I dunno... I use the center wheel for weapons selection and toggling alternate fire (button 3). I get the feeling that if the wheel flopped to the left and right, I'd probably get myself fragged in those positions where my primary weapon has gone dry in a nasty firefight and I have to drop to the pistol. And a trackball seems even less useful for this...
I am sure that the Linux (in my case FreeBSD) RAM-sharing system is a lot more efficient than the Windows one,
I'm amazed that nobody has jumped on this little gem yet. Am I reading this wrong, or is he saying that FreeBSD is a Linux distribution? News to a lot of people, I'm sure.
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The First Amendment doesn't say that you have the right to advocate hate crimes, belittle or verbally abuse people, or tell people how and where and when to blow up a major government building/person.
No, no, no. You've got it backwards. The First Amendment doesn't allow me to speak, it forbids the government from abridging my speech. It doesn't say a damned thing about what I am or am not allowed to speak about. The Constitution is a restraint on government power, not a list of things we're allowed to do. This view that the Constitution enumerates our rights flies in the face of historical evidence on the intent of the founders of this country, and is only going to worsen the problems we're having.
What I want to know is, what happens if you predict an attack, buy futures for it, and then the government uses that prediction to actually prevent the attack? Doesn't that mean that the attack didn't take place and therefore you didn't predict it?
If you are doing something new or different, that's a different matter.
That's the scary bit there, though. Being innovative and creative now entails running the risk of having your butt reamed by the legal system. If you have to fight a case all the way to the Supreme Court to get an answer to the question "Can I do this?", the answer is "NO". Faced with that, I think some who might otherwise be inspired to do something new and interesting (or dare I say it, useful) would rather not bother.
If we all become dependent on "Intellectual Property" for a living, we're going to have to knock off a few monopolistic giants first. Good luck on that one.
So... Just to make sure I'm absolutely clear on this...
You've got your north-south magnetic domains. Right now they're aligned parallel to the platter, but they're talking here about aligning them perpendicular to the platter?
A recent comic even had Dilbert noticing that he wasn't even qualified for his own job any more.
Funny, I read that one as a comment on the absurdly inflated requirements listed in job postings these days, not that he was actually unfit for the job he was doing.
Although to be fair there's probably an arms race between the hiring managers and the buzzword-weilding resume-writers occuring.
I heard that myself, was rather amused. Here's my take...
If ClearChannel eats all the radio stations in, say Jackson... Where will the faithful turn for their Bible talk? I think he's got a personal stake here.
That said, you're right on the money with rally cars. If I had to buy a car, I would *so* want a WRX as my daily driver.
I was thinking the same thing until I heard the Magliozzis pan the WRX on Car Talk one Saturday morning. Apparently it's absolutely gutless unless you wind it up enough for the turbo to kick in, which is not something you'd really want to do at every intersection. Afraid I'll have to pass and go with an Impreza Outback instead.
What was really amusing was that apparently the integrator in the physics engine would tend to explode, because if you got stopped quickly enough (say by an immovable object), your car would be launched into the stratosphere...
No, they'll hire more bodyguards, become more reclusive and disconnected from reality, and get even more restrictive and privacy-destroying legislation rammed down our throats to protect their own precious fannies.
The golden rule, remember. Those who have the gold make the rules.
How are they going to collect the fines if a quarter of the population is in jail and not earning a wage? Does anyone up there realize what that would do to the economy? Hint: the dot-com bust would look like a golden age.
Or we don't choose to live in the middle of the bullseye for every American-hating whacko in the world. Although it may be the armpit of the country, terrorism ain't high on my list of concerns in Mississippi.
Oh, I'm quite aware they'd lose the case if they took it all the way to trial... If they had indications that they wouldn't get a settlement, they'd drop it like they did the suit against Dr. Felten. We've seen this before.
Well, the think I found interesting is they said, and I try to quote as closely as I can the guy I heard on NPR, "We will go after users making substantial amounts of copyrighted material available on their personal computers."
My question is... Will they be paying attention to whose copyright the files are under when they serve the legal papers? My bet is no. If you're sharing a massive amount of files, but you have the copyright on them, they're implying that you're just as much in danger as if you were sharing a large amount of their material. And that's exactly what they want people to think. That you have to go through them to distribute music, period.
Why does the image of launching a suit appeal to me?
Suit: Um... What are you doing with that... Thing? Tech: Oh, nothing... Just stand right there and wait for the cron job to kick off. Suit: "Cron" what???
Device: *poomf!* Suit: Aieeeee! Laws of physics: *splat!*
The GPL is more necessary, I think, for the point at which software leaves copyright and enters the public domain. Software released under the GPL is guaranteed to include the source so that if/when the software enters the public domain, future generations can still build on it. As far as I know, there's nothing keeping a proprietary software author from "losing" the source just before copyright is supposed to expire on a piece of software. In fact, I'd be surprised if this hasn't already happened with a lot of abandonware. As long as the law sees the binaries and the source as seperable items, we're going to have this problem with software. The GPL is, in essence, a way to create a legally-enforcible link between the two.
