Forget my MOD points on this story....my goodness. I'm not a fan of BluRay, but wow. Why the heck would I EVER want a BluRay player when I have other options to watching HD video.
Those above comparing this to prohibition are spot on. Let's make it REALLY hard for people to do what they want with their content when its REALLY easy for them to steal the content and do whatever they want to do with it. Brilliant!!
What really bothers me is that it appears Apple fell for the same trap as BluRay with their on-line content. They could have really had a differentiation in their stuff vs. BluRay, but it appears they don't mind opening up "bags of hurt" after all....
Try this. Divide 700 billion by 300 million and then divide 2 billion by 300 million. Thats what a drop in the bucket means.
OUR government bailed out unscrupulous banks and investment firms to the tune of thousands of dollars per person!!!! They will deliver us nothing but DEBT for our investment. They basically held the economy at gunpoint until congress flinched.
The money that has gone to NASA historically over time has helped spur advancement in science and technology, the money going to the ^#%$%^#@ing bailout will line the pockets of the rich and well off who created the mess in the markets.
From a return on investment perspective NASA at least provides something. The bailout provides only negative results....
You dolt. He's not saying that Bill Joy would be a bad choice, hes saying that having a CTO at the top level of government might be a bad precedent to set. What if the next President were to choose Bill Gates? That would be horrendously bad in my opinion (and the opinion of the original poster).
So the logic is not about who is being selected it is about having this post at all because it could lead to dangerous precedents in the future.
Yes, but 0.1% of something really large is still a significant number. I agree that the price can't go to zero for buying a song online, but I fail to see how it couldn't go down to say $0.10 per song.
Like everyone's been saying the bill had enough votes to override a veto because both democrats AND republicans signed it. And Clinton didn't regretfully sign the DMCA, he happily signed it. They've all been bought by the big media companies.
I think that "on-target" bit is a bit of wishful thinking on the part of climatologists that la nina will break and temps will shoot up.
I the area I live, temperatures have been below average ALL year. This year we've had the latest snowfall I can remember in my lifetime, the latest date I can remember for the ice going off the lakes, unseasonably cold whether including the latest frost I can remember, a late start to spring planting.
Where I live it would take considerably above average temperatures for the entire rest of the year to get this year even close to being just average. Its nowhere near top ten where I live.
Cue the "it GLOBAL warming, your region might not be warmer," I certainly expect that response. However, that response reminds me of people who state that Mars' northern icecap is shrinking and the common debunking Global Warming alarmists give for that is that the warming on Mars is just "regional."
What I'm seeing where I live with regards to Global Warming isn't convincing me that its a crisis. In fact, if we have another 4-5 years of unseasonably cold springs, I'd really begin to think global cooling was on the way. Yes, spring and summer where I live have been shockingly cold this year.
If the record companies refuse to learn what works and let new methods of distributing and listening to music come into existence, then I'm not bothered by going back to the old methods myself.....
Bullshit. Over the past few years I've moved to completely legal downloads (via iTunes, amazon, etc.). I also listen to a lot of internet radio and love it. If the record companies succeed in destroying Internet radio, I may just have take another look at whether I should buy music online or just download it. If I start downloading music illegaly again, I'll have to start with my finetune and pandora playlists...
NASA and the Air Force have different missions here. NASA want to go to the Moon and Mars, and a space plane can't do that. USAF is trying to build something to fly into space around the Earth.
I am content with both missions being done.
As for Obama, his idea of halting work on manned spaceflight in order to increase Science and Technology education is completely backwards. Just using/. as a reference, most of the people interested in Science and Technology are keenly interested in space flight and exploration. Most of us as kids growing up followed very closely NASA and its space program, and most of us (demographically speaking) do not remember man walking on the Moon. Obama's insistence in killing funding for manned space exploration will guarantee the US a backseat in space exploration by the end of this century and all the money he will have spent on Science education will be wasted.
The kids growing up in this country are hammered with the message that to be rich and successful you need to either be a movie/rock star, sports star, lawyer, or doctor. The engineering field is suffering an uphill battle to continue to attract young people to the field. Whether its correct or not, manned spaceflight, and in fact the entirety of NASA's programs is the largest PR engine to fuel the interest of the next generation in engineering disciplines. Without it, no matter how much you spend on education, without the vision provided by the great engineering challenges NASA takes on, the engineering field in the US will slowly die.
Simple. Boot-strap firmware downloaded to your box over the net to your client box when you boot up. The client only needs to have very basic start up firmware to get the os (really os interface - think RDP) to your machine.
