I am taking your claim about Atlantis to be humorous. Stargate Atlantis is an interesting premise, but like many interesting premises, it doesn't carry the premise far enough past the stock episodic format. Episodes in Atlantis generally take the form of discovery, twist, resolution, denoument.
I would argue that BSG takes this a step further by putting greater emphasis on the overriding "arc" of finden Earth and escaping the Cylons. Further, the emphasis on the theology of Cylons offers an aspect outside the stock adventure series. Realizing the Cylons as motivated by theological beliefs rather than mere revenge creates a villain with far greater depth than Atlantis' Wraith, or even any of the "big bads" from Buffy.
Certainly, BSG is not a prefect show, but as far as contemporary science fiction is concerned, BSG has improved upon the genre.
If my company sells a product to a company in New York, does my company, which has no operation in New York, have to pay income tax on the profits generated from the sale?
It seems to me that the decision could be interpreted this way. If all income is taxable, and corporations generate income, then shouldn't a corporation be requuired to pay taxes in the state from which the profits derived?
If the above weren't the case, and it were feasible, I would think incorporating oneself, and then contract teh corporation's resources to the company. Now you have one corporation paying another, and you make your money in the sate where you live.
Look, the 18 seconds of "Enterprise" I saw this year included and alien dressed as a Nazi. An alien Nazi! It just underscores the lack of originality in Star Trek dating back to The Next Generation.
With stock characters and marginal writing, Star Trek has been on the decline for years. At some point the formula was "reinvigorated" by adding time travel to the 4 basic plots, "malfunctioning system", "alien takes over ship", "alien disease threatens ship", "fight the Klingons/Romulans/Borg". Of the episodes of "Enterprise" that I did see I was unimpressed by the acting, writing, and set design.
Why do people need to hold on to something that is obviously over? Sure there is more room for a decent sci-fi series, but I hate to say that Andromeda is far more interesting and inventive than Star Trek. The obvious thing here is to point out that "Battlestar Galactica" far outstrips "Enterprise" in production values, originality, writing and acting. Why not give up the ghost on what has become schlock level, sub par science fiction and back something with potential?
Why not put the money behind resurrecting "Firefly"? Or why doesn't someone concept something entirely new?
The whole/. commnuity is a wonderful study in conditional ethics and double standards. People who sell machines that compete with Ultracade based on MAME rely on customers to obtain ILLEGAL copies of the ROMS in question to play the games, or load the ROMS illegally.
When is the/. community going to recognize that as much as they want to be free, some things aren't and ought to be obtained legally. I am sure a large number of this community works for software compaines that generate revenue through the sale of licenses. Would you still have a job if I could sell working, hacked liceneses for pennys on the dollar? No.
Wake up people, not everything is free and you have to deal with it.
The first Ammendment doesn't apply in this situation. Constitutional guarantees onyl apply to public forums and issues. Obtaining ostensibly confidential information and reporting it can only be reasonably defended under the first ammendment when the information is related to the public good.
In the case with Apple, as noted earlier, Apple has a right to maintain its trade secrets and can suffer significant harm in having those secrets revealed. The public is not served by revelations about Apple's secrets, and current laws protect Apple, not those doing the reporting.
The First Ammendment doesn't guarantee one's right to say anything, it merely guarantees the right to voice one's dissent with the government.
While it would be nice to see the detailed legal claim, one ought to expect this guy to lose.
Apple does not control the online music market, nor are its hardware platforms and software any kind of necessity. Apple may have a large market share that may constitue a monopoly, but they have not been using that postion to enforce their monopoly. With a solid hold on the market, there are no market forces forcing Apple to change its practices.
Until Apple uses its position to force competitors out, then there would be a case, but it is no secret that ITMS songs only play on iPods and iTunes, and Apple is trying to force others out of the market.
In my line of work, customers sometimes stick me at a desk with a PC that lacks an X server, and getting one installed is sometimes a problem. Since the product my company makes only runs in X, I need it. This solves that sort of problem for me.
with MDs that hold 1 GB... Why would you limit yourself to the size of a hard disk when you can carry around a few tiny discs that have hours upon hours...
Um, because a 20GB iPod would be the equivalent of 20 futuristic MDs, and I don't need to carry around the disks and a player. The MD player itslef is larger and heavier than the ipod, with more moving parts. I like the access to all of my music at once.
Won't more complex cars provide additional oppurtunity for the "lower class"?
It seems to me that as the requirements to fix the cars increase, so might the pay, providing better jobs for more people.
