It's most likely the Intel fabs making PPC chips for them. Simply put, the alliance that made the PPC in the first place (the AIM or whatever it's called), will decide who makes the PPCs. Apple owns patents on the PPC stuff... so, it stands to reason the ENORMOUS fab capability of Intel is what they might be after (IF..and only IF "chips" means CPUs.... they are talking about a logical leap here... "chips" as the TFA says can be a number of things... my guess it's PCI-E instead of PCI-X... but who knows?) It could be more use of Intel's chipsets for memory or for a mini-handheld, or who the heck knows? C-Net seems to be embellishing this whole "line change" stuff out of thin air... there's no way they got that detailed a scoop. I think they're speculating VERY hard. And looking through "peril sensitive sunglasses" to get the "blank spots" filled in.
The answer is clear... it's not x86 anything. They're not switching architectures again. Not this quickly. (they haven't even fully exploited the 64-bit-ness of the damn G5 for shit's sake.) They just need more capacity. IBM is having troubles with capacity (wonder if this will hurt XBox 360? It might).... Intel's got fabs out the WAZOO... and could make TONS of chips for Apple if they needed it.
In some people's eyes, Apple may be dumb, but certainly not that dumb. And Jobs isn't about to shit all over the momentum he's got with the Mac line by switching the damn CPU.
My guess is this is much ado about nothing... and Intel's fab power is what Apple is tapping into for it's own PPC chips.
The switch to x86, even if it occurred, would be more complex than just "keeping in step" with the OS. There's much more to it than just a "recompile"...
It's never been about piracy ever, because we never hear about huge piracy rings in the Pacific Rim being "shut down" and thousands of bootleg DVDs taken off the streets. China and other places just give the US the finger when it comes to "tightening copyright provisions and intellectual property protections."
You see reporters walking up to vendors on the street corner in New York selling movies one week old on VHS or DVD, yet there's only one high profile bust for stuff like that in the last 5 years. (They were more interested in getting the P2P networks anyway.) Granted those vendors might not even have anything on those tapes, but the point is still there. Piracy has never been their concern. People like that and the bootleg DVD makers are what ACTUALLY rob them of their precious "revenue", yet trading online for no cash whatsoever is more important to them. Empowerment of the end user is their chief problem. Our computers are powerful enough to encode movies to watch whenever, wherever we want. So they nix the ability to copy them (or try to) with the DMCA. Our computers are connected to the internet via more than a 28.8 modem these days (some of us, I mean)... their idea is to subpoena names of users from ISPs who are "suspected" of pirating songs on Kazaa. Great strategy.. piss off the demographic most likely to buy your crap, RIAA.:)
When you can dictate to them when and how you want to view their content, it makes them nervous. When you have the ability to sidestep their dog and pony show for old TV shows or movies, they are pissed. (I hate to use this analogy, but here goes..) It is not unlike the illuminators decrying the invention of moveable type. The sunset on how the studios/labels do their business is rapidly approaching. This is their last gasp attempt to try and stifle progress.
ROTS was #2 all time box office leader (in terms of opening weekend gross), as well as making new records in day to day sales and ticket pre-sells, yet the only thing you hear is "Revenue is down year to year for the 3rd straight year..." We can't appear to be making MONEY after we tell them how bad piracy is to our business.:) The RIAA has been RAKING it in the last 3 years, and they are whining about piracy even louder than when they were supposedly documenting evidence their revenue was down to those nasty P2P fartknockers.
Why? Because "Monster in Law" and the 37 TV show remakes planned aren't interesting to the average movie goer? No. It's those damn P2P people. Yeah, right. Convenient scapegoat.:)
It's enough to make me wonder why I even go to the movies at all. (The last movie I saw in the theater was HHGTTG, but before that, I'd not been since LOTR:ROTK.) Nothing showing that I can't wait and rent for a lot less, and avoid the idiots that fill theaters. I saw HHGTTG in a theater with 3 other people. It was worth waiting until then to see it.:)
Sorry for the rant... it's just getting to me. The MPAA/RIAA are a bunch of whiny old crows who wish for the days long past. They wish technology wasn't leaving them behind, and if they have their way, they'll stomp it until it is leaving them behind.:)
Anonymity != privacy. (You can be private without being anonymous.)
Buy communist literature with cash (and send someone else to buy it for you if you're really paranoid) if you want anonymity. Privacy means that because you bought a communist book or something of the sort, that does not grant the government the right to search your belongings or personal effects just because you bought a communist booklet or checked it out from the Library. (But hey, the Patriot Act modifies that somewhat... which is, as I mentioned in the original reply, the problem.)
