What's great about the bulk of the media in the US is that they impose these limitations and bans on themselves, without having to have the government do it for them.
Despite what you say about MS, they certainly have a lot of smart guys working for them. They're making it harder and harder to pirate, and since they have a monopoly on the OS market, they will be able to leverage that monopoly into something like this to combat piracy.
The fine folks at apple have been so busy trying to think of a way to re-use their 1984 ad, that they forgot to test their Nano screens for scratchability.
Since when in this modern production age hasn't this been the case? China had almost always had "Most Favored Nation" trading status with us, even when their tank treads were rolling over protesting college students.
And while American corporations MAY want access to their markets now that they are growing as consumers, were that market not growing, corporations would be perfectly happy to only exploit the Chinese labor force to make cheaper widgets.
Once again showing that the US could give a RATS ASS about democracy. All ourt leaders care about is serving their corporate masters and opening foreign markets to exploitation.
This is remarkable. Just when we thought that no changes of any kind (except due to sand storms) were happening on Mars' surface, we discover this.
We really need to send humans there to explore and search for that bacterial life that I personally believe once did evolve there, and might still exist.
Last year around this time my Palm III died and I had to break down and get a Zire 31. I noticed someone else said something similar...
I find my Palm to be a very valuable piece of tech to have. In my line of work I make a LOT contacts and need a conveniant place to organize them. I must admit that this is 99% of what I use my Palm for.
I keep work related notes in it, and have also found it to be a useful tool to help me remember family and friend's birthdays. I'm really bad when it comes to remembering names.
Plus it can run cool little other apps like the Enigma Machine emulator that I fool around with.:-)
Our market system discourages anything but profit, and I don't see any corporation or consortium spending the kind of money that NASA spends, until there is a easily exploitable resource for them to take advantage of.
Yes, Virgin Spaceways (whatever it's called) will do their thing with ballistic shots, and very probably orbital shots someday as well.
But full-on space programs will be something that only governments will fund for a long time.
Certainly MS could fund a small space program... who knows, maybe Paul Allen can talk Bill into something like that.
I work in recording studios and find RF to be a huge problem every day. Even when using balanced audio. I'm curious to know what methods they are using to get rid of the GIGANTIC amounts of RF pollution they they're encountering.
I disagree, and so would Chomsky. That ignores systemic behaviour.
CEO's answer to the shareholders. That is the definition of a corporation. The CEO doesn't want to get fired, so he makes the choices that keep the shareholders happy.
If he chooses to go against the grain and make a choice (or choices) that are morally or ethically correct, he is subject to review and likely loss of his job, at which point a NEW guy will come in and replace him, who learned HIS lesson by watching the other guy get fired, and will not stray from the company line.
This happens every day, in systems other than corporations. Chomsky's other favorite example is the media. Why doesn't the commercial media (he would call it Corporate media) report things like.... the lies of our president.
This has always been the case with software. Once a fairly mature release is in the market, with lots of useful features, they then need to make you think you need the latest features. Of course some marketing wonk writes lots of stuff that people ultimately read, and then they're convinced.
I mean seriously, whenever I boot into Windows, Office '97 provides me with EVERY POSSIBLE word-processing feature I need.
MS has the advantage of making the OS too, so they can force you to upgrade either the OS or the application software at their whim.
The article was mildly amusing, but on the whole it seemed like a bit of a sarcastic rant. Not that I don't like those, but I expect more out of a Slashdot headline story.
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What's great about the bulk of the media in the US is that they impose these limitations and bans on themselves, without having to have the government do it for them.
Despite what you say about MS, they certainly have a lot of smart guys working for them. They're making it harder and harder to pirate, and since they have a monopoly on the OS market, they will be able to leverage that monopoly into something like this to combat piracy.
I've been on that monorail. It's cool.
Considering that Seattle has recently beat out Los Angeles for worst traffic congestion, you'd think they'd be more into mass transit.
Granted, monorails cost more money, but if that's too expensive do a conventional two-rail system.
The fine folks at apple have been so busy trying to think of a way to re-use their 1984 ad, that they forgot to test their Nano screens for scratchability.
Since when in this modern production age hasn't this been the case? China had almost always had "Most Favored Nation" trading status with us, even when their tank treads were rolling over protesting college students.
And while American corporations MAY want access to their markets now that they are growing as consumers, were that market not growing, corporations would be perfectly happy to only exploit the Chinese labor force to make cheaper widgets.
