- "good" schools for their children -- forcing them to buy in "good" neighbourhood
As a matter of fact, you can go to any school you want, not just the school in your neighborhood. The government funded school system is pretty poor compared to the private schools (which are actually called public schools, go figure)
- 2000-square-foot home on 33'x100' lot on a wide street
Varies from city to city, approx $50000 in Bangalore, IMHO
- second car
A car costs about $4000 - new model
- unsubsidized education for their children
government schools - about $10, private schools, non-subsidised - $50
- occasional holidays
mentioned before - about 20 days a year
- pre-school and after-school care for children
about $100 a month
- name-brand clothes and shoes (just something along the lines of Gap & Nike, not Armani)
costs the same as in the US - Levis 501, for ex costs about $30, good local brands about $5
- to provide for themselves in retirement
mandatory retirement savings plans funded partly out employee salary, with matching company contribution(about 9% of monthly basic pay), growing at about 9% p.a. Government employees have inflation-indexed compensation
Let's not underestimate the significance of this release - granted it's a dated game, and agreed that most XBox owners have probably played the PC version at least.
The point is GTA3/VC was seen as a killer app for the PS2 and it's availability on XBox will have an impact on console purchase decisions, IMHO. Also, TTWO gets a bundle more of money, which should drive the schedule of GTA4? up
That being said, check out Max Payne 2 and True Crime - Streets of LA - both multi-console for some more awesome gangster-noir riffs in the genre, both also out soon
On another note, do read Jim Thompson's classic novels for a feel of life in the fast lane:)
Just consider this - you pick up a copy of the latest Britney/Madonna/whatever CD or even download an MP3 from Kazaa - in a header of the mp3 - some 'patch' code that 'updates' your music system - which very likely is your PC/Media Center - connected to the Net and reporting everything you've ever done
I'm safe - I use ZoneAlarm/EvidenceEliminator - aren't I?;)
Films are a kind of dream in a way, as compared to the 'real' world. Directors constantly move between realism and surrealism as different perspectives to portray the real/unreal nature of films.
Cubism, being a movement in painting that attempted to depict a more complete illustration of the painted subject by showing it from a number of different perspectives, was influential in forming the visual depiction of many directors/photographers. Here is an analysis of Truffaut and Eisenstein making the same argument
Surrealism extended cubism into the fantastic world of dreams and provided a fresh perspective that allowed the auteur to look at what did not exist before, recreating reality, as it were.
Surrealism is not new - check out Salvador Dali's own rendition of the dream sequence in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound in 1045.Here is a list of some films using Surrealism in some form to render their visions of reality
For example, if you make a copy of a book, sell 100 copies, and get caught, you can be sued for 15 million dollars by the publisher.
Ah, the key point here is if you sell 100 copies - most(99%?) people on P2P networks are not selling the stuff
Not that I support copyright infringement, just the misapplication of bad law - the law should fit the crime, and we are protected from unfair punishment, last I heard
Also, the BBC has a look at other 'victims' of the court cases
Let's see now - 261 people, assuming each shared 1000 songs (which I believe was the cap at which RIAA selected their litigants) - @$150000 a song - they expect $39,150,000,000($39 Billion smackeroos!!!). Assuming each case settles at $50000, the RIAA still stands to make $13,050,000 just from this 'spook & awe' campaign
In late-breaking news today, out of One Microsoft Way, Bill Gates broke down and confessed that it had been his idea to incorporate Linux code to fix Windows bugs just before the release of Windows Me(hence the name) and since it had been such a good idea at the time, he'd gone ahead and replaced the entire kernel with the Linux kernel (which explains the bugs in Plug & Play).
He finally confessed because Europe was demanding open source Windows and he'd already paid Darl for the SCO license for the Linux code, so he was safe anyway, wasn't he?
Google can only return results that are registered domain names. It is in effect a front end to the IANA - In the words of the IANA themselves "The IANA serves as a bookkeeper in recording the assignments that are made. In Internet terminology, the record-keeping service IANA performs is called a registration service, and IANA serves as a registry."
The IANA of course delegate the right to distribute IP address blocks to the RIRs(RFC 2050), who in turn do so to the ISPs. Thus any other search engine can prepare a spider-generated (or otherwise) list of results. For Google to remove a few links from their results does not in anyway change the reality that the IP addresses continue to exist and therefore potentially contravene the DMCA(not that I agree with this in the first place). the IANA, RIRs and ISPs therefore potentially contravene the DMCA - why then would Google take the step of removing links from their results? I'm sure Google has some kind of disclaimer relating to URLs people visit from their results - you can visit more gross sites than kazaalite!