But thankfully, (well until recently I can't believe I'm saying "until" about the 4th amendment..yeesh!), it still required a judge to get to the search/seizure. A guy couldn't come up to the cops on the street and say "X has illegal Y in his house", and the cops rush over there to get whatever "Y" is without first going before a judge and presenting evidence. Not every judge is swayed by witness testimony alone either. There are exceptions to every rule, of course.
It was made deliberately difficult to do for the express purpose of privacy, as well as the paper trail necessary to nail the abusers of the court. (of course there are probably a few that get through with bogus witness testimony....but conspiracies like that require a lot of work, thankfully.) If you don't get buy-in from the incidental players in your conspiracy, they'll roll over on you under the slightest pressure.:)
Of course, that's all a big wash now with the Patriot Act...
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated...(and so on...)
Has a privacy ring to it.... It's a right. If you want to keep something to yourself... this particular amendment provides a mechanism for which you are able to do that. Granted, it is not specifically stated "privacy", but applying the reasonable man test, you can see where privacy is upheld over public scrutiny. When privacy needs to be violated, it requires more work than just "LET ME SEE YOUR STUFF.":-) And for good reason, as evidenced by the groupings and subjects of amendments 1 - 10.
Which, if our courts weren't so broken, judicial review would toss out the "sneak and peek" provisions of the Patriot Act faster than you can say "Amendment IV".
Before the latest purchase of legislation, it was never considered a criminal offense unless there was PROFIT involved. Sharing for the sake of sharing with no motive for profit was not a criminal offense.
Now it is. Just wait until the jails fill up with all of these "movie pirates", to go along with the casual drug users and people who don't believe the Constitution should be pissed on by big government.
Why ARE we giving these people money? They need to disappear. It's just entertainment. It's not VITAL to anything. They are NOT producing ANYTHING we CANNOT live without.
Why don't we show them? Oh I forgot... Episode 3 is out.;)
Oh, I know... feeding the troll. I shouldn't but this one's too obvious not to. I mean, seriously obvious.:)
I have a 2nd Gen iPod with a battery I put in myself. The battery came with its own pry tool (so you won't scratch the backing) and instructions (with PICTURES for you retards.)
The iPod's been through heck and back and still runs smooth on its second battery.
So much for disposable. And oh, I don't wash my iPod, my cell phone, my cordless phone, or my PSP. And I don't poke the battery with a screwdriver (remember the plastic tool that came with my iPod battery?) Ahhh... the smell of the obvious. It's almost sweet. Lawsuit indeed.;)
This isn't even a new revelation. Spend $100 letting Apple put one in for you, or spend $30 + shipping and do it yourself.
The Democrats could've stopped the DMCA. But those "Democrats" including the one in the executive branch at the time, didn't. Orrin Hatch's baby got tacit approval with NO debate from the Democrats either. They're not spineless, in the sense that they didn't hold to their party's ideals... they're spineless for the same reason Republicans are spineless. MONEY talks.. and it's the only thing they listen to anymore.
I like neither party, and quite frankly, it's a ONE party system these days in national elections. There ARE no "Republikans" or "Demokrats".
Just slimy on-the-take politicians who nurse at the teat of special interests. No one should be surprised by this... we've been voting them into office for decades.
that's what happens when you send lawyers to do your work for you... they end up screwing YOU in the end anyway.
If you live in Texas, there already IS a black strip on your driver's license...:)
And you have to submit a fingerprint to the DMV to get your license..
I'm just saying... Now others can know the fun of having all sorts of private info on the only card State Troopers will accept to identify you as you.:)
No, as a Christian, the Chronicles of Narnia can be seen as a beloved allegory of our most cherished Christian tenets. (throughout the series, I mean.) Lest we forget, C.S. Lewis was an atheist for quite a while before coming a Christian. He wrote a story that had a definite good and evil portion, like most stories geared for children. They are fun reads, and are meant to be simple in character and plot development. The universe Lewis builds is like a world you might envision at age 9. Good guys wore white, bad guys wore black and you could always tell the difference. That's not a bad thing for a child. These books no more indoctrinate a person than Alice in Wonderland indoctrinates children to take drugs.
These books, like Jesus' parables, are to those who do not believe, just stories. Fantasy stories with talking animals and evil monsters, not unlike a simple fairy tale of good vs. evil. They can "see but not understand." if you will. The deeper meaning is lost on them because they are either unwilling, or not ready to understand.
