OK, I don't like going into specifics because these are some of my friends I'm talking about and I don't know exactly what they make or how they got to where they are, but I will say that I'm not talking out of my ass here, and that any more a BS in CS from a school like mine can (not will) get you a high 5-figure salary, on a track to make a lot more very quickly. Even a BA in the humanities can get you a job at some of the companies that will lead into program management in a few years, and PM'ing is a 6-figure job almost no matter which company you are at. I'm not talking out my ass here, I know people who have done or are doing exactly this, and it's likely what I'll do out of college as well.
MS's and Ph. D.'s really only help if you're going into the more theoretical positions at these large companies, of which there are fewer and fewer positions being offered. If you want to start your own business, than an MS/Ph. D. helps none at all, you're much better off with B-school under your belt. Again, I know this because of my friends who have done it.
You obviously don't know what you're talking about. There are still awesome research opportunities in the military. What about Nuclear research? What about tactical ops? What about intelligence gathering? What about, for something CS related, cryptology? Or programming the tanks, submarines, etc, that will be going out? A lot of this is still done in-house, the people they have doing this are not folks they are going to endanger by putting them in line of fire. This doesn't mean that there is no chance of being shipped out to Iraq, but if you go to the military, especially the US Navy, on an engineering track of some sort, then you can apply to certain jobs when you get into the Navy, and it's not the same blind chance an enlisted man or a new officer who is going to be leading troops will have.
Listen, I don't love the military in any sense, but as a practical choice, it's not as bad as many folks make it out to be. Someone with an engineering degree isn't simply a "warm body" to the military, especially if they're coming straight into the military from college rather than having gone through college after the military in order to become an officer. There are different career paths within the military, especially Navy, that can lead to many different places, and that pay incredibly well.
Perhaps I am just a "college kid". However, the majority of my friends are actually out of college, many of them married with children, so I feel that I have at least a little bit of perspective on this. I know plenty of them who got 6 figures or a high 5 figures out of college, even 5 years ago.
Also, as far as anyone has ever told me and I've ever seen, grad school for engineering and ESPECIALLY for CS is completely worthless for getting a job, and is done almost only by those who wish to go into academia. Sure, 2 years of Business school might be required after 5 or so years in the work force in order to get a managerial position that really pays bank, but that's far in the future. Places like MS and Google and Yahoo! are hiring kids out of my school at 75k or more a year for software engineering jobs (there is obviously a variance, and some jobs get a lower salary).
Finally, I'm sorry critical thinking was dead at your college, but that is not the case here, and does not seem to be the case at many of the colleges my friends go to. Quite honestly, that seems to be one of the largest differences between some of the "better" schools and some of the lesser-known schools, which is just a sense I get from talking to my few high school friends who went to Ivy or equivalent schools and comparing our experiences to those who went elsewhere. It's not to say that they're not getting good educations, but that level of critical thinking, especially outside of classes, largely seems to be lacking, making some of them really unhappy.
Wrong. Anyone joining the military with a college degree (especially from a place like MIT or an ivy) will a) instantly be an officer and b) be a huge commodity and will be put doing some sort of awesome research or tactics, and not be put in line of fire. The military definitely isn't for everyone, but the idea that if you go into it you're automatically going to Iraq to be shot at is just wrong.
And, not only will it put you at advantage going into any job, it is because the education at MIT is fantastically great. Some of the best professors in the world teach there, much of the most interesting research in the world is done there, and as an undergrad even you have those resources at your fingertips. Not only that, but the other people at MIT are a very interesting bunch, some of the smartest 20 year olds in the nation, all packed together. It's really something special. As I've mentioned elsewhere in this thread, I don't go there, but I've visited and had friends who did, and it's really something else, and going there won't just be a pretty name on your resume. Sure, you can get a fantastic education in hundreds of universities in the US and elsewhere, but it is much easier to get a good education at some of these "name" schools. That doesn't mean the education is easier (it's not; CS is freaking hard at my school), but it does mean that it won't be an uphill battle to get that education.
