And surely an all-powerful all-knowing being, should he/she exist, would be able to tweak those as necessary or otherwise interfere with the development of the Universe to prompt the creation of, not just life, but the type of life he wanted to bring about. Randomness wouldn't be a factor to such a deity, so the fact that one type of Universe is "more likely" to bring about life than another is irrelevant. Such a deity would get to choose exactly the nature of the Universe he wants his creations to live in.
All this calls into doubt is a solely Creator-God who has to roll dice and watch to see life comes about.
It's not possible for software that's legally distributed under the GPL; the GPL prevents you from placing additional restrictions on distribution. Language that would allow Firefox to use the MPEG patents in a GPL compatible way would allow that code to run on any device (or as a part of any GPL software project).
GPLed decoders exist *anyways* because many people don't give a damn about software patents or live in countries that don't give a damn about them, but distributing them in the US would technically be a GPL violation.
then so is the use or reliance on roads, public schools or universities, police, firemen, zoning codes, enforcement of contracts, national defense, and so forth
All of which are the responsibility of local governments, with the exception of interstate transportation and national defense. Remind me why the Federal government needs so much of our money again?
Debian installs gstreamer-ffmpeg, which includes H.264 decoding support, as a default dependency of GNOME. It's only encoding that Debian refuses to ship on patent grounds. Can't speak for the other main distros.
The ecliptic from the Earth's perspective is constant (by definition), and the Sun's travel across the ecliptic is about as constant. Astrologers don't REALLY believe that constellations occupy precisely 30 degree chunks of the ecliptic, with Aries starting precisely at the vernal equinox. The constellations were just a conventional way to label those segments.
What's slightly more disconcerting about this article is that Astrology knew about this long long ago. They have a name for when a new constellation reaches the vernal equinox, it's the beginning of an "Age". You know, like the "Age of Aquarius"?
Astrology is a superstitious hobby of zero scientific merit, but even within its own formulation this article should have no impact on it.
Knowing Sony, they tested 50 dice for 5000 rolls to find the fairest one, and paid a highly-trained "entropy engineering specialist" to roll it to generate that 4.
Never underestimate Sony's ability to blow wads of money to completely miss the point.
Early polymorph traps found by an enemy, or magic items on spawned enemies in the Gnomish Mines. Both cause fairly unavoidable deaths while you're still low-level, though they're very unlikely.
If a game is going to do that, then it should make it very clear that you're screwed, so you don't spend ridiculous amounts of time trying to find a way forward that doesn't exist. But if it does it right, then it's no different from dying IMO: just another reason to reload. And the Half-life series does it right with auto-saving at checkpoints, so you don't even have to go that far back when you die.
It should be a requirement for a modern game to isolate its challenges and auto-save. You can still build a successful narrative, but the gameplay prevents itself from getting unnecessarily redundant. The Gears of War and Half-life series are great examples of doing it right.
That's not what "discriminatory" means, at least in the context of RAND. Non-discriminatory means that the same set of publicly available rules apply to every licensee, even if that means that particular licensees fall in different categories. What it means in practice is that MPEG-LA can't single out a company like Youtube and crush them with extortionate or impossible-to-meet terms just because they don't like them.
Oh I'm not passing business advice, you're free to formulate that on your own. I'm sharing my own personal decision as to why I still buy paperbacks, despite owning an ebook reader. Pirate books suck, and I'm still very uncomfortable buying from DRMed stores.
This. Ripping a book is nothing like ripping a CD. And even if you do it right, and the book doesn't have necessary non-textual elements, formatting the text properly is still a chore. And nobody seeds exactly the book you want on torrent sites, you have to hope it's in a collection of books that enough other people like, and hope the formatting of that book in that collection doesn't suck, and that it either IS or IS NOT a pdf, depending on your preference (reflowing a pdf on a portable reader loses ALL formating, also some PDFs aren't even OCRed, they're just images of the pages).
