youtube had no money or revenue. Google has both. That's a big red "sue me" sign stapled on their back. It's a big red "sue me" sign if your goal is to actually recover damages, but Viacom and the hordes sure to follow it don't really need or want the billion dollars they're asking for. They want youtube style video either dead or changed completely to suit their interests.
Consider, a huge settlemnet from a startup buys you either controlling stock in that company or its imminent demise. A huge settlement from Google gets you a billion dollar check and a shrug.
It's not a lawsuit, it's a "motion for summary judgement". It's a request for the judge to decide the case himself, on the grounds that the case is so one-sided that it would be a waste of a jury's time. But for obvious reasons you have to wait until the other side is done trying to build their case before you can file this.
Standard legal practice. Not a conspiracy. Nothing to see here, move along.
Are you honestly telling me that in today's world of operating systems, (Mac and Windows), that you are going to force people into a two step process for something that other operating systems do in one step! You obviously fail to understand the user. If Linux cannot do the simple things that Windows and Mac do, then most users will not bother to switch. User in the Windows and Mac world want simplicity. They don't care how complex it is on the backend.Yes, I'm honestly going to tell you that we're going to force the users to take an extra step. Filesystem operations from an "Open" or "Save" dialog are Bad Design. It completely shatters the conceptual purpose of the dialogs and makes simple operations that really should require more thought. As a former Windows admin, I can say with certainty that most non-powerusers will never need or want this "feature", and that the number of files accidentally renamed by too slowly doubleclicking far outweighs any benefit derived from the functionality.
DVD playback is disabled by default and you have to go through hoops to enable it, whereas DVD playback just works in Windows and Mac. Most users just want it to work.Oh, you think Windows XP comes with DVD playback built in. That's cute. Try it on a vanilla install sometime. Most vendors package a DVD player with their preinstalls, so it looks like it works out of the box.
funny, WC3 base and frozen throne work beautifully on my system (Cedega on Gentoo) and did right out of the box. So does WoW, Diablo II, and every other blizzard title I've tried. The only thing that I've not been able to get working is Halo.
Hooray. I've been a cedega user for almost a year now, and it is an excellent piece of software. Seeing at least one major distribution lend their support is definitely a step in the right direction.
...in my experience, women who do end up in a relationship with a geek will continue to date geeks, even if the first relationship ends badly.
I am a certifiable geek, of the linux variety. Most of my friends are also extremely geeky individuals, running the spectrum from gamer to comic book collector to otaku to DIY hardware junkie. One of the more interesting trends that we have noticed is that the women we end up in relationships with all ended up with something of a geek addiction, even the ones who were not at all geeky themselves. Despite being originally suspicious of our more geeky habbits, almost all of our exes moved consciously to other geeks, and several of our current girlfriends reported a similar experience in their past.
At the risk of self promotion, the parent has a point. Geeks tend to be succesful providers (almost all white collar jobs). We are inherently devoted to and trusting of those close to them. We tend to put creativity and effort into dating (take a girl "properly" stargazing, it's dark, secluded, romantic, fun, and for many girls very novel). We tend to have fairly loose expectations in regard to wardrobe, hair, makeup, etc. (being beautiful in a cocktail dress and 4-hour hair and makeup job is nice but expected, being beautiful in an oversized sweatshirt and a ratty old baseball cap is a huge ego boost). We actually are interested in and attracted to intelligence and personality (all guys have the "oh my god it has boobs!" phase, and it always passes once we actually start making female friends). And, not unimportantly, we're as a rule above average lovers (not only do most of us have a remarkably good understanding of biology and mechanics, we are creative and we tend to put her satisfaction first).
Anyway, ranting aside, it is my conclusion that the "geeks make horrible boyfriends" stigma is patently false, and that most women reach this conclusion rather quickly.
C++ IS a lot daunting at this point in your programming career. If you're just doing websites and database work then start with JavaScript and move to Perl or Python from there. Learning Perl is a good primer on a good first "real" language.
Speaking as someone with Asperger's, sarcasm is often very difficult. Word games (rhymes, alliteration, etc.) allow us to play with the intricacies and quirks of a complex system, the English Language. Sarcasm, though, relies largely on verbal and behavioral cues and, as such, is really just about as difficult for us to pick up in conversation as they are for the average person to notice in written text. It's fun, when you get it, and easy enough to use, but it flies over my head as often as not.
