Direct contradiction of previous rulings are the norm. In it's history, the Supreme Court first upheld segregation (Seperate but Equal) and then struck it down (Brown vs. Board of Ed). The lawyers for the Brown side of the case didn't argue on the basis of the constitution or whether or not the Equal side of Seperate but Equal was being fulfilled (which it wasn't), but on the basis of the inethicality of segregation.
I hate to nitpick, but the lawyers really did argue on the "equal" side, more so than the inethicality of segregation. They proved that their schools were woefully inadequate relative to "white" schools, violating the Due Process Clause in the Constitution. You don't go to the Supreme Court unless you have standing, and their standing wasn't just based on moral statements about segregation. It was about violation of a specific law. In gay rights cases, the argument stems from Fourth Amendment privacy rights and 14th amendment rights being violated. Same with abortion rights cases.
Also, "direct contradiction of previous rulings" is in NO WAY the norm. They follow a legal doctrine called stare decisis (stare pronounced like starry), which is basically that you try and maintain consistency in judgments and base rulings on established precedent. The SCOTUS tries to uphold past rulings as much as they possibly can. Overturning rulings left and right hurts the legitimacy of their decisions, and even so, usually only parts of previous rulings are overturned. Brown was a huge exception, not the rule.
Excellent comparison of this to the Betamax case, though, and how Betamax was merely a litmus test here. I agree 100%.
I guess a programming major insn't enough. Now I need to learn Indian as well.
Maybe you need to learn to be culturally literate. "Indian" isn't a language. Likewise, "programming" isn't a major. It's a skill. Computer science is a major. That's like saying "typing" is your major rather than, say, English.
Since you're new, I'll forgive you. But here are your problems: 1) The previous statement said "Turkey sells 88 million casettes..." Your retort is not parallel. The correct response is, "In Soviet Russia, casette sells you!" or something equivalent. 2) I noticed you're sitting pretty a score of 1. To increase that score, you nowadays can't just make a lame Soviet Russia joke. Throw in those now-popular old people in Korea, perhaps. Maybe write "I know I'll get modded down for thus but..." and then whatever. That's a surefire way to get to 5. Or you could say something that alludes to "In Soviet Russia" without actually writing it. For example, "You know the editors are just baiting us by saying 'In Saudi Arabia...'", except say something funny instead of that.
By the way, I know I'll get modded down for this whole spiel.
Couldn't have put it better myself. I mean, look at Family Guy. That thing was sitting pretty at TBS and Cartoon Network in perpetual rerun land for a looooooong time till Fox got off their duff, listened to fans (and DVD sales numbers) and ordered new episodes. I imagine Firefly will suffer the same fate.
Sort of off-topic, but I had absolutely no idea how many textbooks are available on eMule. I mean, I needed Jackson's Electrodynamics book, and it was there. My friend got me Sakurai's Quantum Book off there, and that's just the tip of the (online book-pilfering) iceberg. So, maybe Xerox avoided the wrath of publishers, but might they go after online services like this next? And no, neither book is public domain (yet).
Um...more popular than self-contained P2P services, sure, but what about good ol' torrent sites? I know I get my music off torrent places all the time, especially when I want to preview a whole album before buying (or, um, not buying).
But shouldn't someone edit that to say, "The latest Game Over column at CNN Money notes, 'History tells us: Don't believe what you're hearing about the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.There was a lot of hype last week about the next generation of game machines. Microsoft said the Xbox 360 will ultimately reach 1 billion consumers worldwide, while Sony gave a laundry list of features for the PlayStation 3, showing some jaw dropping footage along the way. (Nintendo promised a Revolution, but didn't go much further than that.) I hate to be a wet blanket, but it's time to come back to reality.' Here's a link to the rest of the article." or something to that effect? It seems to me that "anonymous reader" is not giving props where props are due, bordering on plagiarizing. I know, we can all RTFA and find out he stole the paragraph verbatim, but isn't that like releasing a book called "Fahrenheit 451" and then putting a small endnote that says, "Oh, um, this was written by Ray Bradbury."?
*yawn* Baseless assertions bore me. The Gamecube did about as well at the XBox in the US, and completely destroyed it in Japan. If you add that up, it makes the Gamecube much more potent than the XBox, in terms of sales. If you mean hype/PR, then maybe the Gamecube lags, but Nintendo's press conference isn't till today, anyway.
For the second damn time, I found out about preview screenings off of slashdot, way after the fact. Well, now I've bookmarked the page just in case they add Houston.
