Even admitting Apple exists is probably more than they'd like
I don't think so. If Microsoft hadn't wanted apple to exist, they probably wouldn't have bailed them out when they were facing bankruptcy in 1997. Or as Steve put it - "Meaningful Partnerships":
it would take very little money to feed the hungry of the world
Fine. Write a fucking cheque. While you're at it talk to Bono, Bob Geldof, Kanye West and all the rest of the bullshitters to do the same.
Or if you prefer to see it as "cancelling debt" - why doesn't your bank just cancel it's debt to you, and take your savings, and use that to pay the interest? Or are debts owed to you different to debts owed to other people?
This post is remarkably informative - it may seem like a bunch of desperately cliched generalisations ("Westerners are lonely", "20th century's best philosopher", "people shuttle to and fro") but in fact it is completely accurate. Cancer is a set of cells that do not understand how to self destruct when they are damaged. The author's perception of reality appears to be damaged. He does not understand how to self destruct, and writes blog entries instead (writing a blog about how awful western civilisation is is like shitting in the street to protest about people's manners).
There are direct parallels between the authors experience of alienation (lack of understanding of other's motivation, lack of pleasure in everyday things, reducing everything to negatives, projecting feelings onto others) and delusional psychosis. Of course, I would say that, because I'm one of "them".
Life and matter are like cancer, if you view them in such a warped and reductionist way (they grow, they are coloured, they reproduce, they rush about, you don't understand them when you're down in the dumps).
On topic - I am ashamed that Hawking is embarassing his field like this. It's very unusual for great physicists to be great economists or great leaders, and once again he has shown that being able to understand one scientific field not give any great insight into other fields, but sadly gives the scientist the self confidence to pronounce on them. Hawking, FYI: the chance of a virus killing it's host species is zero. Virii that are successful need hosts (even scary GM ones). Sudden global warming is a hypothesis unsupported by any evidence, and human beings have shown remarkable ability to live in a range of climes (e.g. iceland, egypt). You say the current human culture is in some way special and must survive. It's not, and it might. If a biologist said the world was going to be swallowed by a black hole, would they receive this sort of airtime on Slashdot?
unless there's some mass societal changes, no one's going to be doing serious science in 100s of years
Pray tell, why do you opine that no one will be doing serious science in 100 years? Would you be a suitable candidate to to lead these changes you speak of? Do you own a tin foil hat?
Yes. What's interesting about this post is that he almost exactly mirrors the views of the Iranian President, who called for Israel to be "wiped off the map", and described the Holocaust as a "myth".
The difference between leereyno and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is that one is addressing an internet blog in the context of a joke, and the other is addressing a soon to be nuclear nation in the context of an official address.
By the way - you seem to reserve your criticism for leereyno. That really is funny.
Read the comment you replied to. I think I might even agree with you - if he'd been lied to, then he had just witnessed perjury in his courtroom - if it's perjury, then RIM's management should be prosecuted for perjury.
Am I missing something, or have these judges no respect for the law?
On the other hand, if there wasn't sufficient proof to prosecute, then why is the judge dicking around with the jury and the sentence?
Forget the lawyers. The judge sounds like the problem in this case. "I'm going to count to 10" sounds like wild west justice. If RIM attempted to deceive the court, it's the judge's responsibility to hold them in contempt of court and prosecute for perjury. If (as I suspect) the judge doesn't have any understanding of technology and the NTP lawyer swayed him (which is the lawyer's job) - then he's just validated a bunch of false patents.
Either way it's bad law - and his subsequent action to try to prevent Blackberrys being used makes it seem a Spitzer-like bid for media attention.
independent media and democratic systems are doing nothing to prevent the UK from turning into a police state.
I disagree with the term police state - although levels of trust in the UK police are falling within the country, it's still regarded as the best police force in the world for good reason, as this article in the Economist illustrates admirably. You won't like this but my attitude is literally "more power to them".
Thanks for introducing me to http://www.writetothem.com/ - if there really is a groundswell of opinion against giving the security services and police greater powers, I think we both agree the voters should be able to decide.
I don't understand is why everyone is so concerned with the idea that CCTV is used in Austria and that (in other news...) anti-terror legislation is being put in place in the UK, but no one seems to give a fuck that Italy is currently governed by a media magnate who controls the majority of the media and who implemented several changes in the law to prevent his prosecution on corruption charges. Apparently also the Governor of the Bank of Italy recently refused to resign for months after his alleged involvement in corruption...
Austria and Great Britain both have a very independent media, democratic systems and low levels of corruption. Just because the plot of 1984 made a big deal of video surveillance does not mean that it's the primary danger to people's liberty. I realise this is Slashdot, but try to get some perspective!
