I would imagine that Apple Records (if the entity still exists) trademark of the apple isn't so strong that it would cross over to music retailing.
Given that it now takes a few minutes and a google search to remember why Apple Records was important for most people (especially younger people) it might not be even labeled an active trademark, espically in the US.
A later individual stated: A theory is a hypothesis that has survived experimental testing.
If there is a test of macro evolution that is successful, I would like to know about it. If there is a test of spot evolution that is successful, I would like to know about it. I do not see evidence that natural selection has removed people with vision problems from the gene pool. It has also done nothing about ugly or stupid people. In other words, the testing issue has been weak on both sides. Those in the side of ID will state that the testing, in part, is showing the consistency of design within related things, ie, dna within animals.
This is the perfect example of why ID is not a theory. You are arguing the merits of your hypothisis, mearly on the claim that your hypothisis doesn't NEED to survive expiramental testing because some other theory, in your opinion, didn't provide expiramental testing.
That is not an answer, if ID is a scientific theory then it needs to survive on its own merits. It is not in a dicotimy with evolution, where as weaknesses in one is support for the other. A weakness in evolution IS NOT support for ID. Only evidence of an inteligent designer actively working is evidence for ID.
So they missed their revenue proejctions by a fraction, yet they posted double the profits from last quarter by halving their R&D Budget from 3 billion to 1.5 billion. And slashdot doesn't pick up on that.
My question, since R&D covers almost all new development in the company, Which products/programs where cut?
Clean room implenetations are only needed when the object being covered is covered by some for of trade secret.
SCO has declared that there are no trade secret issues with regards to this case. Therefore the claims that IBM needed a chinese wall are absolutly false.
This writer has obviously just picked up this case or was given the notes to it directly from SCOx. This idea of the need for a chinese wall/clean room is SOOO 2003.
Today, I try to split my non-girlfriend alloted time between; CS-Source, Tony Hawk PSP, World Of Warcraft and Katamary Diamacy. In fact, I'm really tempted to buy MLB for my PSP.
As far as maybe being a kid with no expirence with games, I'm close to middle aged (ugh), male and have been playing video games since Star Castle used to sucked my weekly allowance in 3 minutes (Lord Nelson, Landsdown Mall RIP).
Given how much MORE I'm spending on games this year, I would have agreed with an article that said the game industry is booming.
Back in the days of multi-line BBSs (Shoreline in Vancouver in particular) if you wanted to drop someone so a friend could get on you'd go the chat line and convince an 'ankie' to type in 'NO CARRIER'. I can't remember if it was the modem or the software but it'd work nearly 100% of the time.
Reading through some of the comments it seems that other engineers and those that havn't progressed to that level, don't indicate who should be reading the design documents. The audience for design documents are your collegues. Before you begin your document you should start by reading theirs. A good PHB should force you to.
A good design document should describe what you want to build, what you need to change in the existing system and what your dependancies are to name a few. It should spell out how you want to order you classes (UML!), most importantly how you will use the global classes (like an user class).
Therefore, if any one of your colleagues can read your document and think one of the following thoughts your document was a success:
"Oh Joe wants to use the user class like this, I guess I won't change it to stop that from happening"
"I don't think Joe knows that I'm building a Foo class since he thinks he's going to build one, I'll email him and we'll decide who's going to do it"
"I see that Joe has this great system designed, but he seems to be forgetting the requirement that we have to let the end-users configure it through the app and he's only using property files. I'll email him and make sure he didn't forget that."
"Uh... what the hell is Joe thinking, there's an existing class that does exactly what he wants to do, why did he waste his time writing this document?"
The article is a little misleading. It seems to imply that Didio was first harrassed by zealous linux supporters with her TCO survey.
She doesn't mention her quick involvement in the SCO case, where she was one of the first and only Analysts to sign the SCO NDA and claim publically they had a solid case. She wasn't all to forthcoming to her 15 year friendship with everyone's fav marketing vp, Black Stowell either.
Quickly after that initial report she produced a report that critized Linux vendors for failing to indemnify customers, the exact same line Darl McBride was telling.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/31252.html Then she produces a TCO report on Linux vrs Windows development that uses BEA and Oracle on the Linux side vrs IIS and SQL2000 on the MS side and reports MS is much cheaper then the linux solution. Which i belive is the one the article mentions.
So to say Didio was unfairly attacked because she objectively came out with reports that critize linux is quite wrong. She was questioned because of her seemingly permament bias against Linux.
If the source of this is not monetary, I'd hate to know what some Linux developer did to her to make it so Personal.
