It just doesn't go by the same name anymore. As far as I know, "Advanced Pick" was the last release of the Pick operating system, and they then released D3 for Linux and Windows NT. D3 is basically the pick database and development tools running on other operating systems.
Apparently Pick Systems has merged with another company now, because http://www.picksys.com pulls up the web page for "Raining Data", but you can find D3 there as well as a product called "Flash Connect", but of which I know where originally developed by Pick Systems.
They looked very mechanical. They were even translucent and you could see some "high-tech" looking parts moving around in there!
BTW, I thought they were aliens at first too and when I said something about them one of my friends said "I thought those were robots". We decided he was right. I think the only thing that made them seem like aliens was that their basic body shape fit with what we often see as aliens in other movies.
What are we comparing against when we say "more CD's"? If we are saying that these people buy "more CD's than they would have without Napster" then great, it sounds like Napster (and other programs) have a positive impact on people's tendency to buy.
On the other hand, if we are saying that Napster users buy "more CD's than people who don't use Napster" then we haven't really said anything at all. People that are more interested in music would be more likely to both download and buy music than people who aren't interested in music at all.
A year or so ago, I used to visit this message board that allowed user ids to have underscores. There was a big discussion one time about metal detectors.
One person said they wouldn't work that well, so the another guy (his user id was 'evil_genius') dared him to try to get a gun through a metal detector.
Of course, the guy got the gun through a metal detector, and got arrested. Since 'evil_genius' was stupid enough to suggest this, I feel like all people with underscores in their names are also this stupid.
The above was total bs, just like the original post.
So can my mail-delivered PC Banking ID's, my credit card statements, and a lot of other sensitive documents with important numbers. what's the going price for your latest CC statement?
I think the (at least mildly) disturbing thing is that most people would be far more willing to sell their vote than to sell their CC statement. No one would sell their CC statement because they value their money. But, a large number of people do not believe that their votes matter and therefore they don't feel like selling their vote is a big deal. Since the vote is worth nothing, anything you get in exchange for it would be worth the trade.
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I think what he means is...
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That there would be some type of confirmation screen where the user would see the list of candidates for which their vote was about to be cast. They could then either place their vote or they could go back and correct any mistakes.
This would also be useful for verifying that someone doesn't double-vote because it could prevent their vote from even being cast if it was not valid.
Who decides that the fetus is an actual threat to you? You are not allowed to shoot and kill just anyone because you think they might be going to make an attempt to kill you. So, in the case of a fetus, what evidence do you have that this fetus is a real, immediate threat to your life, not just a potential one.
All people are potential threats to your life, do you have a right to kill them all and justify it with "self-defense"?
Your analogies will never persuade anyone to your viewpoint because people that don't share your views will never understand your analogies. The determining factor as to whether or not abortion is murder is whether or not you believe that a fetus is a person. It has nothing to do with you having the right to determine what happens to your body.
The two examples you gave (the foot and the tapeworm) obviously do not classify as murder because neither a foot nor a tapeworm are a person and therefore cannot be murdered.
On the other side of the coin, take siamese twins as an extreme example. If there were two siamese twins (twin A and twin B) that were joined at the hip, most people would agree that twin A and twin B are two seperate people. I'll go out on a limb here and say it would be classified as murder if twin A killed twin B. In this case, it is obvious that these are two seperate people although they are physically joined.
No reasonable person would say that you do not have a choice about what to do with your body. The issue is whether or not the fetus inside you really classifies as part of you (the foot), a non-human being (the tapeworm), or another person that happens to temporarily share part of a body with you (the siamese twins). If that fetus is a person, then YES, abortion is murder. If that fetus is just a part of your body or not a human, then NO, abortion is not murder.
It really has nothing to do with your right to choose what happens to your body.
It looks like it might do what you want, I didn't look at it really closely. I was going to sign up and try it out, but the page says they are behind on new account creation and have disabled new signups until they catch up.
I understand that the other candidates got even less votes, but that still doesn't change the fact that there were more people opposed than against.
A runoff election or something might be used to narrow down candidates and eventually arrive at a winner. This might not be desirable though, since it would make the whole election process longer and more difficult to carry out.
The mathematical analysis is an interesting read, but how would you rationalize the fact that a candidate can be elected president even when there are more people opposed to the candidate than people that are for him/her.
The article you linked to pointed out that Clinton had less than 50% of the popular vote in 1992. This means that more people were against Clinton than for him.
In point #1 they point out that they are best equipped to install the OS, but then in point #3 they talk about how if they install it you would have the original CD so you can reinstall.
So, as a consumer, I'm qualified to reinstall but not to install?
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Since the whole point of encryption is to keep someone from being able to decrypt the data, it seems that a cracked encryption algorithm (such as the one with cue-cat) would be considered unsuccessful.
I think that following this logic would mean that any attempt at encrypting data (no matter how easy the algorithm is to crack) would automatically mean that your data was protected by law and anyone that could decrypt it would be stealing your intellectual property. In this case, what would be the point of developing more complex and harder to decrypt algorithms?
Maybe I'm a little off here, I don't know. In any event, this seems like a strange situation to me.
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Actually, the Staples store in my town has empty boxes, "for display only", of both XP Home Edition and XP Professional Edition.
It just doesn't go by the same name anymore. As far as I know, "Advanced Pick" was the last release of the Pick operating system, and they then released D3 for Linux and Windows NT. D3 is basically the pick database and development tools running on other operating systems.
Apparently Pick Systems has merged with another company now, because http://www.picksys.com pulls up the web page for "Raining Data", but you can find D3 there as well as a product called "Flash Connect", but of which I know where originally developed by Pick Systems.
