Kinda funny, but you are diluting Xerox's trademark, though it has been pretty diluted already. They're not too happy about it. I can't wait for the first non-Xerox xerox machines..
ISPs are NOT happy to do filtering, because it means more resources and more hardware costs to them.
That's BS. ISPs would just charge the customers those costs and then turn around and use that security as a marketing ploy. "AOL: 25% more secure than other ISPs!"
If there aren't systems in place to do things anonymously, there should be.
In an ideal world, there shouldn't need to be any reason to hide from the law, and, for the protection of the people, hiding from the law shouldn't be allowed. Of course we don't live in such an ideal world, but that's no excuse to just give up and assume that this can't be changed. Like the Suck.com article pointed out, if we don't work within the system we will be crushed by it.
I've watched the subbed episodes on tape, and they do the same thing. I've always had this feeling that if you could combine the intro sequence and the next episode promo for each episode it'd be just as good as the full thing..
It seems like the heroes and their enemies reach the ULTIMATE POWER LEVEL in every single episode of DBZ. It's as if the writers want to make every episode have the hugest climax possible.
Yeah, that's why it's fun to watch. What fun would it be to watch the good guys beat the living pulp out of an slighty-above-average-yet-realistically-matched bad guy in five minutes? Stretching out the battle scenes for as long as DBZ does increases the emotional involvement with the characters and the storyline (and the commercials in between). Yeah it's a soap opera for boys but what's wrong with some heavy drama? For a really great time, get all the subbed episodes and watch them back to back.
No one is questioning that there are a lot of Spanish speakers out there. I would doubt, however, that there are many native Spanish speakers with access to the Internet and those that are don't understand another the English alphabet well enough to use domain names. (Couldn't Spanish ISPs patch BIND to resolve domains typed with accents to their low ASCII counterparts?)
The Internet right now is dominated by rich people in rich countries which, for better or worse, seems to disproportionately exclude more of those 417 million people than other languages. I think ICANN is expecting those 417 million people to 'wake up' to the Internet and wonder why it's not in Spanish. Frankly I don't see this happening soon unless Spanish speaking people have an overwhelming need for porn and illegal mp3s.
Heh, I'm clarifying my clarification so I must not be good at this.
I never said it was like murder; I merely meant to suggest that though the GPL restricts personal freedom, the loss of those freedoms might not be a bad thing. It's a good thing that people aren't free to go around killing others. Is it a good thing that people aren't free to distribute GPL'd software without source or include GPL'd code in non-GPL'd projects? I'm being purposely unopinionated here because I don't want to attract any flames, though it appears I'm not any good at that either.
So it forces you to play by the rules if you want to be on the team. And the problem with that is... what?
There is no problem. Read: Of course, it does this in the same way that the courts limit your ability to murder people. This meaning that the GPL restricts your freedoms, but those aren't necessarily freedoms you need or should have.
Selling GPL'd works or distributing them without source are methods of distributing them, which you are not free to do.
The GPL limits freedoms by preventing content creators in cooperative works from deciding the terms on which their individual contribution may be used. One could also say that it limits your ability to freely distribute GPL'd works.
Of course, it does this in the same way that the courts limit your ability to murder people.
Should free speech be limited to only those who would use it to express wholesome ideas? Someone might say something seditious, perverted, mean or even something that isn't completely true! There are ways to exploit most anything to your benefit at the cost of others; this is no different.
The concept behind the abolition of copyright is the idea that the content creator has absolutely no control over his works once he releases it to the public, provided it doesn't violate any existing laws (other than copyright laws, of course). Even with copyright, in theory, this happens already once the limited monopoly runs out. How is it any "less wrong" to allow anyone and everyone to copy copyright-expired materials? A hundred years after Metallica is dead, why is it no longer stealing to copy their works?
I was going to write more, but I got bored. I'm not totally against copyright myself, I merely think that the limited monopoly needs to become a little more limited. Perhaps when asking for enforcement, the copyright owners should be required to prove that their limited monopoly has been seriously affected (to the tune of a large percentage of their income). The RIAA wouldn't be able to claim thousand dollar damages from every little website, but an MP3.com artist could claim twenty dollar damages from their roommate selling tapes. That is to say that the more money you make the harder it is to be ripped off.
My considerably less than a grand 19" monitor can do 1280x1024 at 85hz and 1600x1200 at 75hz. Having more clarity, detail, and basic desktop real estate is a genuine plus for me. I'm also uniquely attuned to low refresh rates; I can detect anything lower than 85hz and anything under 70hz gives me a sincere headache.
Just because you can do 100fps at 1280x1024 doesn't mean you play at 100fps. You push the detail limits as high as they can go until your system screams and your fps count goes down.
