"Godless" communism really was a clever way to turn as many people against the communists as possible. If it wasn't bad enough that they suppressed free speech/press, and had unelected officials running the whole show for the powerful to stay powerful and the powerless to stay that way (as opposed to the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer...), these folks also didn't believe in God. This added another degree of evilness to them.
But what utopian communism was really striving for was not atheism, but a freedom from the church, which was another form of power. There is nothing inherently wrong with someone believing in a higher being in a communistic society. The problem is organized religion with a hierarchy and special rules. It would be foolish to think that no one in the Soviet Union believed in God.
So the real leftists, the ones who want state control of everything (yet, strangely, no state at all), actually want to do away with all systems of power. Since religion is a system of power, it needs to be done away with. Granted, a lack of churchgoing will make people less likely to believe in God, but that is not necessarily the goal of the leftwingers.
I always took that song to mean that Jesus, in Zappa's mind, thought that those who believed in/sent money to televangelists were jerks.
I think the best Zappa quote for this situation may be: "My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can."
How are real leftwings atheists? That's just like saying all Christians are fundamentalist. Just because someone doesn't believe in god/s, doesn't mean they necessarily believe in government-sponsored healthcare and that which makes up leftist ideology.
There is no reason an atheist cannot believe in a small government that likes to promote a large military and whatnot.
Much of politics has little to do with religion at all. Sure, politicians love to speak of God and such to keep most of the electorate happy, but I'm pretty sure that atheists (myself included) look beyond such infantile pleas for votes and look at issues that actually affect their lives instead.
There are also ways to cheat. Those vinyl/linoleum/asbestos tiles on the floor are mostly likely 1' x 1' and can easily be counted. And who knows, I'm no psychologist, but maybe having the floor visually divided in familiar units could have a some subconscious affect on how people perceive a room...
That being said, I'm an architecture student at a school with a lot of Europeans, and it's quite amusing to see them struggling with the imperial system of measurement. Those triangular scales just confuse the hell out of them.
the information on the drive itself is far more sensitive
Or, far more useful. Let's say you have a lot of work stored on your laptop's hard drive. Maybe it was worth more to you than $1500, or even the laptop itself for that matter. You'd still have to go back and redo all your work, not only losing the price of the laptop, but the cost of your time as well.
Obviously, one should be backing up their important information, but that's not always feasible when one is on the go.
If it's a pain in the ass for users to find what they want on the site, then people aren't going to want to use it. And if they prevent others from deep linking, they are only going to lose visitors that may well go beyond the deep-linked page, browsing the site if they find it interesting, while at the same time viewing ads.
The chances are that the people clicking through from the PocketPCTools weren't going to know about or have the inclination to go to eWeek in the first place. So in this case, they are getting visitors, a vast majority of which would not have visited eWeek without this link.
And if they wanted, they could probably redirect all deep link click-throughs to go to the eWeek main page if they felt particularly hostile (which it seems they do).
This is absurd. If it's just a snippet of information from the website, given proper credit to the source, what could be the problem?
What happens when Google News takes the first sentence of one of their news stories and uses it on their front page?
The point of making news is for people to actually read it (along with the ads displayed along side it). Barring access to this news doesn't make much business sense. Sounds to me like Ziff-Davis has an overzealous legal team, which acts in self-interest rather in the interest of the company as a whole.
While it might seem silly to us that he was interested in topics such as alchemy, in his day, their knowledge of what goes on at the atomic level was almost nothing. To them, alchemy could have seemed possible. But the physical world which we experience every day was easily observable. Newton speculated about how both worked, and happened to be mostly right about physics, and wasting his time on alchemy. But at the time, they both probably seemed like promising enterprises.
Today we know otherwise, in part thanks to scientists or "natural philosophers" like Newton.
$19 million, plus the cost of the mountings, and whatever system they use to wire together the glass and harvest the electricity.
