But to some extent you're going to be forced to do it with any artist. They, like anybody, hold views we will agree with and views we won't. I won't stop listening to John Lennon albums just because in one of his last interviews he made stupid anti-evolution statements. I still enjoy Isaac Asimov even though by all accounts the guy was a notorious woman groper at SF conventions. Heck, I even enjoy Jerry Pournelle's Codominium military SF even though he's absurdly Libertarian, anti-Einstein (yes, that's right, he thinks General Relativity is wrong and that some pro-Einstein cabal of physicists have spent a century burying better theories), anti-AGW and has spent decades over-inflating his importance as a "science" adviser to the Reagan administration.
The reason I don't read Card any more is because pretty much everything after Ender's Game sucked. I just don't think he's that good a writer.
Oh, and whatever you think of SM Stirling, the Emberverse is pretty cool.
I dumped Ubuntu quite some time ago. The last Ubuntu install I had going, a web server, was shut down last fall. I've switched over to Debian, which has everything I liked about Ubuntu without any of the things I absolutely loathed about Ubuntu.
Domesticated dogs are not even classified as a separate species; they, among with a number of wild dog populations, are considered sub-species of C. lupus. There seems to be some debate about the placement of coyotes. Some taxonomists feel because of relatively high interfertility between wolves and dogs on one side and coyotes on the other that placing them in their own species is probably faulty.
One thing we do know for sure is that through both natural mating and through human intervention, there is a some genetic exchange between many members of genus Canis. In particular, with canids like jackals, where breeding opportunities with members of their own species are being reduced in certain areas, they are turning to mating with variants of C. lupus (mainly dogs).
I'm not clear on this one. Why would humans killing off wolves based on certain traits be fundamentally any different than, say, lions killing off gazelle based on certain traits?
How about a NasCar fan analogy? You think they have brains, but when you open up their skulls you find tiny Leprechauns jacking off to chrome hubcap advertisements.
Yup. The other manufacturers are looking at Nokia sink into the swamp, and have absolutely no desire to tie the WP8 anchor around their legs and jump in the shark-infested waters of Microsoft's "ecosystem" (a word rich in irony when compared to Apple's App Store and Google Play).
And you don't think the combined market and monetary power of Google and Apple going after Redmond from multiple attack points wouldn't harm Microsoft? The days when Microsoft held the market clout to abuse in this fashion are long gone.
Youtube has probably driven more of my music purchases in the last few years than any other medium. I'm a big prog rock fan, and there's a huge indie prog rock scene that is just a YouTube search away. I hear something I like, I go their website and buy the downloads right off of them. Last purchase is a really good (but badly named) English prog rock band called Kingbathmat. Guys like this would barely exist at all in the old world, indie acts might be in the odd record store, but since the vast majority of record stores in the old days were chain stores with very cozy relationships with the big labels, you sure wouldn't find them there.
At some point guys like Apple and Google are going to go the way Netflix is going, and start producing their own content. In essence they will become labels. This cow-towing to the big labels won't go on forever.
The full album market was in many ways of phenomena of the 1960s to 1990s, when long plays slowly gained dominance (and CD for the purposes of distribution is really just a variant on long play vinyl). Prior to that, and even for much of that period, sale of 45 singles was were a major part of sales, and in most ways resemble what people are going after on iTunes now; the hit tunes, the best tunes off a record. I'd say there were really two ages when long play albums gained some degree of dominance; in the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, when the album became a sort of major artistic statement unto its self (and thus gave birth to everything from the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper to Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger), and in the late 1980s into the late 1990s, because the record companies never were really able to market CD singles and other mini formats. For much of the rest of the history of recorded music, short plays, whether 78s or 45s, were dominant.
Everyone knew even thirty years ago that record prices were a rip off, but as there was no other real distribution channels, you paid the sticker price and that was that. Now that capacity has been substantially reduced.
