My prediction: all machines that come with XP SP2 preinstalled will include the service; everyone else will get an update alert to install the new, improved WMP 9.5 or whatever. (Maybe they'll even find some kind of major security flaw in WMP that will have to be patched, and add the music service to the security patch, so it will be auto-installed by those who have their update settings that way.)
And Jobs is not going to roll over the way AOL/Time Warner did. We'll finally find out what happens when the irresistable force meets the immovable object.
[Of course, Apple's case will be quite hypocritical, given that MS will be doing in Windows exactly what Apple is doing in OS X; but Apple doesn't have a monopoly, and that's the technicality which will matter...]
Try George W. Bush. I just did. It'll say something on the order of 301 hits. Scroll through the pages to the last hit. Suddenly, the number jumps through the roof. I find it hard to believe that the first 300 hits are all sponsored links. I think something else is going on here: MSN has not only sponsored links, but some kind of edited directory scheme going here, and it doesn't care to let you know that the first number it quoted is of those links which are sponsored or added editorial, and the second number is a raw search result.
Just closing out the cliffhanger that could have been eliminating in editing anyway. What Farscape really needs is a 22-episode 1-arc final season. But that isn't going to happen. Period.
It starts to climb uphill fast with the episode "A Bug's Life," which is something like 1.19, when the story line becomes pretty tightly integrated.
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You obviously didn't listen to the audio. The command to the unknown alien is to RETRIEVE the trespassers. So when they're blown to bits, it's part of some kind of disable-and-retrieve weapon.
Indeed, but what if there will, at some point, be a person that is neither natural, or a company.
AI would probably fit this category.
Then they're screwed, I suspect. Either that or a court would have to recognize them as a "natural" person (there are a whole bunch of different ways of construing "natural").
Of course, this could the loophole that Golem XIV was looking for in its efforts to take over the Moon.
I assume you realized that those two definitions are reversed? Anyway, though historically one has said British subjects, more recently creeping Republicanism (this is the British version of "Republicanism" I'm talking about here) has dictated the use of "citizen." The distinction is most important in French history, at a time when the French crown was far more controlling than the British one had been for decades.
Hey, that explains it... the story was *submitted* in 1998, but the net congestion was so screwed up that day the packets got routed through Proxima.... oh, wait a minute, that would've had the story being posting in 2008.
In the very unlikely event that SCO does manage to kill Linux, and any other UNIX-like free operating system, you would see the ground cleared for a new-generation operating system. Free and Open Software might lose this battle, but there's no way it will lose the war, because it depends upon the same skills and character traits that Closed and Proprietary Software do: coding and design skills, and curiosity and the urge to tinker. There will never be another world without free software, because it is an inevitable product of the application of human curiosity to the workings of logical machines. Even in a non-free society with computers, there would still be hacking.
They borrowed from everyone: syncretism run amok in the service of a good evening's eye candy. And Christ ain't the only one who can come again: Arthur, for one (though he is a subform of Christ in Malory), and the Hidden Imam of Ismaili Islam, and Osiris (hundreds of years before Christ); and other religions have ressurection myths: Hippolytus, for one.
Interesting points. A few more things for you to chew on:
1. The reason for the Mobil Ave scene is to introduce us to Sati, and to motivate Neo's sparing of the machine city. Think about it: there was a frigging EMP on that hovership. Get it right next to the the source and POW! no more Matrix. Neo does in fact save both worlds, and he does it because he learns (through the Oracle, the Seraph, and Sati) that the programs are just like people: some good, some bad.
2. Neo is taken away on a platform, apparently grievously wounded, but (if we are to believe the Oracle) not dead: he may return. Can you think of any other heroes who were taken away to be healed, and will return some day? (Hint: he had this sword, see, and he got it out of a stone...)
3. Did you notice how much the Merovingian's club looked like something out of a Durer or (even worse) Bosch painting? Why do you think that was? Why is his wife's name Persephone?