On an unrelated note, the Aon Center (formerly the Amoco/Standard Oil Bldg) in Chicago was originally clad in white marble. Years later, the climate softened the marble and bits of it began to fall off. So they re-clad the entire building with granite in the '90s, which ended up costing them more than the original price of the building. At least the electricity-producing glass could alleviate the utility costs of the building, but who knows how long it would take until the glass ended up paying for itself.
However, if it turned out that the glass turned out to be inferior to normal glass (visibility, thermal properties, etc), then the owners would have to go through the costly process of replacing it with regular glass.
I can't see this being a terribly great move on their part. Unless they can find some way to clearly mark the CD side from the DVD side, people are going to put it upside down in the CD player, and they aren't going to get any music, or they'll put it CD-side down in the DVD player and they'll wonder why it only plays the sound. Making something like this idiot-proof would be rather difficult.
If a dual layer thing is possible (I haven't much knowledge about how the technology works) would definitely be the best way to go from a usability standpoint.
Maybe a small handful of people will have problem with older phones and wireless networks, but I'd be willing to bet that this is just a gimmick to sucker people into choosing their phones over the other guys'.
I agree with you, of all the Apple programs I've used, this one just did not sit right with me. Safari and iTunes are fine applications, and I have very few gripes with them. But iPhoto just frustrated me when I used it back when it came out.
It was slow, and put the photos deep into a hierarchy, which made them a pain in the ass to find when I wanted to manipulate them in Photoshop. And since most of the photos I take are intended to be used for things other than just having around on my computer to be looked at occasionally, iPhoto is more of a hassle that it is a convenience. I just wish I had a better way of organizing my photos than I do now, somewhere in between the complex organization of the way iPhoto does it, and trying to manage them myself (wherein I usually end up with duplicates of photos because I usually don't delete the photos on the camera after I retrieve the photos from it that I need).
Basically, iPhoto is good for people who like amassing large albums of photos of their dog, kids, etc. But it's needlessly time consuming and frustrating if you need to do any serious digital photo editing.
It would be an even smarter investment to, say, buy 12-packs of High Life instead. What are they, like $7 or so? Now we're talking over $1 billion. Even smarter would be to go to Michigan where they give you 10 cents per bottle, and you could effectively double that.
Not to mention, if that beer was distributed to the US population, each and every one of us would receive about 7 1/2 bottles of beer. Then we'd all get to live the High Life.
3. Sue the Patent Agent as part of the Agency; his negligent acts mean the Patent Agency is vicariously liable for damages. This may be different from suing the Agency itself, depending on the immunity legislation. If the Agent acted 'negligently' in their role, they may make the Agency liable.
IANAL, but I believe you have to skip right to #4, as you can sue the individual but not the agency, as the federal agency would be an entity of the sovereign.
The 11th amendment states:
"The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State."
Which basically means that the federal government has no obligation to let individuals sue it, but does not prevent the feds from allowing to be sued.
I dunno, I think I'd just get up to change the channel on the set rather than fork over that sort of money. And this is coming from someone who will search the room for 30 minutes looking for the remote while the TV remains off, as I'm too lazy to go turn it on manually.
Yeah, it's truly a shame those satellite phones never took off... just think, you could have Musak beamed down to it when you needed to put someone on hold, and then people could listen to an instrumental version of "Walkin' on Sunshine" while you used the can.
Hmmmm, well maybe that's not such a shame after all.
I believe that in the past, Jobs has stated that Apple wouldn't make a phone, as it was not in their best interest. Maybe they're testing the waters, to eventually come out with the rumored iPhone, but I sort of doubt this.
It's possible Apple is using this to promote the purchase of iPods. 12 songs isn't a hell of a lot, but these phones will most likely introduce even more people to iTMS, and when they are fed up with only having a handful songs on their phone, they'll spring for a new iPod.
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I, too, have 6 invites to give away.
The first 6 people who send an email requesting an invite to pablojones at gmail.com will get one.
"Godless" communism really was a clever way to turn as many people against the communists as possible. If it wasn't bad enough that they suppressed free speech/press, and had unelected officials running the whole show for the powerful to stay powerful and the powerless to stay that way (as opposed to the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer...), these folks also didn't believe in God. This added another degree of evilness to them.
