I wouldn't exclude any pc that runs Windows 2000, Windows XP, or OS X from the category "anything else." Also, I wouldn't exclude home or car CD players - and you can quite legally create a CD that contains iTMS songs on it and play it on your home or car CD player. The only things you can't do with iTMS music are 1. play it in electronic form on software other than iTunes (which, unfortunately, means no Linux or BSD), and 2. play it on standard mp3 players other than iPods. Annoying, but the DRM requires it (i.e., requires the iTMS software to encrypt the music files to your key, and to decrypt it from your key; and requires the iPod to decode the encrypted music format), and you simply are not going to get the major MPAA (or most independent) record companies to release anything without DRM. It's not going to happen. ever. They believe that P2P + un-DRMed music files = goodbye to their business model, and since they have cartel control over the product, they will do what they can to break that equation.
Now, if you can name some other DRMed music format that works outside a closed ecosystem (and no, WMA doesn't meet that requirement), perhaps there is something better out there. But the record companies are starting to realize that they'd be better off sticking with DRMed music stores and dumping CDs, so sooner or later you'll be stuck choosing a limited DRMed format if you want to listen to any commercially released music. Good luck to you.
Most of us bought our first iPods before the iTunes Music Store, to play mp3 rips from our CDs. 95% of my music fits that description, including the four CDs I bought this weekend.
Any damages for this latest clash could amount to tens of millions of pounds because it concerns Apple Computer's hugely successful iTunes Music Store and iPod digital music players.
How cute of them. Try hundreds of milliions of pounds. Apple Computer keeps shaving as much off that settlement as they possibly can, and they're going to have to pay sooner or later. The best thing would be a settlement for a few hundred million pounds, a disclaimer ("iTunes and Apple Computer are not affiliated with Apple Corps Records") and an agreement to release the Beatles' catalogue on iTunes giving McCartney, Starkey, and the Lennon and Harrison estates an extra-large slice of the... well, you know.
It all depends upon the size of the vendor. If you hire a small vendor with employee ownership, you'll usually get people who take a lot of pride in their work and know that future business for them depends upon the quality of the results they give you. If you outsource to a big consulting contractor, you'll get much more uneven results. With big contracting vendors, I'd say we've had a 50% success rate for the projects I've worked on; with small single-purpose shops, the success rate has been much higher. The important part, though, is to hire somebody with a reputation for excellence who's small enough that the reputation can't be the product of a small percentage of the firm's employees.
AppleCare doesn't show up on the config page for the PowerMacs, and didn't show up on the next page after I added it to my cart, and I wasn't about to go looking for it. Just tried it again, and it still isn't there. I'd check to see if that's true of all the PowerPC Macs, but the Apple Store isn't very responsive right now.
On the other hand, the storage medium is integrated with a really, really powerful (if rather idiosyncractic) processing system, which, while excruciatingly slow at simple problems, is partially self-programming, and is the only system capable of solving AI-hard problems (after sufficient programming).
Not rumored, there's a Treo (PalmOne) that runs Windows PocketPC. This points out perfectly the terrible state of PalmOS 5 (PalmSource, or whatever the name of that company that bought them is). Why nobody is using PalmOS 6, I don't know; I imagine there is some good reason though.
Actually, $23,277 with 2 dual-core 2.5 GHz G5 processors, 16GB of ECC Memory, 2 500 GB SATA 7200 rpm hard drives, QUADRO FX 4500 512 MB video with two 30 inch Cinema HD displays, WiFi and Bluetooth, Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, external USB modem, PCI Express Fiber Channel card (for use with XRAID), OS X Server edition, unlimited clients, and Final Cut Express pre-installed (XRAID not included). But it doesn't have that cool Alienware case mod.
The folks I've met who were involved in the Cato Institute were all conservatives; also, the choice of Cato (either Cato, though I assume they're thinking of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis) as a kind of mascot is pretty suggestive of a conservative, rather than progressive, organization. Yes, they tend to be more libertarian than the Republican Party, but you don't see libertarian Democrats (and there are some, by the way) supporting them.
The worse the original series, the better the scifi remake, and sadly, vice versa. There was talk of having them redo Manos: The Hands of Fate, but the resulting movie would probably be so good that it would be dangerous to watch.
Ah yes, the SciFi Channel remake of Manos: The Hands of Fate. It's like looking at Ambassador Kolos in Star Trek's "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" - does seeing him drive you insane because he's so ugly, or because he's so beautiful? No one knows, but only a blind woman is safe.
