"The state bans the spreading of any news with content that is against national security and public interest," the official Xinhua news agency said in announcing the new rules, which took effect immediately.
I was thinking that the Chinese Gov. didn't want someone posting something like "Hey, our glorious people's government just put a new missle silo and airstrip next to the N. Korean Border here. It may be in anticipation to liberate N. Korea from the Captilistic American Pigs and their leader the evil George Bush if they should invade and occupy."
Once created, the hash information cannot be recalculated back to its original value, and is transferred only by the strongest encryption available to the eSellerate servers.
Judging from the eSellerate website, it looks like (hopefully) you can install the software multiple times on one machine, but should you want to move it, you're screwed. If that's the case, I hope the software is much cheaper. In oher words, if MS doees this with say Office Standard, I won't pay more than $25 - and that's being generous.
Yet if I visit Jacksonville, Housten, Atlanta (hell just about anywhere in the south) I HAVE to rent a car, public transit is poor or non-existant.
As some one who lives in the Atlanta area and who lived downtown a couple of years ago, I whole heartedly agree. When I was downtown, it was so nice to get on the MARTA to go to work. If you live inside the perimeter, and by a train stattion, it's not too bad, but still nowhere near European cities or New York.
I really wish we would put more money into to system and have something like other cities. There's talk of a perimeter train liine. It'll operate on old easeways that the railroads used to use years and years ago. Which is ironic, this city was founded by the railroads.
Why hasn't anything been done about having more rails? Mostly people are pennywise and pound foolish. They don't want to pay the extra taxes but they are more than willing to dump money into their cars. And there's a lot of excuses about their schedules being too different and how mass transportation won't allow them to go where they need to when they need to (Really, that was an excuse that someone used!) Another reason is that there is still some racial issues. Mass Transportation is still seen as something for poor Blacks and some white folks don't want those people coming around - if a sation is built near them.
You are about to have a multitude of posts responding to your post. Some of them will contradict each other. Hence, there will be a specialty of law for the GPL - one day.
Reading the license, you'd think that there could only be one way to read it or at least, it's so simple that there couldn't be much disagreement. And yet, a bunch of folks will have a bunch of different opinions about the meaning of the license. Human nature - I guess.
I almost posted something that a MS shareholder (also owned Apple, SUN, IBM, and other tech stocks that did very well) once said to me, but I decided against it. The comment would have been an automatic "-1 Troll"
Historically, Steve [Jobs] won't accept anything less than 20% gross margin on any product," says Creative Strategies analyst Tim Bajarin.
To pay for the R&D, marketing, etc... I'm surpised that Jobs doesn't demand a higher return.
I'm wondering if Apple will go the way of Sony. Innovating firms have a tendency to be eaten up by firms who copy and then sell for a lower price. The only way to stop copiers is to create a closed format - basically kill competition before it happens - or to keep innovating to stay ahead of the copiers - easier said than done.
I don't know about you, but I really don't think it would be worth suing over this. You'd have attourney's fees and just the time and aggrevation. Maybe there would be a class action suit, which you could wait a few years to settle and get $0.40 on the dollar (at most) for all of this trouble.
I'm TIVO knows what's at risk and they're going to fight it the best they can.
From TFA..especially since any copyright holder can exclude their books from the program
n this case I'd think that authors would want their material easily referenced in part, because they might actually sell copies if people need the information.
If I were Google, I would make it "Opt-In". Maybe even charge those guys. How's that for poetic justice.
9/11. Most of the people who survived the attacks, who were actually in the buildings, ignored the authorites when they were told to "stay put". They just said fuck it and they started for the doors.
I have to admit, the FDNY firefighters selfless heroism during 9/11 gave me a little faith in the authorities. Unfortunately, NO has limited that faith again.
I also have to say, I understand what you said in the grandparent - I don't want to go back to the Wild West days myself.
Thanks for the fuel for the thoughts:-) I'm done indulging my Ego now.
Individualism and self reliance are not atributes admired by anyone usurping "normal" authority during a disaster.
I didn't say anything about "usurping authority". What I'm saying is that it's up to us to protect ourselves whn there isn't any authority who is willing to protect us. The cops fled NO. They weren't not willing to do their jobs. It wasn't until the state and the feds got some troups in there that the local cops showed up. In the meantime, if you had no way of protecting yourself, you were screwed. Because, the COPS WERE NOT THERE! So, there was NO authority to usurp. End of story. That's why the richer neighborhoods had to hire their own security and kept guns around.
