I agree with most of what you said, but regarding the job creating you mention it's worth noting that those are, all of them, service jobs.
Service jobs are not really beneficial for building a local economy because they don't create wealth, they feed off of it. If there is no wealth creation in the form of manufacturing, programming for local businesses, agriculture and cetera, their economy will remain dependent upon foreign companies who could destroy the foundation by simply picking up and moving elsewhere.
Not to mention the fact that service jobs usually suck for the person performing them.
... but if they did it then there must have been something going on.
Riiiiiiight, 'cause the FBI has always got the best interests of the american people on their minds... they would NEVER do anything of questionable ethics.
well my first reaction was "Great! More tone deaf 'musicians' who can't even tune thier own guitars... at least they'll just suck instead of also being out of tune."
But then I remembered I fellow I used to play with who was enamoured with oddball tunings. I would have loved to get him one of these, because he had to change tunings so often that the audience would get bored in between songs. Wouldn't have been so bad if the guy had had a pesonality to keep them entertained with... guess that's why I USED to play with him.
Now... how exactly are you going to get on the net? Satellite? Pigeon?
He should prolly stick to the tried-and-true bongo drum method. They've got better range than wireless, low power consumption (well, other than mechanized sticks, but he could just operate them manually on cloudy days), and complement the decor marvelously!
You misunderstand me. I'm not saying that Linux==GPL, because clearly it isn't. Software cannot be the license it is released under.
What I'm saying is that SCO may actually realize that the GPL IS valid, and that to save their asses in the coming copyright lawsuit they are getting on record saying that they understand the GPL to be in disagreement with copyright law and thus non-binding (note: even though they understand to the contrary). This way, when in court they have plausible deniability against WILLFUL infringement.
It is my understanding that copyright must be willfully infringed in order to be punishable. Mistakes can be made so long as after the mistake is brought to the infringers attention, they correct their error.
Instead they get a big class action suit smacking them square in the face for copyright infringement, because now they've used other people's copyrighted material, without permission, for profit, etc, etc...
IANAL (of course), but it strikes me that this may just be a ploy to save their asses in said class action lawsuit. If they argue that they always thought that the GPL was unconstitutional, then they can claim that there was no willful infringement of others copyrighted works.
"oops, sorry Judge. Gosh, we won't do THAT again..."
The book didn't emphasis it at all, and the part about Elrond opposing the union... grrr.
Um, did you read the same books I did? It's been a while since I last read the trilogy, but I remember the romance between Arwen and Aragorn as quite obvious and relevent, as well as the conflict caused by Eowyn's attraction to Aragorn (and vice versa) and the fact that Elrond objected to the union because it would force Arwen to sacrifice her immortality for a life with a mortal man (she's only half-elven, remember? Ok, I'm not saying it makes a lot of sense, but thats the way I remember it working. Or maybe it was that she would end up staying behind in ME rather than travelling with the rest of the elves...anyone want to refresh my memory?)
Bottom line is that Elrond wasn't thrilled that he would lose his daughter to a mortal (however the details worked out), even if it was Aragorn.
That's cool, I hadn't even considered the trouble a dyslexic would have with a text based interface.
I was thinking as a musician (which some might consier to be another result of mis-wiring in the brain:-) that we are generally trying to minimize the amount of friction the interface contributes to the task of controlling the computer as an instrumnt. I believe this is one of the reasons it has taken so long for them to catch on in music in general, and are still rarely used in performance for anything other than playback (i.e. nothing interactive). This will make manipulation faster and more natural, and provide a better visual representation of the hierarchical structure inherent in most synthesis and effects algorithms.
This is definitely a huge step in the right direction; now if only it will go into some kind of production (or I find time to research and build on myself).
In this article the reviewer notes that the real (and under reported) benefit of the new 'metal' interface is the ability to choose classic finder behavior, i.e. persistent windows etc. and the new file browser paradigm (which I happen to prefer, but I was weened on windows, not classic)
Hmmmm, I've read of Muslim leaders denouncing terrorist attacks of all kinds. Just because some muslims are misguided doesn't mean all muslims misguided, just like the existence of christian bigots like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson doesn't mean all christians are bigots.
I'd like to see some proof as to your source for the above quote also. Not saying it doesn't exist, but it sounds a bit too sensationalized to be believed. Even though there is/are a passage(s?) in the bible instructing parents to stone misbehaving children, I haven't heard of many children dying by stoning, yet this is still paraded around by anti-christian bigots as proof of the hypocrisy of christianity.
Maybe you should work on finding some perspective and try not to abstract the actions of certain members of a group (e.g. terrorists) to apply to all the members of another group (e.g. muslims) to which the first also happen to belong.
From the second paragraph of the filing to the USPTO director's office:
"While we understand that the submitted prior art was introduced during the course of the recent trial proceedings, the issue of whether it renders the '906 patent invalid was never considered."
