So Microsoft reliability is a good thing? Frankly, if it weren't the only operating system that actually supported any software, I wouldn't use it because the damn thing doesn't even boot up 10% of the time.
It probably wouldn't even be a problem at that if there were actually something wrong with my computer, but it's brand new and running Windows XP pro and when I reboot, not a single error message. I certainly hope the parent comment was meant as humor.
Perhaps the problem is that it's only non-lethal if you turn it off within a few seconds. Yep, it's in there. It says the beam would only have to be on a few seconds. Just like touching a hot lightbulb, if you keep applying the energy, it will burn. The intent is that the beam would just be flashed on and off, causing pain but no damage. The beam could presumably be left on as long as one wished, vaporizing (ok maybe just badly burning) the assailants.
ok, so every non-cat-owner knows that "over the top" is easier to use. Simply make rotating roll holders. Have one roll "over the top" and one the opposite. Then, when the over the top roll runs out (which will almost certainly be sooner than the "under the bottom" roll), simply rotate the under the bottom roll so it's over the top. Then, when the person who used the last of the roll replaces it (and he had better), he must simply place the new roll in an under the bottom orientation.
One needn't force the correct usage. Often making the preferred choice more attractive will suffice.
Funny that you should mention monkeys with typewriters...
George Kingsley Zipf realized that lots of things follow an inverse power law (with the power very cloze to 1 in most cases) when plotted as frequency versus frequency rank. The most common example is the english language. If you take all the words in a large well known text and count the occurrances and then plot the frequencies on say a dot plot from highest to lowest, you'll find that it traces an inverse curve pretty closely. Many people look at this and see some divine intervention (since Zipf's law also occurs often naturally), but eventually someone explains to them that monkeys with typewriters would produce the same "word" length frequency distribution purely by probability.
I guess that's a long-winded way of saying that people like to look for patterns and try to interpret them (which is, by the way, probably a Good Thing(TM) because it allows things like "reading") and that sometimes there really isn't anything to interpret.
From the article... For instance, although the numbers 9/11 (9 plus 1 plus 1) equal 11, and American Airlines Flight 11 was the first to hit the twin towers, and there were 92 people on board (9 plus 2), and Sept. 11 is the 254th day of the year (2 plus 5 plus 4), and there are 11 letters each in ''Afghanistan,'' ''New York City'' and ''the Pentagon'' (and while we're counting, in George W. Bush)... Good God! George W Bush is an Al Qaida terrorist!
Hmm, I suppose my reply came off a little harshly. I don't really think shutting down these p2p networks (which ARE used almost exclusively for piracy) would necessarily constitute limitation of free speech, but it would be rather stupid and shortsighted, much like banning guns and airplaines as you said.
Well personally my Sony Boxster runs on gasaline and it gets 80 miles to the gallon and can pump out 500 horsepower, but it's so hard to find gas for it, I just drive my normal car anymore.
odd, that's roughly the same reason I'm running Windows...
What?! you don't want to pirate DVDs? You must be in the wrong place! This is the forum of FREE SPEECH and sticking it to the EVIL EMPIRE. By pirating DVDs, you preserve both, by freely sharing the stolen property of others... errr, your opinions, at the same time preventing the EVIL movie companies from seeing another dime! It's the Slashdot way!
When you buy a CD, you buy a piece of plastic. You in no way buy the intellectual property, and copying it in any way was once illegal. Now through fair use, copying is legal such that you never are using both copies at the same time, but the point is that when libraries put a CD on the shelves, they are no more violating copyright laws than they are when they put books on the shelves. Also, keep in mind that filesharing is roughly like scanning your favorite novel and posting the entire contents on your website. (For those with more interest, check out title 17 for a more explicit permission for libraries)
wow! I'm guessing you don't recall correctly... the average house has 100 amp service. Large houses (that use large air conditioners) often get 200 amp service. There is no way that a cpu uses 100 amps. That's just unrealistic... Hey, while you're at it, go find a 1 farad capacitor....
