If a company outsources to another company in the same country, it is at worst a zero-sum. Factor in some additional management positions, the revenue generated in the real estate, office supply, and other non-IT industries, and the migration of jobs away from large corporations toward small businesses, and suddenly you have a net benefit.
...was selected and set up by the mayor, a republican.
You are misinformed. The mayor of Boston is a Democrat. The governor is a Republican, and went on record saying that his job was to make sure the convention was safe, and that the participants had a good time. He then joked that he also wanted them to ultimately be unsuccessful.
Someone went to a lot of trouble on that page to demonstrate their ignorance and lack of logical thinking skills.
Comparing two quotes made by Jesus to a series of verses from Psalms and Lamentations, and one verse in 1st Corinthians is not an apples-to-apples comparison.
The statements in Matthew and Luke were made by Jesus (God incarnate). The statements in Psalms, Lamentations, and 1 Corinthians were made by humans that followed God.
When you take the statements in the right-hand column in context, you will discover that the person writing them (in the case of Psalms and Lamentations) was essentially pouring his heart out to God. Asking, hoping, praying, or looking for justice or divine vengence is different from God giving a mandate for you to do it yourself.
The verse in 1 Corinthians carries a very different message than any of the others, and really doesn't belong in the list at all. This usage of the word "anathema" would more accurately be translated as "cursed". Since God is the only one that can really curse a person, this goes back to my previous point about the difference between God acting against a person vs. telling other humans to do it. See also my next point regarding the translation.
The verses cited suffer from a lack of clarity, since they are using language forms that most English speaking people no longer use (the King's English, circa A.D. 1600, as used in the King James' Version).
Even if we ignore the context problem that arises from using verses in Psalms and Lamentations, the changes that Jesus Christ made during his ministry made many of the rules in the Old Testament moot. His command to love our enemies superceded any previous command to the contrary (had there been one that wasn't specific to a particular situation). That only leaves the verse from 1 Corinthians, and I've already refuted that one.
The bag I have is an American Tourister, style 930525.
This is a wheeled case, which I use to save my back from the weight of books and magazines that I carry in addition to my laptop. However, if I don't pack in so many books and such, it is light enough to carry like a normal (though oversized) briefcase.
I don't know about price, though, as it was a 10-year survival gift from my employer.
Actually, I would say that Eminem's grammy does not refute the point, but rather proves it. It demonstrates that with the proper marketing, even total crap can pass for something of value.
I guess that makes Eminem the Micro$oft of the music industry.
I do believe Shakespere, Mozart, etc had no (C) to their work.
I don't feel that is an appropriate comparison. Shakespeare, Mozart, and most other artists prior to the 20th century had an implicit "copyright", since they made their living in one of two ways:
They controlled access to their works themselves,
or they had a sponsor.
In Shakespeare's case, he controlled access to his plays. You only got to experience a play by going to the Globe Theatre and paying the admission price. The money helped him eat long enough to write something else, whether that was another play, a sonnet, or whatever. Other artists made their living in much the same way, creating works that were presented at local venues that charged admission.
Bach, Handel, Mozart, and many other composers were essentially payrolled. Some worked for the church, some for royalty, and others for wealthy nobles. They were free to work, safe in the knowledge that there was food on the table, but they almost always turned over the finished work to their sponsor / employer.
(Sidebar: Isn't this starting to sound like the same options we have when we write code today? We can work on our own and control it ourselves, including the option to give it away freely, or we work for someone else and they keep what we write.)
Either way, it was difficult for their work to be stolen. The manuscripts could be physically stolen (but that is a physical object, subject to ownership) or their sponsor / partner could refuse payment (but that is breach of contract). The artist had recourse either way.
Copyright law came into play to prevent talented, but unethical people from going to hear the opera or see the play and then depriving the author of their livelihood by recreating it somewhere else. Prior to that, the independent artist's options were very limited. In short, copyright law provided additional protection for the artist's livelihood, but otherwise simply codified what had already been happening for centuries. The main difference is that prior to formal copyright law, the "copyright" expired upon the death of the author, which makes sense because the creator no longer needed to make a living.
