Not that it really matters (nobody ever looks), but its generally a bad idea not to sign your card. Someone could steal it, sign it, and then be able to fool anyone who didn't check their ID. You can write 'See ID' on the back of the card, then you'll know how many people even bother to look.
On a side note. I usually mangle my signature (not on purpose, just sloppy) and I have only been asked for my ID once.
My guess is that they are just trying to avoid paper records. They probably want/need a signature on file to cover their ass, but they don't actually want thousands of small slips of paper. If I had to deal with auditing reciepts I'd probably kill to have it all digitized.
since non-us citizens can be brought before a military tribunal, it's probably not a good idea to go on holiday in the usa
What makes you think you have to come here to be brought before a US military tribunal? None of the guys sitting in cuba were in the US when they were captured. AFAIK everyone arrested inside the US in going through the regular justice system (Moussaoui, shoe bomber, who else?).
Cocoa is the set of APIs for native OS X development. If you stick to cocoa programming your app will easily port to whatever platform OS X is ported to, but it will not run under OS9.
Carbon is the updated OS9 API. Its a subset of the old mac toolbox API. If you write with carbon then it will run OS9 and OSX, but since its tied to the old macos it won't port if OSX does.
Unfortunately most mac apps are still written for carbon.
The whole idea (yellow box, etc) was Steve's technology. He was CEO when Apple was talking it up. Later he buried it, hopefully its still in development waiting for the day when its economically feasible.
Our constitution and legal system provides certain rights to the accused that are not guaranteed in the world court. Among other things our government is protecting its citizens and soldiers from courts of justice that are not our own (and therefore don't offer the same protections). I think our government is obligated to do this.
Of course there are other reasons, but that would be the moral high ground. Besides we already have a system in place to hold our own war criminals accountable. Thats something that most countries do not have.
The problem is, you can come up with any number of possible X and Y's of this form and ask a court for an opinion. Courts would be swamped if they had to rule on every possibility like this. Courts prefer to deal with actual disputes, not hypothetical ones. They may throw this whole thing out on that basis.
This is why congress shouldn't pass criminal laws that so flagrantly go against the constitution and accepted common law. Everyone knows it should be overturned, but the personal risk involved is tremendous.
I'll admit that those are pretty cool crop circles, but still a large part of all three were circles or arcs. All in all I'd say that the look cooler than crop circles of yore, but I'd also say that they would be just as easy (maybe easier) to layout.
All the 'crop circles' I've seen pictures of really are circles. There may be a lot of circles in strange patterns, but they're just circles. Anybody with a little experience surveying could lay out one of these without much problem. I had one surveying class in college and I think I could do it (or could have then). The designs could easily be made with a computer.
IIRC there was a show on Discovery Chanel (it may not have been discovery channel- they usually perpetuate myths instead of debunking them) that had a time lapse recording of two people making a crop circle at night. The 'circle' was fairly complex not just a big circle...
Unfortunately that's not always the case. I have an Onkyo that won't play any recorded media. Also many manufacturers have been removing VCD capability from their players. I found this really strange since all the ones I tried still supported MPEG1 when burned to a DVD-R. They still support the data stream, but intentionally (or so it seems) remove VCD playback.
I would recommend checking www.vcdhelp.com for capatability info. Don't trust the info about mp3 playback unless someone specifically talks about it in their review. Of all the players they say support mp3 id tags only the Daewoo 5800 really does... (didn't test them all though)
That may be true most of the time, but its important to remember that speeding is not the same as driving faster than traffic. Why is this important? It's important to me because I was once ticketed for that very reason. I beat the ticket in court, but it was a huge hassle... On a related note, its probably safer to drive the speed of traffic even if its above the limit.
Driving a flashy car faster than traffic is illeagal? Maybe I need to buy this years Vehicle Code Book, but I know that the one I bought in 1999 doesn't have a section for flashy cars...
How about Tucson, AZ? I spent a two weeks there in July and the daytime high was never less than 106. A couple days in a row it was 115+. After about 40 minutes outside when it was 117 the only two things I cared about: water and getting cooler. I literally would have done anything for them, luckily both were readily available...
The reason I said 'read the article' is because every point you made was address in the article. If you had read it before posting you could have been discussing the topic at hand instead of just repeating what everyone has been saying for the last 30 years.
I just got a tivo a few weeks ago. The best part is I can watch an hour long battlebots episode in about 10 minutes. The worst part is that they make new episodes out of fights they've already aired...
The Mac versions of Office and IE are considered by many to be better and more standards compliant that the Windows versions.
That could be, but they still suck. Actually in my opinion IE4 for mac was way better than IE5 ever was, but MS killed it with a Y2K bug... It doesn't matter now because OmniWeb is way better than IE ever could be.
I realize this is slashdot, but would it kill you to read the article? Most of the points you mentioned are discussed and then you could add something to the discussion.
I know that there is a key combination, but under windows I haven't been able to assign a key + click to a mouse button.... This is using MS IntelliMouse software. Their software does let you do this on a mac.
I think you're right. DVDs are generally priced appropriately. I don't know anybody who downloads movies in an attempt to save $10-20, instead they download the movie because its not yet available on DVD. Then they usually buy the DVD anyway...
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My card is not even signed!
Not that it really matters (nobody ever looks), but its generally a bad idea not to sign your card. Someone could steal it, sign it, and then be able to fool anyone who didn't check their ID. You can write 'See ID' on the back of the card, then you'll know how many people even bother to look.
On a side note. I usually mangle my signature (not on purpose, just sloppy) and I have only been asked for my ID once.
