I was stunned on seeing "Mystic River"; I felt elated after seeing "Lost in Transltion." RotK was better than a lot of the crap Hollywood churns out, but certainly not the best movie of the year.
And you're absolutely right, the Rings trilogy is infinitely better in book form.
Things like ElWood's forever furrowed brow didn't let me take the film seriously.
"...the majority of the physics of the spinning cylinder we're correct..."
The word "we're" is an abbreviation of "we are." The word "were" is the past tense form of "be."
I wouldn't have mentioned it, but you made the mistake not once, not twice, but THREE times. This denotes an actual misunderstanding, as opposed to a simple lapse of grammatical analitiy (if I may be allowed to coin a word).
Grammar: it's your friend.
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Eldred, the case discussed in the your link, was anything but an open and shut case. Would that it had been; the public domain would be sitting much prettier now. Instead, Eldred was decided on 15 January, 2003. The Supreme Court found against the petitioners, using some crazy logic. Unfortunately, the Constitution is very unclear on the issue, and Congressional precedent is given more weight at this point than whatever the original intent might have been.
Why do you think college radio stations always play obscure music from artists who just want to get noticed? You didn't think they did it to look out for the little guy, did you?
I suppose that depends on the station, but being a college radio DJ, I'd say that's a big part of it. The DJs listen to obscure stuff and like it. I, at least, like sharing my tastes with the world at large. And if we expose people to the music and they like it too, they might buy a record or go to a show. Which helps the obscure artists and gets us more good obscure music.
The Music Director at my station told me the other day that our station has a responsibility to expose people to music they've never heard before and wouldn't hear anywhere else. I'd have to agree.
You are right, though, that Eminem is getting waaaay more in ASCAP royalties from radio play than is Black Heart Procession.
If they do cutting, they would have to break the Cut-Copy-Paste metaphor. In Windows, cutting a file doesn't delete it until you paste it. This is different from other applications, where the text/object you cut is gone once you cut it, regardless of whether you paste it or not.
There was a big debate on the Mac discussion boards when this feature was introduced. Some felt it would be great, others felt that it might be confusing/just plain wrong to have Cut-Copy-Paste work differently in different applications.
Apple solved the problem by just ignoring the Cut option, which shows that they gave it some thought. Bravo!
The problem with this ruling, though, is that it applies to the whole industry. Which means that (likely) every company will be abiding by the new rules, since it makes them money. You won't have a choice.
The free market is supposed to provide us with choices. We choose with our dollars, and then industries normalize around the desires of the customers. This is a clear case of that NOT happening.
... Mozilla developers can't use look-alike widgets because of Apple's hard-ass policy against Aqua look-alikes
Chimera seems to have succeeded in this effort just fine. Dave Hyatt made pseudo-Aqua widgets that obey CSS rules (though, actually, they don't have to), and they don't look half bad.
Trolltech porting Qt to OS X made headines a few months ago. Does this port of gVim to Qt mean that us OS X users will finally have the option of running a GUI Vim?
I would have agreed with this before the Anthrax scare at the Capitol. However, now that all postal mail is routed through Ohio to be checked for traces of biological agents, perhaps faxing and e-mailing is not only faster but also more likely to actually get read by the Representatives/Senators.
Just my $0.02 and speculation. Does anyone know if this is accurate?
Just because you haven't heard of some of these bands doesn't mean they aren't great! If you want to really find quality music (which these artists are making, IMHO), you've got to do a little digging. Something you'll love is out there waiting for you; and the CEOs of the Big Five aren't going to help you find them.
Actually, I get a kick out of being way into a band the majority of people just don't get. One of the big plusses: their songs don't get beaten into the ground on Top 40.
Actually, I was pleasently surprised by the careful wording of the section of this treaty relating to child pornography. Article 9 Section 4 says this:
Each Party may reserve the right not to apply, in whole or in part, paragraph 1(d) and 1(e), and 2(b) and 2(c).
Where paragraphs 1(d), 1(e), 2(b) and 2(c) are:
Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as criminal offences under its domestic law, when committed intentionally and without right, the following conduct:
procuring child pornography through a computer system for oneself or for another;
possessing child pornography in a computer system or on a computer-data storage medium.
