelling a period of history either as a "revolution" or a "civil war" hinges on this one fact.
You are right to dispute this - recognition by another sovereign nation is just icing on the cake - as well as leading to a 'chicken & egg' paradox.
The only real way to support a claim to sovereign is the military will & means to back it up against all contenders.
how does this guy rate against Heinlein and Asimov?
His literary skills surpass both - although this is the first time I've come across him being compared to SF! He inhabits the strange end of literature - the only Western authors I would compare him too would be Will Self or Alisdair Gray.
He's far less formulaic than than most SF writers (although Dick, Heinlein & Asimov all have fine work to their name), the closest parallel would I can think of is JG Ballard.
If you liked "Play" can I suggest DJ Shadow's "Endtroducing?"
and if you like that might I suggest David Holmes pre-2000 work (he's got a bit dull since). I particularly recommed "Let's get Killed", "Bow Down to the Exit Sign" and "This Movie's Crap, Let's Slash the Seats" - all fine jazzy strangeness!
All of the above make "Play" seem decidedly dull. Yeah I bought it to see what the fuss was about, and figured it for a sanitized version of the genre for mass consumption.
This Napster/MP3 excitement has rather passed me by - though I've followed the discussions here with interest - since I've regularly been dropping a large chunk of my income on LPs/CDs for 20+ years. My best recommendations usually come from store staff (obviously not mainstream stores, though the HMV here in Dublin is well stocked with alternative music), who have got to know my tastes, and have the time on their hands to listen to the new releases - how much time would I have to spend surfing Napster etc. to find such gems?
... unless yourself is speaking Oirish Anglish, where myself, yourself, herself and himself are part of common speech, and they couldn't give a toss what the Anglish think;)
To over-write data, the tip makes a series of offset pits that overlap so closely their edges fill in the old pits, effectively erasing the unwanted data. More than 100,000 write/over-write cycles have demonstrated the re-write capability of this concept.
*sarcasm* Has Jon Katz started writing for the NYT?
I liked you "Well Adobe..." rant so much I've included it in a mail I've just sent to Autumn Blatchford
the only email address I could find on Adobe's site, buried in the pressroom section.
I'm sure she'd love to hear from us all...;)
I would recommend that anybody working for this company hands in their notice today, backdated to March 31. You signed a contract with them, they are using it for toilet-paper. Vote with your feet.
Yes indeedy!
What does all this.com,.co.uk,.org,.gov etc. do except make sites more difficult to find? What is wrong with http://slashdot/ ?
Mercifully www. seems to have gone out of fashion, I hope tld's go the same way.
I'll bite anyway... how can you justify this double standard?
How do you know the software wasn't knocked out one afternoon using slick generic design tools?
How do you know the musician didn't slave away in the studio for months to perfect that tune you take for granted?
Why do you assume the musician will 'smoke drugs' but the programmer won't?
If shareware is useful to me, I pay.
If I like the music, I buy the CD.
I can only assume you are familiar with the software writing process, but completely ignorant of the music creation process. While dissimilar in many respects, they both require sweat, tears & good judgement.
I've gotta agree with brunson, and I'm coming from a business analysis/programmimg perspective. Everywhere I've worked, management are constantly coming up with new ways they want to analyse their data, and hierarchical databases just aren't flexible enough to handle it. Sometime they only want to run a query ocassionally, so it does not matter that it is hideously inefficient. The development time for such analysis of a hierarchical database would usually render such requests too expensive to contemplate - and telling management "it can't be done" is a sure way to get yourself, and the hierarchical database, shown the door! And if that inefficient way of analysing the data become a regularly used feature, another index is fairly simple to add (with a slight performance hit for its maintenance, of course). Hierarchical databases suffer from the same problems as rigid Object Orientated designs, in that initial design decisions that later prove to be flawed can prove hellish to overcome.
Try messing with the ini files settings - flip flags on and off, one at a time. I had sound problems with AC, tech support were USELESS (no surprise there), but setting one of them off did the trick. Gotta wait 2 weeks over the pond for it:(
I also recall when I was living in the UK (over 10 years ago) that the commercial channels would display a little 'blip' in the extreme top left corner of the screen a few seconds (maybe 10) before commercials began, and as they were about to end. This greatly simplified the process of pausing & restarting if you were recording a show manually, and wanted to skip the ads. I guess they did this to enable regions to overlay local commercials. Anybody confirm whether they still do this?
