I thought just this week there was news that copper, along with lead and zinc, had sunk to significant lows. The percent decline in non-precious metals is supposed to be greater than that of the Great Depression 1928 thru 1932. If this is true then where is the market for it?
I'm left with the impression that the author of the article is coming to conclusions about this materials success and marketability that are way above his pay grade.
And since when has Greenpeace been put in charge of running Apple? Did I miss the memo?
Of course if you claim to be green (am waiting for the green plastic model iBook) you set yourself up for this crap. The truth is: You never can satisfy the environmental wackos (extremists, if you prefer). No matter how much you do it will never be enough for them because if it was they'd be out of a job.
You may not like it but, some excellent SF novels do not make for popular movies. Comparing Foundation to LotR in audience popularity would leave me betting on LotR every time.
Anyone remember Millennium (1989) based on the excellent story "Air Raid"? Great story. Great SF concept. Great actress (the very appealing Cheryl Ladd). Great enough adaption to the screen. The movie bombed.
Even WALL-E was pretty decent SF that non-SF fans had trouble following.
These days all author's should have PayPal accounts so that you can assuage your guilt (if any) over pirating their work, or feeling that they're being screwed by their publishers/music company (consumers are being screwed in return by the Mickey Mouse Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act, but that's another subject) by making a payment directly to them for a secondhand book or pirate download. They'd be happy for the extra money and you might sleep better at night.
If a book is out of print and unavailable new then the publisher clearly has relinquished any intent of marketing the book for money. With Print On Demand so easily available they have to seriously not want to sell any more copies of this book for profit. To me that has thrown it into the Public Domain unless the author can wrest the copyright back to market it him/herself. Of course if the author is marketing it then it's not out of print any longer. Downloading a pirate copy beats stealing it from the library to keep or copy.
Of course, if it's available as an e-book then it was likely marketed that way initially (lot of effort to convert print to e-book just to give it away afterwards) so do e-books actually go out of print?
Is this because some idiot(s) let McColo get back online for a number of hours, or was that fallback already in place before the McColo initial shut down? These major ISP backbone providers reall need to be talking to each other when they blacklist a site so that one rogue provider doesn't undermine the good efforts of all the rest.
Promises promises that this is going to make everything better (faster, cheaper, smaller). I'd settle for even one of those benefits if it were significant, but wonder if I'll ever see any of them.
This is not being done for free. Someone is making money off of it. It takes cash to buy patents. Ergo someone is also paying money for this. Anyone care to guess who?
Apple are a bunch of Control Freaks, and it has bitten them in their collective butts before, Macintosh being a great case in point. The open Apple ][ was a dominant machine that simply needed to transition to 16-bit processing and 20-bit address spaces. Instead the closed Mac lost out to the IBM PC with expansion slots and eventually clone hardware makers. Every time Apple turns the screws down even tighter they only give those willing to go either way another reason to eschew Apple in favor of other platforms.
While some fanboys will jump in to yell that Apple's gaining market share every quarter, the only place they lead is in iPods. In computers and phones they lag far behind and aren't looking to reach 50% of those markets in the foreseeable future.
The plaintiffs in this case need to lose bad. If they win then they control the Internet - which may be what they want, but not what the rest of us want.
or you could just use a camera with a Foveon X3 sensor [wikipedia.org]. there's no demosaicing involved since it employs 3 vertically stacked photodiodes (red, green, blue) at each pixel sensor to capture color information.
Since almost nobody uses this once promising sensor technology guessing which camera might have produced the image is selecting from a very small results set.
I'm amazed that there are that many different ways to process CCD image data. Certainly given the large number of different sensors on the market one can immediately winnow down the possibilities to only a few models to consider (assuming full resolution shots and high quality settings) so the problem isn't that big.
And given the variation pattern of defective pixels (both dark and hot) one could certainly match an individual camera if they had it to inspect in the same way ballistics can match a bullet to a gun. So this would likely be telling you which gun manufacturer and model to be checking, which you might not have known before.
Or is this one of those things that only works under "ideal conditions"?
Define "reasonable" as in take reasonable steps. If it costs a fortune for only marginal effectiveness at best is that a "reasonable" expenditure of education money?
Next define "valid" as in valid DMCA notices. Suppose the university looks where the infringing material is supposed to be found and it isn't there. Does that make the notice invalid and you don't have to count it? And what if the notice isn't filled out properly? Or there's no proof that the notice sender is actually the copyright holder? A lot of these takedown notices have been very sloppy at best. What about counter notices? Do they decrement the count by one each time.
You know, there are penalties for filing false takedown notices. So what might happen if a university, tired of the RIAA's harassment of its I.T. staff, decided to prosecute every bad notice received? Want to bet that they might quickly find themselves off the RIAA's list (think Harvard who only threatened to prosecute) while they went after other low-hanging fruit?
isn't the point that you can run any OS you want on Mac hardware? Isn't that what makes them good development machines?
You may be able to run the software of your choice on your Mac, but its a lot harder to run the hardware of your choice on it - at least under OS-X. Want to work on applications for ATI's latest graphics card cuda-equivalent GPU processing then you are likely going to want a 4870 X2 to play with. That may work fine under Windows, but if you can't run OS-X as well with that hardware then you've just bought yourself a very expensive Windows-only machine.
And that's what many developers do. Run specific hardware configurations.
I've always heard that Intel Macs were comparable to Intel Windows machines in running similar application. Now suddenly there are complaints about sluggish virtual memory handling and other ills? Where has this been hiding all along now that (pardon) apples-to-Apples comparisons are actually possible?
