It is MIT remember, it'll fit inside a matchbook and will have to be played with waldo arms but hey we did it. Wonder how many geek points they get for that one? Next challenge will be to make a Foosball table that will fit on the head of a pin and has to be played with a tunneling electron microscope.
Long time user of PCs but there's no comparing the two. You get spoiled fast on a Mac. After reading a large number of reviews about Vista by pro Windows people ironically I'm afraid to buy a new machine. I hate XP because it's always harrassing me. Now I'm reading from people that didn't find XP a hassle that Vista is really bad about the constant prompting? Sorry but that's a massive productivity killer. Also most things don't have drivers yet. Yes I know they'll come out eventually but not overnight. Software was keeping me using Windows but I started researching Mac alternatives again. Final Cut Pro got me to buy a Mac. I think I can switch 90% of my operation to Mac and just keep one machine running Win 2000 for the softwares I can't live without. If most people tried the current Macs they'd switch. For a six year development cycle Vista is a joke. Apple is making more improvements in a single year and they get easier to use not more of a hassle.
A little history lesson. Apple started out producing harware with their OS from day one. The primary reason is control. I've been using Microsoft OSs since the late 80s but up until lately they were a pain to configure and even now stability is dodgy because of all the hardware and software support. There's a price for everything. The Apple approach may seem more limiting but there are major benefits. Unlike PCs or Amigas they were never for tinkerers. You can do some minor upgrading but they largely come turnkey. If have a driving need to build your own go for it. Two of my three desktops I built but the Mac was turnkey. Gotta say it's been nice and I haven't had to do a thing to the OS except accept updates once a month. The PCs both require regular maintainence. They run more software but the Mac is more stable and simply works. I'm stuck with PCs due to software needs but if you want to talk pure fun to use it's a hands down win for the Mac.
Mark up and other expenses my boy. Why does a green salad cost $5 in a resturant when you can get a full head of lettuce for a $1? If you want to cut out all the middle men and fly to South East Asia to pick up your CD from the factory I'm sure you'd get an impressive discount. The problem is there's an army of people between you and the artist. When I used to work in the prop shop at Disney they paid us roughly 1/5 of what the time was billed for. Where'd the rest go? Overhead and paying for several administrators for everyone in the shop doing the actual work. I guess everyone can potentially find all their music on Myspace and Youtube. The problem is there's a few million people out there that think they are talented and only a handful are right. The system used to filter through those people and promote the handful with talent. Given the quality of music and films that system is broken and obviously most of the talent isn't getting found. I'm not for anarchy which seems to be the direction it's headed in. Personally I'd rather see the artists running the music companies and the rights to the music staying with the artists where it belongs. If that happened twenty years ago we'd have a very different industry but as it is it's probably too late.
This is more about "Russia" using pirated software than the teacher. The teacher is being made the scapegoat for the system. What he's really asking for is Microsoft to look the other way when Russia uses their unlicensed software to benefit the country. It's a sticky question and should be handled more from a marketing standpoint. The problem is just how big a market is Russia for legitimate copies of Microsoft software? If nearly all is pirated and the Russian government is using classrooms to promote it's use then it's benefitting Russia but not Microsoft should Microsoft stand by and let it happen? The teacher shouldn't be prosecuted no matter what because it's fairly obvious officials were aware he was using and I'm sure many are doing the same. The point ultimately is if Russia can't aford or is unwilling to pay for the software should they still have the rights to use it? Does it create an unfair advantage when they have workers learning to use software on pirate copies that will in turn work for a fraction of the cost of US and Europeon programmers? These type of practices put the west at a massive disadvantage. The company I work with wants to outsource our current joint venture to foreign programmers to save money. I'm against it but I got overruled. I'd rather see people paid properly for their work where ever they are but more and more companies will be taking advantage of cheap foreign programmers. Eventually to compete most will have no choice.
And why anyone would want a movie that was taped in a theater on a camcorder is beyond me. That sound wasn't the orcs coming from deep within the mountain, it was your feet sticking to the floor..
And the Hobbits sound like teenage girls and I didn't realize Middle Earth had cell phones.
there have only been 179 movies recorded with a camcorder over the past three years out of the 1,400 that the Hollywood studios released.
