How much are the people whose salaries our tax dollars pay costing us to spend their resource going after this guy for a 40-yr old camera? This is important enough that it has gotten to the top of someone's list of things to do? And we have to pay for it?

Exactly who does this help and how?

... in a vacuum. they must have employees and there must be some folks around here that work for them and are (possibly) closer to the top of the food chain.

If you work for PayPal.. care to explain why I can't just call up a person on an 800 number like I can my regular bank and have that person take care of whatever?

Can someone who works there explain any of the info here?

Why? Why would it do anything more than incite a few unhappy folks to burn some bibles and/or some effigies of Mr. Jones?

Are these folks so incredibly insecure and violent that they will kill people over a simple book burning? To me, that in itself is the point of this: to emphasize how ridiculously out of proportion the reaction is and to make anyone who would even THINK of killing someone for burning a book look even more stupid than the book burner.

I seriously doubt that Mr. Jones will kill anyone he hears of burning effigies in his image or burning bibles as a rebuttal.

The original poster is entitled to their opinion, even though it is the wrong one. I create a lot of content, and I give it away too. These are HD videos that I shoot with a Sony HDR-AX2000 ($3500 camera) and stills that I shoot with a Canon EOS-7D (another pricey piece of photographic equipment). Because my material gets exposure from me giving it away, I have gotten more paid work offers than I can possibly manage. I've done magazine covers, full portfolios, and just fun (pro-bono) stuff. People who see my work often times ask to buy prints. I give them a CD with their prints. They can copy it all they want. If there is video of the event, I put that on the CD too.

Why? What advantage does Sony get from this action? It costs them money to do this and it alienates some (many? few?) of their customers. How can this increase their profit or give them a business advantage? I may just be not seeing the forest here... so, please enlighten.

If someone is using a comma as a decimal point, what is used for a comma? Does such a person simply eschew the use of commas to separate thousands?

I'm not nearly as concerned WHAT the standard is, just that there would be a single standard and everyone would follow it for stuff like this, and for the exact reason we see here. Sometimes a single standard is a good idea. In this case, I believe it would be an especially good idea.

Thanks everyone. I did know that it wasn't straight interpreted but rather JIT compiled. Mentally I still just separate static/native compiled versus not.

The shocker for me (thanks for the wiki, abigor) is that a really good JIT compiler can often outrun a good static-compiled program. I'd never have thought that possible.

Please explain why 'Java services' are a good idea? I don't mean to disrespect Java.. but my understanding is that it is not compiled to native code. If I really want something like a service, don't I want it to be as efficient and spanky fast as it can be? Don't I want it running in native machine language? I see so much being done these days with 'interpreters' (.Net CLR, Java, Flash, Python, Perl) and I wonder how good the interpreters REALLY are and how they would fair against native code? I come from an assembler background so it's difficult for me to appreciate how giving up the efficiency of native code is a good idea for something like a service, especially in a small portable platform where resources may not be abundant? Do people ever compile Java to native code?

Sounds to me like Palm is way out of touch with their market. How do you get a company like this to pay more attention to their users?

I have 3 Palm Tungsten|C devices (2 in storage for when this one breaks). I had always hoped that Palm would come out with a device that included:

Graffiti (able to use Graffiti I)
Wifi with ability to change software/drivers
Cellular voice/data with SIM card
GPS receiver that can be readily used by any app
Bluetooth
IR I/O with stronger output and no cpu-specific hooks
Stereo sound
Built-in mic

Here's to wishful thinking. Cheers. If anyone knows of such a device that would run my (about 160) Palm OS 5x programs, please let me know.

I _already_ had to disclose ALL this stuff in order to get individual (not group) health insurance - so they ALREADY know all of it.

Group health insurance is not allowed to bar entry for any pre-existing condition.

Are you (or anyone else) trying to tell me that they aren't denying me group health insurance because they don't know my medical history when I sign up for benefits with an employer? My guess is they already know whatever they want to. Since they can't deny me, the just don't bother to run it all through underwriting.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not _for_ this.. I'm just not nearly as pissed about this as I am about (many) other things.

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High Definition

Power to anyone that can push a 1080p monitor to it's 1080p limit with a $300 htpc.

The struggle is now that we have the massive HD screen, we yearn for 100% 1080p content or as close to it as we can get. Hence an htpc that has 3 HD tuners, BluRay drives and a BlackMagic Intensity Pro with some (other hardware) which itself costs about $300 and knocks hdpc on it's stupid little ass.

Vortran out

Because I don't know why it needs to be a secret.

I have bad feet, bad eyes, bad ears, a bad liver, and a bad kidney. Why does that need to be a secret? What are the disadvantages to me of the whole world knowing that (why it would want to is beyond me)?

Maybe if the government knew more accurately the degree to which different types of ailments afflict folks, they would spur more R&D (homeopathic therapy, stem cell and gene therapy.. etc).

Vortran out