I'm no expert, but I did take a macroeconomics class in college. I'm pretty sure that in this instance, some Africans need to get off their butts and find out what they're useful for in the global economy. Then they need to do it and quit bitching that they're being picked on by the rest of the world.
Even supposing we were under some divine mandate to be fruitful and multiply, what are the end conditions? Do we keep going until every natural resource is exhausted?
I'm pretty sure it says to "fill the earth and subdue it" rather than "overpopulate the earth and make it unlivable, then go extinct".
The GP said: There are serious tradeoffs that must be weighed all the time in order to guide a business down the road to success.
Then you said: Digging with a shovel instead of your hands isn't lazy, it's smart.
I'd just like to take a moment to point out that if digging is the lifeblood of your business, and you think you can improve worker efficiency by spending time/money inventing a shovel, then that qualifies as a "serious tradeoff" and would mean that the "lazy engineer" is actually more like the "efficiency-seeking engineer". That's always in the best interest of a business, and is something that is all too often stifled by shortsighted suit-types that don't see or understand the improvement. Often it's coupled with an over-inflated ego that makes them think that nobody could possibly be smart enough to improve the business in a way they hadn't thought of. This type of manager is the kind that needs to be drug out into the street and shot. Repeatedly.
If you RTFA, you'd see that these "interactive" additions are little different from VH-1's "Pop-up Video". The things metioned are picture-in-picture interviews during the movie, concept art overlays, "GPS" (a sort of bird's eye view of the race scenes, kinda like the track map in a game), and pop-up stats about the cars.
You don't get to decide the outcome of the movie. The "good guy" still wins. And Nathalie Kelley is still hot.
Think back half a decade. Think about where you thought you'd be five-years' hence way back then. Have you made it?
Yes.
Are you better off now than you were?
Yes.
Chances are, that unless you are in the very highest levels of management, you are barely scraping by. Sure, you've got an Audi, and a hi-def TV to watch Dancin' with the Stars, and surely your $250 a month cellphone bill is evidence that you're making progress, right?
I'm quite comfortable, I own my Dodge outright (though I'm close to having enough saved to buy an Acura and have low payments for 3 years), I don't have a hi-def TV, I hate Dancin' With the Stars, and my cell phone bill is only $50 per month.
How many of you pay off that credit card bill every month and put a little bit aside?
I do.
This has nothing to do with capitalism, and everything to do with self-control and being content with the things you already have.
Unfortunately, I looked at Elgato's site after I posted the link, and the "old style" breakout boxes are all gone in favor of that crappy USB dongle one.
It looks like another good vendor has decided to commit suicide by ridding themselves of a decent product line. I was just about to buy one of their EyeTV 200's (I already have the 500) so I could use analog sources into my Mac Mini. Oh well.
Even the original Mac Minis are fast enough to handle MPEG2 decoding required for the EyeTV 500 (in software, since the Minis don't have a good video card). Pair it with a projector for a "cheap" HDTV (only $2000 for as-big-as-your-wall vs. $2500 for a wussy little 42").
So, how long is it going to take for PVR makers to develop software that reads the AUDIO stream and returns you to your regularly scheduled programming when the waveform peaks go from clipped to normal? I don't want to jump 30 seconds forward. I want to skip the commercials.
$10 curtains = Nerds who don't care or welfare recipients that can't afford better. The former has multiple PC's, all working, and of various ages. The latter has a mid-level PC that may or may not work.
$200 curtains = Normal and non-dirt-poor people who like nice things and like to keep up a certain level of appearance. These people are likely to be rather clueless about computers, but they usually have a high-end one. Non-clueless ones might have a Mac. Clueless ones will most certainly have the shiniest Best Buy has to offer.
$2000 curtains = Pretentious wankers. These people don't buy Macs because "nobody uses Macs". Remember, it's all about the image, and if you don't fit in, your image is tarnished. They frequently are of the opinion that: - fags are awful, horrible, contagious people - all graphic designers are fags - Macs are only used by graphic designers - Therefore, if they were to buy and use a Mac, they too would become a fag. I know of several people with this line of reasoning, and (surprise, surprise) they all voted for George W. Bush. Clearly, pretentious wankers are to be avoided until such time as we can round them up and commit pretentious-wanker-cide.