That technique is just one of the methods and is arguably the worst way to pirate. A lot of films get bootlegged during post production and often show up before the film is released in theaters. Waterworld showed up in Russia as this chaotic mix of dailies and some cut scenes, not that the final release was much better. The most popular way to pirate has to be ripped DVDs. My friends in distribution call them $20 masters. You buy one copy and use it as a master recording. I shot a couple of low budget films and my distributor told me he saw bootlegs selling for a $1 in Malaysia right next to 100 mill Hollywood films also selling for $1. There is no market in South East Asia for domestic films, they're all pirated and sold openly. I think you'll find there are pirates of every film made. Pirating is largely free and if they are reselling the pirates DVDs are cheap to burn.
Comforting to see it's not just the US. Here what is percieved as the majority have to watch every word but minority groups are largely allowed to say what they want so long as it's about the majority. There is some condemnation if they insult other minorities. Intolerance and hatred is pretty color blind and virtually all groups have issues. Offhand the only major religion that doesn't condemn anyone or anything is Buddism. Most factions have some issue with some one or some thing. Even most racial conflicts tend to be more ethnic or social than racial. In the US we even have a north south division that is a hold over from the civil war. It isn't spoken of very often but there's still tension. Intolerance should never be tolerated by any group and people need to take intent into account. I remember a fuss made about a town called Fish Kil. An animal rights group was demanding they change the name of the town to something fish friendly. When locals pointed out it meant Fish River in Gaelic the group wasn't impressed and still wanted it changed. Intent is everything and sometimes the insult is in the eye of the beholder.
It's not what they are doing with it today but what are they doing with the information tomorrow that is the concern. Also there is a little thing called innocent until proven guilty. Samples should be destroyed for those that aren't convicted. Since a large number of people may be arrested and never even charged yet will be part of a criminal database.
Eventually most people will be in the database whether they like it or not. Already anyone in the military has DNA recorded. Some government jobs as well. Eventually all government jobs may require samples. A significant portion of the population either serves in the military or works for the government at some point. Most people could find themselves in the database without any formal program to record everyone.
I'm a 100% for collecting DNA on criminals, especially sex offenders, it's a worry to me though what will eventually be done with the information. How long before your DNA is public record and insurance companies and employers have access to it? Drug testing is already required by a large number of employers. Will DNA testing be required? The more commonplace it gets the more people will be inclined to accept it without realizing the darker side. We should all be afraid of being judged on our DNA. You might as well be judged based on race. Having the tendancy for a disease doesn't mean you'll contract it. Having the predisposition for a mental disease doesn't mean you have it.
How long it'll be before large numbers of businesses paint advertisments on their roofs and parking lots? The more people use the service the more the planet is likely to start looking like one large web page. It's already happening in a small way but I'm guessing there'll be an explosion of businesses taking advantage of the free advertizing. Then does Google demand they pay up or get blurred?
Actually he was denied on the basis of prior art. The Phantom of the Opera predates his claim and Lon Chaney never copyrighted it so his new style of nose falls under public domain. Same holds true if he decides to add a hump.
Diamond is the best conductor of heat known. Given it's crystlian structure I wonder what it's thermal properites are or even it's electrical conductivity? Even if it's expensive it could be useful in applications like computer chips.
"Oopsy, my bad. I just don't know how that could have happened since our Zune player works perfectly. I'm sure we can get the issue resolved by service pack 4."
