It's quite simple: The population is rising, but the local supply in just about every place on the planet where people live in large numbers is fixed (over the long term).
Granted, my employer may be a bit more enlightened than some, but we have a bunch of conference rooms and there's always people in them (when they're not being used for real conferences) alone on the phone. I rather suspect in a lot of cases that it isn't even a privacy thing as much as it is to keep the cube areas quieter.
Others have eloquently explained, but I will chime in my own description: He is the Jeff Godwin of violent FPS video games. In that sense, he's just another specific example of a generic class of fucktard.
Last time I had to defeat the usual sort of multi-session CD DRM I just used a whiteboard pen. It's helpful because if you go to far in (and start losing the last track), you can just rub little bits off until you get it just right.
Like I said, I didn't want to argue the merits of the decision (I agree with everything you said in your post). I just wanted to know if there had been any other incidents of censorship in the show's production - particularly any that we wouldn't know about because it never made it to air.
Recently, in the Confederate Rocket episode, the spectre of censorship reared its ugly head. You folks chose not to reveal some of the steps for making some of the (arguably quite dangerous) chemicals. I don't wish to argue the merits of that decision. But it does raise a question: Have there been any stories that have not made it to air simply because it was necessary to chop so much out of it that it was no longer air-worthy? Has there been any self-censorship in story selection ("we'll never be able to clear THAT...")?
I have to give them props on the concept, but couldn't they have chosen a more appropriate design? The problem with the powerbook lid is that the Apple logo in the middle is the most prominent thing and is right in the middle, so you need a design that will compliment it, and will maintain some sort of symetry. The lemur, or whatever it is, makes the thing look "right heavy" and is a complete non-sequitor to the apple.
So on your argument NTP can sue every user of one of RIM's Blackberry devices?
EOLAS can sue everyone using M$ Internet Explorer?
Yup. You'll recall that SCO sued an end-user of Linux. This caused at leasat one outfit to offer to indemnify their customers (that is, to pay for their defense and any damage judgements should they be sued).
Fine, but look at the context provided by the conversation that was taking place...
you know I think it's against the law to copy content in this manner? correct me if i'm wrong.
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Wrong.
On most world countries you are allowed to quote freely.
The implication of the post to which I replied was that it was wrong to suggest that copying content was not a violation of copyright law because "you are allowed to quote freely."
You are allowed to excerpt small sections from a copyrighted work for criticism, parody, education and the like. The grandparent merely reproduced the entire article text, which is not allowed.
But if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, isn't it a duck?
This would allow people interested in OS X but unwilling to buy an Apple machine to get into OS X
What, pray tell, is their problem then? If Dell, Sony, et al, were to make Apple class machines, they'd have to charge the same as Apple (maybe a tiny bit less, but not much), so it's not price... Do those people not like the Apple logo on the powerbook lid?
The other large difference is that this is a public school and the other school was Catholic, but this really shouldn't matter outside of school.
But that's the crux of the buscuit though.
The same constitution that says that public schools cannot censor out-of-school activities by students also grants private institutions of all sorts "freedom of association" rights (these are not explicit, but are implied by the first and fourth ammendment rights of peaceful assembly and protection from unreasonable search and arrest. They're a bit like the "right to privacy" that is similarly implied). Those rights allow them to say who may and may not be afforded access based on any criteria they like. The entire difference lies in the fact that the public schools are part of the government and private institutions and parties are not (so long as they do not accept any government funding for their activities).
What makes you say that? Because OS X is better than Windows? Sure it is, but so was BeOS.
I bought a copy of BeOS. And I can assure you that what killed BeOS was the applications & device driver barrier to entry. My favorite story was USB. BeOS had a UHCI USB host controller driver, but did not supply an OHCI one. It's one thing to not supply every possible variation, but another to disregard half of the existing installed base. But I digress.
Apple doesn't have that problem - even on Intel based machines (thanks to Rosetta). Say what you want about whether it's a smart move for Apple to step out of the hardware business and do a pure software play or not, but if they were to try and fail, it would surely not be for a lack of 3rd party applications.
I am unwilling to accept non-trivial DRM (that is, DRM I cannot crack) on media I purchase. If I don't own the stuff, then I'm more willing to put up with the restrictions, since I know up front that once the rental/lease is terminated I won't have it anymore, but I won't have lost value. By contrast, if His Steveness decides he doesn't want to run the iTunes Music Store's key vendor anymore, I'd be SOL if I had any songs or videos I had "purchased" there.
Internal combustion engines expect a certain amount of energy to be released when the fuel is combusted to turn the pistons. If the next gas doesn't burn about the same as natural gas, your engine won't run correctly.
Great. Now, in ten years we'll have 300 million cars that only run on natural gas, and we'll be running out of natural gas. And have to retrofit our cars for something new.
