Your understanding is a little twisted. It isn't "producing C02", it's shortening the carbon cycle to the point where we are using plants that have grown as recently as a few months ago for energy. The carbon in the plants was removed from the atmosphere by said plants. There may be no net reduction in C02 in the atmosphere over time by using cellosic alchohol, but burning fossil fuels presents a dramatically different situation. The carbon in fossil fuels has been buried for millions of years. This process took a very long time. Burning the fuels releases the carbon sequestered over a period of millions of years in a matter of decades.
I agree with parent post and hardly think the question he/she asks justifies being labeled a fanboi, as other reponders have done. Perhaps the iphone will accomplish for the cellular phone world something like what the ipod has done for the music business. Though, for the latter, the revolution is hardly complete, the impact is real and part of an ongoing evolution that is still being opposed by music industry heavies. How many of us have bought cell phones over the years and scratched our heads at oddly limited feature sets? I think the iphone would be a great hook for alternative carriers.
Yes, I remember when this ruling came out. I was a regular visitor to Static Control's website, buying products to remanufacture cartridges. They portrayed the ruling as a big victory, but something else was going on behind the scenes. A lot of their pages changed and there was a great deal of discussion about "intellectual property" with regard to toner formulations, etc.
There may be a slight reduction in the hardware choices available for users of FOSS, but it does not logically follow that this increases costs. It is fairly trivial to do the research to find supported hardware. Furthermore, one can generally use hardware that is less than bleeding edge and have a very high chance of it being supported. Many leading edge versions of linux are faster than WinXP (depending on configuration, especially for boot time) on older hardware.
Your logic is flawed. His success within "the system" actually gives him more authority to criticize it. Someone who doesn't succeed could simply be regarded as having a "sour grapes" perspective. All you are saying is simply a form of an ad hominem attack.
I have children who are just coming to an age where they can begin to think for themselves. I will be teaching them to do exactly that, whatever they might be taught in the public school they attend. That is the duty of every parent, and this museum provides a push to do just that.
Well to reply to my own post, I suppose it might be an "entire work" because it takes in a song from beginning to end, but that doesn't in my mind qualify it as "entire". I can hum many songs from beginning to end. I could sit at a keyboard and create a decent sized fake book in an afternoon. I suppose this issue isn't black and white and won't go away quickly. My personal desire is for a bit looser permissions regarding fake books and tablature. It actually offers a real boost to the music in question. Locking things down will have a negative effect that is underappreciated by publishers and some artists.
There is already such a blacklist in Pennsylvania. I have a neighbor is on it and battling this through the courts. It was clearly abused in his case (though whether he will obtain remediation his is seeking through the courts is still an open question). No reason to think the same thing couldn't or wouldn't happen if this were national.
You are exactly correct. Inkjet printers "clean" their nozzles by the same method whether using OEM or 3rd party ink. Mileage varies with the 3rd party inks since there are several companies in the business. So called "universal" inks are a bad idea I think. A 3rd party ink should be labeled as printer specific. If using an inkjet, one should choose one with removable/replaceable sponge(s) with a reputation for refilling success.
You are assuming that they didn't. Perhaps they did and believed that the patent was invalid due to prior art or other considerations. Do you really think that Verizon has an airtight case? Or is this perhaps another case where the court deciding the matter lacks the necessary and rudimentary knowledge of the technology in question needed to rule properly? What I've read about the patent suggests that too broad to be taken seriously, as well as lacking in defining implementation.
I didn't read the post you are responding to as communist propaganda. Neither did I see it as some kind of apologia for Krushchev. What I gathered was instead that Krushchev was "less evil" and that had Stalin been in place during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the east coast of the U.S. would look very different today (and I would in all likelihood not be posting). Neither did I read between the lines and manage to sense some nostalgia for the "great" Soviet Union. As to the evil we see in the world, is it really a great comfort to be "less evil"? To me it seems that it is just a way to make excuses and to rationalize behavior that results in oppression of the world's peoples.
It has never worked, but the reasons are complex. Some simple ones: OEMs addicted to Microsoft, Microsoft using monopoly power to prevent new entries to successfully penetrate market and the reasons you just gave. How might this change? It is hard to say, but the possibility seems to have grown, what with the headaches induced by Vista, the ongoing evolution of desktop Linux and steady growth (higher in mindshare than in market numbers) of MAC OSX.
I've been encoding to ogg vorbis for several years, for personal use and for streaming media servers I manage. I occasionally use mp3 (lame encoded) for compatibility with other devices and for podcasts. I have no problems with playing my ogg files since I use compatible players from iriver and will not own a car audio system without a stereo mini plug. Because I care, others have seen the advantages and converted too. From reading the posts below, there are a lot of sheep reading slashdot.
