So what? You can run almost any Windows app under Virtual PC. That doesn't mean it "works on a Mac"; it means it works on Windows in an emulator. You have not made anything resembling a point in saying this. Sure I have: "I have a Mac, so PlaysForSure doesn't work for me" is false, because Mac users aren't locked out. They just have to use an emulator. But for some reason "I don't have an iPod, so FairPlay doesn't work on my MP3-Player" isn't false, despite the fact that you can simply re-rip the tunes. The reason must be that that solution is free, while yours costs a couple of hundred bucks.
ITunes will not convert iTMS purchased tracks to mp3. that feature only works for tracks ripped from CD to AAC It will however turn tunes to MP3s ripped from CDs made from iTS bought titles (without turning them to AAC first).
"playforsure" only plays on about 10% of all portable media media players - if you ignore iPods. It forces you to buy out of a limited range of hardware that obviously nobody wants.
Yeah, I have read this at the page you kindly linked to. Sounds rather like moving from one point GNOME release to the next (GNOME 2.17), if that even. Oh, and "AppleScript" not really as such, the page just says "a scriptable Finder". No, unless you had 7.1.1 aka System 7 Pro, System 7.5 was the first to ship with AppleScript.
Well, there was Stickies, the menu-bar clock, Windowshade, the Launcher, the Control Strip, the new help system, system-wide drag & drop for text and other data, and if you didn't buy 7.1 Pro - AppleScript.
10.5 Leopard should be released this quarter, around 24 months after Tiger
Ok so the "worst" release, for Apple, is the 2 years Tiger - Leopard gap which means that they "only" get $129/2 = $64.5... or nearly 30% more than your scheme.
And on average, one pay-for version of OSX has been released every 18 month yielding roughly $86/year/user for Apple, yielding a good 72% more than your stupid scheme.
$50/year would be more regular indeed, but more revenue? Not a chance.
That's assuming that everybody will always upgrade to all versions - or at least won't wait 'til they can get it at Amazon for $103.99.
But both will give you syphilis if you don't wear a condom...
Hmm, mod me insightful if you find a deep meaningful analogy to the OS debate, hidden in the above. I personally could not, but of course I posted anyway. That the slut/OS that's free for all somehow is imune to the nasties?
Or how apple charges you $40 for quicktime to play in full-screen mode, whereas Microsoft gives you that for free. First of all, QuicktimePro is $30. And you don't need it to play in full-screen mode, you just need a different player like the free QTAmateur. For some reason Windows programmers can't write something like this, so tough luck finding one for Windows. Oh well, writing malware probably pays more.
They didn't scrap all the original work. They restarted from a more modular codebase and ported in their in-progress existing technology in a more manageable way. It's not like they just rewrote Avalon all over again from scratch in summer of 2004. Ahh, yes, summer of 2004. Gee, what else happened in Summer 2004, like, say, on June28th?
The GEMA is by no means Germany's RIAA, more like Germany's ASCAP. It's a society that collects licensing fees for distributed and broadcasted music on behalf of the creators (but, as in this case, can also act on its own if it thinks that due fee payments are being evaded). The closest thing to a German RIAA would be the national section of the IFPI. The funny thing is that the IFPI actually keeps complaining that the percentage it has to pay to the GEMA is too high.
It is not deniers of Global Warming. I dont think anyone will dispute our Globe is warming up. Its denying that Humans are the main cause for this. While Humans have some affect sure, there are thousands and thousands of other circumstances why the earth is on its normal cycle of warming and then cooling. Magnetic Poles shifting being a huge one. Suuuure. So why exactly does the shifting of the magnetic poles have influence on global climate? The green house effect is well understood, most the other "theories" don't even qualify as such because they aren't in any way testable.
It looks to me like we're in a period of time were the atmosphere is running out of CO2, and perhaps we should be replenishing it ? I presume you mean by burning most of the land-based plants that is binding the CO2? Care to compare your chart to the Phanerozoic Biodiversity?
