On the other hand, China's trying to avoid a bubble economy. Don't you think it would have been more effective to do it right before the next olympics? Furthermore, Japan isn't totalitarian and the high control of the government combined with the teaching of past experiences could very well signal a rise of the Chinese economy and science.
Indeed. I'm aware of that, and it's much better than seeing a bunch of blank squares. At least I can take in low-res info while waiting for the high-res to load. And might I add that MSN Earth's pictures zoom in much better than Google's? Even so, I still prefer Google Earth's searching. Google isn't better because it's not Microsoft -- It's better because it's better.
I don't understand this elitism or prejudice against features just because it's Microsoft. The zooming was a feature i'd like to see in Google Maps, since i don't have to reload the map every step of the way. And the mouse controls -- odd? How? They were nice touches to a typical user like me.
I'd say that burning contact lenses to my eyes, heating glasses to the point that my face is burned and my eyes blind, or branding me with a superheated quarter is enough to very significantly impact the rest of my life. Burning sensation...ugh*shudder*
Preponderance of evidence is all that's needed to win in a civil case, actually. Also, only 9 of 12 jurors need to agree that Intel is guilty of anti-trust practices in order for AMD to win the lawsuit.
Meaning: AMD just has to convince 9 jurors more than 50% that Intel is doing bad, naughty things.
You confuse me. Are you saying that when ending wars, we should be as hostile and uncompromising as the other side? That we should kill tens or hundreds of thousands or millions of civilians EXTRA to make a point, even though those deaths aren't really necessary to end the war?
I disagree. The Japanese have every right to complain about how others were "forced" to finish it, just as how the US has every right to complain about how Japan forced them into hostilities. Complaining that they started it and at the same time saying they can't do the same with regards to how it ended is extremely one-sided.
Yes, troubling. And not wholly relevant. The Rape of Nanking was wrong and it's pretty damn stupid for the Japanese government not to admit it. The difference is that you probably won't find a great many people nowadays who support the Rape of Nanking, whereas plenty will think that the second bomb was justified.
I'd like to point out that you're not entirely correct. Okay, maybe the first bomb was justifiable, if terrible and horrifying, in the name of ending the war.
What you fail to realize is that 1) The US originally had many more targets on their list, including Kyoto, which has a large historical significance (the Heian period was a very peaceful time), and 2) They issued an ultimatum, dropped the first bomb, and dropped the second bomb before the time was up.
They could've dropped the first bomb and had the same result. The fact that they chose to drop two bombs is troubling.
except for the fact that it's really, really, really, really expensive to manufacture on earth and bring up as opposed to just launching it from the space station.
Yes, the development machines are Pentium 4's, but OS X won't necessarily be limited to that. Please link to the info that says the actual processors in the official retail systems will be x86 and not x86-64 -- If it's common knowledge, it's not common enough.
The copyright holder has the right to determine distribution. Fair use entitles you to appropriate the material's derivative works or do what you want to be able to listen to your music as you see fit, but not to distribute the copyrighted content. (IANAL, but my father is)
I'll probably be modded down because I'm responding angrily to a BS post, but...
As a 16-year-old student at California's top high school (API statistics and quite literally the best AP Physics class in the world), who gets mostly A's and sometimes a B, I can verify that too much homework is really screwing things up. It's no lack of responsibility that I can't do SEVEN concurrent projects equally well. It's no lack of personal responsibility or lack of study that causes my grade to lower. It's the fact that I DON"T HAVE THE TIME TO STUDY EVERYTHING! When was the last time I came home with very litte homework, enjoying extra time to do what I love (programming)? Virtually NEVER! Two hours of math a week (from the article)? Ha! How does an hour a day sound?
Can you really say that just because I spend anywhere from five to seven hours on homework that I'm "just going through the motions" when I really try to think and put effort into my projects so they aren't just another piece of uninspired crap the teachers see all the time? Are you saying that I don't try to learn from my work? That I deserve SEVEN concurrent projects, four of which are blatantly busywork, and two of which are genuinely useful? That I can't be learning more about my subject of interest, programming, by spending more time learning about it? AND that my effort in school is wasted (I "go through the motions" and don't learn), as you so dismissively label so many students?
