Stars don't become black holes until they burn up their fuel, collapsing (and perhaps exploding, perhaps even multiple times) in on themselves until they are much more dense than any visible stars. Then, assuming they they haven't blown off so much of their mass that they no longer have enough mass and will instead become a dwarf or a neutron star, they can collapse to become a black hole.
You don't use the MacMini to directly output optical audio, you use it to feed an Airport Express which outputs optical audio.
Although I imagine that somebody outthere could make a firewire frob to output optical audio if there is really a market for it. Firewire really gives you enough bandwidth to do anything you like, up to HDTV .
Welcome to the corporate shield. Finding a corporation is easy - finding individuals within that corporation to be criminally culpable for the corporation's actions is much, much more difficult (financial fraud is a somewhat exceptional case, in case Enron et al come to mind).
All too often, this reduces their following the law to be a mere matter of cost-benefit analysis. If it makes them more money, they break the law, pay the fine... and profit.
Right... because there's so much danger to the second amendment from the Bush Administration.
I don't think it's reasonable to expect one private organization to do everything, or to agree with you (or me) on every major issue. If you are concerned about both the first amendment and the absolute interpretation of the second amendments, give to both the ACLU and the NRA, like I do. No big deal.
I don't know, I'll continue to hold out hope - I'm a huge Ironside fan - he and Terry O'Quinn get the two "Actor wishlists" on TiVo, and his presence is enough to make me think fondly of Highlander 2.
The lead character ("Splinter Cell?") is supposed to be an old war horse, he keeps complaining that he's "getting too old for this" and appears to be a contemporary of other characters who are themselves around that age.
Sure, 54 is old, but makeup could probably take 10 years off.
He probably won't be doing any of those split jump stunts himself though.
It's a myth that people will pay artists through online contributions; it just doesn't happen.
I'm sure that this will be a great surprise to people like Randy Milholland. who quit his job 6 months ago purely on the strength of contributions, in order to go full time on his comic Something Positive.
There are a number of other web cartoonists out there who have gone full time, but they also make money by selling licensed products and web site memberships - so you could bicker about whether they could (I think they do, because you can still read their stuff for free, but whatever). Randy's an example where it purely worked through free-and-clear contributions.
I'll bet Real loves that this particular framing of the issue has been picked up. It really ignores some very important aspects of the history of the legal commerce in digital music from just the last year or so.
Think way back, a scant two years ago. The RIAA was basically dead set against any form of on-line selling of high quality music. The best that peope were doing legally was providing clips of songs to sell realspace media. Some companies were monkeying around with ideas like space shifting and library locking, but they were all at odds with the recording industry. That is, until Apple came along as a trusted partner and managed to seduce the recording industry into a compromise that everybody could live with.
What Apple did was to go to the music labels and say, "Look. We control the software on the PC, we control the store, and we control the iPod. We can make it safe for you to sell inexpensively on-line by putting modest limits on what users can do, but making it difficult to leave the reservation with high quality recording. You sell recordings, we sell iPods, and you don't even have to ship CDs. We all win, because people want to buy if prices are reasonable, and we can do that while making sure that you don't have to worry about getting ripped off on a massive scale."
What Real does by selling music into Apple's scheme, without entering into a licensing agreement with Apple, is suddenly endanger the whole position that Apple has with the record companies. Suddenly another unconnected corporation is pissing in Apple's pond - and worse, they're themselves engaging in anticompetitive practices (the $0.49 song dumping they tried to use to undercut Apple), trying to splice their own proprietary system into Apple's infrastructure!
In Apple's place, I'd be pissed too. They went to a lot of trouble to reassure the RIAA and find a balance that would profit everybody, in an arena in which the recording industry wasn't at all sure they could prosper in the first place. Real is coming along and trying to disrupt that as much as possible - of course Apple's going to fight back.
Refusing to raise Real's cuckoo's eggs isn't even close to unreasonable.
I mean, really - video games are pretty good at using digital media to put dozens of hours of entertainment on a relatively small use of resources. Do we really need to put out piles of wood pulp printed with what you'd kind of see if you blinked during a video game?
Video games are inherently motion-oriented, and need an animated medium in order to convey anything like what the experience of a short period of time in the game is like - I can't imagine that the magazines were even close as good a promotional vehicle as the (again, super efficient) downloading of video motion captures of the games.
He can throw gays out of his little Christianoid club if he likes, out of contempt for their beliefs - that's his right, just as it's my right to have contempt for his beliefs. But when he starts talking about government action, it's time to start making people aware of his desire for creating and selectively enforcing anti-gay laws.
Buying his books directly helps him push that agenda.
The spin is much worse than his actual stated beliefs, which he's certainly entitled to. His religion states homosexuality is a sin -- and he agrees with it. And this is a shock to you? Nowhere in his words is the word "hate" used. In fact, it's almost certainly a case of "hate the sin, love the sinner."
Not caring a whole lot, here. The moment he endorses (as he does) the criminalization of homosexulaity (and worse, the selective enforcement of such laws), he's a clear and present danger to the freedom of our society.
