Yeah, I have some more ad hominem attacks that totally disqualify Dvorak from commenting on the iPhone (besides designing such a stupid keyboard): He also had the nerve to change his name from Dr. August to John C.. And he is 112 years old. This guy is a moron indeed!
There were guys there who made necklaces out of human ears, so the bar must be set pretty damn low.
Yeah, I saw this documentary, too. But the thing that really disturbed me is, that later, our government turned some of those guys into cyborgs to fight terrorists in a secret program called UniSol. Thank god it was all brought to light.
It is very possible that two objects at "opposite sides" of the universe are moving away from each other at a speed greater than light. But these two objects are divided by what is called an event horizon, so communication between these two objects is never possible.
According to the Wikipedia article you linked to, Fred Singer does not claim that global warming is not happening.
I did not say that Fred Singer claims global warming is not happening, you misquoted me. The Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) homepage accessed via webarchive April 25th, 2006 itself, however said, "Computer models forecast rapidly rising global temperatures, but data from weather satellites and balloon instruments show no warming whatsoever." And this is why I said
[...]the Science Environmental Policy Project [...] claims that global warming is not happening
Interestingly, the same homepage now says: "Computer models forecast rapidly rising global temperatures, while data from weather satellites and balloon instruments show only slight warning[sic]."
He claims that second-hand smoke is not as significant a factor as was previously published in the EPA report.
I included this part only to show that this guy must be an absolute "genius", an expert in cancer and atmospheric physics.
This is one rank above the obscure "miJam Drummer (BX775)". It even gets outsold by the last generation Apple 4 GB iPod Nano White which sells at the ridiculous price of $184.99, only $5 [!] cheaper than the current 2nd generation 4 GB iPod Nano. In my book that is abysmal.
Stick the info in a.nfo file. Keep the data on an array of hard drives, using RAID or similar. Keep backups of the data. If a drive fails, replace it.
Next problem?
Or even easier: put.jpg at the end of the file and everybody will know that it is an image. Or.doc and people know it is a letter. Common people, it is not that hard. My 11 year old nephew knows that. Also, this technology has been around for ages (probably the civil war, or whenever it was the pyramids were built, I forgot), just like RAID, and it will never become obsolete.
If so much of the creative process is made so easy, where's the need for traditional animators spending exponentially larger amounts of time to create work of equal or lesser quality?
Short answer: Polar Express. Just compare this movie to any Pixar feature and you know the answer.
Apple technically asked for this. I really love Apple and I admire their innovations and their _superior_ implementation of other peoples good ideas, but I found the bashing of Microsoft appalling. Actually I was shocked, because usually, if you start bashing your better selling competitor this is a sign that your product sucks. Just look at all the iPod competitors!
Come on Apple, you have such great products and everyone who matters knows it. You won't convince the Microsoft fanbois in this way, anyways and it only leads to a "But I had it first" shouting-match. It almost felt they had to provide red meat for Apple zealots. May be I am the only one who feels like this, but if this had happened a year and a half ago when I was still contemplating whether to switch, this would have been a major turn off. Luckily at this point they presented Tiger and I could giggle over the _one_ joke Steve Jobs was doing on the Vista delay when he was presenting iCal.
Let's hope that Apple comes to its senses and next keynote they present the (actually great and amazing) stuff they have accomplished and stop the massive ridiculing of Microsoft. That really seems childish to me. It's World Wide Developers Conference and not the Windows Bashing Fest for Christ's sake.
Well science can't prove anything, because it is a method. But scientists, of course, can prove things. And you can prove things using science.
It is just that any scientific valid theory must be falsifiable. Maybe that is what you mean?
"Clinically proven" typically means that in a scientific clinical study a drug has been proven to work (or proven to work at least significantly better than a placebo).
If you (and the person who modded you interesting) had read TFA, you knew that this does not help you save bandwidth.
The podjacker creates a feed that points to your podcast, so the podcast gets downloaded still from _your_ site. Now he gets this feed as the "official" feed for your show listed on iTunes, yahoo etc. At this point, you are at his mercy. So if he decides to delete this feed (as happened in this case), you loose all the subscribers that subscribed via this feed, which is essentially all except for the few that subscribed directly through your website.
