Intel makes more CPUs, and Apple makes a lot of devices other than Macintoshes. This could have something to do Intel's wireless chip sets, or possibly chips to decode H.264 video. I think a device similar to the Airport Express that offered H.264 video decompression for use with home theater set ups is a much likelier candidate for an Apple product based on Intel chips than an Intel Mac.
This just doesn't make sense to me. In the current generation of consoles the Gamecube is the only one that has really appealed to me, and I've played games on all of them a good amount. Xbox really just struck me as a Halo/Halo2 machine, and PS2 never had any real appeal to me. But the Gamecube, well it's actually fun. To say it lacks games with "real content" just seems absurd (I hope Doom 3 is not a game you consider to have "real content"). The Gamecube offered me games that I actually wanted to invest some time in playing, like Zelda Windwalker and Metroid Prime, as well as games that are great to play with a group of people, like Crystal Chronicles and Mario Kart DD. And I'm no fanboy either, Nintendo had to really win me over on this one. My first impression of the Gamecube was "Lame!", but no its the only console i ever really play anymore.
I'm really looking forward to Revolution because I think (or at least I hope) that Nintendo is offering something other than more polygons and online shooters. I doubt I'll even consider buying a Xbox 360 or a PS3, but i'm willing to take a look at Revolution because with the Gamecube, Nintendo has consistently won me over with games that I'm interested in playing.
Although I completely agree with your concerns, SeaCode has claimed that as a California corporation they will be paying both state and federal taxes (I got this info from the 4/20 broadcast of NPR's Marketplace). I tend to believe SeaCode on this one, for a company like this one its worth it to pay full taxes if only to avoid drawing extra attention from the government.
...might feel more at home taking baths in the Boston River.
I believe you mean the Charles River. I wonder what percentage of students know basic geography (or take the time to look it up).
Just to add another perspective to this debate, I think something very different is going on here from what happened with the DVD Jon software. Unlike software which breaks the encryption on something you already own, this software prevents the encryption from being put on the music file in the first place. The difference is that you are not accessing or changing something you own, your are changing the terms of a sale without the other party's knowledge.
It would be one thing if this software broke encryption on tracks you bought, but as i understand it thats not what happens. What Apple has agreed to sell you is a DRM'd music file, and making any change to that file before you complete the purchase seems like agreeing to by x from a vendor, and then swapping it out for y without telling the vendor, and still paying for x. I think Apple might have a real legal case here where the MPAA did not.
You're definitely right that Babylon 5 forced DS9 into having a story arc. It is truly unfortunate that Enterprise can't learn from this, regardless of how it came about, some of the best Star Trek episodes ever were produced during DS9's last 2 seasons.
This has been before with Star Trek, to a fair amount of success (at least success story wise). Deep Space 9 had a good overall story arc, especially in the later seasons. I have a pretty high opinion of Deep Space 9, mainly because of the continuing story about the Dominion War, against which every episode was set even episodes that did not deal directly with the story arc.
It's worth noting that Scalia also wrote the "culture wars" dissenting opinion for Texas Sodomy law trial, effectively making his decision about the case based on his own personal biases. But that is beside the point. I really have to disagree that textualists is what we want. Textualists rule without regard to the context of either the application or the writing of the document, in favour of a mythical "objective" reading of the text. Historically, this has led textualists (both Scalia and Thomas) have consistently voted against privacy considerations. Based on this precedent, more textualists will actually led to an interpretation of the constitution that will marginalize privacy concerns, making "barking" programs the least of our worries.
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Intel makes more CPUs, and Apple makes a lot of devices other than Macintoshes. This could have something to do Intel's wireless chip sets, or possibly chips to decode H.264 video. I think a device similar to the Airport Express that offered H.264 video decompression for use with home theater set ups is a much likelier candidate for an Apple product based on Intel chips than an Intel Mac.
This just doesn't make sense to me. In the current generation of consoles the Gamecube is the only one that has really appealed to me, and I've played games on all of them a good amount. Xbox really just struck me as a Halo/Halo2 machine, and PS2 never had any real appeal to me. But the Gamecube, well it's actually fun. To say it lacks games with "real content" just seems absurd (I hope Doom 3 is not a game you consider to have "real content"). The Gamecube offered me games that I actually wanted to invest some time in playing, like Zelda Windwalker and Metroid Prime, as well as games that are great to play with a group of people, like Crystal Chronicles and Mario Kart DD. And I'm no fanboy either, Nintendo had to really win me over on this one. My first impression of the Gamecube was "Lame!", but no its the only console i ever really play anymore. I'm really looking forward to Revolution because I think (or at least I hope) that Nintendo is offering something other than more polygons and online shooters. I doubt I'll even consider buying a Xbox 360 or a PS3, but i'm willing to take a look at Revolution because with the Gamecube, Nintendo has consistently won me over with games that I'm interested in playing.
Although I completely agree with your concerns, SeaCode has claimed that as a California corporation they will be paying both state and federal taxes (I got this info from the 4/20 broadcast of NPR's Marketplace). I tend to believe SeaCode on this one, for a company like this one its worth it to pay full taxes if only to avoid drawing extra attention from the government.
...might feel more at home taking baths in the Boston River. I believe you mean the Charles River. I wonder what percentage of students know basic geography (or take the time to look it up).
Just to add another perspective to this debate, I think something very different is going on here from what happened with the DVD Jon software. Unlike software which breaks the encryption on something you already own, this software prevents the encryption from being put on the music file in the first place. The difference is that you are not accessing or changing something you own, your are changing the terms of a sale without the other party's knowledge. It would be one thing if this software broke encryption on tracks you bought, but as i understand it thats not what happens. What Apple has agreed to sell you is a DRM'd music file, and making any change to that file before you complete the purchase seems like agreeing to by x from a vendor, and then swapping it out for y without telling the vendor, and still paying for x. I think Apple might have a real legal case here where the MPAA did not.
You're definitely right that Babylon 5 forced DS9 into having a story arc. It is truly unfortunate that Enterprise can't learn from this, regardless of how it came about, some of the best Star Trek episodes ever were produced during DS9's last 2 seasons.
This has been before with Star Trek, to a fair amount of success (at least success story wise). Deep Space 9 had a good overall story arc, especially in the later seasons. I have a pretty high opinion of Deep Space 9, mainly because of the continuing story about the Dominion War, against which every episode was set even episodes that did not deal directly with the story arc.
It's worth noting that Scalia also wrote the "culture wars" dissenting opinion for Texas Sodomy law trial, effectively making his decision about the case based on his own personal biases. But that is beside the point. I really have to disagree that textualists is what we want. Textualists rule without regard to the context of either the application or the writing of the document, in favour of a mythical "objective" reading of the text. Historically, this has led textualists (both Scalia and Thomas) have consistently voted against privacy considerations. Based on this precedent, more textualists will actually led to an interpretation of the constitution that will marginalize privacy concerns, making "barking" programs the least of our worries.