Computers are paperweights without apps that's obvious but more apps run on Linux than ever before, especially pro level. The real reason Linux can't be a serious contender is it's a hassle to install and maintain. I was excited about the potential of Linux ten years ago and at the time most of graphics companies would eventually switch. I have yet to for one simple reason. Inspite of a number of attempts with a variety of flavors of Linux I've never once got it running properly on a single machine. I can't even get Ubuntu Live to run on any of my hardware. Everytime it's something different but most often it's video drivers even when they claim there are drivers included. Gee I didn't ry hard enough. Well let's put it this way I've installed Windows OSs back to DOS 2.5 through XP Pro and generally the worst thing that I've had to do is install video drivers from within the Windows shell. Mac upgrading a chimp can do. Until the average user can at least install and use a version of Linux on 90% of the machines built within the last five years it'll never have a significant market share. With an hours time and a few mouse clicks I can install a modern Windows OS. There's a local company that is selling Linux machines. They have a maintainence program where you pay "X" amount a month and they give you tech support and a machine. Well 2/3 of the price is tech support. For what they are charging I can buy a top of the line Boxx system where as they are selling middle of the road hardware. Their only selling point is the tech support because you'll need it. Mac is by far the easiest to deal with but of the big three Linux is dead last for ease of install and maintainence. If linux wants to be a serious competitor make it as easy to use as a Mac. I really need the stability but not the headaches. Instead of saying why won't everyone switch why not make it what everyone wants and needs? If it was easy to install and maintain people would use it more. If more people used it the apps would migrate. If it gained 5% of the market share there would be plenty of apps availible. If it hit 10% market share most software would support it. Rediculous to hit 10%? Why isn't it given it's either given away or dirt cheap? You can't always blame the end user. If the product isn't what they need it isn't their fault. I've seen insanely powerful graphics software that were just too big a hassle to use so I never used them. Linux needs a serious shake up. Ten years ago it was in a great position to become the number two OS and a real threat to Windows but it never happened. Pro companies that could aford to hire experts use it and geeks but most people that buy those dirt cheap Lindows boxes the first thing they do is install windows on it. There are reasons folks and until those issues get addressed Linux will always be number three.
Viacom owns the material and they can do what they want with it. Youtube didn't pay to produce it so they have no right to benefit financially from it. They may not charge to watch the videos but they use them to create value for the company. Viacom may actually want to leave the clips on Youtube but I'm guessing their lawyers advised that it sets a dangerous president. If they allow the clips they may loose control of the shows themselves. In some ways this is up to the court system and where they draw the line. Viacom can provide them with clips but it gets dicey when some one other than Viacom posts the clips without Viacom's permission. Whoever puts the money into producing the material should control it. If you make something it belongs to you unless you give or sell the rights to some one else. That isn't copyright that's been true for roughly twelve thousands years or more.
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It is MIT remember, it'll fit inside a matchbook and will have to be played with waldo arms but hey we did it. Wonder how many geek points they get for that one? Next challenge will be to make a Foosball table that will fit on the head of a pin and has to be played with a tunneling electron microscope.
Changing the name to SpamMail probably would have been a bad idea.
Long time user of PCs but there's no comparing the two. You get spoiled fast on a Mac. After reading a large number of reviews about Vista by pro Windows people ironically I'm afraid to buy a new machine. I hate XP because it's always harrassing me. Now I'm reading from people that didn't find XP a hassle that Vista is really bad about the constant prompting? Sorry but that's a massive productivity killer. Also most things don't have drivers yet. Yes I know they'll come out eventually but not overnight. Software was keeping me using Windows but I started researching Mac alternatives again. Final Cut Pro got me to buy a Mac. I think I can switch 90% of my operation to Mac and just keep one machine running Win 2000 for the softwares I can't live without. If most people tried the current Macs they'd switch. For a six year development cycle Vista is a joke. Apple is making more improvements in a single year and they get easier to use not more of a hassle.
I'm not ready for Vista.
The other side effect of the surgery was due to the tightly stretched skin she can't close her eyes when she's sitting down.
A little history lesson. Apple started out producing harware with their OS from day one. The primary reason is control. I've been using Microsoft OSs since the late 80s but up until lately they were a pain to configure and even now stability is dodgy because of all the hardware and software support. There's a price for everything. The Apple approach may seem more limiting but there are major benefits. Unlike PCs or Amigas they were never for tinkerers. You can do some minor upgrading but they largely come turnkey. If have a driving need to build your own go for it. Two of my three desktops I built but the Mac was turnkey. Gotta say it's been nice and I haven't had to do a thing to the OS except accept updates once a month. The PCs both require regular maintainence. They run more software but the Mac is more stable and simply works. I'm stuck with PCs due to software needs but if you want to talk pure fun to use it's a hands down win for the Mac.
That's White Trash Power and Electric. It's easy to get confused.