Could just be my take, but I am a civil egalitarian, so I am willing to put with extra complexity and cost to put decent person to work at a decent wage.
The point is that some aspects of "Project X" share problems with other Open Source projects.
The author says pointedly at the beginning that Project X is an EXAMPLE, and not all projects are problematic, bad, or suffer from all of these issues.
The essence of the article is that just because a project has, or perceived to have, a technical superiority, useabilty and documentation are paramount to making it a success.
Think about it this way : I can use my Linux box as a DVR and save a small amount of money, but I can buy a TiVo and plug it in. The Linux version may have some superiority in flexibility, privacy, fair-use, etc., but it is in no way as imple to set up as my dedicate TiVo. (yes I know TiVo runs Linux).
The article complains that there is no mention that the DJ will not work with some hubs, and goes on to complain how this is so different from Apple.
I find this unfair in that my iPod can only charge when plug it into the firewire port on my external drive. Apparently daisy chaining doesn't work so well with the iPod.
Find that in the iPod docs. And I am a shameless consumer of Apple products. Don't assume that Apple stuff always "just works".
I had an account at Notre dame that was a part of the.cse.nd.edu domain? Does the method of assigning members of the CSE department with name@cse.nd.edu addresses infringe?
Canon has never been good with backwards/forwards compatability or interchangeability in its cameras.
Nikon has been far better in the ability to not only use one lense across multiple Nikon bodies, but also with the bodies of other manufacturers.
If you decide to go Canon, you are most likely stuck with that family of models and bodies, whereas a Nikon lense could be used on next year's models, or the year after.
I think they are restricting you in what hardware your downloaded songs will play on, but that is a pretty thin argument really. It sort of glosses over the fact that the iPod is a seriously cool, useful, and attractive device.
The article is not about the cost difference between say Office and Open Office, but between the current pricing and software structure versus the future.
It would be ludicrous to use this articele as a vehicle to prove the viability of Star Office, say, versus Office. I find the description of this article very misleading. Any new generation/paradigm(is it a paradigm? I'll check Kuhn) can result in a rise in total cost of acquisition or even ownership.
This applies to any software, free or not. If PHP or HTTP were radically changed, would it not require significant investment to reintegrate old applications? IPv6, while necessary in the lon run will undoubetedly cause an initial cost of migration.
What are the costs of migrating from office to Open Office? What are the costs of then intregrating Open Office into the organization as tool for scheduling, data sharing, etc.?
The internet is not all about linux, unix, code etc. It is also about usability.....tell me, how else would they find what they want if they dont have a complete URL? Suppose you had a wrong URL or did not remember the right URL? How would you find out the right one? Its impossible without sitefinder.
What about the phone? I am sure that millions of people everyday dial a wrong number and have to do something about it. Most of us understand how to find phone numbers when we need them, yet we don't work for the phone company (NOTE: Author actually has worked for a Telco).
It is not impossible to find a site if you mistype it. I do that all the time, I just resort to typing a search term into my browser's search box and look for what I need.
If people have an implicit understanding of what to do and where to go for information, SiteFinder is redundant and useless. This is an issue of raising the technological savvy of a people at large, not obfuscating what is happening.
I submit this as evidence of his GUILT: http://www.landfield.com/isn/mail-archive/1999/ Mar/0067.html
Quoting the very first sentence:
"Today, Kevin Mitnick ended his forty-nine month battle with the Government by pleading guilty..."
Which would seem to me to be evidence of guilt.
When will the blind idiots of the "hacker" community get over themselves and admit that Kevin Mitnick is a criminal?
Certainly, becuase I am curios as to how a bank vault works and learn about them does not make me a criminal, but breaking into one and stealing the contents, regardless of intent, is still a crime.
Making Mitnick a hero is somewhat (an scale orders of magnitude less) like saying Timothy Mcveigh just wanted to see if he could blow up a building.
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If we were all exposed to such radiation, would we all turn in to varying versions of the Hulk? Incredible or otherwise?
Wouldn't Stan Lee like that.
I am taking your claim about Atlantis to be humorous. Stargate Atlantis is an interesting premise, but like many interesting premises, it doesn't carry the premise far enough past the stock episodic format. Episodes in Atlantis generally take the form of discovery, twist, resolution, denoument.
I would argue that BSG takes this a step further by putting greater emphasis on the overriding "arc" of finden Earth and escaping the Cylons. Further, the emphasis on the theology of Cylons offers an aspect outside the stock adventure series. Realizing the Cylons as motivated by theological beliefs rather than mere revenge creates a villain with far greater depth than Atlantis' Wraith, or even any of the "big bads" from Buffy.
