Actually, the drinking age in the U.S. used to be 18. It was largely due to campaigning by Mothers Against Drunk Driving that the age was raised to 21--the federal government withheld highway funding from states which did not raise their drinking age. Eventually, all of them capitulated. Generally you can purchase pornography at 18, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were 21 in some states or communities.
I'm sure you'll find a lot of supporters to legistlate morality. Good business practices? Sure, whatever, as long as you make sure to outlaw premarital sex, too.
The American Revolution was fought largely due to taxes. It is certainly an American tradition to hate taxes. Obviously taxation is necessary, but governments will always squander money given the opportunity. There is more than enough money to give our troops body armor, but the money is being given to defense contractors to build weapons we don't need instead. More taxes does not in any way imply that the additional revenue will be spent wisely. Instead, it will be spent foolishly, and the proportion of wasted spending will only increase. Beyond a certain size, governments are better at making problems than solving them. Giving them more money is basically funding ineptitude.
I don't think the problem is a surfeit of nonsensical studies, so much as a misrepresentation of them by the media. All the time, studies are reported as news. Yet even a well-carried out, accurate study does not prove anything. Studies by their nature must be corroborated to be meaningful at all. When a new study comes out, it doesn't mean that we know anything new. It means that somebody suspects something which may in the long run turn out to be true. The problem is that the latter is not sensational enough for news, so studies are represented as the former.
I was thinking of clothed sex, not nudity. Though ironically enough, the Parents Television Council (i.e. the Helen Lovejoy Social Club) does all the hard work for you and puts together a montage of the "worst" clips on TV. Of course, only good Christians concerned about what their children might be exposed to would ever visit that page. Although that contains clips from both broadcast and cable TV, and not just primetime, some of the clips are. In particular the sex party from CSI: Miami.
I've seen steamier sex with a lot more skin on primetime television. On a show rated TV14, no less. Frankly, Custer's Revenge deserves an AO for sex more than this.
Cocoa is OS X only. Apple is ending Java support for Cocoa. Java Cocoa applications run only on OS X. Any OS X apps written in Java in the future will now be more likely to be regular, cross-platform Java apps. I wouldn't be surprised if Java Cocoa applications were harder to port to GNUstep than Objective-C applications. How does Apple discontinuing a specific closed platform choice (which was never very popular in the first place) constitute trying to force people to use a closed platform?
Actually, it's more like reducing the number of lanes because 99 cars out of 100 are transporting stolen goods, thereby subverting the very purpose of having a road in the first place. Illegal downloading is what impinges on the legal users' bandwidth.
That's why I sounded stupid in the first paragraph. You must indeed start from a fuzzy non-logical place. However, you can pick up on simple patterns like causality and transitivity just by observing that they are always true. If, for example, we saw effects preceding causes in everyday life, our conception of logic would reflect that.
HunterX11 see things. Things act logically. Logic explain how things work. HunterX11 believe logic true until HunterX11 hear of something that work better. HunterX11 think stupid to think things he see and hear not true, and other things he not see and not hear are true. How other people know they are true? Maybe what HunterX11 see and hear are not true. But HunterX11 have no reason to believe in anything else.
Logic works. Lightning isn't caused by Thor. Disease isn't caused by demons. There is one reason to believe in logic above other systems: experience. If you don't believe in experience, posting to/. is pointless anyway because/. might not exist. Maybe you don't exist. Or maybe, it makes sense not to be sophomoric and believe in reality.
That's some pretty mild cynicism. If I felt like being cynical, I would predict that Apple doesn't care enough about their customers to ensure that there will native software for Mactel.
I don't mean to disrespect them in any way, nor am I complaining that they are overpaid; however, the starting salary for a 1st violinist in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is over $100,000. There are far too many great musicians who are indeed trying to scrape a meager living, but members of prominent orchestras are not such people. Of course, as you said there are more costs than that to an recording, and it is of little surprise that there are not more distributed for free.
Well, maybe if your dog is an audiophile, but as a human I'm perfectly satisfied with equipment that reproduces sound in the frequency range I can hear.
I am continually shocked and dismayed to see people write test cases, install scripts, and other random hackery using Perl. Perl is seductive because of the abundant CPAN modules and its TIMTOWTDI philosophy, so the path of least resistance is followed and a Perl script is written. Sadly, programming in Perl inevitably leads to one's employer taking legal action against the programmer.
The most common problem encountered with Perl programmers is pointing out embarrassing things about their employers. All they are able to do is white-hat hack or whistleblow. While some educators have fixed some of Perl programmers' flaws (closed-minded disciplinarians do much better here), many have added new ones. Most of their problems can never be solved because they're not inadequacies per se, but rather the direct consequences of intelligence and free-thinking.
For the Xbox, at least, it will only run games signed by Microsoft's key unless the box is modded. Also, the Xbox can tell between burned and pressed media. So potentially, you would have to develop something without access to the API, and without being able to test it until you press a final product. Oh, and the final product won't run. Even if it did, that's still more expensive than buying the SDK.
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Actually, the drinking age in the U.S. used to be 18. It was largely due to campaigning by Mothers Against Drunk Driving that the age was raised to 21--the federal government withheld highway funding from states which did not raise their drinking age. Eventually, all of them capitulated. Generally you can purchase pornography at 18, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were 21 in some states or communities.
