Most likely a.22. A shotgun would have have been much more obvious, being that there would be baseball size holes in the cars they hit (depending on distance and gauge/load) and much louder. The ABC article mentions a girl being shot in the pelvis - leaving bullet fragments. A shotgun would not leave "bullet fragments" - more cacteristic of a.22 hollow point round that struck bone.
I was implying that the decision fire a weapon at cars, and consiquently drivers of the cars, implies either insanity or a lack of critical thinking skills.
Even if I was not relying on the reader of my post's abilty to to read something in context - the "maybe" and lack of a conclusive "therefore" makes a claim of non sequitur weak at best.
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - "after this, therefore, because of it"
Someone know why they don't they teach logic in public schools? Blows my mind... I hear Informal Logical Fallacies at least 20 times a day! If not in person - in the news (tv, paper, etc.) Matter of fact, I would estimate that 80 percent of all the arguments I hear anywhere contain at least one. We need to engrain these in our youth, and maybe we will end up with fewer morons (like these two kids).
What if instead of deciding to shooting at passing traffic, they were inspired to jump in a car and begin to run over pedestrians? Would you then be concerned with where they got the car? Guns do not kill, - people do.
The argument that GTA2, or any media, is to blame for one's actions is absurd. What should be explored is why these kids are feeble minded imbeciles. What is next - not allowing kids to read history (full of murder, rape, and violence) because we fear it might cause them kill? If you are simple minded enough to be persuaded by a video game to shoot someone in the head - you are either insane or a moron.
Maybe we could avoid a few of these cases if we included LOGIC somewhere in our public school's curriculum.
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Yes I could imagine... but this is not likely to happen given that iTunes only allows one to "stream" - not "share" - their music. This being said, I think being able to view/stream playlists of other laptops/ipods around you would be a usefull feature,
Wow - the RIAA has to be pretty damn desperate to pull this kind of Mickey Mouse BS. The RIAA's warped sense of reality rivals that of the Heaven's Gate cosmonauts. This one last chace to surrender tactic is pretty pathetic. I guess you cannot expect them to just throw in the towel, but I think that the use of these these desperate scare tactics are yet more evidence that the fight is over.
One has to kinda feel bad for the recording industry, poisoned by the P2P, we watch this dinosaur breath it's last few breaths. Sympathy aside; do we need record labels? What need or demand do they fulfill? They take artists - produce, advertise, then distribute their albums - their revenue is generated from record sales of which 1-8% ends up going to the artist. Artists make money by touring and endorsements.
Recording equipment used to be extremely expensive - thus making bands dependent on record labels to front the money needed to make an album. This is not the case anymore. One can make a professional recording studio for under 30,000 dollars, and this number keeps shrinking every year. Bands can produce/fund their own albums. Technology has brought 'Recording' to the individual - eliminating the 'Industry'.
Control of society's sources of information (radio/tv) is the foundation of the recording industry's business model. The RIAA's stranglehold of radio and TV is becoming more and more irrelevant as the masses are turning to the Internet for their info. The Internet is intrinsically decentralized - thus the RIAA cannot dictate what content is avalibe via the web. One's exposure to new music is no longer limited the 50 song playlists of their local radio stations or what they see on tv...
Distribution - I think it is evident the Internet is a pretty effective medium for distributing music.
So, where does all this leave the artists? Pretty much right where they are now - they can still make money by selling concert tickets/merchandise - as long as they do not suck. Offsetting lack of talent with marketing will become increasingly futile. No more mass marketed music? Sounds like a good idea to me. No more boy bands, brittany spears, lincon park, etc. What does marketing have to do with art anyways?
I think this is a step in the right direction. I have been using it for a while now - check it out.
"The goal here is to do for email (starting with your personal mailbox) what Google did for the web... The Google principle: It doesn't matter where information is because I can get to it with a keystroke. So what is Zoe? Think about it as a sort of librarian, tirelessly, continuously, processing, slicing, indexing, organizing, your messages. The end result is this intertwingled web of information. Messages put in context. Your very own knowledge base accessible at your fingertip. No more "attending to" your messages. The messages organization is done automatically for you so as to not have the need to "manage" your email. Because once information is available at a keystroke, it doesn't matter in which folder you happened to file it two years ago. There is no folder. The information is always there. Accessible when you need it. In context."ZOE
Did they? The article mentions that SCO showed Bob McMillan two slides (from earlier) - does not mention anything about the entire presentation being handed over...