If the Liberal Government called an election before the inquiry is over. Unlike the US, that act would be far more damaging then anything contained in the banned testemony.
I say unlike the US, because up there, the press relishes bringing governments down. Plus, the parlementary system makes it so that the Prime MInister HAS to answer questions from the opposition, and they aren't nice about it.
Contrast to down here, where one press outlit goes after another for being "Too Harsh" on the president. (Fox News on the Irish Times interview)
There was a case where a man in California thought that a woman was harassing him and thought she was entraping him into a sexual harrasement suit. So he recorded all their conversations and just as he expected, she filed suit alleging sexual harrassment on 6 occasions. "A ha!", he thought, "i've got her". So he provided tapes of those exact 6 occassions showing no harrassement took place.....
HE was tried and convicted on 6 counts of missdemenour Invasion of Privacy......
I read this awhile ago so I don't have exact information. Never less, in my IANAL view, for your case where:
The logs of a keylogger show your wife is doing something illegal.
a) If you installed the logging software to spy on your kids, and you wife knew this, then its probably perfectly legal to provide those logs to the police.
b) If you installed the logging software just to test it and by accident your wife used the computer and it recorded her conversation. You still broke the law in California (and elsewhere).
For case b, the solution is obvious. Call a lawyer, have the lawyer guide you into what kind of evidence is legal. Maybe you can provide the activity log from a firewall. Have the lawyer talk to the police, maybe they can set up their own logging software. Maybe you can work out a deal with the prosecutor. If you broke into your neighbour's house and discovered a half made nuclear device, they'll grant you immunity in a second. If you found they were taking the law tags off of their furniture, then you're going to jail.
There is no way you are liable for the actions of your wife if you act to correct the problem when you first learn of the illegal acts. If you cover it up for her, then your screwed. But be warned, the act of recording key strokes without the parties consent is an illegal act of its own.
Interesting, I picked this key statement out of the quote you provided.
"If he was smart he'd do the same thing as NeXT. Remember, NeXT almost died, he managed to go sideways with it, establish it with a certain amount of prestige but not a lot of long-term potential, and sold it to Apple."
Jobs did go sideways. The columnist got it wrong tho, in that he thought that meant sell Apple. But Jobs' put apple into the portable music market and online distrubution of music. When that quote was written NO big companies were getting into portible music, probably afraid of a Music Disk situation. Without that, apple would be a fraction of the company it is, and headed for disaster. Its powerbook line has stagnated, desktops are a niche machine and its home machine can't play the hot games.
The Ipod saved all that, Malone smelt something, he just got the source wrong.
Unfortunatly, and most observers of SCOX will agree with me, this ruling will probably make SCOX's stock gain tomorrow.
Why?
1. SCOX has traditionally a low volume. This makes it really easy for any party to come in and manipulate the price through careful buying. Reason #1 why you should never short this stock.
1b. SCOX has proportioned a large amount of money to buy back stock they've issued. They most likely have some remaining. They could buy some back and offset sells.
2. The float of this stock is very small. A high percentage of the stock is tied up in insiders and institutions. They're not likely to sell after news such as this. For the stock to drop they're needs to be sellers of the stock willing to take a loss.
3. A large number of short shares. There is a chance of a short squeeze where shorts who got in late in the game buy to get out, esp after 1 and 2 happen and demoralize them. This will rise the price up, perhaps around 4.5 to 5, and people who got in at 3 might find they're brokers forcing them to cover.
In short, the only time this stock will drop like the rock it is, is when they declare bankruptcy.
My WAG, opening tomorrow, a drop of.5 cents or 15%, then by the end of the day, a close of +.05 cents.
I'd like to add a couple of points if I might from my expirence.
1a) Customer is asked if there are any new featuers they need or would like.
And I would change..
7) Sales and Project management fears customer will complain
8) Sales and Executives fear cusotmer will pull the plug.
Usually if you're upfront to your customers, keep on point that you want to give them a solution that will work, and there needs to be give and take on both sides in order to assure a working product, they won't get to the point of actually not paying or sueing.
Having been through many projects its very rare that a customer will pull the plug on a huge project. So you shouldn't fear that they will by telling them something early. The only reasons things get to the lawyers is when you constantly lie to them about the state of things, the impact changes will have etc.
Are you suggesting it is the habit of the the US justice system that they don't release information about pending cases?
Shouldn't the accused at least be released information about why they had their property confisticated? At least they could have some cause to go before a judge and argue to get their property back.
