Law enforcement wireless is for emergency situations like Katrina or 9/11 more than anything else. Old-style radio is sufficient for drug busts. It's when the world falls down that we need more advanced systems.
Increased spending => More goods and services => Actual input of energy into the system. There will of course be inflation. But the government has put concrete infrastructure into the economy, reducing overhead costs for U.S. business. You know why undeveloped nations can't develop industry? They have dirt roads. You can't ship stuff without roads. You know why they can't have call centers? They don't have broadband. Research labs? Schools.
The government can print money to build these things, and before inflation kicks in, business can take advantage of the new infrastructure. (This is less true with things like schools.)
On the other hand, in the long term, it's still better to print the money when job loss is skyrocketing, because we'll be that much better off at the end of the day, even if we don't recover.
It really isn't as complicated. You don't need to do research to figure out if it's going to work. If you wonder, you install, and you see if it works. If it doesn't, you can go back and change. No charge.
On Windows, since you have to pay, you therefore must first divine which version has all the features you need. That isn't complicated, but it is pretty much impossible.
I just put Ubuntu on a ~7 year old laptop. Gnome is too much for the thing, much less Compiz. I ripped out most of the default stuff and replaced it with my custom Fluxbox configuration, Emacs, and Epiphany in place of the increasingly bloated Firefox.
Not to mention the modern ultracheap, ultralight ARM machines we will be seeing soon. One size fits all assumes infinite computing resources. Efficiency is a big deal.
Furthermore, Wine is not an emulator. It implements Windows-specific API's so that that program can be run under Linux - x86 Linux. If the programmers are writing good code, it should run unmodified on Wine. Writing a program that implements an established API is not that hard. The problem is, software never works as intended, and programmers invariably make use of undefined behavior in the Windows API. The challenge of Wine is emulating this behavior. However, it is not a Windows emulator. It translates Windows API calls into Linux API calls.
I once was a serious gamer, but as I've grown up a bit it's less important to me. That said, I enjoy gaming from time to time, and hope that when I upgrade my machine, I won't need to buy Windows 7 to play the latest and greatest. At the moment, I'm content with revisiting games made over the past two decades.
I really can't justify the $200+ investment in Windows, since I would be buying it entirely as a game console. I'd rather just buy a console. I will however, be buying indie games that support Linux. Hell, I do that now.
I really don't give a shit about weight. All I want is a browser, a real, full-sized keyboard, (none of that function nonsense) and a reasonably sized display. Also a bash shell, but that goes without saying. I want this for around $200, and I want it to last me at least 3 years. I don't need power, I don't need it to be lightweight, I don't even need it to work for more than an hour without a cord. These things are nice, but I'm just looking for something that's reliable, ergonomic, and cheap.
The employees should have at least a modicum of control over the company. If the board of directors can control everything, that's a flat out oligopoly. In a country where large corporations have power on level with many nations, it's the only way to ensure democracy.
You're missing the point. Good processes are hard to come up with. Pick a good process that has some well-defined unknown, something that you need to keep safe, and you're assured that no one will break your security. Pick a bad process, and someone may tell you.
If you keep your process a secret, on the other hand, you have a host of unknowns - unknowns you do not know - that may provide someone access to your system. The point is, relying on a variety of ill-defined unknowns is inferior to relying on a single, well-defined unknown.
I'll grant the USB stick, but I've never seen a Mac or a Linux box forcibly install software and then reboot. That's just shoddy programming. Hell, you can run apt-get upgrade on a Debian box without anyone even noticing.
That makes the assumption that eating a Big Mac in the slums of a third world country is equivalent to eating a Big Mac in the slums of a first world country. It isn't, not by a long shot.
In a first world country, even the slums have:
A virtually limitless supply of clean drinking water.
Halfway decent trash disposal. (I just got back from studying Spanish in Nicaragua, and the level of trash was ridiculous. The good neighborhoods had 3-4 times the amount of litter I'd expect to see in the bad neighborhoods in the states.)
Restaurants with enforced food codes. You cannot run a business without at least something resembling proper sanitation in the States. Nicaraguay, an 8 year old delivers tortillas to an entire village, walking on foot from the tortilleria.
Halfway competent and honest Law enforcement in general. (Arguable, but in any case much better than in a third world country.)
So yes, you can buy a Big Mac, and gas, and electricity, and water much cheaper than a third world country. However, the Big Mac is much more likely to give you intestinal parasites, the roads you're driving on are horribly maintained, the electricity comes and goes with the wind, and the water... don't drink the water.
