"Open Source" and "Digital Rights/Restrictions Management" are not mutually exclusive things - after all, isn't DRM on your iTunes library or whatever metaphorically the same as not allowing other users of your Linux box access to your files, or making them read-only for anyone that's not you?
wtf is Volume Shadow Copy. If it really is similar to Time Machine, how come fanboys don't trumpet it? Possibly because nobody really knows about it, or cares about it because it's not some Sexy New Thing that was the biggest feature of the latest point release...
ummm... you do realise that the Pentium, along with the 486 and 386 before it, and the Pentium Pro after it were all 32bit CPUs, right? I think you're possibly getting your technical terms mixed up...
it'd be even harder than that, because the Tasmanian Devil has recently been classified as Endangered , so any funds involving the Devils would probably (and quite rightly, IMO) be placed into research for a way to stop the Devil Facial Tumor Disease.
Or a tasmanian tiger accidentally interbreeding with a normal one That would be quite a feat, considering that the creature's name is entirely a colloquialism (the real name is Thylacine)... because it's not even a species of cat, let alone tiger...
Well, here's the thing. When white people settled in Tasmania, they actively hunted the Tasmanian Tiger (more accurately known as the Thylacine) to extinction because it was believed that it was responsible for killing sheep and other livestock. The Thylacine's habitat is still largely intact, and there have been numerous "sightings" of them over the years, but no hard evidence. It is possible that a small colony of Thylacines have survived, given the elusive nature of the creature in the first place, but it's pretty unlikely.
As it stands, NASA operates as a wholly government-funded agency, and under its current charter, anything that results from its efforts is a Public Domain free-for-all.
Perhaps they should look at a joint funding scheme such as Australia's CSIRO, where they can patent and profit from their efforts? Just think of how much they could make just off APOD prints alone, let alone actual useful stuff!
...and not only that, but if you manage to drive your car anyway, the damned thing becomes almost impossible to drive anyway! If anything, they've completely exaggerated the effects of alcohol on your system. It's actually so difficult to do anything while Niko is inebriated, that you begin to feel somewhat intoxicated yourself!
somebody needs to brush up on their political terms... Communism and Socialism, although vaguely similar, are not the same thing.
In Australia, citizens are guaranteed the right to free or cheap healthcare (including subsidised medications), to Social Security when we fall on hard times, and to not get shafted by large companies intent on leveraging their monopoly or near-monopoly position for even greater profits at the expense of their customers and competitors.
The human eye is naturally lazy, and likes to look at things that do not cause it to send strong signals. To that end, a black background is essential for "easy on the eyes" formatting. From there, pretty much any light colour can be use for the text. When I was in uni, I used to buy special black paper "visual arts diaries" and write my class notes using a gold, silver, bronze, or plain white ink pen. This had the effect of making my pretty poor handwriting easier to read for most people, and also reducing the effects of my dyslexia; I would make less errors like inverting a series of numbers as I wrote them down and the like.
well you see, that's not what I'm after. I already use Sibelius to notate my own compositions, and to export MIDI files... I want the program in TFA to be able to open MIDI files, rather than just accept MIDI input...
Personally, I hope that Windows 7 is a decent, solid operating system, and corrects for Vista's faults. Microsoft has had a tendency to appropriately compensate if one of their products flops. NT4 spawned into a beautiful desktop-ready os with the release of Win2k, and after destroying all evidence that Windows Me! ever existed, Microsoft launched XP, which is arguably the most successful desktop operating system to date. Thankfully, the biggest difference between WinME and Vista is that Vista actually does some things really, really well. WinME didn't even do a good job of being shit - it 'sorta worked' most of the time - even I can make an OS that doesn't work at all!
the problem with the "let's break up Microsoft into its various components" argument is that the Windows and Office divisions make so much money that they prop up the other divisions. It was aaaaages before the Hardware division made money, but now I wouldn't give up my MS keyboard and mouse if you paid me to. The XBox and XBox360 are proven money sinks too, for the time being. This is not to mention really cool shit like Live Labs and Microsoft Research...
once again, I am fearful of being called a MS Apologist, for this, but if you'll cast your mind back a few years, you'll remember how exactly the same things were being said about Windows XP and how it could barely run on 64MB of RAM and a 500MHz P3... Microsoft operating systems are a bit like a fine wine, in that they get better with age
OK, maybe not a fine wine... but you get the analogy.
...and I'm sure I'm going to have half of slashdot jumping down my throat, calling me a Microsoft Sympathiser for saying this, but...