There's no indoctrination in those stories, just like Jesus' stories contained no indoctrination. They were veiled so that only those who were willing to believe could understand the deeper meaning of the parables. C.S. Lewis is not in charge of "brainwashing" youth any more than any other author who writes for children. Even his books on doctrine do not force anyone to see his point of view. He's an excellent apologist, who reasons quite well. One may not agree with his conclusions, but no one can argue that Lewis didn't think his beliefs through. He didn't become a Christian on a whim.
You can read the entire series and not come away with one iota of newfound faith in God or belief in Christianity. I mean, say you don't know the story of Christ, and you read The Wardrobe? Are you going to immediately think of Jesus after you're done?
You might possibly have a better understanding of your own faith in whatever religion you practice, if any at all, after finishing the books. And even an atheist might come away with a better appreciation of forgiveness, truthfulness, and treating his fellow man with dignity. But to say these books are some tool used in cult-like "Christian recruiting" misses both the spirit of the books, and the true nature of Christianity.
Indoctrination is such a negative word to use when describing the Great Commission. As a Christian, it is not our jobs to brainwash, but to tell the truth of the gospel to everyone. It's not our place to force it on anyone through sleep deprivation, starvation, or whatever. Non-Christians will agree that the true spirit of Christianity is not always manifested in the methods of its followers. Just as the true spirit of Islam is not manifested in the actions of Osama Bin Laden. If we can agree on that, we will all live a lot happier. Forced conversion is a purely man-made notion. Jesus never told any of his disciples to "put to the sword" those who do not believe. The time for the final judgment comes later (if you believe in that sort of thing.)
If nothing else, you can just take the stories as they are. Fantasy works of fiction with no deeper meaning than a little light reading about magic, wardrobes, fantastic creatures and adventure with a happy ending.
But I ramble.... The trailer looks like it will follow the books quite well.. And unless someone gets really fancy with editorializing the original text, we are in for a good time at the theater. There's nothing sinister in these books. There's plenty of sinister things in this world, and we should not try to make everything so evil....
No. Sony's console was announced and Sega beat Sony to the market by quite a few months. But since Sony had announced the specs over time, people "waited" to see what Sony was going to come up with.
I never said Microsoft had any hand in the death of Segas console.
The software support for the Sega platform went to Sony when the Sony people threw money at developers to get "exclusive" deals. Sega had no capital to pursue that.
I don't believe the sole reason the PS2 won over the Dreamcast was the release timing. But it was a huge factor and a huge "wait and see" attitude by the public is the death knell for a struggling company.
It's all a matter of how deep you're willing to dig for the information. You won't see this stuff repeated on the news... because it might just make the War in Iraq justified. Can't have that now, can we?
But since these stories don't fit the party line that's been coming from the press... I guess they're lies. I'm not saying this is definitive evidence, but these stories show at least a plausible explanation for invasion, not to mention shooting holes in the "cut and dried" we shouldn't have gone to war, camp. And it has CERTAINLY shot down the "full compliance with UN resolutions" camp that has popped up lately. Compliance? If you mean kicking out inspectors so he can hide his banned equipment, then... yes.:)
Not to mention Jan. 27th 2003, Hans "I never said that" Blix told the UN that Iraq had shown "NO EVIDENCE of FULL compliance" with disarmament. (And we all know, the Security council authorization for retaliation as a result of non-compliance was not more sanctions... but then again, who listens to the UN?)
He later recanted, denied, claimed he was misquoted, when it was impacting his book sales.... but that's another story.
I think the console manufacturers are going to have a hard time this go-round basing their consoles on horsepower and pixel-pushing. Sure there will be that contingent of people who always have to have "the best', but if Nintendo's any indication (particularly in the handheld market) it's that gameplay is the key, not hardware.
The thing that killed the Dreamcast was the Microsoft tactic of "wait! Our console will slice bread, give you sex anytime you want, and make a lifelong companion!" Sony hyped the SNOT out of the PS2, and people waited. That waiting crushed Sega's strapped financials enough that it couldn't launch a counterattack when the PS2 did come out (with shitty launch titles and less than advertised power.) I don't know if Sony can do that twice in its lifetime. We'll have to see. If they can, the XBox will suffer in sales while people "wait" for the next big thing from Sony.
