It's a theory, to be discarded when it's proven to be false. A working idea. nothing more, nothing less.
Right, I see where you're coming from. So as soon as a single person comes along and makes incredible claims, we should instantly throw out decades of supporting evidence for the old theory and embrace the hydrino.
What are the changes you keep going back to a book you already finished anyway?
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I re-read my favourite books every 2-5 years. More than half of my main bookshelf I've read at least twice.
A friend of mine once made the same comment as you, and I thought it was totally strange. I see the stories I like as being similar to landmarks - I can come back to them every so often, and see how I perceive them differently as I get older.
What company gives regular IT people their own offices?
I've been at a Fortune 500 company for five years, and in that whole time (which has spanned two buildings), the only people with offices were the directors.
No, its not old HerbaLife, and not snake oil either...
On the other hand, it IS composed entirely of things you can get at your local health food store for significantly less money.
For the prices they're charging, you could be importing actual pharmaceuticals like Vasopressin and Piracetam from Europe. Assuming you're in North America, of course.
Send the studio emails about how you would really like to watch it if you could buy weekly DVDs or downloads.
It's not worth my time, honestly. I have what I want, and they get my money eventually. BSG is the only show I like that's currently broadcast, and it's guaranteed that I will own every DVD set that's released.
If I don't like how much a restaurant charges for their food, or how long it takes for it to reach my table, I don't wait in the alley for the cook to through the scraps in the dumpster so that I can get it for free.
Except that waiting in the alley for scraps means inconveniencing yourself for an inferior product.
if by convenient, you mean free, then I guess you're right.
I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who just want free stuff. I end up being a pirate because I want to watch Battlestar Galactica, but I'm not willing to pay for cable and some sort of recording device in order to watch one show. So I download episodes and then buy the DVDs when they come out. Spare me any "you could just wait until it comes out on DVD!" comments, please. I can't be bothered to get upset about the idea of adding a six month delay to the time my $40 goes into the bank account of a multinational corporation.
If I could buy the episodes as they air for a reasonable price, I would totally do that. I would be open to a number of possibilities:
- The cost of a season's worth of episodes adds up to the cost of the DVD set plus $10 for being able to watch them early. When it's released, I pay for shipping and get the DVDs.
- Same as above, but the total is e.g. 50% of the cost of the set, and I pay shipping plus the remainder and the convenience fee.
- The episodes are super-cheap, e.g. fifty cents each, and I just buy the DVD set at the store.
Option three is the easiest, but options one and two let Sci-Fi or whoever take a bigger cut from the DVD set price by selling directly to me.
Of course, this will never happen, because for it to be as convenient as it already is for me, the downloaded episodes would have to be non-DRM'd, encoded using a quality codec, and free of commercials. I'm sure this would be a huge hit, but the marketing department would never let it happen.
Why do I say a huge hit? Look at something that cannot be reasonably DRM'd, like photographic (as opposed to video) porn. There are tons of porn siterips on p2p networks, but it's still a very profitable industry. They probably realize that the money lost from bootlegs is less than what it would cost to come up with a protection system combined with the cost due to lost customers who weren't willing to put up with the hassle.
It would probably do well even with DRM. I wouldn't be a customer, but there are plenty of other people out there who are happy to deal with iTunes (which I find crippled beyond what I'm willing to exchange money for).
Major media gets the Democrats' viewpoints on issues out while the Republicans' side gets out mainly over talk shows (which preach to the choir), part-time on Fox News, and via internet outlets such as blogs.
Major media gets out whatever viewpoint is most likely to rake in advertising money.
The biggest local paper in my area officially endorsed Emperor Dubyah for re-election, but they still somehow manage to get flooded with letters claiming they're a cesspit of lies and manipulation controlled by the Liberal Media Elite(tm).
I hate both parties (although the Republicans are worse recently with their "that is not a parliamentary inquiry" / "nevermind that it's the second term under a fully Republican-controlled country, it's still Clinton's fault" horse shit), so I think I have a decent vantage point to comment from.
The media is fairly balanced in terms of which side of the issues it covers - after taking into consideration the ad money factor. They don't make a big fuss about things like school shootings because they're in favour of gun control. They cover it because it brings them a bunch of eyeballs.
