There was a UK national living in Australia who was extradited a few years back to the US for piracy. There was a lot of belief at the time that this had something to do with the "free trade" agreement between AU & US.
I actually kinda liked it. Unfortunately, as an idea it was probably 5-7 years too soon, and is easily & freely replicated by using UTC/local time for coordinating.
At what point will it become obvious to people like you that the rest of us are perfectly capable of looking up acronyms and unrecognised terms on the net by ourselves?
I find this constant bitching in almost every thread about unknown information by regular internet users to be one of the most incomprehensible aspects of slashdot. If a quick skim of any major search engine's first page of results cross-related against the context from the article summary doesn't leave you feeling enlightened then I can understand asking for more information. Otherwise, please do the search, then STFU and sit there, warm in the glow that you know something the rest of us don't.
My partner & I between us own a fair amount of Behringer equipment, primarily mixers, monitors and midi devices. In the 7-8 years of using them I've yet to have any fail.
One incident of failure is hardly reason to publicly vilify a company, but then again, this _is_/.
Young music marketers don't even think beyond 5 minutes of music.
I once asked on the Apple forums if the then 3rd-gen iPod would ever support gapless playback. I listen to a lot of mixes & concept albums and having a single 2 hour mp3 burned through the batteries, the official recommendation at that time was to have no track larger than ~9MB. After much flaming from the peanut gallery, I was eventually told by one of the engineers that there was clearly something wrong with my attention span if I couldn't handle a small silence between tracks. It was pretty clear from the comments that the majority were listening to pop and/or rock, so the idea of music going for more than 5-6 mins just didn't seem to have been considered.
Needless to say, it was the last Apple device I ever bought.
Or maybe my point was addressing the claim that Apple's tablet isn't in the same potential market as Fujitsu's product. Perhaps this is your first time actually trying to comprehend someone's position?
PS: please shove your condescending rhetoric into whichever orifice it will actually fit. Does being a smug smarmy cunt give you a warm tingly glow?
Or, in other words, MagTek have Fujitsu banged to rights for infringing their trademark, whereas Apple have a strong argument that they're not operating in the same market.
Claiming protection from potential infringement while failing to do due diligence in assessing the availability of a trademark before using it? Either Apple's totally taking the piss or the company has a delusional sense of entitlement.
Ah yes, the standard tired "why Python sucks" tropes, as usual coming from someone who has made no attempt to improve the situation and barely understand the issues but feels they have the right to condemn those who are actually doing the work.
If you want C speed, use C. If you want C speed in Python, profile the bottlenecks and write them in C, the easy bridging of the two is one of Python's great strengths. Hell, Cython allows you to code pretty much pure python with type declaratives, which will run both as Python _and compile to C_.
There are more than enough solutions to the speed issues in Python. Unfortunately for you, they _do_ require you to do something other than whine about it.
The Chinese don't regard plagiarism the same way we do - in fact, the educational system encourages it in a way as it is an honor, of sorts, to 'plagiarize' your mentor. Additionally, a lot of these students don't have confidence in their english, so whey they write they occassionally take an idea from another article and copy it verbatim thinking "that's exactly what I was thinking, and I don't have to worry about incorrect english" - in most cases, there is not an intention of deceit.
Wow, it almost sounds like they think that human knowledge is built on top of past endeavours rather than pumped out fully formed by the self-contained genius of a handful of people.
Marvel has been going downhill for a long time. So much so that I consider this deal to be part of a natural progression. Between poor writing and poor management, I haven't seen anything good from Marvel Comics since the late 90s, or maybe early 00s.
See, I have the exact opposite opinion. I'm really enjoying Marvel's annual events in a way I never expected to. The stories feel a lot more organic than they used to, the changes are more pervasive and - apart from JMS's spectacularly godawful retcon of Spider-man's public identity - seem to be a lot more long lasting. They feel far more relevant than they used to as well.
