You appear to be a member of the Colbert Report's key demographic: Young, stupid, and mildly retarded. (Hint: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert play characters named Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert respectively. Fiction. Not news. Not "insightful commentary". Not representative of their actual opinions. Not funny.)
It's clear that you don't watch either show. Jon Stewart doesn't really have a "character" at all. He peppers a lot of his own commentary into his reporting, and especially into his interviews. As for Colbert, it's clear that Stephen Colbert the person (and one who is running) holds wildly different views from Stephen Colbert the pundit. Or do you really believe that someone who holds Bill O'Reilly up on such a high pedestal would actually be a successful candidate?
It is kind of ironic that FEMA, the agency that is supposed to clean up disasters, actually turns every disaster it is involved in into a bigger disaster through it's absolute incompetence and piss poor public image.
No, it's not ironic and it's not incompetence. This is fully intentional. How else do you convince the populace that "government" doesn't work and that these jobs need to be privatized? You do it by showing them just how badly government doesn't work.
I find it hilarious that they put Sabotage on the list. Give the guitar part a good listen sometime--all it is is nonstop heavily distorted muted eighth notes (with a handful of unmuted hits in there). Nearly the entire "melody" is the bass.
Is this really the case in the US? I can undestand having a fear of a cavity search from the TSA boys, but an actual fear of being "gotten" somehow by actual terrorists? Seriously?
I work with a guy who fully supports all of these ridiculous actions the government has taken. He's stated several times "Anything they have to do to keep us safe is okay with me. That's what I pay my taxes for." He actually does believe (and fear) that "they" are trying to attack us on a daily basis, but are constantly being thwarted by the government. It's really sad...
I've heard it said before that there have been zero hardware bugs ever found in the original design for the Apple II. Of course, now that I've mentioned that, I'm sure you'll all give me a laundry list of Apple II bugs (note, the original Apple II, not the IIc, IIe, IIgs, etc)
Ooooh! The Department of Weather. I like the sound of that. Sounds very comic bookish. I just hope they give the guy in charge of it the nickname of "The Weatherman". That has supervillain written all over it.
A. Going to a website only to be told by the site itself that due to copyright laws in your country it won't allow you to see the page.
B. Trying to go to a website only to be told by your ISP that due to copyright law they won't let you go there.
I know I'd personally much prefer A, not to mention it's a much easier solution to implement. Think of how crowded the front page would be here with "OMG! Censorship!" stories if B were implemented.
There's one area where I can immediately see a benefit for Adobe in doing something like this--license compliance. By allowing each shop to set up an in-house appserver/webserver for their programs, they can ensure that only X number of licensed copies are run at a time. Benefit for Adobe - huge. Benefit for the shops - not so much.
My biggest questions: are there Windows programs that support these features via CalDAV, and is there a CalDAV server in FreeBSD's ports?
It looks like there are a handful of Windows apps that support CalDAV at this time. Since it's an open standard, it shouldn't be long before more calendar apps support it. As for the server, this is what I could find with a 10 second search. Looks promising, too.
And guess what. They'll have a CD available in the stores at about the same time as the $80 box set ships. The main issues are that they don't physically have the CDs at this point and they're trying to work out some sort of distribution deal in order to get the CDs into all the stores that are still out there.
If you can't wait until December, the version that Amazon rents via Unboxed is the theatrical version with voiceover (assuming you don't mind using Unboxed). I rented it for 99 cents a few weekends ago only to discover that I apparently had a 99 cent credit with Amazon.
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You appear to be a member of the Colbert Report's key demographic: Young, stupid, and mildly retarded. (Hint: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert play characters named Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert respectively. Fiction. Not news. Not "insightful commentary". Not representative of their actual opinions. Not funny.)
It's clear that you don't watch either show. Jon Stewart doesn't really have a "character" at all. He peppers a lot of his own commentary into his reporting, and especially into his interviews. As for Colbert, it's clear that Stephen Colbert the person (and one who is running) holds wildly different views from Stephen Colbert the pundit. Or do you really believe that someone who holds Bill O'Reilly up on such a high pedestal would actually be a successful candidate?
