last time I checked, WoW wasn't Refused Classification.
In any case, the filter is never happening, so it can block anything it wants, because it won't affect any of us. The more things someone claims it will block, the less chance of the Greens voting for it, and the more chance of Labor MPs crossing the floor.
The Viewty isn't an iPhone competitor - it's a touch screen phone, but it has different goals. I have one myself, and before I got it, I thought I wanted an iPhone.
Then I discovered that most of what I like about my Viewty isn't possible on the iPhone. And sure, the interface has its quirkes, and the person who thought that querty keyboard should only be used for SMS and TextAreas should be shot, but I still wouldn't swap it for an iPhone, ever.
The funniest thing is that the only OS screen shot they show in the article is in the Bluetooth section - and it's Ubuntu. Not Windows, not Mac, Ubuntu. That's how much of a failure Ubuntu is.
The single biggest rule I use is. "Which language am I speaking?".
If the answer is English, then who cares from which language the word originated, and how that language may or may not have pluralised it? In English, we append '-s' or '-es', so if in doubt, do that. Doing so may not be correct all the time, but at least when it's wrong it looks like a simple mistake, rather than pretentious hyper-correction.
Sadly there's a lot of that sort of thing in current generation games. In particular, trying to find true local co-op console games is extremely difficult. They either don't exist (taking the network multiplayer cop-out route), or they're this stupid "drop in and help out" sort of multiplayer.
I've come to the conclusion that the 360 and the PS3 have been designed for people without families, that never meet other people in person.
There's a picture of the world trade center towers on the cover, along with a couple of other disaster picures, and there's _one_ very small picture of them on _one_ page as an example of a disaster you may hear about on the news.
READ the bloody thing before you comment on its contents.
It's a retirement plan. Every employer is required by law to invest 9% of an employee's pay into a superannuation fund. Employees can also supplement the employer contributions with additional payments - both pre and post tax.
The super funds then invest the money - with the member usually having control over the way in which the fund does the investing. Recently it has also become easy for people to chose which super fund their money is invested in, rather than being restricted to whichever fund their employer has a relationship with.
Generally you can't draw from your super fund until you reach retirement age - so it's strictly for retirement purposes.
Because of the automatic, mandatory employer contributions a lot of people don't pay any attention to their super funds at all, and so they won't have noticed the fact that they've just lost 20% of their net worth in the last year.
Those that do pay attention, will have either taken steps to ensure their money is invested in a way less likely to lose money, or have taken the calculated risk to leave things as they are.
The people it really hurts are those close to retirement age, who don't have much time in which to make up the losses - though really, those people should have already changed their preferences to the safer options by now anyway.
If you were to say, "ok so how bad are times for you?" Most would say, "oh not so bad, but its really bad for some other folks."
That's what really bothers me right now - particularly in Australia. Most people are better off now than they've ever been. Mortgage rates are at their lowest rates in 40 years, tax rates have been going down steadily, the government is handing out money all over the place. The only bad thing the average Australia will have noticed will be their Super has dropped significantly - and most people don't pay any attention to that anyway, and those that do will be on top of the situation.
The only people suffering are those who have lost jobs (which at the current point in time, in Australia, is not many), and those whose wealth mainly consisted of shares. For the average working and middle class families, there IS no economic crisis.
This has nothing to do with the development of OS X, and I don't dispute any of your claims.
My only point is that if Apple users can claim newer versions of their OS are faster basted on a subjective feel of speed ("Snappiness") rather than concrete empirical measurements, then so can Linux (and even Windows) users. I'm making no particular judgement on the actual speed of either OS - nor even on the validity of subjective measurements of performance (which in the case desktop UIs, are actually pretty important).
But over and above all that, it was mostly a flippant, tongue-in-cheek comment not really intended to be taken with the degree of seriousness that some seem to have taken it.
A screen and a keyboard are pretty essential at some point in most servers' lives. I don't see a mouse being a particularly heavy burden.
A KVM in the rack suits the keyboard, screen and mouse requirements, and is pretty standard equipment - it may even be a KVM with remote access, so you can use the foot warmer under your own desk.
no. If you commit to supporting a platform, then you commit to having a working product on that platform. Therefore you test on that platform and you fix compatibility issues with that platform. That can often lead to all sorts of awful workarounds, compatibility layers, and other stuff that can lead to bloat. Obviously there's not likely to much of that when it comes to supporting XPSP2 vs XPSP3, but it's still true that adding support for more platforms increases time and "bloat" (even if the bloat is only in your build system).
Next time they outlay the hundreds of thousands of dollars it costs to do an Australian tour, I'll be sure to do that. In the mean time, I'll buy their albums.
That's the common urban legend explanation, but I doubt it has anything to do with it. As far as I can see, ther's no common way people will answer that question - and it's more likely to vary by the the specific date than anything else.
There's no reason at all for MM/DD/YYYY. That doesn't mean it's inherently wrong, just that there's no reason. People do lots of things just because that's how they've always done them. It doesn't have to make sense.
