1. Yes. I do beleive that PC manufacturers are complicit in the act of pirating and sharing music. They might hide behind the idea that they design and intend their tools for all sorts of other purposes, but all the while, they are doing their damndest to make piracy and music sharing easier. Rip, Mix, Burn, anyone?
2. Gun manufacturers are complicit in violence. I was in a gun store the other day with my roomie, and we watch a mac'd out little posse of gang bangers shopping for guns.
The clerk: What kind of ammo do you need? Gangbanger: Er,yeah cheif, we need them bullets too. The clerk: Sure, but what kind? What kind of shooting do you intend to do? Hunting? Target shooting? Gangbanger (pulling himself up in to his most rehearsed 'respectable citizen' pose, clears throat): Err, Home Deee-fence!
Yeah fucking right. Home defence my ass. The little 'g' was buying Man Stoppers to keep his granny safe.
3. Knives have lots of uses, but yes, if a knife manufacturer was selling you knives concious of what you were going to do with them, or even willfully ignorant, then yes, they are responsible.
They cannot argue there is any legitemate reason to do this. Just because they are providing someone else with the tools to rip you off doesn't make them any less complicit in the act.
Light Rail is only a fiasco in the financial sense: it's impossible to run fiscally sound public transit in such a suburban environment. I take it every day along with Caltrain from the city, and while it trundles along slowly, it's not an unpleasant ride.
The south bay's sin is in it's refusal to mandate high density housing, or at the very least, high density commerical building, which is required to make public transit feasible. I'm not suggesting that public transit should have to pay for itself via ticket revenue alone, since no modern transit system does (new york, london, etc): just that the LRT is an incredibly poor value for the money spent on it.
And, I'm really pissed that they've managed to synch the train schedules with Caltrain to ensure that the LRT (the only 'standing room only' of the day on my line) rolls into the station just as the Caltrain commuter leaves the station. Twully Bwilliant Thinking.
This is a necessity. It is always a problem with BART. Now the best transportation system in America will also be wireless. All they need now is to add Wi-Fi, which is also sorely needed.
Best transportation system in america? Are you aware the discussion is in regard to BART? Or as it should more reasonably be known, BAT? Or at least Bay Area Moderately Expensive, Underwhelmingly slow, Usually Mildly Smelly Transportion? BAMEUSUMST?
It's only decent when you compare it to the light rail fiasco of the south bay.
You didn't add enough, or any, lime. It's the difference between 'delicous' and 'air conditioner coolant'. Or, perhaps you were drinking cheap gin and/or tonic. In this case, you -were- drinking air conditioner coolant.
This is not the pack of dogsicles referred to in the australian article.
This abstract discusses using cold saline solution to induce mild hypothermia in the brain after a cardiac arrest, and during a 20 minute period without a pulse in order to preserve brain function. It's has a lot more to do with trauma surgery and a lot less to do with suspended animation, though technically one could argue that the differences are as much quantative as qualative.
Amon Tobin is why I'm going to buy this game at all.
I don't, for the most part.
To be frank, I prefer "Permutation" and "Bricolage" to "Supermodified" and "Out from Outwhere" (which is what I assume you are refering to).
His live album is good too, though I've been underwhelmed with the shows themselves: until the encore comes along, he really didn't bust out last time, though when he did (a mashup mostly composed of Metallica riffs), it was incredible.
If you haven't checked out his stuff, do so now: it changed my entire conception of music.
You might have to tread on a fews toes, but it's all in the name of furthering OSS.
Personally, I found Cranium inane
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YMMV
But the two times I've tried this game, it's been a complete failure. The tasks are too easy, and lack any depth. It's like an american version of a cool foreign film.
This keyboard can't be pirated, in the way that software can. Ergo, there's money to be made. Perhaps you won't get it into the hands of as many people, but at least those people will have actually paid you.
Also, not every musician is a computer geek. I've met quite a few who were terrified by them, even though they were happy getting around equally complex audio hardware.
1. worthless when granted, since they are valued at the same price as the stock on that day.
2. Become excercisable over a long period of time (4-5 years, usually). You can only excercise them while you are still an employee, so the only way to get them to be worth anything is by staying at the company until the price rises.
So, no, they aren't just a way of paying employees in a different way - they are more a promise of payment in return for future work, which, in a small part is dependent on the quality of work of the employee in question.
Slashdot Mirror
Sure, and you can quite any time, right?
When are we going to see pseudoscience.slashdot.org brought to life?
And when will this fark-worthy newz be kept off the front page? Inquiring minds need to know.
1. Yes. I do beleive that PC manufacturers are complicit in the act of pirating and sharing music. They might hide behind the idea that they design and intend their tools for all sorts of other purposes, but all the while, they are doing their damndest to make piracy and music sharing easier. Rip, Mix, Burn, anyone?
