anybody who can handle a programming language and math should have no problem with foreign languages. The only thing at all challenging there is vocab, and that can be picked up if you've got a pretty good understanding of grammar.
Except that 95% of what is taught are exceptions to the grammatical/conjugation rules.
Excellent link! Guitar Tablature is the quintessential example of a clean room implementation.
How? Tab is generated from listening to the music (a copyrighted work). A derivative work is then created. A clean room design would be if the tab was based not on the music, but of a written discription of how the music made you feel.
Well, I fully expect that AT&T et al will soon announce, for efficeny purposes, all calls/data will be routed through a station in Mexico/Canada. Hey, I bet the AG could then categorize them as "international" calls and spy on them!
I'm reasonably sure that the passengers on those doomed 9/11 flights sat back and thought about the fat settlement cheques that they were going to get from the airlines for "mental anguish and emotional distress
The passengers were no doubt told to by the flight crew. Back then, the response that was trained was for the flight crew to cooperate fully (and convince the passangers to cooperate fully) with the hijackers. Later, after the statement, and either a peaceful or SWAT-type (once on the ground) ending, the people would go home. I don't believe they were entitled to sue the airline however, there was some statutory limitation (IIRC) that spelled out what monies they would recieve.
I think you mean that they have never bled in your car *without* something to contain the bleeding and keep it off the car itself. Because trust me, at some point in the past twenty years your wife bled in your car.
Well, during all those times the blood contained endometrial cells. All blood is not created equal. Well, all ways of bleeding are not created equal.
Those that were captured wearing their German uniforms were treated as POWs -- those that were captured wearing Allied uniforms were typically subject to summary execution.
As the conventions say should happen.
But merely detaining enemy combatants in Gitmo who fought without flag, uniform or officers (the general requirements listed in the Conventions to be considered eligible for the protections therein) is not a violation of the Geneva Conventions in law or in spirit
I agree. However, not all prisoners at Gitmo were captured on the field of battle. Many were handed over to US forces. Hence, these people deserve a chance to prove their innocence. And the torture is patently offensive.
But the uniformed/not uniformed divide was supposed to distingush between spys/insurgents and soldiers. So, if they never tried to use their lack of regular uniforms to blend in (moving with identifiable groups, etc.) they should be treated as POWs.
Palm was brilliant to open development to all comers, but Jobs' need for control is crippling an otherwise highly advanced piece of electronics.
Hey, that's paraphrasing me: Gates was brilliant to open development to all comers, but Jobs' need for control is crippling an otherwise highly advanced piece of electronics.
Did you read the article you linked for the bathroom. They claimed the price was so high because they were building it to withstand vandals; it sounds like you'll need a jackhammer to damage anything. You can say that using the same toilets as prisoners is insulting, but too expensive? Won't it save money in the long term?
The funding also is coming from the city, not Congress. It wasn't an earmark at all.
Sheesh people, they want you to bitch about the war and the military. It allows them to roll right on by under your nose
According to your link, the Iraq war costs 5 times as much as all the earmarks in the US combined. And that's not even factoring in that some earmarks are good. So keep going on and on about earmarks, and let military contractors bleed the government dry.
That's exactly the reason. With limit play, the size of the average hand one is not dependent on the size of your stack*. That is, there is no positive or negative feedback.
Obviously, when the size of the stack is below the maximum bet for a hand, this is no longer the case. But that's hardly a common case.
As far as I know, Germany (and Japan) had ratified the relevant treaties (e.g. the early Geneva conventions).
As far as I am aware, the Geneva conventions had (and still have?) no rules on how a country treats its own citizens. Several Nazi officials were put on trial for the Holocaust, under the general heading "war crimes".
Pit two of these 'perfect' players against each other, and one of them will lose money.
Over the long term, both would stay fairly close to even. Or, to put it another way, play is perfect if taking no different move is to your benefit. When both players play perfectly, it is a Nash equilibrium.
An interesting note, even though they are of equal skill, one will likely be in the lead for the vast majority of the time.
The summary is poor in that it says it is impossible for a perfect player to lose. Given bad enough luck, a perfect player can lose their entire stack before they manage to win it back.
This little loophole is how the USA claims it's not guilty of war crimes for violating certain protocols of the Geneva Conventions. The USA claims that since it never ratified the specific protocols, it's not a war crime to violate them.
Actually, the US claims that since the captured people are not wearing uniforms, they are not soldiers, and thus protected by the Geneva Conventions. I know that the concept of "uniformed" is present in the Conventions. But regardless of whether technically the US is violating the Conventions, it does to violate the spirit.
the USA claims that Al Qaeda is guilty of war crimes even though Al Qaeda never ratified any of the Geneva Conventions.
That's not relevent. Germans were convicted after WWI and WWII. Milosavic was either conviceted or died immediately prior to it.