And whilst DD/MM/YYYY may appear to make more sense, (And being a Kiwi, it's what I use), I'd not be willing to bet on its adoption being for any more reason than the USA's use of MM/DD/YYYY. It just is because it is.
People spend way too much time trying to rationalise or invent reasons for these sorts of things.
(And for the record, I'd say today's date - even at the time of your post, was the First of April).
No, the Queen of Australia is Australia's monarch. It just happens that the Queen of Australia is also, but independently, the Queen of the United Kingdom.
That aside, the monarch has no law making powers at all, it's entirely in the hands of parliament.
But they have not been able to record it with comparable quality. You needed access to a recording studio.
That hasn't been true for more than ten years - and that's just on the DAW side of things. You just have to know what you're doing.
It's even less true these days considering that whatever quality advantage studios have is obliterated by dynamic compression and limiting before it gets released.
Also if Youtube is considered to be a competitive distribution method, then you certainly don't need the highest possible production standards to compete.
Distribution has never been a problem - it's always been easy to distribute your own content online. Publicity and acceptance of the distribution method was a problem initially, but it's been a long time since that was an issue.
There is exactly nothing new in this article from the point of view of the state of the art of music production and distribution. It's like the author of the article just wanted to post a "hey look at this" article, but felt like he needed to justify it by making up a bunch of crap about the future of entertainment to go with it.
However, that doesn't change the fact that the mashup itself is still pretty impressive for its own sake:)
But amatures have always been able to produce music of similar or better quality than "professionals".
There's nothing _hard_ about writing and performing music, assuming you're a musician. (Which is exactly as difficult as everything else in life - if requires the desire to do it, and the discipline to practice) The hard part is making it worthwhile if you ever want to do it more than just in your out-of-work hours.
Mashups don't solve that problem - they solve the problem that doesn't exist: generating content.
That doesn't mean they're not interesting, just that they're not the future of entertainment.
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I'm sure Google would want to use 64b linux
Why on earth would you think that?
It's for netbooks - so that means Atom (32 bit x86) or ARM.
paying them a cut, actually.
last time I checked, WoW wasn't Refused Classification.
In any case, the filter is never happening, so it can block anything it wants, because it won't affect any of us. The more things someone claims it will block, the less chance of the Greens voting for it, and the more chance of Labor MPs crossing the floor.
And what 'depression' are you talking about?
From the post you're replying to:
...current depressed state of new car sales in America
That's the depression he's referring to. It's a perfectly valid use of the word to refer to his earlier statement.
The Viewty isn't an iPhone competitor - it's a touch screen phone, but it has different goals.
I have one myself, and before I got it, I thought I wanted an iPhone.
Then I discovered that most of what I like about my Viewty isn't possible on the iPhone. And sure, the interface has its quirkes, and the person who thought that querty keyboard should only be used for SMS and TextAreas should be shot, but I still wouldn't swap it for an iPhone, ever.
Did you seriously just suggest Plone as a simpler alternative to a single HTML page?
The funniest thing is that the only OS screen shot they show in the article is in the Bluetooth section - and it's Ubuntu. Not Windows, not Mac, Ubuntu.
That's how much of a failure Ubuntu is.
that's not traditionally, that's lately.
Would you really consider an Apple II to be a fashion accessory?
The single biggest rule I use is. "Which language am I speaking?".
If the answer is English, then who cares from which language the word originated, and how that language may or may not have pluralised it?
In English, we append '-s' or '-es', so if in doubt, do that.
Doing so may not be correct all the time, but at least when it's wrong it looks like a simple mistake, rather than pretentious hyper-correction.
Sadly there's a lot of that sort of thing in current generation games.
In particular, trying to find true local co-op console games is extremely difficult. They either don't exist (taking the network multiplayer cop-out route), or they're this stupid "drop in and help out" sort of multiplayer.
I've come to the conclusion that the 360 and the PS3 have been designed for people without families, that never meet other people in person.
The book has nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11
There's a picture of the world trade center towers on the cover, along with a couple of other disaster picures, and there's _one_ very small picture of them on _one_ page as an example of a disaster you may hear about on the news.
READ the bloody thing before you comment on its contents.
It's a retirement plan.
Every employer is required by law to invest 9% of an employee's pay into a superannuation fund. Employees can also supplement the employer contributions with additional payments - both pre and post tax.
The super funds then invest the money - with the member usually having control over the way in which the fund does the investing. Recently it has also become easy for people to chose which super fund their money is invested in, rather than being restricted to whichever fund their employer has a relationship with.
Generally you can't draw from your super fund until you reach retirement age - so it's strictly for retirement purposes.
Because of the automatic, mandatory employer contributions a lot of people don't pay any attention to their super funds at all, and so they won't have noticed the fact that they've just lost 20% of their net worth in the last year.
Those that do pay attention, will have either taken steps to ensure their money is invested in a way less likely to lose money, or have taken the calculated risk to leave things as they are.
