Not to be an Apple DRM appologist (I don't buy iTMS songs, and I strip the DRM from the free ones I get via the weekly email and the Pepsi caps), but "Get Info" (in iTunes) on the unplayable song file will tell you the 'account name'. And (again, in iTunes) Help->iTunes Service and Support will take you to some web pages. One or two links away is this one: http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/authoriz ation/ There should be something there which will help you be able to play your songs again.
Python looks interesting. I know a lot of people are ga-ga over it. I've interacted with it wrt Zope & TMDA and had a pretty easy time reading it and making modifications when I had to. I still don't like the whitespace deal, especially wrt tabs vs spaces, as I've been bitten by that more than once. One problem I've got (and admitedly it's because I'm on ancient hardware [Raq2]), is the performance. TMDA runs each time an email message comes in and if multiple messages come in at once each one is using 10s of MB of memory which can really cause the system to lag.
The former. 'Macroevolution' is just looking at a large buildup of 'micro' (normal) evolution and calling it something else. At least that's what I understand. Rates of speciation may change due to changes in the environment (mammal explosion after the K/T boundry), but the base rate of mutation (due to the actual randomness in the system) doesn't change (as I understand it). On the other hand, I'm not sure (because I'm ignorant, not because I disbelieve it) of the mechanism by which different species end up with different number of chromosomes, and if at one parent/child boundary there was a 'jump', and if that could be called 'macroevolution'.
But in general, I think macroevolution is something trotted about by people who want to believe that bird flu might evolve to become more dangerous to humans, but deny that humans could possibly be decended from a common ancestor with Apes. Speciation is real, and can be observed in salamanders around the California central valley.
Macroevolution is a bogus concept, it's the bugaboo of a discontinuous mind. Humans look at a human and a chimp and they have a hard time seeing that the current day human could breed with its parents and them parents and so on all the way back to where the human's ancestors and the chimp's ancestors are the same.
What is it with the Bush appologists where they always say in response to complaints about the current administration, "but what about what Clinton did?" At this point, I could give a shit about what Clinton did, I'm worried about the current moron driving the country into the crapper!
Sounds like a Replican plan for small government...do things big! (and wrong) so that when they fail they can point at the failures, claim that government can never do anything as well as private interprise, and advocate for more tax cuts for the top 1%!
Learn something new every day... I've been working with Unix for about 20 years and haven't really used cpio much. That cpio command will work nicely for me for mirroring my image files into the chroot my webserver runs in...
You should read up more on Einstein if you're going to use his 'God does not play dice with the universe' as part of the basis for your faith. If you feel strongly enough about your faith that you'd like to challenge it with some well reasoned arguments, I'd recommend Richard Dawkin's new book 'The God Delusion'. Having read his earlier books like The Selfish Gene, and Climbing Mount Improbable is helpful, but not necessary.
And we have unsafe ones. I vote against working toward building the unsafe ones and vote for working toward building the safe ones. (removes tongue from cheek)
Certainly you can admit that more recent designs such as pebble-bed are more safe than the russian design that blew up, right? I imagine that the designs (not the current reactors) we have now would more than satisfy me (to live nearby), assuming that it wasn't a Bush appointee who oversaw the construction.
You must have a different definition of 'know' than I do. All I ask is that you grant me the same respect and stop trying to tell me what I should be believing or that my belief system is somehow not compatible with reality.
I may respect _you_, and I won't tell you what you should believe, but I will say that while your belief system may be compatible with reality, it's very very improbable that it reflects reality accurately. Therefore, I am unlikely to treat your belief with the respect I would treat something that _is_ likely to accurately reflect reality, regardless of how much you would like me to respect that belief. I try to respect the _people_ who hold such irrational beliefs, but reading the discussions on slashdot where religious people quote the bible and argue about which part means what and how this line later on means you can ignore this other section makes me feel like I'm watching children argue over the color of t-shirt their imaginary friends are wearing. Come on, we're adults, we can handle the idea that the universe is a very large, unfriendly place and in perspective, to the universe, we're are to it, less than the bacteria on our eyelash-mites are to us.
Of course, the problem with the golden rule is I don't want the neighborhood masochist tying _me_ up and beating me an dripping hot wax on my privates...
And the alternative of "do unto others as they would have you do unto them", is that I don't really want to tie the masochist up and beat her and drip hot wax on to her privates either...well, maybe if she's really hot...
So, are you agnostic about Zeus, Unicorns, the tooth fairy, orbiting teapots and other sillyness?
I'm not 100% certain there is no god, but I figure he's no more likely than that there are invisible fire breathing dragons hiding under the bed on which I'm typing this.
Furthermore, while a Deist god is, at least to me, somewhat possible, the idea of it doesn't explain anything about the universe, so there's no point to the speculation.
Sure, and the nuclear power in the earth is radioactive decay (which seem somewhat similar to fission to me, but I'm not sure if technically it is considered fission). I know the difference. Unfortunately, the only net-producer we have that uses a fusion reaction is a bomb.
