To quote: "Let me explain something to you, son: noone reads the bills." It's always about party politics. If Pres. Bush really wanted this, it would have been 6 to 3 the other way. Now wake up and recognize that when it comes to NASA, there are two parties: the one that wants to cut their budget and says so, and the one that wants to cut their budget and lies about it.
If you write code for a company, they own the copyright: it's called "work-for-hire" in the copyright claw. The entity that owns the copyrights is the "legal person" which is considered the author of the copyrighted work - if it dies, then in the dissolution of its assets, some creditor gets the copyrights to the copyrighted work as recompense.
AAC is part of the MP4 standard. It has the same kind of restrictions MP3 has (not much, see http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/faq/mp4-aud/mp4-a ud.htm for details). Basically, yes. However, iTunes Music Store sells protected AAC. Protected AAC can include a proprietary DRM layer, and on iTMS, Apple uses FairPlay. If you buy protected iTMS files, you would have to burn to CD and reencode (lossily) the result to get another format, and the result would be much poorer in quality than the source protected AAC file. However, if you have existing MP3 files, they will play in iTunes and on the iPod, and iTunes will, if I recall correctly, encode MP3 at various bit rates as well as AAC, AIFF, and Apple lossless. I'd suggest, unless hard drive space is an issue, encoding in AIFF and then converting those files to AAC 128 for iPod use (which is very quick - just import the AIFF into iTunes, select it, convert - yes, it can batch - and then remove the AIFF from the library, keeping a backup). That way, you can try another bit rate if you get a bigger iPod, and you aren't locked into anything too proprietary. Apple Lossless is probably a better choice than AIFF, if you're sticking with Apple, but I suspect that AIFF is better supported in the Linux and Windows world.
Now, repeat after me: there is a difference between market size and market share. Apple does get more users; but Windows gets more users slightly faster. Let's put it this way: if in a given year Apple has a 10% market growth, and Microsoft has a 10% market growth, they have identical market share numbers to the previous year (excluding a third party for the sake of simplicity). 2% of today's market is a lot better than 5% of the market 5 years ago.
The iTrip does let you pick a frequency. Look for the artist "Griffin Technologies" on your browse list. That's the list of frequencies the iTrip can handle.
That was the unemployment filing site. For people who have just lost their jobs. Not homeless people, who likely wouldn't be eligible anymore, and not for people who've been out of work long enough to shut off their internet access. The site should be able to handle a big hit from layoffs from Boeing (East St. Louis), Sears, etc. which would result in something like the Slashdot effect, as thousands of people get home from work at 6:00 pm with their pink slips and look up where to file for unemployment. If I had any idea the site couldn't handle the link, I wouldn't have posted it. Note that if Illinois were independent, it would be the 67th largest country in the world.
It has a bigger population than Greece or Hungary, among other European countries.
Great. Illinois, for the record, as the fifth largest state in the union, has a population of over 12M. The unemployment rate seems to be around 6%, which means probably thousands or even tens of thousands of people file for unemployment every month. I did not think a posting (which wasn't intended to be the first posting) that linked to a static page with few graphics would take it down.
First, look at the Apple Developer Connection Inside Macintosh: Devices Device Manager chapter on Writing a Desk Accessory. Next, read Netscape's Sidebar Developer's Guide. Then, read the Konfabulator Widget XML and Javascript Reference documentation. Finally, read Apple's own marketing description of the Dashboard technology. Now, do Dashboard and Konfabulator sound to you like two unrelated descendants of Desk Accessories (on parallel branches), or does it sound to you like there's a progression in development technologies from Desk Accessories to Sidebars to Konfabulator to Dashboard?
Next, ask yourself this question: if Konfabulator were made by Real Technologies, and Dashboard were part of Windows, would the DoJ be investigating? Even if Apple isn't copying the technology of Konfabulator, they are clearly poaching on Konfabulator's market. Now, there's nothing either illegal or immoral about this - that's the way business is done, sometimes - unless you happen to be a monopoly trying to drive competitors out of business.
