I haven't read TFA, but surely the bill is aimed at words in context of the Olympics. For example, I can certainly use the word "gold" -- unrelated to the Olympics -- in my advertising elsewhere as long as it cannot be misconstrued to represent the Olympics. Otherwise this posting would be illegal. Our world has not gone that mad yet, despite the article posting makes it sound that way.
I'm posting late, but I hope somebody sees this and can answer it...
I don't hear much from/about him anymore.
Whatever became of (CEO?) Darl McBride? He was so outspoken for a time. Does the guy now just wander into work put in his hours and go home or what? It's unusual to be so adamant about a topic and then to drop it. It seems... disingenuous. But has the guy been speaking lately or just keeping a low profile?
I don't have any mod points right now, so I'll just say Awesome Comment! After reading through variations of extreme right or left points, I find yours very fair and level-heading. Maybe I'm just of the same mindset. No matter, it really speaks volumes. Thanks for posting.
Microsoft has fairly recently released a toolbar for IE that includes tabbed browsing and Desktop search. I've been a dedicated Firefox user for the last few years, but I can tell that the stats are going to shift back towards IE really fast when IE 7 is released with many commonly-used Firefox/Opera/etc features integrated, especially if MS releases it for XP too.
The machine is just pounding out the songs. It's too measured. I don't even have a musical ear, but after listening the sound clips it's obvious those songs need to refinement of a human. It's needs to be less perfectly measured.
I hope not *everything* goes electronic. What a boring world it would end up being -- especially in the music dept.
Rather I think MS software has set he de-facto standard in many ways (e.g. MS Office) and because it is so widely-deployed seems diluated and boring compared to myriad other specialized apps on other platforms that users might have a harder time using (therefore more intriguing). However the fact that MS Office has become the boring standard lends credence to it, especially when other office suites are continually trying to catch up and vy for user's attention. Sounds more like a name-calling excuse to me.
From the article:Marketers, meanwhile, counter that cookies serve plenty of useful features consumers may not realize -- such as automatically filling in a username on a site that requires logging in, or helping a weather site remember a ZIP Code so that it can show a local forecast on return visits.
Notice the marketers are describing _other_ usages of cookies that are good -- they're forgetting to mention what *they* want to do with cookies... probably because that would not be palatable.
Kind of reminds me of the new McDonalds commercials with the sportier Ronald, and all the vegetables that are shown to promote health, however McDonald's core items (burgers, fries, soft drinks) don't make an appearance.
These advertisers must be desperate if they are trying to market around themselves.
From a completely non-scientific point of view, I don't think we should get worked up because the earth is changing. The earth is not static. It will always change. Let's work with it instead of calling changes bad.
Everytime something changes on the earth somebody's trying to blame humans -- the green-house effect, acid rain, etc. etc. Even without humans on it the earth would continue to change. I think environmentalism has become too much of a religion today.
We humans are adaptable. Let's work with the earth, for the better, and not get all bent out of shape about everything the earth does.
I'm from Canada too and have a dead Palm m105. However rather than a dead PDA qualifying, it appears as though it would have to lose data while the user switches batteries. Regarless, the class does not apply to Canada.
From the LongNotice PDF...
B. The Settlement Class Members
For purposes of settlement, the Court has certified a class consisting of all
Persons (defined as any individual or legal entity residing or with its principal place of
business in the United States, including the District of Columbia and territories and
possessions) who, for their own use and not for resale, owned a Palm PDA (defined to
mean a Palm personal digital assistant models m100, m105, and m125), from June 1,
1999, up to and including May 4, 2005. If you fit within this definition, you will be
considered a member of the class ("Settlement Class Member") unless you request to be
excluded.
First of all the Mozilla project (for example) should produce a boxed version of their product suite. Store customers want somthing tangible. Microsoft could offer everything as downloads only, but instead they package it into a fancy box. I would suggest the cost of the open-source software should cover the packaging and that's it.
That's seems to be the problem. From reading, database seem to be one of the the most theorized technologies, with a comparatively low set of conrete solutions. Sure a lot of databases and tools exist, but the industry is having a really hard time moving away from the relations model, and maybe for good reasons. I think instead of a better database technology coming along, the database will just gradually evolve and a long from now somebody will notice and write an article and lament a about the way it used to be.
to a different medium -- is it brain damage then?
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But the copying of a brain into a computer based on today's technology (not considering speed/size) will not work because the human brain exhibits more more than the 1s and 0s of today's computers. Indeed there are projects underway to create biological and fuzzy-logic computers; however first you'd probably have to be able to succesfully copy a human brain into another human brain before attempting to do it into a slightly different type of medium -- that is unless computers become brains (instead of the other way around).
Think about a person who suffers a head injury -- that person is often not the same person anymore, or suffers problems resulting from it that severely impairs their ability in life. Sometimes a person goes into a comma and never comes out. Not much physical damage to the brain has to occur for big problems to result. Now consider trying to move the contents of the brain. So I have to assume if the other medium is not exactly a brain then copying into it will just create a really big problem.
Even if science can get you onto another medium, consider Reeves (now deceased) or Hawking, trapped in teir own bodies to a degree. Now consider being fully concious and stuck in box. It's a good way to go mad and to never die.
I'm not saying it's not going to happen. I am predicting it's not going to happen in the next several lifetimes.