But back to my original point. You can have the best console numbers in terms of raw horsepower in the world, but if you don't have a library of games people want to play, you're not going to go very far. Microsoft's console may be more powerful, but with the exception of a few titles, Sony's got the big games and developers wrapped up. Microsoft's getting a Square game (rumors, I think. Has it been confirmed?) And if that's the case, it might be the coup of the century.
Maybe I'm way off base, but I think we're going to see the graphical "leaps and bounds" start to slow down this next generation of consoles, just like CPU speed's no longer becoming a huge update every 18 months. It's not necessarily engineering limitations, but there's only so real you can make something before people aren't 'wowed' by your creations anymore. The hook of "more lifelike" whatever might not hook that many who are satisfied with the tons of games and tons of things for the current consoles. I mean, who has time to play all the library of games for these machines?
PSX -> PS2 (big leap)... PS2 -> XBox a lesser leap (but one nonetheless, with XBox's powerful hardware compared to the PS2) PS2 -> PS3 Not such a huge leap.
XBox -> XBox Next? I'm betting it will be less than a huge leap too.
Eh, I'm just rambling. It might be that the new consoles are the shiznit. I just don't have a feeling they will be.
True enough. It's really nothing to sneeze at. However, like others have said, This is a new thing for Microsoft to "miss" their targets. Companies play with numbers in a self-fulfilling prophecy to "meet" their targets. On a good quarter, they'll exceed them... thereby making the stockholders giddy. They can't lowball too much though, because it'll look like they're trying to inflate their bottom line. Microsoft, like lots of companies, are adept at manipulating these expectations.
Truth is, Microsoft's been meeting or exceeding their targets for as long as I can remember. Through thick and thin, recession and boom, they're always riding the crest (meeting or exceeding their numbers.) Sure, they'll lower expectations in a really depressed economy, but they never "miss". And not missing means you're in control of your future. Missing the target means you've no longer got your ducks in a row and something's causing your company uncertainty.
Is this a chink in their monopoly armor? Who's to tell? I don't know enough to even wildly speculate, but it is really interesting that they missed their numbers. And they missed their numbers at a time when they are most vulnerable... between major OS release dates. The people aren't buying XP off the shelf, which means the adoption rate is slowing... New PC sales merely need to fall off a few percent and we'd see an even larger target miss by Microsoft. They're not quaking in their boots yet....
Does it mean we're seeing the beginning of the end of their dominance? Probably not in the foreseeable future, but hey... stranger things have happened. Guess they'll have to make some serious sales with the XBox "Next" to make up for the losses in their core businesses.:)
There would be a Dashboard... just not the way it was implemented on this go-round. Sheesh.... You act like Apple's clueless... Without KDE, Safari would have been based on something else. Or it would've been their own homebrew browser. Give Apple engineers a little credit and stop making the KDE people look like some group of saviors... they're both good at what they do.
At least Apple's providing the stuff back to the community. Just because it's not with a cherry on top some people get peeved.:)
Yeah, but since they don't actually own the trademark to Tiger, they're really shooting blanks on this one...
Not to mention they just lost the ability to sell iPods. Wait a few days, if this gets any more press and any more aggravation and really does affect Tiger's sale (not release, since they're not going to court tomorrow), Apple will wait until TigerDirect loses.... then pull the reseller stuff and prevent them from selling ANY Apple branded products.
Now, in the case of iPods, that's gotta be a money maker even for these clods (judging from the sale of iPods in general...).
So I guess they haven't thought this crap through. Not that I'd buy from them anyway with their track record, but they have indeed sealed their fate with the millions of mac users (if this inhibits them from buying Tiger) who will never buy from them again, or for the first time. Not to mention they'll tell everyone they know not to as well.
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It's most likely the Intel fabs making PPC chips for them. Simply put, the alliance that made the PPC in the first place (the AIM or whatever it's called), will decide who makes the PPCs. Apple owns patents on the PPC stuff... so, it stands to reason the ENORMOUS fab capability of Intel is what they might be after (IF..and only IF "chips" means CPUs.... they are talking about a logical leap here... "chips" as the TFA says can be a number of things... my guess it's PCI-E instead of PCI-X... but who knows?) It could be more use of Intel's chipsets for memory or for a mini-handheld, or who the heck knows? C-Net seems to be embellishing this whole "line change" stuff out of thin air... there's no way they got that detailed a scoop. I think they're speculating VERY hard. And looking through "peril sensitive sunglasses" to get the "blank spots" filled in.