Apple's position is not as a monopoly trying to fend off potential competitors, but as a platform champion which SHOULD be trying to expand its market share by expanding the capabilities and the desirability of its platform. By embracing Open Source and UNIX-based technologies, Apple seemed to be moving to expand its developer base and thus the capabilities and desirability of its platform. Apple could choose to be offer a wide-ranging alternative, or it could choose to marginalize itself in the pursuit of total control over its niche.
So it was depressingly stupid marketing of Apple to introduce Dashboard at WWDC. The audience of the WWDC isn't an audience of potential dashboard widget developers - they aren't HTML/JavaScript folks. The audience of the WWDC are independent developers - and they were treated with a wonderful object lesson of how Apple treats independent developers who try to improve the platform and introduce new technologies with the potential to increase the adaptability and desirability of the platform: Apple crushes them in a Keynote. Adobe dropped Premiere because of Final Cut Pro - and we all thought it was OK (I thought it was OK; I have a copy myself) because Final Cut Pro is a better product and is focused purely on the Apple Platform. MS is dropping IE, probably because of Safari - and we thought it was OK (certainly I thought it was OK) because Safari was based upon an Open Source framework (KHTML) and was giving back to the community, and IE is IE - it controls the market, it's Goliath, and it was good to see Apple give us a David to root for. What are we going to do when Apple goes after Alias, or BareBones, or Intuit? Probably root for Apple. But when Apple crushes all the Arlo Roses of the world, who's going to be left to write software for our precious Macs?
Cylons, not from that Sci Fi channel show, the original ones. The ones that could not shoot the broad side of a barn, and could not fly a Cylon Raider properly even if there are three of them in the cockpit.
The Cylon warriors from tne new BG weren't so bad, actually.
The Peacekeepers from FarScape. Using these aliens means no special make-up is required, just uniforms need to be made. They speak British anyway.;)
No, they speak a cross between British and Aussie, just like their prototype, Claudia Black.
Borrow the Ferrengi from Star Trek, I haven't seen anything from them since Deep Space Nine went off the air.
Then you've been wise enough never to see Voyager or Enterprise. Good for you.
You should learn how to read. I never suggested that anyone else wrote De Revolutionibus. I assumed that anyone reading Slashdot would know who wrote De Revolutionibus.
You think that only because you don't yet know what evidence is. It seems to me that all the responses to the "retarded" (what was that about childish insults? I haven't used "retarded" to characterize something I disagreed with since the 1970s - when I was 12) liberal comments on the site have been parrot-speaking (allusion to Orwell's 1984) repeats of stuff from David Hardy's "Hardy Law" website or other sinks of right-wing intellectual ineptitude.
If you have not seen the film, don't bother trying to repeat the arguments of critics who themselves probably haven't seen the film. I've already dealt with one of the claims of a falsehood in *Bowling for Columbine* from Hardy's site in another subthread - the man (Hardy) clearly doesn't understand the concept of unpacking an allusion to reveal the unspoken information lurking behind the text - a skill one would expect a person who calls his website Hardy *LAW* to have. To condense - when Moore says that a plaque about a B-52 proclaims that it was used to kill thousands of Vietnamese civilians, he's "translating" a reference to Linebacker II, which, while that particular bombing raid only killed 1600+ Vietnamese, and some of them were probably military, though the raid was clearly intended as a bombing campaign against Vietnamese civilians. He is exaggerating, but that exaggeration may well have been an unintentional confusion of the actual scale of Vietnamese civilian casualties in the campaign rather than a deliberate falsehood, and is based upon a degree of historical ignorance several orders of lower than Mr. Hardy's own ignorance - at least Mr. Moore knows that a B-52 is a bomber, and so in a bombing campaign was most likely present to - hey - drop bombs. I guess reading between the lines is an accepted interpretive practice everywhere except in the fantasy world of the right.
