Helps fisherman and farmers? That's a pretty lame excuse I'd say.
Why don't they just come out and say "Lets us take a pictures of such a high resolution that we'll be able to capture screen shots of you pirating movies"
The Oklahoma City Bombing memorial is only about 300 feet from where I am sitting now. I can see it out my window.
That bombing was to avenge the deaths of 'Branch Davidians', the religious group from Waco.
You make a valid point that it is certainly much different here than in some Middle Eastern areas, but we still have some pretty awful things happening on a daily basis due to religion, even mainstream religion. Especially here in the center of the U.S. where perhaps the people from the blue-states on the coasts don't realize how big the problem is.
If you goto an abortion clinic here you will be shouted at and harrassed, or have things thrown at you. You can expect to be asked about how often you attend church during a job interview, even at a large company, and you probably won't find "BrokeBack Mountain" in our movie theaters either.
The situation is probably the most disturbing in some of the large Mormon areas of the united states, where we see 'churches' counting members in the tens of thousands, and 12 year old girls are being married off to old men on a regular basis, and with the entire police force as part of the church there is not a liklihood of intervention.
IANAE but I think that the vast majority of your printers rely on patented Adobe technology, and as such, each manufacturer is on different versions and licenses.
I am, on the other hand, an expert on a technology called SVG, and I know that there are alot of guys at Canon working with the w3c on something called SVGPrint, which they are looking to use as an Open/Free mechanism to transmit data to all their printers. (In place of postscript?).
There is alot of work going on in these fields, but it will take a little bit longer until some of the newer open technologies hit the market.
So how exactly are we getting oil by being in Iraq (or Afganistan)?
Are we stealing oil from them? Forcing them to give it to us at a discount?
With the amount of money we've spent trying to set up a democracy over there I'm quite confident we could have bought all the oil we want. Besides, we are the ones that were forcing Iraq to not sell oil in the past (oil for food program)...
I'm not saying that we SHOULD be trying to set up a democracy over there, or that it will work, or that it will in the future make us safer, and only time will tell if any of these things will work. But I don't see where you get off saying we are going there to get Oil. Certainly there are relations to oil involved in the conflict, given that the middle east is entirely sustained by oil sales, but I certainly don't think this war helps our interests in obtaining oil at all.
And I suppose, on the other side of the coin, If it did help out interests in getting some oil, would you really be opposed to that, or would you just like to act like your opposed to that? Your entire life, my entire life, pretty much everyone in a civilized country depends on oil right now. If you didnt have any, things would change alot, and I suspect you wouldnt like how they ended up. So quit acting like Bush is the only one that likes Oil.
EU has the right to ban Microsoft, levy taxes on their products, etc. But since when does a government get to force a company to create products and documentation for them under the threat of massive fines?
Basically what it looks like they are saying is: "We screwed up and used your product way too much without realizing it didn't do what we wanted, so now you better help us make it do what we want or give us 200 million dollars"
That's absurd. That's no different than America telling Google: "We use your search engine for everything, so we want you to turn over all your algorithms to us now so we can leverage it the way we need to. If you don't turn over everything to us then you have to pay us 2.5 million dollars a day".
It's sort of naive to assume that these things are 'gaffes'. There is no reason to believe that they are not all intentional.
The article is saying these gaffes are hurting google, but personally, I'm not seeing google hurt at all... Maybe they are alot smarter than they are getting credit for.
This is getting to be absurd. It's nothing but anti-american feelings in europe being taken out on Microsoft.
I like to bash microsoft as much as the next guy, but it's been taken too far. I hope microsoft tells them to fuck off and pulls their products from all of Europe.
It's pretty much a guarantee that Europe would for some period of time be entirely crippled if Microsoft made it impossible to get a product in the countries. Not a copy of windows, not an OEM copy of windows or office, no support, no security patches, nothing. I suppose all the consumer electronics stores would have to close their doors, then companies and governments would start having to do massive transitions to Linux.
Although that would never happen, becuase after about an hour they would come back to microsoft crying and begging for forgiveness.
Didn't anyone ever teach them not to taunt the giant? Sure microsoft is trying to play nice, it's in their best interest, but that doesn't change the fact that they wield unimaginable power.
Eh, Probably people that think all the movies suck are just bad at picking movies. I understand everyone has different taste, but there have been some amazing movies in the past year.