For the purpose of paragraph 1 above "child pornography" shall include pornographic material that visually depicts:
a person appearing to be a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct;
realistic images representing a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
It also mentions that the age of consent can be defined differently by each Party, down to 16.
This is one of the few treaties I've seen that takes into account different ages of consent, and the possibility that member countries might not want to outlaw the consumption of "child pornography," but just the production of it.
Not that I'm for this treaty. And not that I think our esteemed leaders (*cough*) will take advantage of these provisions. I was just pleasently surprised by this particular section of the treaty.
One might expect this, but it's not actually true. Once you get over 2 operands, things start getting easier with the HP. Here are two examples (I've used the underscore to mean space):
Here's five plus six on the HP vs. TI:
5_6+
5+6=
All right, you say, so they're even. But the HP really begins to shine when you bring division into the picture. Here's seven plus eight divided by three:
7_8+3/
(7+8)/3=
(I don't think the TIs put in both parens for you, so they both count as a keystroke.)
Anyway, the point is that the stack is your friend. Using the stack does takes a little getting used to. But after the initial learning curve, it's much faster and, dare I say, more intuitive.
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Personally, I don't like this idea. I'd rather know where the next tab will appear, and be able to develop a small amount of muscle-memory about the location of a specific tab in a browsing session. Moving things around all the time is, in general, a Bad Thing(tm).
However, if you still disagree, you can always report a bug and see what everyone else says about it. Just mark it as an "enhancement" request.
Hmmmm... In reading some of the comments here, it appears I may be wrong about this -- the songs *were* made available to download. You needed the CD to be in your CD-ROM drive for the software to do its thang, though.
They were *streaming* these files, not making them available for download.
Yes, they weren't licensed. But people could not turn around and put them on Napster. (Within reason... streamripper and other tools can make this possible. But the fact remains: MP3.com took steps to ensure that it was difficult to get access to the MP3 files themselves.)
This case is 100% B.S., and I hope it's thrown out immediately. I fear, however, that the current legal climate doesn't bode well for MP3.com.
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You are most certainly NOT the only one.
I was stunned on seeing "Mystic River"; I felt elated after seeing "Lost in Transltion." RotK was better than a lot of the crap Hollywood churns out, but certainly not the best movie of the year.
And you're absolutely right, the Rings trilogy is infinitely better in book form.
Things like ElWood's forever furrowed brow didn't let me take the film seriously.
You're right, IMHO, that Lost in Transltion was the better film. This isn't a venue where you'll get a lot of agreement on that, though. :-)
I think one movie, especially one like RotK which was quite good but not great, should by no means of completely swept the Oscars. It's just silly.
"...the majority of the physics of the spinning cylinder we're correct..."
The word "we're" is an abbreviation of "we are." The word "were" is the past tense form of "be."
I wouldn't have mentioned it, but you made the mistake not once, not twice, but THREE times. This denotes an actual misunderstanding, as opposed to a simple lapse of grammatical analitiy (if I may be allowed to coin a word).
Grammar: it's your friend.
It's called Mac OS X.
Eldred, the case discussed in the your link, was anything but an open and shut case. Would that it had been; the public domain would be sitting much prettier now. Instead, Eldred was decided on 15 January, 2003. The Supreme Court found against the petitioners, using some crazy logic. Unfortunately, the Constitution is very unclear on the issue, and Congressional precedent is given more weight at this point than whatever the original intent might have been.
What will the remaining 10% consist of?
I suppose that depends on the station, but being a college radio DJ, I'd say that's a big part of it. The DJs listen to obscure stuff and like it. I, at least, like sharing my tastes with the world at large. And if we expose people to the music and they like it too, they might buy a record or go to a show. Which helps the obscure artists and gets us more good obscure music.
The Music Director at my station told me the other day that our station has a responsibility to expose people to music they've never heard before and wouldn't hear anywhere else. I'd have to agree.
You are right, though, that Eminem is getting waaaay more in ASCAP royalties from radio play than is Black Heart Procession.
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/quotes.htm#put
This article says the code was submitted by Martin Bligh, not Dirk Pitt.
Clearly it's a typo. I'll have to e-mail Clive about this.If they do cutting, they would have to break the Cut-Copy-Paste metaphor. In Windows, cutting a file doesn't delete it until you paste it. This is different from other applications, where the text/object you cut is gone once you cut it, regardless of whether you paste it or not.
