dead authors may have live heirs who need the money
Such weak BS.
If an artist wants to take care of their heirs, they need to do like the rest of us and take care of their heirs with the money they earn while they are still alive.
Untimely accident? TFB, death sucks for all of us.
I just don't see what gives artists the right to continue to profit from their works after they die. No one else has that "right".
From our POV, they appear to be moving away from us. So a map like that would appear to "prove" that we are at the central point. Like I said, though, every point in the universe is the "central point". I'm sure that if we could travel to a galaxy outside of our local group, such a map would indicate that the central point is whatever point you are observing from.
How could this be possible? Think about the balloon example that someone else posted. From any point on the balloon, every other point on the balloon moves away from every other point as the balloon expands.
There is no "outside the universe", so the mental image that you have of a spherical universe expanding into some "great darkness" (as seen on numerous TV shows) is not valid, and is limiting your understanding of how the expanding universe works.
What's more important maybe is it sounds like they have opened up the archives.
Hmm, looks like they are "open" if you want to pay $4.95 per article. They give you a very brief, incomplete abstract but if you want the whole article, you have to pony up.
Has anyone ever considered the theory that the universe is not only ever expanding but also ever recreating in the middle? Also shouldn't we be able to tell where the middle of the universe is by obsering in which direction we can see the farthest?
There is no "center" of the universe. You're probably confused by the popular image of the big bang that shows a point of light in the vast darkness that explodes into the universe.
But there is no "vast darkness" outside the universe, by definition the universe is everything. There is no "outside the universe" (of course that makes it hard to do an animation of the big bang on TV).
Every point in the universe is the "center". It's just that the "center" has smeared out across the whole universe as it has expanded from the big bang. On a large scale, everything is moving away from everything else.
If that's true, that universal simultaneity is false, then it should have no effect on us catching up to them.
It's not clear that we could catch up to them. Depending on the future expansion rate of the universe, in 7 billion years they could be moving away fast enough that we could never "catch up".
You ALL seem to complain about microsoft and the patches, but honestly, after running both LINUX and WINDOWS for some 10 years, i can honestly say LINUX tends to have more updates, and they are MUCH larger.
But you are comparing updates of just the OS (or just the OS and the office suite/browser/media player) to updates of every single application on the system (everything from compiler to panel widgets).
If you bothered to compare apples to apples, you would likely come to a different conclusion.
MCA doesn't suspend Habeas Corpus because it does not apply to US citizens, permanent residents, or persons with a legal US immigration status, groups which are by definition the only to which Habeas Corpus can even apply?
Does the name Jose Padilla ring a bell?
While he eventually did get his day in court, this administration sure tried as hard as they could to deny him due process.
The problem of the security vacuum that was created when Hussein was brought down. After we brought down the old order, we failed to step up and maintain order, so now we have the unenviable task of trying to establish order where none exists.
Our leaders were blinded by their own optimism, now many of our finest are paying the ultimate price for that failure.
Don't worry about the endless Canon / Nikon fanboy debates
For the most part. However, I have a Nikon D80, and there are issues with this camera as far as astrophotography. It's a great camera overall, but the amp glow sucks for longer exposure astro shots...
Far better to gracefully degrade if the user doesn't have Flash than to say "well someone people might not have it, so it's useless!"
By gracefully degrade, do you mean "gracefully" putting up a banner that says "you need Flash to see the rest of this page"? Because that doesn't cut it.
Once Flash enters the picture, it either becomes necessary to have Flash to access the content, or it becomes obvious that Flash was unnecessary in the first place.
Very few designers use Flash to merely "enhance" a page. Flash invariably becomes necessary to access the page's core functionality. The "graceful" degradation usually follows a pretty steep curve (ie. all or nothing).
Funny, but I would think that big of a CO would really mess with the contrast. I guess that would be limited by the specs of the individual telescopes?
17 years is a long time for video games, and music tastes now. The world is growing so fast, long term copyrights dont match the modern tastes.
I wish.
You obviously never had to share a workspace with an asshat like the one I have to share with (hi Dave, you dinosaur motherfucker). I swear, his brain just stopped in 1979. I have to listen to fucking Journey, Boston, etc. OVER AND OVER EVERY FUCKING DAY!!!
Pretty damm good actually - you note the problem was caught did you not? The system isn't designed to be 100% perfect with never a mistake, the system is designed to be 100% certain that mistakes are caught before they become Very Very Serious.
From what I read, the mistake wasn't discovered until they landed. For 3.5 hours, the nukes were unaccounted for.
Vista 64 however is going to get better, my estimation is within 36 months Vista 64 being virtually identical to Vista 32 in usability, the drivers will be good, stuff will be 'tweaked out' and fixed and it'll work - including those new games and apps which require 4 or more gb.
36 months is 3 frigging years!!!
Wow, even Debian64 went from non-existent to stable in about half that time, and Debian isn't known for the fastest release cycle. Oh, and all (18,000+) of the user applications got ported during that time, as well.
Seems like you have pretty low expectations for MS...
He would write pages and pages of awesome pr0n, and about the time that everyone had done about everything (and I mean everything) to everybody, they would take a break and talk heavy-duty politics and political philosophy. Then, after a few pages of that, back to it.
I think he just wrote the pr0n to get people to read his philosophy, but man he was one sick dude...
To a degree the shuttle was a one-off design, but they did reference the research that the Air Force did with their Dyna-Soar project. Dyna-Soar went through many dozens of iterations of lifting bodies.
Dyna-Soar, gotta love the irony, considering what a dinosaur the shuttle turned out to be.
Open container laws are a public safety matter. You don't want drivers to be drinking in the car and the same goes for their passengers.
Oh please. Open container laws have nothing to do with public safety.
You don't want the drivers to be drinking? That's what DUI laws are for.