Pioneer has acquired the rights to Akira some time ago, and they said that they were doing a completely new dub of Akira
I sure hope so... I recently bought Akira on VHS - the supposedly redone, rereleased version (Orion Pictures release - don't rely on store clerks for your anime info). The dubbed voices were every bit as bad as the above posts indicate.
It is, however, still a great classic, feature-length anime.
...now that the whole thing's started it's probably too late for Metallica to back down and admit that Napster is a good idea for them. Plus, their record company/management certainly won't want to do this...
I agree that it's probably too late to single out Metallica for this kind of treatment, but I've often wondered... what would happen if the record labels suddenly started getting letters, phone calls, and e-mails saying, "I like this song and want to purchase a license for the MP3. No, I don't want the whole album and I'm not going to buy it at $15 for the one song I want."
This is kind of like Microsoft's Open License program, just for music.
Do you think it would actually work, or is it really just about control and not money or legality?
Would most DJ's even consider using MP3's, or anything that had ever been MP3 encoded? Probably not.
IANADJ, but I find this statement interesting. There's a company in Clearwater, Florida that makes an MP3-based DJ system, and their newspaper interview described it as the perfect way to be a portable DJ. Probably nothing but company hype, but then again...
I remember seeing an article in PC Week not too long ago that put several of these head-to-head. Unfortunately, I can't find anything on the PC Week website, and the hard copy magazine is long gone.
Other field test versions of InterBase 6.0 for Windows, Solaris and CPM will be made publicly available shortly.
Maybe I have my head in the cyber-sand, but is this the same CPM from the 1970's? I find that hard to believe, but then I find it hard to believe that people still use Basic and Cobol. =B)
Lucas and Spielberg both have said that they are "waiting for the format to mature" (whatever that means) before they release their movies on DVD.
I seem to remember that the first Spielberg movie on DVD was Twister, and that Spielberg had a cow when Warner Bros. released it. He's since released a few more, including Private Ryan, but where are Schindler's List and the Indiana Jones series? Exactly.
Lucas has done the same thing, releasing some of his "smaller" films on DVD but holding the big ones up his sleeve.
Personally, I think this makes since, because I think a lot of these guys got burned by the whole LaserDisc thing when it flopped, and are waiting to see if DVD is going to stick around for the long haul.
My company has beaten this horse so dead, there's only the chalk outline left. As a result, I have to live with names like CUSFLTPATCC001 and USFLTTPSTCAB1, which are, respectively, client computer #1 in the United States, state of Florida, city of Tampa, in the Tampa City Center building, and WINS server #1 in the United States, state of Florida, city of Temple Terrace, in the "Suburban Technology Center" building. ARGH!
But then, I guess when you've got over 1600 servers, you have to do something.
the never-ending struggle between technology and the self-proclaimed forces of morality
Speaking as a Christian geek, I didn't know that there was a struggle between technology and morality.
There will always be groups of Christians (or Muslims, or orthodox Jews, or...) that just don't get it . These people will view anything that challenges them to think in new ways as evil. This was true of the printing press way back then, and it's true of the Internet now.
The challenge for Christians is to look beyond the things that get all the hype (porn, for example) and to figure out how God's truth applies in the new context. The challenge for non-Christians is to remember that humans screw things up. Just because a bunch of idiots use God's name to run an Inquisition (or to persecute scientists, or to burn books, or to campaign against the Internet rather than learn how to use it to spread the Gospel) that doesn't mean that God feels the same way.
Intelligent people, whether they are Christians or not, understand that there is no one, single explanation for the violence in our culture. Television, video games, movies, and the Internet are all products of our society. To hack up an old colloquialism, 'they don't make society, they just reflect it.'
Intelligent Christians don't struggle against technology, we embrace it (some, like me, make their living off of it) and find a way to use it to tell people about how much God loves them.