That's a good idea. Actually I think I may just go put those two documents in My Shared Folder right now... anybody know of a pretty version of those in say pdf?
I see... Congress should drop everything and go kill some retard who thinks he's getting 700 horny virgins for killing some foreign devils. Actually, since legislation isn't going to do much, the whole of congress should suit up and head off to basic training. They can be the elite commando squad that kills Saddam and Bin Laden simultaneously.
well of course it's bribery, but there's not really much anybody can do other than write tehir congressmen, which nobody will do, to stop accepting donations from large corporations, or better still, take the money and vote against the corporations.
It's also a problem that Congressmen can't be an expert in every field (and frankly there's probably little room to be an expert in any field), so they rely on briefs people send them. And guess who the only people are who bother to take the time to explain the issue to teh congressman? Yeah, that's who. They aren't necessarily being immoral: they may just have one side of the story.
In short: write your congressman and TELL HIM WHY YOU DISAGREE in a polite, sensible tone. Give facts and citations when appropriate. Make it look like you have a head on your shoulders and his aides may actually check your references and give him the letter to read himself. If you're any good at persuasion, maybe you'll actually do some good.
The way it erodes our culture is that people will soon fail to see file sharing as a violation of the intellectual property of the artists and recording companies. Thus, people fail to consider it theft, which it is. Keep in mind that no matter how much you dislike the evil empire, if you're stealing from it in bad faith (you never intend to buy any CD ever again, like most people I know who download off file sharing systems) you are no better than the recording industry, which rips off the artists themselves. If art is a part of culture (which most would agree it is), anything that deprives artists of sustenance and dissuades new artists from creating art also erodes our culture itself.
Perhaps it's silly to spend all that much time thinking about making laws against things that are already illegal, but the fact is that they have every right and in fact a responsibility to curb the widespread theft that has swept the nation.
If you're thinking about buying the CD, go ahead... it's just a preview. If you don't like it, delete it. If you like it, buy it. Tell the RIAA it can still make money when people download their songs. Buy a CD and make those songs on your hard drive legal.
I think the point is that many of these worms are benig spread not by windows 95 computers, but only by NT servers. Basically, if you're running win2k server edition, you probably have a small group (or just one) of server admins who (presumably) know what they're doing. If you recall, code red required IIS, which is only on win2k servers.
The point is not that the man can spy on my driving habits, the point is that every little bit adds up. No, I don't give a rat's ass if they want me to have a black box in my car, but I do mind if they start infringing on my rights, and the line is blurry. The general public is all too willing to give up privacy or freedom in exchange for safety or security. This is just like the situation with Jose Padilla. Yeah, he's probably guilty and I don't want him dropping a dirty bomb on NYC, but the fact is that he's a US citizen and his rights have been breached, but nobody seems to care because they value security to freedom. I almost want to move to New Hampshire to get "Live Free or Die" on my license plate. The United States is a country where freedom is supposedly valued above life itself. It's not all the little things like black boxes in my car, it's the sum of all the little things which amount to my freedom being slowly stripped from me.
It's always good to see the real human beings who understand that all news reporting comes with a slant, and that some (though surely not Slashdot) is more biased than others.
I read everything here with a suspicious eye, though I think that some of the most suspicious (of government and big companies anyway) persons are probably trusting of Slashdot in its ability to provide knowledgeable, minimally-biased news.
I think for an answer to be sexy, it must not be obvious. Thus "hard," at least until you solve it or know the solution. Many things are easy with the proper prior knowledge, and many of these are sexy, but they are sexy because the solution seems so easy, but is so difficult to synthesize.
no, you only get 2 eggs. you can only subdivide on division of the building. My solution was not quite optimal (using a different base would have been better), but mine was the more obvious choice of base.
oops... I made some other errors, but you are indeed correct, and your solution explains the comment about how difficult the question is... almost a trick question. bravo.
