I was there last week and it is a pretty cool exhibit -although the rest of the museum is pretty kids oriented. That enigma machine looks a little smaller and lighter than the one on eBay. The whole story of saving the sub from scrap and moving it from the Bahamas to Chicago is an interesting one too.
the sailors captured were held incommunicado in violation of Red Cross and international law because the US did not want the Nazis to know that we might have an enigma machine. Probably justifiable at the time, but one of those slippery slope-type situations like Lincoln jailing journalists under the sedition act....like Gitmo...
With the flexibility afforded by virtualization who wouldn't want big iron to pump out the megabytes? You can run dozens or hundreds of webservers or databases on a single mainframe with virtualization.
What is better equipped to handle iSCSI and fibre channel storage data that the massive crossbar-IO throughput capabilities of the mainframe.
Blade servers are to mainframes as a pack of mice are to an elephant.
When those who enforce the law are above it we are on the road to becoming a fascist oligarchy -if we aren't already.
Of course we have an executive branch which has put itself above the law in the name of terrorism and freedumb(sic)....
and a legislature which does not have the will to fix our healthcare crisis because they have their own healthcare system which isolates them from the f'd up system the rest of us are dealing with.....
There must be literally HUNDREDS of cases since Rodney King in which cops (especially LA cops) have been caught doing bad, abusive and unconstitutional things to perps -er citizens.
There should be no right of public officials to privacy while they conduct the tasks that they are allegedly performing on our behalf.
Cameras and things like open government sessions are about the accountability which is becoming rarer in this society.
Ever since going to Italy last summer I have found myself unable to drink regular filter coffee -and the 'gourmet' free by the cup stuff at work tastes insipid.
We stayed a week outside Sienna, so in the course of shopping at the local Hypermart we discovered Illy coffee and I have never looked back.....
Too bad it's about 12$ for 8oz, but nothing tastes quite as good.
Alternatives are: pre-ground Medaglio D'oro from Safeway
AND French Roast whole beans from FRYs!!! for 6$ a pound -can't beat the price!
What would amaze me would be if Gates or Ballmer or anyone at the VP level or above at Microsoft would show this personal level of support escalation enagagement.
But NO -they foist it all off on the OEM unless you have purchased and installed Windows yourself. And if you have bought Office or some other product you have to purchase 'support incidents' before they will even talk to -otherwise you can find your own way amongst the Knowledgebase articles and crappy search.
Activation Key issues in particular come to mind here.
Jobs' actions shows that he at least can admit that there are times when the support process breaks down or is ineffective.....
Microsoft's reaction is to generally blame the user -of course that's often the OSS response too unfortunately
I also thought he hadn't progressed much over the years until I saw him at last year's Neil Young Bridge School Benefit at Shoreline.
Mr 'techno' reznor had the guts to play not only acoustically, but also did it without a DRUMMER.
Nothing but Acoustic piano and a string section that made a lot of noisy pendericki-type sounds.
He said he was scared sh*tless, and didn't know if he would do it again, but he took the effort to make new arrangements of some of his newer songs and go outside his comfort zone and challenge himself and show his audience and others a different sound.
Contrast this to NIN opening for Bowie's 'Outside' tour at the Portland Rose Garden where I had to walk outside halfway through their set because I felt like I was being hit over the head repeatedly by a hammer.....
>>file compression is pretty much only used for large downloads
not entirely correct -compression is also used to reduce bandwidth/maximize data in streaming data applications such as financial market trade data.
The company I work for is switching backend feeds, and although the new feed is 'richer' we need to have it compressed so that clients who have been using dedicated 512kbps circuits will not have to upgrade to fractional T-3 circuits at great expense.
So we are compressing on the fly at the server end and decompressing at the client side -which except for a slight delay is transparent to the customers.
We were going to use PKzip, but the license was too dear, so we settled for gzip
I have had 2 Maxtor external firewire drives die on me -the second containing several years of Digital recordings of various bands I was in.
It started having trouble copying large files and would sometimes 'dissappear' from the desktop or fail to mount and finally, even though the access lights would come on and the drive would spin up, nothing.....
