You're missing the point. Clearplay sells software that sanitizes (ie. edits naughty bits out of) movies. Under the old law, that breaks the copyright and DMCA or whatever. This law, backed by family groups, allows them legally to skip those parts of the film without illegally circumventing any copy-protection devices in the way.
Nothing was prohibiting the players, but Clearplay the company had wrote a program to skip over non-family friendly scenes. The movie industry was aghast, saying it was against the director's wishes, the vision of the film, and a violation of copyright. This new law allows them to legally strip videos without breaking copyright.
People should be allowed to use technology to watch movies "their way" in their own home
Well, that's a nice sentiment, but the bill (the Family Movie Act of 2005) appears to mainly be aimed at allowing your DVD to skip past nude scenes and the like. A number of family and conservative groups supported this measure. Perhaps they're also annoyed at being forced to watch the previews that some DVDs force people to play through as well.
While I think it's a step in the right direction, Congress isn't going to do away with region coding, CSS, and the like. Look at the other bill in the link, the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005, also noted in an earlier/. article. I suspect Orrin Hatch would support this bill, but I don't think he'll go for less copy protection. Does anyone know if he voted on this bill and how?
Try Repairing Permissions on your volume and rebooting. Did you install any 3rd party apps like ICeCoffEE or PithHelmet or AcidSearch? They all released updates to fix bugs.
As I understand it, the indexing is completely in the background as a very niced process, meaning the other applications will have priority over it. The indexing is also on they fly, meaning it's updated during every file write, to keep the index up to date.
OS X pre-Tiger doesn't have the automatic indexing, instead the Content Index is availible under Get Info for any folder or drive. You have to click Index Now to update the drive or folder's index, and you can search under the Find... command in the Finder.
That is why, at least in Apple's case, the Spotlight technology has third-party plugins. You don't have to specifically name the Word files on your computer, the plugin allows Apple to search the text and metadata inside the document itself for your query. A bunch of other companies are creating their own plugins to search through their metadata and the like.
Therefore, you the user don't have to store it in any specific fashion. Save it in an email or a word file, or even a Sticky I imagine. This Spotlight will take the guesswork out of it, meaning you don't have any structure requirements.
Tiger is more than an update, it's got features that I'd pay to upgrade to. Automator? VoiceOver Spoken Interface? Quicktime 7? Spotlight architecture? I'd pay for each of those features, and I'm getting a bunch of extra features with the OS, like RSS support and Access Control Lists.
So Spotlight isn't as good as Longhorn? Care to explain to me their strengths and weaknesses? Can you provide me with a screenshot or two? The story linked to in this article is no good, it tells of things that Apple already has, and leaves out details on the search technology.
Well, Apple did have a Find by Content search in place in Mac OS 8.5 and onwards, at least. People would constantly gripe that at midnight, the indexing program would suddenly pop up.
I discovered a simple workaround, get a dyndns.org account, create a new subdomain pointing to the same site, and use that. The filters don't catch it then.
I believe the astronauts rolled up their flag and brought it home with them.
The more interesting question to me is, what was there to film the Lunar Module's liftoff from the surface of the moon, and aimed the camera upwards as it left? Though I doubt anyone would be so stupid as to make a hoax and forget that detail.
I'm surprised I don't see anyone mentioning Akamai for video distribution. They've been serving plenty of Quicktime content, and I think the iTunes Music Store as well, and have consistently survived slashdotting without a bump. They've got the jump on Google by years.
You don't get "forgiveness" by paying money. Money is only paid out in accidental death cases, car accidents, manslaughter, etc. Murder is murder, and that's a likely death penalty.
Did I say you weren't entitled to your opinions? Did I say that everything you experienced in life is invalid? Living in PA, you may have seen a lot of what you are saying, but I don't believe that you saw it "every day of my life" as you put it. Sounds like an exaggeration to me that you were taught about the evilness of America daily.
