I don't think the lawyers have anything here. Whether you email all your friends afterwards, step out on the courthouse lawn and scream it, or gloat about it on your Facebook status....that's what you get with a jury of peers.
If you want robots deciding your fate, I wouldn't recommend breaking the law.
Please do educate me as to how this is an essential service that benefits everyone that we would not be able to provide for ourselves.
From the article:
"The city of Redmond says the overpass will relieve congestion on other streets and support a big employer in the region, though one cutting jobs lately. Microsoft said in January that itâ(TM)s eliminating as many as 5,000 jobs, including some from its Seattle-area workforce of 41,480."
Microsoft could pay out of pocket but the new road is a public road and they shouldn't have to. The fact they're offering to pay any at all is a boon. As the article stats, MS is a huge employer in the area and creating better traffic throughput (ahem...enlarging bandwidth) is good not just for them but for the people using the road (employees of MS mostly but still "the public").
This is a pretty good point. Neo-cons are out to keep America on top economically and militarily at whatever the cost. There's nothing that keeps other countries in check like a nuclear weapon owning country who will attack other countries for no valid reason. Iraq was a big "Don't mess with us cuz we crrrazy!" message.
Of course, it didn't work. But the intentions were noble.:-)
Mashups seem like a fun idea and the one on the main page is pretty cool. One would probably need to get rights to the various clips included though, the same way I believe rap artists who use riffs from the Police in the background need permission, pay royalties, etc.
The work isn't unique so its original crafter deserve some credit. It's unfortunate that "credit" means "cash" instead of just a line of text showing the artist's name.
I've dropped my first-gen iPhone running across the street three times, on a tile floor twice. No protective case (hence the reason it slid out of my pocket -- the first-gen is like holding teflon) and all I have to show for it is a couple 2mm scratches on the silver edge. Glass and back are 100% scratch free.
There has been war for thousands of years and will continue to be as long as there are haves and have nots.
In today's environment, there's plenty to go around. It's not so much "haves and have nots" but "I have and you can't have" that's the problem. People call it the "evils of capitalism" and while greed is a big motivator, look at the pain it causes. They aren't kidding when they say money is the root of all evil.
So I read the graphic novel recently, after hearing about it for years and then having the movie being created. I think the hype of the "Greatest Graphic Novel of All Time" sort of diminished the appeal for me. It was fine, and it may have been great in its day -- it gave superheroes faces and lives as opposed to making them archetypes.
But I started reading comics in the early 80s and was there when they went from adventurous to dark with people worrying about their next paycheck or their love life or the priest just shotgunned through the back of his confessional, etc.
So when I finally got around to reading the Watchmen, it was like the summary of a long-running soap opera series, with the occasional person in a funny costume. The trailers always surprised me as they showed explosions and running and fire...but really, the novel has very little of that. It would almost make more sense to just have a room of people standing around as the trailer, because that's what most of the book is.
To sum up, I wasn't blown away by the novel because of the hype and time I read it; I may be blown away by the movie because my expectations will be so low.
Well, it wouldn't be very prudent to check how thin the ice is with a car, now would it? One might fall through and I can imagine making a cup of hot tea may prove difficult in such environs. I'm not sure I would be able to stand being wet and cold without a cup of Earl Grey in my hands. What a dastardly thought!
I was reading a blog article in the LA Times concerning the Internet's killing of the printed newspaper. He comes up with a solution similar to the one I'd use: Make a "news" subscription fee that would include big newspapers that are interested in charging and meet certain criteria.
This could work either through a central site (which would be great as it could provide comparison stories between Fox, CNN, and BBC for example) or simply have it as an add-on to your ISP bill (which would give you a login and password).
A service like this could certainly provide E-book downloads, etc. Information does want to be free as in freedom, but collecting and organizing it takes people who still need to eat. I'd be for paying a fee for news sites, personally, as long as (just like the blog says), it's as simple as iTunes.
Being an original iPhone adopter from the U.S. I'd say it's strength isn't in its features, but in its usability. As stated 1000 times, the iPhone interface, much like the MacOS interface, is beyond any of its competitors, at least in the U.S. Intuitive, smooth, with good feedback (though not tactile -- and I've taken to sighing when I hear the tappity-tap of a blackberry user in a theater or classroom compared to the silent keyboard of the iPhone).
Dodging the easy car analogy, the iPhone is a partner who knows what you want, instead of someone who can offer anything you want.
