Internet Service Provider is a buzzword?
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So ISP is a buzzword? ISP is the correct descriptive title for companies like Earthlink, Mindspring, etc. Isn't that a little like saying "computer" and "the Internet" are buzzwords? I always thought words like e-commerce and synergistic were buzzwords.. What makes a buzzword a buzzword?
Re:Technically, it doesn't even limit government
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Is it just my flawed understanding, or is this becuase the states gave some of their powers to the federal government?
If when you say "gave to the federal government," you actually mean "lost to the government during the Civil War," then yes, you would be correct!
Mozilla still takes 20+ seconds to startup on my PC. I wouldn't call that fast. All other browsers take under 5. And yes, I am using the latest version.
What on earth are you doing with it? Do you have a Pentium 90? I have two computers.. Mozilla takes 6 seconds to start up on my Celeron 366 in Linux, and takes 2 seconds on my Athlon in Windows. This is with 0.9.8.
Netscape is also faster and less "crashy" than IE.
Personally I haven't found this to be the case.
I've found Netscape(4) to be marginally faster, but much crashier than IE. Netscape 6 I haven't used, outside of Mozilla form.
IM - is a world of divided standards, so you can only talk to AOL users if you're an AOL user, MSN if your an MSN user, etc.
What was the formerly compelling IM client that was replaced by all of these? talk(1)?
Not talk, try IRC instead. Where many different clients should all talk to one another easily because they used the same protocol. Unfortunately, IRC didn't scale well server-side, and the existance of different networks are as much a hindrance for the IRC newbie as they are a help...
Of course, a problem with this argument is also that if the CDs were destroyed in the fire, then he has no way of proving he had those CDs, and that those CDs were the ones destroyed.
What makes the book special is its language and the amazing detail with all the linguistics, anthropology, mythology, poetry, genealogy, geology, etc that J.R.R. Tolkien spent many years researching.
Then the Silmarillion must, of course, be the better book by far! But a good novel it is not. There were times in the LOTR where I couldn't put the book down, even after the twentieth reading. But I could put the Silmarillion down at any random paragraph.
The Silmarillion seemed to have different aims from the Lord of the Rings. LotR is a deep involving story which focuses on solid interesting characters. The Silmarillion, however, seems laid out as if it were more of a history book. A very interesting history book true, but it doesn't involve the reader as much with characters as the Lord of the Rings does.
It seemed that the ring he had was a magic ring; it made you invisible! He had heard of such things, of course, in old, old tales; but it was hard to believe that he really had found one.
From Plato's Republic, Book VII, Glaucon speaking to Socrates (Trans. Francis MacDonald Conford):
How true that is, we shall best see if we imagine two men, one just, the other unjust, given full license to do whatever they like, and then follow them to observe where each will be led by his desires. We shall catch the just man taking the same road as the unjust; he will be moved by self-interest, the which is natural to every creature to pursue as good, until forcibly turned aside by law and custom to respect the principle of equality.
Now, the easiest way to give them that complete liberty of action would be to imagine them possessed of the talisman found by Gyges, the ancestor of the famous Lydian. The story tells how he was a shepherd in the King's service. One day there was a great storm, and the ground where his flock was feeding was rent by an earthquake. Astonished at the sight, he went down into the chasm and saw, among other wonders of which the story tells, a brazen horse, hollow, with windows in its sides. Peering in, he saw a dead body, which seemed to be of more than human size. It was naked save for a gold ring, which he took from the finger and made his way out. When the shepherds met, as they did every month, to send an account to the King of the state of his flocks, Gyges came wearing the ring. As he was sitting with the others, he happened to turn the bezel [collar of metal in which a jewel is set] of the ring inside his hand. At once he became invisible, and his companions, to his surprise, began to speak of him as if he had left them. Then, as he was fingering the ring, he turned the bezel outwards and became visible again. With that, he set about testing the ring to see if it really had this powerm and always with the same result: according as he turned the bezel inside or out he vanished and reappeared. After this discovery he contrived to be one of the messengers sent to the court. There, he seduced the Queen, and with her help murdered the King and seized the throne.
