That being said, I'm sure you can find some crazy person claiming to be a christian who believes in the young earth.
A 2012 Gallup poll showed that 46% of Americans agreed with the statement "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so". That's a lot of crazy.
There are plenty of reasons to browse without Javascript. And, if you use Firefox with noscript, you can control which scripts are allowed to run and which ones aren't.
I had the same reaction to EVE-Online. I played for the trial and several months beyond, but in the end I'm not a PvP oriented player, and there is no other option in EVE. If you want to do anything interesting you have to venture into space where PvP is not only allowed, but is quite frequent. For those who enjoy it, great. It wasn't for me.
You should look at T-Mobile prepaid. I don't pay any per-day charges and since I bought a $100 block of minutes (1000 minutes) they don't expire for a year. Since I generally use less than 100 minutes a month, that's a pretty good deal for me. Plus, when I went on vacation I was pleasantly surprised to find out that nationwide long distance and in-network roaming are included. The downside is that calling voicemail from your mobile isn't free.
I'd suggest, for those of you who enjoy boardgames, that you check out the BoardGameGeek site. There's a lot of games out there to enjoy, and that site has more information than you probably want about boardgames.
I heard back from one of my senators, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. The letter was very formally worded, but basically said "I'm a corporate shill and will vote for this bill despite your position."
Well, it wasn't like I was going to vote for her next time around anyway.
Um, you do realize that MP3 began being used in 1995, but Fraunhofer waited until September 1998 to contact MP3 software developers to tell them they need a license, right?
From the "History" section: Beginning in the first half of 1995, MP3 files, file representations of MPEG-1 Audio Layer III data, began flourishing on the Internet. Its popularity created such companies and software packages as Nullsoft's Winamp, mpg123 and the now Roxio-owned Napster.
From the "Licensing and patent issues" section: In September 1998, the Fraunhofer Institute sent a letter to several developers of MP3 software stating that a license was required to "distribute and/or sell decoders and/or encoders". The letter claimed that unlicensed products "infringe the patent rights of Fraunhofer and THOMSON. To make, sell and/or distribute products using the [MPEG Layer-3] standard and thus our patents, you need to obtain a license under these patents from us."
The best place I have found for rechargable batteries, chargers, battery packs and the like is Thomas Distributing. They currently have NiMH AAs up to 2200mAh.
I'll spare you my take on the game, since it has been echoed by many people on MOO3 discussion boards. Try the boards at Apolyton and The Orion Sector. You'll get more opinions about the game than you ever wanted.
I will advise you to stay away from the official Infogrames boards, however. Most of the trolls and flamers seem to reside there, so signal to noise ratio is much lower.
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Of course it's a joke. Although I can't speak for him, I am sure that Mr. Steven Olson knew he was being absurd when he filed the patent. The real joke is the patent office actually granted him the patent. Unfortunately, I'm not laughing.
Seriously, though, it means nothing in the US, as a couple people have pointed out. However, the more places they can get this criminalized, the easier it will be to get other countries to go along. That's what I worry about.
How did the above comment get modded as insightful? The poster obviously didn't read the article, or they would realize that Sendo didn't agree to sell their IP to Microsoft, they entered into a business relationship with them to jointly develop a product (among other things). One of the provisions of this arrangement was that in the event of Sendo's insolvency, MS gets Sendo's IP.
Uh, no. Actually, they only have to get permission if they want to prevent any possible legal action down the road. For a good breakdown of the issues involved, a quick google turned up this.
As a side note, I recall (meaning I don't have a source to point to) a special on TV in which Al himself stated that he got permission because he didn't want to step on any toes, not because there was a legal reason for him to.
For now, they cannot usually sue the company because of EULAs that free the company from any responsibility. On the other hand, Free software usually have disclaimers that deny all responsibility, including fitness for the intended purpose.
You can't have it both ways... so "free software" can disclaim all responsibility, but big corporations can't?
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...than the online version of "The Nation".
Funny, I thought that this was the online version of "The Nation"...
Oh please... people are already complaining that it takes all of the computer civs as long as a full minute to move. Can you imagine playing with humans that might take 10+ minutes more than you to complete a turn? How long would a game take then? Have you ever tried to get even a few people to sit down and play a game for the number of hours that a game of Civ3 would take? It's not easy, and you sure as anything would have people dropping out in the middle of the game. Not fun.