As badly executed as Ep1 was, I did feel it was necessary. Seeing Qui-Gon gave me a real sense of who Obi-Wan was and why. The first trilogy is about Obi-Wan anyway. In episode 1, we see him brash and young and not wise at all, we see him flirt momentarily with the dark side when his master is killed, we see him take on a task that even he thinks is too big for him because it was his master and friend's dying wish. Besides, you can't jump immediately into the clone saga without some sort of explaination of the villain. In the latter three the villain was a vast empire, easy enough, but when the good guys are allied to the vast and powerful central government, the enemy, and galactic politics in general, needs to be built up more slowly. The trade federation was a good device, but it wouldn't have worked without Ep1.
Ummm, integrated video player? Gnome is close to full gstreamer integration. Besides, point releases are about two things: bugfixes and polishing. On the former,it looks like they've beat down several of the major complaints. As for the latter adding the video player and more of the taskbar buttons to the look'n'feel can't do anything but help
Gnome's trying very hard to pass the Aunt Tillie test, and on the whole they're succeeding quite well. After borrowing my laptop (Gnome 2.8) to type a term paper, my completely technophobic language major of a girlfriend never wants to go back to her WinME box, and 2.10 looks to clean up the two or three complaints she did have.
Read the article closely. It works fine if you set Wine to report its version as XP, and tries to work if you set it to 2k. MS has been trying to phase out 95/98 support for quite some time. Sounds like an extension of that policy to me
I think the author was making a point. When people started using ICEs in early automobiles, noone imagined that the exhaust fumes would become a problem in later years. If we're not careful, when there's millions or billions of aging robots that use some new fuel source with a negligible output we could have yet another environmental crisis.
1) There are _maybe_ 5 entities in existance today (US, China, EU, Russia, India; and the last two are iffy) with the technology to actually even try to mine the moon. So three nations able to send perhaps two dozen men each to a planet, I doubt territorial disputes will be an issue.
2) Yes, it'll run out. In 10,000 years (RTFA), that's about the scope of human history thus far.
3) Yes, it's the moon. It's a big, cold, dead rock. We can mine to our heart's content and not destroy an ecosystem or create a health hazard for a small mining town. If we have to exploit something, I'd prefer it be the moon to the earth any day.
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If you have no case in law, pound on the facts. If you have no case in fact, pound on the law. If you have no case in law or fact, pound on the table.
It's not a lawsuit, it's a "motion for summary judgement". It's a request for the judge to decide the case himself, on the grounds that the case is so one-sided that it would be a waste of a jury's time. But for obvious reasons you have to wait until the other side is done trying to build their case before you can file this. Standard legal practice. Not a conspiracy. Nothing to see here, move along.
Are you honestly telling me that in today's world of operating systems, (Mac and Windows), that you are going to force people into a two step process for something that other operating systems do in one step! You obviously fail to understand the user. If Linux cannot do the simple things that Windows and Mac do, then most users will not bother to switch. User in the Windows and Mac world want simplicity. They don't care how complex it is on the backend.Yes, I'm honestly going to tell you that we're going to force the users to take an extra step. Filesystem operations from an "Open" or "Save" dialog are Bad Design. It completely shatters the conceptual purpose of the dialogs and makes simple operations that really should require more thought. As a former Windows admin, I can say with certainty that most non-powerusers will never need or want this "feature", and that the number of files accidentally renamed by too slowly doubleclicking far outweighs any benefit derived from the functionality. DVD playback is disabled by default and you have to go through hoops to enable it, whereas DVD playback just works in Windows and Mac. Most users just want it to work.Oh, you think Windows XP comes with DVD playback built in. That's cute. Try it on a vanilla install sometime. Most vendors package a DVD player with their preinstalls, so it looks like it works out of the box.
contact your senator. I live in Tennessee, you insensitive clod. My senator is Bill Frist.
funny, WC3 base and frozen throne work beautifully on my system (Cedega on Gentoo) and did right out of the box. So does WoW, Diablo II, and every other blizzard title I've tried. The only thing that I've not been able to get working is Halo.
Hooray. I've been a cedega user for almost a year now, and it is an excellent piece of software. Seeing at least one major distribution lend their support is definitely a step in the right direction.
Fine, if you want to accuse the E of slendering Just a nitpick, but it's spelled slandering, and don't you mean libeling anyway?
