It would also be excellent PR for apple to provide this to the community. I could easily see them giving this away. It would be entirely in accordance with their brand that markets itself on: innovation, thinking different, being green.
I do that they would expect to get more iphone sales by adding this feature, but by developing this feature better and before everyone else, their brand looks great.
You've overlooked the obvious context of today (as best as is know as of 7pm in illinois) and columbine: the people doing the shooting were not career criminals, just people who went "postal", for whatever reason.
getting guns out of the legal market would substantially decrease the access of people who just feel like crap and want to go into a homicidial rage.
no getting guns out of the market is not going to prevent gangs from having guns, but it will reduce the ability of a lot of people to do dumb things in moments of weakness/rage/or extreme illness.
if you look at the case of the pastor's wife who shot him and fled last year, i doubt she would be a murderer if she had not had a legal gun in her house.
people kill people, but guns make it a heck of a lot easier to kill people accidently, impulsively, without much thinking of the consequences, and with them having little or no chance to save themselves.
unfortunately, it has a bad habit of treating different MAC addresses as different computers, ocassionally VPN also interferes. They need a button to completely deauthorize the current computer, as i have had the same physical computer inadvertently take up 3 authorizations and only been able to clear out one...
I honestly think that DRM is only a concern to the majority of consumers to the extent that they cannot play their music on certain players.
I have nothing against DRM whatsoever so long as it is well standardized. I used to buy from multiple online DRM'd stores, but now only buy iTunes, because it is the only standard that does not crap out constantly.
Also i dont think that it is at all meaningful that most people go CD -> iPod. It just means that most of genX spent the 90s amassing a lot of music on CDs and so did our friends.
that said, i think stripping the DRM from music you bought should be legal if you can do it.
While not being sure of whether it is actually worth the cost to the Eart, I am also a big fan of the Receal bulbs, and am not going to switch (back) to high efficiency lighting until it is half as ergonomic as the better incandesent bulbs.
Why don't they at least coat these things to produce a more pleasing wavelength?
$100 a PC is a fortune in comparison to the amount that would be needed to ensure basic literacy.
India actually has a giangantic problem with basic literacy. Even though the country produces so many engineers and doctors, many of its people cannot read. If India could get the money to buy the laptops it would be better spent on making 1st-5th grade education universal. And at least by estimates from the 1990s, the price would be quite similar, with the five years paper and pencil education being cheaper.
I'll agree that subscribers are more serious, but serious about what? Serious about modding, editing, and reading, or serious about fucking the place up?
I almost agree with this, I have done well with buying a high end motherboard towards the end of the product cycle, and a midline price/performance point chip, then buy the top of line chip as it is phased out. I bought an ASUS A7V when it was fairly new with duron 700, then got an affordable 1600+ Athlon XP, later I bought an ASUS A7N8x-e deluxe, which I now run with a Barton XP-M 2800+ with 400FSB. It still holds its one with most of the single core systems out there. I was never at the bleeding age, but always doing relatively good for a desktop, non-games box. I do agree that CPU upgrades generally go hand and hand with mobo upgrades though, as you can tell by the fact I did 3 cpus and 2 mobos... and yes I know that those chips are not supported on those boards.
is it evil yes, is it less evil yes, at least in that it is competently evil.
In my experience with iTunes, walmart, and yahoo music. itunes is less sensitive to hardware changes breaking the DRM, it is clearer what you can do with your music, where it will and will not play, etc.
Especially microsoft DRMs seem far far more sensitive to minor hardware changes than iTunes. Though iTunes is less than perfect.
BS, if you live in New York maybe, but living in central illinois, if I want landline phone service I have one choice SBC, if I want broadband I have one choice, InsightBB.
SBC to offer DSL but left the market because it was small.
The only telco service where I have had any choice is Cell phones. Most of the telcos have regional monopolies. Not national, but still pretty hard to deal with as a consumer.
If the rate at which humans are called an AI matches the rate at which the AI is called an AI, then the AI has passed the test. (you of course need to have multiple people as both detectors and detectees, AIs, etc)
Google signal detection theory. Especially with regards to psychology people have had this specific problem figured out for at least 75 years.
You need to keep track of hits, misses, false alarms, etc.
but it still has to float... so maybe you do put flammable stuff onto it.
you would have to make a compromise between fireproof and navigable.
The tar/pitch/wax might be necessary to get ships into battle, but a liability in battle.
