The real problem with nuclear energy is not the reactors (the middle bit)), but the mining (the first bit) of the uranium and the disposal (the end bit) of the waste.
I can imagine a solution to clean up the former (although this would make nuclear fuel even more expensive), but I haven't yet seen a (proven) solution for the latter*
Until we're there, nuclear just doesn't seem as viable as coal (sad tho' that may be).
The search for a better solution to our energy need continues. (be it sequestration for coal, waste disposal for nuke, higher efficiency for wind, cleaner materials & higher efficiency for solar, better storage techniques for all the above). There is no silver bullet.
* Not to mention the fact that we won't allow some countries to develop nuclear energy, so its an energy solution that's not even on the table for many parts of the world.
... diversity good. Even it it's a 'non-evil' monoculture.
Two points.
1) Plenty of (software) diversity here (more than most places) - students can choose osx or windows (pity there's no linux)
2) Google is the 'do no evil' company (hah!). Apple sues its customers, pushes DRM, etc etc. They just make better products than MS, so we don't care as much about their evilness.
The price of a store-bought copy of windows is several times the royalty paid for an oem windows install. So it's a net win for microsoft
Um, unless they just use the XP licenses they already have?
Anyway, MS licensing works differently if you're a 2000+ seat university compared to some lone windows fanboy running vista ultimate.... I don't think this is going to be a gain for MS at all.
That's not a mature product designed for end users, despite how (othere wise) nice Ubuntu is.
Uh? One bug for one particular hardware type in a beta release and it's 'not designed for end users'?
Jeepers! I guess vista isn't a mature product designed for end users - it's beta had bugs. I guess osx isn't a mature product designed for end users either - it's beta had bugs.
decided to try Ubuntu (my first unix experience) two days ago. I spent two days trying to get it to use a proper aspect ratio for my main monitor and to use my second monitor as anything but a clone of the first monitor.
I'm presuming you have an ATI or nvidia card. I've come across this bug on my laptop also. I'm not sure what the linux community can do about software they have absolutely no control over.
I know this advice is too late now, but next time you make a hardware purchasing decision, I suggest investing your money in video hardware from a company that supports linux instead of a company that provides buggy, incomplete closed source drivers.
Then what if some sneaky ISP (*cough*ATT*cough*Verzion*cough*) just "accidentaly" starts putting pr0n bits in the headers of any pro-Republican(or pro-Democrat, pro-free thought, etc.) site?
Agreed.
If only the writers of the tcp/ip rfc had had as much forsight as you when they were including the porn bit in the headers.
For f***s sake, can you stop that idiocy about "digital music market"? 95 percent of the "digital music market" is still CDs. What you mean is "downloadable music market". Just because there are plenty of brainless idiots in the press who can't think doesn't mean you have to repeat that nonsense.
Good point. You're quite right. (Erg, I fell for a buzzword).
Don't know if downloadable music market is the best term tho'.
Maybe you should look in another category like biological thriller; The Hot Zone is widely regarded to be very accurate.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
While the hot zone is reasonably accurate (its wikipedia page says it's regarded as dramatised non fiction), the particular category "bio thriller" is not.
I offer you Jurassic Park as a counter example of the bio thriller genre (and frankly, bio thriller is a subgenre of scifi).
Neither I nor anyone else outside of the highest echelons at Apple can say for sure,
Agreed completely. Nice to see someone who admits instead of just spouting their (or pundits') opinions. (I include myself in that).
but I suspect that Apple has agreements in place with the major labels to the effect that all music sold through the iTMS will have the same DRM, regardless of where it comes from.
Again agreed (along with the rest of your comment for the most part).
BUT, if that is the case, Apple has to say something.
They can't let the situation stay like this - with Jobs accusing the 'labels' of not allowing DRM free music, while acting as a label mandating DRM themselves.
2) Apple's supposed monopoly is in the digital music market, not the portable music player market.
That is not what the GP stated. The poster stated "Apple who has a monopoly today on portable music players."
Fair enough, I was too hasty - you were right to correct the GP.
Everything I stated is factually correct and I didn't imply in anyway that a monopoly is 100% of a market.
But you said
How does Apple have a monopoly when I can walk into a Wal-Mart or Target and on the shelves right next to the iPods I see other portable music players with more features and lower prices?
Right there, you show that you believe that a company does not have a monopoly in one market because of the existance of competitors.
That sure as hell is an implication that you believe a monopoly must constitue 100%.
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The real problem with nuclear energy is not the reactors (the middle bit)), but the mining (the first bit) of the uranium and the disposal (the end bit) of the waste.
I can imagine a solution to clean up the former (although this would make nuclear fuel even more expensive), but I haven't yet seen a (proven) solution for the latter*
Until we're there, nuclear just doesn't seem as viable as coal (sad tho' that may be).
The search for a better solution to our energy need continues. (be it sequestration for coal, waste disposal for nuke, higher efficiency for wind, cleaner materials & higher efficiency for solar, better storage techniques for all the above). There is no silver bullet.
* Not to mention the fact that we won't allow some countries to develop nuclear energy, so its an energy solution that's not even on the table for many parts of the world.
"I'm presuming you are trying to use AC or DC electricity with your linux computer.
/. analogies.
Your analogy breaks down even quicker than most
AC & DC are all you have.
nvidia & ati are not. There's intel & unichrome chipsets out there. Not great for gaming, but neither's linux.
I stand corrected.
:-)
Thanks for backing up the point of my post tho'
Feisty isn't remotely close to being released, it's undergoing testing.
... diversity good.
Even it it's a 'non-evil' monoculture.
Two points.
1) Plenty of (software) diversity here (more than most places) - students can choose osx or windows (pity there's no linux)
2) Google is the 'do no evil' company (hah!). Apple sues its customers, pushes DRM, etc etc. They just make better products than MS, so we don't care as much about their evilness.
