Actually, I bet a LOT of people thought that. When I worked at blockbuster, I had the following incidents happen to me:
*a man asked for a particular movie for his daughter. I checked the computer, and we did not have it. He got irate and said "your commercials said you have EVERY movie!" I replied "haha, the store would have to be a lot bigger than this to hold every movie!" The guy just angrily stared at me and walked away. He was not kidding.
*some hillbilly walked in one day and said "do you guys have free movies?" and I said "no, you have to pay for movies." He says "your sign says you have free movies." I reply, "the sign says if you rent four movies, you get one free." "so you don't have free movies?" "No." and he walked out without saying another word.
Blockbuster is deceptive, I know because I worked for the bastards. But frankly, people don't even read the regular sized print.
The claim that blockbuster censors movies themselves has been around for the better part of a decade at least. This claim was extremely popular among the horror movie Fangoria crowd. It has been completely disproved, and years ago at that. The rumor won't die though.
There's already Lotus Notes client for OS X, and a cursory look at it would indicate that it's a port. I would have thought that would have gone a long way toward porting Lotus Notes to Linux, if they were careful. The Notes UI appears to be built on it's own toolkit, so that would have to help too. This is really too bad. Between Notes and Visio, if they were supported native in Linux, I could switch:-(
According to this article, the Federal Government disagrees about immunity for Indian tribes under the Jenkins act. They assert that theh Jenkins act would apply for shipments FROM indian reservations to non-indians, just not TO indian reservations. This does not appear to be legally clear, and I find this assertion confusing. I don't see how the federal government can make indian tribes report tax information since they are on sovereign land, unless there is a treaty or something?
IANAL myself, but you didn't give the specific reason _why_ the court ruled this way. It was for a reason you didn't list.
This case was only _reversed_ because it was framed as a public health issue (successfully), for which states have the right to "regulate" interstate commerce independently of the federal government, and in _spite_ of the dormant commerce clause. If it was not for the fact that out of state sellers were unlicensed in NY for selling a product that was a threat to the health of NY citizens, who is to say that the court would have ruled that the state was wrong?
We actually CAN say that the courts would have ruled the state had no authority to tax this, because that IS HOW THEY RULED before it was overturned on appeal by being framed as a public health issue rather than regulation for the sake of regulation. So while the parent poster was incorrect about cigarettes in specific, it looks to me like the court's prior ruling is directly in line with the granparent post's point: that the slashdot writeup's worry that states could tax amazon.com is unfounded. The ruling you cited does not contradict this interpretation.
This is one thing I have really particularly liked about the macintosh. You can put things like "exit" on the menu item that's the name of the application, rather than in the nonsensical typical manner on Windows, putting exit under "file".
Have you ever watched British Parliament on TV? You've pretty much described it perfectly. The USA doesn't have anything remotely resembling a monopoly on hyperbole.
This is a classic straw man. Build up a bullshit definition of personal responsibility, then knock it down and claim victory.
The original poster clearly was saying that people who own guns probably are sympathetic to people that have to defend video games from wacko ban-everything types. I don't see anything there justifying murder, nor anything even remotely resembling class warfare.
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You are right about "superhashing", but it doesn't do this, it keeps a separate hash for three different hashing routines for the file. It would be pretty difficult to find a collision that works for all three separate cryptographic hashes. for the same offending file.
A single video card with one framebuffer can do this. My AGP radeon can do 3D across two monitors. Otherwise, some games have built-in support for more than one monitor, but it has to be specially programmed.
The goal here is to have full 3D acceleration on a desktop that spans multiple video _cards_, not just multiple monitors on a single card, and to have it be transparent to games, so they will all work as if you were using just one monitor.
Whether or not this would be implemented will be a big deal on which of these fancy features will be supported on multimon systems completely.
I didn't see any specific mention in here, but does this include having a fully 3D accelerated Framebuffer device across graphics cards? I've been missing this for a while in X, having just gotten triple-monitor across two Radeons working. It would be cool to be able to play any 3D game across three monitors.
I'm not losing any sleep over this, but it would be cool. I read on an X board that some people are looking at this, but it's obviously a big undertaking.
Citrix is the only remote desktop tool I have used through a VPN connection over the internet that didn't just abhorrently suck. I use VNC on my internal network for OS X and Windows (VNC is better than the alternatives), but it's not pleasant over the internet.
I'd still rather use Linux than any other OS.
Paramount is seriously NOT interested in spending the kind of money that in the past was used for Trek series, they have even stated as such--they wanted to cut costs.
Having a writer like JMS could actually make this work. He's demonstrated he can make a good story that doesn't rely on special effects and huge sets, just good character writing.
I didn't start enjoying DS9 until they had the big war, personally. There is a lot of stuff however, that I HATED about DS9. After a certain point, it became _primarily_ soap-operaish, dealing with trivial aspects of the characters. Over time, the characters interpresonal relationships were weakened. This was probably a necessity because of how different they all really were, but it still was distracting. There was gratuitous sensuality, something that almost didn't exist in TNG.