Once again showing that the US could give a RATS ASS about democracy. All ourt leaders care about is serving their corporate masters and opening foreign markets to exploitation.
This is certainly an interesting idea, and one of the more unusual proposed.
:-)
Didn't Bush's new space exploration plan call for us to visit there, soon?
Have ANY of these important linux questions been answered in a court yet? i.e. How enforcable is the GPL, and IS "linux" a trademark?
I agree 100%. Expressing myself in any form relieves a great deal of stress for me. So talking, writing, and playing music work wonderfully.
There's no doubt in my mind that this is true for others as well.
Keeping things bottled up is very stressful and frustrating, and for me, those things are very paralyzing.
Looks like a nice unit, but I have a different question.
If you have an iPod, do you HAVE to use iTunes to put music onto the player?
A friend said you CAN drag and drop to the device (like an external USB drive), and the files will get STORED on the device, but are not playable.
Is this true?
This is remarkable. Just when we thought that no changes of any kind (except due to sand storms) were happening on Mars' surface, we discover this.
We really need to send humans there to explore and search for that bacterial life that I personally believe once did evolve there, and might still exist.
If this robot fought the Honda robot, which would win?
Heck, didn't Alan Bean discover a way to do this in 1969 while on an Apollo 12 EVA? (he says tongue firmly in cheek).
I can't imagine how anyone could possibly think they need any more games than MAME can provide. :-)
Last year around this time my Palm III died and I had to break down and get a Zire 31. I noticed someone else said something similar...
:-)
I find my Palm to be a very valuable piece of tech to have. In my line of work I make a LOT contacts and need a conveniant place to organize them. I must admit that this is 99% of what I use my Palm for.
I keep work related notes in it, and have also found it to be a useful tool to help me remember family and friend's birthdays. I'm really bad when it comes to remembering names.
Plus it can run cool little other apps like the Enigma Machine emulator that I fool around with.
I am!
But we'll see how long it lasts.
It SEEMS like this shouldn't be too difficult to prove. One of the groups must have some verifiable method of demonstrating that they got there first.
Of course prior art doesn't seem to matter these days... at least with respect to patents. So who knows.
They've obviously opted not to go with that expensive and heavy lead stuff, and use recycled aluminum foil. :-)
Our market system discourages anything but profit, and I don't see any corporation or consortium spending the kind of money that NASA spends, until there is a easily exploitable resource for them to take advantage of.
Yes, Virgin Spaceways (whatever it's called) will do their thing with ballistic shots, and very probably orbital shots someday as well.
But full-on space programs will be something that only governments will fund for a long time.
Certainly MS could fund a small space program... who knows, maybe Paul Allen can talk Bill into something like that.
I work in recording studios and find RF to be a huge problem every day. Even when using balanced audio. I'm curious to know what methods they are using to get rid of the GIGANTIC amounts of RF pollution they they're encountering.
I disagree, and so would Chomsky. That ignores systemic behaviour.
CEO's answer to the shareholders. That is the definition of a corporation. The CEO doesn't want to get fired, so he makes the choices that keep the shareholders happy.
If he chooses to go against the grain and make a choice (or choices) that are morally or ethically correct, he is subject to review and likely loss of his job, at which point a NEW guy will come in and replace him, who learned HIS lesson by watching the other guy get fired, and will not stray from the company line.
This happens every day, in systems other than corporations. Chomsky's other favorite example is the media. Why doesn't the commercial media (he would call it Corporate media) report things like.... the lies of our president.
Easy... systemic behavior.
Why is it that people with this kind of anger and dysfunction are chosen to head gigantic corporations?
Chomsky always points out that it's the corporate SYSTEM that causes things to happen they way they do, and it's often not due to evil people.
I think however, there are exceptions to this argument.
This has always been the case with software. Once a fairly mature release is in the market, with lots of useful features, they then need to make you think you need the latest features. Of course some marketing wonk writes lots of stuff that people ultimately read, and then they're convinced.
/. again?
I mean seriously, whenever I boot into Windows, Office '97 provides me with EVERY POSSIBLE word-processing feature I need.
MS has the advantage of making the OS too, so they can force you to upgrade either the OS or the application software at their whim.
Why is there an ad on
We simply need to send people to Mars. :-)
Been here a very long time actually, but that doesn't change my expectations.
The article was mildly amusing, but on the whole it seemed like a bit of a sarcastic rant. Not that I don't like those, but I expect more out of a Slashdot headline story.