No one is questioning the universal applicability of phoneline options. The question is why aren't these companies including an expansion slot and selling the ethernet option to those who want it?
Pshaw. Every surface street would be 60mph, and you know it, then would go down to 5mph the first time a cute little girl was injured there. We humans are particularly inept at properly identifying our own failings and their degrees. We need experienced and knowledgable to decide these things because they are so important.
Then again, if you were just trolling, I applaud you with a job well done. Count me trolled.
I know I'm totally missing your point, but neither of those equal 20. Well, the first one does if you're going left to right.
RPN fixes this by allowing you to set operator priorites through when you use them. 2 3 + 4 *, in RPN, read left to right, results in 20.
That being said, I really like RPN. It lends itself so well to a limited linear input device like a calculator, and complex calculations can be easily understood as a series of smaller ones.
That doesn't give you meaningful output until you solve it, and makes it hard to detect typographical errors. With RPN you can validate the calculator's math at every step.
3 5 + 2.4 * 6 7 ^ 2 7 - * - 3.2 4.7 3 + / +
It may look like gobblety-gook, but it works. For a computer with a more advanced interface (a keyboard), I'd much rather use a parathentical system.
And another thing, even without operator priorities, we'd still need paratheses, and probably a lot more of them.
Here's the kicker: there are a lot of Americans along the Mexican border who deal with Spanish speakers every day and still don't bother to learn Spanish, not to mention the startling number of Hispanics who don't bother to learn English.
Hell, I live in a town where Hispanics are the largest minority, and I took French as a foreign language.
The big test for Vorbis as a viable codec is its inclusion in mainstream encoders, Musicmatch Jukebox, Audiocatalyst, etc. These mainstream encoders account for most of the mp3s on Napster, billing themselves on speed and ease of use. LAME (the preferred Vorbis encoder), despite being arguably the best MP3 encoder out there, is hardly used by the Napster community because it is slower (and generally more accurate), and harder to use (LAME has the command line; MMJB has skins!).
The true story here is that the Napster crowd doesn't want a better MP3 than MP3. They don't know or care about "Free" software, and they won't embrace Vorbis unless there's something in it for them. And curiously enough, that has something to do with skinnable apps.
Does no one else wish to kill Nullsoft for creating this skinning craze? I don't need a skinnable clock, thankyouverymuch.
Why not set aside X dollars per kid and send that money to the schools that we already have? The idea behind vouchers is that our public schools are so bad that no one should be forced to go there. What we should be doing instead is spending money and other resources in an effective way so that it won't matter which school kids go to.
Of course, the other option is to raise taxes and do it both ways, but I don't see many people clamering for that.
The point is to make a Republican convention something that no city wants. Harassing police is part of that.
is referred to as "disturbing the peace" and it is indeed a crime. The Republicans have every right to hold their convention. I mean, geez, you're not even protesting an issue (like school vouchers, which are evil and should die die DIE), just the general fact that they're Republicans and that they're having a convention in public. The police can be scrutinized without violating any laws or creating reasonable cause to be detained and searched.
No he wasn't. He was expecting to go to jail from the start; he was expecting to have his rights trampled on, and he was going to do everything in his power to facilitate that trampling just so he could prove his point. These people make it hard for the police to respect their rights on purpose. It's sad, it's stupid, and it's pointless.
The fact that he ignored that the police regularly forget is his fault. Obviously, the police should have respected his rights, but they didn't and he knew that they weren't going to, especially dressing like a thug and acting like a thug.
This is not the way to protest, plain and simple. If he had not been so beligerant and was either searched without reason or arrested, he would have made his point a lot clearer. True, thugs have rights that should be protected too, but it's a lot easier to sympathize with an innocent protestor than it is a beligerant thug, and he would get more people on his side if he weren't acting like one.
PDA interfaces are generally designed for organizer type things, which can be reduced the a small set of functions that generally need to be accessed at the same time. Have you seen an HP calculator with all those keys? A stylus-driven menu system is much too slow and inconvient for the number of functions required by a modern programmable calculator. This is why even the most advanced Palm calculator software doesn't come close to the complexity inherant in these things; you may use it for quick 4-function calculations, but for hardcore stuff, you're going ditch that PDA and its clunky interface.
Are you going to sit in math class trying to tap your way through a tough calculus problem? I think not.
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I don't need to decrypt it to xerox it.
Kinda funny, but you are diluting Xerox's trademark, though it has been pretty diluted already. They're not too happy about it. I can't wait for the first non-Xerox xerox machines..
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ISPs are NOT happy to do filtering, because it means more resources and more hardware costs to them.
That's BS. ISPs would just charge the customers those costs and then turn around and use that security as a marketing ploy. "AOL: 25% more secure than other ISPs!"