OK, first off, to OP: money isn't everything, and if you really think that your education didn't give you anything but technical skills, then you obviously didn't get out of college what I an most the folks I know are or did. College is a time to learn to think critically and to learn a variety of different subjects. You'll never quite get that chance again.
Secondly, to the question: MIT gives full financial aid, based on what they think your parents can afford to pay. Yeah, you might end up paying a bit more a year than a $10,000 a year state school once you get finaid from them, but then again maybe not, and for the education you'll get at MIT and the people you'll meet there, it will be worth it. I go to a school that costs more than MIT and my parents make less than 100k a year (well less), and I got through the first two years of school without loans. This brings up my second point to you: don't look at loans as a bad thing. Look at them as an investment in yourself. If you come out of MIT with an engineering degree, you can easily be making a high five or low six figures straight out of college. You'll pay off your loans in a year or two at that pace. Well worth it.
Personally, I'd suggest looking at not just MIT, too. I was a CS major for my first two years here at my school (oh fuck it, I go to Yale, just so you know, I don't know why we always beat around the bush here), and there is a great, theoretical program. However, I found that while I enjoy programming, computer science is something completely different from programming, and decided to change my major to Linguistics. It's wonderful the large range of possibilities a school like Yale or Stanford or Brown can give to you. Don't confine yourself to a technical school, especially if you already have a lot of technical skills.
Let's see. What other advice besides don't worry about money and try to broaden your horizons? Get an on-campus job, you'd be surprised how well some of them pay (I get $13.50 an hour to fix computers and sit at shifts doing homework and helping folks who need it if they ask), get loans, go to a school that gives good financial aid, and you'll graduate, get a great job, and not have to worry about the pittance in loans you have. Go abroad, go to lectures, take advantage of any alumni networks you can get on, especially if they're related to a group or club you are in, just take advantage of the resources your university offers you as much as you can. And even if you don't end up going to a top-tier school, all this will still hold true.
Best of luck. If you want to talk to me at all, feel free to PM me.
I don't like the way Firefox doesn't free all its memory when I close a tab. I know there is a fix to that, but that fix destroys functionality that I like associated with this behavior, so I won't use it.
Way to go, you fully understand why this is not a "leak" and you enjoy the functionality you get from it, but you are still complaining. Listen, closing a tab doesn't instantly give you back the memory because you might need to get back to that tab soon, so it keeps it cached, which is actually a very nice thing. If you don't like this, I'm pretty sure you can turn off the closed tab caching, I know the Tab Mix Plus extension lets you. So it might be a good idea to read around in those forums of yours and ask some good questions to figure out how best to make Firefox do what you think it "should" do.
He himself admitted to using "dubious facts" in trying to prove his case... which is why I've tagged this article with "dubiousfacts" and read the rest of it after he said that with a grain of salt. He made huge generalizations about how people see the internet that I've never seen, and he himself is confusing the difference between the web and the internet.
One thing that could be very lame (and I don't know whether anyone has talked about this) is if it is just like the iPod in that it has a very hard to get into case with a non-user-changaeble battery (and a non-approved way of doing it, such as the iPod has, does not count). No way in hell am I going to pay $500 for something I'll have to replace in 2 years because the battery (which is already underpowered when you consider this is a phone, not just a music player) won't last longer than a couple of hours, and I have a feeling that such a thing could hurt the iPhone more than it did the iPod, as one expects a phone to always be one so one can always be reached, even in an emergency situation.
Furthermore, will the SIM card be user changeable? If not, they'll not be able to get a large portion of the European market, who use pre-paid plans overwhelmingly and expect to buy an unlocked phone. Apple's love of locking the user out could really hurt them here as people find they cannot do all the things they expect to be able to do with a phone.
I completely agree. However, the RIAA did do something scummy: they're leaving BestBuy and other distributors be, free to continue selling the same CD's. Also, previously the DJ's felt that there was sort of a "you help us, we won't go after you" feeling towards the whole deal, that is no longer present.