My guess is that they are just trying to avoid paper records. They probably want/need a signature on file to cover their ass, but they don't actually want thousands of small slips of paper. If I had to deal with auditing reciepts I'd probably kill to have it all digitized.
since non-us citizens can be brought before a military tribunal, it's probably not a good idea to go on holiday in the usa
What makes you think you have to come here to be brought before a US military tribunal? None of the guys sitting in cuba were in the US when they were captured. AFAIK everyone arrested inside the US in going through the regular justice system (Moussaoui, shoe bomber, who else?).
interesting. i've never heared of cocoa.
Cocoa is the set of APIs for native OS X development. If you stick to cocoa programming your app will easily port to whatever platform OS X is ported to, but it will not run under OS9.
Carbon is the updated OS9 API. Its a subset of the old mac toolbox API. If you write with carbon then it will run OS9 and OSX, but since its tied to the old macos it won't port if OSX does.
Unfortunately most mac apps are still written for carbon.
This plan was 'steved' when Steve Jobs took over.
The whole idea (yellow box, etc) was Steve's technology. He was CEO when Apple was talking it up. Later he buried it, hopefully its still in development waiting for the day when its economically feasible.
Our constitution and legal system provides certain rights to the accused that are not guaranteed in the world court. Among other things our government is protecting its citizens and soldiers from courts of justice that are not our own (and therefore don't offer the same protections). I think our government is obligated to do this.
Of course there are other reasons, but that would be the moral high ground. Besides we already have a system in place to hold our own war criminals accountable. Thats something that most countries do not have.
The problem is, you can come up with any number of possible X and Y's of this form and ask a court for an opinion. Courts would be swamped if they had to rule on every possibility like this. Courts prefer to deal with actual disputes, not hypothetical ones. They may throw this whole thing out on that basis.
This is why congress shouldn't pass criminal laws that so flagrantly go against the constitution and accepted common law. Everyone knows it should be overturned, but the personal risk involved is tremendous.
I'll admit that those are pretty cool crop circles, but still a large part of all three were circles or arcs. All in all I'd say that the look cooler than crop circles of yore, but I'd also say that they would be just as easy (maybe easier) to layout.
That question will be answered by the movie! Luckily the aliens co-wrote the screenplay so we know its right.
What researchers would those be? The ones who think that every bent blade of grass is done by an alien?
All the 'crop circles' I've seen pictures of really are circles. There may be a lot of circles in strange patterns, but they're just circles. Anybody with a little experience surveying could lay out one of these without much problem. I had one surveying class in college and I think I could do it (or could have then). The designs could easily be made with a computer.
IIRC there was a show on Discovery Chanel (it may not have been discovery channel- they usually perpetuate myths instead of debunking them) that had a time lapse recording of two people making a crop circle at night. The 'circle' was fairly complex not just a big circle...
Unfortunately that's not always the case. I have an Onkyo that won't play any recorded media. Also many manufacturers have been removing VCD capability from their players. I found this really strange since all the ones I tried still supported MPEG1 when burned to a DVD-R. They still support the data stream, but intentionally (or so it seems) remove VCD playback.
I would recommend checking www.vcdhelp.com for capatability info. Don't trust the info about mp3 playback unless someone specifically talks about it in their review. Of all the players they say support mp3 id tags only the Daewoo 5800 really does... (didn't test them all though)
That may be true most of the time, but its important to remember that speeding is not the same as driving faster than traffic. Why is this important? It's important to me because I was once ticketed for that very reason. I beat the ticket in court, but it was a huge hassle... On a related note, its probably safer to drive the speed of traffic even if its above the limit.
Driving a flashy car faster than traffic is illeagal? Maybe I need to buy this years Vehicle Code Book, but I know that the one I bought in 1999 doesn't have a section for flashy cars...
Currently counterstrike has in game 'chat'. Depending on who your teamates are it can help a lot.
Tempratures in the high 90's and 80+
How about Tucson, AZ? I spent a two weeks there in July and the daytime high was never less than 106. A couple days in a row it was 115+. After about 40 minutes outside when it was 117 the only two things I cared about: water and getting cooler. I literally would have done anything for them, luckily both were readily available...
The reason I said 'read the article' is because every point you made was address in the article. If you had read it before posting you could have been discussing the topic at hand instead of just repeating what everyone has been saying for the last 30 years.
I just got a tivo a few weeks ago. The best part is I can watch an hour long battlebots episode in about 10 minutes. The worst part is that they make new episodes out of fights they've already aired...
The Mac versions of Office and IE are considered by many to be better and more standards compliant that the Windows versions.
That could be, but they still suck. Actually in my opinion IE4 for mac was way better than IE5 ever was, but MS killed it with a Y2K bug... It doesn't matter now because OmniWeb is way better than IE ever could be.
scientific community, most of which largely calls it a sham
READ THE ARTICLE!!
grossly unbalanced moderation at play
Maybe because they have read the article?
Seriously, I would respond to some of your points, but they have already been covered IN THE ARTICLE!
I realize this is slashdot, but would it kill you to read the article? Most of the points you mentioned are discussed and then you could add something to the discussion.
I realize I'm jumping into this discussion way late, but you really need to read the article...
I know that there is a key combination, but under windows I haven't been able to assign a key + click to a mouse button.... This is using MS IntelliMouse software. Their software does let you do this on a mac.
I think you're right. DVDs are generally priced appropriately. I don't know anybody who downloads movies in an attempt to save $10-20, instead they download the movie because its not yet available on DVD. Then they usually buy the DVD anyway...
I have a 5 button mouse on my Mac. Interestingly enough its more usefull on my mac than on my W2K box.
On my mac I set my center button up to open links in a new window (like netscape on Unix). Under windows there is apparently no way to do this....