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If there aren't systems in place to do things anonymously, there should be.
In an ideal world, there shouldn't need to be any reason to hide from the law, and, for the protection of the people, hiding from the law shouldn't be allowed. Of course we don't live in such an ideal world, but that's no excuse to just give up and assume that this can't be changed. Like the Suck.com article pointed out, if we don't work within the system we will be crushed by it.
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I've watched the subbed episodes on tape, and they do the same thing. I've always had this feeling that if you could combine the intro sequence and the next episode promo for each episode it'd be just as good as the full thing..
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Was her character #18? Videl maybe? Maybe a minor part? I'm interested. The lawyers aren't going to sue you for mentioning what your sister did.
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It seems like the heroes and their enemies reach the ULTIMATE POWER LEVEL in every single episode of DBZ. It's as if the writers want to make every episode have the hugest climax possible.
Yeah, that's why it's fun to watch. What fun would it be to watch the good guys beat the living pulp out of an slighty-above-average-yet-realistically-matched bad guy in five minutes? Stretching out the battle scenes for as long as DBZ does increases the emotional involvement with the characters and the storyline (and the commercials in between). Yeah it's a soap opera for boys but what's wrong with some heavy drama? For a really great time, get all the subbed episodes and watch them back to back.
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Numbers. 417 million people speak Spanish ...
No one is questioning that there are a lot of Spanish speakers out there. I would doubt, however, that there are many native Spanish speakers with access to the Internet and those that are don't understand another the English alphabet well enough to use domain names. (Couldn't Spanish ISPs patch BIND to resolve domains typed with accents to their low ASCII counterparts?)
The Internet right now is dominated by rich people in rich countries which, for better or worse, seems to disproportionately exclude more of those 417 million people than other languages. I think ICANN is expecting those 417 million people to 'wake up' to the Internet and wonder why it's not in Spanish. Frankly I don't see this happening soon unless Spanish speaking people have an overwhelming need for porn and illegal mp3s.
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Heh, I'm clarifying my clarification so I must not be good at this.
I never said it was like murder; I merely meant to suggest that though the GPL restricts personal freedom, the loss of those freedoms might not be a bad thing. It's a good thing that people aren't free to go around killing others. Is it a good thing that people aren't free to distribute GPL'd software without source or include GPL'd code in non-GPL'd projects? I'm being purposely unopinionated here because I don't want to attract any flames, though it appears I'm not any good at that either.
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So it forces you to play by the rules if you want to be on the team. And the problem with that is... what?
There is no problem. Read: Of course, it does this in the same way that the courts limit your ability to murder people. This meaning that the GPL restricts your freedoms, but those aren't necessarily freedoms you need or should have.
Selling GPL'd works or distributing them without source are methods of distributing them, which you are not free to do.
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The GPL limits freedoms by preventing content creators in cooperative works from deciding the terms on which their individual contribution may be used. One could also say that it limits your ability to freely distribute GPL'd works.
Of course, it does this in the same way that the courts limit your ability to murder people.
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Should free speech be limited to only those who would use it to express wholesome ideas? Someone might say something seditious, perverted, mean or even something that isn't completely true! There are ways to exploit most anything to your benefit at the cost of others; this is no different.
The concept behind the abolition of copyright is the idea that the content creator has absolutely no control over his works once he releases it to the public, provided it doesn't violate any existing laws (other than copyright laws, of course). Even with copyright, in theory, this happens already once the limited monopoly runs out. How is it any "less wrong" to allow anyone and everyone to copy copyright-expired materials? A hundred years after Metallica is dead, why is it no longer stealing to copy their works?
I was going to write more, but I got bored. I'm not totally against copyright myself, I merely think that the limited monopoly needs to become a little more limited. Perhaps when asking for enforcement, the copyright owners should be required to prove that their limited monopoly has been seriously affected (to the tune of a large percentage of their income). The RIAA wouldn't be able to claim thousand dollar damages from every little website, but an MP3.com artist could claim twenty dollar damages from their roommate selling tapes. That is to say that the more money you make the harder it is to be ripped off.
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My considerably less than a grand 19" monitor can do 1280x1024 at 85hz and 1600x1200 at 75hz. Having more clarity, detail, and basic desktop real estate is a genuine plus for me. I'm also uniquely attuned to low refresh rates; I can detect anything lower than 85hz and anything under 70hz gives me a sincere headache.
Just because you can do 100fps at 1280x1024 doesn't mean you play at 100fps. You push the detail limits as high as they can go until your system screams and your fps count goes down.
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No one is questioning the universal applicability of phoneline options. The question is why aren't these companies including an expansion slot and selling the ethernet option to those who want it?