I have a K6-2 300 that I pulled out of retirement this spring for a linux box. That isn't very old (ok, maybe 6 yrs is old), but the ISA Sound Blaster 16 that I slapped in it for sound is old than me (I think).
How many of you know of a government institution whos CTO DOESN'T mandate what software goes on the end user's desktop (i.e. - what OS and related software that the IT department officially supports) or on the servers for that matter?
I know that a university may not be typical of all state run institutions but I suspect that it is. And I know for damn sure that there were no PCs coming out of IT Services with anything but the most current version of windows that the machine could handle. Linux . . . yeah, right. The CS department got to use linux, but only if they fdisk and installed everything themselves. No support for them, but then, they didn't really need it.
Hmm, IANAL, so could anyone clarify the grounds of infringement? I thought that trademark claims usually involved companies in the same or similar markets, and that there had to be proof that the infringer could be mistaken for actual holder (or cost them money because of the confusion). How many of you would mistake someone selling a room for a night with a way of categorizing library books?
I wonder if the Hotel's lawyers already thought about this, and so ignored the letters from the DDS people.
1) How do you know that you aren't interested in one?
2) Why do you believe that music cannot include anything other than sound (audio)?
I have been a musician for most of my life, and I think I can say, with a fair degree of authority, that music is MUCH more than just sound. It is an experience. Yes, there are musical experiences that can be had sitting in a darkened room with headphones, but it are much different experiences that can be had in a "live show" situation (and much better, IMHO).
I can detect an autotune-processed track within seconds of hearing it, due to the utter piano-like lack of pitch sensitivity and expression.
You're either delusional or listening to very poorly engineered music. Have you ever used Auto-Tuner? It allows you to maintain vibrato, scoops, and whatever other pitch variations are recorded, while only adjusting the frequency average to be around the desired pitch, and with whatever precision one would like.
Furthermore, a really competent engineer won't lower themselves to letting auto-tune do it for them. They will bust out a sine wave and tune it by ear, to what they feel compliments the music best.
The fact that there is no sensitivity or expression in most pop music is because, well, there isn't. Most performers, as has been pointed out repeatedly, lack any real skill or talent (other than maybe dancing).
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I agree with most of what you said, but regarding the job creating you mention it's worth noting that those are, all of them, service jobs.
Service jobs are not really beneficial for building a local economy because they don't create wealth, they feed off of it. If there is no wealth creation in the form of manufacturing, programming for local businesses, agriculture and cetera, their economy will remain dependent upon foreign companies who could destroy the foundation by simply picking up and moving elsewhere.
Not to mention the fact that service jobs usually suck for the person performing them.
I could care less what Apple's needs are, unless a product solves MY problems I won't buy it.
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Take it back then, I'm sure they'll give you a full refund for it
... but if they did it then there must have been something going on.
... they would NEVER do anything of questionable ethics.
Riiiiiiight, 'cause the FBI has always got the best interests of the american people on their minds
well my first reaction was "Great! More tone deaf 'musicians' who can't even tune thier own guitars ... at least they'll just suck instead of also being out of tune."
... guess that's why I USED to play with him.
But then I remembered I fellow I used to play with who was enamoured with oddball tunings. I would have loved to get him one of these, because he had to change tunings so often that the audience would get bored in between songs. Wouldn't have been so bad if the guy had had a pesonality to keep them entertained with
no, gained 20% on previous market share, not gained 20% OF the market.
Quote from the Rio Cali website:
:-p
"As featured in the Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld 2004"
And btw, *I* think that the Nitrus looks like ass, nyah!
Now... how exactly are you going to get on the net? Satellite? Pigeon?
He should prolly stick to the tried-and-true bongo drum method. They've got better range than wireless, low power consumption (well, other than mechanized sticks, but he could just operate them manually on cloudy days), and complement the decor marvelously!
You misunderstand me. I'm not saying that Linux==GPL, because clearly it isn't. Software cannot be the license it is released under.
What I'm saying is that SCO may actually realize that the GPL IS valid, and that to save their asses in the coming copyright lawsuit they are getting on record saying that they understand the GPL to be in disagreement with copyright law and thus non-binding (note: even though they understand to the contrary). This way, when in court they have plausible deniability against WILLFUL infringement.
It is my understanding that copyright must be willfully infringed in order to be punishable. Mistakes can be made so long as after the mistake is brought to the infringers attention, they correct their error.
Instead they get a big class action suit smacking them square in the face for copyright infringement, because now they've used other people's copyrighted material, without permission, for profit, etc, etc...
IANAL (of course), but it strikes me that this may just be a ploy to save their asses in said class action lawsuit. If they argue that they always thought that the GPL was unconstitutional, then they can claim that there was no willful infringement of others copyrighted works.
"oops, sorry Judge. Gosh, we won't do THAT again..."
Thanks Darl, I was just thinking it'd been a while since I last set my watch. Now I know I'll be on time!
The book didn't emphasis it at all, and the part about Elrond opposing the union ... grrr.
