Someone's always gotta play the tree hugging, "I love everybody," politically correct BS card. (I guess I'm Politically Correctist by lumping envirnmentalists in with policits. Or am I envrionmentalistist?)
It's a joke. There's lots of rice in asia; it's funny to imagine it being used as a fuel source for a car. We're talking about an INANIMATE OBJECT (maybe inorganic would be a better term); regardless, it doesn't have a race. Sure, it was built by asian people, and asian people eat rice, but that's not derrogatory either; it's a fact. It's not something to be ashamed of (Oh shit, did you hear Chris was eating RICE!?!?), and while it may be stereotypical, it's definately true. "But, but, in a small village nestled between the worlds 13th and 22nd tallest mountains, they eat a small animal that's closely related to the arctic white mouse, which shouldn't be called white because it's actually more of an eggshell, and..." Who fucking cares?? When's the last time you saw a Chinese car anyway? Probably never, unless you've been to China. So it's even more irrelevant what they eat there.
There's a HUGE difference between a stereotype and a prejudice. Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another. A stereotype is that all nerds are 5'2" 90lbs, pimply faced and virgins for life. Maybe it's true, maybe not, but it's only a stereotype, and it's funny to make fun of. Give it a rest.
You'd be correct if ice sank, but floating objects displace their mass, not their volume. The sea level wouldn't change at all from floating ice melting, but, as others have pointed out, the salinity may affect currents, and there's quite a significant amount of ice that's covering land.
Whether or not Windows tries to activate itself is all handled locally.. you don't need to "piggy back" on a legitamate key. They never thought of making a whitelist for the corporate keys, so as long as it appears legitimate, Windows Update will happily serve you. Althought I heard they blacklisted the famous FCKGW key from the Devil'sOwn release. Adding a whitelist for CD Keys is something they're supposed to be doing with Longhaul.
I'm more interested to learn what would happen if someone with an illegitamte copy of Corporate with a generated key would be detected as genuine or not.
I wasn't advocating one position or the other, merely stating that
a) asking current customers if they thought they should be running linux (or however you want to word it) isn't indicative of anything, for or against,
and
b) there are many ways to interpret the answers
But seriously, what company in their right mind would say "Shit, we were wrong. You guys go ahead and switch, you're getting screwed by sticking with our product." I'm just as skeptical when a pro-linux organization comes out with it's study saying linux has a lower TCO. Everyone's got ulterior motives.
And nine out of 10 enterprise customers said that such a change wouldn't provide any tangible business gains.
That's the most important point by far. Sure, a company could spend millions of extra dollars and tons of extra time converting to Linux, but for what gain?
Well, that's the thing.. he said 9 out of 10 customers... Obviously they're already of the opinion that Windows is better, or they'd be running something else. That could be interpreted as "They're pulling the wool over their customers' eyes," or just as easily, "They have a 90% satisfaction rate," or "Windows users don't know what they're missing," etc. etc. Statistics can be skewed to represent anything.
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November 1, 2004 Time Magazine Covers Verified Voting and TechWatch Program
Since the average scuba tank only holds about 30 minutes worth of air, depending on your breathing, which is barely enough to make it to 200ft and come straight back up...
Yes. Feel free to take it down to 300' and spend hours coming to the surface. If it turns out the device doesn't function, you may return it for a full refund.
I'm not sure what a decompression "stop" is, but feel free to make lots of those too.
I know this is/. and nobody ever reads the fucking article, so here's your answer. Obviously some other idiots didn't RTFA either since they modded you up. I'll probably get modded down for reading the article; that's just how it works.
The Lyra plays MP3 files from 32 Kbps to 320 Kbps, MP3PRO files from 48 Kbps to 96 Kbps, and Windows Media files (including Windows Media 9 DRM) from 32 Kbps to 192 Kbps. iTunes is not supported.
I'm not so sure hardware costs are all that high..
I bought a 16k color phone with WAP, GPS, et al for 13,000Y (~$100US at the time) with no service contract. And that was two years ago. Although, the demand for items like this is much higher in Japan than in the US, so they probably make up for it in volume. Computer hardware, for example, is no cheaper in Japan than in the US; it's actually higher in many cases. I think Sony's taking a gamble that the PSP will do well, which it probably will.
