>playing jingles over the music, cross-fading songs.
You know, I've always hated it when they did that. It completely messed up my radio recordings... -oh.
There was once a show on a Dutch channel (Kink FM), which would consist of 2 hours back to back music, which you could record to tape. The songlists would come out in a magazine that same week. After a few shows, it was cancelled. I wonder why.
So then the internet radio stations can come to Europe, Sweden perhaps, and work from there! I mean, it's not like those radio stations get firewalled when they enter US gounds, do they?
No, you have a point. The gravitational pull might be different depending on location, but the required acceleration force for moving the sphere should be independent of graviational pull.
Yes, but you have to wonder in how far those loopholes are true loopholes here. I guess it is up to a judge to decide, but it would appear to be that:
a) physically or legally incapable would mean that the person is dead in the first case, and has no legal status (children perhaps?) in the second case
b) not all of the data is made public, and certainly not manifestly so: they do not (as far as I know) subscribe to a policy of publishing _all_ their data. It is also not necessary for the establishment. Legal claims are not important here.
Oh, I'm sorry, mr. Smart. I thought it was obvious that I was talking about the subject matter, i.e. images with people in it being used for commercial purposes without the explicit consent of those people.
Nope, they can't. Legally, that is. Whatever post-processing you do on an image, fact remains that they, a private company, have obtained unlawful imagery.
Nope, They've always found a place in digital arts and publishing, and I'm happy to say that I've been allowed to enjoy the use of one at my workplace, in chemical engineering research. It just frustrates a little less than a windows machine and is therefore a little more productive to use.
The article appears to be saying so, but it is indeed in no way intended.
No-one said: I don't want DRM because I want to share it untraceably on the internet with millions of anonymous users. It is spun in this fashion, however.
Firsrt of all, let me say that I'm glad the comment wasn't assumed flamebait right away.
Well, third party applications are nice, I have Opera and Gmail installed on my phone as well. However, they are installed because the phone itself lacks a decent browser and e-mail reader. So on the one hand, I wouldn't have had to install those programs anyway.
On the other hand, I can see how it would come in handy for the quintessential geek, willing to spend a few hours cooking something up so he can check whether his door is open or closed (done that). But to be honest, I'm a little too busy for such things nowadays.
On the third hand, I can see Apple's insistence on controlling what's put onto their "baby". If an app works in a completely different manner than the UI guidelines dictate, it would throw people off. I can see the purpose of their quality control.
All in all, it will be a nice phone, with remarkable ease-of-use. It won't, however, be a phone that can do everything. I myself will be waiting for rev. 2:).
Actually, I don't think you will buy one, even if it could do that.
A large fraction of the people on this planet are apparently built to complain and fuss. It's true that it is much easier to see downsides than upsides. However, zen-like though it may be, once you learn to appreciate that which you have, can do most of what you want, without giving you too much frustration, life is just a little more pleasureable.
Good luck!
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This zoom-ability of the first part has a lot in common with the ideas behind Jef Raskin's The Humane Environment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy/.
The second part, however, shows marvellous stuff. Especially if what I think he did, was search for patterns in images, and compare those for unique objects to collect a library of images of a single object.
This guy and supposedly his group shouldn't work for Microsoft in my opinion, but would perhaps feel more at home in a fundamental science laboratory. But I think my opinion on this is slightly partial.
I don't even miss the right mouse button on my PB G4, which happens not to have the double tap option. I always found it strenuous to reach underneath the palm, and sometimes accidentally hit it with the palm itself.
That said, having the ctrl-click reserved for the right mouse button does mean that photoshop and illustrator shortcuts work a little less intuitive. You know, when you know one of the keys, option click or whatever, would get you the function you desire, you miss and control click and BAM! there is your popup menu..
Well, missiles are missiles. The purpose of missles is to go up, come down and explode. These are probably too light to carry a decent nuclear weapon with them (I honestly do not know the weight of a Hydrogen fusion bomb, let's leave those out of the equation for a while), but can still be used as strategic medium-range missiles, taking out some small targets.
Whether they work or not is in this case not important. They merely have to pretend to work to throw the balance of power off. Uncertainty in the "assured" destruction ridicules the idea. Not to mention that the missiles can be upgraded at any time, without the risk of a new escalation. The scale of the missiles doesn't matter in this case, just that they are missiles. In exchange, Russia should be allowed to place missiles anywhere they want, but just imagine the political impact that would have:).
I seriously doubt the motives of the Americans behind these missiles as well. They benefit not from protecting Europe, they have shown in various ways (think environmental protection treaties here) not to care much for the rest of the world. The Americans must have a direct benefit from the placement of those missiles there. I just cannot see what it is yet, and probably we will not until it is too late do do anything about them.
and are perfectly capable of being offensive weapons.
Besides that, what good is the threat of mutually assured destruction if one side can block the other's? The balance of power is then skewed, and anyone with too much power, even the venerable Americans, abuses their position.
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That's my thought exactly. Last I heard, buckyballs were one of the most expensive products on this here planet right now.
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But wasn't Guantanamo Bay around from before Bush?
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Who will own the copyright?
As far as I could see, the RIAA wanted to be able to re-copyright re-recordings... so were does this go?
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>playing jingles over the music, cross-fading songs.
You know, I've always hated it when they did that. It completely messed up my radio recordings... -oh.
There was once a show on a Dutch channel (Kink FM), which would consist of 2 hours back to back music, which you could record to tape. The songlists would come out in a magazine that same week. After a few shows, it was cancelled. I wonder why.
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So then the internet radio stations can come to Europe, Sweden perhaps, and work from there! I mean, it's not like those radio stations get firewalled when they enter US gounds, do they?
>not sufficient for protecting the American people.