There was a big debate on the Mac discussion boards when this feature was introduced. Some felt it would be great, others felt that it might be confusing/just plain wrong to have Cut-Copy-Paste work differently in different applications.
Apple solved the problem by just ignoring the Cut option, which shows that they gave it some thought. Bravo!
The free market is supposed to provide us with choices. We choose with our dollars, and then industries normalize around the desires of the customers. This is a clear case of that NOT happening.
Chimera seems to have succeeded in this effort just fine. Dave Hyatt made pseudo-Aqua widgets that obey CSS rules (though, actually, they don't have to), and they don't look half bad.
Trolltech porting Qt to OS X made headines a few months ago. Does this port of gVim to Qt mean that us OS X users will finally have the option of running a GUI Vim?
That would be nice.Here is Ms. Rosen in *far* higher resolution than I ever want to see her again.
I would have agreed with this before the Anthrax scare at the Capitol. However, now that all postal mail is routed through Ohio to be checked for traces of biological agents, perhaps faxing and e-mailing is not only faster but also more likely to actually get read by the Representatives/Senators.
Just my $0.02 and speculation. Does anyone know if this is accurate?
Some of my current faves (from a bunch of different genres) include:
- As someone else mentioned, Radiohead is simply phenomenal
- Sigur Rós
- Death Cab For Cutie
- Godspeed You Black Emperor!
- Pedro the Lion
- American Analog Set
- Dashboard Confessional
- Toad the Wet Sprocket
- Further Seems Forever
- In more of the singer/songwriter style, there's Glen Phillips and Matt Nathanson
Just because you haven't heard of some of these bands doesn't mean they aren't great! If you want to really find quality music (which these artists are making, IMHO), you've got to do a little digging. Something you'll love is out there waiting for you; and the CEOs of the Big Five aren't going to help you find them.....is the best band making music today.
Actually, I get a kick out of being way into a band the majority of people just don't get. One of the big plusses: their songs don't get beaten into the ground on Top 40.
- Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as criminal offences under its domestic law, when committed intentionally and without right, the following conduct:
- procuring child pornography through a computer system for oneself or for another;
- possessing child pornography in a computer system or on a computer-data storage medium.
- For the purpose of paragraph 1 above "child pornography" shall include pornographic material that visually depicts:
- a person appearing to be a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct;
- realistic images representing a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
It also mentions that the age of consent can be defined differently by each Party, down to 16.This is one of the few treaties I've seen that takes into account different ages of consent, and the possibility that member countries might not want to outlaw the consumption of "child pornography," but just the production of it.
Not that I'm for this treaty. And not that I think our esteemed leaders (*cough*) will take advantage of these provisions. I was just pleasently surprised by this particular section of the treaty.
One might expect this, but it's not actually true. Once you get over 2 operands, things start getting easier with the HP. Here are two examples (I've used the underscore to mean space):
Here's five plus six on the HP vs. TI:
5_6+
5+6=
All right, you say, so they're even. But the HP really begins to shine when you bring division into the picture. Here's seven plus eight divided by three:
7_8+3/
(7+8)/3=
(I don't think the TIs put in both parens for you, so they both count as a keystroke.)
Anyway, the point is that the stack is your friend. Using the stack does takes a little getting used to. But after the initial learning curve, it's much faster and, dare I say, more intuitive.
However, if you still disagree, you can always report a bug and see what everyone else says about it. Just mark it as an "enhancement" request.
Mozilla has this feature (remember password by site).
More like the Aramaic->Greek->English filter. (I may be missing some hops in there....)
Hmmmm... In reading some of the comments here, it appears I may be wrong about this -- the songs *were* made available to download. You needed the CD to be in your CD-ROM drive for the software to do its thang, though.
Well, either way, I hope this case is dropped.
They were *streaming* these files, not making them available for download.
Yes, they weren't licensed. But people could not turn around and put them on Napster. (Within reason... streamripper and other tools can make this possible. But the fact remains: MP3.com took steps to ensure that it was difficult to get access to the MP3 files themselves.)
This case is 100% B.S., and I hope it's thrown out immediately. I fear, however, that the current legal climate doesn't bode well for MP3.com.