Pirated ebooks suck. Best example of where the pirate product is vastly inferior to the paid-for physical product (the jury's still out on legitimate ebooks...).
It's on mainstream x86es too: Clarkdale Core i3 and i5, although technically the GPU is on a separate die (45nm-process) from the CPU (32nm-process), despite being on the same physical chip.
Plots aren't copyrightable but a sufficiently close mimicry runs risk of being a derivative work of the original copyrighted text.
Likewise with the Windows code. Interoperability isn't copyrightable, but the source code you're using to construct your work certainly is. You need a clean-room barrier.
Then you don't want Intel graphics. The point to their hardware is to make it cheap: low power usage and low die size. Features are just engineering time, and that's something Intel has a lot of.
Try telling a young child something. If they can understand you, and it doesn't contradict something they've already heard, they will believe you. And defend it vehemently when someone contradicts them!
There's a hardwired need to expand our mental model of the world by taking in new information, which makes us predisposed to believe what we're told. Laws sadly fall under the category of "well there was probably a good reason for it", and then don't get a second thought after it.
The former is the right answer and dead simple to set up with Tumblr, but even as a geek I would still use Facebook for one reason: network effect. Everybody is already using Facebook, I wouldn't have to advertise or get people to notice.
I don't like the centralization of power inherent to Facebook, but to get people away from that is going to require replicating the benefits that centralization brings (while hopefully decentralizing the actual control).
Seeing jobs for people as a "wasteful use of human resources" is one of the symptoms of why the rise of transnational corporations is destroying so many societies. Why is the corporate profit motive never questioned, but the motive to provide for one's family and oneself is discounted?
On Slashdot? Because we're well versed in the Broken Window Fallacy. Not so much when it comes to economics more generally, unfortunately.
How are current Intel Macs any different from other PCs?
Traditionally, "PC" is short for IBM PC compatible, meaning not just x86, but also BIOS.
Granted nowadays PC is used as a colloquialism for "Windows computer", so maybe as EFI becomes more popular the original definition will cease to be true.
There's no a priori reason to assign a particular percentage of bandwidth to upstream or downstream. The best approach you can come up with is to optimize for expected usage, namely, mostly downstream. There's nothing sinister about it, and as needs change (VoIP?) one would expect things to change.
Now, ideal would be if your DSL connection could determine that you need extra upstream bandwidth and temporarily reassign some of your downstream frequency bins to give it to you.
Is there any published evidence of what Twain's intent was in this case? His peculiarity regarding his choice of words is well known, so was his use of the word in this case intended to convey something specific beyond the meaning of the time? Does the replacement carry the same undertones and connotations? It's very clear that the modern interpretation of the word does not, but perhaps it's more instructive to try and read the original to learn about the mindset in the 1880s than to try and put the author's mindset in the present day.
I do agree though that there's no real harm as long as the original is still widely available.
I'm not at all interested in reading Mark Twain censored. Next thing you know, they start in some really offensive authors, and we have nothing to rely on.
And you can still log on to a site like Feedbooks and download the originals. The existence of badly edited versions doesn't make the old versions go away (thank god, or all our copies of LotR would have "elfin" in place of "elven"!).
As long as there's correct attribution, there shouldn't be a problem. You must be a GPLer and not a BSDer;)
Vaccinations aren't 100% effective. Much of their effect comes from the herd immunity that develops because the disease can't spread within its lifespan. If enough people don't vaccinate, everyone's risk goes up.
You're at risk even in the 85% (albeit much less so) if the unvaccinated percentage is sufficiently large. Vaccines aren't 100% effective, and much of their effect comes from herd immunity, that is, the rate of transfer dropping below the timespan of contagiousness. If a disease can spread faster than it dies out because of the unvaccinated, that puts even the vaccinated at an increased amount of risk.
This is why it's vaccinations are an absolutely essential social responsibility. You're putting *everybody* at risk, not just people who agree with your choices.