Certainly, BSG is not a prefect show, but as far as contemporary science fiction is concerned, BSG has improved upon the genre.
Will this increase power consumption significantly?
Any idea how much the platter needs to be thickened? Seems to me the added mass will require more power to spin, meaning more heat as well.
Or am I just nutty?
If my company sells a product to a company in New York, does my company, which has no operation in New York, have to pay income tax on the profits generated from the sale?
It seems to me that the decision could be interpreted this way. If all income is taxable, and corporations generate income, then shouldn't a corporation be requuired to pay taxes in the state from which the profits derived?
If the above weren't the case, and it were feasible, I would think incorporating oneself, and then contract teh corporation's resources to the company. Now you have one corporation paying another, and you make your money in the sate where you live.
Look, the 18 seconds of "Enterprise" I saw this year included and alien dressed as a Nazi. An alien Nazi! It just underscores the lack of originality in Star Trek dating back to The Next Generation.
With stock characters and marginal writing, Star Trek has been on the decline for years. At some point the formula was "reinvigorated" by adding time travel to the 4 basic plots, "malfunctioning system", "alien takes over ship", "alien disease threatens ship", "fight the Klingons/Romulans/Borg". Of the episodes of "Enterprise" that I did see I was unimpressed by the acting, writing, and set design.
Why do people need to hold on to something that is obviously over? Sure there is more room for a decent sci-fi series, but I hate to say that Andromeda is far more interesting and inventive than Star Trek. The obvious thing here is to point out that "Battlestar Galactica" far outstrips "Enterprise" in production values, originality, writing and acting. Why not give up the ghost on what has become schlock level, sub par science fiction and back something with potential?
Why not put the money behind resurrecting "Firefly"? Or why doesn't someone concept something entirely new?
The whole /. commnuity is a wonderful study in conditional ethics and double standards. People who sell machines that compete with Ultracade based on MAME rely on customers to obtain ILLEGAL copies of the ROMS in question to play the games, or load the ROMS illegally.
/. community going to recognize that as much as they want to be free, some things aren't and ought to be obtained legally. I am sure a large number of this community works for software compaines that generate revenue through the sale of licenses. Would you still have a job if I could sell working, hacked liceneses for pennys on the dollar? No.
When is the
Wake up people, not everything is free and you have to deal with it.
The first Ammendment doesn't apply in this situation. Constitutional guarantees onyl apply to public forums and issues. Obtaining ostensibly confidential information and reporting it can only be reasonably defended under the first ammendment when the information is related to the public good.
In the case with Apple, as noted earlier, Apple has a right to maintain its trade secrets and can suffer significant harm in having those secrets revealed. The public is not served by revelations about Apple's secrets, and current laws protect Apple, not those doing the reporting.
The First Ammendment doesn't guarantee one's right to say anything, it merely guarantees the right to voice one's dissent with the government.
While it would be nice to see the detailed legal claim, one ought to expect this guy to lose.
Apple does not control the online music market, nor are its hardware platforms and software any kind of necessity. Apple may have a large market share that may constitue a monopoly, but they have not been using that postion to enforce their monopoly. With a solid hold on the market, there are no market forces forcing Apple to change its practices.
Until Apple uses its position to force competitors out, then there would be a case, but it is no secret that ITMS songs only play on iPods and iTunes, and Apple is trying to force others out of the market.
it is a wrapping side-scroller.
In my line of work, customers sometimes stick me at a desk with a PC that lacks an X server, and getting one installed is sometimes a problem. Since the product my company makes only runs in X, I need it. This solves that sort of problem for me.
This isn't a review, it is a few paragraphs about having seen the film.
/. is trying to waste my time with worthless sci-fi sychophants and their crap about bad sci-fi(All of Star Trek).
Is not a review a critical assessment of the films intentions and its success in achieving its aims?
Why do articles like these get approved?
Sometimes I think
Should it not be the Queen's English?
I reckon that the current Monarch is referred to as Her Majesty, not His Majesty.
with MDs that hold 1 GB ... Why would you limit yourself to the size of a hard disk when you can carry around a few tiny discs that have hours upon hours...
Um, because a 20GB iPod would be the equivalent of 20 futuristic MDs, and I don't need to carry around the disks and a player. The MD player itslef is larger and heavier than the ipod, with more moving parts. I like the access to all of my music at once.
I mean, I know that most hot spots are 802.11b, but even still, 802.11b is superceded by 802.11g, is it not?
