As long as the iTunes store requires installing and running Apple's iTunes software, it is proprietary. I can't get their AACs for my non-iPod music player because I run Linux and refuse to hack in iTunes just for that.
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is just one example. "Best of E3 - 2006" "Best Online Multiplayer - 2006" Release date: October 2007. WTF? How do you get "Best Online Multiplayer" almost a full YEAR before you release?
Bioware's Mass Effect is another. Award after award for a game that wouldn't ship for another year.
Game magazines suck. They are sleazy, lying whores. IGN, GameSpy, GameSpot -- I mean you.
Verizon's telco predecessors made that capital investment with gov't guaranteed monopolies. In short, it really ISN'T Verizon's copper, it is copper paid for by taxes and a gov't granted monopoly. It is national infrastructure.
It is cost prohibitive. You claim that their customers would be loyal for years and years, but it would be trivial for Verizon to say "Three months free for anyone who switches from Covad!" and crush them.
The only reason Verizon and AT&T can afford it is because of the decades spent as a government granted monopolist and the wealth that generated. They only want to prevent competition from following the path they themselves trod.
Copper infrastructure was mostly paid for by government granted monopolies. In return, it was a tariffed service that the telcos had to lease to anyone, in a non-discriminatory way.
Yes, they had to lease to their competitors. That was the price of the gov't granting them a monopoly.
Fiber is paid for by the telcos, not the gov't so is not a tariffed service. While Verizon MUST lease copper to competitors, it isn't compelled to lease fiber access. Verizon cutting the copper is effectively cutting off any competition that was not a Baby Bell in a past life.
No, they can't just reconnect it. The copper is cut on BOTH ends -- telco CO and house. Feel free to reconnect one end, but they aren't required to let you hook it back up in their CO.
The only reason Verizon and AT&T and the others can afford to pay to lay the fiber is the wealth that was created by their guaranteed monopoly.
I supervise an America's Army clan website which uses phpBB for the forums. Spam bots were barely slowed down by the standard CAPTCHA registration requirement. I'd get dozens of bogus registration requests a day from bots that used OCR to get in.
A couple of months ago I switch to recaptcha.net's plugin for phpBB and it stemmed the tide. The number of spam bots getting thru decreased greatly. Those that did, I felt slightly better when I deleted their registration requests unfulfilled. Their Evil cpu cycles had been reclaimed for Good!:-)
Now, I'm expecting if this gains momentum, the spam bots to have tweaked OCR that will better handle recaptcha images. I also expect it will happen like before, where it slowly ramped up in annoyance for me. During that time, there will be an increase in positive results for CMU, which is a good thing.
Once the bots get good enough that I (and other forum admins) change, I expect CMU's OCR algorithms to have improved enough to not need this service.
English is compulsory learning in primary and secondary school in many parts of China and India. Neither Chinese nor Hindi is taught to more than a very small fraction of English speakers and then it is optional.
The British did a very good job of spreading their language around the globe. The Chinese were never a global colonizing power.
Nice. I don't have a Windows PC or a Mac, so how can I download non-DRM tunes from iTunes? With the Amazon shop I can ignore their download software and just download straight from a browser. I purchased one yesterday just to see how it worked, and I'm happy with it.
I wonder if the Amarok developers can find a way to integrate with Amazon...
The location of the oil is irrelevant. It is still controlled by the Sudanese gov't and if the U.S. invaded, I'm fairly certain they wouldn't be okay with "we're just gonna be in Darfur, so ignore that tank brigade and go about your business".
As for the purity, it still beat the pants off of oil shale and oil sands. The Chinese seem to be happy with it.
Sorry for the snappy reply. That one line "because they have no oil" has become a meme propagated by people who seem to have distilled the U.S. invasion of Iraq down to one simple, black & white issue. It isn't, and wasn't ever that simple.
To answer your question, as to why we don't (or didn't) intervene in the Sudan, Burma, Rwanda, DPR Congo, Zimbabwe, Liberia or any other of those hot-spots is rather complicated, but if you want a simple answer -- it isn't in the best interests of the United States.
Leave Burma for last, simply because it is the only one I listed that isn't in Africa.