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And surely an all-powerful all-knowing being, should he/she exist, would be able to tweak those as necessary or otherwise interfere with the development of the Universe to prompt the creation of, not just life, but the type of life he wanted to bring about. Randomness wouldn't be a factor to such a deity, so the fact that one type of Universe is "more likely" to bring about life than another is irrelevant. Such a deity would get to choose exactly the nature of the Universe he wants his creations to live in.
All this calls into doubt is a solely Creator-God who has to roll dice and watch to see life comes about.
It's not possible for software that's legally distributed under the GPL; the GPL prevents you from placing additional restrictions on distribution. Language that would allow Firefox to use the MPEG patents in a GPL compatible way would allow that code to run on any device (or as a part of any GPL software project).
GPLed decoders exist *anyways* because many people don't give a damn about software patents or live in countries that don't give a damn about them, but distributing them in the US would technically be a GPL violation.
then so is the use or reliance on roads, public schools or universities, police, firemen, zoning codes, enforcement of contracts, national defense, and so forth
All of which are the responsibility of local governments, with the exception of interstate transportation and national defense. Remind me why the Federal government needs so much of our money again?
Debian installs gstreamer-ffmpeg, which includes H.264 decoding support, as a default dependency of GNOME. It's only encoding that Debian refuses to ship on patent grounds. Can't speak for the other main distros.
The ecliptic from the Earth's perspective is constant (by definition), and the Sun's travel across the ecliptic is about as constant. Astrologers don't REALLY believe that constellations occupy precisely 30 degree chunks of the ecliptic, with Aries starting precisely at the vernal equinox. The constellations were just a conventional way to label those segments.
What's slightly more disconcerting about this article is that Astrology knew about this long long ago. They have a name for when a new constellation reaches the vernal equinox, it's the beginning of an "Age". You know, like the "Age of Aquarius"?
Astrology is a superstitious hobby of zero scientific merit, but even within its own formulation this article should have no impact on it.
Which would have mattered if the N64's texture cache wasn't a pitiful 4kB.
Knowing Sony, they tested 50 dice for 5000 rolls to find the fairest one, and paid a highly-trained "entropy engineering specialist" to roll it to generate that 4.
Never underestimate Sony's ability to blow wads of money to completely miss the point.
Early polymorph traps found by an enemy, or magic items on spawned enemies in the Gnomish Mines. Both cause fairly unavoidable deaths while you're still low-level, though they're very unlikely.
If a game is going to do that, then it should make it very clear that you're screwed, so you don't spend ridiculous amounts of time trying to find a way forward that doesn't exist. But if it does it right, then it's no different from dying IMO: just another reason to reload. And the Half-life series does it right with auto-saving at checkpoints, so you don't even have to go that far back when you die.
It should be a requirement for a modern game to isolate its challenges and auto-save. You can still build a successful narrative, but the gameplay prevents itself from getting unnecessarily redundant. The Gears of War and Half-life series are great examples of doing it right.
That's not what "discriminatory" means, at least in the context of RAND. Non-discriminatory means that the same set of publicly available rules apply to every licensee, even if that means that particular licensees fall in different categories. What it means in practice is that MPEG-LA can't single out a company like Youtube and crush them with extortionate or impossible-to-meet terms just because they don't like them.
Oh I'm not passing business advice, you're free to formulate that on your own. I'm sharing my own personal decision as to why I still buy paperbacks, despite owning an ebook reader. Pirate books suck, and I'm still very uncomfortable buying from DRMed stores.
Pirated ebooks suck. DRMed ebooks might not be great either, if only because of they DRM, but they could easily be less bad.
This. Ripping a book is nothing like ripping a CD. And even if you do it right, and the book doesn't have necessary non-textual elements, formatting the text properly is still a chore. And nobody seeds exactly the book you want on torrent sites, you have to hope it's in a collection of books that enough other people like, and hope the formatting of that book in that collection doesn't suck, and that it either IS or IS NOT a pdf, depending on your preference (reflowing a pdf on a portable reader loses ALL formating, also some PDFs aren't even OCRed, they're just images of the pages).
