So, you've stated the correct issue, and come to completely the wrong conclusion.
You've given the perfect example of why doing 3*27 in your head is irrelevant, and why the focus should be on problem analysis rather than computation.
3*27 is a perfect problem for either a rough estimate or a calculator, and the time wasted on teaching it could be better used for something else.
Arithmetic in your head is a good party trick in 2010, but it's not a useful skill.
We probably have killed more. And what a horrific choice to make. As an American faced with the same choice, I'd take my chances with the hope for more freedom, but I don't know what the Afghan people would prefer. And as Americans we can't even let them choose, because the Taliban, unlike Iraq, is a known source for people who would bring the war over here. Still, we need to be very careful not to harm the Afghan people who aren't Taliban. They aren't our enemies, and could very well be our good friends in the future. The leaked documents prove that we aren't being careful enough, and that proof getting out is a very good thing in the long run. It will eventually save lives when governments know that being reckless and stupid will be uncovered. It's unfortunate that people may be hurt over the leaks, and it's more unfortunate that the US Military refused to cooperate in an effort not to hurt them. Wikileaks has no option but to release the documents, it's the entire purpose of their organization. They aren't to blame here.
Well, it looks like the CC license itself doesn't have a commercial-use payment option available. You could use the no-commercial-use variant, and post a commercial-use license at the same time with fixed payment options though.
Then you'd be within your rights to send an invoice, and sue in small claims or similar if it's not paid. There would be a few possible outcomes from such a suit - the court may tell you to go away and take it to federal court, the company you're suing may not show and you get a default judgement, or they may send a representative to court to fight it.
Where I am, they would probably no-show, and you'd get a default judgement. At that point, you'd have to find out their banking info, either on your own or by filing interrogatories in support of judgement. Then you would have to get a garnishment order.
Without evidence of prior notice of commercial-use rates, your only hope would be a slight possibility of a default judgement, as without that evidence, you have no basis for a monetary claim other than through federal law, and you need to go to federal court for that. Any default judgement you get in that circumstance would likely be reversed if they chose to appeal.
And of course, IANAL, and this is does not constitute legal advice.
In fact, it's not really very prevalent in history at all. There are only a few cryptic references to what may have been that "jesus" and even those most likely refer to something else.
What is all over history is the mess left by the religion, not any sort of actual historical person.
AFAIK, no phone manufacturer has ever gotten a FTC exemption from Magnuson-Moss.
15 USC 2302(c)
(c) Prohibition on conditions for written or implied warranty;
waiver by Commission
No warrantor of a consumer product may condition his written or
implied warranty of such product on the consumer's using, in
connection with such product, any article or service (other than
article or service provided without charge under the terms of the
warranty) which is identified by brand, trade, or corporate name;
except that the prohibition of this subsection may be waived by the
Commission if -
(1) the warrantor satisfies the Commission that the warranted
product will function properly only if the article or service so
identified is used in connection with the warranted product, and
(2) the Commission finds that such a waiver is in the public
interest.
The Commission shall identify in the Federal Register, and permit
public comment on, all applications for waiver of the prohibition
of this subsection, and shall publish in the Federal Register its
disposition of any such application, including the reasons
therefor.
It's still censorship. If they have a forum that allows people to post items (and they do) and they remove items that people have posted (and they do) because they don't like the content of those posts it is, by definition censorship. They ARE censoring their forum.
It's not unconstitutional censorship, as if say, the government were forcing the removal of those posts. But it is censorship.
I tend to put their drives on the reliability scale somewhere below floppies and Zip disks. Every other hard drive manufacturer, including Fujitsu, makes more reliable drives.
I've seen more Western Digital drive failures than all other manufacturers combined. I will not install one of their drives in any computer where data integrity is an issue. Their new drives don't seem to be much better than the old ones.
The only serious problem I've seen out of Seagate is the defective batch of Chinese-made 2.5" drives a few years back. Lately, I've not seen many Seagate failures.
My setup is a Mac mini, DVI-HDMI cable, and optical digital audio, with a wireless keyboard and mouse. It works just like a computer, because it's a computer.
The content lives on an Xserve in another room, hardwired gigabit ethernet to the TV computer. The mini has a 1.66 Core Duo, is about 4 years old, and it doesn't have any problem playing 1080p content.
You're making the common error of equating herbal medicine with homeopathy. Herbal medicine has the possibility of effectiveness as it has active ingredients, homeopathy is the quackery of diluting a substance that causes a symptom enough times that you're unlikely to have even a single molecule of the original active substance left in the "cure". It cannot be effective, as it has no active ingredient.