Filesharing is nothing more or less than Civil Disobedience against a law that has gone beyond unConstitutional (copyright is specifically defined in the United States Constitution) despite the Supreme Court recently allowing Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act to stand. Current copyright law has completely stolen the Public Domain, which can only be reclaimed by amending the laws back to reasonable again through Congress (fat chance!), a constitutional amendment defining exactly what a "limited" term actually means, or the outright destruction of Big Music since now any even reasonably competent band can record, produce, and distribute their music outside of the traditional channels for a tiny investment in hardware and software.
Now isn't Civil Disobedience also Protected Speech?
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I thought just this week there was news that copper, along with lead and zinc, had sunk to significant lows. The percent decline in non-precious metals is supposed to be greater than that of the Great Depression 1928 thru 1932. If this is true then where is the market for it?
Without Tricia Helfer what is really going to be worth watching?
Hold your protests in the voting booth, not in the streets. Then something will really happen.
I'm left with the impression that the author of the article is coming to conclusions about this materials success and marketability that are way above his pay grade.
Of course if you claim to be green (am waiting for the green plastic model iBook) you set yourself up for this crap. The truth is: You never can satisfy the environmental wackos (extremists, if you prefer). No matter how much you do it will never be enough for them because if it was they'd be out of a job.
Anyone remember Millennium (1989) based on the excellent story "Air Raid"? Great story. Great SF concept. Great actress (the very appealing Cheryl Ladd). Great enough adaption to the screen. The movie bombed.
Even WALL-E was pretty decent SF that non-SF fans had trouble following.
Not all great SF makes for great movies.
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Of course, if it's available as an e-book then it was likely marketed that way initially (lot of effort to convert print to e-book just to give it away afterwards) so do e-books actually go out of print?
Is this because some idiot(s) let McColo get back online for a number of hours, or was that fallback already in place before the McColo initial shut down? These major ISP backbone providers reall need to be talking to each other when they blacklist a site so that one rogue provider doesn't undermine the good efforts of all the rest.
Sounds like 3X the memory footprint and 3X the browser vulnerabilities.
Promises promises that this is going to make everything better (faster, cheaper, smaller). I'd settle for even one of those benefits if it were significant, but wonder if I'll ever see any of them.
This is not being done for free. Someone is making money off of it. It takes cash to buy patents. Ergo someone is also paying money for this. Anyone care to guess who?
The Obvious Question is why did it take so long to try The Obvious Solution?
And is there a place where I can just download the current dictionary by itself?
While some fanboys will jump in to yell that Apple's gaining market share every quarter, the only place they lead is in iPods. In computers and phones they lag far behind and aren't looking to reach 50% of those markets in the foreseeable future.
What I think is that you sound like a Microsoft shill.
Wait moment. Isn't lead already in the ecosystem? Don't we dig it out of the ground because it's already there in the ground?
The plaintiffs in this case need to lose bad. If they win then they control the Internet - which may be what they want, but not what the rest of us want.
It's hard to get the Red Ring of Death without really heating up that sucker first.
Since almost nobody uses this once promising sensor technology guessing which camera might have produced the image is selecting from a very small results set.
And given the variation pattern of defective pixels (both dark and hot) one could certainly match an individual camera if they had it to inspect in the same way ballistics can match a bullet to a gun. So this would likely be telling you which gun manufacturer and model to be checking, which you might not have known before.
Or is this one of those things that only works under "ideal conditions"?
Next define "valid" as in valid DMCA notices. Suppose the university looks where the infringing material is supposed to be found and it isn't there. Does that make the notice invalid and you don't have to count it? And what if the notice isn't filled out properly? Or there's no proof that the notice sender is actually the copyright holder? A lot of these takedown notices have been very sloppy at best. What about counter notices? Do they decrement the count by one each time.
You know, there are penalties for filing false takedown notices. So what might happen if a university, tired of the RIAA's harassment of its I.T. staff, decided to prosecute every bad notice received? Want to bet that they might quickly find themselves off the RIAA's list (think Harvard who only threatened to prosecute) while they went after other low-hanging fruit?
You may be able to run the software of your choice on your Mac, but its a lot harder to run the hardware of your choice on it - at least under OS-X. Want to work on applications for ATI's latest graphics card cuda-equivalent GPU processing then you are likely going to want a 4870 X2 to play with. That may work fine under Windows, but if you can't run OS-X as well with that hardware then you've just bought yourself a very expensive Windows-only machine.
And that's what many developers do. Run specific hardware configurations.
I've always heard that Intel Macs were comparable to Intel Windows machines in running similar application. Now suddenly there are complaints about sluggish virtual memory handling and other ills? Where has this been hiding all along now that (pardon) apples-to-Apples comparisons are actually possible?
Aren't those chips well past their Use by date.
Filesharing is nothing more or less than Civil Disobedience against a law that has gone beyond unConstitutional (copyright is specifically defined in the United States Constitution) despite the Supreme Court recently allowing Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act to stand. Current copyright law has completely stolen the Public Domain, which can only be reclaimed by amending the laws back to reasonable again through Congress (fat chance!), a constitutional amendment defining exactly what a "limited" term actually means, or the outright destruction of Big Music since now any even reasonably competent band can record, produce, and distribute their music outside of the traditional channels for a tiny investment in hardware and software.
Now isn't Civil Disobedience also Protected Speech?