My take is that people who get upset about "the liberal media" see something they disagree with and have a knee-jerk reaction before they notice that the week before there was something with the opposite point of view. Again, back to my local paper, I'll frequently see letters to the editor complaining about "damn liberals" in the same section as a Charles Krauthammer piece.
Would you *rather* that the media be completely one-sided? So that Democrats could read the New York Times (oh... wait... I guess that doesn't work anymore, but bear with me) and Republicans could watch Fox, and neither would be exposed to points of view other than the ones they already have? Then everybody (except for people like me*) could feel safe and sound and not offended in any way by having their beliefs challenged. That would sure be great.
* I believe in greater independence for states, so that if the South really wants to teach creationism and ban alcohol and abortion, that's fine as long as California can legalize recreational drugs and ban religion in schools. I'm against fascist empire-building like the Emperor is doing in the Middle East, but I'm also against gun control because I want to own an assault rifle. I believe in having strong military technology, but not throwing billions of dollars into the good old boy network that occasionally produces something cool every few decades that would have been really useful back when it still looked like we might get into a war with the Soviet Union. I believe in protecting the environment, but building tons of (pebble bed) fission plants. I think it's great that there are rich people, but that we shouldn't give them a tax break at the cost of food stamps and health care for the poor - because the smartest person I've ever met is a student who's on them right now. I think we haven't had a genuinely great president in my entire lifetime. I think people should grow thicker skin and learn to understand that not everyone has to agree with each other. I wear a suit some days, and combat boots on others. I drive a Japanese car because Americans still don't know how to design a reasonably-priced one that looks nice. I have green hair, and tattoos of Schroedinger's wavefunction equation, a barcode of my SSN, and a symbol from Legacy of Kain. My family has been on this continent since about 1620, and I am going to STFU now.
So, in other words, the first adopters of Singularity will find themselves in an unfamiliar, empty, and slightly unsettling environment which vaguely reminds them of 2001, H.R. Giger, and - inexplicably for an operating system - a cathedral. They will attempt to get the system up and running like their standard OS, but most of them will be slaughtered in a variety of gory ways when the new Sam Neil Clippy-replacement finds their ISO of Hellraiser and identifies with Pinhead a little too much. The two survivors will delete the Singularity partition, only to discover that Sam (who was much better as Merlin) has made his way into their primary OS.
I have all three of the current systems, and about thirty games total for them. If I'm playing multiplayer, it's with one other person who's sitting in the room with me.
I tried online gaming and it just wasn't my kind of thing. I like my games to be like interactive movies with a story arc, or a short party thing, like fighting games. I don't want endless rehashes of the same material, or online matches against people I don't know who cheat in any way possible.
I'm definitely holding off on any of the next-gen systems until I know which (if any) will give me that kind of experience.
If something I get for Free is a Pile of Crap, I'm going to say it's a Pile of Crap, same as if I paid for it. My integrity is NOT for Sale.
It may seem that way, but have you ever had a job as a reviewer? I reviewed CDs for awhile and looking back I was definitely softer on them than I would have been if I'd bought them at the store. How often do you see a genuinely BAD review of something in a magazine or professional website?
For "hardware review" sites, I imagine that they're afraid of losing their free product (which is how they're able to run their site in the first place), and also pretty much any new graphics card or whatever is going to be at least pretty good.
Anyway, it's possible that you're immune to all of that, but most people aren't. So Honda decided to play it safe and let someone lease their test vehicle for a tiny fraction of what it's actually worth. Personally if I were rich I might have done it if it looked cool (like the concept version), but not for the Geo Metro style.
Basically, though, the Americans can't get oleopneumatic Cits.
This is the first I've heard of their system (probably since I'm American, and have seen maybe 2 or 3 Citroens in my entire life). I read up about it here, and I have a couple questions if anyone can answer:
- The description makes it sound like the suspension's hydraulic system is tied into both the power steering and the brakes. I'm a little ignorant of auto mechanics, but I'm reasonably sure most cars use separate systems for the power steering and braking (presumably so that they don't both fail at once, and/or because it's better to use different fluids for the two applications). Isn't it really dangerous to hook them all together like that, testimonials from the Citroen Club notwithstanding? Losing one of those things would be scary. Losing all three at once (even if it's unlikely) would be terrifying.