The answer is clear... it's not x86 anything. They're not switching architectures again. Not this quickly. (they haven't even fully exploited the 64-bit-ness of the damn G5 for shit's sake.) They just need more capacity. IBM is having troubles with capacity (wonder if this will hurt XBox 360? It might).... Intel's got fabs out the WAZOO... and could make TONS of chips for Apple if they needed it.
In some people's eyes, Apple may be dumb, but certainly not that dumb. And Jobs isn't about to shit all over the momentum he's got with the Mac line by switching the damn CPU.
My guess is this is much ado about nothing... and Intel's fab power is what Apple is tapping into for it's own PPC chips.
The switch to x86, even if it occurred, would be more complex than just "keeping in step" with the OS. There's much more to it than just a "recompile"...
You are correct, and here's my $.02 on the issue:
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:) The RIAA has been RAKING it in the last 3 years, and they are whining about piracy even louder than when they were supposedly documenting evidence their revenue was down to those nasty P2P fartknockers.
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It's never been about piracy ever, because we never hear about huge piracy rings in the Pacific Rim being "shut down" and thousands of bootleg DVDs taken off the streets. China and other places just give the US the finger when it comes to "tightening copyright provisions and intellectual property protections."
You see reporters walking up to vendors on the street corner in New York selling movies one week old on VHS or DVD, yet there's only one high profile bust for stuff like that in the last 5 years. (They were more interested in getting the P2P networks anyway.) Granted those vendors might not even have anything on those tapes, but the point is still there. Piracy has never been their concern. People like that and the bootleg DVD makers are what ACTUALLY rob them of their precious "revenue", yet trading online for no cash whatsoever is more important to them. Empowerment of the end user is their chief problem. Our computers are powerful enough to encode movies to watch whenever, wherever we want. So they nix the ability to copy them (or try to) with the DMCA. Our computers are connected to the internet via more than a 28.8 modem these days (some of us, I mean)... their idea is to subpoena names of users from ISPs who are "suspected" of pirating songs on Kazaa. Great strategy.. piss off the demographic most likely to buy your crap, RIAA.
When you can dictate to them when and how you want to view their content, it makes them nervous. When you have the ability to sidestep their dog and pony show for old TV shows or movies, they are pissed. (I hate to use this analogy, but here goes..) It is not unlike the illuminators decrying the invention of moveable type. The sunset on how the studios/labels do their business is rapidly approaching. This is their last gasp attempt to try and stifle progress.
ROTS was #2 all time box office leader (in terms of opening weekend gross), as well as making new records in day to day sales and ticket pre-sells, yet the only thing you hear is "Revenue is down year to year for the 3rd straight year..." We can't appear to be making MONEY after we tell them how bad piracy is to our business.
Why? Because "Monster in Law" and the 37 TV show remakes planned aren't interesting to the average movie goer? No. It's those damn P2P people. Yeah, right. Convenient scapegoat.
It's enough to make me wonder why I even go to the movies at all. (The last movie I saw in the theater was HHGTTG, but before that, I'd not been since LOTR:ROTK.) Nothing showing that I can't wait and rent for a lot less, and avoid the idiots that fill theaters. I saw HHGTTG in a theater with 3 other people. It was worth waiting until then to see it.
Sorry for the rant... it's just getting to me. The MPAA/RIAA are a bunch of whiny old crows who wish for the days long past. They wish technology wasn't leaving them behind, and if they have their way, they'll stomp it until it is leaving them behind.
Uh no. The Patriot Act allows a lousy court clerk to issue warrants (i.e. NOT a judge).
Relaxing that weakens the 4th amendment.
I was not commenting on this guy's warrant per se, rather the implication that encryption assumes guilt.
Anonymity != privacy. (You can be private without being anonymous.)
Buy communist literature with cash (and send someone else to buy it for you if you're really paranoid) if you want anonymity. Privacy means that because you bought a communist book or something of the sort, that does not grant the government the right to search your belongings or personal effects just because you bought a communist booklet or checked it out from the Library. (But hey, the Patriot Act modifies that somewhat... which is, as I mentioned in the original reply, the problem.)
True,
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But thankfully, (well until recently I can't believe I'm saying "until" about the 4th amendment..yeesh!), it still required a judge to get to the search/seizure. A guy couldn't come up to the cops on the street and say "X has illegal Y in his house", and the cops rush over there to get whatever "Y" is without first going before a judge and presenting evidence. Not every judge is swayed by witness testimony alone either. There are exceptions to every rule, of course.
