You shouldn't believe a country's name as being a true description - "German Democratic Republic" (the former East Germany), "People's Republic of China", etc. Similarly, fields that feel a need to put the word "science" in their name often aren't - "Political Science", "Computer Science".
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. I still maintain that Apple, to their credit, did it from the get-go at a time when the recording companies didn't want to sign a contract unless there was DRM.
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Studios should object to Apple's DRM and rewrite their contracts to make APple open FAirplay so that other video players can play their movies.
You've got it bass ackwards. If you had been paying attention you would remember that Apple couldn't launch iTunes until it had satisfied the studios by adding some form of DRM. Apple still managed to sneak in the work-around that you could burn your own DRM-free CD's. Has any other DRM provider done that?
This president has used the veto less than any other president in history. I suspect that's about to change, now that Congress isn't his lap dog but the loyal opposition doesn't have veto-proof majorities. Don't get your hopes too high for massive changes. If anything, the biggest changes are likely to be in Congressional hearings - we might actually see some committees try to hold some of the "deciders" accountable for their decisions.
If you write your message on a post card, they certainly can read it. Normal e-mail is the electronic equivalent of a postcard. If you're e-mailing something that you wouldn't want send through snail mail without an envelope, you should be using encryption. That way, even if they have the right they may lack the ability (to misquote Shrek).
It wasn't all so cut and dried as you seem to imply. The founding fathers weren't all of one mind about these issues, and some violated the principles enshrined in the Bill of Rights as soon as they had an opportunity to.
I'm not writing this to in any way support the current crop of buttheads. I'm just pointing out that the buttheads have always been with us, and were even found amongst the founding fathers.
I assume that this thing has to work by converting thermal energy to electrical energy, hence removing it as thermal energy from the environment. If the technology actually works well, then there should soon come a day when all the hybrid cars out there are using this for even more of a boost. Between reducing carbon emissions directly, and leaching heat out of the air, we may find ourselves introducing the next ice age!
It doesn't need to be fraud to be disturbing. It means the machines don't do their fundamental job, to wit, correctly counting votes. Even if nobody was trying to manipulate the vote, that should scare the hell out of you.
I didn't want to buy the Bose without listening to them, but on one of my trips I found that Bose runs a kiosk in the Denver airport. I was able to try them out with my own iPod, so for me it was a good test - that's what I'm driving them with on trips, and I got to check them with the music I listen to rather than somebody else's selection. My wife prefers the Sennheisers, I prefer the Bose. The Sennheisers are lighter and sit on top of your ear, the Bose cover your ear and for me give slightly better noise reduction (although I believe that their new generation is more like the Sennheiser to reduce the weight). I suspect that the different preference is partly due to the different geometry of our ears, so your mileage may vary.
No, MS didn't invent it. They just perfected it.
Remember when there was talk about adding a BSOD hotkey to the MS keyboard, so you wouldn't have to go through the hassle of running software to get it?
Please, not BASIC! After more than 20 years of teaching programming at the university level, I strongly agree with Dijkstra's comment:
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
The web page says you don't need to repartition or re-install if you're already running BootCamp, but they strongly advise that you do an upgrade to get the new driver support.
I know everybody is going to complain that their personal favorite is missing, but I can't believe that NeXT isn't on the list. I think it was one of the most influential systems of the last twenty years. In addition to all the innovations with graphics, removable storage, onboard DSP, drag and drop e-mail attachments, object-oriented framework, etc., the first web browser was developed on a NeXT.
Not trying to be insulting, but this seems like a really off the wall question. Ask yourself which you'd rather be at age 30: a) somebody who's about to start the career you discovered you really like; or b) somebody who's muddling along doing what you've been doing and dissatisfied with it. Given that you're going to be 30 in either case, I hope the answer is obvious.
I worked for six years after college, and decided to go back for a PhD when the small company I had joined was bought out by a fortune 500 predator and I realized that I was facing a life of cogness in the machine. I finished my PhD at age 32, and have never regretted my decision.
Some amount of automation is helpful to avoid being swamped, but I don't think that a fully automated process can do the job. I require my students to generate an executable jar for submission, but also provide unit tests to them for the early assignments. Stage one of grading is to run a script which runs each of the jar files against the unit test. I then print the programs and mark them up for formatting and style, paying particular attention to those who ran afoul of the unit testing stage. Later in the course I start providing a spec and making them write their own unit tests, but I still use my own unit test modules for grading.