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Probably more funny in the UK and Australia than in the US though. Unless you wanted to pronounce it "Gallium Assinide".
I dunno... I use the center wheel for weapons selection and toggling alternate fire (button 3). I get the feeling that if the wheel flopped to the left and right, I'd probably get myself fragged in those positions where my primary weapon has gone dry in a nasty firefight and I have to drop to the pistol. And a trackball seems even less useful for this...
Yeah, I know .sig responses are lame, but...
ROFLMAO. YMMV. TYVM. HAND.
Really. Brilliant.
What I want to know is, what happens if you predict an attack, buy futures for it, and then the government uses that prediction to actually prevent the attack? Doesn't that mean that the attack didn't take place and therefore you didn't predict it?
That's the scary bit there, though. Being innovative and creative now entails running the risk of having your butt reamed by the legal system. If you have to fight a case all the way to the Supreme Court to get an answer to the question "Can I do this?", the answer is "NO". Faced with that, I think some who might otherwise be inspired to do something new and interesting (or dare I say it, useful) would rather not bother.
Great. We're screwed.
If we all become dependent on "Intellectual Property" for a living, we're going to have to knock off a few monopolistic giants first. Good luck on that one.
So... Just to make sure I'm absolutely clear on this...
You've got your north-south magnetic domains. Right now they're aligned parallel to the platter, but they're talking here about aligning them perpendicular to the platter?
Because we already know where it is? The +1 informatives this got scare me.
Funny, I read that one as a comment on the absurdly inflated requirements listed in job postings these days, not that he was actually unfit for the job he was doing.
Although to be fair there's probably an arms race between the hiring managers and the buzzword-weilding resume-writers occuring.
I heard that myself, was rather amused. Here's my take...
If ClearChannel eats all the radio stations in, say Jackson... Where will the faithful turn for their Bible talk? I think he's got a personal stake here.
I was thinking the same thing until I heard the Magliozzis pan the WRX on Car Talk one Saturday morning. Apparently it's absolutely gutless unless you wind it up enough for the turbo to kick in, which is not something you'd really want to do at every intersection. Afraid I'll have to pass and go with an Impreza Outback instead.
What was really amusing was that apparently the integrator in the physics engine would tend to explode, because if you got stopped quickly enough (say by an immovable object), your car would be launched into the stratosphere...
I remember that. Good times.
No, they'll hire more bodyguards, become more reclusive and disconnected from reality, and get even more restrictive and privacy-destroying legislation rammed down our throats to protect their own precious fannies.
The golden rule, remember. Those who have the gold make the rules.
How are they going to collect the fines if a quarter of the population is in jail and not earning a wage? Does anyone up there realize what that would do to the economy? Hint: the dot-com bust would look like a golden age.
It's kinda like a crash, except you choose to have it happen. Planned downtime, if you will.
So, by that logic, Event Horizon actually is a Sci-Fi flick...? That just doesn't work for me.
Or we don't choose to live in the middle of the bullseye for every American-hating whacko in the world. Although it may be the armpit of the country, terrorism ain't high on my list of concerns in Mississippi.
Take responsibility for your own choices, man.
Oh, I'm quite aware they'd lose the case if they took it all the way to trial... If they had indications that they wouldn't get a settlement, they'd drop it like they did the suit against Dr. Felten. We've seen this before.
Well, the think I found interesting is they said, and I try to quote as closely as I can the guy I heard on NPR, "We will go after users making substantial amounts of copyrighted material available on their personal computers."
My question is... Will they be paying attention to whose copyright the files are under when they serve the legal papers? My bet is no. If you're sharing a massive amount of files, but you have the copyright on them, they're implying that you're just as much in danger as if you were sharing a large amount of their material. And that's exactly what they want people to think. That you have to go through them to distribute music, period.
Why does the image of launching a suit appeal to me?
Suit: Um... What are you doing with that... Thing?
Tech: Oh, nothing... Just stand right there and wait for the cron job to kick off.
Suit: "Cron" what???
Device: *poomf!*
Suit: Aieeeee!
Laws of physics: *splat!*
So, waitasec here. If you set the evil bit on your RFC 1149 packets, do you get the scenario documented in this gem of a film? *shudders*
The GPL is more necessary, I think, for the point at which software leaves copyright and enters the public domain. Software released under the GPL is guaranteed to include the source so that if/when the software enters the public domain, future generations can still build on it. As far as I know, there's nothing keeping a proprietary software author from "losing" the source just before copyright is supposed to expire on a piece of software. In fact, I'd be surprised if this hasn't already happened with a lot of abandonware. As long as the law sees the binaries and the source as seperable items, we're going to have this problem with software. The GPL is, in essence, a way to create a legally-enforcible link between the two.
And speaking of which, did anyone else have the words "Department of Homeland Security" drift through their heads upon reading this post?