Which is why emergency workers, as a first response priority, disarmed every refugee who fled, or was forced to leave the Katrina devestated area. If that is true, it was a very stupid thing to have done. The trouble makers stayed behind. The law abiding citizens needed protection from those dirtbags. And since the authorities were unwilling and/or ineffectual, it was up to the individual.
I'll repeat what I said before, Our government (the authoritues as you put it) is ineffectual during a disaster. Either due to lack of planning or their own cowardice.
your point and you're absolutely right. But my point is, that during a natural or unnatural disaster, the police are ineffective and it's up to us to protect ourselves.
Actually more insightful than funny. It disturbs me that during natural disasters, a few people go nuts and start robbing, raping, killing, etc... The cops can't or won't do anything - it really pissed me off during the LA riots when the cops just drove by the mob that was kicking the shit out of that trucker.
In short, it never ceases to amaze me how humanity devolves during disasters and make a bad situation even worse.
The crank radios were pretty easy to set up and use, which is a relief for anyone who might buy them and not learn how to use them until actually necessary
I don't see many people during a disaster, finding the manual, and trying to find out how to use the power switch - "Hmmmm, now how do use the on switch?"
A couple of years ago on MSNBC, there was a RIAA spokesman who said that they had numbers that proved that piracy is affecting their members' sales. Where do we get these "numbers" you ask? Got me. But here's a suggestion for a/. interview: An interview with a RIAA spokesperson. Also, have him show us their numbers and their study.
Job's original vision of 99 cents a song and $9.99 for an album didn't last long, with the price of albums spreading out to $11.99 and $14.99 in some instances
Ok. First of all, I don't know exactly what they're talking about - online or Pressed CDS. But, selling a song for $.99 or $9.99 an album WITHOUT HAVING TO PRESS A CD, MAKE COVER ART, have a jewel case, and truck it to the stores, is pretty steep. I was part of a survey a couple of years ago asking "how much would you pay to download a song?" I answered, "$.25" Asked why, I answered, "Because the music publishers do not have any media costs other than bandwidth and royalties. Excluding the royalties (which are a constant), bandwidth is MUCH cheaper than jewel cases, CD, physical distribution costs (trucking of the CDs, etc...) and the artwork."
In short, I think Jobs is right on the money here.
I know what your saying. Back in the day, I used XEmacs (here). That had some menu items with their subsequent key commands in the menu items. So, the dirst couple of times I would use the menu item while paying attention the command keys. As far as the macros are concerned, I guess that's where a book like the review would come in handy.
So, you can write a macro that takes the specs, emails them to India where the code is written, emails the code back to you, and then you take credit for it!
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If you ever listen to AM radio, there's a few people who would like to.
I was thinking that the Chinese Gov. didn't want someone posting something like "Hey, our glorious people's government just put a new missle silo and airstrip next to the N. Korean Border here. It may be in anticipation to liberate N. Korea from the Captilistic American Pigs and their leader the evil George Bush if they should invade and occupy."
Judging from the eSellerate website, it looks like (hopefully) you can install the software multiple times on one machine, but should you want to move it, you're screwed. If that's the case, I hope the software is much cheaper. In oher words, if MS doees this with say Office Standard, I won't pay more than $25 - and that's being generous.
As some one who lives in the Atlanta area and who lived downtown a couple of years ago, I whole heartedly agree. When I was downtown, it was so nice to get on the MARTA to go to work. If you live inside the perimeter, and by a train stattion, it's not too bad, but still nowhere near European cities or New York.
I really wish we would put more money into to system and have something like other cities. There's talk of a perimeter train liine. It'll operate on old easeways that the railroads used to use years and years ago. Which is ironic, this city was founded by the railroads.
Why hasn't anything been done about having more rails? Mostly people are pennywise and pound foolish. They don't want to pay the extra taxes but they are more than willing to dump money into their cars. And there's a lot of excuses about their schedules being too different and how mass transportation won't allow them to go where they need to when they need to (Really, that was an excuse that someone used!) Another reason is that there is still some racial issues. Mass Transportation is still seen as something for poor Blacks and some white folks don't want those people coming around - if a sation is built near them.
