I dont think it's going to work there arent enough subcontrators to make overpriced parts as kickback to various senitors districts unlike the shuttle.
Unfortunately, this corruption (let's call it what it is) is a big part of government contracting. Perhaps it wasn't this way years ago (I really don't know), but it certainly makes modern-day contracting pretty darn unsatisfying. It doesn't matter if one is competent or cost-effective, the contract will still go to the good-ol-boy who is in the loop.
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The funny thing about the "good-ol-days", is that everyone remembers the good parts, and forgets the bad parts.
What do you mean? I haven't forgotten Apollo 1, nor the monkeys and bears used in early experiments. What I am recognizing is the pure engineering aspect of the early space endeavors.
We typed LIST to have a look at where bounds checking might be added to the code, and we found the runaway tank. Leaving a swath of blank spaces behind it, there was the tank character embedded in a line of BASIC source code...
Think of a little tank driver back in the days before memory protections were put in computers. The poor little guy just kept driving to see what was just past his horizon, only to be greeted by a bizarre landscape of character-shaped mountains arranged as if created by a master alien race. And then you turned off the power. He was so close, yet you took it all away! So cruel...so...so...cruel.
Shoot 'em up, let them drop like a rock. The inherent simplicity of Apollo is its virtue, IMO. The Shuttle is more like the government bureaucratic approch to space travel, while Apollo was designed by engineers back in the good-ol-days.
Re-selling individual songs might not be cost effective, but selling collections is.
Think of iTunes as a service, like a bus. You wouldn't expect to be able to sell used bus tickets, would you? The fact that you get an electronic file is incidental, because it really cost only a dollar, anyway.
One thing Apple is doing is driving the costs down until people would rather opt for new than "used". Why bother trying to find second-hand titles with whatever artificial hassle is present, when it is easy and inexpensive to get everything in one place without any question of legality?
For example, there isn't a secondary market for screws and washers; everyone just goes to the hardware store and gets a pack for $1.25. Sure, a person could save a few cents here and there, but the market has spoken: no one cares.
Well, it's actually a funny story. See, Darl McBride was courting her via a chat website and arranged to meet her recently. While on the way to the girl's home, Darl's RIAA masters tracked his cell phone to that location, which coincidentally was the site of an already on-going RIAA ISP backdoor investigation. It really was just a matter of putting one and one together.
A lot of them don't seem to understand that paying 22% non-tax-exempt interest on a rapidly depreciating asset is a very bad investment.
A failed public school system along with a materialistic subculture plays these people right into the hands of greedy businesspeople.
I can't fault the businesses, here, because the money is simply too easy. Cash loan? Sure, here you go. Financing for your new CD player? No problem!
If these people had even the most rudimentary education in finance, their lives would be immensely better for it. They don't even try to make businesses work for their money. They just give it away like it's going out of fashion!
And that would be worse than now how exactly??????
For example, there is nothing to stop me, now, from incorporating some of Tchaikovsky's works into a presentation. A person could make a new recording of a Wagner opera and install it into a little viking doll. I could incorporate a 19th century political satire into a book without permission. The public domain is simply one of the most valuable resources we have. It is like enlisting a great person from history to become part of your team.
I priced a Sun PCI SCSI card last week. $500. No RAID, no cache, just a vanila SCSI card with a Sun sticker (and solaris support). Thats just insane.
One thing you do get is peace of mind in an environment where time == money. It is very likely that Sun-branded card was integration tested with their machines and Solaris, so the odds are very very good that it will serve you well. Contrast this with the PC world, where the odds are simply good. The difference is not trivial, IMO.
If I had a business, where revenue was good enough that I didn't have to survive on peanut butter and scrapped-together computers, I would seriously consider Sun equipment. It can be refreshing to simply plug in a card, do a boot -r, and have it ready to go. Along with SunSolve and docs.sun.com, Sun doesn't often leave people wanting for documentation, either. It seems they generally treat their customers pretty well. With PC companies, things are less predictable, and a big brand name doesn't really imply any amount of quality (often they are worse than the white-box suppliers).
For this I cannot decide whether he should be praised as a computer great or be disgraced as the author of the greatest horrible-excuse-for-an-editor known to man.
Praise for both. vi is an excellent editor allowing full control from the QUERTY keyboard home position. After 26 years or so, it is still the standard UNIX editor (no ed jokes, please). It is fast and small yet has few annoying limitations (line length is annoying but rarely a real issue). It doesn't second-guess the programmer yet is smart enough to default to 8-space tabs. If you read the man page, you also discover that many ed/sed commands are accessible in vi, enabling powerful reg-exp global search and replace and block deletions. I swear that vi has paid so much in time savings that its rather small learning curve makes those gigabyte IDEs look just plain foolish.
You gotta think of the.... artists! and Set producers!
I say screw 'em. Getting royalties 75 years after the fact is just stupid. An artist has an opportunity to earn money for a short time with each work before it becomes common. This is no different than patents expiring, trade secrets leaking, reverse engineering occurring, popular culture assimilating, people rearranging and renewing, etc.