And you're unfortunately giving modern medicine too much credit for using effective components of herbal remedies. There's little profit in the research required, as it's hard to patent a plant. Much of the research on herbal remedies has never been done. This doesn't mean that herbal remedies are going to be safe and effective - but it doesn't mean they aren't.
And you mention marijuana specifically. That's a perfect example of a failure of modern medicine, as not only has the research never been done, it's actually illegal to do the research. Marinol, the THC-only drug you mention, has been anecdotally reported to be ineffective in cases where smoked marijuana has been effective. This could be because there may be another active ingredient in smoked marijuana that isn't THC, it could be that inhalation is a more effective method of administration than oral pills, we don't know. There are no double blind properly controlled results, because of the illegality of obtaining them, and even if it were legal there is no profit incentive to do the testing, since one preparation is an expensive pill, and the other is a plant that grows as a weed, and can be grown at home.
What is it with Slashdot and Luddites? They post first, and always get modded up these days. It's depressing how many people on here seem to absolutely hate technology.
Cardboard is inherently quite flawed, and this thing is a demonstrably better board game platform.
If nothing else, you've got the fact that cardboard takes up a lot of space, and can only be used for one board game. You want another? You've got to have more cardboard.
This device doesn't even take up as much space as one game box, let alone the 20 or so that you might want to have handy to play.
Cardboard also has a setup and teardown time factor that's going to detract from the enjoyment of the game, this removes that.
And cardboard doesn't do animation very well, and in many games, that would be nice.
A slight jostle of the cardboard, and your game may very well be in ruins, not so with this.
I'm not an iPad fan, I don't want one, I'm not happy about lockin, I'm not happy that you'd need to jailbreak this thing to run programs from any source than Apple. But to say that cardboard is better? Hogwash.
I'm pretty sure he's talking in terms of what should happen in a society where the will of the people and not only the people with money controlled the law.
And his suggestion is exactly what would happen to a company like Rambus that tried something as in that society.
Police officers have a very limited amount of training in what the law actually is, and they are not known for being the brightest people.
I wouldn't put much more trust in what a cop says is legal than in the average person on the street. Police are not attorneys, and are not judges. They might be able to identify an armed robbery, but if a legal question is much more complex than that, most cops are lost. Their training consists of a very small subset of law, with an emphasis on acting first and thinking later.
The good ones will just walk away. The bad ones will make an illegal arrest, causing someone some serious inconvenience.
And that's not being anti-police. That's being realistic. You want to fix it? Require cops to have law degrees.
In the US and in the UK, the total number of fatal electrical accidents annually is so low as to be background noise. I suspect that we've already spent far beyond the point of diminishing returns on electrical safety in both countries, but the UK is spending far more on those ridiculously expensive outlets and plugs.
Not to mention the UK plugs are more hazardous. Not electrically, they're fine there, but put one on the floor, it will tend to fall prongs up, and someone will end up with nasty puncture wounds on a foot.
That's $3.11 for a single outlet, whereas the US standard double outlet, which takes up much less space, is available for $0.45, or about £0.27.
It might not seem that bad for a single one, but when you're wiring an entire house, it adds up. And it's really going to add up when you have to wire an apartment complex, or as I believe they call it, a block of flats.
And those ring mains are just freakish. I don't think anybody else in the world does that craziness.
Actually, I just did a Mac OS X Server 10.5 to 10.6 upgrade install last weekend.
Absolutely flawless, no problems at all. And that's the server version. The upgrade on 25 user machines went just as well.
While I wouldn't recommend a windoze "upgrade" install ever, I can say that Apple got this one right.
(And yes, I did a disk image of the server first, just in case. I'm not crazy.)
Hmm... Now that I think about it, I upgraded my Linux laptop from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 beta last week too. Also flawless.
So really, the recommendation is never upgrade install a M$ operating system. But then, can it ever really be an upgrade when you're talking about M$? Of course not.
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So, you've stated the correct issue, and come to completely the wrong conclusion.
You've given the perfect example of why doing 3*27 in your head is irrelevant, and why the focus should be on problem analysis rather than computation.
3*27 is a perfect problem for either a rough estimate or a calculator, and the time wasted on teaching it could be better used for something else.
Arithmetic in your head is a good party trick in 2010, but it's not a useful skill.
We probably have killed more.
And what a horrific choice to make.
