Insightful?! You've been watching too many "when you copy you hurt the artists" commercials.
You're innocent until proven guilty of what? Personal copying is legal in Canada. There's nothing to be innocent or guilty of. You're no more "on the right side of the law" burning a copy of Gentoo than you are a copy of The Tragically Hip. Heck, burning the music should be MORE legal, you've paid for the right to do it. If you choose not to enjoy that right, that's your problem. Not to say I support expanding the levy, but if it does come through, iTunes music store and Music World can say goodbye to all the revenue they've been getting from me.
Even older and of great cultural importance are wax cylinder recordings.
From TFA : "When taking flat photographs, it can create a three-dimensional image of the groove on a record, or on an old wax cylinder. Haber been working with the University of California's Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, to reconstruct sound from field recordings, like one wax cylinder made around 1911 that features a Native American called Ishi."
People have been fucking saying this about various versions of BASIC since the beginning. Instead of trashing it, what did BASIC's various incarnations teach us?
VB6 unleashed the unholy terror that was the late 90s - hordes of crap programs written by poor programmers. VB6 deserves to be trashed. It lead to a influx of 'developers' that devalued the title, and gave developers a bad, bad name.
VB6 is like a microwave. At home, a microwave is great. It kinda qualifies as cooking and it gets the job done. It's easy, anyone can do it, it's pretty much automated but as much time as it saves, and as simple as it makes things , it doesn't make someone who uses it a cook, much less a chef. A Chef understands how each and every piece of food on the plate interacts. He can freely substitute one ingredient with another, because of that understanding. He knows there are many, many other appliances in the kitchen, knows how to use them all, and which is appropriate for each job. He knows exactly what a microwave does to food. And because he does, he would NEVER cook with one. It doesn't belong in a chef's kitchen.
They even gave them a much needed cash infusion at one point in the 90's.
Right, in a history of dirty dealing, Microsoft just decided to give Apple a friendly loan!;) That cash injection wasn't for Apple's benefit. I'd wager on that move having been an attempt to look better in the face of the pending anti-trust case. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if it were something to do with the deals MS Signed with Apple in 1986 (GUI) and 1991(truetype.)
Gates and Jobs may not hate each other, but that doesn't make MS and Apple buddies.
Who cares? There weren't 3000 people in the plane.
The needs of the many, Spock? Good point. Perhaps you could shed some light on how the pilot, sitting in the locked cockpit, knows that the hijackers intended to fly the plane into a tall populated building? Or do you think the point of every hijacking is demolition?
Get a mountain bike and find a good local trail. That's much more fun, and you'll also meet some cool people. Road bike is fine too, and you'll meet even more people on that. But if you want something more like a video game, offroad is definitely the way to go.
Mid January in Northern Ontario is not the time or the place to meet cool people while mountain biking, nor is it particularly fun. And even for those who live warmer areas, weather is still a huge factor. While riding singletrack in the rain is fun, it's also horrible for the trails. There are times you can't avoid being on a trainer, in which case I agree with the OP.
...to be brave enough to bring us cutting edge TV shows that we can't help but love.
I'd rather them kill a show when it's due, than drag it on just because. I can't think of a single science fiction or fantasy show that lasted more than 4 years, that had 4 years of actual good, worthwhile content. Not any of the treks, not Stargate, not Buffy... Heck, as much as I love the show I could have passed on season 5 of Babylon 5. Maybe a 4 year plan is a good thing?
They rip off the artists they hire because they're a monopoly. If an artist doesn't want to sell his soul to the RIAA and produce / sell his own music, he'll be forgotten into oblivion.
I could be mistaken here - but, I was under the impression that the RIAA doesn't hire, produce or sell anything (besides groundless lawsuits). Their only purpose is to be goons and human PR shields for the labels, and that it's the labels themselves that screw artists. In which case you'll need to amend your list:"
Sure, guilty
Sure.
Yes, that's their purpose in life.
No. The RIAA can't impose or threaten to impose sanctions, well I suppose they could try, but - you can blame the US government there for pressuring foreign governments on their behalf.
No. That's the labels (Well, Sony for the rootkit, other for sins since forgotten)
Here in Ontario, at least in the national capital region, there are two major internet players, Rogers and Bell Canada(Sympatico). Rogers and Yahoo! are in bed together, MSN and Sympatico likewise. It would be interesting to see how things play out if the deal does go through.
I've personally used Unlimitel (In Canada) for over a year and have been extremely happy with the service. $2.50/month for a DID and $0.01/minute for calls on their network, which is where I place most of my calls. It was far, far cheaper with me (With 4 DIDs) using their service than even basic service from other providers.
You're best off if you're running your own PBX, such as Asterisk, since you can provide your own voice mail services etc.
it always seems to me that their conclusions are specious. I can't think of any specific episodes right now but they over simplify the data, build elaborate setups that are prone to error, and use inadequate controls.
They make people think and entertain them. Far more important than your criticisms.
I'm waiting for them to try "the grass is always greener on the other side", or "it takes one to know one".
You'll wait a long time if you haven't written them to ask for it.