Full Disclosure: I deployed some CRM software for Google in 2000
This is another example of confusing the medium with the message, or shooting the messenger because he brings bad news.
P2P, being a medium or a form of communication, can have various kinds of communication on it, some might be offensive, but, IMHO, IANAL, it is protected speech, just like a newspaper or a website - you can go after the content and restrict it, possibly, but how can you restrict the medium without interfering in my right to free speech?
And how is it different from what we might have said before? I think the word they are replacing is "invention." Bill Shockley invented the transistor, Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce invented the integrated circuit, Ted Hof invented the microprocessor.(Cringley's article)
Most inventions were based on some innovation or the other - the IC was an innovative usage of the transistor, the microwave an innovative usage of UV, etc.
As Newton opined "If I have seen further, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants" I've created/invented software that I'm proud of and others might term innovation - what's so wrong with innovation anyway?
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Well, this was in 1997, and I didnt plan on keeping a log for that long, oh *AA member
Maybe you can subpoena me, or perhaps I can get amnesty and promise never to do it again;)/. on *AA amnesty
FWIW, this isnt too hard to reproduce, just write a simple ODBC prog using the MS DLL with insert/update/delete functions and measure perf against raw ODBC calls & MFC ODBC calls
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In re: the performance of.NET vs. Java, once long ago, I wrote an API library based on ODBC using calls to the Microsoft ODBC dll, choosing to not use MFC for what I thought were performance advantages (lean, mean, etc)
Strangely enough, I found that I was having some perf problems in my library functions that exactly modeled what MFC was doing in it's calls to the MS ODBC dll.
After quite some digging, I found that a call to a DLL function with exactly the same parameters by my API as opposed to an MFC call to the dll was way slower and in at least one case gave different results. Please note that I'm talking about perf on the function call alone, all other things being constant
Conclusion:MFC was 'rigged' to perform better with the MS ODBC DLL than a third party function call.
It wouldnt surprise me if there were similar reasons for performance differences between.NET and J2EE - thoughts?
I just discovered this brilliant thing the women at a local cafe Alterra (Milwaukee, US Bank bldg) are doing - a meme one finds has great potential.
Basically, they have a CD folder containing a few hundred music CDs left outside their counter. If you like a CD, just take it with you and bring it back when you can.
And what's interesting, they have people dropping off more CDs so the collection keeps growing - think of it as Netflix on steroids without the fees. The 'Amnesty' deal doesnt come into play 'cause it's like borrowing a CD from a friend...
Consider a loose nationwide network of free libraries run by the honor system - combines the P2P paradigm with the 'bandwidth of a USPS truck' idea.
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Now it's called BSE - and actually there have been no BSE cases in India, IMO
Please cite references for blanket assertions above.
As a matter of fact, you can go to any school you want, not just the school in your neighborhood. The government funded school system is pretty poor compared to the private schools (which are actually called public schools, go figure)
- 2000-square-foot home on 33'x100' lot on a wide street
Varies from city to city, approx $50000 in Bangalore, IMHO
- second car
A car costs about $4000 - new model
- unsubsidized education for their children
government schools - about $10, private schools, non-subsidised - $50
- occasional holidays
mentioned before - about 20 days a year
- pre-school and after-school care for children
about $100 a month
- name-brand clothes and shoes (just something along the lines of Gap & Nike, not Armani)
costs the same as in the US - Levis 501, for ex costs about $30, good local brands about $5 - to provide for themselves in retirement
mandatory retirement savings plans funded partly out employee salary, with matching company contribution(about 9% of monthly basic pay), growing at about 9% p.a. Government employees have inflation-indexed compensation
The point is GTA3/VC was seen as a killer app for the PS2 and it's availability on XBox will have an impact on console purchase decisions, IMHO. Also, TTWO gets a bundle more of money, which should drive the schedule of GTA4? up
That being said, check out Max Payne 2 and True Crime - Streets of LA - both multi-console for some more awesome gangster-noir riffs in the genre, both also out soon
On another note, do read Jim Thompson's classic novels for a feel of life in the fast lane:)
Just goes to show you can't trust anyone but the RIAA for f'air and balanced info-warfare:)
I'm safe - I use ZoneAlarm/EvidenceEliminator - aren't I?;)
Cubism, being a movement in painting that attempted to depict a more complete illustration of the painted subject by showing it from a number of different perspectives, was influential in forming the visual depiction of many directors/photographers. Here is an analysis of Truffaut and Eisenstein making the same argument
Surrealism extended cubism into the fantastic world of dreams and provided a fresh perspective that allowed the auteur to look at what did not exist before, recreating reality, as it were.
