just visited their website to see if they have any official response, and found their slogan on the main page:
They do more than pass around knowledge out here
Hmm, I think they should better stick to passing around knowledge and leaving the passing around of taser shocks out of it.
Anyway, here is the official account, which is in no direct words mentioned on the page by the way.
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This is my favorite quote of the post!
Then told them they had best give up the life of crime and her and her husband beat the crap out of them.
Isn't it a crime itself to beat the crap out of someone? But parent shouldn't worry too much as well, since she was a barber, she probably carried around some frightful scissors, ready to ruin their haircuts. That's what happens when I go to the barber, anyway.
Indeed, I was indifferent to religion for some time, but this changed in the last years as apparently a new wave of christians came about to try to mix religion and science again. Apparently this seems not something of recent times, as there was a biology teacher on trial for teaching evolution in the 1920's. It was away for a long time, though, but apparently came back thanks to some borne-again christian.
I've tried to understand the idea of Intelligent Design, but after reading the non-arguments that the biggest Dutch proponent of ID gave, I am convinced that it is a bad, bad thing. ID is no scientific theory as it has no single predictive value. It's more like a general statement you could make to complement all open answers you have, just so that you are not tempted to check any further. It will not be able to create any framework to base scienctific progress on. The powers-that-be are strong though, and it is worrying how much the nonsensical ID movement already made possible, now having non-scientific theory being tought in science class, the horror! These developments have made me very critical of any religion that tries too much to meddle outside their own field and people. Do what you want, but leave others and general politics out of it!
Ok, just consider this: he is originally from the Netherlands (which is known for half of it being below sea-level), he won the nobel prize due to his research on the ozon layer, and now he lives in Germany (well above the sea-level). Coincidence? I would say: dutch people: buy some rubber boats now, just in case!
Ah, you doubt it, and think it's absurd. Nice for you. Still, you don't give _any_ argument at all that can confidently say that this will not hold in court.
Because, since "happy birthday" does fall under copyright, and distributing something under copyright is illegal, it just is an actual, plausible case:
The company holding the copyright was purchased by Warner Chappell in 1990 for $15 million dollars, with the value of "Happy Birthday" estimated at $5 million. [1] While the current copyright status of the song is unclear, Warner claims that unauthorized public performances of the song are technically illegal unless royalties are paid to them.
Copy that! And what does the fact that defendant has multiple sclerosis to do with the case? Apparently, her daughter/sun did the filesharing on her internet account, which is not a complete unlikely thing.
To boost their claims without actually having to prove anything, the RIAA is also using the mainstream media to publicly harrass and humiliate the Santangeo family via a 'court document' which, although it still hadn't been indexed at the time of writing, or seen by the Santangelos or their lawyer, Jordan Glass, was last week freely distributed to the media.
Some of the comments on the images published here are really funny. It's like some restaurant would decide to publish chef's thoughts on a new soup receipe, and some folks would look at the process and say, 'Gee, he pours water in! We will never dine here!'
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But this is the internet, why else would you be posting this if not to hear my windbag opinion of how you should run your enterprise?
That is exactly what I was thinking when I just saw their upravlator. That thing, although looking unconventional at first, might be a bigger succes than their oled keyboard, especially as it can have direct applications in industries.
The TFA didn't say much more as the summary here, and left me wondering about the future of pine just like you did. This unofficial patches guy could've wrote a line saying 'note that pine will be developed as before', but he left it out, maybe he thought everyone would get that already...
Still I disagree with your main point. If a non-OSS developer team gets out of funds for some reason, the source code of their project dies with the project. In the case of open source, if a program is needed enough, it can and probably will be continued by someone else. If the program is lacking much need, someone probably already wrote a better alternative based on the same source. So OSS still kicks non-OSS's ass!;)
Yes, but mp3 players are the source of all Evil! In fact, the ATM designer probably has the best chance to nail this guy by sueing him for copying the sound combinations (aka music) from the device, that are of course the IP of the ATM designer. He's not even a thief, he's a bloody pirate!
You know what? There is probably already an overproduction of food big enough to feed all these people. But just shipping food to the countries that need it is not the way to build sustainable economies for them. Making essential technology for development available to them is. All in all, I think that mr Zachary should also consider using his mindshare for something useful for a change.
I read TFA, but there wasn't more info than in the summary here. Now I'm using pine for a lot of years now and I want to keep using it. Does anybody know the development of pine well enough to say if it is likely that someone else will take over the patches? I saw that a lot of patches from other people are present, so it's not that just one guy was working on it.
And no, don't tell me what other program I should use instead!