Was the entire slideshow released? It would be pretty funny if it wasn't.
Ha, God only knows what kind of Mickey Mouse bullshit SCO has been up too in Vegas...
Nononono - You got it all wrong. Dennis Miller is funny because of his choice of topic - relevancy - you seperate the two and you are left with nothing but a big pile of LAME.
"We found that people had got the registry key for the patch, but not the file," he said, explaining that the error could be triggered by a number of reasons -- from an incomplete installation to a lack of system resources. Microsoft did not respond to requests for comment on the Windows Update issue."
When is Redmond going to realize that people do not have time for this kind of Mickey Mouse bullshit? All of those developers and resources and they cannot even ensure that you are patched when you use windows uodate...
Then unable to keep their site up for their customers - they switch to linux. Gives a whole new meaning to 'Do more for less'.
Well, overall we observed a strong 'ignorance' theme - these kids were pretty clueless. Some less clueless than others, but even the brightest were pretty fking stupid. Their movement was pretty erratic - but we have some Phd's tweaking the data mining. I should note though that Dr. Dulanee's early analysis has found a strong correlation between the children's head orientation and the position of a TV presenting cartoons... Interesting... Their learning seemed to be based of repetition - the more they did a certain thing the better they became at it. Hey, I know its hard to believe, but we have terabytes to back it up.
Gutenberg helped bring civilization out of the Dark Ages. How could you hold back a civilization that had no books at all (outside of monistaries that is). Gutenburg's innovation spurred the Reformation and brought academic study back to the common man. Guttenburg represents a defiant turning point in history,
If you are truly serious about studying the Bible as a living book, and not as a museum piece, then pick up a New King James or NIV version. These are easily readable and accurately reflect centuries of scholarship.
I see where you are coming from - but you have to keep in mind that the Bible was not written by white - english speaking men. True hermeneutical study of the Bible requires taking into account the historical/cultural context in which it was written. A Language embodies the culture from which it originates. Transliteration provides for a decent bridge between cultures/languages, but never can offer the depth of the original.
This being said - the Bible was not written in Latin - but the Latin Vulgate (Gutenberg) was translated by men who had access to more primary Biblical documents not available to there predecessors. Being that I had 3 years of latin in HS and 3 in College, I can read (sometimes slowly) the Vulgate, and I would have to say that it offers more detail or precision than than english translations. Makes the NIV look like an impressionist painting - thats for sure. The KJV is very similar to the Vulgate. (The Vulgate was used it to help translate the greek and hebrew texts to english)
So, the RIAA is filing lawsuits against 911 pre-pubesent kids... Ha. What a stupid idea... I think this has the potential to backlash on them bigtime. Do they think that this is going to scare people away from P2P? They cannot sue everyone. Why don't they just give up? It has been over for some time now.
One has to kinda feel bad for the recording industry, poisoned by the P2P, we watch this dinosaur breath it's last few breaths. Sympathy aside; do we need record labels? What need or demand do they fulfill? They take artists, produce their albums, then distribute the album (radio/CDs.TV) - their revenue is generated from record sales of which 1-2 percent ends up going to the artist. Artists make money by touring and endorsements.
Recording equipment used to be extremely expensive - thus making bands dependent on record labels to front the money needed to make an album. This is not the case anymore. One can make a professional recording studio for under 30,000 dollars, and this number keeps shrinking every year. Bands can produce/fund their own albums. Technology has brought 'Recording' to the individual - eliminating the 'Industry'.
What about distribution? Well, it is evident the Internet is a pretty effective medium for distributing music. No longer are people limited to being exposed to new music solely by what they hear on the radio or see on tv; rather millions of people can be exposed to your music via the internet. Radio and TV were easy for the RIAA to control/influence - but the internet is to decentralized.