It is kind of ironic that FEMA, the agency that is supposed to clean up disasters, actually turns every disaster it is involved in into a bigger disaster through it's absolute incompetence and piss poor public image.
No, it's not ironic and it's not incompetence. This is fully intentional. How else do you convince the populace that "government" doesn't work and that these jobs need to be privatized? You do it by showing them just how badly government doesn't work.
I find it hilarious that they put Sabotage on the list. Give the guitar part a good listen sometime--all it is is nonstop heavily distorted muted eighth notes (with a handful of unmuted hits in there). Nearly the entire "melody" is the bass.
And here I was thinking the article was going to be about powering laptops with methane...
Is this really the case in the US? I can undestand having a fear of a cavity search from the TSA boys, but an actual fear of being "gotten" somehow by actual terrorists? Seriously?
I work with a guy who fully supports all of these ridiculous actions the government has taken. He's stated several times "Anything they have to do to keep us safe is okay with me. That's what I pay my taxes for." He actually does believe (and fear) that "they" are trying to attack us on a daily basis, but are constantly being thwarted by the government. It's really sad...
I can tell that you guys don't "get" a lot of jokes...
after all I would hazard a guess this is all about money, not copyright.
Considering copyright itself is about money, I would say you are correct.
No, I think he's got it right. I have a 3Mbps connection and I can pull in a GB in under an hour.
To my knowledge, Mel Gibson has never fellated a baboon, but I'm not clear on how espousing my ignorance contributes anything to thread.
Well, I know for a fact that he has, so any point that you were trying to make is nullified.
That is statute not statue.
Kramer: No, no. I think you're wrong.
And what exactly does your nice strawman argument have to do with taking care of your crap?
I've heard it said before that there have been zero hardware bugs ever found in the original design for the Apple II. Of course, now that I've mentioned that, I'm sure you'll all give me a laundry list of Apple II bugs (note, the original Apple II, not the IIc, IIe, IIgs, etc)
Ooooh! The Department of Weather. I like the sound of that. Sounds very comic bookish. I just hope they give the guy in charge of it the nickname of "The Weatherman". That has supervillain written all over it.
Which would you be more livid about?
A. Going to a website only to be told by the site itself that due to copyright laws in your country it won't allow you to see the page.
B. Trying to go to a website only to be told by your ISP that due to copyright law they won't let you go there.
I know I'd personally much prefer A, not to mention it's a much easier solution to implement. Think of how crowded the front page would be here with "OMG! Censorship!" stories if B were implemented.
I haven't found any software that takes longer to load than Adobe's.
You've obviously never used Quark.
There's one area where I can immediately see a benefit for Adobe in doing something like this--license compliance. By allowing each shop to set up an in-house appserver/webserver for their programs, they can ensure that only X number of licensed copies are run at a time. Benefit for Adobe - huge. Benefit for the shops - not so much.
Scarily enough, this is far from the first instance of a smart weapon 'turning' on its handlers.
I seem to recall seeing a documentary about this about 20 years ago. Ahh, here it is.
That's nice, but the Daily Show has been on for 11 years now.
My biggest questions: are there Windows programs that support these features via CalDAV, and is there a CalDAV server in FreeBSD's ports?
It looks like there are a handful of Windows apps that support CalDAV at this time. Since it's an open standard, it shouldn't be long before more calendar apps support it. As for the server, this is what I could find with a 10 second search. Looks promising, too.
And guess what. They'll have a CD available in the stores at about the same time as the $80 box set ships. The main issues are that they don't physically have the CDs at this point and they're trying to work out some sort of distribution deal in order to get the CDs into all the stores that are still out there.
Or perhaps a regular size lap and a Beowulf cluster of iPhones...
Now that would be an awesome utility belt...
Maybe you live somewhere with poor AT&T service?
Yes, we call that "America". : p
"We, along with Pogue, wish that..."
If you can't wait until December, the version that Amazon rents via Unboxed is the theatrical version with voiceover (assuming you don't mind using Unboxed). I rented it for 99 cents a few weekends ago only to discover that I apparently had a 99 cent credit with Amazon.
But too bad it won't contain this version...