Chances are it will use H.264 mp4's, and it is not infeasible that it wouldn't support non-DRM media at all.
Xerox Alto? Just another fork. Real men use the OnLine System.
I'm sure you'll find a lot of supporters to legistlate morality. Good business practices? Sure, whatever, as long as you make sure to outlaw premarital sex, too.
The truly sad thing about your post is that I am entirely unable to discern whether or not you are being serious.
The American Revolution was fought largely due to taxes. It is certainly an American tradition to hate taxes. Obviously taxation is necessary, but governments will always squander money given the opportunity. There is more than enough money to give our troops body armor, but the money is being given to defense contractors to build weapons we don't need instead. More taxes does not in any way imply that the additional revenue will be spent wisely. Instead, it will be spent foolishly, and the proportion of wasted spending will only increase. Beyond a certain size, governments are better at making problems than solving them. Giving them more money is basically funding ineptitude.
I'm not sure if I should be angry at you for such a bad joke, or angry at the mods who thought it was funny :)
I don't think the problem is a surfeit of nonsensical studies, so much as a misrepresentation of them by the media. All the time, studies are reported as news. Yet even a well-carried out, accurate study does not prove anything. Studies by their nature must be corroborated to be meaningful at all. When a new study comes out, it doesn't mean that we know anything new. It means that somebody suspects something which may in the long run turn out to be true. The problem is that the latter is not sensational enough for news, so studies are represented as the former.
I was thinking of clothed sex, not nudity. Though ironically enough, the Parents Television Council (i.e. the Helen Lovejoy Social Club) does all the hard work for you and puts together a montage of the "worst" clips on TV. Of course, only good Christians concerned about what their children might be exposed to would ever visit that page. Although that contains clips from both broadcast and cable TV, and not just primetime, some of the clips are. In particular the sex party from CSI: Miami.
I've seen steamier sex with a lot more skin on primetime television. On a show rated TV14, no less. Frankly, Custer's Revenge deserves an AO for sex more than this.
Cocoa is OS X only. Apple is ending Java support for Cocoa. Java Cocoa applications run only on OS X. Any OS X apps written in Java in the future will now be more likely to be regular, cross-platform Java apps. I wouldn't be surprised if Java Cocoa applications were harder to port to GNUstep than Objective-C applications. How does Apple discontinuing a specific closed platform choice (which was never very popular in the first place) constitute trying to force people to use a closed platform?
Troll? The parent is a reference to Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels . Puerile, perhaps, but actually on-topic nonetheless.
Why would Apple release an update? OS X comes with Apache 1.3.
Actually, it's more like reducing the number of lanes because 99 cars out of 100 are transporting stolen goods, thereby subverting the very purpose of having a road in the first place. Illegal downloading is what impinges on the legal users' bandwidth.
That's why I sounded stupid in the first paragraph. You must indeed start from a fuzzy non-logical place. However, you can pick up on simple patterns like causality and transitivity just by observing that they are always true. If, for example, we saw effects preceding causes in everyday life, our conception of logic would reflect that.
I thought it was secure, fast, cheap. And I thought I knew which two Debian had picked :)
Logic works. Lightning isn't caused by Thor. Disease isn't caused by demons. There is one reason to believe in logic above other systems: experience. If you don't believe in experience, posting to /. is pointless anyway because /. might not exist. Maybe you don't exist. Or maybe, it makes sense not to be sophomoric and believe in reality.
MPEG-2 unfortunately is only free as in eyepatch.
That's some pretty mild cynicism. If I felt like being cynical, I would predict that Apple doesn't care enough about their customers to ensure that there will native software for Mactel.
I don't mean to disrespect them in any way, nor am I complaining that they are overpaid; however, the starting salary for a 1st violinist in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is over $100,000. There are far too many great musicians who are indeed trying to scrape a meager living, but members of prominent orchestras are not such people. Of course, as you said there are more costs than that to an recording, and it is of little surprise that there are not more distributed for free.
Well, maybe if your dog is an audiophile, but as a human I'm perfectly satisfied with equipment that reproduces sound in the frequency range I can hear.
WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
Do not trust the litigation robot. He is malfunctioning.
I am continually shocked and dismayed to see people write test cases, install scripts, and other random hackery using Perl. Perl is seductive because of the abundant CPAN modules and its TIMTOWTDI philosophy, so the path of least resistance is followed and a Perl script is written. Sadly, programming in Perl inevitably leads to one's employer taking legal action against the programmer.
The most common problem encountered with Perl programmers is pointing out embarrassing things about their employers. All they are able to do is white-hat hack or whistleblow. While some educators have fixed some of Perl programmers' flaws (closed-minded disciplinarians do much better here), many have added new ones. Most of their problems can never be solved because they're not inadequacies per se, but rather the direct consequences of intelligence and free-thinking.
For the Xbox, at least, it will only run games signed by Microsoft's key unless the box is modded. Also, the Xbox can tell between burned and pressed media. So potentially, you would have to develop something without access to the API, and without being able to test it until you press a final product. Oh, and the final product won't run. Even if it did, that's still more expensive than buying the SDK.