That one was an ATA drive in a firewire enclosure and in preparation to sending it somewhere to have disk recovery performed on it I decided to connect it directly to the IDE bus -lo and behold, I was able to mount the drive and I immediately pulled everything off of it and will never use that drive again. It did show signs of trouble even with the direct connect, so I counted my blessings that I was able to recover years of work.
I will probably stick another drive in that enclosure just to see if the firewire is also broken, but while researching this I discovered that despite the firewire interface the throughput of this external enclosure was significantly lower than that of the bare 7200 rpm drive.
this tells me that Maxtor have a cheap crappy interface, since even Firewire 400 when well-implemented should be able to keep up with an ATA130 (or whatever) hard drive.
Actually, Rome has been in a constant state of urban renewal for thousands of years -many buildinngs that would probably be considered architecturally and historically important were torn down and recycled
the coliseum like many other buildings that were no longer in use (abandoned temples etc) provided building materials for new churches and other buldings.
there's a pretty good book about michaelangelo and the sistine chapel which gives a good account of the terrible condition that many of Rome's buildings were in at that time -many of the buildings were just allowed to fall apart because they were considered to have been profane, etc and due to lack of civic government, etc
It also has a good mixture of history and politics of the time as well as the technologies used to paint the symbol and how frescoes are made (way different than regular painting by the way, due to the fact that the color is applied to moist plaster)
Amen -I did about a dozen group projects when I went to the local JC in the mid-90's to rev my tech skills and get an AA to offset the fact that I f*cked around in the late 70s and never graduated Uni.
In 90% of those projects I ended up doing 90% of the work myself for various reasons including:
1. clueless and/or unmotivated -doing specs for mythical IT upgrade projects and I could barely get people to look up equipment prices on the web for gawdsake. Many of these kids were straight out of highschool and hadn't learned how to do any work on their own, and at the height of the.com boom they were probably expecting to go from a few tech classes to $100k a year (that's what I actually did, but I worked hard and took a LOT of classes)
2. poor communication/social skills -some group members had weak communication skills -either due to non-native English speaker or lack of education. Many of these people did not want to speak up or contribute because they were shy or embarrased. Unless they could overcome this it would also hamper them in the workplace world.
The most ironic of these was in the intercultural communications class -a requirement for 4 year transfer which was almost all immigrants and teenagers. Against my will I was made the group leader for exactly the wrong reasons -particularly for this class -I was the older (40s) white male authority figure!!! Talk about un-PC.... But they all said they were too shy and not good enough speakers.
One of the worst experiences was in a Data Structures class where we broke into groups and gave group presentations -I didn't know the subject very well (leaf-node trees or something) but they made me the leader and then gave me almost nothing to present! The teacher could see that I was getting no help from my group, so even though I sucked I still got a B while the rest of the group got Ds.
The most positive collaboration was in a 4th level tech writing class where we had to create a newsletter. Although I got stuck as the editor and had to write 60% of the content I still got one article from each of the other participants. Since everyone in this class was at the end of a 2 year program they were pretty dedicated and older, more experienced students who had also worked in the 'real world'. The fact that they had also learned how to write and communicate also helped......
We also learned about personality types in groups in that class -the cheerleader, the naysayer, etc -which has been very useful since.
We can TRUST a VC investor who is anxious to pump and dump this chump company which is another corporate attempt to subvert yet another populist grassroots form of expression into more astroturf for hungry advertisers seeking 'penetration' and to bypass traditional avenues.
Next thing you know we won't even be able to play our home videos or our home recorded songs on our own Computers!!! -Oh wait...I think Vista/Zune does that.
Coming soon -Soylent Green -made by people for people, out of people. How does it taste? It varies from person to person.....
Much to Disney and other large media companies that are trying to 'direct' popular culture chagrin it seems that as kids mature and become more cycnical that it is not possible to keep them on the paths of consumption or viewership that they would prefer.
Disney has a lock on the under 10 crowd thanks to 'Little Mermaid on Ice' and direct to video releases of ToyStory 3, etc which the parents all lap up, and which are cross-marketed with Burger King, McDonald's etc. but it seems like that market becomes totally lost to them when the kids become 'tweeners'. They're more likely to go from Winnie the Pooh to Adult Swim or anime than to 'that's so raven' or Kim Possible.