No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
It seems that there is a specific burden of efficacy for the DRM implementer. 'Effective' would seem to imply that if no one legitimately entitled to use the work can, circumventing the DRM is perfectly legal, since only a drunken monkey would call this effective.
Actually, the Earth really is at least in part a pot of water, with a constant heat source. There's a gaseous lens which permits some heat to enter and some to escape, and various chemicals can enter the pot of water, both from the bowl, and the gaseous lens. If you can measure the overall content of the lens, what chemicals will seep into the lens and the water, and the heat source, it seems pretty reasonable to make the sort of claims she's making. Obviously there are bubbles in both the water and the lens, but I'm prepared to accept that they're transient and not particularly significant. Even if 50% had consistently different behavior, I would expect that it would be sufficiently random that over the course of a decade only the predictable elements would be particularly significant.
You're assuming that because the Rockbox developers couldn't juice more out of it, the hardware's incapable of it. With their implementation of the mp3 codec, they were looking at the manufacturers implementation for reference. With ogg, they had to pull it out of their ass. You're assuming they have equivalent or better understanding of the hardware to that of the manufacturer, which I highly doubt. Give Rockbox developers access to the actual specs and see what happens.
In terms of the animal kingdom, the concept of 'species' may easily be understood in terms of the concept of breeding. When two organisms cannot produce fertile offspring, they are separate species. This is a well defined barrier. A population does not become a new species overnight.
In terms of bacteria, they can become what might be termed a new species overnight. In the case of this article, they're noting that though the bacteria may be dissimilar at a genetic level, at a morphological level they are essentially the same, hence the question of the value of the species idea. We all have different species of bacteria living inside of us, but they all do the same basic things.
VGA will probably be dead in 10 years, sure. However, if you packed a PC with an HDMI out, I'd bet HDMI is here to stay. It's fast, sleek, and I'm not really sure what could be done to improve it.
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Level 12 dwarf, thank you very much.
Law enforcement wireless is for emergency situations like Katrina or 9/11 more than anything else. Old-style radio is sufficient for drug busts. It's when the world falls down that we need more advanced systems.
Reduced taxation => More Money => Inflation.
Tax cut stimulus evaporates.
Increased spending => More goods and services => Actual input of energy into the system. There will of course be inflation. But the government has put concrete infrastructure into the economy, reducing overhead costs for U.S. business. You know why undeveloped nations can't develop industry? They have dirt roads. You can't ship stuff without roads. You know why they can't have call centers? They don't have broadband. Research labs? Schools.
The government can print money to build these things, and before inflation kicks in, business can take advantage of the new infrastructure. (This is less true with things like schools.)
On the other hand, in the long term, it's still better to print the money when job loss is skyrocketing, because we'll be that much better off at the end of the day, even if we don't recover.
It really isn't as complicated. You don't need to do research to figure out if it's going to work. If you wonder, you install, and you see if it works. If it doesn't, you can go back and change. No charge.
On Windows, since you have to pay, you therefore must first divine which version has all the features you need. That isn't complicated, but it is pretty much impossible.
There's no such thing as 'one size fits all.'
I just put Ubuntu on a ~7 year old laptop. Gnome is too much for the thing, much less Compiz. I ripped out most of the default stuff and replaced it with my custom Fluxbox configuration, Emacs, and Epiphany in place of the increasingly bloated Firefox.
Not to mention the modern ultracheap, ultralight ARM machines we will be seeing soon. One size fits all assumes infinite computing resources. Efficiency is a big deal.
No. That is a list of apps that officially support Wine.
The list you're looking for is located at http://appdb.winehq.org/
Furthermore, Wine is not an emulator. It implements Windows-specific API's so that that program can be run under Linux - x86 Linux. If the programmers are writing good code, it should run unmodified on Wine. Writing a program that implements an established API is not that hard. The problem is, software never works as intended, and programmers invariably make use of undefined behavior in the Windows API. The challenge of Wine is emulating this behavior. However, it is not a Windows emulator. It translates Windows API calls into Linux API calls.
I once was a serious gamer, but as I've grown up a bit it's less important to me. That said, I enjoy gaming from time to time, and hope that when I upgrade my machine, I won't need to buy Windows 7 to play the latest and greatest. At the moment, I'm content with revisiting games made over the past two decades.
I really can't justify the $200+ investment in Windows, since I would be buying it entirely as a game console. I'd rather just buy a console. I will however, be buying indie games that support Linux. Hell, I do that now.