My opinion: the fight between Neo and Smith sucked big time. Simply too damned much wire work, and the rain didn't have the effect I think the W. brothers wanted it to have. The battle in the Docks was spectacular action, though I did wonder why the important characters were able to crawl around unharmed with all those sentinels around. So 10 out of 10 for eye candy, but -3 for failure to suspend disbelief. The chase in the mechanical shaft is a rerun of every Tie Fighter/Millenium Falcon chase. The fight at the elevator is a retread of the fight in the lobby in the first Matrix. The best scenes in the movie are Neo's conversation with the programs waiting in Mobile Ave. Station (which lies between not the Matrix and the World of the Real, but between the Matrix and the Machine City's Core) and the final scene, which two scenes I'm sure nearly everyone else hated. A good movie, but not a great movie.
PS: Anybody wonder why the name of the ship Neo takes to the Source is called the Logos? Logos is Greek for "word," and in Christian theology, it is one of the names for Christ: the Word of God. But the Logos is also part of Gnostic mythology: the Logos is the seed with which Sophia (i.e., the Oracle) creates the new universe inside the prison of Yaldaboath's (the Architect's) creation.
So how is 5 3/8 in. square by 5/8 in. a good alternative to 4.1 by 2.4 by ~.62 in.? That's 18 in.^3 versus 6.2 in.^3 volume. Also, note that the weight on the Sony doesn't include the media (I'll assume that they weren't sleazy enough to exclude the batteries).
The iPod is designed to work as a synchable music player; it has no direct link to any other media player. Neither do most other "MP3" players. And by the way, the low end Walkmans do not have audio inputs.
Sturgeon's Law. Saying Flash is bad because of ads with a disabled stop button is like saying that JavaScript is bad because of popups. Code doesn't annoy people, people annoy people.
The sun is too small to form a black hole: a star must be at least 3 solar masses for an event horizon to form. The sun will expand into a red giant, then erupt as a simple nova (not a supernova), then the remnant will be a dwarf that will eventually burn out.
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My prediction: all machines that come with XP SP2 preinstalled will include the service; everyone else will get an update alert to install the new, improved WMP 9.5 or whatever. (Maybe they'll even find some kind of major security flaw in WMP that will have to be patched, and add the music service to the security patch, so it will be auto-installed by those who have their update settings that way.)
And Jobs is not going to roll over the way AOL/Time Warner did. We'll finally find out what happens when the irresistable force meets the immovable object.
[Of course, Apple's case will be quite hypocritical, given that MS will be doing in Windows exactly what Apple is doing in OS X; but Apple doesn't have a monopoly, and that's the technicality which will matter...]
IANAL
Try George W. Bush. I just did. It'll say something on the order of 301 hits. Scroll through the pages to the last hit. Suddenly, the number jumps through the roof. I find it hard to believe that the first 300 hits are all sponsored links. I think something else is going on here: MSN has not only sponsored links, but some kind of edited directory scheme going here, and it doesn't care to let you know that the first number it quoted is of those links which are sponsored or added editorial, and the second number is a raw search result.
Just closing out the cliffhanger that could have been eliminating in editing anyway. What Farscape really needs is a 22-episode 1-arc final season. But that isn't going to happen. Period.
It starts to climb uphill fast with the episode "A Bug's Life," which is something like 1.19, when the story line becomes pretty tightly integrated.
You obviously didn't listen to the audio. The command to the unknown alien is to RETRIEVE the trespassers. So when they're blown to bits, it's part of some kind of disable-and-retrieve weapon.
And do the snail mail BitTorrent. Buy those DVDs. WGBH store
I don't. I heard the interview, he sounded serious enough on that one.
Indeed, but what if there will, at some point, be a person that is neither natural, or a company. AI would probably fit this category.
Then they're screwed, I suspect. Either that or a court would have to recognize them as a "natural" person (there are a whole bunch of different ways of construing "natural").
Of course, this could the loophole that Golem XIV was looking for in its efforts to take over the Moon.
IANAL, this is all ignorant speculation.
"Natural person" is distinguished from "corporate person," i.e., a company. And companies are covered by "non-governmental entity." IANAL.
If you're living or working or doing business with/in the US, yes, you have to respond to the supoena.
I assume you realized that those two definitions are reversed? Anyway, though historically one has said British subjects, more recently creeping Republicanism (this is the British version of "Republicanism" I'm talking about here) has dictated the use of "citizen." The distinction is most important in French history, at a time when the French crown was far more controlling than the British one had been for decades.