- When I was in high school, back in the stone age, a friend of mine said he'd seen vehicles with gas suspension at a monster truck show or a race track or something, and that if they hit the ground too hard, the shocks would literally burst. This makes sense to me, since it is a gas vessel designed to contain a certain pressure. Is this at all likely to happen on a Citroen?
My gut instinct is that this system would be awesome for driving under ideal conditions, but as soon as something bad happens, this will make it worse. Springs have their issues too, but they're mechanically a LOT simpler than what this sounds like.
They're trying to avoid the glowing review syndrome, and they specifically mention this in the article.
If a reviewer gets something for free, they're more likely to think well of it than if they pay for it. Look at all the "hardware review" sites out there run out of someone's parents' basement. They don't generate actual useful information, it's just a giant web of marketing jizz about how awesome the newest ATI/Nvidia/whatever card is. That's great for PR, but not for the engineers who want to understand how their project will work in the real world.
Honda is probably taking a cue from Toyota about this. Apparently one of the best sources of information Toyota got about the Prius (mark 1) was some guy in Canada who bought one and drove it hundreds of thousands of kilometers. Toyota bought it back from him and had an engineering team do a complete teardown and analysis.
CD-quality audio gets pretty close to the limits of what the average person can hear. It's not perfect, but as you say it meets the "good enough" threshold.
I went to a concert a few months ago (Dead Can Dance) and their stage lighting used the full range of colours that are outside the ability of sRGB to depict. It really made me realize how much we're missing.
That explaination is bunk. And the Flash movies are not only stupid, but inflict painful sound effects on you for minutes at a time. Whoever wrote it didn't even do the most basic research about the movie... for example, several things in it directly contradict the novel.
No kidding.
It looks like something someone threw together for a Sociology 101 or modern art "theory" (and by "theory," I mean "what is Chris Burden trying to *say* when he crawls across broken glass or shoots at airplanes with a hunting rifle?") class.
I think it's neat when people get more out of art than the maker(s) put into it, but it irritates me to no end when they think they've "discovered" some kind of hidden or greater meaning that is intrinsic to the work and won't STFU about it being what it "really" means.
By the time I got to the part about man in space, I thought it was a joke that took a really long time to get to the punchline. Having to learn to walk again in zero-G? "Baby food"? "Toilet training"? Sadly it seems to be serious.
the BES, which I'm assuming BBC to have been using, is a big, bloated, memory hog, daily recycle requiring, Java application.
BES is absolute crap (as opposed to the handhelds, which are excellent), but I finally got ours in a state where the server doesn't need to be restarted every day:
- Make sure Outlook is not installed on the server. - Make sure the Exchange 2003 System Manager *is* installed, patched to SP1. - Patch or upgrade to the latest version of BES (4.0.2 hotfix 2 before I went on vacation - the hotfix was important). - Make sure your antivirus software has the BES folder structure excluded.
It was up and running for two or three glorious days in a row before I left on three weeks of vacation. Definitely a record for BES 4.0 in my experience.
It's not like you can't wait an extra month for the DVD if you actually want to buy it.
There are a lot of films and TV shows that have no projected release date on DVD, are out of print, etc.
I taped all of Space: Above and Beyond when I had cable, and downloaded the unaltered original Star Wars trilogy for that reason. I downloaded the Firefly pilot when Fox didn't air it (and now I'm glad I did, because it's got some significant differences to the version on my DVD set). I imagine a lot of people bootlegged Scarface when it wasn't available on DVD for several years.
You're right that the movie studios don't "owe" anyone a DVD release, so I guess it's fortunate that there is an alternate method of acquisition that lets them not release things but makes them available to fans nonetheless =).
Not to be too pessimistic, but has anyone else detected a spike in BS from Israeli companies?