I am also curious about the wax. It seems it is used as sealant and melts away readily. Possibly you don't need to start any serious flames to sink the roman boats, just sit around melting wax whenever the weather is good.
Get lucky a few times, burn a boat or two. Become legendary...
As a sysadmin I switched the computers i am in charge of to firefox. I've been to labs where others clearly did the same. This is room for growth.
Also many webapps are bothering to support firefox. If that trend continues and firefox improves itself a bit to offer more features, then I think the growth trend will continue, albeit at a non-insane pace.
oddly I'd like to mod this dis of my comment up but oh well...
I do think microsoft might try and take some form of advertising for revenue strategy on though. It would be easier to take out yahoo and google if they were actually competing for the same source of income.
also the smaller updates, more frequently strategy works better if can get other money besides the big bucks by "massive updates" every 2x years
You could probably get some real mileage off of using people's desktop searchs to make a profile and suggest products and services to people when they search their own files.
Great feature for Longhorn, err. Vista and could allow MS to drop the buy price a lot.
I think windows dominance relies on past piracy. Piracy was truly rampant back in the windows 3.11 days, back then I seemd to se 3-4 priate copies for each legit copy.
Now almost every copy of windows I see running is legit, because it came with the computer.
Windows became dominant by being pirated, but once it was entrenched, microsoft started selling it on every PC out there. And selling cheap upgrades to half the pirate copies.
Also please people do not kid yourself in thinking that prices and DRM will push people to linux. linux has some great merits, but most people do not build their system and get the OS preinstalled, to them windows is "free".
(Honestly I think the best bet for linux is if a manufacturer acts like apple, and puts together really nice hardware and ships a box that just works for the end user)
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interesting and all, but the headline is nonsense. immaculate conception refers to Jesus' mother being herself born free of original sin.
The debate about whether Boas have original sin is theological and not biological.
It would also be excellent PR for apple to provide this to the community. I could easily see them giving this away. It would be entirely in accordance with their brand that markets itself on: innovation, thinking different, being green.
I do that they would expect to get more iphone sales by adding this feature, but by developing this feature better and before everyone else, their brand looks great.
Apple tried allowing licensed clones at one point and were not happy with the results. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone
You've overlooked the obvious context of today (as best as is know as of 7pm in illinois) and columbine: the people doing the shooting were not career criminals, just people who went "postal", for whatever reason.
getting guns out of the legal market would substantially decrease the access of people who just feel like crap and want to go into a homicidial rage.
no getting guns out of the market is not going to prevent gangs from having guns, but it will reduce the ability of a lot of people to do dumb things in moments of weakness/rage/or extreme illness.
if you look at the case of the pastor's wife who shot him and fled last year, i doubt she would be a murderer if she had not had a legal gun in her house.
people kill people, but guns make it a heck of a lot easier to kill people accidently, impulsively, without much thinking of the consequences, and with them having little or no chance to save themselves.
unfortunately, it has a bad habit of treating different MAC addresses as different computers, ocassionally VPN also interferes. They need a button to completely deauthorize the current computer, as i have had the same physical computer inadvertently take up 3 authorizations and only been able to clear out one...
I honestly think that DRM is only a concern to the majority of consumers to the extent that they cannot play their music on certain players.
I have nothing against DRM whatsoever so long as it is well standardized. I used to buy from multiple online DRM'd stores, but now only buy iTunes, because it is the only standard that does not crap out constantly.
Also i dont think that it is at all meaningful that most people go CD -> iPod. It just means that most of genX spent the 90s amassing a lot of music on CDs and so did our friends.
that said, i think stripping the DRM from music you bought should be legal if you can do it.
I can't believe no one is biting on the "who would be stupid enough" ?
While not being sure of whether it is actually worth the cost to the Eart, I am also a big fan of the Receal bulbs, and am not going to switch (back) to high efficiency lighting until it is half as ergonomic as the better incandesent bulbs.
Why don't they at least coat these things to produce a more pleasing wavelength?
hmm, i use the windows key constantly. it lets me access the start menu without: a. using the mouse, b. having the idiotic taskbar even on the screen.
major improvement to my user experience.
Depends on which OEM... the OEM disks are occasionally quite restrictive, in other cases they are close to the retail version..
Using a program called nlite to redo your disc still solve many problems
$100 a PC is a fortune in comparison to the amount that would be needed to ensure basic literacy.