At that point it's all about rejecting the safe fuzzy confines of childhood and trying out things that will scare the tweener's parents and in defining oneself in relation to one's peers. Corporate mass marketing mostly fails to identify or embrace these things and the kids then slip through their fingers. This has helped over the years to spawn the skatepunk Van's culture as well as indie rock and the facebook/youtube/myspace movements.
Youth culture is often wrapped in rebellion, and although it may be co-opted a million times there will always be a recognition of this and a re-rebellion.
OF course the kids may come back to the magic kingdom for gay days when they reach adulthood, or take Magic Kingdom cruises or live in DisneyWorld's gated communities much later, but at this time Nickleodeon too smacks of corporate pandering (Duh, Viacom) and is surely also rejected by the 'cool' kids.
One new and frustrating feature of Vista is that apparently regular users and Explorer are not allowed to overwrite files in x386Program Files (yeah I'm one of those masochists trying out Vista/64)
I tried to download a new ini file from my webmail in order to test an application and Vista said: 'you can't do that -would you like to download the file to your root directory instead?' SO I had to download it to there and then drag it to my application folder in x386Program Files. Once I did it that way I then got the familiar and tiresome Allow or Deny? popup accompanied by the greying out of the desktop to tell me something BAD is about to happen.
I didn't try it in Firefox -maybe it would have worked with it, but I kind of doubt it. I guess there is some security benefit to preventing direct downloads into Program Files in case of trojans and other malware, but I don't understand why they had to escalate the security measures for this action instead of just giving the familiar allow/deny menu item.
Just post your IP addresses and remote access logons and I'll be glad to help with your break-in!
I promise I'll take the data and put it somewhere safe -and offshore
No payment up front, but trust me -I will be getting back to you.
-I'm just sayin'
Unfortunately from what I can find online and from a recent Economist article is seem that the Teacher's Unions are one of the bigger obstacles to educational reform.
Tenure keeps the bad teachers around and low pay, etc keep the idealists whi could make a difference from sticking with it. Any plans which would involve a premium on new teachers with specialized skills will be rejected by this group as it does not reward its current membership and goes against the rigid hierarchy promoted by the tenure system which is not based on ability, talent or dedication.
Usually you will be forced to download WGA before you can get to other updates -and your new install of Windows XP or Vista will stop booting after about 45-60 days if it has not been validated online. Obviously there are OEM and corporate versions cracked versions which will install without online validation, but the requirement for WGA for software updates is probably still on.
My hope is that is all of these things make running pirated versions of Windows more difficult -particularly in the developing countries where internet connectivity is spotty such that OSS can gain in popularity and use. This could end up being a real win for Linux and other OSS.
cue stories of entire countries running off a single pirated copies of Windows and Office.....
I'm sure that the media conglomerates will also just use existing local band shows to satisfy some of the hours required by the settlement....
However,
Our local san Francisco CC station KITS (Live105) has one of those shows, but actually they are already a better station than most ('fighting for alternative rock' is their current slogan)
I think the SF Bay Area has more musical diversity than most places.... besides KITS we have KFOG (eclectic) and the college stations (the mighty KFJC, KSJS, KSCU and KSZU) and our weird, fringe broadcasters (KKUP, KALX, KPFA, KPFB).
indie rock, just as it's 80s predecessors college rock and punk in the 70s and underground music in the 60's has had a large impact on music in the past few years and as usual, the mainstream outlets have tried and will continue to fail to subvert and commoditize it because these movements thrive (esp like punk) by going against the mainstream. Kids will never (I hope) accept corporations telling them what is cool (except maybe apple).
Just because an indie label has a distribution deal with someone like sony/BMG doesn't mean that they are no longer indie...it works the same way in the indie film world.
Despite WTO and NAFTA decisions supporting Canada (which the US ignored in typically arrogant fashion) It took 10 years to create a new softwoods trade pact to stop excessive tarrifs on Canadian softwood imports to the US:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/trade/eicb/softwood/b ackground-en.asp..."A NAFTA Extraordinary Challenge Committee (ECC) agreed with Canada and unanimously affirmed the original NAFTA Panel's finding that the U.S. International Trade Commission had no basis on which to find that the U.S. industry was threatened by injury."...