...in my experience, women who do end up in a relationship with a geek will continue to date geeks, even if the first relationship ends badly.
I am a certifiable geek, of the linux variety. Most of my friends are also extremely geeky individuals, running the spectrum from gamer to comic book collector to otaku to DIY hardware junkie. One of the more interesting trends that we have noticed is that the women we end up in relationships with all ended up with something of a geek addiction, even the ones who were not at all geeky themselves. Despite being originally suspicious of our more geeky habbits, almost all of our exes moved consciously to other geeks, and several of our current girlfriends reported a similar experience in their past.
At the risk of self promotion, the parent has a point. Geeks tend to be succesful providers (almost all white collar jobs). We are inherently devoted to and trusting of those close to them. We tend to put creativity and effort into dating (take a girl "properly" stargazing, it's dark, secluded, romantic, fun, and for many girls very novel). We tend to have fairly loose expectations in regard to wardrobe, hair, makeup, etc. (being beautiful in a cocktail dress and 4-hour hair and makeup job is nice but expected, being beautiful in an oversized sweatshirt and a ratty old baseball cap is a huge ego boost). We actually are interested in and attracted to intelligence and personality (all guys have the "oh my god it has boobs!" phase, and it always passes once we actually start making female friends). And, not unimportantly, we're as a rule above average lovers (not only do most of us have a remarkably good understanding of biology and mechanics, we are creative and we tend to put her satisfaction first).
Anyway, ranting aside, it is my conclusion that the "geeks make horrible boyfriends" stigma is patently false, and that most women reach this conclusion rather quickly.
C++ IS a lot daunting at this point in your programming career. If you're just doing websites and database work then start with JavaScript and move to Perl or Python from there. Learning Perl is a good primer on a good first "real" language.
Speaking as someone with Asperger's, sarcasm is often very difficult. Word games (rhymes, alliteration, etc.) allow us to play with the intricacies and quirks of a complex system, the English Language. Sarcasm, though, relies largely on verbal and behavioral cues and, as such, is really just about as difficult for us to pick up in conversation as they are for the average person to notice in written text. It's fun, when you get it, and easy enough to use, but it flies over my head as often as not.
As badly executed as Ep1 was, I did feel it was necessary. Seeing Qui-Gon gave me a real sense of who Obi-Wan was and why. The first trilogy is about Obi-Wan anyway. In episode 1, we see him brash and young and not wise at all, we see him flirt momentarily with the dark side when his master is killed, we see him take on a task that even he thinks is too big for him because it was his master and friend's dying wish. Besides, you can't jump immediately into the clone saga without some sort of explaination of the villain. In the latter three the villain was a vast empire, easy enough, but when the good guys are allied to the vast and powerful central government, the enemy, and galactic politics in general, needs to be built up more slowly. The trade federation was a good device, but it wouldn't have worked without Ep1.
Ummm, integrated video player? Gnome is close to full gstreamer integration. Besides, point releases are about two things: bugfixes and polishing. On the former,it looks like they've beat down several of the major complaints. As for the latter adding the video player and more of the taskbar buttons to the look'n'feel can't do anything but help Gnome's trying very hard to pass the Aunt Tillie test, and on the whole they're succeeding quite well. After borrowing my laptop (Gnome 2.8) to type a term paper, my completely technophobic language major of a girlfriend never wants to go back to her WinME box, and 2.10 looks to clean up the two or three complaints she did have.
Read the article closely. It works fine if you set Wine to report its version as XP, and tries to work if you set it to 2k. MS has been trying to phase out 95/98 support for quite some time. Sounds like an extension of that policy to me
I think the author was making a point. When people started using ICEs in early automobiles, noone imagined that the exhaust fumes would become a problem in later years. If we're not careful, when there's millions or billions of aging robots that use some new fuel source with a negligible output we could have yet another environmental crisis.
15? 400/16=25 and counting
1) There are _maybe_ 5 entities in existance today (US, China, EU, Russia, India; and the last two are iffy) with the technology to actually even try to mine the moon. So three nations able to send perhaps two dozen men each to a planet, I doubt territorial disputes will be an issue.
2) Yes, it'll run out. In 10,000 years (RTFA), that's about the scope of human history thus far.
3) Yes, it's the moon. It's a big, cold, dead rock. We can mine to our heart's content and not destroy an ecosystem or create a health hazard for a small mining town. If we have to exploit something, I'd prefer it be the moon to the earth any day.
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