...that this is one of our most important allies in the war on terror. I wonder how much of the billions we give them will be spent on this while we stand idly by. Remember the US of A and its allies have carte blanche to do what we tell others is wrong. Greed and hypocracy make the world go 'round.
NGC here has a good article. One of the issues though again is cheaper labor and lax restrictions in China. Processing rare earths is labor intensive and can generate toxic and radioactive by-products which are fare more expensive to deal with in our regulatory system from an environmental and worker safety perspective.
...that Astrolabe could not claim to hold copyright on facts such as when the sun rises. What TFA fails to state is that this is because Apples owns the patent on it.
I posted the above not having read the entire order, just scanning it, but it appears that he was under an order not to cause mental anguish, harass or annoy his wife, and the wall posts were found to violate that specific order. Especially as some of his facebook friends were adding fuel to the fire. I don't agree but that is spelled out in the order.
TFA appears to have been removed, all I can find are/. copiers, except for this on the TFA site. It is a scan of the protective order and includes domestic abuse allegations and some of the text from the facebook wall posts.
Mostly SMALL remote control and semi autonomois craft doing things to each other. Since we cannot seem to to get humans out of LEO.
And space opera comes to slashdot.
Large apps may take time to load. Smartphones/tablets don't have huge apps like premier/photoshop.
I would rather have my entire program available after a short splash, then be waiting on parts for a possibly non-existent cloud sync if I have a dead connection. I rely on my programs to work, consistently, with all features, at all times.
....when African Bees got released into the wild in N/S America? Now we can have swarms of mass produced robot bees? I'm telling ya, the Mayan's are looking smarter and smarter by the day.
Not only without due process, but because of a party unrelated to your business's actions. That would never have affected you had you not been in the cloud. And this even though the service provider in this case appeared to perform due-diligence to prevent illegal activity in the first place.
All the talk of what happens when your data is in the cloud and the business is sold or shutters itself, here is another example. Not only do you have to worry about your dates security and availability for those reasons, now the feds can shut down a service you may use for god knows what important aspects of your business, but you can bet your perfectly legal and confidential business records are now available to the feds sans-warrant. Yeah, cloud computing is the end-all be-all. Think again, get the buzz words out of your head, and your head out of the 'cloud'.
IANAL But I don't think they don't have grounds to prosecute. A federal prosecutor would have to file charges for a criminal proceeding to take place. What US Attorney is going to file criminal charges against another branch? Probably not many.
First it was supposed to be one book; then Tor realized they could go the Harry Pothead/Twitlight direction and 'enhance their revenue' by splitting it into three. OK, whatever.
Then, they push the publish date of the second book back to coincide with the Christmas holiday (because, you know, the people who haven't read the other 11 books at this point are TOTALLY going to buy this one for Christmas anyway!), even though Sanderson had the book finished and edited by the end of July. Oh yea, and no eBook; 'fuck you, Jordan fans!' Well, shit. Whatever.
Finally, they tell us the final book, which some people (my wife) have been waiting over a decade for, will come out in Summer 2011... no, Fall 2011... wait, make that Holiday 2011... just kidding, really it will be spring 2012... OK, Fall 2012... now Spring 20-fucking-13??? Fuck you to, Tor. Fuck you right up your greedy goatse asses.
I swear, if Tor published anything else actually worth reading, I'd be seriously considering a boycott at this point.
Eh, I have to disagree. I do not care who the author is, to close a series off as convoluted and with as many sub-plots and arcs as the Wheel of Time in a satisfactory way would take more than one book. That is the fault of the previous author, not Sanderson. Sanderson is actually doing an excellent job of finishing the series. I started reading it with the wonder and suspension of disbelief I had early in the series, rather than the tedium of the latter half.
Besides, if you really want to wait ages for books in a series, pick up the George R. R. Martin books. Excellent books, but what was it, a 5 year wait between Feast for Crows and Dance With Dragons? Really? When half or more of 'Dance' was cut out of 'Feast' for length reasons?
I agree completely. The series started with so much promise, but Jordan continued to open plot-line after plot-line while rarely resolving anything. By the time I realized that I was so invested in the series I had to continue ans there were elements of excellence, and I wanted to know how things ended.
All told though it should be a huge improvement over Goodkind. That series started well, and had a couple of amazing books. However the last several books got so repetitive as to be annoying. It seemed like a contest to see how many characters could say the same thing in 100 different ways in each chapter.
One can also hope that the ending is better as Goodkind copped out with the oh, I am an all powerful war wizard I can do anything ending. TIt was so lame I wanted to punch Goodkind in the face after reading good knows how many pages, the last third at least was weak as hell to have shuch an anti-climactic ending. Please, please, please Sanderson, don't do the same.
You'r not strange at all. I beleive artists should be paid. However, as the music industry stand most get paid a pittance while corps rake in huge money and spend it on ways to make more with lobbying, and pay execs self congratulatory fortunes. The record company model made far more sense when tney had to fund expensive studios, and actually manufacture a physical product. Now it has morphed into simple greed, and inertia and money keep it moving.
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...that this is one of our most important allies in the war on terror. I wonder how much of the billions we give them will be spent on this while we stand idly by. Remember the US of A and its allies have carte blanche to do what we tell others is wrong. Greed and hypocracy make the world go 'round.
Really.. some places in the US sentence people to chemical castration, that causes permanent effects too. We have already crossed that line.
NGC here has a good article. One of the issues though again is cheaper labor and lax restrictions in China. Processing rare earths is labor intensive and can generate toxic and radioactive by-products which are fare more expensive to deal with in our regulatory system from an environmental and worker safety perspective.