The memory of colonialism is still strong in Africa. A western power stepping in would be perceived by many as white people not believing black people are capable of running a country and having to step in to "save the poor savages from themselves". Add to that the fact that none of them would be a "quick fix" and establishing stable, working, representative government would take a DECADE or more of occupation. Ditto for Iraq -- a DECADE or more, without outside interference. By that time even the people who you tried to help will be calling you an occupying power and be working against you.
Not a one of them is worth all the trouble from a U.S. perspective, especially when you consider most of the "rebels" would be more interested in exacting revenge as to reconciliation and building bridges. For recent examples, see DPR Congo, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Liberia.
As for Burma, it too has a colonial past with Britain. The Junta do their best to blame every problem they have on the outside interference of Britain and the U.S. They also share a border with China, who I'm fairly certain wouldn't be interested in having U.S. troops that close.
They're also a short hop from Vietnam. The press in the U.S. would be making comparisons before the President finished any sentence about sending troops over there.
Sudan's current gov't is militantly Islamic and forceably imposed Sharia Law on the southern States in direct abrogation of the Addis Ababa Agreement that ended their first Civil War. And to put things in perspective, Osama bin Laden's latest message to the world called from mujhadeen to travel to Sudan to expel the infidel U.N. and African Union peacekeepers. Then there are issues with cross-border incursions into Chad and Uganda... it is a mess.
Watch the movie "Lord of War" for general info on the way politics and gun-running is handled by the big boys. The last scene where Costner explains to the guy that arrested him how it all works and why he was going to be free soon is enlightening.
I was waiting for one of you uneducated morons to pipe up.
The Sudan and Burma are loaded with oil. Burma also has massive reserves of hardwoods, precious gems and several other resources.
These are the reasons China is neck deep in both countries and the primary arms suppliers to both governments. India just signed oil exploration agreements with Burma and Russia is negotiating with them for Natural Gas rights.
Keep in mind, the first half of that 48-bits isn't unique, it identifies the vendor. And they really aren't globally unique, but I'm not sure they have to be.
Either way, this is going about it the long way. The simple solution is to make it so you have to change the default password the first time you config the device. Feel free to leave it "admin" from the factory, as long as it can't be "admin" after it gets configured.
They must run a test suite before shipping them...
No, they mustn't. Frequently, if your production QA is good you don't do 100% testing before shipping. Random sampling is usually good enough and significantly cheaper. I can't speak to any specific router manufacturer, but this is SOP in manufacturing.
It gives Google the ability to determine exactly which "escorts" listed on Craigslist I perused before settling on the cute little Latina who promised multiple language lessons.:-)
Give me your URL history, combine it with your online purchase and reading history and a decent psychologist (or psych AI) can probably tell you what color shirt you are wearing today.
The government understands this theory. It is why you can certain FOI requests get denied and others allowed. Not that the information you are requesting itself is sensitive, but if you start getting too many pieces of the puzzle together in one place, you start to see things that you were not meant to know.
The publicity he generated has infinitely more potential to make Circuit City change their policy than any letter he could write.
The next step is to file suit against the store, the idea being not to make some cash but to get them to instruct their people in proper procedure. You may ASK for the receipt, but cannot force anyone.
And that is where he and I differ. I would have sat there, smiling at the manager and asked "now what, genius?". See how long he and his employee stood there blocking his exit. Ten seconds later I would have said "wow, look at all the people walking out without showing their receipts!" See if it prodded his little brain to kick into some gear other than neutral.
The basic premise is, while the store can *ask* they cannot force you. The application of force, other than in self-defense, is almost always considered assault.
Just because there is the possibility of one crime being committed doesn't give the store the right to commit another.
The correct answer to your question of "how does the store prevent shoplifting" is "by any legal means they can". However, detaining customers without reasonable belief of an actual crime is not a legal method. No, just walking towards the exit is not reasonable belief, nor is refusing to show a receipt. Neither would stand up in court. They would need a witness willing to make sworn testimony to a police officer or an automatic recording device, like a camera, that shows the attempted theft.
You're wrong. The filter you link to removes protozoa and bacteria (200 nm range), whereas the one in the article can also remove viruses (20 nm range). There is a significant difference.
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As long as the iTunes store requires installing and running Apple's iTunes software, it is proprietary. I can't get their AACs for my non-iPod music player because I run Linux and refuse to hack in iTunes just for that.
No, this is not a troll. I really want to know because the game looks great. Will it run under WINE or Cedega? Is there a native Linux version?