Your probably right that 90% of them suck, but theres an awful lot to choose from, and that 10% is great.
"You me and everyone we know", "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind", "Million Dollar Baby", "Sin City", "Kill Bill v2", "Transgender", "Crash", "Brokeback Mountain" all come to me off the top of my head... I think those are all within the last year, maybe not.
I'm a bit of a film buff, and mostly into Indies, but there have been so many spectacular indies that make it into big success this last year.
I suppose that your average movie goer may just go to the theater to see shitty pattern commercial flicks with huge budgets and lots of explosions, and there may have been less of those lately, but for those of us that enjoy quality films thats generally considered a good riddance.
I'm not sure that it is vaporware, They've had EFI support for a few years in Windows versions for 64bit processors. It's just that no one needs it or has hardware for it in the 32bit world, so there probably isn't a cost effective reason to implement it.
I bought a mac mini and hooked it up to my HD TV, and it was slick and cool and all great... But to compare the two is stupid as hell.
They aren't even remotely related... The MediaCenter (or I prefer mythTV) is a full system for DVR/Thin Clients/Etc... The mac mini just has a silly little remote control to let me change tracks in iTunes, and "FrontRow" software is nothing more than a black screen with 4 icons to let me browse my iTunes in a larger font. It's great for what it is, but it's not related to Media Center in any fashion.
Steve Jobs kept boasting about how his Mac remote control was far superior to the Windows Media center remote controls because it has fewer buttons. Well I hate to break it to you Steve but your remote has fewer buttons becuase there are no features for it to control.
With my media center remote I can enter numeric digits to change the channel I am watching, but your MacMini doesn't have a tuner.... So you didn't need those buttons did you? With my mac mini remote I also have unbearably little control over watching a DVD... I can't change audio tracks, aspect ratio, specify chapters, go into slow motion, or really anything useful. So quit boasting about your remote control.... It's not even comfortable to hold, the back end is sharp as a razor.
Ugh, I'm tired of these stupid apples & oranges comparisons... They do nothing but mislead the uneducated consumer, and piss off the educated ones.
I hope that after the laughs it is clear to everyone that Apple/Mac does not even remotely come into any decision making process for EFI support on 32bit Windows.
Mac people like to think they are part of a big crowd, but the truth is Microsoft spends more money each day on coffee for the 1st floor lobby than they would make if every Intel Mac user bought a copy of Vista.
What are the current stats? Windows at about 96% and Mac at about 1% (the rest unix/linux)
Microsoft doesn't make decisions based on the actions of less than 1% of the market.
Oh, btw, I own an Intel mac mini, so don't think I'm trying to take sides here.
Nothing annoys me more than these whiners with this bloated sense of self-entitlement.
You have the privilege of working there, if you don't like it, go somewhere else, probably Burger King is hiring.
If you think the review process doesn't work the way it should, then figure out how it does work and try to get to the top of the list. If you don't think you should have to do that, then once again, go somewhere else.
An article about Microsofts internal politics and their effect on success may be of some interest, but this article is a bunch of disgruntled employees whining to journalists.
Little bitch developers like those make software teams miserable. Either get with the program or get the fuck out of the company.
So in other words "Hey, CDC, I'll abuse my power to give you $90 million if you'll make me a report that says games are evil, so then I will look like i'm protecting everyones kids and i'll get elected for president"
You can actually download this 214mb list of information here:
http://5sec.us/Ibill_1m.txt
I don't know why you'd want it, maybe you can use the passwords or something. But there it is anyway.
This story is complete bullshit, It doesn't even begin to represent the truth. For those that didn't RTFA, let me paraphrase:
Google usually allows advertisers 60 days to claim invalid clicks and recieve a refund for those clicks. Google has made a deal wherein they will allow advertisers to make invalid click claims going all the way back to 2002, and offer advertising credits for all of these clicks. Google does not yet know how many invalid clicks will be reported, but under the terms of the agreement the maximum credit given will come to a total of no more than $90 million.
So in other words, this posting is either FUD or just bullshit, and Google isn't paying anything, but rather offering advertising credits.
Are you referring to a hypothetical place where temperatures are random or where H20 temperatures are equally divided between all possible temperatures?
Well... Yeah. Like maybe a good MMORPG or something.
Pros:
The site is very pretty.
The search results seem on par with google.
Good Domain name.
Cons:
Too many fancy UI features. Ajaxy-whatchamacallits all over the place just annoy people, and rarely help productivity during searches.
