Seems to me what you really have to worry about are sexual predators, not what your stepdaughter is talking about with her friends. You'll never control the latter. And she'll never get pregnant online.;-)
- Paving the potholes in the highways. Don't see that as an enumerated, delegated power in the text of the Constitution or its amendments.
- Delivering the mail. Don't see that as an enumerated, delegated power in the text of the Constitution or its amendments.
- Building prisons. Don't see that as an enumerated, delegated power in the text of the Constitution or its amendments.
- Establishing and operating the U.S. Coast Guard. Don't see that as an enumerated, delegated power in the text of the Constitution or its amendments.... and I can think of countless other examples. You're right! This government is totally out of control!
I've seen Websphere as its progressed from nothing more than an patched version of Tomcat with no support for EJB's all the way to 6.1 where it implements all kinds of support for web services and SOA implementations.
What? WebSphere was never "a patched version of Tomcat." And to say the early versions had "no support for EJBs" is a little disingenuous, considering that the spec didn't exist yet -- not to mention that it was IBM that invented EJBs, not Sun.
Anyway it's a webserver and some applets. Here's a direct link to the list of stuff that's been stuffed into the Websphere brand envelope: SW By category
Yeah, OK... so does that list look like "a Web server and some applets" to you? Come on, the first item on the list is "application server." At least say "a servlet container and some applets" if you're going to troll.
So people outside the US need to register all works with the US copyright office? Where is that bit in the Berne convention?
Maybe you want to read the text of the Berne convenetion yourself and find out? You may notice that it does not even specify the right to recover actual damages, let alone punitive ones.
Because I was in the room next door, and the same room 30 seconds later.
Would you like me to draw a picture for you?
Right. You were in the next room. In bed. You had no personal experience with the ball lightning. So I assume it would be difficult for you to draw a picture.
On a similar note, stories abound wherein people are visited by ghosts. Many times these stories begin with "I was lying in bed, almost asleep, when all of a sudden a figure appeared..." Very rarely do they begin with, "I was in the basement, working out with weights and listening to loud music, when all of a sudden..." The only evidence of the ghost episode is anecdotal. Occam's razor would suggest that, despite protestations to the contrary, the witness was in fact asleep.
So I'm not saying that your mother made up her story, or that it didn't happen the way she said it did. It may have taken place exactly as you describe. Because you're not an eyewitness, however, you can't really say.
True, *BUT* Tempest can go after *PUNITIVE* damages against Furtado and his estate.
Ummm... the best target would probably be the record label... not Timbaland and not Furtado (who is a she).
But I believe the precedent is that the courts don't like to award punitive damages unless the original artist has registered the work with the U.S. copyright office.
I don't get why Apple doesn't just call it the iPod Phone. iPod is an existing, well-established, trusted brand. The iPhone hardware is an iPod -- that is, it gives you all the same features. It just has phone and camera features added on. So what? Nothing about the name "iPod" says "MP3 player." They already added video playback and nobody batted an eye. What better way to revitalize the iPod brand than to add a line of products with phone features?
... or rather, I modify my point. Some explanation of the history of the Jedi/Sith rivalry (along with the prophecy) should have been in the film somewhere.
That's a longstanding Lucas tactic, though. Fans pride themselves on knowing the names of all the characters that appeared onscreen, for example, but most of them are never named in the films themselves. The fans learned the names from the action figure packages, sketchbooks, souvenir magazines, etc.
If I remember correctly, the titular villain in "The Phantom Menace" is always referred to as "Lord Sidious" in the film itself. Never once does anyone say the words Darth Sidious.
The simple fact is that, ever since the first Star Wars film, Lucas has built this series as a merchandising franchise, not merely a series of films.
He benefits the world more in spending his time on his endowments than on wasting that time micromanaging his investments. Even if he had the time - or wasted the money to hire the legal help to assist him - to weed out the 'bad' companies from his portfolio there is no way to make everyone happy.
Just to be clear -- we're talking about a foundation here, not one guy named Bill Gates. The Gates Foundation hires people to manage every other aspect of its day to day operations. Why is hiring people to manage its investments out of the question? I'm sure it already has such people on staff.
If you really think that this is not on their radar, you are incredibly naive. Linux is the fastest-growing segment in computing, Linux is the only operating system gaining market share in the server space, and Linux is probably the only platform gaining any significant ground in education. Linux will only become more important with time, and Windows less. The change shows every sign of being extremely slow, but that doesn't mean that it's not occurring.
Last I heard, nVidia provides drivers for Linux. End of story. If you want to spend your own money to write different drivers, that's your business. But you can't argue that companies (read: the people with money) aren't going to use nVidia cards because nVidia cards don't work on Linux. They do.
a Japanese company is anti-porn? That's just too funny.
You've noticed that a lot of Japanese porn still digitally blurs out the pubic hair, right? 90 minutes of violent rape is OK, pubic hair is not. Warped is right. The reason you get so much rape-porn from Japan is that Japanese society is very repressed. Rape is the fantasy that removes all the societal boundaries around sex: She rejected me, but I forced her to anyway. I wanted him but I couldn't have him, but he forced me to anyway. It's the "I couldn't have it" that you should be paying attention to, not the "I made a movie about how I would want it if I could get it."