Cheer up, there are lots of conservatives on/., I'm one depending on the issue. I just don't see the point in bringing up Clinton here, as you did. Don't go strawmanning me, did I say the schools are fine? When did I give you any impression that it's ok to leave God out of schools? When the principal led the graduating class in the pledge of allegiance, there was a widespread booing from the crowd when he left out "under God."
Actually, studies showed that American Muslims had a higher than average number of college graduates, last I heard.
Your problem would make sense, but thats not how the system works or will work. It has to go before a Canadian judge, who will ask both parties if they are sure that they wish to submit to this arbitration, and explain to them the options. If the woman declines of her own free will, the judge will instead take it through the Canadian judicial system.
Your claim that the Muslim woman will be pressured into a decision isn't specific to Muslims. Many Hindu parents try to arrange marriages for their children, Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish families have their own strict rules that apply to women. Many Christian families are pushing for laws that allow the parents to prevent their daughters from having an abortion. Everyone tries to pressure women, its a fact of life, but you cannot blame it on everyone or religion. Remember, Islam doesn't oppress women, men do.
Shari'a doesn't make women second-class citizens, Middle Eastern governments that make their own laws and call it Shari'a. Saudi Arabia doesn't allow women to drive, is that a part of the religion? No! Go ask any female Muslim scholar, there are plenty out there. Ever wonder why there are so many Muslim women, married and unmarried in favor of this arbitration idea? I'm not worried.
The US public schools teach that America is the worst? Give me a break and cut the theatrics. Yeah, we learned a bit about the Indians and slavery, but do you think we omitted the Nazis, Saddam Hussein, the French Reign of Terror, Mussolini, the Holocaust, the Dreyfuss affair, British colonialism, Russian revolution, Chinese Communism, etc? Are you going to sit here and tell me that teachers give North Korea a pass? In my high school in NY, we did discuss race, affirmative action, reparations, and creationism, where did you go?
I think high schools do a good job of explaining the situation, and do teach students to love their country in a mature and productive manner. Maybe the way you want them to love their country is the way a 4-year-old loves their mommy; Anyone who criticizes her is bad.
What a way to strawman Scientific American, saying they wish Christians were still fed to lions. National Geographic did have a recent cover story: Was Darwin Wrong?
Canada allows a third party to arbitrate in legal matters, provided both sides consent to it. Therefore, you could ask a priest/rabbi/imam to help you decide how to conduct your divorce proceedings, or divide up inheritance according to the rules prescribed by the religion. Both sides have to agree to having someone like that, and a Canadian judge must OK everything that the arbitrator decides, before it can take effect. It's not Muslims getting separate laws, they are still bound by Canadian laws, which take precedence. It's not just for Muslims, its for religious Jews and other groups as well. Heck, under this law, Catholics could ask for a priest to preside over the distribution of inheritance, but everyone involved must agree to it, and a Canadian judge must OK any decision the priest makes.
Quit the FUD, its nowhere near as terrifying as you make it out to be.
I don't think I'd characterize Clinton as an "extreme" liberal. Look at his stance on NAFTA, free trade talks with human-rights-violating China, his stance on the Palestinians, his federal nullification of gay marriage's validity across state lines, etc. The Green party didn't like him, and many felt he was still too far to the right. He once said that he was an "Eisenhower Republican" and that the right wing was "Reagan Republicans."
Who says God works by magic? He has power, but we do not understand it, the same way you and I don't understand this big bang/dark matter/dark energy conundrum. Depending on who you ask, some religions have proven and forecasted a lot of stuff.
What would it take to prove the existence of God from nature? Maybe something in nature that doesn't appear possible or make sense in nature, yet exists anyway? Wouldn't this Horizon problem be something to point out? What about all those cosmic rays that impossibly are higher than the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit? It just doesn't make sense, there has to be something creating that sort of order and miracles from chaos.
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I THINK he's trying to gripe over the fact that he can't play his imported Japanese DVDs with his different region code DVD player.