No more mass marketed music? Sounds like a good idea to me. No more boy bands, brittany spears, linkin park, etc. What does marketing have to do with art?
History will explain the recording industry as merely a phenomina fueled (and destroyed) by the development of digital technology. IMHO
So, you guys recently acquired linux? No??? Oh.... I see... you have always owned linux but were just not aware of this till your company was facing impending doom... Wow - good thing you guys put two and two together! Yes, now I understand Mr. McBride. Why don't you go ahead and put me down for 300 Linuses. uh I mean licenses - check is in the mail.;-) Oh, and uhh... while you are at it - go f*ck yourself.
"We like the Mac, but Apple currently has three [video] editing applications shipping.... It just didn't make sense for us to keep developing for the Mac when the Mac is well served by Apple." here
Translation: Adobe Premier is Mickey Mouse BS when compared to FCP - we just could not compete. It is a good thing FCP is not available for Windows - we still have those Users under our finger.
Prediction: If Adobe does not kick it into high gear and start making some changes (start with the interface which looks like it was designed by a focus group comprised of accountants, librarians, and lawyers) they will end up losing a good amount of their After Effects customers to Discreet' Combestion. Combustion rapes AE - hands down.
The upcoming AE 6.0 is heralded as: "After Effects 6.0 Professional adds motion tracking and stabilization, advanced keying and warping tools, more than 30 additional visual effects, a particle system, render automation and network rendering, 16-bit-per-channel color, 3D channel effects, and additional audio effects."
Combustion had these 'new' features in late 2001 - only difference is that then it costs 4,995 and now you can get it for $995 - bye bye AE. Only advantage that AE has is all the plugins that are now being written to be combustion 2 compatible. Combustion 2.1 is available for OS X and Windows XP.
AE 6 is not amazing - I have the seen latest beta build.
"After Effects 6.0 Professional adds motion tracking and stabilization, advanced keying and warping tools, more than 30 additional visual effects, a particle system, render automation and network rendering, 16-bit-per-channel color, 3D channel effects, and additional audio effects."
Same dog with a few more tricks. The interface still looks like it was designed by a focus group made of lawyers and accountants. Discreet's Combustion rapes AE. Combustion had these 'new' features in late 2001 - only difference is that then it costs 4,995 and now you can get it for $995 - bye bye after effects. Only advantage that AE has is all the plugins that are now being written to be combustion 2 compatible.
A unified workflow is best achieved by storing data in standard formats and letting people decide how they want to use it - not by stringing together a bunch of applications (which never has worked).
You are a tech stock analyst on Wall Street - right?
Later, he said Microsoft's lawyers' advice was: "It's conjecture. It depends on who, what, when, the technology, and a whole bunch of things and the Herald is not a good place to get into a legal discussion."
He went on to explain:
Have you ever been pussy whipped by your girfriend? Well, if you have, you would understand our relationship with microsoft.
PressPass: What function will the advisory board serve?
The goal is to learn from each other....
...Microsoft has long realized that to achieve needed systemic change, it's important to involve academia early on.
BUT, we also view this board as a two-way education channel. Ultimately, we'd like to see academia work with the industry to inculcate more security concepts into a technical education, because it's not just a technology problem or a computer science problem. ***It's a social problem***. If we at Microsoft work with academia to make sure they have the resources, time and information to infuse Trustworthy Computing concepts into education, the result will be graduates who are much more adept at understanding a secure computing environment.
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Most likely a .22. A shotgun would have have been much more obvious, being that there would be baseball size holes in the cars they hit (depending on distance and gauge/load) and much louder. The ABC article mentions a girl being shot in the pelvis - leaving bullet fragments. A shotgun would not leave "bullet fragments" - more cacteristic of a .22 hollow point round that struck bone.
I was implying that the decision fire a weapon at cars, and consiquently drivers of the cars, implies either insanity or a lack of critical thinking skills.
Even if I was not relying on the reader of my post's abilty to to read something in context - the "maybe" and lack of a conclusive "therefore" makes a claim of non sequitur weak at best.
Strawman...
