You say that now, wait until lab grown meat is 1/5th the price of factory farm grown and tastes 3 times as good.
Wait until the outbreaks of disease in livestock that happens every year starts being reported instead of suppressed because there's actually an alternative.
But, Ms. Newkirk said, the decision to sponsor a prize caused "a near civil war in our office," since so many PETA members are repulsed by the thought of eating animal tissue, even if no animals are killed. I think you mean "holy war".
Other than that, yeah, good show.. I'm a big fan of growing food in vats instead of animals on grain and parts of other animals.
For a start, it makes real permanent space stations all that more feasible.
Man, I don't even let *police* pat me down. These chumps get to set arbitrary rules and because all you sheep just do what you're told, I have to put up with it, otherwise I'll be the "trouble maker" and won't be allowed to fly.
just follow my logic here. I only fly because my company makes me. When I go to the airport I have to put up with all this security bullshit and now they've put in magic scanners (it's magic to me, as it is to most everyone) and the security people get to see me naked. So basically, if I want to get paid, my company is demanding that I get naked. Now, I don't know about you, but I didn't sign up for that. I'm not exactly *against* the idea of getting naked for money, but I think I should be getting paid a lot more than I am now if that's the deal.
I wrote that point, and no, it doesn't resolve that problem. "different vendors" means an independent second source.. meaning that if Microsoft decide to discontinue support for OOXML in 10 years time you can switch to another vendor who has the ability to keep fixing bugs in their implementation.
Further, we feel strongly that most of our customers are best served by the stable, shipping version of CrossOver. That's right folks, CrossOver claims to have customers. That's the scoop!:)
Having not actually implemented the standard myself, I can't really comment on how terrible it is. But I can imagine that if actual information loss was involved, instead of just formatting or whatever, then a government that was looking for a standard to store their documents in would bork at OOXML. They could discover this from doing a test program and seeing if the interoperability of the products that support the standard is actually any good, or they could discover this the hard way after storing documents in one product's implementation of the standard for years and then trying to switch products.
But if, in the end, there's no real need for their documents to be stored in open formats then the only people who really care that the are stored in these formats are shills.
If you can't read the whole thing then it is pointless implementing the standard. You'll get "almost works" which is the same as "broken".
And, really, the US military does this multiple supplier requirement for hardware only.. they dabbled with it on the software side with the POSIX requirements, but that's about it.
Presumably a government would want to mandate open standards for a reason.. other than just to be hip.. so they should do what the US military does: demand that there be at least 2 suppliers for software that can read those formats. That should just about immediately eliminate OOXML, as I hear the biggest complaint was that there is parts of it that are just not implementable by anyone but Microsoft.
was passed with the intent to subject States to liability for copyright infringement. The CRCA amended 17 U.S.C. 511(a):
Any State, any instrumentality of a State, and any officer or employee of a State or instrumentality of a State [...] shall not be immune, under the Eleventh Amendment [...] from suite in Federal Court [...] for a violation of any of the exclusive rights of a copyright owner.
So this ruling basically says you can't sue the state for violating your copyright.
There's an interesting article on the Space Review at the moment that outlines how the air freight industry really got started and suggests that a parallel for sub-orbital vehicles might not be completely inconceivable.
Microsoft have done it for us. The money they paid to push through their "standard" is wasted because the body the standardized it is no longer respected. Their purpose for seeking approval from a standards body has been defeated by the way in which they obtained it.
Yeah, it's aimed at a different market segment. Maybe if SpaceX ever gets a man-rated Dragon into the air then a $20 million product will be available again.
Only people I'm ripping off are those Time-Warner-Life scumbags who will only sell me the DVDs if I sign up to a "book of the month" style subscription..
Who gives a shit? Once there is an independent technological human presence on another rock, this rock can be engulfed by the Sun for all it matters. Survival of the species is not the same as the survival of Earth.
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You say that now, wait until lab grown meat is 1/5th the price of factory farm grown and tastes 3 times as good.
Wait until the outbreaks of disease in livestock that happens every year starts being reported instead of suppressed because there's actually an alternative.