But you agree to the license by using the software, or opening the package, or looking at the product crosswise....
I never read any EULAs. Just because they say I am agreeing to it by clicking thru it does not mean I agree to it. I have not signed any contract with them, neither have they signed a contract with me. Under natural law, this 'agreement' is just so much virtual toilet paper. I personally honor their copyright, because I believe it is a valid system, as for any books or music I buy.
National laws remain to be tested in court, but I would be surprised if any judgement conflicted with the German approach. I am speaking as an individual user, not a corporate one; but corporations would normally expect to negotiate and sign a physical contract.
I recall seeing some history program which stated that the reason for the.95 or.99 was begun by a (New York?) newspaper publisher persuading shop owners to do this so that they would have change to buy his newspaper. Unfortunately the shopkeepers liked the idea...
Since skyscrapers seem to make such easy, high density targets, I find it hard to credit anybody either wishing to work or invest in them ever again. America certainly has the landmass to make them unnecessary. If this is any sign of how conflicts will be waged in the future, sprawling or even underground complexes would make more sense. The 'wonder of the world' appeal of these phallic excesses wore off a long time ago.
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Didn't yo momma teach you any manners? Say "No, thank you".
"Supreme executive power should derive from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony." Oops, wrong quote. "...from the barrel of a gun", right?
:)
ROFL, very droll
getting back to the earlier point:
"Without doubt, they are a sovereign nation (check the history of Sealand if you don't believe me)."
You are not a sovereign nation just because you say so. The only way you can get nation status is if you are officially recognized by other nations. Period. This has been proven in history time and again, and labelling a period of history either as a "revolution" or a "civil war" hinges on this one fact.
You are right to dispute this - recognition by another sovereign nation is just icing on the cake - as well as leading to a 'chicken & egg' paradox.
The only real way to support a claim to sovereign is the military will & means to back it up against all contenders.
Yeah, like Mao said, and Washington did.
how does this guy rate against Heinlein and Asimov?
His literary skills surpass both - although this is the first time I've come across him being compared to SF! He inhabits the strange end of literature - the only Western authors I would compare him too would be Will Self or Alisdair Gray.
He's far less formulaic than than most SF writers (although Dick, Heinlein & Asimov all have fine work to their name), the closest parallel would I can think of is JG Ballard.
Warmly recommended
If you liked "Play" can I suggest DJ Shadow's "Endtroducing?"
and if you like that might I suggest David Holmes pre-2000 work (he's got a bit dull since). I particularly recommed "Let's get Killed", "Bow Down to the Exit Sign" and "This Movie's Crap, Let's Slash the Seats" - all fine jazzy strangeness!
All of the above make "Play" seem decidedly dull. Yeah I bought it to see what the fuss was about, and figured it for a sanitized version of the genre for mass consumption.
This Napster/MP3 excitement has rather passed me by - though I've followed the discussions here with interest - since I've regularly been dropping a large chunk of my income on LPs/CDs for 20+ years. My best recommendations usually come from store staff (obviously not mainstream stores, though the HMV here in Dublin is well stocked with alternative music), who have got to know my tastes, and have the time on their hands to listen to the new releases - how much time would I have to spend surfing Napster etc. to find such gems?
The movie was made during the giddy hights of hippy power, when it was obligatory to be stoned out of your gourd at all times.
For a drug-free explanation try the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
that link would be:
Living Robot Exhibition
Your friendly Karma Whore
... unless yourself is speaking Oirish Anglish, where myself, yourself, herself and himself are part of common speech, and they couldn't give a toss what the Anglish think ;)
From the article:
To erase data, a hot tip is passed over the dent, causing it to pop up:
from the IBM Research Site:
To over-write data, the tip makes a series of offset pits that overlap so closely their edges fill in the old pits, effectively erasing the unwanted data. More than 100,000 write/over-write cycles have demonstrated the re-write capability of this concept.
