I was always under the impression that copyright happens at the time of content creation. Therefore, the song would have been "legally copyrighted" when the lyrics were conceived.
Apparently the American pilot was on some sort of amphetamine when he bombed Canadian soldiers participating in training exercises in Afghanistan. He ended up killing 4 of them. But he could have sworn they were shooting at him, despite the fact he was told there would be Canadian soldiers in the area doing training exercises. Makes me think about how many friendly-fire or civilian-casualty incidents are caused by soldiers that have been forced to take these drugs.
Fedora/RH compiles their distributions so that they only use i386 instructions. However, if I'm not mistaken the binaries are optimized for i686 class CPUs. In other words, the instructions are scheduled optimally for an i686 class CPU, but they only use i386 instructions.
In fact, in some performance critical components, the binaries are both scheduled for i686 and use i686 instructions. One example of such a binary is glibc.
How have our driving and usage habits changed in the past 2-3 decades though? Speaking as a North American, I think I can safely generalize that mileage per capita is higher in the past 2-3 decades. It's getting ridiculous - in suburbia people don't even walk to the park anymore. Moreover, car maintenance knowledge per capita is lower than the past 2-3 decades. Lots of people don't do basic maintenance like oil changes because they simply don't know you have to, nor were they willing to read the car manual's recommended maintenance schedule. If everyone took care of their cars and drove them less, perhaps they'd still be able to last more than 8-12 years. I'd be interested in knowing if my speculation plays out empirically.
I'd like to reply even though I'm not teamhasnoi. My experience is similar to his though. My first home computer was an Apple IIc we bought in the early 1980s. Since then, I'd been using all PCs (386,486,Pentium II,III, and IV). This past April, I was in need of a laptop and found that Apple's were quite cost competitive with the PC competition. So I bought a lowly iBook 700. The lowest rung of the Apple line. I upgraded it with Airport and an extra 512 MB of RAM (so it has 640 MB). And I haven't looked back.
My Pentium IV that was running, coincidentally, RH9 and KDE, is now a linux server as opposed to desktop. I don't plan on purchasing another PC in the immediate future. I am planning on purchasing a PowerMac. But in the meantime, my iBook is my primary machine.
The experience is hard to describe. I know this is corny, but it's like finding your dream girl - a gorgeous female that also is intelligent and can put up with all your geeky quirks. I find myself fighting less to get things working, and instead simply working. Mac OS X has definitely changed my perspective on computing. Though it has its own minor problems, the bar has been set so high by OS X in my eye that I now frown on software environments that I once used on a daily basis just one year ago. What I once saw as quirks to put up with, I now see as fundamental problems I do not want to have to think about.
I can't pinpoint what it is about Mac OS X that I just love - perhaps they are too numerous, or too subtle to objectify. What I can say is that those I know who have jumped ship to Mac OS X (many from Linux, a few from Windows) have not turned back. If you get a chance, try out a new Apple with Panther installed and give it a go.
Go check Software Update. There is a Battery Update for laptops that supposedly increases their effective performance. You might find you'll get similar performance to the old Ti models.
I've tried 3 times to read Cryptonimicon and each time I get bored of the story. There is an irony in his seeming love for using Haiku in the story because I find nothing elegantly simple in the way he writes. I find that the story is far too verbose and would benefit greatly from a lengthy and discriminating editor.
I would hope that I'm the type of man that would find my reward in the lives of the people I saved, rather than the wealth that I accumulated watching the less fortunate ones die. Here's hoping that the patent isn't exploited in an overly greedy manner so as to make accessible any treatment that results from it, to as many people as possible.
I owned and used a Palm for quite some time starting in 2000. The problem with the Palm is that it was most convenient as an output device (i.e. e-book reader) when I was on the run. Any situation that necessitated me having to input some information required me to stop and find a place where I wouldn't be crushed by a crowd of people, or to wait for the bus/subway/streetcar I was in to come to a stop so the damn handwriting recognition wouldn't get screwed by my chaotic input. As a result, most of the time I found myself using the PDA for input whilst sitting down at a table, where a laptop would have been much more convenient and offered more functionality. The iPod is an output-only device because that's what the vast majority of people on the run are going to use it for. PDAs - for me and countless others I have spoken to - proved to be more of a hassle to use than anything else. The only people I find still buying PDAs do so for the "oooh it's a new toy" factor.
No, you'll send the video to her over the Internet. For small videos you can already slap the sucker on a.Mac page or homepage and have her download it.
Here in the cafes in Toronto where I use my iBook, WEP isn't enabled on the pay-as-you-go wireless Internet services. But that doesn't mean I'm vulnerable. I setup my Linux box at home to act as a VPN gateway and the first thing I do after connecting to the hotspot is connect to my VPN and do my Internet surfing indirectly from home.
I lost many of my preferences as well when File Vault was enabled. Since I've disable it, I've lost none. Whenever I mention this bug some Apple apologist chimes in and claims there is no bug.