It was made deliberately difficult to do for the express purpose of privacy, as well as the paper trail necessary to nail the abusers of the court. (of course there are probably a few that get through with bogus witness testimony....but conspiracies like that require a lot of work, thankfully.) If you don't get buy-in from the incidental players in your conspiracy, they'll roll over on you under the slightest pressure.
Of course, that's all a big wash now with the Patriot Act...
Call me wacky, but:
:-) And for good reason, as evidenced by the groupings and subjects of amendments 1 - 10.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated... (and so on...)
Has a privacy ring to it.... It's a right. If you want to keep something to yourself... this particular amendment provides a mechanism for which you are able to do that. Granted, it is not specifically stated "privacy", but applying the reasonable man test, you can see where privacy is upheld over public scrutiny. When privacy needs to be violated, it requires more work than just "LET ME SEE YOUR STUFF."
Which, if our courts weren't so broken, judicial review would toss out the "sneak and peek" provisions of the Patriot Act faster than you can say "Amendment IV".
I have to ask this:
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In Texas (and places South of the Manson-Nixon line), the last thing heard before a stunt like this is:
"Hey y'all, watch this!"
But since this happened in Britain... is it more like:
"Chaps, take a gander at THIS!"
I'm just asking...
Before the latest purchase of legislation, it was never considered a criminal offense unless there was PROFIT involved. Sharing for the sake of sharing with no motive for profit was not a criminal offense.
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Now it is. Just wait until the jails fill up with all of these "movie pirates", to go along with the casual drug users and people who don't believe the Constitution should be pissed on by big government.
Why ARE we giving these people money? They need to disappear. It's just entertainment. It's not VITAL to anything. They are NOT producing ANYTHING we CANNOT live without.
Why don't we show them? Oh I forgot... Episode 3 is out.
Never suspect evil when stupidity is much more plausible.
No, "I am your....Uncle" - Vader
THAT is marketing gone wrong....
Oh, I know... feeding the troll. I shouldn't but this one's too obvious not to. I mean, seriously obvious. :)
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I have a 2nd Gen iPod with a battery I put in myself. The battery came with its own pry tool (so you won't scratch the backing) and instructions (with PICTURES for you retards.)
The iPod's been through heck and back and still runs smooth on its second battery.
http://www.ipodbattery.com/
So much for disposable. And oh, I don't wash my iPod, my cell phone, my cordless phone, or my PSP. And I don't poke the battery with a screwdriver (remember the plastic tool that came with my iPod battery?) Ahhh... the smell of the obvious. It's almost sweet. Lawsuit indeed.
This isn't even a new revelation. Spend $100 letting Apple put one in for you, or spend $30 + shipping and do it yourself.
heheh.. I think I need to make a few. I stole it from CampChaos' "Monkey For President" web cartoons.
It was a spoof of an LBJ ad, IIRC. Quite funny.
Jesus was a communist. :) ...it's funny, laugh. :)
The Democrats could've stopped the DMCA. But those "Democrats" including the one in the executive branch at the time, didn't. Orrin Hatch's baby got tacit approval with NO debate from the Democrats either. They're not spineless, in the sense that they didn't hold to their party's ideals... they're spineless for the same reason Republicans are spineless. MONEY talks.. and it's the only thing they listen to anymore.
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I like neither party, and quite frankly, it's a ONE party system these days in national elections. There ARE no "Republikans" or "Demokrats".
Just slimy on-the-take politicians who nurse at the teat of special interests. No one should be surprised by this... we've been voting them into office for decades.
that's what happens when you send lawyers to do your work for you... they end up screwing YOU in the end anyway.
Another Libertarian Vote in 2008.
If you live in Texas, there already IS a black strip on your driver's license... :)
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And you have to submit a fingerprint to the DMV to get your license..
I'm just saying... Now others can know the fun of having all sorts of private info on the only card State Troopers will accept to identify you as you.
Helluva lot easier to do Apple's fix than Microsoft's isn't it?
That speaks volumes about the two OSes.
No, as a Christian, the Chronicles of Narnia can be seen as a beloved allegory of our most cherished Christian tenets. (throughout the series, I mean.) Lest we forget, C.S. Lewis was an atheist for quite a while before coming a Christian. He wrote a story that had a definite good and evil portion, like most stories geared for children. They are fun reads, and are meant to be simple in character and plot development. The universe Lewis builds is like a world you might envision at age 9. Good guys wore white, bad guys wore black and you could always tell the difference. That's not a bad thing for a child. These books no more indoctrinate a person than Alice in Wonderland indoctrinates children to take drugs.