Like the true FOX new fan that you are, you seem to have missed the point. I was responding to someone who compared those four as the only "centrist" newscasts. As far as the BBC, NPR, and PBS being lopsided to the left, well, if you're lying on your right side, I'm sure they seem that way. . .
He could be referring to the war in Iraq, you know, the whole "just get rid of Saddam and everything will be fine" approach. Or he could be referring to every single Republican spending initiative since the Contract On America - you know, the "spend what you want - our grandkids will pay for it" approach that has led the Congress to the situation in which they must now raise the debt ceiling for about the 4th time in a couple of years, to $9T (and that's the same T you see on a SAN, folks, Terabucks, like our Terabuck War).
One of Vinge's Across Realtime stories gives a perfect example of a society in which nuclear arms are in (a limited number of) private hands. Not a world I want to live on.
Here's a good solution. Not 100% sure they'll release one for Intel, but then they surprised me and released one for the G5, so I'm guessing it's coming.
11.1 GB on my machine's clean partition, including iLife but excluding MS Office. Subtract another 1.8 GB for iLife and you're down to 9.2 GB. My partition is actually 12.7.
No problem. Just make sure that wife/girlfriend doesn't pull up all your transactions on their website (you can, with an email address and a CC#). That could be ugly.
I know, I had a little scuffle with them last week because I couldn't change my CC# on my Washington Post Online subscription. So not all the names are pr0n buyers.
That's because Homer needs to be in the middle of the driveway when Marge gets home. They would have had to mirror the whole house to get the same visual effect (Homer on the side of the driveway away from the house, getting out of the car and moving toward the house when he's nearly run down) with a right-driver car. The casting of the two kids doesn't work - the girl playing Lisa is one year too young, the boy playing Bart two years too young.
Which "old English" translation? I can't think of a translation into Anglo-Saxon. I can think of Douglas (Scots) -that's what it sounds like to me. It doesn't sound like Surrey, Stanyhurst, or Phaer (early modern English) or Dryden (18th century).
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I wouldn't exclude any pc that runs Windows 2000, Windows XP, or OS X from the category "anything else." Also, I wouldn't exclude home or car CD players - and you can quite legally create a CD that contains iTMS songs on it and play it on your home or car CD player. The only things you can't do with iTMS music are 1. play it in electronic form on software other than iTunes (which, unfortunately, means no Linux or BSD), and 2. play it on standard mp3 players other than iPods. Annoying, but the DRM requires it (i.e., requires the iTMS software to encrypt the music files to your key, and to decrypt it from your key; and requires the iPod to decode the encrypted music format), and you simply are not going to get the major MPAA (or most independent) record companies to release anything without DRM. It's not going to happen. ever. They believe that P2P + un-DRMed music files = goodbye to their business model, and since they have cartel control over the product, they will do what they can to break that equation.
Now, if you can name some other DRMed music format that works outside a closed ecosystem (and no, WMA doesn't meet that requirement), perhaps there is something better out there. But the record companies are starting to realize that they'd be better off sticking with DRMed music stores and dumping CDs, so sooner or later you'll be stuck choosing a limited DRMed format if you want to listen to any commercially released music. Good luck to you.
Most of us bought our first iPods before the iTunes Music Store, to play mp3 rips from our CDs. 95% of my music fits that description, including the four CDs I bought this weekend.
Steve Ballmer's children are official Microsoft OEM partners.
They should put "If this is your website, and you are hosting it at a third party ISP, please contact technical support at your ISP."
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Any damages for this latest clash could amount to tens of millions of pounds because it concerns Apple Computer's hugely successful iTunes Music Store and iPod digital music players.
How cute of them. Try hundreds of milliions of pounds. Apple Computer keeps shaving as much off that settlement as they possibly can, and they're going to have to pay sooner or later. The best thing would be a settlement for a few hundred million pounds, a disclaimer ("iTunes and Apple Computer are not affiliated with Apple Corps Records") and an agreement to release the Beatles' catalogue on iTunes giving McCartney, Starkey, and the Lennon and Harrison estates an extra-large slice of the ... well, you know.
It all depends upon the size of the vendor. If you hire a small vendor with employee ownership, you'll usually get people who take a lot of pride in their work and know that future business for them depends upon the quality of the results they give you. If you outsource to a big consulting contractor, you'll get much more uneven results. With big contracting vendors, I'd say we've had a 50% success rate for the projects I've worked on; with small single-purpose shops, the success rate has been much higher. The important part, though, is to hire somebody with a reputation for excellence who's small enough that the reputation can't be the product of a small percentage of the firm's employees.
