Most well designed applications simply let you download and automatically mount a disk image. Many even let you run straight from the disk image, or you can just drag to "Applications" (or wherever you prefer).
So my question is, why not just use the browser? IT ALREADY DOES THESE THINGS!
Uh, dude, read a little.
Widgets ARE web pages, more or less. They're HTML, CSS and Javascript, with a couple exceptions.
So it's a brilliantly efficient way to get information from the web almost instantly, and looks good, too. And yeah, the reason that Widgets are so pretty is because they're built with CSS and, well, probably not the Gimp, but Photoshop.
Justice O'Conner's dissent very clearly states what is wrong with that thinking, though:
And please note that all of the rabid right wing judges were in the dissent. It was the left wing of the court that just granted this mind blowing extension of government/corporate power.
Peace be with you, -jimbo
ps Not directed at the original poster, just the public at large.
First, George Lucas owes you a no-prize, like Marvel Comics used to (still?) give.
Secondly, the plot was blown only in episode VI when Darth is surprised that Leia is Luke's sister.
Eps. IV and V work much better if you assume that Darth DOES know that Leia is his daughter. Think about it. We see the mysterious needle wielding robot enter her room, supposedly to make her talk, but no indication that it was anything more than a sedative. Darth has no compunction about killing a billion living souls, but somehow never raises a finger against Leia, and then allows her to escape with Luke, Han and Chewie.
Yes, he has a perfectly good excuse (find the rebel base), but isn't that perfectly convenient?
In Ep. V, why does he torture Han and not Leia? Luke risked himself to save Leia from the Death Star before. Wouldn't Vader believe torturing her would be the most effective way to bring Luke? And again, somehow, Leia is allowed to escape, with Luke, again.
And of course that is the one time when the commanding officer is not killed by Vader when things "go wrong". Vader just turns and walks away after Leia, Luke, and Lando get away, much to the surprise of the last guy left in charge.
Also, Darth's invitation to Luke to join him in overthrowing the emperor so they can rule as father and son strikes me as most likely being his true feelings. He's happy being on the dark side, but doesn't particularly like kowtowing to the emperor and still cares about his son in his own warped way.
So until the moment Vader expresses surprise that Leia is his daughter, the theory that Vader knew all along made much more sense. I think Lucas just flat out blew a chance to be clever.
"You're right Luke. I knew that you and Leia were my children all along. I did what I could to protect you, but now you have saved me by bringing me back to the light side of the Force."
You know, by the way, who is a master of this kind of elegant pacing? Hiyao Miyazaki. I'd say Miyazaki is an even better filmmaker than Kurosawa.
Tonari no Totoro being the best example in my experience. With all the times I (and my 3 year old son) have watched that movie, I feel like I've spent an entire summer in rural Japan (in reality, I've only lived in a couple Japanese cities). It reminds you how awesome nature was when you were a child and really experienced it, as opposed to a jaded adult passing by it or through it to get somewhere else.
By the way, what time period is that movie set in? From the surrounding technology, I'm guessing maybe the 1950's, but I never knew for sure.
Cheap-labor conservatives oppose a woman's right to choose. Why. Unwanted children are an economic burden that put poor women "over a barrel", forcing them to work cheap.
Then let's really stick it to those evil corporations, and give women the right to kill their out of the womb, unwanted kids, too.
To be fair, agencies like AFP don't rely (or even need) on traffic to their own Web sites. They make all their money by selling their feeds and licencing their articles to other publications which then go out and make the money on advertising, etc.
Then why do the geniuses at AFP have a public website at all? They're competing with their customers without bringing in any additional revenue.
Sadly, as globalization is demonstrating, we have a system which requires people living in abject poverty someplace else so we can get our crap from wallmart for a nickel less.
We have a system that is lifting people out of abject poverty someplace else by sending our jobs to them and buying the stuff they make in our place. See China, India, etc.
If you work through Manpower (as the employee the article listed) you do NOT work for HP and regardless of what work you do there you are NOT owed benefits/compensation from them.
So you are an expert in employment law? Then how about citing some case law refuting the IRS criteria cited in the article for determining if someone qualifies as a full time employee as opposed to a contractor.
