#1 The article just states the facts of the incident. (It doesn't specifically use the word "racism") #2 The facts as stated are true -- so he wouldn't have a libel case.
That kind of sloppiness is rare for the BBC, but typical for US media. Here's a good example of a double-whammy courtesy of CNN
It's not more typical for U.S. media than for any other country's media.
Yes, the BBC is a very respected news source, probably moreso than CNN, but your statement is completely unfair to U.S. media in general.
The AP stylebook contains specific rules for naming cities, and it's not as simple as "City, State" in domestic cases and "City, Country" in international cases. This is why you'll see "CANCUN, Mexico" in one dateline and "MEXICO CITY" (rather than "MEXICO CITY, Mexico") in another. In the interest of conciseness, news outlets also have to consider their audience, and make certain assumptions about how the the reader will receive the information. But generally, most U.S. media follow AP style.
Out of curiosity, I did a search for "Quintana Roo" on the BBC Web site and found no uses in this context, so your criticism of CNN for that omission (compared to non-U.S. media) is unfair. And as you yourself stated, Quintana Roo is on the Yucatan Peninsula, making Cancun a Yucatan resort.
Sorry, but you're stretching. Yes, the BBC article could have done better to place Soudan, but the CNN article is fine (not that it's Shakespeare either).
I do preflight for a major national daily and I deal with ads like this every single day. It should not be taking them 15 minutes to make a minor change to text.
The largest ads I've worked with were glossy magazine ads above 300MB in size, but they were only that large because of high res photos that have nothing to do with editable text.
I have an idea why the text is taking so long to render but I won't state that assumption here.
I'll just say that any decent page layout program like Quark or InDesign should be able to handle the text without this absurd rendering time. Once the ad's in final form, send the postscript file through Distiller and you have a pdf ready to send to the NYT.
OK very interesting. You lost me when you started making up numbers from thin air, but anyway. I like the idea of agent smith representing the "real" humans' attempts at defeating the machines.
But I have another minor problem. Didn't neo take the same door every other "the one" took? That's how I saw it in the movie. Every video screen in the architect's room showed the same thing that neo was doing.
It's just too bad part 3 is gonna ruin the whole potential of the matrix story line. I originally thought it could bring it all out, but now after seeing this latest trailer I think it'll just be more of what part 1 was. An entertaining movie with cool special effects.
great idea though. If i had mod points I'd mod u up in spite of a few disagreements
Since when did U.S. taxpayers start answering to foreign companies?
Agoria-Belgian Software Industry Group Akaei plc Amman Stock Exchange Banana.ch SA Bangladesh Association of Software & Information Services (BASIS) Budapest Stock Exchange HEX Group Ltd, Finland Japan Multimedia Forum (JMF) London Stock Exchange etc., etc., etc.
You ever get the feeling that we're tinkering with a hugely complex system and observing only one or two of the most pronounced effects?
That's the best thing I've ever seen written in slashdot. We're like the proverbial blind men trying to identify an elephant by touching just a single part.
It's actually well known that kuwait is one of the most oppressive countries in the middle east. Yes, more oppressive than Iraq, at least as far as domestic policy. This is true now and it was true in 1991.
Some may say they are on "our" side of the fence. But if they mean "On the slashdot side of the fence" that's totally wrong.
This article should come as a surprise to no American, and if it does, maybe some need to read a little more history.
In addition, maybe sending an email to your favorite bands to put some mp3s up on their site could generate some interest.
If any of your favorite bands are on major labels, the chances are nearly nil that they will put mp3s on their sites.
The labels own the music -- the bands don't -- and they're too busy trying to make money off their controversial online music services to even think about offering anything for free elsewhere online.
Very entertaining though. My guess as to why it hasn't been submitted until now is that it used to come with a bunch of pr0n popups. It no longer does... and strangely, I no longer go to that site.... mmmmmmmmm... bytemail chicks....
I just read the MCSR how-to and realized how easy it would be to setup a linux cluster and how skewed the original article was. I bet someone could easily write a Beowulf setup script that, along with a custom system installation script, could make Linux clustering a THREE step process.
#1: Install OS with custom auto-install script.
#2: Run BW setup script.
#3: There is no step 3.
The only problem is that you'd have half a million Linux geeks screaming that your script automatically (and behind their backs!) gave their machines ips in the 192.168.x.x range instead of the 10.x.x.x range (or about something else conveniently handled by your script). You'd become the Microsoft of beowulf. Everyone would hate you and nobody would use your n00b scripts.
OK, that's a little bit facetious, but my point stands that on the whole, Mac-users WANT things done for them, while Linux users don't want anything done for them. Pooch-for-linux would never go anywhere and the comparison the original article makes is erroneous.
It seems that the RIAA based their cases against MP3.com and Napster on the proof that illegal file swapping was indeed occuring.
But since the network protocol behind FastTrack is encrypted, how are they going to prove that anything illegal is actually happening without breaking the DMCA?
At most, they have evidence, but no proof.
IANAL. Obviously it can't be that simple, so please enlighten me.
I've found that the best place to find videos of the attack is on Morpheus, a free P2P file sharing community like Gnutella (but with banner ads). The software can be downloaded at http://www.musiccity.com
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#1 The article just states the facts of the incident. (It doesn't specifically use the word "racism")
#2 The facts as stated are true -- so he wouldn't have a libel case.
That kind of sloppiness is rare for the BBC, but typical for US media.
Here's a good example of a double-whammy courtesy of CNN
It's not more typical for U.S. media than for any other country's media.