By the way, where exactly is this evidence in your posting? I've looked at the words, I've looked at the letters, I've looked between the letters, and all I can find are "jackass," "retarded," and "stupid." Maybe you need to look up "logical reasoning" in a dictionary? I'd suggest that you get it before you take a look at Aristotle's Prior Analytics (so you will at least know what "prior" and "analytics" mean before you pick it up; in translation, I must assume).
No, I'm not insulting your intelligence: seeing your claims of logic and disclaimers of insult in conjunction with your use of three terms of trivial abuse convince me that you are undeducated, which fact is after all not your fault, but your teachers'.)
Huh? What do you think this sentence said? : The pricey album-size laser discs appealed mostly to videophiles. Maybe I'm just not getting what you're saying, but it seems to me like the argument here is that this guy came up with the idea of a CD-sized laser disk (which is ridiculous, as that was pretty much a common idea at the time CDs became popular; the genius was in jumping the technical hurdles to achieving that size).
Sorry, but that's absolutely not true. The problem is that Galileo thought he had the Pope's ear and was welcome to discuss heliocentricity despite the warnings of some in the Curia. De Revolutionibus was not placed on the index until 1616, AFTER the Curia got Galileo muzzled the first time. The Pope went along with his advisors, despite an existing relationship with Galileo (2 of whose daughters had taken Holy Orders). Then, later, Galileo tried putting a discussion into print in *Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems* by providing arguments against as well as in favor of heliocentricity, but probably also under the mistaken impression that the heat was off - but the Curia came down on his hard and had him placed under house arrest. By the way, it was the Ptolemaeic world view, based upon Aristotle and in opposition to Aristarchus; Plato's cosmology was much less sophisticated (no epicycles, because Plato didn't know planetary motions well enough to recognize the need for them).
B-52s are bombers, not fighters. While a B-52 probably could, given a crack crew, and apparently in this case did, shoot down a MIG fighter, that's not what they were built for, and I guarantee you the B-52 in question wasn't flying over North Vietnam for the purpose of engaging enemy fighters.
No, Linebacker II was an aerial bombing campaign targeting civilian targets - Vietnamese cities. It was Nixon way of trying to end the war on his terms, not those of Congress. And he killed a thousand plus people, most of them almost certainly civilians, to do it. Moore is simply "translating" the plaque into more historically revealing terms.
In light of the 20,000 tons of bombs that were dropped on the citizens of Hanoi and Haiphong, there were relatively few casualties. Only 1,318 people were killed in Hanoi and 306 in Haiphong, a truly remarkable number.
So no, the plaque does not proudly proclaim that the bomber killed thousands of Vietnamese civilians. It proudly proclaims that the bomber took part in an operation in which 1624 (over a thousand, but not "thousands and thousands") Vietnamese, mostly (not exclusively) civilians, were killed. So while Moore is exaggerating, he's actually reading the plaque with far more attention to allusion than you, or especially Hardy Law, with your (plural) complete lack of historical knowledge or intellectual discernment, seem capable of doing. By proclaiming that the plane was part of Linebacker II, the plaque is indeed bragging about an operation designed to kill a large number of Vietnamese civilians.
For an example of the sort of history he no doubt had in mind, see this account of the combat history of the B-52.
I have no trouble loading the page in Firefox 0.8 for OS X. I do, however, have trouble finding a reference to Mozilla on this page : http://www.us-cert.gov/current/current_activity.ht ml#iis5
Can anyone point to a single free software worm that auto propagated?
Depending upon how loose you are with the term free, The Great Worm might qualify: it attacked BSD, which while not "free" at the time WAS shared source and is an ancestor to one of the titans of Free Software. Yes, MS is more exploitable than FOSS; but that's not an absolute.
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To quote: "Let me explain something to you, son: noone reads the bills." It's always about party politics. If Pres. Bush really wanted this, it would have been 6 to 3 the other way. Now wake up and recognize that when it comes to NASA, there are two parties: the one that wants to cut their budget and says so, and the one that wants to cut their budget and lies about it.