Pirated ebooks suck. Best example of where the pirate product is vastly inferior to the paid-for physical product (the jury's still out on legitimate ebooks...).
It's on mainstream x86es too: Clarkdale Core i3 and i5, although technically the GPU is on a separate die (45nm-process) from the CPU (32nm-process), despite being on the same physical chip.
Plots aren't copyrightable but a sufficiently close mimicry runs risk of being a derivative work of the original copyrighted text.
Likewise with the Windows code. Interoperability isn't copyrightable, but the source code you're using to construct your work certainly is. You need a clean-room barrier.
Then you don't want Intel graphics. The point to their hardware is to make it cheap: low power usage and low die size. Features are just engineering time, and that's something Intel has a lot of.
Try telling a young child something. If they can understand you, and it doesn't contradict something they've already heard, they will believe you. And defend it vehemently when someone contradicts them!
There's a hardwired need to expand our mental model of the world by taking in new information, which makes us predisposed to believe what we're told. Laws sadly fall under the category of "well there was probably a good reason for it", and then don't get a second thought after it.
The former is the right answer and dead simple to set up with Tumblr, but even as a geek I would still use Facebook for one reason: network effect. Everybody is already using Facebook, I wouldn't have to advertise or get people to notice.
I don't like the centralization of power inherent to Facebook, but to get people away from that is going to require replicating the benefits that centralization brings (while hopefully decentralizing the actual control).
Seeing jobs for people as a "wasteful use of human resources" is one of the symptoms of why the rise of transnational corporations is destroying so many societies. Why is the corporate profit motive never questioned, but the motive to provide for one's family and oneself is discounted?
On Slashdot? Because we're well versed in the Broken Window Fallacy. Not so much when it comes to economics more generally, unfortunately.
Also you're begging the question.
How are current Intel Macs any different from other PCs?
Traditionally, "PC" is short for IBM PC compatible, meaning not just x86, but also BIOS.
Granted nowadays PC is used as a colloquialism for "Windows computer", so maybe as EFI becomes more popular the original definition will cease to be true.
There's no a priori reason to assign a particular percentage of bandwidth to upstream or downstream. The best approach you can come up with is to optimize for expected usage, namely, mostly downstream. There's nothing sinister about it, and as needs change (VoIP?) one would expect things to change.
Now, ideal would be if your DSL connection could determine that you need extra upstream bandwidth and temporarily reassign some of your downstream frequency bins to give it to you.
Is there any published evidence of what Twain's intent was in this case? His peculiarity regarding his choice of words is well known, so was his use of the word in this case intended to convey something specific beyond the meaning of the time? Does the replacement carry the same undertones and connotations? It's very clear that the modern interpretation of the word does not, but perhaps it's more instructive to try and read the original to learn about the mindset in the 1880s than to try and put the author's mindset in the present day.
I do agree though that there's no real harm as long as the original is still widely available.
I'm not at all interested in reading Mark Twain censored. Next thing you know, they start in some really offensive authors, and we have nothing to rely on.
And you can still log on to a site like Feedbooks and download the originals. The existence of badly edited versions doesn't make the old versions go away (thank god, or all our copies of LotR would have "elfin" in place of "elven"!).
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As long as there's correct attribution, there shouldn't be a problem. You must be a GPLer and not a BSDer
Vaccinations aren't 100% effective. Much of their effect comes from the herd immunity that develops because the disease can't spread within its lifespan. If enough people don't vaccinate, everyone's risk goes up.
You're at risk even in the 85% (albeit much less so) if the unvaccinated percentage is sufficiently large. Vaccines aren't 100% effective, and much of their effect comes from herd immunity, that is, the rate of transfer dropping below the timespan of contagiousness. If a disease can spread faster than it dies out because of the unvaccinated, that puts even the vaccinated at an increased amount of risk.
This is why it's vaccinations are an absolutely essential social responsibility. You're putting *everybody* at risk, not just people who agree with your choices.