Also, to the people complaining about Sony's media: Name one portable gaming device that doesn't use a proprietary media format? At least Sony plans on making theirs available for other uses, so perhaps you can burn a copy of your favorite movie. Although who knows what media compression formats the PSP will be able to read. I'm not saying Sony's other formats are anything but overpriced and underperforming, but at least they're opening up the portable gaming device market a bit.
It's a protein produced by the cat, which is present in the dander, saliva, and urine as well, the highest concentration of which can be found in non-neutered males. You're right though, they all produce the protein, and it's not just in the dander.
What do you think the signing mechanism is for? To prevent the execution of "unauthorized" code, of course. AFAIK, game companies have to pay for (or at least apply for) approval from the console manufacturer to create a work. That may not be true, but either way, I, the owner, am prevented from writing my own software with my own computer to burn on my own CD/DVDs to play on my own console.
I'm still waiting for the "give them the car, sell them the gas," business model to come into play. Obviously they've already started the "sell them the gas" half. I expect to see the "give them the car" half kick in any day now. Yep.. annnnyyyy day now.
Since I'm sure nobody got around to reading to the end of the article, the court made a very important point at the end:
Instead, a better reading of the statute is that it requires plaintiffs as part of their burden of pleading and persuasion to show a purpose to pirate on the part of defendants.
This is a huge victory for fair use. The court recognized that allowing anyone to sue anyone else for copyright infringement in effect created a monopoly, stifling creativity. Not that I expect frivolous lawsuits to come to a screeching halt, but hopefully we'll see a little more common sense in the future.
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Or a completely accurate view of what's happening in the US.
Someone's always gotta play the tree hugging, "I love everybody," politically correct BS card. (I guess I'm Politically Correctist by lumping envirnmentalists in with policits. Or am I envrionmentalistist?)
It's a joke. There's lots of rice in asia; it's funny to imagine it being used as a fuel source for a car. We're talking about an INANIMATE OBJECT (maybe inorganic would be a better term); regardless, it doesn't have a race. Sure, it was built by asian people, and asian people eat rice, but that's not derrogatory either; it's a fact. It's not something to be ashamed of (Oh shit, did you hear Chris was eating RICE!?!?), and while it may be stereotypical, it's definately true. "But, but, in a small village nestled between the worlds 13th and 22nd tallest mountains, they eat a small animal that's closely related to the arctic white mouse, which shouldn't be called white because it's actually more of an eggshell, and..." Who fucking cares?? When's the last time you saw a Chinese car anyway? Probably never, unless you've been to China. So it's even more irrelevant what they eat there.
There's a HUGE difference between a stereotype and a prejudice. Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another. A stereotype is that all nerds are 5'2" 90lbs, pimply faced and virgins for life. Maybe it's true, maybe not, but it's only a stereotype, and it's funny to make fun of. Give it a rest.
You'd be correct if ice sank, but floating objects displace their mass, not their volume. The sea level wouldn't change at all from floating ice melting, but, as others have pointed out, the salinity may affect currents, and there's quite a significant amount of ice that's covering land.
Developers, developers, developers, developers! Developers, developers, developers, developers! Developers, developers, developers, developers!
Seriously though, a related article said the cost of the ad is $50,000. The rest of the money will be funneled back into the Mozilla organization.
Whether or not Windows tries to activate itself is all handled locally.. you don't need to "piggy back" on a legitamate key. They never thought of making a whitelist for the corporate keys, so as long as it appears legitimate, Windows Update will happily serve you. Althought I heard they blacklisted the famous FCKGW key from the Devil'sOwn release. Adding a whitelist for CD Keys is something they're supposed to be doing with Longhaul.
I'm more interested to learn what would happen if someone with an illegitamte copy of Corporate with a generated key would be detected as genuine or not.
I wasn't advocating one position or the other, merely stating that
a) asking current customers if they thought they should be running linux (or however you want to word it) isn't indicative of anything, for or against,
and
b) there are many ways to interpret the answers
But seriously, what company in their right mind would say "Shit, we were wrong. You guys go ahead and switch, you're getting screwed by sticking with our product." I'm just as skeptical when a pro-linux organization comes out with it's study saying linux has a lower TCO. Everyone's got ulterior motives.
And nine out of 10 enterprise customers said that such a change wouldn't provide any tangible business gains.
That's the most important point by far. Sure, a company could spend millions of extra dollars and tons of extra time converting to Linux, but for what gain?
