I have ready several technical articles about ISDN, thought not the ISDN standards themselves. As the authors of the technical articles understood the standards, they allowed for remote activation of the speaker on ISDN phones. But we all know how well ISDN caught on as a replacement for POTS, so nothing more came of it.
My uncle is a judge, and from long discussions with him while fishing, I can tell you that no judge is impartial throughout a trial. Judges who have been around the block know what's-what and quickly size-up who is guilty, what hte merits of the case are, and what the appeals will be founded on. In fact, shared with me advise from a collegue of his: after you have determined in the first few minutes who is going to win the case, rule all objections in favor of the other side, so that they have no grounds for appeal. Of course, a judge can't quite follow that logic, as he/she is bound by precedent, but it demonstrates the realities of being a judge.
I have never formally studied law or the history of the Supreme Court, but it was my understanding that they usually grill the side they "support" more than the other side to get good material with which to justify their decision. And to make sure that the legal reasoning behind the decision isn't half-cocked.
The hole in your argument when applied to the issue at hand is that it is ALREADY "explicitly listed as a right that's not allowed" in the DMCA. One can argue that a "right" supercedes a "law", but it's nice when laws conform to rights. Thus, the express enumeration of the right is a Good Thing.
Of course, Venus is CLOSER to the sun than Earth so a "dust tail" extending towards the outer planets would not be a strong hypothesis of the source for bacteria on Venus.
The difference tends to be that we acknowledge our lack of expertise, seek the advice of domain experts, and generally adhere to it. I don't try to fix my car -- I know that I am not qualified to diagnose or repair problems with cars. I don't try to perform the book keeping for my company or tell the CFO how it should be done; I know I am not knowledgable about the tasks and procedures involved.
Computer ludite accountants and middle managers strutting around thinking they are more qualified than their system and network administrators are -- in that respect -- stupid.
>So at what PPI do we surpass the ability of the >human eye to distinguish the individual pixels? I >run my desktop at 1600 x 1200 and it's *very* >tough to see the individual pixels. At what point >does it become impossible?
Depends on the size of the screen, doesn't it? On a monitor with a 100 meter diagonal size a single pixel would be over 2cm square. That's certainly visible to the naked eye.
I work for a company that builds training and intranet software. We have frequent requests for solutions involving Web-based 3D. Web-based, because browsers are ubiquitous. 3D because it's the best tool for a support rep to answer questions like "how do I take the battery out of my cell phone?"
If you can pull up a model of the phone, flip it over, and say "see that button on the back at the bottom, press that, put your thumb in the middle of the back and push towards that button..." you can be a lot more helpful, with a shorter call and a more satisfied customer, than reading instructions about a phone you've never seen off of a Web page.
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I was at Steve Ballmer's luncheon speech to the Chicago Software Assiciation on Wednesday. He was pointedly asked whether the events of last week would impact the official launch dates of either WinXP or the Xbox. He clearly and unequivocally stated that the official launch dates of neither WinXP nor Xbox were changing because of Sept 11th's events or any other reason.
This may be a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, but Steve is a competent CEO and therefore stays on top of these issues within his own company. Thus, I can only cynically conclude that he deliberately lied.
Although, it occurs to me that his hands may be tied by FTC regulations. Imagine that he had said "Actually, I was told this morning that we may have to delay the shipment of WinXP two months"; wouldn't everybody in that room immediately be on their cell phones sell Microsoft stock short before the general public is aware? Until there is an official announcement to which all investors have equal access, it may be illegal to be honest.
Ah yes, all programs expand until they read mail. Or in your case, you're asking for the package manager to read newsgroups and mailing lists, so it'd be a newsreader too. Maybe we should just integrate this package manager of yours into emacs.
Why does the packager have to write the reviews? Couldn't there exist a site that allows users to rate packages the way IMDB.com rates movies, Amazon.com rates books, or Flashline.com rates components?
Everybody hated DIVX for the inferior quality of its video (relative to DVD) and the stigma of paying per-use charges on something they "own". It wasn't the phone cord (although appliances needing phone line hookups is always annoying).
Tivo is different than the DIVX scheme because the Tivo unit is entirely functional without the phone line (you just don't get to use the nifty program guide, which means not using things like Season Pass) so you're paying for a service rather than a right-to-use.