I believe some parent post (or uncle/aunt post) mentioned their search warrent should have the information as to why the property was ceased.
Rant....
To all those that said "Oh this is what they do to drug dealers".
I say... First it happened to drug dealers and you supported it Now its happening to indie news sites... and you support it Next it will happen to bookstores/libraries/blogs Then it may be too late to not support it.
"If our knowledge of physics is so far off as to be missing something so important it could be used for communication (quantum telepathy waves?), then there's no hope for us."
I would think that if 10000 years from now we developed instintaneous quantum telepathy waves for inter stellar communications, yet we still felt a desire to communicate with "primitive" civilizations, we would send out a signal in EM. After all, hopefully we wouldn't have forgotten our own history.
The myth i was refering to, is that dvorak is so fastlly superior and that the qwerty keyboard was designed primarily to slow down typists.
I'll consede that the dvorak is slightly faster, but being a Java programmer, speed isn't my primary concern.
But to your points...
The net effect of key placement to avoid jamming was to speed up typists. The reason the t and the h key when used quickly together jammed has to do with the location of their strikers in the arrary of strikers. (If you have ever used an old typewriter like that, the closer 2 strikers are to each other, the greater chance they'll jam. Rappidly hitting two letters who's strikers come from completly opposite sides of the array increases the rate at which you can strike them because only the very end of the striker has to clear the strike area for the other key to strike. With keys that are close together, the arms of the striker interfere with each other.)
The point being.. though.. if i consiously trained myself on qwerty using proper ergonomic typing techniques (wrist position) for 3 weeks, I'd be a faster typist then i am now (60wpm), with fewer problems (assuming i have problems now, which i don't).
The qwerty keyboard was designed not to slow down typists, but to space common letter combinations apart vertically so that the mechanical mechanism that drove the keys wouldn't clash. This spead up typists so much, in fact it won many typing competions held at the time, it became the default typewriter layout.
Later, Dvorak created his keyboard when the mechanical need for qwerty was no longer needed and conducted numberous studies to show how superior it was. Howerver, those studies, of course, weren't independant since they were funded by dvorak himself, who had considerable money to gain. As well, they compared different groups of people as to their learning abilities ie, gifted students from a U of Chicago Lab school, under the supervision of dvorak himself vrs statistics from students from the general public highschool population.
However, when the US government analyzed his layout in 1954 (Strong Study), they found no benifit in retraining exprienced typists to the Dvorak layout. In that test, expirenced qwerty typists were retrained to Dvorak to the point they could recreate their old scores. This took on average 100 hours of training.
Then a new group of qwerty typists was gathered and both groups now got equal amounts of new training. It was found that the team of qwerty typists actually outpaced the dvorak retrained typists and ended up typing faster.
Thus, the government was advised that instead of retraining typists and refitting typewriters, they should just give their typists more qwerty training.
Well limiting the free service with 10 rules is a very sneaky way to get people to pay for the plus service. (which also allows you to zip up your email and download it)
By getting people to spend time setting up folders, having 60mb's of old email lying around. paying the extra $20 per year for unlimited filters, 2gb, is way more conveinent then switching to another mail account.
Plus I have a gmail account, to me, it's like upgrading your harddrive. Seems really exciting and cool till you do it, then you realize you've just added extra space, and now you have to migrate everything over.
One of the greatest things about the Mars rovers page, is that you don't have to wait until NASA releases "press release" images in order to see the latest. You can access them through the mars rovers RAW images site probably a few hours after NASA got them.
I havn't seen any links to such a database for Casinni, but I really hope they set one up soon!
My parents were both distiguished concert players and they're opinion on the matter was that the conductor really only mattered in rehersal.
Once they were playing in the performance, they really didn't notice him unless they needed to keep time for a long long rest.
In that context, your comments about the conductor are valid but really don't disprove your parents point.
To get a feeling about how important a conductor is during the performance, just imagine what would happen if the conductor tried to change something funidmental! He could only count on part of his symphony paying attention, so only pieces of it would do realize what he was trying to do.
Slashdot Mirror
Do you know how many people I see bringing their 5 year old kids into violent R-rated movies? It's ridiculous.
Two children, one 5 - 6ish, the other 3-4ish sat infront of me during Sin City. I loved the movie btw, just thought it was a little odd.
I would imagine that Apple Records (if the entity still exists) trademark of the apple isn't so strong that it would cross over to music retailing.
Given that it now takes a few minutes and a google search to remember why Apple Records was important for most people (especially younger people) it might not be even labeled an active trademark, espically in the US.