Interesting, but what about the skin cancers that is going to cause? You know you're going to have to deal with all kinds of lawsuits due to your flagrant disregard for albino's, right?
Oh, and you wouldn't be converting it _back_ into electricity, right?
Hey, I'm all for solar (my wife and I were all set to put $30K of panels on our roof 2 years ago when I got laid off), but it's not a complete solution. Neither is Nuclear the only power we should be persuing, but it should be _part_ of the solution.
All other forms of 'power' are just storage mechanisms or transformations for nuclear power: Solar: Converting radiation from Nuclear @ Sol Wind: Nuclear @ Sol -> differential heating -> wind Hydro: Nuclear @ Sol -> evaporation -> water runs down hill Geothermal: Nuclear fission within the earth -> hot core -> heats water for geothermal Biomass: Nuclear @ Sol -> photosynthesis -> energy storage Fossil Fuels: As Biomass -> burried over long periods -> concentration of stored energy
It's _all_ Nuclear at some point. Once we accept that and work toward building safe reactor designs we'll be able to get on with "progress" without destroying the environment.
At one point, he's talking about new software they wrote to enable people to work on marking up the new GPL v3 document. Anyone know what the new software is called?
Which is why I'm always disappointed by the (very human) tendency of OSS programmers to roll their own half-falling-down barn rather than improving another barn.
Given that it's microsoft we're talking about, I'd expect that the 'crash' option continues to run merrily along, or at least 'hang' the system, not really crash.
(Typing this from my mac, but just about to switch to my work PC to do 'real' work...sigh.)
Wow, I never realized how much of an inferiority complex google has. I mean, they think that search.msn.com is a better result for the query "search engine".
I use Earthlink for email. Earthlink spamblocker is practically my home page because I check it all the time.
Then I'd say their spam blocking is pretty much useless. If I have to check a web-page for false positives all the time, I might as well just weed the spam out of my inbox. At least then it's all in one place.
I'm too much of an electronic's geek, I figured you use IR led and detector, then the silly string would set it off (maybe, depending on how opaque it is), or it would be invisible to the silly-string...
Note, the license I'm applying to this comment prevents its contents being supplied to terrorists to improve their methods:-)
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Huh? My wife's years-old garmin will power itself, receiver, display, processor, etc. for 20 hours on two AA batteries!
Not to be an Apple DRM appologist (I don't buy iTMS songs, and I strip the DRM from the free ones I get via the weekly email and the Pepsi caps), but "Get Info" (in iTunes) on the unplayable song file will tell you the 'account name'. And (again, in iTunes) Help->iTunes Service and Support will take you to some web pages. One or two links away is this one:z ation/
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/authori
There should be something there which will help you be able to play your songs again.
Python looks interesting. I know a lot of people are ga-ga over it. I've interacted with it wrt Zope & TMDA and had a pretty easy time reading it and making modifications when I had to. I still don't like the whitespace deal, especially wrt tabs vs spaces, as I've been bitten by that more than once.
One problem I've got (and admitedly it's because I'm on ancient hardware [Raq2]), is the performance. TMDA runs each time an email message comes in and if multiple messages come in at once each one is using 10s of MB of memory which can really cause the system to lag.
The former. 'Macroevolution' is just looking at a large buildup of 'micro' (normal) evolution and calling it something else.
At least that's what I understand. Rates of speciation may change due to changes in the environment (mammal explosion after the K/T boundry), but the base rate of mutation (due to the actual randomness in the system) doesn't change (as I understand it).
On the other hand, I'm not sure (because I'm ignorant, not because I disbelieve it) of the mechanism by which different species end up with different number of chromosomes, and if at one parent/child boundary there was a 'jump', and if that could be called 'macroevolution'.
But in general, I think macroevolution is something trotted about by people who want to believe that bird flu might evolve to become more dangerous to humans, but deny that humans could possibly be decended from a common ancestor with Apes. Speciation is real, and can be observed in salamanders around the California central valley.
Bogus list. Einstein & Murray Gell-Mann were/are not Jewish in the religion sense, but in the ethnic sense.
Macroevolution is a bogus concept, it's the bugaboo of a discontinuous mind. Humans look at a human and a chimp and they have a hard time seeing that the current day human could breed with its parents and them parents and so on all the way back to where the human's ancestors and the chimp's ancestors are the same.
What is it with the Bush appologists where they always say in response to complaints about the current administration, "but what about what Clinton did?"
At this point, I could give a shit about what Clinton did, I'm worried about the current moron driving the country into the crapper!
Sounds like a Replican plan for small government...do things big! (and wrong) so that when they fail they can point at the failures, claim that government can never do anything as well as private interprise, and advocate for more tax cuts for the top 1%!
Those differential redshifts don't mean a thing, that's just because I'm the center of the universe and I'm a bit unbalanced!
Learn something new every day... I've been working with Unix for about 20 years and haven't really used cpio much. That cpio command will work nicely for me for mirroring my image files into the chroot my webserver runs in...