Not to mention, WEP is pretty weak, and the better data rates and range. I would much rather have a device with 802.11g these days.
How wrong am I?
Won't more complex cars provide additional oppurtunity for the "lower class"?
It seems to me that as the requirements to fix the cars increase, so might the pay, providing better jobs for more people.
Could just be my take, but I am a civil egalitarian, so I am willing to put with extra complexity and cost to put decent person to work at a decent wage.
Didn't you RTFA?
The point is that some aspects of "Project X" share problems with other Open Source projects.
The author says pointedly at the beginning that Project X is an EXAMPLE, and not all projects are problematic, bad, or suffer from all of these issues.
The essence of the article is that just because a project has, or perceived to have, a technical superiority, useabilty and documentation are paramount to making it a success.
Think about it this way : I can use my Linux box as a DVR and save a small amount of money, but I can buy a TiVo and plug it in. The Linux version may have some superiority in flexibility, privacy, fair-use, etc., but it is in no way as imple to set up as my dedicate TiVo. (yes I know TiVo runs Linux).
The article complains that there is no mention that the DJ will not work with some hubs, and goes on to complain how this is so different from Apple.
I find this unfair in that my iPod can only charge when plug it into the firewire port on my external drive. Apparently daisy chaining doesn't work so well with the iPod.
Find that in the iPod docs. And I am a shameless consumer of Apple products. Don't assume that Apple stuff always "just works".
What organizations with multiple subdomains?
.cse.nd.edu domain? Does the method of assigning members of the CSE department with name@cse.nd.edu addresses infringe?
I had an account at Notre dame that was a part of the
Dude, screw virtual desktops, Expose is the way now.
Canon has never been good with backwards/forwards compatability or interchangeability in its cameras.
Nikon has been far better in the ability to not only use one lense across multiple Nikon bodies, but also with the bodies of other manufacturers.
If you decide to go Canon, you are most likely stuck with that family of models and bodies, whereas a Nikon lense could be used on next year's models, or the year after.
Consider that when deciding how "cheap" it is.
I think they are restricting you in what hardware your downloaded songs will play on, but that is a pretty thin argument really. It sort of glosses over the fact that the iPod is a seriously cool, useful, and attractive device.
The article is not about the cost difference between say Office and Open Office, but between the current pricing and software structure versus the future.
It would be ludicrous to use this articele as a vehicle to prove the viability of Star Office, say, versus Office. I find the description of this article very misleading. Any new generation/paradigm(is it a paradigm? I'll check Kuhn) can result in a rise in total cost of acquisition or even ownership.
This applies to any software, free or not. If PHP or HTTP were radically changed, would it not require significant investment to reintegrate old applications? IPv6, while necessary in the lon run will undoubetedly cause an initial cost of migration.
What are the costs of migrating from office to Open Office? What are the costs of then intregrating Open Office into the organization as tool for scheduling, data sharing, etc.?
The internet is not all about linux, unix, code etc. It is also about usability.....tell me, how else would they find what they want if they dont have a complete URL? Suppose you had a wrong URL or did not remember the right URL? How would you find out the right one? Its impossible without sitefinder.
What about the phone? I am sure that millions of people everyday dial a wrong number and have to do something about it. Most of us understand how to find phone numbers when we need them, yet we don't work for the phone company (NOTE: Author actually has worked for a Telco).
It is not impossible to find a site if you mistype it. I do that all the time, I just resort to typing a search term into my browser's search box and look for what I need.
If people have an implicit understanding of what to do and where to go for information, SiteFinder is redundant and useless. This is an issue of raising the technological savvy of a people at large, not obfuscating what is happening.
Um,
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I submit this as evidence of his GUILT
http://www.landfield.com/isn/mail-archive/1999
Quoting the very first sentence
"Today, Kevin Mitnick ended his forty-nine month battle with the Government by pleading guilty..."
Which would seem to me to be evidence of guilt.
When will the blind idiots of the "hacker" community get over themselves and admit that Kevin Mitnick is a criminal?
Certainly, becuase I am curios as to how a bank vault works and learn about them does not make me a criminal, but breaking into one and stealing the contents, regardless of intent, is still a crime.
Making Mitnick a hero is somewhat (an scale orders of magnitude less) like saying Timothy Mcveigh just wanted to see if he could blow up a building.
Does malicious intent not count for anything?
Convicted != trial
My search of relevant topics shows me that he is an ex-con.
But then, you are never an "ex-con" unless you are exhonorated. Otherwise, you remain having been convicting of said crimes.
So, I stand by my words.