Because men are inherently inferior at creating anything remotely artful, creative, or humanist?
They can, but we're not talking about if they can do any ONE thing, we're talking about the collective total of all IT (how ridiculous this is getting). Art (as in all art) only benefits all if all are allowed to participate. If only men or geeks are permitted, then it will really only benefit geeks.
"Harmony of systems design" is a pretty ambiguous term, but if he means anything like "artful", "creative", or anything remotely humanist, then yeah, women not being involved will result in an inferior outcome. He's pretty lazy about laying out exactly what he means though.
Remember Simone de Beauvoir: "Objectivity is nothing more than male subjectivity."
I prefer a holtzman Transfer. Get there in 0.01s. Only bad thing is no one knows how it works except god and Holtzmans wife. And God help you if you bring a laser pointer.
That and the Spice turns you into a fish-person. Which would be fine, except that David Lynch takes one look at you and tries to make you into some kind of political point;)
See here for the alternative reading of this situation.
Jobs does have incentive to lock the phones, but there's a sweet spot between letting the power users circumvent it, since it'll drive the hardware sales, and keeping people with AT&T, since Apple gets a cut from that too. It's likely not enough of a cut to make Apple furious about hacking, particularly for the number of people bothering to go through the trouble to change their service. It is still making 30% markup on the handsets, for heaven's sake! That's enough to buy Apple's inaction.
And meanwhile they're breaking records on sales volume, and the exclusive deals with the carriers slowly tick away. AT&T, O2 and T-Mobile got to sell an awesome phone that people are clearly interested in buying, but the phone is built in just such a way, it's just "smart" enough, as to make their lockin difficult to manage long-term.
After dealing with some of the shenanigans of RIAA, Apple must have found dealing with cellphone companies surprisingly easy. Thank ghod you can't use copyright law to enforce a cellphone service agreement;)
Not necessarily. They could claim they were working on a huge fictional epistolary novel about a putative company named "MediaDefender," and all the drama the characters have over email.
Don't forget, they sued Apple for using "Tiger" in the name of their operating system, too. This revolutionary reverse-engineering of the 3.5mm jack is clearly TigerDirect striking back.
If for some reason Apple had thought of cheap commodity hardware first we'd all be complaining about a apple hegemony and how much we fear and hate the evil apple empire.
They probably wouldn't have. The Steves had the idea that everybody should be able to use a computer, it did not necessarily follow that everyone should be able to afford one. Microsoft was more concerned with getting CPUs into as many hands as possible, with the theory that it could be hard to use because eventually network effects would force you to learn it. Of course, nowadays people are willing to pay for Apples, and Windows computers are not condemned for the difficulty to use so much as for their incompetent execution and obtrusiveness. Nobody would've complained about AT&T in 1970 if 99.999% of calls were completed, their billing was sensible, and their rules for using equipment on their network weren't nakedly monopolistic.
They considered allowing the home versions of Vista to be permitted to run under virtualization, but they decided against it ultimately. Only business and ultimate versions of Vista may be legitimately run under virtualization. So Vista "can" run under virtualization, but you'll pay through the nose for the privilege and there is no technological reason why the cheaper versions couldn't.
All the native speakers I ran into gave "motherland" or "mother Russia" specifically as the idiomatic translation. The root "rod" also appears in " rodit'cya ", to be born. Also, the name of the no-longer-existing Partiya-Rodina is translated without exception as "Motherland" in western news. I wonder if its usage has dissipated since the breakup of the USSR.
Every day you take your child to school. You don't go there with him, but every night he comes home and shows you all the helpful things he's learned how to do, like write memos, do the home accounting, and maybe edit some video every now and then. It's clear the school is teaching him SOMETHING.
One day a bond referendum comes up for a vote, and you vote against it because you feel it's wasteful, and your child becomes aware of it. Next thing you know, your property is vandalized by thugs wielding apples and long rulers.