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Mark up and other expenses my boy. Why does a green salad cost $5 in a resturant when you can get a full head of lettuce for a $1? If you want to cut out all the middle men and fly to South East Asia to pick up your CD from the factory I'm sure you'd get an impressive discount. The problem is there's an army of people between you and the artist. When I used to work in the prop shop at Disney they paid us roughly 1/5 of what the time was billed for. Where'd the rest go? Overhead and paying for several administrators for everyone in the shop doing the actual work. I guess everyone can potentially find all their music on Myspace and Youtube. The problem is there's a few million people out there that think they are talented and only a handful are right. The system used to filter through those people and promote the handful with talent. Given the quality of music and films that system is broken and obviously most of the talent isn't getting found. I'm not for anarchy which seems to be the direction it's headed in. Personally I'd rather see the artists running the music companies and the rights to the music staying with the artists where it belongs. If that happened twenty years ago we'd have a very different industry but as it is it's probably too late.
why am I supposed to upgrade to Vista?
the don't look at me defense. A classic to be sure.
Four Canadians in a pick up with a case of beer isn't an invasion, in the US we call it a tailgate party.
English pigdogs, we already got a computer. It's very nice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfNfDiqAF9Q
This is more about "Russia" using pirated software than the teacher. The teacher is being made the scapegoat for the system. What he's really asking for is Microsoft to look the other way when Russia uses their unlicensed software to benefit the country. It's a sticky question and should be handled more from a marketing standpoint. The problem is just how big a market is Russia for legitimate copies of Microsoft software? If nearly all is pirated and the Russian government is using classrooms to promote it's use then it's benefitting Russia but not Microsoft should Microsoft stand by and let it happen? The teacher shouldn't be prosecuted no matter what because it's fairly obvious officials were aware he was using and I'm sure many are doing the same. The point ultimately is if Russia can't aford or is unwilling to pay for the software should they still have the rights to use it? Does it create an unfair advantage when they have workers learning to use software on pirate copies that will in turn work for a fraction of the cost of US and Europeon programmers? These type of practices put the west at a massive disadvantage. The company I work with wants to outsource our current joint venture to foreign programmers to save money. I'm against it but I got overruled. I'd rather see people paid properly for their work where ever they are but more and more companies will be taking advantage of cheap foreign programmers. Eventually to compete most will have no choice.
And the Hobbits sound like teenage girls and I didn't realize Middle Earth had cell phones.
That technique is just one of the methods and is arguably the worst way to pirate. A lot of films get bootlegged during post production and often show up before the film is released in theaters. Waterworld showed up in Russia as this chaotic mix of dailies and some cut scenes, not that the final release was much better. The most popular way to pirate has to be ripped DVDs. My friends in distribution call them $20 masters. You buy one copy and use it as a master recording. I shot a couple of low budget films and my distributor told me he saw bootlegs selling for a $1 in Malaysia right next to 100 mill Hollywood films also selling for $1. There is no market in South East Asia for domestic films, they're all pirated and sold openly. I think you'll find there are pirates of every film made. Pirating is largely free and if they are reselling the pirates DVDs are cheap to burn.
Comforting to see it's not just the US. Here what is percieved as the majority have to watch every word but minority groups are largely allowed to say what they want so long as it's about the majority. There is some condemnation if they insult other minorities. Intolerance and hatred is pretty color blind and virtually all groups have issues. Offhand the only major religion that doesn't condemn anyone or anything is Buddism. Most factions have some issue with some one or some thing. Even most racial conflicts tend to be more ethnic or social than racial. In the US we even have a north south division that is a hold over from the civil war. It isn't spoken of very often but there's still tension. Intolerance should never be tolerated by any group and people need to take intent into account. I remember a fuss made about a town called Fish Kil. An animal rights group was demanding they change the name of the town to something fish friendly. When locals pointed out it meant Fish River in Gaelic the group wasn't impressed and still wanted it changed. Intent is everything and sometimes the insult is in the eye of the beholder.
Eventually most people will be in the database whether they like it or not. Already anyone in the military has DNA recorded. Some government jobs as well. Eventually all government jobs may require samples. A significant portion of the population either serves in the military or works for the government at some point. Most people could find themselves in the database without any formal program to record everyone.
