I'm sure its true, but think about what it implies if you take it seriously: it implies that the Zune team don't eat their own dogfood. That's going to hurt morale a lot more than it could help it.
He's an idiot. I sometimes work with languages for which there simply IS NO OTHER ENCODING THAN UNICODE. Does he really want me to create new 8-bit encodings for each of them? Ones that won't be standardized, and so won't be easily exchangeable with other users?
They described the look of surprise on her face when she realized who was penetrating her. That's penetration without consent, the very definition of rape.
I find the Opie and Anthony show tasteless and childish. I also deeply dislike the policies of the Bush Administration and of Condeleeza Rice. Seeing now what they said, I'd have fired them, yes, on an "uncensored" station. It seems to condone rape in general and rape of Rice and Laura Bush in particular, and borders on threatening a government official. Sure, it's a joke, but one in very, very bad taste.
If we could get it to the point of ease that Apple has then I feel Linux would be a real alternative to windows.
Can't be done. Too many device drivers to worry about to get the kind of stability you see in OS X, and that means installation and device use will never be as smooth as Apple. However, it is a worthy goal - so long as you understand that you'll never quite achieve it with an open device ecosystem.
He's not talking about making "programming" less frightening to women, but "computer programmers" less frightening to women (i.e., pimply-faced male coders who cannot, for the life of them, get a date with the opposite sex). Of course, he either assumes that all programmers are male, or that gay female programmers are equally impaired in the search for a prospective partner.
The problem with the Sony Reader (I have one, too) is that it does not reflow PDF documents. I thought I'd be able to read stuff from O'Reilly's Safari on mine, but on average, it's more trouble than its worth. Gutenberg books work, but there's too much work involved reformatting them so they will reflow properly (i.e., fixing the line breaks). The books purchased from the eConnect store work perfectly, but the selection is awful, you have to use Windows to download them (which in my case means using virtualization), the software is terrible, and in many cases the book descriptions are not accurate (for instance, for translated books, they often have the wrong translators listed! - this would be rather like thinking you're downloading the Yo-Yo Ma performance of a cello suite only to discover that it was performed by a 17-year old at his high school recital).
Galactica 2010. Galactica reaches earth, and a small scouting party go to Earth to learn about the culture and try to find a place to live. They have cheesy flying motorcycles
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA...
(And you younglings think George Lucas raped YOUR childhoods - at least he waited sixteen years; Glen Larson only waited nine months.)
Actually, Enterprise should have just skipped the first three seasons, except for the Andorian episodes. If they had just had the Andorian episodes and the 4th season, they'd still be on the air.
The final episode of the original series ended with the Galactica still far from Earth, though they had reached (and passed) a planet called "Terra" (or was it "Gaia") that *wasn't* Earth. They accidentally picked up a transmission from the real Earth, but thought it was a Cylon trap. It turned out it was the Apollo 11 landing. Then they had the second series, Galactica 1980, in which they reach Earth 20 years later in 1980, but fortunately the trauma of that horrible sequel has burned itself out of my mind (except for the Nazi-time-travel episode).
My guess is that you didn't RTFA. If you had, you'd realize that despite what the posting says, he is not "on trial for fraud" - he is undergoing a second ethics review at Purdue that is in response to new allegations that arose after he was cleared in an earlier one, and *in addition* a Congressional Subcommittee issued a report finding that the original review was not up to the standards to which they expect a university that receives Federal research funds to hold.
What does AI have to do with IT? AI is CS, not IT. IT is just the latest and greatest euphemism for "management information systems" or "data services" - providing support services to pointy-headed bosses. AI is a branch of cognitive science research. They have as much in common as writing symphonies and running the sound board at the local Chuck E. Cheese.
*A* study claimed that Wikipedia was *as* accurate as Encyclopedia Britannica, and the methodology of that study has been completely discredited. For one thing, they counted all errors as equal, and compared cut-and-paste jobs from Britannica to cut-and-paste jobs from Wikipedia. They also made no effort to disentangle Wikipedia content created by experts recruited by Nupedia and content seeded from the Britannica 11th edition from genuinely wiki-created content. There were selection effects in their choice of Wikipedia articles. They also did not do enough to confirm the judgments of their reviewers, many of whom made basic mistakes (for instance, one reviewer marked down an article from Britannica because he did not know there were multiple valid spellings of the name of the town Crotone).
