[I]f you can state that genetics might explain how one particular named group (better known as dead white guys) have unfairly gained advantage in history due to a gene of violence, or whatever, then you can write your own ticket.
Apparently, you have forgotten that the voting systems are controlled by the two parties, which, in turn, reinforces their positions. Jerrymandering and publically funded party primaries are obvious examples, but more subtle is the fact the winner-take-all and plurality voting schemes lead to two-party rule by their nature.
Not to mention the coporate media, among other things, which reinforce the status quo.
And interestingly enough it was done by the more liberal (er, "progressive") members of the bench. The three hard conservatives were soundly against it.
I never thought I would agree with Thomas, Scalia, and Rehnquist on anything...except enjoying watching large-breasted women have sex with animals!
If we don't protect the few people at the very top of society so that they can continue to rip off the common folk to make billions upon billions of dollars in profits, then by God, the terrorists have already won!
I'd like a system library that would modify the rename(2), truncate(2), unlink(2), and write(2) calls to move the deleted stuff to some private directory (/.Trash,/.Recycler, whatever). Obviously the underlying routine would have to do its own garhage collection, deleting trash files by some FIFO or largest-older-first algorithm.
The cost for LSB certification testing is $3,000 for a Linux distribution. Certification testing for applications is only $1,200. The Open Group conducts the certification testing.
I didn't find this info on the Open Group's website...
By not putting standard interfaces on, people are forced to pay for ringtones, where if they had USB, they could just drag a MIDI right to the phone.
Word. Similarly, customers have to pay to transfer pictures off of their camera phones, which, combined with forcing of camera phones down customers throats makes for a nice profit source!
It seems like a nice solution would be the one Apple used for iPods---Firewire cable and a power brick that the Firewire cable can plug into in the absence of a PC---but with USB. (I assume it's the same story with the current iPods that ship with just USB cables.)
Yes, citizens' rights is a concern, however, refer to a comment I have posted previously, It's 2004 People.
I think you underestimate the repressiveness of the Chinese government. Let's not forget that this is the same government that massacred hundreds or thousands of pro-democracy protesters in front of CNN's cameras. And, for the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, they shutdown access to the Square and
'disappeared' activists!
How does it exist? With a slot machine, an individual spin of the wheels can go any which way, but over time they will trend toward the norm. With stocks, you really can't pick a norm that they will trend toward, particularly with certain types of companies.
Since you don't know what the outcome of any individual game of slots will be, you must consider the behavior of many trials. The idea of option pricing is the same, except you cannot just try again because the price is not independent of the current price, unlike the slot machine whose future state we assume is independent of the current state.
E.g., If I have an option to buy some stock at $125 in one year, given that today's price is $100, what's the value? I estimate that the stock price in a year is 50% likely to be below $125, 1% likely to be $125, 4% likely to be $126,.... Then I'm 50% likely to lose $100, 1% likely to make $25, 4% likely to make $26,.... Put all that together and it gives you the value (ignoring transaction fees, interest, etc. with can all be factored in).
Yes, it is based on estimates of the price in the future and not a known quantities, but so are lots of these things in accounting. And there's a whole industry that computes option prices.
You already have all the data you need to make your own estimate, why force the company to throw darts for you? Then you will complain that they threw the darts wrong when they have to revise their dart throwing every quarter.
Because it is a basic tenet of accounting that things given away which have value must show up on the ledger. Companies are giving away options, which have a value (much bigger than 0!), and not reporting them on their ledgers.
The real value will not be know until the options mature or are sold...
No, the options have a value when you buy them (or are given them). This value takes into account the current price of the stock, the volatility of the stock, etc. Granted, it is an estimate of what the future value of the option will be, but that's the best one can do.
Imagine a slot machine. If you knew the chance for a payout was 1/10, say, and the average payout was $1, then the value of a pull of the handle is $0.10. With options, this number is much more difficult to estimate, but it exists.
Why would you think that? Images in a public place, e.g. the internet, or for a GPL project are not public domain by default. They're under whatever terms their creator wants them to be.
If your question is whether running GNOME on X11 on Mac OS X would be slow, it's been a good while since I did that but it was perfectly responsive. I can't imagine it's any different these days.
If your question is whether installing GNOME would be slow with fink, if you use fink to compile GNOME, then, yes, it would take forever, but fink has binary packages available with apt and here most of the time would probably be downloading the packages.
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[I]f you can state that genetics might explain how one particular named group (better known as dead white guys) have unfairly gained advantage in history due to a gene of violence, or whatever, then you can write your own ticket.
Done and done.
This is what happens when you meet a stranger in the Alps!
Vote, there's your checks and balances.
Apparently, you have forgotten that the voting systems are controlled by the two parties, which, in turn, reinforces their positions. Jerrymandering and publically funded party primaries are obvious examples, but more subtle is the fact the winner-take-all and plurality voting schemes lead to two-party rule by their nature.
Not to mention the coporate media, among other things, which reinforce the status quo.
And interestingly enough it was done by the more liberal (er, "progressive") members of the bench. The three hard conservatives were soundly against it.
I never thought I would agree with Thomas, Scalia, and Rehnquist on anything...except enjoying watching large-breasted women have sex with animals!