I haven't seen sufficient reason to move to h.264 -- as in, the video quality doesn't seem that much better than a well-encoded XviD. And the XviD plays in my set-top DVD player.
If we actually spend money to sponsor driver development this will be a clear message to all graphics card manufacturers that we will put up with their bad behavior.
Why? How does your spending money to write open source drivers affect nVidia one bit? Why should it even be on their radar? As far as I can see, it doesn't send any "message" at all, except that there is a small but very vocal minority of users that is willing to spend actual money on products that are compatible with Linux -- but I suspect nVidia already knew that.
I know companies want to protect themselves from wrongful-termination lawsuits. Maybe it just takes the perception that there are a lot of such suits for companies to avoid firings.
There are lots of such lawsuits. Where I live (California), at-will employment is the law... but it's not the only law. There are all kinds of other laws that govern who can and cannot be fired. You can be doing great, hitting all your numbers, bringing in big business for the company, and the company can still fire you if it feels like... technically. But if you turn around and make the case that you were actually fired because:
your work was better than that of a "favorite" employee
you requested (and were granted) paid leave for Jewish holidays
you resisted the sexual advances of your supervisor
you were pregnant
you are gay/straight/bi/transgender
you blew the whistle on corporate wrongdoings
...etc... then even if your allegations are not true it could cause all kinds of grief to the company, grief that most companies want to avoid. Better to keep you on and let your coworkers suffer (if you really are a pain in the ass) than to make you a pain in the ass at the corporate level.
Wow. You are really crazy, as in out-of-your-mind crazy, aren't you?
You are equating poverty with equality.
Really? From my read of the thread, you're the only one doing that. The other guy isn't quite as nuts as you.
Enforced "equality" has been used to justify so much slaughter, oppression, and misery that, in this respect, it is almost on par with religion. Feel-good ideas like yours are the security-blankets of weak minds, and a trademark of the bumper-sticker philosopher.
And here I thought we were talking about rolling out free Wi-Fi in San Francisco.
I'm actually glad you're not an American. Here you'd probably be allowed to own guns.
Interesting. But it's true, San Francisco's minimum wage is a lot higher than... well, that of most of the United States. Sales tax -- it's like your VAT but instead of being figured into the sticker price of goods it's added on at the register -- also varies from state to state and even from locality to locality within the state. In San Francisco you add 8.5 percent tax onto the price of everything you buy, other than groceries. And the earlier poster is correct... a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco will run you about $1,200, maybe $1,250. A "studio apartment" -- basically one room with a kitchen and a bathroom -- is probably $950 minimum. The costs usually creep up a little bit every year.
There's something very wrong about a society which classifies "poor" as "someone with only one computer".
Really? Wow. That would seem like the ideal society to me. If it were really true, it would be a virtual utopia. How desperate and starving do the poor people have to be for a society to count as "right" in your view?
TCP/IP is not only working just fine, but it's adapted all the time. It's up to version 4, and IPv6 can be implemented by any one who chooses to.
TCP/IP isn't exactly "up to version 4"... prior to TCP v3 the standard wasn't even split into TCP and IP. (So the first version of IP was technically IPv3.) Basically, TCP/IP v4 is what the Internet has been using pretty much the whole time (ignoring ARPANet).
Go ask - women do not like the light they throw off.
I have just one of these -- it was sent to me as a PR tchotchke -- and I installed it as my front porch light. My girlfriend finds it to be harsh and over-bright. If anything, I think it's dimmer than the 60W it replaced. Has anyone done even informal research into this? I suppose it's not impossible...
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Seems to me what you really have to worry about are sexual predators, not what your stepdaughter is talking about with her friends. You'll never control the latter. And she'll never get pregnant online. ;-)
Try again.
Please. If you were in California, and one box was all it took, it's surprising that you made it as long as you did.
- Paving the potholes in the highways. Don't see that as an enumerated, delegated power in the text of the Constitution or its amendments.
... and I can think of countless other examples. You're right! This government is totally out of control!
- Delivering the mail. Don't see that as an enumerated, delegated power in the text of the Constitution or its amendments.
- Building prisons. Don't see that as an enumerated, delegated power in the text of the Constitution or its amendments.
- Establishing and operating the U.S. Coast Guard. Don't see that as an enumerated, delegated power in the text of the Constitution or its amendments.
What? WebSphere was never "a patched version of Tomcat." And to say the early versions had "no support for EJBs" is a little disingenuous, considering that the spec didn't exist yet -- not to mention that it was IBM that invented EJBs, not Sun.
Yeah, OK ... so does that list look like "a Web server and some applets" to you? Come on, the first item on the list is "application server." At least say "a servlet container and some applets" if you're going to troll.
Maybe you want to read the text of the Berne convenetion yourself and find out? You may notice that it does not even specify the right to recover actual damages, let alone punitive ones.