You surmise your child told the teachers and is spying on you, so you go to the school one day and are blocked at the door. "No entry!" the gruff guard replies, "The activities on these premises are protected intellectual property of the school and you are not permitted to view it. Are you going to leave the premises now, or do I have to throw you -- Cancel or Allow?"
Nelzya ne skazaem "Rodina"? When I was learning the language, which was a while ago (did I actually conjugate skazat' correctly?) I remember Rodina (motherland) being much more common.
In a Parliamentary Democracy, "dissolving the Government" refers to the dismissing of parliamentarians for new elections. The word "Government" strongly connotes "those that are in power," and not the State as such.
In the US, a Presidential Republic, "Government" generally refers to all constitutional institutions, so the phrase "dissolving the government" carries a certain menace to an American's ears. From all indications, Putin is not abolishing the Russian constitution, he's just making a power play to consolidate his governing mandate in the duma going into presidential elections in the coming year.
W/r/t dongles, I have about $3000 in software (Pro Tools, plugins and support software) on my system right now authorized with iLoks. The iloks store your licenses on the dongle, and you can use ilok.com's web application to back up your licenses and restore them if you dongle ever breaks or is stolen:
If it's broken, they front you a new temporary license(s) and you load it onto a spare ilok (blank ones cost like $30) until they receive the broken one from you, when they make your licenses permanent.
If it's stolen, you give ilok the serial number of the stolen iLok, and though the stolen one will still work, it'll get lojacked if it ever tries to contact the mothership.
ilok users can even use the web app to sell licenses to each other, which is quite handy, though ilok charges you $20-$30 for the privilege of transferring from one user to another. When someone buys your software you have your online store call up the ilok web app and have them dispense a license to the buyer, our you can sell your users a SIM-style card that iloks can read and the xfer the licenses off those.
It's quite a good system, I've looked into it for some projects, but it's really expensive from the developers end, and only starts making sense if you charge $400 or more for your product.
There's no technical criteria, it'd have to be more of a psychological thing. You have a 100 people open one of their word documents with application X, and have them grade on a zero to 10 scale how much the document looks like they remembered it. I think Pages would get about an 8, and Word 2007 would get the best score, but that'd still only be around 9:)
Indeed, it didn't occur to them to do a Word-AbiWord shootout (or the real dog, a Writer-AbiWord shootout). I am not an OSS extremist, and I'm running Mac OS X, so I've lately found Pages to be extremely good for the casual stuff I do.
Against the major OSS suites, it has a more features than AbiWord (its page layout is superior), fewer than Writer, but it seems to have the best Word import-export of them all. Couldn't help but notice that "Ability to accurately open '.doc' files" wasn't one of TFA's categories.
I'm doubtful this will end up going anywhere. It's only in development, they don't have a script, it's Tobey's first real movie as a producer, and the guy they've brought on to do the writing is an unknown. Tobey just wants a sweet development paycheck-- after five years alternating between Brett Ratner and the Walchowski brothers to direct, and half-a-dozen "it" girls "attached" for Lynn Minmei, the project will die quietly, with Tobey $5 million richer.
On the other hand, he might get really attached to it and spend 10 years waiting for its moment to come, only to make a Robotech so intellectual and true-to-source that it ends up being slow and uninteresting ("Paging Gale Ann Hurd, The Hulk would like to see you!").
Then the trans-humanists among them would just argue that the destruction of the human race is really a function of human endeavour, and that that which lives now in the ultra-intelligent machine is the new "man," and we Cro-Magnons were just a substrate, in the way that the Christian Rapture will either kill you or turn you into a spirit in communion with the Lord God. Implicit is that humanity will be destroyed, and that this outcome is "good."
The "technological singularity" is a form of intellectual messianism, a myth for people who like their dogma wordy and their sci-fi hard. It's a three way race between the nerd raptue, Jesus and the Hidden Imam.
What I find annoying about Apple pricing (or rather "potentially" annoying, as I'm not one of their customers) is the centralized, tightly controlled pricing, combined with a strategy of infrequent price changes.