"America has not yet seen what an intelligent, methodical sharpshooter can cause, even though I know dozens of people like myself."
... authorities have linked them to 19 shootings, including 13 deaths"
"After a series of shooting terrorized the capital area for weeks
On Aug. 1, 1966, the tower was like a lofty deer blind for Whitman, enabling him to mow down pedestrians blocks away and lay siege to the campus area for 90 minutes before he was slain in a shootout on the deck by Austin police. Unnoticed, in an era of lax security when mass murder was still a rarity, he had managed to take a foot locker full of armaments onto the deck, including three rifles and 700 rounds of ammunition.
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - "after this, therefore, because of it"
Someone know why they don't they teach logic in public schools? Blows my mind... I hear Informal Logical Fallacies at least 20 times a day! If not in person - in the news (tv, paper, etc.) Matter of fact, I would estimate that 80 percent of all the arguments I hear anywhere contain at least one. We need to engrain these in our youth, and maybe we will end up with fewer morons (like these two kids).
What if instead of deciding to shooting at passing traffic, they were inspired to jump in a car and begin to run over pedestrians? Would you then be concerned with where they got the car? Guns do not kill, - people do.
The argument that GTA2, or any media, is to blame for one's actions is absurd. What should be explored is why these kids are feeble minded imbeciles. What is next - not allowing kids to read history (full of murder, rape, and violence) because we fear it might cause them kill? If you are simple minded enough to be persuaded by a video game to shoot someone in the head - you are either insane or a moron.
Maybe we could avoid a few of these cases if we included LOGIC somewhere in our public school's curriculum.
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Yes I could imagine... but this is not likely to happen given that iTunes only allows one to "stream" - not "share" - their music. This being said, I think being able to view/stream playlists of other laptops/ipods around you would be a usefull feature,
Wow - the RIAA has to be pretty damn desperate to pull this kind of Mickey Mouse BS. The RIAA's warped sense of reality rivals that of the Heaven's Gate cosmonauts. This one last chace to surrender tactic is pretty pathetic. I guess you cannot expect them to just throw in the towel, but I think that the use of these these desperate scare tactics are yet more evidence that the fight is over.
One has to kinda feel bad for the recording industry, poisoned by the P2P, we watch this dinosaur breath it's last few breaths. Sympathy aside; do we need record labels? What need or demand do they fulfill? They take artists - produce, advertise, then distribute their albums - their revenue is generated from record sales of which 1-8% ends up going to the artist. Artists make money by touring and endorsements.
Recording equipment used to be extremely expensive - thus making bands dependent on record labels to front the money needed to make an album. This is not the case anymore. One can make a professional recording studio for under 30,000 dollars, and this number keeps shrinking every year. Bands can produce/fund their own albums. Technology has brought 'Recording' to the individual - eliminating the 'Industry'.
Control of society's sources of information (radio/tv) is the foundation of the recording industry's business model. The RIAA's stranglehold of radio and TV is becoming more and more irrelevant as the masses are turning to the Internet for their info. The Internet is intrinsically decentralized - thus the RIAA cannot dictate what content is avalibe via the web. One's exposure to new music is no longer limited the 50 song playlists of their local radio stations or what they see on tv...
Distribution - I think it is evident the Internet is a pretty effective medium for distributing music.
So, where does all this leave the artists? Pretty much right where they are now - they can still make money by selling concert tickets/merchandise - as long as they do not suck. Offsetting lack of talent with marketing will become increasingly futile. No more mass marketed music? Sounds like a good idea to me. No more boy bands, brittany spears, lincon park, etc. What does marketing have to do with art anyways?
ZOE is not OS X specific:
Win2k SP2, jre 1.4.0, IE 6.0.2600.0000
MacOSX 10.1.3, jre 1.4.1, IE 5.1.3 (3905)
MacOSX 10.1.4, jre 1.4.1, IE 5.1.4 (4415.2)
MacOSX 10.1.4, jre 1.4.1, Mozilla 0.9.9
MacOSX 10.2.5, jre 1.4.1, Safari 1.0
Debian 'Stable' Linux, blackdown 1.3sdk, Opera
I think this is a step in the right direction. I have been using it for a while now - check it out.