Touche... I was in such a hurry to get my joke posted that I did not even think of this. Good one!
...that Astrolabe could not claim to hold copyright on facts such as when the sun rises. What TFA fails to state is that this is because Apples owns the patent on it.
While I am not a fan of google's practices of late, how often has Microsoft not been a FUD spewer?
It is ingrained in their culture.
I posted the above not having read the entire order, just scanning it, but it appears that he was under an order not to cause mental anguish, harass or annoy his wife, and the wall posts were found to violate that specific order. Especially as some of his facebook friends were adding fuel to the fire. I don't agree but that is spelled out in the order.
TFA appears to have been removed, all I can find are /. copiers, except for this on the TFA site. It is a scan of the protective order and includes domestic abuse allegations and some of the text from the facebook wall posts.
My question is, does Rick Moranis work at this lab? "Feed me Seymore!"
Mostly SMALL remote control and semi autonomois craft doing things to each other. Since we cannot seem to to get humans out of LEO.
And space opera comes to slashdot.
Large apps may take time to load. Smartphones/tablets don't have huge apps like premier/photoshop.
I would rather have my entire program available after a short splash, then be waiting on parts for a possibly non-existent cloud sync if I have a dead connection. I rely on my programs to work, consistently, with all features, at all times.
...to help me find red-light districts by booking ahead?
Thieves: "How'd you know we where the crooks?"
Community:"A little birdie told us."
To mention the in-house installs of SWEN, TDSS, Melissa, and ILOVEYOU.
....when African Bees got released into the wild in N/S America? Now we can have swarms of mass produced robot bees? I'm telling ya, the Mayan's are looking smarter and smarter by the day.
Than I can use an Arduino with a bluetooth shield and make it control my IV Drip Mr. Coffee machine?
Hold on, I am not thinking clearly, my iBarista seems to have crashed.
Not only without due process, but because of a party unrelated to your business's actions. That would never have affected you had you not been in the cloud. And this even though the service provider in this case appeared to perform due-diligence to prevent illegal activity in the first place.
All the talk of what happens when your data is in the cloud and the business is sold or shutters itself, here is another example. Not only do you have to worry about your dates security and availability for those reasons, now the feds can shut down a service you may use for god knows what important aspects of your business, but you can bet your perfectly legal and confidential business records are now available to the feds sans-warrant. Yeah, cloud computing is the end-all be-all. Think again, get the buzz words out of your head, and your head out of the 'cloud'.
IANAL But I don't think they don't have grounds to prosecute. A federal prosecutor would have to file charges for a criminal proceeding to take place. What US Attorney is going to file criminal charges against another branch? Probably not many.
First it was supposed to be one book; then Tor realized they could go the Harry Pothead/Twitlight direction and 'enhance their revenue' by splitting it into three. OK, whatever. Then, they push the publish date of the second book back to coincide with the Christmas holiday (because, you know, the people who haven't read the other 11 books at this point are TOTALLY going to buy this one for Christmas anyway!), even though Sanderson had the book finished and edited by the end of July. Oh yea, and no eBook; 'fuck you, Jordan fans!' Well, shit. Whatever. Finally, they tell us the final book, which some people (my wife) have been waiting over a decade for, will come out in Summer 2011... no, Fall 2011... wait, make that Holiday 2011... just kidding, really it will be spring 2012... OK, Fall 2012... now Spring 20-fucking-13??? Fuck you to, Tor. Fuck you right up your greedy goatse asses. I swear, if Tor published anything else actually worth reading, I'd be seriously considering a boycott at this point.
Eh, I have to disagree. I do not care who the author is, to close a series off as convoluted and with as many sub-plots and arcs as the Wheel of Time in a satisfactory way would take more than one book. That is the fault of the previous author, not Sanderson. Sanderson is actually doing an excellent job of finishing the series. I started reading it with the wonder and suspension of disbelief I had early in the series, rather than the tedium of the latter half.
Besides, if you really want to wait ages for books in a series, pick up the George R. R. Martin books. Excellent books, but what was it, a 5 year wait between Feast for Crows and Dance With Dragons? Really? When half or more of 'Dance' was cut out of 'Feast' for length reasons?
I agree completely. The series started with so much promise, but Jordan continued to open plot-line after plot-line while rarely resolving anything. By the time I realized that I was so invested in the series I had to continue ans there were elements of excellence, and I wanted to know how things ended.
All told though it should be a huge improvement over Goodkind. That series started well, and had a couple of amazing books. However the last several books got so repetitive as to be annoying. It seemed like a contest to see how many characters could say the same thing in 100 different ways in each chapter.
One can also hope that the ending is better as Goodkind copped out with the oh, I am an all powerful war wizard I can do anything ending. TIt was so lame I wanted to punch Goodkind in the face after reading good knows how many pages, the last third at least was weak as hell to have shuch an anti-climactic ending. Please, please, please Sanderson, don't do the same.
What what the post/TFA about? I couldn't get my script filled and wasn't paying attention.
Someone with very high prices. (Or you could do without...)
Like apple?
Their office is next door to the Ministry of Funny Walks.
You'r not strange at all. I beleive artists should be paid. However, as the music industry stand most get paid a pittance while corps rake in huge money and spend it on ways to make more with lobbying, and pay execs self congratulatory fortunes. The record company model made far more sense when tney had to fund expensive studios, and actually manufacture a physical product. Now it has morphed into simple greed, and inertia and money keep it moving.