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It's sort of like a swap meet. You can load up your car/pickup full of stuff you want to sell, then go to the place. You pay some amount of money ($20 or so), and then you get a designated spot and you can sell stuff to the other people who come. People who come to buy stuff either pay nothing to get in or they pay only a nominal fee ($3 or so).
I bought Doom3 and the third CD was bad. I couldn't install it. I spent two hours trying every CD-ROM drive I have to see if I can get the cheaply produced disk to work. Eventually, I give up and download the third ISO from a warez site and use Daemon tools to mount it to finish the install.
Anyway, when I finally go to run the game, it notices that I have CD Emulation software enabled and refuses to run. I disable Daemon tools, but the game still refuses to load. Eventually, I give up and install the no-CD patched.exe (which even works fine with Daemon tools loaded).
Anyway, this is just one example of where the overall experience would be better for the warez user than it is for the legitimate consumer. Also note that if I stole a boxed copy of the game from a store, I would have the same lame experience as the purchaser. The only way to get the good experience is to download the game from a warez group.
Yep. How weird is it for a mod_perl program to do a database query for a string consisting of some perl code that the mod_perl program then exec's to render part of the page. Oh wait, it's weirder than that, because the perl code in the database will refer to variables in the main program. Oh, and the perl code in the database also might do database queries.
It was this way last time I checked. It's probably gotten weirder since then.
That was my point, that BDSM porn is far more extreme than the common casual mild stuff that people actually practice (blindfold, handcuffs, tied to the bedposts with silks, et cetera). In reality, you'd be in jail if you tied up your wife/girlfriend, beat her, then left her tied up, came back with five guys who then rape her while she cries. I don't think the judge would buy the argument that you saw it in an educational sex video and thought it was normal in a loving relationship.
Of course, ordinary sex is relatively boring and doesn't sell DVD's.
The sex in porn movies is very far from reality. 3-person and 4-person sex is common if not the norm in pornography, but it is very rare in reality. Anal sex is relatively rare among general population, but it is very common 50%, perhaps, in porn movies. You mention killing, maiming, and torturing. BDSM is common in pornography, at least in a mild sense. More hardcore BDSM porn can involve piercings, simulated rape, and even more serious torture (even if all the participants are willing).
From the way you present your views, I imagine that less than 10% of porn DVD's released would be suitable.
It's open source too. You'll need a device ROM, which you can either download from your device using a program that you load onto it or you can download a developer ROM from the PalmOS developer site.
This emulator is what PalmOS developers use to test and debug their applications before loading them onto actual devices.
As an aside, I do own two PalmOS devices: An old Palm III and a relatively new Sony Clie TJ25 with Japanese PalmOS. Japanese Decuma is awesome, by the way. I looked into developing an application for learning/practicing/quizzing Japanese and I've started to write it twice. Each time though, I get a bit past the "hello world" app before stopping. There's a huge paradigm shift when doing PalmOS development. Instead of creating windows, you have "forms" that are resources linked into the program. The biggest thing is that the data structures are different. You can't just have a "file" on a PalmOS device. This is VERY different from systems like Linux and *BSD where everything is a file (including memory, devices, files, et cetera). All data needs to be stored in database-like structures (except of course, for some extensions added in later versions of PalmOS to deal with memory cards). Anyway, it's very weird. The API is nothing like Linux or Windows.
It's too little too late, and everyone knows it. There aren't even any Cobalt (PalmOS 6.1) devices announced. Aparrantly there have been licensees of PalmOS 6 since December 2003, but no devices have been shipped. That's an indication to many including me that the OS is not ready for use in an actual product. It could be the integration/emulation layer for old PalmOS programs. It could be the new desktop synchronization software. It could be the stability of the OS itself. It could be a lot of things, but it's been a serious enough problem that no one has shipped a product with it yet. PalmOne's own Tungsten T5 was rumored to be shipping with Cobalt installed, but now it seems that even they have gone with PalmOS 5.4.
...this is about the federal government preventing the states from levying taxes on internet access. States currently tax telephone services, and some states would also like to tax internet services. The federal government currently forbids this, however they might stop forbidding it.