Off topic: my favorite part of the article was when one of the rappers interviewed said he didn't support mixtapes, by which he meant he bought and listened to them (of course) but didn't like it when his material was used. It seems to me that it's greed and hypocrisy like this that permeates the RIAA and major labels. I guess that's normal for capitalism, and why I'm all for creating laws that protect citizens from the corporations as much as we have them to protect us from the government.
I bought one of these, and my god, it's the best phone I've ever owned, having also owned a Motorola Slvr L6 and a V330. It actually has everything you wanted but the extended antenna, but it has great reception. It also has the message indicator light and bluetooth. The address book might not be up to snuff for you though, it was released pre-OS X and I imaging it doesn't support OS X, and putting in address are a bit of a pain. Also, it's GMS, but only a tri-band phone, but won't work some places (like my home in Alaska, damn it, so I can only use it while at college).
It was the phone Ericsson released just before merging with Sony, and there is also a model relased by SonyEricsson, which I believe is pretty much the same phone with slightly updated software and different branding. The phone is light, pretty, sturdy, and useful. It even comes with POP3 email software! My one complaint is that the software sometimes responds a bit slowly compared to modern phones (it was released 5 years ago), and sometimes requires more clicks than seems necessary to perform something. But look into it, you can still find it brand new on ebay for around $50 with shipping, unlocked and everything. Oh, and I only charge it every three or so days, as compared to every night with my other phones. That right there is reason enough to get it for me.
Here's a link to an ebay auction for it, do a little searching and you can probably find it brand new for about the same price (that's what I did).
Ease of getting something really matters when people are buying something, especially food. If they have to buy it off eBay, most are never going to notice it exists. What's more, when Myoplex is sold in stores, it's usually sold in the health food or body building food section, not in the "regular" food section. So yes, while it is excellent to buy and eat as a meal and still get many nutrients (I used to do the same thing with other protein shakes myself, not trying to change my weight at all, just not having time to eat until dinner, so I'd do that for breakfast and get through the day that way), it won't become viable as such until it is marketed correctly for that.
You know, some people do enjoy building things and getting them to work on their own. Not everything is about having something, the journey to get it can be very important too.
Thing is, if it were any harder than that to get the search, instead everyone would be talking about how superior OS X is to Vista. It seems odd to me that you can't just admit that both Vista and OS X got it right.
Also, Dashboard is an obvious rip off of Konfabulator, so shut up already about how the sidebar is a rip off of Dashboard. Also, the sidebar was in very very early Vista builds from long before OSX10.4 was released, just as Vista builds had instant search long before OSX10.4 Sure, they got it out the door earlier, but it was still there before hand.
This is very true, and the trick I use to get around it is the fact that gmail treats foobar@gmail.com the same as foo.bar@gmail.com or f.o.o.b.a.r@gmail.com. For sites I don't trust completely and who insist that + isn't valid, I use a different dot pattern, and if I start getting junk, I set up a filter. Works great.
OK, great moral truth, but if you sign an agreement with your ISP not to do something, under contract law, you are obliged not to do it, or the contract is forfeit. Pretty simple. This isn't interpreting laws to forbid you from being a service provider, this is the contract you signed to access the network you are now using. If you want a different contract, you need to talk it over with your ISP, or shut up already about moral rights when you don't even have the balls to exercise the moral right of keeping your word.
"Imagine what would happen if 10% of the voters went for non-Democrat and non-Republican. Could politicians really believe that that many millions of Americans don't deserve to be represented in Congress or the Presidency?"
"They'd HAVE to change the system to a more fair electoral system."
Just like they HAD to notice when a president was elected with fewer than 50% of the votes? Right?
No one will notice anything. I still encourage you to vote Libertarian, but don't think anything will change until you too are encouraging people to vote lib, and 20 or 30% of the electorate is, actually getting libs into office.
Actually I don't see a license on their site... I guess that means its Public Domain by default? In any case..