If there is a test of macro evolution that is successful, I would like to know about it. If there is a test of spot evolution that is successful, I would like to know about it. I do not see evidence that natural selection has removed people with vision problems from the gene pool. It has also done nothing about ugly or stupid people. In other words, the testing issue has been weak on both sides. Those in the side of ID will state that the testing, in part, is showing the consistency of design within related things, ie, dna within animals.
This is the perfect example of why ID is not a theory. You are arguing the merits of your hypothisis, mearly on the claim that your hypothisis doesn't NEED to survive expiramental testing because some other theory, in your opinion, didn't provide expiramental testing.
That is not an answer, if ID is a scientific theory then it needs to survive on its own merits. It is not in a dicotimy with evolution, where as weaknesses in one is support for the other. A weakness in evolution IS NOT support for ID. Only evidence of an inteligent designer actively working is evidence for ID.
So they missed their revenue proejctions by a fraction, yet they posted double the profits from last quarter by halving their R&D Budget from 3 billion to 1.5 billion. And slashdot doesn't pick up on that.
My question, since R&D covers almost all new development in the company,
Which products/programs where cut?
Have they dropped their "Inovate" slogan?
Clean room implenetations are only needed when the object being covered is covered by some for of trade secret.
SCO has declared that there are no trade secret issues with regards to this case. Therefore the claims that IBM needed a chinese wall are absolutly false.
This writer has obviously just picked up this case or was given the notes to it directly from SCOx. This idea of the need for a chinese wall/clean room is SOOO 2003.
Today, I try to split my non-girlfriend alloted time between;
CS-Source, Tony Hawk PSP, World Of Warcraft and Katamary Diamacy.
In fact, I'm really tempted to buy MLB for my PSP.
As far as maybe being a kid with no expirence with games, I'm close to middle aged (ugh), male and have been playing video games since Star Castle used to sucked my weekly allowance in 3 minutes (Lord Nelson, Landsdown Mall RIP).
Given how much MORE I'm spending on games this year, I would have agreed with an article that said the game industry is booming.
Back in the days of multi-line BBSs (Shoreline in Vancouver in particular) if you wanted to drop someone so a friend could get on you'd go the chat line and convince an 'ankie' to type in 'NO CARRIER'. I can't remember if it was the modem or the software but it'd work nearly 100% of the time.
Reading through some of the comments it seems that other engineers and those that havn't progressed to that level, don't indicate who should be reading the design documents. The audience for design documents are your collegues. Before you begin your document you should start by reading theirs. A good PHB should force you to.
A good design document should describe what you want to build, what you need to change in the existing system and what your dependancies are to name a few. It should spell out how you want to order you classes (UML!), most importantly how you will use the global classes (like an user class).
Therefore, if any one of your colleagues can read your document and think one of the following thoughts your document was a success:
"Oh Joe wants to use the user class like this, I guess I won't change it to stop that from happening"
"I don't think Joe knows that I'm building a Foo class since he thinks he's going to build one, I'll email him and we'll decide who's going to do it"
"I see that Joe has this great system designed, but he seems to be forgetting the requirement that we have to let the end-users configure it through the app and he's only using property files. I'll email him and make sure he didn't forget that."
"Uh... what the hell is Joe thinking, there's an existing class that does exactly what he wants to do, why did he waste his time writing this document?"
Given a number of confused responses to this, let's just remind everybody: it's not the gamma rays that kill
I thought you were going to finish that with,
Its the stars that generate them.
But then I noticed you were +5 informative.
The article is a little misleading. It seems to imply that Didio was first harrassed by zealous linux supporters with her TCO survey.
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She doesn't mention her quick involvement in the SCO case, where she was one of the first and only Analysts to sign the SCO NDA and claim publically they had a solid case. She wasn't all to forthcoming to her 15 year friendship with everyone's fav marketing vp, Black Stowell either.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/09/10550
Quickly after that initial report she produced a report that critized Linux vendors for failing to indemnify customers, the exact same line Darl McBride was telling.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/31252.html
Then she produces a TCO report on Linux vrs Windows development that uses BEA and Oracle on the Linux side vrs IIS and SQL2000 on the MS side and reports MS is much cheaper then the linux solution. Which i belive is the one the article mentions.
So to say Didio was unfairly attacked because she objectively came out with reports that critize linux is quite wrong. She was questioned because of her seemingly permament bias against Linux.
If the source of this is not monetary, I'd hate to know what some Linux developer did to her to make it so Personal.