Ignore the idiots, whether they're Christians or not.
Actually, Dell is on the bandwagon, too. The Yahoo article briefly mentioned that Dell was releasing their 3700-series laptops in two colors. I checked their website, and it's true: "Tahoe Blue" and "Storm Grey".
My question is, how is "Storm Grey" any different than "is-that-my-notebook-or-yours" grey?
I get around 50-60 words a minute with no mistakes.... Almost all my typing is done with 4 fingers out of 10.
I used to type like that, and it wasn't until I bludgeoned myself into touch typing and suffered through an entire summer of 10 wpm that I started getting good at it.
I consider it to be very much like using Windows: humans adapting to a poor design, then becoming so familiar with it that they never want it to change.
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What about just having 1 humongous ship built to take care of the problem, with its front end able to open and scoop up the garbage...
They already turned it into a TV show.
Actually, CALEA also provides the means for the telcos to charge the costs back to the LEAs.
eSvn is a Subversion GUI client that is based on the Qt library.
...is the United States.
Outsourcing != Overseas exportation of jobs
If a company outsources to another company in the same country, it is at worst a zero-sum. Factor in some additional management positions, the revenue generated in the real estate, office supply, and other non-IT industries, and the migration of jobs away from large corporations toward small businesses, and suddenly you have a net benefit.
Here's the proof: RFC 1925, 2.(3)
All topics eventually degenerate into anti-Bush commentary.
You are misinformed. The mayor of Boston is a Democrat. The governor is a Republican, and went on record saying that his job was to make sure the convention was safe, and that the participants had a good time. He then joked that he also wanted them to ultimately be unsuccessful.
Someone went to a lot of trouble on that page to demonstrate their ignorance and lack of logical thinking skills.
Comparing two quotes made by Jesus to a series of verses from Psalms and Lamentations, and one verse in 1st Corinthians is not an apples-to-apples comparison.
The bag I have is an American Tourister, style 930525.
This is a wheeled case, which I use to save my back from the weight of books and magazines that I carry in addition to my laptop. However, if I don't pack in so many books and such, it is light enough to carry like a normal (though oversized) briefcase.
I don't know about price, though, as it was a 10-year survival gift from my employer.
Actually, I would say that Eminem's grammy does not refute the point, but rather proves it. It demonstrates that with the proper marketing, even total crap can pass for something of value.
I guess that makes Eminem the Micro$oft of the music industry.
I don't feel that is an appropriate comparison. Shakespeare, Mozart, and most other artists prior to the 20th century had an implicit "copyright", since they made their living in one of two ways:
In Shakespeare's case, he controlled access to his plays. You only got to experience a play by going to the Globe Theatre and paying the admission price. The money helped him eat long enough to write something else, whether that was another play, a sonnet, or whatever. Other artists made their living in much the same way, creating works that were presented at local venues that charged admission.
Bach, Handel, Mozart, and many other composers were essentially payrolled. Some worked for the church, some for royalty, and others for wealthy nobles. They were free to work, safe in the knowledge that there was food on the table, but they almost always turned over the finished work to their sponsor / employer.
(Sidebar: Isn't this starting to sound like the same options we have when we write code today? We can work on our own and control it ourselves, including the option to give it away freely, or we work for someone else and they keep what we write.)
Either way, it was difficult for their work to be stolen. The manuscripts could be physically stolen (but that is a physical object, subject to ownership) or their sponsor / partner could refuse payment (but that is breach of contract). The artist had recourse either way.
Copyright law came into play to prevent talented, but unethical people from going to hear the opera or see the play and then depriving the author of their livelihood by recreating it somewhere else. Prior to that, the independent artist's options were very limited. In short, copyright law provided additional protection for the artist's livelihood, but otherwise simply codified what had already been happening for centuries. The main difference is that prior to formal copyright law, the "copyright" expired upon the death of the author, which makes sense because the creator no longer needed to make a living.