That's not different from a lot of high-ticket consumer products. Want to by a new Lexus from the dealership, or a tailored suit, you'll find the pricing just as foggy. If you want to buy a computer priced like gasoline, buy a Dell, but they're just as weird and capricious about their prices, they just hide their actual price in a vast system of rebates. Apple's pricing is also supposed to be simple to make their market segmentation simple. If I'm looking for a cheap iPod, it's easy to see which one's for me and compare it (well, not as easy as it has been, but still). I don't have to wade through four or five different lines with different price levels, rebate options, compatibility, capabilites, form factors, etc... There's both a downside and an upside to going with a single vendor.
With Apple, they keep their cards close to their chest and then Wham! the thing you bought yesterday depreciates 30% overnight.
I know you picked that number off a tree, but just about any computer (or car, or expensive resellable item, for that matter) depreciates 30% the moment you take it out of the store. I would also direct you to eBay to compare the relative resale values of 2 year old Macs, compared to 2 year old Dells or ThinkPads.
Microsoft has to release documentation on how to program in the language, if they want adoption, correct?
Yah, because everybody knows how accurate and complete the Win32 documentation is, just ask the Wine team!
You can write a program following MSDN documentation to the letter and have it crash horribly; even worse, you can ignore the MSDN documentation and have your program run great.
There isn't a lot of air at FL500, so your IAS is gonna be pretty low.
Quickie: IAS or Indicated Airspeed is a flight dynamic that measures the unidirectional force of air along an aircraft's angle of attack and presents this data as a speed; it is measured with a "pitot tube," a metal tube on the wing or nose of a plane that collects air and measures the amount of force being applied down the tube. At standard temp and pressure, with no wind, and with the aircraft's angle of attack parallel to the surface, this number will theoretically give you the speed at which you are traveling along the ground. As ambient pressure goes down (say with altitude), IAS for a given ground speed goes down; as wind picks up, depending on the wind's bearing to the aircraft's orientation, IAS can go up or down (A plane flying a 100 kts headwind and 100 kts IAS will, all other things being equal, in fact have a ground speed of zero). As angle of attack increases, ground speed goes down. You might be flying at Mach 2, but if you're pointed straight up, your ground speed will be zero.
It might mean that the angular momentum of the universe is nonzero, if a majority of them are turning the same direction. Or, even if they all cancel out, that momentum in the early universe tended to be oriented in a plane. (IANAP, just a guess but seems logical)
I'm curious if the Milky Way is a part of the alignment.
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They can, but we're not talking about if they can do any ONE thing, we're talking about the collective total of all IT (how ridiculous this is getting). Art (as in all art) only benefits all if all are allowed to participate. If only men or geeks are permitted, then it will really only benefit geeks.
"Harmony of systems design" is a pretty ambiguous term, but if he means anything like "artful", "creative", or anything remotely humanist, then yeah, women not being involved will result in an inferior outcome. He's pretty lazy about laying out exactly what he means though.
Remember Simone de Beauvoir: "Objectivity is nothing more than male subjectivity."
That and the Spice turns you into a fish-person. Which would be fine, except that David Lynch takes one look at you and tries to make you into some kind of political point ;)
See here for the alternative reading of this situation.
Jobs does have incentive to lock the phones, but there's a sweet spot between letting the power users circumvent it, since it'll drive the hardware sales, and keeping people with AT&T, since Apple gets a cut from that too. It's likely not enough of a cut to make Apple furious about hacking, particularly for the number of people bothering to go through the trouble to change their service. It is still making 30% markup on the handsets, for heaven's sake! That's enough to buy Apple's inaction.
And meanwhile they're breaking records on sales volume, and the exclusive deals with the carriers slowly tick away. AT&T, O2 and T-Mobile got to sell an awesome phone that people are clearly interested in buying, but the phone is built in just such a way, it's just "smart" enough, as to make their lockin difficult to manage long-term.
After dealing with some of the shenanigans of RIAA, Apple must have found dealing with cellphone companies surprisingly easy. Thank ghod you can't use copyright law to enforce a cellphone service agreement ;)
The offer expired in September 2006. Besides, if they did it today, Apple has patched the vulnerability.
