Thankfully, most CDs from Amazon and other online stores are still $15. I don't know why all major music chains decided to bump up the price by about $5 a few years ago.
I was speculating with a friend that Apple probably wants to make sure that the hype has time to take hold before it cracks down.
I think you're exactly right. My pet theory is that at least half of the stuff that gets "leaked" from Apple is really just guerilla marketing. They pretend to frown upon it so the information is even more exciting.
Cute, but wrong. The closest I've come to anything like that was when my girlfriend was 17 and I was 18, but the age of consent in New York is 17 anyway.
Pete Townshend. What do you think of, right after "The Who"? He was cleared of all charges, but he still carries the label.
Michael Jackson. A freak, yes, but never any real evidence that he committed any crimes. Still labeled as a child molester.
Because when it comes to: terrorism, drugs, taxes, and kiddie porn, you are guilty until proven innocent, maybe not legally, but that's how the system works around these crimes.
Kiddie porn/child molestation is a modern witch hunt. One accusation, even if it's completely baseless, will label you for the rest of your life.
Of course it does. But the Supreme Court has interpreted that in a particular way, as in the classic "yelling fire in a crowded theater" example.
Political speech is very carefully protected. "Vulgarity" and advertising (commercial speech) is given significantly less protection. There are a number of significant cases that have set up precedents, and they're worth looking into. Simply reading the Constitution tells you little about how experienced judges will interpret it.
Everyone stands a little ways off, but the MOMENT the belt turns on it turns into a shoving match where EVERYONE MUST BE NEXT TO THE BELT!
Oh thank god, I'm not the only one who thinks these people are morons. If they weren't all huddled around the damn belt, maybe I could actually see my luggage. *sigh*
Another good one that I encounter all the time: there's a crowd of people entering a building. It's a doorway with two doors. ONLY ONE DOOR IS BEING USED. Holy fuck. I am always, always the only one who thinks of opening the other door. Once the door has been opened, the sheep will usually follow and keep it open.
What kind of stability issues? I've been using the Deer Park Alpha for the past few weeks, and even that is pretty damn solid. I never had any problems with Firefox crashing that weren't caused by Flash or Windows Media Player.
I'm surprised that computer mods/case mods aren't more popular. They hit the/. community regularly, but I'm surprised we don't see them on TV or on other websites more often.
Perhaps because most people, myself included, don't really give a crap what their computer looks like. Smaller and quieter is nice. But case windows and, neon lights and a pewter gargoyle on top? It's useless.
Make it so that there's a DRM scheme with some really-really-hard-to-crack encryption, where the keys are generated from random bytes of information from the player's binary itself. I don't know.
No, evidently you don't, as that doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. Anyone who understands cyptography knows that DRM can never be a valid encryption scheme, as the client must be allowed to decrypt it. DRM is like copy protection; it's only useful to deter casual copying.
I had pretty much the same experience at a local Blockbuster. I wanted to show my girlfriend Dr. Strangelove, as it's my favorite movie. Ended up downloading it, then later buying the DVD. Couldn't find Das Boot either.
The wireless Bluetooth mouse, Bluetooth cellphone, external Firewire HDD's, external Firewire DVD, OEM ATI Radeon video card, external USB printer, Linksys/Cisco wireless network base station, non-Apple LCD monitor, USB pen drive, etc. and EVERYTHING works perfectly with OS X (I am running 10.4.2).
Every single one of the above (except for the ATI card and perhaps the cell phone) uses generic drivers. It is a very, very different matter when you want to support every x86 chipset and SCSI controller in the world.
But assuming you can't control a teenager to a reasonable degree is simply weak.
No. Assuming that you should "control" a teenager is disgusting. Unless you've fucked up badly as a parent, you should be able to talk to your kids about games, movies, drugs, sex, and whatever else so that they know what's garbage and what's not. Hiding things from teenagers is just stupid. Let them play GTA. If you've done your job, they should know that beating up hookers is a sick kind of fantasy.
You're absolutely right. On a similar note, at 15 (I'm 20 now) I would have been a more informed, rational voter than the great majority of Americans. Oh well.
Okay, now you're talking about parallel processing, which is a rather more advanced topic. There actually are features of Fortran and some other languages that will automagically parallelize some code. Can't remember any links offhand, but it's a very popular topic in scientific computing.
I don't know if there are any complete books on the topic. I don't know why you'd need one, honestly. It's a topic that comes up regularly in CUJ.