1) Permanent Moonbase, with benefits of a) Research opportunities in microgravity (I know ISS has this but you could do bigger scope projects on the moon). b) Mining. Finding rare minerals would be key. c) Platform base for building missions to other planets. Sure going to Mars can be done without going to the moon. But it might be a good launching platform for missions to Jupiter, Saturn, etc. Also the aforementioned atomic methods could be usable from teh moon. d) Expand Scientific knowledge of the moon. Expanding mankind's knowledge is a good thing. e) Building/Testing a Space Elevator. Building and testing of a space elevator would be much easier on the moon.
There are lots and lots of reasons to go to the moon. To send the argument back the other way, why the hell should the American taxpayer be bailing out people (and banks, really mostly banks) that got in over their head with their mortgages? We should spend THAT money on space exploration!!
I agree completely. Barak Obabma understands the need for better science and math education, but he fails completely in realizing that the motivation for many of our current engineers was the space program. His plan to cut NASA funding to increase science and math education, will increase the amount of teaching being done (maybe), but his cutting NASA's budget to do it will decrease the number of engineers and scientists we create.
We seem to be capable of talking about change. We just (as a country) don't seem to give a damn about dreaming about the future anymore. That will hurt us more in the long run than anything else.
Everything you said doesn't make the "fairness doctrine" less wrong. It has always been a perverse affront to free speech through the use of technical loopholes.
I think Ender's Game is fine for pre-teens (had my son read it). I do agree that Speaker for the Dead, however, is a more "grown up" book. Instead of having my son read that I had him read the Ender's Shadow book which is a great retelling of the story from Bean's point of view.
Herein lies the beauty of Open Source. You don't have to help. I'm sure they can find someone else to help develop their software.
And in reverse, even if you disagree with them but they develop kick ass software, you can take it and use it and they can't stop you.
The greatest thing about Open Source in my opinion is that like communism, everyone who wants to contribute to furthering the cause may contribute, but unlike communism those who don't want to don't have to.
Dang, I gave three weeks notice at my last job, but they let me keep all my access right up until the end and I had to do detailed documentation to hand off all of my projects.....
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Every version/patch I have downloaded for NeoOffice has come from Bittorrent.
Bittorrent has a plethora of legal uses.
Forget my MOD points on this story....my goodness. I'm not a fan of BluRay, but wow. Why the heck would I EVER want a BluRay player when I have other options to watching HD video.
Those above comparing this to prohibition are spot on. Let's make it REALLY hard for people to do what they want with their content when its REALLY easy for them to steal the content and do whatever they want to do with it. Brilliant!!
What really bothers me is that it appears Apple fell for the same trap as BluRay with their on-line content. They could have really had a differentiation in their stuff vs. BluRay, but it appears they don't mind opening up "bags of hurt" after all....
Try this. Divide 700 billion by 300 million and then divide 2 billion by 300 million. Thats what a drop in the bucket means.
OUR government bailed out unscrupulous banks and investment firms to the tune of thousands of dollars per person!!!! They will deliver us nothing but DEBT for our investment. They basically held the economy at gunpoint until congress flinched.
The money that has gone to NASA historically over time has helped spur advancement in science and technology, the money going to the ^#%$%^#@ing bailout will line the pockets of the rich and well off who created the mess in the markets.
From a return on investment perspective NASA at least provides something. The bailout provides only negative results....
So, yes, funding NASA's a drop in the bucket....
You dolt. He's not saying that Bill Joy would be a bad choice, hes saying that having a CTO at the top level of government might be a bad precedent to set. What if the next President were to choose Bill Gates? That would be horrendously bad in my opinion (and the opinion of the original poster).
So the logic is not about who is being selected it is about having this post at all because it could lead to dangerous precedents in the future.
And I completely agree with that sentiment.
No, what he said is right. It the show Sliders that got it wrong, which really annoyed me at the time.
Yes, but 0.1% of something really large is still a significant number. I agree that the price can't go to zero for buying a song online, but I fail to see how it couldn't go down to say $0.10 per song.
Like everyone's been saying the bill had enough votes to override a veto because both democrats AND republicans signed it. And Clinton didn't regretfully sign the DMCA, he happily signed it. They've all been bought by the big media companies.
Look here http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/
Well Rieser and OJ _do_ have something in common...
I think that "on-target" bit is a bit of wishful thinking on the part of climatologists that la nina will break and temps will shoot up.
I the area I live, temperatures have been below average ALL year. This year we've had the latest snowfall I can remember in my lifetime, the latest date I can remember for the ice going off the lakes, unseasonably cold whether including the latest frost I can remember, a late start to spring planting.
Where I live it would take considerably above average temperatures for the entire rest of the year to get this year even close to being just average. Its nowhere near top ten where I live.
Cue the "it GLOBAL warming, your region might not be warmer," I certainly expect that response. However, that response reminds me of people who state that Mars' northern icecap is shrinking and the common debunking Global Warming alarmists give for that is that the warming on Mars is just "regional."
