It's a fake. Luke had to build a lightsaber to replace the one lost when his hand was cut off. The person in this clip has a normal right hand.
Furthermore, it's actually a fairly dramatic, brief scene with good imagery, so you know some one else made it (Lucas doesn't have that talent any more).
Ultrinsic's CEO Steven Woldf insists it's not online gambling, since these wagers involve skill. He says 'The students have 100 percent control over it, over how they do. Other people's stuff you bet on — your own stuff you invest in.'"
Real gambling involves skill too. I know an amateur who is very good at poker, and he can make money with it (not alot, but when you regularly come out ahead, that's skill).
This is gambling. Whether or not it's ok is another question, but the fact that this guy says "it's not gambling" makes me suspect the whole outfit. This is a business, and they are playing the odds that students don't hit the mark.
Not to mention the privacy concerns. From ultrinsic
the Site will request that you submit your social security number in order to send you a Form 1099,
Couple that with your entire school records, and you have given this company your identity information. Do you trust them with that? Maybe you should read the terms of service on their signup page
However even if that's not the case, you have to relinquish the passwords when you leave.
His contract said to whom he could hand over the passwords. Those were not the people who came asking for them, or threatening him, or arresting him. When they finally got the person to whom he could release the passwords (the mayor), he did.
No "spreadsheets" or "word processors" or "Power Point." That's not Computer Science.
It has to be programming. Not because kids need to be able to program in java,basic,pascal,sql,C,fortran,cobol or whathaveyou, but because programming is thinking. Programming is problem solving. Programming is planning. Programming is logic. Programming is mathematics applied.
That's the stuff you walk away with. Long after the language is dead, you have learned to think.
Any country's port of entry has the right to search your stuff, including your own country. You will wait for that process to be complete if they choose to do this.
Officials from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the US Army then told him he was not under arrest but was being detained.
He is an American citizen, so there isn't an Immigration issue here. So the only thing left for "detaining" is Customs while they go through his stuff. Well, they can do that.
The article actually does say the "detaining" was him waiting for customs to search his bags, laptop, and cell phones (one of which they "seized").
What does not seem normal is the Army being there. He is not a combatent. He is a US Citizen. I do not see how the Army can tell him he is "detained."
If you are trying to test calculus/physics/algebra/whatever it's pretty easy to make the actual arithmetic simple enough to do in your head or on scratch paper.
Copyright violation isn't theft. However, I do think they "stole" something. They presented someone else's work as if it was their own. That's plagiarism and it really is a form of theft, because it deprives the creator of the recognition and credit they deserve.
Intel's payments allegedly make up 75% of Dell's quarterly operating income?
This doesn't add up. That would mean that Intel was not making any profit from one of their biggest customer, but would even be LOSING money by doing it?
Have you considered that the reason the processor numbers tell you nothing is that ALL the chips are fabbed with 6 cores and the ones that have one or two bad cores in testing have 2 cores disabled and are sold as quads?
Total CPU performance is now a three dimensional issue: architecture, number of cores, and clock speed. A one dimensional sequence number can't specify three dimensions, and that you have to actually look at the chip specifications.
One: you cannot patent code. Period. There's plenty of cases where people have written (and released) code that some patent covered (ffmpeg anyone). The code itself is free speech.
Two: you cannot use a patent as a method to censor free speech.
Three: any US patent can be viewed internationally. A patent is by definition NOT a trade secret. Even if this guy's software DID use a patent-encumbered algorithm, his post cannot "contribute to someone infringing... patents in any part of the world."
What are the microwaves going to do to the nitrogen fixing microbes in the soil? What about the worms that keep the soil tilled and fertile?
I'm wondering if the vinyard owner is going to wake up next year and find his land unfarmable.
Not to mention the question about what happens to other wildlife, or people.
- "Hardware acceleration" = use the GPU for decoding (because a GPU is usually way faster than the CPU for this kind of work).
So you can have "direct rendering" without the "hardware acceleration" (and vice-versa though it's unlikely to happen in practice).
Interestingly enough, that "hardware acceleration" without "direct rendering" was an option with Voodoo2 cards in the older days of Linux: if you wanted to have hardware accelerated MESA rendered in a window, you could offload the computation to the Voodoo2 cards, they would send the data back to RAM, which would then be sent to the primary video card. A significant performance loss over having the Voodoo2 render in full screen but it was cool nonetheless.:)
Why are the more worried about porn than actual crimes? Any logical person can see that banning porn would likely make the rape situation even worse (emphasis mine).
Do you have actual data to back up that last bit? Are you sure that porn doesn't objectify women and increase the rape problem?
Just use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. To quote Wikipedia, "The Bitstream Vera Sans Mono typeface in particular is suitable for technical work, as it clearly distinguishes 'l' from '1' and 'I', and '0' from 'O', unlike the more widely available Monotype Courier New."
One can hope, but if Sony is any indication, it won't make much difference (years after the rootkit debacle the general public has no idea of the crap Sony pulls.)
The feet were the same size (pretty small), which made some of the larger women look very disproportionate and therefore less attractive.
And WTF was up with that subliminal car drawing in the background??
Legality of the release aside, Caldera released Ancient Unix under the OLD BSD license, which required attribution and was incompatible with the GPL.
it was SCO (Caldera) that put Ancient Unix in the public domain. Ironically, they probably did so illegally, since Novell owned the copyrights, not that Novell is likely to complain at this late date.