Whereas for me, '90s Marvel comics are characterised by people wearing ludicruous displays of brightly coloured Leifeld-armour which somehow conform perfectly to their oak-tree sized thighs that are essential to keep them from being overbalanced by the mile long barrels on their unintelligible superweapons, running around and spouting poorly derivative (of what wasn't all that good originally) Claremont-babble in a manner we were supposed to find engaging.
(Actually, if you're after some of that, I highly recommend reading through Jeph Loeb & Aron Coleite's work on the tail end of the Ultimatum line, because that's pretty much the direction they went in. Talk about missing the fucking point...)
So it's misleading to say anything "evolved for a reason" because evolution isn't an intelligent process -- it doesn't do things because of reasons.
One of the definitions of 'reason' is 'cause'. It doesn't have to denote intelligence.
I think it's pretty fair to say that the cheetah-gazelle predator-prey relation caused evolutionary changes in both. So to say the "reason" gazelles are so fast is because cheetah's prey on them isn't a semantic or logical stretch.
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There was a UK national living in Australia who was extradited a few years back to the US for piracy. There was a lot of belief at the time that this had something to do with the "free trade" agreement between AU & US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hew_Raymond_Griffiths
I actually kinda liked it. Unfortunately, as an idea it was probably 5-7 years too soon, and is easily & freely replicated by using UTC/local time for coordinating.
At what point will it become obvious to people like you that the rest of us are perfectly capable of looking up acronyms and unrecognised terms on the net by ourselves?
I find this constant bitching in almost every thread about unknown information by regular internet users to be one of the most incomprehensible aspects of slashdot. If a quick skim of any major search engine's first page of results cross-related against the context from the article summary doesn't leave you feeling enlightened then I can understand asking for more information. Otherwise, please do the search, then STFU and sit there, warm in the glow that you know something the rest of us don't.
Really? These days it seems more home to astroturfing IP-loving douchebags like yourself.
The funniest comments (to me) are where Apple is compared to being the "new Microsoft".
You mean like where Apple-released software has access to APIs and features that no other iPhone/iPad developers have, in a manner eerily reminiscent of Microsoft's undocumented APIs?
Yeah, they're clearly nothing alike.
I can see now a lot of people claiming to be supertaskers.
I predict a future study that links it to Asperger's.
Self-diagnose away!
And the plural of anecdote...
My partner & I between us own a fair amount of Behringer equipment, primarily mixers, monitors and midi devices. In the 7-8 years of using them I've yet to have any fail.
One incident of failure is hardly reason to publicly vilify a company, but then again, this _is_ /.
Young music marketers don't even think beyond 5 minutes of music.
I once asked on the Apple forums if the then 3rd-gen iPod would ever support gapless playback. I listen to a lot of mixes & concept albums and having a single 2 hour mp3 burned through the batteries, the official recommendation at that time was to have no track larger than ~9MB. After much flaming from the peanut gallery, I was eventually told by one of the engineers that there was clearly something wrong with my attention span if I couldn't handle a small silence between tracks. It was pretty clear from the comments that the majority were listening to pop and/or rock, so the idea of music going for more than 5-6 mins just didn't seem to have been considered.
Needless to say, it was the last Apple device I ever bought.
Or maybe my point was addressing the claim that Apple's tablet isn't in the same potential market as Fujitsu's product. Perhaps this is your first time actually trying to comprehend someone's position?
PS: please shove your condescending rhetoric into whichever orifice it will actually fit. Does being a smug smarmy cunt give you a warm tingly glow?
It's a tough question as to where to draw the line.
Not really. Did the manufacture of the pornography involve actual underage children? If not, it's not child pornography.
Or, in other words, MagTek have Fujitsu banged to rights for infringing their trademark, whereas Apple have a strong argument that they're not operating in the same market.
That certainly didn't stop Apple going after Woolworth's in Australia for trademark infringement, despite the latter being a supermarket chain. Although Woolworth's doesn't sell computers, Apple claimed that they someday might.
Claiming protection from potential infringement while failing to do due diligence in assessing the availability of a trademark before using it? Either Apple's totally taking the piss or the company has a delusional sense of entitlement.
I like Apple's Front Row but could go for something a little more powerful. Any suggestions?