...shit like third parties having their way with Windows is probably a very big reason why Vista isn't as great as it could be. The media companies stuck their big noses in, and we got Protected Media Pathway or whatever it's called... I can't copy files around my computer without Windows having to check for copy protection or whatever it's doing, and the antitrust-friendly "Default Programs" thing has somehow managed to make it harder to set file associations than before.
The thing with Vista is; what it does well, it's really really good at. Windows Explorer finally does what I want it to do, and the audio mixing panel is a boon from the gods... it's just that all this is overshadowed by the stuff it doesn't do well, which is arguably not entirely Microsoft's fault.
I'd like to see what Vista would have been like if everybody kept their noses out of it during development.
...instead of having to play some of my own compositions on my nonexistent MIDI keyboard (my only MIDI device is my guitar amp effects controller), or manually entering the chords one by one, how about giving us the option to directly open MIDI files? MIDI files can be found for just about every equally-tempered piece of music you can think of, and it would be very interesting to see what they "look" like.
Also, as a composer myself, I'd like to be able to see what they look like:)
As for the SkyOS article, the AfD looks like it's leaning toward keeping the article. ah, but here we have a problem;
If you came here because someone asked you to, or you read a message on a forum, please note that [b]this is not a majority vote[/b], but rather a discussion to establish a consensus among Wikipedia editors on whether a page is suitable for this encyclopedia
All it takes is one rogue editor to come along and dismiss every argument for keeping an article, and *poof* it's gone. I've seen it happen with other articles - you should see how hard it is to keep articles relating to Australian culture on there. They're "not notable" because nobody outside of Australia has ever heard of them. I'm surprised the Vegemite page is still up...
If you have an article topic that is well-researched and well-sourced, by which I mean the subject has received attention in reliable mainstream media, then write the article and cite the sources. ...and therein lies the problem. We have well fleshed-out articles on interesting things like SkyOS up for deletion because it hasn't had "mainstream media" attention, while there's a squintillion articles on completely inane things whose articles comprise no more than a couple of sentences, which can be found simply by hitting the "Random Article" link a couple of times.
Here, I'll find some for you:
Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Arabic: ) is a member of the royal family of Abu Dhabi and the current foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates. He received his position in the cabinet reshuffle in February 2006, and was previously the information and culture minister.
No offense to the guy, of course - just puling an example of a lame Wikipedia article...
Even better is this one:
Pakistan at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Pakistan competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
...very informative...
It's not as though Wikipedia is starved of bandwidth or storage space, so why can't it be a repository of all sorts of nuggets of informative gold? Why do things need to be reported in "mainstream media" to be worthy of inclusion? Slashdot's not mentioned on the nightly news or in newspapers, or even in many magazines, so does this mean it should be deprived of an entry in Wikipedia? Did Wikipedia have an article on itself in its early days, before it received "mainstram media" attention?
Slashdot Mirror
"Open Source" and "Digital Rights/Restrictions Management" are not mutually exclusive things - after all, isn't DRM on your iTunes library or whatever metaphorically the same as not allowing other users of your Linux box access to your files, or making them read-only for anyone that's not you?
...just... more restricted...
Don't forget! Still no MMS or video recording support!
ummm... you do realise that the Pentium, along with the 486 and 386 before it, and the Pentium Pro after it were all 32bit CPUs, right? I think you're possibly getting your technical terms mixed up...
it's not a cat...
it'd be even harder than that, because the Tasmanian Devil has recently been classified as Endangered , so any funds involving the Devils would probably (and quite rightly, IMO) be placed into research for a way to stop the Devil Facial Tumor Disease.
Well, here's the thing. When white people settled in Tasmania, they actively hunted the Tasmanian Tiger (more accurately known as the Thylacine) to extinction because it was believed that it was responsible for killing sheep and other livestock.
The Thylacine's habitat is still largely intact, and there have been numerous "sightings" of them over the years, but no hard evidence. It is possible that a small colony of Thylacines have survived, given the elusive nature of the creature in the first place, but it's pretty unlikely.
legally, you can't... you'd be violating the MacSpeak EULA.. ;)
As it stands, NASA operates as a wholly government-funded agency, and under its current charter, anything that results from its efforts is a Public Domain free-for-all.
Perhaps they should look at a joint funding scheme such as Australia's CSIRO, where they can patent and profit from their efforts? Just think of how much they could make just off APOD prints alone, let alone actual useful stuff!