If you write code for a company, they own the copyright: it's called "work-for-hire" in the copyright claw. The entity that owns the copyrights is the "legal person" which is considered the author of the copyrighted work - if it dies, then in the dissolution of its assets, some creditor gets the copyrights to the copyrighted work as recompense.
AAC is part of the MP4 standard. It has the same kind of restrictions MP3 has (not much, see http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/faq/mp4-aud/mp4-a ud.htm for details). Basically, yes. However, iTunes Music Store sells protected AAC. Protected AAC can include a proprietary DRM layer, and on iTMS, Apple uses FairPlay. If you buy protected iTMS files, you would have to burn to CD and reencode (lossily) the result to get another format, and the result would be much poorer in quality than the source protected AAC file. However, if you have existing MP3 files, they will play in iTunes and on the iPod, and iTunes will, if I recall correctly, encode MP3 at various bit rates as well as AAC, AIFF, and Apple lossless. I'd suggest, unless hard drive space is an issue, encoding in AIFF and then converting those files to AAC 128 for iPod use (which is very quick - just import the AIFF into iTunes, select it, convert - yes, it can batch - and then remove the AIFF from the library, keeping a backup). That way, you can try another bit rate if you get a bigger iPod, and you aren't locked into anything too proprietary. Apple Lossless is probably a better choice than AIFF, if you're sticking with Apple, but I suspect that AIFF is better supported in the Linux and Windows world.
Now, repeat after me: there is a difference between market size and market share. Apple does get more users; but Windows gets more users slightly faster. Let's put it this way: if in a given year Apple has a 10% market growth, and Microsoft has a 10% market growth, they have identical market share numbers to the previous year (excluding a third party for the sake of simplicity). 2% of today's market is a lot better than 5% of the market 5 years ago.
The iTrip does let you pick a frequency. Look for the artist "Griffin Technologies" on your browse list. That's the list of frequencies the iTrip can handle.
That was the unemployment filing site. For people who have just lost their jobs. Not homeless people, who likely wouldn't be eligible anymore, and not for people who've been out of work long enough to shut off their internet access. The site should be able to handle a big hit from layoffs from Boeing (East St. Louis), Sears, etc. which would result in something like the Slashdot effect, as thousands of people get home from work at 6:00 pm with their pink slips and look up where to file for unemployment. If I had any idea the site couldn't handle the link, I wouldn't have posted it. Note that if Illinois were independent, it would be the 67th largest country in the world. It has a bigger population than Greece or Hungary, among other European countries.
Great. Illinois, for the record, as the fifth largest state in the union, has a population of over 12M. The unemployment rate seems to be around 6%, which means probably thousands or even tens of thousands of people file for unemployment every month. I did not think a posting (which wasn't intended to be the first posting) that linked to a static page with few graphics would take it down.
Please tell me that the Illinois unemployment department server was sturdy enough to take a Slashdotting, and you're just kidding me . . .
Check out this link. Sorry, dude. Any of us could have done it.
You seem to have forgotten that in the last election, the networks used blue for Democrats and red for Republicans.
Exactly. I buy CDs when I want high quality. I buy iTMS when I just want a few songs for the iPod.
DH's comments are fine *on the technology*; what I'm talking about is the market environment for small developers.
First, look at the Apple Developer Connection Inside Macintosh: Devices Device Manager chapter on Writing a Desk Accessory. Next, read Netscape's Sidebar Developer's Guide. Then, read the Konfabulator Widget XML and Javascript Reference documentation. Finally, read Apple's own marketing description of the Dashboard technology. Now, do Dashboard and Konfabulator sound to you like two unrelated descendants of Desk Accessories (on parallel branches), or does it sound to you like there's a progression in development technologies from Desk Accessories to Sidebars to Konfabulator to Dashboard?
Next, ask yourself this question: if Konfabulator were made by Real Technologies, and Dashboard were part of Windows, would the DoJ be investigating? Even if Apple isn't copying the technology of Konfabulator, they are clearly poaching on Konfabulator's market. Now, there's nothing either illegal or immoral about this - that's the way business is done, sometimes - unless you happen to be a monopoly trying to drive competitors out of business.
