Ex post facto laws (making laws retroactive) are illegal as per the Constitution.
Ex post facto is a technical term in law, and does not have its literal meaning. Only particular kinds of retroactive laws are ex post facto laws. Neither extending or shrinking copyright terms retroactively would be ex post facto.
Other than that, simplicity of implementation. I can knock out a bubble sort without thinking, whereas anything else requires actually looking something up.
If you need to look up straight selection sort, you've got problems. It is simpler than Bubble Sort, and it is twice as fast.
Speaking of games, that's the one really glaring hole in the Mac today. As far as I can tell, there is no major MMORPG for the Mac. I read in an interview somewhere with Mark Jacobs of Mythic that they would consider a Mac port of Dark Age of Camelot, but they don't have the time or resources now. Apple should contact Mythic and offer to loan them some Mac programmers to get DAoC running on the Mac. Mythic had the smoothest MMORPG launch in history with DAoC, so would be a good choice for the first major Mac MMORPG, and once they are onboard, and people see that the Mac is a viable MMORPG platform, others might come aboard.
I'm serious...do not underestimate the importance of MMORPGs, both new ones and getting the existing ones ported.
The thing about MMORPGs is that they are highly social. When some kid is asking for a new computer for Christmas, and all their friends are playing an MMORPG under Windows, that kid is going to ask for a PC. Even if Apple wins back the schools from Dell, the kid is not going to care that having a Mac at home will fit in better with the school Macs...the kid is going to want to play that MMORPG with his friends.
Here's an experiment you should try. Find 10 Apple employees who are interested in fantasy games, and who long time Mac users, who never even look at PCs. Put a reasonably high end PC with a good video card on each of their desks, and set them up with an Everquest account, and tell them to play. Tell them Apple wants to figure out if MMORPGs are worth encouraging on the Mac. After one month, take their PCs away on a Friday. I'd bet by Monday, half of them will have PCs at home. That is how addicting a game like Everquest is.
No. The article a while back was about using sequences of images as a password. This one is about using a sequence of points within an image as a password.
This bill is a pretty blatant attempt to extend government power way beyond Constitutional limits, and the fact that several congresspeople would sign on is frightening...definitely makes me think it might be time to get a gun, just in case.
I'm not sure, however, that Congress and the big media corporations are the only ones who could stand to spend some time on the wrong end of a gun. I installed a Gnutella client the other day, and spent a while watching what people were searching for. Fair Use my ass...it's pretty obvious that most people are using P2P for piracy. While I don't like draconian government solutions to problems, equal blame should fall on those who create the problem in the first place.
Will this thing let me use Yahoo Companion on Linux? For those who haven't seen it, Yahoo Companion is a toolbar that gives quick access to various Yahoo things. The thing that I really like is that it has its own bookmarks manager, that lets you do the usual things (add, organize into folders, etc).
Why use this instead of the browser's bookmarks, I hear you ask? Because YC stores the bookmarks on a Yahoo server. This means that when I add an interesting bookmark at work, for example, it is there in my bookmarks when I browse from home.
So why would the government of Germany want their citizens to talk without knowing what they arte talking about? In itself it doesn't make sense.
The only possible anser is that they have developed a high speed decryption computer, and can read everything. They feel people will feel safer sending emails, and give away more.
Maybe they are getting ready for WW III, and don't want the embarassment of having their encryption totally cracked again.
I've got a SunBlade 1000 sitting in my office that is used for air quality models. When you've got some serious number crunching to do, a PC is lame.
That was true up to the late 1990's. Today, it is not. A P4 blows away a SunBlade 1000 for both integer and floating point number crunching. In fact, go check the SPEC results. P4 is faster than any Sun workstation. If you want to beat a P4, you need to be talking to IBM, not Sun.
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The challenging aspect of google whacking is not in finding the pages, but rather is bringing yourself to go see what is on the page. E.g., it was easy to find pedophiliac regurgitation, but I'm not sure I want to click that link.
We get a big benefit for the US version of this tax:
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement
of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution
of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording
medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium,
or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or
medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical
recordings.
17 USC 1008.
Libertanariasm (as in the political party of that name in the US, not the general philosophy) is based on the idea that the ideal form of government for Gilligan's Island scales up to entire countries.
How the heck is this a knock off of the LCD iMac? The Profile 3 is an all-in-one LCD machine. The profile 4 is an all-in-one LCD machine with a slimer design. The Profile 3 was out long before the LCD iMac. If the Profile 4 is keeping the Profile 3's physical layout of having all the components housed in the same housing as the LCD, unlike the iMac's housing of everything in a separate base.
Obvious to those of us who play GTA3 regularly but still manage to overcome the urge to plough over pedestrains on the way to work in the morning, but good to see someone high up showing some sense
That's a pretty silly remark. You are assuming that your reaction to GTA3 is the only foreseable effect.
This is not surprising. The net has grown way faster than bandwidth costs have fallen. This means that for any given level of bandwidth, the percentage of the net population required to consume all your bandwidth has fallen.
The problem IBM would have would be demonstrating any link between Microsoft and OS/2's failure on the desktop, because IBM did such a poor job of trying to promote OS/2.
Many people don't find digital better for movies. Keep in mind that movies are trying to provide the illusion of motion. Their success depends on taking advantage of certain properties of the human visual system. At least some people feel that the analog projectors are better at this.