(i.e. the 2000 US presidential election, where Bush just "declared" himself the victor and became president, despite actually losing the vote
He won the election. You can complain about the Supreme Court ruling that led him to win the election. You can complain about voter disenfrancisment in Flordia that put it into the Supreme Court's hand. You can complain about the electoral college overruling the popular vote. But his declaration was only made (and not subsequently retracted) after the Supreme Court had handed him victory.
t's most useful and sensible to reserve "mass" for the invariant mass if you're a physicist, granted
I am not a theoretical physicist. I'm concerned with how massive things are in relation to me. Hence, I consider photons as having mass, as the vast majority of them will be moving at fairly close to C. Whereas, airplanes, since they are moving at incredibly small speeds with relation to C might as well use their invariant mass.
What jobs can I get with a computer science degree that are NOT mainly programming jobs?
A lot of jobs you could get with any or no degree: financial services; screenwriter; salesman; etceta. If a job doesn't require a specific degree, and few do (accounting, law, medical fields, anything that requires certification), then you could probably get involved even if it's unrelated.
Didn't the CEO just fall victim to identity theft?
There has been one confirmed case of a $500 loan via ID-theft of their CEO. There are 25 other disputed cases. According to the company, as of last month 105 of Lifelock's customers have been victims of identity theft. Which is 0.01% of their customers.
I started a mail delivery system that relied on a complicated hierarchy of mostly management, lawyers, and other high level executives, leaving only 10% of the money that the business earned actually going to pay people who delivered the mail.
Why is that relevant? Either their business model for selling things is good or it is bad. When you bring up arguments like this, you are implicitly saying (and I doubt you mean based on the rest of your comments): Enforcement of copyright laws would allow the RIAA and its member companies to continue to exist, so the copyright laws should be ignored for the greater good of destroying an industry that treats its workers like shit.
I'm shocked and disgusted that this new "e-mail" system gives my service away for free, and I'm going to use all of my bloated hierarchy's power to get a mail tax levied on all devices with a MAC address produced from here until Kingdom come!
That's a poor analogy. E-mail is a competing product. Note that the RIAA, as much as it wants to, isn't advocating shutting down independent artists (the equivalent of e-mail in your analogy). They advocate people not making copies of their songs. More like the mail provider who is upset people are duplicating his stamps on photocopiers. It's a loss of revenue that he would otherwise get, from people using his product. You may claim that the lack of a marginal cost is a distinction, but I fail to understand why. The fixed costs still need to be amortized over many sales to be worthwhile.
If the market says the way you distribute media has no value, guess what! You don't get paid.
The market doesn't say that. CDs still sell. But, guess what, counterfit goods always have a market. That doesn't mean there is no market for Gucci bags.
Interesting position to put China in. Stop making knock-offs or we won't let you make any CD's. Of course, the RIAA could simply boycott China's production plants, but then they wouldn't have a law that forced them to go somewhere else, raise costs, and thus prices as they bitch about their own law.
And for that matter, the bit about security officials searching mp3 players for illegal music?
Not security. Customs. The people whose job is not to stop bombs from getting on a plane, but you from bringing bombs/drugs/other illegal things into the country.
I'd imagine that the "illegal music" thing is far more aimed at counties like Antigua, where US copyrights are, to some degree, invalid. And ensuring that those "rogue countries" cannot infect the rest of the world with their violations.
The only way to actually get breasts like that would be to make them completely massless
Actually, if they were massless, they would have more lift than helium. It's not as though helium has a negative mass. It has a postive mass less than air. So air goes underneath the balloon and pushes it up. With a massless ball, this effect is more pronounced.
Also, as a matter of fact, photons do have mass. They are affected by gravity at any rate, which I assume is the same thing.
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And, in some cities, the same calculations have led my friends to stop taking the subway and start driving as the rates have increased.
Which is a pity. I'm not going to advocate that they waste money, but the costs show a terrible misalignment of priorities.
Except that 95% of what is taught are exceptions to the grammatical/conjugation rules.
Excellent link! Guitar Tablature is the quintessential example of a clean room implementation.
How? Tab is generated from listening to the music (a copyrighted work). A derivative work is then created. A clean room design would be if the tab was based not on the music, but of a written discription of how the music made you feel.
Windows XP is out of print as of a week ago. So is it as "readily available from authorized sources" as you thought?
Yes. There are still plenty in the pipeline.
Well, I fully expect that AT&T et al will soon announce, for efficeny purposes, all calls/data will be routed through a station in Mexico/Canada. Hey, I bet the AG could then categorize them as "international" calls and spy on them!
The passengers were no doubt told to by the flight crew. Back then, the response that was trained was for the flight crew to cooperate fully (and convince the passangers to cooperate fully) with the hijackers. Later, after the statement, and either a peaceful or SWAT-type (once on the ground) ending, the people would go home. I don't believe they were entitled to sue the airline however, there was some statutory limitation (IIRC) that spelled out what monies they would recieve.
Well, during all those times the blood contained endometrial cells. All blood is not created equal. Well, all ways of bleeding are not created equal.
Interesting. That is all.
As the conventions say should happen.
I agree. However, not all prisoners at Gitmo were captured on the field of battle. Many were handed over to US forces. Hence, these people deserve a chance to prove their innocence. And the torture is patently offensive.