Not necessarily. They could claim they were working on a huge fictional epistolary novel about a putative company named "MediaDefender," and all the drama the characters have over email.
You can't submit to them, that's why they're credible :P.
Don't forget, they sued Apple for using "Tiger" in the name of their operating system, too. This revolutionary reverse-engineering of the 3.5mm jack is clearly TigerDirect striking back.
Little too abstract?
They probably wouldn't have. The Steves had the idea that everybody should be able to use a computer, it did not necessarily follow that everyone should be able to afford one. Microsoft was more concerned with getting CPUs into as many hands as possible, with the theory that it could be hard to use because eventually network effects would force you to learn it. Of course, nowadays people are willing to pay for Apples, and Windows computers are not condemned for the difficulty to use so much as for their incompetent execution and obtrusiveness. Nobody would've complained about AT&T in 1970 if 99.999% of calls were completed, their billing was sensible, and their rules for using equipment on their network weren't nakedly monopolistic.
They considered allowing the home versions of Vista to be permitted to run under virtualization, but they decided against it ultimately. Only business and ultimate versions of Vista may be legitimately run under virtualization. So Vista "can" run under virtualization, but you'll pay through the nose for the privilege and there is no technological reason why the cheaper versions couldn't.
All the native speakers I ran into gave "motherland" or "mother Russia" specifically as the idiomatic translation. The root "rod" also appears in " rodit'cya ", to be born. Also, the name of the no-longer-existing Partiya-Rodina is translated without exception as "Motherland" in western news. I wonder if its usage has dissipated since the breakup of the USSR.
Every day you take your child to school. You don't go there with him, but every night he comes home and shows you all the helpful things he's learned how to do, like write memos, do the home accounting, and maybe edit some video every now and then. It's clear the school is teaching him SOMETHING.
One day a bond referendum comes up for a vote, and you vote against it because you feel it's wasteful, and your child becomes aware of it. Next thing you know, your property is vandalized by thugs wielding apples and long rulers.
You surmise your child told the teachers and is spying on you, so you go to the school one day and are blocked at the door. "No entry!" the gruff guard replies, "The activities on these premises are protected intellectual property of the school and you are not permitted to view it. Are you going to leave the premises now, or do I have to throw you -- Cancel or Allow?"
Nelzya ne skazaem "Rodina"? When I was learning the language, which was a while ago (did I actually conjugate skazat' correctly?) I remember Rodina (motherland) being much more common.
In a Parliamentary Democracy, "dissolving the Government" refers to the dismissing of parliamentarians for new elections. The word "Government" strongly connotes "those that are in power," and not the State as such.
In the US, a Presidential Republic, "Government" generally refers to all constitutional institutions, so the phrase "dissolving the government" carries a certain menace to an American's ears. From all indications, Putin is not abolishing the Russian constitution, he's just making a power play to consolidate his governing mandate in the duma going into presidential elections in the coming year.
W/r/t dongles, I have about $3000 in software (Pro Tools, plugins and support software) on my system right now authorized with iLoks. The iloks store your licenses on the dongle, and you can use ilok.com's web application to back up your licenses and restore them if you dongle ever breaks or is stolen:
ilok users can even use the web app to sell licenses to each other, which is quite handy, though ilok charges you $20-$30 for the privilege of transferring from one user to another. When someone buys your software you have your online store call up the ilok web app and have them dispense a license to the buyer, our you can sell your users a SIM-style card that iloks can read and the xfer the licenses off those.
It's quite a good system, I've looked into it for some projects, but it's really expensive from the developers end, and only starts making sense if you charge $400 or more for your product.
There's no technical criteria, it'd have to be more of a psychological thing. You have a 100 people open one of their word documents with application X, and have them grade on a zero to 10 scale how much the document looks like they remembered it. I think Pages would get about an 8, and Word 2007 would get the best score, but that'd still only be around 9 :)
Indeed, it didn't occur to them to do a Word-AbiWord shootout (or the real dog, a Writer-AbiWord shootout). I am not an OSS extremist, and I'm running Mac OS X, so I've lately found Pages to be extremely good for the casual stuff I do.
