We spend millions a year preventing dune shifting by experimenting with and planting different plant species - why not try switchgrass? Better still, will switchgrass survive in a desert climate? This could solve another problem - desert expansion.
You know, come to think of it, it's not the word 'cult' on the sign that was most offensive - as the word has many inoffensive meanings ('following', eg) - it was the word 'dangerous'.
These guys are thinking themselves the most intelligent of us all?
A cult is simply a lesser-popular religion; and/or one more recent than that/those already adopted by the majority.
In structure they are essentially the same - both are political entities.
A shaman is a religion without politics, but once he begins organising a following following a unique doctrine, it becomes a religion - cult, if you will, while the number of followers remains small - and a full-fledged religion (in every sense of the term) should the doctrine become the status quo.
'Cult' is religion with an added reference to popularity.
The definition of words to us are but what we -commonly- know them to be; many try to change the meaning of words through instilling doubt or confusion the existing commonly-known definition of a word or term. The Bush administration is notorious for this, and Rove a magician: imagine, they even tried to bring doubt to what the definition of 'is' is.
Let's not mix things up. There's hate, then there's crime.
Crime is anything forbidden by law: agression, coersion and theft are crimes, but hate itself is not; hate is, in fact, protected by the first amendment. In the U.S. you can be convicted for the crime, but not the hate that may have motivated it; at best it can only serve, if proven to be the main motivation of the crime, to accentuate the culpability of the perpatrator, and to sway juries.
Parent hit it on the head. The MS Flash use in question is almost all ads; how does a technology advertise its own merits (or method) if the viewer isn't using it yet? Somehow I don't think a 'click here to download Silverlight to see how great Silverlight is this Silverlight ad' will cut the cake.
A double to the whammy would be MS's loss of revenue if it switched all its 'other-product' ads over to Silverlight before at least a majority of pageviewers already had the technology - for this MS's pages and ads will be in Flash for some time to come.
BTW, if you want an alternative to MS's exaggerated hype as to how popular Silverlight is, their websites, ironically, are the perfect barometer.
Temporarily blocking streets sounds like a plausible solution, but it is at best a difficult one; one blocked street (in a mess of narrow one-way streets) can wreak havoc for circulation, and (street-blocking) deliveries often continue until 9:00 am - when the heavy 'to-work' traffic starts.
The best solution is to run the project, using as many cameras/cars possible, during the month of August - this town is dead then. Save of course for the 'touristy' areas - whose numbers (especially during that month) count a majority of foriegners.
Ex-actly. Of course it would be best that every computer (with first-time users in mind) ship with the "best" OS out there, but it wouldn't be very democratic for any single party to decide ahead of time which OS that will be. Imagine a world where every computer shipped with a CD containing ALL os's - free and propriatary confounded, where'd you'd have to pay only if the OS required it - and watch the market fun commence. Motivation, abound!
I couldn't care less who has the majority of the market - as long as they remain the best at what they do. Adobe for example, as far as media is concerned... but MS, with their crappy/bloated/condescending/virus-addled/insecure/monopolistic OS has no excuse - and can have no complaint in the matter. Google is an example to follow, not one to complain about.
Agreed - but backwards-compatable code for the latest and greatest would be better. A bit of browser-sniffing would do the trick: send 'old' browsers to your (off-page) 'old' code that you can drop altogether when the 'old' browser finally dies. That's 'developing forward'.
Technically, American 'color' contains less bytes than British 'colour'. So although American colors (especially in advertising) tend to be more towards the pure (rgb + complimentary), can we consider them to be the more 'simblastic' of the two?
The decision is corrupt (from the start), because what all countries tried to do was come to a real and objective decision on the technical feasabilities of OOXML as a a real (and widespread) standard - "the majority" should have nothing to do with this decision. Both sides are nearly equally guilty of trying the lobbyist end... but what it will come down to is developers actually accepting the technology as a standard, no matter the vote. Yet if the technology is "voted" as a standard, I'm sure this will weigh in because of the 'ignorance factor' - non-tech savvy CEO's opting for the tech they think 'everyone' (the 'most-voted') are using.
The only thing as fast as (recently implemented) firewire (800) is ethernet. The fact that PC computers (representing a majority of the computer market) don't have firewire doesn't mean that the technology is outmoded by another, or useless. The article is a fun read, but factually it is a load of sh*te.
You feel biased for what - things that work? What's odd about that?
Not only do I not mind Apple controlling (its own) platform, I don't mind Adobe controlling the digital-media-manipulation market, but there's a hitch: I'll start minding if they no longer are the best. The article is an essay in out-of-the-ass rhetoric, nothing more, because customers always opt for the best (if it is affordable) and will not go turncoat if the product they buy remains so. This is not britney spears' music/antics/popularity we're talking about here - apple, microsoft and Google are tools we use in our everyday productivity.
Once we get to a certain level of molecular (atomical) understanding, I think we are able to recreate any 'model' of physical circumstances. Yet it must be done to be proven...
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We spend millions a year preventing dune shifting by experimenting with and planting different plant species - why not try switchgrass? Better still, will switchgrass survive in a desert climate? This could solve another problem - desert expansion.
Hm - Come to think of it, Dennis Kucinich would make a great Veep.