I think Firaxis and/or Infogrammes did the right thing. If you won't buy it because of multiplayer, that's your choice. Personally, I would much rather have a strong single player mode.
That way they could enclose the cockpit with stealth tech and feed the image to the headset.
Actually, with this technology, why even have the pilot in the aircraft to begin with? After all, the human pilot is the most limiting factor and the most irreplacable part of the system.
the planet in question here has a very elliptical orbit, which is not close at all to being circular.
Of course, if you'd read the article, you would realize that these are two separate planets. One (HD80606) has an e=.93, which is very nearly an ellipse. The other one in question (HD28185) is in a nearly circular orbit in what scientists like to call the "habitable zone", which simply means they think water could exist in liquid form there on the surface of a body.
For cars and CPUs, that's certainly possible; your choice range might be limited in both cases due to income, but that limitation can still leave you with a wide range of choices from different manufactures.
You invalidate your whole argument here. So, real CPU/car/OS/everything choice is only for the rich? After all, you admit that your choices are limited if you don't have financial resources. You might even be stuck with just whatever you can afford? Gee, sounds a lot like your opposition to school vouchers.
Most private schools, however, are asking for at least $5000/yr, if not up to $10,000/yr for tuition.
Come on now, think things through. You can't honestly believe that if every school aged person was given $2,500 per year to attend other than public education, hundreds of schools charging just that wouldn't spring up overnight? Of course they would! Would they be better than public education? Some would, some wouldn't. Would they be better than a private school charging $10,000 per year? Probably not, but we have already established that with means comes wider choice. It's a fact of life... life is not fair.
It might be miners now, but the next thing it will be your job - cleaners, etc. will all be redundant.
Horrors! People will have to adapt, change, and learn new skills. If you were around early last century, you would have decried the assembly line. Computers are right out, since obviously we put file clerks out of a job; we don't need as many if our records are computerized. Hell, why don't we just burn all the looms and go back to making cloth by hand? After all, think of how many more people we could employ if we did that!
Where people are necessary, they will be employed. Anytime something like this happens a whole new class of employment is created, after all, someone has to maintain those robots, right? Will people be uprooted and forced to change? Yes. Will they adapt? Undoubtedly. History has taught us that humanity is the most adaptable creature on the planet.
AnandTech has a look at integrated video. It includes comparisons of solutions from Intel, SiS, VIA, and ALi. I don't personally like integrated solutions, but if you need one this might be a good source of supplementary info.
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That being said, I'm sure you can find some crazy person claiming to be a christian who believes in the young earth.
A 2012 Gallup poll showed that 46% of Americans agreed with the statement "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so". That's a lot of crazy.
Except for the fact that he nominated a net neutrality backer as head of the FCC...
CNet story
This guy says it better than I can:
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/whatnojs
There are plenty of reasons to browse without Javascript. And, if you use Firefox with noscript, you can control which scripts are allowed to run and which ones aren't.
I had the same reaction to EVE-Online. I played for the trial and several months beyond, but in the end I'm not a PvP oriented player, and there is no other option in EVE. If you want to do anything interesting you have to venture into space where PvP is not only allowed, but is quite frequent. For those who enjoy it, great. It wasn't for me.
You should look at T-Mobile prepaid. I don't pay any per-day charges and since I bought a $100 block of minutes (1000 minutes) they don't expire for a year. Since I generally use less than 100 minutes a month, that's a pretty good deal for me. Plus, when I went on vacation I was pleasantly surprised to find out that nationwide long distance and in-network roaming are included. The downside is that calling voicemail from your mobile isn't free.
I'd suggest, for those of you who enjoy boardgames, that you check out the BoardGameGeek site. There's a lot of games out there to enjoy, and that site has more information than you probably want about boardgames.
I heard back from one of my senators, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. The letter was very formally worded, but basically said "I'm a corporate shill and will vote for this bill despite your position."
Well, it wasn't like I was going to vote for her next time around anyway.
Um, you do realize that MP3 began being used in 1995, but Fraunhofer waited until September 1998 to contact MP3 software developers to tell them they need a license, right?
Wikipedia entry for MP3
Here are the relevant sections:
From the "History" section:
Beginning in the first half of 1995, MP3 files, file representations of MPEG-1 Audio Layer III data, began flourishing on the Internet. Its popularity created such companies and software packages as Nullsoft's Winamp, mpg123 and the now Roxio-owned Napster.