Against the major OSS suites, it has a more features than AbiWord (its page layout is superior), fewer than Writer, but it seems to have the best Word import-export of them all. Couldn't help but notice that "Ability to accurately open '.doc' files" wasn't one of TFA's categories.
I'm doubtful this will end up going anywhere. It's only in development, they don't have a script, it's Tobey's first real movie as a producer, and the guy they've brought on to do the writing is an unknown. Tobey just wants a sweet development paycheck-- after five years alternating between Brett Ratner and the Walchowski brothers to direct, and half-a-dozen "it" girls "attached" for Lynn Minmei, the project will die quietly, with Tobey $5 million richer.
On the other hand, he might get really attached to it and spend 10 years waiting for its moment to come, only to make a Robotech so intellectual and true-to-source that it ends up being slow and uninteresting ("Paging Gale Ann Hurd, The Hulk would like to see you!").
Then the trans-humanists among them would just argue that the destruction of the human race is really a function of human endeavour, and that that which lives now in the ultra-intelligent machine is the new "man," and we Cro-Magnons were just a substrate, in the way that the Christian Rapture will either kill you or turn you into a spirit in communion with the Lord God. Implicit is that humanity will be destroyed, and that this outcome is "good."
The "technological singularity" is a form of intellectual messianism, a myth for people who like their dogma wordy and their sci-fi hard. It's a three way race between the nerd raptue, Jesus and the Hidden Imam.
That's not different from a lot of high-ticket consumer products. Want to by a new Lexus from the dealership, or a tailored suit, you'll find the pricing just as foggy. If you want to buy a computer priced like gasoline, buy a Dell, but they're just as weird and capricious about their prices, they just hide their actual price in a vast system of rebates. Apple's pricing is also supposed to be simple to make their market segmentation simple. If I'm looking for a cheap iPod, it's easy to see which one's for me and compare it (well, not as easy as it has been, but still). I don't have to wade through four or five different lines with different price levels, rebate options, compatibility, capabilites, form factors, etc... There's both a downside and an upside to going with a single vendor.
With Apple, they keep their cards close to their chest and then Wham! the thing you bought yesterday depreciates 30% overnight.I know you picked that number off a tree, but just about any computer (or car, or expensive resellable item, for that matter) depreciates 30% the moment you take it out of the store. I would also direct you to eBay to compare the relative resale values of 2 year old Macs, compared to 2 year old Dells or ThinkPads.
Yah, because everybody knows how accurate and complete the Win32 documentation is, just ask the Wine team!
You can write a program following MSDN documentation to the letter and have it crash horribly; even worse, you can ignore the MSDN documentation and have your program run great.
You right, I was sleepy last night ;)
Quickie: IAS or Indicated Airspeed is a flight dynamic that measures the unidirectional force of air along an aircraft's angle of attack and presents this data as a speed; it is measured with a "pitot tube," a metal tube on the wing or nose of a plane that collects air and measures the amount of force being applied down the tube. At standard temp and pressure, with no wind, and with the aircraft's angle of attack parallel to the surface, this number will theoretically give you the speed at which you are traveling along the ground. As ambient pressure goes down (say with altitude), IAS for a given ground speed goes down; as wind picks up, depending on the wind's bearing to the aircraft's orientation, IAS can go up or down (A plane flying a 100 kts headwind and 100 kts IAS will, all other things being equal, in fact have a ground speed of zero). As angle of attack increases, ground speed goes down. You might be flying at Mach 2, but if you're pointed straight up, your ground speed will be zero.
It might mean that the angular momentum of the universe is nonzero, if a majority of them are turning the same direction. Or, even if they all cancel out, that momentum in the early universe tended to be oriented in a plane. (IANAP, just a guess but seems logical)
I'm curious if the Milky Way is a part of the alignment.