If was using DSL mostly to commute and I left my job and had less cash laying around, I'd probably cancel the DSL too.
Those were totally robots, not aliens!
They looked very mechanical. They were even translucent and you could see some "high-tech" looking parts moving around in there!
BTW, I thought they were aliens at first too and when I said something about them one of my friends said "I thought those were robots". We decided he was right. I think the only thing that made them seem like aliens was that their basic body shape fit with what we often see as aliens in other movies.
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What are we comparing against when we say "more CD's"? If we are saying that these people buy "more CD's than they would have without Napster" then great, it sounds like Napster (and other programs) have a positive impact on people's tendency to buy.
On the other hand, if we are saying that Napster users buy "more CD's than people who don't use Napster" then we haven't really said anything at all. People that are more interested in music would be more likely to both download and buy music than people who aren't interested in music at all.
So, which one are we really proving here?
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Why in the world, moderators, would this be considered off-topic? I think the credibility of your source is always on-topic.
I got the same impression that stilwebm got when reading this article -- this person is probably not a very reliable source of information.
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but it should really be judged on the effects it has on the software itself, not the business of producing/selling it.
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hate the game.
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1 bug = 2 bucks = $2
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The only place I looked was on the head of a pin and there were too many dancing there for me to count.
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A year or so ago, I used to visit this message board that allowed user ids to have underscores. There was a big discussion one time about metal detectors.
One person said they wouldn't work that well, so the another guy (his user id was 'evil_genius') dared him to try to get a gun through a metal detector.
Of course, the guy got the gun through a metal detector, and got arrested. Since 'evil_genius' was stupid enough to suggest this, I feel like all people with underscores in their names are also this stupid.
The above was total bs, just like the original post.
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/503556.asp
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So can my mail-delivered PC Banking ID's, my credit card statements, and a lot of other sensitive documents with important numbers. what's the going price for your latest CC statement?
I think the (at least mildly) disturbing thing is that most people would be far more willing to sell their vote than to sell their CC statement. No one would sell their CC statement because they value their money. But, a large number of people do not believe that their votes matter and therefore they don't feel like selling their vote is a big deal. Since the vote is worth nothing, anything you get in exchange for it would be worth the trade.
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That there would be some type of confirmation screen where the user would see the list of candidates for which their vote was about to be cast. They could then either place their vote or they could go back and correct any mistakes.
This would also be useful for verifying that someone doesn't double-vote because it could prevent their vote from even being cast if it was not valid.
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"Since all reasonable women agree that abortion is a proper solution to unwanted pregnancy, there is no legal controversy."
Who decides if a woman (or group of women with a similar belief) is reasonable?
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Who decides that the fetus is an actual threat to you? You are not allowed to shoot and kill just anyone because you think they might be going to make an attempt to kill you. So, in the case of a fetus, what evidence do you have that this fetus is a real, immediate threat to your life, not just a potential one.
All people are potential threats to your life, do you have a right to kill them all and justify it with "self-defense"?
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Your analogies will never persuade anyone to your viewpoint because people that don't share your views will never understand your analogies. The determining factor as to whether or not abortion is murder is whether or not you believe that a fetus is a person. It has nothing to do with you having the right to determine what happens to your body.
The two examples you gave (the foot and the tapeworm) obviously do not classify as murder because neither a foot nor a tapeworm are a person and therefore cannot be murdered.
On the other side of the coin, take siamese twins as an extreme example. If there were two siamese twins (twin A and twin B) that were joined at the hip, most people would agree that twin A and twin B are two seperate people. I'll go out on a limb here and say it would be classified as murder if twin A killed twin B. In this case, it is obvious that these are two seperate people although they are physically joined.
No reasonable person would say that you do not have a choice about what to do with your body. The issue is whether or not the fetus inside you really classifies as part of you (the foot), a non-human being (the tapeworm), or another person that happens to temporarily share part of a body with you (the siamese twins). If that fetus is a person, then YES, abortion is murder. If that fetus is just a part of your body or not a human, then NO, abortion is not murder.
It really has nothing to do with your right to choose what happens to your body.
Just my $.02.
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I just found this site with a google search.
It looks like it might do what you want, I didn't look at it really closely. I was going to sign up and try it out, but the page says they are behind on new account creation and have disabled new signups until they catch up.
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Yeah, just like "data-base" huh?
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I typed"more people opposed than against" where I meant "more people opposed than in favor"
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I understand that the other candidates got even less votes, but that still doesn't change the fact that there were more people opposed than against.
A runoff election or something might be used to narrow down candidates and eventually arrive at a winner. This might not be desirable though, since it would make the whole election process longer and more difficult to carry out.
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The mathematical analysis is an interesting read, but how would you rationalize the fact that a candidate can be elected president even when there are more people opposed to the candidate than people that are for him/her.
The article you linked to pointed out that Clinton had less than 50% of the popular vote in 1992. This means that more people were against Clinton than for him.
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In point #1 they point out that they are best equipped to install the OS, but then in point #3 they talk about how if they install it you would have the original CD so you can reinstall.
So, as a consumer, I'm qualified to reinstall but not to install?
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Since the whole point of encryption is to keep someone from being able to decrypt the data, it seems that a cracked encryption algorithm (such as the one with cue-cat) would be considered unsuccessful.
I think that following this logic would mean that any attempt at encrypting data (no matter how easy the algorithm is to crack) would automatically mean that your data was protected by law and anyone that could decrypt it would be stealing your intellectual property. In this case, what would be the point of developing more complex and harder to decrypt algorithms?
Maybe I'm a little off here, I don't know. In any event, this seems like a strange situation to me.
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