Seems to be some weird post-backs going on, that keep my browsers back button from taking me where I'm trying to go. That's unacceptable.
Usually we use the term "wet" to refer to a solid that is covered with or has absorbed a liquid.
Wow, I guess it depends where your from. Around here wet typically means several other things:
1. You get 'wet' when you smoke a joint with PCP/Angeldust in it.
2. A girl is 'wet' when she's horny. Regardless of leaking vaginal fluid.
3. 'wet' often refers to any task involving murder or assasination.
4. And then I guess more similar to your definition, when you piss the bed.
1st Show: Unheard of band attracts 74 brave souls.
2nd Show: Word of mouth brings 62,138 happy listeners.
3rd Show: Slashdot effects takes down your server before the show starts.
4th Show: Your still trying to pay all the extra bandwidth charges from Show #3.
Well, Supposedly AA is currently being paid for by a group called "Democracy Alliance" - funded by billionaires George Soros and Peter Lewis. They are reportedly providing about $8 million to keep AA running through election day.
I certainly can see how this could cuase some debate, since it seems clear that rich Democrats are paying to keep AA broadcasting in hopes of aiding the party come election day.
You make a good point though; Obviously a show like Rush Limbaugh which has an order of magnitude larger listener base is having a much bigger impact on any election day results than Air America is. What Rush, Sean, and Bill have going in their defense is a more common and accepted business model, regardless of whether or not they have the same goals and intentions.
I honestly don't know where I would stand on an issue like this. I'd love to have more transparent and regulated spending for campaigns, but it is certainly out of the question to regulate Purina Puppy Chow for buying ad time during Rush Limbaugh, which is in effect the same as George Soros paying to have Air America on the air.
It's probably not unreasonable to look at money coming from generic ad's differently than money coming from clearly political organizations, but It's very hard to figure out where to draw the line.
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Yep, it also fails the number one rule for naming an IT product, it doesn't lend itself to being a verb.
"Hey, let me google that real quick."
"Ya, I'll skype you in a few minutes"
Those both work well, but try to say "Ok, let me Ekiga you".... wtf?
Helps fisherman and farmers? That's a pretty lame excuse I'd say.
Why don't they just come out and say "Lets us take a pictures of such a high resolution that we'll be able to capture screen shots of you pirating movies"
hehe.
The Oklahoma City Bombing memorial is only about 300 feet from where I am sitting now. I can see it out my window.
That bombing was to avenge the deaths of 'Branch Davidians', the religious group from Waco.
You make a valid point that it is certainly much different here than in some Middle Eastern areas, but we still have some pretty awful things happening on a daily basis due to religion, even mainstream religion. Especially here in the center of the U.S. where perhaps the people from the blue-states on the coasts don't realize how big the problem is.
If you goto an abortion clinic here you will be shouted at and harrassed, or have things thrown at you. You can expect to be asked about how often you attend church during a job interview, even at a large company, and you probably won't find "BrokeBack Mountain" in our movie theaters either.
The situation is probably the most disturbing in some of the large Mormon areas of the united states, where we see 'churches' counting members in the tens of thousands, and 12 year old girls are being married off to old men on a regular basis, and with the entire police force as part of the church there is not a liklihood of intervention.
IANAE but I think that the vast majority of your printers rely on patented Adobe technology, and as such, each manufacturer is on different versions and licenses.
I am, on the other hand, an expert on a technology called SVG, and I know that there are alot of guys at Canon working with the w3c on something called SVGPrint, which they are looking to use as an Open/Free mechanism to transmit data to all their printers. (In place of postscript?).
There is alot of work going on in these fields, but it will take a little bit longer until some of the newer open technologies hit the market.
So how exactly are we getting oil by being in Iraq (or Afganistan)?
Are we stealing oil from them? Forcing them to give it to us at a discount?
With the amount of money we've spent trying to set up a democracy over there I'm quite confident we could have bought all the oil we want. Besides, we are the ones that were forcing Iraq to not sell oil in the past (oil for food program)...
I'm not saying that we SHOULD be trying to set up a democracy over there, or that it will work, or that it will in the future make us safer, and only time will tell if any of these things will work. But I don't see where you get off saying we are going there to get Oil. Certainly there are relations to oil involved in the conflict, given that the middle east is entirely sustained by oil sales, but I certainly don't think this war helps our interests in obtaining oil at all.