You don't want the passengers drinking? Why? WTF does that have to do with public safety?
I am absolutely against driving under the influence, but open container laws are all about giving the police an excuse to search a vehicle without probable cause.
Federal highway funds were linked with both of those issues to gaurantee that States would enact those two laws.
The federal highway fund linkage is just a way of (illegally, IMHO) forcing Federal authority over the States. The citizens of the states paid the taxes, but the benefits of those taxes don't go to the citizens unless the states give up their constitutionally-guaranteed sovereignty.
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My thoughts exactly.
It doesn't matter what OS she is running!
Such weak BS.
If an artist wants to take care of their heirs, they need to do like the rest of us and take care of their heirs with the money they earn while they are still alive.
Untimely accident? TFB, death sucks for all of us.
I just don't see what gives artists the right to continue to profit from their works after they die. No one else has that "right".
From our POV, they appear to be moving away from us. So a map like that would appear to "prove" that we are at the central point. Like I said, though, every point in the universe is the "central point". I'm sure that if we could travel to a galaxy outside of our local group, such a map would indicate that the central point is whatever point you are observing from.
How could this be possible? Think about the balloon example that someone else posted. From any point on the balloon, every other point on the balloon moves away from every other point as the balloon expands.
There is no "outside the universe", so the mental image that you have of a spherical universe expanding into some "great darkness" (as seen on numerous TV shows) is not valid, and is limiting your understanding of how the expanding universe works.
Um, no he's not.
Funny that the Fox types constantly trot out the NYT as an example of left-wing bias in the media...
Hmm, looks like they are "open" if you want to pay $4.95 per article. They give you a very brief, incomplete abstract but if you want the whole article, you have to pony up.
There is no "center" of the universe. You're probably confused by the popular image of the big bang that shows a point of light in the vast darkness that explodes into the universe.
But there is no "vast darkness" outside the universe, by definition the universe is everything. There is no "outside the universe" (of course that makes it hard to do an animation of the big bang on TV).
Every point in the universe is the "center". It's just that the "center" has smeared out across the whole universe as it has expanded from the big bang. On a large scale, everything is moving away from everything else.
It's not clear that we could catch up to them. Depending on the future expansion rate of the universe, in 7 billion years they could be moving away fast enough that we could never "catch up".
But you are comparing updates of just the OS (or just the OS and the office suite/browser/media player) to updates of every single application on the system (everything from compiler to panel widgets).
If you bothered to compare apples to apples, you would likely come to a different conclusion.
You miss my point.
My point is not to argue the reasoning of the MCA.
My point is that this administration tried like hell to deny a US citizen his due process.
That was a big victory for OBL, et al...
Does the name Jose Padilla ring a bell?
While he eventually did get his day in court, this administration sure tried as hard as they could to deny him due process.
The problem of the security vacuum that was created when Hussein was brought down. After we brought down the old order, we failed to step up and maintain order, so now we have the unenviable task of trying to establish order where none exists.
Our leaders were blinded by their own optimism, now many of our finest are paying the ultimate price for that failure.
For the most part. However, I have a Nikon D80, and there are issues with this camera as far as astrophotography. It's a great camera overall, but the amp glow sucks for longer exposure astro shots...
By gracefully degrade, do you mean "gracefully" putting up a banner that says "you need Flash to see the rest of this page"? Because that doesn't cut it.
Once Flash enters the picture, it either becomes necessary to have Flash to access the content, or it becomes obvious that Flash was unnecessary in the first place.
Very few designers use Flash to merely "enhance" a page. Flash invariably becomes necessary to access the page's core functionality. The "graceful" degradation usually follows a pretty steep curve (ie. all or nothing).
Funny, but I would think that big of a CO would really mess with the contrast. I guess that would be limited by the specs of the individual telescopes?
Hey, I see you work for the government, too!
I wish.
You obviously never had to share a workspace with an asshat like the one I have to share with (hi Dave, you dinosaur motherfucker). I swear, his brain just stopped in 1979. I have to listen to fucking Journey, Boston, etc. OVER AND OVER EVERY FUCKING DAY!!!
.From what I read, the mistake wasn't discovered until they landed. For 3.5 hours, the nukes were unaccounted for.
Vista 64 however is going to get better, my estimation is within 36 months Vista 64 being virtually identical to Vista 32 in usability, the drivers will be good, stuff will be 'tweaked out' and fixed and it'll work - including those new games and apps which require 4 or more gb.
36 months is 3 frigging years !!!
Wow, even Debian64 went from non-existent to stable in about half that time, and Debian isn't known for the fastest release cycle. Oh, and all (18,000+) of the user applications got ported during that time, as well.
Seems like you have pretty low expectations for MS...
Read just about anything by this dude.
He would write pages and pages of awesome pr0n, and about the time that everyone had done about everything (and I mean everything) to everybody, they would take a break and talk heavy-duty politics and political philosophy. Then, after a few pages of that, back to it.
I think he just wrote the pr0n to get people to read his philosophy, but man he was one sick dude...
Dyna-Soar, gotta love the irony, considering what a dinosaur the shuttle turned out to be.
Oh please. Open container laws have nothing to do with public safety.
You don't want the drivers to be drinking? That's what DUI laws are for.
You don't want the passengers drinking? Why? WTF does that have to do with public safety?
I am absolutely against driving under the influence, but open container laws are all about giving the police an excuse to search a vehicle without probable cause.
The federal highway fund linkage is just a way of (illegally, IMHO) forcing Federal authority over the States. The citizens of the states paid the taxes, but the benefits of those taxes don't go to the citizens unless the states give up their constitutionally-guaranteed sovereignty.
If you like music, hate the RIAA, and want to support the artists, instead of going "pirate", go here.
hold until a customer representative is available to take your call...