Top notch modems are 56kbps. A DS0 can carry max 64kbps. Semi-OK cd quality is 128kbps. A normal telephone line is 8 bit, MONO 8,000hz.
When you said near CD-quality, you weren't thinking of 8 track tapes were you?
It wasn't over 'data lines'. Tie lines connect one PBX directly to another. This can be done privately, but are usually done via a (or many) carriers. The trunks that carried voice were not data trunks. It's not prior art.
Except for people caught in building collapses, auto crashes, and other situations with no other means of contacting the outside world. They probably died because of the lack of cell phones.
I'd wager that the number of people who died due to lack of a cell phone is small compared to the number of people directly killed as a result of cell phone usage (talking while driving..)
The kind of car that can get 100 mpg is going to be:
1. light = unsafe unless made of expensive materials
2. fuel efficient = excessively low acceleration and/or low top speed
3. aerodynamic = low to the ground = drives don't see you
1. light = very nimble and great stopping distance. What's more safe than avoiding an accident?
2. fuel efficient = You trying to win a race or something? I owned a 92 Civic VX. It wasn't going to win races, but it had ample acceleration and great top speed through it's entire 15 years it was on the road. At the end I was still getting close to 600km to a full 32 l. of gas. I never heard "Man, your car is a slug" but I got a lot of looks about how very little I was spending on gas.
3. aerodynamic = low to the ground, sure. Driver's don't see you? The only ones I can think of are the ones who are busy talking on their cellphones. And smug SUV drivers who are too high up and think they are safe because of it.
'I' Before 'E' except after 'C' and when sounding like "Eh" and in "Neighbor" and "Weigh"
Is that so? Damn. I've been misspelling caffeine, either and rottweiler all these years. Or, I've been mispronouncing them! Hopefully the latter, I'm Canadian so I have no problems adding Eh any and everywhere. Gimme some Caffehne, eh!
The rest of the world, except the EU (it seems) doesn't really care because they are too primitive to to realize that being dependent on a single US company is a problem.
Either primitive doesn't mean what you think it means, the EU is smaller than you think it is, or your world view is smaller than a typical American. You think Australia is primitive? Japan? Canada?
10 years ago i would have picked up a creative sound card solution without a second thought. they quality was greater then, there were no on-mobo solutions yet, and the competitions was either 1) crappy OR 2) over priced.
The Gravis Ultrasound line was both cheaper and much higher quality than anything Creative pumped out.
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Insightful?! You've been watching too many "when you copy you hurt the artists" commercials.
You're innocent until proven guilty of what? Personal copying is legal in Canada. There's nothing to be innocent or guilty of. You're no more "on the right side of the law" burning a copy of Gentoo than you are a copy of The Tragically Hip. Heck, burning the music should be MORE legal, you've paid for the right to do it. If you choose not to enjoy that right, that's your problem. Not to say I support expanding the levy, but if it does come through, iTunes music store and Music World can say goodbye to all the revenue they've been getting from me.
Even older and of great cultural importance are wax cylinder recordings.
From TFA : "When taking flat photographs, it can create a three-dimensional image of the groove on a record, or on an old wax cylinder. Haber been working with the University of California's Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, to reconstruct sound from field recordings, like one wax cylinder made around 1911 that features a Native American called Ishi."
Pizza Pizza also doesn't work in Linux which means I have to boot my Windows laptop to get some chow ... :-(
737-1111 has worked for decades, and probably takes less time than rebooting :)
People have been fucking saying this about various versions of BASIC since the beginning. Instead of trashing it, what did BASIC's various incarnations teach us?
VB6 unleashed the unholy terror that was the late 90s - hordes of crap programs written by poor programmers. VB6 deserves to be trashed. It lead to a influx of 'developers' that devalued the title, and gave developers a bad, bad name.
VB6 is like a microwave. At home, a microwave is great. It kinda qualifies as cooking and it gets the job done. It's easy, anyone can do it, it's pretty much automated but as much time as it saves, and as simple as it makes things , it doesn't make someone who uses it a cook, much less a chef. A Chef understands how each and every piece of food on the plate interacts. He can freely substitute one ingredient with another, because of that understanding. He knows there are many, many other appliances in the kitchen, knows how to use them all, and which is appropriate for each job. He knows exactly what a microwave does to food. And because he does, he would NEVER cook with one. It doesn't belong in a chef's kitchen.
Cost per page is about 10% that of inkjet, and it's a lot faster.
How much of that margin then gets eaten up by the higher power requirements for the laserjet?
They even gave them a much needed cash infusion at one point in the 90's.
Right, in a history of dirty dealing, Microsoft just decided to give Apple a friendly loan! ;) That cash injection wasn't for Apple's benefit. I'd wager on that move having been an attempt to look better in the face of the pending anti-trust case. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if it were something to do with the deals MS Signed with Apple in 1986 (GUI) and 1991(truetype.)
Gates and Jobs may not hate each other, but that doesn't make MS and Apple buddies.
Who cares? There weren't 3000 people in the plane.
