We've got better than oil, we've got uranium...lots of it. That's practically the same as having already blown up America as far as invasion motives go.
You distinctly said that people are paid to work on something, therefore that is creative.
No he didn't, that's how you (poorly) interpreted his words. Just because you can put words in his mouth doesn't mean they're his words. What he actually said was:
Why would a schedule not be considered "creative"? There are people who are paid to do nothing but come up with schedules. There is no mathematical formula and although it may appear otherwise the programming choices are not just randomly picked.
He did state that people were paid to work on the schedules, but that was a separate statement which has no logical connection to the assertion that programmes are creative.
The part that asserts that programmes are creative is the part that says that there is no mathematical formula, and that they are not just randomly picked.
So, if an ordering is neither determined by mathematical or other algorithm, and is not random, then therefore there has been a conscious choice made by the programmer.
Arranging a collection of programmes of various genres and durations in an order that is appealing to the viewers could well be compared to arranging a series of tones of varying frequency and duration in an order that is appealing to the listener.
Whether or not they would is irrelevant for this story.
However, if IBM really wanted a full Lotus client on the iPhone, I doubt they would just download the SDK and submit the app to Apple through the normal process. They'd be most likely to have someone at a high level talk to Jobs directly and partner on it.
That entirely depends on whether or not the Rolex buyers buy Rolex because the appreciate the style and quality of the watch, or if they buy it so they can conspicuously look at the time in from of people that don't have a Rolex.
Buying something expensive doesn't make you pretentious, being pretentious makes you pretentious.
Actually, they do. But what frequently happens is that someone hasn't gone through the page-size dance (it's painful just how many places you have to set that to make it work properly all the time) and as a result the printer has been asked to print a US Letter sized page when it's only got A4 in it. So PC LOAD LETTER and variants (our 4SIs would say UC LOAD LETTER and LC LOAD LETTER - upper and lower cartridge) are what we see the most frequently, but we'd still get UC LOAD A4 when it was genuinely out of paper.
The only thing they've really changed is to simultaneously improve and destroy the start menu.
Improve by adding a search function - destroy by creating that horrible scrolling monstrosity in which its possible to get utterly lost in a maze of scrolly, embedded menus until you give up and just search.
If they wanted search to be the main way to start programs, they should have just removed the "all programs" link entirely. Cascading menus are MUCH easier to navigate and find things in than scrolling ones - even (or especially) if they cover the whole screen.
Seriously - why do you need sudo 50 times a day? If you do, then you're not exactly a beginner user - just go ahead and sudo -i and carry on as root if you know what you're doing enough to need root that often.
The problem with UAC isn't that it comes up when you change a setting - it's that it comes up at seemingly bizarre times, there's no grace period in which it remembers your authorisation, and it's often the final straw in a stream of (non UAC) "are you sure?" dialogues.
Like I said - you certainly could do some interesting stuff in surround. But ultimately, music is about music, and surround effects whilst they may add an extra dimension to things won't improve the music itself. The original poster's statement that it should be 5.1 to make it worthwhile was naive. Even achieving a good stereo mix is hard enough - surround is an order of magnitude harder again. You can't just flick a switch and get instant surround.
There's been plenty of bands and engineers who have experimented with surround mixes in the past, but I don't think it's ever really likely to catch on - at least not outside the traditionally experimental or technically minded genres. Ultimately, people don't buy music for a total immersion experience - they buy it to listen to while they do something else.
How often do you go to a concert where the orchestra or band is behind you?
Stereo is more than enough for reproduction of a concert experience.
An existing stereo recording will usually benefit far more from being played on a decent pair of crossover speaker cabinets (and not a subwoofer in sight) than from being converted to surround and then played on someone's horrible five satellite + subwoofer home theatre system.
That doesn't mean that interesting things can't be done with surround music, but the increased cost and effort of production won't usually be worth it.
It has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with GST.