Definitely not. IANAL, but I know enough law to know that no copyright notice is necessary any longer to guard a copyright. The best bet would be to assume that you are given an implied license to listen to the music off the website (and possibly to download it for your own listening since it is available as a RAR downlad, though since they've said nothing about it it is hazy legal territory) and not just assume you can do anything you want with it because no one told you you can't. They have not put it under any license, so by default they retain all copyrights, including the right not to allow any derivative works, or not to allow any copying of the material.
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As far as I can tell, the difference is that now, instead of having all the normal, handy options you get with hitting ctrl-f, you now get a blank bar at the bottom that doesn't let you search by capitalization, go to the next search term, etc. I'm waiting for an extension to fix this.
IANAL, but I'm taking Computers and the Law, a course at my university about these matters.
The length of a clip is not the only thing that matters in claiming fair use: also important is the importance of the clip in regard to the entire work, whether the original work is more factual or more creative, and what effect the use of the clip will have on the saleability of the work as a whole. It actually cannot be known whether using a copyrighted material falls under fair use until one is sued over that material and goes to court for it, as fair use is up to a court to decide.
Also, even if the clips' being posted on YouTube violates copyright law, YouTube likely isn't liable for first-party violation, as they did not make the copies themselves, and they might not be liable for 2nd or 3rd party copyright violation if they can prove that they did not market YouTube as a place for copyrighted works to be posted by those who do not hold the copyright, and if they can show that they took appropriate measures to remove materials in violation of copyright.
However, it is best to assume that any material you see on YouTube that was not posted by the author IS in violation of copyright, as there have been no rulings in this regard, and unless an author specifically gives up his copyright or publishes the works under an open license (which still lets him retain copyright, but lets others use and distribute the work as well), then he has the right to sue for infringement, and YouTube will at very least be required to take the work down if they cannot prove fair use or de minimus (least possible to make a point) use of the materials, or that the work was in the public domain.
So, how are you so sure that the content does not violate the authors' copyrights?
I have a Sager (NP3880) with 2 gigs RAM, 2.13 Ghz processor, Geforce 6600 graphics card, etc. It's pretty damn awesome, still a hugely powerful machine a year and some after I bought it. However, it has a real overheating problem, and I've had to send it in for warranty work twice due to the motherboard's power supply dying, and I'm a computer tech at my school and can usually deal with hardware issues.
I'd suggest getting an Acer myself, the Aspire 5000 line. Just go for the newest one. I have a friend with a Ferrari, which is just great. The Aspires are the same thing with less advertising crap, and thus cheeper. They seem like great computers, and if I could sell the on I had and get a little bit of money, I'd totally buy one now.
One thing to say in Sager's defense, they've been really great in helping me with my warranty stuff.
Correct (or rather, closer to correct) pronunciation would be "peek-pie".
And I honestly don't see what is so wrong with his articles. Sure, he adds a link to his own blog, but that's her perogative as a submitter, and often times the articles he submits are interesting, and not nearly bad science as that "Scottish Firm Developes Free Energy" was, or so many other articles (not by Roland) have been.
Not to say he's amazing or anything, I just don't get what everyone has against him...
Because in astronomy, an object (or more commonly a structure) is an area of space that has condensed out of the Hubble flow (expansion) of the universe due to gravity attraction of dark matter.
The problem with throwing "2.0" at the end of something is that it doesn't explain why it is different or what it actually does. "Information Superhighway" at least was in some ways descriptive of the internet, while Web 2.0 says nothing other than "we've advanced guys!", which is a no brainer anyway.
When I first heard "Search 2.0" I automatically assumed that they were search engines that were all "ajax-y", but I've used Clusty before, and it really doesn't do much different from Google or MSN but cluster results into different categories. Is this what it takes for a search engine to reach 2.0 stage? Clusty has been around for years too, pretty much in its current incarnation (bad logo and all), as has Teoma, which is even more useful. "2.0" doesn't actually have any connotative or denotative semantics other than "higher than 1.x", and thus I really don't think it fulfills the role you ascribe to it, and it will just confuse people "not in the know".