Now suppose there were two such magic rings, and one were given to the just man, the other to the unjust. No one, it is commonly believed, would have such iron strength of mind as to stand fast in doing right...
Hobbits, in fact, were the only creatures who had the kind of spirit to resist the lure of the One Ring, and even they broke down eventually.
I learned the above excerpt back in a class I took in UC Davis, an english class studying the medieval origins of J.R.R. Tolkien's and C.S. Lewis's work. Very interesting overall.
Sorry this is complete BS. Why should a game cost more than a music CD?
Because a good game takes far more time and money to make than a CD? You're greatly underestimating the time and money put into a game. Hell, there used to be a number of games in Red Book format -- they were released as music CDs, with the first track being the game data.
1) You are allowed to cite an excerpt of a work, according to copyright law. He was not plagiarizing, so he's in the clear with that.
2) What dictionary.com says you're allowed to do with the site is meaningless. They could ask you to wear blue socks and stand on your head, it would still not change what you're legally allowed to do with site content.
Why is it that I much prefer my Dreamcast's graphics to the x-box or gamecube?
Give it time. The X-Box and gamecube haven't been out for very long, and it seems like the first crop of games that go through a console are fairly rushed and of middling quality. I would certainly wait awhile before judging the X-Box or Gamecube's graphics, at least until game designers have time to innovate.
And finally, yes, you have a license to the content of a book. Do you think you own the publishing rights when you buy a copy? You need to get the whole "bundle of rights" concept straight, buddy
Umm, no, absolutely wrong. You may not publish the contents of a book because that has been specifically forbidden by copyright law, not because you have agreed to some sort of license set by the book or publishing company. There is no license for book readings. The situation with licenses for commercial software is actually a rarity in the business world, a practice which greedy companies in other sectors would LOVE to be able to adopt.
No, bonehead, it's irony that he speaks up for the EFF in a medium which many parts of are sympathetic to or owned by the backers of the DMCA. It's pretty gutsy of Wil to do this. Typically those who take political stands against what the heads want have a tough row to hoe.
I thought it kindof interesting that he sortof shied away from some of the EFF's efforts in that area.. mostly he described them as fighting for online privacy rights, something most studios I think don't have a problem with.
I notice you so slighly chose not to comment of American leftists who have killed Americans, or have you guys finally decided to disown the Black Panthers and the Weathermen and Ayers?
What, do you think anyone left of center is a blood brother in a big gang, all for one, one for all? Of course leftists have killed people. A number of ring-wingers have killed folks too. You can have violent extremists at either end of the spectrum, and neither colors either the left or right as a whole.
They are around 14 years old, and they just LOVE Linux. (Not enough to use it, mind you over 70% of slashdot's readership uses Internet Explorer)
Well, I think a lot of this is the result of people spending a -lot- of time at work reading Slashdot instead of working (I know I used to when I had the most boring job ever), where they have to use Windows.
Plus, setting up an ID for everybody is a beginning. Once everybody is counted, it is easy to add more and more "requirements to be a citizen". I'm not sure where you are, but here in America, being a citizen is something granted by birth, and is a right, not something you have to do something for.
That would require a constitutional amendment to change, as I believe citizenship is defined in there, and you can believe that would be hard to push through.
There were four shorts produced for Sesame Street about a decade ago, illustrating basic principles such as "Surprise," "Light and Heavy" (which is the one you're thinking of), "Front and Back," and "Up and Down."
However, under windows at least, the new sorenson codec has been "jumpy" for me, maybe "pulse-y" would be a better adjective; The sound is good, but the video comes in surges.
I wonder if that's the problem with Sorenson or simply a problem with the original capture. My video capture card used to have some problems like that recording at certain resolutions in uncompressed AVI.
Well, currently Pixar hates Disney. They want to end their contract with Disney ASAP.
Which is why they recently (well, sortof recently) signed a contract with Disney to do several more movies? One coming out in 2003, and a few more afterwards.
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If when you say "gave to the federal government," you actually mean "lost to the government during the Civil War," then yes, you would be correct!