You're missing the point. Clearplay sells software that sanitizes (ie. edits naughty bits out of) movies. Under the old law, that breaks the copyright and DMCA or whatever. This law, backed by family groups, allows them legally to skip those parts of the film without illegally circumventing any copy-protection devices in the way.
Nothing was prohibiting the players, but Clearplay the company had wrote a program to skip over non-family friendly scenes. The movie industry was aghast, saying it was against the director's wishes, the vision of the film, and a violation of copyright. This new law allows them to legally strip videos without breaking copyright.
Well, that's a nice sentiment, but the bill (the Family Movie Act of 2005) appears to mainly be aimed at allowing your DVD to skip past nude scenes and the like. A number of family and conservative groups supported this measure. Perhaps they're also annoyed at being forced to watch the previews that some DVDs force people to play through as well.
While I think it's a step in the right direction, Congress isn't going to do away with region coding, CSS, and the like. Look at the other bill in the link, the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005, also noted in an earlier /. article. I suspect Orrin Hatch would support this bill, but I don't think he'll go for less copy protection. Does anyone know if he voted on this bill and how?
Try Repairing Permissions on your volume and rebooting. Did you install any 3rd party apps like ICeCoffEE or PithHelmet or AcidSearch? They all released updates to fix bugs.
Wasn't Longhorn announced when Panther (10.3) was shipping? IIRC, Microsoft tried to steal Apple's thunder that time as well.
As I understand it, the indexing is completely in the background as a very niced process, meaning the other applications will have priority over it. The indexing is also on they fly, meaning it's updated during every file write, to keep the index up to date.
OS X pre-Tiger doesn't have the automatic indexing, instead the Content Index is availible under Get Info for any folder or drive. You have to click Index Now to update the drive or folder's index, and you can search under the Find... command in the Finder.
What if I want to email my mp3, instead of playing it?
That is why, at least in Apple's case, the Spotlight technology has third-party plugins. You don't have to specifically name the Word files on your computer, the plugin allows Apple to search the text and metadata inside the document itself for your query. A bunch of other companies are creating their own plugins to search through their metadata and the like.
Therefore, you the user don't have to store it in any specific fashion. Save it in an email or a word file, or even a Sticky I imagine. This Spotlight will take the guesswork out of it, meaning you don't have any structure requirements.
locate only searches filenames, not inside files.
Care to list some aspects of Longhorn Alpha's features that beat Apple?
Tiger is more than an update, it's got features that I'd pay to upgrade to. Automator? VoiceOver Spoken Interface? Quicktime 7? Spotlight architecture? I'd pay for each of those features, and I'm getting a bunch of extra features with the OS, like RSS support and Access Control Lists.
So Spotlight isn't as good as Longhorn? Care to explain to me their strengths and weaknesses? Can you provide me with a screenshot or two? The story linked to in this article is no good, it tells of things that Apple already has, and leaves out details on the search technology.
Find By Content Indexing was the desktop search. Sherlock was their internet search app.
Well, Apple did have a Find by Content search in place in Mac OS 8.5 and onwards, at least. People would constantly gripe that at midnight, the indexing program would suddenly pop up.
I discovered a simple workaround, get a dyndns.org account, create a new subdomain pointing to the same site, and use that. The filters don't catch it then.
I believe the astronauts rolled up their flag and brought it home with them.
The more interesting question to me is, what was there to film the Lunar Module's liftoff from the surface of the moon, and aimed the camera upwards as it left? Though I doubt anyone would be so stupid as to make a hoax and forget that detail.
I'm surprised I don't see anyone mentioning Akamai for video distribution. They've been serving plenty of Quicktime content, and I think the iTunes Music Store as well, and have consistently survived slashdotting without a bump. They've got the jump on Google by years.
You don't get "forgiveness" by paying money. Money is only paid out in accidental death cases, car accidents, manslaughter, etc. Murder is murder, and that's a likely death penalty.
Did I say you weren't entitled to your opinions? Did I say that everything you experienced in life is invalid? Living in PA, you may have seen a lot of what you are saying, but I don't believe that you saw it "every day of my life" as you put it. Sounds like an exaggeration to me that you were taught about the evilness of America daily.