Surrealism is not new - check out Salvador Dali's own rendition of the dream sequence in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound in 1045.Here is a list of some films using Surrealism in some form to render their visions of reality
Roger Corman talks about Surrealism in his films
Here is a good list of surrealism in films
Ah, the key point here is if you sell 100 copies - most(99%?) people on P2P networks are not selling the stuff
Not that I support copyright infringement, just the misapplication of bad law - the law should fit the crime, and we are protected from unfair punishment, last I heard
Also, the BBC has a look at other 'victims' of the court cases
Let's see now - 261 people, assuming each shared 1000 songs (which I believe was the cap at which RIAA selected their litigants) - @$150000 a song - they expect $39,150,000,000($39 Billion smackeroos!!!). Assuming each case settles at $50000, the RIAA still stands to make $13,050,000 just from this 'spook & awe' campaign
Not bad for a 'sunset industry'
He finally confessed because Europe was demanding open source Windows and he'd already paid Darl for the SCO license for the Linux code, so he was safe anyway, wasn't he?
'Nuff said - now everyone who shared Britney/Justin/Madonna watch out for an appeal from the 'leaders'
Wonder who else is considered a 'leader' by the RIAA?
The IANA of course delegate the right to distribute IP address blocks to the RIRs(RFC 2050), who in turn do so to the ISPs. Thus any other search engine can prepare a spider-generated (or otherwise) list of results. For Google to remove a few links from their results does not in anyway change the reality that the IP addresses continue to exist and therefore potentially contravene the DMCA(not that I agree with this in the first place). the IANA, RIRs and ISPs therefore potentially contravene the DMCA - why then would Google take the step of removing links from their results? I'm sure Google has some kind of disclaimer relating to URLs people visit from their results - you can visit more gross sites than kazaalite!
Full Disclosure: I deployed some CRM software for Google in 2000
And the same RIAA who resisted parental advisory labels for years?
Dont go digging holes in other people's gardens looking for bodies when you have a few in your own
P2P, being a medium or a form of communication, can have various kinds of communication on it, some might be offensive, but, IMHO, IANAL, it is protected speech, just like a newspaper or a website - you can go after the content and restrict it, possibly, but how can you restrict the medium without interfering in my right to free speech?
Here's a good history of microwave ovens
Here's another article with info abt the electromagnetic spectrum
1: a new device or process created by study and experimentation [syn: invention]
2: the creation of something in the mind [syn: invention, excogitation, conception, design]
Source: WordNet (R) 1.6, (C) 1997 Princeton University
Most inventions were based on some innovation or the other - the IC was an innovative usage of the transistor, the microwave an innovative usage of UV, etc.
As Newton opined "If I have seen further, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants" I've created/invented software that I'm proud of and others might term innovation - what's so wrong with innovation anyway?
FWIW, this isnt too hard to reproduce, just write a simple ODBC prog using the MS DLL with insert/update/delete functions and measure perf against raw ODBC calls & MFC ODBC calls
Strangely enough, I found that I was having some perf problems in my library functions that exactly modeled what MFC was doing in it's calls to the MS ODBC dll.
After quite some digging, I found that a call to a DLL function with exactly the same parameters by my API as opposed to an MFC call to the dll was way slower and in at least one case gave different results. Please note that I'm talking about perf on the function call alone, all other things being constant
Conclusion:MFC was 'rigged' to perform better with the MS ODBC DLL than a third party function call.
It wouldnt surprise me if there were similar reasons for performance differences between .NET and J2EE - thoughts?
Basically, they have a CD folder containing a few hundred music CDs left outside their counter. If you like a CD, just take it with you and bring it back when you can.
And what's interesting, they have people dropping off more CDs so the collection keeps growing - think of it as Netflix on steroids without the fees. The 'Amnesty' deal doesnt come into play 'cause it's like borrowing a CD from a friend...
Consider a loose nationwide network of free libraries run by the honor system - combines the P2P paradigm with the 'bandwidth of a USPS truck' idea.
Now what should I burn for them...
You might just as well have the ASPCA give you amnesty for copyright violations. Or SCO give you amnesty for copyleft violations?