This does not mean that the federal government would tax internet services. That may or may not be within their power. That is a different constitutional argument though.
This does not mean that your state would charge taxes on internet services. It would still be up to your state legislature and governor to decide on such a tax, approve it, and implement it.
They know that they are not allowed to levy taxes on internet service providers. It is the states, counties, and cities, however that want to tax consumers of internet services in the same way they currently tax telephone services. They are currently prohibited from doing so by the federal government, but that might change.
I think he was inplying that Ted Kennedy is a worthless sack and his salary is a waste of everyone's money.
I'm actually in favor of the idea that congressmen should be paid by the people of the state they represent. Who is it they represent anyway? Do they really represent the people of Massachusetts for example, if their paycheck comes from the United States Treasury?
Someone's going to think I'm a troll, but PalmOS is really far behind. They developed originally for the low-end hardware systems with slow CPU, no MMU, and very little RAM (e.g., 128kbytes) for OS, applications and user data. This worked well for shoehorning usable applications (datebook, calendar, mail, et cetera) into tiny devices. However, PalmOS is now being asked to do things for which it was never designed.
Modern devices have fast CPU's (600MHz XScale) lots of RAM (128MB), external storage (e.g. Flash cards), and network access. If you're ever written programs for PalmOS, you'll know that the API's and development is kind of strange (everything is "Execute in Place" for example). New things like sound, network access, file IO, multi-tasking, et cetera were all added in a rather cludgy way. Linux and Windows CE handhelds work much more like "little desktop machines". As a result, they are much easier to develop for.
I cut the pages out of my books with a utility knife then put the stack of pages into an auto-feeder to a scanner. I have a program that batch scans and OCR's the whole thing. This way I can carry dozens of books on my notebook PC.
Aparrantly children in California are all under the impression that the water from a faucet is completely unsafe to drink.
Personally, I drink bottled water often, but I buy it by the case for about $5 (for maybe 24 half-liter bottles). It's convenient to keep bottles in my car for when I'm thirsty and stuck in traffic.
It didn't just lower the taxes. More importantly, it made it so that the tax rate could not be more than 1% of the value of the house and that the tax rate could not increase by more than 2% each year unless the property was sold. The idea here was that grandma who bought her house in 1930 for $15,000 wouldn't get kicked out of her home that is now worth $1,000,000 because she can't pay the $10,000 per year property tax.
It was definately not a crazy idea. Taxes again are getting worse and worse in California. We already have an around 8% sales tax (actually varies by county and city). Our state taxes are very high as well. Property taxes, while restricted by Prop 13, are still high because of the high price of homes in California. Add to that the fact that you basically need to have a car in California to get anywhere (i.e., car payments, maintainence, tires, brakes, gasoline, insurance) and the cost of living in California is as high or higher than anywhere.
I'm personally hoping to inherit my parent's home. But even if that happens, I'm not sure how I'd be able to afford the increased property taxes. I think I'd manage, but it would be a heavy burden.
Note that these are not criminal charges filed against the users, but rather a civil suit. Criminal charges would need to be filed by an Atourney General or District Attourny and would be filed in a different court. In a civil court suit, the plaintiff can ask for whatever damages he or she wants. If the case goes to trial, it is up to the jury to award a setlement and I do not think that a jury of the people would ever award the movie industry $150,000 against a private person for making one copy of a movie. What usually happens is that the suit is settled out of court for an undisclosed amount and the case is closed.
As far as I know, the MPAA/RIAA/etc have been unable to interest the Attourney General of the United States or any District Attourney in bringing criminal charges against casual internet file traders. That makes sense since it is not in the interest of the Justice Department to persue individual casual users.
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It's sort of like a swap meet. You can load up your car/pickup full of stuff you want to sell, then go to the place. You pay some amount of money ($20 or so), and then you get a designated spot and you can sell stuff to the other people who come. People who come to buy stuff either pay nothing to get in or they pay only a nominal fee ($3 or so).
Yeah, I installed the no-CD patch for Doom3 too.
