I wasn't aware that the RIAA is a state allowed monopoly. I thought only major league baseball had that exemption. I just don't see what is so bad about Digital Rights Management on songs. It's not that big of a deal.
If you've been coming to JoeUser for long, you've hopefully seen a gradual progression in the quality and features of the site. We've been heavily evaluating the various blog features and technologies out there. Some are really good. But some are just dumb. Here are some of my newbie view points on these issues. Feel free to comment and tell me where you agree or disagree. Good Blog Technologies RSS The Good: RSS is a standard that takes headl
It already does. The tax rate on basketball players (state + federal + misc) is about 50%.
120 not long enough. I'm talking living to 400 and beyond in very good health.
Paragraphs are your friend. You can use pure HTML in your blogs just so you know.
I wish I could remember the sit but there was a statistic that showed that European goods overall have more subsidies backing them (France being #1) than anywhere else in the world. It's pretty amaing to see them complain.
What do you get when you combine Samurai Jack with Star Wars? The Clone Wars Micro-Series. These short (very short) episodes run only a few minutes each and are done on the cheap but are incredibly enjoyable. I wish they'd done this between Ep 1 and Ep 2. It's the overall story of the Star Wars universe that excites many fans. And as b
As I sit here in my comfy couch with my "The Register" white polo shirt on today I read Andrew Orlowski's article about Apple and iTunes . And I basically disagree with almost everything in it. Which isn't surprising, I usually disagree on such matters mainly because I'm a greedy bastard capitalist while he's more in touch with feelings of an almost human nature. ;) His article basically makes
Boy was Matrix Revolutions great! I mean, that scene with Agent Smith as a human making his way to the Zion main frame. It really pulled it together in seeing why he wanted into that mainframe and how it was his ticket out of there. That big battle between Neo and the ghost twins. Now THAT is why he's "The one". Once you free your mind there's nothing you can't do. Seeing them phasing into other dimensions in their battle was just incredible and I loved the way the
These the same Europeans that apply the world's biggest subsidies for their farmers? These the same Europeans whose governments pay directly for the development of commercial aircraft? Wow, the hypocricy.
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I'm so far behind on so many things. I also have a bunch of topics to cover. I have a fun article about Hydrogen fuel cells and the problems they have. Short answer: We're not going to have hydrogen fuel cells any time soon. Sorry. The Matrix Revolutions was spectacularly crappy. Shockingly bad. I have two huge projects in front of me to get working on that is on top of all our existing projects. One on the business unit and the other for the games unit. I need t
Only those who don't listen to Rush Limbaugh would lump him in with Michael Moore or Al Franken. Michael Moore WON AN OSCAR. Al Franken's book i sa best seller. They're not at the fringe of the left. They are right smack in the middle of it. I don't like Rush Limbaugh but there's nothing "extreme" about him other than he's a partisan.
If The Matrix was a 9 or 10 and Reloaded was maybe a 7. Then Matrix Revolutions is a 3 or 4. Worst movie I've paid to see at a theatre in a long time. But I say that with a big caveat. No set of movies had built up expectations like The Matrix. Movies like "The One" that came out a year or two ago weren't any better than this. But the Matrix, and the story behind it, had been hyped up beyond belief. A lot of the problem appears to me to be one of editing. A few extra scen
Most on the right do not refer to mistakes on the left as lies. That was kind of my point. There is no right-wing equivalent of Al Franken or Michael Moore.
russellmz2: I don't think it's the crappy 1% going on here. Ted Kennedy and a good chunk of house democrats fall into this "crappy 1%". What about the nonsense at Universities now? Is that part of the crappy 1%? Furthermore, you ignore the fact that this happens now. I'm only 20 miles from the University of Michigan where liberal dogma is enforced at the point of expulsion for having "incorrect" beliefs. Same thing at WMU where I went. This isn't theoretical stuff, this is stuff hap
Abe - I don't know how to even respond to what you said. You either didn't read the article or didn't understand the difference. If you think liberals and conservatives have the same views then there's not much point in even discussing it.
A more fair comparison should be what you get when you open that box from Dell vs. what you open your box from Apple.
What is it with left-wing zealots and the word "lie". It really gets under my skin. For liberals, it seems, conservatives never make mistakes. Oh no. Conservatives aren't, you know, actually human. And so whenever a conservative makes a statement that turns out to be wrong, it isn't that he was mistaken, it is that he lied. Al Franken has made this into a mini-career with books like "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them". Sure, other zealots on the le
LOL. So when Apple bundles system slowing extensions, it's "free" but when you pay $50 for it, it suddenly is slow and costs about the same? The Dell machine comes with Windows XP. Add Object Desktop for $50 and you get a superset of the coolness that you can get with MacOS X. Please explain how system extension software "slows" the machine down? WindowFX on my PC is a lot faster at doing shadows than my Mac is at doing them. Resize a window on a Mac compared to a PC and you c
Little discussed feature about the IBM Thinkpad T40. The Fn-space bar combo will instantly switch the resolution to a the next lower one. this is great when you are browsing the web and want the text nice and big. Just one of the many handy features that makes the Thinkpads rule.
What would be gained by leaving NATO or the UN?
Most people using Object Desktop make Windows look different from MacOS or Windows. They're not using Object Desktop to look like a Mac. On the other hand, changing the environment of MacOS X is quite difficult and you are very limited in what you can do. There is no, for instance, DesktopX for MacOS. The best they get is Konfabulator which is a sub-set of features.
Explain how such a sbuclass would work system wide. Sure, what you describe would work for your own application in its own process but not across the OS. I.e. I can make myWidget use MyBetterPaintAPI but how do I make MS Word use MYBetterPaintAPI?
Kona: You failed to grasp the point. Sure, MacOS X is prettier out of the box than Windows XP because MacOS X, with its $600 to $1000 premium comes with more stuff. But third party software on Windows, which integrates seamlessly into the OS, could just as easily be bundled with the OS if some OEM felt the need and it would cost a tiny fraction of the $600 to $1000 difference.
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