As an American faced with the same choice, I'd take my chances with the hope for more freedom, but I don't know what the Afghan people would prefer.
And as Americans we can't even let them choose, because the Taliban, unlike Iraq, is a known source for people who would bring the war over here.
Still, we need to be very careful not to harm the Afghan people who aren't Taliban. They aren't our enemies, and could very well be our good friends in the future.
The leaked documents prove that we aren't being careful enough, and that proof getting out is a very good thing in the long run. It will eventually save lives when governments know that being reckless and stupid will be uncovered. It's unfortunate that people may be hurt over the leaks, and it's more unfortunate that the US Military refused to cooperate in an effort not to hurt them. Wikileaks has no option but to release the documents, it's the entire purpose of their organization. They aren't to blame here.
I agree. Where the government is the utility, things are already better than where private industry has been allowed to make their mess.
I'd be in favor of nationalizing all the electric utilities.
Huh?
HVDC is already being used for power transmission. They use inverters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
Hmm...
Well, it looks like the CC license itself doesn't have a commercial-use payment option available. You could use the no-commercial-use variant, and post a commercial-use license at the same time with fixed payment options though.
Then you'd be within your rights to send an invoice, and sue in small claims or similar if it's not paid. There would be a few possible outcomes from such a suit - the court may tell you to go away and take it to federal court, the company you're suing may not show and you get a default judgement, or they may send a representative to court to fight it.
Where I am, they would probably no-show, and you'd get a default judgement. At that point, you'd have to find out their banking info, either on your own or by filing interrogatories in support of judgement. Then you would have to get a garnishment order.
Without evidence of prior notice of commercial-use rates, your only hope would be a slight possibility of a default judgement, as without that evidence, you have no basis for a monetary claim other than through federal law, and you need to go to federal court for that. Any default judgement you get in that circumstance would likely be reversed if they chose to appeal.
And of course, IANAL, and this is does not constitute legal advice.
No, it ISN'T "all over history".
In fact, it's not really very prevalent in history at all. There are only a few cryptic references to what may have been that "jesus" and even those most likely refer to something else.
What is all over history is the mess left by the religion, not any sort of actual historical person.
In the US, federal law says otherwise.
AFAIK, no phone manufacturer has ever gotten a FTC exemption from Magnuson-Moss.
15 USC 2302(c)
It's still censorship. If they have a forum that allows people to post items (and they do) and they remove items that people have posted (and they do) because they don't like the content of those posts it is, by definition censorship. They ARE censoring their forum.
It's not unconstitutional censorship, as if say, the government were forcing the removal of those posts. But it is censorship.
Western Dataloss? Really?
I tend to put their drives on the reliability scale somewhere below floppies and Zip disks. Every other hard drive manufacturer, including Fujitsu, makes more reliable drives.
I've seen more Western Digital drive failures than all other manufacturers combined. I will not install one of their drives in any computer where data integrity is an issue. Their new drives don't seem to be much better than the old ones.
The only serious problem I've seen out of Seagate is the defective batch of Chinese-made 2.5" drives a few years back. Lately, I've not seen many Seagate failures.
Exactly this.
My setup is a Mac mini, DVI-HDMI cable, and optical digital audio, with a wireless keyboard and mouse. It works just like a computer, because it's a computer.
The content lives on an Xserve in another room, hardwired gigabit ethernet to the TV computer. The mini has a 1.66 Core Duo, is about 4 years old, and it doesn't have any problem playing 1080p content.
I'm pretty happy with it.
You're making the common error of equating herbal medicine with homeopathy. Herbal medicine has the possibility of effectiveness as it has active ingredients, homeopathy is the quackery of diluting a substance that causes a symptom enough times that you're unlikely to have even a single molecule of the original active substance left in the "cure". It cannot be effective, as it has no active ingredient.
And you're unfortunately giving modern medicine too much credit for using effective components of herbal remedies. There's little profit in the research required, as it's hard to patent a plant. Much of the research on herbal remedies has never been done. This doesn't mean that herbal remedies are going to be safe and effective - but it doesn't mean they aren't.
And you mention marijuana specifically. That's a perfect example of a failure of modern medicine, as not only has the research never been done, it's actually illegal to do the research. Marinol, the THC-only drug you mention, has been anecdotally reported to be ineffective in cases where smoked marijuana has been effective. This could be because there may be another active ingredient in smoked marijuana that isn't THC, it could be that inhalation is a more effective method of administration than oral pills, we don't know. There are no double blind properly controlled results, because of the illegality of obtaining them, and even if it were legal there is no profit incentive to do the testing, since one preparation is an expensive pill, and the other is a plant that grows as a weed, and can be grown at home.
