"They have contributed much to the open source community."
I'm not *that* sure. Remember first Safari releases and their negative to open up its code, even though safari rendering engine is based in KHTML.
Nobody but the Apple haters remembers that, not even the KHTML developers who complained that Apple didn't release their changes in the format they would have prefered to receive them in.
Look at Windows, apparently the fact that Vista hardly runs on current-gen or last-gen hardware isn't a problem.
Vista seems to run fine on current generation hardware. I don't recall Microsoft promoting running Vista on last generation hardware by the way.
So you forgot that Microsoft had to release Vista Stripped Down Version (aka Vista Home Basic) so hardware that was "Vista Capable" could actually run a version of Vista - even if that version didn't have many of the features that were advertised for Vista when these "Vista Capable" PCs were sold? But you are of course right, the hardware was many months old at the time and hardly current.
Hey, I have an idea: let's develop a series of competitive events dedicated to showing off the pinnacles of raw physical endurance and human health......and then host it in one of the world's most polluted cities!
Mexico City (1968)? Los Angeles (1984)? Athens (2004)?
http://afghanistan.cr.usgs.gov/oil.php
Since the first oil field was discovered in Afghanistan in 1959, more than 150 million barrels of oil (mmbo) reserves and more than 4,500 billion cubic feet of gas (bcfg) reserves have been identified, using Soviet methodologies and technologies, in 29 fields in the Afghan portion of the Amu Darya and Afghan-Tajik basins (fig. 3). Only a very small portion of this reported resource base has been exploited. The country has not been well explored for oil and gas potential using the latest techniques. There is enormous opportunity for further discoveries to add to Afghanistan's energy resource base. That resource base is essential to the economic development of the country.
Last time I went to Europe, it seemed like Europe manages to be competitive economically by selling to Americans, catering to American tourists, and working for American-owned companies...?
American Tourists in Europe? When was that, the early 90s?
Only tens of millions of Americans would like that? More like hundreds of millions of Americans, IMO. The median household yearly pre-tax income is only around $48k. Damn near *every* American would love to have $400k/year left after taxes.
Heck, they would love to make $400K before 80% taxes - that way they would still have $80K.
Unions are antithetical to Libertarianism. It doesn't really have anything to do with political or social freedom. Unions are by design the antithesis of free markets since they seek to set labor rates not based on supply and demand of workers but artificially by the threat of strikes and by depriving employers of workers unless they pay artificially inflated wages.
Translation: In a "free" market, corporations can build trusts, but workers can't.
Maybe you should read TFA: it was both found and constructed, found because they didn't expect it, constructed because it's not something which occurs naturally.
Yes I can see how relevant a review from 2005 is when it is 2008. Considering that no video player has advanced since 2005 you would be foolish to use Theora.
It was the truth in 2005, but that is no longer true.
So because all "video players" have advanced, Theora must now be on top, right? Do you guys have any links instead of whining that this one is 2.5 years old? You know, this may even convince somebody else beside you.
It's pretty clear that Google NDAs are temporary. Google officials pledged (several times) that they are going to open most of the SDK. Personally, I believe them.
NDA-before-open-disclosure is a fairly common thing, there's nothing strange about it.
Well, I also believe that Google will open up all information about their developers sooner or later. I have the feeling that this is no mistake but that Google is SETEC ASTRONOMY.
>Well, I've generally assumed that what they're thinking is that they don't want people like me to develop software for their stuff. Occam's Razor and all, that seems like the obvious explanation. If there's another explanation, I wouldn't mind reading it.
Back in the pre-OSX days, I never paid much attention to Macs, because I was interested in computers, and the Mac wasn't really a computer (although it contained one). A computer is defined as a machine that's programmable. The Mac was an appliance, with "no user-servicable parts". Programming had to be done on another machine with some expensive software development packages and copied over to the Mac.
You just pinned down exactly why Apple doesn't want people like you to develop software for their stuff - you just don't get it.
Good luck sitting someone used to nubby bumps on the f&k-keys on the mini-keyboards without those bumps. You just proved they are just as useless as "this new touch screen mumbo jumbo"
So they bought a hardware that wasn't even hinted as being 802.11n-ready and could have just used it as before for free, but instead were duped into updating it for far less it would have cost them to buy new hardware.
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"They have contributed much to the open source community."
I'm not *that* sure. Remember first Safari releases and their negative to open up its code, even though safari rendering engine is based in KHTML.
Nobody but the Apple haters remembers that, not even the KHTML developers who complained that Apple didn't release their changes in the format they would have prefered to receive them in.
Vista seems to run fine on current generation hardware. I don't recall Microsoft promoting running Vista on last generation hardware by the way.
So you forgot that Microsoft had to release Vista Stripped Down Version (aka Vista Home Basic) so hardware that was "Vista Capable" could actually run a version of Vista - even if that version didn't have many of the features that were advertised for Vista when these "Vista Capable" PCs were sold? But you are of course right, the hardware was many months old at the time and hardly current.
So I guess you'd be okay with any app that sends your current location to an undisclosed recipient every coupel of seconds.
Hey, I have an idea: let's develop a series of competitive events dedicated to showing off the pinnacles of raw physical endurance and human health... ...and then host it in one of the world's most polluted cities!