Then its "Terrorist" not "Terrorists". And the current system of drivers licence checks and border patrols actually stopped him.
It actually would be interesting to note which terrorists which have struck us soil weren't legal immigrants or citizens?
If the Liberal Government called an election before the inquiry is over. Unlike the US, that act would be far more damaging then anything contained in the banned testemony.
I say unlike the US, because up there, the press relishes bringing governments down. Plus, the parlementary system makes it so that the Prime MInister HAS to answer questions from the opposition, and they aren't nice about it.
Contrast to down here, where one press outlit goes after another for being "Too Harsh" on the president. (Fox News on the Irish Times interview)
There was a case where a man in California thought that a woman was harassing him and thought she was entraping him into a sexual harrasement suit. So he recorded all their conversations and just as he expected, she filed suit alleging sexual harrassment on 6 occasions. ....
.....
"A ha!", he thought, "i've got her". So he provided tapes of those exact 6 occassions showing no harrassement took place.
HE was tried and convicted on 6 counts of missdemenour Invasion of Privacy.
I read this awhile ago so I don't have exact information. Never less, in my IANAL view, for your case where:
The logs of a keylogger show your wife is doing something illegal.
a) If you installed the logging software to spy on your kids, and you wife knew this, then its probably perfectly legal to provide those logs to the police.
b) If you installed the logging software just to test it and by accident your wife used the computer and it recorded her conversation. You still broke the law in California (and elsewhere).
For case b, the solution is obvious. Call a lawyer, have the lawyer guide you into what kind of evidence is legal. Maybe you can provide the activity log from a firewall. Have the lawyer talk to the police, maybe they can set up their own logging software. Maybe you can work out a deal with the prosecutor. If you broke into your neighbour's house and discovered a half made nuclear device, they'll grant you immunity in a second. If you found they were taking the law tags off of their furniture, then you're going to jail.
There is no way you are liable for the actions of your wife if you act to correct the problem when you first learn of the illegal acts. If you cover it up for her, then your screwed. But be warned, the act of recording key strokes without the parties consent is an illegal act of its own.
Interesting, I picked this key statement out of the quote you provided.
"If he was smart he'd do the same thing as NeXT. Remember, NeXT almost died, he managed to go sideways with it, establish it with a certain amount of prestige but not a lot of long-term potential, and sold it to Apple."
Jobs did go sideways. The columnist got it wrong tho, in that he thought that meant sell Apple. But Jobs' put apple into the portable music market and online distrubution of music. When that quote was written NO big companies were getting into portible music, probably afraid of a Music Disk situation. Without that, apple would be a fraction of the company it is, and headed for disaster. Its powerbook line has stagnated, desktops are a niche machine and its home machine can't play the hot games.
The Ipod saved all that, Malone smelt something, he just got the source wrong.
Unfortunatly, and most observers of SCOX will agree with me, this ruling will probably make SCOX's stock gain tomorrow.
.5 cents or 15%, then by the end of the day, a close of + .05 cents.
Why?
1. SCOX has traditionally a low volume. This makes it really easy for any party to come in and manipulate the price through careful buying. Reason #1 why you should never short this stock.
1b. SCOX has proportioned a large amount of money to buy back stock they've issued. They most likely have some remaining. They could buy some back and offset sells.
2. The float of this stock is very small. A high percentage of the stock is tied up in insiders and institutions. They're not likely to sell after news such as this. For the stock to drop they're needs to be sellers of the stock willing to take a loss.
3. A large number of short shares. There is a chance of a short squeeze where shorts who got in late in the game buy to get out, esp after 1 and 2 happen and demoralize them. This will rise the price up, perhaps around 4.5 to 5, and people who got in at 3 might find they're brokers forcing them to cover.
In short, the only time this stock will drop like the rock it is, is when they declare bankruptcy.
My WAG, opening tomorrow, a drop of
I'd like to add a couple of points if I might from my expirence.
1a) Customer is asked if there are any new featuers they need or would like.
And I would change..
7) Sales and Project management fears customer will complain
8) Sales and Executives fear cusotmer will pull the plug.
Usually if you're upfront to your customers, keep on point that you want to give them a solution that will work, and there needs to be give and take on both sides in order to assure a working product, they won't get to the point of actually not paying or sueing.
Having been through many projects its very rare that a customer will pull the plug on a huge project. So you shouldn't fear that they will by telling them something early. The only reasons things get to the lawyers is when you constantly lie to them about the state of things, the impact changes will have etc.
Are you suggesting it is the habit of the the US justice system that they don't release information about pending cases?