Karma burning....I mean, I hate Wal-Mart more than any other company in the world and have not been in a store in almost a year, nor will I ever set foot in one again. That being said, it's not a huge deal, is it? After RTFA, it seems that all the kid had to do was take down some of the offending images, which are copyrighted anyway. Likewise, I can't use Slashdot's logo and crap without permission. Granted, they probably wouldn't care, but not caring != legal. I might be wrong, so I'm sure someone will correct me.
Perhaps Sony's learned lessons from "Beta" and "Memory Stick".
Beta, yes. Memory Stick? Last I heard they were sticking to their guns, mostly because I think their memory-stick-requiring products like digital cameras, digital video cameras, and the PSP, use them. Doesn't mean memory sticks don't suck, just that Sony hasn't backtracked on the memory stick yet.
Does this really matter? Couldn't Sony still release their next PlayStation with BlueRay discs as their format? I mean, they did use UMD for the PSP, and they isn't a common format. If you know more about this let me know, but this to me would mean it could prevent more illegal copying of game discs.
My guess would be that they want a BlueRay more widely accepted for their broader media goals, like movies and music and so forth. UMD doesn't really have that much market potential in those areas, I guess. This is pure speculation, but it's a possible answer to your question.
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I used Opera for four years, from 2000-2004, then switched to Firefox for 2 main reasons: 1) Smaller menu bar at the top 2) I felt like a change
To be honest, though, Firefox was a bitch to set up with my three favorite features from Opera:
1)Mouse gestures - the Firefox extension's all-in-one gestures default to different gestures than the opera ones, which was annoying to fix, but not a big deal. Opera's defaults are more intuitive, too. 2) Save session. It took me awhile to find a good working version of this for Firefox, but I loved resuming my session when I closed Opera. 3) Quickly turn on and off pop-ups with F12. Still no good solution in Firefox, as far as I've found.
The fact that Firefox needs an extension for single-window mode is also kind of stupid and annoying. Other people have said this above, but good grief, people, Firefox owes a LOT to Opera. In fact, in a comparison I like Opera more. It's not IE. Firefox is NOT the end all of browsers; it's on par with Opera. Once I get bored with Firefox, I'll probably switch back. And the ad is a small price to pay for promoting a good product. It's a small bar, and if you hate it that much the inevitable crack takes maybe 1 minute of Googling to find.
Did the studio execs want a flashy blockbuster like Men In Black, or were they projecting for a lower box office total with the production (and thus not as willing to pony up big effects dollars)?
Darby Conley does the strip for a living. He doesn't need a time machine, just the extra 8 hours a day the rest of us are working. It's still an awesome strip, and it makes shittily-drawn and shittily-written strips that much worse by comparison, but just keep in mind he's not quite the superman most webcomics people with fulltime jobs and a daily strip must be.
I think anyone that's ever tried a webcomic knows that consistency is the biggest challenge. It's hard to develop a routine and get strips up in a timely fashion with some degree of regularity. That's a critical factor in determining a strip's early success at drawing an audience. Internet users are lazy, and if you don't have any timeliness, they move on. People might counter with Mac Hall or Megatokyo, but those premiered during a slightly less dense webcomic atmosphere. Also, they drew audiences in with the art, which is the other key component. You can slack off on the updates if your art kicks ass and still maintain a decent audience. Hell, if you get both you become a rising megastar like Apple Geeks or Scary Go Round.
"Frequent screwups?" What do you mean? The problems with the update script? Any/.er with 2 seconds should be able to find the direct link to the.gif every MWF:) You're right that the 3x a week thing prevents their entry, but I don't think they've missed a single update in the 6+ years of Penny Arcade.
Say what you will about her policies, Fiorina was still one of only a handful of significant female CEO's in the world today. In fact, I can't think of another one off the top of my head, and certainly no other woman heads a company as powerful and important as HP.
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Direct contradiction of previous rulings are the norm. In it's history, the Supreme Court first upheld segregation (Seperate but Equal) and then struck it down (Brown vs. Board of Ed). The lawyers for the Brown side of the case didn't argue on the basis of the constitution or whether or not the Equal side of Seperate but Equal was being fulfilled (which it wasn't), but on the basis of the inethicality of segregation.