Carrying this forward, I don't think a whole lot of the music released in the past twenty years (or so) really will be listened to 150 years from now.
The Beatles? The Taking Heads? Queen? Madonna? Michael Jackson? John Denver? (hesitating) Billy Ray Cyrus? (hesitating again) NSync? and on and on and on...
Music is an effective way to gauge a generation of people. Historians will always rely on it. People will always be enthousiastic about it. Public domain should come sooner than later, IMO, especially given that anything popular enough and good enough will be impossible to go unattributed, anyway.
This is the second time it has been booted?!?! Reboot: problem fixed.
This is just more evidence that Windows is a POS. I still think "reboot" is not a valid response. It is an admission of failure for both the admin and the people who chose to purchase Microsoft products in the first place. It is also an admission that Microsoft lies to their customers each time they use words like "innovation" and "more with less" (god those commercials make me ill).
...living in the projects, but with broadband access and a parent who obviously think paying Kazaa 30 bucks...
Ahhh, the sweet sweet irony. I wonder if she had a cell phone or a used Lexus, too? People who think they are poor--but aren't--are simply great. Keep those minimum payments rolling, baby!
"They buy paper, twine and glue for their crafts - they can pay for the music, too," says John Lo Frumento, ASCAP's chief operating officer.
Imagine how the music we take for granted today would be affected if the RIAA and ASCAP existed 150 years ago. Great compositions, folk music, etc. from the 19th century would still be under copyright and inaccessible to anyone without the necessary greenbacks. Jazz artists everywhere would get sued for incorportating classic themes into their solos. Cash-strapped symphonies would need to drive away an already too-small audience with higher ticket prices. Small businesses wouldn't be able to afford to put music into their products. Hell, we probably couldn't even sing the national anthem without stuffing a dollar into the panties of some RIAA whore.
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Ultimately, I think something like that is what they want, but is supposedly 20 years away.
Burt Rutan's X-Plane entry is not too far from your criteria, except it does a more Apollo-like re-entry before gliding to a landing.
I dont think it's going to work there arent enough subcontrators to make overpriced parts as kickback to various senitors districts unlike the shuttle.
Unfortunately, this corruption (let's call it what it is) is a big part of government contracting. Perhaps it wasn't this way years ago (I really don't know), but it certainly makes modern-day contracting pretty darn unsatisfying. It doesn't matter if one is competent or cost-effective, the contract will still go to the good-ol-boy who is in the loop.
The funny thing about the "good-ol-days", is that everyone remembers the good parts, and forgets the bad parts.
What do you mean? I haven't forgotten Apollo 1, nor the monkeys and bears used in early experiments. What I am recognizing is the pure engineering aspect of the early space endeavors.
We typed LIST to have a look at where bounds checking might be added to the code, and we found the runaway tank. Leaving a swath of blank spaces behind it, there was the tank character embedded in a line of BASIC source code...
Think of a little tank driver back in the days before memory protections were put in computers. The poor little guy just kept driving to see what was just past his horizon, only to be greeted by a bizarre landscape of character-shaped mountains arranged as if created by a master alien race. And then you turned off the power. He was so close, yet you took it all away! So cruel...so...so...cruel.
Shoot 'em up, let them drop like a rock. The inherent simplicity of Apollo is its virtue, IMO. The Shuttle is more like the government bureaucratic approch to space travel, while Apollo was designed by engineers back in the good-ol-days.
Re-selling individual songs might not be cost effective, but selling collections is.
Think of iTunes as a service, like a bus. You wouldn't expect to be able to sell used bus tickets, would you? The fact that you get an electronic file is incidental, because it really cost only a dollar, anyway.
One thing Apple is doing is driving the costs down until people would rather opt for new than "used". Why bother trying to find second-hand titles with whatever artificial hassle is present, when it is easy and inexpensive to get everything in one place without any question of legality?
For example, there isn't a secondary market for screws and washers; everyone just goes to the hardware store and gets a pack for $1.25. Sure, a person could save a few cents here and there, but the market has spoken: no one cares.
...how did they come up with the girl's name?
Well, it's actually a funny story. See, Darl McBride was courting her via a chat website and arranged to meet her recently. While on the way to the girl's home, Darl's RIAA masters tracked his cell phone to that location, which coincidentally was the site of an already on-going RIAA ISP backdoor investigation. It really was just a matter of putting one and one together.
The big news outlets are merely propoganda tools for their owners' agendas.
"Proper UNIX keyboards" are QWERTY, not QUERTY.
Oh, I see the typo, now. The earlier joke about a mutant hand just flew over my head.
My argument about the Control key still stands, though!
You shouldn't talk about whores like that. They provide a vital public service, as opposed to the RIAA.
You're absolutely right. I'm very sorry...I just got a little ahead of myself, that's all.
A lot of them don't seem to understand that paying 22% non-tax-exempt interest on a rapidly depreciating asset is a very bad investment.
A failed public school system along with a materialistic subculture plays these people right into the hands of greedy businesspeople.
