As for the Phoenix lights, the second wave have been explained (flares), and the lack of an verifiable explanation for the first wave doesn't mean they were exotic aircraft/spaceships/time-travelling reptilians. Fuck, migratory birds flying in formation cause massive illuminated Vs gliding silently across towns and cities all the time. The human propensity to see structure where there is none quickly extrapolates points of light into solid structures is well-documented, and has not been ruled out at all.
I have no doubt that the additional Phoenix Lights events were flares, and likely hoaxes. In fact, I believe they were productions to cast doubt on the first events. But, suggesting that the first event could be birds is absurd. That does not match the video, many thousand of creditable eyewitness accounts, and coverup. To suggest that migratory birds are not ruled out as an explanation of the Phenoix Lights is to admit ignorance on the topic.
There's about 55,000 vehicular fatalities every year in the US. Over 40,000 of them do not involve any alcohol. Of the ones that do involve alcohol, the alcohol use is not always a contributing factor.
Drunk drivers are pursued because it's both profitable and politically correct. That's not enough to make it just. A truly just cause is to work to prevent all 55,000 fatalities every year. Systems exist to do this. If the government funded programs for vehicle safety, such as cars that drive themselves, most all auto fatalities would vanish, along with the DUI problem.
VLC was removed because someone complained, and Apple did not want to deal with the problem
That said, I do not believe GPL2 prevents users from posting in the App Store. Here's why.
It is said that it can not be posted, because someone can not freely use the code that is shared when it's posted. That's not true. Anyone can use the code. The true complaint is that you can't sign and distribute the code without paying $99. Does GPL say that there has to be free code certs? I don't think so. The only issue is the code certificate need to sign the code.
Personally, I hate typing on touch screens. I doubt they can replicate the experience of a keyboard. I want to be able to type with two hands, without looking at the keys, while able to see the full screen.
You have to realize that the article is talking about small independent software vendors, and not companies like Blizzard who have billions in market capital that can be used for advertising.
I am an independent publisher of software on another platform, and I make a good living selling discount software at $40 a copy. If overnight I had to worry about others discounting that software to $5 a copy, I'd have trouble.
That being said, my software is for a very limited group of people, and I doubt I'd see much competition, but who knows?
Some systems have an option to fully overwrite the files instead of simply deleting the references to the files. Also, it wouldn't be hard to imagine that an algorithm to overwrite a disk could fail when finding a bad spot on the drive, and fail to finish the job.
I read a while ago that the same happened with the Earth's moon, or the Moon. The same side of the moon is always facing the Earth, because it bounced off of the Earth. It's also moving away from the Earth, for the same reason. The theory was the object that crashed into the Earth was about the size of Mars; that object is now the Moon.
A wavelet was a very basic bit of text. They took communication to the most basic roots. Why add email headers to it? The whole point was to get rid of them. Why impose the limits of email on Wave?
Wave was a reinvention of the old systems. It's a very good idea, that has a few very good uses. Those uses are not email, or chat, or message boards; the real use was document creation and maintenance. And, that functionality likely got bastardized by internal politics.
Lawyers are expensive. Defending patient violations is expensive. Demostraiting prior art is very easy, especially when that art is published worldwide and owned by thousands. Demostraiting that Apple reviewed the prior art is a given.
This wouldn't even require court. Just submit prior art to the patent office if you have it. If they pickup on what Apple is doing, the will be angered.
It's awful for general conversion, but it's great for working together with others.
Basically, it's a real time wiki, without the stupid name. What are wiki's good for creating? Well, documents and articles. Wave is good, perhaps better, for the same thing.
Is that multitaking or multithreading? Just because you can not currently switch between different programs, doesn't mean that software won't benefit from an extra core.
Also, seems to me, the iPad was to ship with iPhone OS 4.0, but the hardware was ready before the software, so they had to do something, so they made iPhone OS 3.2 for iPad only, with the features that are ready.
I do well building a reselling software. I make most of my money off something I built two years ago. Working as an independent programmer for someone else may suck, but working for yourself is the only way to go. Build it once, and get paid forever.
I don't know. Those that cheated got better grades and jobs than I did. Are they still working? Don't know. They are likely in management. Pissed me off when I was in school, because the professors like the cheaters. They got much better grades, and some went on to get MS degrees in CS. But, now I'm successful and make money on my own projects running my own business. That's something they could never do.