I bought Doom3 and the third CD was bad. I couldn't install it. I spent two hours trying every CD-ROM drive I have to see if I can get the cheaply produced disk to work. Eventually, I give up and download the third ISO from a warez site and use Daemon tools to mount it to finish the install.
.exe (which even works fine with Daemon tools loaded).
Anyway, when I finally go to run the game, it notices that I have CD Emulation software enabled and refuses to run. I disable Daemon tools, but the game still refuses to load. Eventually, I give up and install the no-CD patched
Anyway, this is just one example of where the overall experience would be better for the warez user than it is for the legitimate consumer. Also note that if I stole a boxed copy of the game from a store, I would have the same lame experience as the purchaser. The only way to get the good experience is to download the game from a warez group.
Nope. I would have suggested giving the kids a box of strike anywhere matches.
Either that or they will put the plastic bags over their heads and tie the yarn around their necks.
It could be both, I think.
Yep. How weird is it for a mod_perl program to do a database query for a string consisting of some perl code that the mod_perl program then exec's to render part of the page. Oh wait, it's weirder than that, because the perl code in the database will refer to variables in the main program. Oh, and the perl code in the database also might do database queries.
It was this way last time I checked. It's probably gotten weirder since then.
Kuro5hin was all crazy leftist communist anti-American anti-Western anti-capitalist articles last time I checked.
That was my point, that BDSM porn is far more extreme than the common casual mild stuff that people actually practice (blindfold, handcuffs, tied to the bedposts with silks, et cetera). In reality, you'd be in jail if you tied up your wife/girlfriend, beat her, then left her tied up, came back with five guys who then rape her while she cries. I don't think the judge would buy the argument that you saw it in an educational sex video and thought it was normal in a loving relationship.
Of course, ordinary sex is relatively boring and doesn't sell DVD's.
That guy is my hero.
The sex in porn movies is very far from reality. 3-person and 4-person sex is common if not the norm in pornography, but it is very rare in reality. Anal sex is relatively rare among general population, but it is very common 50%, perhaps, in porn movies. You mention killing, maiming, and torturing. BDSM is common in pornography, at least in a mild sense. More hardcore BDSM porn can involve piercings, simulated rape, and even more serious torture (even if all the participants are willing).
From the way you present your views, I imagine that less than 10% of porn DVD's released would be suitable.
Try this.
http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/emulator/
It's open source too. You'll need a device ROM, which you can either download from your device using a program that you load onto it or you can download a developer ROM from the PalmOS developer site.
This emulator is what PalmOS developers use to test and debug their applications before loading them onto actual devices.
As an aside, I do own two PalmOS devices: An old Palm III and a relatively new Sony Clie TJ25 with Japanese PalmOS. Japanese Decuma is awesome, by the way. I looked into developing an application for learning/practicing/quizzing Japanese and I've started to write it twice. Each time though, I get a bit past the "hello world" app before stopping. There's a huge paradigm shift when doing PalmOS development. Instead of creating windows, you have "forms" that are resources linked into the program. The biggest thing is that the data structures are different. You can't just have a "file" on a PalmOS device. This is VERY different from systems like Linux and *BSD where everything is a file (including memory, devices, files, et cetera). All data needs to be stored in database-like structures (except of course, for some extensions added in later versions of PalmOS to deal with memory cards). Anyway, it's very weird. The API is nothing like Linux or Windows.
It's too little too late, and everyone knows it. There aren't even any Cobalt (PalmOS 6.1) devices announced. Aparrantly there have been licensees of PalmOS 6 since December 2003, but no devices have been shipped. That's an indication to many including me that the OS is not ready for use in an actual product. It could be the integration/emulation layer for old PalmOS programs. It could be the new desktop synchronization software. It could be the stability of the OS itself. It could be a lot of things, but it's been a serious enough problem that no one has shipped a product with it yet. PalmOne's own Tungsten T5 was rumored to be shipping with Cobalt installed, but now it seems that even they have gone with PalmOS 5.4.
...this is about the federal government preventing the states from levying taxes on internet access. States currently tax telephone services, and some states would also like to tax internet services. The federal government currently forbids this, however they might stop forbidding it.
