Posted by Hemos
on Monday April 07, @10:52AM from the try-it-again dept. chasingporsches writes "It appears that Apple released Final Cut Pro 4, Shake 3, and DVD Studio Pro 2. FCP4 has great new features, such as updated HD support, but unfortunately the usual hefty price tag ($999 full, $399 upgrade). Shake now has unlimited network rendering, and DVD Studio Pro 2 has a new basic/advanced user interface."
Ah, but the terrorists didn't come from South America, did they? So "bullying the world" is not a sufficient explanation for why Arabs are flying around the world to attack American interests.
It is to laugh.
America propped up the Shah in Iran, with his murderous Savak. They funded the mujahids in Afghanistan. They support the King of Saudi Arabia and all his corrupt princelings. They have blockaded Iraq for 10 years. Most of all, they support Israel.
Some of these things (I won't debate which) are justifiable morally, but there is plenty of bullying (not to mention murder, assasination, etc) to excite hatred in those affected.
Hell, for that matter, the US has done far less with its superpower status than any predecessor. Would you rather have the empires of England, France, Germany and Spain back?
The US doens't have an "empire" in name, but it does in fact. It controls world finance and trade, communicatrion and media. Money flows into the US from almost every other country -- including the poorest third world ones.
I see "Posted by jamie on Tuesday April 01, @11:25AM". The times you see on the Slashdot pages are in your local time zone, as set on your preference page. (Don't remember what zone you see if you are an AC).
CmdrTaco
on Tuesday March 11, @01:53AM from the now-here's-where-it-get-interesting dept. admiral2001 writes "Here is is a NYTimes story about AOL-Time-Warner's plans for a TiVo-killing 'Mystro TV' (nytimes annoying free registration required). They plan to begin rolling this out sometime in the next two years. Their major features are the simple pause, rewind, and fast forward that all PVRs have. However, they've taken the obvious stance to "let[s] networks set the parameters, dictating which shows users can reschedule, and it also creates ways for networks to insert commercials." The article even mentions how they could get an advantage in pushing their product because "viewers could try out Mystro TV by pushing a button on their remote"."
Mea culpa. That's what I get for trusting random "quotes" on the web. Through the Looking Glass, chapter V.
Of course, resources like this (derived from Project Gutenberg) could not exist if works did not fall into the public domain in less than geological periods.
I don't know if all of his books sucked that bad
Yes.
Actually, before he was deified, L Ron Hubbard wrote some good SF, published in Astounding in the 40s. See this site for instance (the "Golden Age" bit). Final Blackout, (1941) was particularly good, set in a Europe with WWII continuing for decades.
Just out of curiosity, is Micro$oft required to release the source of MS-DOS 1.0 when/if the copyright expires, or does just the binary form become public domain? The source is copyright too, no?
When copyright expires (70 years after publishing, under curent law), they don't have to do anything. It would however be in the public domain and if someone had a copy they could then publish it freely. But we all know that copyright will be extended indefinitely using the "Mad Hatter's tea Party" method:
The Mad Hatter said, "Jam is served every other day."
Alice protested, "But there was no jam yesterday either!" "That's right," said the Mad Hatter. "The rule is: always jam yesterday and jam tomorrow, never jam today...because today is not every other day!"
But please do NOT hold up AJ as the bastion of truth and objectivity.
Not my words, but in the context of the article, by comparison with other Arab sources, it is. As for CNN, I watched them through the first Gulf War and was disgusted by their flag-waving jingoism.
My personal take is that you can never get a true picture from a single side. The world is saturated with American media. Seeing news from other sources acts as a sanity check.
Would similar online media outlets be similarly classified?
It's not a "similar" outlet. Unless you mean to bomb any foreign media that don't toe Rumsfeld's line. In spite of David Letterman sketches, al-Jazeera is neither Afghani or Iraqi, but is based in Qatar.
Today, al-Jazeera is staffed by many of the same [BBC] journalists I saw weeping in London that day, including Azar. It is the lone Arabic broadcast outlet to put truth and objectivity above even its survival. For its pains during the five years of its existence, it has been attacked by virtually every government in the Middle East.
They've also got a new English service. (Which was heavily overloaded even before this, so you'll have a hard time seeing it.)
As far as I know, they got it from family members, not at school. My daughter's school is closed for a week. It's silly, as we're on Lamma. But fear is driving this.
HK is part of China, now, but the police are not integrated at all. (Thank God.) In fact a big problem is HK residents whose company has a business dispute in China are arrested by the local authorities and held till a ransom is paid. The HK govt does even less than the former colonial British did to protect its people from from being chewed up by the Mainland "legal" system.
The figures I gave are for Hong Kong. As for whether it's scary or not; I live there, I'm not. My objection is to the general sensationalism and particularly to your equating it wih smallpox. It is much less lethal and much less contagious. As I've just repeated that for the third time, I think this is a good place to stop.