If he wants to huddle in a cave with his other supersitious whack-jobs, that's his business. If he wants to fuck with nonbelievers through government action, he and his influence needs to be fought.
He's talking about those who claim to be LDS, are practicing homosexuals AND say it's fine. That would be hypocritical.
Didn't read the whole thing in the middle, did you? He starts just talking about the LDS context (and that's fine - he's got as much a right to his intolerent supersitious cult as the next guy does) but he leads then into talking about the government:
This applies also to the polity, the citizens at large. Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those whoflagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society.
So he condones not only laws against homosexuals, but also selective enforcement, leaving it up to the whims of law enforcement as to whether to bust someone. To me, that represents someone who needs to be resisted as much as possible.
None of this is homophobia or zealotry, because of the lack of knee-jerk thoughtless bantering.
Thoughtful, well-considered homophobia (but still with an irrational basis) is still homophobia. For me, he loses the benefit of the doubt when he says that there's a compelling state interest to legislate against gays.
Here's the thing, though - the domain now points at a site that specifically talks about a program "for Apple's iTunes."
If the domain were used for something completely unrelated to Apple's program, I think Apple would be unreasonable for attacking the registration. However, the domain is instead being used to undermine Apple's specific trademark and as such is, I think, arguably fair game.
The Register article really errs in not even mentioning this aspect.
Tivo will not do that for you. A season pass is tied to a specific channel.
Actually, TiVo will do that for you, but you have to have season passes for all of the channels involved.
I do this with the HBO/Showtime channels that have east coast and west coast feeds, as well as "2" (eg, HBO2, HBO2 Pacific, etc) versions. I get season passes on each of them, put the show at a low priority, and the TiVo will only record one of each episode.
Works pretty well, except for the cumbersome process of adding each channel.
The problem is that in many places, especially in Florida, there are a substantial number of voters (especially elderly) who are not willing (or really able) to travel farther than their local precinct.
Early voting here, in Pasco and Pinellas counties, took place at three locations in each county in county government buildings. These buildings (more so in Pinellas than Pasco, which is a more rural county) are in fairly heavily populated areas, and many elderly are unwilling to travel to such areas due to the traffic congestion and the uncertainty involved in travelling farther from home. Further, many are barred from travelling farther than a certain distance from their primary health care provider. Lastly, many can travel only short distances due to the logistics of their limited mobility.
If voting locations are going to be open for two weeks, I don't see how they'll get around this - they're certainly not going to be using churches and schools, the current precinct poll locations, for two weeks straight.
I voted early here, and loved it... but I live about 5 minutes from one of the three locations in Pasco county where I could vote, so it was trivial for me. I think we still need to have a small window where people are able to vote locally. Otherwise, this could effectively disenfranchise a lot of people.
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Light pressure and the heat of fusion.
Stars don't become black holes until they burn up their fuel, collapsing (and perhaps exploding, perhaps even multiple times) in on themselves until they are much more dense than any visible stars. Then, assuming they they haven't blown off so much of their mass that they no longer have enough mass and will instead become a dwarf or a neutron star, they can collapse to become a black hole.
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You don't use the MacMini to directly output optical audio, you use it to feed an Airport Express which outputs optical audio.
Although I imagine that somebody outthere could make a firewire frob to output optical audio if there is really a market for it. Firewire really gives you enough bandwidth to do anything you like, up to HDTV .
"As a mohel, I constitute a circumcision device." It's late.
Heh.
Welcome to the corporate shield. Finding a corporation is easy - finding individuals within that corporation to be criminally culpable for the corporation's actions is much, much more difficult (financial fraud is a somewhat exceptional case, in case Enron et al come to mind).
All too often, this reduces their following the law to be a mere matter of cost-benefit analysis. If it makes them more money, they break the law, pay the fine... and profit.
Right... because there's so much danger to the second amendment from the Bush Administration.
I don't think it's reasonable to expect one private organization to do everything, or to agree with you (or me) on every major issue. If you are concerned about both the first amendment and the absolute interpretation of the second amendments, give to both the ACLU and the NRA, like I do. No big deal.
I don't know, I'll continue to hold out hope - I'm a huge Ironside fan - he and Terry O'Quinn get the two "Actor wishlists" on TiVo, and his presence is enough to make me think fondly of Highlander 2.
The lead character ("Splinter Cell?") is supposed to be an old war horse, he keeps complaining that he's "getting too old for this" and appears to be a contemporary of other characters who are themselves around that age.
Sure, 54 is old, but makeup could probably take 10 years off.
He probably won't be doing any of those split jump stunts himself though.
Wait a minute.
So your argument boils down to, "some people were wrong about some things, so nobody can be right?"
Fucking brilliant.
There are a number of other web cartoonists out there who have gone full time, but they also make money by selling licensed products and web site memberships - so you could bicker about whether they could (I think they do, because you can still read their stuff for free, but whatever). Randy's an example where it purely worked through free-and-clear contributions.