Mexico City (1968)? Los Angeles (1984)? Athens (2004)?
http://afghanistan.cr.usgs.gov/oil.php Since the first oil field was discovered in Afghanistan in 1959, more than 150 million barrels of oil (mmbo) reserves and more than 4,500 billion cubic feet of gas (bcfg) reserves have been identified, using Soviet methodologies and technologies, in 29 fields in the Afghan portion of the Amu Darya and Afghan-Tajik basins (fig. 3). Only a very small portion of this reported resource base has been exploited. The country has not been well explored for oil and gas potential using the latest techniques. There is enormous opportunity for further discoveries to add to Afghanistan's energy resource base. That resource base is essential to the economic development of the country.
Read a history book sometime, rather than sound bites. As well as books from BOTH sides of the Pacific. It might open your eyes.
You should read a book that doesn't ignore the fact that before the A-bombs the US demanded that the Emperor be put on trial, and after they didn't.
I'm not saying better under Taliban.
I'm saying they didn't play ball with the US, so we took their goodies that we couldn't get cut-in on.
Didn't play ball? I'd say. They harbored Osama Bin Laden. You remember him, right?
All I can remember is that you still don't have him, and invading Afghanistan didn't change shit in that regard.
GWB: Give us Bin Laden. Taliban: No, bitch! GWB: Well, we tried. Sorry to bother you guys. Have fun blowing up ancient art.
You do remember that Bush didn't give a shit about them blowing up ancient art - or Afghanis for that matter - before 9/11?
The programmer asserts that I Am Rich is a work of art.
And now it's a limited edition.
Last time I went to Europe, it seemed like Europe manages to be competitive economically by selling to Americans, catering to American tourists, and working for American-owned companies...?
American Tourists in Europe? When was that, the early 90s?
Only tens of millions of Americans would like that? More like hundreds of millions of Americans, IMO. The median household yearly pre-tax income is only around $48k. Damn near *every* American would love to have $400k/year left after taxes.
Heck, they would love to make $400K before 80% taxes - that way they would still have $80K.
Unions are antithetical to Libertarianism. It doesn't really have anything to do with political or social freedom. Unions are by design the antithesis of free markets since they seek to set labor rates not based on supply and demand of workers but artificially by the threat of strikes and by depriving employers of workers unless they pay artificially inflated wages.
Translation: In a "free" market, corporations can build trusts, but workers can't.
Are you suggesting that the US shood have *illegally* attacked Germany? The appeasers would not have approved.
The only "appeasers" were the US.
A gadget isn't properly invented until you build one. Asimov conceived satellites, but the soviets invented it.
So much for all the talk of "prior art" on Slashdot.
then think about adding say a Bussard collector http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Bussard_collector (i know we would have to invent a bussard collector but the idea is not that hard)
And I thought Robert W. Bussard already took care of that.
This isn't the town that had to be condemned because the coal underground was ignited?
That would be Centralia, Pennsylvania
And that's not the only underground coal fire.
Both!
Maybe you should read TFA: it was both found and constructed, found because they didn't expect it, constructed because it's not something which occurs naturally.
Isn't the word for that "dumbfound"?
For an example of a practical use, Teflon is a quasicrystal. I read somewhere that they tend to be slippery.
So these Quasi-Quasi-Crystals (TM) will send us down a slippery slope?
But you can grab a new release of SuSe for free.
So to fix the DNS vulnerability on SUSE 9, all I have to do is install a new OS?
To be fair, 10.3 was released in 2003. Windows 98 was released in....1998.
And SUSE 9.3 was released in 2005 - no automatic update there either.
... because it's patent-free. Quite a few games I see have vorbis.dll and therora.dll's about.
Well, it is until the sub fires its torpedoes.
Yes I can see how relevant a review from 2005 is when it is 2008. Considering that no video player has advanced since 2005 you would be foolish to use Theora. It was the truth in 2005, but that is no longer true.
So because all "video players" have advanced, Theora must now be on top, right? Do you guys have any links instead of whining that this one is 2.5 years old? You know, this may even convince somebody else beside you.
It's pretty clear that Google NDAs are temporary. Google officials pledged (several times) that they are going to open most of the SDK. Personally, I believe them.
NDA-before-open-disclosure is a fairly common thing, there's nothing strange about it.
Well, I also believe that Google will open up all information about their developers sooner or later. I have the feeling that this is no mistake but that Google is SETEC ASTRONOMY.
>Well, I've generally assumed that what they're thinking is that they don't want people like me to develop software for their stuff. Occam's Razor and all, that seems like the obvious explanation. If there's another explanation, I wouldn't mind reading it.
Back in the pre-OSX days, I never paid much attention to Macs, because I was interested in computers, and the Mac wasn't really a computer (although it contained one). A computer is defined as a machine that's programmable. The Mac was an appliance, with "no user-servicable parts". Programming had to be done on another machine with some expensive software development packages and copied over to the Mac.
You just pinned down exactly why Apple doesn't want people like you to develop software for their stuff - you just don't get it.
Good luck sitting someone used to nubby bumps on the f&k-keys on the mini-keyboards without those bumps. You just proved they are just as useless as "this new touch screen mumbo jumbo"
So they bought a hardware that wasn't even hinted as being 802.11n-ready and could have just used it as before for free, but instead were duped into updating it for far less it would have cost them to buy new hardware.