Before suggesting the parent "clearly doesn't understand" the tax code, read the post again. He/she is talking about selling items they purchased for their own use. Income tax on the money used to purchase said items was already paid. No tax is due in such a case, provided cost basis can be demonstrated. Indeed, if the IRS wants to charge income tax on the sale income, cost basis will normally demonstrate an actual loss. I think the $2 bil is overstating things a bit on the IRSs part, but who knows for sure.
Yeah, which is why I was deeply pissed when MS bought them. The kind of information they uncovered was incredibly valuable. Their independence from the beast made it more likely to continue. Now that they are owned, who will give us the scoop?
I wouldn't call it a double standard unless Nintendo was missing the forecast of "units to be sold by date__________". As far as we know, they are selling all they've made, made as many as they planned but simply aren't meeting demand. It would be stupid for a company to make MORE than was needed for a market. Having just the right number of units to meet demand without a glut is a long shot here.
It has to do with the population of mods online right now. There is a clear pattern in the modding of the responses to this news item. Partisanship... it seems. I think Mac OsX and Linux will shine brighter over the next few years, as compared to Vista.
No, its the existence of humans that leads to extremists. You can find plenty of people who don't really belong to any religion in particular who are extremists of some time or another. This would include the parent poster!
Other replies have noted that 1st Amendment supporters were quite possibly opposed to the 2nd or interpreted it not to guarantee the right of ordinary citizens to keep and bear arms. Dead on. Don't they realize the 2nd is critical to keeping the first?
The parent is talking out of their a__. Believe me, the NRA members I know are also quite concerned about the 1st amendment and would NOT support the revisiting of 1st amendment rights that parent ascribes to Newt Gingrich.
You make a huge assumption by suggesting that folks in favor of the Second Amendment are also in favor of the Patriot Act. I suggest (with little more evidence than you have for your position) that you are very wrong. I'm an NRA member, and anecdotally speaking, most members I talk to are quite concerned about (and opposed to parts of) the Patriot Act.
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This is intriguing. Care to add references that interested people could follow?
Your understanding is a little twisted. It isn't "producing C02", it's shortening the carbon cycle to the point where we are using plants that have grown as recently as a few months ago for energy. The carbon in the plants was removed from the atmosphere by said plants. There may be no net reduction in C02 in the atmosphere over time by using cellosic alchohol, but burning fossil fuels presents a dramatically different situation. The carbon in fossil fuels has been buried for millions of years. This process took a very long time. Burning the fuels releases the carbon sequestered over a period of millions of years in a matter of decades.
I agree with parent post and hardly think the question he/she asks justifies being labeled a fanboi, as other reponders have done. Perhaps the iphone will accomplish for the cellular phone world something like what the ipod has done for the music business. Though, for the latter, the revolution is hardly complete, the impact is real and part of an ongoing evolution that is still being opposed by music industry heavies. How many of us have bought cell phones over the years and scratched our heads at oddly limited feature sets? I think the iphone would be a great hook for alternative carriers.
Yes, I remember when this ruling came out. I was a regular visitor to Static Control's website, buying products to remanufacture cartridges. They portrayed the ruling as a big victory, but something else was going on behind the scenes. A lot of their pages changed and there was a great deal of discussion about "intellectual property" with regard to toner formulations, etc.
There may be a slight reduction in the hardware choices available for users of FOSS, but it does not logically follow that this increases costs. It is fairly trivial to do the research to find supported hardware. Furthermore, one can generally use hardware that is less than bleeding edge and have a very high chance of it being supported. Many leading edge versions of linux are faster than WinXP (depending on configuration, especially for boot time) on older hardware.
Your logic is flawed. His success within "the system" actually gives him more authority to criticize it. Someone who doesn't succeed could simply be regarded as having a "sour grapes" perspective. All you are saying is simply a form of an ad hominem attack.
I have children who are just coming to an age where they can begin to think for themselves. I will be teaching them to do exactly that, whatever they might be taught in the public school they attend. That is the duty of every parent, and this museum provides a push to do just that.
Well to reply to my own post, I suppose it might be an "entire work" because it takes in a song from beginning to end, but that doesn't in my mind qualify it as "entire". I can hum many songs from beginning to end. I could sit at a keyboard and create a decent sized fake book in an afternoon. I suppose this issue isn't black and white and won't go away quickly. My personal desire is for a bit looser permissions regarding fake books and tablature. It actually offers a real boost to the music in question. Locking things down will have a negative effect that is underappreciated by publishers and some artists.