I cannot think of a single book purchase I've made in the last 25 years that was in any way related to any top ten list. I think I may glance at the NYT's list maybe once every year or two, and about the most I get out of it is "Oh yeah, there's that book I read."
I jest slightly. Certainly there are applications where SQL and relational systems in general are overkill, or where they do not solve certain kinds of problems well. But I'll be frank, they're pretty rare. I will use binary search/sort mechanisms for simple hashes and other similar two column key-value problems, mainly because there's absolutely no need to truck along gazillions of bytes worth of RDBMS where quicksort and a binary search is all that is needed. But if you get beyond that, you're almost inevitably going to start wishing you had JOIN? And then you end up having to implement such functionality.
Every tool for the job, to be sure, but I just happen to think there are far fewer problems that nosql style systems solve than some like to think.
And yet even American spellings leave anachronisms in. You don't say "knight" the way you spell it, that pronunciation was lost in the transition between Middle and Early Modern English.
A dog will let the members of his pack do a lot to him. Some stranger shows up on the scene, and watch out.
We had a little dog (terrier poodle cross), friendliest and silliest little dog you could imagine, and one day we had a building inspector come over to the place we were renovating for a surprise inspection. Our little dog picked up on our stress, and stood between us and the inspector bearing his teeth. He knew this was an unwanted stranger, and despite his small size, his instincts to protect the pack from danger kicked in.
Actually American English in key respects is the most divergent in spelling, and you will find that most other countries where English is dominant (ie. Canada, the UK, Australia) or very common (India) tend towards British spelling. I notice this is changing in Canada where the "u" in words like "colour" and "neighbour" is being dropped.
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Ever heard of Android?
Linux is in a helluva lot more places than Microsoft or Apple's offerings.
Mono was a pointless waste of time and De Icaza is a quisling turn coat. Apple deserves that worthless pile of donkey shit.
But to some extent you're going to be forced to do it with any artist. They, like anybody, hold views we will agree with and views we won't. I won't stop listening to John Lennon albums just because in one of his last interviews he made stupid anti-evolution statements. I still enjoy Isaac Asimov even though by all accounts the guy was a notorious woman groper at SF conventions. Heck, I even enjoy Jerry Pournelle's Codominium military SF even though he's absurdly Libertarian, anti-Einstein (yes, that's right, he thinks General Relativity is wrong and that some pro-Einstein cabal of physicists have spent a century burying better theories), anti-AGW and has spent decades over-inflating his importance as a "science" adviser to the Reagan administration.
The reason I don't read Card any more is because pretty much everything after Ender's Game sucked. I just don't think he's that good a writer.
Oh, and whatever you think of SM Stirling, the Emberverse is pretty cool.
I dumped Ubuntu quite some time ago. The last Ubuntu install I had going, a web server, was shut down last fall. I've switched over to Debian, which has everything I liked about Ubuntu without any of the things I absolutely loathed about Ubuntu.
Indeed. I always thought Switzerland was the model that at least some Libertarians dream of.
Domesticated dogs are not even classified as a separate species; they, among with a number of wild dog populations, are considered sub-species of C. lupus. There seems to be some debate about the placement of coyotes. Some taxonomists feel because of relatively high interfertility between wolves and dogs on one side and coyotes on the other that placing them in their own species is probably faulty.
One thing we do know for sure is that through both natural mating and through human intervention, there is a some genetic exchange between many members of genus Canis. In particular, with canids like jackals, where breeding opportunities with members of their own species are being reduced in certain areas, they are turning to mating with variants of C. lupus (mainly dogs).
I'm not clear on this one. Why would humans killing off wolves based on certain traits be fundamentally any different than, say, lions killing off gazelle based on certain traits?
How about a NasCar fan analogy? You think they have brains, but when you open up their skulls you find tiny Leprechauns jacking off to chrome hubcap advertisements.
Yes, all eight of them.