Apple's position is not as a monopoly trying to fend off potential competitors, but as a platform champion which SHOULD be trying to expand its market share by expanding the capabilities and the desirability of its platform. By embracing Open Source and UNIX-based technologies, Apple seemed to be moving to expand its developer base and thus the capabilities and desirability of its platform. Apple could choose to be offer a wide-ranging alternative, or it could choose to marginalize itself in the pursuit of total control over its niche.
So it was depressingly stupid marketing of Apple to introduce Dashboard at WWDC. The audience of the WWDC isn't an audience of potential dashboard widget developers - they aren't HTML/JavaScript folks. The audience of the WWDC are independent developers - and they were treated with a wonderful object lesson of how Apple treats independent developers who try to improve the platform and introduce new technologies with the potential to increase the adaptability and desirability of the platform: Apple crushes them in a Keynote. Adobe dropped Premiere because of Final Cut Pro - and we all thought it was OK (I thought it was OK; I have a copy myself) because Final Cut Pro is a better product and is focused purely on the Apple Platform. MS is dropping IE, probably because of Safari - and we thought it was OK (certainly I thought it was OK) because Safari was based upon an Open Source framework (KHTML) and was giving back to the community, and IE is IE - it controls the market, it's Goliath, and it was good to see Apple give us a David to root for. What are we going to do when Apple goes after Alias, or BareBones, or Intuit? Probably root for Apple. But when Apple crushes all the Arlo Roses of the world, who's going to be left to write software for our precious Macs?
Cylons, not from that Sci Fi channel show, the original ones. The ones that could not shoot the broad side of a barn, and could not fly a Cylon Raider properly even if there are three of them in the cockpit.
The Cylon warriors from tne new BG weren't so bad, actually.
The Peacekeepers from FarScape. Using these aliens means no special make-up is required, just uniforms need to be made. They speak British anyway. ;)
No, they speak a cross between British and Aussie, just like their prototype, Claudia Black.
Borrow the Ferrengi from Star Trek, I haven't seen anything from them since Deep Space Nine went off the air.
Then you've been wise enough never to see Voyager or Enterprise. Good for you.
Which would be a perfect fit with Casino Royale, no?
Yes, and they mention that security stuff in TFA.
If you scour around for good filters and such, you get get SA up to 99.7% or so in my experience.
You should learn how to read. I never suggested that anyone else wrote De Revolutionibus. I assumed that anyone reading Slashdot would know who wrote De Revolutionibus.
You think that only because you don't yet know what evidence is. It seems to me that all the responses to the "retarded" (what was that about childish insults? I haven't used "retarded" to characterize something I disagreed with since the 1970s - when I was 12) liberal comments on the site have been parrot-speaking (allusion to Orwell's 1984) repeats of stuff from David Hardy's "Hardy Law" website or other sinks of right-wing intellectual ineptitude.
If you have not seen the film, don't bother trying to repeat the arguments of critics who themselves probably haven't seen the film. I've already dealt with one of the claims of a falsehood in *Bowling for Columbine* from Hardy's site in another subthread - the man (Hardy) clearly doesn't understand the concept of unpacking an allusion to reveal the unspoken information lurking behind the text - a skill one would expect a person who calls his website Hardy *LAW* to have. To condense - when Moore says that a plaque about a B-52 proclaims that it was used to kill thousands of Vietnamese civilians, he's "translating" a reference to Linebacker II, which, while that particular bombing raid only killed 1600+ Vietnamese, and some of them were probably military, though the raid was clearly intended as a bombing campaign against Vietnamese civilians. He is exaggerating, but that exaggeration may well have been an unintentional confusion of the actual scale of Vietnamese civilian casualties in the campaign rather than a deliberate falsehood, and is based upon a degree of historical ignorance several orders of lower than Mr. Hardy's own ignorance - at least Mr. Moore knows that a B-52 is a bomber, and so in a bombing campaign was most likely present to - hey - drop bombs. I guess reading between the lines is an accepted interpretive practice everywhere except in the fantasy world of the right.