/., I'm one depending on the issue. I just don't see the point in bringing up Clinton here, as you did. Don't go strawmanning me, did I say the schools are fine? When did I give you any impression that it's ok to leave God out of schools? When the principal led the graduating class in the pledge of allegiance, there was a widespread booing from the crowd when he left out "under God."
Cheer up, there are lots of conservatives on
Actually, studies showed that American Muslims had a higher than average number of college graduates, last I heard.
Your problem would make sense, but thats not how the system works or will work. It has to go before a Canadian judge, who will ask both parties if they are sure that they wish to submit to this arbitration, and explain to them the options. If the woman declines of her own free will, the judge will instead take it through the Canadian judicial system.
Your claim that the Muslim woman will be pressured into a decision isn't specific to Muslims. Many Hindu parents try to arrange marriages for their children, Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish families have their own strict rules that apply to women. Many Christian families are pushing for laws that allow the parents to prevent their daughters from having an abortion. Everyone tries to pressure women, its a fact of life, but you cannot blame it on everyone or religion. Remember, Islam doesn't oppress women, men do.
Shari'a doesn't make women second-class citizens, Middle Eastern governments that make their own laws and call it Shari'a. Saudi Arabia doesn't allow women to drive, is that a part of the religion? No! Go ask any female Muslim scholar, there are plenty out there. Ever wonder why there are so many Muslim women, married and unmarried in favor of this arbitration idea? I'm not worried.
The US public schools teach that America is the worst? Give me a break and cut the theatrics. Yeah, we learned a bit about the Indians and slavery, but do you think we omitted the Nazis, Saddam Hussein, the French Reign of Terror, Mussolini, the Holocaust, the Dreyfuss affair, British colonialism, Russian revolution, Chinese Communism, etc? Are you going to sit here and tell me that teachers give North Korea a pass? In my high school in NY, we did discuss race, affirmative action, reparations, and creationism, where did you go?
I think high schools do a good job of explaining the situation, and do teach students to love their country in a mature and productive manner. Maybe the way you want them to love their country is the way a 4-year-old loves their mommy; Anyone who criticizes her is bad.
What a way to strawman Scientific American, saying they wish Christians were still fed to lions. National Geographic did have a recent cover story: Was Darwin Wrong?
You're only listening to the FUD.
Canada allows a third party to arbitrate in legal matters, provided both sides consent to it. Therefore, you could ask a priest/rabbi/imam to help you decide how to conduct your divorce proceedings, or divide up inheritance according to the rules prescribed by the religion. Both sides have to agree to having someone like that, and a Canadian judge must OK everything that the arbitrator decides, before it can take effect. It's not Muslims getting separate laws, they are still bound by Canadian laws, which take precedence. It's not just for Muslims, its for religious Jews and other groups as well. Heck, under this law, Catholics could ask for a priest to preside over the distribution of inheritance, but everyone involved must agree to it, and a Canadian judge must OK any decision the priest makes.
Quit the FUD, its nowhere near as terrifying as you make it out to be.
I don't think I'd characterize Clinton as an "extreme" liberal. Look at his stance on NAFTA, free trade talks with human-rights-violating China, his stance on the Palestinians, his federal nullification of gay marriage's validity across state lines, etc. The Green party didn't like him, and many felt he was still too far to the right. He once said that he was an "Eisenhower Republican" and that the right wing was "Reagan Republicans."
Who says God works by magic? He has power, but we do not understand it, the same way you and I don't understand this big bang/dark matter/dark energy conundrum. Depending on who you ask, some religions have proven and forecasted a lot of stuff.
What would it take to prove the existence of God from nature? Maybe something in nature that doesn't appear possible or make sense in nature, yet exists anyway? Wouldn't this Horizon problem be something to point out? What about all those cosmic rays that impossibly are higher than the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit? It just doesn't make sense, there has to be something creating that sort of order and miracles from chaos.