2. Gun manufacturers are complicit in violence. I was in a gun store the other day with my roomie, and we watch a mac'd out little posse of gang bangers shopping for guns.
The clerk: What kind of ammo do you need?
Gangbanger: Er,yeah cheif, we need them bullets too.
The clerk: Sure, but what kind? What kind of shooting do you intend to do? Hunting? Target shooting?
Gangbanger (pulling himself up in to his most rehearsed 'respectable citizen' pose, clears throat): Err, Home Deee-fence!
Yeah fucking right. Home defence my ass. The little 'g' was buying Man Stoppers to keep his granny safe.
3. Knives have lots of uses, but yes, if a knife manufacturer was selling you knives concious of what you were going to do with them, or even willfully ignorant, then yes, they are responsible.
No, this is collusion.
They cannot argue there is any legitemate reason to do this. Just because they are providing someone else with the tools to rip you off doesn't make them any less complicit in the act.
Light Rail is only a fiasco in the financial sense: it's impossible to run fiscally sound public transit in such a suburban environment. I take it every day along with Caltrain from the city, and while it trundles along slowly, it's not an unpleasant ride.
The south bay's sin is in it's refusal to mandate high density housing, or at the very least, high density commerical building, which is required to make public transit feasible. I'm not suggesting that public transit should have to pay for itself via ticket revenue alone, since no modern transit system does (new york, london, etc): just that the LRT is an incredibly poor value for the money spent on it.
And, I'm really pissed that they've managed to synch the train schedules with Caltrain to ensure that the LRT (the only 'standing room only' of the day on my line) rolls into the station just as the Caltrain commuter leaves the station. Twully Bwilliant Thinking.
Best transportation system in america? Are you aware the discussion is in regard to BART? Or as it should more reasonably be known, BAT? Or at least Bay Area Moderately Expensive, Underwhelmingly slow, Usually Mildly Smelly Transportion? BAMEUSUMST?
It's only decent when you compare it to the light rail fiasco of the south bay.
My personal favourite - This Week in Science
http://www.twis.org/
You've >got to add the lime. It's more important than either the gin or the tonic.
You didn't add enough, or any, lime. It's the difference between 'delicous' and 'air conditioner coolant'. Or, perhaps you were drinking cheap gin and/or tonic. In this case, you -were- drinking air conditioner coolant.
After all, this is from the people who've been telling us that that PowerPC processors are as fast as Intel chips for years now.
This is not the pack of dogsicles referred to in the australian article.
This abstract discusses using cold saline solution to induce mild hypothermia in the brain after a cardiac arrest, and during a 20 minute period without a pulse in order to preserve brain function. It's has a lot more to do with trauma surgery and a lot less to do with suspended animation, though technically one could argue that the differences are as much quantative as qualative.
it's just only available at movie theaters...
Amon Tobin is why I'm going to buy this game at all.
I don't, for the most part.
To be frank, I prefer "Permutation" and "Bricolage" to "Supermodified" and "Out from Outwhere" (which is what I assume you are refering to).
His live album is good too, though I've been underwhelmed with the shows themselves: until the encore comes along, he really didn't bust out last time, though when he did (a mashup mostly composed of Metallica riffs), it was incredible.
If you haven't checked out his stuff, do so now: it changed my entire conception of music.
to bicycle speed!!
From an intellectual property point of view, that is...
Here's all the example you need.
You might have to tread on a fews toes, but it's all in the name of furthering OSS.
YMMV
But the two times I've tried this game, it's been a complete failure. The tasks are too easy, and lack any depth. It's like an american version of a cool foreign film.
JMHO
being distracted by silly hobbies
the burger'n'fries set.
that it's going to suck.
The solution is:
Engrish!!!
This keyboard can't be pirated, in the way that software can. Ergo, there's money to be made. Perhaps you won't get it into the hands of as many people, but at least those people will have actually paid you.
Also, not every musician is a computer geek. I've met quite a few who were terrified by them, even though they were happy getting around equally complex audio hardware.
No sense living like a drooling vegetable for hundreds of years.
Why not? It hasn't stopped plenty of people from posting to slashdot.
A simplified explanation:
Option grants aren't share grants - they are:
1. worthless when granted, since they are valued at the same price as the stock on that day.
2. Become excercisable over a long period of time (4-5 years, usually). You can only excercise them while you are still an employee, so the only way to get them to be worth anything is by staying at the company until the price rises.
So, no, they aren't just a way of paying employees in a different way - they are more a promise of payment in return for future work, which, in a small part is dependent on the quality of work of the employee in question.
As if there wasn't enough stuff on the top of my desk already.
And this thing -makes- more stuff...