I went in 2007 as an unemployed student. A group of us printed business cards labelled with our Computer Science club's name, made up positions for everyone, and drove to Vegas. Most of the others got "engineering" badges. I think it was required for at least one "sales" person to go...and I ended up with that badge.
For Japanese, I use "Rikaikun" on Chrome, or "Rikaichan" on Firefox. They give little pop up translations of Japanese words, activated on mouse-over. It's incredibly useful for me, since I've got a basic grasp of grammar, but my vocabulary is severely lacking.
Reading hiragana and katakana isn't that hard. Learning the 1000+ kanji to be usefully semi-literate? Pain in the arse.
Black people's hair is particularly inclined to break or fall out if not kept moisturized. That's why they use oil in it so often. I think if I were black, I'd just keep it close-cropped instead of dealing with greasy hair products, but that's just me.
I think the point is that older codecs *need* the extra space to contain the data. DVD's quality to bitrate ratio is limited by the codec used. Taking that meaning, DVD can be easily be compressed to around 1GB and lose little to no quality, using an MPEG4-based codec.
It's more likely you'll be the next victim in a car crash (unless you're living in a few specific parts of the world). "Subversive" doesn't necessarily equate to "terrorist", and not everyone that wants to hide their communications are dangerous to the public (or at all, necessarily).
the First Amendment does not protect stealing goods off trucks
Yeah, true. But there are several points to consider that I feel make the quoted statement utterly fallacious. First, an accusation of theft isn't immediately punished; guilt has to be proven first. Second, theft of a physical object means that the original owner loses the object. In the case of a piece of digital property, the original holder hasn't lost possession of anything. The content-creation industry's obsession with immediate punishment before investigation doesn't make sense. It violates the due process rights of the accused for no legally-sound reason. It allows for corporate actions to replace proper review by the judicial system....and it's a short-sidedly, seemingly-logical extension of a content-holder's desire to maximize revenue.
I don't see how "used digital music" actually means anything. There's no way to stop a user from retaining a copy of the file without yet *another* level of some nasty DRM. Anyhow, the idea of "used data" is pretty ridiculous. I predict that the RIAA takes this company to court for enabling and encouraging "unauthorized redistribution of copyrighted IP" or some such. The pusher doesn't like it when you find another source...
If you look at the exact wording of the license, it says "A. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time. ".
khellendros1984 slaps an Apple sticker on his PC I'm sure "Apple-labeled" has some legally-defined meaning elsewhere that would preclude it, of course.
I ran Slackware with Fluxbox for a while, about 2004-2005. The "hours and hours of frustration" came with the effort of compiling and installing x.org, its supporting libraries, and fluxbox when Slack hadn't yet switched from xfree86...good times, good times.
Yes, if the processor implements a Turing-complete instruction set, anything that can be calculated by another computer could be calculated by *that* computer. Now, the real question is if it could be calculated at real-time speeds on that microcontroller...
I don't have kids, and I don't know that I will. I'm forced to support the education of others' children through my taxes. *shrug*, they paid for me. I don't think there's really an escape to paying education taxes.
I've always felt that the Ultima Underworld games were VASTLY underrated! In 1993 and 1994, I was crawling the same dungeons (And yes, I still remember the lizard people language...)
Would you have complained if he started the comment with "Agreed." instead? "This", as the sole content of a post, sounds a lot like the AOL-style "me too!", but using it as a sign of agreement before expanding on the point seems like a perfectly valid usage of a new linguistic construct to me.
They have animal shelters, and if an animal is in the shelter too long without being adopted, it's put down. This is in contrast to no-kill shelters run by other organizations, where they would put down only the animals that are beyond help.
The choice of a default browser for a distro that caters toward less-experienced users (like Ubuntu) is very important. Frankly, most users probably won't change away from whatever the OS came with.
It's a similar situation for the other Window Managers. Why require a user to install and configure major interface-changing software like that, when you're marketing your OS as dead-simple to use?
When I was in college, the school gave me a couple XP licenses through some deal with Microsoft. So, I didn't have retail disks, but neither was I using pirated/unlicensed software.
...Which isn't what they're doing. I've got a circa-2001 Nokia digicam that works just fine in Windows 7. Your camera may have used some non-standard communication protocol, but mine shows up as a mounted drive (with all the glory of its 64MB memory card)
It's a fairly normal thing not to produce new drivers for old hardware that speaks a non-standard language. Linux has maintainers that do whatever minimal changes are required to keep the old drivers from bit-rot. It doesn't make sense to a company to take the trouble to do that, QA the resulting drivers, and release new drivers for old hardware.
Features like pervasive advertising! And a nearly unnavigable menu system, yay! Just give me back my blades, and I'll be happy again. The current UI is balls.
MS released the HD-DVD drive before. I don't see why they couldn't release a Bluray version of the same thing. Well....any technical reason. It would certainly be easier than releasing a new console.
2 days before the PSN story became known, my credit card number was used for several fraudulent purchases halfway across the country from me. I'll admit that it could be a coincidence....but that would be a hell of a coincidence.
RIAA *is* the middleman. And they're the ones indiscriminately attacking people without sufficient proof of their guilt. Copyright infringement is a crime, and it's immoral, true. But offers for cash settlements are nothing short of blackmail and extortion.
Regardless of anything else they do for an artist, the facts that matter to me as a consumer are: The RIAA believes that it deserves to make money on non-RIAA-members' music, they list non-member (seventh question down) labels as members, legally attack individuals without sufficient evidence, extort money from massive lists of people....basically, they're the mob.
There's nothing they can provide to me that makes it worth doing business with the mob.