The people it really hurts are those close to retirement age, who don't have much time in which to make up the losses - though really, those people should have already changed their preferences to the safer options by now anyway.
If you were to say, "ok so how bad are times for you?" Most would say, "oh not so bad, but its really bad for some other folks."
That's what really bothers me right now - particularly in Australia. Most people are better off now than they've ever been. Mortgage rates are at their lowest rates in 40 years, tax rates have been going down steadily, the government is handing out money all over the place. The only bad thing the average Australia will have noticed will be their Super has dropped significantly - and most people don't pay any attention to that anyway, and those that do will be on top of the situation.
The only people suffering are those who have lost jobs (which at the current point in time, in Australia, is not many), and those whose wealth mainly consisted of shares.
For the average working and middle class families, there IS no economic crisis.
This has nothing to do with the development of OS X, and I don't dispute any of your claims.
My only point is that if Apple users can claim newer versions of their OS are faster basted on a subjective feel of speed ("Snappiness") rather than concrete empirical measurements, then so can Linux (and even Windows) users.
I'm making no particular judgement on the actual speed of either OS - nor even on the validity of subjective measurements of performance (which in the case desktop UIs, are actually pretty important).
But over and above all that, it was mostly a flippant, tongue-in-cheek comment not really intended to be taken with the degree of seriousness that some seem to have taken it.
why? It's worked for Apple users for years....
A screen and a keyboard are pretty essential at some point in most servers' lives. I don't see a mouse being a particularly heavy burden.
A KVM in the rack suits the keyboard, screen and mouse requirements, and is pretty standard equipment - it may even be a KVM with remote access, so you can use the foot warmer under your own desk.
no.
If you commit to supporting a platform, then you commit to having a working product on that platform.
Therefore you test on that platform and you fix compatibility issues with that platform.
That can often lead to all sorts of awful workarounds, compatibility layers, and other stuff that can lead to bloat.
Obviously there's not likely to much of that when it comes to supporting XPSP2 vs XPSP3, but it's still true that adding support for more platforms increases time and "bloat" (even if the bloat is only in your build system).
So?
It may not be necessary, but there are many times when it's convenient.
Next time they outlay the hundreds of thousands of dollars it costs to do an Australian tour, I'll be sure to do that.
In the mean time, I'll buy their albums.
Do you really believe any label with an iota of intelligence would pull all of their work from a distribution network like iTunes?
No, but how many labels actually do have an iota of intelligence?
If $43 billion is what it takes to take the wholesale internet infrastructure out of Telstra's hands, then I'll find some way to pay it myself.
That's what's significant about this - the 100Mb is just a side-effect.
This will render Telstra's stranglehold over coper wire completely irrelevant.
That's the common urban legend explanation, but I doubt it has anything to do with it. As far as I can see, ther's no common way people will answer that question - and it's more likely to vary by the the specific date than anything else.
There's no reason at all for MM/DD/YYYY. That doesn't mean it's inherently wrong, just that there's no reason. People do lots of things just because that's how they've always done them. It doesn't have to make sense.
And whilst DD/MM/YYYY may appear to make more sense, (And being a Kiwi, it's what I use), I'd not be willing to bet on its adoption being for any more reason than the USA's use of MM/DD/YYYY. It just is because it is.
People spend way too much time trying to rationalise or invent reasons for these sorts of things.
(And for the record, I'd say today's date - even at the time of your post, was the First of April).
No, the Queen of Australia is Australia's monarch.
It just happens that the Queen of Australia is also, but independently, the Queen of the United Kingdom.
That aside, the monarch has no law making powers at all, it's entirely in the hands of parliament.
But they have not been able to record it with comparable quality. You needed access to a recording studio.
That hasn't been true for more than ten years - and that's just on the DAW side of things. You just have to know what you're doing.
It's even less true these days considering that whatever quality advantage studios have is obliterated by dynamic compression and limiting before it gets released.
Also if Youtube is considered to be a competitive distribution method, then you certainly don't need the highest possible production standards to compete.
Distribution has never been a problem - it's always been easy to distribute your own content online. Publicity and acceptance of the distribution method was a problem initially, but it's been a long time since that was an issue.
There is exactly nothing new in this article from the point of view of the state of the art of music production and distribution. It's like the author of the article just wanted to post a "hey look at this" article, but felt like he needed to justify it by making up a bunch of crap about the future of entertainment to go with it.
However, that doesn't change the fact that the mashup itself is still pretty impressive for its own sake :)
But amatures have always been able to produce music of similar or better quality than "professionals".
There's nothing _hard_ about writing and performing music, assuming you're a musician. (Which is exactly as difficult as everything else in life - if requires the desire to do it, and the discipline to practice)
The hard part is making it worthwhile if you ever want to do it more than just in your out-of-work hours.
Mashups don't solve that problem - they solve the problem that doesn't exist: generating content.
That doesn't mean they're not interesting, just that they're not the future of entertainment.