You make good points. And then I got to thinking...you could still use the ads you get in the mail to line your birdcage. Then I thought, well, why couldn't those ads be electronically sent as well. Why couldn't ALL mail be electronically sent? We wouldn't need little mailboxes, only package deliveries!
Then I remembered e-mail and became less enthused.
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I was surfing the Eudora e-mail forums on my company's dial-out internet (in an office of 80 people we all shared a 26K Baud modem), trying to figure out how to share address books. This was before Eudora went POP/IMAP and was still just LAN mail. Mail was queued up in the gateway, and once enough was stored, the modem would dial out and release.
In late 1997 we'd gone from dial-up, to ISDN, to 1/4 T-1...but that's a whole other era.
It was supposed to be more of a New York thing...let me try again:
Maybe you don't like to look at ads so much. Maybe you wants them to disappear like. Let's say that you become a member. Pay a simple, one-time fee and dat's dat. I for one would not be surprised a'tall if you found yourself +1 Insightful in the very near future. Tink aboudit. Lemme know.
Maybe you don't like to look at ads. Maybe you wants them to go away. Let's say you become a member. I would not be at all surprised if you found yourself +1 Insightful in the very near future. Think about it. Let me know.
True...FEAR had great effects, really put you in the middle of a firefight with dust flying, bullets sparking off metal (debunked by MythBusters I believe...), strong soldier AI. But what separated FEAR from most FPSes was the story. Still creeps me out just thinking about what happened to that girl. Almost makes me want to help her.
Isn't there a voting system that allows you to essentially vote for more than one person: 1st choice, 2nd choice. Tallies are added until someone makes a majority of the vote. For example, if I have Dems, Reps, and Greens on the ballot, 5 voters might have:
Green, Dem Rep Dem, Green Green, Rep Dem Rep, Green
So 1st choices: Green (2), Dem (2), Rep (2). It's a three way tie. If you look at the 2nd choices as well: Green (4), Dem (3), Rep (3). So the Greens have it. It doesn't take away from someone's selection -- if most people vote solely for Dems, than the Greens truly have no supporters -- but if people want the Greens but are afraid of our 2-party system...then they can vote Green and Dem and not be too worse off.
Well, Ladies and Gentlemen, here you see what you may think is an archaic lot of old computers. You would be mistaken. These are Slashdot. No, no cause for alarm...and that door's locked anyway, you can't get out through there. The tour only goes forward. But I'm glad at the very least that you know what Slashdot is. Not was. IS.
It's a safeguard against...something. Something that was unleashed for 75 minutes in 2009 that crippled what was rumored to be the most robust public-facing cluster known. All we have left from that fateful day is the single post from the Slashdot network admin. Someone archived it, lucky us, because he was never seen after that day. I have a copy here, hardcopy of course -- no sense in taking risks so close to...well....
Here it is:
I fully believe the switches in that cabinet are still sitting there attempting to send 20Gbit/sec of traffic out trying to do something. I just don't know what yet.
Sims Online: coming, like WoW, from The Sims, an all-computer gaming audience. Except TSO didn't translate well into an online game. It doesn't matter if your fan base is huge, if the next game you put out sucks, you get initial sales, followed by poor reviews, and nothing else.
Star Wars: Yes, there were a mishmash of Star Wars games of varying quality. Two things here: 1) Star Wars was a bigger movie than any of its games. 2) SWG was a mediocre game at best. You're taking the greatest franchise of all time and turning it into a boring turn-based pseudo-RPG. It wasn't what Star Wars was about. People played it, but it just wasn't Star Wars.
I'm not saying WoW's only reason for doing so well is the translation of the RTS world into an MMO and therefore all its players....it's a decent MMO (like EQ, only prettier), stable, and arrived as the GP says, at a time where gaming computers and broadband became resonable in price.
This is all true, but I think the biggest win for WoW was that they had the world's most popular gaming franchise (Warcraft/Starcraft) and turned it into an accessible MMO. You already have millions of gamers familiar with your product, your quality, your characters. This is unlike Star Wars which has a larger fanbase but decidedly fewer fans who know it already as a computer game.
Basically, WoW moved all its Warcraft RTS gamers into its MMO. Star Wars and Lord of the Rings had to move all the movie-watchers into computer gaming first...
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I don't think the lawyers have anything here. Whether you email all your friends afterwards, step out on the courthouse lawn and scream it, or gloat about it on your Facebook status....that's what you get with a jury of peers.
If you want robots deciding your fate, I wouldn't recommend breaking the law.