I've seen this for years. By now I actually expect every unbelievable "invention" to come from Israel. I'm really curious as to why it happens so often. Judaism places a high value on reason and study, and it seems nonsensical to me that a country where it's the state religion would be such a huge source of crappy devices that will never work in the real world.
The US having absolute control of that much economic infrastructure would give them the same willies that your fore-fathers got.
Then - like the US - they should declare independence and build their own.
I hate the current US administration, and the uselessly inoffensive Democratic party is a close second. But I love my country, and this is something we made. No foreign bureaucrat has the right to decide it's not ours anymore.
A few years ago at work they started a big push to ITIL-ize and CMM-ify everything. From my perspective, nothing has changed except I have to fill out a bunch of absolutely useless paperwork to do anything, and every once in awhile I have to log into the vile abomination known as PVCS Dimensions.
It doesn't seem to be about actually *improving* anything - e.g. making it less likely that mistakes will happen - just about making it *appear* like it has by producing a bunch of electronic paperwork that no one reads.
The tools you use are less important than how you use them. Everything I've seen of ITIL makes me think that its goal is to try and change the tools, not the thought process behind what they're being used for.
The "California breaking off and falling into the ocean" meme is really long-lived, and I'm curious how it originally got started.
I mean, if you think about it for more than two seconds, you'll realize it just doesn't make sense. Do people think California is floating on the water, held in place only from the side like the cliff in a Roadrunner cartoon?
It is perfectly possible for species on different planets to have similar genetic patterns.
Maybe in the sense that it's perfectly possible for me to tunnel through a concrete wall like an electron. It's just that the amazingly low probability makes it not worth trying.
Unless you're arguing for panspermia, why are you even assuming that hypothetical life on other planets even uses DNA?
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It's a theory, to be discarded when it's proven to be false. A working idea. nothing more, nothing less.
Right, I see where you're coming from. So as soon as a single person comes along and makes incredible claims, we should instantly throw out decades of supporting evidence for the old theory and embrace the hydrino.
What are the changes you keep going back to a book you already finished anyway?
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I re-read my favourite books every 2-5 years. More than half of my main bookshelf I've read at least twice.
A friend of mine once made the same comment as you, and I thought it was totally strange. I see the stories I like as being similar to landmarks - I can come back to them every so often, and see how I perceive them differently as I get older.
Seriously.
What company gives regular IT people their own offices?
I've been at a Fortune 500 company for five years, and in that whole time (which has spanned two buildings), the only people with offices were the directors.
why only use 24bit true colour when your going for this quality?
Yeah, this is stupid.
I would take HD resolution with an improved colour model over this any day.
No, its not old HerbaLife, and not snake oil either...
On the other hand, it IS composed entirely of things you can get at your local health food store for significantly less money.
For the prices they're charging, you could be importing actual pharmaceuticals like Vasopressin and Piracetam from Europe. Assuming you're in North America, of course.
Offtopic, no karma bonus.
Send the studio emails about how you would really like to watch it if you could buy weekly DVDs or downloads.
It's not worth my time, honestly. I have what I want, and they get my money eventually. BSG is the only show I like that's currently broadcast, and it's guaranteed that I will own every DVD set that's released.
If I don't like how much a restaurant charges for their food, or how long it takes for it to reach my table, I don't wait in the alley for the cook to through the scraps in the dumpster so that I can get it for free.
Except that waiting in the alley for scraps means inconveniencing yourself for an inferior product.
if by convenient, you mean free, then I guess you're right.
I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who just want free stuff. I end up being a pirate because I want to watch Battlestar Galactica, but I'm not willing to pay for cable and some sort of recording device in order to watch one show. So I download episodes and then buy the DVDs when they come out. Spare me any "you could just wait until it comes out on DVD!" comments, please. I can't be bothered to get upset about the idea of adding a six month delay to the time my $40 goes into the bank account of a multinational corporation.
If I could buy the episodes as they air for a reasonable price, I would totally do that. I would be open to a number of possibilities:
- The cost of a season's worth of episodes adds up to the cost of the DVD set plus $10 for being able to watch them early. When it's released, I pay for shipping and get the DVDs.
- Same as above, but the total is e.g. 50% of the cost of the set, and I pay shipping plus the remainder and the convenience fee.