...and not only that, but if you manage to drive your car anyway, the damned thing becomes almost impossible to drive anyway! If anything, they've completely exaggerated the effects of alcohol on your system. It's actually so difficult to do anything while Niko is inebriated, that you begin to feel somewhat intoxicated yourself!
somebody needs to brush up on their political terms... Communism and Socialism, although vaguely similar, are not the same thing.
In Australia, citizens are guaranteed the right to free or cheap healthcare (including subsidised medications), to Social Security when we fall on hard times, and to not get shafted by large companies intent on leveraging their monopoly or near-monopoly position for even greater profits at the expense of their customers and competitors.
That's fucked up. So now, not only do I have to pay eBay a fee for listing my item, I also have to pay PayPal a fee to get my money? No thanks.
The human eye is naturally lazy, and likes to look at things that do not cause it to send strong signals. To that end, a black background is essential for "easy on the eyes" formatting. From there, pretty much any light colour can be use for the text.
When I was in uni, I used to buy special black paper "visual arts diaries" and write my class notes using a gold, silver, bronze, or plain white ink pen. This had the effect of making my pretty poor handwriting easier to read for most people, and also reducing the effects of my dyslexia; I would make less errors like inverting a series of numbers as I wrote them down and the like.
I mean really... surely one of you knows where to get these modded drivers? Why has this info not been posted in an effort to stick it to the man?
well you see, that's not what I'm after. I already use Sibelius to notate my own compositions, and to export MIDI files... I want the program in TFA to be able to open MIDI files, rather than just accept MIDI input...
Thankfully, the biggest difference between WinME and Vista is that Vista actually does some things really, really well. WinME didn't even do a good job of being shit - it 'sorta worked' most of the time - even I can make an OS that doesn't work at all!
the problem with the "let's break up Microsoft into its various components" argument is that the Windows and Office divisions make so much money that they prop up the other divisions. It was aaaaages before the Hardware division made money, but now I wouldn't give up my MS keyboard and mouse if you paid me to. The XBox and XBox360 are proven money sinks too, for the time being. This is not to mention really cool shit like Live Labs and Microsoft Research...
once again, I am fearful of being called a MS Apologist, for this, but if you'll cast your mind back a few years, you'll remember how exactly the same things were being said about Windows XP and how it could barely run on 64MB of RAM and a 500MHz P3... Microsoft operating systems are a bit like a fine wine, in that they get better with age
OK, maybe not a fine wine... but you get the analogy.
...and I'm sure I'm going to have half of slashdot jumping down my throat, calling me a Microsoft Sympathiser for saying this, but...
...shit like third parties having their way with Windows is probably a very big reason why Vista isn't as great as it could be. The media companies stuck their big noses in, and we got Protected Media Pathway or whatever it's called... I can't copy files around my computer without Windows having to check for copy protection or whatever it's doing, and the antitrust-friendly "Default Programs" thing has somehow managed to make it harder to set file associations than before.
The thing with Vista is; what it does well, it's really really good at. Windows Explorer finally does what I want it to do, and the audio mixing panel is a boon from the gods... it's just that all this is overshadowed by the stuff it doesn't do well, which is arguably not entirely Microsoft's fault.
I'd like to see what Vista would have been like if everybody kept their noses out of it during development.
last time I checked, programs like Cubase/Cakewalk Pro Audio only showed a very basic two-dimensional strip view of what music "looks" like...
...instead of having to play some of my own compositions on my nonexistent MIDI keyboard (my only MIDI device is my guitar amp effects controller), or manually entering the chords one by one, how about giving us the option to directly open MIDI files? MIDI files can be found for just about every equally-tempered piece of music you can think of, and it would be very interesting to see what they "look" like.
:)
Also, as a composer myself, I'd like to be able to see what they look like
Ah, but if you go to that page, you'll find that it's not even listed as a stub... If it had been listed as such, then I wouldn't have mentioned it.
Here, I'll find some for you:
No offense to the guy, of course - just puling an example of a lame Wikipedia article...
Even better is this one:
It's not as though Wikipedia is starved of bandwidth or storage space, so why can't it be a repository of all sorts of nuggets of informative gold? Why do things need to be reported in "mainstream media" to be worthy of inclusion? Slashdot's not mentioned on the nightly news or in newspapers, or even in many magazines, so does this mean it should be deprived of an entry in Wikipedia? Did Wikipedia have an article on itself in its early days, before it received "mainstram media" attention?