I hate to nitpick, but the lawyers really did argue on the "equal" side, more so than the inethicality of segregation. They proved that their schools were woefully inadequate relative to "white" schools, violating the Due Process Clause in the Constitution. You don't go to the Supreme Court unless you have standing, and their standing wasn't just based on moral statements about segregation. It was about violation of a specific law. In gay rights cases, the argument stems from Fourth Amendment privacy rights and 14th amendment rights being violated. Same with abortion rights cases.
Also, "direct contradiction of previous rulings" is in NO WAY the norm. They follow a legal doctrine called stare decisis (stare pronounced like starry), which is basically that you try and maintain consistency in judgments and base rulings on established precedent. The SCOTUS tries to uphold past rulings as much as they possibly can. Overturning rulings left and right hurts the legitimacy of their decisions, and even so, usually only parts of previous rulings are overturned. Brown was a huge exception, not the rule.
Excellent comparison of this to the Betamax case, though, and how Betamax was merely a litmus test here. I agree 100%.
This reminds of something a friend of mine once said to me: "The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally."
I guess a programming major insn't enough. Now I need to learn Indian as well.
Maybe you need to learn to be culturally literate. "Indian" isn't a language. Likewise, "programming" isn't a major. It's a skill. Computer science is a major. That's like saying "typing" is your major rather than, say, English.
In Soviet Russia, cassette tapes you!
Since you're new, I'll forgive you. But here are your problems:
1) The previous statement said "Turkey sells 88 million casettes..." Your retort is not parallel. The correct response is, "In Soviet Russia, casette sells you!" or something equivalent.
2) I noticed you're sitting pretty a score of 1. To increase that score, you nowadays can't just make a lame Soviet Russia joke. Throw in those now-popular old people in Korea, perhaps. Maybe write "I know I'll get modded down for thus but..." and then whatever. That's a surefire way to get to 5. Or you could say something that alludes to "In Soviet Russia" without actually writing it. For example, "You know the editors are just baiting us by saying 'In Saudi Arabia...'", except say something funny instead of that.
By the way, I know I'll get modded down for this whole spiel.
Couldn't have put it better myself. I mean, look at Family Guy. That thing was sitting pretty at TBS and Cartoon Network in perpetual rerun land for a looooooong time till Fox got off their duff, listened to fans (and DVD sales numbers) and ordered new episodes. I imagine Firefly will suffer the same fate.
Xerox ruined the publishing industry
Sort of off-topic, but I had absolutely no idea how many textbooks are available on eMule. I mean, I needed Jackson's Electrodynamics book, and it was there. My friend got me Sakurai's Quantum Book off there, and that's just the tip of the (online book-pilfering) iceberg. So, maybe Xerox avoided the wrath of publishers, but might they go after online services like this next? And no, neither book is public domain (yet).
Um...more popular than self-contained P2P services, sure, but what about good ol' torrent sites? I know I get my music off torrent places all the time, especially when I want to preview a whole album before buying (or, um, not buying).
But shouldn't someone edit that to say, "The latest Game Over column at CNN Money notes, 'History tells us: Don't believe what you're hearing about the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.There was a lot of hype last week about the next generation of game machines. Microsoft said the Xbox 360 will ultimately reach 1 billion consumers worldwide, while Sony gave a laundry list of features for the PlayStation 3, showing some jaw dropping footage along the way. (Nintendo promised a Revolution, but didn't go much further than that.) I hate to be a wet blanket, but it's time to come back to reality.' Here's a link to the rest of the article." or something to that effect? It seems to me that "anonymous reader" is not giving props where props are due, bordering on plagiarizing. I know, we can all RTFA and find out he stole the paragraph verbatim, but isn't that like releasing a book called "Fahrenheit 451" and then putting a small endnote that says, "Oh, um, this was written by Ray Bradbury."?
Gamecube was a distant 3rd in the console scene
*yawn* Baseless assertions bore me. The Gamecube did about as well at the XBox in the US, and completely destroyed it in Japan. If you add that up, it makes the Gamecube much more potent than the XBox, in terms of sales. If you mean hype/PR, then maybe the Gamecube lags, but Nintendo's press conference isn't till today, anyway.
It means that game developers programming in assembly language will only have to learn one.
Really? I assumed that the Cell (PS3) and the PowerPC (Revolution, Xbox 360) were pretty different, architecturally.
For the second damn time, I found out about preview screenings off of slashdot, way after the fact. Well, now I've bookmarked the page just in case they add Houston.
The place will be full of dozens of idiots dressed in spandex and insisting thet they come from the future.
