MP3 player, calendar, organiser, GPS, ebook reader, camera, bomb, those can all converge as much as they like. Just not with anything that needs a SIM card.
One of these things is not like the others....one of these things is not quite the same....
It's a big peeve of mine. I drive faster than the speed limit, I'll admit it. If I'm in the wrong, the cops will pull me over. However, get out of the left lane if you're going slow and there's 10 cars tailgating behind you!...unless of course your speeding ends up killing someone. The cops pulling you over is suppose to be to prevent that. (Yes it gets perverted into a revenue raising excercise). Your attitude sucks. If you don't want to abide by the laws don't fucking use the road. Instead you break the rules then bitch and moan that someone else has inconvenienced you by abiding by the laws. What an asshole!
Drivers breaking the rules to get out of traffic jams reduces the number of cars in traffic jams....until they break one rule too many, hit another car, and cause a whole new traffic jam.
All companies, if they wish to remain in buisness, have just one goal: make the most money they can out of each individual customer.
Yes, but you can make money out of someone by fostering good will and giving them what they want, then having them voluntarily pay for it, or you can simply mug them. We're not disputing that business is about making money but there are indeed good and bad companies and it's all about the way in which they make their money.
In other news: It is only champagne if you make it from special grapes from a special region in a special way. If it isn't, it is sparkling wine.
Unless there is something physically different about it, who gives a shit? If you do I have some fucking magic beans to sell ya Jack. Hand over the cow.
If you soak her in warm salt water and scorch her in 100 degree heat for for a few hours and she still looks good in a bikini standing under the noonday sun
Sorry, but if I or CannonbalHead composes a 5-piece brass ensemble, NO ONE should be allowed to duplicate it without my permission. My composition is not some abstract idea.
Why not? If you've released something publicly you might argue that you should be granted the right to profit from it and that work should be attributed to you, but the idea that you retain control while simultaneously releasing it is flawed.
Copyright is vital, albeit flawed. Friend of mine made guitar lesson videos for YouTube, he spent half a year creating them, week after he posted them. Some dudes picked them up and uploaded them using their own YouTube accounts some of them have been placed above the original videos, gathering views, stealing credits, possible subscribers etc. Copyright is your only lever to prevent this from happening.
No it's not. Allow him to keep doing it. Force him to turn over all revenue (NOT just profit) to the creator.
There are 2 issues here and copyright muddles them: 1) How do you prevent other people from "stealing" profit from the work of a creator? 2) Should the creator be allowed to determine how the work is used?
Number 1 encourages creativity. Number 2 stiffles creativity. They do not need to be tied together.
Meryl Streep's character in Doubt had it absolutely right. Ball-point pens are to blame. People in my parent's generation who learned to write with fountain pens always seemed to have better handwriting than me. I always struggled with cursive in school: my writing was very slow and messy.
They finally moved me on to ball point pen a year after all the kids had moved on when they realized that I could write more neatly with it than a fountain pen. They also thought it was rather unfair for my mother to have to keep shelling out for new shirts every time I'd get pen ink all over myself. My handwriting has always been and will always be shocking regardless of the pen, but only a fountain pen makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end as I wait for the damned cartridge to start leaking.
If something else works for you fair enough but please don't quote some stupid movie as the basis for your philosophy on what the rest of us should do.
Even tho it's early in the century, it might well be the longest eclipse of the century. I imagine that the calculations to predict eclipses and their duration would be relatively straightforward by modern standards. You probably wouldn't even need to take relativity into account.
They're not. You don't need GR, but you do need a lot of calculus and geometry. I've done an Astronomy masters by coursework and we didn't even attempt to cover this.
...given the absolute rot most people are downloading on the networks. I mean honestly. What could be more poisonous than a Britney Spears song? I'd say let the downloaders have the content. Can't think of anything more poisonous.
It's common for amateur astronomers to do meteor photography but they do not use telescopes. Instead they use wide angle lenses on a camera to improve their chances of a meteor being caught on film (digital or otherwise). The reason it hasn't been done before is that it would be very frustrating and you'd need to take a lot of pictures before statistically expecting to capture one meteor. Despite that I'm very surprised it hasn't been done before (and I have a degree in Astronomy, though I must admit meteors were never one of my principle interests).
Clearly it's exciting because if you can get a closer look at something you can learn more about it. As for it being just a streak, I doubt there's a camera on Earth that'll catch anything more than a streak using current techniques. Meteors are both faint and very fast moving. Either one you can compensate for but both...that's a challenge.