The price of a store-bought copy of windows is several times the royalty paid for an oem windows install. So it's a net win for microsoft
Um, unless they just use the XP licenses they already have?
Anyway, MS licensing works differently if you're a 2000+ seat university compared to some lone windows fanboy running vista ultimate.... I don't think this is going to be a gain for MS at all.
That's not a mature product designed for end users, despite how (othere wise) nice Ubuntu is.
Uh? One bug for one particular hardware type in a beta release and it's 'not designed for end users'?
Jeepers! I guess vista isn't a mature product designed for end users - it's beta had bugs. I guess osx isn't a mature product designed for end users either - it's beta had bugs.
I may be a Mac fanboy, but I don't see how fewer computers can be a benefit for students.
RTFA.
The classes used to have (all number pulled from my ass) 15 windows PCs & 15 Mac PCs. In a class of 20, 10 would go unused.
Now, they'll have 20 PCs capable of running OS X or Windows. All students still have access to a PC.
The university is not dumping windows at all.
They're dumping generic PCs in favour of mac PCs. They'll still purchase windows licenses & allow dual booting.
It's a hardware story, not a software story.
Hmmmmn, its anecdotes such as this one that make me wonder if windows will ever be ready for the desktop.
decided to try Ubuntu (my first unix experience) two days ago. I spent two days trying to get it to use a proper aspect ratio for my main monitor and to use my second monitor as anything but a clone of the first monitor.
I'm presuming you have an ATI or nvidia card. I've come across this bug on my laptop also. I'm not sure what the linux community can do about software they have absolutely no control over.
I know this advice is too late now, but next time you make a hardware purchasing decision, I suggest investing your money in video hardware from a company that supports linux instead of a company that provides buggy, incomplete closed source drivers.
What about the thin MS patents?
Inquiring mind demand to know!
Then what if some sneaky ISP (*cough*ATT*cough*Verzion*cough*) just "accidentaly" starts putting pr0n bits in the headers of any pro-Republican(or pro-Democrat, pro-free thought, etc.) site?
Agreed.
If only the writers of the tcp/ip rfc had had as much forsight as you when they were including the porn bit in the headers.
No matter what you do, you're not going to be able segregate the pr0n from other content.
Pah! All you have to do is see if the 'porn' bit is set in the headers.
All they have to do is erase the logs every day or just not keep them. It doesn't "take an effort". Anonymous proxies have been doing this for years.
I know where you're coming from, but that would kinda fuck with their targetting advertising business model dontcha think?
Is this another Apple viral marketing campaign?
"Clouded Leopard" sounds more like Vista if you ask me. Same as a OS X Leopard, but cloudier!
The way the post hyped it up, I was expecting something actually exciting.
WTF? The post even says "Nothing revolutionary in this release".
If that's hype, you must suffer from spontaneous ejeculation at a repubrocrats/demican rally.
So, essentially by endorsing DRM, Apple is propping up the major labels & their artists.
Well, we're pretty much in agreement I guess.
For f***s sake, can you stop that idiocy about "digital music market"? 95 percent of the "digital music market" is still CDs. What you mean is "downloadable music market". Just because there are plenty of brainless idiots in the press who can't think doesn't mean you have to repeat that nonsense.
Good point. You're quite right. (Erg, I fell for a buzzword).
Don't know if downloadable music market is the best term tho'.
TIVO owner: Hold on guys, while I play this show I recorded on my tivo.
TIVO: Sorry, I've deleted that show because a local company 'accidentally' set the macrovision copy protection flag on the broadcast.
There are some pragmatic benefits to using free software to store/watch/stream/listen to/etc your media.
(and its not as hard as you make out)
Maybe you should look in another category like biological thriller; The Hot Zone is widely regarded to be very accurate.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
While the hot zone is reasonably accurate (its wikipedia page says it's regarded as dramatised non fiction), the particular category "bio thriller" is not.
I offer you Jurassic Park as a counter example of the bio thriller genre (and frankly, bio thriller is a subgenre of scifi).
Neither I nor anyone else outside of the highest echelons at Apple can say for sure,
Agreed completely. Nice to see someone who admits instead of just spouting their (or pundits') opinions. (I include myself in that).
but I suspect that Apple has agreements in place with the major labels to the effect that all music sold through the iTMS will have the same DRM, regardless of where it comes from.
Again agreed (along with the rest of your comment for the most part).
BUT, if that is the case, Apple has to say something.
They can't let the situation stay like this - with Jobs accusing the 'labels' of not allowing DRM free music, while acting as a label mandating DRM themselves.
That is not what the GP stated. The poster stated "Apple who has a monopoly today on portable music players."
Fair enough, I was too hasty - you were right to correct the GP.
Everything I stated is factually correct and I didn't imply in anyway that a monopoly is 100% of a market.
But you saidRight there, you show that you believe that a company does not have a monopoly in one market because of the existance of competitors.
That sure as hell is an implication that you believe a monopoly must constitue 100%.
GP: MS for behavior that might someday lead to a monopoly in server OS's
Parent: How does Apple have a monopoly when I can walk into a Wal-Mart or Target and on the shelves right next to the iPods
1) The parent specifically mentioned server OS's (where MS has multiple competitors in the market), other mp3 players don't count.
2) Apple's supposed monopoly is in the digital music market, not the portable music player market.
3) You don't understand what a monopoly is do you? Hint: It doesn't mean you have 100% of a market.
Maybe he is under a contractual obligation not to comment (or at least limit his comments) on his contractual obligations?
*rolls eyes*
Maybe every time he's about to release press statement, he sees a really cute, fluffy kitten and so overcome by the cuteness, forgets all about it!