What on earth are you doing with it? Do you have a Pentium 90? I have two computers.. Mozilla takes 6 seconds to start up on my Celeron 366 in Linux, and takes 2 seconds on my Athlon in Windows. This is with 0.9.8.
Personally I haven't found this to be the case.I've found Netscape(4) to be marginally faster, but much crashier than IE. Netscape 6 I haven't used, outside of Mozilla form.
What was the formerly compelling IM client that was replaced by all of these? talk(1)?
Not talk, try IRC instead. Where many different clients should all talk to one another easily because they used the same protocol. Unfortunately, IRC didn't scale well server-side, and the existance of different networks are as much a hindrance for the IRC newbie as they are a help...
The Silmarillion seemed to have different aims from the Lord of the Rings. LotR is a deep involving story which focuses on solid interesting characters. The Silmarillion, however, seems laid out as if it were more of a history book. A very interesting history book true, but it doesn't involve the reader as much with characters as the Lord of the Rings does.
From Plato's Republic, Book VII, Glaucon speaking to Socrates (Trans. Francis MacDonald Conford):
Hobbits, in fact, were the only creatures who had the kind of spirit to resist the lure of the One Ring, and even they broke down eventually.
I learned the above excerpt back in a class I took in UC Davis, an english class studying the medieval origins of J.R.R. Tolkien's and C.S. Lewis's work. Very interesting overall.
Heh, Diablo I actually came bundled with my D-Link ethernet card two years ago (along with Warcraft II). Somewhat amusing...
Because a good game takes far more time and money to make than a CD? You're greatly underestimating the time and money put into a game. Hell, there used to be a number of games in Red Book format -- they were released as music CDs, with the first track being the game data.
1) You are allowed to cite an excerpt of a work, according to copyright law. He was not plagiarizing, so he's in the clear with that.
2) What dictionary.com says you're allowed to do with the site is meaningless. They could ask you to wear blue socks and stand on your head, it would still not change what you're legally allowed to do with site content.
Do you think that it would have made much difference had Gore been president?
I certainly don't, especially when you consider what his wife used to do in that area.
Give it time. The X-Box and gamecube haven't been out for very long, and it seems like the first crop of games that go through a console are fairly rushed and of middling quality. I would certainly wait awhile before judging the X-Box or Gamecube's graphics, at least until game designers have time to innovate.
Umm, no, absolutely wrong. You may not publish the contents of a book because that has been specifically forbidden by copyright law, not because you have agreed to some sort of license set by the book or publishing company. There is no license for book readings. The situation with licenses for commercial software is actually a rarity in the business world, a practice which greedy companies in other sectors would LOVE to be able to adopt.
Well, Troi was there for a reason.
Too bad he didn't use his exit interview to plug the cause again.
Maybe he did, but the exit comments are obviously edited. If he mentioned them again, it would probably have been cut.
No, bonehead, it's irony that he speaks up for the EFF in a medium which many parts of are sympathetic to or owned by the backers of the DMCA. It's pretty gutsy of Wil to do this. Typically those who take political stands against what the heads want have a tough row to hoe.
I thought it kindof interesting that he sortof shied away from some of the EFF's efforts in that area.. mostly he described them as fighting for online privacy rights, something most studios I think don't have a problem with.
I don't normally watch the show except during commercials on the other channel, but yes she did seem especially bitchy tonight especially to Wil.
Probably because he tried to "take her on."
What, do you think anyone left of center is a blood brother in a big gang, all for one, one for all? Of course leftists have killed people. A number of ring-wingers have killed folks too. You can have violent extremists at either end of the spectrum, and neither colors either the left or right as a whole.
Well, I think a lot of this is the result of people spending a -lot- of time at work reading Slashdot instead of working (I know I used to when I had the most boring job ever), where they have to use Windows.
That would require a constitutional amendment to change, as I believe citizenship is defined in there, and you can believe that would be hard to push through.
I wonder if that's the problem with Sorenson or simply a problem with the original capture. My video capture card used to have some problems like that recording at certain resolutions in uncompressed AVI.
Which is why they recently (well, sortof recently) signed a contract with Disney to do several more movies? One coming out in 2003, and a few more afterwards.