Games here have always been around $100, starting from when that was a direct exchange rate conversion from US dollars. Now the US dollar is worth less than toilet paper, but the local price hasn't changed. GST has NOTHING to do with it.
And just for your information, your geography seems to be about 100 years out of date.
Are you telling me that's fine and legal, and no one will stop me?
No, he's telling you to read 17 USC 117.
You're the one that came up with the bogus interpretation. If you want clarification, read the full law yourself, and if that doesn't help, ask a lawyer versed in that aspect of law.
That may be, but it has nothing to do with the Core Location Blacklist. At least, nothing other than also preventing an application from having access to your location.
Stop and think about it for a second - how could a single static web page on Apple's servers contain a list of applications you have disabled? It's a global blacklist of applications. Presumably it's there in the event of applications that have lied about or disguised what they do with your location data, and Apple can add them to the list when they discover that. But clicking on a confirmation dialogue in your phone won't do it.
That is why you were accused of having your donkey speak for you.
An acronym is supposed do be pronounced as a word, otherwise it's not technically an acronym, it's just an ordinary initialism.
Though the sentiment of your statement was true enough, no one pronounces MR2 in English as "Mister 2", so why should they pronounce MR2 as merde in French?
As an employee of an essential mail provider (ie. billing outsourcer) in Australia, I can see that we're doing business in entirely the wrong country. We'd get four times as many impressions through per document if telcos were like that here;)
10 years ago I was using a 56K modem. On demand video was not only not a good idea, it wasn't even possible. (at least not in anything remotely resembling watchable quality)
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We've got better than oil, we've got uranium...lots of it.
That's practically the same as having already blown up America as far as invasion motives go.
Other than the fact that it now does, the svnmerge tool has worked pretty well for me for the last couple of years.
You distinctly said that people are paid to work on something, therefore that is creative.
No he didn't, that's how you (poorly) interpreted his words. Just because you can put words in his mouth doesn't mean they're his words.
What he actually said was:
Why would a schedule not be considered "creative"? There are people who are paid to do nothing but come up with schedules. There is no mathematical formula and although it may appear otherwise the programming choices are not just randomly picked.
He did state that people were paid to work on the schedules, but that was a separate statement which has no logical connection to the assertion that programmes are creative.
The part that asserts that programmes are creative is the part that says that there is no mathematical formula, and that they are not just randomly picked.
So, if an ordering is neither determined by mathematical or other algorithm, and is not random, then therefore there has been a conscious choice made by the programmer.
Arranging a collection of programmes of various genres and durations in an order that is appealing to the viewers could well be compared to arranging a series of tones of varying frequency and duration in an order that is appealing to the listener.
The opposition wanted to do this too, when they were in power.
Stupidity is not limited to either side of your false dichotomy.
Whether or not they would is irrelevant for this story.
However, if IBM really wanted a full Lotus client on the iPhone, I doubt they would just download the SDK and submit the app to Apple through the normal process. They'd be most likely to have someone at a high level talk to Jobs directly and partner on it.
Or maybe it's because it's not a product being sold in the iPhone App Store, it's just a web application they point Safari at.
That entirely depends on whether or not the Rolex buyers buy Rolex because the appreciate the style and quality of the watch, or if they buy it so they can conspicuously look at the time in from of people that don't have a Rolex.
Buying something expensive doesn't make you pretentious, being pretentious makes you pretentious.
Actually, they do.
But what frequently happens is that someone hasn't gone through the page-size dance (it's painful just how many places you have to set that to make it work properly all the time) and as a result the printer has been asked to print a US Letter sized page when it's only got A4 in it.
So PC LOAD LETTER and variants (our 4SIs would say UC LOAD LETTER and LC LOAD LETTER - upper and lower cartridge) are what we see the most frequently, but we'd still get UC LOAD A4 when it was genuinely out of paper.
The only thing they've really changed is to simultaneously improve and destroy the start menu.