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is just one example. "Best of E3 - 2006" "Best Online Multiplayer - 2006" Release date: October 2007. WTF? How do you get "Best Online Multiplayer" almost a full YEAR before you release?
Bioware's Mass Effect is another. Award after award for a game that wouldn't ship for another year.
Game magazines suck. They are sleazy, lying whores. IGN, GameSpy, GameSpot -- I mean you.
Wow, are you behind the times.
No, there isn't. There are stories that only make it into category pages, like Games or Apple, but don't make it to the front page that everyone sees.
Verizon's telco predecessors made that capital investment with gov't guaranteed monopolies. In short, it really ISN'T Verizon's copper, it is copper paid for by taxes and a gov't granted monopoly. It is national infrastructure.
It is cost prohibitive. You claim that their customers would be loyal for years and years, but it would be trivial for Verizon to say "Three months free for anyone who switches from Covad!" and crush them.
The only reason Verizon and AT&T can afford it is because of the decades spent as a government granted monopolist and the wealth that generated. They only want to prevent competition from following the path they themselves trod.
Copper infrastructure was mostly paid for by government granted monopolies. In return, it was a tariffed service that the telcos had to lease to anyone, in a non-discriminatory way.
Yes, they had to lease to their competitors. That was the price of the gov't granting them a monopoly.
Fiber is paid for by the telcos, not the gov't so is not a tariffed service. While Verizon MUST lease copper to competitors, it isn't compelled to lease fiber access. Verizon cutting the copper is effectively cutting off any competition that was not a Baby Bell in a past life.
No, they can't just reconnect it. The copper is cut on BOTH ends -- telco CO and house. Feel free to reconnect one end, but they aren't required to let you hook it back up in their CO.
The only reason Verizon and AT&T and the others can afford to pay to lay the fiber is the wealth that was created by their guaranteed monopoly.
Lack of press? There are at least two Nobel Laureates in the following list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spaniards#Science_and_technology
Dude, are you calling G.W. Bush the Missing Link? THAT would be ironic.
I supervise an America's Army clan website which uses phpBB for the forums. Spam bots were barely slowed down by the standard CAPTCHA registration requirement. I'd get dozens of bogus registration requests a day from bots that used OCR to get in.
:-)
A couple of months ago I switch to recaptcha.net's plugin for phpBB and it stemmed the tide. The number of spam bots getting thru decreased greatly. Those that did, I felt slightly better when I deleted their registration requests unfulfilled. Their Evil cpu cycles had been reclaimed for Good!
Now, I'm expecting if this gains momentum, the spam bots to have tweaked OCR that will better handle recaptcha images. I also expect it will happen like before, where it slowly ramped up in annoyance for me. During that time, there will be an increase in positive results for CMU, which is a good thing.
Once the bots get good enough that I (and other forum admins) change, I expect CMU's OCR algorithms to have improved enough to not need this service.
English is compulsory learning in primary and secondary school in many parts of China and India. Neither Chinese nor Hindi is taught to more than a very small fraction of English speakers and then it is optional.
The British did a very good job of spreading their language around the globe. The Chinese were never a global colonizing power.
Nice. I don't have a Windows PC or a Mac, so how can I download non-DRM tunes from iTunes? With the Amazon shop I can ignore their download software and just download straight from a browser. I purchased one yesterday just to see how it worked, and I'm happy with it.
I wonder if the Amarok developers can find a way to integrate with Amazon...
The location of the oil is irrelevant. It is still controlled by the Sudanese gov't and if the U.S. invaded, I'm fairly certain they wouldn't be okay with "we're just gonna be in Darfur, so ignore that tank brigade and go about your business".
As for the purity, it still beat the pants off of oil shale and oil sands. The Chinese seem to be happy with it.
Sorry for the snappy reply. That one line "because they have no oil" has become a meme propagated by people who seem to have distilled the U.S. invasion of Iraq down to one simple, black & white issue. It isn't, and wasn't ever that simple.
To answer your question, as to why we don't (or didn't) intervene in the Sudan, Burma, Rwanda, DPR Congo, Zimbabwe, Liberia or any other of those hot-spots is rather complicated, but if you want a simple answer -- it isn't in the best interests of the United States.
Leave Burma for last, simply because it is the only one I listed that isn't in Africa.