No. We'll have to simply pump some other compressed gas into those tanks, or worst case, replace just the tanks (say, with tanks equipped with hydrides for storing h2).
Isn't it the case that the domestic natural gas supply could be "cut" with H2 in the same way that gasoline is sometimes cut to make "gasahol"? In general, what would happen to a house full of gas appliances if you send H2 down the natural gas pipes? If there was no or minimal impact on appliance operation, then isn't the best way forward to work on centralized reforming of methane and sending the resulting hydrogen down the existing pipeline infrastructure?
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It's quite simple: The population is rising, but the local supply in just about every place on the planet where people live in large numbers is fixed (over the long term).
Not the edge. The bottom, NEAR the edge.
Granted, my employer may be a bit more enlightened than some, but we have a bunch of conference rooms and there's always people in them (when they're not being used for real conferences) alone on the phone. I rather suspect in a lot of cases that it isn't even a privacy thing as much as it is to keep the cube areas quieter.
Last time I had to defeat the usual sort of multi-session CD DRM I just used a whiteboard pen. It's helpful because if you go to far in (and start losing the last track), you can just rub little bits off until you get it just right.
Like I said, I didn't want to argue the merits of the decision (I agree with everything you said in your post). I just wanted to know if there had been any other incidents of censorship in the show's production - particularly any that we wouldn't know about because it never made it to air.
Recently, in the Confederate Rocket episode, the spectre of censorship reared its ugly head. You folks chose not to reveal some of the steps for making some of the (arguably quite dangerous) chemicals. I don't wish to argue the merits of that decision. But it does raise a question: Have there been any stories that have not made it to air simply because it was necessary to chop so much out of it that it was no longer air-worthy? Has there been any self-censorship in story selection ("we'll never be able to clear THAT...")?
I have to give them props on the concept, but couldn't they have chosen a more appropriate design? The problem with the powerbook lid is that the Apple logo in the middle is the most prominent thing and is right in the middle, so you need a design that will compliment it, and will maintain some sort of symetry. The lemur, or whatever it is, makes the thing look "right heavy" and is a complete non-sequitor to the apple.
Cue the "Apples are gay" trolls.
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Mainframe Bit Twiddler by day, OS/2 [...] Hobbyist by night.
QED.
EOLAS can sue everyone using M$ Internet Explorer?
Yup. You'll recall that SCO sued an end-user of Linux. This caused at leasat one outfit to offer to indemnify their customers (that is, to pay for their defense and any damage judgements should they be sued).
I have a PowerMac, so for me it's a tie.
Wrong.
You are allowed to excerpt small sections from a copyrighted work for criticism, parody, education and the like. The grandparent merely reproduced the entire article text, which is not allowed.
And there's nothing so odd about that!
What, pray tell, is their problem then? If Dell, Sony, et al, were to make Apple class machines, they'd have to charge the same as Apple (maybe a tiny bit less, but not much), so it's not price... Do those people not like the Apple logo on the powerbook lid?
Anyone with a single globally routable IPv4 address can have a /48 IPv6 prefix right now, today. Check out 6to4.
But that's the crux of the buscuit though.
The same constitution that says that public schools cannot censor out-of-school activities by students also grants private institutions of all sorts "freedom of association" rights (these are not explicit, but are implied by the first and fourth ammendment rights of peaceful assembly and protection from unreasonable search and arrest. They're a bit like the "right to privacy" that is similarly implied). Those rights allow them to say who may and may not be afforded access based on any criteria they like. The entire difference lies in the fact that the public schools are part of the government and private institutions and parties are not (so long as they do not accept any government funding for their activities).
Actually, it sounds like you came all over it.
I bought a copy of BeOS. And I can assure you that what killed BeOS was the applications & device driver barrier to entry. My favorite story was USB. BeOS had a UHCI USB host controller driver, but did not supply an OHCI one. It's one thing to not supply every possible variation, but another to disregard half of the existing installed base. But I digress.
Apple doesn't have that problem - even on Intel based machines (thanks to Rosetta). Say what you want about whether it's a smart move for Apple to step out of the hardware business and do a pure software play or not, but if they were to try and fail, it would surely not be for a lack of 3rd party applications.
Well, one way is to be nominated for an academy award. Nominees are automatically invited to join. Apart from that, it is by invitation only.
Really?
No. We'll have to simply pump some other compressed gas into those tanks, or worst case, replace just the tanks (say, with tanks equipped with hydrides for storing h2).
Isn't it the case that the domestic natural gas supply could be "cut" with H2 in the same way that gasoline is sometimes cut to make "gasahol"? In general, what would happen to a house full of gas appliances if you send H2 down the natural gas pipes? If there was no or minimal impact on appliance operation, then isn't the best way forward to work on centralized reforming of methane and sending the resulting hydrogen down the existing pipeline infrastructure?