They also started using cheap tricks, like "holo-communicators" ("we don't even have to bluescreen viewscreens now! think of how much money we'll save!") a preponderance of "fan-pleaser" episodes that were more like a sitcom and fanboy devices like a federation ship with a romulan cloaking device, and lots of alternate dimension and time travel episodes.
The problem with Trek is that the more populist tries to become, it loses its real fans, who are the only people who actually keep it alive. You can see it clearly doing this from DS9 on. Not unsurprisingly, DS9 was declared the "best" Star Trek series by TV Guide. Of course they did, it was the Love Boat in space.
In my opinion, the first season wasn't even watchable until I saw the second season, and it revealed enough that I knew what was going on. With the context of the more revealing season two, season one became enjoyable. Personal opinion, is all. I know a lot of people who agree with me though.
I'm a Linux and newly-minted fulltime OS X user, but I do have to say that there is something to be said for being able to go into any store and grab hardware or software and have it work. I'm also amazed at things that Windows has had forever that Linux still doesn't have, like 3d across virtual framebuffer, or (usably fast) remote desktop.
And, in preemptive defense of my statements, Xfree is cool, but it's a little old, it only got fast because hardware is megapowerful compared to 10 years ago, and remote X is SHIT SLOW compared to citrix.
Neither the majority of democrats nor american citizens as a whole support gay marriage, and frankly, pissing people off spouting highly tenuous positions such as "republicans hate gays" and "God made people gay" will not make the world a better place.
I am a conservative. I support gay marriage because it's supposed to be a free country. I am under no illusions that social change doesn't have to take a long time, and you shouldn't be either. Do what you can to support what you believe in, but please don't do things that will only piss people off, and don't undertake actions that rely on popular support you simply don't have, either in your party or with the american public.
Republicans controlled congress for the first time in almost half a century, and Clinton had to co-opt the republican party platform (including a balanced budget) to keep his popularity up. No one even disputes this.
Does anyone know how this would apply to antiquities? Namely, I have pictures of hieroglyphics that are currently in the possession of a museum. However, I would like to make these pictures public domain. Am I restricted from doing so?
I'd find it ironic if the museum could assert property rights. It is highly likely that originally the hieroglyphics were spirited from Egypt under questionable legality.
No, YOU are missing the point. He didn't say it was great, he said it was not as bad, which you acknowledge. Now I ask you: assuming this to be true, why would the Original Poster move to where it's in fact _worse_?
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Actually, I bet a LOT of people thought that. When I worked at blockbuster, I had the following incidents happen to me:
*a man asked for a particular movie for his daughter. I checked the computer, and we did not have it. He got irate and said "your commercials said you have EVERY movie!" I replied "haha, the store would have to be a lot bigger than this to hold every movie!" The guy just angrily stared at me and walked away. He was not kidding.
*some hillbilly walked in one day and said "do you guys have free movies?" and I said "no, you have to pay for movies." He says "your sign says you have free movies." I reply, "the sign says if you rent four movies, you get one free." "so you don't have free movies?" "No." and he walked out without saying another word.
Blockbuster is deceptive, I know because I worked for the bastards. But frankly, people don't even read the regular sized print.
Blockbuster may have upwards of 200 copies of any particular new release, while typically a library has one. That's how they do business.
The claim that blockbuster censors movies themselves has been around for the better part of a decade at least. This claim was extremely popular among the horror movie Fangoria crowd. It has been completely disproved, and years ago at that. The rumor won't die though.
There's already Lotus Notes client for OS X, and a cursory look at it would indicate that it's a port. I would have thought that would have gone a long way toward porting Lotus Notes to Linux, if they were careful. The Notes UI appears to be built on it's own toolkit, so that would have to help too. This is really too bad. Between Notes and Visio, if they were supported native in Linux, I could switch :-(
According to this article, the Federal Government disagrees about immunity for Indian tribes under the Jenkins act. They assert that theh Jenkins act would apply for shipments FROM indian reservations to non-indians, just not TO indian reservations. This does not appear to be legally clear, and I find this assertion confusing. I don't see how the federal government can make indian tribes report tax information since they are on sovereign land, unless there is a treaty or something?
IANAL myself, but you didn't give the specific reason _why_ the court ruled this way. It was for a reason you didn't list.
This case was only _reversed_ because it was framed as a public health issue (successfully), for which states have the right to "regulate" interstate commerce independently of the federal government, and in _spite_ of the dormant commerce clause. If it was not for the fact that out of state sellers were unlicensed in NY for selling a product that was a threat to the health of NY citizens, who is to say that the court would have ruled that the state was wrong?
We actually CAN say that the courts would have ruled the state had no authority to tax this, because that IS HOW THEY RULED before it was overturned on appeal by being framed as a public health issue rather than regulation for the sake of regulation. So while the parent poster was incorrect about cigarettes in specific, it looks to me like the court's prior ruling is directly in line with the granparent post's point: that the slashdot writeup's worry that states could tax amazon.com is unfounded. The ruling you cited does not contradict this interpretation.
Interested in your opinion on this. Again, IANAL.
This is one thing I have really particularly liked about the macintosh. You can put things like "exit" on the menu item that's the name of the application, rather than in the nonsensical typical manner on Windows, putting exit under "file".