These books, like Jesus' parables, are to those who do not believe, just stories. Fantasy stories with talking animals and evil monsters, not unlike a simple fairy tale of good vs. evil. They can "see but not understand." if you will. The deeper meaning is lost on them because they are either unwilling, or not ready to understand.
There's no indoctrination in those stories, just like Jesus' stories contained no indoctrination. They were veiled so that only those who were willing to believe could understand the deeper meaning of the parables. C.S. Lewis is not in charge of "brainwashing" youth any more than any other author who writes for children. Even his books on doctrine do not force anyone to see his point of view. He's an excellent apologist, who reasons quite well. One may not agree with his conclusions, but no one can argue that Lewis didn't think his beliefs through. He didn't become a Christian on a whim.
You can read the entire series and not come away with one iota of newfound faith in God or belief in Christianity. I mean, say you don't know the story of Christ, and you read The Wardrobe? Are you going to immediately think of Jesus after you're done?
You might possibly have a better understanding of your own faith in whatever religion you practice, if any at all, after finishing the books. And even an atheist might come away with a better appreciation of forgiveness, truthfulness, and treating his fellow man with dignity. But to say these books are some tool used in cult-like "Christian recruiting" misses both the spirit of the books, and the true nature of Christianity.
Indoctrination is such a negative word to use when describing the Great Commission. As a Christian, it is not our jobs to brainwash, but to tell the truth of the gospel to everyone. It's not our place to force it on anyone through sleep deprivation, starvation, or whatever. Non-Christians will agree that the true spirit of Christianity is not always manifested in the methods of its followers. Just as the true spirit of Islam is not manifested in the actions of Osama Bin Laden. If we can agree on that, we will all live a lot happier. Forced conversion is a purely man-made notion. Jesus never told any of his disciples to "put to the sword" those who do not believe. The time for the final judgment comes later (if you believe in that sort of thing.)
If nothing else, you can just take the stories as they are. Fantasy works of fiction with no deeper meaning than a little light reading about magic, wardrobes, fantastic creatures and adventure with a happy ending.
But I ramble.... The trailer looks like it will follow the books quite well.. And unless someone gets really fancy with editorializing the original text, we are in for a good time at the theater. There's nothing sinister in these books. There's plenty of sinister things in this world, and we should not try to make everything so evil....
I realize this is late, and I shouldn't feed the trolls.
But I'll type it really slow for you:
APPLE --- Trademark on the name TIGER for the OS.
THAT is what TigerDirect doesn't OWN. Simple.
Apple apologist? You're quick to judge.
No. Sony's console was announced and Sega beat Sony to the market by quite a few months. But since Sony had announced the specs over time, people "waited" to see what Sony was going to come up with.
I never said Microsoft had any hand in the death of Segas console.
The software support for the Sega platform went to Sony when the Sony people threw money at developers to get "exclusive" deals. Sega had no capital to pursue that.
I don't believe the sole reason the PS2 won over the Dreamcast was the release timing. But it was a huge factor and a huge "wait and see" attitude by the public is the death knell for a struggling company.
Here are a few links to muddy your perception of events:
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http://www.energy.gov/engine/content.do?PUBLIC_ID
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0604/152311.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/06/25/sprj.ir
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,89455
It's all a matter of how deep you're willing to dig for the information. You won't see this stuff repeated on the news... because it might just make the War in Iraq justified. Can't have that now, can we?
But since these stories don't fit the party line that's been coming from the press... I guess they're lies. I'm not saying this is definitive evidence, but these stories show at least a plausible explanation for invasion, not to mention shooting holes in the "cut and dried" we shouldn't have gone to war, camp. And it has CERTAINLY shot down the "full compliance with UN resolutions" camp that has popped up lately. Compliance? If you mean kicking out inspectors so he can hide his banned equipment, then... yes.
Not to mention Jan. 27th 2003, Hans "I never said that" Blix told the UN that Iraq had shown "NO EVIDENCE of FULL compliance" with disarmament. (And we all know, the Security council authorization for retaliation as a result of non-compliance was not more sanctions... but then again, who listens to the UN?)
He later recanted, denied, claimed he was misquoted, when it was impacting his book sales.... but that's another story.
I think the console manufacturers are going to have a hard time this go-round basing their consoles on horsepower and pixel-pushing. Sure there will be that contingent of people who always have to have "the best', but if Nintendo's any indication (particularly in the handheld market) it's that gameplay is the key, not hardware.