So you fall for a millenium old marketing campaign. Not to mention that you, like 90% of Global Warming deniers, can't tell the difference between "global" and "local".
"Medieval Warm Period" is just a few centuries back and the planet was so much warmer than is now. Even the Greenland was stripped off ice so the Vikings dwelt there without any problem. We are actually in very cold perior right now and some warming would be much appreciated at least for us who experience -30 degrees celsius in the winter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period Gee, a simpleton who doesn't look at the purdy picshures at all (nor read the article he qoutes). Else he would have seen that it was colder during the "Medieval Warm Period" than now.
Great. Now explain why the same thing is happening on Mars, Triton, and Pluto.
Go ahead, I'll wait. Because Mars and Triton both have tons of frozen CO2 on the surface, and having just the tiniest bit of increased solar radiation will release great amounts of the greenhous gas and increase warming far beyond what the increase by solar forcing would be. As for Pluto, that passed Perihelion relatively recently. Now you may argue that it's still getting warmer - but noon isn't the hottest time of the day either.
For that matter, what is this "certification" that is being talked about?
I thought "real" scientists just get Ph.D's, do research, and gain credibility as their body of work accumulates. Scientists don't get "certified" as real or not based on simple, dogmatic, guidelines.
No, certifications are given out by certain special interest groups who desire to impose limits to its membership. If this certain group is some kind of professional guild society for, say, TV meteorologists, then that sucks for TV meteorologists who don't agree with the guild (if the guild has complete control of the industry).
But real scientists don't work as one huge homogeneous guild. Thus, there is no threat of "suppressing scientific dissent" by revoking "certifications", because "certifications" don't mean anything to science. (In theory) Well, Dr. Heidi Cullen "was a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO. She has done research in the U.S. Southwest, the Middle East (Syria and Turkey), publishing on domestic and international climate topics. She is a member of the World Climate Research Program's Climate Variability (CLIVAR) Scientific Steering Group, an international project aimed at identifying, understanding, and predicting types of variability within the Earth's complex climate system.
She is talking about local TV meteorologists who have an American Meteorological Society (AMS) "Seal of Approval" ("a way to recognize on-air meteorologists for their sound delivery of weather information to the general public"). She suggests that those who have it "have a responsibility to truly educate themselves on the science of global warming".
OT: I cannot believe a scientist would advocate censorship of opposing ideas, rather than refute them with logic. Unsound means without even a mitigating end. Your AMS card pulled if you express *doubt* about global warming or its cause? Come on fellows, we're smarter than this, aren't we? = ( No reason to do so, just because some PR pro pretending to be a concerned citizen claims that's the case. Just look what the scientist actually wrote.
Apparently on Slashdot neither the Slashdotters, nor the editor, nor the submitter bother to actually RTFA. The only relation to the Senate is that the author of that BLOG entry is does PR work for the majority chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Exit poll discrepancies...when was the last time you did an exit poll and gave them the truth? Better to confuse the enemy and claim you voted for the other guy.Besides, in a mucked up system...let's spread the muck about and at least make it interesting. You get the same end result with either main stream party anyway. And yet exit polls are usualy pretty close to the actual results - up until these elections, where there were suddenly more liars, and most of them obviously Republicans.
They would have to overcome their own court precidents to do that. Considering the "bobbys" didn't show up when the German government appealed for intervention to the UK when sealand held some of it's citizens as Prisoners of War, I think they are in OK shape. That is also where the UK courts ruled they had no jurisdiction over sealand. Funny thing is, he never held any Germans as PoWs. Unless he admits that his "Prime Minister" could never have been a Sealand citizen to begin with.
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"playforsure" only plays on about 10% of all portable media media players - if you ignore iPods. It forces you to buy out of a limited range of hardware that obviously nobody wants.