Maybe spandex is all the rage in 3166.
I think it's a safe bet to include DMCA in any C&D letter. Even if it doesn't apply, it's a good legal scare tactic. Everyone's afraid of the DMCA.
Karma burning....I mean, I hate Wal-Mart more than any other company in the world and have not been in a store in almost a year, nor will I ever set foot in one again. That being said, it's not a huge deal, is it? After RTFA, it seems that all the kid had to do was take down some of the offending images, which are copyrighted anyway. Likewise, I can't use Slashdot's logo and crap without permission. Granted, they probably wouldn't care, but not caring != legal. I might be wrong, so I'm sure someone will correct me.
Perhaps Sony's learned lessons from "Beta" and "Memory Stick".
Beta, yes. Memory Stick? Last I heard they were sticking to their guns, mostly because I think their memory-stick-requiring products like digital cameras, digital video cameras, and the PSP, use them. Doesn't mean memory sticks don't suck, just that Sony hasn't backtracked on the memory stick yet.
Does this really matter? Couldn't Sony still release their next PlayStation with BlueRay discs as their format? I mean, they did use UMD for the PSP, and they isn't a common format. If you know more about this let me know, but this to me would mean it could prevent more illegal copying of game discs.
My guess would be that they want a BlueRay more widely accepted for their broader media goals, like movies and music and so forth. UMD doesn't really have that much market potential in those areas, I guess. This is pure speculation, but it's a possible answer to your question.
I used Opera for four years, from 2000-2004, then switched to Firefox for 2 main reasons:
1) Smaller menu bar at the top
2) I felt like a change
To be honest, though, Firefox was a bitch to set up with my three favorite features from Opera:
1)Mouse gestures - the Firefox extension's all-in-one gestures default to different gestures than the opera ones, which was annoying to fix, but not a big deal. Opera's defaults are more intuitive, too.
2) Save session. It took me awhile to find a good working version of this for Firefox, but I loved resuming my session when I closed Opera.
3) Quickly turn on and off pop-ups with F12. Still no good solution in Firefox, as far as I've found.
The fact that Firefox needs an extension for single-window mode is also kind of stupid and annoying. Other people have said this above, but good grief, people, Firefox owes a LOT to Opera. In fact, in a comparison I like Opera more. It's not IE. Firefox is NOT the end all of browsers; it's on par with Opera. Once I get bored with Firefox, I'll probably switch back. And the ad is a small price to pay for promoting a good product. It's a small bar, and if you hate it that much the inevitable crack takes maybe 1 minute of Googling to find.
" No stopwatch. Less features than Mozilla. Lame."
Anonymous poster. Someone who is blind to anything not open source. Lame.
Marthisdil. Unaware of the clever reference to Taco's comments on the iPod. Lame.
Did the studio execs want a flashy blockbuster like Men In Black, or were they projecting for a lower box office total with the production (and thus not as willing to pony up big effects dollars)?
Um...you don't need to make the exact same comment twice. I think we got the point the first time. Dual-G4 good, gotcha.
I think citing User Friendly hurts your webcomic street cred.
Darby Conley does the strip for a living. He doesn't need a time machine, just the extra 8 hours a day the rest of us are working. It's still an awesome strip, and it makes shittily-drawn and shittily-written strips that much worse by comparison, but just keep in mind he's not quite the superman most webcomics people with fulltime jobs and a daily strip must be.
I think anyone that's ever tried a webcomic knows that consistency is the biggest challenge. It's hard to develop a routine and get strips up in a timely fashion with some degree of regularity. That's a critical factor in determining a strip's early success at drawing an audience. Internet users are lazy, and if you don't have any timeliness, they move on. People might counter with Mac Hall or Megatokyo, but those premiered during a slightly less dense webcomic atmosphere. Also, they drew audiences in with the art, which is the other key component. You can slack off on the updates if your art kicks ass and still maintain a decent audience. Hell, if you get both you become a rising megastar like Apple Geeks or Scary Go Round.
"Frequent screwups?" What do you mean? The problems with the update script? Any /.er with 2 seconds should be able to find the direct link to the .gif every MWF :) You're right that the 3x a week thing prevents their entry, but I don't think they've missed a single update in the 6+ years of Penny Arcade.
Say what you will about her policies, Fiorina was still one of only a handful of significant female CEO's in the world today. In fact, I can't think of another one off the top of my head, and certainly no other woman heads a company as powerful and important as HP.