Apple is switching to Intel!!!
You missed the punchline, dude.
If we don't protect the few people at the very top of society so that they can continue to rip off the common folk to make billions upon billions of dollars in profits, then by God, the terrorists have already won!
I'd like a system library that would modify the rename(2), truncate(2), unlink(2), and write(2) calls to move the deleted stuff to some private directory (/.Trash, /.Recycler, whatever). Obviously the underlying routine would have to do its own garhage collection, deleting trash files by some FIFO or largest-older-first algorithm.
Done.
In case anyone else is curious, from this 2002 article:
I didn't find this info on the Open Group's website...By not putting standard interfaces on, people are forced to pay for ringtones, where if they had USB, they could just drag a MIDI right to the phone.
Word. Similarly, customers have to pay to transfer pictures off of their camera phones, which, combined with forcing of camera phones down customers throats makes for a nice profit source!
It seems like a nice solution would be the one Apple used for iPods---Firewire cable and a power brick that the Firewire cable can plug into in the absence of a PC---but with USB. (I assume it's the same story with the current iPods that ship with just USB cables.)
Except they wouldn't have a signed CA cert for citibank.com
Verisign.com etc. could be spoofed, too, so that a cert would appear valid...
I wonder how that affects https connection. Even if they steal the DNS, they shouldn't be able to get their certificate.
Well, verisign.com could be poisoned, too, you know...
a.blue, span.blue, div#back { color: blue; }
Yes, citizens' rights is a concern, however, refer to a comment I have posted previously, It's 2004 People.
I think you underestimate the repressiveness of the Chinese government. Let's not forget that this is the same government that massacred hundreds or thousands of pro-democracy protesters in front of CNN's cameras. And, for the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, they shutdown access to the Square and 'disappeared' activists!
How does it exist? With a slot machine, an individual spin of the wheels can go any which way, but over time they will trend toward the norm. With stocks, you really can't pick a norm that they will trend toward, particularly with certain types of companies.
Since you don't know what the outcome of any individual game of slots will be, you must consider the behavior of many trials. The idea of option pricing is the same, except you cannot just try again because the price is not independent of the current price, unlike the slot machine whose future state we assume is independent of the current state.
E.g., If I have an option to buy some stock at $125 in one year, given that today's price is $100, what's the value? I estimate that the stock price in a year is 50% likely to be below $125, 1% likely to be $125, 4% likely to be $126, .... Then I'm 50% likely to lose $100, 1% likely to make $25, 4% likely to make $26, .... Put all that together and it gives you the value (ignoring transaction fees, interest, etc. with can all be factored in).
Yes, it is based on estimates of the price in the future and not a known quantities, but so are lots of these things in accounting. And there's a whole industry that computes option prices.
You already have all the data you need to make your own estimate, why force the company to throw darts for you? Then you will complain that they threw the darts wrong when they have to revise their dart throwing every quarter.
Because it is a basic tenet of accounting that things given away which have value must show up on the ledger. Companies are giving away options, which have a value (much bigger than 0!), and not reporting them on their ledgers.
The real value will not be know until the options mature or are sold...
No, the options have a value when you buy them (or are given them). This value takes into account the current price of the stock, the volatility of the stock, etc. Granted, it is an estimate of what the future value of the option will be, but that's the best one can do.
Imagine a slot machine. If you knew the chance for a payout was 1/10, say, and the average payout was $1, then the value of a pull of the handle is $0.10. With options, this number is much more difficult to estimate, but it exists.
If you offer items for download, but do not state your intentions, does this allow commerical vendors to make a profit out of your work.
Not unless the vendors don't care if they have their pants sued off, like Linspire.
Aren't the images on kde-look public domain?
Why would you think that? Images in a public place, e.g. the internet, or for a GPL project are not public domain by default. They're under whatever terms their creator wants them to be.
That wouldn't be really slow?
If your question is whether running GNOME on X11 on Mac OS X would be slow, it's been a good while since I did that but it was perfectly responsive. I can't imagine it's any different these days.
If your question is whether installing GNOME would be slow with fink, if you use fink to compile GNOME, then, yes, it would take forever, but fink has binary packages available with apt and here most of the time would probably be downloading the packages.
Hell, maybe I'll install YellowDog Linux and give it a try.
There's no need for all that. Use the X11 server in root mode with fink's GNOME package.
There's no way Netgear is going to pull that stunt willingly with their own bandwidth.
RTWFA. This is exactly what Netgear did.
An impropperly formatted response, like "2/30/2003", would probably get people's attention.
From RFC 958: NTP timestamps are represented as a 64-bit fixed-point number, in seconds relative to 0000 UT on 1 January 1900.
Goddamnit people! It's ':Cue:Cat'!
Eri:c :Chavez
:CEO, Digital :Convergen:ce
Dude, you should so get one of these.
Goddamnit people! It's ':Cue:Cat'!
Eri:c :Chavez
:CEO, Digital :Convergen:ce
Bundle an office client. It's KDE...KOffice isn't there by default? ???
You seem to have forgotten that Lindows is trying to sell you free software with their $99 annual subscription.