I have a degree in history and literature, so believe me, I know exactly how copyright came about. The patronage system began to fall apart, and modern copyright developed, with the invention of movable type because there was no incentive to pay for works of literature that one had no exclusive rights to: kings paid writers to create works they could perform in their courts, to increase their prestige. When they realized that every schmuck with a shilling could enjoy the same books, hot off the press, they lost interest in patronage. If the subscription system came back (see e.g. Johnson's dictionary as a product of the subscription system), without the printing press to create a concrete commodity as a reward for one's subscription, and with the ability to simply download the text of the book for free, there would be no incentive to pay for the subscription. (By the way, $10K is not much money for the work of a year or two or three or even more - for non-academic writers (including most poets and other literary writers with "academic writers" because that's the way things are nowadays, and the only way in which a patronage system seems to work in modern cultures: by restricting access to the poets' or wrtiers' less formal speech by encapsulating them as "classes") it will not be enough of an incentive. Certainly the big-bang Hollywood motion picture would evaporate completely in a patronage model.
By the way, I know poets who give readings, I've organized them myself, and most poets do NOT make "lots of dosh" from readings - most do the readings as a form of PR for their *print* books, and only get paid a small nominal fee by the venue (usually less than $500 - which might sound like a lot for a single reading, but is less than many political speakers earn in a *minute*), while the publisher covers their travel. Face it, creative works do *not* adapt well to open source methodologies. I think that increasing the term of copyright every 20 years is a manipulative strategy that only benefits megacorps, and oppose that entirely, but I absolutely support the idea that some kind of limited-term copyright is an economic neccessity.
Without *some* kind of copyright protection, there would be no financial incentive to create content, and we'd be subjected to a whole world of reality TV and groupsourced "literature" and wikipedias - or all premium content would be "members only" and something like copyright would be enforced on a case-by-case basis with individual contracts that would have even worse terms than existing copyright laws. The problem is that copyright has been perverted into a dead hand; we need to reform the terms of copyright, not eliminate it. We also need to reform patents.
American culture goes back thousands of years - on a different continent, admittedly, but do you honestly think that *The Federalist Papers* and *Common Sense* were just invented ex nihilo?
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Or just transcode the damned thing to MP4 and watch it on the iPhone. You don't actually need mplayer to watch video that's not DRM.
On the other hand, my bought-on-the-day-it-came-out video iPod is still running fine, as is my 3G iPod. I'm guessing that you just got lucky.
I'm sure its true, but think about what it implies if you take it seriously: it implies that the Zune team don't eat their own dogfood. That's going to hurt morale a lot more than it could help it.
He's an idiot. I sometimes work with languages for which there simply IS NO OTHER ENCODING THAN UNICODE. Does he really want me to create new 8-bit encodings for each of them? Ones that won't be standardized, and so won't be easily exchangeable with other users?
They described the look of surprise on her face when she realized who was penetrating her. That's penetration without consent, the very definition of rape.
I find the Opie and Anthony show tasteless and childish. I also deeply dislike the policies of the Bush Administration and of Condeleeza Rice. Seeing now what they said, I'd have fired them, yes, on an "uncensored" station. It seems to condone rape in general and rape of Rice and Laura Bush in particular, and borders on threatening a government official. Sure, it's a joke, but one in very, very bad taste.
This relies on the assumption that one device = one driver. [...] This relies on the assumption that one device = one driver.
So, you're saying you could replicate the Xhaard driver feat for, say, video cards?
Do they have EVDO in Europe? No. So if you're trying to build a killer international product, EVDO is not what you're going to choose.
When there are two responses to the joke that both make the same mistake parsing it, it's not an obvious joke anymore.
If we could get it to the point of ease that Apple has then I feel Linux would be a real alternative to windows.
Can't be done. Too many device drivers to worry about to get the kind of stability you see in OS X, and that means installation and device use will never be as smooth as Apple. However, it is a worthy goal - so long as you understand that you'll never quite achieve it with an open device ecosystem.
He's not talking about making "programming" less frightening to women, but "computer programmers" less frightening to women (i.e., pimply-faced male coders who cannot, for the life of them, get a date with the opposite sex). Of course, he either assumes that all programmers are male, or that gay female programmers are equally impaired in the search for a prospective partner.
Nope. Should have went isn't any tense, not even those used only by the temporally displaced.
Hey, Microsoft, 1988 called. They want their look-and-feel lawsuit back.
The problem with the Sony Reader (I have one, too) is that it does not reflow PDF documents. I thought I'd be able to read stuff from O'Reilly's Safari on mine, but on average, it's more trouble than its worth. Gutenberg books work, but there's too much work involved reformatting them so they will reflow properly (i.e., fixing the line breaks). The books purchased from the eConnect store work perfectly, but the selection is awful, you have to use Windows to download them (which in my case means using virtualization), the software is terrible, and in many cases the book descriptions are not accurate (for instance, for translated books, they often have the wrong translators listed! - this would be rather like thinking you're downloading the Yo-Yo Ma performance of a cello suite only to discover that it was performed by a 17-year old at his high school recital).