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Pshaw. Every surface street would be 60mph, and you know it, then would go down to 5mph the first time a cute little girl was injured there. We humans are particularly inept at properly identifying our own failings and their degrees. We need experienced and knowledgable to decide these things because they are so important.
Then again, if you were just trolling, I applaud you with a job well done. Count me trolled.
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I know I'm totally missing your point, but neither of those equal 20. Well, the first one does if you're going left to right.
RPN fixes this by allowing you to set operator priorites through when you use them. 2 3 + 4 *, in RPN, read left to right, results in 20.
That being said, I really like RPN. It lends itself so well to a limited linear input device like a calculator, and complex calculations can be easily understood as a series of smaller ones.
((3 + 5) * 2.4 - 6 ^ 7 * (2 - 7)) + (3.2 / (4.7 + 3))
That doesn't give you meaningful output until you solve it, and makes it hard to detect typographical errors. With RPN you can validate the calculator's math at every step.
3 5 + 2.4 * 6 7 ^ 2 7 - * - 3.2 4.7 3 + / +
It may look like gobblety-gook, but it works. For a computer with a more advanced interface (a keyboard), I'd much rather use a parathentical system.
And another thing, even without operator priorities, we'd still need paratheses, and probably a lot more of them.
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Here's the kicker: there are a lot of Americans along the Mexican border who deal with Spanish speakers every day and still don't bother to learn Spanish, not to mention the startling number of Hispanics who don't bother to learn English.
Hell, I live in a town where Hispanics are the largest minority, and I took French as a foreign language.
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The big test for Vorbis as a viable codec is its inclusion in mainstream encoders, Musicmatch Jukebox, Audiocatalyst, etc. These mainstream encoders account for most of the mp3s on Napster, billing themselves on speed and ease of use. LAME (the preferred Vorbis encoder), despite being arguably the best MP3 encoder out there, is hardly used by the Napster community because it is slower (and generally more accurate), and harder to use (LAME has the command line; MMJB has skins!).
The true story here is that the Napster crowd doesn't want a better MP3 than MP3. They don't know or care about "Free" software, and they won't embrace Vorbis unless there's something in it for them. And curiously enough, that has something to do with skinnable apps.
Does no one else wish to kill Nullsoft for creating this skinning craze? I don't need a skinnable clock, thankyouverymuch.
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Uhhh.. Nader is the canidate for the Green Party, not the Libertarians. There's a big difference there..
Dispite that, I agree that this was more of a lucky decision to pick a host with brains more than a political move.
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Why not set aside X dollars per kid and send that money to the schools that we already have? The idea behind vouchers is that our public schools are so bad that no one should be forced to go there. What we should be doing instead is spending money and other resources in an effective way so that it won't matter which school kids go to.
Of course, the other option is to raise taxes and do it both ways, but I don't see many people clamering for that.
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I'm no fan of the Republicans, but:
The point is to make a Republican convention something that no city wants. Harassing police is part of that.
is referred to as "disturbing the peace" and it is indeed a crime. The Republicans have every right to hold their convention. I mean, geez, you're not even protesting an issue (like school vouchers, which are evil and should die die DIE), just the general fact that they're Republicans and that they're having a convention in public. The police can be scrutinized without violating any laws or creating reasonable cause to be detained and searched.
Oh, by the way: Californians! Vote NO on 38!
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He was expecting to have his rights respected.
No he wasn't. He was expecting to go to jail from the start; he was expecting to have his rights trampled on, and he was going to do everything in his power to facilitate that trampling just so he could prove his point. These people make it hard for the police to respect their rights on purpose. It's sad, it's stupid, and it's pointless.
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The fact that he ignored that the police regularly forget is his fault. Obviously, the police should have respected his rights, but they didn't and he knew that they weren't going to, especially dressing like a thug and acting like a thug.
This is not the way to protest, plain and simple. If he had not been so beligerant and was either searched without reason or arrested, he would have made his point a lot clearer. True, thugs have rights that should be protected too, but it's a lot easier to sympathize with an innocent protestor than it is a beligerant thug, and he would get more people on his side if he weren't acting like one.
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"..reduced the a small set of functions.."
That should be to.
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PDA interfaces are generally designed for organizer type things, which can be reduced the a small set of functions that generally need to be accessed at the same time. Have you seen an HP calculator with all those keys? A stylus-driven menu system is much too slow and inconvient for the number of functions required by a modern programmable calculator. This is why even the most advanced Palm calculator software doesn't come close to the complexity inherant in these things; you may use it for quick 4-function calculations, but for hardcore stuff, you're going ditch that PDA and its clunky interface.
Are you going to sit in math class trying to tap your way through a tough calculus problem? I think not.
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I wouldn't bother downloading any of them (they seem quite useless), but others have reported that the source comes in the executable installer.
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