>Although I disagree strongly with that analysis, they are, I think taking their cue from the >Supreme Court which used similary reasoning in banning voluntary prayer in public schools, >another decision I disagree with.
Prayer is not and never has been banned. Prayer lead by school officials or that otherwise has the weight of authority behind it (even student-led prayer at, say, a mandatory assembly or graduation) is not allowed. I hope you can see the difference...
At my high school, student-led group prayers at the flagpole before or after school were common -- but they weren't on school time and they didn't have any sense of being an official school activity.
Nobody ever visualizes spaces higher than three spaces. That's the power of the mathematical formalism: it's very easy to manipulate, say, 11 dimenional matrices, so that you don't have to be aware of exactly what you're doing. It's like how using the dy/dx notation frees you from thinking about all the delta-epsilon limits.
But there's a problem with your argument -- EULAs are contracts that are applied after the product has already been bought. How can the sale be limited by conditions applied after the consumer has already upheld their side (i.e., paid for the software)? You certainly can't do this with contracts over physical objects...if I buy a bottle of shampoo from Target, they can't step in after I've paid for it and received it and say "and now, you have to agree only to use this shampoo on the left side of your head, or you can't use it at all." Why is software different?
Fast forward three years into the future. CBDTPA-compliant hardware says: "Watermark detected. Recording denied." And your pre-CBDTPA hardware has worn out after years of use. Now what do you do?
And then, of course, it would probably take about 3 hours before someone made the first browser to automatically turn ascii URLs into clickable links...
It's an amusing line of thought but like you say, never happen.
--Sam L-L
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Bolo isn't a strategy game in that each player controls only one unit.
>Academic institutions, on the other hand, make
>their money not by selling products, but by
>selling access to their prestigious
>programs/courses/professors/faculty in the form
>of tuition.
This is factually incorrect. Most major universities lose money or at best break even on their students.
Universities get most of their money from donations and government grants.
This is ridiculous. You can measure the conductance by applying very small voltages -- we're talking trivially small, on the order of, say 0.1 V or less (even less if your instrumentation is more sensitive). This isn't going to cause any giant showers of sparks: you wouldn't even notice this being applied to your skin.
Here's an experiment: go hold two leads attached to an ohmmeter (or multimeter set to resistance, same thing). Notice you have a resistance probably on the order of 10 MOhms; you won't feel a thing even though, as you said, voltage is being applied.
Now hold the + and - ends of a normal, 1.5 volt battery. Feel anything? Nope.
So, I hope you realize that AYB was ridiculously, terribly old and unfunny about two weeks after it made the rounds. You are astoundingly unclever for trying to perpetuate it.
(Those of you who may be confused, check the start of each sentence.)
>Diabloii.net has nothing on another site which
>is a far more preeminent location for D2
>information and knowledge. However, I'm very
>wary of unleashing the slashdot effect on it.
FYI, this site is lurkerlounge.com . A very useful reference, and the forums are fairly interesting as well.
>Remember TSR? At one point they tried to
>copyright the word "Nazi" because of one of
>their games! Granted, they lost, but imagine if
>they hadn't!
That's actually not true. This is a popular urban myth among roleplayers. The truth of the matter is that TSR had some stand-up cardboard figures hat came with the Indiana Jones game, and most of the names had little copyright symbols, i.e. Indiana Jones (c). They just forgot to take the (c) off of the Nazi figure. They never applied for the copyright and they never had it.
In the last line, timothy asked, "Where's Harry Seldon when you need him?"
It was actually Hari Seldon who was the man to invent "psychohistory", a scientific means of predicting the future actions of large groups and broad social forces, in Isaac Asimov's Foundation sci-fi series.
I apologize for the off-topicality; just making a tiny correction.
>Okay, so we can't SUE you to get you to take >down that site, but lets say we park all of our >warships around your island. Any of your planes >try to take off or land, we'll consider that >hostile. What? Okay, so when will you have the >site offline? In an hour? Great, pleasure doing >business with you."