- The episodes are super-cheap, e.g. fifty cents each, and I just buy the DVD set at the store.
Option three is the easiest, but options one and two let Sci-Fi or whoever take a bigger cut from the DVD set price by selling directly to me.
Of course, this will never happen, because for it to be as convenient as it already is for me, the downloaded episodes would have to be non-DRM'd, encoded using a quality codec, and free of commercials. I'm sure this would be a huge hit, but the marketing department would never let it happen.
Why do I say a huge hit? Look at something that cannot be reasonably DRM'd, like photographic (as opposed to video) porn. There are tons of porn siterips on p2p networks, but it's still a very profitable industry. They probably realize that the money lost from bootlegs is less than what it would cost to come up with a protection system combined with the cost due to lost customers who weren't willing to put up with the hassle.
It would probably do well even with DRM. I wouldn't be a customer, but there are plenty of other people out there who are happy to deal with iTunes (which I find crippled beyond what I'm willing to exchange money for).
Major media gets the Democrats' viewpoints on issues out while the Republicans' side gets out mainly over talk shows (which preach to the choir), part-time on Fox News, and via internet outlets such as blogs.
Major media gets out whatever viewpoint is most likely to rake in advertising money.
The biggest local paper in my area officially endorsed Emperor Dubyah for re-election, but they still somehow manage to get flooded with letters claiming they're a cesspit of lies and manipulation controlled by the Liberal Media Elite(tm).
I hate both parties (although the Republicans are worse recently with their "that is not a parliamentary inquiry" / "nevermind that it's the second term under a fully Republican-controlled country, it's still Clinton's fault" horse shit), so I think I have a decent vantage point to comment from.
The media is fairly balanced in terms of which side of the issues it covers - after taking into consideration the ad money factor. They don't make a big fuss about things like school shootings because they're in favour of gun control. They cover it because it brings them a bunch of eyeballs.
My take is that people who get upset about "the liberal media" see something they disagree with and have a knee-jerk reaction before they notice that the week before there was something with the opposite point of view. Again, back to my local paper, I'll frequently see letters to the editor complaining about "damn liberals" in the same section as a Charles Krauthammer piece.
Would you *rather* that the media be completely one-sided? So that Democrats could read the New York Times (oh... wait... I guess that doesn't work anymore, but bear with me) and Republicans could watch Fox, and neither would be exposed to points of view other than the ones they already have? Then everybody (except for people like me*) could feel safe and sound and not offended in any way by having their beliefs challenged. That would sure be great.
* I believe in greater independence for states, so that if the South really wants to teach creationism and ban alcohol and abortion, that's fine as long as California can legalize recreational drugs and ban religion in schools. I'm against fascist empire-building like the Emperor is doing in the Middle East, but I'm also against gun control because I want to own an assault rifle. I believe in having strong military technology, but not throwing billions of dollars into the good old boy network that occasionally produces something cool every few decades that would have been really useful back when it still looked like we might get into a war with the Soviet Union. I believe in protecting the environment, but building tons of (pebble bed) fission plants. I think it's great that there are rich people, but that we shouldn't give them a tax break at the cost of food stamps and health care for the poor - because the smartest person I've ever met is a student who's on them right now. I think we haven't had a genuinely great president in my entire lifetime. I think people should grow thicker skin and learn to understand that not everyone has to agree with each other. I wear a suit some days, and combat boots on others. I drive a Japanese car because Americans still don't know how to design a reasonably-priced one that looks nice. I have green hair, and tattoos of Schroedinger's wavefunction equation, a barcode of my SSN, and a symbol from Legacy of Kain. My family has been on this continent since about 1620, and I am going to STFU now.
Will the user interface be called Event Horizon?
So, in other words, the first adopters of Singularity will find themselves in an unfamiliar, empty, and slightly unsettling environment which vaguely reminds them of 2001, H.R. Giger, and - inexplicably for an operating system - a cathedral. They will attempt to get the system up and running like their standard OS, but most of them will be slaughtered in a variety of gory ways when the new Sam Neil Clippy-replacement finds their ISO of Hellraiser and identifies with Pinhead a little too much. The two survivors will delete the Singularity partition, only to discover that Sam (who was much better as Merlin) has made his way into their primary OS.