Nope, you're not the only one. I don't care about an iPhone version, I just want a new Mac version.
For those of you who don't know it, it's the best 2D CAD program I've ever seen. It actually works like a Mac program.
I did get it running in SheepShaver, btw.
What is it with Slashdot and Luddites? They post first, and always get modded up these days. It's depressing how many people on here seem to absolutely hate technology.
Cardboard is inherently quite flawed, and this thing is a demonstrably better board game platform.
If nothing else, you've got the fact that cardboard takes up a lot of space, and can only be used for one board game. You want another? You've got to have more cardboard.
This device doesn't even take up as much space as one game box, let alone the 20 or so that you might want to have handy to play.
Cardboard also has a setup and teardown time factor that's going to detract from the enjoyment of the game, this removes that.
And cardboard doesn't do animation very well, and in many games, that would be nice.
A slight jostle of the cardboard, and your game may very well be in ruins, not so with this.
I'm not an iPad fan, I don't want one, I'm not happy about lockin, I'm not happy that you'd need to jailbreak this thing to run programs from any source than Apple. But to say that cardboard is better? Hogwash.
Hmmm... Yes, I do see a lot of 1990 and earlier cars on the road. I don't live in an area where there's snow half the year, but it's not AZ either.
I see quite a few 1970s Chevy and Ford pickup trucks on the road every day. 1990 isn't considered all that old for a car here.
I'm pretty sure he's talking in terms of what should happen in a society where the will of the people and not only the people with money controlled the law.
And his suggestion is exactly what would happen to a company like Rambus that tried something as in that society.
No, you racist scum, it's time to do something about it.
Yes, that is scary.
Still, it's far better than M$ shaping foreign policy.
Nobody is comparing the DMCA to torture, but it most certainly IS political censorship.
And it's not moral relativism to say that censorship is just as repulsive in my own country as it is in China.
Well, that's been true the last few years.
They really got burned with Mac OS 8. Not the one that came out, the one that was codenamed Copland.
Yes.
Be sure to update to 1.2.
Police officers have a very limited amount of training in what the law actually is, and they are not known for being the brightest people.
I wouldn't put much more trust in what a cop says is legal than in the average person on the street. Police are not attorneys, and are not judges. They might be able to identify an armed robbery, but if a legal question is much more complex than that, most cops are lost. Their training consists of a very small subset of law, with an emphasis on acting first and thinking later.
The good ones will just walk away. The bad ones will make an illegal arrest, causing someone some serious inconvenience.
And that's not being anti-police. That's being realistic. You want to fix it? Require cops to have law degrees.
In the US and in the UK, the total number of fatal electrical accidents annually is so low as to be background noise. I suspect that we've already spent far beyond the point of diminishing returns on electrical safety in both countries, but the UK is spending far more on those ridiculously expensive outlets and plugs.
Not to mention the UK plugs are more hazardous. Not electrically, they're fine there, but put one on the floor, it will tend to fall prongs up, and someone will end up with nasty puncture wounds on a foot.
That's $3.11 for a single outlet, whereas the US standard double outlet, which takes up much less space, is available for $0.45, or about £0.27.
It might not seem that bad for a single one, but when you're wiring an entire house, it adds up. And it's really going to add up when you have to wire an apartment complex, or as I believe they call it, a block of flats.
And those ring mains are just freakish. I don't think anybody else in the world does that craziness.
I'm only running it on one machine, but the upgrade was absolutely flawless. Not a single issue.
I don't think I've ever had such a smooth upgrade, with nothing broken before.
If you've paid attention, I'm a huge Macintosh fan, but this was a far easier upgrade than 10.5 to 10.6 - and that was an easy upgrade.
Actually, I just did a Mac OS X Server 10.5 to 10.6 upgrade install last weekend.
Absolutely flawless, no problems at all. And that's the server version. The upgrade on 25 user machines went just as well.
While I wouldn't recommend a windoze "upgrade" install ever, I can say that Apple got this one right.
(And yes, I did a disk image of the server first, just in case. I'm not crazy.)
Hmm... Now that I think about it, I upgraded my Linux laptop from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 beta last week too. Also flawless.
So really, the recommendation is never upgrade install a M$ operating system. But then, can it ever really be an upgrade when you're talking about M$? Of course not.