American indians were called indians well before there was a cohesive political unit called India. American Indians were named originally by Columbus. Learn history before you go spouting off.
I may be talking out of my ass, but it sounds lika you had an encryption/compression collision. If you encrypt data it makes it more random; and the point of compression is to use the patterns to make things less random.
The point: maybe the randomness becomes to great when you run too much encryption.
I was not responding to the merits of piracy in itself, I was using the analogy of the GP to show him how book stores DO let you spend absurd amounts of time hanging out there and reading; and how that helps them sell books.
The point was that piracy can still help sales, despite the scope of it; however, I think the analogy is probably flawed.
I have spent many an hour at book stores just sitting and reading, Barnes and Nobles to be specific. And while I rarely buy from them, I do buy from them normally when I buy books. Same principle.
I would assume they already have done so. AMD has come out with chip advances that easily rival anything intel has done, I hope being partnered with IBM will increase that even more.
This means that Apple is either about to fuck over IBM or they are about to switch to AMD chips and the industry heard "intel" when what was said was "PC Architecture"
Your prejudice is blinding you.
We cannot currently prove that life does not exist on other planets. Given the possibility that life is extremely rare, and the conjecture that the extinction of life usually coincides with a cataclysm that also eradicates all evidence that it ever existed, it is possible to postulate a universe in which it is literally impossible to disprove that life has ever evolved on planets other than Earth.
The belief in something that cannot scientifically be disproven is called "religion".
Therefore, the belief in alien life is currently a religion, and may conceivably remain so for ever.
Why does that truth upset you so much? There's nothing wrong with religious belief, and as far as these things go, the belief in alien life has more of a scientific basis, and less of a violent history, than any other religion I can think of.
First let me note that I do not "believe" in aliens. I do however think there is a good chance that will will find life on other planets, assuming our race makes it that long. Secondly let me note that you are correct, it is impossible to prove that aliend hsve never existed. It is also impossible to prove a lot of negatives. This does not make a religion out of looking for life on other worlds.
The problem with declaring SETI to be a religion, on these grounds, is that Drakes Equation *CAN* be tested, only not with our current technology and data set. This is hugely different than being completely unable to be tested, i.e. creationism or a belief in god.
All he was doing was responding to the assertion that democratic countries automatically have the high ground morally. And doing a good job of showing said assertion to be patently untrue.
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Perhaps if you did not use right wing ideologues like front page mag as a source you would be more believable.
So people killed accidentally do not deserve condolences?
American indians were called indians well before there was a cohesive political unit called India. American Indians were named originally by Columbus.
Learn history before you go spouting off.
They were probably loose anyways.
Hate to say it but, imagine a beowolf cluster *with* these things
I may be talking out of my ass, but it sounds lika you had an encryption/compression collision. If you encrypt data it makes it more random; and the point of compression is to use the patterns to make things less random.
The point: maybe the randomness becomes to great when you run too much encryption.
But what was the last reality show you watched in reruns?
And wher do I find the old episodes? without cable.
What energy units are those numbers in?
I was not responding to the merits of piracy in itself, I was using the analogy of the GP to show him how book stores DO let you spend absurd amounts of time hanging out there and reading; and how that helps them sell books.
The point was that piracy can still help sales, despite the scope of it; however, I think the analogy is probably flawed.
I have spent many an hour at book stores just sitting and reading, Barnes and Nobles to be specific. And while I rarely buy from them, I do buy from them normally when I buy books. Same principle.
Have you even READ the terms of use?
most people I know just call it downloading music. The main source of the "theft" title for it is from companies that are affected by it.
I would assume they already have done so. AMD has come out with chip advances that easily rival anything intel has done, I hope being partnered with IBM will increase that even more.
exactly. How much is Microsoft currently invested in apple? I know it started at 500M or so.
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This means that Apple is either about to fuck over IBM or they are about to switch to AMD chips and the industry heard "intel" when what was said was "PC Architecture"
Your prejudice is blinding you. We cannot currently prove that life does not exist on other planets. Given the possibility that life is extremely rare, and the conjecture that the extinction of life usually coincides with a cataclysm that also eradicates all evidence that it ever existed, it is possible to postulate a universe in which it is literally impossible to disprove that life has ever evolved on planets other than Earth. The belief in something that cannot scientifically be disproven is called "religion". Therefore, the belief in alien life is currently a religion, and may conceivably remain so for ever. Why does that truth upset you so much? There's nothing wrong with religious belief, and as far as these things go, the belief in alien life has more of a scientific basis, and less of a violent history, than any other religion I can think of. First let me note that I do not "believe" in aliens. I do however think there is a good chance that will will find life on other planets, assuming our race makes it that long. Secondly let me note that you are correct, it is impossible to prove that aliend hsve never existed. It is also impossible to prove a lot of negatives. This does not make a religion out of looking for life on other worlds.
The problem with declaring SETI to be a religion, on these grounds, is that Drakes Equation *CAN* be tested, only not with our current technology and data set. This is hugely different than being completely unable to be tested, i.e. creationism or a belief in god.
And for some reason you trust the business that you send said check to more than the business that employs you.
Where is the difference?
Vasquez?
So you made up a definition and everyone else is wrong?
Why not just create an open gui standard?
It would not solve all of the problems, or even most, but it would bring systems so much closer.
No, do not tape it. Hash the serial, of the bill, with an easy to remember password to make a password.
All he was doing was responding to the assertion that democratic countries automatically have the high ground morally. And doing a good job of showing said assertion to be patently untrue.
Nice job putting words in his mouth though.
I think you are confusing "being alive" with "having a life", in one of these cases it is still possible to post on Slashdot.