NO! They're merely Chinese. Foreigners are scary. USA is home to innovation and research. Dark people should be shot 5 times in the head. etc. The sarcasm is deliberate!
It's not that simple, you have to weigh several things here. Wal Mart provides employment for hundreds of thousands of employees and brings low cost products that my family uses. The spinoffs from their enterprise creates millions more jobs.
As for big label music, they directly threaten my livelihood (by lobbying governments to pass laws that stifle innovation), they don't offer me, my family, or community anything of value, so comparing Wal Mart to the RIAA is comparing apples to oranges.
Then maybe you should learn to put your values ahead of entertainment. Not to sound harsh, but this isn't going to work unless you stick up for what you believe is right.
In my case, I believe in the public's fair use of media and the right for someone who owns equipment (e.g. computer equipment or audio equipment) to do whatever they want with it. I will not buy crippled computer equipment, and I will not support the companies responsible for WIPO, DMCA (US), C-60 (Canada) etc.
People, this is a game made by lawyers and insurance companies for lawyers and insurance companies. Don't feed them... even if the situation arises in which case the insurance should kick in, do you really think the insurer is going to be that easy about paying up? No, they won't be. You'll have to get more lawyers, and even more work is created in their little cesspool.
If you think something like this is worth paying for, sit down and do a thorough analysis of cost and benefit, including a worst case scenario in case the insurance company does not cooperate and you have to spend even more time and money.
Is now at the highest ever, that's right it's higher than 1999 and 2000, it is higher than the peaks of the tech mania. Anyone think it might be overvalued hmmm? Naaah, go buy some. lol
You are not a customer. You are a criminal sir (or madam)! I'll take your money AND I'll call you a criminal. Who are you to disagree? We have a United Nations backed copyright treaty behind us, support of world governments, and millions of dollars to lobby your government (our government) and pay for lawyers.
There is no way to argue, we wrote copyright law and we shall amend it as required. Copyright allows us to strictly protect intellectual property for many years after an artist's death, even though even patents for the greatest inventions in the world can only last a couple decades. Copyright is King!
If you don't like it then I suppose your only recourse would be to refrain from purchasing anything supported by our industry such as audio CDs, but please don't do that because our profit margins are already very weak and we can not survive. Plus we will just claim that you have been stealing the CD content and collect even more cash from you to compensate us for your evil theft!
We're real assholes that way. What can you do? Pay up, bee-atches. Just remember to keep buying our stuff. Do not ever buy or sell used CDs, the secondary market is theft too!
Here is something that really annoys me. These levies go to the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) because they lobbied the government -- and are still actively influencing the Heritage Minister -- to try and convince them that implied theft of Canadian content should go back to the association that represents them.
This is an abomination of facts on multiple levels. First, the CRIA does NOT represent the majority of Canadian artists. They might represent the largest percent of mass music sales, because they have the largest commercial artists but the CRIA does not represent the majority of Canadian musicians. Many artists are independent of course.
Second, the CRIA is basically a Canadian flagged arm of the RIAA. If you use the wayback machine's history to look at www.cria.ca before they removed the logos, you'll see that the majority of the artists are under large American labels - Sony, BMG, Warner etc.
So here is basically what has happened. The American recording industry has opened a wing in Canada, slapped on a Canadian flag, claimed to represent Canadian musicians, pressured government into forcing levvies for implied theft and then stolen that money.
Geez, this isn't news. The BBC's H2G2 site (they took over from the failed dot-com project) and links to their h2g2 mobile page. A much more elegant solution than a dedicated device, I think:
"h2g2 On the Move is a version of h2g2 specifically designed with smartphones and PDAs in mind so that the Edited Guide can be accessed from anywhere within range of a mobile/cellphone transmitter."
We are now open for all your pornography creating and internet serving needs. Featuring the most reliable power system in the world and access to all major US backbones, Canada offers the ideal place to develope and distribute pornography. Our liberal media and gay-friendly politicians will ensure your company a long, hard, prosperous future in Canada.
Plus, you can recruit Montreal girls. wow, montreal girls.