But what utopian communism was really striving for was not atheism, but a freedom from the church, which was another form of power. There is nothing inherently wrong with someone believing in a higher being in a communistic society. The problem is organized religion with a hierarchy and special rules. It would be foolish to think that no one in the Soviet Union believed in God.
So the real leftists, the ones who want state control of everything (yet, strangely, no state at all), actually want to do away with all systems of power. Since religion is a system of power, it needs to be done away with. Granted, a lack of churchgoing will make people less likely to believe in God, but that is not necessarily the goal of the leftwingers.
I always took that song to mean that Jesus, in Zappa's mind, thought that those who believed in/sent money to televangelists were jerks.
I think the best Zappa quote for this situation may be: "My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can."
Wait a minute....
How are real leftwings atheists? That's just like saying all Christians are fundamentalist. Just because someone doesn't believe in god/s, doesn't mean they necessarily believe in government-sponsored healthcare and that which makes up leftist ideology.
There is no reason an atheist cannot believe in a small government that likes to promote a large military and whatnot.
Much of politics has little to do with religion at all. Sure, politicians love to speak of God and such to keep most of the electorate happy, but I'm pretty sure that atheists (myself included) look beyond such infantile pleas for votes and look at issues that actually affect their lives instead.
Less article means more advertising.
There are also ways to cheat. Those vinyl/linoleum/asbestos tiles on the floor are mostly likely 1' x 1' and can easily be counted. And who knows, I'm no psychologist, but maybe having the floor visually divided in familiar units could have a some subconscious affect on how people perceive a room...
That being said, I'm an architecture student at a school with a lot of Europeans, and it's quite amusing to see them struggling with the imperial system of measurement. Those triangular scales just confuse the hell out of them.
Oh come on... in this progressive era, we all know that size doesn't matter.
the information on the drive itself is far more sensitive
Or, far more useful. Let's say you have a lot of work stored on your laptop's hard drive. Maybe it was worth more to you than $1500, or even the laptop itself for that matter. You'd still have to go back and redo all your work, not only losing the price of the laptop, but the cost of your time as well.
Obviously, one should be backing up their important information, but that's not always feasible when one is on the go.
No, depreciated is the correct word.
It means to lessen the value of something. The mess of web standards, which the grandparent mentioned, lessens the value of said standards.
However, according to Jakob Nielsen, deep linking is good linking.
If it's a pain in the ass for users to find what they want on the site, then people aren't going to want to use it. And if they prevent others from deep linking, they are only going to lose visitors that may well go beyond the deep-linked page, browsing the site if they find it interesting, while at the same time viewing ads.
The chances are that the people clicking through from the PocketPCTools weren't going to know about or have the inclination to go to eWeek in the first place. So in this case, they are getting visitors, a vast majority of which would not have visited eWeek without this link.
And if they wanted, they could probably redirect all deep link click-throughs to go to the eWeek main page if they felt particularly hostile (which it seems they do).
This is absurd. If it's just a snippet of information from the website, given proper credit to the source, what could be the problem?
What happens when Google News takes the first sentence of one of their news stories and uses it on their front page?
The point of making news is for people to actually read it (along with the ads displayed along side it). Barring access to this news doesn't make much business sense. Sounds to me like Ziff-Davis has an overzealous legal team, which acts in self-interest rather in the interest of the company as a whole.
Probably age.
While it might seem silly to us that he was interested in topics such as alchemy, in his day, their knowledge of what goes on at the atomic level was almost nothing. To them, alchemy could have seemed possible. But the physical world which we experience every day was easily observable. Newton speculated about how both worked, and happened to be mostly right about physics, and wasting his time on alchemy. But at the time, they both probably seemed like promising enterprises.
Today we know otherwise, in part thanks to scientists or "natural philosophers" like Newton.
slingshots
You mean boomerangs?
$19 million, plus the cost of the mountings, and whatever system they use to wire together the glass and harvest the electricity.