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Sweet! I'm buying all my ice from Canada now.
So Microsoft reliability is a good thing? Frankly, if it weren't the only operating system that actually supported any software, I wouldn't use it because the damn thing doesn't even boot up 10% of the time.
It probably wouldn't even be a problem at that if there were actually something wrong with my computer, but it's brand new and running Windows XP pro and when I reboot, not a single error message. I certainly hope the parent comment was meant as humor.
Perhaps the problem is that it's only non-lethal if you turn it off within a few seconds. Yep, it's in there. It says the beam would only have to be on a few seconds. Just like touching a hot lightbulb, if you keep applying the energy, it will burn. The intent is that the beam would just be flashed on and off, causing pain but no damage. The beam could presumably be left on as long as one wished, vaporizing (ok maybe just badly burning) the assailants.
"Industrial strength" AND "household" at the same time" Wow! That's gotta use some sort of quantum duality or something.
ok, so every non-cat-owner knows that "over the top" is easier to use. Simply make rotating roll holders. Have one roll "over the top" and one the opposite. Then, when the over the top roll runs out (which will almost certainly be sooner than the "under the bottom" roll), simply rotate the under the bottom roll so it's over the top. Then, when the person who used the last of the roll replaces it (and he had better), he must simply place the new roll in an under the bottom orientation.
One needn't force the correct usage. Often making the preferred choice more attractive will suffice.
Funny that you should mention monkeys with typewriters...
George Kingsley Zipf realized that lots of things follow an inverse power law (with the power very cloze to 1 in most cases) when plotted as frequency versus frequency rank. The most common example is the english language. If you take all the words in a large well known text and count the occurrances and then plot the frequencies on say a dot plot from highest to lowest, you'll find that it traces an inverse curve pretty closely. Many people look at this and see some divine intervention (since Zipf's law also occurs often naturally), but eventually someone explains to them that monkeys with typewriters would produce the same "word" length frequency distribution purely by probability.
I guess that's a long-winded way of saying that people like to look for patterns and try to interpret them (which is, by the way, probably a Good Thing(TM) because it allows things like "reading") and that sometimes there really isn't anything to interpret.
From the article... For instance, although the numbers 9/11 (9 plus 1 plus 1) equal 11, and American Airlines Flight 11 was the first to hit the twin towers, and there were 92 people on board (9 plus 2), and Sept. 11 is the 254th day of the year (2 plus 5 plus 4), and there are 11 letters each in ''Afghanistan,'' ''New York City'' and ''the Pentagon'' (and while we're counting, in George W. Bush) ... Good God! George W Bush is an Al Qaida terrorist!
Hey, what are the odds of that happening?
Hmm, I suppose my reply came off a little harshly. I don't really think shutting down these p2p networks (which ARE used almost exclusively for piracy) would necessarily constitute limitation of free speech, but it would be rather stupid and shortsighted, much like banning guns and airplaines as you said.
Well personally my Sony Boxster runs on gasaline and it gets 80 miles to the gallon and can pump out 500 horsepower, but it's so hard to find gas for it, I just drive my normal car anymore.
odd, that's roughly the same reason I'm running Windows...
What?! you don't want to pirate DVDs? You must be in the wrong place! This is the forum of FREE SPEECH and sticking it to the EVIL EMPIRE. By pirating DVDs, you preserve both, by freely sharing the stolen property of others ... errr, your opinions, at the same time preventing the EVIL movie companies from seeing another dime! It's the Slashdot way!
When you buy a CD, you buy a piece of plastic. You in no way buy the intellectual property, and copying it in any way was once illegal. Now through fair use, copying is legal such that you never are using both copies at the same time, but the point is that when libraries put a CD on the shelves, they are no more violating copyright laws than they are when they put books on the shelves. Also, keep in mind that filesharing is roughly like scanning your favorite novel and posting the entire contents on your website. (For those with more interest, check out title 17 for a more explicit permission for libraries)
wow! I'm guessing you don't recall correctly... the average house has 100 amp service. Large houses (that use large air conditioners) often get 200 amp service. There is no way that a cpu uses 100 amps. That's just unrealistic... Hey, while you're at it, go find a 1 farad capacitor....