Better than 2003 Server SP1 at least.
I don't want that.
Neither do I.
I have all three of the current systems, and about thirty games total for them. If I'm playing multiplayer, it's with one other person who's sitting in the room with me.
I tried online gaming and it just wasn't my kind of thing. I like my games to be like interactive movies with a story arc, or a short party thing, like fighting games. I don't want endless rehashes of the same material, or online matches against people I don't know who cheat in any way possible.
I'm definitely holding off on any of the next-gen systems until I know which (if any) will give me that kind of experience.
If something I get for Free is a Pile of Crap, I'm going to say it's a Pile of Crap, same as if I paid for it. My integrity is NOT for Sale.
It may seem that way, but have you ever had a job as a reviewer? I reviewed CDs for awhile and looking back I was definitely softer on them than I would have been if I'd bought them at the store. How often do you see a genuinely BAD review of something in a magazine or professional website?
For "hardware review" sites, I imagine that they're afraid of losing their free product (which is how they're able to run their site in the first place), and also pretty much any new graphics card or whatever is going to be at least pretty good.
Anyway, it's possible that you're immune to all of that, but most people aren't. So Honda decided to play it safe and let someone lease their test vehicle for a tiny fraction of what it's actually worth. Personally if I were rich I might have done it if it looked cool (like the concept version), but not for the Geo Metro style.
The copy protection on the Velvet Revolver album was a lot less insidious than their new system.
Basically, though, the Americans can't get oleopneumatic Cits.
This is the first I've heard of their system (probably since I'm American, and have seen maybe 2 or 3 Citroens in my entire life). I read up about it here, and I have a couple questions if anyone can answer:
- The description makes it sound like the suspension's hydraulic system is tied into both the power steering and the brakes. I'm a little ignorant of auto mechanics, but I'm reasonably sure most cars use separate systems for the power steering and braking (presumably so that they don't both fail at once, and/or because it's better to use different fluids for the two applications). Isn't it really dangerous to hook them all together like that, testimonials from the Citroen Club notwithstanding? Losing one of those things would be scary. Losing all three at once (even if it's unlikely) would be terrifying.
- When I was in high school, back in the stone age, a friend of mine said he'd seen vehicles with gas suspension at a monster truck show or a race track or something, and that if they hit the ground too hard, the shocks would literally burst. This makes sense to me, since it is a gas vessel designed to contain a certain pressure. Is this at all likely to happen on a Citroen?
My gut instinct is that this system would be awesome for driving under ideal conditions, but as soon as something bad happens, this will make it worse. Springs have their issues too, but they're mechanically a LOT simpler than what this sounds like.
They're trying to avoid the glowing review syndrome, and they specifically mention this in the article.
If a reviewer gets something for free, they're more likely to think well of it than if they pay for it. Look at all the "hardware review" sites out there run out of someone's parents' basement. They don't generate actual useful information, it's just a giant web of marketing jizz about how awesome the newest ATI/Nvidia/whatever card is. That's great for PR, but not for the engineers who want to understand how their project will work in the real world.
Honda is probably taking a cue from Toyota about this. Apparently one of the best sources of information Toyota got about the Prius (mark 1) was some guy in Canada who bought one and drove it hundreds of thousands of kilometers. Toyota bought it back from him and had an engineering team do a complete teardown and analysis.
It's more like the situation with CDs
I'd have to disagree with you about that.
CD-quality audio gets pretty close to the limits of what the average person can hear. It's not perfect, but as you say it meets the "good enough" threshold.
Current display technology doesn't. Look at this representation of what's lost with sRGB. See what a tiny portion of green colours (which our eyes are most sensitive to!) in particular are represented?
I went to a concert a few months ago (Dead Can Dance) and their stage lighting used the full range of colours that are outside the ability of sRGB to depict. It really made me realize how much we're missing.
That explaination is bunk. And the Flash movies are not only stupid, but inflict painful sound effects on you for minutes at a time. Whoever wrote it didn't even do the most basic research about the movie... for example, several things in it directly contradict the novel.