Well, that's the thing.. he said 9 out of 10 customers... Obviously they're already of the opinion that Windows is better, or they'd be running something else. That could be interpreted as "They're pulling the wool over their customers' eyes," or just as easily, "They have a 90% satisfaction rate," or "Windows users don't know what they're missing," etc. etc. Statistics can be skewed to represent anything.
Stories from the future..
November 1, 2004
Time Magazine Covers Verified Voting and TechWatch Program
For example, you tend to ask for a search warranty if someone wants to search your house.
My search warranties always seem to expire right before I really need them.
"Aren't there any terrorists out there?" she said.
Terrorists? Do you think we'd be mucking around in Iraq if we knew where to find terrorists??
Now just put down the cubes and nobody gets hurt.
Or a better head.
Since the average scuba tank only holds about 30 minutes worth of air, depending on your breathing, which is barely enough to make it to 200ft and come straight back up...
Yes. Feel free to take it down to 300' and spend hours coming to the surface. If it turns out the device doesn't function, you may return it for a full refund.
I'm not sure what a decompression "stop" is, but feel free to make lots of those too.
Wow, we've gone from not reading the article to not even reading the write up, have we?
Give it a couple of years and the posts will be:
"Words, are those what wear using these daze? iPod some writing on the front page, can anyone X-Plane it two me?*
*Speech to text provided by Apple"
Not to mention getting a court order is usually no more difficult than just asking.
I know this is /. and nobody ever reads the fucking article, so here's your answer. Obviously some other idiots didn't RTFA either since they modded you up. I'll probably get modded down for reading the article; that's just how it works.
The Lyra plays MP3 files from 32 Kbps to 320 Kbps, MP3PRO files from 48 Kbps to 96 Kbps, and Windows Media files (including Windows Media 9 DRM) from 32 Kbps to 192 Kbps. iTunes is not supported.
I'm not so sure hardware costs are all that high..
I bought a 16k color phone with WAP, GPS, et al for 13,000Y (~$100US at the time) with no service contract. And that was two years ago. Although, the demand for items like this is much higher in Japan than in the US, so they probably make up for it in volume. Computer hardware, for example, is no cheaper in Japan than in the US; it's actually higher in many cases. I think Sony's taking a gamble that the PSP will do well, which it probably will.
Also, to the people complaining about Sony's media: Name one portable gaming device that doesn't use a proprietary media format? At least Sony plans on making theirs available for other uses, so perhaps you can burn a copy of your favorite movie. Although who knows what media compression formats the PSP will be able to read. I'm not saying Sony's other formats are anything but overpriced and underperforming, but at least they're opening up the portable gaming device market a bit.
looking at some of the comments on /. and elsewhere, adults seems to be a HUGE market for portable game-machines!
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Wait, there are adults on
I don't think females will like that one bit and this time i can understand why...
Exactly.. females have worked long and hard to make it clear that nerds can't get them, let alone two at a time.
Sort of..
It's a protein produced by the cat, which is present in the dander, saliva, and urine as well, the highest concentration of which can be found in non-neutered males. You're right though, they all produce the protein, and it's not just in the dander.
I completely agree.
They needed more cats.
Replace "cat" with "woman," and you'd have adivce for 99% of men. Although I haven't heard of women being eaten by eagles, so maybe not.
Sorry, I suffered kneejerk syndrome and didn't read the second half of your post.
What do you think the signing mechanism is for? To prevent the execution of "unauthorized" code, of course. AFAIK, game companies have to pay for (or at least apply for) approval from the console manufacturer to create a work. That may not be true, but either way, I, the owner, am prevented from writing my own software with my own computer to burn on my own CD/DVDs to play on my own console.
I'm still waiting for the "give them the car, sell them the gas," business model to come into play. Obviously they've already started the "sell them the gas" half. I expect to see the "give them the car" half kick in any day now. Yep.. annnnyyyy day now.
Since I'm sure nobody got around to reading to the end of the article, the court made a very important point at the end:
Instead, a better reading of the statute is that it requires plaintiffs as part of their burden of pleading and persuasion to show a purpose to pirate on the part of defendants.
This is a huge victory for fair use. The court recognized that allowing anyone to sue anyone else for copyright infringement in effect created a monopoly, stifling creativity. Not that I expect frivolous lawsuits to come to a screeching halt, but hopefully we'll see a little more common sense in the future.