Indeed. Read this story for some amazing details on how the faulty visum system gave them a visum even against all laws and regulations that existed before 9/11.
Simple trick to make your office workstation slower:
Let some PHB get the idea that it would be wise if all office PCs use _only_ virtual desktops on a central server, and put that server on a different location. So far, so good. Could be a nice idea even. But then, in a blink of true geniality, use a cheap DSL connection (1Mbit will do) to connect all PCs in one office to the server in the other location. That's a way to get your Compaq pentium III to a halt while using Word. True story:(
Indeed, and what's with the stupid 'more behind the jump' links. Only gives you half a line extra mostly. If you know where to click to go there anyway.
With a decent UI / styling, an extreme DSP and an easy way to transfer files between PC and device (like iPod (that can sync with linux too) or the plain removable device scheme) sony can beat everyone in the market and fill a niche market which is filled with ppl who are listening music 10hr+ a day.
That's seems a big 'IF': I don't own a mp3 walkman, but what I heard from it you need some difficult and buggy software to put the songs on the device. The article shows that the original walkman was a success because the people responsible for it where users themselves and therefore knew what they wanted and how they wanted it. Technology was already at hand (from the Pressman), so the real step forward came not from fancy technology, but from having a clear idea about how the user would use it. Here is where the new sony stuff failed. Introducing the MD, even though a superior technology than the stuff existing at the time, didn't really work because the new disc format needed expensive hardware and blanc discs which were not compatible with anything else around. (I noticed that some cars can still be outfitted with an MD player off-factory, so it apparently didn't really die, just plays a more marginal role than it could've).
Just be in contact with your product, use it yourself, give it to family members and hear what they say about it, and compare it with the stuff from competitors, that's how sony should make their products. Too many new technological products fail because the producers sit on their ivory tower and dictate their product to their costumers.
Simulations are likely to cost less than actually making and testing the modifications to their recipes or processes.
If the simulation framework would already exist, you would be right, but in the particular case you mention you're probably not: you'd have to first find out which receptors in the tastebuds are responsible and what their structure is. To be honest, computer simulation is still far away from such amazingly complex tasks.
Furthermore changing a beverage can be done fairly cheaply, you just need a small test setup to do the brewing, and then do batches after each other, you could try a lot mixes in a month. Then for tasting you could use an "artificial nose", or just do it yourself.
Anything that contains a molecular mixture with loads of different chemical interactions (I'm not even considering reactions here) is still an immense task for simulation, as all the parameters you put in to it have to be tested individually.
Current simulation has strengths, e.g. in material design to test high-pressure extreme force conditions, that would be either impossible or very expensive to perform. In the case of beer-brewing probably the most in reach of simulation would be to optimize foam stability, although even that would be a pretty difficult task!
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They do more than pass around knowledge out here
Hmm, I think they should better stick to passing around knowledge and leaving the passing around of taser shocks out of it. Anyway, here is the official account, which is in no direct words mentioned on the page by the way.
Then told them they had best give up the life of crime and her and her husband beat the crap out of them.
Isn't it a crime itself to beat the crap out of someone? But parent shouldn't worry too much as well, since she was a barber, she probably carried around some frightful scissors, ready to ruin their haircuts. That's what happens when I go to the barber, anyway.
I've tried to understand the idea of Intelligent Design, but after reading the non-arguments that the biggest Dutch proponent of ID gave, I am convinced that it is a bad, bad thing. ID is no scientific theory as it has no single predictive value. It's more like a general statement you could make to complement all open answers you have, just so that you are not tempted to check any further. It will not be able to create any framework to base scienctific progress on. The powers-that-be are strong though, and it is worrying how much the nonsensical ID movement already made possible, now having non-scientific theory being tought in science class, the horror! These developments have made me very critical of any religion that tries too much to meddle outside their own field and people. Do what you want, but leave others and general politics out of it!
Ok, just consider this: he is originally from the Netherlands (which is known for half of it being below sea-level), he won the nobel prize due to his research on the ozon layer, and now he lives in Germany (well above the sea-level). Coincidence? I would say: dutch people: buy some rubber boats now, just in case!
Because, since "happy birthday" does fall under copyright, and distributing something under copyright is illegal, it just is an actual, plausible case:
The company holding the copyright was purchased by Warner Chappell in 1990 for $15 million dollars, with the value of "Happy Birthday" estimated at $5 million. [1] While the current copyright status of the song is unclear, Warner claims that unauthorized public performances of the song are technically illegal unless royalties are paid to them.
Quote from wikipedia.
well, but apparently her kids did, using her DSL connection. Aren't parents liable for the actions of their kids? Just being devil's advocate here.