This isn't groundbreaking. There have been building materials developed before that use fibers to transmit light from outside. I'm a bigger fan of just designing the building so that more natural light finds its way in, rather than resorting to expensive materials and tricks. Windows do an OK job when positioned intelligently. I remember visiting an apartment building in Norwich which had a brilliant design, sunlight made it down columns to each floor and there was plenty natural lighting in the hallways. Amazed me
Something I have wondered about as well. Can Inkscape (maybe in the future) include support for say printed circuit board (PCB) design or more importantly, electronics schematics or digital logic diagrams (with the gates etc)
I don't currently know of any good free software that can do this. The universities would be all over software that can do these kinds of schematics.
No, they will not necessarily. Everyone thought China's economy was so hot but their stock market dropped 50% in the past year. And Chinese stock experts starting realizing they were paying far too much, even for good companies.
In 1999, even stocks of good companies with solid futures was overvalued and the tech stocks today are still lower. Don't fall into the trap with stocks, thinking that they HAVE to go up.
HP is firing 15,000 employees on top of the 3,000 jobs they already have cut since November.
IBM announced cutting 10,000 to 13,000 jobs in Europe just last month.
Ford and General Motors can't sell cars and are at risk of defaulting on their debt -- their credit rating has been cut down the minimum by ratings agencies.
So is this the freight train of a bull economy everyone is raving about? I'm an amateur financial enthusiast but I strongly suggest anyone thinks twice before buying any mutual funds in this climate. Stocks are at 4 year highs and future prospects don't look positive at all
Unfortunately it's not that simple. First, typically nobody cares what we think as we who know are a minority of computer users. Second, Intel is a brand that is already well established which includes established marketing, established vendor channels and established long term relationships with other companies. Third, stocks don't go up just because the company has a good future.
Right, sites should never be storing cleartext passwords. You store the hash of the password and each time the user enters a password, you hash it and compare to the stored value.
This way you never store the actual password on the server and it is nearly impossible recover the password. A quick test is, try the "forgot password" feature of a site. If it sends you back your cleartext password, you know the site is not safely handling logins.
However once a site is hacked, the attacker can of course read any data sent including the cleartext passwords. So if you log in to a compromised site, your password can be found out.
I haven't used OS/2 myself, but the *nix software I've created over the years has run on OS/2 after some simple patches (mostly just #define's in the C code).
So maybe it's not too difficult a transition from OS/2 to some *nix, such as Linux (why specifically Linux I don't know... BSDs might be more appropriate for industrial use in my opinion).
I know that OS/2 is used in banking. It is of course a very reliable platform, but I also have colleagues who very much enjoy using OS/2 regularly. There seem to be more OS/2 fans out there than say BeOS fans
possibility that they deliberately inflated the stock price with their claims
Of course they did! That's how it's done in the stock market. You have to understand this before you ever touch a stock trading screen. Even if an executive knows that their business is dead, as long as they can prop up public perception (lawsuits, advertising, stunts) they can prop up the stock price.
Then the insiders exit either directly or indirectly, and once that is done it no longer happens what happens to the corporation because those in the know have saved their butts.
When SCOX was reaching new highs I kept telling people this was a short opportunity from heaven; it was classic pump-and-dump and all you needed was a little computer knowledge to be able to tell fact from fiction.
I doubt McBride ever thought linux licensing was sane and I doubt he thought he would get away with the lawsuits. BUT the news tricked the public into buying SCOX shares, which was all that was needed
Why expensive, fragile, short life OLEDs? Why not something with regular LEDs. e.g. two designs on one surface, selectable by polarity switch (like those dual colour LEDs - two junctions in same package). Not nearly as pretty as the proposed optimus keyboard, but would be easier, cheaper, and last a heluvalot longer.
Marketing value is worth a lot. People still haven't caught on that Google's largest asset is the huge marketing knowledge they have access to both directly and indirectly (searches); the text ads are cute but not the main show. You'll see.
There is no fundamental link between use of resources and pollution
In America we have a profit oriented approach to resources rather than an existence/survival based approach. Business depletes natural resources in the long term for short term gain. Profit is measured quarterly, there is no provision for 100 year+ survival.
There is a problem with coming up with amazing new ways to power our economies. We do not have a shortage of fuel (the sun provides everything we need one way or another). The problem is that the environment has limited resources and can assimilate limited waste before ecosystems become overwhelmed. By providing sources of new, unlimited energy you are speeding up resource consumption and pollution, and slowly killing the natural systems we need to survive.