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No quicktime for Linux :p
Furthermore, it's actually a fairly dramatic, brief scene with good imagery, so you know some one else made it (Lucas doesn't have that talent any more).
Real gambling involves skill too. I know an amateur who is very good at poker, and he can make money with it (not alot, but when you regularly come out ahead, that's skill).
This is gambling. Whether or not it's ok is another question, but the fact that this guy says "it's not gambling" makes me suspect the whole outfit. This is a business, and they are playing the odds that students don't hit the mark.
Not to mention the privacy concerns. From ultrinsic
Couple that with your entire school records, and you have given this company your identity information. Do you trust them with that? Maybe you should read the terms of service on their signup page
However even if that's not the case, you have to relinquish the passwords when you leave.
His contract said to whom he could hand over the passwords. Those were not the people who came asking for them, or threatening him, or arresting him. When they finally got the person to whom he could release the passwords (the mayor), he did.
9C=5(F-32)
where does C=F=X?
9x=5x-160
4x=-160
x=-40
No "spreadsheets" or "word processors" or "Power Point." That's not Computer Science.
It has to be programming. Not because kids need to be able to program in java,basic,pascal,sql,C,fortran,cobol or whathaveyou, but because programming is thinking. Programming is problem solving. Programming is planning. Programming is logic. Programming is mathematics applied.
That's the stuff you walk away with. Long after the language is dead, you have learned to think.
If you get a passport and do some international travelling, you are going to have to lose your attitude.
Do a little research about the authority of the Customs. It's not very difficult.
Any country's port of entry has the right to search your stuff, including your own country. You will wait for that process to be complete if they choose to do this.
He is an American citizen, so there isn't an Immigration issue here. So the only thing left for "detaining" is Customs while they go through his stuff. Well, they can do that.
The article actually does say the "detaining" was him waiting for customs to search his bags, laptop, and cell phones (one of which they "seized").
What does not seem normal is the Army being there. He is not a combatent. He is a US Citizen. I do not see how the Army can tell him he is "detained."
If you are trying to test calculus/physics/algebra/whatever it's pretty easy to make the actual arithmetic simple enough to do in your head or on scratch paper.
Copyright violation isn't theft. However, I do think they "stole" something. They presented someone else's work as if it was their own. That's plagiarism and it really is a form of theft, because it deprives the creator of the recognition and credit they deserve.
We haven't read their EULA. There is likely nothing there saying that they have to have the dongle on. Most of those are boilerplates anyway.
Intel allegedly pays Dell not to use AMD chips?
Intel's payments allegedly make up 75% of Dell's quarterly operating income?
This doesn't add up. That would mean that Intel was not making any profit from one of their biggest customer, but would even be LOSING money by doing it?
Right. That kind of deal would be AMD's dream.
Have you considered that the reason the processor numbers tell you nothing is that ALL the chips are fabbed with 6 cores and the ones that have one or two bad cores in testing have 2 cores disabled and are sold as quads?
No.
Nothing to see here, move along.
slim and none. Take your pick.
Two: you cannot use a patent as a method to censor free speech.
Three: any US patent can be viewed internationally. A patent is by definition NOT a trade secret. Even if this guy's software DID use a patent-encumbered algorithm, his post cannot "contribute to someone infringing ... patents in any part of the world."
Four: a patent is not valid for the entire world.
What are the microwaves going to do to the nitrogen fixing microbes in the soil? What about the worms that keep the soil tilled and fertile? I'm wondering if the vinyard owner is going to wake up next year and find his land unfarmable. Not to mention the question about what happens to other wildlife, or people.
"Direct rendering" != "Hardware acceleration".
- "Hardware acceleration" = use the GPU for decoding (because a GPU is usually way faster than the CPU for this kind of work).
So you can have "direct rendering" without the "hardware acceleration" (and vice-versa though it's unlikely to happen in practice).
Interestingly enough, that "hardware acceleration" without "direct rendering" was an option with Voodoo2 cards in the older days of Linux: if you wanted to have hardware accelerated MESA rendered in a window, you could offload the computation to the Voodoo2 cards, they would send the data back to RAM, which would then be sent to the primary video card. A significant performance loss over having the Voodoo2 render in full screen but it was cool nonetheless. :)
South Africa is the rape capital of the world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#South_Africa
Why are the more worried about porn than actual crimes? Any logical person can see that banning porn would likely make the rape situation even worse (emphasis mine).
Do you have actual data to back up that last bit? Are you sure that porn doesn't objectify women and increase the rape problem?
Just use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. To quote Wikipedia, "The Bitstream Vera Sans Mono typeface in particular is suitable for technical work, as it clearly distinguishes 'l' from '1' and 'I', and '0' from 'O', unlike the more widely available Monotype Courier New."
One can hope, but if Sony is any indication, it won't make much difference (years after the rootkit debacle the general public has no idea of the crap Sony pulls.)
The feet were the same size (pretty small), which made some of the larger women look very disproportionate and therefore less attractive. And WTF was up with that subliminal car drawing in the background??
Yes it is. People who do the kind of hardcore math that MATLAB is good at are the ones who actually need 64 bit computing.
Dual core does not mean lower battery life. Dual core usually means better battery life at the same computational load.
Legality of the release aside, Caldera released Ancient Unix under the OLD BSD license, which required attribution and was incompatible with the GPL.
it was SCO (Caldera) that put Ancient Unix in the public domain. Ironically, they probably did so illegally, since Novell owned the copyrights, not that Novell is likely to complain at this late date.