Just because you ASSERT something in CAPITAL LETTERS doesn't make it TRUE.
You are right to be amazed, because he's lying. Nobody ever taught themselves to a fluency level where they can read 90% of a Japanese newspaper without a dictionary after only 3 years.
Phew, glad to hear that. 'Cause for a while there I thought I was underachieving:).
(How do you translate the distinction between the first-person pronouns "watakushi", "watashi", "boku", and "ore"? Short answer: you can't.)
Sure you can. But the change in translation probably won't be in how you translate that particular word (I, me, or my), but how you translate the surrounding words. The distinctions among these words are chiefly masculinity vs. femininity and level of politeness. So you might translate two sentences expressing similar meaning but using a different word for the first person singular as:
"I will be leaving momentarily."
"Dude, I'm outta here."
But having said all that, your point about thinking in the language you want to speak remains:).
There's a gender difference in teaching though. Men tend to get called on more than women in classes, and also tend to get taken more seriously than women, all the way back into elementary schools, by both male and female teachers.
AAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Girls have been progressively doing better and better on standardized tests in the U.S., while boys' scores have pretty much stagnated. Girls have made great strides catching up to boys in Math. But boys have not similarly advanced in reading, English and vocabulary. Women are outnumbering men in university admissions by greater and greater numbers.
More power to them. But DO NOT try to imply that education in the U.S. is short changing girls. They're doing better than boys on pretty much every measure.
Now, if you want to make a case for separate education, I think the main benefit would be removing the huge distraction that the opposite sex presents, especially at the onset of puberty.
Peace be with you, -jimbo
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Wow. Men can be jerks.
I don't think we need equal numbers of men and women in IT necessarily. I mean, if women don't LIKE programming, or DBA'ing, or whatever, what do we gain as a society by bribing them into doing it? The way things have been going the last few years, maybe women have just been quicker to realize IT is no longer such a great career path.
But for someone like yourself, who has both the aptitude and the desire, pushing you away from the work you're best at and like the most is simple discrimination. I'm glad you persevered and made it to the kind of career you wanted. It certainly shows courage and perseverance on your part.
Keep doing what you love, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise! (At this point, I'm sure you won't.)
Peace be with you, -jimbo
The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.
In other words, as much free speech as the government wants to allow you, but no more.
When it comes to constitutional rights, language doesn't need to exist in order for a right to be protected.
By saying that, you give unfettered, unchecked power to the judiciary. Regardless of any law that the democratically elected representatives of the people may enact, the judiciary will be able to create a right that invalidates that law.
And yes, this pretty well characterizes the current situation in the United States of America.
The cynics amongst us would say the Americans wanting to apply the protocol to poor countries is a method to try to keep the poor countries poor and under the American thumb.
Between sending manufacturing jobs to China and technology services jobs to India (for starters), the U.S. is doing far more to make poor countries richer than any other nation in the world.
Quartz is definitely impressive - a lot of parts of OSX are impressive - but as a Windows guy I've gotta say, getting locked into buying $3000 hardware every 2 years and being sorely limited on software options (Mac users who disagree, save it - I'm a.Net programmer, I've looked.) make Quartz much less exciting.
It's a trillion-dollar industry. You're saying that Linux, over the past five years, has gone from being insignificant to six decimal places to being insignificant to three decimal places.
OK, now you're officially an idiot. Name me a company or an individual who wouldn't want to see their net worth, revenue, profit, market cap, whatever improve by 3 decimal places over five years.
And, just curious, what have you done over the last 5 years to increase your value by more than a measly 3 decimal places?
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OS X is even better.
Most well designed applications simply let you download and automatically mount a disk image. Many even let you run straight from the disk image, or you can just drag to "Applications" (or wherever you prefer).
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
So my question is, why not just use the browser? IT ALREADY DOES THESE THINGS!
Uh, dude, read a little.
Widgets ARE web pages, more or less. They're HTML, CSS and Javascript, with a couple exceptions.
So it's a brilliantly efficient way to get information from the web almost instantly, and looks good, too. And yeah, the reason that Widgets are so pretty is because they're built with CSS and, well, probably not the Gimp, but Photoshop.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
They need to cut their losses and focus on real money makers like Xbox Royalties, Enterprise Apps, Databases, Smart Phones, and Mice.