That would not look very good to the United Nations....and I don't think Britain would be very happy about all those warships right off the coast just to force one website to close. It would basically be a diplomatic nightmare.
As regards blowing up the moon, I found this formula lying around:
The total energy E required to completely disrupt a uniform spherical body of mass M and radius R is equal to 0.6 G * M^2 / R where G is Newton's gravitational constant, 6.673x10^-11 N m^2/kg^2.
>I'm like a alot of people that read slasdhot. We >don't run Windows, or care about Windows-only >games.
This isn't Linuxdot. I don't run Linux, and I don't care about Linux games, but I don't mind that others want to hear about them. I just don't read those articles when they show up.
First, I don't want just wimpy Newtonian physics -- a good game better offer Einsteinian physics! Time dilation, relativistic length contraction, the works.
More seriously, I'm just rereading the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, and I wonder if the name "Terminus" comes from the homeworld of the Foundation itself in those books.
>>This looks like a cool resource especially if >>your school or place of employ (or coven, biker >>gang, hunter-gatherer tribe, etc.) wants to >>create a site- or affinity-specific >>distribution.
Slashdot Mirror
Your arithmetic has a flaw.
Constant acceleration implies
delta_s = 1/2 a t^2
so a = 2 delta_s / t^2
delta_s=15,000 ft; t=60 s
so a = 2.5 m/s^2, roughly 1/4 Gs.
--Sam L-L
>Although I disagree strongly with that analysis, they are, I think taking their cue from the
>Supreme Court which used similary reasoning in banning voluntary prayer in public schools,
>another decision I disagree with.
Prayer is not and never has been banned. Prayer lead by school officials or that otherwise has the weight of authority behind it (even student-led prayer at, say, a mandatory assembly or graduation) is not allowed. I hope you can see the difference...
At my high school, student-led group prayers at the flagpole before or after school were common -- but they weren't on school time and they didn't have any sense of being an official school activity.
--Sam L-L
First post.
The shobuffalo was here...
Nobody ever visualizes spaces higher than three spaces. That's the power of the mathematical formalism: it's very easy to manipulate, say, 11 dimenional matrices, so that you don't have to be aware of exactly what you're doing. It's like how using the dy/dx notation frees you from thinking about all the delta-epsilon limits.
--Sam L-L
But there's a problem with your argument -- EULAs are contracts that are applied after the product has already been bought. How can the sale be limited by conditions applied after the consumer has already upheld their side (i.e., paid for the software)? You certainly can't do this with contracts over physical objects...if I buy a bottle of shampoo from Target, they can't step in after I've paid for it and received it and say "and now, you have to agree only to use this shampoo on the left side of your head, or you can't use it at all." Why is software different?
--Sam L-L
Clever, but your proof falls down going from k=1 to k=2, since your two sets of 1 horse don't overlap in this case.
--Sam L-L
Fast forward three years into the future. CBDTPA-compliant hardware says: "Watermark detected. Recording denied." And your pre-CBDTPA hardware has worn out after years of use. Now what do you do?
Move to Canada!
--Sam L-L
And then, of course, it would probably take about 3 hours before someone made the first browser to automatically turn ascii URLs into clickable links...
It's an amusing line of thought but like you say, never happen.
--Sam L-L
Bolo isn't a strategy game in that each player controls only one unit.
--Sam L-L
Did you even read the paper? They use the measured value of the speed of light in the wire to find a value of the speed of light in vacuum.
--Sam L-L
>Academic institutions, on the other hand, make
>their money not by selling products, but by
>selling access to their prestigious
>programs/courses/professors/faculty in the form
>of tuition.
This is factually incorrect. Most major universities lose money or at best break even on their students.
Universities get most of their money from donations and government grants.
--Sam L-L
This is ridiculous. You can measure the conductance by applying very small voltages -- we're talking trivially small, on the order of, say 0.1 V or less (even less if your instrumentation is more sensitive). This isn't going to cause any giant showers of sparks: you wouldn't even notice this being applied to your skin.