From the "Licensing and patent issues" section:
In September 1998, the Fraunhofer Institute sent a letter to several developers of MP3 software stating that a license was required to "distribute and/or sell decoders and/or encoders". The letter claimed that unlicensed products "infringe the patent rights of Fraunhofer and THOMSON. To make, sell and/or distribute products using the [MPEG Layer-3] standard and thus our patents, you need to obtain a license under these patents from us."
The best place I have found for rechargable batteries, chargers, battery packs and the like is Thomas Distributing. They currently have NiMH AAs up to 2200mAh.
I'll spare you my take on the game, since it has been echoed by many people on MOO3 discussion boards. Try the boards at Apolyton and The Orion Sector. You'll get more opinions about the game than you ever wanted.
I will advise you to stay away from the official Infogrames boards, however. Most of the trolls and flamers seem to reside there, so signal to noise ratio is much lower.
Of course it's a joke. Although I can't speak for him, I am sure that Mr. Steven Olson knew he was being absurd when he filed the patent. The real joke is the patent office actually granted him the patent. Unfortunately, I'm not laughing.
In the 10 years I've been on this project...
Wow, talk about job security! Where can I get a job like that?
You're afraid of warrior princesses?
Seriously, though, it means nothing in the US, as a couple people have pointed out. However, the more places they can get this criminalized, the easier it will be to get other countries to go along. That's what I worry about.
How did the above comment get modded as insightful? The poster obviously didn't read the article, or they would realize that Sendo didn't agree to sell their IP to Microsoft, they entered into a business relationship with them to jointly develop a product (among other things). One of the provisions of this arrangement was that in the event of Sendo's insolvency, MS gets Sendo's IP.
Uh, no. Actually, they only have to get permission if they want to prevent any possible legal action down the road. For a good breakdown of the issues involved, a quick google turned up this.
As a side note, I recall (meaning I don't have a source to point to) a special on TV in which Al himself stated that he got permission because he didn't want to step on any toes, not because there was a legal reason for him to.
For now, they cannot usually sue the company because of EULAs that free the company from any responsibility.
On the other hand, Free software usually have disclaimers that deny all responsibility, including fitness for the intended purpose.
You can't have it both ways... so "free software" can disclaim all responsibility, but big corporations can't?
Funny, I thought that this was the online version of "The Nation"...
I think Firaxis and/or Infogrammes did the right thing. If you won't buy it because of multiplayer, that's your choice. Personally, I would much rather have a strong single player mode.
And you'd be fine until the first time you dropped your very heavy, very malleable platters.
Actually, with this technology, why even have the pilot in the aircraft to begin with? After all, the human pilot is the most limiting factor and the most irreplacable part of the system.
Of course, if you'd read the article, you would realize that these are two separate planets. One (HD80606) has an e=.93, which is very nearly an ellipse. The other one in question (HD28185) is in a nearly circular orbit in what scientists like to call the "habitable zone", which simply means they think water could exist in liquid form there on the surface of a body.
You invalidate your whole argument here. So, real CPU/car/OS/everything choice is only for the rich? After all, you admit that your choices are limited if you don't have financial resources. You might even be stuck with just whatever you can afford? Gee, sounds a lot like your opposition to school vouchers.
Most private schools, however, are asking for at least $5000/yr, if not up to $10,000/yr for tuition.
Come on now, think things through. You can't honestly believe that if every school aged person was given $2,500 per year to attend other than public education, hundreds of schools charging just that wouldn't spring up overnight? Of course they would! Would they be better than public education? Some would, some wouldn't. Would they be better than a private school charging $10,000 per year? Probably not, but we have already established that with means comes wider choice. It's a fact of life... life is not fair.
Horrors! People will have to adapt, change, and learn new skills. If you were around early last century, you would have decried the assembly line. Computers are right out, since obviously we put file clerks out of a job; we don't need as many if our records are computerized. Hell, why don't we just burn all the looms and go back to making cloth by hand? After all, think of how many more people we could employ if we did that!
Where people are necessary, they will be employed. Anytime something like this happens a whole new class of employment is created, after all, someone has to maintain those robots, right? Will people be uprooted and forced to change? Yes. Will they adapt? Undoubtedly. History has taught us that humanity is the most adaptable creature on the planet.
AnandTech has a look at integrated video. It includes comparisons of solutions from Intel, SiS, VIA, and ALi. I don't personally like integrated solutions, but if you need one this might be a good source of supplementary info.
Did anyone else get the feeling that they were listening to the Orz while reading the responses?