Maybe I've just been hardware-lucky, but I haven't had any problems with sound in the last few years. Not sure if this is related to my hardware, kernel updates, or KDE updates. Of course, now I run into framebuffer problems (intel hardware) all the damn time.
Ah, "no excuse for accepting the status quo" is much better than the "no excuses for driving a car" that my brain interpolated from the first post. And you are right, there is no excuse for glibly accepting the status quo.
Still, though, I cannot phase out MY cars until there IS public transportation. Can't be done. Couldn't get to work. Couldn't get the kids to daycare. Couldn't get to the store.
So me getting rid of my car will magically (and overnight) prompt my town to get a ton of buses, figure out how to route them, and offer to drive me into the town I work in? There are plenty of excuses.
Most of the midwestern U.S. simply does not have the transportation network in place to make it feasible to travel w/out a car. The town I live in actually has NO public transportation.
Thanks for the clarification on the first part. Metaphors only carry so far and your clear description of the terms without the book metaphor were helpful.
I suppose that is a legal grey area. If the author has not given you permission to read it, who's to say? Would likely have to let a court decide.
If you find a book in the street and choose to translate it to a language you find to be more readable... well, that is POSSIBLY okay under fair use guidelines depending on a host of other factors (and once again, a court would have to decide if it actually qualified as fair use). But strictly speaking... you can't do that.
Source code will be available... Grab it, remove all click-through and other aggregates, throw your own 'private' URL shortener out there (public domain, please).
Or like publicly playing covers of simple songs? Or redrawing a simple logo and using it for your own purposes? The copyright is still there. Without the license, you wouldn't (legally) be able to do ANYTHING with this.
They just hired a new UI designer... earlier this year, sometime (spring, maybe?) to work on v10. I haven't kept up on any UI changes that have been taking place in 10, though.
OK, I've sat in front of a judge and had a sentence dictated to me. Unless the defendant is used to this sort of thing, really couldn't care less, currently on some pretty serious drugs, or trying to be a dick... I can't believe that they could be capable of involuntarily yawning at that particular point in time. But, in all fairness, maybe that's not the case for everyone.
"In 2006, the fund received $447.8 million, but they could only figure out what to do with $301.2 million, the so-called âoeobligated balance.â In other words, they had a âoesignificant unobligated balanceâ of $146.6 million. At 8 cents per page for a PACER Document, they could give away 1.8 billion pages of documents to the public and still have all the money they need to pay for their computers."
Well, the open source option will allow for that when somebody plugs SMS into it. Problem is, a scalable SMS solution is bound to require some sort of $$$ behind it.
He's not necessarily going to fess up. They're offering him this deal. No word on whether he's even entertaining it. If he truly didn't kill her... well, then he can't give 'em the body.
I believe the D830 also comes with an 8X DVD+/-RW. And a 256 MB Video card and 2.00 Ghz processor upgrade seems to only come out to $1446. That's WITH the three year warranty. I'd take the heftier, larger laptop over the air. But that's just me. I'm sure going the other route makes good sense to other people. To each their own.
Well, luckily this one stands a decent chance of sticking with the book's plot. HOWEVER, having purchased the rights certainly doesn't guarantee this will ever see the light of day. I'll hold my enthusiasm until they tell me they've got a working script.
Ah. Fairplay restrictions (quoted from Wikipedia):
FairPlay-encrypted audio tracks allow the following:
* The track may be copied to any number of iPod portable music players.[1]
* The track may be played on up to five (originally three) authorized computers simultaneously.[1]
* A particular playlist within iTunes containing a FairPlay-encrypted track can be copied to a CD only up to seven times (originally ten times) before the playlist must be changed.[2]
* The track may be copied to a standard Audio CD any number of times.[2]
o The resulting CD has no DRM and may be ripped, encoded and played back like any other CD. However, CDs created by users do not attain first sale rights and cannot be legally leased, lent, sold or distributed to others by the creator.
o The CD audio still bears the artifacts of compression, so converting it back into a lossy format such as MP3 may aggravate the sound artifacts of encoding (see transcoding). When re-ripping such a CD one could use a lossless audio codec such as AIFF, Apple Lossless, FLAC or WAV however such files take up significantly more space than the original.m4p files
At this time, it appears that the restrictions mentioned above are hard-coded into QuickTime and the iTunes application, and not configurable in the protected files themselves.
An artifact of Fairplay is that it prevents iTunes customers from using the purchased music directly on any portable digital music player other than the Apple iPod, Motorola ROKR E1, Motorola SLVR, Motorola RAZR V3i,or iPhone.
I was under the impression that iTunes' DRM not only restricted the number of devices you could play the track on (3), but even restricted the number of times you could burn a playlist containing that song to a CD (7, I believe). Am I wrong? Or just going by outdated information?
(FTA) There is also a severance plan for other employees that has been put in place; they stand to get up to 1.5 times their salary for up to 18 months if Take Two is purchased by another company.
"WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of changes" So it's got a built in RSS/ATOM parser? Like every other browser? Including IE7? As far as I can tell, they just beefed it up a bit and set it to constantly poll for updates. *shrug*
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Maybe I've just been hardware-lucky, but I haven't had any problems with sound in the last few years. Not sure if this is related to my hardware, kernel updates, or KDE updates. Of course, now I run into framebuffer problems (intel hardware) all the damn time.