Please do educate me as to how this is an essential service that benefits everyone that we would not be able to provide for ourselves.
From the article:
"The city of Redmond says the overpass will relieve congestion on other streets and support a big employer in the region, though one cutting jobs lately. Microsoft said in January that itâ(TM)s eliminating as many as 5,000 jobs, including some from its Seattle-area workforce of 41,480."
Microsoft could pay out of pocket but the new road is a public road and they shouldn't have to. The fact they're offering to pay any at all is a boon. As the article stats, MS is a huge employer in the area and creating better traffic throughput (ahem...enlarging bandwidth) is good not just for them but for the people using the road (employees of MS mostly but still "the public").
This is a pretty good point. Neo-cons are out to keep America on top economically and militarily at whatever the cost. There's nothing that keeps other countries in check like a nuclear weapon owning country who will attack other countries for no valid reason. Iraq was a big "Don't mess with us cuz we crrrazy!" message.
Of course, it didn't work. But the intentions were noble. :-)
Mashups seem like a fun idea and the one on the main page is pretty cool. One would probably need to get rights to the various clips included though, the same way I believe rap artists who use riffs from the Police in the background need permission, pay royalties, etc.
The work isn't unique so its original crafter deserve some credit. It's unfortunate that "credit" means "cash" instead of just a line of text showing the artist's name.
I've dropped my first-gen iPhone running across the street three times, on a tile floor twice. No protective case (hence the reason it slid out of my pocket -- the first-gen is like holding teflon) and all I have to show for it is a couple 2mm scratches on the silver edge. Glass and back are 100% scratch free.
There has been war for thousands of years and will continue to be as long as there are haves and have nots.
In today's environment, there's plenty to go around. It's not so much "haves and have nots" but "I have and you can't have" that's the problem. People call it the "evils of capitalism" and while greed is a big motivator, look at the pain it causes. They aren't kidding when they say money is the root of all evil.
So I read the graphic novel recently, after hearing about it for years and then having the movie being created. I think the hype of the "Greatest Graphic Novel of All Time" sort of diminished the appeal for me. It was fine, and it may have been great in its day -- it gave superheroes faces and lives as opposed to making them archetypes.
But I started reading comics in the early 80s and was there when they went from adventurous to dark with people worrying about their next paycheck or their love life or the priest just shotgunned through the back of his confessional, etc.
So when I finally got around to reading the Watchmen, it was like the summary of a long-running soap opera series, with the occasional person in a funny costume. The trailers always surprised me as they showed explosions and running and fire...but really, the novel has very little of that. It would almost make more sense to just have a room of people standing around as the trailer, because that's what most of the book is.
To sum up, I wasn't blown away by the novel because of the hype and time I read it; I may be blown away by the movie because my expectations will be so low.
Well, it wouldn't be very prudent to check how thin the ice is with a car, now would it? One might fall through and I can imagine making a cup of hot tea may prove difficult in such environs. I'm not sure I would be able to stand being wet and cold without a cup of Earl Grey in my hands. What a dastardly thought!
I was reading a blog article in the LA Times concerning the Internet's killing of the printed newspaper. He comes up with a solution similar to the one I'd use: Make a "news" subscription fee that would include big newspapers that are interested in charging and meet certain criteria.
This could work either through a central site (which would be great as it could provide comparison stories between Fox, CNN, and BBC for example) or simply have it as an add-on to your ISP bill (which would give you a login and password).
A service like this could certainly provide E-book downloads, etc. Information does want to be free as in freedom, but collecting and organizing it takes people who still need to eat. I'd be for paying a fee for news sites, personally, as long as (just like the blog says), it's as simple as iTunes.
With all their new features, there's STILL no keyboard shortcut to create a new folder. How is that possible? I don't get it...I really don't.
Being an original iPhone adopter from the U.S. I'd say it's strength isn't in its features, but in its usability. As stated 1000 times, the iPhone interface, much like the MacOS interface, is beyond any of its competitors, at least in the U.S. Intuitive, smooth, with good feedback (though not tactile -- and I've taken to sighing when I hear the tappity-tap of a blackberry user in a theater or classroom compared to the silent keyboard of the iPhone).
Dodging the easy car analogy, the iPhone is a partner who knows what you want, instead of someone who can offer anything you want.
You make good points. And then I got to thinking...you could still use the ads you get in the mail to line your birdcage. Then I thought, well, why couldn't those ads be electronically sent as well. Why couldn't ALL mail be electronically sent? We wouldn't need little mailboxes, only package deliveries!