*sarcasm* Has Jon Katz started writing for the NYT?
hey! JonKatz ain't a looney - a plagarist maybe, but not a looney. Plus he's alot less easy to troll than RMS - a sure sign of a looney ;)
I think I'd prefer them to know what I watch, in the hope that they would put on more programs I enjoy. What's the beef?
I liked you "Well Adobe..." rant so much I've included it in a mail I've just sent to Autumn Blatchford the only email address I could find on Adobe's site, buried in the pressroom section.
I'm sure she'd love to hear from us all...;)
I would recommend that anybody working for this company hands in their notice today, backdated to March 31. You signed a contract with them, they are using it for toilet-paper. Vote with your feet.
Yes indeedy! .com, .co.uk, .org, .gov etc. do except make sites more difficult to find?
What does all this
What is wrong with http://slashdot/ ?
Mercifully www. seems to have gone out of fashion, I hope tld's go the same way.
that would be New Musical Express, an English publication, but should still be available in the US (albeit a few weeks old).
many congrats chap :)
These has to be a troll, right?
I'll bite anyway... how can you justify this double standard?
How do you know the software wasn't knocked out one afternoon using slick generic design tools?
How do you know the musician didn't slave away in the studio for months to perfect that tune you take for granted?
Why do you assume the musician will 'smoke drugs' but the programmer won't?
If shareware is useful to me, I pay.
If I like the music, I buy the CD.
I can only assume you are familiar with the software writing process, but completely ignorant of the music creation process. While dissimilar in many respects, they both require sweat, tears & good judgement.
I've gotta agree with brunson, and I'm coming from a business analysis/programmimg perspective. Everywhere I've worked, management are constantly coming up with new ways they want to analyse their data, and hierarchical databases just aren't flexible enough to handle it. Sometime they only want to run a query ocassionally, so it does not matter that it is hideously inefficient. The development time for such analysis of a hierarchical database would usually render such requests too expensive to contemplate - and telling management "it can't be done" is a sure way to get yourself, and the hierarchical database, shown the door! And if that inefficient way of analysing the data become a regularly used feature, another index is fairly simple to add (with a slight performance hit for its maintenance, of course). Hierarchical databases suffer from the same problems as rigid Object Orientated designs, in that initial design decisions that later prove to be flawed can prove hellish to overcome.
Try messing with the ini files settings - flip flags on and off, one at a time. I had sound problems with AC, tech support were USELESS (no surprise there), but setting one of them off did the trick. :(
Gotta wait 2 weeks over the pond for it
I also recall when I was living in the UK (over 10 years ago) that the commercial channels would display a little 'blip' in the extreme top left corner of the screen a few seconds (maybe 10) before commercials began, and as they were about to end. This greatly simplified the process of pausing & restarting if you were recording a show manually, and wanted to skip the ads. I guess they did this to enable regions to overlay local commercials. Anybody confirm whether they still do this?
I remember when some muppet/country star objected to 2nd hand sales of his CDs, my local Oregon record store held a CD barbequeing party...
Yeah, much kudos to the NSA becoming good netizens! A good PR move, methinks, especially now they're trying to get those naughty hackerz onside...
.sigs
I steal your
But you agree to the license by using the software, or opening the package, or looking at the product crosswise....
I never read any EULAs. Just because they say I am agreeing to it by clicking thru it does not mean I agree to it. I have not signed any contract with them, neither have they signed a contract with me. Under natural law, this 'agreement' is just so much virtual toilet paper. I personally honor their copyright, because I believe it is a valid system, as for any books or music I buy.
National laws remain to be tested in court, but I would be surprised if any judgement conflicted with the German approach. I am speaking as an individual user, not a corporate one; but corporations would normally expect to negotiate and sign a physical contract.
I recall seeing some history program which stated that the reason for the .95 or .99 was begun by a (New York?) newspaper publisher persuading shop owners to do this so that they would have change to buy his newspaper. Unfortunately the shopkeepers liked the idea...
LOL mod this up!
Since skyscrapers seem to make such easy, high density targets, I find it hard to credit anybody either wishing to work or invest in them ever again. America certainly has the landmass to make them unnecessary. If this is any sign of how conflicts will be waged in the future, sprawling or even underground complexes would make more sense. The 'wonder of the world' appeal of these phallic excesses wore off a long time ago.