You completely forgot about all those essential people who keep the cycle functioning properly. Whether they be kings, presidents, or beaurocrats - where would we be without them?
Amen! What bugs me about commercials is not that I'm being pitched to, but that it's a waste of both of our time! There's no point in showing me an ad for Massengil.
What is it about you that triggers the Massengil ads? I haven't seen an ad for that product since the last time I accidentally saw an afternoon soap in my college days.
Logic Gates are an abstraction. When I was a kid, we built flip flops out of transistors with resistors to bias them the right way. Does anyone here know what I'm talking about?
I went off to Ga Tech in 1976 armed with a Casio with 4 functions and a memory. That set my folks back a couple a hundred. A couple of years later, I bought a programable TI-59. I still have my programs I wrote in a notebook on the bookshelf. I had the special printer and everything, I even had the programing forms, but that was because I bought everything but the calculator from a broke ubergeek. Hey, my boss let me write work related programs on company time. The company computer wasn't much more programable, so my calculator was an asset.
Refugees in most cases need protection from something or someone. Evacuees get evacueted. Survivors make it through a difficult or dangerous situation, sometimes with help, sometimes on their own. These people, most of them survivors, simply need a place to stay and a job to do. They aren't all poor, a week in the same clothes in soggy conditions will make all the classes look the same. The ones accustomed to work will need jobs, incomes, etc, just as much as treatment for PTSD and other conditions they may have acquired.
Some may be evacuees, but many are not that passive. Survivor may be the best word, especially for the ones who take charge of their own "rescue" and don't wait passively for the politicians and other "leaders" to get their acts together.
Dude, you lost, I mean, you will LUSE control the moment she grabs the joystick. You can't fly high without a copilot. What if you black out or something?
With your altitude, you'll have to beat her like a pinata to get anything, assuming your stick's long enough. Pathetic LUSER
P.S. Since you care about sigs, read mine, then come over here and my partner and I will beat you up. I suspect we'd all LUV a threesome.
Not if it's a new one from Apple. Apple has stores in Georgia, so legally, the sales tax must be collected most of the time. Amazon, itself, has a location in Georgia. To get the sales tax break for buying on the internet, you must live in some podunk state where no one wants to open a real world store.
The last weekend in July is back to school tax free shopping in Georgia. Last year, I bought an eMac and the Apple store was crammed. People come from all over the South to save 7%.
Although, I'm more inclined to have a legal system that treats kids as kids, it has always bothered me that the guvmint only treats ordinary citizens as individuals when they commit a crime. I woudn't want individual justice to go away, but I don't understand why the DMV, for example, which individually tests every driver, must require you to be a certain age. I've know 12 year olds that can drive better tahn 25 year olds. (okay, it's probably a work load thing, can you imagine how crazy it would be if the DMV was filled to the max with 12 year olds? Especially if 12 year olds are more likely to flunk the first time and need a retest?
Obviously to all but the technogeeki, mshome belongs to Microsoft and is the default accesss point for all systems running Microsoft otherwise. The assumption that the default behavior of you computer is to do something illegal or immoral is ludicrous. Why should anyone be concerned when a computer they bought to access the internet wirelessly accesses the internet - wirelessly?
Hey! I have this issue out in the garage... Will someone come along and make me a millionaire?
I always liked the cover art until it started looking like PCMagazine, or whatever generic name it was.
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The solution to this should be obvious: namespaces.
There's no need for a formal "promotion" step. Commands could propogate the same was as del.icio.us bookmarks. Popular ones can collect in the "popular" namespace. If you know someone who creates good commands, you can list or subcribe to what's available in their namespace. If you really like somethiing, you can copy to your own which would bump up its popularity rating.
Here's the documentation for their system if you aren't familiar already.
"But in any event, this many didn't 'use up' any of the pictures so by downloading them there aren't any less pictures for others to download, so no new ones need to be created."
Sure, he didn't use up the particular pictures he viewed. But, surely he isn't going to want to view the same pictures over and over. This one particular individual will demand lots of different pictures. Just because the server can serve up unlimitied copies doesn't mean this one guy will be satisfied with the same pictures again and again.
Same problem with your music analogy. Music isn't a commodity to the listener, each song in my collection is unique, so I will probably keep acquiring music for as long as my ears function. The fact that many other people can easily have the same music in their collection matters to the producers of that music, not me. They must find many buyers for the music, but if they want repeat business, they still must produce many songs for each buyer.
This is the same reason "student versions" are so cheap or free. It is why companies negotiate so hard to get there hardware in schools. Once people are in the habit of using the tools, they are more receptive to paying a reasonable price for the "grownup version".
Do you know why it is difficult to clone a virtual sword? I suppose the data it consists of is never actually removed from the game, just some kind of ID code pointer is actually given to the "owner". So, the sword won't work outside of its game environment, unlike music which must work in the real world.
