This is an absurdity. Every polity has a left, a center and a right. The center moves as people shift their opinions.
Then again, the definition of what is left and right shifts too. 75 years ago to agitate for a color blind government that does not take race into account was considered a radical left-wing position in the US. Today, that opinion generally appears on the right.
This sort of center shift is what marks great politicians like FDR, Reagan, and Thatcher. Agree with them or not, the center shifted in their direction during their political time at the top and stayed their afterwards.
Funny, I've seen academic studies (Lichter-Roth-Lichter did an entire series) which documents that reporters' political beliefs are to the left of the general public in the US, that their voting is to the left (85%+ Democrat) and that their coverage on issues tilts left. I've never seen any academic refutation of these studies for errors either in methodology or conclusion nor any counter studies showing that the media are, in fact, center-right.
Personally I don't like the ACLU because of their hypocricy. They claim to be defenders of the Constitution but they are quite selective about which parts of the Constitution to defend. To paint ACLU opponents as all closet racists is its own special type of bigotry.
While there isn't much call for a lot of 3rd amendment work, there certainly is a lot of call for 2nd amendment litigation. Even 1st amendment issues like the grossly bigoted Blaine amendments haven't attracted a lot of ACLU condemnation over the years and these anti-catholic efforts are enshrined in dozens of state constitutions.
When the ACLU is evenhanded in its defense of the Constitution, I'll take it all back. Until then, no money for them and they can talk to the hand.
Actually, the exception to this is privately owned businesses. There are quite a few of them out there and they are run for the benefit and whim of the owner(s), not necessarily to screw anybody or maximize revenues. Some people don't want to maximize revenues, just make their numbers so they can take the rest of the year off.
There's no mechanistic law that says businesses have to be unethical or immoral, just a collective decision by the shareholders to do so whether it's explicit or just shutting their eyes to the consequences of their decisions.
A link on how they regret and disagree with their awardee's more recent behavior might prove your point. As far as it goes now, they may or may not disagree with it. It's unclear from this thread so far.
quoted from http://www.apple.com/shake/ "Resolution Independence and Extensibility Shake simultaneously handles 8, 16 and 32-bit (float) images for the highest-quality productions in the industry. Its scanline/tiled-based renderer provides efficient processing of the most complex projects and features an almost unlimited number of layers, custom macros, concatenation of contiguous color and transformation processes for better quality and render times, an extensive scripting language and distributed rendering for larger projects."
So if you're not rendering fast enough, you can render to server farm easily enough and solve your issue rather quickly. After all, what else are you going to do with your old PC hardware?
anti-Microsoft feeling is prejudice only if it is not thought out beforehand (pre = before, judice = judgement). Thank you but I've thought it out quite well. Microsoft's legal terms are getting worse and worse as time goes by and since they can make arbitrary legal changes in essential patch licenses and have done so, no deployed system is safe by the mere fact that it is under an acceptable license. At any point you can be faced with the unattractive choice of agreeing to give up your legal rights, leaving your system open to hacking, or circumventing the licensing and becoming a DMCA criminal.
Irrespective of all the other dirty tricks and whether they reform or not, this feature of Microsoft's corporate culture is sufficient to make MS technology unacceptable for any reason but you have no other choice except not getting the job done.
The author, or his assignee *is* the owner. If it didn't have owners, the GPL would be unenforceable and MS wouldn't be so worried about it. If you don't own it, you don't have standing in a court to defend the license.
It's more like "boss, we want to code using this widget but it's only available for IIS and mean IT Bob wants to stick with stinky Apache." In the fight between IT platform setting and programmers using a new widget on a project, the programmers usually win and it's going to throw Apache out of a lot of shops.
I hope the Apache Foundation has some very good lawyers, i.e. better than any other lawyers in the tech industry because MS lawyers already ate those other lawyers for breakfast and spat them out.
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Your comment is apples to oranges stuff. You can't compare an OS to a webserver, it's two different markets. The way it works here is.NET is the new technology, IIS is the old. It's got nothing to do with Windows but everything to do with Microsoft trying to play the technology users for suckers AGAIN.
After a certain point, you use them when you have to and you try harder and harder not to have to. Every time they pull this embrace, extend, extinguish garbage they increase the marketshare of that attitude. I wonder when it's going to start to reflect in their stock price...
Perhaps the education they need is in common decency. The combination of pornography and the Virgin Mary is intended to hurt and inflame passion. While hurtful speech shouldn't normally be illegal, it should generally be condemned.
Educate is quite the right word whether or not Christianity is correct (as I believe it to be so).