You can probably thanks Georgia-Pacific and their ilk for that.....
The US also chose to ignore NAFTA (which they themselves pushed upon Mexico and Canada as benefitting all of NA) is order to keep Mexican cement out of the US (until they didn't have enough local product due to post-Katrina reconstruction)
Canada has had some interesting ideas regarding copyright and fair use which should not be trampled by the copyright holders who seek to enslave the elements of popular culture. USians make the mistake of seeing Canada as a miniUS, but from what I have seen is that their society has a lot of Liberal European ideas about individual rights which the US would be wise to consider if they were'nt ponied up to the trough of the copyright cartels..
Actually 'howzat' is the exclamation made when a batsman's wicket has been hit and one or both of the bales fall down or the umpire is otherwise appealed to in order to have the batsman put out:
Main Entry: howzat Part of Speech: interj Definition: an exclamation that is a shortened form of 'how's that?' Example: Etymology: used in cricket when questioning an umpire's call Usage: British Note:
Slashdot Mirror
Could this be the Long Anticipated iPhone Killer?
it has a nice feature list.....
but I'm sure that there will be a few hundred alleged iPhone killers released in the next few years.
-I'm just sayin'
The U-505 -now at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry was captured in '43 near Africa and hauled to the Bahamas:
http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/U505/index.html
I was there last week and it is a pretty cool exhibit -although the rest of the museum is pretty kids oriented. That enigma machine looks a little smaller and lighter than the one on eBay. The whole story of saving the sub from scrap and moving it from the Bahamas to Chicago is an interesting one too.
the sailors captured were held incommunicado in violation of Red Cross and international law because the US did not want the Nazis to know that we might have an enigma machine. Probably justifiable at the time, but one of those slippery slope-type situations like Lincoln jailing journalists under the sedition act....like Gitmo...
-I'm just sayin'
With the flexibility afforded by virtualization who wouldn't want big iron to pump out the megabytes? You can run dozens or hundreds of webservers or databases on a single mainframe with virtualization.
What is better equipped to handle iSCSI and fibre channel storage data that the massive crossbar-IO throughput capabilities of the mainframe.
Blade servers are to mainframes as a pack of mice are to an elephant.
All hail Big Iron! All Hail IBM! Hail Eris!
I'm just sayin'
When those who enforce the law are above it we are on the road to becoming a fascist oligarchy -if we aren't already.
Of course we have an executive branch which has put itself above the law in the name of terrorism and freedumb(sic)....
and a legislature which does not have the will to fix our healthcare crisis because they have their own healthcare system which isolates them from the f'd up system the rest of us are dealing with.....
There must be literally HUNDREDS of cases since Rodney King in which cops (especially LA cops) have been caught doing bad, abusive and unconstitutional things to perps -er citizens.
There should be no right of public officials to privacy while they conduct the tasks that they are allegedly performing on our behalf.
Cameras and things like open government sessions are about the accountability which is becoming rarer in this society.
LET THE SUNSHINE IN (ie. 'sunshine' laws)
I'm just sayin'
Sounds like there wasn't a technical limitation if he was actually able to install the plugin......
-I'm just sayin.
Ever since going to Italy last summer I have found myself unable to drink regular filter coffee -and the 'gourmet' free by the cup stuff at work tastes insipid.
We stayed a week outside Sienna, so in the course of shopping at the local Hypermart we discovered Illy coffee and I have never looked back.....
Too bad it's about 12$ for 8oz, but nothing tastes quite as good.
Alternatives are: pre-ground Medaglio D'oro from Safeway
AND French Roast whole beans from FRYs!!! for 6$ a pound -can't beat the price!
-I'm just sayin'
I can't wait to *see* what the VistaPhone has to offer -file transfers at half speed due to DRM and a dualcoreCPU 1GB RAM requirements HAHAHA!!!
-I'm just sayin'
Lone Starr -I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate
-Dark Helmet
May the Shwartz be with you -Yogurt
-I'm just sayin'
What would amaze me would be if Gates or Ballmer or anyone at the VP level or above at Microsoft would show this personal level of support escalation enagagement.