Then I remembered e-mail and became less enthused.
I was surfing the Eudora e-mail forums on my company's dial-out internet (in an office of 80 people we all shared a 26K Baud modem), trying to figure out how to share address books. This was before Eudora went POP/IMAP and was still just LAN mail. Mail was queued up in the gateway, and once enough was stored, the modem would dial out and release.
In late 1997 we'd gone from dial-up, to ISDN, to 1/4 T-1...but that's a whole other era.
For time sensitive stories like this it really wrecks the usefulness of slashdot.
Because that comet just came out of nowhere!
Most blackberries and iPhone don't have flash capability and those phones are the majority of web-enabled phones by marketshare.
It was supposed to be more of a New York thing...let me try again:
Maybe you don't like to look at ads so much. Maybe you wants them to disappear like. Let's say that you become a member. Pay a simple, one-time fee and dat's dat. I for one would not be surprised a'tall if you found yourself +1 Insightful in the very near future. Tink aboudit. Lemme know.
Maybe you don't like to look at ads. Maybe you wants them to go away. Let's say you become a member. I would not be at all surprised if you found yourself +1 Insightful in the very near future. Think about it. Let me know.
True...FEAR had great effects, really put you in the middle of a firefight with dust flying, bullets sparking off metal (debunked by MythBusters I believe...), strong soldier AI. But what separated FEAR from most FPSes was the story. Still creeps me out just thinking about what happened to that girl. Almost makes me want to help her.
Honey, signal's out. Could ya give the betamax a kick?
Haven't you heard? Konqueror may finally get some competition with this new IE 8.
Because I kept revising the pool and forgot to change the number... :-)
Isn't there a voting system that allows you to essentially vote for more than one person: 1st choice, 2nd choice. Tallies are added until someone makes a majority of the vote. For example, if I have Dems, Reps, and Greens on the ballot, 5 voters might have:
Green, Dem
Rep
Dem, Green
Green, Rep
Dem
Rep, Green
So 1st choices: Green (2), Dem (2), Rep (2). It's a three way tie. If you look at the 2nd choices as well: Green (4), Dem (3), Rep (3). So the Greens have it. It doesn't take away from someone's selection -- if most people vote solely for Dems, than the Greens truly have no supporters -- but if people want the Greens but are afraid of our 2-party system...then they can vote Green and Dem and not be too worse off.
The year is 2025.
Well, Ladies and Gentlemen, here you see what you may think is an archaic lot of old computers. You would be mistaken. These are Slashdot. No, no cause for alarm...and that door's locked anyway, you can't get out through there. The tour only goes forward. But I'm glad at the very least that you know what Slashdot is. Not was. IS.
It's a safeguard against...something. Something that was unleashed for 75 minutes in 2009 that crippled what was rumored to be the most robust public-facing cluster known. All we have left from that fateful day is the single post from the Slashdot network admin. Someone archived it, lucky us, because he was never seen after that day. I have a copy here, hardcopy of course -- no sense in taking risks so close to...well....
Here it is:
I fully believe the switches in that cabinet are still sitting there attempting to send 20Gbit/sec of traffic out trying to do something. I just don't know what yet.
Point taken. Rebuttal:
Sims Online: coming, like WoW, from The Sims, an all-computer gaming audience. Except TSO didn't translate well into an online game. It doesn't matter if your fan base is huge, if the next game you put out sucks, you get initial sales, followed by poor reviews, and nothing else.
Star Wars: Yes, there were a mishmash of Star Wars games of varying quality. Two things here: 1) Star Wars was a bigger movie than any of its games. 2) SWG was a mediocre game at best. You're taking the greatest franchise of all time and turning it into a boring turn-based pseudo-RPG. It wasn't what Star Wars was about. People played it, but it just wasn't Star Wars.
I'm not saying WoW's only reason for doing so well is the translation of the RTS world into an MMO and therefore all its players....it's a decent MMO (like EQ, only prettier), stable, and arrived as the GP says, at a time where gaming computers and broadband became resonable in price.
This is all true, but I think the biggest win for WoW was that they had the world's most popular gaming franchise (Warcraft/Starcraft) and turned it into an accessible MMO. You already have millions of gamers familiar with your product, your quality, your characters. This is unlike Star Wars which has a larger fanbase but decidedly fewer fans who know it already as a computer game.
Basically, WoW moved all its Warcraft RTS gamers into its MMO. Star Wars and Lord of the Rings had to move all the movie-watchers into computer gaming first...