I'm a big fan of XBMC, which started out on the original Xbox but is now available for the major platforms.
"Thank you, Ted, that was the joke."
The pythonic solution would be to swap the if/elif for a dictionary dispatcher... ;)
Ah yes, the standard tired "why Python sucks" tropes, as usual coming from someone who has made no attempt to improve the situation and barely understand the issues but feels they have the right to condemn those who are actually doing the work.
If you want C speed, use C. If you want C speed in Python, profile the bottlenecks and write them in C, the easy bridging of the two is one of Python's great strengths. Hell, Cython allows you to code pretty much pure python with type declaratives, which will run both as Python _and compile to C_.
There are more than enough solutions to the speed issues in Python. Unfortunately for you, they _do_ require you to do something other than whine about it.
The sole has no eyes.
The Chinese don't regard plagiarism the same way we do - in fact, the educational system encourages it in a way as it is an honor, of sorts, to 'plagiarize' your mentor. Additionally, a lot of these students don't have confidence in their english, so whey they write they occassionally take an idea from another article and copy it verbatim thinking "that's exactly what I was thinking, and I don't have to worry about incorrect english" - in most cases, there is not an intention of deceit.
Wow, it almost sounds like they think that human knowledge is built on top of past endeavours rather than pumped out fully formed by the self-contained genius of a handful of people.
Haven't they heard of intellectual property?
Marvel has been going downhill for a long time. So much so that I consider this deal to be part of a natural progression. Between poor writing and poor management, I haven't seen anything good from Marvel Comics since the late 90s, or maybe early 00s.
See, I have the exact opposite opinion. I'm really enjoying Marvel's annual events in a way I never expected to. The stories feel a lot more organic than they used to, the changes are more pervasive and - apart from JMS's spectacularly godawful retcon of Spider-man's public identity - seem to be a lot more long lasting. They feel far more relevant than they used to as well.
Whereas for me, '90s Marvel comics are characterised by people wearing ludicruous displays of brightly coloured Leifeld-armour which somehow conform perfectly to their oak-tree sized thighs that are essential to keep them from being overbalanced by the mile long barrels on their unintelligible superweapons, running around and spouting poorly derivative (of what wasn't all that good originally) Claremont-babble in a manner we were supposed to find engaging.
(Actually, if you're after some of that, I highly recommend reading through Jeph Loeb & Aron Coleite's work on the tail end of the Ultimatum line, because that's pretty much the direction they went in. Talk about missing the fucking point...)
Dude, seriously, do NOT give them any ideas for more Kingdoms Hearts sequels...
I really thought we had moved beyond this class warfare nonsense a long time ago.
And I thought everyone had realised by now that Rand was full of shit, but clearly not.
I know I won't be disabling this extension. It's a no-effort, free-as-in-beer way of supporting my favourite OS.
You don't think Canonical should have asked for your permission first?
But how does science focus on the man? How about "STOP FUCKING PEOPLE WHO AREN'T YOUR WIFE/GIRLFRIED/SIGNIFIGANT OTHER!"
The 1440 BCs called, they want their moral superiority back.
So it's misleading to say anything "evolved for a reason" because evolution isn't an intelligent process -- it doesn't do things because of reasons.
One of the definitions of 'reason' is 'cause'. It doesn't have to denote intelligence.
I think it's pretty fair to say that the cheetah-gazelle predator-prey relation caused evolutionary changes in both. So to say the "reason" gazelles are so fast is because cheetah's prey on them isn't a semantic or logical stretch.
Isn't language fun?
We still have a lot of our DNA not yet "activated"[...] This also means we're still babies in terms of our evolution.
Fire up Windows.
Now fire up every single application you have installed.
While you're at it, download and load every single Windows application ever.
Getting a lot done?
Maybe activating the "full potential" of Windows isn't all that useful.
So they uncommented the gene in 'DNA.xml', and modified its XSL 'DNA2Cell.xsl' so that it would parse again?
How cool is that?
Unfortunately, MS just patented that very application of xml last week.