This does not mean that the federal government would tax internet services. That may or may not be within their power. That is a different constitutional argument though.
This does not mean that your state would charge taxes on internet services. It would still be up to your state legislature and governor to decide on such a tax, approve it, and implement it.
They know that they are not allowed to levy taxes on internet service providers. It is the states, counties, and cities, however that want to tax consumers of internet services in the same way they currently tax telephone services. They are currently prohibited from doing so by the federal government, but that might change.
I think he was inplying that Ted Kennedy is a worthless sack and his salary is a waste of everyone's money.
I'm actually in favor of the idea that congressmen should be paid by the people of the state they represent. Who is it they represent anyway? Do they really represent the people of Massachusetts for example, if their paycheck comes from the United States Treasury?
Someone's going to think I'm a troll, but PalmOS is really far behind. They developed originally for the low-end hardware systems with slow CPU, no MMU, and very little RAM (e.g., 128kbytes) for OS, applications and user data. This worked well for shoehorning usable applications (datebook, calendar, mail, et cetera) into tiny devices. However, PalmOS is now being asked to do things for which it was never designed.
Modern devices have fast CPU's (600MHz XScale) lots of RAM (128MB), external storage (e.g. Flash cards), and network access. If you're ever written programs for PalmOS, you'll know that the API's and development is kind of strange (everything is "Execute in Place" for example). New things like sound, network access, file IO, multi-tasking, et cetera were all added in a rather cludgy way. Linux and Windows CE handhelds work much more like "little desktop machines". As a result, they are much easier to develop for.
I cut the pages out of my books with a utility knife then put the stack of pages into an auto-feeder to a scanner. I have a program that batch scans and OCR's the whole thing. This way I can carry dozens of books on my notebook PC.
You mean grief.
Did you even read more than the first sentence of his post? He said that offline mode doesn't work if you have an active ethernet connection.
...but the dealer wouldn't care either way. They'd give you the trade-in value based on 100k miles (i.e., next to nothing).
Aparrantly children in California are all under the impression that the water from a faucet is completely unsafe to drink.
Personally, I drink bottled water often, but I buy it by the case for about $5 (for maybe 24 half-liter bottles). It's convenient to keep bottles in my car for when I'm thirsty and stuck in traffic.
It should also be based on the weight of the passengers in the car (i.e., a fat tax). It's only fair, since heavier people put more wear on the roads.
It didn't just lower the taxes. More importantly, it made it so that the tax rate could not be more than 1% of the value of the house and that the tax rate could not increase by more than 2% each year unless the property was sold. The idea here was that grandma who bought her house in 1930 for $15,000 wouldn't get kicked out of her home that is now worth $1,000,000 because she can't pay the $10,000 per year property tax.
It was definately not a crazy idea. Taxes again are getting worse and worse in California. We already have an around 8% sales tax (actually varies by county and city). Our state taxes are very high as well. Property taxes, while restricted by Prop 13, are still high because of the high price of homes in California. Add to that the fact that you basically need to have a car in California to get anywhere (i.e., car payments, maintainence, tires, brakes, gasoline, insurance) and the cost of living in California is as high or higher than anywhere.
I'm personally hoping to inherit my parent's home. But even if that happens, I'm not sure how I'd be able to afford the increased property taxes. I think I'd manage, but it would be a heavy burden.
Note that these are not criminal charges filed against the users, but rather a civil suit. Criminal charges would need to be filed by an Atourney General or District Attourny and would be filed in a different court. In a civil court suit, the plaintiff can ask for whatever damages he or she wants. If the case goes to trial, it is up to the jury to award a setlement and I do not think that a jury of the people would ever award the movie industry $150,000 against a private person for making one copy of a movie. What usually happens is that the suit is settled out of court for an undisclosed amount and the case is closed.
As far as I know, the MPAA/RIAA/etc have been unable to interest the Attourney General of the United States or any District Attourney in bringing criminal charges against casual internet file traders. That makes sense since it is not in the interest of the Justice Department to persue individual casual users.