"The goal here is to do for email (starting with your personal mailbox) what Google did for the web... The Google principle: It doesn't matter where information is because I can get to it with a keystroke. So what is Zoe? Think about it as a sort of librarian, tirelessly, continuously, processing, slicing, indexing, organizing, your messages. The end result is this intertwingled web of information. Messages put in context. Your very own knowledge base accessible at your fingertip. No more "attending to" your messages. The messages organization is done automatically for you so as to not have the need to "manage" your email. Because once information is available at a keystroke, it doesn't matter in which folder you happened to file it two years ago. There is no folder. The information is always there. Accessible when you need it. In context." ZOE
Did they? The article mentions that SCO showed Bob McMillan two slides (from earlier) - does not mention anything about the entire presentation being handed over...
Was the entire slideshow released? It would be pretty funny if it wasn't.
Ha, God only knows what kind of Mickey Mouse bullshit SCO has been up too in Vegas...
Nononono - You got it all wrong. Dennis Miller is funny because of his choice of topic - relevancy - you seperate the two and you are left with nothing but a big pile of LAME.
"We found that people had got the registry key for the patch, but not the file," he said, explaining that the error could be triggered by a number of reasons -- from an incomplete installation to a lack of system resources.
Microsoft did not respond to requests for comment on the Windows Update issue."
When is Redmond going to realize that people do not have time for this kind of Mickey Mouse bullshit? All of those developers and resources and they cannot even ensure that you are patched when you use windows uodate...
Then unable to keep their site up for their customers - they switch to linux. Gives a whole new meaning to 'Do more for less'.
Well, overall we observed a strong 'ignorance' theme - these kids were pretty clueless. Some less clueless than others, but even the brightest were pretty fking stupid. Their movement was pretty erratic - but we have some Phd's tweaking the data mining. I should note though that Dr. Dulanee's early analysis has found a strong correlation between the children's head orientation and the position of a TV presenting cartoons... Interesting... Their learning seemed to be based of repetition - the more they did a certain thing the better they became at it. Hey, I know its hard to believe, but we have terabytes to back it up.
Gutenberg helped bring civilization out of the Dark Ages. How could you hold back a civilization that had no books at all (outside of monistaries that is). Gutenburg's innovation spurred the Reformation and brought academic study back to the common man. Guttenburg represents a defiant turning point in history,
If you are truly serious about studying the Bible as a living book, and not as a museum piece, then pick up a New King James or NIV version. These are easily readable and accurately reflect centuries of scholarship.
I see where you are coming from - but you have to keep in mind that the Bible was not written by white - english speaking men. True hermeneutical study of the Bible requires taking into account the historical/cultural context in which it was written. A Language embodies the culture from which it originates. Transliteration provides for a decent bridge between cultures/languages, but never can offer the depth of the original.
This being said - the Bible was not written in Latin - but the Latin Vulgate (Gutenberg) was translated by men who had access to more primary Biblical documents not available to there predecessors. Being that I had 3 years of latin in HS and 3 in College, I can read (sometimes slowly) the Vulgate, and I would have to say that it offers more detail or precision than than english translations. Makes the NIV look like an impressionist painting - thats for sure. The KJV is very similar to the Vulgate. (The Vulgate was used it to help translate the greek and hebrew texts to english)
So, the RIAA is filing lawsuits against 911 pre-pubesent kids... Ha. What a stupid idea... I think this has the potential to backlash on them bigtime. Do they think that this is going to scare people away from P2P? They cannot sue everyone. Why don't they just give up? It has been over for some time now.
One has to kinda feel bad for the recording industry, poisoned by the P2P, we watch this dinosaur breath it's last few breaths. Sympathy aside; do we need record labels? What need or demand do they fulfill? They take artists, produce their albums, then distribute the album (radio/CDs.TV) - their revenue is generated from record sales of which 1-2 percent ends up going to the artist. Artists make money by touring and endorsements.