Cutting hair and painting houses are services, not objects. If you don't pay for a service, the barber or the painter are deprived of the time they could have been working for someone else.
I don't want to appear to be defending the murderer, but he in effect was swindled out of $1000, the real world value that was established in a real auction. The auction sets up an equivalence in real money. But, he acquired his sword in a virtual world. Should that matter? Is it any less real than the crimes committed by Enron?
Using a writing program to create a book and using a gaming program to create a sword seem to be similar acts that would introduce copyright into the mess, but unless swords can be duplicated as easily as books or song files, the analogy isn't relevent. Stealing a virtual sword would be more like "real" theft and less like copyright infringement. How easy is it to duplicate a sword?
So a man was murdered for stealing an object with an established real world value of $1000. The murderer certainly belongs in jail, but I don't think it should have anything to do with the realness of the sword since it has real value established by legitimate auction.
This isn't so much about a murder (which we all certainly agree is a crime), but about the killer's motive, whether he was reacting to a crime himself. Some killings are more justifiable than others, but I doubt the "realness" of this property should matter in this case.
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"What I guess I'm getting at, is that folders or directories are convenient for organizational purposes. Another thing, is with no folders, how do you share a folder? Do I have to add metadata to each file saying who, when and why I want that document shared over the network?"
You will label and tag instead of file in a folder. If you give a file only one label, it will seem exactly like using folders to the user. A folder is simply a directory which is simply a file full of pointers to other files which can be anywhere in your storage system. This is simply an easier (than aliases or links) way of assigning multiple pointers to those files, so they will appear to be in multiple folders.
I imagine that it will technically be very similar to what we already have, only the metaphor will be different in that users must be able to deal with the idea that an object maybe associated with more than one grouping.
Examples of labeling and tagging already exist. Just check out del.icio.us, gmail.com, or http://www.flickr.com/. http://www.flickr.com/ is probably the best example since you can imagine photos as being real pieces of paper being place in more than one grouping.
Apple makes it very easy to take the disks that come with your new Mac and install Tiger on your old G3. There's no secret codes or id numbers that limit your number of installs.
Had almost exactly the same experience. I was driving my going to college car and when I finally got someone's attention, he pointed me towards the Honda dealer next door. I like Honda's as much as anything, but if I'd meant to go there, I would have. Salesman who don't realize that some poor college students get much wealthier shortly after graduation, don't deserve the business they lose. But, it sure is a hassle for the shopper who doesn't get all dressed up work at looking old just to go car looking.
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You completely forgot about all those essential people who keep the cycle functioning properly. Whether they be kings, presidents, or beaurocrats - where would we be without them?
What is it about you that triggers the Massengil ads? I haven't seen an ad for that product since the last time I accidentally saw an afternoon soap in my college days.
Logic Gates are an abstraction. When I was a kid, we built flip flops out of transistors with resistors to bias them the right way. Does anyone here know what I'm talking about?
I went off to Ga Tech in 1976 armed with a Casio with 4 functions and a memory. That set my folks back a couple a hundred. A couple of years later, I bought a programable TI-59. I still have my programs I wrote in a notebook on the bookshelf. I had the special printer and everything, I even had the programing forms, but that was because I bought everything but the calculator from a broke ubergeek. Hey, my boss let me write work related programs on company time. The company computer wasn't much more programable, so my calculator was an asset.
Refugees in most cases need protection from something or someone. Evacuees get evacueted. Survivors make it through a difficult or dangerous situation, sometimes with help, sometimes on their own. These people, most of them survivors, simply need a place to stay and a job to do. They aren't all poor, a week in the same clothes in soggy conditions will make all the classes look the same. The ones accustomed to work will need jobs, incomes, etc, just as much as treatment for PTSD and other conditions they may have acquired.
Some may be evacuees, but many are not that passive. Survivor may be the best word, especially for the ones who take charge of their own "rescue" and don't wait passively for the politicians and other "leaders" to get their acts together.
Dude, you lost, I mean, you will LUSE control the moment she grabs the joystick. You can't fly high without a copilot. What if you black out or something?
With your altitude, you'll have to beat her like a pinata to get anything, assuming your stick's long enough. Pathetic LUSER
P.S. Since you care about sigs, read mine, then come over here and my partner and I will beat you up. I suspect we'd all LUV a threesome.
Not if it's a new one from Apple. Apple has stores in Georgia, so legally, the sales tax must be collected most of the time. Amazon, itself, has a location in Georgia. To get the sales tax break for buying on the internet, you must live in some podunk state where no one wants to open a real world store.
The last weekend in July is back to school tax free shopping in Georgia. Last year, I bought an eMac and the Apple store was crammed. People come from all over the South to save 7%.
