Let's see if my bad karma prohibits me from collapsing wavefunctions in my favor...
Lay-people interpret the MWI to mean that any decision they could have conceivably made happens in the branching universes. But someone here gave the example that it isn't reasonable to think that in one branching universe he magically transforms into a giraffe. Likewise, it doesn't seem reasonable to think that a person would make any possible decision.
So how might a person's high-level behavior be affected by stuff on the quantum level? Is it like a chaos-theory thing where light from the Sun might have taken two paths, and a few weeks down the road I'm here drinking tea and reading Slashdot in one universe, and at the bookstore in another universe because the weather is better and I'm not worried about my car's poor braking?
I mean if you just want a PDF viewer that works standalone and in Firefox, try Foxit Reader. Fast (very fast), lightweight and free for the download.
In my experience Foxit is slower than Acrobat, because Acrobat can open a PDF that is only partially downloaded whereas Foxit needs to wait till the download finishes.
A non-Canadian visiting Canada can make a private copy of a CD (even one he brought with him from a foreign country) and he will not be infringing copyright in Canada. His home state might consider the copied CD an infringing copy when he returns.
A Canadian making a private copy of a CD in another country could be infringing copyright in that country.
... Can I legally copy music CDs for my friends?
The simple answer is NO, but you can legally copy your friend's music CD for YOUR OWN use.
The UI however is the only good part of Vista. (Security may technically be better than XP.)
The Start Menu is more convenient to use w/ "pinning" and "frequently used programs".
Explorer has its own favorites list for files/folders. No need to jury-rig something crummy with IE's favorites.
The Control Panel is better with search and seems better organized.
when a program freezes you can still move the window around, a la X
the UI looks a bit nicer w/ transparencies, &c.
seeing windows running normally in alt-tab and down by the taskbar is neat.
If you're going to revert the UI I can't think of a good reason to use Vista.
Personally I'm waiting for KDE 4.0 to compel me back to Ubuntu (which is better for development anyway imo).
The unit they're selling that can do 250+ metres is almost ten tonnes and two people tall. The trade show unit seems to be capable of a couple inches, has an unknown weight, and it's plugged in. I don't know if they could make a usable device for a person to carry, but I doubt it would have much range, and if its range were low and the unit heavy then it doesn't sound very safe for the wielder.
ElkY played Starcraft successfully in Korea, and then switched to poker. He said:
"I could practice 12 hours a day, but if I lost the game, the value would be zero. However, in poker every hour has some benefit, so after 12 hours of poker, if I've played well, then I can say, hey I just made 3k today. For my level of performance, poker was the smarter choice."
A BSD compiler would mean that people can modify it and release their modified compiler without sharing the source code, which sounds like the sort of thing nobody would ever do, so it must be a license obsession. (If I preferred a license I'd want that too, but I would consider it a waste of time). It also means that these people can design it to their own liking, although it has nothing to do with licensing.
I hate GPL even more, because with each iteration Stallman and his cronies have successfully increased the number of limitations on the license. This is pretty stupid when you are trying to express free software that you will make so many god awful restrictions that basically inhibit projects more then it will ever help them.
GPL is about a philosophy of users having certain rights to the software they use. The latest GPL is consistent with that.
You know the reason why I won't release code under either the BSD license or GPL? Because there are zealots like you on both sides.
You won't release code under the GPL because you don't agree with its philosophy.
When you buy a plane ticket, you don't also thereby purchase therapists for the prostitutes whose lives you're ruining there, or make up (with medical coverage) for the STD pandemic you're helping to cause by entering the market for prostitutes there. If prostitution leads the women involved to up and die, be beaten by their johns and tricks, etc, etc, you're not paying for ANY of that, even though you're CAUSING IT.
I am a courteous John who never hurts his prostitute. I'm improving her live by outcompeting abusive Johns, like a bacterium that outcompetes penicillin-resistent bacteria, which incidentally she has.
.torrent files have a string of "20-byte SHA1 hash values, one per piece" (http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification). It must be a misinterpretation or something, because it sounds like other p2p systems and not BitTorrent. Having read through most of MediaDefender in the News, reporters tend to give unclear or incomplete explanations.
The server doesn't need to communicate the entire state of the surrounding area of a player to that player every arbitrary (but likely short) interval of time. It can just give the entire state once, in the beginning, and then communicate changes—changes that might not happen every period.
For example, in an environment with two players, the server can do:
(time : data)
05ms : There is a ship at (100,30), and you are at (40,40).
10ms : There is a ship at (110,30), and you are at (40,40).
15ms : There is a ship at (120,30), and you are at (40,40).
20ms : There is a ship at (130,30), and you are at (40,40).
25ms : There is a ship at (140,30), and you are at (40,40).