*sip* (raising hand)
Bingo. Instead of degrading plastics - made from our limited petroleum resources - we should be recycling it.
I would be curious to know, all the same, the composition of the plastic residue after bacteriological treatment.
...and putting oxygen back in?
... Is Bush going to be McCain's VP? Hmmmm...
You know, come to think of it, it's not the word 'cult' on the sign that was most offensive - as the word has many inoffensive meanings ('following', eg) - it was the word 'dangerous'.
These guys are thinking themselves the most intelligent of us all?
A cult is simply a lesser-popular religion; and/or one more recent than that/those already adopted by the majority.
In structure they are essentially the same - both are political entities.
A shaman is a religion without politics, but once he begins organising a following following a unique doctrine, it becomes a religion - cult, if you will, while the number of followers remains small - and a full-fledged religion (in every sense of the term) should the doctrine become the status quo.
'Cult' is religion with an added reference to popularity.
Not weird at all, actually. That's actually what a democracy is supposed to be.
Cobol!
The definition of words to us are but what we -commonly- know them to be; many try to change the meaning of words through instilling doubt or confusion the existing commonly-known definition of a word or term. The Bush administration is notorious for this, and Rove a magician: imagine, they even tried to bring doubt to what the definition of 'is' is.
Let's not mix things up. There's hate, then there's crime.
Crime is anything forbidden by law: agression, coersion and theft are crimes, but hate itself is not; hate is, in fact, protected by the first amendment. In the U.S. you can be convicted for the crime, but not the hate that may have motivated it; at best it can only serve, if proven to be the main motivation of the crime, to accentuate the culpability of the perpatrator, and to sway juries.
Um... and the OS market - Vista?
Parent hit it on the head. The MS Flash use in question is almost all ads; how does a technology advertise its own merits (or method) if the viewer isn't using it yet? Somehow I don't think a 'click here to download Silverlight to see how great Silverlight is this Silverlight ad' will cut the cake.
A double to the whammy would be MS's loss of revenue if it switched all its 'other-product' ads over to Silverlight before at least a majority of pageviewers already had the technology - for this MS's pages and ads will be in Flash for some time to come.
BTW, if you want an alternative to MS's exaggerated hype as to how popular Silverlight is, their websites, ironically, are the perfect barometer.
Temporarily blocking streets sounds like a plausible solution, but it is at best a difficult one; one blocked street (in a mess of narrow one-way streets) can wreak havoc for circulation, and (street-blocking) deliveries often continue until 9:00 am - when the heavy 'to-work' traffic starts.
The best solution is to run the project, using as many cameras/cars possible, during the month of August - this town is dead then. Save of course for the 'touristy' areas - whose numbers (especially during that month) count a majority of foriegners.
Ex-actly. Of course it would be best that every computer (with first-time users in mind) ship with the "best" OS out there, but it wouldn't be very democratic for any single party to decide ahead of time which OS that will be. Imagine a world where every computer shipped with a CD containing ALL os's - free and propriatary confounded, where'd you'd have to pay only if the OS required it - and watch the market fun commence. Motivation, abound!
I couldn't care less who has the majority of the market - as long as they remain the best at what they do. Adobe for example, as far as media is concerned... but MS, with their crappy/bloated/condescending/virus-addled/insecure/monopolistic OS has no excuse - and can have no complaint in the matter. Google is an example to follow, not one to complain about.
Agreed - but backwards-compatable code for the latest and greatest would be better. A bit of browser-sniffing would do the trick: send 'old' browsers to your (off-page) 'old' code that you can drop altogether when the 'old' browser finally dies. That's 'developing forward'.
Technically, American 'color' contains less bytes than British 'colour'. So although American colors (especially in advertising) tend to be more towards the pure (rgb + complimentary), can we consider them to be the more 'simblastic' of the two?
The decision is corrupt (from the start), because what all countries tried to do was come to a real and objective decision on the technical feasabilities of OOXML as a a real (and widespread) standard - "the majority" should have nothing to do with this decision. Both sides are nearly equally guilty of trying the lobbyist end... but what it will come down to is developers actually accepting the technology as a standard, no matter the vote. Yet if the technology is "voted" as a standard, I'm sure this will weigh in because of the 'ignorance factor' - non-tech savvy CEO's opting for the tech they think 'everyone' (the 'most-voted') are using.
Nice to see things speeding up : P
small % of market != obsolete.
The only thing as fast as (recently implemented) firewire (800) is ethernet. The fact that PC computers (representing a majority of the computer market) don't have firewire doesn't mean that the technology is outmoded by another, or useless. The article is a fun read, but factually it is a load of sh*te.
...why not invite the person most knowledgable on the subject?
You feel biased for what - things that work? What's odd about that?
Not only do I not mind Apple controlling (its own) platform, I don't mind Adobe controlling the digital-media-manipulation market, but there's a hitch: I'll start minding if they no longer are the best. The article is an essay in out-of-the-ass rhetoric, nothing more, because customers always opt for the best (if it is affordable) and will not go turncoat if the product they buy remains so. This is not britney spears' music/antics/popularity we're talking about here - apple, microsoft and Google are tools we use in our everyday productivity.
Once we get to a certain level of molecular (atomical) understanding, I think we are able to recreate any 'model' of physical circumstances. Yet it must be done to be proven...