Actually, the Constitution says nothing about who's in charge if the President is unconscious and unable to give notice that he's incapacitated to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, so really, who was supposed to be "in charge" was really up for grabs.
Hell, possession of a device that can reproduce counterfeit-deterrent features of currency is a class B felony, so one could argue that Adobe is preventing every person who buys a scanner from becoming a criminal without knowing it.
Of course, it would be nice if we could believe federal prosecutors aren't stupid enough to think that possession of any sufficiently high-resolution scanner is equivalent to intent to counterfeit, but Congress felt the need to write a law vague enough that it can be interepreted that way, and I wouldn't be surprised if someone tried enforcing it.
If google didn't keep making their PageRank agorithm more complex and harder to mess with, the only results you'd get would be from link farms. The don't need more simplicity, they need to keep making things more complex so one day they might actually get ahead of the people who are trying to mess with their results and you can actually get the site you were looking for again.
Well, that's how the free market works. MPEG-4 is good technology and people want it so they'll pay more for it. WMA is crap and Microsoft wants everyone to use it, so they don't charge as much to license it.
If they manage to kill off all of their competition by leveraging their OS monopoly, they'll jack up their prices and people will be forced to pay if they want to sell music playing devices that work with the new dominant format.
iDVD was never a free product (although it does come bundled with every SuperDrive-equipped Mac). I'm not aware of Apple ever claiming the $50 for iLife was to cover distribution costs because iDVD was too big to download; IIRC they were selling iDVD before they created the iLife bundle in the first place.
In any case, the iLife applications are not bundled with the operating system, they're bundled with new computers. If you buy an iMac or iBook, do you expect to get new versions of AppleWorks for free?
Oops. I was thinking of the definition of the meter.
In any event, I imagine the decay of cesium 133 is also a constant anywhere in the universe, and in any event it's already been pointed out that I was in fact wrong about what the earlier poster meant by "Mars seconds."
One would hope the engineers are smart enough to use these watches just to get to work at the right time based on Mars' rotation, and not to measure intervals of time.
Not always. At least in Pittsburgh, there are plenty of intersections with marked crosswalks, either with or without big "Yield to Pedestrians in Crosswalk" signs, with no traffic signal or stop sign at all.
Of course, drivers pretty much ignore them, just like they ignore "No turn on red" signs at intersections with pedestrian-only light phases with a cuckoo alarm for the visually impaired. And red lights. In fact, they ignore the crosswalks so much that the city council a couple of years ago passed an ordinance making the fine for not yielding to pedestrians a lot higher than is provided for in state law, but it doesn't seem to have much effect.
Mac OS X's speech recognition is kind of neat, but it's not really able to completely control your computer out of the box.
However, it is pretty easy to extend by writing AppleScript that gets executed by voice command. I don't know that one could build a truly complete voice-controlled UI with what OS X includes, though. You'd at least need to add something like ViaVoice for speech-to-text, since Apple's speech recognition doesn't do that itself. In any event, building the AppleScripts to accomplish every single task in all the applications you use would take a really really long time.
But Bush is environmentally friendly! Only by repealing all environmental regulations can we enable corporations to self-police and enhance the environment. You just have to learn to trust people and not the government.
Well if someone else is willing to do your work for less pay, then yes, to compete you'll have to do more for less pay.
Of course, you're right that it has nothing to do with American workers being lazy or not smart enough. It's all about efficiency. A worker who will do the same work for less money is more efficient, even if the only reason he will do so is because he lives somewhere with a ridiculously low cost of living. You can live quite well in Bangalore on a salary that wouldn't get you a cardboard box in the Bay Area.
No, there are 5 books in the trilogy. He said "other 4".
To be technical like you, however, since "tri" means 3 and "logos" means word, a trilogy can only have 3 words. Any longer works will need to find a new name. Now go away, kneebiter.
Oh yes, because there's such an enormous shortage of programmers right now. IBM should lay off all of these programmers so Microsoft will have a pool of available programmers who know nothing about OS security to work on security.
And once all the game producers, who make a product we definitely don't "need" get rid of all of their programmers, there will be plenty of free people to work on anti-spam technology. Whee!
Yes, and all of Ken Lay's actions at Enron were legal too, because he hasn't been prosecuted.
Neither case has anything to do with corrupt people at the Justice Department not wanting to hurt their friends. Ignore the man behind the curtain (which is covering the naked body of Justice.)