By the way, where exactly is this evidence in your posting? I've looked at the words, I've looked at the letters, I've looked between the letters, and all I can find are "jackass," "retarded," and "stupid." Maybe you need to look up "logical reasoning" in a dictionary? I'd suggest that you get it before you take a look at Aristotle's Prior Analytics (so you will at least know what "prior" and "analytics" mean before you pick it up; in translation, I must assume).
No, I'm not insulting your intelligence: seeing your claims of logic and disclaimers of insult in conjunction with your use of three terms of trivial abuse convince me that you are undeducated, which fact is after all not your fault, but your teachers'.)
Huh? What do you think this sentence said? : The pricey album-size laser discs appealed mostly to videophiles. Maybe I'm just not getting what you're saying, but it seems to me like the argument here is that this guy came up with the idea of a CD-sized laser disk (which is ridiculous, as that was pretty much a common idea at the time CDs became popular; the genius was in jumping the technical hurdles to achieving that size).
Sorry, but that's absolutely not true. The problem is that Galileo thought he had the Pope's ear and was welcome to discuss heliocentricity despite the warnings of some in the Curia. De Revolutionibus was not placed on the index until 1616, AFTER the Curia got Galileo muzzled the first time. The Pope went along with his advisors, despite an existing relationship with Galileo (2 of whose daughters had taken Holy Orders). Then, later, Galileo tried putting a discussion into print in *Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems* by providing arguments against as well as in favor of heliocentricity, but probably also under the mistaken impression that the heat was off - but the Curia came down on his hard and had him placed under house arrest. By the way, it was the Ptolemaeic world view, based upon Aristotle and in opposition to Aristarchus; Plato's cosmology was much less sophisticated (no epicycles, because Plato didn't know planetary motions well enough to recognize the need for them).
B-52s are bombers, not fighters. While a B-52 probably could, given a crack crew, and apparently in this case did, shoot down a MIG fighter, that's not what they were built for, and I guarantee you the B-52 in question wasn't flying over North Vietnam for the purpose of engaging enemy fighters.
No, Linebacker II was an aerial bombing campaign targeting civilian targets - Vietnamese cities. It was Nixon way of trying to end the war on his terms, not those of Congress. And he killed a thousand plus people, most of them almost certainly civilians, to do it. Moore is simply "translating" the plaque into more historically revealing terms.
To quote one sympathetic account of the Linebacker II bombing campaign:
In light of the 20,000 tons of bombs that were dropped on the citizens of Hanoi and Haiphong, there were relatively few casualties. Only 1,318 people were killed in Hanoi and 306 in Haiphong, a truly remarkable number.
So no, the plaque does not proudly proclaim that the bomber killed thousands of Vietnamese civilians. It proudly proclaims that the bomber took part in an operation in which 1624 (over a thousand, but not "thousands and thousands") Vietnamese, mostly (not exclusively) civilians, were killed. So while Moore is exaggerating, he's actually reading the plaque with far more attention to allusion than you, or especially Hardy Law, with your (plural) complete lack of historical knowledge or intellectual discernment, seem capable of doing. By proclaiming that the plane was part of Linebacker II, the plaque is indeed bragging about an operation designed to kill a large number of Vietnamese civilians.
For an example of the sort of history he no doubt had in mind, see this account of the combat history of the B-52.
Sorry, you're quite right to be annoyed. The UK is more than England (and I've probably got Scot ancestors lurking back there who are egging you on).
I have no trouble loading the page in Firefox 0.8 for OS X. I do, however, have trouble finding a reference to Mozilla on this page : http://www.us-cert.gov/current/current_activity.ht ml#iis5
Can anyone point to a single free software worm that auto propagated?
Depending upon how loose you are with the term free, The Great Worm might qualify: it attacked BSD, which while not "free" at the time WAS shared source and is an ancestor to one of the titans of Free Software. Yes, MS is more exploitable than FOSS; but that's not an absolute.