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I was always under the impression that copyright happens at the time of content creation. Therefore, the song would have been "legally copyrighted" when the lyrics were conceived.
Apparently the American pilot was on some sort of amphetamine when he bombed Canadian soldiers participating in training exercises in Afghanistan. He ended up killing 4 of them. But he could have sworn they were shooting at him, despite the fact he was told there would be Canadian soldiers in the area doing training exercises. Makes me think about how many friendly-fire or civilian-casualty incidents are caused by soldiers that have been forced to take these drugs.
Fedora/RH compiles their distributions so that they only use i386 instructions. However, if I'm not mistaken the binaries are optimized for i686 class CPUs. In other words, the instructions are scheduled optimally for an i686 class CPU, but they only use i386 instructions. In fact, in some performance critical components, the binaries are both scheduled for i686 and use i686 instructions. One example of such a binary is glibc.
How have our driving and usage habits changed in the past 2-3 decades though? Speaking as a North American, I think I can safely generalize that mileage per capita is higher in the past 2-3 decades. It's getting ridiculous - in suburbia people don't even walk to the park anymore. Moreover, car maintenance knowledge per capita is lower than the past 2-3 decades. Lots of people don't do basic maintenance like oil changes because they simply don't know you have to, nor were they willing to read the car manual's recommended maintenance schedule. If everyone took care of their cars and drove them less, perhaps they'd still be able to last more than 8-12 years. I'd be interested in knowing if my speculation plays out empirically.
I'd like to reply even though I'm not teamhasnoi. My experience is similar to his though. My first home computer was an Apple IIc we bought in the early 1980s. Since then, I'd been using all PCs (386,486,Pentium II,III, and IV). This past April, I was in need of a laptop and found that Apple's were quite cost competitive with the PC competition. So I bought a lowly iBook 700. The lowest rung of the Apple line. I upgraded it with Airport and an extra 512 MB of RAM (so it has 640 MB). And I haven't looked back.
My Pentium IV that was running, coincidentally, RH9 and KDE, is now a linux server as opposed to desktop. I don't plan on purchasing another PC in the immediate future. I am planning on purchasing a PowerMac. But in the meantime, my iBook is my primary machine.
The experience is hard to describe. I know this is corny, but it's like finding your dream girl - a gorgeous female that also is intelligent and can put up with all your geeky quirks. I find myself fighting less to get things working, and instead simply working. Mac OS X has definitely changed my perspective on computing. Though it has its own minor problems, the bar has been set so high by OS X in my eye that I now frown on software environments that I once used on a daily basis just one year ago. What I once saw as quirks to put up with, I now see as fundamental problems I do not want to have to think about.
I can't pinpoint what it is about Mac OS X that I just love - perhaps they are too numerous, or too subtle to objectify. What I can say is that those I know who have jumped ship to Mac OS X (many from Linux, a few from Windows) have not turned back. If you get a chance, try out a new Apple with Panther installed and give it a go.
Go check Software Update. There is a Battery Update for laptops that supposedly increases their effective performance. You might find you'll get similar performance to the old Ti models.
I've tried 3 times to read Cryptonimicon and each time I get bored of the story. There is an irony in his seeming love for using Haiku in the story because I find nothing elegantly simple in the way he writes. I find that the story is far too verbose and would benefit greatly from a lengthy and discriminating editor.
I would hope that I'm the type of man that would find my reward in the lives of the people I saved, rather than the wealth that I accumulated watching the less fortunate ones die. Here's hoping that the patent isn't exploited in an overly greedy manner so as to make accessible any treatment that results from it, to as many people as possible.
I owned and used a Palm for quite some time starting in 2000. The problem with the Palm is that it was most convenient as an output device (i.e. e-book reader) when I was on the run. Any situation that necessitated me having to input some information required me to stop and find a place where I wouldn't be crushed by a crowd of people, or to wait for the bus/subway/streetcar I was in to come to a stop so the damn handwriting recognition wouldn't get screwed by my chaotic input. As a result, most of the time I found myself using the PDA for input whilst sitting down at a table, where a laptop would have been much more convenient and offered more functionality. The iPod is an output-only device because that's what the vast majority of people on the run are going to use it for. PDAs - for me and countless others I have spoken to - proved to be more of a hassle to use than anything else. The only people I find still buying PDAs do so for the "oooh it's a new toy" factor.
No, you'll send the video to her over the Internet. For small videos you can already slap the sucker on a .Mac page or homepage and have her download it.
Here in the cafes in Toronto where I use my iBook, WEP isn't enabled on the pay-as-you-go wireless Internet services. But that doesn't mean I'm vulnerable. I setup my Linux box at home to act as a VPN gateway and the first thing I do after connecting to the hotspot is connect to my VPN and do my Internet surfing indirectly from home.
I lost many of my preferences as well when File Vault was enabled. Since I've disable it, I've lost none. Whenever I mention this bug some Apple apologist chimes in and claims there is no bug.
.Mac allows me to backup much of my data and utilize that data on other computers. I wonder if these people will go after Apple.