What is even more scary is, he could point his feed to a completely different podcast or download yours, add commercials to it and earn money from your hard work without you even noticing while your listeners think you put the adds in there.
The government isn't just some corporation with a product, it's us, it's ours.
This is so true, it almost made me cry. Somehow it has been hammered into the American consciousness that everything public or governmental is bad, inefficient and/or even downright evil. Sadly, looking at the recent efforts of public and governmental agencies like FEMA, EPA, FDA, the White House etc. makes it almost look like it is true.
But guys and gals, it is our government and we have all the power to change what it is doing. So if the government is inefficient or doing evil, it is because we are letting it do so.
[...]these gadgets could be rendered useless 'should the communications infrastructure itself go down.'
If you can no longer get shortwave signals on your radio because the communications infrastructure itself went down, listening to the latest news is the least of your problems. You should be looking for the stone ax and the closest cave to move into.
> mobile browsers will automatically check for a.mobi > for the site your trying to reach
I doubt it. If you are right it would provide a very easy way to "hijack" google.com (or any other of your favorite.com domains that you were fast enough to register) on mobile phones. Anyway, I don't understand the introduction of new TLDs in the first place. Anyone thinks you can get away with registering ebay.mobi or yahoo.mobi?
This seems to be one of the general confusions, especially in the U.S.: everything that is unfree is seen as communism and everything that is free is seen as capitalism. It gets really dangerous, if you draw the reverse conclusion: everything that is capitalist is free. China is proof that this is not the case. Unfortunately this belief is so widespread that the foreign policy of western countries seems to be focused much more on the "capitalist" part than on the "free" part. So remember: democracy is possible without capitalism (at least theoretically) and capitalism is possible without democracy (see china).
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Great idea. But unfortunately they misplaced the standard Newton in Paris.
Since the default encoding for ripping CDs in itunes is AAC, I am pretty sure most of the music on most iPods is AAC. And this is not a bad thing, since AAC is an open standard, arguably better than mp3 and not threatened by patent trolls
Yeah, I have some more ad hominem attacks that totally disqualify Dvorak from commenting on the iPhone (besides designing such a stupid keyboard): He also had the nerve to change his name from Dr. August to John C.. And he is 112 years old. This guy is a moron indeed!
Yeah, I saw this documentary, too. But the thing that really disturbed me is, that later, our government turned some of those guys into cyborgs to fight terrorists in a secret program called UniSol. Thank god it was all brought to light.
It is very possible that two objects at "opposite sides" of the universe are moving away from each other at a speed greater than light. But these two objects are divided by what is called an event horizon, so communication between these two objects is never possible.
I did not say that Fred Singer claims global warming is not happening, you misquoted me. The Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) homepage accessed via webarchive April 25th, 2006 itself, however said, "Computer models forecast rapidly rising global temperatures, but data from weather satellites and balloon instruments show no warming whatsoever."
And this is why I said
Interestingly, the same homepage now says: "Computer models forecast rapidly rising global temperatures, while data from weather satellites and balloon instruments show only slight warning[sic]."
I included this part only to show that this guy must be an absolute "genius", an expert in cancer and atmospheric physics.
Oh, so Al Gore had a problem with S. Fred Singer founder of the Science Environmental Policy Project, that claims that global warming is not happening and who "was also on a tobacco industry list of people who could write op-ed pieces on 'junk science,' defending the industry's views."
This is definitely far worse than the current administrations censoring of the science done by EPA, NASA and FDA.
This is one rank above the obscure "miJam Drummer (BX775)". It even gets outsold by the last generation Apple 4 GB iPod Nano White which sells at the ridiculous price of $184.99, only $5 [!] cheaper than the current 2nd generation 4 GB iPod Nano. In my book that is abysmal.
Obviously the concept of irony is becoming obsolete even sooner than RAID and filesystem extensions.
Or even easier: put
Yeah, man. And I am stuck on linux because I really need to run Word and there is no WINE for windows yet. Dang it!