Please tell, how is tablature "the entire work"?
There is already such a blacklist in Pennsylvania. I have a neighbor is on it and battling this through the courts. It was clearly abused in his case (though whether he will obtain remediation his is seeking through the courts is still an open question). No reason to think the same thing couldn't or wouldn't happen if this were national.
This is true, but remember, King wasn't running for office. I think political speach by candidates and officeholders belongs in a special category.
You are exactly correct. Inkjet printers "clean" their nozzles by the same method whether using OEM or 3rd party ink. Mileage varies with the 3rd party inks since there are several companies in the business. So called "universal" inks are a bad idea I think. A 3rd party ink should be labeled as printer specific. If using an inkjet, one should choose one with removable/replaceable sponge(s) with a reputation for refilling success.
You are assuming that they didn't. Perhaps they did and believed that the patent was invalid due to prior art or other considerations. Do you really think that Verizon has an airtight case? Or is this perhaps another case where the court deciding the matter lacks the necessary and rudimentary knowledge of the technology in question needed to rule properly? What I've read about the patent suggests that too broad to be taken seriously, as well as lacking in defining implementation.
I didn't read the post you are responding to as communist propaganda. Neither did I see it as some kind of apologia for Krushchev. What I gathered was instead that Krushchev was "less evil" and that had Stalin been in place during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the east coast of the U.S. would look very different today (and I would in all likelihood not be posting). Neither did I read between the lines and manage to sense some nostalgia for the "great" Soviet Union. As to the evil we see in the world, is it really a great comfort to be "less evil"? To me it seems that it is just a way to make excuses and to rationalize behavior that results in oppression of the world's peoples.
I'll second you on the explorer "fix". I think tweakui takes care of most of the issues with stealing of focus.
It has never worked, but the reasons are complex. Some simple ones: OEMs addicted to Microsoft, Microsoft using monopoly power to prevent new entries to successfully penetrate market and the reasons you just gave. How might this change? It is hard to say, but the possibility seems to have grown, what with the headaches induced by Vista, the ongoing evolution of desktop Linux and steady growth (higher in mindshare than in market numbers) of MAC OSX.
I've been encoding to ogg vorbis for several years, for personal use and for streaming media servers I manage. I occasionally use mp3 (lame encoded) for compatibility with other devices and for podcasts. I have no problems with playing my ogg files since I use compatible players from iriver and will not own a car audio system without a stereo mini plug. Because I care, others have seen the advantages and converted too. From reading the posts below, there are a lot of sheep reading slashdot.
Good points. It has been suggested for possible use in males too. It's just that females are a higher priority at this point.
Before suggesting the parent "clearly doesn't understand" the tax code, read the post again. He/she is talking about selling items they purchased for their own use. Income tax on the money used to purchase said items was already paid. No tax is due in such a case, provided cost basis can be demonstrated. Indeed, if the IRS wants to charge income tax on the sale income, cost basis will normally demonstrate an actual loss. I think the $2 bil is overstating things a bit on the IRSs part, but who knows for sure.
Yeah, which is why I was deeply pissed when MS bought them. The kind of information they uncovered was incredibly valuable. Their independence from the beast made it more likely to continue. Now that they are owned, who will give us the scoop?
I wouldn't call it a double standard unless Nintendo was missing the forecast of "units to be sold by date__________". As far as we know, they are selling all they've made, made as many as they planned but simply aren't meeting demand. It would be stupid for a company to make MORE than was needed for a market. Having just the right number of units to meet demand without a glut is a long shot here.
It has to do with the population of mods online right now. There is a clear pattern in the modding of the responses to this news item. Partisanship... it seems. I think Mac OsX and Linux will shine brighter over the next few years, as compared to Vista.
No, its the existence of humans that leads to extremists. You can find plenty of people who don't really belong to any religion in particular who are extremists of some time or another. This would include the parent poster!
Other replies have noted that 1st Amendment supporters were quite possibly opposed to the 2nd or interpreted it not to guarantee the right of ordinary citizens to keep and bear arms. Dead on. Don't they realize the 2nd is critical to keeping the first? The parent is talking out of their a__. Believe me, the NRA members I know are also quite concerned about the 1st amendment and would NOT support the revisiting of 1st amendment rights that parent ascribes to Newt Gingrich.
You make a huge assumption by suggesting that folks in favor of the Second Amendment are also in favor of the Patriot Act. I suggest (with little more evidence than you have for your position) that you are very wrong. I'm an NRA member, and anecdotally speaking, most members I talk to are quite concerned about (and opposed to parts of) the Patriot Act.