I really think hunting for new and amazing energy sources is the wrong way to approach environmental problems. We should prioritize waste reduction and resource efficiency, so that we can do more with less.
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NO! They're merely Chinese. Foreigners are scary. USA is home to innovation and research. Dark people should be shot 5 times in the head. etc. The sarcasm is deliberate!
that what we WANTED you to think!
- NSA
PS. pwned
It's not that simple, you have to weigh several things here. Wal Mart provides employment for hundreds of thousands of employees and brings low cost products that my family uses. The spinoffs from their enterprise creates millions more jobs.
As for big label music, they directly threaten my livelihood (by lobbying governments to pass laws that stifle innovation), they don't offer me, my family, or community anything of value, so comparing Wal Mart to the RIAA is comparing apples to oranges.
Then maybe you should learn to put your values ahead of entertainment. Not to sound harsh, but this isn't going to work unless you stick up for what you believe is right.
In my case, I believe in the public's fair use of media and the right for someone who owns equipment (e.g. computer equipment or audio equipment) to do whatever they want with it. I will not buy crippled computer equipment, and I will not support the companies responsible for WIPO, DMCA (US), C-60 (Canada) etc.
People, this is a game made by lawyers and insurance companies for lawyers and insurance companies. Don't feed them... even if the situation arises in which case the insurance should kick in, do you really think the insurer is going to be that easy about paying up? No, they won't be. You'll have to get more lawyers, and even more work is created in their little cesspool.
If you think something like this is worth paying for, sit down and do a thorough analysis of cost and benefit, including a worst case scenario in case the insurance company does not cooperate and you have to spend even more time and money.
Is now at the highest ever, that's right it's higher than 1999 and 2000, it is higher than the peaks of the tech mania. Anyone think it might be overvalued hmmm? Naaah, go buy some. lol
Dear Sir or Madam,
You are not a customer. You are a criminal sir (or madam)! I'll take your money AND I'll call you a criminal. Who are you to disagree? We have a United Nations backed copyright treaty behind us, support of world governments, and millions of dollars to lobby your government (our government) and pay for lawyers.
There is no way to argue, we wrote copyright law and we shall amend it as required. Copyright allows us to strictly protect intellectual property for many years after an artist's death, even though even patents for the greatest inventions in the world can only last a couple decades. Copyright is King!
If you don't like it then I suppose your only recourse would be to refrain from purchasing anything supported by our industry such as audio CDs, but please don't do that because our profit margins are already very weak and we can not survive. Plus we will just claim that you have been stealing the CD content and collect even more cash from you to compensate us for your evil theft!
We're real assholes that way. What can you do? Pay up, bee-atches. Just remember to keep buying our stuff. Do not ever buy or sell used CDs, the secondary market is theft too!
Sincerely eh,
CPCC
CRIA
RIAA
Here is something that really annoys me. These levies go to the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) because they lobbied the government -- and are still actively influencing the Heritage Minister -- to try and convince them that implied theft of Canadian content should go back to the association that represents them.
This is an abomination of facts on multiple levels. First, the CRIA does NOT represent the majority of Canadian artists. They might represent the largest percent of mass music sales, because they have the largest commercial artists but the CRIA does not represent the majority of Canadian musicians. Many artists are independent of course.
Second, the CRIA is basically a Canadian flagged arm of the RIAA. If you use the wayback machine's history to look at www.cria.ca before they removed the logos, you'll see that the majority of the artists are under large American labels - Sony, BMG, Warner etc.
So here is basically what has happened. The American recording industry has opened a wing in Canada, slapped on a Canadian flag, claimed to represent Canadian musicians, pressured government into forcing levvies for implied theft and then stolen that money.
amen, rdate still works as well now as ever. Trivial server to run too, no security breaches
Geez, this isn't news. The BBC's H2G2 site (they took over from the failed dot-com project) and links to their h2g2 mobile page. A much more elegant solution than a dedicated device, I think:
"h2g2 On the Move is a version of h2g2 specifically designed with smartphones and PDAs in mind so that the Edited Guide can be accessed from anywhere within range of a mobile/cellphone transmitter."
