Awww, how quaint. The creaky old big wigs on Capitol Hill have decided to move in to the 21rst century.
They should have realized the potential of weblogs long ago but they were too busy trying to find ways to tax commerce on the internet and drafting draconian intellectual property rights laws with the RIAA to take notice.
Wow. A film based on Terry "I crap out a book every five seconds" Hatchett. About as thrilling as a film based on something by Piers Anthony.
I'll pass.
Sometimes when I make my way up to Seattle or Kahneeta from Portland I drive by towns that are no more than dusty, brokedown campsites. Some small towns shouldn't even exist as there probably wasn't any long term plans for them when they first went up. Example : some towns that were built solely because people came into a state looking for gold in the 19th century. Towns like that just limp along with no real plan or valuable infrastructure to stay vital (hospitals, clinics, farms). A lot of these kinds of towns should have gone the way of the dodo long ago.
A lot of people engage in suppression of ideas, not just right-wingers and for your information ID IS a science. The fact that you parrot what is told to you about ID belies your own laziness and ignorance in understanding what it actually is.
The state US education is grim indeed when it produces parrots like you.
It's more than that though. Of course it is inappropriate for professors to bully students who don't share their ideology but there are other steps one can take to deal with an instructor who has given you an unfair grade just because he/she doesn't like your POV.
This group is offering a bounty, money, to pick out certain professors and put them on a blacklist. Why is it necessary to throw money into the problem? This is beyond inappropriate. McCarthyism doesn't have to start at the government level it starts when people are unable to tolerate anyone whose views are not in alignment with their own. Surely there are professors who demonstrate this and I am sure there is a process on campus to deal with it. If the problem is severe one can always sue the school but going on witch hunts is a bad idea.
That's not a joke you know! The RIAA actually does assasinate music lovers but the documents pertaining to this will remain sealed until 3006. . . . .;)
I don't know how they came up with those numbers but from what I've seen iPod users are just as likely to download illegal files as anyone else.
Not that I have an ax to grind against Apple, I don't, but I wonder who funded the survey.
But this really misses the main point, which is that SCO's lawsuit is a lost cause. The implications for Linux users are rather like the implications for passengers on an ocean liner of a seagull diving into the water nearby. A physicist might be able to measure the perturbation, but the passenger feels nothing.
I encountered this exact same problem myself when I used to used IE. After switching to Firefox, no it isn't a pancea but it is far better than IE. I just don't have the problems with it that I've had with the other browser.
I'm not so sure. It seems to me that each generation of children coming out of public schools are less educated than the previous.
The best way to instill love of reading and learning in kids is to read to them from infancy. I don't see a lot of genX parents doing that, unfortunately.
The program that read the story didn't cause problems. It was the program with the gratuituous animations that had nothing to do with the story that distracted kids from the story and caused a drop in comprehension.
I know from experience at a company that makes a very successful literacy program that a computer reading a stories to children and providing exercises in phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension can help children's reading and writing skills immensely. At that company, competing "edutainment" programs were dismissed as inferior, and this study proves that the "entertainment" portion just distracts kids away from the education part of the activity.
Most people simply enjoy owning movies that they really like instead of renting because ownership gives you more privileges and convemience when it comes to use. Why wait on Netflix when you can just go to your own dvd shelf?
I love dvds anyway and I have no intention of giving them up even if dvds are suposedly "dead". Besides human sight and hearing is only so advanced. At some point all of of these upgrades and changes for better technology in viewing and hearing entertainment will become pointless when they've reached the threshold of human sight and hearing. Beyond that threshold, we won't be able to detect any real differences or improvements and buying new stuff will just be a big waste of money.
There are too many people that I know (myself included) who have iTunes along with music files in other formats as well. Refusing to allow this product to be compatible with such a popular format is ridiculous. If I have a thousand iTunes and they aren't compatible with Urge, that will urge me to ignore the product altogether! It's just another example of Microsoft shooting itself in both feet again.
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Awww, how quaint. The creaky old big wigs on Capitol Hill have decided to move in to the 21rst century. They should have realized the potential of weblogs long ago but they were too busy trying to find ways to tax commerce on the internet and drafting draconian intellectual property rights laws with the RIAA to take notice.
Wow. A film based on Terry "I crap out a book every five seconds" Hatchett. About as thrilling as a film based on something by Piers Anthony. I'll pass.
Sometimes when I make my way up to Seattle or Kahneeta from Portland I drive by towns that are no more than dusty, brokedown campsites. Some small towns shouldn't even exist as there probably wasn't any long term plans for them when they first went up. Example : some towns that were built solely because people came into a state looking for gold in the 19th century. Towns like that just limp along with no real plan or valuable infrastructure to stay vital (hospitals, clinics, farms). A lot of these kinds of towns should have gone the way of the dodo long ago.
A lot of people engage in suppression of ideas, not just right-wingers and for your information ID IS a science. The fact that you parrot what is told to you about ID belies your own laziness and ignorance in understanding what it actually is. The state US education is grim indeed when it produces parrots like you.
It's more than that though. Of course it is inappropriate for professors to bully students who don't share their ideology but there are other steps one can take to deal with an instructor who has given you an unfair grade just because he/she doesn't like your POV. This group is offering a bounty, money, to pick out certain professors and put them on a blacklist. Why is it necessary to throw money into the problem? This is beyond inappropriate. McCarthyism doesn't have to start at the government level it starts when people are unable to tolerate anyone whose views are not in alignment with their own. Surely there are professors who demonstrate this and I am sure there is a process on campus to deal with it. If the problem is severe one can always sue the school but going on witch hunts is a bad idea.
Well I'm glad someone actually understands the difference!
That's not a joke you know! The RIAA actually does assasinate music lovers but the documents pertaining to this will remain sealed until 3006. . . . . ;)
I don't know how they came up with those numbers but from what I've seen iPod users are just as likely to download illegal files as anyone else. Not that I have an ax to grind against Apple, I don't, but I wonder who funded the survey.
Sadly, jammyman many communities out there are nothing but huge "dissing" crowds. /. just has much smarter ones.
I encountered this exact same problem myself when I used to used IE. After switching to Firefox, no it isn't a pancea but it is far better than IE. I just don't have the problems with it that I've had with the other browser.
I'm not so sure. It seems to me that each generation of children coming out of public schools are less educated than the previous. The best way to instill love of reading and learning in kids is to read to them from infancy. I don't see a lot of genX parents doing that, unfortunately.
That kid's lucky he's not dead. A lot of kids who do stupid shit like that end up dead, naked, dismembered and stuffed in garbage dumpsters.
Why should we be impressed that a couple of stupid celebs are promoting it anyway? Oh, I forgot. The masses are easily influenced by schlebs! Doh!
Most people simply enjoy owning movies that they really like instead of renting because ownership gives you more privileges and convemience when it comes to use. Why wait on Netflix when you can just go to your own dvd shelf? I love dvds anyway and I have no intention of giving them up even if dvds are suposedly "dead". Besides human sight and hearing is only so advanced. At some point all of of these upgrades and changes for better technology in viewing and hearing entertainment will become pointless when they've reached the threshold of human sight and hearing. Beyond that threshold, we won't be able to detect any real differences or improvements and buying new stuff will just be a big waste of money.
There are too many people that I know (myself included) who have iTunes along with music files in other formats as well. Refusing to allow this product to be compatible with such a popular format is ridiculous. If I have a thousand iTunes and they aren't compatible with Urge, that will urge me to ignore the product altogether! It's just another example of Microsoft shooting itself in both feet again.