Short answer: Polar Express. Just compare this movie to any Pixar feature and you know the answer.
Well, that's why he is checking with the corn, because that would be the vegetable that knows... Sheesh, use your eyes, umm, I mean brain :)
No, the originals were definitely destroyed!
Apple technically asked for this. I really love Apple and I admire their innovations and their _superior_ implementation of other peoples good ideas, but I found the bashing of Microsoft appalling. Actually I was shocked, because usually, if you start bashing your better selling competitor this is a sign that your product sucks. Just look at all the iPod competitors!
Come on Apple, you have such great products and everyone who matters knows it. You won't convince the Microsoft fanbois in this way, anyways and it only leads to a "But I had it first" shouting-match. It almost felt they had to provide red meat for Apple zealots. May be I am the only one who feels like this, but if this had happened a year and a half ago when I was still contemplating whether to switch, this would have been a major turn off. Luckily at this point they presented Tiger and I could giggle over the _one_ joke Steve Jobs was doing on the Vista delay when he was presenting iCal.
Let's hope that Apple comes to its senses and next keynote they present the (actually great and amazing) stuff they have accomplished and stop the massive ridiculing of Microsoft. That really seems childish to me. It's World Wide Developers Conference and not the Windows Bashing Fest for Christ's sake.
Well science can't prove anything, because it is a method. But scientists, of course, can prove things. And you can prove things using science.
It is just that any scientific valid theory must be falsifiable. Maybe that is what you mean?
"Clinically proven" typically means that in a scientific clinical study a drug has been proven to work (or proven to work at least significantly better than a placebo).
How about right now?
Okay, okay it is not Debian. But Linux nonetheless.
Like for example ECHELON?
If you (and the person who modded you interesting) had read TFA, you knew that this does not help you save bandwidth.
The podjacker creates a feed that points to your podcast, so the podcast gets downloaded still from _your_ site. Now he gets this feed as the "official" feed for your show listed on iTunes, yahoo etc. At this point, you are at his mercy. So if he decides to delete this feed (as happened in this case), you loose all the subscribers that subscribed via this feed, which is essentially all except for the few that subscribed directly through your website.
What is even more scary is, he could point his feed to a completely different podcast or download yours, add commercials to it and earn money from your hard work without you even noticing while your listeners think you put the adds in there.
> Can you really copyright grunts?
oooh?
uhh...yeah!
BTW: this post is copyrighted!
This is so true, it almost made me cry. Somehow it has been hammered into the American consciousness that everything public or governmental is bad, inefficient and/or even downright evil. Sadly, looking at the recent efforts of public and governmental agencies like FEMA, EPA, FDA, the White House etc. makes it almost look like it is true.
But guys and gals, it is our government and we have all the power to change what it is doing. So if the government is inefficient or doing evil, it is because we are letting it do so.
[...]these gadgets could be rendered useless 'should the communications infrastructure itself go down.'
If you can no longer get shortwave signals on your radio because the communications infrastructure itself went down, listening to the latest news is the least of your problems. You should be looking for the stone ax and the closest cave to move into.
> mobile browsers will automatically check for a .mobi
.com domains that you were fast enough to register) on mobile phones.
> for the site your trying to reach
I doubt it. If you are right it would provide a very easy way to "hijack" google.com (or any other of your favorite
Anyway, I don't understand the introduction of new TLDs in the first place. Anyone thinks you can get away with registering ebay.mobi or yahoo.mobi?
This seems to be one of the general confusions, especially in the U.S.: everything that is unfree is seen as communism and everything that is free is seen as capitalism. It gets really dangerous, if you draw the reverse conclusion: everything that is capitalist is free. China is proof that this is not the case.
Unfortunately this belief is so widespread that the foreign policy of western countries seems to be focused much more on the "capitalist" part than on the "free" part. So remember: democracy is possible without capitalism (at least theoretically) and capitalism is possible without democracy (see china).
It seems to be true:0 05_keynote.shtml
http://live.macobserver.com/article/2005/06/wwdc2