I worked at a place where the system administrator blocked only liberal websites, like the Daily Kos, and marked them as propaganda. I told one of the VPs that I would bitch about the war with, and the block was gone in about five minutes.
The anti-circumvention previsions may apply, even if the system was easy to circumvent. The DMCA says there is a "prohibition on circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted material." It's clear that iTunes controls copyrighted material. Palm is doing something to circumvent what may be the intended behavior of iTunes. There may be an issue, valid or not.
I was at Google I/O last week, and was surprised that Palm gave an appearance on the main stage. The I was almost overwhelmed that Apple was no where to be seen. This move by Palm really seems like something that only Google would have the balls to do. I wonder if Google is perhaps behind this.
Windows is "more consistent (to the expectations of someone who used Windows all their life), predictable (by people who spent the '90's studying for their MSDN cert), and easier to manage than Linux (by people who like masochism)."
Last I checked, Google wasn't putting books up for free download, just snippets. And I think they even have links to other sites to buy the book.
Yeah, but Google is putting snippets of many books online that it didn't pay for.
Don't get me wrong, I like what Google's doing, but this is the one place that I believe puts them on shakey ground. That is they went to the libary and checkout a book (figuretively, I know). And then they make a full high-quality copy of the book for *their own use.* Yes *their own use* may benfit the public and even the publisher, but don't forget it also benfits Google.
The point is, at one time Google owned *zero* copies of these works. Google now owns *one* high-quality copy of these works, and they let millions of people see snips of these high-quality copys. They didn't buy the first copy that they loded on their server. Forget about the unlimited copies they will download from their servers.
If I get something from the libary and make high-quality copy of it, is that going to far. If I buy a DVD and copy it, it's free use. What if I get that DVD from teh libary, and then copy it. That seems to be a little different.
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As for the Phoenix lights, the second wave have been explained (flares), and the lack of an verifiable explanation for the first wave doesn't mean they were exotic aircraft/spaceships/time-travelling reptilians. Fuck, migratory birds flying in formation cause massive illuminated Vs gliding silently across towns and cities all the time. The human propensity to see structure where there is none quickly extrapolates points of light into solid structures is well-documented, and has not been ruled out at all.
I have no doubt that the additional Phoenix Lights events were flares, and likely hoaxes. In fact, I believe they were productions to cast doubt on the first events. But, suggesting that the first event could be birds is absurd. That does not match the video, many thousand of creditable eyewitness accounts, and coverup. To suggest that migratory birds are not ruled out as an explanation of the Phenoix Lights is to admit ignorance on the topic.
There's about 55,000 vehicular fatalities every year in the US. Over 40,000 of them do not involve any alcohol. Of the ones that do involve alcohol, the alcohol use is not always a contributing factor.
Drunk drivers are pursued because it's both profitable and politically correct. That's not enough to make it just. A truly just cause is to work to prevent all 55,000 fatalities every year. Systems exist to do this. If the government funded programs for vehicle safety, such as cars that drive themselves, most all auto fatalities would vanish, along with the DUI problem.
VLC was removed because someone complained, and Apple did not want to deal with the problem
That said, I do not believe GPL2 prevents users from posting in the App Store. Here's why.
It is said that it can not be posted, because someone can not freely use the code that is shared when it's posted. That's not true. Anyone can use the code. The true complaint is that you can't sign and distribute the code without paying $99. Does GPL say that there has to be free code certs? I don't think so. The only issue is the code certificate need to sign the code.
Personally, I hate typing on touch screens. I doubt they can replicate the experience of a keyboard. I want to be able to type with two hands, without looking at the keys, while able to see the full screen.
Also, get off my lawn.
You have to realize that the article is talking about small independent software vendors, and not companies like Blizzard who have billions in market capital that can be used for advertising.
I am an independent publisher of software on another platform, and I make a good living selling discount software at $40 a copy. If overnight I had to worry about others discounting that software to $5 a copy, I'd have trouble.
That being said, my software is for a very limited group of people, and I doubt I'd see much competition, but who knows?
Some systems have an option to fully overwrite the files instead of simply deleting the references to the files. Also, it wouldn't be hard to imagine that an algorithm to overwrite a disk could fail when finding a bad spot on the drive, and fail to finish the job.
I read a while ago that the same happened with the Earth's moon, or the Moon. The same side of the moon is always facing the Earth, because it bounced off of the Earth. It's also moving away from the Earth, for the same reason. The theory was the object that crashed into the Earth was about the size of Mars; that object is now the Moon.