I suggest they should stick with their true competency and focus just on the Mice.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Justice O'Conner's dissent very clearly states what is wrong with that thinking, though:
And please note that all of the rabid right wing judges were in the dissent. It was the left wing of the court that just granted this mind blowing extension of government/corporate power.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
ps Not directed at the original poster, just the public at large.
All you have to know is how to play petty office politics and sell people on useless shit.
Actually, the part in bold is the only necessary part. Without sales, you don't have a business. With sales, you can figure the other stuff out.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
A few days ago, this would have been funny.
But how can you parody reality in a world in which Apple is making computers with Intel Inside?
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
First, George Lucas owes you a no-prize, like Marvel Comics used to (still?) give.
Secondly, the plot was blown only in episode VI when Darth is surprised that Leia is Luke's sister.
Eps. IV and V work much better if you assume that Darth DOES know that Leia is his daughter. Think about it. We see the mysterious needle wielding robot enter her room, supposedly to make her talk, but no indication that it was anything more than a sedative. Darth has no compunction about killing a billion living souls, but somehow never raises a finger against Leia, and then allows her to escape with Luke, Han and Chewie.
Yes, he has a perfectly good excuse (find the rebel base), but isn't that perfectly convenient?
In Ep. V, why does he torture Han and not Leia? Luke risked himself to save Leia from the Death Star before. Wouldn't Vader believe torturing her would be the most effective way to bring Luke? And again, somehow, Leia is allowed to escape, with Luke, again.
And of course that is the one time when the commanding officer is not killed by Vader when things "go wrong". Vader just turns and walks away after Leia, Luke, and Lando get away, much to the surprise of the last guy left in charge.
Also, Darth's invitation to Luke to join him in overthrowing the emperor so they can rule as father and son strikes me as most likely being his true feelings. He's happy being on the dark side, but doesn't particularly like kowtowing to the emperor and still cares about his son in his own warped way.
So until the moment Vader expresses surprise that Leia is his daughter, the theory that Vader knew all along made much more sense. I think Lucas just flat out blew a chance to be clever.
"You're right Luke. I knew that you and Leia were my children all along. I did what I could to protect you, but now you have saved me by bringing me back to the light side of the Force."
Oh well.
The force be with you,
-jimbo
Just for the OS? I'm wondering.
Yes.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
By the way, you and your three year old watched that movie once?
Huh?
Once a day for a while, now once every few weeks, maybe :).
Yoroshiku,
-jimbo
You know, by the way, who is a master of this kind of elegant pacing? Hiyao Miyazaki. I'd say Miyazaki is an even better filmmaker than Kurosawa.
Tonari no Totoro being the best example in my experience. With all the times I (and my 3 year old son) have watched that movie, I feel like I've spent an entire summer in rural Japan (in reality, I've only lived in a couple Japanese cities). It reminds you how awesome nature was when you were a child and really experienced it, as opposed to a jaded adult passing by it or through it to get somewhere else.
By the way, what time period is that movie set in? From the surrounding technology, I'm guessing maybe the 1950's, but I never knew for sure.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Cheap-labor conservatives oppose a woman's right to choose. Why. Unwanted children are an economic burden that put poor women "over a barrel", forcing them to work cheap.
Then let's really stick it to those evil corporations, and give women the right to kill their out of the womb, unwanted kids, too.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
To be fair, agencies like AFP don't rely (or even need) on traffic to their own Web sites. They make all their money by selling their feeds and licencing their articles to other publications which then go out and make the money on advertising, etc.
Then why do the geniuses at AFP have a public website at all? They're competing with their customers without bringing in any additional revenue.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Sadly, as globalization is demonstrating, we have a system which requires people living in abject poverty someplace else so we can get our crap from wallmart for a nickel less.
We have a system that is lifting people out of abject poverty someplace else by sending our jobs to them and buying the stuff they make in our place. See China, India, etc.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
If you work through Manpower (as the employee the article listed) you do NOT work for HP and regardless of what work you do there you are NOT owed benefits/compensation from them.