That's a good idea. Actually I think I may just go put those two documents in My Shared Folder right now... anybody know of a pretty version of those in say pdf?
I see... Congress should drop everything and go kill some retard who thinks he's getting 700 horny virgins for killing some foreign devils. Actually, since legislation isn't going to do much, the whole of congress should suit up and head off to basic training. They can be the elite commando squad that kills Saddam and Bin Laden simultaneously.
free speech? How exactly is downloading some guy's song, which he sells and you have not bought?
Oh yeah, that's right! "starving artists!" I hear artists learn some secret technique so they don't need money anymore.
well of course it's bribery, but there's not really much anybody can do other than write tehir congressmen, which nobody will do, to stop accepting donations from large corporations, or better still, take the money and vote against the corporations.
It's also a problem that Congressmen can't be an expert in every field (and frankly there's probably little room to be an expert in any field), so they rely on briefs people send them. And guess who the only people are who bother to take the time to explain the issue to teh congressman? Yeah, that's who. They aren't necessarily being immoral: they may just have one side of the story.
In short: write your congressman and TELL HIM WHY YOU DISAGREE in a polite, sensible tone. Give facts and citations when appropriate. Make it look like you have a head on your shoulders and his aides may actually check your references and give him the letter to read himself. If you're any good at persuasion, maybe you'll actually do some good.
Perhaps it's silly to spend all that much time thinking about making laws against things that are already illegal, but the fact is that they have every right and in fact a responsibility to curb the widespread theft that has swept the nation.
If you're thinking about buying the CD, go ahead... it's just a preview. If you don't like it, delete it. If you like it, buy it. Tell the RIAA it can still make money when people download their songs. Buy a CD and make those songs on your hard drive legal.
I think the point is that many of these worms are benig spread not by windows 95 computers, but only by NT servers. Basically, if you're running win2k server edition, you probably have a small group (or just one) of server admins who (presumably) know what they're doing. If you recall, code red required IIS, which is only on win2k servers.
Why isn't it green?
It is a John Deere after all. (well it's from a subsidiary anyway)
The point is not that the man can spy on my driving habits, the point is that every little bit adds up. No, I don't give a rat's ass if they want me to have a black box in my car, but I do mind if they start infringing on my rights, and the line is blurry. The general public is all too willing to give up privacy or freedom in exchange for safety or security. This is just like the situation with Jose Padilla. Yeah, he's probably guilty and I don't want him dropping a dirty bomb on NYC, but the fact is that he's a US citizen and his rights have been breached, but nobody seems to care because they value security to freedom. I almost want to move to New Hampshire to get "Live Free or Die" on my license plate. The United States is a country where freedom is supposedly valued above life itself. It's not all the little things like black boxes in my car, it's the sum of all the little things which amount to my freedom being slowly stripped from me.
Hmm, I think I'll change my sig.
It's always good to see the real human beings who understand that all news reporting comes with a slant, and that some (though surely not Slashdot) is more biased than others.
I read everything here with a suspicious eye, though I think that some of the most suspicious (of government and big companies anyway) persons are probably trusting of Slashdot in its ability to provide knowledgeable, minimally-biased news.
I think for an answer to be sexy, it must not be obvious. Thus "hard," at least until you solve it or know the solution. Many things are easy with the proper prior knowledge, and many of these are sexy, but they are sexy because the solution seems so easy, but is so difficult to synthesize.
no, you only get 2 eggs. you can only subdivide on division of the building. My solution was not quite optimal (using a different base would have been better), but mine was the more obvious choice of base.
oops... I made some other errors, but you are indeed correct, and your solution explains the comment about how difficult the question is... almost a trick question. bravo.