Improve by adding a search function - destroy by creating that horrible scrolling monstrosity in which its possible to get utterly lost in a maze of scrolly, embedded menus until you give up and just search.
If they wanted search to be the main way to start programs, they should have just removed the "all programs" link entirely.
Cascading menus are MUCH easier to navigate and find things in than scrolling ones - even (or especially) if they cover the whole screen.
you're doing it wrong then.
Seriously - why do you need sudo 50 times a day?
If you do, then you're not exactly a beginner user - just go ahead and sudo -i and carry on as root if you know what you're doing enough to need root that often.
The problem with UAC isn't that it comes up when you change a setting - it's that it comes up at seemingly bizarre times, there's no grace period in which it remembers your authorisation, and it's often the final straw in a stream of (non UAC) "are you sure?" dialogues.
Like I said - you certainly could do some interesting stuff in surround. But ultimately, music is about music, and surround effects whilst they may add an extra dimension to things won't improve the music itself.
The original poster's statement that it should be 5.1 to make it worthwhile was naive. Even achieving a good stereo mix is hard enough - surround is an order of magnitude harder again. You can't just flick a switch and get instant surround.
There's been plenty of bands and engineers who have experimented with surround mixes in the past, but I don't think it's ever really likely to catch on - at least not outside the traditionally experimental or technically minded genres. Ultimately, people don't buy music for a total immersion experience - they buy it to listen to while they do something else.
How often do you go to a concert where the orchestra or band is behind you?
Stereo is more than enough for reproduction of a concert experience.
An existing stereo recording will usually benefit far more from being played on a decent pair of crossover speaker cabinets (and not a subwoofer in sight) than from being converted to surround and then played on someone's horrible five satellite + subwoofer home theatre system.
That doesn't mean that interesting things can't be done with surround music, but the increased cost and effort of production won't usually be worth it.
snappy
and that's how we can tell you really are a Mac user ;)
ahhh, you mean an Australian!
It has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with GST.
Games here have always been around $100, starting from when that was a direct exchange rate conversion from US dollars.
Now the US dollar is worth less than toilet paper, but the local price hasn't changed.
GST has NOTHING to do with it.
And just for your information, your geography seems to be about 100 years out of date.
It probably could, but you'd have to wait ten times longer than it took to solve the problem for it to download all the headers first.
Because reality is defined by the words with which we label it.
Are you telling me that's fine and legal, and no one will stop me?
No, he's telling you to read 17 USC 117.
You're the one that came up with the bogus interpretation.
If you want clarification, read the full law yourself, and if that doesn't help, ask a lawyer versed in that aspect of law.
That may be, but it has nothing to do with the Core Location Blacklist.
At least, nothing other than also preventing an application from having access to your location.
Stop and think about it for a second - how could a single static web page on Apple's servers contain a list of applications you have disabled?
It's a global blacklist of applications. Presumably it's there in the event of applications that have lied about or disguised what they do with your location data, and Apple can add them to the list when they discover that. But clicking on a confirmation dialogue in your phone won't do it.
That is why you were accused of having your donkey speak for you.
An acronym is supposed do be pronounced as a word, otherwise it's not technically an acronym, it's just an ordinary initialism.
Though the sentiment of your statement was true enough, no one pronounces MR2 in English as "Mister 2", so why should they pronounce MR2 as merde in French?
bloody hell.
As an employee of an essential mail provider (ie. billing outsourcer) in Australia, I can see that we're doing business in entirely the wrong country. ;)
We'd get four times as many impressions through per document if telcos were like that here
When it's 40C outside, and over 30 inside, the last thing you want is the sun heating things up.
I have my curtains closed pretty much all summer.
that's auto-run, not auto-mount.
10 years ago I was using a 56K modem.
On demand video was not only not a good idea, it wasn't even possible. (at least not in anything remotely resembling watchable quality)
no, they're not, because it wouldn't work.
What they're actually doing is telling their investors that they're in a good shape for the next few years.