So you are an expert in employment law? Then how about citing some case law refuting the IRS criteria cited in the article for determining if someone qualifies as a full time employee as opposed to a contractor.
Just because you ASSERT something in CAPITAL LETTERS doesn't make it TRUE.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Can you point to any important research publications by Apple researchers in the last few years? I haven't seen any.
Nope. I guess they're wasting time building products they can actually sell to people.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
You are right to be amazed, because he's lying. Nobody ever taught themselves to a fluency level where they can read 90% of a Japanese newspaper without a dictionary after only 3 years.
Phew, glad to hear that. 'Cause for a while there I thought I was underachieving :).
Yoroshiku, -jimbo
(How do you translate the distinction between the first-person pronouns "watakushi", "watashi", "boku", and "ore"? Short answer: you can't.)
Sure you can. But the change in translation probably won't be in how you translate that particular word (I, me, or my), but how you translate the surrounding words. The distinctions among these words are chiefly masculinity vs. femininity and level of politeness. So you might translate two sentences expressing similar meaning but using a different word for the first person singular as:
"I will be leaving momentarily."
"Dude, I'm outta here."
But having said all that, your point about thinking in the language you want to speak remains :).
Yoroshiku,-jimbo
There's a gender difference in teaching though. Men tend to get called on more than women in classes, and also tend to get taken more seriously than women, all the way back into elementary schools, by both male and female teachers.
AAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Girls have been progressively doing better and better on standardized tests in the U.S., while boys' scores have pretty much stagnated. Girls have made great strides catching up to boys in Math. But boys have not similarly advanced in reading, English and vocabulary. Women are outnumbering men in university admissions by greater and greater numbers.
More power to them. But DO NOT try to imply that education in the U.S. is short changing girls. They're doing better than boys on pretty much every measure.
Now, if you want to make a case for separate education, I think the main benefit would be removing the huge distraction that the opposite sex presents, especially at the onset of puberty.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Wow. Men can be jerks.
I don't think we need equal numbers of men and women in IT necessarily. I mean, if women don't LIKE programming, or DBA'ing, or whatever, what do we gain as a society by bribing them into doing it? The way things have been going the last few years, maybe women have just been quicker to realize IT is no longer such a great career path.
But for someone like yourself, who has both the aptitude and the desire, pushing you away from the work you're best at and like the most is simple discrimination. I'm glad you persevered and made it to the kind of career you wanted. It certainly shows courage and perseverance on your part.
Keep doing what you love, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise! (At this point, I'm sure you won't.) Peace be with you,
-jimbo
The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.
In other words, as much free speech as the government wants to allow you, but no more.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
When it comes to constitutional rights, language doesn't need to exist in order for a right to be protected.
By saying that, you give unfettered, unchecked power to the judiciary. Regardless of any law that the democratically elected representatives of the people may enact, the judiciary will be able to create a right that invalidates that law.
And yes, this pretty well characterizes the current situation in the United States of America.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
The cynics amongst us would say the Americans wanting to apply the protocol to poor countries is a method to try to keep the poor countries poor and under the American thumb.
Between sending manufacturing jobs to China and technology services jobs to India (for starters), the U.S. is doing far more to make poor countries richer than any other nation in the world.
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
Quartz is definitely impressive - a lot of parts of OSX are impressive - but as a Windows guy I've gotta say, getting locked into buying $3000 hardware every 2 years and being sorely limited on software options (Mac users who disagree, save it - I'm a .Net programmer, I've looked.) make Quartz much less exciting.
Uh, more like $499
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
It's a trillion-dollar industry. You're saying that Linux, over the past five years, has gone from being insignificant to six decimal places to being insignificant to three decimal places.
OK, now you're officially an idiot. Name me a company or an individual who wouldn't want to see their net worth, revenue, profit, market cap, whatever improve by 3 decimal places over five years.
And, just curious, what have you done over the last 5 years to increase your value by more than a measly 3 decimal places?
Peace be with you,
-jimbo
I might consider your appeal to utopia, if you can convincingly answer me this one question:
How do you decide who gets to live in the Manhattan Upper East(/West) Side apartment overlooking Central Park?
Peace be with you,
-jimbo