We are now open for all your pornography creating and internet serving needs. Featuring the most reliable power system in the world and access to all major US backbones, Canada offers the ideal place to develope and distribute pornography. Our liberal media and gay-friendly politicians will ensure your company a long, hard, prosperous future in Canada.
Plus, you can recruit Montreal girls. wow, montreal girls.
This isn't groundbreaking. There have been building materials developed before that use fibers to transmit light from outside. I'm a bigger fan of just designing the building so that more natural light finds its way in, rather than resorting to expensive materials and tricks. Windows do an OK job when positioned intelligently. I remember visiting an apartment building in Norwich which had a brilliant design, sunlight made it down columns to each floor and there was plenty natural lighting in the hallways. Amazed me
Something I have wondered about as well. Can Inkscape (maybe in the future) include support for say printed circuit board (PCB) design or more importantly, electronics schematics or digital logic diagrams (with the gates etc)
I don't currently know of any good free software that can do this. The universities would be all over software that can do these kinds of schematics.
Considering how fast computer hardware depreciates, you're better off "investing" your money anywhere else than in computer hardware.
No, they will not necessarily. Everyone thought China's economy was so hot but their stock market dropped 50% in the past year. And Chinese stock experts starting realizing they were paying far too much, even for good companies.
In 1999, even stocks of good companies with solid futures was overvalued and the tech stocks today are still lower. Don't fall into the trap with stocks, thinking that they HAVE to go up.
HP is firing 15,000 employees on top of the 3,000 jobs they already have cut since November.
IBM announced cutting 10,000 to 13,000 jobs in Europe just last month.
Ford and General Motors can't sell cars and are at risk of defaulting on their debt -- their credit rating has been cut down the minimum by ratings agencies.
So is this the freight train of a bull economy everyone is raving about? I'm an amateur financial enthusiast but I strongly suggest anyone thinks twice before buying any mutual funds in this climate. Stocks are at 4 year highs and future prospects don't look positive at all
Unfortunately it's not that simple. First, typically nobody cares what we think as we who know are a minority of computer users. Second, Intel is a brand that is already well established which includes established marketing, established vendor channels and established long term relationships with other companies. Third, stocks don't go up just because the company has a good future.
Right, sites should never be storing cleartext passwords. You store the hash of the password and each time the user enters a password, you hash it and compare to the stored value.
This way you never store the actual password on the server and it is nearly impossible recover the password. A quick test is, try the "forgot password" feature of a site. If it sends you back your cleartext password, you know the site is not safely handling logins.
However once a site is hacked, the attacker can of course read any data sent including the cleartext passwords. So if you log in to a compromised site, your password can be found out.
I haven't used OS/2 myself, but the *nix software I've created over the years has run on OS/2 after some simple patches (mostly just #define's in the C code). So maybe it's not too difficult a transition from OS/2 to some *nix, such as Linux (why specifically Linux I don't know... BSDs might be more appropriate for industrial use in my opinion). I know that OS/2 is used in banking. It is of course a very reliable platform, but I also have colleagues who very much enjoy using OS/2 regularly. There seem to be more OS/2 fans out there than say BeOS fans
Why expensive, fragile, short life OLEDs? Why not something with regular LEDs. e.g. two designs on one surface, selectable by polarity switch (like those dual colour LEDs - two junctions in same package). Not nearly as pretty as the proposed optimus keyboard, but would be easier, cheaper, and last a heluvalot longer.
Marketing value is worth a lot. People still haven't caught on that Google's largest asset is the huge marketing knowledge they have access to both directly and indirectly (searches); the text ads are cute but not the main show. You'll see.
There is a problem with coming up with amazing new ways to power our economies. We do not have a shortage of fuel (the sun provides everything we need one way or another). The problem is that the environment has limited resources and can assimilate limited waste before ecosystems become overwhelmed. By providing sources of new, unlimited energy you are speeding up resource consumption and pollution, and slowly killing the natural systems we need to survive.
I really think hunting for new and amazing energy sources is the wrong way to approach environmental problems. We should prioritize waste reduction and resource efficiency, so that we can do more with less.
If North America or Europe lost most of its internet one day? Can the economy survive without IP?