No kidding.
It looks like something someone threw together for a Sociology 101 or modern art "theory" (and by "theory," I mean "what is Chris Burden trying to *say* when he crawls across broken glass or shoots at airplanes with a hunting rifle?") class.
I think it's neat when people get more out of art than the maker(s) put into it, but it irritates me to no end when they think they've "discovered" some kind of hidden or greater meaning that is intrinsic to the work and won't STFU about it being what it "really" means.
By the time I got to the part about man in space, I thought it was a joke that took a really long time to get to the punchline. Having to learn to walk again in zero-G? "Baby food"? "Toilet training"? Sadly it seems to be serious.
the BES, which I'm assuming BBC to have been using, is a big, bloated, memory hog, daily recycle requiring, Java application.
BES is absolute crap (as opposed to the handhelds, which are excellent), but I finally got ours in a state where the server doesn't need to be restarted every day:
- Make sure Outlook is not installed on the server.
- Make sure the Exchange 2003 System Manager *is* installed, patched to SP1.
- Patch or upgrade to the latest version of BES (4.0.2 hotfix 2 before I went on vacation - the hotfix was important).
- Make sure your antivirus software has the BES folder structure excluded.
It was up and running for two or three glorious days in a row before I left on three weeks of vacation. Definitely a record for BES 4.0 in my experience.
It's not like you can't wait an extra month for the DVD if you actually want to buy it.
There are a lot of films and TV shows that have no projected release date on DVD, are out of print, etc.
I taped all of Space: Above and Beyond when I had cable, and downloaded the unaltered original Star Wars trilogy for that reason. I downloaded the Firefly pilot when Fox didn't air it (and now I'm glad I did, because it's got some significant differences to the version on my DVD set). I imagine a lot of people bootlegged Scarface when it wasn't available on DVD for several years.
You're right that the movie studios don't "owe" anyone a DVD release, so I guess it's fortunate that there is an alternate method of acquisition that lets them not release things but makes them available to fans nonetheless =).
you're gonna lose a lot of potential copiers
It only takes one, and there will always be at least one person willing to put the effort into distributing a popular film.
Not to be too pessimistic, but has anyone else detected a spike in BS from Israeli companies?
I've seen this for years. By now I actually expect every unbelievable "invention" to come from Israel. I'm really curious as to why it happens so often. Judaism places a high value on reason and study, and it seems nonsensical to me that a country where it's the state religion would be such a huge source of crappy devices that will never work in the real world.
The US having absolute control of that much economic infrastructure would give them the same willies that your fore-fathers got.
Then - like the US - they should declare independence and build their own.
I hate the current US administration, and the uselessly inoffensive Democratic party is a close second. But I love my country, and this is something we made. No foreign bureaucrat has the right to decide it's not ours anymore.
Agreed.
A few years ago at work they started a big push to ITIL-ize and CMM-ify everything. From my perspective, nothing has changed except I have to fill out a bunch of absolutely useless paperwork to do anything, and every once in awhile I have to log into the vile abomination known as PVCS Dimensions.
It doesn't seem to be about actually *improving* anything - e.g. making it less likely that mistakes will happen - just about making it *appear* like it has by producing a bunch of electronic paperwork that no one reads.
The tools you use are less important than how you use them. Everything I've seen of ITIL makes me think that its goal is to try and change the tools, not the thought process behind what they're being used for.
I was thinking the same thing. Although maybe if it intentionally ends with a dead subject that makes it a necropsy.
The "California breaking off and falling into the ocean" meme is really long-lived, and I'm curious how it originally got started.
I mean, if you think about it for more than two seconds, you'll realize it just doesn't make sense. Do people think California is floating on the water, held in place only from the side like the cliff in a Roadrunner cartoon?
It is perfectly possible for species on different planets to have similar genetic patterns.
Maybe in the sense that it's perfectly possible for me to tunnel through a concrete wall like an electron. It's just that the amazingly low probability makes it not worth trying.
Unless you're arguing for panspermia, why are you even assuming that hypothetical life on other planets even uses DNA?