If NYC or Chicago gin up a lot of fake votes, past a certain point it's irrelevant, the electoral votes go to the Democrat and that's it. In a nationwide vote system each dead voter counts so there's an incentive to fraud far beyond the present day system and one-party controlled counties like Cook in Illinois have the ability to make huge vote totals and much larger impact on the national election. In short, eliminate the electoral college and watch vote fraud skyrocket.
Of course when the ballot was submitted to both the chairman of the Democrat and Republican parties before the election they both signed off on it so they must have been paid off, right. The Dems control Palm Beach County and the county is the organization that sets these things up.
You missed a couple of cheery facts. First, reserves are measured funny in the oil business. There's a lot of reserves that aren't normally counted because they take $35/barrel to extract and refine. The Canada tar sands fit into that as well as a huge portion of the Venezuela deposits which are very expensive (at todays prices) to refine due to high impurity levels. So your supply curve has a relatively low slope, i.e. at higher prices a lot more oil becomes available, mostly in places with political stability like Canada and the US (I think we've got huge resources in the northern plains states that only become practical at $40/barrel).
Another cheery fact is that there's a lot of oil in Africa and a great deal of it is offshore and accessible without delving too deeply into the corrupt governance that tends to dominate there. So there's an entirely new region
This doesn't change the fact that eventually, it will all get used up and we'll be reduced to the seepage refill rate (you do know that there's growing evidence that fields will often slowly refill, right) but by then we'll likely be able to put out the only large scale practical solar power, orbital stations with microwave transmission down to earth. We've just got to manage the transmission and avoid the resource wars people have been hyperventilating about since the Club of Rome.
Finally about those chinese in the PRC. The PRC has a ~30% unemployment rate (150 million surplus agricultural workers plus ~70 million urban unemployed out of a 700 million strong labor force) and nobody knows how many millions more working in SOE's that consume more than they produce and have to be closed down before the PRC can seriously aspire to 1st world status. I wouldn't be too concerned about them hitting 1st world desires in the next 20 years, not without a civil war or two in the meantime anyway. This last point isn't really good news but it does shoot your apocalyptic scenario all to hell.
Finally, I would say that you *should* get backup systems, gardening is healthy and the food's great and well water is useful for lawn use in normal times and can be cheaper than buying centrally. I just think your reasoning why to do it is a bit squirrly.
We actually spend a great deal of money to raise the price of food in order to keep a stable supply. A significant new revenue stream for farmers that is dependable would allow us to fully use our agricultural resources and no longer pay to keep them half-throttled all the time.
Europe also spends huge boatloads of money on their agricultural subsidies (CAP). Depending on the cost of vegetable oil, this might get price competitive and thus be worth doing.
I encountered a real life example of this with anti-freeze. During the course of 1 year, anti-freeze went from about $2 to about $12 for the same sized container. the difference was that a main ingredient (glycol I think but it's been a long time) had long been considered a waste product, mostly thrown away but some of it given to the anti-freeze manufacturers but then somebody came up with an alternative use and the anti-freeze companies had to start paying real money for it.
Vegetable oil would likely be the same though I'm sure some restaurants would increase their push on fatty fried foods in order to maximize revenues. B)
However, you may be the best part time admin that 10 person graphic shop can afford. Also for a windows shop that wants to dump its file and print, Mac OS X Server let's them get away from CALS without having to pony up for Unix training on the front end. It's a way to roll out Unix gradually without scaring the window-philes.
The graphics people who are the core of the Mac audience is used to crashing many times a day. They have tight deadlines and little time to monkey around with their systems and a crying need to use very funky graphic manipulation software that has always been seriously unstable.
In that kind of atmosphere uptimes of a month are a very nice change indeed.
The list of apple sponsored open source projects is here. Of course this doesn't include the patches they send to all the OSS they 'borrow'. So besides hosting projects and contributing to existing ones (like GCC improvements to improve PPC optimization) what the heck do you want?
The quicktime architecture was taken as a basis for the MPEG-4 standard so any MP4 players that are out there are, in a sense, quicktime players under a different name. As voracious users of wannabe imitation software linux users should be used to that.
Eh, He'd probably do better running Linux PPC and Open Office until they get the port to Mac OS X up to snuff then switch over. The problems of Mac OS X are mostly due to its relative youth. Linux, OTOH, is to-the-bone geek. That doesn't seem to be what he wants so waiting for OS X to grow up and then rebooting to it might just be his best option.
Stick a terminal or series of terminals in the waiting room and have the patient fill this stuff out while they're waiting. Taking the down time of waiting and turn it into functional time and you might actually increase the ability to see more patients because you aren't asking the routine stuff. That's already been answered before you even see the patient and you have a basic outline for further exploration staring at you right off the bat.
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This is an absurdity. Every polity has a left, a center and a right. The center moves as people shift their opinions.