You should read up more on Einstein if you're going to use his 'God does not play dice with the universe' as part of the basis for your faith. If you feel strongly enough about your faith that you'd like to challenge it with some well reasoned arguments, I'd recommend Richard Dawkin's new book 'The God Delusion'. Having read his earlier books like The Selfish Gene, and Climbing Mount Improbable is helpful, but not necessary.
And we have unsafe ones. I vote against working toward building the unsafe ones and vote for working toward building the safe ones. (removes tongue from cheek)
Certainly you can admit that more recent designs such as pebble-bed are more safe than the russian design that blew up, right? I imagine that the designs (not the current reactors) we have now would more than satisfy me (to live nearby), assuming that it wasn't a Bush appointee who oversaw the construction.
which means I know that God[emphasis mine]
You must have a different definition of 'know' than I do.
All I ask is that you grant me the same respect and stop trying to tell me what I should be believing or that my belief system is somehow not compatible with reality.
I may respect _you_, and I won't tell you what you should believe, but I will say that while your belief system may be compatible with reality, it's very very improbable that it reflects reality accurately.
Therefore, I am unlikely to treat your belief with the respect I would treat something that _is_ likely to accurately reflect reality, regardless of how much you would like me to respect that belief.
I try to respect the _people_ who hold such irrational beliefs, but reading the discussions on slashdot where religious people quote the bible and argue about which part means what and how this line later on means you can ignore this other section makes me feel like I'm watching children argue over the color of t-shirt their imaginary friends are wearing.
Come on, we're adults, we can handle the idea that the universe is a very large, unfriendly place and in perspective, to the universe, we're are to it, less than the bacteria on our eyelash-mites are to us.
Of course, the problem with the golden rule is I don't want the neighborhood masochist tying _me_ up and beating me an dripping hot wax on my privates...
And the alternative of "do unto others as they would have you do unto them", is that I don't really want to tie the masochist up and beat her and drip hot wax on to her privates either...well, maybe if she's really hot...
Command-O
If you read the menus, they show you what the command key equivalents are.
So, are you agnostic about Zeus, Unicorns, the tooth fairy, orbiting teapots and other sillyness?
I'm not 100% certain there is no god, but I figure he's no more likely than that there are invisible fire breathing dragons hiding under the bed on which I'm typing this.
Furthermore, while a Deist god is, at least to me, somewhat possible, the idea of it doesn't explain anything about the universe, so there's no point to the speculation.
Sure, and the nuclear power in the earth is radioactive decay (which seem somewhat similar to fission to me, but I'm not sure if technically it is considered fission). I know the difference. Unfortunately, the only net-producer we have that uses a fusion reaction is a bomb.
Interesting, but what about the skin cancers that is going to cause? You know you're going to have to deal with all kinds of lawsuits due to your flagrant disregard for albino's, right?
Oh, and you wouldn't be converting it _back_ into electricity, right?
Hey, I'm all for solar (my wife and I were all set to put $30K of panels on our roof 2 years ago when I got laid off), but it's not a complete solution. Neither is Nuclear the only power we should be persuing, but it should be _part_ of the solution.
All other forms of 'power' are just storage mechanisms or transformations for nuclear power:
Solar: Converting radiation from Nuclear @ Sol
Wind: Nuclear @ Sol -> differential heating -> wind
Hydro: Nuclear @ Sol -> evaporation -> water runs down hill
Geothermal: Nuclear fission within the earth -> hot core -> heats water for geothermal
Biomass: Nuclear @ Sol -> photosynthesis -> energy storage
Fossil Fuels: As Biomass -> burried over long periods -> concentration of stored energy
It's _all_ Nuclear at some point. Once we accept that and work toward building safe reactor designs we'll be able to get on with "progress" without destroying the environment.
At one point, he's talking about new software they wrote to enable people to work on marking up the new GPL v3 document. Anyone know what the new software is called?
Which is why I'm always disappointed by the (very human) tendency of OSS programmers to roll their own half-falling-down barn rather than improving another barn.
Human nature sure is a bitch.
Given that it's microsoft we're talking about, I'd expect that the 'crash' option continues to run merrily along, or at least 'hang' the system, not really crash.
(Typing this from my mac, but just about to switch to my work PC to do 'real' work...sigh.)
Wow, I never realized how much of an inferiority complex google has. I mean, they think that search.msn.com is a better result for the query "search engine".
Wow, just freaking wow!
I use Earthlink for email. Earthlink spamblocker is practically my home page because I check it all the time.
Then I'd say their spam blocking is pretty much useless. If I have to check a web-page for false positives all the time, I might as well just weed the spam out of my inbox. At least then it's all in one place.
I'm too much of an electronic's geek, I figured you use IR led and detector, then the silly string would set it off (maybe, depending on how opaque it is), or it would be invisible to the silly-string...
Note, the license I'm applying to this comment prevents its contents being supplied to terrorists to improve their methods