Here are some keywords to plug into Google if you want to read up on the basics of synchronising threads and sharing resources: semaphore, mutex, baton passing.
The only thing I could see using this for might be for archiving or storing mass music/ video, but even then, is it really the best media for doing so?
Well, you're right about archiving (lossless, live) music. What medium would you suggest as an alternative? CD/DVD-Rs have lifespans that are about the same as a hard drive, and it's much easier to back up a single hard drive rather than hundreds of CDs.
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Thankfully, most CDs from Amazon and other online stores are still $15. I don't know why all major music chains decided to bump up the price by about $5 a few years ago.
I think you're exactly right. My pet theory is that at least half of the stuff that gets "leaked" from Apple is really just guerilla marketing. They pretend to frown upon it so the information is even more exciting.
Pete Townshend. What do you think of, right after "The Who"? He was cleared of all charges, but he still carries the label.
Michael Jackson. A freak, yes, but never any real evidence that he committed any crimes. Still labeled as a child molester.
Kiddie porn/child molestation is a modern witch hunt. One accusation, even if it's completely baseless, will label you for the rest of your life.
No no, haven't you heard? It's now the GSAT.
Political speech is very carefully protected. "Vulgarity" and advertising (commercial speech) is given significantly less protection. There are a number of significant cases that have set up precedents, and they're worth looking into. Simply reading the Constitution tells you little about how experienced judges will interpret it.
Oh thank god, I'm not the only one who thinks these people are morons. If they weren't all huddled around the damn belt, maybe I could actually see my luggage. *sigh*
Another good one that I encounter all the time: there's a crowd of people entering a building. It's a doorway with two doors. ONLY ONE DOOR IS BEING USED. Holy fuck. I am always, always the only one who thinks of opening the other door. Once the door has been opened, the sheep will usually follow and keep it open.
Nope, you're thinking of exacerbate.
Wait. You mean you never buy albums from taper-friendly artists?
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Oh, thank you so very much. People with no training in science and statistics should stop trying to perform "studies". They're meaningless.
What kind of stability issues? I've been using the Deer Park Alpha for the past few weeks, and even that is pretty damn solid. I never had any problems with Firefox crashing that weren't caused by Flash or Windows Media Player.
Ah, Jack Chick. His anti-Catholic rants are my favorite.
Translation: I am insecure and need to compensate with my penis car.
Perhaps because most people, myself included, don't really give a crap what their computer looks like. Smaller and quieter is nice. But case windows and, neon lights and a pewter gargoyle on top? It's useless.
No, evidently you don't, as that doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. Anyone who understands cyptography knows that DRM can never be a valid encryption scheme, as the client must be allowed to decrypt it. DRM is like copy protection; it's only useful to deter casual copying.
I had pretty much the same experience at a local Blockbuster. I wanted to show my girlfriend Dr. Strangelove, as it's my favorite movie. Ended up downloading it, then later buying the DVD. Couldn't find Das Boot either.
Every single one of the above (except for the ATI card and perhaps the cell phone) uses generic drivers. It is a very, very different matter when you want to support every x86 chipset and SCSI controller in the world.
If only that were true. The Darwin kernel is rather more complex than that, and has little to do with FreeBSD.
No. Assuming that you should "control" a teenager is disgusting. Unless you've fucked up badly as a parent, you should be able to talk to your kids about games, movies, drugs, sex, and whatever else so that they know what's garbage and what's not. Hiding things from teenagers is just stupid. Let them play GTA. If you've done your job, they should know that beating up hookers is a sick kind of fantasy.
You're absolutely right. On a similar note, at 15 (I'm 20 now) I would have been a more informed, rational voter than the great majority of Americans. Oh well.
Of course not. But a "shock value" gimmick is so much easier to make than, you know, actual good gameplay.
Okay, now you're talking about parallel processing, which is a rather more advanced topic. There actually are features of Fortran and some other languages that will automagically parallelize some code. Can't remember any links offhand, but it's a very popular topic in scientific computing.
Here are some keywords to plug into Google if you want to read up on the basics of synchronising threads and sharing resources: semaphore, mutex, baton passing.
Well, you're right about archiving (lossless, live) music. What medium would you suggest as an alternative? CD/DVD-Rs have lifespans that are about the same as a hard drive, and it's much easier to back up a single hard drive rather than hundreds of CDs.