And I suppose, on the other side of the coin, If it did help out interests in getting some oil, would you really be opposed to that, or would you just like to act like your opposed to that? Your entire life, my entire life, pretty much everyone in a civilized country depends on oil right now. If you didnt have any, things would change alot, and I suspect you wouldnt like how they ended up. So quit acting like Bush is the only one that likes Oil.
EU has the right to ban Microsoft, levy taxes on their products, etc. But since when does a government get to force a company to create products and documentation for them under the threat of massive fines?
Basically what it looks like they are saying is: "We screwed up and used your product way too much without realizing it didn't do what we wanted, so now you better help us make it do what we want or give us 200 million dollars"
That's absurd. That's no different than America telling Google: "We use your search engine for everything, so we want you to turn over all your algorithms to us now so we can leverage it the way we need to. If you don't turn over everything to us then you have to pay us 2.5 million dollars a day".
It's sort of naive to assume that these things are 'gaffes'. There is no reason to believe that they are not all intentional.
The article is saying these gaffes are hurting google, but personally, I'm not seeing google hurt at all... Maybe they are alot smarter than they are getting credit for.
This is getting to be absurd. It's nothing but anti-american feelings in europe being taken out on Microsoft.
I like to bash microsoft as much as the next guy, but it's been taken too far. I hope microsoft tells them to fuck off and pulls their products from all of Europe.
It's pretty much a guarantee that Europe would for some period of time be entirely crippled if Microsoft made it impossible to get a product in the countries. Not a copy of windows, not an OEM copy of windows or office, no support, no security patches, nothing. I suppose all the consumer electronics stores would have to close their doors, then companies and governments would start having to do massive transitions to Linux.
Although that would never happen, becuase after about an hour they would come back to microsoft crying and begging for forgiveness.
Didn't anyone ever teach them not to taunt the giant? Sure microsoft is trying to play nice, it's in their best interest, but that doesn't change the fact that they wield unimaginable power.
Eh, Probably people that think all the movies suck are just bad at picking movies. I understand everyone has different taste, but there have been some amazing movies in the past year.
Your probably right that 90% of them suck, but theres an awful lot to choose from, and that 10% is great.
"You me and everyone we know", "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind", "Million Dollar Baby", "Sin City", "Kill Bill v2", "Transgender", "Crash", "Brokeback Mountain" all come to me off the top of my head... I think those are all within the last year, maybe not.
I'm a bit of a film buff, and mostly into Indies, but there have been so many spectacular indies that make it into big success this last year.
I suppose that your average movie goer may just go to the theater to see shitty pattern commercial flicks with huge budgets and lots of explosions, and there may have been less of those lately, but for those of us that enjoy quality films thats generally considered a good riddance.
I'm not sure that it is vaporware, They've had EFI support for a few years in Windows versions for 64bit processors. It's just that no one needs it or has hardware for it in the 32bit world, so there probably isn't a cost effective reason to implement it.
I bought a mac mini and hooked it up to my HD TV, and it was slick and cool and all great... But to compare the two is stupid as hell.
They aren't even remotely related... The MediaCenter (or I prefer mythTV) is a full system for DVR/Thin Clients/Etc... The mac mini just has a silly little remote control to let me change tracks in iTunes, and "FrontRow" software is nothing more than a black screen with 4 icons to let me browse my iTunes in a larger font. It's great for what it is, but it's not related to Media Center in any fashion.
Steve Jobs kept boasting about how his Mac remote control was far superior to the Windows Media center remote controls because it has fewer buttons. Well I hate to break it to you Steve but your remote has fewer buttons becuase there are no features for it to control.
With my media center remote I can enter numeric digits to change the channel I am watching, but your MacMini doesn't have a tuner.... So you didn't need those buttons did you? With my mac mini remote I also have unbearably little control over watching a DVD... I can't change audio tracks, aspect ratio, specify chapters, go into slow motion, or really anything useful. So quit boasting about your remote control.... It's not even comfortable to hold, the back end is sharp as a razor.
Ugh, I'm tired of these stupid apples & oranges comparisons... They do nothing but mislead the uneducated consumer, and piss off the educated ones.
I hope that after the laughs it is clear to everyone that Apple/Mac does not even remotely come into any decision making process for EFI support on 32bit Windows.