Reading the license, you'd think that there could only be one way to read it or at least, it's so simple that there couldn't be much disagreement. And yet, a bunch of folks will have a bunch of different opinions about the meaning of the license. Human nature - I guess.
and starting to look good again! At least on the latest Jenny Craig commercials ;-)
When my girlfriend is deflated and on the rag. And I find the parent fucking hilarious!
Me after I eat: a Granny Smith Apple, yogurt, onions, and a Guiness or three...
I almost posted something that a MS shareholder (also owned Apple, SUN, IBM, and other tech stocks that did very well) once said to me, but I decided against it. The comment would have been an automatic "-1 Troll"
To pay for the R&D, marketing, etc ... I'm surpised that Jobs doesn't demand a higher return.
I'm wondering if Apple will go the way of Sony. Innovating firms have a tendency to be eaten up by firms who copy and then sell for a lower price. The only way to stop copiers is to create a closed format - basically kill competition before it happens - or to keep innovating to stay ahead of the copiers - easier said than done.
I'm TIVO knows what's at risk and they're going to fight it the best they can.
n this case I'd think that authors would want their material easily referenced in part, because they might actually sell copies if people need the information.
If I were Google, I would make it "Opt-In". Maybe even charge those guys. How's that for poetic justice.
I have to admit, the FDNY firefighters selfless heroism during 9/11 gave me a little faith in the authorities. Unfortunately, NO has limited that faith again.
I also have to say, I understand what you said in the grandparent - I don't want to go back to the Wild West days myself.
Thanks for the fuel for the thoughts :-) I'm done indulging my Ego now.
I didn't say anything about "usurping authority". What I'm saying is that it's up to us to protect ourselves whn there isn't any authority who is willing to protect us. The cops fled NO. They weren't not willing to do their jobs. It wasn't until the state and the feds got some troups in there that the local cops showed up. In the meantime, if you had no way of protecting yourself, you were screwed. Because, the COPS WERE NOT THERE! So, there was NO authority to usurp. End of story. That's why the richer neighborhoods had to hire their own security and kept guns around.
Which is why emergency workers, as a first response priority, disarmed every refugee who fled, or was forced to leave the Katrina devestated area.
If that is true, it was a very stupid thing to have done. The trouble makers stayed behind. The law abiding citizens needed protection from those dirtbags. And since the authorities were unwilling and/or ineffectual, it was up to the individual.
I'll repeat what I said before, Our government (the authoritues as you put it) is ineffectual during a disaster. Either due to lack of planning or their own cowardice.
your point and you're absolutely right. But my point is, that during a natural or unnatural disaster, the police are ineffective and it's up to us to protect ourselves.
In short, it never ceases to amaze me how humanity devolves during disasters and make a bad situation even worse.
I don't see many people during a disaster, finding the manual, and trying to find out how to use the power switch - "Hmmmm, now how do use the on switch?"
A couple of years ago on MSNBC, there was a RIAA spokesman who said that they had numbers that proved that piracy is affecting their members' sales. Where do we get these "numbers" you ask? Got me. But here's a suggestion for a /. interview: An interview with a RIAA spokesperson. Also, have him show us their numbers and their study.
Ok. First of all, I don't know exactly what they're talking about - online or Pressed CDS. But, selling a song for $.99 or $9.99 an album WITHOUT HAVING TO PRESS A CD, MAKE COVER ART, have a jewel case, and truck it to the stores, is pretty steep. I was part of a survey a couple of years ago asking "how much would you pay to download a song?" I answered, "$.25" Asked why, I answered, "Because the music publishers do not have any media costs other than bandwidth and royalties. Excluding the royalties (which are a constant), bandwidth is MUCH cheaper than jewel cases, CD, physical distribution costs (trucking of the CDs, etc...) and the artwork."
In short, I think Jobs is right on the money here.
Good, now I don't need to read any posts. See ya.
P.S. Bye Bye Karma!
There was nothing about dancing! Geeze!
I know what your saying. Back in the day, I used XEmacs (here). That had some menu items with their subsequent key commands in the menu items. So, the dirst couple of times I would use the menu item while paying attention the command keys. As far as the macros are concerned, I guess that's where a book like the review would come in handy.
So, you can write a macro that takes the specs, emails them to India where the code is written, emails the code back to you, and then you take credit for it!
Also those of us who are out of work an not living near the competition. I can't afford to fly out there.
I won't give up my day job.
I actually know some folks in Berkely who are running their turbo-deisel on vegatable oil. Cool, Huh?