I don't know if this really did happen to you, but if it did you have grounds to sue the police or make an official complaint. According to the Citizen's Advice Bureau (google cache) on police entry powers:
If the police do arrest you, they can also enter and search any premises where you were during or immediately before the arrest. They can search only for evidence relating to the offence for which you have been arrested, and they must have reasonable grounds for believing there is evidence there.
Which seems to mean only if you were arrested while leaving your house they could search it. If you walking home from work they couldn't legally have searched your house.
They basically did... what Britian did to India during the height of their empire, used aggressive economics to destroy our manufacturing base
Just in case you didn't know the Industrial Revolution started in Britain. The first train - Robert Louis Stevenson (Scotland), The first steam engine - Savery (England, ok it may have been the Italians too), the physics to make it work - Newton (England). For this reason I think your assertion is BS. We brought manufacturing to India - oh and English too, which seems to have been some use to them.
On the rest of your post, I think Canada is a fine country. You do well by being on the border of the richest nation in the world. And unless you intend to trade with Kamchatka or Greenland, I don't think you've got many options:)
This is really impressive. Finally someone in the media who actually understands the internet and peer-to-peer (rather than the lame-ass record companies who are trying to increase the cost of legitimately downloading). And this isn't something I can imagine most other networks having the intellect to do (or the programs to make it worthwhile...)
It's also worth bearing in mind that setting up the infrastructure to do this will have created a number of IT jobs for slashdot reading geeks. Good for HBO, good for IT...
Try Wal-Mart. A lot of crappy CDs get bought there.
The reason the DVD industry is supposed to have got shafted over the past year is because Wal-Mart no longer considered it high growth and cut the shelf space by 30%.
The question I want answered is, if the costs of printing discs, distributing them and retailing are now far less (whatever Apple's cut is) why haven't prices dropped? I doubt that A&R, marketing, advertising, playola have suddenly got more expensive?
I think the answer is that pricing of music isn't driven by costs - it's driven by A&R getting the contract signed, the company owning the copyright, and then squeezing as much money out of the market as they can for 50 years (introducing new formats wherever possible). This does indeed suck, but it's capitalism.
This has a price breakdown from washington post in 1995 - fascinating. Apparently 17% of the price of a hit CD goes on "Executive salaries & record label profit" (aka cocaine). I don't know if this includes the costs of other CDs produced, I'd imagine so. Shows manufacturing was already cheap in '95.
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Sorry to rain on your parade, but they forgot the east london line. Easy to do...
I'd be interested if anyone else with a knowledge of London can fathom the choice of locations...
* Bank, Liverpool St., Moorgate are the heart of the financial district
* Edgware Road is a strange choice - it's known as a centre for the Lebanese community
* Russell Square is another weird choice choice - it's where lots of students live. And not a lot else...
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It's just a shame you're too *cough* stupid to read the *cough* post. He said:
That's how he'd saturate the other 6 processors.
The thing I hate most in human nature is the habit of kicking someone when he is down. Why don't you just f*cough*?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxOp5mBY9IY
Fine. Write a fucking cheque. While you're at it talk to Bono, Bob Geldof, Kanye West and all the rest of the bullshitters to do the same.
Or if you prefer to see it as "cancelling debt" - why doesn't your bank just cancel it's debt to you, and take your savings, and use that to pay the interest? Or are debts owed to you different to debts owed to other people?
This post is remarkably informative - it may seem like a bunch of desperately cliched generalisations ("Westerners are lonely", "20th century's best philosopher", "people shuttle to and fro") but in fact it is completely accurate. Cancer is a set of cells that do not understand how to self destruct when they are damaged. The author's perception of reality appears to be damaged. He does not understand how to self destruct, and writes blog entries instead (writing a blog about how awful western civilisation is is like shitting in the street to protest about people's manners).
There are direct parallels between the authors experience of alienation (lack of understanding of other's motivation, lack of pleasure in everyday things, reducing everything to negatives, projecting feelings onto others) and delusional psychosis. Of course, I would say that, because I'm one of "them".
Life and matter are like cancer, if you view them in such a warped and reductionist way (they grow, they are coloured, they reproduce, they rush about, you don't understand them when you're down in the dumps).
On topic - I am ashamed that Hawking is embarassing his field like this. It's very unusual for great physicists to be great economists or great leaders, and once again he has shown that being able to understand one scientific field not give any great insight into other fields, but sadly gives the scientist the self confidence to pronounce on them. Hawking, FYI: the chance of a virus killing it's host species is zero. Virii that are successful need hosts (even scary GM ones). Sudden global warming is a hypothesis unsupported by any evidence, and human beings have shown remarkable ability to live in a range of climes (e.g. iceland, egypt). You say the current human culture is in some way special and must survive. It's not, and it might. If a biologist said the world was going to be swallowed by a black hole, would they receive this sort of airtime on Slashdot?