Mac people like to think they are part of a big crowd, but the truth is Microsoft spends more money each day on coffee for the 1st floor lobby than they would make if every Intel Mac user bought a copy of Vista.
What are the current stats? Windows at about 96% and Mac at about 1% (the rest unix/linux)
Microsoft doesn't make decisions based on the actions of less than 1% of the market.
Oh, btw, I own an Intel mac mini, so don't think I'm trying to take sides here.
Nothing annoys me more than these whiners with this bloated sense of self-entitlement.
You have the privilege of working there, if you don't like it, go somewhere else, probably Burger King is hiring.
If you think the review process doesn't work the way it should, then figure out how it does work and try to get to the top of the list. If you don't think you should have to do that, then once again, go somewhere else.
An article about Microsofts internal politics and their effect on success may be of some interest, but this article is a bunch of disgruntled employees whining to journalists.
Little bitch developers like those make software teams miserable. Either get with the program or get the fuck out of the company.
So in other words "Hey, CDC, I'll abuse my power to give you $90 million if you'll make me a report that says games are evil, so then I will look like i'm protecting everyones kids and i'll get elected for president"
Probably if you gave them $90 million for a silly little study they would be happy to.
You can actually download this 214mb list of information here:
http://5sec.us/Ibill_1m.txt
I don't know why you'd want it, maybe you can use the passwords or something. But there it is anyway.
Which means we would need free, as in beer, porn stars. Kickass!!
This story is complete bullshit, It doesn't even begin to represent the truth. For those that didn't RTFA, let me paraphrase:
Google usually allows advertisers 60 days to claim invalid clicks and recieve a refund for those clicks. Google has made a deal wherein they will allow advertisers to make invalid click claims going all the way back to 2002, and offer advertising credits for all of these clicks. Google does not yet know how many invalid clicks will be reported, but under the terms of the agreement the maximum credit given will come to a total of no more than $90 million.
So in other words, this posting is either FUD or just bullshit, and Google isn't paying anything, but rather offering advertising credits.
Are you referring to a hypothetical place where temperatures are random or where H20 temperatures are equally divided between all possible temperatures?
Well... Yeah. Like maybe a good MMORPG or something.
Unless of course the software your working on is for researching a cure for cancer.
So heres my objective opinion:
Pros:
The site is very pretty.
The search results seem on par with google.
Good Domain name.
Cons:
Too many fancy UI features. Ajaxy-whatchamacallits all over the place just annoy people, and rarely help productivity during searches.
Seems to be some weird post-backs going on, that keep my browsers back button from taking me where I'm trying to go. That's unacceptable.
Usually we use the term "wet" to refer to a solid that is covered with or has absorbed a liquid.
Wow, I guess it depends where your from. Around here wet typically means several other things:
1. You get 'wet' when you smoke a joint with PCP/Angeldust in it.
2. A girl is 'wet' when she's horny. Regardless of leaking vaginal fluid.
3. 'wet' often refers to any task involving murder or assasination.
4. And then I guess more similar to your definition, when you piss the bed.
Is water wet?
In the vast majority of possible temperatures it is gas or solid. So I'd say, on average, no; water is not wet.
1st Show: Unheard of band attracts 74 brave souls. 2nd Show: Word of mouth brings 62,138 happy listeners. 3rd Show: Slashdot effects takes down your server before the show starts. 4th Show: Your still trying to pay all the extra bandwidth charges from Show #3.
Well, Supposedly AA is currently being paid for by a group called "Democracy Alliance" - funded by billionaires George Soros and Peter Lewis. They are reportedly providing about $8 million to keep AA running through election day.
I certainly can see how this could cuase some debate, since it seems clear that rich Democrats are paying to keep AA broadcasting in hopes of aiding the party come election day.
You make a good point though; Obviously a show like Rush Limbaugh which has an order of magnitude larger listener base is having a much bigger impact on any election day results than Air America is. What Rush, Sean, and Bill have going in their defense is a more common and accepted business model, regardless of whether or not they have the same goals and intentions.
I honestly don't know where I would stand on an issue like this. I'd love to have more transparent and regulated spending for campaigns, but it is certainly out of the question to regulate Purina Puppy Chow for buying ad time during Rush Limbaugh, which is in effect the same as George Soros paying to have Air America on the air.
It's probably not unreasonable to look at money coming from generic ad's differently than money coming from clearly political organizations, but It's very hard to figure out where to draw the line.