The memory of colonialism is still strong in Africa. A western power stepping in would be perceived by many as white people not believing black people are capable of running a country and having to step in to "save the poor savages from themselves". Add to that the fact that none of them would be a "quick fix" and establishing stable, working, representative government would take a DECADE or more of occupation. Ditto for Iraq -- a DECADE or more, without outside interference. By that time even the people who you tried to help will be calling you an occupying power and be working against you.
Not a one of them is worth all the trouble from a U.S. perspective, especially when you consider most of the "rebels" would be more interested in exacting revenge as to reconciliation and building bridges. For recent examples, see DPR Congo, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Liberia.
As for Burma, it too has a colonial past with Britain. The Junta do their best to blame every problem they have on the outside interference of Britain and the U.S. They also share a border with China, who I'm fairly certain wouldn't be interested in having U.S. troops that close.
They're also a short hop from Vietnam. The press in the U.S. would be making comparisons before the President finished any sentence about sending troops over there.
Sudan's current gov't is militantly Islamic and forceably imposed Sharia Law on the southern States in direct abrogation of the Addis Ababa Agreement that ended their first Civil War. And to put things in perspective, Osama bin Laden's latest message to the world called from mujhadeen to travel to Sudan to expel the infidel U.N. and African Union peacekeepers. Then there are issues with cross-border incursions into Chad and Uganda... it is a mess.
Watch the movie "Lord of War" for general info on the way politics and gun-running is handled by the big boys. The last scene where Costner explains to the guy that arrested him how it all works and why he was going to be free soon is enlightening.
I was waiting for one of you uneducated morons to pipe up.
The Sudan and Burma are loaded with oil. Burma also has massive reserves of hardwoods, precious gems and several other resources.
These are the reasons China is neck deep in both countries and the primary arms suppliers to both governments. India just signed oil exploration agreements with Burma and Russia is negotiating with them for Natural Gas rights.
Keep in mind, the first half of that 48-bits isn't unique, it identifies the vendor. And they really aren't globally unique, but I'm not sure they have to be.
Either way, this is going about it the long way. The simple solution is to make it so you have to change the default password the first time you config the device. Feel free to leave it "admin" from the factory, as long as it can't be "admin" after it gets configured.
They must run a test suite before shipping them...
No, they mustn't. Frequently, if your production QA is good you don't do 100% testing before shipping. Random sampling is usually good enough and significantly cheaper. I can't speak to any specific router manufacturer, but this is SOP in manufacturing.
It gives Google the ability to determine exactly which "escorts" listed on Craigslist I perused before settling on the cute little Latina who promised multiple language lessons. :-)
Give me your URL history, combine it with your online purchase and reading history and a decent psychologist (or psych AI) can probably tell you what color shirt you are wearing today.
The government understands this theory. It is why you can certain FOI requests get denied and others allowed. Not that the information you are requesting itself is sensitive, but if you start getting too many pieces of the puzzle together in one place, you start to see things that you were not meant to know.
The publicity he generated has infinitely more potential to make Circuit City change their policy than any letter he could write.
The next step is to file suit against the store, the idea being not to make some cash but to get them to instruct their people in proper procedure. You may ASK for the receipt, but cannot force anyone.
And that is where he and I differ. I would have sat there, smiling at the manager and asked "now what, genius?". See how long he and his employee stood there blocking his exit. Ten seconds later I would have said "wow, look at all the people walking out without showing their receipts!" See if it prodded his little brain to kick into some gear other than neutral.
The basic premise is, while the store can *ask* they cannot force you. The application of force, other than in self-defense, is almost always considered assault.
Just because there is the possibility of one crime being committed doesn't give the store the right to commit another.
The correct answer to your question of "how does the store prevent shoplifting" is "by any legal means they can". However, detaining customers without reasonable belief of an actual crime is not a legal method. No, just walking towards the exit is not reasonable belief, nor is refusing to show a receipt. Neither would stand up in court. They would need a witness willing to make sworn testimony to a police officer or an automatic recording device, like a camera, that shows the attempted theft.
You're implying that only those with valid papers are entitled to police services? That's even scarier than the original scenario.
Not yet, but there should be shortly after KDE 4 comes out. That is based on QT4 which is GPL under Windows and Mac as well as Linux.
You're wrong. The filter you link to removes protozoa and bacteria (200 nm range), whereas the one in the article can also remove viruses (20 nm range). There is a significant difference.