More shocking to me is this:
To boost their claims without actually having to prove anything, the RIAA is also using the mainstream media to publicly harrass and humiliate the Santangeo family via a 'court document' which, although it still hadn't been indexed at the time of writing, or seen by the Santangelos or their lawyer, Jordan Glass, was last week freely distributed to the media.
Some of the comments on the images published here are really funny. It's like some restaurant would decide to publish chef's thoughts on a new soup receipe, and some folks would look at the process and say, 'Gee, he pours water in! We will never dine here!'
Reaction in the comments: But this is the internet, why else would you be posting this if not to hear my windbag opinion of how you should run your enterprise?
That is exactly what I was thinking when I just saw their upravlator. That thing, although looking unconventional at first, might be a bigger succes than their oled keyboard, especially as it can have direct applications in industries.
Still I disagree with your main point. If a non-OSS developer team gets out of funds for some reason, the source code of their project dies with the project. In the case of open source, if a program is needed enough, it can and probably will be continued by someone else. If the program is lacking much need, someone probably already wrote a better alternative based on the same source. So OSS still kicks non-OSS's ass! ;)
Yes, but mp3 players are the source of all Evil! In fact, the ATM designer probably has the best chance to nail this guy by sueing him for copying the sound combinations (aka music) from the device, that are of course the IP of the ATM designer. He's not even a thief, he's a bloody pirate!
You know what? There is probably already an overproduction of food big enough to feed all these people. But just shipping food to the countries that need it is not the way to build sustainable economies for them. Making essential technology for development available to them is. All in all, I think that mr Zachary should also consider using his mindshare for something useful for a change.
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And no, don't tell me what other program I should use instead!
Indeed. Read this story for some amazing details on how the faulty visum system gave them a visum even against all laws and regulations that existed before 9/11.
You forget to mention the person that will post a link to a funny and appropriate youtube video, thereby distracting you from the actual question.
it's a bit like this one: http://www.lge.com/products/model/detail/b2050(uk) .jhtml
Shows that some companies still make phones that can be used... to call people and nothing else.
This only works if you start drinking during 4, and bring out the booze after 5. You'll have a jolly evening!
I kid you not http://c64s.com/game/2025/bruce_lee/
I would suggest to start fixing them by putting a ban on Anime music videos. That would solve one thing that is wrong with mankind today.
Let some PHB get the idea that it would be wise if all office PCs use _only_ virtual desktops on a central server, and put that server on a different location. So far, so good. Could be a nice idea even. But then, in a blink of true geniality, use a cheap DSL connection (1Mbit will do) to connect all PCs in one office to the server in the other location. That's a way to get your Compaq pentium III to a halt while using Word. True story :(
video here and pictures and shakey translation here.
That's seems a big 'IF': I don't own a mp3 walkman, but what I heard from it you need some difficult and buggy software to put the songs on the device. The article shows that the original walkman was a success because the people responsible for it where users themselves and therefore knew what they wanted and how they wanted it. Technology was already at hand (from the Pressman), so the real step forward came not from fancy technology, but from having a clear idea about how the user would use it. Here is where the new sony stuff failed. Introducing the MD, even though a superior technology than the stuff existing at the time, didn't really work because the new disc format needed expensive hardware and blanc discs which were not compatible with anything else around. (I noticed that some cars can still be outfitted with an MD player off-factory, so it apparently didn't really die, just plays a more marginal role than it could've).
Just be in contact with your product, use it yourself, give it to family members and hear what they say about it, and compare it with the stuff from competitors, that's how sony should make their products. Too many new technological products fail because the producers sit on their ivory tower and dictate their product to their costumers.
If the simulation framework would already exist, you would be right, but in the particular case you mention you're probably not: you'd have to first find out which receptors in the tastebuds are responsible and what their structure is. To be honest, computer simulation is still far away from such amazingly complex tasks.
Furthermore changing a beverage can be done fairly cheaply, you just need a small test setup to do the brewing, and then do batches after each other, you could try a lot mixes in a month. Then for tasting you could use an "artificial nose", or just do it yourself.
Anything that contains a molecular mixture with loads of different chemical interactions (I'm not even considering reactions here) is still an immense task for simulation, as all the parameters you put in to it have to be tested individually. Current simulation has strengths, e.g. in material design to test high-pressure extreme force conditions, that would be either impossible or very expensive to perform. In the case of beer-brewing probably the most in reach of simulation would be to optimize foam stability, although even that would be a pretty difficult task!
As soon as there will be a new iPod killer to talk about...