Galactica 2010. Galactica reaches earth, and a small scouting party go to Earth to learn about the culture and try to find a place to live. They have cheesy flying motorcycles
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA ...
(And you younglings think George Lucas raped YOUR childhoods - at least he waited sixteen years; Glen Larson only waited nine months.)
Actually, Enterprise should have just skipped the first three seasons, except for the Andorian episodes. If they had just had the Andorian episodes and the 4th season, they'd still be on the air.
The final episode of the original series ended with the Galactica still far from Earth, though they had reached (and passed) a planet called "Terra" (or was it "Gaia") that *wasn't* Earth. They accidentally picked up a transmission from the real Earth, but thought it was a Cylon trap. It turned out it was the Apollo 11 landing. Then they had the second series, Galactica 1980, in which they reach Earth 20 years later in 1980, but fortunately the trauma of that horrible sequel has burned itself out of my mind (except for the Nazi-time-travel episode).
My guess is that you didn't RTFA. If you had, you'd realize that despite what the posting says, he is not "on trial for fraud" - he is undergoing a second ethics review at Purdue that is in response to new allegations that arose after he was cleared in an earlier one, and *in addition* a Congressional Subcommittee issued a report finding that the original review was not up to the standards to which they expect a university that receives Federal research funds to hold.
Perhaps it didn't occur to you to ask what a bunch of Cylons would be doing humming a song from Earth?
What does AI have to do with IT? AI is CS, not IT. IT is just the latest and greatest euphemism for "management information systems" or "data services" - providing support services to pointy-headed bosses. AI is a branch of cognitive science research. They have as much in common as writing symphonies and running the sound board at the local Chuck E. Cheese.
*A* study claimed that Wikipedia was *as* accurate as Encyclopedia Britannica, and the methodology of that study has been completely discredited. For one thing, they counted all errors as equal, and compared cut-and-paste jobs from Britannica to cut-and-paste jobs from Wikipedia. They also made no effort to disentangle Wikipedia content created by experts recruited by Nupedia and content seeded from the Britannica 11th edition from genuinely wiki-created content. There were selection effects in their choice of Wikipedia articles. They also did not do enough to confirm the judgments of their reviewers, many of whom made basic mistakes (for instance, one reviewer marked down an article from Britannica because he did not know there were multiple valid spellings of the name of the town Crotone).
I have a degree in history and literature, so believe me, I know exactly how copyright came about. The patronage system began to fall apart, and modern copyright developed, with the invention of movable type because there was no incentive to pay for works of literature that one had no exclusive rights to: kings paid writers to create works they could perform in their courts, to increase their prestige. When they realized that every schmuck with a shilling could enjoy the same books, hot off the press, they lost interest in patronage. If the subscription system came back (see e.g. Johnson's dictionary as a product of the subscription system), without the printing press to create a concrete commodity as a reward for one's subscription, and with the ability to simply download the text of the book for free, there would be no incentive to pay for the subscription. (By the way, $10K is not much money for the work of a year or two or three or even more - for non-academic writers (including most poets and other literary writers with "academic writers" because that's the way things are nowadays, and the only way in which a patronage system seems to work in modern cultures: by restricting access to the poets' or wrtiers' less formal speech by encapsulating them as "classes") it will not be enough of an incentive. Certainly the big-bang Hollywood motion picture would evaporate completely in a patronage model.
By the way, I know poets who give readings, I've organized them myself, and most poets do NOT make "lots of dosh" from readings - most do the readings as a form of PR for their *print* books, and only get paid a small nominal fee by the venue (usually less than $500 - which might sound like a lot for a single reading, but is less than many political speakers earn in a *minute*), while the publisher covers their travel. Face it, creative works do *not* adapt well to open source methodologies. I think that increasing the term of copyright every 20 years is a manipulative strategy that only benefits megacorps, and oppose that entirely, but I absolutely support the idea that some kind of limited-term copyright is an economic neccessity.
Without *some* kind of copyright protection, there would be no financial incentive to create content, and we'd be subjected to a whole world of reality TV and groupsourced "literature" and wikipedias - or all premium content would be "members only" and something like copyright would be enforced on a case-by-case basis with individual contracts that would have even worse terms than existing copyright laws. The problem is that copyright has been perverted into a dead hand; we need to reform the terms of copyright, not eliminate it. We also need to reform patents.
Bill Clinton is part of the American Left? /me laughs uncontrollably, wipes a tear from my eyes. Thanks, I haven't laughed that hard in years.
American culture goes back thousands of years - on a different continent, admittedly, but do you honestly think that *The Federalist Papers* and *Common Sense* were just invented ex nihilo?