Pray tell, why do you opine that no one will be doing serious science in 100 years? Would you be a suitable candidate to to lead these changes you speak of? Do you own a tin foil hat?
The difference between leereyno and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is that one is addressing an internet blog in the context of a joke, and the other is addressing a soon to be nuclear nation in the context of an official address.
By the way - you seem to reserve your criticism for leereyno. That really is funny.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/43789 48.stm
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4527
Welcome to politics. After an attack you say "we have nothing to fear". Before an attack you say "we have everything to fear".
Am I missing something, or have these judges no respect for the law?
On the other hand, if there wasn't sufficient proof to prosecute, then why is the judge dicking around with the jury and the sentence?
Forget the lawyers. The judge sounds like the problem in this case. "I'm going to count to 10" sounds like wild west justice. If RIM attempted to deceive the court, it's the judge's responsibility to hold them in contempt of court and prosecute for perjury. If (as I suspect) the judge doesn't have any understanding of technology and the NTP lawyer swayed him (which is the lawyer's job) - then he's just validated a bunch of false patents.
Either way it's bad law - and his subsequent action to try to prevent Blackberrys being used makes it seem a Spitzer-like bid for media attention.
I disagree with the term police state - although levels of trust in the UK police are falling within the country, it's still regarded as the best police force in the world for good reason, as this article in the Economist illustrates admirably. You won't like this but my attitude is literally "more power to them".
Thanks for introducing me to http://www.writetothem.com/ - if there really is a groundswell of opinion against giving the security services and police greater powers, I think we both agree the voters should be able to decide.
Austria and Great Britain both have a very independent media, democratic systems and low levels of corruption. Just because the plot of 1984 made a big deal of video surveillance does not mean that it's the primary danger to people's liberty. I realise this is Slashdot, but try to get some perspective!
Yes. He has friends. That's what happens when you're a nice person, rather than an anonymous critic. And non-sequitur isn't spelt that way.
Why has parent been modded a troll? Is there anything factually incorrect in it?
If the police do arrest you, they can also enter and search any premises where you were during or immediately before the arrest. They can search only for evidence relating to the offence for which you have been arrested, and they must have reasonable grounds for believing there is evidence there.
Which seems to mean only if you were arrested while leaving your house they could search it. If you walking home from work they couldn't legally have searched your house.
Anyone know how much energy it would require to collect the CO2 and pump it a mile underwater?
Just in case you didn't know the Industrial Revolution started in Britain. The first train - Robert Louis Stevenson (Scotland), The first steam engine - Savery (England, ok it may have been the Italians too), the physics to make it work - Newton (England). For this reason I think your assertion is BS. We brought manufacturing to India - oh and English too, which seems to have been some use to them.
On the rest of your post, I think Canada is a fine country. You do well by being on the border of the richest nation in the world. And unless you intend to trade with Kamchatka or Greenland, I don't think you've got many options :)
He doesn't have to. He's competing with Microsoft, remember?
Video evidence here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/clangers/ (realplayer, sadly)
3.Extinguish
4.Profit!!!
I think that's how they do it, anyway
It's also worth bearing in mind that setting up the infrastructure to do this will have created a number of IT jobs for slashdot reading geeks. Good for HBO, good for IT...
Try Wal-Mart. A lot of crappy CDs get bought there. The reason the DVD industry is supposed to have got shafted over the past year is because Wal-Mart no longer considered it high growth and cut the shelf space by 30%.
I think the answer is that pricing of music isn't driven by costs - it's driven by A&R getting the contract signed, the company owning the copyright, and then squeezing as much money out of the market as they can for 50 years (introducing new formats wherever possible). This does indeed suck, but it's capitalism.
Here are some recent stats on record industry costs:c d-cost-breakdown%5D 1 /cd.price/frameset.exclude.html%5D
[http://nosleep.ca/blog/article/199/record-label-
[http://www.cnn.com/interactive/entertainment/010
This has a price breakdown from washington post in 1995 - fascinating. Apparently 17% of the price of a hit CD goes on "Executive salaries & record label profit" (aka cocaine). I don't know if this includes the costs of other CDs produced, I'd imagine so. Shows manufacturing was already cheap in '95.d 9603c&L=boc-l&T=0&F=&S=&P=9108%5D
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Since the date and time would then be fixed, I think the alterations required to code this would be fairly simple :)
Why don't you ask 900124 (900122), 900115 (900116), 900101 (900100)?
I'd be interested if anyone else with a knowledge of London can fathom the choice of locations... * Bank, Liverpool St., Moorgate are the heart of the financial district * Edgware Road is a strange choice - it's known as a centre for the Lebanese community * Russell Square is another weird choice choice - it's where lots of students live. And not a lot else...