The needs of the many, Spock? Good point. Perhaps you could shed some light on how the pilot, sitting in the locked cockpit, knows that the hijackers intended to fly the plane into a tall populated building? Or do you think the point of every hijacking is demolition?
The second movie I took my fiancee too, and by the third movie we were married.
All three of you? Way to go brother geek!
It might be because the people you were talking to are actually in Canada, and work for Dell (not outsourced)...
Get a mountain bike and find a good local trail. That's much more fun, and you'll also meet some cool people. Road bike is fine too, and you'll meet even more people on that. But if you want something more like a video game, offroad is definitely the way to go.
Mid January in Northern Ontario is not the time or the place to meet cool people while mountain biking, nor is it particularly fun. And even for those who live warmer areas, weather is still a huge factor. While riding singletrack in the rain is fun, it's also horrible for the trails. There are times you can't avoid being on a trainer, in which case I agree with the OP.
I'd rather them kill a show when it's due, than drag it on just because. I can't think of a single science fiction or fantasy show that lasted more than 4 years, that had 4 years of actual good, worthwhile content. Not any of the treks, not Stargate, not Buffy... Heck, as much as I love the show I could have passed on season 5 of Babylon 5. Maybe a 4 year plan is a good thing?
Strange that a state law can trump a Constitutional right, no?
Oh, really?
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - $24.99 (28 tracks)
Tori Amos - American Doll Posse - $10.99 (23 tracks)
RUSH - Snakes and Arrows - $11.99 (14 tracks)
The White Stripes - Elephant - $9.99 (14 tracks)
They rip off the artists they hire because they're a monopoly. If an artist doesn't want to sell his soul to the RIAA and produce / sell his own music, he'll be forgotten into oblivion.
I could be mistaken here - but, I was under the impression that the RIAA doesn't hire, produce or sell anything (besides groundless lawsuits). Their only purpose is to be goons and human PR shields for the labels, and that it's the labels themselves that screw artists. In which case you'll need to amend your list:"
Here in Ontario, at least in the national capital region, there are two major internet players, Rogers and Bell Canada(Sympatico). Rogers and Yahoo! are in bed together, MSN and Sympatico likewise. It would be interesting to see how things play out if the deal does go through.
Through any number of wholesale VoIP providers. This might help : http://www.voipproviderslist.com/
I've personally used Unlimitel (In Canada) for over a year and have been extremely happy with the service. $2.50/month for a DID and $0.01/minute for calls on their network, which is where I place most of my calls. It was far, far cheaper with me (With 4 DIDs) using their service than even basic service from other providers.
You're best off if you're running your own PBX, such as Asterisk, since you can provide your own voice mail services etc.
it always seems to me that their conclusions are specious. I can't think of any specific episodes right now but they over simplify the data, build elaborate setups that are prone to error, and use inadequate controls.
They make people think and entertain them. Far more important than your criticisms.
I'm waiting for them to try "the grass is always greener on the other side", or "it takes one to know one".
You'll wait a long time if you haven't written them to ask for it.
Top notch modems are 56kbps. A DS0 can carry max 64kbps. Semi-OK cd quality is 128kbps. A normal telephone line is 8 bit, MONO 8,000hz. When you said near CD-quality, you weren't thinking of 8 track tapes were you?
It wasn't over 'data lines'. Tie lines connect one PBX directly to another. This can be done privately, but are usually done via a (or many) carriers. The trunks that carried voice were not data trunks. It's not prior art.
I'd wager that the number of people who died due to lack of a cell phone is small compared to the number of people directly killed as a result of cell phone usage (talking while driving..)
The kind of car that can get 100 mpg is going to be: 1. light = unsafe unless made of expensive materials 2. fuel efficient = excessively low acceleration and/or low top speed 3. aerodynamic = low to the ground = drives don't see you
1. light = very nimble and great stopping distance. What's more safe than avoiding an accident?
2. fuel efficient = You trying to win a race or something? I owned a 92 Civic VX. It wasn't going to win races, but it had ample acceleration and great top speed through it's entire 15 years it was on the road. At the end I was still getting close to 600km to a full 32 l. of gas. I never heard "Man, your car is a slug" but I got a lot of looks about how very little I was spending on gas.
3. aerodynamic = low to the ground, sure. Driver's don't see you? The only ones I can think of are the ones who are busy talking on their cellphones. And smug SUV drivers who are too high up and think they are safe because of it.
'I' Before 'E' except after 'C' and when sounding like "Eh" and in "Neighbor" and "Weigh"
Is that so? Damn. I've been misspelling caffeine, either and rottweiler all these years. Or, I've been mispronouncing them! Hopefully the latter, I'm Canadian so I have no problems adding Eh any and everywhere. Gimme some Caffehne, eh!
Either primitive doesn't mean what you think it means, the EU is smaller than you think it is, or your world view is smaller than a typical American. You think Australia is primitive? Japan? Canada?
The Gravis Ultrasound line was both cheaper and much higher quality than anything Creative pumped out.
Computer Science isn't (just) programming, nor does being able to program make someone a computer scientist.