I can't fault the businesses, here, because the money is simply too easy. Cash loan? Sure, here you go. Financing for your new CD player? No problem!
If these people had even the most rudimentary education in finance, their lives would be immensely better for it. They don't even try to make businesses work for their money. They just give it away like it's going out of fashion!
And that would be worse than now how exactly??????
For example, there is nothing to stop me, now, from incorporating some of Tchaikovsky's works into a presentation. A person could make a new recording of a Wagner opera and install it into a little viking doll. I could incorporate a 19th century political satire into a book without permission. The public domain is simply one of the most valuable resources we have. It is like enlisting a great person from history to become part of your team.
I priced a Sun PCI SCSI card last week. $500. No RAID, no cache, just a vanila SCSI card with a Sun sticker (and solaris support). Thats just insane.
One thing you do get is peace of mind in an environment where time == money. It is very likely that Sun-branded card was integration tested with their machines and Solaris, so the odds are very very good that it will serve you well. Contrast this with the PC world, where the odds are simply good. The difference is not trivial, IMO.
If I had a business, where revenue was good enough that I didn't have to survive on peanut butter and scrapped-together computers, I would seriously consider Sun equipment. It can be refreshing to simply plug in a card, do a boot -r, and have it ready to go. Along with SunSolve and docs.sun.com, Sun doesn't often leave people wanting for documentation, either. It seems they generally treat their customers pretty well. With PC companies, things are less predictable, and a big brand name doesn't really imply any amount of quality (often they are worse than the white-box suppliers).
You must have a really mutant left hand.
No, I just have a proper UNIX keyboard with the Control key between the Shift and Tab keys. PC keyboards suck.
We're only disputing whether he got $65 mill or $100 mill on the sale of his stock.
At least he'll still be able to afford a house in Silicon Valley.
Sad, that 100 million is 0.2% of Bill Gate's fortune (approximately...not that it matters).
with only five characters
And perfectly appropriate for someone with a strong UNIX background.
For this I cannot decide whether he should be praised as a computer great or be disgraced as the author of the greatest horrible-excuse-for-an-editor known to man.
Praise for both. vi is an excellent editor allowing full control from the QUERTY keyboard home position. After 26 years or so, it is still the standard UNIX editor (no ed jokes, please). It is fast and small yet has few annoying limitations (line length is annoying but rarely a real issue). It doesn't second-guess the programmer yet is smart enough to default to 8-space tabs. If you read the man page, you also discover that many ed/sed commands are accessible in vi, enabling powerful reg-exp global search and replace and block deletions. I swear that vi has paid so much in time savings that its rather small learning curve makes those gigabyte IDEs look just plain foolish.
You gotta think of the .... artists! and Set producers!
I say screw 'em. Getting royalties 75 years after the fact is just stupid. An artist has an opportunity to earn money for a short time with each work before it becomes common. This is no different than patents expiring, trade secrets leaking, reverse engineering occurring, popular culture assimilating, people rearranging and renewing, etc.
Carrying this forward, I don't think a whole lot of the music released in the past twenty years (or so) really will be listened to 150 years from now.
The Beatles? The Taking Heads? Queen? Madonna? Michael Jackson? John Denver? (hesitating) Billy Ray Cyrus? (hesitating again) NSync? and on and on and on...
Music is an effective way to gauge a generation of people. Historians will always rely on it. People will always be enthousiastic about it. Public domain should come sooner than later, IMO, especially given that anything popular enough and good enough will be impossible to go unattributed, anyway.
This is the second time it has been booted?!?! Reboot: problem fixed.
This is just more evidence that Windows is a POS. I still think "reboot" is not a valid response. It is an admission of failure for both the admin and the people who chose to purchase Microsoft products in the first place. It is also an admission that Microsoft lies to their customers each time they use words like "innovation" and "more with less" (god those commercials make me ill).
...living in the projects, but with broadband access and a parent who obviously think paying Kazaa 30 bucks...
Ahhh, the sweet sweet irony. I wonder if she had a cell phone or a used Lexus, too? People who think they are poor--but aren't--are simply great. Keep those minimum payments rolling, baby!
"They buy paper, twine and glue for their crafts - they can pay for the music, too," says John Lo Frumento, ASCAP's chief operating officer.
Imagine how the music we take for granted today would be affected if the RIAA and ASCAP existed 150 years ago. Great compositions, folk music, etc. from the 19th century would still be under copyright and inaccessible to anyone without the necessary greenbacks. Jazz artists everywhere would get sued for incorportating classic themes into their solos. Cash-strapped symphonies would need to drive away an already too-small audience with higher ticket prices. Small businesses wouldn't be able to afford to put music into their products. Hell, we probably couldn't even sing the national anthem without stuffing a dollar into the panties of some RIAA whore.
Visual Studio .NET is a kick-ass development environment.
I feel for you man. Ballmer's steel-toe boots hurt like mad.
No offense is intended, by the way, in calling such a person an incompetant admin...
No one should be offended by what is true.