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I went in 2007 as an unemployed student. A group of us printed business cards labelled with our Computer Science club's name, made up positions for everyone, and drove to Vegas. Most of the others got "engineering" badges. I think it was required for at least one "sales" person to go...and I ended up with that badge.
For Japanese, I use "Rikaikun" on Chrome, or "Rikaichan" on Firefox. They give little pop up translations of Japanese words, activated on mouse-over. It's incredibly useful for me, since I've got a basic grasp of grammar, but my vocabulary is severely lacking.
Reading hiragana and katakana isn't that hard. Learning the 1000+ kanji to be usefully semi-literate? Pain in the arse.
You....you ate your books? By "in the 100% literal sense", am I take it that you chewed, swallowed, digested and excreted the novels?
As an Askreddit, under a throwaway account.
Black people's hair is particularly inclined to break or fall out if not kept moisturized. That's why they use oil in it so often. I think if I were black, I'd just keep it close-cropped instead of dealing with greasy hair products, but that's just me.
I think the point is that older codecs *need* the extra space to contain the data. DVD's quality to bitrate ratio is limited by the codec used. Taking that meaning, DVD can be easily be compressed to around 1GB and lose little to no quality, using an MPEG4-based codec.
It's more likely you'll be the next victim in a car crash (unless you're living in a few specific parts of the world). "Subversive" doesn't necessarily equate to "terrorist", and not everyone that wants to hide their communications are dangerous to the public (or at all, necessarily).
the First Amendment does not protect stealing goods off trucks
Yeah, true. But there are several points to consider that I feel make the quoted statement utterly fallacious. First, an accusation of theft isn't immediately punished; guilt has to be proven first. Second, theft of a physical object means that the original owner loses the object. In the case of a piece of digital property, the original holder hasn't lost possession of anything. The content-creation industry's obsession with immediate punishment before investigation doesn't make sense. It violates the due process rights of the accused for no legally-sound reason. It allows for corporate actions to replace proper review by the judicial system....and it's a short-sidedly, seemingly-logical extension of a content-holder's desire to maximize revenue.
I don't see how "used digital music" actually means anything. There's no way to stop a user from retaining a copy of the file without yet *another* level of some nasty DRM. Anyhow, the idea of "used data" is pretty ridiculous. I predict that the RIAA takes this company to court for enabling and encouraging "unauthorized redistribution of copyrighted IP" or some such. The pusher doesn't like it when you find another source...
If you look at the exact wording of the license, it says "A. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time. ".
khellendros1984 slaps an Apple sticker on his PC
I'm sure "Apple-labeled" has some legally-defined meaning elsewhere that would preclude it, of course.
I ran Slackware with Fluxbox for a while, about 2004-2005. The "hours and hours of frustration" came with the effort of compiling and installing x.org, its supporting libraries, and fluxbox when Slack hadn't yet switched from xfree86...good times, good times.
Yes, if the processor implements a Turing-complete instruction set, anything that can be calculated by another computer could be calculated by *that* computer. Now, the real question is if it could be calculated at real-time speeds on that microcontroller...
I don't have kids, and I don't know that I will. I'm forced to support the education of others' children through my taxes. *shrug*, they paid for me. I don't think there's really an escape to paying education taxes.
I've always felt that the Ultima Underworld games were VASTLY underrated! In 1993 and 1994, I was crawling the same dungeons (And yes, I still remember the lizard people language...)
Would you have complained if he started the comment with "Agreed." instead? "This", as the sole content of a post, sounds a lot like the AOL-style "me too!", but using it as a sign of agreement before expanding on the point seems like a perfectly valid usage of a new linguistic construct to me.
They have animal shelters, and if an animal is in the shelter too long without being adopted, it's put down. This is in contrast to no-kill shelters run by other organizations, where they would put down only the animals that are beyond help.
I wish I'd thought of that sooner! No mod points, but I would've +1'd you.
The choice of a default browser for a distro that caters toward less-experienced users (like Ubuntu) is very important. Frankly, most users probably won't change away from whatever the OS came with.
It's a similar situation for the other Window Managers. Why require a user to install and configure major interface-changing software like that, when you're marketing your OS as dead-simple to use?
When I was in college, the school gave me a couple XP licenses through some deal with Microsoft. So, I didn't have retail disks, but neither was I using pirated/unlicensed software.
...Which isn't what they're doing. I've got a circa-2001 Nokia digicam that works just fine in Windows 7. Your camera may have used some non-standard communication protocol, but mine shows up as a mounted drive (with all the glory of its 64MB memory card)
It's a fairly normal thing not to produce new drivers for old hardware that speaks a non-standard language. Linux has maintainers that do whatever minimal changes are required to keep the old drivers from bit-rot. It doesn't make sense to a company to take the trouble to do that, QA the resulting drivers, and release new drivers for old hardware.
Features like pervasive advertising! And a nearly unnavigable menu system, yay! Just give me back my blades, and I'll be happy again. The current UI is balls.
MS released the HD-DVD drive before. I don't see why they couldn't release a Bluray version of the same thing. Well....any technical reason. It would certainly be easier than releasing a new console.
2 days before the PSN story became known, my credit card number was used for several fraudulent purchases halfway across the country from me. I'll admit that it could be a coincidence....but that would be a hell of a coincidence.
I'm fairly certain that VMs are useful for running any darn instruction set that you want.
Regardless of anything else they do for an artist, the facts that matter to me as a consumer are: The RIAA believes that it deserves to make money on non-RIAA-members' music, they list non-member (seventh question down) labels as members, legally attack individuals without sufficient evidence, extort money from massive lists of people....basically, they're the mob.
There's nothing they can provide to me that makes it worth doing business with the mob.