Then again, the definition of what is left and right shifts too. 75 years ago to agitate for a color blind government that does not take race into account was considered a radical left-wing position in the US. Today, that opinion generally appears on the right.
This sort of center shift is what marks great politicians like FDR, Reagan, and Thatcher. Agree with them or not, the center shifted in their direction during their political time at the top and stayed their afterwards.
Funny, I've seen academic studies (Lichter-Roth-Lichter did an entire series) which documents that reporters' political beliefs are to the left of the general public in the US, that their voting is to the left (85%+ Democrat) and that their coverage on issues tilts left. I've never seen any academic refutation of these studies for errors either in methodology or conclusion nor any counter studies showing that the media are, in fact, center-right.
The facts are not on your side here.
Personally I don't like the ACLU because of their hypocricy. They claim to be defenders of the Constitution but they are quite selective about which parts of the Constitution to defend. To paint ACLU opponents as all closet racists is its own special type of bigotry.
While there isn't much call for a lot of 3rd amendment work, there certainly is a lot of call for 2nd amendment litigation. Even 1st amendment issues like the grossly bigoted Blaine amendments haven't attracted a lot of ACLU condemnation over the years and these anti-catholic efforts are enshrined in dozens of state constitutions.
When the ACLU is evenhanded in its defense of the Constitution, I'll take it all back. Until then, no money for them and they can talk to the hand.
Actually, the exception to this is privately owned businesses. There are quite a few of them out there and they are run for the benefit and whim of the owner(s), not necessarily to screw anybody or maximize revenues. Some people don't want to maximize revenues, just make their numbers so they can take the rest of the year off.
There's no mechanistic law that says businesses have to be unethical or immoral, just a collective decision by the shareholders to do so whether it's explicit or just shutting their eyes to the consequences of their decisions.
A link on how they regret and disagree with their awardee's more recent behavior might prove your point. As far as it goes now, they may or may not disagree with it. It's unclear from this thread so far.
Next time, try reading about the product.
quoted from http://www.apple.com/shake/
"Resolution Independence and Extensibility
Shake simultaneously handles 8, 16 and 32-bit (float) images for the highest-quality productions in the industry. Its scanline/tiled-based renderer provides efficient processing of the most complex projects and features an almost unlimited number of layers, custom macros, concatenation of contiguous color and transformation processes for better quality and render times, an extensive scripting language and distributed rendering for larger projects."
So if you're not rendering fast enough, you can render to server farm easily enough and solve your issue rather quickly. After all, what else are you going to do with your old PC hardware?
anti-Microsoft feeling is prejudice only if it is not thought out beforehand (pre = before, judice = judgement). Thank you but I've thought it out quite well. Microsoft's legal terms are getting worse and worse as time goes by and since they can make arbitrary legal changes in essential patch licenses and have done so, no deployed system is safe by the mere fact that it is under an acceptable license. At any point you can be faced with the unattractive choice of agreeing to give up your legal rights, leaving your system open to hacking, or circumventing the licensing and becoming a DMCA criminal.
Irrespective of all the other dirty tricks and whether they reform or not, this feature of Microsoft's corporate culture is sufficient to make MS technology unacceptable for any reason but you have no other choice except not getting the job done.
The author, or his assignee *is* the owner. If it didn't have owners, the GPL would be unenforceable and MS wouldn't be so worried about it. If you don't own it, you don't have standing in a court to defend the license.
It's more like "boss, we want to code using this widget but it's only available for IIS and mean IT Bob wants to stick with stinky Apache." In the fight between IT platform setting and programmers using a new widget on a project, the programmers usually win and it's going to throw Apache out of a lot of shops.
I hope the Apache Foundation has some very good lawyers, i.e. better than any other lawyers in the tech industry because MS lawyers already ate those other lawyers for breakfast and spat them out.
Your comment is apples to oranges stuff. You can't compare an OS to a webserver, it's two different markets. The way it works here is .NET is the new technology, IIS is the old. It's got nothing to do with Windows but everything to do with Microsoft trying to play the technology users for suckers AGAIN.
After a certain point, you use them when you have to and you try harder and harder not to have to. Every time they pull this embrace, extend, extinguish garbage they increase the marketshare of that attitude. I wonder when it's going to start to reflect in their stock price...
Perhaps the education they need is in common decency. The combination of pornography and the Virgin Mary is intended to hurt and inflame passion. While hurtful speech shouldn't normally be illegal, it should generally be condemned.
Educate is quite the right word whether or not Christianity is correct (as I believe it to be so).
If NYC or Chicago gin up a lot of fake votes, past a certain point it's irrelevant, the electoral votes go to the Democrat and that's it. In a nationwide vote system each dead voter counts so there's an incentive to fraud far beyond the present day system and one-party controlled counties like Cook in Illinois have the ability to make huge vote totals and much larger impact on the national election. In short, eliminate the electoral college and watch vote fraud skyrocket.