Have you ever watched British Parliament on TV? You've pretty much described it perfectly. The USA doesn't have anything remotely resembling a monopoly on hyperbole.
This is a classic straw man. Build up a bullshit definition of personal responsibility, then knock it down and claim victory.
The original poster clearly was saying that people who own guns probably are sympathetic to people that have to defend video games from wacko ban-everything types. I don't see anything there justifying murder, nor anything even remotely resembling class warfare.
You are right about "superhashing", but it doesn't do this, it keeps a separate hash for three different hashing routines for the file. It would be pretty difficult to find a collision that works for all three separate cryptographic hashes. for the same offending file.
A single video card with one framebuffer can do this. My AGP radeon can do 3D across two monitors. Otherwise, some games have built-in support for more than one monitor, but it has to be specially programmed.
The goal here is to have full 3D acceleration on a desktop that spans multiple video _cards_, not just multiple monitors on a single card, and to have it be transparent to games, so they will all work as if you were using just one monitor.
Whether or not this would be implemented will be a big deal on which of these fancy features will be supported on multimon systems completely.
I didn't see any specific mention in here, but does this include having a fully 3D accelerated Framebuffer device across graphics cards? I've been missing this for a while in X, having just gotten triple-monitor across two Radeons working. It would be cool to be able to play any 3D game across three monitors.
I'm not losing any sleep over this, but it would be cool. I read on an X board that some people are looking at this, but it's obviously a big undertaking.
Citrix is the only remote desktop tool I have used through a VPN connection over the internet that didn't just abhorrently suck. I use VNC on my internal network for OS X and Windows (VNC is better than the alternatives), but it's not pleasant over the internet. I'd still rather use Linux than any other OS.
Prime directive: Two Wongs make it white?
Paramount is seriously NOT interested in spending the kind of money that in the past was used for Trek series, they have even stated as such--they wanted to cut costs.
Having a writer like JMS could actually make this work. He's demonstrated he can make a good story that doesn't rely on special effects and huge sets, just good character writing.
I didn't start enjoying DS9 until they had the big war, personally. There is a lot of stuff however, that I HATED about DS9. After a certain point, it became _primarily_ soap-operaish, dealing with trivial aspects of the characters. Over time, the characters interpresonal relationships were weakened. This was probably a necessity because of how different they all really were, but it still was distracting. There was gratuitous sensuality, something that almost didn't exist in TNG.
They also started using cheap tricks, like "holo-communicators" ("we don't even have to bluescreen viewscreens now! think of how much money we'll save!") a preponderance of "fan-pleaser" episodes that were more like a sitcom and fanboy devices like a federation ship with a romulan cloaking device, and lots of alternate dimension and time travel episodes.
The problem with Trek is that the more populist tries to become, it loses its real fans, who are the only people who actually keep it alive. You can see it clearly doing this from DS9 on. Not unsurprisingly, DS9 was declared the "best" Star Trek series by TV Guide. Of course they did, it was the Love Boat in space.
In my opinion, the first season wasn't even watchable until I saw the second season, and it revealed enough that I knew what was going on. With the context of the more revealing season two, season one became enjoyable. Personal opinion, is all. I know a lot of people who agree with me though.
I'm a Linux and newly-minted fulltime OS X user, but I do have to say that there is something to be said for being able to go into any store and grab hardware or software and have it work. I'm also amazed at things that Windows has had forever that Linux still doesn't have, like 3d across virtual framebuffer, or (usably fast) remote desktop.
And, in preemptive defense of my statements, Xfree is cool, but it's a little old, it only got fast because hardware is megapowerful compared to 10 years ago, and remote X is SHIT SLOW compared to citrix.
Yeah, and I "betcha" multimillionaire movie star Arnold gives a shit how much he pays a year in gas.
Neither the majority of democrats nor american citizens as a whole support gay marriage, and frankly, pissing people off spouting highly tenuous positions such as "republicans hate gays" and "God made people gay" will not make the world a better place.
I am a conservative. I support gay marriage because it's supposed to be a free country. I am under no illusions that social change doesn't have to take a long time, and you shouldn't be either. Do what you can to support what you believe in, but please don't do things that will only piss people off, and don't undertake actions that rely on popular support you simply don't have, either in your party or with the american public.
Republicans controlled congress for the first time in almost half a century, and Clinton had to co-opt the republican party platform (including a balanced budget) to keep his popularity up. No one even disputes this.
Only 8 more years and I can kick it out.
Does anyone know how this would apply to antiquities? Namely, I have pictures of hieroglyphics that are currently in the possession of a museum. However, I would like to make these pictures public domain. Am I restricted from doing so?
I'd find it ironic if the museum could assert property rights. It is highly likely that originally the hieroglyphics were spirited from Egypt under questionable legality.
No, YOU are missing the point. He didn't say it was great, he said it was not as bad, which you acknowledge. Now I ask you: assuming this to be true, why would the Original Poster move to where it's in fact _worse_?
You need to learn how to "think different". Report to your nearest Apple store for reprogramming.