I'm a catholic and haven't paid much attention to what vatican said on ID before. For all the priests that I came across on the issue all mentioned that we can't take genesis literally. And a lot of them do point out that evolution does not necessary 'conflict' in the teaching of bible.
US is not bounded by Kyoto either. 'Our own plan' is just a load of crap shit. China has 4-5 times the populations of US. Most of them used something called bicycle instead of SUV.
It's nice to see Apple turned around. May be it is just me, but knowing their major portion of the revenue comes from a MP3 player is just plain scary. If they are smart enough to hopping from one train to another (e.g. media distribution/iTune?), good for them, but I'm not holding this stock.
Seriously, I'd love to see something like this. It could really help to boost Apple and keep the "legend" of SGI around for a long time to come.
Apple is yet again the darling of innovative world and stock market. Apple's mentality does changed much since day 1 - either they totally win out or crap out. Now that majority of revenue is based on a series of MP3 players (is it just me? it sounds scary). If they're going to pick up SGI, then I'm selling Apple in a snap.
OC-768 laser runs at 40 giga bits per second. Also I wonder how such modulation will behave in a WDM system... more prone to non-linear effects and such.
I don't think it's about Chinese or non-Chinese. It's all about crime and punishment, and maybe the influence of record/music industry in north america here vs the ones in China.
The point of all this? I wonder if most Chinese have even given piracy moral consideration./.ers may be pro piracy, insulted by the word pirace, anti-piracy, or whatever; but at least moral consideration was made at some point.
Dude, are you joking? You think they're different? Let's talk about the consumers of such materials. So you're saying/.ers are on higher grounds just because they have moral considerations? And the Chinese can't tell between right and wrong on this copyright issue? And actually doesn't that make it worse for the/.ers who are pro-piracy? It's like mangslaughter (The unlawful killing of one human by another without express or implied intent to do injury) vs murder (The unlawful killing of one human by another, especially with premeditated malice). They don't know it's wrong or don't know the damage it cost so they do it; vs/.ers know it's wrong and still keep doing it.
It almost becomes a fashionable sports here: anything/.ers - good; anything Chinese - bad.
There's no difference between the/.ers who are pro-pirvacy thinking its ok to share MP3/movies, versus the Chinese go down the street to buy it. Both of them think the entertainment industry are ripping them off, making too much money and that's why neither give a crap about it.
I own patents on ASCII, duh, hand over your money, NOW!!!
BTW, you all still own me royalty on my patents on 'Respiration', the process of converting oxygen to energy. I will withdraw my pending lawsuit on the entire mankind, only if the reasonable royalty of 'dollar-per-breath' is paid, or 5-for-$3.99.
However, I seriously doubt that with REGULAR USE (meaning under normal conditions) wear and tear is such that majority of these Nanos actually can't see the screen.
One of the reason for buying Apple stuff as you know is the cool factor. I don't think it's so bad you can't even see the screen, but if it is like the users say, a few weeks of use looks like few months/years old, then the value of such product greatly diminishes. It's like buying a silver Boxster and the paint wears out it's shine (or visually scratched up with normal use) in couple of months but still drives like a regular Porsche. Have you guys seen an older Hynadai car in red paint and how it wears off over years, compare to other cars?
I found that for companies that depends a lot on the technical staff, no matter what title or 'promotion' you spin, it's still the same role. The real techie guy almost never wanna be a manager of any sort. Think about it, like any other thing it's the 'leverage' that a lot of companies rank employees - the higher the management (hence the responsibility?) the better the benefit/pay..etc. I'd tends to think if the company give the employee a stake at the company (real stock, options), that is much better that 'promotion' or titles that doesn't really mean much. Even our chief system architect at where I work, he's still at the bottom of the totem pole - and there's really no need to 'promote' him; but giving such a guy stake at the company means a whole lot more.
Still, for the rest of the population, this is just moving from one type of scarce fossil fuel to another. We've all heard about the gasoline substites (ethanol, corn and soy based fuels, greasel, what have you), but is there much R&D on synthetic or renewable natural gas substitutes?
With billions of people being served everyday, I bet McDonalds can solve this problem ^_^
That's an odd one. But on face value it seems MS is willing to share some more of source code without actually allowing people to modify/use them. That will help in a sense of compatibility - make more 3rd parties compatible with MS, but not MS compatible with 3rd parties/standards.
A scheme like this would reduce or eliminate the dependence on periodic orbit boosts by cranky Russian rockets or once-in-whenever Space Shuttle flights.
Or we can ask the Chinese Taikonauts to give them a boost. May be they'll serve the ISS crew some space-ready kung-pao chicken; and that will go well with Tang orange juice I bet!
So all we need is www.google.com and no other domain name ^_^
Quite frankly the need for DNS is becoming less with tools such as google. However, there must be a starting point on the web and I don't think there'll be such a thing as a 'perfect search engine' that'll sit on the desktop, or '100% smart people' who'll know how to fully utilize of such search engine. Very ideal but very far-reached.
Yeah next 2000 years, and our president's mandate is 4 years, maximum 8 years. How can we expect us to have some real foresight into the things that we do?
I think the 'brand importance' and 'Hz' of CPU seems less and less of a factor in deciding which computer to buy, compare to 3-5 years ago, especially most computers today are fast enough for whatever majority consumers intend to do, AMD is around for years, and the Hz just doesn't pop up as advertised by Intel/AMD.
I think downloadable tv/radio program (podcasting) are transient technology. It's like floppy vs ftp, email vs snail-mail, newspaper vs online versions - the main difference is that the enabling network and technologies are coming up quickly in the near future (vs the time between the invention of snail-mail and email). Remember a few years ago I used a Palm and has software that can download stuff every time I sync it (Avantgo?). With WiFi hotspots and 3G wireless this will become less and less necessary.