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OK, I don't like going into specifics because these are some of my friends I'm talking about and I don't know exactly what they make or how they got to where they are, but I will say that I'm not talking out of my ass here, and that any more a BS in CS from a school like mine can (not will) get you a high 5-figure salary, on a track to make a lot more very quickly. Even a BA in the humanities can get you a job at some of the companies that will lead into program management in a few years, and PM'ing is a 6-figure job almost no matter which company you are at. I'm not talking out my ass here, I know people who have done or are doing exactly this, and it's likely what I'll do out of college as well.
MS's and Ph. D.'s really only help if you're going into the more theoretical positions at these large companies, of which there are fewer and fewer positions being offered. If you want to start your own business, than an MS/Ph. D. helps none at all, you're much better off with B-school under your belt. Again, I know this because of my friends who have done it.
You obviously don't know what you're talking about. There are still awesome research opportunities in the military. What about Nuclear research? What about tactical ops? What about intelligence gathering? What about, for something CS related, cryptology? Or programming the tanks, submarines, etc, that will be going out? A lot of this is still done in-house, the people they have doing this are not folks they are going to endanger by putting them in line of fire. This doesn't mean that there is no chance of being shipped out to Iraq, but if you go to the military, especially the US Navy, on an engineering track of some sort, then you can apply to certain jobs when you get into the Navy, and it's not the same blind chance an enlisted man or a new officer who is going to be leading troops will have.
Listen, I don't love the military in any sense, but as a practical choice, it's not as bad as many folks make it out to be. Someone with an engineering degree isn't simply a "warm body" to the military, especially if they're coming straight into the military from college rather than having gone through college after the military in order to become an officer. There are different career paths within the military, especially Navy, that can lead to many different places, and that pay incredibly well.
Perhaps I am just a "college kid". However, the majority of my friends are actually out of college, many of them married with children, so I feel that I have at least a little bit of perspective on this. I know plenty of them who got 6 figures or a high 5 figures out of college, even 5 years ago.
Also, as far as anyone has ever told me and I've ever seen, grad school for engineering and ESPECIALLY for CS is completely worthless for getting a job, and is done almost only by those who wish to go into academia. Sure, 2 years of Business school might be required after 5 or so years in the work force in order to get a managerial position that really pays bank, but that's far in the future. Places like MS and Google and Yahoo! are hiring kids out of my school at 75k or more a year for software engineering jobs (there is obviously a variance, and some jobs get a lower salary).
Finally, I'm sorry critical thinking was dead at your college, but that is not the case here, and does not seem to be the case at many of the colleges my friends go to. Quite honestly, that seems to be one of the largest differences between some of the "better" schools and some of the lesser-known schools, which is just a sense I get from talking to my few high school friends who went to Ivy or equivalent schools and comparing our experiences to those who went elsewhere. It's not to say that they're not getting good educations, but that level of critical thinking, especially outside of classes, largely seems to be lacking, making some of them really unhappy.
Wrong. Anyone joining the military with a college degree (especially from a place like MIT or an ivy) will a) instantly be an officer and b) be a huge commodity and will be put doing some sort of awesome research or tactics, and not be put in line of fire. The military definitely isn't for everyone, but the idea that if you go into it you're automatically going to Iraq to be shot at is just wrong.
And, not only will it put you at advantage going into any job, it is because the education at MIT is fantastically great. Some of the best professors in the world teach there, much of the most interesting research in the world is done there, and as an undergrad even you have those resources at your fingertips. Not only that, but the other people at MIT are a very interesting bunch, some of the smartest 20 year olds in the nation, all packed together. It's really something special. As I've mentioned elsewhere in this thread, I don't go there, but I've visited and had friends who did, and it's really something else, and going there won't just be a pretty name on your resume. Sure, you can get a fantastic education in hundreds of universities in the US and elsewhere, but it is much easier to get a good education at some of these "name" schools. That doesn't mean the education is easier (it's not; CS is freaking hard at my school), but it does mean that it won't be an uphill battle to get that education.