Yes, the BBC is a very respected news source, probably moreso than CNN, but your statement is completely unfair to U.S. media in general.
The AP stylebook contains specific rules for naming cities, and it's not as simple as "City, State" in domestic cases and "City, Country" in international cases. This is why you'll see "CANCUN, Mexico" in one dateline and "MEXICO CITY" (rather than "MEXICO CITY, Mexico") in another. In the interest of conciseness, news outlets also have to consider their audience, and make certain assumptions about how the the reader will receive the information. But generally, most U.S. media follow AP style.
Out of curiosity, I did a search for "Quintana Roo" on the BBC Web site and found no uses in this context, so your criticism of CNN for that omission (compared to non-U.S. media) is unfair. And as you yourself stated, Quintana Roo is on the Yucatan Peninsula, making Cancun a Yucatan resort.
Sorry, but you're stretching. Yes, the BBC article could have done better to place Soudan, but the CNN article is fine (not that it's Shakespeare either).
I do preflight for a major national daily and I deal with ads like this every single day. It should not be taking them 15 minutes to make a minor change to text.
The largest ads I've worked with were glossy magazine ads above 300MB in size, but they were only that large because of high res photos that have nothing to do with editable text.
I have an idea why the text is taking so long to render but I won't state that assumption here.
I'll just say that any decent page layout program like Quark or InDesign should be able to handle the text without this absurd rendering time. Once the ad's in final form, send the postscript file through Distiller and you have a pdf ready to send to the NYT.
But the networks are really in business to give people what they want.
It might be more accurate to say they give people what they will watch.
There is no free lunch. Hotmail is not free. What do you not get about that?
Yes.. That terrible, evil company.. They were so wrong to give you a free email service. How dare they..
yes, simple and kind Microsoft Corp. offers free email out of the goodness of its heart.
OK very interesting. You lost me when you started making up numbers from thin air, but anyway. I like the idea of agent smith representing the "real" humans' attempts at defeating the machines.
But I have another minor problem. Didn't neo take the same door every other "the one" took? That's how I saw it in the movie. Every video screen in the architect's room showed the same thing that neo was doing.
It's just too bad part 3 is gonna ruin the whole potential of the matrix story line. I originally thought it could bring it all out, but now after seeing this latest trailer I think it'll just be more of what part 1 was. An entertaining movie with cool special effects.
great idea though. If i had mod points I'd mod u up in spite of a few disagreements
Just fyi, Yamaha music and motors are affiliates. They even use the same logo. zaibatsu and all that
Since when did U.S. taxpayers start answering to foreign companies?
Agoria-Belgian Software Industry Group
Akaei plc
Amman Stock Exchange
Banana.ch SA
Bangladesh Association of Software & Information Services (BASIS)
Budapest Stock Exchange
HEX Group Ltd, Finland
Japan Multimedia Forum (JMF)
London Stock Exchange
etc., etc., etc.
You ever get the feeling that we're tinkering with a hugely complex system and observing only one or two of the most pronounced effects?
That's the best thing I've ever seen written in slashdot. We're like the proverbial blind men trying to identify an elephant by touching just a single part.
shit, I didn't catch this:
I mean "come as NO surprise", not "come as a surprise." but that should be obvious by the tone of my former post.
It's actually well known that kuwait is one of the most oppressive countries in the middle east. Yes, more oppressive than Iraq, at least as far as domestic policy. This is true now and it was true in 1991.
Some may say they are on "our" side of the fence. But if they mean "On the slashdot side of the fence" that's totally wrong.
This article should come as a surprise to no American, and if it does, maybe some need to read a little more history.
In addition, maybe sending an email to your favorite bands to put some mp3s up on their site could generate some interest.
If any of your favorite bands are on major labels, the chances are nearly nil that they will put mp3s on their sites.
The labels own the music -- the bands don't -- and they're too busy trying to make money off their controversial online music services to even think about offering anything for free elsewhere online.
Very entertaining though. My guess as to why it hasn't been submitted until now is that it used to come with a bunch of pr0n popups. It no longer does... and strangely, I no longer go to that site.... mmmmmmmmm... bytemail chicks....
I just read the MCSR how-to and realized how easy it would be to setup a linux cluster and how skewed the original article was. I bet someone could easily write a Beowulf setup script that, along with a custom system installation script, could make Linux clustering a THREE step process.
#1: Install OS with custom auto-install script.
#2: Run BW setup script.
#3: There is no step 3.
The only problem is that you'd have half a million Linux geeks screaming that your script automatically (and behind their backs!) gave their machines ips in the 192.168.x.x range instead of the 10.x.x.x range (or about something else conveniently handled by your script). You'd become the Microsoft of beowulf. Everyone would hate you and nobody would use your n00b scripts.
OK, that's a little bit facetious, but my point stands that on the whole, Mac-users WANT things done for them, while Linux users don't want anything done for them. Pooch-for-linux would never go anywhere and the comparison the original article makes is erroneous.
the line beginning, "At most, they have evidence..." should have said:
"At most, they have circumstantial evidence, but no proof."
But since the network protocol behind FastTrack is encrypted, how are they going to prove that anything illegal is actually happening without breaking the DMCA?
At most, they have evidence, but no proof.
IANAL. Obviously it can't be that simple, so please enlighten me.
I've found that the best place to find videos of the attack is on Morpheus, a free P2P file sharing community like Gnutella (but with banner ads). The software can be downloaded at http://www.musiccity.com
See, MPAA/RIAA? Filesharing is GOOD.