Well, there was Stickies, the menu-bar clock, Windowshade, the Launcher, the Control Strip, the new help system, system-wide drag & drop for text and other data, and if you didn't buy 7.1 Pro - AppleScript.
...but if done right, Sun dried Apples make for a tasty snack... Thus Sun should use the Itanic for a better drying experience.Ok so the "worst" release, for Apple, is the 2 years Tiger - Leopard gap which means that they "only" get $129/2 = $64.5... or nearly 30% more than your scheme.
And on average, one pay-for version of OSX has been released every 18 month yielding roughly $86/year/user for Apple, yielding a good 72% more than your stupid scheme.
$50/year would be more regular indeed, but more revenue? Not a chance.
That's assuming that everybody will always upgrade to all versions - or at least won't wait 'til they can get it at Amazon for $103.99.I mean a Quicktime player, not a video player that can play some Quicktime videos.
Hmm, mod me insightful if you find a deep meaningful analogy to the OS debate, hidden in the above. I personally could not, but of course I posted anyway. That the slut/OS that's free for all somehow is imune to the nasties?
It looks to me like we're in a period of time were the atmosphere is running out of CO2, and perhaps we should be replenishing it ? I presume you mean by burning most of the land-based plants that is binding the CO2? Care to compare your chart to the Phanerozoic Biodiversity?
So you fall for a millenium old marketing campaign. Not to mention that you, like 90% of Global Warming deniers, can't tell the difference between "global" and "local".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period Gee, a simpleton who doesn't look at the purdy picshures at all (nor read the article he qoutes). Else he would have seen that it was colder during the "Medieval Warm Period" than now.
Please define 'a lot of CO2'.
You do realise that under 'normal' conditions CO2 makes up approximately 0.05% by mass (yes, that's 5 per 10,000, not 5 per 100).
Best scientific estimates I have read indicate that human activity might have changed that amount by about 1 part per million per year (0.0001%)
As of January 2007, the earth's atmospheric CO2 concentration is [...] estimated to be 105 ppm (37.77%) above the pre-industrial average. Sure sounds like a whole lot to me.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4803460.stm
Go ahead, I'll wait.
Because Mars and Triton both have tons of frozen CO2 on the surface, and having just the tiniest bit of increased solar radiation will release great amounts of the greenhous gas and increase warming far beyond what the increase by solar forcing would be. As for Pluto, that passed Perihelion relatively recently. Now you may argue that it's still getting warmer - but noon isn't the hottest time of the day either.
I thought "real" scientists just get Ph.D's, do research, and gain credibility as their body of work accumulates. Scientists don't get "certified" as real or not based on simple, dogmatic, guidelines.
No, certifications are given out by certain special interest groups who desire to impose limits to its membership. If this certain group is some kind of professional guild society for, say, TV meteorologists, then that sucks for TV meteorologists who don't agree with the guild (if the guild has complete control of the industry).
But real scientists don't work as one huge homogeneous guild. Thus, there is no threat of "suppressing scientific dissent" by revoking "certifications", because "certifications" don't mean anything to science. (In theory) Well, Dr. Heidi Cullen "was a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO. She has done research in the U.S. Southwest, the Middle East (Syria and Turkey), publishing on domestic and international climate topics. She is a member of the World Climate Research Program's Climate Variability (CLIVAR) Scientific Steering Group, an international project aimed at identifying, understanding, and predicting types of variability within the Earth's complex climate system.
She is talking about local TV meteorologists who have an American Meteorological Society (AMS) "Seal of Approval" ("a way to recognize on-air meteorologists for their sound delivery of weather information to the general public"). She suggests that those who have it "have a responsibility to truly educate themselves on the science of global warming".
Apparently on Slashdot neither the Slashdotters, nor the editor, nor the submitter bother to actually RTFA. The only relation to the Senate is that the author of that BLOG entry is does PR work for the majority chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
"Posted by Marc Morano"