A wavelet was a very basic bit of text. They took communication to the most basic roots. Why add email headers to it? The whole point was to get rid of them. Why impose the limits of email on Wave?
Wave was a reinvention of the old systems. It's a very good idea, that has a few very good uses. Those uses are not email, or chat, or message boards; the real use was document creation and maintenance. And, that functionality likely got bastardized by internal politics.
Lawyers are expensive. Defending patient violations is expensive. Demostraiting prior art is very easy, especially when that art is published worldwide and owned by thousands. Demostraiting that Apple reviewed the prior art is a given.
This wouldn't even require court. Just submit prior art to the patent office if you have it. If they pickup on what Apple is doing, the will be angered.
If the ideas are already in published applications, then the patents are junk.
I have very little interest in mobile phones. In fact, I hate talking on phones, and I hate that my GF looks at Facebook on her phone.
But, I do like that iTunes money.
Well, do something about it.
http://www.waveprotocol.org/
It's awful for general conversion, but it's great for working together with others.
Basically, it's a real time wiki, without the stupid name. What are wiki's good for creating? Well, documents and articles. Wave is good, perhaps better, for the same thing.
Well, he's screwed, unless his info shows major corruption. If his info is solid, his captors may be screwed.
Is that multitaking or multithreading? Just because you can not currently switch between different programs, doesn't mean that software won't benefit from an extra core.
Also, seems to me, the iPad was to ship with iPhone OS 4.0, but the hardware was ready before the software, so they had to do something, so they made iPhone OS 3.2 for iPad only, with the features that are ready.
Yeah, if you are working on your own projects, it's easy to do a sixteen plus hour stretch. Some cola, pizza, and your imagination.
But, if you are implementing someones broken business logic or accounting rules, I'd guess that three to four hours a week is the norm.
I did it, and it says I have 26811 kbps down and 409 kbps up. I call BS. It has to be a conspiracy.
You're more optimistic than I am. I read that and think, 'build it once, and support it forever.'
My EULA says forever is 90 days.
I do well building a reselling software. I make most of my money off something I built two years ago. Working as an independent programmer for someone else may suck, but working for yourself is the only way to go. Build it once, and get paid forever.
I don't know. Those that cheated got better grades and jobs than I did. Are they still working? Don't know. They are likely in management. Pissed me off when I was in school, because the professors like the cheaters. They got much better grades, and some went on to get MS degrees in CS. But, now I'm successful and make money on my own projects running my own business. That's something they could never do.
75% is a low number. On my games, I estimate that 85% of the users did not pay for the game. But, what ever.
I worked at a place where the system administrator blocked only liberal websites, like the Daily Kos, and marked them as propaganda. I told one of the VPs that I would bitch about the war with, and the block was gone in about five minutes.
The anti-circumvention previsions may apply, even if the system was easy to circumvent. The DMCA says there is a "prohibition on circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted material." It's clear that iTunes controls copyrighted material. Palm is doing something to circumvent what may be the intended behavior of iTunes. There may be an issue, valid or not. I was at Google I/O last week, and was surprised that Palm gave an appearance on the main stage. The I was almost overwhelmed that Apple was no where to be seen. This move by Palm really seems like something that only Google would have the balls to do. I wonder if Google is perhaps behind this.
Windows is "more consistent (to the expectations of someone who used Windows all their life), predictable (by people who spent the '90's studying for their MSDN cert), and easier to manage than Linux (by people who like masochism)."
Last I checked, Google wasn't putting books up for free download, just snippets. And I think they even have links to other sites to buy the book.
Yeah, but Google is putting snippets of many books online that it didn't pay for.
Don't get me wrong, I like what Google's doing, but this is the one place that I believe puts them on shakey ground. That is they went to the libary and checkout a book (figuretively, I know). And then they make a full high-quality copy of the book for *their own use.* Yes *their own use* may benfit the public and even the publisher, but don't forget it also benfits Google.
The point is, at one time Google owned *zero* copies of these works. Google now owns *one* high-quality copy of these works, and they let millions of people see snips of these high-quality copys. They didn't buy the first copy that they loded on their server. Forget about the unlimited copies they will download from their servers.
If I get something from the libary and make high-quality copy of it, is that going to far. If I buy a DVD and copy it, it's free use. What if I get that DVD from teh libary, and then copy it. That seems to be a little different.