On an unrelated note, the Aon Center (formerly the Amoco/Standard Oil Bldg) in Chicago was originally clad in white marble. Years later, the climate softened the marble and bits of it began to fall off. So they re-clad the entire building with granite in the '90s, which ended up costing them more than the original price of the building. At least the electricity-producing glass could alleviate the utility costs of the building, but who knows how long it would take until the glass ended up paying for itself.
However, if it turned out that the glass turned out to be inferior to normal glass (visibility, thermal properties, etc), then the owners would have to go through the costly process of replacing it with regular glass.
I can't see this being a terribly great move on their part. Unless they can find some way to clearly mark the CD side from the DVD side, people are going to put it upside down in the CD player, and they aren't going to get any music, or they'll put it CD-side down in the DVD player and they'll wonder why it only plays the sound. Making something like this idiot-proof would be rather difficult.
If a dual layer thing is possible (I haven't much knowledge about how the technology works) would definitely be the best way to go from a usability standpoint.
Maybe they put the CD information on one layer, readable by the CD laser, and then the DVD stuff on another.
Maybe a small handful of people will have problem with older phones and wireless networks, but I'd be willing to bet that this is just a gimmick to sucker people into choosing their phones over the other guys'.
I agree with you, of all the Apple programs I've used, this one just did not sit right with me. Safari and iTunes are fine applications, and I have very few gripes with them. But iPhoto just frustrated me when I used it back when it came out.
It was slow, and put the photos deep into a hierarchy, which made them a pain in the ass to find when I wanted to manipulate them in Photoshop. And since most of the photos I take are intended to be used for things other than just having around on my computer to be looked at occasionally, iPhoto is more of a hassle that it is a convenience. I just wish I had a better way of organizing my photos than I do now, somewhere in between the complex organization of the way iPhoto does it, and trying to manage them myself (wherein I usually end up with duplicates of photos because I usually don't delete the photos on the camera after I retrieve the photos from it that I need).
Basically, iPhoto is good for people who like amassing large albums of photos of their dog, kids, etc. But it's needlessly time consuming and frustrating if you need to do any serious digital photo editing.
Yeah, but look on the bright side, you're bound to meet a farmer's daughter along the way.
Maybe that's why they have a link on to a porn search directory, right there on the main page.
It would be an even smarter investment to, say, buy 12-packs of High Life instead. What are they, like $7 or so? Now we're talking over $1 billion. Even smarter would be to go to Michigan where they give you 10 cents per bottle, and you could effectively double that.
Not to mention, if that beer was distributed to the US population, each and every one of us would receive about 7 1/2 bottles of beer. Then we'd all get to live the High Life.
3. Sue the Patent Agent as part of the Agency; his negligent acts mean the Patent Agency is vicariously liable for damages. This may be different from suing the Agency itself, depending on the immunity legislation. If the Agent acted 'negligently' in their role, they may make the Agency liable.
IANAL, but I believe you have to skip right to #4, as you can sue the individual but not the agency, as the federal agency would be an entity of the sovereign.
The 11th amendment states:
"The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State."
Which basically means that the federal government has no obligation to let individuals sue it, but does not prevent the feds from allowing to be sued.
$700....
I dunno, I think I'd just get up to change the channel on the set rather than fork over that sort of money. And this is coming from someone who will search the room for 30 minutes looking for the remote while the TV remains off, as I'm too lazy to go turn it on manually.
Yeah, it's truly a shame those satellite phones never took off... just think, you could have Musak beamed down to it when you needed to put someone on hold, and then people could listen to an instrumental version of "Walkin' on Sunshine" while you used the can.
Hmmmm, well maybe that's not such a shame after all.
I believe that in the past, Jobs has stated that Apple wouldn't make a phone, as it was not in their best interest. Maybe they're testing the waters, to eventually come out with the rumored iPhone, but I sort of doubt this.
It's possible Apple is using this to promote the purchase of iPods. 12 songs isn't a hell of a lot, but these phones will most likely introduce even more people to iTMS, and when they are fed up with only having a handful songs on their phone, they'll spring for a new iPod.