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I can't wait until the boxing day sale for even lower price.
I'm a catholic and haven't paid much attention to what vatican said on ID before. For all the priests that I came across on the issue all mentioned that we can't take genesis literally. And a lot of them do point out that evolution does not necessary 'conflict' in the teaching of bible.
US is not bounded by Kyoto either. 'Our own plan' is just a load of crap shit. China has 4-5 times the populations of US. Most of them used something called bicycle instead of SUV.
It's nice to see Apple turned around. May be it is just me, but knowing their major portion of the revenue comes from a MP3 player is just plain scary. If they are smart enough to hopping from one train to another (e.g. media distribution/iTune?), good for them, but I'm not holding this stock.
Kudos to original poster. This discussion is much more valuable than RIAA/MPAA bashing.
Apple is yet again the darling of innovative world and stock market. Apple's mentality does changed much since day 1 - either they totally win out or crap out. Now that majority of revenue is based on a series of MP3 players (is it just me? it sounds scary). If they're going to pick up SGI, then I'm selling Apple in a snap.
I thought my grandma patented apple pie!
I thought all fishes are warm-blooded, once they're on the frying-pan. However, it could be fairly dark and solidified if it's fish-n-chips.
OC-768 laser runs at 40 giga bits per second. Also I wonder how such modulation will behave in a WDM system... more prone to non-linear effects and such.
The point of all this? I wonder if most Chinese have even given piracy moral consideration. /.ers may be pro piracy, insulted by the word pirace, anti-piracy, or whatever; but at least moral consideration was made at some point.
Dude, are you joking? You think they're different? Let's talk about the consumers of such materials. So you're saying /.ers are on higher grounds just because they have moral considerations? And the Chinese can't tell between right and wrong on this copyright issue? And actually doesn't that make it worse for the /.ers who are pro-piracy? It's like mangslaughter (The unlawful killing of one human by another without express or implied intent to do injury) vs murder (The unlawful killing of one human by another, especially with premeditated malice). They don't know it's wrong or don't know the damage it cost so they do it; vs /.ers know it's wrong and still keep doing it.
It almost becomes a fashionable sports here: anything /.ers - good; anything Chinese - bad.
There's no difference between the /.ers who are pro-pirvacy thinking its ok to share MP3/movies, versus the Chinese go down the street to buy it. Both of them think the entertainment industry are ripping them off, making too much money and that's why neither give a crap about it.
I own patents on ASCII, duh, hand over your money, NOW!!!
BTW, you all still own me royalty on my patents on 'Respiration', the process of converting oxygen to energy. I will withdraw my pending lawsuit on the entire mankind, only if the reasonable royalty of 'dollar-per-breath' is paid, or 5-for-$3.99.
One of the reason for buying Apple stuff as you know is the cool factor. I don't think it's so bad you can't even see the screen, but if it is like the users say, a few weeks of use looks like few months/years old, then the value of such product greatly diminishes. It's like buying a silver Boxster and the paint wears out it's shine (or visually scratched up with normal use) in couple of months but still drives like a regular Porsche. Have you guys seen an older Hynadai car in red paint and how it wears off over years, compare to other cars?
I found that for companies that depends a lot on the technical staff, no matter what title or 'promotion' you spin, it's still the same role. The real techie guy almost never wanna be a manager of any sort. Think about it, like any other thing it's the 'leverage' that a lot of companies rank employees - the higher the management (hence the responsibility?) the better the benefit/pay..etc. I'd tends to think if the company give the employee a stake at the company (real stock, options), that is much better that 'promotion' or titles that doesn't really mean much. Even our chief system architect at where I work, he's still at the bottom of the totem pole - and there's really no need to 'promote' him; but giving such a guy stake at the company means a whole lot more.
Something about Canada prime minister 'Jean Putin' and Bush LOL.
With billions of people being served everyday, I bet McDonalds can solve this problem ^_^
Unless... we first convert something else (e.g. oil) into natural gas, which introduces inefficiency because of the conversion... oops.
Can't get enough of porn even in an airship eh?
That's an odd one. But on face value it seems MS is willing to share some more of source code without actually allowing people to modify/use them. That will help in a sense of compatibility - make more 3rd parties compatible with MS, but not MS compatible with 3rd parties/standards.
Or we can ask the Chinese Taikonauts to give them a boost. May be they'll serve the ISS crew some space-ready kung-pao chicken; and that will go well with Tang orange juice I bet!
Quite frankly the need for DNS is becoming less with tools such as google. However, there must be a starting point on the web and I don't think there'll be such a thing as a 'perfect search engine' that'll sit on the desktop, or '100% smart people' who'll know how to fully utilize of such search engine. Very ideal but very far-reached.
Resistence is futile.
Yeah next 2000 years, and our president's mandate is 4 years, maximum 8 years. How can we expect us to have some real foresight into the things that we do?
$30 for another home router?
I think the 'brand importance' and 'Hz' of CPU seems less and less of a factor in deciding which computer to buy, compare to 3-5 years ago, especially most computers today are fast enough for whatever majority consumers intend to do, AMD is around for years, and the Hz just doesn't pop up as advertised by Intel/AMD.
I think downloadable tv/radio program (podcasting) are transient technology. It's like floppy vs ftp, email vs snail-mail, newspaper vs online versions - the main difference is that the enabling network and technologies are coming up quickly in the near future (vs the time between the invention of snail-mail and email). Remember a few years ago I used a Palm and has software that can download stuff every time I sync it (Avantgo?). With WiFi hotspots and 3G wireless this will become less and less necessary.