Shouldn't the accused at least be released information about why they had their property confisticated? At least they could have some cause to go before a judge and argue to get their property back.
I believe some parent post (or uncle/aunt post) mentioned their search warrent should have the information as to why the property was ceased.
Rant....
To all those that said "Oh this is what they do to drug dealers".
I say... First it happened to drug dealers and you supported it
Now its happening to indie news sites... and you support it
Next it will happen to bookstores/libraries/blogs
Then it may be too late to not support it.
"If our knowledge of physics is so far off as to be missing something so important it could be used for communication (quantum telepathy waves?), then there's no hope for us."
I would think that if 10000 years from now we developed instintaneous quantum telepathy waves for inter stellar communications, yet we still felt a desire to communicate with "primitive" civilizations, we would send out a signal in EM. After all, hopefully we wouldn't have forgotten our own history.
The myth i was refering to, is that dvorak is so fastlly superior and that the qwerty keyboard was designed primarily to slow down typists.
I'll consede that the dvorak is slightly faster, but being a Java programmer, speed isn't my primary concern.
But to your points...
The net effect of key placement to avoid jamming was to speed up typists. The reason the t and the h key when used quickly together jammed has to do with the location of their strikers in the arrary of strikers. (If you have ever used an old typewriter like that, the closer 2 strikers are to each other, the greater chance they'll jam. Rappidly hitting two letters who's strikers come from completly opposite sides of the array increases the rate at which you can strike them because only the very end of the striker has to clear the strike area for the other key to strike. With keys that are close together, the arms of the striker interfere with each other.)
The point being.. though.. if i consiously trained myself on qwerty using proper ergonomic typing techniques (wrist position) for 3 weeks, I'd be a faster typist then i am now (60wpm), with fewer problems (assuming i have problems now, which i don't).
What an myth...
The qwerty keyboard was designed not to slow down typists, but to space common letter combinations apart vertically so that the mechanical mechanism that drove the keys wouldn't clash. This spead up typists so much, in fact it won many typing competions held at the time, it became the default typewriter layout.
Later, Dvorak created his keyboard when the mechanical need for qwerty was no longer needed and conducted numberous studies to show how superior it was. Howerver, those studies, of course, weren't independant since they were funded by dvorak himself, who had considerable money to gain. As well, they compared different groups of people as to their learning abilities ie, gifted students from a U of Chicago Lab school, under the supervision of dvorak himself vrs statistics from students from the general public highschool population.
However, when the US government analyzed his layout in 1954 (Strong Study), they found no benifit in retraining exprienced typists to the Dvorak layout. In that test, expirenced qwerty typists were retrained to Dvorak to the point they could recreate their old scores. This took on average 100 hours of training.
Then a new group of qwerty typists was gathered and both groups now got equal amounts of new training. It was found that the team of qwerty typists actually outpaced the dvorak retrained typists and ended up typing faster.
Thus, the government was advised that instead of retraining typists and refitting typewriters, they should just give their typists more qwerty training.
Well limiting the free service with 10 rules is a very sneaky way to get people to pay for the plus service. (which also allows you to zip up your email and download it)
By getting people to spend time setting up folders, having 60mb's of old email lying around. paying the extra $20 per year for unlimited filters, 2gb, is way more conveinent then switching to another mail account.
Plus I have a gmail account, to me, it's like upgrading your harddrive. Seems really exciting and cool till you do it, then you realize you've just added extra space, and now you have to migrate everything over.
That site just echos the press release images.
I hearby start the call for access to every image! I want to decide whether i'm interested in it or not.
One of the greatest things about the Mars rovers page, is that you don't have to wait until NASA releases "press release" images in order to see the latest. You can access them through the mars rovers RAW images site probably a few hours after NASA got them.
I havn't seen any links to such a database for Casinni, but I really hope they set one up soon!
My parents were both distiguished concert players and they're opinion on the matter was that the conductor really only mattered in rehersal.
Once they were playing in the performance, they really didn't notice him unless they needed to keep time for a long long rest.
In that context, your comments about the conductor are valid but really don't disprove your parents point.
To get a feeling about how important a conductor is during the performance, just imagine what would happen if the conductor tried to change something funidmental! He could only count on part of his symphony paying attention, so only pieces of it would do realize what he was trying to do.
Every single contributer to the linux kernel should now contact EV1 and demand payment for their IP, for a license other then the GPL.
Linus himself should ask for $10k per license, or have them shut down every single linux server.
They should do that tomorrow.