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Putting paid is a British/Australian idiom for disrupting somebody's plans or intentions.
You shouldn't believe a country's name as being a true description - "German Democratic Republic" (the former East Germany), "People's Republic of China", etc. Similarly, fields that feel a need to put the word "science" in their name often aren't - "Political Science", "Computer Science".
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. I still maintain that Apple, to their credit, did it from the get-go at a time when the recording companies didn't want to sign a contract unless there was DRM.
The hero keeps firing his gun at the oncoming zombie, shouting "Why... wont... you... DIE!"
This president has used the veto less than any other president in history. I suspect that's about to change, now that Congress isn't his lap dog but the loyal opposition doesn't have veto-proof majorities. Don't get your hopes too high for massive changes. If anything, the biggest changes are likely to be in Congressional hearings - we might actually see some committees try to hold some of the "deciders" accountable for their decisions.
If you write your message on a post card, they certainly can read it. Normal e-mail is the electronic equivalent of a postcard. If you're e-mailing something that you wouldn't want send through snail mail without an envelope, you should be using encryption. That way, even if they have the right they may lack the ability (to misquote Shrek).
Easily explained by pumps, which feed the canals and were built by the natives.
I'm not writing this to in any way support the current crop of buttheads. I'm just pointing out that the buttheads have always been with us, and were even found amongst the founding fathers.
I assume that this thing has to work by converting thermal energy to electrical energy, hence removing it as thermal energy from the environment. If the technology actually works well, then there should soon come a day when all the hybrid cars out there are using this for even more of a boost. Between reducing carbon emissions directly, and leaching heat out of the air, we may find ourselves introducing the next ice age!
I for one will not welcome our mutant shark overlords.
It's being given away with conditions. The condition is that you obey the licensing agreement.
It doesn't need to be fraud to be disturbing. It means the machines don't do their fundamental job, to wit, correctly counting votes. Even if nobody was trying to manipulate the vote, that should scare the hell out of you.
I didn't want to buy the Bose without listening to them, but on one of my trips I found that Bose runs a kiosk in the Denver airport. I was able to try them out with my own iPod, so for me it was a good test - that's what I'm driving them with on trips, and I got to check them with the music I listen to rather than somebody else's selection. My wife prefers the Sennheisers, I prefer the Bose. The Sennheisers are lighter and sit on top of your ear, the Bose cover your ear and for me give slightly better noise reduction (although I believe that their new generation is more like the Sennheiser to reduce the weight). I suspect that the different preference is partly due to the different geometry of our ears, so your mileage may vary.
No, that's the definition of partisanship. Bipartisanship is exactly the opposite.
Great example of partisanship! And to think, all this time you thought you were being bipartisan.
No, MS didn't invent it. They just perfected it. Remember when there was talk about adding a BSOD hotkey to the MS keyboard, so you wouldn't have to go through the hassle of running software to get it?
I learned "Mary Virginia eats many jam sandwiches under Ned's porch." Now it will have to be "...under Ned."
Then they're back to where they were in the first place.
The web page says you don't need to repartition or re-install if you're already running BootCamp, but they strongly advise that you do an upgrade to get the new driver support.
Mr. Gingrich. They turned him into a Newt.
I know everybody is going to complain that their personal favorite is missing, but I can't believe that NeXT isn't on the list. I think it was one of the most influential systems of the last twenty years. In addition to all the innovations with graphics, removable storage, onboard DSP, drag and drop e-mail attachments, object-oriented framework, etc., the first web browser was developed on a NeXT.
I worked for six years after college, and decided to go back for a PhD when the small company I had joined was bought out by a fortune 500 predator and I realized that I was facing a life of cogness in the machine. I finished my PhD at age 32, and have never regretted my decision.
Some amount of automation is helpful to avoid being swamped, but I don't think that a fully automated process can do the job. I require my students to generate an executable jar for submission, but also provide unit tests to them for the early assignments. Stage one of grading is to run a script which runs each of the jar files against the unit test. I then print the programs and mark them up for formatting and style, paying particular attention to those who ran afoul of the unit testing stage. Later in the course I start providing a spec and making them write their own unit tests, but I still use my own unit test modules for grading.