Recording equipment used to be extremely expensive - thus making bands dependent on record labels to front the money needed to make an album. This is not the case anymore. One can make a professional recording studio for under 30,000 dollars, and this number keeps shrinking every year. Bands can produce/fund their own albums. Technology has brought 'Recording' to the individual - eliminating the 'Industry'.
What about distribution? Well, it is evident the Internet is a pretty effective medium for distributing music. No longer are people limited to being exposed to new music solely by what they hear on the radio or see on tv; rather millions of people can be exposed to your music via the internet. Radio and TV were easy for the RIAA to control/influence - but the internet is to decentralized.
No more mass marketed music? Sounds like a good idea to me. No more boy bands, brittany spears, linkin park, etc. What does marketing have to do with art?
History will explain the recording industry as merely a phenomina fueled (and destroyed) by the development of digital technology. IMHO
So, you guys recently acquired linux? No??? Oh.... I see... you have always owned linux but were just not aware of this till your company was facing impending doom... Wow - good thing you guys put two and two together! Yes, now I understand Mr. McBride. Why don't you go ahead and put me down for 300 Linuses. uh I mean licenses - check is in the mail. ;-) Oh, and uhh... while you are at it - go f*ck yourself.
Not supprising - being that the island of Japan is roughly half the size of Texas. (143,939/268,600 sq. miles)
"We like the Mac, but Apple currently has three [video] editing applications shipping.... It just didn't make sense for us to keep developing for the Mac when the Mac is well served by Apple." here
Translation:
Adobe Premier is Mickey Mouse BS when compared to FCP - we just could not compete. It is a good thing FCP is not available for Windows - we still have those Users under our finger.
Prediction:
If Adobe does not kick it into high gear and start making some changes (start with the interface which looks like it was designed by a focus group comprised of accountants, librarians, and lawyers) they will end up losing a good amount of their After Effects customers to Discreet' Combestion. Combustion rapes AE - hands down.
The upcoming AE 6.0 is heralded as:
"After Effects 6.0 Professional adds motion tracking and stabilization, advanced keying and warping tools, more than 30 additional visual effects, a particle system, render automation and network rendering, 16-bit-per-channel color, 3D channel effects, and additional audio effects."
Combustion had these 'new' features in late 2001 - only difference is that then it costs 4,995 and now you can get it for $995 - bye bye AE. Only advantage that AE has is all the plugins that are now being written to be combustion 2 compatible. Combustion 2.1 is available for OS X and Windows XP.
Hey - but they will still have Photoshop, right?
AE 6 is not amazing - I have the seen latest beta build.
"After Effects 6.0 Professional adds motion tracking and stabilization, advanced keying and warping tools, more than 30 additional visual effects, a particle system, render automation and network rendering, 16-bit-per-channel color, 3D channel effects, and additional audio effects."
Same dog with a few more tricks. The interface still looks like it was designed by a focus group made of lawyers and accountants. Discreet's Combustion rapes AE. Combustion had these 'new' features in late 2001 - only difference is that then it costs 4,995 and now you can get it for $995 - bye bye after effects. Only advantage that AE has is all the plugins that are now being written to be combustion 2 compatible.
Gimp has already arrived
A unified workflow is best achieved by storing data in standard formats and letting people decide how they want to use it - not by stringing together a bunch of applications (which never has worked). You are a tech stock analyst on Wall Street - right?
Later, he said Microsoft's lawyers' advice was: "It's conjecture. It depends on who, what, when, the technology, and a whole bunch of things and the Herald is not a good place to get into a legal discussion." He went on to explain: Have you ever been pussy whipped by your girfriend? Well, if you have, you would understand our relationship with microsoft.
PressPass: What function will the advisory board serve?
...Microsoft has long realized that to achieve needed systemic change, it's important to involve academia early on.
The goal is to learn from each other....
BUT, we also view this board as a two-way education channel. Ultimately, we'd like to see academia work with the industry to inculcate more security concepts into a technical education, because it's not just a technology problem or a computer science problem. ***It's a social problem***. If we at Microsoft work with academia to make sure they have the resources, time and information to infuse Trustworthy Computing concepts into education, the result will be graduates who are much more adept at understanding a secure computing environment.