There are several operations right now that claim to represent a local police or fire department, but have no affiliation at all. They take your donation, give the minimum amount required to qualify as a charity to the police somewhere else in the country, and pocket the profit.
I somehow doubt these "charities" would respect a do-not-call list even if they legally had to.
Just wait until I make a hack to use the processing power available from your BrainImplant(R) system to turn everyone into The Terminator(R) with orders to Kill You And Rape Your Corpse In Front Of A Live Studio Audience Then Feed Your Violated Remains To Rabid Wolverines(TM).
1) Descramble? No. Decrypt? Nada. Avoid? Nyet. Bypass? Nien. Remove? Iie. Deactivate? Nay. Impair? FALSE. It's not doing anything to "circumvent a technological measure." It is, in fact, accepting the output of authorized decryption, then doing "unapproved" things with that output. Thus the DMCA does not apply.
2) This hack most certainly is handled "in the ordinary course of its operation", in that even if you don't have QTFairUse6 installed, iTunes still decrypts and stores to a memory address, thus removing the DMCA-covered "technological measure".
So it's quite possible to argue that a "mere memory dump" does not violate the DMCA. The decryption is authorized, the "technological measure" is removed, and the DMCA is no longer an issue before QTFairUse6 ever touches the data. These facts will hold up in court if you can get them there, and it'll be all the more convincing when you get the record industry "experts" and Apple's engineers to say it.
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I'm no expert, but I did take a macroeconomics class in college. I'm pretty sure that in this instance, some Africans need to get off their butts and find out what they're useful for in the global economy. Then they need to do it and quit bitching that they're being picked on by the rest of the world.
Even supposing we were under some divine mandate to be fruitful and multiply, what are the end conditions? Do we keep going until every natural resource is exhausted?
I'm pretty sure it says to "fill the earth and subdue it" rather than "overpopulate the earth and make it unlivable, then go extinct".
For the love of god, where are my mod points?
The GP said:
There are serious tradeoffs that must be weighed all the time in order to guide a business down the road to success.
Then you said:
Digging with a shovel instead of your hands isn't lazy, it's smart.
I'd just like to take a moment to point out that if digging is the lifeblood of your business, and you think you can improve worker efficiency by spending time/money inventing a shovel, then that qualifies as a "serious tradeoff" and would mean that the "lazy engineer" is actually more like the "efficiency-seeking engineer". That's always in the best interest of a business, and is something that is all too often stifled by shortsighted suit-types that don't see or understand the improvement. Often it's coupled with an over-inflated ego that makes them think that nobody could possibly be smart enough to improve the business in a way they hadn't thought of. This type of manager is the kind that needs to be drug out into the street and shot. Repeatedly.
I'll eat any apple turnovers you might have laying around. Dell turnovers don't sound so tasty, though, so I'll have to pass on that one.
If you RTFA, you'd see that these "interactive" additions are little different from VH-1's "Pop-up Video". The things metioned are picture-in-picture interviews during the movie, concept art overlays, "GPS" (a sort of bird's eye view of the race scenes, kinda like the track map in a game), and pop-up stats about the cars.
You don't get to decide the outcome of the movie. The "good guy" still wins. And Nathalie Kelley is still hot.
Tokyo Drift is worth watching if only to see Nathalie Kelley.
I'd love drift on her curves.
iTunes for Windows allows the same thing. I had my iTunes library in D:\Music until I moved it over to my Mac.
Think back half a decade. Think about where you thought you'd be five-years' hence way back then. Have you made it?
Yes.
Are you better off now than you were?
Yes.
Chances are, that unless you are in the very highest levels of management, you are barely scraping by. Sure, you've got an Audi, and a hi-def TV to watch Dancin' with the Stars, and surely your $250 a month cellphone bill is evidence that you're making progress, right?
I'm quite comfortable, I own my Dodge outright (though I'm close to having enough saved to buy an Acura and have low payments for 3 years), I don't have a hi-def TV, I hate Dancin' With the Stars, and my cell phone bill is only $50 per month.
How many of you pay off that credit card bill every month and put a little bit aside?