I'll bet Real loves that this particular framing of the issue has been picked up. It really ignores some very important aspects of the history of the legal commerce in digital music from just the last year or so.
Think way back, a scant two years ago. The RIAA was basically dead set against any form of on-line selling of high quality music. The best that peope were doing legally was providing clips of songs to sell realspace media. Some companies were monkeying around with ideas like space shifting and library locking, but they were all at odds with the recording industry. That is, until Apple came along as a trusted partner and managed to seduce the recording industry into a compromise that everybody could live with.
What Apple did was to go to the music labels and say, "Look. We control the software on the PC, we control the store, and we control the iPod. We can make it safe for you to sell inexpensively on-line by putting modest limits on what users can do, but making it difficult to leave the reservation with high quality recording. You sell recordings, we sell iPods, and you don't even have to ship CDs. We all win, because people want to buy if prices are reasonable, and we can do that while making sure that you don't have to worry about getting ripped off on a massive scale."
What Real does by selling music into Apple's scheme, without entering into a licensing agreement with Apple, is suddenly endanger the whole position that Apple has with the record companies. Suddenly another unconnected corporation is pissing in Apple's pond - and worse, they're themselves engaging in anticompetitive practices (the $0.49 song dumping they tried to use to undercut Apple), trying to splice their own proprietary system into Apple's infrastructure!
In Apple's place, I'd be pissed too. They went to a lot of trouble to reassure the RIAA and find a balance that would profit everybody, in an arena in which the recording industry wasn't at all sure they could prosper in the first place. Real is coming along and trying to disrupt that as much as possible - of course Apple's going to fight back.
Refusing to raise Real's cuckoo's eggs isn't even close to unreasonable.
Thank goodness.
I mean, really - video games are pretty good at using digital media to put dozens of hours of entertainment on a relatively small use of resources. Do we really need to put out piles of wood pulp printed with what you'd kind of see if you blinked during a video game?
Video games are inherently motion-oriented, and need an animated medium in order to convey anything like what the experience of a short period of time in the game is like - I can't imagine that the magazines were even close as good a promotional vehicle as the (again, super efficient) downloading of video motion captures of the games.
And what do you think I'm doing, but peacefully making people aware of what he (and the money his fans gives him) supports?
He can throw gays out of his little Christianoid club if he likes, out of contempt for their beliefs - that's his right, just as it's my right to have contempt for his beliefs. But when he starts talking about government action, it's time to start making people aware of his desire for creating and selectively enforcing anti-gay laws.
Buying his books directly helps him push that agenda.
If he wants to huddle in a cave with his other supersitious whack-jobs, that's his business. If he wants to fuck with nonbelievers through government action, he and his influence needs to be fought.
So he condones not only laws against homosexuals, but also selective enforcement, leaving it up to the whims of law enforcement as to whether to bust someone. To me, that represents someone who needs to be resisted as much as possible.
Before you pay any more money to Card, read his Hypocrites of Homosexuality .
I'm glad to have informed someone, please pass it on. Not nearly enough people know what they're supporting when they buy his books.
Interesting. It's changed - Item number 1 on the site when I posted that listed "Apple's iTunes" right after Ebay [sic] and, IIRC, before CDWow.
At first glance, this would seem to be an abuse.
Here's the thing, though - the domain now points at a site that specifically talks about a program "for Apple's iTunes."
If the domain were used for something completely unrelated to Apple's program, I think Apple would be unreasonable for attacking the registration. However, the domain is instead being used to undermine Apple's specific trademark and as such is, I think, arguably fair game.
The Register article really errs in not even mentioning this aspect.
Or does that game look like a big Chronicles of Riddick ripoff, setting-wise?
I do this with the HBO/Showtime channels that have east coast and west coast feeds, as well as "2" (eg, HBO2, HBO2 Pacific, etc) versions. I get season passes on each of them, put the show at a low priority, and the TiVo will only record one of each episode.
Works pretty well, except for the cumbersome process of adding each channel.
The problem is that in many places, especially in Florida, there are a substantial number of voters (especially elderly) who are not willing (or really able) to travel farther than their local precinct.
Early voting here, in Pasco and Pinellas counties, took place at three locations in each county in county government buildings. These buildings (more so in Pinellas than Pasco, which is a more rural county) are in fairly heavily populated areas, and many elderly are unwilling to travel to such areas due to the traffic congestion and the uncertainty involved in travelling farther from home. Further, many are barred from travelling farther than a certain distance from their primary health care provider. Lastly, many can travel only short distances due to the logistics of their limited mobility.
If voting locations are going to be open for two weeks, I don't see how they'll get around this - they're certainly not going to be using churches and schools, the current precinct poll locations, for two weeks straight.
I voted early here, and loved it... but I live about 5 minutes from one of the three locations in Pasco county where I could vote, so it was trivial for me. I think we still need to have a small window where people are able to vote locally. Otherwise, this could effectively disenfranchise a lot of people.