"Einstein" is no insult -- it's the people who irresponsibly blame their social situation on a characteristic they can't change. Blaming culture is nice, and sometimes useful, but honestly -- if the you think that the Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is exactly the problem, then I think you're misguided or unfamiliar with the amount of work today's best students have to do. The problem with attitude is at most HALF the problem. The problem with culture is usually a non-issue (unless you live in a really, really, really bad area and can't cope).
The problem with having too much to do and too little time to do it is you don't get the chance to find what you love to do and actually do it.
How much of my free time, how much of my waning childhood, how much of the free time I can enjoy are you going to metaphorically take away by justifying all of my homework?
C# and the CLR (which.NET and mono run on) are open specs. JBoss, unless I'm mistaken, has an explicit exemption from Sun. I don't think there's any question that Apache using mono (which is backed by Novell) is legal....Just a thought.
Someone ought to search for especially flimsy patents, hack up some infringing code, offer for free the full code online (under a OSS compatible license), and *sell* proprietary licenses to it. Of course, that person would need the EFF backing it up, but it would do well to prove a point, should the algorithms be simple enough: SOFTWARE PATENTS ARE STUPID.
Not all of it is ignorance. I know people who don't use Firefox because they say it isn't as good at rendering pages -- and when it comes to horribly coded pages which are deliberately incompatible with Firefox, they're right...
for(i in x.childnodes[i]){ do something with x.childnodes[i] }
Your argument isn't very insightful if you haven't found that you can do for(i in varname[i]) to access in sequence all of the variables in arrays or even objects.
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On the other hand, China's trying to avoid a bubble economy. Don't you think it would have been more effective to do it right before the next olympics? Furthermore, Japan isn't totalitarian and the high control of the government combined with the teaching of past experiences could very well signal a rise of the Chinese economy and science.
Indeed. I'm aware of that, and it's much better than seeing a bunch of blank squares. At least I can take in low-res info while waiting for the high-res to load. And might I add that MSN Earth's pictures zoom in much better than Google's? Even so, I still prefer Google Earth's searching. Google isn't better because it's not Microsoft -- It's better because it's better.
I don't understand this elitism or prejudice against features just because it's Microsoft. The zooming was a feature i'd like to see in Google Maps, since i don't have to reload the map every step of the way. And the mouse controls -- odd? How? They were nice touches to a typical user like me.
I'd say that burning contact lenses to my eyes, heating glasses to the point that my face is burned and my eyes blind, or branding me with a superheated quarter is enough to very significantly impact the rest of my life. Burning sensation...ugh*shudder*
unless they use Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing. Then they could probably fit 196 or so customers. At a large cost.
Apparently it (the goodwill) isn't there. Notice the x86-64 gcc target they helped make?
Preponderance of evidence is all that's needed to win in a civil case, actually. Also, only 9 of 12 jurors need to agree that Intel is guilty of anti-trust practices in order for AMD to win the lawsuit.
Meaning: AMD just has to convince 9 jurors more than 50% that Intel is doing bad, naughty things.
I, for one, hope they do.
You confuse me. Are you saying that when ending wars, we should be as hostile and uncompromising as the other side? That we should kill tens or hundreds of thousands or millions of civilians EXTRA to make a point, even though those deaths aren't really necessary to end the war?
I disagree. The Japanese have every right to complain about how others were "forced" to finish it, just as how the US has every right to complain about how Japan forced them into hostilities. Complaining that they started it and at the same time saying they can't do the same with regards to how it ended is extremely one-sided.
Yes, troubling. And not wholly relevant. The Rape of Nanking was wrong and it's pretty damn stupid for the Japanese government not to admit it. The difference is that you probably won't find a great many people nowadays who support the Rape of Nanking, whereas plenty will think that the second bomb was justified.
Know your history. Japan's diplomat was outside Roosevelt's door when the attack began.
Disclaimer: I am Japanese.
I'd like to point out that you're not entirely correct. Okay, maybe the first bomb was justifiable, if terrible and horrifying, in the name of ending the war.