Blakestah, stop posting and go read the article. You keep making points that the article points out are common mistakes.
For example, you say you can write Java bytecode compilers for other languages. However, what you overlook is that that doesn't enable you to use components from those other languages in Java, nor does it enable those languages to use Java components. The key to using components from other languages is not compiling the languages to the same bytecode...it is using the same object model.
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I don't see how shorter copyright terms help with any of the problems most people are complaining about.
Ex post facto is a technical term in law, and does not have its literal meaning. Only particular kinds of retroactive laws are ex post facto laws. Neither extending or shrinking copyright terms retroactively would be ex post facto.
If you need to look up straight selection sort, you've got problems. It is simpler than Bubble Sort, and it is twice as fast.
Speaking of games, that's the one really glaring hole in the Mac today. As far as I can tell, there is no major MMORPG for the Mac. I read in an interview somewhere with Mark Jacobs of Mythic that they would consider a Mac port of Dark Age of Camelot, but they don't have the time or resources now. Apple should contact Mythic and offer to loan them some Mac programmers to get DAoC running on the Mac. Mythic had the smoothest MMORPG launch in history with DAoC, so would be a good choice for the first major Mac MMORPG, and once they are onboard, and people see that the Mac is a viable MMORPG platform, others might come aboard.
I'm serious...do not underestimate the importance of MMORPGs, both new ones and getting the existing ones ported.
The thing about MMORPGs is that they are highly social. When some kid is asking for a new computer for Christmas, and all their friends are playing an MMORPG under Windows, that kid is going to ask for a PC. Even if Apple wins back the schools from Dell, the kid is not going to care that having a Mac at home will fit in better with the school Macs...the kid is going to want to play that MMORPG with his friends.
Here's an experiment you should try. Find 10 Apple employees who are interested in fantasy games, and who long time Mac users, who never even look at PCs. Put a reasonably high end PC with a good video card on each of their desks, and set them up with an Everquest account, and tell them to play. Tell them Apple wants to figure out if MMORPGs are worth encouraging on the Mac. After one month, take their PCs away on a Friday. I'd bet by Monday, half of them will have PCs at home. That is how addicting a game like Everquest is.
No. The article a while back was about using sequences of images as a password. This one is about using a sequence of points within an image as a password.
The amazing thing is that it is version 1.8. It took the combined intellects of Sun, Microsoft, and AT&T 8 tries to get two lines right?
I'm not sure, however, that Congress and the big media corporations are the only ones who could stand to spend some time on the wrong end of a gun. I installed a Gnutella client the other day, and spent a while watching what people were searching for. Fair Use my ass...it's pretty obvious that most people are using P2P for piracy. While I don't like draconian government solutions to problems, equal blame should fall on those who create the problem in the first place.
Why use this instead of the browser's bookmarks, I hear you ask? Because YC stores the bookmarks on a Yahoo server. This means that when I add an interesting bookmark at work, for example, it is there in my bookmarks when I browse from home.
The only possible anser is that they have developed a high speed decryption computer, and can read everything. They feel people will feel safer sending emails, and give away more.
Maybe they are getting ready for WW III, and don't want the embarassment of having their encryption totally cracked again.
Take a look at this firm of mostly female lawyers: bitches from hell.
When you've got some serious number crunching to do, a PC is lame.
That was true up to the late 1990's. Today, it is not. A P4 blows away a SunBlade 1000 for both integer and floating point number crunching. In fact, go check the SPEC results. P4 is faster than any Sun workstation. If you want to beat a P4, you need to be talking to IBM, not Sun.
The challenging aspect of google whacking is not in finding the pages, but rather is bringing yourself to go see what is on the page. E.g., it was easy to find pedophiliac regurgitation, but I'm not sure I want to click that link.
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings. 17 USC 1008.
This bug was not reported on Bugtraq yesterday. In fact, it's not been mentioned on Bugtraq at all yet.
Libertanariasm (as in the political party of that name in the US, not the general philosophy) is based on the idea that the ideal form of government for Gilligan's Island scales up to entire countries.
Calling this a knock off is just stupid.
That's a pretty silly remark. You are assuming that your reaction to GTA3 is the only foreseable effect.
Intel has them beat on the workstation end, slightly in absolute performance, and massively in price/performance ratio.
Microsoft is about to give Java a major ass kicking with .NET.
They aren't in danger of going under or anything like that, but they've got attacks coming in on all fronts, so should be getting a bit nervous.
This is not surprising. The net has grown way faster than bandwidth costs have fallen. This means that for any given level of bandwidth, the percentage of the net population required to consume all your bandwidth has fallen.
How is it different from a video store? Video stores have permission.
The problem IBM would have would be demonstrating any link between Microsoft and OS/2's failure on the desktop, because IBM did such a poor job of trying to promote OS/2.
Try actually reading the question. The complaint is not about blacklists in general, but rather about poorly administered blacklists.
Many people don't find digital better for movies. Keep in mind that movies are trying to provide the illusion of motion. Their success depends on taking advantage of certain properties of the human visual system. At least some people feel that the analog projectors are better at this.
Here's a link to an article that explains it.
For example, you say you can write Java bytecode compilers for other languages. However, what you overlook is that that doesn't enable you to use components from those other languages in Java, nor does it enable those languages to use Java components. The key to using components from other languages is not compiling the languages to the same bytecode...it is using the same object model.