He said that Apple should support a format a few people use, when he's offering music in a format that the majority of music players don't support. He's a hypocrite. He should be offering his music in MP3, AAC, WMA, AIFF, and about 2 dozen formats no one but a few kooks on slashdot would ever use, or he should shut up.
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Actually, the Constitution says nothing about who's in charge if the President is unconscious and unable to give notice that he's incapacitated to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, so really, who was supposed to be "in charge" was really up for grabs.
Of course, it would be nice if we could believe federal prosecutors aren't stupid enough to think that possession of any sufficiently high-resolution scanner is equivalent to intent to counterfeit, but Congress felt the need to write a law vague enough that it can be interepreted that way, and I wouldn't be surprised if someone tried enforcing it.
If google didn't keep making their PageRank agorithm more complex and harder to mess with, the only results you'd get would be from link farms. The don't need more simplicity, they need to keep making things more complex so one day they might actually get ahead of the people who are trying to mess with their results and you can actually get the site you were looking for again.
If they manage to kill off all of their competition by leveraging their OS monopoly, they'll jack up their prices and people will be forced to pay if they want to sell music playing devices that work with the new dominant format.
Umm... OS X has also seen its last release of IE. Like Adobe, Microsoft has decided that they can't compete with Apple in developing Mac software.
I do agree that it's not a bad idea to get it for laptops, but you do need to do it before your 1 year is up.
And a significant % of slashdot readers would actually watch 50 hours of bonus features straight through without sleeping.
And pointing out someone missing a joke when you missed a better joke is just plain stupid.
In any case, the iLife applications are not bundled with the operating system, they're bundled with new computers. If you buy an iMac or iBook, do you expect to get new versions of AppleWorks for free?
In any event, I imagine the decay of cesium 133 is also a constant anywhere in the universe, and in any event it's already been pointed out that I was in fact wrong about what the earlier poster meant by "Mars seconds."
One would hope the engineers are smart enough to use these watches just to get to work at the right time based on Mars' rotation, and not to measure intervals of time.
Of course, drivers pretty much ignore them, just like they ignore "No turn on red" signs at intersections with pedestrian-only light phases with a cuckoo alarm for the visually impaired. And red lights. In fact, they ignore the crosswalks so much that the city council a couple of years ago passed an ordinance making the fine for not yielding to pedestrians a lot higher than is provided for in state law, but it doesn't seem to have much effect.
However, it is pretty easy to extend by writing AppleScript that gets executed by voice command. I don't know that one could build a truly complete voice-controlled UI with what OS X includes, though. You'd at least need to add something like ViaVoice for speech-to-text, since Apple's speech recognition doesn't do that itself. In any event, building the AppleScripts to accomplish every single task in all the applications you use would take a really really long time.
Or something to that effect.
No, but I did say "theoretically." I doubt British drivers stop at "zebra crossings" any more than North American drivers stop at "crosswalks."
Umm, traffic is theoretically required to stop for pedestrians in all crosswalks. That's what they're for.
Of course, you're right that it has nothing to do with American workers being lazy or not smart enough. It's all about efficiency. A worker who will do the same work for less money is more efficient, even if the only reason he will do so is because he lives somewhere with a ridiculously low cost of living. You can live quite well in Bangalore on a salary that wouldn't get you a cardboard box in the Bay Area.
The second is an SI unit defined in terms of the speed of light in a vacuum, and does not change when you move to another planet.
To be technical like you, however, since "tri" means 3 and "logos" means word, a trilogy can only have 3 words. Any longer works will need to find a new name. Now go away, kneebiter.
Oh, wait...
I bet you were worried when they started putting barcodes on everything in the grocery stores, too.
RTFQ. It's the first place he mentioned looking.
Except that wouldn't work either.
And once all the game producers, who make a product we definitely don't "need" get rid of all of their programmers, there will be plenty of free people to work on anti-spam technology. Whee!
Neither case has anything to do with corrupt people at the Justice Department not wanting to hurt their friends. Ignore the man behind the curtain (which is covering the naked body of Justice.)
He said that Apple should support a format a few people use, when he's offering music in a format that the majority of music players don't support. He's a hypocrite. He should be offering his music in MP3, AAC, WMA, AIFF, and about 2 dozen formats no one but a few kooks on slashdot would ever use, or he should shut up.