Other than that, yeah, good show.. I'm a big fan of growing food in vats instead of animals on grain and parts of other animals.
For a start, it makes real permanent space stations all that more feasible.
Man, I don't even let *police* pat me down. These chumps get to set arbitrary rules and because all you sheep just do what you're told, I have to put up with it, otherwise I'll be the "trouble maker" and won't be allowed to fly.
I get it all the time, only thing worse than a "white male traveling alone" is a "man of eastern appearance".
just follow my logic here. I only fly because my company makes me. When I go to the airport I have to put up with all this security bullshit and now they've put in magic scanners (it's magic to me, as it is to most everyone) and the security people get to see me naked. So basically, if I want to get paid, my company is demanding that I get naked. Now, I don't know about you, but I didn't sign up for that. I'm not exactly *against* the idea of getting naked for money, but I think I should be getting paid a lot more than I am now if that's the deal.
This is why people don't like you.
It's actually to stop idiots from coming back to the screening area looking for their boarding card.
One bunch of idiots making rules for another bunch of idiots.
Shill.
Ever get the feeling you're talking to a brick wall?
Just let it go, man.
I wrote that point, and no, it doesn't resolve that problem. "different vendors" means an independent second source.. meaning that if Microsoft decide to discontinue support for OOXML in 10 years time you can switch to another vendor who has the ability to keep fixing bugs in their implementation.
I can't believe I have to explain this.
bwahaha.. yes, because using someone else's SDK is "implementing the standard".
by the stable, shipping version of CrossOver. That's right folks, CrossOver claims to have customers. That's the scoop!
Having not actually implemented the standard myself, I can't really comment on how terrible it is. But I can imagine that if actual information loss was involved, instead of just formatting or whatever, then a government that was looking for a standard to store their documents in would bork at OOXML. They could discover this from doing a test program and seeing if the interoperability of the products that support the standard is actually any good, or they could discover this the hard way after storing documents in one product's implementation of the standard for years and then trying to switch products.
But if, in the end, there's no real need for their documents to be stored in open formats then the only people who really care that the are stored in these formats are shills.
If you can't read the whole thing then it is pointless implementing the standard. You'll get "almost works" which is the same as "broken".
And, really, the US military does this multiple supplier requirement for hardware only.. they dabbled with it on the software side with the POSIX requirements, but that's about it.
Presumably a government would want to mandate open standards for a reason.. other than just to be hip.. so they should do what the US military does: demand that there be at least 2 suppliers for software that can read those formats. That should just about immediately eliminate OOXML, as I hear the biggest complaint was that there is parts of it that are just not implementable by anyone but Microsoft.
was passed with the intent to subject States to liability for copyright infringement. The CRCA amended 17 U.S.C. 511(a):
Any State, any instrumentality of a State, and any officer or employee of a State or instrumentality of a State [...] shall not be immune, under the Eleventh Amendment [...] from suite in Federal Court [...] for a violation of any of the exclusive rights of a copyright owner.
So this ruling basically says you can't sue the state for violating your copyright.
There's an interesting article on the Space Review at the moment that outlines how the air freight industry really got started and suggests that a parallel for sub-orbital vehicles might not be completely inconceivable.
Microsoft have done it for us. The money they paid to push through their "standard" is wasted because the body the standardized it is no longer respected. Their purpose for seeking approval from a standards body has been defeated by the way in which they obtained it.
Yeah, it's aimed at a different market segment. Maybe if SpaceX ever gets a man-rated Dragon into the air then a $20 million product will be available again.
was he that guy in Jurassic Park?
Unlike you, I have my own opinions and don't need wikipedia to tell me what to think.
Mach is a bloated piece of shit that is no more a microkernel than windows nt.
Anyone who considers Mach a microkernel should get a job working for Microsoft.
And the world is a richer place because of it, you fuckin' disgrace.
Lately I've been downloading Gilligan's Island.
Only people I'm ripping off are those Time-Warner-Life scumbags who will only sell me the DVDs if I sign up to a "book of the month" style subscription..
Who gives a shit? Once there is an independent technological human presence on another rock, this rock can be engulfed by the Sun for all it matters. Survival of the species is not the same as the survival of Earth.