What I'm seeing where I live with regards to Global Warming isn't convincing me that its a crisis. In fact, if we have another 4-5 years of unseasonably cold springs, I'd really begin to think global cooling was on the way. Yes, spring and summer where I live have been shockingly cold this year.
If the record companies refuse to learn what works and let new methods of distributing and listening to music come into existence, then I'm not bothered by going back to the old methods myself.....
Bullshit. Over the past few years I've moved to completely legal downloads (via iTunes, amazon, etc.).
I also listen to a lot of internet radio and love it. If the record companies succeed in destroying Internet radio, I may just have take another look at whether I should buy music online or just download it.
If I start downloading music illegaly again, I'll have to start with my finetune and pandora playlists...
NASA and the Air Force have different missions here. NASA want to go to the Moon and Mars, and a space plane can't do that. USAF is trying to build something to fly into space around the Earth.
I am content with both missions being done.
As for Obama, his idea of halting work on manned spaceflight in order to increase Science and Technology education is completely backwards. Just using /. as a reference, most of the people interested in Science and Technology are keenly interested in space flight and exploration. Most of us as kids growing up followed very closely NASA and its space program, and most of us (demographically speaking) do not remember man walking on the Moon. Obama's insistence in killing funding for manned space exploration will guarantee the US a backseat in space exploration by the end of this century and all the money he will have spent on Science education will be wasted.
The kids growing up in this country are hammered with the message that to be rich and successful you need to either be a movie/rock star, sports star, lawyer, or doctor. The engineering field is suffering an uphill battle to continue to attract young people to the field. Whether its correct or not, manned spaceflight, and in fact the entirety of NASA's programs is the largest PR engine to fuel the interest of the next generation in engineering disciplines. Without it, no matter how much you spend on education, without the vision provided by the great engineering challenges NASA takes on, the engineering field in the US will slowly die.
Simple. Boot-strap firmware downloaded to your box over the net to your client box when you boot up. The client only needs to have very basic start up firmware to get the os (really os interface - think RDP) to your machine.
Ok.
1) Permanent Moonbase, with benefits of
a) Research opportunities in microgravity (I know ISS has this but you could do bigger scope projects on the moon).
b) Mining. Finding rare minerals would be key.
c) Platform base for building missions to other planets. Sure going to Mars can be done without going to the moon. But it might be a good launching platform for missions to Jupiter, Saturn, etc. Also the aforementioned atomic methods could be usable from teh moon.
d) Expand Scientific knowledge of the moon. Expanding mankind's knowledge is a good thing.
e) Building/Testing a Space Elevator. Building and testing of a space elevator would be much easier on the moon.
There are lots and lots of reasons to go to the moon. To send the argument back the other way, why the hell should the American taxpayer be bailing out people (and banks, really mostly banks) that got in over their head with their mortgages? We should spend THAT money on space exploration!!
I vote "manned trip to Mars" every time :-). But that's just me. You make some good points.
I agree completely. Barak Obabma understands the need for better science and math education, but he fails completely in realizing that the motivation for many of our current engineers was the space program. His plan to cut NASA funding to increase science and math education, will increase the amount of teaching being done (maybe), but his cutting NASA's budget to do it will decrease the number of engineers and scientists we create.
We seem to be capable of talking about change. We just (as a country) don't seem to give a damn about dreaming about the future anymore. That will hurt us more in the long run than anything else.
Everything you said doesn't make the "fairness doctrine" less wrong. It has always been a perverse affront to free speech through the use of technical loopholes.
It should never see the light of day again.
I think Ender's Game is fine for pre-teens (had my son read it). I do agree that Speaker for the Dead, however, is a more "grown up" book. Instead of having my son read that I had him read the Ender's Shadow book which is a great retelling of the story from Bean's point of view.
Agreed. The Herman Miller Aeron is an awesome chair. I used to have one and they are fantastic. I miss it every day.
I'm actually contemplating buying my own and bringing it in to the office because the cheapskates won't buy me one.
Where I live its working. In the past 6 months, every one has had below normal temperatures.
Herein lies the beauty of Open Source. You don't have to help. I'm sure they can find someone else to help develop their software.
And in reverse, even if you disagree with them but they develop kick ass software, you can take it and use it and they can't stop you.
The greatest thing about Open Source in my opinion is that like communism, everyone who wants to contribute to furthering the cause may contribute, but unlike communism those who don't want to don't have to.
Sit there, smile, and collect your check.
Dang, I gave three weeks notice at my last job, but they let me keep all my access right up until the end and I had to do detailed documentation to hand off all of my projects.....
Oh, wrong site.
I think you're completely right. Icahn could care less about whether Yahoo survives this merger, he just wants to make money.
I guess that means that he's not an idiot, hes just a greedy evil bastard.