The thing that killed the Dreamcast was the Microsoft tactic of "wait! Our console will slice bread, give you sex anytime you want, and make a lifelong companion!" Sony hyped the SNOT out of the PS2, and people waited. That waiting crushed Sega's strapped financials enough that it couldn't launch a counterattack when the PS2 did come out (with shitty launch titles and less than advertised power.) I don't know if Sony can do that twice in its lifetime. We'll have to see. If they can, the XBox will suffer in sales while people "wait" for the next big thing from Sony.
But back to my original point. You can have the best console numbers in terms of raw horsepower in the world, but if you don't have a library of games people want to play, you're not going to go very far. Microsoft's console may be more powerful, but with the exception of a few titles, Sony's got the big games and developers wrapped up. Microsoft's getting a Square game (rumors, I think. Has it been confirmed?) And if that's the case, it might be the coup of the century.
Maybe I'm way off base, but I think we're going to see the graphical "leaps and bounds" start to slow down this next generation of consoles, just like CPU speed's no longer becoming a huge update every 18 months. It's not necessarily engineering limitations, but there's only so real you can make something before people aren't 'wowed' by your creations anymore. The hook of "more lifelike" whatever might not hook that many who are satisfied with the tons of games and tons of things for the current consoles. I mean, who has time to play all the library of games for these machines?
PSX -> PS2 (big leap)... PS2 -> XBox a lesser leap (but one nonetheless, with XBox's powerful hardware compared to the PS2) PS2 -> PS3 Not such a huge leap.
XBox -> XBox Next? I'm betting it will be less than a huge leap too.
Eh, I'm just rambling. It might be that the new consoles are the shiznit. I just don't have a feeling they will be.
True enough. It's really nothing to sneeze at. However, like others have said, This is a new thing for Microsoft to "miss" their targets. Companies play with numbers in a self-fulfilling prophecy to "meet" their targets. On a good quarter, they'll exceed them... thereby making the stockholders giddy. They can't lowball too much though, because it'll look like they're trying to inflate their bottom line. Microsoft, like lots of companies, are adept at manipulating these expectations.
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Truth is, Microsoft's been meeting or exceeding their targets for as long as I can remember. Through thick and thin, recession and boom, they're always riding the crest (meeting or exceeding their numbers.) Sure, they'll lower expectations in a really depressed economy, but they never "miss". And not missing means you're in control of your future. Missing the target means you've no longer got your ducks in a row and something's causing your company uncertainty.
Is this a chink in their monopoly armor? Who's to tell? I don't know enough to even wildly speculate, but it is really interesting that they missed their numbers. And they missed their numbers at a time when they are most vulnerable... between major OS release dates. The people aren't buying XP off the shelf, which means the adoption rate is slowing... New PC sales merely need to fall off a few percent and we'd see an even larger target miss by Microsoft. They're not quaking in their boots yet....
Does it mean we're seeing the beginning of the end of their dominance? Probably not in the foreseeable future, but hey... stranger things have happened. Guess they'll have to make some serious sales with the XBox "Next" to make up for the losses in their core businesses.
RTF PATENT OFFICE...
TIGER IS OWNED BY APPLE as a TRADEMARKED NAME FOR AN OPERATING SYSTEM.
Dork.
There would be a Dashboard... just not the way it was implemented on this go-round. Sheesh.... You act like Apple's clueless... Without KDE, Safari would have been based on something else. Or it would've been their own homebrew browser. Give Apple engineers a little credit and stop making the KDE people look like some group of saviors... they're both good at what they do.
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At least Apple's providing the stuff back to the community. Just because it's not with a cherry on top some people get peeved.
Yeah, but since they don't actually own the trademark to Tiger, they're really shooting blanks on this one...
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Not to mention they just lost the ability to sell iPods. Wait a few days, if this gets any more press and any more aggravation and really does affect Tiger's sale (not release, since they're not going to court tomorrow), Apple will wait until TigerDirect loses.... then pull the reseller stuff and prevent them from selling ANY Apple branded products.
Now, in the case of iPods, that's gotta be a money maker even for these clods (judging from the sale of iPods in general...).
So I guess they haven't thought this crap through. Not that I'd buy from them anyway with their track record, but they have indeed sealed their fate with the millions of mac users (if this inhibits them from buying Tiger) who will never buy from them again, or for the first time. Not to mention they'll tell everyone they know not to as well.
Bad publicity only works for movie stars...