Thanks, you just made my Friday. Wait until I tell the wife that I want to visit "Stonehenge". =B)
- Cinematography: A+
- Continuity / Editing: A
- Screenplay / Dialogue: A
- Acting / Delivery: A
- Faithfullness to the Book: B
- Overall: A
If you want something exactly like the book, go read the book. To expect any movie to be exactly like the book on which it is based is ludicrous.I sure hope so... I recently bought Akira on VHS - the supposedly redone, rereleased version (Orion Pictures release - don't rely on store clerks for your anime info). The dubbed voices were every bit as bad as the above posts indicate.
It is, however, still a great classic, feature-length anime.
I agree that it's probably too late to single out Metallica for this kind of treatment, but I've often wondered... what would happen if the record labels suddenly started getting letters, phone calls, and e-mails saying, "I like this song and want to purchase a license for the MP3. No, I don't want the whole album and I'm not going to buy it at $15 for the one song I want."
This is kind of like Microsoft's Open License program, just for music.
Do you think it would actually work, or is it really just about control and not money or legality?
IANADJ, but I find this statement interesting. There's a company in Clearwater, Florida that makes an MP3-based DJ system, and their newspaper interview described it as the perfect way to be a portable DJ. Probably nothing but company hype, but then again...
I remember seeing an article in PC Week not too long ago that put several of these head-to-head. Unfortunately, I can't find anything on the PC Week website, and the hard copy magazine is long gone.
Any pack rat geeks out there still have theirs?
Maybe I have my head in the cyber-sand, but is this the same CPM from the 1970's? I find that hard to believe, but then I find it hard to believe that people still use Basic and Cobol. =B)
Windows Millennium (yes, that is the real name) will be released 2Q2000.
Lucas and Spielberg both have said that they are "waiting for the format to mature" (whatever that means) before they release their movies on DVD.
I seem to remember that the first Spielberg movie on DVD was Twister, and that Spielberg had a cow when Warner Bros. released it. He's since released a few more, including Private Ryan, but where are Schindler's List and the Indiana Jones series? Exactly.
Lucas has done the same thing, releasing some of his "smaller" films on DVD but holding the big ones up his sleeve.
Personally, I think this makes since, because I think a lot of these guys got burned by the whole LaserDisc thing when it flopped, and are waiting to see if DVD is going to stick around for the long haul.
But then, I guess when you've got over 1600 servers, you have to do something.
Speaking as a Christian geek, I didn't know that there was a struggle between technology and morality.
There will always be groups of Christians (or Muslims, or orthodox Jews, or...) that just don't get it . These people will view anything that challenges them to think in new ways as evil. This was true of the printing press way back then, and it's true of the Internet now.
The challenge for Christians is to look beyond the things that get all the hype (porn, for example) and to figure out how God's truth applies in the new context. The challenge for non-Christians is to remember that humans screw things up . Just because a bunch of idiots use God's name to run an Inquisition (or to persecute scientists, or to burn books, or to campaign against the Internet rather than learn how to use it to spread the Gospel) that doesn't mean that God feels the same way.
Intelligent people, whether they are Christians or not, understand that there is no one, single explanation for the violence in our culture. Television, video games, movies, and the Internet are all products of our society. To hack up an old colloquialism, 'they don't make society, they just reflect it.'
Intelligent Christians don't struggle against technology, we embrace it (some, like me, make their living off of it) and find a way to use it to tell people about how much God loves them.
Ignore the idiots, whether they're Christians or not.
Actually, Dell is on the bandwagon, too. The Yahoo article briefly mentioned that Dell was releasing their 3700-series laptops in two colors. I checked their website, and it's true: "Tahoe Blue" and "Storm Grey".
My question is, how is "Storm Grey" any different than "is-that-my-notebook-or-yours" grey?
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I used to type like that, and it wasn't until I bludgeoned myself into touch typing and suffered through an entire summer of 10 wpm that I started getting good at it.
I consider it to be very much like using Windows: humans adapting to a poor design, then becoming so familiar with it that they never want it to change.
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