Upon a quick glance I thought the title read "No Billiards in Space." My first thought was the government must be regulating the game in space because a ball might fly off the table and break somebody's mask.
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Really, is there any other way.
I haven't read TFA, but surely the bill is aimed at words in context of the Olympics. For example, I can certainly use the word "gold" -- unrelated to the Olympics -- in my advertising elsewhere as long as it cannot be misconstrued to represent the Olympics. Otherwise this posting would be illegal. Our world has not gone that mad yet, despite the article posting makes it sound that way.
I don't hear much from/about him anymore. Whatever became of (CEO?) Darl McBride? He was so outspoken for a time. Does the guy now just wander into work put in his hours and go home or what? It's unusual to be so adamant about a topic and then to drop it. It seems ... disingenuous. But has the guy been speaking lately or just keeping a low profile?
Or like if some guy on Slashdot said "well I think Sony is going to..."
I don't have any mod points right now, so I'll just say Awesome Comment! After reading through variations of extreme right or left points, I find yours very fair and level-heading. Maybe I'm just of the same mindset. No matter, it really speaks volumes. Thanks for posting.
who knew?
Nah, we'll leave that one for the World Weekly News.
Well, if there is some kind of life on Saturn, it's surely gone crazy from the sound.
Japan wants to develop
Japan wants a lot of things now doesn't it. Well, Japan will just have to be a good little country and maybe Santa will come.
Vendetta: A Christmas Story. And oldie but a goodie.
So does that mean aspect-oriented programming is officially in?
Microsoft has fairly recently released a toolbar for IE that includes tabbed browsing and Desktop search. I've been a dedicated Firefox user for the last few years, but I can tell that the stats are going to shift back towards IE really fast when IE 7 is released with many commonly-used Firefox/Opera/etc features integrated, especially if MS releases it for XP too.
I hope not *everything* goes electronic. What a boring world it would end up being -- especially in the music dept.
Rather I think MS software has set he de-facto standard in many ways (e.g. MS Office) and because it is so widely-deployed seems diluated and boring compared to myriad other specialized apps on other platforms that users might have a harder time using (therefore more intriguing).
However the fact that MS Office has become the boring standard lends credence to it, especially when other office suites are continually trying to catch up and vy for user's attention.
Sounds more like a name-calling excuse to me.
Notice the marketers are describing _other_ usages of cookies that are good -- they're forgetting to mention what *they* want to do with cookies ... probably because that would not be palatable.
Kind of reminds me of the new McDonalds commercials with the sportier Ronald, and all the vegetables that are shown to promote health, however McDonald's core items (burgers, fries, soft drinks) don't make an appearance.
These advertisers must be desperate if they are trying to market around themselves.
Let the rest of us get back to work.
Everytime something changes on the earth somebody's trying to blame humans -- the green-house effect, acid rain, etc. etc. Even without humans on it the earth would continue to change. I think environmentalism has become too much of a religion today.
We humans are adaptable. Let's work with the earth, for the better, and not get all bent out of shape about everything the earth does.
Fine but what nanosecond does its birthday roll over?
I'm from Canada too and have a dead Palm m105. However rather than a dead PDA qualifying, it appears as though it would have to lose data while the user switches batteries. Regarless, the class does not apply to Canada.
From the LongNotice PDFB. The Settlement Class Members For purposes of settlement, the Court has certified a class consisting of all Persons (defined as any individual or legal entity residing or with its principal place of business in the United States, including the District of Columbia and territories and possessions) who, for their own use and not for resale, owned a Palm PDA (defined to mean a Palm personal digital assistant models m100, m105, and m125), from June 1, 1999, up to and including May 4, 2005. If you fit within this definition, you will be considered a member of the class ("Settlement Class Member") unless you request to be excluded.
Those cows are just sleeping soundly.
Instead, I would suggest:
(P2P <= copyright infringement)
Cuz' I'm looking through Emule and I'm moving past hundreds of pieces of copyright infringement to find the odd item that isn't.
First of all the Mozilla project (for example) should produce a boxed version of their product suite. Store customers want somthing tangible. Microsoft could offer everything as downloads only, but instead they package it into a fancy box. I would suggest the cost of the open-source software should cover the packaging and that's it.
That's seems to be the problem. From reading, database seem to be one of the the most theorized technologies, with a comparatively low set of conrete solutions. Sure a lot of databases and tools exist, but the industry is having a really hard time moving away from the relations model, and maybe for good reasons. I think instead of a better database technology coming along, the database will just gradually evolve and a long from now somebody will notice and write an article and lament a about the way it used to be.
Think about a person who suffers a head injury -- that person is often not the same person anymore, or suffers problems resulting from it that severely impairs their ability in life. Sometimes a person goes into a comma and never comes out. Not much physical damage to the brain has to occur for big problems to result. Now consider trying to move the contents of the brain. So I have to assume if the other medium is not exactly a brain then copying into it will just create a really big problem.
Even if science can get you onto another medium, consider Reeves (now deceased) or Hawking, trapped in teir own bodies to a degree. Now consider being fully concious and stuck in box. It's a good way to go mad and to never die.
I'm not saying it's not going to happen. I am predicting it's not going to happen in the next several lifetimes.
Upon a quick glance I thought the title read "No Billiards in Space." My first thought was the government must be regulating the game in space because a ball might fly off the table and break somebody's mask.