OK, first off, to OP: money isn't everything, and if you really think that your education didn't give you anything but technical skills, then you obviously didn't get out of college what I an most the folks I know are or did. College is a time to learn to think critically and to learn a variety of different subjects. You'll never quite get that chance again.
Secondly, to the question: MIT gives full financial aid, based on what they think your parents can afford to pay. Yeah, you might end up paying a bit more a year than a $10,000 a year state school once you get finaid from them, but then again maybe not, and for the education you'll get at MIT and the people you'll meet there, it will be worth it. I go to a school that costs more than MIT and my parents make less than 100k a year (well less), and I got through the first two years of school without loans. This brings up my second point to you: don't look at loans as a bad thing. Look at them as an investment in yourself. If you come out of MIT with an engineering degree, you can easily be making a high five or low six figures straight out of college. You'll pay off your loans in a year or two at that pace. Well worth it.
Personally, I'd suggest looking at not just MIT, too. I was a CS major for my first two years here at my school (oh fuck it, I go to Yale, just so you know, I don't know why we always beat around the bush here), and there is a great, theoretical program. However, I found that while I enjoy programming, computer science is something completely different from programming, and decided to change my major to Linguistics. It's wonderful the large range of possibilities a school like Yale or Stanford or Brown can give to you. Don't confine yourself to a technical school, especially if you already have a lot of technical skills.
Let's see. What other advice besides don't worry about money and try to broaden your horizons? Get an on-campus job, you'd be surprised how well some of them pay (I get $13.50 an hour to fix computers and sit at shifts doing homework and helping folks who need it if they ask), get loans, go to a school that gives good financial aid, and you'll graduate, get a great job, and not have to worry about the pittance in loans you have. Go abroad, go to lectures, take advantage of any alumni networks you can get on, especially if they're related to a group or club you are in, just take advantage of the resources your university offers you as much as you can. And even if you don't end up going to a top-tier school, all this will still hold true.
Best of luck. If you want to talk to me at all, feel free to PM me.
Well, they can still be had:
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(link to ebay listing of a Betamax deck)
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I don't like the way Firefox doesn't free all its memory when I close a tab. I know there is a fix to that, but that fix destroys functionality that I like associated with this behavior, so I won't use it.
Way to go, you fully understand why this is not a "leak" and you enjoy the functionality you get from it, but you are still complaining. Listen, closing a tab doesn't instantly give you back the memory because you might need to get back to that tab soon, so it keeps it cached, which is actually a very nice thing. If you don't like this, I'm pretty sure you can turn off the closed tab caching, I know the Tab Mix Plus extension lets you. So it might be a good idea to read around in those forums of yours and ask some good questions to figure out how best to make Firefox do what you think it "should" do.
He himself admitted to using "dubious facts" in trying to prove his case... which is why I've tagged this article with "dubiousfacts" and read the rest of it after he said that with a grain of salt. He made huge generalizations about how people see the internet that I've never seen, and he himself is confusing the difference between the web and the internet.
One thing that could be very lame (and I don't know whether anyone has talked about this) is if it is just like the iPod in that it has a very hard to get into case with a non-user-changaeble battery (and a non-approved way of doing it, such as the iPod has, does not count). No way in hell am I going to pay $500 for something I'll have to replace in 2 years because the battery (which is already underpowered when you consider this is a phone, not just a music player) won't last longer than a couple of hours, and I have a feeling that such a thing could hurt the iPhone more than it did the iPod, as one expects a phone to always be one so one can always be reached, even in an emergency situation.
Furthermore, will the SIM card be user changeable? If not, they'll not be able to get a large portion of the European market, who use pre-paid plans overwhelmingly and expect to buy an unlocked phone. Apple's love of locking the user out could really hurt them here as people find they cannot do all the things they expect to be able to do with a phone.
I completely agree. However, the RIAA did do something scummy: they're leaving BestBuy and other distributors be, free to continue selling the same CD's. Also, previously the DJ's felt that there was sort of a "you help us, we won't go after you" feeling towards the whole deal, that is no longer present.