I only get my Singapore news from your own local newspaper,
As I said, I'm in Hong Kong, which is not Singapore.
The Straits Times itself is reporting how many parents are clamoring to close the schools for a while
People are panicking. Has little to do with the real risks. Recall the idiocy with which AIDS sufferers are treated in most places. Actually, my dusghter's school has just closed, which is a case of bureaucratic CYA rather than anything else.
SARS is highly contagious in close proximity, as is smallpox. Look at what WHO reports.
I did (before I made my original post). I didn't see anything to contradict what I wrote. It is MUCH less contagious than smallpox, and MUCH less lethal (7 dead out of 222 confirmed cases). It's been here for two weeks (incubation period is a few days or a week) and if it was anything like as bad as smallpox, hundreds would be dead.
WHO SARS FAQ: Q: How contagious is SARS ? A: Based on currently available evidence, close contact with an infected person is needed for the infective agent to spread from one person to another. Contact with aerosolized (exhaled) droplets and bodily secretions from an infected person appears to be important. To date, the majority of cases have occurred in hospital workers who have cared for SARS patients and the close family members of these patients. However, the amount of the infective agent needed to cause an infection has not yet been determined.
SARS is likely to be as bad as a smallpox epidemic.
Bullshit. I live in Hong Kong, so I think I have more of a clue about this than the sensationalist overseas reports.
Yes, it can kill. But so far, all those infected were in close physical contact with carriers -- mostly health workers who treated them, or members of family. Here people are crushed in close contact on public transport every day. If it spread like smallpox, we'd have a million dead already. It's risk, but nothing to obsess over.
Personally, I always found that each app having its own folder full of links was a) unnecessary for a power user (put links in your help menu), and b) confusing for non-power users.
Personally, I prefer to let a new app make a new folder in the Start menu. (They usually insist on doing it anyway, and customising it is tedious.) Then I can open the menu, select the useful icons and put them where I think they should go, and delete the rest along with the folder.
Also helps when you upgrade or reinstall; usually I just delete the whole new folder if the original icons sill work.
The real question is "why do people post a question when it has already been posted by others?"
Because if only one person pointed out that the post is either a dupe, or has the wrong logo (this has both, along with grammatical errors), then Taco et al can say "Of the x million readers only ONE cares". As it is, now though they still try to laugh off their mistakes and carelessness as irrelevant, they can't say that no one cares. Eventually they might get annoyed or embarrassed enough from people bitching that they implement any of the simple systems that would detect most dupes or spelling mistakes. Forcing them to select the correct logo might be harder, evidently.
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Posted by Hemos on Monday April 07, @10:52AM
from the try-it-again dept.
chasingporsches writes "It appears that Apple released Final Cut Pro 4, Shake 3, and DVD Studio Pro 2. FCP4 has great new features, such as updated HD support, but unfortunately the usual hefty price tag ($999 full, $399 upgrade). Shake now has unlimited network rendering, and DVD Studio Pro 2 has a new basic/advanced user interface."
It is to laugh.
America propped up the Shah in Iran, with his murderous Savak. They funded the mujahids in Afghanistan. They support the King of Saudi Arabia and all his corrupt princelings. They have blockaded Iraq for 10 years. Most of all, they support Israel.
Some of these things (I won't debate which) are justifiable morally, but there is plenty of bullying (not to mention murder, assasination, etc) to excite hatred in those affected.
Hell, for that matter, the US has done far less with its superpower status than any predecessor. Would you rather have the empires of England, France, Germany and Spain back?
The US doens't have an "empire" in name, but it does in fact. It controls world finance and trade, communicatrion and media. Money flows into the US from almost every other country -- including the poorest third world ones.
I see "Posted by jamie on Tuesday April 01, @11:25AM". The times you see on the Slashdot pages are in your local time zone, as set on your preference page. (Don't remember what zone you see if you are an AC).
CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 11, @01:53AM
from the now-here's-where-it-get-interesting dept.
admiral2001 writes "Here is is a NYTimes story about AOL-Time-Warner's plans for a TiVo-killing 'Mystro TV' (nytimes annoying free registration required). They plan to begin rolling this out sometime in the next two years. Their major features are the simple pause, rewind, and fast forward that all PVRs have. However, they've taken the obvious stance to "let[s] networks set the parameters, dictating which shows users can reschedule, and it also creates ways for networks to insert commercials." The article even mentions how they could get an advantage in pushing their product because "viewers could try out Mystro TV by pushing a button on their remote"."
I only wish that were true... I'd settle for intelligible and correctly spelled.
What kind of car do you think you can buy on an astronomer's salary?
The black box tape has data for at least 14 seconds after telemetry was lost (in the FA). I believe that radio is lost during reentry.