I really don't give a shit about weight. All I want is a browser, a real, full-sized keyboard, (none of that function nonsense) and a reasonably sized display. Also a bash shell, but that goes without saying. I want this for around $200, and I want it to last me at least 3 years. I don't need power, I don't need it to be lightweight, I don't even need it to work for more than an hour without a cord. These things are nice, but I'm just looking for something that's reliable, ergonomic, and cheap.
The employees should have at least a modicum of control over the company. If the board of directors can control everything, that's a flat out oligopoly. In a country where large corporations have power on level with many nations, it's the only way to ensure democracy.
You're missing the point. Good processes are hard to come up with. Pick a good process that has some well-defined unknown, something that you need to keep safe, and you're assured that no one will break your security. Pick a bad process, and someone may tell you.
If you keep your process a secret, on the other hand, you have a host of unknowns - unknowns you do not know - that may provide someone access to your system. The point is, relying on a variety of ill-defined unknowns is inferior to relying on a single, well-defined unknown.
You cannot copyright photos of works in the public domain, at least not in the states.
I'll grant the USB stick, but I've never seen a Mac or a Linux box forcibly install software and then reboot. That's just shoddy programming. Hell, you can run apt-get upgrade on a Debian box without anyone even noticing.
That makes the assumption that eating a Big Mac in the slums of a third world country is equivalent to eating a Big Mac in the slums of a first world country. It isn't, not by a long shot.
In a first world country, even the slums have:
So yes, you can buy a Big Mac, and gas, and electricity, and water much cheaper than a third world country. However, the Big Mac is much more likely to give you intestinal parasites, the roads you're driving on are horribly maintained, the electricity comes and goes with the wind, and the water... don't drink the water.
Does it count as circumvention if the DRM fails?
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00001201----000-.html
It seems that there is a specific burden of efficacy for the DRM implementer. 'Effective' would seem to imply that if no one legitimately entitled to use the work can, circumventing the DRM is perfectly legal, since only a drunken monkey would call this effective.
What will they use to power their easy-bake ovens once we switch over to bulbs that don't waste 90% of the input energy as heat?
No, but seriously, sweet.
Entering the command less is equivalent to entering the command more. Ergo, less is more.
I think you might want to check the spec for 'is.' Each implementation has a lot of leeway on what it can do.
Actually, the Earth really is at least in part a pot of water, with a constant heat source. There's a gaseous lens which permits some heat to enter and some to escape, and various chemicals can enter the pot of water, both from the bowl, and the gaseous lens. If you can measure the overall content of the lens, what chemicals will seep into the lens and the water, and the heat source, it seems pretty reasonable to make the sort of claims she's making. Obviously there are bubbles in both the water and the lens, but I'm prepared to accept that they're transient and not particularly significant. Even if 50% had consistently different behavior, I would expect that it would be sufficiently random that over the course of a decade only the predictable elements would be particularly significant.
But then I'm not a climatologist.
You're assuming that because the Rockbox developers couldn't juice more out of it, the hardware's incapable of it. With their implementation of the mp3 codec, they were looking at the manufacturers implementation for reference. With ogg, they had to pull it out of their ass. You're assuming they have equivalent or better understanding of the hardware to that of the manufacturer, which I highly doubt. Give Rockbox developers access to the actual specs and see what happens.
In terms of the animal kingdom, the concept of 'species' may easily be understood in terms of the concept of breeding. When two organisms cannot produce fertile offspring, they are separate species. This is a well defined barrier. A population does not become a new species overnight.
In terms of bacteria, they can become what might be termed a new species overnight. In the case of this article, they're noting that though the bacteria may be dissimilar at a genetic level, at a morphological level they are essentially the same, hence the question of the value of the species idea. We all have different species of bacteria living inside of us, but they all do the same basic things.
VGA will probably be dead in 10 years, sure. However, if you packed a PC with an HDMI out, I'd bet HDMI is here to stay. It's fast, sleek, and I'm not really sure what could be done to improve it.
He's mixed in with old man G dubs on presidents' day.
Surprising? Of course not. The point is its wrong.
Mac PPC.
You use Mac x86.
Do your homework before posting.
And whoever modded this informative should also do some homework.
I can't believe I looked at Slashdot before xkcd. Oh well, I guess being in Nicaragua, I'm a little off kilter.
There is no way that George Lucas has had a horde of interns and patent attorneys working for the past two decades on Jar Jar Binks.