But NO -they foist it all off on the OEM unless you have purchased and installed Windows yourself. And if you have bought Office or some other product you have to purchase 'support incidents' before they will even talk to -otherwise you can find your own way amongst the Knowledgebase articles and crappy search.
Activation Key issues in particular come to mind here.
Jobs' actions shows that he at least can admit that there are times when the support process breaks down or is ineffective.....
Microsoft's reaction is to generally blame the user -of course that's often the OSS response too unfortunately
-I'm just sayin'
I also thought he hadn't progressed much over the years until I saw him at last year's Neil Young Bridge School Benefit at Shoreline.
Mr 'techno' reznor had the guts to play not only acoustically, but also did it without a DRUMMER.
Nothing but Acoustic piano and a string section that made a lot of noisy pendericki-type sounds.
He said he was scared sh*tless, and didn't know if he would do it again, but he took the effort to make new arrangements of some of his newer songs and go outside his comfort zone and challenge himself and show his audience and others a different sound.
Contrast this to NIN opening for Bowie's 'Outside' tour at the Portland Rose Garden where I had to walk outside halfway through their set because I felt like I was being hit over the head repeatedly by a hammer.....
-I'm just sayin'
>>file compression is pretty much only used for large downloads
not entirely correct -compression is also used to reduce bandwidth/maximize data in streaming data applications such as financial market trade data.
The company I work for is switching backend feeds, and although the new feed is 'richer' we need to have it compressed so that clients who have been using dedicated 512kbps circuits will not have to upgrade to fractional T-3 circuits at great expense.
So we are compressing on the fly at the server end and decompressing at the client side -which except for a slight delay is transparent to the customers.
We were going to use PKzip, but the license was too dear, so we settled for gzip
-I'm just sayin'
we all know that parakeets are directly descended from T. Rex thanks to Red Dwarf:
0 3/deck_fs.html&page=season8.html
http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/index.cfm?frameset=deck
click on pete part 2 link (needs realplayer -grrrrr)
-I'm just sayin'
Amen,
I have had 2 Maxtor external firewire drives die on me -the second containing several years of Digital recordings of various bands I was in.
It started having trouble copying large files and would sometimes 'dissappear' from the desktop or fail to mount and finally, even though the access lights would come on and the drive would spin up, nothing.....
That one was an ATA drive in a firewire enclosure and in preparation to sending it somewhere to have disk recovery performed on it I decided to connect it directly to the IDE bus -lo and behold, I was able to mount the drive and I immediately pulled everything off of it and will never use that drive again. It did show signs of trouble even with the direct connect, so I counted my blessings that I was able to recover years of work.
I will probably stick another drive in that enclosure just to see if the firewire is also broken, but while researching this I discovered that despite the firewire interface the throughput of this external enclosure was significantly lower than that of the bare 7200 rpm drive.
this tells me that Maxtor have a cheap crappy interface, since even Firewire 400 when well-implemented should be able to keep up with an ATA130 (or whatever) hard drive.
I'm just sayin....
Mel had a pretty good take on this too:
, _Part_I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lpc-2CH1lg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World
I'm just sayin'
Actually, Rome has been in a constant state of urban renewal for thousands of years -many buildinngs that would probably be considered architecturally and historically important were torn down and recycled
R oss-King/dp/0142003697
the coliseum like many other buildings that were no longer in use (abandoned temples etc) provided building materials for new churches and other buldings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Coliseum
there's a pretty good book about michaelangelo and the sistine chapel which gives a good account of the terrible condition that many of Rome's buildings were in at that time -many of the buildings were just allowed to fall apart because they were considered to have been profane, etc and due to lack of civic government, etc
http://www.amazon.com/Michelangelo-Popes-Ceiling-
It also has a good mixture of history and politics of the time as well as the technologies used to paint the symbol and how frescoes are made (way different than regular painting by the way, due to the fact that the color is applied to moist plaster)
-I'm just sayin'
Amen -I did about a dozen group projects when I went to the local JC in the mid-90's to rev my tech skills and get an AA to offset the fact that I f*cked around in the late 70s and never graduated Uni.