I'm going to see how the adoption rates are for 7. I see a rocky road for MS; people are happy with XP, it's stable, and for most of us it's a f*cking desk. No amount of hype is going to convince me that I have to get a shinier pressboard and formica office desk; the one I have works just fine.
Application bloat will save the day for MS. It's already hard to manage a desktop of intensive apps and data on 32 bit XP limited to 3.5GB of RAM. 64 bit Windows 7 will allow larger apps and more data as the bloat continues to escalate.
Fortunately, Bat's can't sue people for exposing them to potentially dangerous levels of radiation, so it's probably just fine.
Damn! I was about to go out and patent a new set of completely wireless headphones to sell to the Mac crowd.
You still can. Mac zealots have proven they'll take any amount of abuse and still defend Apple's decisions.
"Well yes, they've given me cancer and brain damage (fulfilling the "Think Different" slogan I might add!), but that's the trade off if you want cool stylish things. Anyway the PC version produces twice as much cancer, is buggy, and isn't nearly as cool. This is from Apple so it just works!".
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MP3 player, calendar, organiser, GPS, ebook reader, camera, bomb, those can all converge as much as they like. Just not with anything that needs a SIM card.
One of these things is not like the others....one of these things is not quite the same....
Osama is that you?
It's a big peeve of mine. I drive faster than the speed limit, I'll admit it. If I'm in the wrong, the cops will pull me over. However, get out of the left lane if you're going slow and there's 10 cars tailgating behind you! ...unless of course your speeding ends up killing someone. The cops pulling you over is suppose to be to prevent that. (Yes it gets perverted into a revenue raising excercise). Your attitude sucks. If you don't want to abide by the laws don't fucking use the road. Instead you break the rules then bitch and moan that someone else has inconvenienced you by abiding by the laws. What an asshole!
Drivers breaking the rules to get out of traffic jams reduces the number of cars in traffic jams. ...until they break one rule too many, hit another car, and cause a whole new traffic jam.
Yahcrsoft or Microhoo!? Which name are they going with?
Or Yahsoft? Or Microshoo?
Binghoosoft?
Anyone?
Si, creo que tres o cuatro seria mucho mas moderno.
I' m apesadumbrado, no hablo español (solamente me utilice Babelfish)
...to Windows! DOS is just so 80's and 90's it's not funny.
(Suggested mod: +1 funny)
Does that mean no one else can open a can of worms on the iPhone because if they do Apple will deny them due to duplication of functionality?
I'm surprised Apple allows its customers to breathe. That functionality is clear duplication of what Steve Jobs does.
All companies, if they wish to remain in buisness, have just one goal: make the most money they can out of each individual customer.
Yes, but you can make money out of someone by fostering good will and giving them what they want, then having them voluntarily pay for it, or you can simply mug them. We're not disputing that business is about making money but there are indeed good and bad companies and it's all about the way in which they make their money.
In other news: It is only champagne if you make it from special grapes from a special region in a special way. If it isn't, it is sparkling wine.
Unless there is something physically different about it, who gives a shit? If you do I have some fucking magic beans to sell ya Jack. Hand over the cow.
If you soak her in warm salt water and scorch her in 100 degree heat for for a few hours and she still looks good in a bikini standing under the noonday sun
Sounds like you're after a lobster, not a woman.
Sorry, but if I or CannonbalHead composes a 5-piece brass ensemble, NO ONE should be allowed to duplicate it without my permission. My composition is not some abstract idea.
Why not? If you've released something publicly you might argue that you should be granted the right to profit from it and that work should be attributed to you, but the idea that you retain control while simultaneously releasing it is flawed.
Copyright is vital, albeit flawed. Friend of mine made guitar lesson videos for YouTube, he spent half a year creating them, week after he posted them. Some dudes picked them up and uploaded them using their own YouTube accounts some of them have been placed above the original videos, gathering views, stealing credits, possible subscribers etc. Copyright is your only lever to prevent this from happening.
No it's not. Allow him to keep doing it. Force him to turn over all revenue (NOT just profit) to the creator.
There are 2 issues here and copyright muddles them:
1) How do you prevent other people from "stealing" profit from the work of a creator?
2) Should the creator be allowed to determine how the work is used?
Number 1 encourages creativity. Number 2 stiffles creativity. They do not need to be tied together.