Of course when the ballot was submitted to both the chairman of the Democrat and Republican parties before the election they both signed off on it so they must have been paid off, right. The Dems control Palm Beach County and the county is the organization that sets these things up.
Try something new, like reality.
You missed a couple of cheery facts. First, reserves are measured funny in the oil business. There's a lot of reserves that aren't normally counted because they take $35/barrel to extract and refine. The Canada tar sands fit into that as well as a huge portion of the Venezuela deposits which are very expensive (at todays prices) to refine due to high impurity levels. So your supply curve has a relatively low slope, i.e. at higher prices a lot more oil becomes available, mostly in places with political stability like Canada and the US (I think we've got huge resources in the northern plains states that only become practical at $40/barrel).
Another cheery fact is that there's a lot of oil in Africa and a great deal of it is offshore and accessible without delving too deeply into the corrupt governance that tends to dominate there. So there's an entirely new region
This doesn't change the fact that eventually, it will all get used up and we'll be reduced to the seepage refill rate (you do know that there's growing evidence that fields will often slowly refill, right) but by then we'll likely be able to put out the only large scale practical solar power, orbital stations with microwave transmission down to earth. We've just got to manage the transmission and avoid the resource wars people have been hyperventilating about since the Club of Rome.
Finally about those chinese in the PRC. The PRC has a ~30% unemployment rate (150 million surplus agricultural workers plus ~70 million urban unemployed out of a 700 million strong labor force) and nobody knows how many millions more working in SOE's that consume more than they produce and have to be closed down before the PRC can seriously aspire to 1st world status. I wouldn't be too concerned about them hitting 1st world desires in the next 20 years, not without a civil war or two in the meantime anyway. This last point isn't really good news but it does shoot your apocalyptic scenario all to hell.
Finally, I would say that you *should* get backup systems, gardening is healthy and the food's great and well water is useful for lawn use in normal times and can be cheaper than buying centrally. I just think your reasoning why to do it is a bit squirrly.
We actually spend a great deal of money to raise the price of food in order to keep a stable supply. A significant new revenue stream for farmers that is dependable would allow us to fully use our agricultural resources and no longer pay to keep them half-throttled all the time.
Europe also spends huge boatloads of money on their agricultural subsidies (CAP). Depending on the cost of vegetable oil, this might get price competitive and thus be worth doing.
I encountered a real life example of this with anti-freeze. During the course of 1 year, anti-freeze went from about $2 to about $12 for the same sized container. the difference was that a main ingredient (glycol I think but it's been a long time) had long been considered a waste product, mostly thrown away but some of it given to the anti-freeze manufacturers but then somebody came up with an alternative use and the anti-freeze companies had to start paying real money for it.
Vegetable oil would likely be the same though I'm sure some restaurants would increase their push on fatty fried foods in order to maximize revenues. B)
Actually it's split pretty close to even three ways with independents holding a slight plurality (a few percentage points).
However, you may be the best part time admin that 10 person graphic shop can afford. Also for a windows shop that wants to dump its file and print, Mac OS X Server let's them get away from CALS without having to pony up for Unix training on the front end. It's a way to roll out Unix gradually without scaring the window-philes.
The graphics people who are the core of the Mac audience is used to crashing many times a day. They have tight deadlines and little time to monkey around with their systems and a crying need to use very funky graphic manipulation software that has always been seriously unstable.
In that kind of atmosphere uptimes of a month are a very nice change indeed.
The list of apple sponsored open source projects is here. Of course this doesn't include the patches they send to all the OSS they 'borrow'. So besides hosting projects and contributing to existing ones (like GCC improvements to improve PPC optimization) what the heck do you want?
The quicktime architecture was taken as a basis for the MPEG-4 standard so any MP4 players that are out there are, in a sense, quicktime players under a different name. As voracious users of wannabe imitation software linux users should be used to that.
Real's come on board MPEG-4 but MS has decided to go its own way.
Bummer.
Eh, He'd probably do better running Linux PPC and Open Office until they get the port to Mac OS X up to snuff then switch over. The problems of Mac OS X are mostly due to its relative youth. Linux, OTOH, is to-the-bone geek. That doesn't seem to be what he wants so waiting for OS X to grow up and then rebooting to it might just be his best option.
Stick a terminal or series of terminals in the waiting room and have the patient fill this stuff out while they're waiting. Taking the down time of waiting and turn it into functional time and you might actually increase the ability to see more patients because you aren't asking the routine stuff. That's already been answered before you even see the patient and you have a basic outline for further exploration staring at you right off the bat.