I do.
This has nothing to do with capitalism, and everything to do with self-control and being content with the things you already have.
Umm... "cash".
'Nuff said.
It's in /dev/null where it belongs.
I was thinking of the larger ones (like the 200 and 500) with more connectors on them, as well as a Firewire interface.
Unfortunately, I looked at Elgato's site after I posted the link, and the "old style" breakout boxes are all gone in favor of that crappy USB dongle one.
It looks like another good vendor has decided to commit suicide by ridding themselves of a decent product line. I was just about to buy one of their EyeTV 200's (I already have the 500) so I could use analog sources into my Mac Mini. Oh well.
The Web is a tube full of marbles? No wonder the Internets don't fit through.
Here you go.
Even the original Mac Minis are fast enough to handle MPEG2 decoding required for the EyeTV 500 (in software, since the Minis don't have a good video card). Pair it with a projector for a "cheap" HDTV (only $2000 for as-big-as-your-wall vs. $2500 for a wussy little 42").
Blizzard makes over $100 million a month selling a chance to get a purple sword.
If they were smart, they'd guarantee a "purple sword" and make as much money as the porn industry!
So, how long is it going to take for PVR makers to develop software that reads the AUDIO stream and returns you to your regularly scheduled programming when the waveform peaks go from clipped to normal? I don't want to jump 30 seconds forward. I want to skip the commercials.
You have it all wrong.
$10 curtains = Nerds who don't care or welfare recipients that can't afford better. The former has multiple PC's, all working, and of various ages. The latter has a mid-level PC that may or may not work.
$200 curtains = Normal and non-dirt-poor people who like nice things and like to keep up a certain level of appearance. These people are likely to be rather clueless about computers, but they usually have a high-end one. Non-clueless ones might have a Mac. Clueless ones will most certainly have the shiniest Best Buy has to offer.
$2000 curtains = Pretentious wankers. These people don't buy Macs because "nobody uses Macs". Remember, it's all about the image, and if you don't fit in, your image is tarnished. They frequently are of the opinion that:
- fags are awful, horrible, contagious people
- all graphic designers are fags
- Macs are only used by graphic designers
- Therefore, if they were to buy and use a Mac, they too would become a fag.
I know of several people with this line of reasoning, and (surprise, surprise) they all voted for George W. Bush. Clearly, pretentious wankers are to be avoided until such time as we can round them up and commit pretentious-wanker-cide.
people like myself that won't buy *anything* from Apple
You sound like this guy.
There are several operations right now that claim to represent a local police or fire department, but have no affiliation at all. They take your donation, give the minimum amount required to qualify as a charity to the police somewhere else in the country, and pocket the profit.
I somehow doubt these "charities" would respect a do-not-call list even if they legally had to.
Attack of the Bacon Robots
I have signed copy #353 of 1500 of that book. It should be a classic, which would make my signed copy worth even more.
I would suggest using some laxatives
Would that be RegExLax?
Newlines are your friends, Mr. Regex. Please don't ignore them.
Just wait until I make a hack to use the processing power available from your BrainImplant(R) system to turn everyone into The Terminator(R) with orders to Kill You And Rape Your Corpse In Front Of A Live Studio Audience Then Feed Your Violated Remains To Rabid Wolverines(TM).
Sincerely,
A former paying customer
Two things here:
1) Descramble? No. Decrypt? Nada. Avoid? Nyet. Bypass? Nien. Remove? Iie. Deactivate? Nay. Impair? FALSE. It's not doing anything to "circumvent a technological measure." It is, in fact, accepting the output of authorized decryption, then doing "unapproved" things with that output. Thus the DMCA does not apply.
2) This hack most certainly is handled "in the ordinary course of its operation", in that even if you don't have QTFairUse6 installed, iTunes still decrypts and stores to a memory address, thus removing the DMCA-covered "technological measure".
So it's quite possible to argue that a "mere memory dump" does not violate the DMCA. The decryption is authorized, the "technological measure" is removed, and the DMCA is no longer an issue before QTFairUse6 ever touches the data. These facts will hold up in court if you can get them there, and it'll be all the more convincing when you get the record industry "experts" and Apple's engineers to say it.