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India actually has a giangantic problem with basic literacy. Even though the country produces so many engineers and doctors, many of its people cannot read. If India could get the money to buy the laptops it would be better spent on making 1st-5th grade education universal. And at least by estimates from the 1990s, the price would be quite similar, with the five years paper and pencil education being cheaper.
(from a friend in a discussion the other day)
http://www.deeshaa.org/who-actually-paid-for-my-e
http://www.ashanet.org/stats/PROBE.html
I'll agree that subscribers are more serious, but serious about what? Serious about modding, editing, and reading, or serious about fucking the place up?
I almost agree with this, I have done well with buying a high end motherboard towards the end of the product cycle, and a midline price/performance point chip, then buy the top of line chip as it is phased out. I bought an ASUS A7V when it was fairly new with duron 700, then got an affordable 1600+ Athlon XP, later I bought an ASUS A7N8x-e deluxe, which I now run with a Barton XP-M 2800+ with 400FSB. It still holds its one with most of the single core systems out there.
I was never at the bleeding age, but always doing relatively good for a desktop, non-games box. I do agree that CPU upgrades generally go hand and hand with mobo upgrades though, as you can tell by the fact I did 3 cpus and 2 mobos... and yes I know that those chips are not supported on those boards.
is it evil yes, is it less evil yes, at least in that it is competently evil.
In my experience with iTunes, walmart, and yahoo music. itunes is less sensitive to hardware changes breaking the DRM, it is clearer what you can do with your music, where it will and will not play, etc.
Especially microsoft DRMs seem far far more sensitive to minor hardware changes than iTunes. Though iTunes is less than perfect.
BS,
if you live in New York maybe, but living in central illinois, if I want landline phone service I have one choice SBC, if I want broadband I have one choice, InsightBB.
SBC to offer DSL but left the market because it was small.
The only telco service where I have had any choice is Cell phones. Most of the telcos have regional monopolies. Not national, but still pretty hard to deal with as a consumer.
This is simple to get around.
If the rate at which humans are called an AI matches the rate at which the AI is called an AI, then the AI has passed the test. (you of course need to have multiple people as both detectors and detectees, AIs, etc)
Google signal detection theory. Especially with regards to psychology people have had this specific problem figured out for at least 75 years.
You need to keep track of hits, misses, false alarms, etc.
Or just let the teacher have a switch on the WAP, with one WAP per classroom.
Being a teacher that is what id like to do.
but it still has to float... so maybe you do put flammable stuff onto it.
you would have to make a compromise between fireproof and navigable.
The tar/pitch/wax might be necessary to get ships into battle, but a liability in battle.
I am also curious about the wax. It seems it is used as sealant and melts away readily. Possibly you don't need to start any serious flames to sink the roman boats, just sit around melting wax whenever the weather is good.
Get lucky a few times, burn a boat or two. Become legendary...
DRMs
2x2=4
320x240=76800
640x480=307200 (VGA)
320x240 is QVGA for quarter VGA
it has 1/4 the pixels and data.
As a sysadmin I switched the computers i am in charge of to firefox. I've been to labs where others clearly did the same. This is room for growth.
Also many webapps are bothering to support firefox. If that trend continues and firefox improves itself a bit to offer more features, then I think the growth trend will continue, albeit at a non-insane pace.
oddly I'd like to mod this dis of my comment up but oh well...
I do think microsoft might try and take some form of advertising for revenue strategy on though. It would be easier to take out yahoo and google if they were actually competing for the same source of income.
also the smaller updates, more frequently strategy works better if can get other money besides the big bucks by "massive updates" every 2x years
You could probably get some real mileage off of using people's desktop searchs to make a profile and suggest products and services to people when they search their own files.
Great feature for Longhorn, err. Vista and could allow MS to drop the buy price a lot.
I think windows dominance relies on past piracy. Piracy was truly rampant back in the windows 3.11 days, back then I seemd to se 3-4 priate copies for each legit copy.
Now almost every copy of windows I see running is legit, because it came with the computer.
Windows became dominant by being pirated, but once it was entrenched, microsoft started selling it on every PC out there. And selling cheap upgrades to half the pirate copies.
Also please people do not kid yourself in thinking that prices and DRM will push people to linux. linux has some great merits, but most people do not build their system and get the OS preinstalled, to them windows is "free".
(Honestly I think the best bet for linux is if a manufacturer acts like apple, and puts together really nice hardware and ships a box that just works for the end user)
That is a very generous translation.
I would have translated it like this:
I paid for some of my music, so it's okay if I stole the rest of it.