Although, I'm more inclined to have a legal system that treats kids as kids, it has always bothered me that the guvmint only treats ordinary citizens as individuals when they commit a crime. I woudn't want individual justice to go away, but I don't understand why the DMV, for example, which individually tests every driver, must require you to be a certain age. I've know 12 year olds that can drive better tahn 25 year olds. (okay, it's probably a work load thing, can you imagine how crazy it would be if the DMV was filled to the max with 12 year olds? Especially if 12 year olds are more likely to flunk the first time and need a retest?
Obviously to all but the technogeeki, mshome belongs to Microsoft and is the default accesss point for all systems running Microsoft otherwise. The assumption that the default behavior of you computer is to do something illegal or immoral is ludicrous. Why should anyone be concerned when a computer they bought to access the internet wirelessly accesses the internet - wirelessly?
Right on - a creative property becomes more valuable when released into the world, doesn't the world deserve some consideration for that?
Hey! I have this issue out in the garage... Will someone come along and make me a millionaire?
I always liked the cover art until it started looking like PCMagazine, or whatever generic name it was.
The solution to this should be obvious: namespaces.
There's no need for a formal "promotion" step. Commands could propogate the same was as del.icio.us bookmarks. Popular ones can collect in the "popular" namespace. If you know someone who creates good commands, you can list or subcribe to what's available in their namespace. If you really like somethiing, you can copy to your own which would bump up its popularity rating.
Here's the documentation for their system if you aren't familiar already.
"But in any event, this many didn't 'use up' any of the pictures so by downloading them there aren't any less pictures for others to download, so no new ones need to be created."
Sure, he didn't use up the particular pictures he viewed. But, surely he isn't going to want to view the same pictures over and over. This one particular individual will demand lots of different pictures. Just because the server can serve up unlimitied copies doesn't mean this one guy will be satisfied with the same pictures again and again.
Same problem with your music analogy. Music isn't a commodity to the listener, each song in my collection is unique, so I will probably keep acquiring music for as long as my ears function. The fact that many other people can easily have the same music in their collection matters to the producers of that music, not me. They must find many buyers for the music, but if they want repeat business, they still must produce many songs for each buyer.
This is the same reason "student versions" are so cheap or free. It is why companies negotiate so hard to get there hardware in schools. Once people are in the habit of using the tools, they are more receptive to paying a reasonable price for the "grownup version".
Do you know why it is difficult to clone a virtual sword? I suppose the data it consists of is never actually removed from the game, just some kind of ID code pointer is actually given to the "owner". So, the sword won't work outside of its game environment, unlike music which must work in the real world.
Cutting hair and painting houses are services, not objects. If you don't pay for a service, the barber or the painter are deprived of the time they could have been working for someone else.
I don't want to appear to be defending the murderer, but he in effect was swindled out of $1000, the real world value that was established in a real auction. The auction sets up an equivalence in real money. But, he acquired his sword in a virtual world. Should that matter? Is it any less real than the crimes committed by Enron?
Using a writing program to create a book and using a gaming program to create a sword seem to be similar acts that would introduce copyright into the mess, but unless swords can be duplicated as easily as books or song files, the analogy isn't relevent. Stealing a virtual sword would be more like "real" theft and less like copyright infringement. How easy is it to duplicate a sword?
So a man was murdered for stealing an object with an established real world value of $1000. The murderer certainly belongs in jail, but I don't think it should have anything to do with the realness of the sword since it has real value established by legitimate auction.
This isn't so much about a murder (which we all certainly agree is a crime), but about the killer's motive, whether he was reacting to a crime himself. Some killings are more justifiable than others, but I doubt the "realness" of this property should matter in this case.
"What I guess I'm getting at, is that folders or directories are convenient for organizational purposes. Another thing, is with no folders, how do you share a folder? Do I have to add metadata to each file saying who, when and why I want that document shared over the network?"
You will label and tag instead of file in a folder. If you give a file only one label, it will seem exactly like using folders to the user. A folder is simply a directory which is simply a file full of pointers to other files which can be anywhere in your storage system. This is simply an easier (than aliases or links) way of assigning multiple pointers to those files, so they will appear to be in multiple folders.
I imagine that it will technically be very similar to what we already have, only the metaphor will be different in that users must be able to deal with the idea that an object maybe associated with more than one grouping.
Examples of labeling and tagging already exist. Just check out del.icio.us, gmail.com, or http://www.flickr.com/. http://www.flickr.com/ is probably the best example since you can imagine photos as being real pieces of paper being place in more than one grouping.
Why has no one discussed the inherent shielding problems? Or possibly the fan noise?
Apple makes it very easy to take the disks that come with your new Mac and install Tiger on your old G3. There's no secret codes or id numbers that limit your number of installs.
Had almost exactly the same experience. I was driving my going to college car and when I finally got someone's attention, he pointed me towards the Honda dealer next door. I like Honda's as much as anything, but if I'd meant to go there, I would have. Salesman who don't realize that some poor college students get much wealthier shortly after graduation, don't deserve the business they lose. But, it sure is a hassle for the shopper who doesn't get all dressed up work at looking old just to go car looking.