Off topic: my favorite part of the article was when one of the rappers interviewed said he didn't support mixtapes, by which he meant he bought and listened to them (of course) but didn't like it when his material was used. It seems to me that it's greed and hypocrisy like this that permeates the RIAA and major labels. I guess that's normal for capitalism, and why I'm all for creating laws that protect citizens from the corporations as much as we have them to protect us from the government.
I bought one of these, and my god, it's the best phone I've ever owned, having also owned a Motorola Slvr L6 and a V330. It actually has everything you wanted but the extended antenna, but it has great reception. It also has the message indicator light and bluetooth. The address book might not be up to snuff for you though, it was released pre-OS X and I imaging it doesn't support OS X, and putting in address are a bit of a pain. Also, it's GMS, but only a tri-band phone, but won't work some places (like my home in Alaska, damn it, so I can only use it while at college).
It was the phone Ericsson released just before merging with Sony, and there is also a model relased by SonyEricsson, which I believe is pretty much the same phone with slightly updated software and different branding. The phone is light, pretty, sturdy, and useful. It even comes with POP3 email software! My one complaint is that the software sometimes responds a bit slowly compared to modern phones (it was released 5 years ago), and sometimes requires more clicks than seems necessary to perform something. But look into it, you can still find it brand new on ebay for around $50 with shipping, unlocked and everything. Oh, and I only charge it every three or so days, as compared to every night with my other phones. That right there is reason enough to get it for me.
Here's a link to an ebay auction for it, do a little searching and you can probably find it brand new for about the same price (that's what I did).
Ease of getting something really matters when people are buying something, especially food. If they have to buy it off eBay, most are never going to notice it exists. What's more, when Myoplex is sold in stores, it's usually sold in the health food or body building food section, not in the "regular" food section. So yes, while it is excellent to buy and eat as a meal and still get many nutrients (I used to do the same thing with other protein shakes myself, not trying to change my weight at all, just not having time to eat until dinner, so I'd do that for breakfast and get through the day that way), it won't become viable as such until it is marketed correctly for that.
You know, some people do enjoy building things and getting them to work on their own. Not everything is about having something, the journey to get it can be very important too.
Thing is, if it were any harder than that to get the search, instead everyone would be talking about how superior OS X is to Vista. It seems odd to me that you can't just admit that both Vista and OS X got it right.
Also, Dashboard is an obvious rip off of Konfabulator, so shut up already about how the sidebar is a rip off of Dashboard. Also, the sidebar was in very very early Vista builds from long before OSX10.4 was released, just as Vista builds had instant search long before OSX10.4 Sure, they got it out the door earlier, but it was still there before hand.
This is very true, and the trick I use to get around it is the fact that gmail treats foobar@gmail.com the same as foo.bar@gmail.com or f.o.o.b.a.r@gmail.com. For sites I don't trust completely and who insist that + isn't valid, I use a different dot pattern, and if I start getting junk, I set up a filter. Works great.
OK, great moral truth, but if you sign an agreement with your ISP not to do something, under contract law, you are obliged not to do it, or the contract is forfeit. Pretty simple. This isn't interpreting laws to forbid you from being a service provider, this is the contract you signed to access the network you are now using. If you want a different contract, you need to talk it over with your ISP, or shut up already about moral rights when you don't even have the balls to exercise the moral right of keeping your word.
"Imagine what would happen if 10% of the voters went for non-Democrat and non-Republican. Could politicians really believe that that many millions of Americans don't deserve to be represented in Congress or the Presidency?"
"They'd HAVE to change the system to a more fair electoral system."
Just like they HAD to notice when a president was elected with fewer than 50% of the votes? Right?
No one will notice anything. I still encourage you to vote Libertarian, but don't think anything will change until you too are encouraging people to vote lib, and 20 or 30% of the electorate is, actually getting libs into office.
Actually I don't see a license on their site... I guess that means its Public Domain by default? In any case..