30ms : There is a ship at (150,30), and you are at (40,40).
35ms : There is a ship at (150,30), and you are at (40,40).
Or it can do (yeah, I'm starting at 5ms for some reason):
(time : data)
05ms : There is a ship at (100,30) going (+10,+0)/5ms, and you are at (40,40) stationary.
10ms :.
15ms :.
20ms :.
25ms :.
30ms : The ship stopped.
35ms :.
That could be the difference between 9 bytes / 5ms is 1.8KB/s, and maybe (15 bytes + 4 bytes) / 30ms is 0.64KB/s. (Assuming various data structures without thinking it through).
I'm not sure if you're acknowledging that or not, but that's what the GP means.
Shopping:
Money cost mitigater = $0 because what's $50 if your budget isn't strict and/or you don't buy many things. (psychology)
Time cost mitigater = 0 hours, because you were forced to work anyway.
Piracy:
Patience cost: you wanted to watch an episode tonight, but it isn't downloading that fast.
And on another matter, you don't necessarily (or ever) have to sit through the previews, and the FBI warning is at least short. Media players like VLC don't even respect it anyway.
Maybe you could use the free Microsoft Word Viewer 2003 w/ the Office 2007 compatibility pack. It reads and prints Word documents (to PDF if you have such a thing installed).
Do people edit each other's documents in the office setting, or just read them?
That makes me thing of a different interpretation: "Those who would give up de jure liberty to purchase a little de facto liberty deserve neither," which seems absurd, but nobody really does any more with the quote.
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MUD2?
Sometimes people emphasize it as the difference between Role-playing games and Roll-playing games.
Let's see if my bad karma prohibits me from collapsing wavefunctions in my favor...
Lay-people interpret the MWI to mean that any decision they could have conceivably made happens in the branching universes. But someone here gave the example that it isn't reasonable to think that in one branching universe he magically transforms into a giraffe. Likewise, it doesn't seem reasonable to think that a person would make any possible decision.
So how might a person's high-level behavior be affected by stuff on the quantum level? Is it like a chaos-theory thing where light from the Sun might have taken two paths, and a few weeks down the road I'm here drinking tea and reading Slashdot in one universe, and at the bookstore in another universe because the weather is better and I'm not worried about my car's poor braking?
- The Start Menu is more convenient to use w/ "pinning" and "frequently used programs".
- Explorer has its own favorites list for files/folders. No need to jury-rig something crummy with IE's favorites.
- The Control Panel is better with search and seems better organized.
- when a program freezes you can still move the window around, a la X
- the UI looks a bit nicer w/ transparencies, &c.
- seeing windows running normally in alt-tab and down by the taskbar is neat.
If you're going to revert the UI I can't think of a good reason to use Vista. Personally I'm waiting for KDE 4.0 to compel me back to Ubuntu (which is better for development anyway imo).Forgot to post the product site. The PDF has the stats.
The unit they're selling that can do 250+ metres is almost ten tonnes and two people tall. The trade show unit seems to be capable of a couple inches, has an unknown weight, and it's plugged in. I don't know if they could make a usable device for a person to carry, but I doubt it would have much range, and if its range were low and the unit heavy then it doesn't sound very safe for the wielder.
Uh, isn't Java generally at least a few times faster than Python?
You could steal your own identity and save the $10.
So people who give numbers on this topic should really give a range or a distribution or something, and be explicit about their assumptions.
It sounds more like a technical requirement than an EULA. Software does say "for Windows XP", and I have DVDs that say "copyprotected.com" w/ an icon.
Google Docs supports it.
There is a compatibility pack for old versions of Office, and I think it even lets them edit the new XML format.
A BSD compiler would mean that people can modify it and release their modified compiler without sharing the source code, which sounds like the sort of thing nobody would ever do, so it must be a license obsession. (If I preferred a license I'd want that too, but I would consider it a waste of time). It also means that these people can design it to their own liking, although it has nothing to do with licensing.
Canada is ten times smaller than the USA in population and GDP. The size of its military will be smaller no matter what.
.torrent files have a string of "20-byte SHA1 hash values, one per piece" (http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification). It must be a misinterpretation or something, because it sounds like other p2p systems and not BitTorrent. Having read through most of MediaDefender in the News, reporters tend to give unclear or incomplete explanations.
You put it next to a crystal, Duh.
I'm not sure if you're acknowledging that or not, but that's what the GP means.
Maybe you could use the free Microsoft Word Viewer 2003 w/ the Office 2007 compatibility pack. It reads and prints Word documents (to PDF if you have such a thing installed).
Do people edit each other's documents in the office setting, or just read them?
That makes me thing of a different interpretation: "Those who would give up de jure liberty to purchase a little de facto liberty deserve neither," which seems absurd, but nobody really does any more with the quote.