Truth and fact are different. The creation stories of Genesis cannot be all literally true facts, since they are literally inconsistent. They even have different authors. However, they can spell out truths of human existence. As far as the chronologies go, they are put in by yet another author. All of these are part of the Bible to help define the truths for the society that they were written by.
People have been runing OSX on PC hardware for a while now. So, given that -- how is this exciting at all?
Because, with other methods, you need hacks, and updates require more hacks. The idea here is that you can use a virgin install of OS X and it Just Works.
It isn't even any more legal than just dling pirated/hacked OSX install DVDs. The way I see it -- there is no advantage to paying $150 to break the law with a stinkin' dongle, when you can download a 4GB DVD torrent and get OSX for free. Both are equally illegal and violate Apple's EULA or whatever.
They are not "equally illegal". In your case, you are downloading copies of software (copyright infringement), and also the software has been reverse engineered and hacked (which might violate something). Then, in both cases, you violate the EULA with the installation (which isn't illegal). So, actually, buying the "stinkin' dongle" doesn't break the law, though violating the EULA will allow Apple to sue, provided the EULA is legal and enforceable.
From the article:
One important tidbit, little noticed yet, pointed out by Excess Copyright: "distribution to an investigator, such as MediaSentry, can constitute unauthorized distribution."
Notice it does not say "distribution to an investigator, such as MediaSentry, constitutes unauthorized distribution." So, this is merely the judge pointing out a argument for the RIAA to make when they relitigate this case, and that it has a good chance of passing muster.
One, you can only do so much NAT before your NAT device is overloaded. Two, as you get more and more entities, be they small businesses or people, you need more addresses.
My father teaches (admittedly on the college level), and in a number of his classes, he refuses to accept homework that is non-passing. Thus, in this situation, you would not have to assign 50% to those homeworks, since they are not turned in yet. Or, say that a requirement for a grade above F is to turn in at least 60% of all homework.
What's funny, or sad depending on how you look at it, is that half of the people aren't dumber than the average person. It's not the average where half are under and half over, the median is the point where half are over and half under.
The median is anaverage, and so is the arithmetic mean, which you seem to have assumed that MaxwellEdison meant. "Average" means nothing more than something that is typical. Let's take some examples:
1) The average home price is $600,000 in the SF Bay area. (median)
2) The average Californian is a democrat. (mode)
3) The average car gas mileage in the US is 23 mpg. (harmonic mean)
4) The average rate of return on my bank account is 3%. (geometric mean)
So, half of all people are dumber than the average person, for a suitable definition of average.
Note, these numbers are made up. Also, note that this point is academic if the intelligence spread is gaussian, as then the arithmetic mean and median are the same anyway.
And just think if we eventually migrated to most internet traffic being encrypted. Much of the bittorrent-throttling / AT&T-spying / NSA snooping paranoia could be avoided.
In the case of things like bittorrent throttling, connections can be identified by the characteristics of the connection, such as burstiness, throughput, port numbers, etc. Beyond encryption, you have to obfuscate it. Truly disguising it would likely require throttling anyway.
I'm a McCain supporter trying to weasel votes away on Slashdot.
John McCain has a comprehensive economic plan that will create millions of good American jobs, ensure our nation's energy security, get the government's budget and spending practices in order, and bring relief to American consumers.
You can't have voting system that is fair, where fair means that it follows a certain set of criteria that are to be expected of a voting system. See Arrow's impossibility theorem.
The article is a little thick, but here is a simplified version of the criteria:
1) No one voter dictates the result of the election.
2) All voter preferences should be accounted for, deterministically.
3) If an option is removed, the ranking of the remaining options shouldn't change.
4) A voter ranking an option higher should not cause that option to drop in the election results.
5) Any election result should be possible by some combination of votes.
Equivalently, (4) and (5) can be replaced with
6) If every voter prefers option a to option b, then the results of the election should too.
After some reflection, I think the you really don't get what is happening in this thread. Your signature is like telling some stranger's kid who is looking at you, "It is not polite to stare." While this may get some kids to look away, it will get others to ostentatiously stare at you. To respond to those that "fix" your sig is like throwing a tantrum at the kid that stares, which simply rewards the kid (you know this if you have dealt with kids). It's not like you can stop the kid from staring (or/.ers from posting "fixes") -- the kid is not your kid. You shouldn't fight battles you will lose (which you are in this thread, I think).
P.S.: There is too much "fixed that for you" on/., but still, the "fixes" to your sig/comments in this thread were funny. Where's your sense of humor?
Uh huh. Whether I thought of it or not is irrelevant. Fact of the matter is that this is far from the first time a person with a sense of humor has decided that my signature needs this particular treatment.
My book of choice is C: A Reference Manual. It is by far and away the clearest most complete reference I have found. I have the fourth edition, and one thing that I love is how it describes compatibility be tween version from K&R through C99 and C++, so you can know what will work where. It also manages to describe the preprocessor in an understandable way.
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Truth and fact are different. The creation stories of Genesis cannot be all literally true facts, since they are literally inconsistent. They even have different authors. However, they can spell out truths of human existence. As far as the chronologies go, they are put in by yet another author. All of these are part of the Bible to help define the truths for the society that they were written by.
People have been runing OSX on PC hardware for a while now. So, given that -- how is this exciting at all?
Because, with other methods, you need hacks, and updates require more hacks. The idea here is that you can use a virgin install of OS X and it Just Works.