Nooooo! Poor widdle Americans! Awwww. *Hugs Americans*
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No, you have a point. The gravitational pull might be different depending on location, but the required acceleration force for moving the sphere should be independent of graviational pull.
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Yes, but you have to wonder in how far those loopholes are true loopholes here. I guess it is up to a judge to decide, but it would appear to be that:
a) physically or legally incapable would mean that the person is dead in the first case, and has no legal status (children perhaps?) in the second case
b) not all of the data is made public, and certainly not manifestly so: they do not (as far as I know) subscribe to a policy of publishing _all_ their data. It is also not necessary for the establishment. Legal claims are not important here.
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Oh, I'm sorry, mr. Smart. I thought it was obvious that I was talking about the subject matter, i.e. images with people in it being used for commercial purposes without the explicit consent of those people.
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Even their website sttates that the battery might need replacing every now and then.
Don't you feel kind of odd, replying to the same post twice, retyping your words all the way, and still not having some sense of Deja-Vu?
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Nope, they can't. Legally, that is. Whatever post-processing you do on an image, fact remains that they, a private company, have obtained unlawful imagery.
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Nope, They've always found a place in digital arts and publishing, and I'm happy to say that I've been allowed to enjoy the use of one at my workplace, in chemical engineering research. It just frustrates a little less than a windows machine and is therefore a little more productive to use.
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given the relatively low camera resolution, I'd not try and OCR an iPhone image of a document any greater than a business card.
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They are not, for otherwise Rayner would have claimed to have found $OMG bugs. I assume it would be the first thing he checked.
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The article appears to be saying so, but it is indeed in no way intended.
No-one said: I don't want DRM because I want to share it untraceably on the internet with millions of anonymous users. It is spun in this fashion, however.
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Firsrt of all, let me say that I'm glad the comment wasn't assumed flamebait right away.
:).
Well, third party applications are nice, I have Opera and Gmail installed on my phone as well. However, they are installed because the phone itself lacks a decent browser and e-mail reader. So on the one hand, I wouldn't have had to install those programs anyway.
On the other hand, I can see how it would come in handy for the quintessential geek, willing to spend a few hours cooking something up so he can check whether his door is open or closed (done that). But to be honest, I'm a little too busy for such things nowadays.
On the third hand, I can see Apple's insistence on controlling what's put onto their "baby". If an app works in a completely different manner than the UI guidelines dictate, it would throw people off. I can see the purpose of their quality control.
All in all, it will be a nice phone, with remarkable ease-of-use. It won't, however, be a phone that can do everything. I myself will be waiting for rev. 2
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Actually, I don't think you will buy one, even if it could do that.
A large fraction of the people on this planet are apparently built to complain and fuss. It's true that it is much easier to see downsides than upsides.
However, zen-like though it may be, once you learn to appreciate that which you have, can do most of what you want, without giving you too much frustration, life is just a little more pleasureable.
Good luck!
B.
This zoom-ability of the first part has a lot in common with the ideas behind Jef Raskin's The Humane Environment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy/.
The second part, however, shows marvellous stuff. Especially if what I think he did, was search for patterns in images, and compare those for unique objects to collect a library of images of a single object.
This guy and supposedly his group shouldn't work for Microsoft in my opinion, but would perhaps feel more at home in a fundamental science laboratory. But I think my opinion on this is slightly partial.
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people are built to complain. Give them two buttons and they ask for three.
Give them three buttons and they ask for dedicated itunes control buttons
Give them dedicated itunes control buttons and they ask for application buttons (e-mail, web, etc)
Give them application buttons and they ask for more lights on the case to show the status of the machine
Give the status lights and they ask for an additional LCD to use as a clock
Give them an additional LCD and they complain that it looks too much like a fujitsu-siemens, dell or whatever.
People are built to complain. Always looking at the little annoyances, never willing to appreciate the things they have.
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Huh, what is the "chat now"-button doing in the top right of the "customise your mac" window?
so far, it's been giving me an error.
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I don't even miss the right mouse button on my PB G4, which happens not to have the double tap option. I always found it strenuous to reach underneath the palm, and sometimes accidentally hit it with the palm itself.
That said, having the ctrl-click reserved for the right mouse button does mean that photoshop and illustrator shortcuts work a little less intuitive. You know, when you know one of the keys, option click or whatever, would get you the function you desire, you miss and control click and BAM! there is your popup menu..
B.
Well, missiles are missiles. The purpose of missles is to go up, come down and explode. These are probably too light to carry a decent nuclear weapon with them (I honestly do not know the weight of a Hydrogen fusion bomb, let's leave those out of the equation for a while), but can still be used as strategic medium-range missiles, taking out some small targets.
:).
Whether they work or not is in this case not important. They merely have to pretend to work to throw the balance of power off. Uncertainty in the "assured" destruction ridicules the idea. Not to mention that the missiles can be upgraded at any time, without the risk of a new escalation. The scale of the missiles doesn't matter in this case, just that they are missiles. In exchange, Russia should be allowed to place missiles anywhere they want, but just imagine the political impact that would have
I seriously doubt the motives of the Americans behind these missiles as well. They benefit not from protecting Europe, they have shown in various ways (think environmental protection treaties here) not to care much for the rest of the world. The Americans must have a direct benefit from the placement of those missiles there. I just cannot see what it is yet, and probably we will not until it is too late do do anything about them.
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...whilst we plant a few more missles here and there? I mean, really, it's not against you! It never was! blink blink puppy dog bush eyes.
and are perfectly capable of being offensive weapons.
Besides that, what good is the threat of mutually assured destruction if one side can block the other's? The balance of power is then skewed, and anyone with too much power, even the venerable Americans, abuses their position.
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