Here's an experiment: go hold two leads attached to an ohmmeter (or multimeter set to resistance, same thing). Notice you have a resistance probably on the order of 10 MOhms; you won't feel a thing even though, as you said, voltage is being applied.
Now hold the + and - ends of a normal, 1.5 volt battery. Feel anything? Nope.
Try a 9 volt. Still not feeling anything.
Hmm...maybe this whole thing was just alarmism.
--Sam L-L
So, I hope you realize that AYB was ridiculously, terribly old and unfunny about two weeks after it made the rounds. You are astoundingly unclever for trying to perpetuate it.
(Those of you who may be confused, check the start of each sentence.)
--Sam L-L
>Diabloii.net has nothing on another site which
>is a far more preeminent location for D2
>information and knowledge. However, I'm very
>wary of unleashing the slashdot effect on it.
FYI, this site is lurkerlounge.com . A very useful reference, and the forums are fairly interesting as well.
--Sam L-L
>Remember TSR? At one point they tried to
>copyright the word "Nazi" because of one of
>their games! Granted, they lost, but imagine if
>they hadn't!
That's actually not true. This is a popular urban myth among roleplayers. The truth of the matter is that TSR had some stand-up cardboard figures hat came with the Indiana Jones game, and most of the names had little copyright symbols, i.e. Indiana Jones (c). They just forgot to take the (c) off of the Nazi figure. They never applied for the copyright and they never had it.
--Sam L-L
--Sam L-L
> BTW, I'm not sure of the exact numbers, but I
> believe the top 5% income-wise pay over 75% of
> total income taxes in the US
Probably true, because they have over 90% of the money. You're (inadvertently) lying with statistics.
--Sam L-L
>If you don't have enough money to survive thats >your own damn fault
Ah, the Republican manifesto.
If you're born poor, well, it's your fate to starve. Have a terrible life.
--Sam L-L
From the post:
>trust me, this is either a) happening already,
>b) not happening at all, or c) going to happen
Well, thanks a lot for pinning that down for us. Either happening, going to happen, or not happening, eh?
--Sam L-L
In the last line, timothy asked, "Where's Harry Seldon when you need him?"
It was actually Hari Seldon who was the man to invent "psychohistory", a scientific means of predicting the future actions of large groups and broad social forces, in Isaac Asimov's Foundation sci-fi series.
I apologize for the off-topicality; just making a tiny correction.
--Sam L-L
>Okay, so we can't SUE you to get you to take
>down that site, but lets say we park all of our
>warships around your island. Any of your planes
>try to take off or land, we'll consider that
>hostile. What? Okay, so when will you have the
>site offline? In an hour? Great, pleasure doing
>business with you."
That would not look very good to the United Nations....and I don't think Britain would be very happy about all those warships right off the coast just to force one website to close. It would basically be a diplomatic nightmare.
--Sam L-L
As regards blowing up the moon, I found this formula lying around:
/kg^2.
The total energy E required to completely disrupt a uniform spherical body of mass M and radius R is equal to 0.6 G * M^2 / R where G is Newton's gravitational constant, 6.673x10^-11 N m^2
--Sam L-L
>I'm like a alot of people that read slasdhot. We
>don't run Windows, or care about Windows-only
>games.
This isn't Linuxdot. I don't run Linux, and I don't care about Linux games, but I don't mind that others want to hear about them. I just don't read those articles when they show up.
Perhaps you should do the same.
--Sam L-L
First, I don't want just wimpy Newtonian physics -- a good game better offer Einsteinian physics! Time dilation, relativistic length contraction, the works.
More seriously, I'm just rereading the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, and I wonder if the name "Terminus" comes from the homeworld of the Foundation itself in those books.
--Sam L-L
>>This looks like a cool resource especially if
>>your school or place of employ (or coven, biker
>>gang, hunter-gatherer tribe, etc.) wants to
>>create a site- or affinity-specific
>>distribution.
>I'm employed, I'm wiccan and I'm a biker.
But are you a hunter-gatherer?
--Sam L-L