.com boom they were probably expecting to go from a few tech classes to $100k a year (that's what I actually did, but I worked hard and took a LOT of classes)
In 90% of those projects I ended up doing 90% of the work myself for various reasons including:
1. clueless and/or unmotivated -doing specs for mythical IT upgrade projects and I could barely get people to look up equipment prices on the web for gawdsake. Many of these kids were straight out of highschool and hadn't learned how to do any work on their own, and at the height of the
2. poor communication/social skills -some group members had weak communication skills -either due to non-native English speaker or lack of education. Many of these people did not want to speak up or contribute because they were shy or embarrased. Unless they could overcome this it would also hamper them in the workplace world.
The most ironic of these was in the intercultural communications class -a requirement for 4 year transfer which was almost all immigrants and teenagers. Against my will I was made the group leader for exactly the wrong reasons -particularly for this class -I was the older (40s) white male authority figure!!! Talk about un-PC.... But they all said they were too shy and not good enough speakers.
One of the worst experiences was in a Data Structures class where we broke into groups and gave group presentations -I didn't know the subject very well (leaf-node trees or something) but they made me the leader and then gave me almost nothing to present! The teacher could see that I was getting no help from my group, so even though I sucked I still got a B while the rest of the group got Ds.
The most positive collaboration was in a 4th level tech writing class where we had to create a newsletter. Although I got stuck as the editor and had to write 60% of the content I still got one article from each of the other participants. Since everyone in this class was at the end of a 2 year program they were pretty dedicated and older, more experienced students who had also worked in the 'real world'. The fact that they had also learned how to write and communicate also helped......
We also learned about personality types in groups in that class -the cheerleader, the naysayer, etc -which has been very useful since.
I'm just sayin...
Yes,
We can TRUST a VC investor who is anxious to pump and dump this chump company which is another corporate attempt to subvert yet another populist grassroots form of expression into more astroturf for hungry advertisers seeking 'penetration' and to bypass traditional avenues.
Next thing you know we won't even be able to play our home videos or our home recorded songs on our own Computers!!! -Oh wait...I think Vista/Zune does that.
Coming soon -Soylent Green -made by people for people, out of people. How does it taste? It varies from person to person.....
-I'm just sayin'
Much to Disney and other large media companies that are trying to 'direct' popular culture chagrin it seems that as kids mature and become more cycnical that it is not possible to keep them on the paths of consumption or viewership that they would prefer.
Disney has a lock on the under 10 crowd thanks to 'Little Mermaid on Ice' and direct to video releases of ToyStory 3, etc which the parents all lap up, and which are cross-marketed with Burger King, McDonald's etc. but it seems like that market becomes totally lost to them when the kids become 'tweeners'. They're more likely to go from Winnie the Pooh to Adult Swim or anime than to 'that's so raven' or Kim Possible.
At that point it's all about rejecting the safe fuzzy confines of childhood and trying out things that will scare the tweener's parents and in defining oneself in relation to one's peers. Corporate mass marketing mostly fails to identify or embrace these things and the kids then slip through their fingers. This has helped over the years to spawn the skatepunk Van's culture as well as indie rock and the facebook/youtube/myspace movements.
Youth culture is often wrapped in rebellion, and although it may be co-opted a million times there will always be a recognition of this and a re-rebellion.
OF course the kids may come back to the magic kingdom for gay days when they reach adulthood, or take Magic Kingdom cruises or live in DisneyWorld's gated communities much later, but at this time Nickleodeon too smacks of corporate pandering (Duh, Viacom) and is surely also rejected by the 'cool' kids.
-I'm just sayin...
One new and frustrating feature of Vista is that apparently regular users and Explorer are not allowed to overwrite files in x386Program Files (yeah I'm one of those masochists trying out Vista/64)
I tried to download a new ini file from my webmail in order to test an application and Vista said: 'you can't do that -would you like to download the file to your root directory instead?' SO I had to download it to there and then drag it to my application folder in x386Program Files. Once I did it that way I then got the familiar and tiresome Allow or Deny? popup accompanied by the greying out of the desktop to tell me something BAD is about to happen.
I didn't try it in Firefox -maybe it would have worked with it, but I kind of doubt it. I guess there is some security benefit to preventing direct downloads into Program Files in case of trojans and other malware, but I don't understand why they had to escalate the security measures for this action instead of just giving the familiar allow/deny menu item.