Ah, "no excuse for accepting the status quo" is much better than the "no excuses for driving a car" that my brain interpolated from the first post. And you are right, there is no excuse for glibly accepting the status quo.
Still, though, I cannot phase out MY cars until there IS public transportation. Can't be done. Couldn't get to work. Couldn't get the kids to daycare. Couldn't get to the store.
So me getting rid of my car will magically (and overnight) prompt my town to get a ton of buses, figure out how to route them, and offer to drive me into the town I work in? There are plenty of excuses.
Most of the midwestern U.S. simply does not have the transportation network in place to make it feasible to travel w/out a car. The town I live in actually has NO public transportation.
Thanks for the clarification on the first part. Metaphors only carry so far and your clear description of the terms without the book metaphor were helpful.
I suppose that is a legal grey area. If the author has not given you permission to read it, who's to say? Would likely have to let a court decide. If you find a book in the street and choose to translate it to a language you find to be more readable... well, that is POSSIBLY okay under fair use guidelines depending on a host of other factors (and once again, a court would have to decide if it actually qualified as fair use). But strictly speaking... you can't do that.
Source code will be available... Grab it, remove all click-through and other aggregates, throw your own 'private' URL shortener out there (public domain, please).
Or like publicly playing covers of simple songs? Or redrawing a simple logo and using it for your own purposes? The copyright is still there. Without the license, you wouldn't (legally) be able to do ANYTHING with this.
They just hired a new UI designer... earlier this year, sometime (spring, maybe?) to work on v10. I haven't kept up on any UI changes that have been taking place in 10, though.
Ah. I should read more carefully. Thanks for pointing that out.
OK, I've sat in front of a judge and had a sentence dictated to me. Unless the defendant is used to this sort of thing, really couldn't care less, currently on some pretty serious drugs, or trying to be a dick... I can't believe that they could be capable of involuntarily yawning at that particular point in time. But, in all fairness, maybe that's not the case for everyone.
"In 2006, the fund received $447.8 million, but they could only figure out what to do with $301.2 million, the so-called âoeobligated balance.â In other words, they had a âoesignificant unobligated balanceâ of $146.6 million. At 8 cents per page for a PACER Document, they could give away 1.8 billion pages of documents to the public and still have all the money they need to pay for their computers."
See question/answer #9 in the Recycling FAQ for a nice graph and a source of that quote: http://pacer.resource.org/recycling.html
See question/answer #15 (digital offsets) in the recycling faq: http://pacer.resource.org/recycling.html
If you don't use caps-lock, you can remap your caps-lock to escape. That's saved me oodles of time.
"...but puzzle games or solitaire won't do anything for you."
Puzzle games make you a better parallel parker?
Well, the open source option will allow for that when somebody plugs SMS into it. Problem is, a scalable SMS solution is bound to require some sort of $$$ behind it.
Yeah; just like how the Gimp is never installed in any English-speaking countries?
He's not necessarily going to fess up. They're offering him this deal. No word on whether he's even entertaining it. If he truly didn't kill her... well, then he can't give 'em the body.
I believe the D830 also comes with an 8X DVD+/-RW. And a 256 MB Video card and 2.00 Ghz processor upgrade seems to only come out to $1446. That's WITH the three year warranty. I'd take the heftier, larger laptop over the air. But that's just me. I'm sure going the other route makes good sense to other people. To each their own.
Well, luckily this one stands a decent chance of sticking with the book's plot. HOWEVER, having purchased the rights certainly doesn't guarantee this will ever see the light of day. I'll hold my enthusiasm until they tell me they've got a working script.
Ah. Fairplay restrictions (quoted from Wikipedia):
.m4p files
FairPlay-encrypted audio tracks allow the following:
* The track may be copied to any number of iPod portable music players.[1]
* The track may be played on up to five (originally three) authorized computers simultaneously.[1]
* A particular playlist within iTunes containing a FairPlay-encrypted track can be copied to a CD only up to seven times (originally ten times) before the playlist must be changed.[2]
* The track may be copied to a standard Audio CD any number of times.[2]
o The resulting CD has no DRM and may be ripped, encoded and played back like any other CD. However, CDs created by users do not attain first sale rights and cannot be legally leased, lent, sold or distributed to others by the creator.
o The CD audio still bears the artifacts of compression, so converting it back into a lossy format such as MP3 may aggravate the sound artifacts of encoding (see transcoding). When re-ripping such a CD one could use a lossless audio codec such as AIFF, Apple Lossless, FLAC or WAV however such files take up significantly more space than the original
At this time, it appears that the restrictions mentioned above are hard-coded into QuickTime and the iTunes application, and not configurable in the protected files themselves.
An artifact of Fairplay is that it prevents iTunes customers from using the purchased music directly on any portable digital music player other than the Apple iPod, Motorola ROKR E1, Motorola SLVR, Motorola RAZR V3i,or iPhone.
I was under the impression that iTunes' DRM not only restricted the number of devices you could play the track on (3), but even restricted the number of times you could burn a playlist containing that song to a CD (7, I believe). Am I wrong? Or just going by outdated information?
try catch?
On the other hand, is Take Two hiring?