Naw, we're not overpaid. They're horribly underpaid.
When viruses write themselves, then they will be expressions of the organic nature of the internet.
Hey, that explains it ... the story was *submitted* in 1998, but the net congestion was so screwed up that day the packets got routed through Proxima .... oh, wait a minute, that would've had the story being posting in 2008.
In the very unlikely event that SCO does manage to kill Linux, and any other UNIX-like free operating system, you would see the ground cleared for a new-generation operating system. Free and Open Software might lose this battle, but there's no way it will lose the war, because it depends upon the same skills and character traits that Closed and Proprietary Software do: coding and design skills, and curiosity and the urge to tinker. There will never be another world without free software, because it is an inevitable product of the application of human curiosity to the workings of logical machines. Even in a non-free society with computers, there would still be hacking.
They borrowed from everyone: syncretism run amok in the service of a good evening's eye candy. And Christ ain't the only one who can come again: Arthur, for one (though he is a subform of Christ in Malory), and the Hidden Imam of Ismaili Islam, and Osiris (hundreds of years before Christ); and other religions have ressurection myths: Hippolytus, for one.
Interesting points. A few more things for you to chew on:
1. The reason for the Mobil Ave scene is to introduce us to Sati, and to motivate Neo's sparing of the machine city. Think about it: there was a frigging EMP on that hovership. Get it right next to the the source and POW! no more Matrix. Neo does in fact save both worlds, and he does it because he learns (through the Oracle, the Seraph, and Sati) that the programs are just like people: some good, some bad.
2. Neo is taken away on a platform, apparently grievously wounded, but (if we are to believe the Oracle) not dead: he may return. Can you think of any other heroes who were taken away to be healed, and will return some day? (Hint: he had this sword, see, and he got it out of a stone ...)
3. Did you notice how much the Merovingian's club looked like something out of a Durer or (even worse) Bosch painting? Why do you think that was? Why is his wife's name Persephone?
My opinion: the fight between Neo and Smith sucked big time. Simply too damned much wire work, and the rain didn't have the effect I think the W. brothers wanted it to have. The battle in the Docks was spectacular action, though I did wonder why the important characters were able to crawl around unharmed with all those sentinels around. So 10 out of 10 for eye candy, but -3 for failure to suspend disbelief. The chase in the mechanical shaft is a rerun of every Tie Fighter/Millenium Falcon chase. The fight at the elevator is a retread of the fight in the lobby in the first Matrix. The best scenes in the movie are Neo's conversation with the programs waiting in Mobile Ave. Station (which lies between not the Matrix and the World of the Real, but between the Matrix and the Machine City's Core) and the final scene, which two scenes I'm sure nearly everyone else hated. A good movie, but not a great movie.
PS: Anybody wonder why the name of the ship Neo takes to the Source is called the Logos? Logos is Greek for "word," and in Christian theology, it is one of the names for Christ: the Word of God. But the Logos is also part of Gnostic mythology: the Logos is the seed with which Sophia (i.e., the Oracle) creates the new universe inside the prison of Yaldaboath's (the Architect's) creation.
Do I have to sign it in blood? Mephistopheles always made me sign his contracts in my own blood.
So how is 5 3/8 in. square by 5/8 in. a good alternative to 4.1 by 2.4 by ~.62 in.? That's 18 in.^3 versus 6.2 in.^3 volume. Also, note that the weight on the Sony doesn't include the media (I'll assume that they weren't sleazy enough to exclude the batteries).
The iPod is designed to work as a synchable music player; it has no direct link to any other media player. Neither do most other "MP3" players. And by the way, the low end Walkmans do not have audio inputs.
I can fix 802.11 to at least 2000, when it was in a friend's PowerBook. Also, Palm has a couple of BT capable PDAs.
Sturgeon's Law. Saying Flash is bad because of ads with a disabled stop button is like saying that JavaScript is bad because of popups. Code doesn't annoy people, people annoy people.
Well, it's not fair to say that it didn't work in Sicily. Dionysius was hardly ideal philosopher material.
The sun is too small to form a black hole: a star must be at least 3 solar masses for an event horizon to form. The sun will expand into a red giant, then erupt as a simple nova (not a supernova), then the remnant will be a dwarf that will eventually burn out.