-I'm just sayin....
Just post your IP addresses and remote access logons and I'll be glad to help with your break-in! I promise I'll take the data and put it somewhere safe -and offshore No payment up front, but trust me -I will be getting back to you. -I'm just sayin'
Unfortunately from what I can find online and from a recent Economist article is seem that the Teacher's Unions are one of the bigger obstacles to educational reform.
Tenure keeps the bad teachers around and low pay, etc keep the idealists whi could make a difference from sticking with it. Any plans which would involve a premium on new teachers with specialized skills will be rejected by this group as it does not reward its current membership and goes against the rigid hierarchy promoted by the tenure system which is not based on ability, talent or dedication.
http://www.vdare.com/pb/apple.htm
-I'm just sayin'
Usually you will be forced to download WGA before you can get to other updates -and your new install of Windows XP or Vista will stop booting after about 45-60 days if it has not been validated online. Obviously there are OEM and corporate versions cracked versions which will install without online validation, but the requirement for WGA for software updates is probably still on.
My hope is that is all of these things make running pirated versions of Windows more difficult -particularly in the developing countries where internet connectivity is spotty such that OSS can gain in popularity and use. This could end up being a real win for Linux and other OSS.
cue stories of entire countries running off a single pirated copies of Windows and Office.....
-I'm just sayin'
I'm sure that the media conglomerates will also just use existing local band shows to satisfy some of the hours required by the settlement....
However,
Our local san Francisco CC station KITS (Live105) has one of those shows, but actually they are already a better station than most ('fighting for alternative rock' is their current slogan)
I think the SF Bay Area has more musical diversity than most places....
besides KITS we have KFOG (eclectic) and the college stations (the mighty KFJC, KSJS, KSCU and KSZU) and our weird, fringe broadcasters (KKUP, KALX, KPFA, KPFB).
indie rock, just as it's 80s predecessors college rock and punk in the 70s and underground music in the 60's has had a large impact on music in the past few years and as usual, the mainstream outlets have tried and will continue to fail to subvert and commoditize it because these movements thrive (esp like punk) by going against the mainstream. Kids will never (I hope) accept corporations telling them what is cool (except maybe apple).
Just because an indie label has a distribution deal with someone like sony/BMG doesn't mean that they are no longer indie...it works the same way in the indie film world.
-I'm just sayin'
Goose and Gander time:
b ackground-en.asp ..."A NAFTA Extraordinary Challenge Committee (ECC) agreed with Canada and unanimously affirmed the original NAFTA Panel's finding that the U.S. International Trade Commission had no basis on which to find that the U.S. industry was threatened by injury."...
c fm
i es/2005/07/25/story7.html
Despite WTO and NAFTA decisions supporting Canada (which the US ignored in typically arrogant fashion) It took 10 years to create a new softwoods trade pact to stop excessive tarrifs on Canadian softwood imports to the US:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/trade/eicb/softwood/
You can probably thanks Georgia-Pacific and their ilk for that.....
The US also chose to ignore NAFTA (which they themselves pushed upon Mexico and Canada as benefitting all of NA) is order to keep Mexican cement out of the US (until they didn't have enough local product due to post-Katrina reconstruction)
http://www.thebta.org/news/newsreleases/12162005.
http://birmingham.bizjournals.com/birmingham/stor
Canada has had some interesting ideas regarding copyright and fair use which should not be trampled by the copyright holders who seek to enslave the elements of popular culture. USians make the mistake of seeing Canada as a miniUS, but from what I have seen is that their society has a lot of Liberal European ideas about individual rights which the US would be wise to consider if they were'nt ponied up to the trough of the copyright cartels..
-I'm just sayin'
Actually 'howzat' is the exclamation made when a batsman's wicket has been hit and one or both of the bales fall down or the umpire is otherwise appealed to in order to have the batsman put out:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/howzat
Main Entry: howzat
Part of Speech: interj
Definition: an exclamation that is a shortened form of 'how's that?'
Example:
Etymology: used in cricket when questioning an umpire's call
Usage: British
Note:
Webster's New Millennium(TM) Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.6)
Copyright © 2003-2006 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_(cricket)
I'm just sayin'