Um, did you read the same books I did? It's been a while since I last read the trilogy, but I remember the romance between Arwen and Aragorn as quite obvious and relevent, as well as the conflict caused by Eowyn's attraction to Aragorn (and vice versa) and the fact that Elrond objected to the union because it would force Arwen to sacrifice her immortality for a life with a mortal man (she's only half-elven, remember? Ok, I'm not saying it makes a lot of sense, but thats the way I remember it working. Or maybe it was that she would end up staying behind in ME rather than travelling with the rest of the elves...anyone want to refresh my memory?)
Bottom line is that Elrond wasn't thrilled that he would lose his daughter to a mortal (however the details worked out), even if it was Aragorn.
That's cool, I hadn't even considered the trouble a dyslexic would have with a text based interface.
:-) that we are generally trying to minimize the amount of friction the interface contributes to the task of controlling the computer as an instrumnt. I believe this is one of the reasons it has taken so long for them to catch on in music in general, and are still rarely used in performance for anything other than playback (i.e. nothing interactive). This will make manipulation faster and more natural, and provide a better visual representation of the hierarchical structure inherent in most synthesis and effects algorithms.
I was thinking as a musician (which some might consier to be another result of mis-wiring in the brain
This is definitely a huge step in the right direction; now if only it will go into some kind of production (or I find time to research and build on myself).
In this article the reviewer notes that the real (and under reported) benefit of the new 'metal' interface is the ability to choose classic finder behavior, i.e. persistent windows etc. and the new file browser paradigm (which I happen to prefer, but I was weened on windows, not classic)
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Hmmmm, I've read of Muslim leaders denouncing terrorist attacks of all kinds. Just because some muslims are misguided doesn't mean all muslims misguided, just like the existence of christian bigots like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson doesn't mean all christians are bigots.
I'd like to see some proof as to your source for the above quote also. Not saying it doesn't exist, but it sounds a bit too sensationalized to be believed. Even though there is/are a passage(s?) in the bible instructing parents to stone misbehaving children, I haven't heard of many children dying by stoning, yet this is still paraded around by anti-christian bigots as proof of the hypocrisy of christianity.
Maybe you should work on finding some perspective and try not to abstract the actions of certain members of a group (e.g. terrorists) to apply to all the members of another group (e.g. muslims) to which the first also happen to belong.
From the second paragraph of the filing to the USPTO director's office:
"While we understand that the submitted prior art was introduced during the course of the recent trial proceedings, the issue of whether it renders the '906 patent invalid was never considered."
Um, RTFF?
And we all know how much THAT works.
At least taxpayers aren't paying for it.
I have a K6-2 300 that I pulled out of retirement this spring for a linux box. That isn't very old (ok, maybe 6 yrs is old), but the ISA Sound Blaster 16 that I slapped in it for sound is old than me (I think).
How many of you know of a government institution whos CTO DOESN'T mandate what software goes on the end user's desktop (i.e. - what OS and related software that the IT department officially supports) or on the servers for that matter?
I know that a university may not be typical of all state run institutions but I suspect that it is. And I know for damn sure that there were no PCs coming out of IT Services with anything but the most current version of windows that the machine could handle. Linux . . . yeah, right. The CS department got to use linux, but only if they fdisk and installed everything themselves. No support for them, but then, they didn't really need it.
Yeah, agreed. But there is a big diference between predicting the future based on your birthday and personality analysis...
... but then, I'm a Leo, so you obviously can't trust me :-p
"Leos are dishonest".
Hmm, IANAL, so could anyone clarify the grounds of infringement? I thought that trademark claims usually involved companies in the same or similar markets, and that there had to be proof that the infringer could be mistaken for actual holder (or cost them money because of the confusion). How many of you would mistake someone selling a room for a night with a way of categorizing library books?
I wonder if the Hotel's lawyers already thought about this, and so ignored the letters from the DDS people.
If you've never been to a live show:
1) How do you know that you aren't interested in one?
2) Why do you believe that music cannot include anything other than sound (audio)?
I have been a musician for most of my life, and I think I can say, with a fair degree of authority, that music is MUCH more than just sound. It is an experience. Yes, there are musical experiences that can be had sitting in a darkened room with headphones, but it are much different experiences that can be had in a "live show" situation (and much better, IMHO).
I can detect an autotune-processed track within seconds of hearing it, due to the utter piano-like lack of pitch sensitivity and expression.
You're either delusional or listening to very poorly engineered music. Have you ever used Auto-Tuner? It allows you to maintain vibrato, scoops, and whatever other pitch variations are recorded, while only adjusting the frequency average to be around the desired pitch, and with whatever precision one would like.
Furthermore, a really competent engineer won't lower themselves to letting auto-tune do it for them. They will bust out a sine wave and tune it by ear, to what they feel compliments the music best.
The fact that there is no sensitivity or expression in most pop music is because, well, there isn't. Most performers, as has been pointed out repeatedly, lack any real skill or talent (other than maybe dancing).