Right. You were in the next room. In bed. You had no personal experience with the ball lightning. So I assume it would be difficult for you to draw a picture.
On a similar note, stories abound wherein people are visited by ghosts. Many times these stories begin with "I was lying in bed, almost asleep, when all of a sudden a figure appeared..." Very rarely do they begin with, "I was in the basement, working out with weights and listening to loud music, when all of a sudden..." The only evidence of the ghost episode is anecdotal. Occam's razor would suggest that, despite protestations to the contrary, the witness was in fact asleep.
So I'm not saying that your mother made up her story, or that it didn't happen the way she said it did. It may have taken place exactly as you describe. Because you're not an eyewitness, however, you can't really say.
Ummm... the best target would probably be the record label... not Timbaland and not Furtado (who is a she).
But I believe the precedent is that the courts don't like to award punitive damages unless the original artist has registered the work with the U.S. copyright office.
I don't get why Apple doesn't just call it the iPod Phone. iPod is an existing, well-established, trusted brand. The iPhone hardware is an iPod -- that is, it gives you all the same features. It just has phone and camera features added on. So what? Nothing about the name "iPod" says "MP3 player." They already added video playback and nobody batted an eye. What better way to revitalize the iPod brand than to add a line of products with phone features?
That's a longstanding Lucas tactic, though. Fans pride themselves on knowing the names of all the characters that appeared onscreen, for example, but most of them are never named in the films themselves. The fans learned the names from the action figure packages, sketchbooks, souvenir magazines, etc. If I remember correctly, the titular villain in "The Phantom Menace" is always referred to as "Lord Sidious" in the film itself. Never once does anyone say the words Darth Sidious. The simple fact is that, ever since the first Star Wars film, Lucas has built this series as a merchandising franchise, not merely a series of films.
Just to be clear -- we're talking about a foundation here, not one guy named Bill Gates. The Gates Foundation hires people to manage every other aspect of its day to day operations. Why is hiring people to manage its investments out of the question? I'm sure it already has such people on staff.
Last I heard, nVidia provides drivers for Linux. End of story. If you want to spend your own money to write different drivers, that's your business. But you can't argue that companies (read: the people with money) aren't going to use nVidia cards because nVidia cards don't work on Linux. They do.
You've noticed that a lot of Japanese porn still digitally blurs out the pubic hair, right? 90 minutes of violent rape is OK, pubic hair is not. Warped is right. The reason you get so much rape-porn from Japan is that Japanese society is very repressed. Rape is the fantasy that removes all the societal boundaries around sex: She rejected me, but I forced her to anyway. I wanted him but I couldn't have him, but he forced me to anyway. It's the "I couldn't have it" that you should be paying attention to, not the "I made a movie about how I would want it if I could get it."
Probably because you've done it three times already and he knows a cheap date when he sees one.
I haven't seen sufficient reason to move to h.264 -- as in, the video quality doesn't seem that much better than a well-encoded XviD. And the XviD plays in my set-top DVD player.
Why? How does your spending money to write open source drivers affect nVidia one bit? Why should it even be on their radar? As far as I can see, it doesn't send any "message" at all, except that there is a small but very vocal minority of users that is willing to spend actual money on products that are compatible with Linux -- but I suspect nVidia already knew that.
There are lots of such lawsuits. Where I live (California), at-will employment is the law ... but it's not the only law. There are all kinds of other laws that govern who can and cannot be fired. You can be doing great, hitting all your numbers, bringing in big business for the company, and the company can still fire you if it feels like ... technically. But if you turn around and make the case that you were actually fired because:
Really? From my read of the thread, you're the only one doing that. The other guy isn't quite as nuts as you.
And here I thought we were talking about rolling out free Wi-Fi in San Francisco.
I'm actually glad you're not an American. Here you'd probably be allowed to own guns.
Interesting. But it's true, San Francisco's minimum wage is a lot higher than ... well, that of most of the United States. Sales tax -- it's like your VAT but instead of being figured into the sticker price of goods it's added on at the register -- also varies from state to state and even from locality to locality within the state. In San Francisco you add 8.5 percent tax onto the price of everything you buy, other than groceries. And the earlier poster is correct ... a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco will run you about $1,200, maybe $1,250. A "studio apartment" -- basically one room with a kitchen and a bathroom -- is probably $950 minimum. The costs usually creep up a little bit every year.
Really? Wow. That would seem like the ideal society to me. If it were really true, it would be a virtual utopia. How desperate and starving do the poor people have to be for a society to count as "right" in your view?
That's right. Back to the coal mines, you proles! Since when does the world owe you the light of day?
TCP/IP isn't exactly "up to version 4" ... prior to TCP v3 the standard wasn't even split into TCP and IP. (So the first version of IP was technically IPv3.) Basically, TCP/IP v4 is what the Internet has been using pretty much the whole time (ignoring ARPANet).
I have just one of these -- it was sent to me as a PR tchotchke -- and I installed it as my front porch light. My girlfriend finds it to be harsh and over-bright. If anything, I think it's dimmer than the 60W it replaced. Has anyone done even informal research into this? I suppose it's not impossible...