Are they talking all men or just some men? I would be fairly shocked if they weren't already smarter than at least some people.
I own a toaster that's smarter than some people...
Soon enough, there won't be a single, simple, answer to the classic question how is a baby formed
Yes there is. "Ask me when you're older, son".
"But dad, I'm 36 tomorrow" is no reason to have that conversation.
Meryl Streep's character in Doubt had it absolutely right. Ball-point pens are to blame. People in my parent's generation who learned to write with fountain pens always seemed to have better handwriting than me. I always struggled with cursive in school: my writing was very slow and messy.
They finally moved me on to ball point pen a year after all the kids had moved on when they realized that I could write more neatly with it than a fountain pen. They also thought it was rather unfair for my mother to have to keep shelling out for new shirts every time I'd get pen ink all over myself. My handwriting has always been and will always be shocking regardless of the pen, but only a fountain pen makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end as I wait for the damned cartridge to start leaking.
If something else works for you fair enough but please don't quote some stupid movie as the basis for your philosophy on what the rest of us should do.
Purists*1 are just pragmatists*1 who believe that moral imperatives are an adequate tool for achieving effective collective bargaining.
When the bargain fails to materialize, the purists*1 blame a defective culture. And the pragmatists*2 just roll their eyes.
I've added the *1 and *2 because to me the above reads like a pot smoking existentialist version of who's on first.
You're right. Britney Spears' songs are definitely toxic.
My mistake. Alice Cooper was "Poison" ;-)
Even tho it's early in the century, it might well be the longest eclipse of the century. I imagine that the calculations to predict eclipses and their duration would be relatively straightforward by modern standards. You probably wouldn't even need to take relativity into account.
They're not. You don't need GR, but you do need a lot of calculus and geometry. I've done an Astronomy masters by coursework and we didn't even attempt to cover this.
Good approximations however were worked out by the earliest civilizations...Read about the Saros cycle here:
http://www.ulo.ucl.ac.uk/public/eclipse/ecl_calc.html
...given the absolute rot most people are downloading on the networks. I mean honestly. What could be more poisonous than a Britney Spears song? I'd say let the downloaders have the content. Can't think of anything more poisonous.
Helicopters don't require forward motion to auto-rotate.
Translation: How long before no one will remember or care what sensationalist claim I made. Hopefully I'm outta here by then. I know. 10 years!
It's like the 100 and 1000 year longevity of CDs. Those companies are counting on the fact that they won't be around to sue!
It's common for amateur astronomers to do meteor photography but they do not use telescopes. Instead they use wide angle lenses on a camera to improve their chances of a meteor being caught on film (digital or otherwise). The reason it hasn't been done before is that it would be very frustrating and you'd need to take a lot of pictures before statistically expecting to capture one meteor. Despite that I'm very surprised it hasn't been done before (and I have a degree in Astronomy, though I must admit meteors were never one of my principle interests).
Clearly it's exciting because if you can get a closer look at something you can learn more about it. As for it being just a streak, I doubt there's a camera on Earth that'll catch anything more than a streak using current techniques. Meteors are both faint and very fast moving. Either one you can compensate for but both...that's a challenge.
not to mention the thousands of F-14, F-15, and F-16s that we already have?
I'm not taking this kind of advice from someone who doesn't even realize that the F-14 has been retired and that all but a handful have been scraped.
I'm going to see how the adoption rates are for 7. I see a rocky road for MS; people are happy with XP, it's stable, and for most of us it's a f*cking desk. No amount of hype is going to convince me that I have to get a shinier pressboard and formica office desk; the one I have works just fine.
Application bloat will save the day for MS. It's already hard to manage a desktop of intensive apps and data on 32 bit XP limited to 3.5GB of RAM. 64 bit Windows 7 will allow larger apps and more data as the bloat continues to escalate.
Fortunately, Bat's can't sue people for exposing them to potentially dangerous levels of radiation, so it's probably just fine.
Damn! I was about to go out and patent a new set of completely wireless headphones to sell to the Mac crowd.
You still can. Mac zealots have proven they'll take any amount of abuse and still defend Apple's decisions.
"Well yes, they've given me cancer and brain damage (fulfilling the "Think Different" slogan I might add!), but that's the trade off if you want cool stylish things. Anyway the PC version produces twice as much cancer, is buggy, and isn't nearly as cool. This is from Apple so it just works!".