But the uniformed/not uniformed divide was supposed to distingush between spys/insurgents and soldiers. So, if they never tried to use their lack of regular uniforms to blend in (moving with identifiable groups, etc.) they should be treated as POWs.
Hey, that's paraphrasing me: Gates was brilliant to open development to all comers, but Jobs' need for control is crippling an otherwise highly advanced piece of electronics.
Did you read the article you linked for the bathroom. They claimed the price was so high because they were building it to withstand vandals; it sounds like you'll need a jackhammer to damage anything. You can say that using the same toilets as prisoners is insulting, but too expensive? Won't it save money in the long term?
The funding also is coming from the city, not Congress. It wasn't an earmark at all.
According to your link, the Iraq war costs 5 times as much as all the earmarks in the US combined. And that's not even factoring in that some earmarks are good. So keep going on and on about earmarks, and let military contractors bleed the government dry.
Or to put it another way, provide health care for 1,768 people
That's exactly the reason. With limit play, the size of the average hand one is not dependent on the size of your stack*. That is, there is no positive or negative feedback.
Obviously, when the size of the stack is below the maximum bet for a hand, this is no longer the case. But that's hardly a common case.
As far as I am aware, the Geneva conventions had (and still have?) no rules on how a country treats its own citizens. Several Nazi officials were put on trial for the Holocaust, under the general heading "war crimes".
Over the long term, both would stay fairly close to even. Or, to put it another way, play is perfect if taking no different move is to your benefit. When both players play perfectly, it is a Nash equilibrium.
An interesting note, even though they are of equal skill, one will likely be in the lead for the vast majority of the time.
The summary is poor in that it says it is impossible for a perfect player to lose. Given bad enough luck, a perfect player can lose their entire stack before they manage to win it back.
Actually, the US claims that since the captured people are not wearing uniforms, they are not soldiers, and thus protected by the Geneva Conventions. I know that the concept of "uniformed" is present in the Conventions. But regardless of whether technically the US is violating the Conventions, it does to violate the spirit.
That's not relevent. Germans were convicted after WWI and WWII. Milosavic was either conviceted or died immediately prior to it.
He won the election. You can complain about the Supreme Court ruling that led him to win the election. You can complain about voter disenfrancisment in Flordia that put it into the Supreme Court's hand. You can complain about the electoral college overruling the popular vote. But his declaration was only made (and not subsequently retracted) after the Supreme Court had handed him victory.
I am not a theoretical physicist. I'm concerned with how massive things are in relation to me. Hence, I consider photons as having mass, as the vast majority of them will be moving at fairly close to C. Whereas, airplanes, since they are moving at incredibly small speeds with relation to C might as well use their invariant mass.
A lot of jobs you could get with any or no degree: financial services; screenwriter; salesman; etceta. If a job doesn't require a specific degree, and few do (accounting, law, medical fields, anything that requires certification), then you could probably get involved even if it's unrelated.
There has been one confirmed case of a $500 loan via ID-theft of their CEO. There are 25 other disputed cases. According to the company, as of last month 105 of Lifelock's customers have been victims of identity theft. Which is 0.01% of their customers.
Why is that relevant? Either their business model for selling things is good or it is bad. When you bring up arguments like this, you are implicitly saying (and I doubt you mean based on the rest of your comments): Enforcement of copyright laws would allow the RIAA and its member companies to continue to exist, so the copyright laws should be ignored for the greater good of destroying an industry that treats its workers like shit.
That's a poor analogy. E-mail is a competing product. Note that the RIAA, as much as it wants to, isn't advocating shutting down independent artists (the equivalent of e-mail in your analogy). They advocate people not making copies of their songs. More like the mail provider who is upset people are duplicating his stamps on photocopiers. It's a loss of revenue that he would otherwise get, from people using his product. You may claim that the lack of a marginal cost is a distinction, but I fail to understand why. The fixed costs still need to be amortized over many sales to be worthwhile.
The market doesn't say that. CDs still sell. But, guess what, counterfit goods always have a market. That doesn't mean there is no market for Gucci bags.
Interesting position to put China in. Stop making knock-offs or we won't let you make any CD's. Of course, the RIAA could simply boycott China's production plants, but then they wouldn't have a law that forced them to go somewhere else, raise costs, and thus prices as they bitch about their own law.
Not security. Customs. The people whose job is not to stop bombs from getting on a plane, but you from bringing bombs/drugs/other illegal things into the country.
I'd imagine that the "illegal music" thing is far more aimed at counties like Antigua, where US copyrights are, to some degree, invalid. And ensuring that those "rogue countries" cannot infect the rest of the world with their violations.
As far as I knew, they had their own version of a take-down notice, and insisted that various companies search for their knockoffs online.
Actually, if they were massless, they would have more lift than helium. It's not as though helium has a negative mass. It has a postive mass less than air. So air goes underneath the balloon and pushes it up. With a massless ball, this effect is more pronounced.
Also, as a matter of fact, photons do have mass. They are affected by gravity at any rate, which I assume is the same thing.