Yup. The other manufacturers are looking at Nokia sink into the swamp, and have absolutely no desire to tie the WP8 anchor around their legs and jump in the shark-infested waters of Microsoft's "ecosystem" (a word rich in irony when compared to Apple's App Store and Google Play).
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And you don't think the combined market and monetary power of Google and Apple going after Redmond from multiple attack points wouldn't harm Microsoft? The days when Microsoft held the market clout to abuse in this fashion are long gone.
You mean, like the latest Windows mobile offerings, which will be dead in nine months, even with a large infusion of capital?
Several sharp blows to the head with a ten pound sledgehammer would likely do the trick.
Youtube has probably driven more of my music purchases in the last few years than any other medium. I'm a big prog rock fan, and there's a huge indie prog rock scene that is just a YouTube search away. I hear something I like, I go their website and buy the downloads right off of them. Last purchase is a really good (but badly named) English prog rock band called Kingbathmat. Guys like this would barely exist at all in the old world, indie acts might be in the odd record store, but since the vast majority of record stores in the old days were chain stores with very cozy relationships with the big labels, you sure wouldn't find them there.
At some point guys like Apple and Google are going to go the way Netflix is going, and start producing their own content. In essence they will become labels. This cow-towing to the big labels won't go on forever.
The full album market was in many ways of phenomena of the 1960s to 1990s, when long plays slowly gained dominance (and CD for the purposes of distribution is really just a variant on long play vinyl). Prior to that, and even for much of that period, sale of 45 singles was were a major part of sales, and in most ways resemble what people are going after on iTunes now; the hit tunes, the best tunes off a record. I'd say there were really two ages when long play albums gained some degree of dominance; in the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, when the album became a sort of major artistic statement unto its self (and thus gave birth to everything from the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper to Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger), and in the late 1980s into the late 1990s, because the record companies never were really able to market CD singles and other mini formats. For much of the rest of the history of recorded music, short plays, whether 78s or 45s, were dominant.
Everyone knew even thirty years ago that record prices were a rip off, but as there was no other real distribution channels, you paid the sticker price and that was that. Now that capacity has been substantially reduced.
I cannot think of a single book purchase I've made in the last 25 years that was in any way related to any top ten list. I think I may glance at the NYT's list maybe once every year or two, and about the most I get out of it is "Oh yeah, there's that book I read."
Isn't there pretty strong case law against copyrighting APIs? It strikes me that there's not a whole lot to appeal here.
I jest slightly. Certainly there are applications where SQL and relational systems in general are overkill, or where they do not solve certain kinds of problems well. But I'll be frank, they're pretty rare. I will use binary search/sort mechanisms for simple hashes and other similar two column key-value problems, mainly because there's absolutely no need to truck along gazillions of bytes worth of RDBMS where quicksort and a binary search is all that is needed. But if you get beyond that, you're almost inevitably going to start wishing you had JOIN? And then you end up having to implement such functionality.
Every tool for the job, to be sure, but I just happen to think there are far fewer problems that nosql style systems solve than some like to think.
And yet even American spellings leave anachronisms in. You don't say "knight" the way you spell it, that pronunciation was lost in the transition between Middle and Early Modern English.
"Those who don't understand SQL are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." (with apologies to Harry Spencer).
A dog will let the members of his pack do a lot to him. Some stranger shows up on the scene, and watch out.
We had a little dog (terrier poodle cross), friendliest and silliest little dog you could imagine, and one day we had a building inspector come over to the place we were renovating for a surprise inspection. Our little dog picked up on our stress, and stood between us and the inspector bearing his teeth. He knew this was an unwanted stranger, and despite his small size, his instincts to protect the pack from danger kicked in.
Actually American English in key respects is the most divergent in spelling, and you will find that most other countries where English is dominant (ie. Canada, the UK, Australia) or very common (India) tend towards British spelling. I notice this is changing in Canada where the "u" in words like "colour" and "neighbour" is being dropped.
So if I add "over a network" to a claim that makes it patentable?