It isn't even any more legal than just dling pirated/hacked OSX install DVDs. The way I see it -- there is no advantage to paying $150 to break the law with a stinkin' dongle, when you can download a 4GB DVD torrent and get OSX for free. Both are equally illegal and violate Apple's EULA or whatever.
They are not "equally illegal". In your case, you are downloading copies of software (copyright infringement), and also the software has been reverse engineered and hacked (which might violate something). Then, in both cases, you violate the EULA with the installation (which isn't illegal). So, actually, buying the "stinkin' dongle" doesn't break the law, though violating the EULA will allow Apple to sue, provided the EULA is legal and enforceable.
From the article: One important tidbit, little noticed yet, pointed out by Excess Copyright: "distribution to an investigator, such as MediaSentry, can constitute unauthorized distribution."
Notice it does not say "distribution to an investigator, such as MediaSentry, constitutes unauthorized distribution." So, this is merely the judge pointing out a argument for the RIAA to make when they relitigate this case, and that it has a good chance of passing muster.
Nah, they just don't like Chicago, and are inviting someone to take aim.
Rubber Duckie lyrics.
One, you can only do so much NAT before your NAT device is overloaded. Two, as you get more and more entities, be they small businesses or people, you need more addresses.
My father teaches (admittedly on the college level), and in a number of his classes, he refuses to accept homework that is non-passing. Thus, in this situation, you would not have to assign 50% to those homeworks, since they are not turned in yet. Or, say that a requirement for a grade above F is to turn in at least 60% of all homework.
What's funny, or sad depending on how you look at it, is that half of the people aren't dumber than the average person. It's not the average where half are under and half over, the median is the point where half are over and half under.
The median is an average, and so is the arithmetic mean, which you seem to have assumed that MaxwellEdison meant. "Average" means nothing more than something that is typical. Let's take some examples:
1) The average home price is $600,000 in the SF Bay area. (median)
2) The average Californian is a democrat. (mode)
3) The average car gas mileage in the US is 23 mpg. (harmonic mean)
4) The average rate of return on my bank account is 3%. (geometric mean)
So, half of all people are dumber than the average person, for a suitable definition of average.
Note, these numbers are made up. Also, note that this point is academic if the intelligence spread is gaussian, as then the arithmetic mean and median are the same anyway.
And I thought it was dead dead dead.
Whoosh!
And just think if we eventually migrated to most internet traffic being encrypted. Much of the bittorrent-throttling / AT&T-spying / NSA snooping paranoia could be avoided.
In the case of things like bittorrent throttling, connections can be identified by the characteristics of the connection, such as burstiness, throughput, port numbers, etc. Beyond encryption, you have to obfuscate it. Truly disguising it would likely require throttling anyway.
These are fairer systems that our currently massively broken one, but they still are not completely fair. Read up on it.
Never vote for no one for president. At least vote third party to try and allow more people a toe in.
I'm a McCain supporter trying to weasel votes away on Slashdot.
John McCain has a comprehensive economic plan that will create millions of good American jobs, ensure our nation's energy security, get the government's budget and spending practices in order, and bring relief to American consumers.
Now where's my reward?
You can't have voting system that is fair, where fair means that it follows a certain set of criteria that are to be expected of a voting system. See Arrow's impossibility theorem.
The article is a little thick, but here is a simplified version of the criteria:
1) No one voter dictates the result of the election.
2) All voter preferences should be accounted for, deterministically.
3) If an option is removed, the ranking of the remaining options shouldn't change.
4) A voter ranking an option higher should not cause that option to drop in the election results.
5) Any election result should be possible by some combination of votes.
Equivalently, (4) and (5) can be replaced with
6) If every voter prefers option a to option b, then the results of the election should too.
While all of the above would be expected of a fair voting system, you can't have them all, though some systems have more of these properties than others.
After some reflection, I think the you really don't get what is happening in this thread. Your signature is like telling some stranger's kid who is looking at you, "It is not polite to stare." While this may get some kids to look away, it will get others to ostentatiously stare at you. To respond to those that "fix" your sig is like throwing a tantrum at the kid that stares, which simply rewards the kid (you know this if you have dealt with kids). It's not like you can stop the kid from staring (or /.ers from posting "fixes") -- the kid is not your kid. You shouldn't fight battles you will lose (which you are in this thread, I think).
P.S.: There is too much "fixed that for you" on /., but still, the "fixes" to your sig/comments in this thread were funny. Where's your sense of humor?
Well put. FWIW, I was pointing out a technicality above, not trying to support the practice.
I was modded funny, but I was serious. People really did believe that. That was one of the thoughts behind some caste systems, for example.
Uh huh. Whether I thought of it or not is irrelevant. Fact of the matter is that this is far from the first time a person with a sense of humor has decided that my signature needs this particular treatment.
Fixed that for you.
Look at the linked Wikipedia page -- it's definitely egg shaped. Was someone trying to see something that wasn't there?
My book of choice is C: A Reference Manual. It is by far and away the clearest most complete reference I have found. I have the fourth edition, and one thing that I love is how it describes compatibility be tween version from K&R through C99 and C++, so you can know what will work where. It also manages to describe the preprocessor in an understandable way.
A U.S. state [...] share[s] sovereignty with the federal government. ... [A]n American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile.
And falling....
Hardly. The BBC miniseries did it wonderfully.
I mean - I think any search without a warrant is def. unconstitutional and I don't care if it is for my safety.
It is not unconstitutional. It also is not for your safety, but to enforce laws and prevent entry of certain types of items into the USA.