What you fail to realize is that 1) The US originally had many more targets on their list, including Kyoto, which has a large historical significance (the Heian period was a very peaceful time), and 2) They issued an ultimatum, dropped the first bomb, and dropped the second bomb before the time was up.
They could've dropped the first bomb and had the same result. The fact that they chose to drop two bombs is troubling.
except for the fact that it's really, really, really, really expensive to manufacture on earth and bring up as opposed to just launching it from the space station.
Does anyone else foresee the leaked build being used to hack universal support into the official released version?
Yes, the development machines are Pentium 4's, but OS X won't necessarily be limited to that. Please link to the info that says the actual processors in the official retail systems will be x86 and not x86-64 -- If it's common knowledge, it's not common enough.
Not if IBM has anything to say with it. Or they might just make Linux TCPA compliant and suffer a hit in opinion from a bunch of sad, sad people.
I thought Intel wasn't around fifty years ago...
How do they address radiation shielding, though? The rays from the sun could potentially be very harmful.
It might not work on the hardware level, but this is huge for emulation -- instead of translating the CPU calls, you just pass them through.
Too many of us were ignored by Google because of the legal hassles involved in under-18 participants. :
The copyright holder has the right to determine distribution. Fair use entitles you to appropriate the material's derivative works or do what you want to be able to listen to your music as you see fit, but not to distribute the copyrighted content. (IANAL, but my father is)
I'll probably be modded down because I'm responding angrily to a BS post, but...
As a 16-year-old student at California's top high school (API statistics and quite literally the best AP Physics class in the world), who gets mostly A's and sometimes a B, I can verify that too much homework is really screwing things up. It's no lack of responsibility that I can't do SEVEN concurrent projects equally well. It's no lack of personal responsibility or lack of study that causes my grade to lower. It's the fact that I DON"T HAVE THE TIME TO STUDY EVERYTHING! When was the last time I came home with very litte homework, enjoying extra time to do what I love (programming)? Virtually NEVER! Two hours of math a week (from the article)? Ha! How does an hour a day sound?
Can you really say that just because I spend anywhere from five to seven hours on homework that I'm "just going through the motions" when I really try to think and put effort into my projects so they aren't just another piece of uninspired crap the teachers see all the time? Are you saying that I don't try to learn from my work? That I deserve SEVEN concurrent projects, four of which are blatantly busywork, and two of which are genuinely useful? That I can't be learning more about my subject of interest, programming, by spending more time learning about it? AND that my effort in school is wasted (I "go through the motions" and don't learn), as you so dismissively label so many students?
"Einstein" is no insult -- it's the people who irresponsibly blame their social situation on a characteristic they can't change. Blaming culture is nice, and sometimes useful, but honestly -- if the you think that the Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is exactly the problem, then I think you're misguided or unfamiliar with the amount of work today's best students have to do. The problem with attitude is at most HALF the problem. The problem with culture is usually a non-issue (unless you live in a really, really, really bad area and can't cope).
The problem with having too much to do and too little time to do it is you don't get the chance to find what you love to do and actually do it.
How much of my free time, how much of my waning childhood, how much of the free time I can enjoy are you going to metaphorically take away by justifying all of my homework?
C# and the CLR (which .NET and mono run on) are open specs. JBoss, unless I'm mistaken, has an explicit exemption from Sun. I don't think there's any question that Apache using mono (which is backed by Novell) is legal....Just a thought.
Someone ought to search for especially flimsy patents, hack up some infringing code, offer for free the full code online (under a OSS compatible license), and *sell* proprietary licenses to it. Of course, that person would need the EFF backing it up, but it would do well to prove a point, should the algorithms be simple enough: SOFTWARE PATENTS ARE STUPID.
Not all of it is ignorance. I know people who don't use Firefox because they say it isn't as good at rendering pages -- and when it comes to horribly coded pages which are deliberately incompatible with Firefox, they're right...
Your argument isn't very insightful if you haven't found that you can do for(i in varname[i]) to access in sequence all of the variables in arrays or even objects.