Definitely not. IANAL, but I know enough law to know that no copyright notice is necessary any longer to guard a copyright. The best bet would be to assume that you are given an implied license to listen to the music off the website (and possibly to download it for your own listening since it is available as a RAR downlad, though since they've said nothing about it it is hazy legal territory) and not just assume you can do anything you want with it because no one told you you can't. They have not put it under any license, so by default they retain all copyrights, including the right not to allow any derivative works, or not to allow any copying of the material.
As far as I can tell, the difference is that now, instead of having all the normal, handy options you get with hitting ctrl-f, you now get a blank bar at the bottom that doesn't let you search by capitalization, go to the next search term, etc. I'm waiting for an extension to fix this.
IANAL, but I'm taking Computers and the Law, a course at my university about these matters.
The length of a clip is not the only thing that matters in claiming fair use: also important is the importance of the clip in regard to the entire work, whether the original work is more factual or more creative, and what effect the use of the clip will have on the saleability of the work as a whole. It actually cannot be known whether using a copyrighted material falls under fair use until one is sued over that material and goes to court for it, as fair use is up to a court to decide.
Also, even if the clips' being posted on YouTube violates copyright law, YouTube likely isn't liable for first-party violation, as they did not make the copies themselves, and they might not be liable for 2nd or 3rd party copyright violation if they can prove that they did not market YouTube as a place for copyrighted works to be posted by those who do not hold the copyright, and if they can show that they took appropriate measures to remove materials in violation of copyright.
However, it is best to assume that any material you see on YouTube that was not posted by the author IS in violation of copyright, as there have been no rulings in this regard, and unless an author specifically gives up his copyright or publishes the works under an open license (which still lets him retain copyright, but lets others use and distribute the work as well), then he has the right to sue for infringement, and YouTube will at very least be required to take the work down if they cannot prove fair use or de minimus (least possible to make a point) use of the materials, or that the work was in the public domain.
So, how are you so sure that the content does not violate the authors' copyrights?
I have a Sager (NP3880) with 2 gigs RAM, 2.13 Ghz processor, Geforce 6600 graphics card, etc. It's pretty damn awesome, still a hugely powerful machine a year and some after I bought it. However, it has a real overheating problem, and I've had to send it in for warranty work twice due to the motherboard's power supply dying, and I'm a computer tech at my school and can usually deal with hardware issues.
I'd suggest getting an Acer myself, the Aspire 5000 line. Just go for the newest one. I have a friend with a Ferrari, which is just great. The Aspires are the same thing with less advertising crap, and thus cheeper. They seem like great computers, and if I could sell the on I had and get a little bit of money, I'd totally buy one now.
One thing to say in Sager's defense, they've been really great in helping me with my warranty stuff.
Correct (or rather, closer to correct) pronunciation would be "peek-pie".
And I honestly don't see what is so wrong with his articles. Sure, he adds a link to his own blog, but that's her perogative as a submitter, and often times the articles he submits are interesting, and not nearly bad science as that "Scottish Firm Developes Free Energy" was, or so many other articles (not by Roland) have been.
Not to say he's amazing or anything, I just don't get what everyone has against him...
Because in astronomy, an object (or more commonly a structure) is an area of space that has condensed out of the Hubble flow (expansion) of the universe due to gravity attraction of dark matter.
The problem with throwing "2.0" at the end of something is that it doesn't explain why it is different or what it actually does. "Information Superhighway" at least was in some ways descriptive of the internet, while Web 2.0 says nothing other than "we've advanced guys!", which is a no brainer anyway.
When I first heard "Search 2.0" I automatically assumed that they were search engines that were all "ajax-y", but I've used Clusty before, and it really doesn't do much different from Google or MSN but cluster results into different categories. Is this what it takes for a search engine to reach 2.0 stage? Clusty has been around for years too, pretty much in its current incarnation (bad logo and all), as has Teoma, which is even more useful. "2.0" doesn't actually have any connotative or denotative semantics other than "higher than 1.x", and thus I really don't think it fulfills the role you ascribe to it, and it will just confuse people "not in the know".