I'm a 100% for collecting DNA on criminals, especially sex offenders, it's a worry to me though what will eventually be done with the information. How long before your DNA is public record and insurance companies and employers have access to it? Drug testing is already required by a large number of employers. Will DNA testing be required? The more commonplace it gets the more people will be inclined to accept it without realizing the darker side. We should all be afraid of being judged on our DNA. You might as well be judged based on race. Having the tendancy for a disease doesn't mean you'll contract it. Having the predisposition for a mental disease doesn't mean you have it.
How long it'll be before large numbers of businesses paint advertisments on their roofs and parking lots? The more people use the service the more the planet is likely to start looking like one large web page. It's already happening in a small way but I'm guessing there'll be an explosion of businesses taking advantage of the free advertizing. Then does Google demand they pay up or get blurred?
Actually he was denied on the basis of prior art. The Phantom of the Opera predates his claim and Lon Chaney never copyrighted it so his new style of nose falls under public domain. Same holds true if he decides to add a hump.
Diamond is the best conductor of heat known. Given it's crystlian structure I wonder what it's thermal properites are or even it's electrical conductivity? Even if it's expensive it could be useful in applications like computer chips.
Another law explains it, Entropy.
"Oopsy, my bad. I just don't know how that could have happened since our Zune player works perfectly. I'm sure we can get the issue resolved by service pack 4."
Computers are paperweights without apps that's obvious but more apps run on Linux than ever before, especially pro level. The real reason Linux can't be a serious contender is it's a hassle to install and maintain. I was excited about the potential of Linux ten years ago and at the time most of graphics companies would eventually switch. I have yet to for one simple reason. Inspite of a number of attempts with a variety of flavors of Linux I've never once got it running properly on a single machine. I can't even get Ubuntu Live to run on any of my hardware. Everytime it's something different but most often it's video drivers even when they claim there are drivers included. Gee I didn't ry hard enough. Well let's put it this way I've installed Windows OSs back to DOS 2.5 through XP Pro and generally the worst thing that I've had to do is install video drivers from within the Windows shell. Mac upgrading a chimp can do. Until the average user can at least install and use a version of Linux on 90% of the machines built within the last five years it'll never have a significant market share. With an hours time and a few mouse clicks I can install a modern Windows OS. There's a local company that is selling Linux machines. They have a maintainence program where you pay "X" amount a month and they give you tech support and a machine. Well 2/3 of the price is tech support. For what they are charging I can buy a top of the line Boxx system where as they are selling middle of the road hardware. Their only selling point is the tech support because you'll need it. Mac is by far the easiest to deal with but of the big three Linux is dead last for ease of install and maintainence. If linux wants to be a serious competitor make it as easy to use as a Mac. I really need the stability but not the headaches. Instead of saying why won't everyone switch why not make it what everyone wants and needs? If it was easy to install and maintain people would use it more. If more people used it the apps would migrate. If it gained 5% of the market share there would be plenty of apps availible. If it hit 10% market share most software would support it. Rediculous to hit 10%? Why isn't it given it's either given away or dirt cheap? You can't always blame the end user. If the product isn't what they need it isn't their fault. I've seen insanely powerful graphics software that were just too big a hassle to use so I never used them. Linux needs a serious shake up. Ten years ago it was in a great position to become the number two OS and a real threat to Windows but it never happened. Pro companies that could aford to hire experts use it and geeks but most people that buy those dirt cheap Lindows boxes the first thing they do is install windows on it. There are reasons folks and until those issues get addressed Linux will always be number three.
Viacom owns the material and they can do what they want with it. Youtube didn't pay to produce it so they have no right to benefit financially from it. They may not charge to watch the videos but they use them to create value for the company. Viacom may actually want to leave the clips on Youtube but I'm guessing their lawyers advised that it sets a dangerous president. If they allow the clips they may loose control of the shows themselves. In some ways this is up to the court system and where they draw the line. Viacom can provide them with clips but it gets dicey when some one other than Viacom posts the clips without Viacom's permission. Whoever puts the money into producing the material should control it. If you make something it belongs to you unless you give or sell the rights to some one else. That isn't copyright that's been true for roughly twelve thousands years or more.