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I have ready several technical articles about ISDN, thought not the ISDN standards themselves. As the authors of the technical articles understood the standards, they allowed for remote activation of the speaker on ISDN phones. But we all know how well ISDN caught on as a replacement for POTS, so nothing more came of it.
My uncle is a judge, and from long discussions with him while fishing, I can tell you that no judge is impartial throughout a trial. Judges who have been around the block know what's-what and quickly size-up who is guilty, what hte merits of the case are, and what the appeals will be founded on. In fact, shared with me advise from a collegue of his: after you have determined in the first few minutes who is going to win the case, rule all objections in favor of the other side, so that they have no grounds for appeal. Of course, a judge can't quite follow that logic, as he/she is bound by precedent, but it demonstrates the realities of being a judge.
I have never formally studied law or the history of the Supreme Court, but it was my understanding that they usually grill the side they "support" more than the other side to get good material with which to justify their decision. And to make sure that the legal reasoning behind the decision isn't half-cocked.
The hole in your argument when applied to the issue at hand is that it is ALREADY "explicitly listed as a right that's not allowed" in the DMCA. One can argue that a "right" supercedes a "law", but it's nice when laws conform to rights. Thus, the express enumeration of the right is a Good Thing.
Of course, Venus is CLOSER to the sun than Earth so a "dust tail" extending towards the outer planets would not be a strong hypothesis of the source for bacteria on Venus.
Kaboom. There goes your credibility.
.NET CLR, not .NET. The CLR *is* directly comparable to the Java Virtual Machine.
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The difference tends to be that we acknowledge our lack of expertise, seek the advice of domain experts, and generally adhere to it. I don't try to fix my car -- I know that I am not qualified to diagnose or repair problems with cars. I don't try to perform the book keeping for my company or tell the CFO how it should be done; I know I am not knowledgable about the tasks and procedures involved.
Computer ludite accountants and middle managers strutting around thinking they are more qualified than their system and network administrators are -- in that respect -- stupid.
>So at what PPI do we surpass the ability of the
>human eye to distinguish the individual pixels? I
>run my desktop at 1600 x 1200 and it's *very*
>tough to see the individual pixels. At what point
>does it become impossible?
Depends on the size of the screen, doesn't it? On a monitor with a 100 meter diagonal size a single pixel would be over 2cm square. That's certainly visible to the naked eye.
April 4th, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination.
I work for a company that builds training and intranet software. We have frequent requests for solutions involving Web-based 3D. Web-based, because browsers are ubiquitous. 3D because it's the best tool for a support rep to answer questions like "how do I take the battery out of my cell phone?"
If you can pull up a model of the phone, flip it over, and say "see that button on the back at the bottom, press that, put your thumb in the middle of the back and push towards that button..." you can be a lot more helpful, with a shorter call and a more satisfied customer, than reading instructions about a phone you've never seen off of a Web page.
I was at Steve Ballmer's luncheon speech to the Chicago Software Assiciation on Wednesday. He was pointedly asked whether the events of last week would impact the official launch dates of either WinXP or the Xbox. He clearly and unequivocally stated that the official launch dates of neither WinXP nor Xbox were changing because of Sept 11th's events or any other reason.
This may be a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, but Steve is a competent CEO and therefore stays on top of these issues within his own company. Thus, I can only cynically conclude that he deliberately lied.
Although, it occurs to me that his hands may be tied by FTC regulations. Imagine that he had said "Actually, I was told this morning that we may have to delay the shipment of WinXP two months"; wouldn't everybody in that room immediately be on their cell phones sell Microsoft stock short before the general public is aware? Until there is an official announcement to which all investors have equal access, it may be illegal to be honest.
get reviews of a package?
Ah yes, all programs expand until they read mail. Or in your case, you're asking for the package manager to read newsgroups and mailing lists, so it'd be a newsreader too. Maybe we should just integrate this package manager of yours into emacs.
Why does the packager have to write the reviews? Couldn't there exist a site that allows users to rate packages the way IMDB.com rates movies, Amazon.com rates books, or Flashline.com rates components?
Tivo is different than the DIVX scheme because the Tivo unit is entirely functional without the phone line (you just don't get to use the nifty program guide, which means not using things like Season Pass) so you're paying for a service rather than a right-to-use.