AppleCare doesn't show up on the config page for the PowerMacs, and didn't show up on the next page after I added it to my cart, and I wasn't about to go looking for it. Just tried it again, and it still isn't there. I'd check to see if that's true of all the PowerPC Macs, but the Apple Store isn't very responsive right now.
On the other hand, the storage medium is integrated with a really, really powerful (if rather idiosyncractic) processing system, which, while excruciatingly slow at simple problems, is partially self-programming, and is the only system capable of solving AI-hard problems (after sufficient programming).
Not rumored, there's a Treo (PalmOne) that runs Windows PocketPC. This points out perfectly the terrible state of PalmOS 5 (PalmSource, or whatever the name of that company that bought them is). Why nobody is using PalmOS 6, I don't know; I imagine there is some good reason though.
Actually, $23,277 with 2 dual-core 2.5 GHz G5 processors, 16GB of ECC Memory, 2 500 GB SATA 7200 rpm hard drives, QUADRO FX 4500 512 MB video with two 30 inch Cinema HD displays, WiFi and Bluetooth, Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, external USB modem, PCI Express Fiber Channel card (for use with XRAID), OS X Server edition, unlimited clients, and Final Cut Express pre-installed (XRAID not included). But it doesn't have that cool Alienware case mod.
The folks I've met who were involved in the Cato Institute were all conservatives; also, the choice of Cato (either Cato, though I assume they're thinking of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis) as a kind of mascot is pretty suggestive of a conservative, rather than progressive, organization. Yes, they tend to be more libertarian than the Republican Party, but you don't see libertarian Democrats (and there are some, by the way) supporting them.
The worse the original series, the better the scifi remake, and sadly, vice versa. There was talk of having them redo Manos: The Hands of Fate, but the resulting movie would probably be so good that it would be dangerous to watch.
Ah yes, the SciFi Channel remake of Manos: The Hands of Fate. It's like looking at Ambassador Kolos in Star Trek's "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" - does seeing him drive you insane because he's so ugly, or because he's so beautiful? No one knows, but only a blind woman is safe.
Like the true FOX new fan that you are, you seem to have missed the point. I was responding to someone who compared those four as the only "centrist" newscasts. As far as the BBC, NPR, and PBS being lopsided to the left, well, if you're lying on your right side, I'm sure they seem that way. . .
I just hope to hell they do a Battlestar Galactica on it and not a Sliders.
Balanced views: BBC, NPR, PBS, and FOX.
The BBC: Mishal Husain. NPR: Carl Kassell. PSB: Jim Lehrer. FOX: Bill O'Reilly.
In the words of one of the great PBS productions, "one of these things is not like the others."
He could be referring to the war in Iraq, you know, the whole "just get rid of Saddam and everything will be fine" approach. Or he could be referring to every single Republican spending initiative since the Contract On America - you know, the "spend what you want - our grandkids will pay for it" approach that has led the Congress to the situation in which they must now raise the debt ceiling for about the 4th time in a couple of years, to $9T (and that's the same T you see on a SAN, folks, Terabucks, like our Terabuck War).
One of Vinge's Across Realtime stories gives a perfect example of a society in which nuclear arms are in (a limited number of) private hands. Not a world I want to live on.
Here's a good solution. Not 100% sure they'll release one for Intel, but then they surprised me and released one for the G5, so I'm guessing it's coming.
11.1 GB on my machine's clean partition, including iLife but excluding MS Office. Subtract another 1.8 GB for iLife and you're down to 9.2 GB. My partition is actually 12.7.
No problem. Just make sure that wife/girlfriend doesn't pull up all your transactions on their website (you can, with an email address and a CC#). That could be ugly.
I know, I had a little scuffle with them last week because I couldn't change my CC# on my Washington Post Online subscription. So not all the names are pr0n buyers.
Mackail is ~1885, so he must be using deliberate archaisms.
Soylent Starbucks is organic - made with real people, not imitation.
That's because Homer needs to be in the middle of the driveway when Marge gets home. They would have had to mirror the whole house to get the same visual effect (Homer on the side of the driveway away from the house, getting out of the car and moving toward the house when he's nearly run down) with a right-driver car. The casting of the two kids doesn't work - the girl playing Lisa is one year too young, the boy playing Bart two years too young.
Which "old English" translation? I can't think of a translation into Anglo-Saxon. I can think of Douglas (Scots) -that's what it sounds like to me. It doesn't sound like Surrey, Stanyhurst, or Phaer (early modern English) or Dryden (18th century).
Z1, Z2, and Z3 were destroyed by terrorists. Z4 simply disappeared, mysteriously; nobody knows what happened to it.