By changing the hardware spec so that nothing else will work.
Of course it's not "stealing". It may be a copyright violation.
Mea culpa. That's what I get for trusting random "quotes" on the web. Through the Looking Glass, chapter V.
Of course, resources like this (derived from Project Gutenberg) could not exist if works did not fall into the public domain in less than geological periods.
Yes.
Actually, before he was deified, L Ron Hubbard wrote some good SF, published in Astounding in the 40s. See this site for instance (the "Golden Age" bit). Final Blackout, (1941) was particularly good, set in a Europe with WWII continuing for decades.
When copyright expires (70 years after publishing, under curent law), they don't have to do anything. It would however be in the public domain and if someone had a copy they could then publish it freely. But we all know that copyright will be extended indefinitely using the "Mad Hatter's tea Party" method:
No, that's your logic.
My logic is that if you have contradictions between sources, it bears investigation.
Probably referring to this, in Kabul in 2001:
The US had scored a direct hit on the offices of the Qatar-based TV station Al-Jazeera, leading to speculation that the channel had been targeted deliberately
Not my words, but in the context of the article, by comparison with other Arab sources, it is. As for CNN, I watched them through the first Gulf War and was disgusted by their flag-waving jingoism.
My personal take is that you can never get a true picture from a single side. The world is saturated with American media. Seeing news from other sources acts as a sanity check.
It's not a "similar" outlet. Unless you mean to bomb any foreign media that don't toe Rumsfeld's line. In spite of David Letterman sketches, al-Jazeera is neither Afghani or Iraqi, but is based in Qatar.
See this article on its origins.
They've also got a new English service. (Which was heavily overloaded even before this, so you'll have a hard time seeing it.)Yes, when the correction has a typo "ans has been..."
As far as I know, they got it from family members, not at school. My daughter's school is closed for a week. It's silly, as we're on Lamma. But fear is driving this.
HK is part of China, now, but the police are not integrated at all. (Thank God.) In fact a big problem is HK residents whose company has a business dispute in China are arrested by the local authorities and held till a ransom is paid. The HK govt does even less than the former colonial British did to protect its people from from being chewed up by the Mainland "legal" system.
Sorry, I see that was the other guy who also thought Hong Kong was in Singapore.
The figures I gave are for Hong Kong. As for whether it's scary or not; I live there, I'm not. My objection is to the general sensationalism and particularly to your equating it wih smallpox. It is much less lethal and much less contagious. As I've just repeated that for the third time, I think this is a good place to stop.
As I said, I'm in Hong Kong, which is not Singapore.
The Straits Times itself is reporting how many parents are clamoring to close the schools for a while
People are panicking. Has little to do with the real risks. Recall the idiocy with which AIDS sufferers are treated in most places. Actually, my dusghter's school has just closed, which is a case of bureaucratic CYA rather than anything else.
SARS is highly contagious in close proximity, as is smallpox. Look at what WHO reports.
I did (before I made my original post). I didn't see anything to contradict what I wrote. It is MUCH less contagious than smallpox, and MUCH less lethal (7 dead out of 222 confirmed cases). It's been here for two weeks (incubation period is a few days or a week) and if it was anything like as bad as smallpox, hundreds would be dead.
WHO SARS FAQ: : How contagious is SARS ? : Based on currently available evidence, close contact with an infected person is needed for the infective agent to spread from one person to another. Contact with aerosolized (exhaled) droplets and bodily secretions from an infected person appears to be important. To date, the majority of cases have occurred in hospital workers who have cared for SARS patients and the close family members of these patients. However, the amount of the infective agent needed to cause an infection has not yet been determined.
Q
A
Bullshit. I live in Hong Kong, so I think I have more of a clue about this than the sensationalist overseas reports.
Yes, it can kill. But so far, all those infected were in close physical contact with carriers -- mostly health workers who treated them, or members of family. Here people are crushed in close contact on public transport every day. If it spread like smallpox, we'd have a million dead already. It's risk, but nothing to obsess over.
Personally, I prefer to let a new app make a new folder in the Start menu. (They usually insist on doing it anyway, and customising it is tedious.) Then I can open the menu, select the useful icons and put them where I think they should go, and delete the rest along with the folder.
Also helps when you upgrade or reinstall; usually I just delete the whole new folder if the original icons sill work.
Because if only one person pointed out that the post is either a dupe, or has the wrong logo (this has both, along with grammatical errors), then Taco et al can say "Of the x million readers only ONE cares". As it is, now though they still try to laugh off their mistakes and carelessness as irrelevant, they can't say that no one cares. Eventually they might get annoyed or embarrassed enough from people bitching that they implement any of the simple systems that would detect most dupes or spelling mistakes. Forcing them to select the correct logo might be harder, evidently.